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> public libraries in Michigan are thriving (another place I know well). I have no idea why the difference is so stark.

I can't speak for Philly, but Michiganders have a long long-standing community tradition of fighting to defend our public libraries from an onslaught of various attacks. And while the quality of the library system can vary (based on location and local funding authority), Michiganders generally have majority support for public libraries as an institution, and pass successful votes for them regularly.

(historic Library voting records)
https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/-/media/Project/W... (be careful reading this, not every red/failing vote is bad -- for example, May 2023's red line is a success for that public library, that something bad did not pass)
Related animated video from Kurzgesagt - "What if We Nuke the Moon?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEfPBt9dU60
Yup I replaced the battery in my old XS and gave it to my mom as an upgrade from her aged 7 or whatever. She hated the swipe gestures and still complains about them. Should'a just bought her an SE.
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Masonry just refers to working with bricks. It's old as time but we still make stuff out of bricks and you can still be a mason today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonry
I totally get that. But for me there is a fundamental difference between "big enough need" and "well known websites need this".

How are potentially thousands of niche websites less of an argument than "instagram and co don't need it"?
Social science students study way less than STEM, and the remaining subjects even less than social science. Also students at easier to get into colleges study less than at more prestigious ones. So likely your experience wasn't very representative, unless you studied something normal at an average university instead of STEM at a higher end one.
Accumulated garbage for backwards compatibility? Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

I’m not saying css is intrinsically better (what does intrinsic even mean in this case?). It’s pragmatically better than anything else I’ve seen. It’s dead simple to learn and use, and (almost) fully declarative, and degrades gracefully. Just show me a better alternative and I’ll change my mind.
Last Saturday I went to the bookstore, bought a paperback novel, and then went home and started reading it right away. It felt great and it reminded me of doing this in the past as I used to do this a lot in the past, but for some reason I had stopped.

I listen to a lot of audiobooks and podcasts now, and that really cuts into my book reading. But nothing beats sitting down in the sun and reading a good paperback.
The compute power needed for translations is vastly different though.
It's functionally the same - code signing is mandated unless you want your users to get a scary pop-up.
That's too bad! I love amaros and these sound like a similar thing from a very different background.
It used to be that swiping down would lock the screen and swiping up would show Control Center. But when iPhones lost the home button, swiping up took up its click behaviours. Swiping down from the left for locking the screen and swiping down from the right to show Control Center is indeed somewhat awkward, but it’s not immediatelly clear to me what alternative they could’ve gone with that would leave you with the same level of quick access as before.
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The reason why Rust and other languages have bounds checking that approaches C’s speed is less to do with the compiler being able to prove away bounds checks and more to do with those languages making the bounds easy to carry around.

Bounds checks themselves aren’t that expensive, if you already have the length to check against in a register or some other convenient spot.

And - if the bounds are convenient to find and known to be immutable then it does make it easier for the compiler to eliminate those checks using the same techniques it would use to eliminate all kinds of redundancies. C has many redundancies that we don’t have to think about because they’re straightforward for the compiler to reason about.
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I enjoyed the article, a lot of detailed reporting that was refreshingly nonjudgemental (the substance itself is kind of mortifying though but maybe this is more of a NYC thing?).

Side note, the hosts using the nickname "Eagle" for a bald guy is awesome, never heard that one before.
Thank you! I spent the afternoon reading through this site and the associated resources.
Right now the main thing controlling where the ships land is where they have ports that can receive their massive tonnage; places like Long Beach (16,618 TEU) or Houston (3,974 TEU). It's quite arguable that additional ports need to be built so that the ships can disperse cargo closer (or even farther, but more efficiently) to where it is going.
The topic of this thread is protecting the elderly from their devices. Some level of infantilising is required, unfortunately.
I understand your opinion, I just disagree.

It is painfully obvious to me that we haven't even managed self sustained colonization of the most extreme environments of Earth. Mars isn't just going to happen by accident because someone flies there.

Additionally, SpaceX is not going to manage it alone when a manned flight does happen. It will be NASA's Artemis program.
CSS is overall pretty great and I've seen at least a couple non-web GUIs rip out their bespoke GUI systems and replace them with CSS or something very much like it.

