skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Middle-class households with a preschooler more than quadrupled spending on child care alone between 1995 and 2023, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics and Department of Agriculture data by Scott Winship at think tank the American Enterprise Institute.

Yet only about half of the increase is due to rising prices for the same quality and quantity of care. (Child care prices are up 180% overall since the mid-90s, according to BLS data.)

The remaining half is coming from parents choosing more personalized or accredited care for a given 3- to 5-year-old, or paying for more hours, Winship says."

It's gotten more expensive. We're also parenting harder, though it's unclear to what degree there is a selection effect in play.
As a collector, this is why I prefer Atari ST family systems over Amigas. Because they are simpler from the jump, they are easier to work on and less finnicky - floppies being a prime example of this... as Commodore liked using aggressive GCR encoding instead of IBM PC standards for formatting diskettes. For everything else, PC based hardware is just more familiar and flexible for me, since that's what I grew up with.
high taxes ! cut federal taxes and cut property tax!
AI learned that electrolytes are what plants crave. Enough people on the internet said so.
This isn’t just a poorly made joke it’s also not even making fun of the right thing.

The vast majority of investment is inside of public firms into themselves for ai.

VCs have actually broadly been sidelines as they both lack the capital to make major moves nor see small enough direct application to invest.

There are plenty of jokes to be made about AI, this is a dumb one.
this looks great! will try out. I built a similar but very scrappy tool for the same usecase last year, I'd probably not build it if i found this.

[0] https://github.com/geekodour/wscribe-editor
Because eBPF is no longer just packet filtering? It's now used in loads of hook pionts unrelated to packets or filtering at all.
The last one can be brutal. It's tough to maintain friendships with people who don't have kids, it's doubly tough to form friendships with new people who have kids. Although it's mildly easier to build acquaintances.
Yeah. My first PC build was in 98: PII 300MHz / 128MB RAM. No way a P3 500 was available at the time.
The article discusses this heavily and it is a "kinda yes, but"

> The remaining half is coming from parents choosing more personalized or accredited care for a given 3- to 5-year-old, or paying for more hours, Winship says.

Basically parents are unwilling to have kids unless they can give them an ideal and heavily invested in life as well as in many cases buy their way out of many of the hassles.
Why would you waste hundreds of hours migrating to a setup that takes at most 10 to create? And if your team is indeed incompetent enough that it takes them hundreds of hours to migrate away from Vercel, what makes you think they can successfully manage a bare metal setup on Hetzner without shitting the bed sooner or later?

Also Ansible was quite hip 10 years ago but I'd hardly call it a transferable skill anymore. Most shops seem to have migrated away from it already.
Meat is a great source of bioavailable calcium.
What's your definition of music?
Basically the entire United States.
I would correct the quote as such:

>Don't pay enough to live in a way that his family and community respects his contributions and sacrifices, if such pay even gives him room to contribute at all.

>Require him to get along with customers and coworkers that may be abusive and prejudiced, for no other reason than that the position is "supposed" to be servile and manned by a lesser person.

>[Require him] to maintain a complete physical and psychological affect of arbitrary "professionalism", servility, and agreeability, even while dealing with higher-status individuals who are not only allowed to be emotional, aggressive, and competitive, but who actually benefit from it in their career.

TFA spends a moment on what I think might be the crux: that the elite set rules they don't have to abide by. This is unfair, and poor young men recognize that it's unfair, and they're punished when they point out that things are unfair, because breaking the masquerade makes people uncomfortable, and nothing is more important than the comfort of high-status individuals.

As much stability in the family structure of poor folk may be breathing its last breath, noblesse oblige is long dead.
Noting that it's dated 2004 and starts with:

> I wrote this back in 1989...
Spinach is also mildly detrimental to health. (Oxylates) Doesn’t mean you should think that it’s bad for you unless you have a problem with kidney stones.

Both black coffee and tea have several well documented health benefits.