I think the big change will be better support for hierarchical definitions, including but not limited to nesting. TFA discussion would be pretty moot if there were namespaced properties that could somehow fit under display: masonry; rather than polluting the global namespace.
Kind of, compared to high-volume products most consumers are used to see. R&D gets expensive fast.

Just try designing these up to first partial prototype and try calculating cumulative man-hour spent x local minimum wages x highly optimistic sales^-1 = pure R&D cost per unit before any manufacturing or even design reviews. It's not going to make a lot of commercial sense.

3D printing people sometimes says dollar stores makes them feel defeated. I'm not yet at that level but it's true, a 10-pack ball point pens at $1 makes very little sense if you knew.
For the lazy

Unlike open source licenses, the BSL prohibits the licensed code from being used in production — without explicit approval from the licensor.

Especially the (1) of the originally linked licence will make it pretty much unusable beyond the smallest deployments (limited to <1k invoices)
Just leave physics out, and you’ll be OK.

God doesn’t play the GoL.
It says "Sign up for a free account" on the PyPI page. That's not the usual way developers go about using a Python module. You might think you have a really good reason that warrants this but I think this is going to add a lot of friction - it's a big turn off. It conflicts with the "local data" selling point.
I'm currently studying Electrical Engineering at a Russell Group UK uni. My timetable is nothing like what you are describing, so I think things have changed.

I have about 3-4 hours of lecture time per week and 3-4 hours of tutorial time with professors. That amounts to 8 hours per week.

A lot of it seems to have shifted to "self-directed learning" time, i.e. studying, doing labs, etc independently.
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It’s not open source, but is open weight - like distributing a precompiled executable. In particular what makes it open weights rather than just weights available is that it is licensed using an OSI approved license (MIT) rather than a restricted proprietary license.

I really wish these companies would release the training source, evaluation suites, and code used to curate/filter training data (since safety efforts can lead to biases). Ideally they would also share the training data but that may not be fully possible due to licensing.
Isn't it the same in Austria and Germany? Trades people there earn more than SW engineers.
I had this same issue with incomplete answers on longer summarization tasks. If you ask it to "go on" it will produce a better completion, but I haven't seen this behaviour in any other model.
The problem with this argument is you have slackers like me who specifically chose my major because it was something I was good at so had to put in minimal effort to get passing grades.

The last college essay I had to write I started at the beginning of class, walked it to campus before the class was over and got an A.

And, as they say, D's get degrees.
"Going Nuts" does not seem like a useful descriptive for relentless greedy behavior by the corporation which is very plausibly the Reigning World Champion of relentless greedy behavior.

What financial upsides might there be for Apple, if they somehow started behaving in ways which you considered less crazy?
Where is the connection to "well-known websites"?
Vibrational spectrum of Granular packings with random matrices
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3 cups since then
It's obviously wrong, and by a lot. At every university I know of, a full-time courseload is defined as at least 12 hours in class per week, or 2.4 hours per weekday. The average student doesn't cut half their classes.
My first year was 36 "hours" (an hour was 50 minutes, followed by a break of at least 10 minutes) per week, which included lab/terminal time. Homework was, as the word says, not included, but some classes mixed classical teaching, explanation, and exercises. The number of hours in class steadily dropped over the next years, as the homework load increased to 40+ hours for writing what's nowadays called the MSc. thesis.
The license basically seems to be a "demo" license, considering the limit of 1,000 invoices or 2 users. Not a bad idea, really. Imagine a world where every company released their source code like this! Things would be very different.

It's not really "free" but is also very much "open source," as the source is completely available.
Inflation is a different rate for each person really, but you can group it. The rate for the middle class, spending on things with semi-fixed supply like a desirable house or college, is higher than for lower class. The rate for upper class is the highest. Probably has to do with each one's asset mix (or lack thereof). The only thing shared between them all is our US Dollar which tends to double in supply each decade.
A 15 credit semester for me, having been through undergrad within the decade, typically meant 1-2 courses with 1.5 hour lectures 3 days a week, a 3 hour lab or lecture once a week, and another 1-2 courses with a 1.5 or so hours of lecture twice a week. So yeah, 1.2 seems like a wild underestimate.

Unless maybe non-STEM programs are less rigorous? Since I was in the engineering department, a large chunk of my general education requirements were waived as there were simply too many requirements to cover (so, eg, no second language class and most others needing only one class in each category, setup so single classes could fulfill multiple categories).