Even caffeine in isolation can probably have benefits when used correctly.
> what new functionality does Windows 11 actually have that Windows XP didn't have? (

Off the top of my head, built-in bluetooth support, an OS-level volume mixer, and more support for a wider variety of class-compliant devices. I'm sure there are a lot more, and if you actually care about the answer, I don't think it would be hard to find.
Of note: the issue is not so much sitting in particular, it's being sedentary. Standing for 5 hrs at a time is really not much better than sitting for that same duration, since humans are (understandably) well-adapted to stand upright with minimal metabolic cost. Sitting is bad because it displaces physical activity, not because there is something uniquely bad about being in a chair. Take a walk break.
How about letting Android users watch your shows?
I prefer not to have a dedicated GPU in my everyday laptop.

I'd find it cool if AMD took their Linux userbase more seriously (there are dozens of us!!1) and actually provided drivers to use the hardware they sell.
They have given us fuck all for raises during a period of rampant inflation and now they want to take away the one good thing that covid-19 did for workers.
Yup! A while back I made a little timeline for putting things like this in perspective. https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/9a1b96ed3109690a2840...
This seems too defensive/aggressive. The pill guy made his case very well I think, he wanted the benefits of caffeine in a consistent dosage and pills fit that purpose. His motivation is inherently different from someone who wants to enjoy a cup of coffee, but having a different goal doesn't mean your goal is better or worse than someone else's. Nobody's "beating" anyone, and "these people" certainly don't only get enjoyment from beating others.
It's a costly inconvenience. Women are responsible for their bodies. Then you have to sell the prospect of someone cutting at their manhood. It just ain't happening.
It was with monthlies - 3-4 months in they might just refuse to pay. Rare if you work with them, but still happens.

On Airbnb, if you want to maintain superhost status, you are only allowed to reject a few guests a month. And if someone comes in through Instant Book - you are not allowed to reject them at all. So we definitely had some guests come through with "gamed" reviews.

We only have a few horror stories, like a lady who tried to squat after just 3 days. Luckily, I don't think she understood squatters rights before making her attempt, and the police were pretty respectful.
This is just one a long long number of Deboer articles all cut from the same cloth.

There's a whole (low) culture of reactionaryism & contrarianism whose existence is to rile people up & make "yet you participate in society, curious" sound like a smart edgy take that makes them better than everyone else.

There are some sources of submissions that are almost always like this. And we keep wandering in without context, taking the article at face value & trying to engage honestly, without seeing the underlying bias & context. The presence of discussions around Deboer submissions, to me, is a canary in the coal mine example of one of the primary weaknesses of social networks, which is that we come in context-free to every reshare rebroadcast out. Unless it's Barack Obama or DJT most people won't generally have a model of the implicit biases & slant of what they're reading, & wont have the time energy interest or access to go hunt down what these biases are. We are forever at risk of Freddie Deboer's (and unherd/quilette/reason) naively & slyly (that is, without having ascertained the greater context, upon which it becomes an honest acceptance) tainting us with their elaborately/conversionarily argued reactionaryism or whatever other ism.
You can read more on that here: https://neuml.github.io/txtai/embeddings/configuration/vecto...

txtai supports Hugging Face Transformers models, llama.cpp embeddings models and API services such as OpenAI/Cohere/Ollama.
I thought this was going to be a long form essay/prank/experiment, where someone launched a crowd funding campaign for a "transparently idiotic startup", and pulled off a $1M raise.

Ironically however, if you were to do that well, it would show high intelligence and creativity, which would probably make it an actual good investment.
Obama's inflation
$831 billion in new spending, did not help "main street" people
It helped, the bottom, and the rich
Reverse engineering a USB device with Rust (2020)
Companies get so much more out of people working from home - Microsoft has realized this and still broadly supports remote work.
yep, these guys are hell bent on mining everything from the seafloor because they think its "free" and inconsequential https://metals.co/nodules/
Yes, that's right. The official React docs explain this pretty clearly.
No? The foo() invocation is never reached because the while loop never terminates.
In C++ it's less obvious, so while a private constructor does most of the job, it's still tricky to come up with a way of designing those types so they feel natural, are easy to construct in the right way (via appropriate parsers), impossible to construct the wrong way by accident, and fulfill all the roles people expect, and don't devolve into impenetrable mess of template metaprogramming that can only be debugged by the author of the type definition framework.
While unfortunate we were able to make friends with other people with kids so there's some sharing of responsibility (send receive kids at home when they need to be watched over) but this doesn't seem to be the norm here.

Feels like most people are raising their kids by themselves.
It's possible to run postmarketos in a proot within termux on android if you'd like to try it out or just want a nice touch enabled Linux UI on your phone/tablet. There are some incomplete instructions for an older version of postmarketos on the termux subreddit, I'm currently working on an updated and cleaner version.
That's the strategy. The places calling for return to office are mostly doing it to thin the herd. Make people voluntarily leave.
The entire steaming sector has become unsustainable. On the one hand, for a service to be successful in the space they have to dump millions if not billions of dollars towards developing content. The problem is that with so many streaming platforms doing the same thing dilutes the value of that content and makes it unsustainable.
To be fair the person above recognised the short comings of anecdotes and said " I’d love to see a study on that."

I'm not sure your own single point anecdote is enough to counter their own experience and indeed comes with all the same "danger" that you warn about.
Exactly. You can still fly businesses and pay the same price as before, it just became massively more accessible than before,
> We've been telling people for years already that them being lonely is their personal failure, not some systematic problem, yet people, on average, keep getting even more lonely. What makes you think that continuing to present loneliness as a personal failure will eventually solve the problem?

Your logic here seems to be that, over time, telling people it's a personal failure (which I don't agree has been the rhetoric, but for the sake of conversation...) will lead them to fix that failure - which isn't at all my experience. There's plenty of issues one can point to that, just because we've been informing people of for many years, doesn't mean any progress has been made.

> Ah yes. Whenever someone asks me what can we do about poverty I'll just reply "I know plenty of people with lucrative jobs, get off the internet and touch grass".

If someone said, "I'm in a wheelchair, so having a job is unreachable" then I might respond in a similar way as GP (though perhaps a bit nicer)... because you can have a job while in a wheelchair, and have a relationship while gay and autistic.
It shouldn't take me an hour and 30 minutes in congested, underbuilt roads to drive 20 miles into the office. Cities and their wealthy politically-connected commercial office building owners have had decades to fix this problem. No sympathy.
Being allowed to talk to the kernel to get info and running with the same privileges ( basically being able to read / write any memory ) is different.
Like a lot. Didn't YC even fund that startup that wanted to turn middle class suburban homeowners into slumlords by building rental poverty shacks in their back yards?
It's a somewhat hilarious non sequitur, equating uselessness with existential risk. Like, my cat is also failing to show up in national economic indicators.
Does it have to be a money maker if it’s doing its job in bringing more value to the Apple ecosystem? I see it as more of a marketing budget.
USB OTG adapter + a cheap atheros device.

Also, on wireless, most of the modules are on the non-free mainline Linux kernel, but owning GNU/Linux + prop fw device it's far better than an opaque Android one even if PmOS is not fully free as GNU distros state.

From there it's easy to scale up on a freedom ladder.

Also, PmOS it's not just about smartphones. Once the Tokio Techbook support gets better, you can repurpose cheap $30-40 dollars ARM netbooks with PmOS as a light hacking/writting/multimedia device with something like cwm/dwm/fluxbox and light software such as mplayer, mupdf, netsurf...
I think that's mostly people have a poor mindset.

They think I have this workflow of A->B->C->D and how do I improve "B" using technology. Instead you should have something else of A->E->D where E wasn't possible or maybe just not practical.

You don't want to use technology so that you can type keys faster; eliminate the typing of keys process.