Eg if you're an art student, maybe large amounts of classroom instruction isn't as important as large amounts of time to work on projects and then get feedback during class time?

The one art class I took (and instantly dropped) seemed to be like that. The hour long lectures were just about analyzing and discussing a piece each week, and instead there was a lot of work to be done on writing about the work and going to museums to perform studies (which is why I dropped it, as much as I enjoy museums, I prefer to enjoy them without worrying about grades).
https://archive.is/D8qQB
It's a tradeoff with size. It's very hard to squeeze shoulder servos in and keep it that small.
me too, really compelling, very moving.
I've not had problems recommending Fedora to people. The punishment seems to come with trying to play games that aren't supported by the developer.
Also, if you attended college, you got a draft deferment. There were quite a few Ph.Ds awarded in that period.

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23300/report/u-s-doctorate-awa...
This unironically feels like good research & paper potential.
“Oh By”[1], The universal shortener, has had protections for this built in from the very beginning.

Since the whole point is the ability to convey a message in the physical world end with chalk or pencil or whatever – we needed to make sure that characters were unambiguous.

So there are no zeros or ‘o’ characters or ones or ‘l’ characters… I think there were one or two other rules that govern this but I can’t think of them right now…

[1] https://0x.co
Surely the basis for the processing matters? If you're storing IP addresses in your access logs, you're presumably doing this for security reasons? And presumably you periodically purge old data? If so, that's a legitimate interest, no consent required.
Take off an hour a day for travel, another for hygiene, another for meals.

We are rapidly approaching time deficit even assuming perfect discipline.
I work in customer success at Antithesis and work closely with the MongoDB team. Would be happy to answer any questions anyone has about this from the Antithesis side!
> It sucks that there really are not any alternatives, particularly for gay men.

How so? Aren't there gay friendly places in every city nowadays?
that research paper only considers ascii characters in domain names?
Slightly off-topic but what tools do folks use for optimizing/analyzing/debugging indexes on Postgres.
It is one of the leading Late filters; that excellence in the species cannot compensate for the inefficiencies in extracting energy to continue existing; leading to environmental/social problems, inevitably leading to either environmental collapse, preventing space colonialism, or social collapse.

Nuclear energy is a popular crux, but not needed per se.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCzpYxedIe0
'How they spend their money' and 'who their employees are' is literally all a business is. If not that, how else are they to be regulated?
That was quite nice. Would love to see a full game in this environment one day, but I'm also happy this particular one was short. Perfect length for showing off this team's talents.

It's funny how many of us distrusted the AI. I guess games + movies have taught us the AI is always up to something.
Loved everything except the controls. I must be the only one who found it impossible to navigate.
Let's Deprecate Update from (2008)
Unfortunately the alternative is not getting laid, so I’ll keep using them until something better comes along.
You'll have to enlighten me on how Rust makes passing bounds any easier. Spans and views are pretty common in C++ and C codebases these days.
> The need for physical libraries has passed... The internet has made those concepts as archaic as carrying coins.

Our species' and society's need for community remains high. Many of us (naive) technophiles predicted the internet would somehow be the best community ever. Perhaps even global.

Oops.

As you know, the internet, esp algorithmic hate machines and social media, destroys community. Our declining public and mental health is just one terrible adverse effect.

The need for libraries, to rebuild and nuture communities, has never been greater.
Interesting article. I have a book still in print, very niche subject. First released in 2013, Amazon mysteriously stoppped stocking it last May, even with recent annual sales of 150-250/yr. Life time print sales are over 1,300 with close to an additional 500 in digital copies.

Hardly a life changer but I've managed to keep the bottom line compensation to $6 per copy, give or take, the entire time so dinner money ;)
Demand for college has sharply increased, and I don't think we've seen supply meet it yet. That can solve itself, and there are also trade schools.
I'm not convinced it's a Fermi paradox solution. I'm not saying civilizations don't sometimes destroy themselves but

a). the one civilization we know of didn't do it yet and

b). doesn't this require something inherent to life for this to explain the fermi paradox? it seems like this just moves the question from "where are all the aliens" to "why does every civilization regardless of environment/planet/etc. ALWAYS destroy themselves" which doesn't seem like an easier question to answer?
I'm really excited to see something like Xr0 https://xr0.dev/learn get some traction. Feels like the best of both worlds. You a low-level language with optional safety guarantees. Especially for legacy code bases that shouldn't be replaced, Xr0 would be gold. I love Rust, and it does so much more than just memory safety, however there is a place for C if the memory safety can be fixed.
I know the price of specific apartments. 2br went up from 1600 to 3200-3800(depending on month price varies), and many blue color workers who used to live there moved from that complex.