A lot of the current GenAI is around making images and summarizing text. Those largely aren't real business objectives. If you make a powerpoint 70% faster does that really close a sale 70% faster? I highly doubt it.
It's a shame because Apple TV is producing some wonderful sci-fi right now, arguably they're about the only ones doing it to this level. And I'm sure it'll be first on the chopping block while the inflated budgets for the star-studded Morning Show are more likely to be maintained.

I hope I'm wrong and that Apple sees value in producing wonderful, niche TV. But at the same time that's not really Apple's ethos.
My wife has a PhD, just turned 40, and we have three kids.

Towards the end of her program, she decided she didn't want a research career.
There is a way out of this slump, but it is difficult. My recommendation is that you spend a period of self-investigation, and then begin to use your moral and aesthetic judgement frequently. This is difficult for many Americans because most of our time up to adulthood is spent in schools, whose major function is to suppress your natural and parent-trained senses of judgement and morality, and instead instill obedience to the directions of various legal and economic authorities:

https://selfdirectededucation.neocities.org/pdf/JTG%20The%20...

What I mean by executing your moral and aesthetic judgement: you need to discover what you think is RIGHT vs. what is WRONG, and what is BEAUTIFUL vs. what is UGLY, and begin to make amends for wrong-ness and ugliness in your community and your social circles by adding right-ness and beauty. It could be as simple as looking at a blank wall in your apartment and thinking "that's UGLY, for the entire course of human history people have decorated their dwellings using their own cultural stylings; what is my culture, and what are its stylings?" and then decorating your apartment, or it could be as complex as (to use another commenter's example) looking at homeless people who don't have anything to eat and thinking "that's WRONG, why are people living on the street with no food, how could this problem be rectified?" and feeding them sandwiches or joining groups attempting to mitigated homelessness. (I personally do not think that individuals bringing meals to homeless and poor people is a good or sustainable practice for society, but it doesn't matter; each person needs to develop their own thoughts and opinions on the matter.)

My overall point is that the chief desire of "capitalists, communists, schools, prisons, politicians, profiteers, thieves, predators, etc." is your apathy, both to the moral practices of your society and to the aesthetic decisions displayed to you. As long as you don't care, they can do whatever they want, because you're not going to get in the way. You need to flex your own opinion and become radicalized in applying your own judgement to the things that you see in society. Never assume that "the experts have it under control" or that nothing matters; in fact, society is made up of individual people, of which you are one, and you need to contribute your judgement and effort to the way that society acts and looks, or else everything will seem "small and pointless", as you say.
The purpose of Apple TV+ is to lock you down in iPhone/Apple ecosystem, even if they are losing the money on the service itself.

So, good luck with that.
Also there's a FireTV app (and has been for years)
ls is the archetypical example of unix gone wrong, and I think this was already widely discussed (and joked) about in early 90s (iirc unix haters had something about that). It should be just simple wrapper for readdir, but it grew into sprawling mess when it learned to stat the files too, which snowballed ls to have gazillion ways to handle all sorts of metadata
We have the tech to make real waste dangerous for less than 300 years. With this tech about 90+% of existing waste can be reprocessed and reused multiple times. It's not a problem of tech, it's a problem of political will and somewhat of economical feasibility when buying refined uranium isn't that expensive
Hmm. Well, this might be the first time I've been described as "some higher being", so... thanks for that.
Most people can. People with ADHD usually can, eventually.
> Sitting is bad because it displaces physical activity…

This is at odds with the article, which states:

> Since 2010, researchers have been keen to point out that sedentary behaviour is distinct from a lack of physical activity. You can get sufficient exercise per day, and still sit for too long.
From an Apollo Domain OS Design document[0]:

"In order to provide maximum portability of software from Domain/
as to other Berkeley or System V UNIX systems, Apollo provides two complete and separate UNIX environments, rather than a hybrid of the two. Any workstation can have one or both UNIX environments installed, and users can select which environment to use on a per-process basis.

Two key mechanisms support this facility. First, every program can
have a stamp applied that says what UNIX environment it should
run in. The default value for this stamp is the environment in which
it was compiled. When the program is loaded, the system sets an internal run-time switch to either berkeley or att, depending on the value of the
stamp. Some of the UNIX system calls use this run-time switch to
resolve conflicts when the same system call has different semantics
in the two environments.

The other mechanism is a modification of the pathname resolution
process, such that pathname text contains environment variable ex-
pansions.

[...]

When UNIX software is installed on a node, the standard trees
(/bin, /usr) are installed under directories called bsd4.3 and
sysS.3. The names /bin and /usr are actually symbolic links dependent on the value of an environment variable named SYSTYPE.
That is, /bin is a symbolic link to /$(SYSTYPE)/bin. When the program loader loads a stamped program, it sets the value of SYSTYPE
to either bsd4.3 or sys3.3, according to the value of the program
stamp. Therefore, a program that refers to a name in one of the
standard directories will access the correct version for its environment."

[0] https://bitsavers.org/pdf/apollo/014962-A00_Domain_OS_Design...
The weird thing with AI startups is the funding is kind of smoke and mirrors. So much of the funding is tied up in NVDA, MSFT, GOOGL, or AMZN incentives that the actual cash value is... murky.

May be hard to pay salaries with GPU credits.
When someone says you must RTO to a place like San Francisco or Seattle just respond that you will require a 250% pay raise for real estate cost differences.

Might help change zoning policy in those cities too if managers and executives see that the entire local economy is basically an elaborate machine to funnel money to property owners with extra steps like employment.
Smh, these slenderman cosplayers are really going too far.
You can actually do this with LLMStack (https://github.com/trypromptly/LLMStack) quite easily in a no-code way. Put together a guide to use LLMStack with Ollama last week - https://docs.trypromptly.com/guides/using-llama3-with-ollama for using local models. It lets you load all your files as a datasource and then build a RAG app over it.

For now it still uses openai for embeddings generation by default and we are updating that in the next couple of releases to be able to use a local model for embedding generation before writing to a vector db.

Disclosure: I'm the maintainer of LLMStack project
Too many syllables in the name, and too much functionality. I refer you to Yo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)
I think the expense aspect doesn't dig deep enough. There are plenty of poor countries (and folks) having children. Additionally, being rich and having lots of kids don't usually go hand in hand (admittedly stereotypical)

Not wanting to be poor, or more likely, trading the yearly trip to $insertPlaceHere, eating out on the weekends, or the daily Starbucks, for a new kid, isn't a bad, but 'too expensive' doesn't really describe that situation accurately.
Sorry if I sounded argumentative by the way, that was not my intent at all—it was an entirely honest question, and I'm really bad at wording things (especially via text).... I do agree that the WP recording of "Dijkstra" sounds more like "dike" than "day".

I might've figured out the disconnect. According to this image on Wikipedia[0], the Northern Standard Dutch realization of [ɛi] starts lower than the monophthongal [ɛ] in the same dialect[1]. Just speculation on my part, but maybe in the context of Dutch linguistics, [ɛi] conventionally signifies a wider diphthong than I would've naïvely thought? (If so, I guess this makes me a cautionary tale against directly comparing IPA transcriptions between languages....)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_phonology#/media/File:Du...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_phonology#/media/File:Du...
It certainly _could_ be a loss leader but I can't think of a single instance I've heard where someone switched to an iPhone/Apple TV because of an Apple TV show they wanted to watch.

(wouldn't even make sense to, they have an Android app)
I’m not a lawyer, and I haven’t kept up very closely with the movements in scraping legality, but my impression was that it was ruled in the past few years that if it’s on the public internet with no login-wall being circumvented, then CFAA isn’t applicable? I seem to recall a collective sigh of relief around some of those rulings.
> In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates

I'm still waiting on my flying car...