> SF median rent

your graph shows not SF (which is actually not silicon valley) but SF-Oakland metropolitan area. SF rent likely raised more than that.

> SF minimum wage went up 93%

Min wage is an outlier, they couldn't afford rent then and now.

Another factor is taxes, while wages increased, wages after taxes increased slower, because pushed income to another bracket.
I am totally unconvinced by this whole "technology is a great filter" argument. First of all I have my doubts that, even at the height of the cold war, nuclear war would've extinctic all of humanity and nowadays with much less ordinance definitely not.

Equally climate change is very unlikely to extinct all humans and dont even get me started on all the other "extinction risks" such as rogue AI or bioweapon because they are merely sci-fi and again would almost certainly not get everyone.

We definitely dont have a convincing solution to the fermi paradox and if we did it would certainly not be so trite and silly of an idea as "technology kills"
Again: when did "well-known websites use this" become the motivating factor behind standard design?

The blink tag was used by well-known website and it's universally recognized as a bad decision.
> The new tech was seen as an inferior product.

Except of course for all of the things that had never been scribed before at scale, such as maps, timetables, dictionaries, sales catalogues, political pamphlets, and numeric tables / explanatory diagrams. Especially for the latter, printing massively reduced transcription errors, which was a game changer for 'technical' content. We tend to take for granted the radical shifts that printing enabled.

Early printshops were the equivalent of disruptive tech startups, with a mix of tech innovation, capital investment, marketing and sweatshop compared with the old scribe-based printing environments.
> we need it to scale into new areas of business that we aren't in today.

I can't help but think about this thread on printers from Framework: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39133070
To be fair, the library lovers took over the government from the no tax party, so you are bound to see some friction. No taxes lost their country, and are frustrated.
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I'd agree. The big differentiator being your own personality and your own outlook / expectations of life and others.

There are plenty people around looking to have a date, and maybe more. The big caveat is meeting someone who's a match.

If you want to reel in a fish, you will inevitably have thrown out your line many times and come up empty handed.

The elephant in the room is learning how to confront your own feelings regarding rejection in a healthy way. This is true regardless of how and where you meet others.
There is not a direct physical connection between the brake pedal and the brakes, or the acceleration pedal and the... not even sure what this would be. The n admission valves on the cylinders? Unless you consider "direct" as "passing through 5-50 different parts that each has an effect on the next in the chain", which is the definition of indirect. I'm not putting words in your mouth, I'm pointing out you're using the wrong words.

You're neither relying on "physics", which would mean a failure of the system would be caused by a failure of "physics", meaning something like the Maxwell's ecuations turn out to be wrong, nor on "direct connection", unless the brake pedal is directly pushing on the brake rotor, which is obviously false.

Of course there's no problem with saying you'd rather rely on mechanics or hydraulics than electronics or software. Though, to use words your way, tesla is not relying on "software", but on "math".
I am not sure if they actually give out very many free pizzas. The language is quite vague, probably intentionally. Just looks like a gimmick.
Ada's been steadily making a reassurance I think since safer languages like Rust had started to gain traction. It appeared for the first time ever on the stackoverflow survey for example.

It used to be hampered down by confusing licenses but around 2021 those constraints were lifted when Adacore's "GNAT Community Edition" was retired. This was around the time Alire (works similar to if you combined Rustup with Cargo) came on the scene which meant getting the FSF version of the compiler was as trivial as running "alr toolchain --select".

The most recent standard came out in 2022 along with a more centered community. Most of the ada community was living in a newsgroup (comp.lang.ada) until a year ago, and now ada-lang.io is gaining a lot of traction.

Then Alire 2.0 just recently came out which made everything even more streamlined.

Ada has been my favorite language for years, so I'm happy to see more people noticing it.
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Is this shop still working? Submitting GPT still doesn't work
One of my favorites! I feel not enough people appreciate the "leadership sync" skit.

Often when I have a Zoom meeting I zone out and this skit plays in my head instead.