skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the same time, it seems like in some circles Dublin Core is what got metadata standardization started.

I encountered it as an older format in the mid-2010s when working on data discoverability for geospatial datasets. At the time, we were emitting Dublin Core as one format for our datasets in the archive. We were actively transitioning to supporting a more fully featured FGDC format as well as diving into the ISO 19115 standard and translating to that.

In all, I think Dublin Core was, at one point, useful. However, metadata standards have moved forward with more specialized schemas that are more useful for discoverability.
In that case We don't have enough work to do. Automating agriculture and distributing produce for free ( or at low margin ) is the last nail in to the coffin. This all is just dopamine, real work needs bombastic goals.
For online password managers it requires bad intent from the employee and manual work. For pass it's normal practice that everyone has a copy of the whole store.

However, in reality the difference is probably marginal: The majority of the (ex-)employees has no bad intent and couldn't care less about old company stuff once they leave or change roles. Those who plan to do something bad, will also keep copies of passwords from an online system.

To be safe you must rotate once someone leaves or trust your firewall.

pass supports different access in different parts of the repo, just use different .gpg-id files. But the whole system is kind of geeky. If you employ others than hackers familiar with the command line, gpg and git, it's not really an option.
LinkedIn's Broken Automation Took Down My Company's Page Without Warning
Who paid for the police job? Who will do the police job? Who will have problems with police and law because of the job? Can you calculate risk/reward for police and for volunteer?
Sadly for many artists the AI is/will be better than the average artist. I compare it to elite football players. "FIFA estimated that there were 123,694 professional soccer players worldwide." [0]. How many are really elite football players? Probably less than 2200 [22 (11 field + 11 outfield players) * 100 (top countries)]. Top 10% artists probably will get very well paid job but the rest will either get fired or salaries reduced or stagnant.

[0] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1283927/number-pro-socce...
Some new Steinway pianos have a 'high resolution player piano' feature where the performances of concert pianists can be played back on your Steinway. Not really a robot soloist, but I thought it was interesting. Not interesting enough that if I suddenly came into Steinway money I'd get one with that feature, though.
I fail to see what the idle rich have to do with supply/demand. Vulture capitalists buying and breaking up companies is very much in line with supply/demand (in the financial markets). As are non-competes (malicious or otherwise) which directly effect the supply of skilled labor. Discrimination based on non-utility factors directly influences supply/demand and thus influence prices of all sorts of things.

Economic theory around supply & demand simply describe how economies work. It does not imply that it will lead to a better life for all. In short, the "law" of supply & demand is about price discovery and resource allocation efficiency. It has no moral or ethical component that you seem to feel it implies.
The terms are a bit vague and prone to misinterpretation but economists usually refer to skilled labor jobs as those requiring certain mandatory credentials. Could be an educational degree or an occupational certificate or a government license. Some of those certificates or licenses also have minimum work experience requirements.
I’m sure there are others, but as mentioned elsewhere in this thread ESP32 or NRF70 could take care of this for a lot less (off of bare metal or RTOS if you just need WiFi and Camera.)
No. If things get really bad, pretty much everyone will want to fix them. And as far as temperatures go, it's not even that expensive to fix - block/reflect some of the sun at scale. Cover some deserts in cheap mirror material is probably the cheapest way to do this. USA alone can afford to do that.

Things are really bad for some people already, does the things you describe start to happen when they get bad for you specifically ?
> you’re depressed you should make yourself exercise. Every time.

works for me. plus a daily spoonful of cod liver oil. the best defense against depression is discipline to do what you have to do even when there's no dopamine coming.
There's an argument that Microsoft missed the whole mobile trend because of the antitrust trial and it's outcome, making them second guess potential moves.

IBM got rid of it's computer division as one of the many results of the antitrust case and it's now basically a consulting company with researchers as a side gig.

For any of these companies there was a path to keep making tremendous revenue without getting regulators on one's back, though it requires keeping producing competitive products.

As an example, LVMH is an ultra profitable group with a tentacular hold on its markets, but you don't see governments constantly suing them.

I'm not sure why you see getting struck down by whole governments to be some desirable "rich people problem".
Better how? Art isn't measured in touchdowns.
How do you call this grasping at straws exactly ?

Your suggestion that all the cars should just e driving around waiting for you is fanciful, imagine something like a live music event with 100k people? Will there just be 100k cars circling the venue waiting for pick everyone up ?
Markets use prices to work out where supply and demand meet. Sellers control the lower bound (if the price is unacceptably low they can't stock the good), buyers control the upper bound (if the price is unacceptably high they can't buy the product). If upper > lower then there is a complex dance to work out what the price is going to be today.

It doesn't matter how much data you scrape from sellers, you can only ever work out a lower bound price for goods. That isn't enough for even a super-intelligence to work out how much of that product is needed. You have to let a real market play out to figure out what prices should be. It isn't a question of processing more data from sellers before a centrally planned system can work, central planners literally can't have all the data until after the market's auctioning process has played out.

You can make reasonable guesses, but the supermarkets already do that. The goods on the shelves don't appear by coincidence, a lot of thought goes into it. Central planning can only do that well or (usually) worse.
In Bali, water temple priests guide a sustainable rice production system
As someone writing a neovim plugin using treesitter thank you! Languages like this help leverage treesitter in more interesting ways whereas current apis are still a bit low-level
Given how easy it seems to reproduce, someone had better explain this effect if it's not what is claimed there...

PS: this looks like anyone could reproduce or refute it in their basement for a few hundred dollars given all the details in the slides. I'm hoping some amateurs step in.
Imagine if we used all of our resources to develop artificial general intelligence which could multiply our prosperity and solve problems across many domains…

…or we could allocate it against economic gradients, to things which don’t actually maximize net impact but instead allow us to feel good
Physiological responses, the kind relayed from major body organs to the brain via the vagus nerve, are not necessarily your “mind” in the sense that they contribute towards your conscious actions or self-directed goals. But yeah, they send signals which can be interpreted one way vs. another depending on if you’re being mindful.

Arousal is especially interesting because you can compress a nerve in the right way and experience something you don’t actually feel or want to feel. Feelings, however, are not the “mind”, i.e. the self-directed, persistent and conscious entity.

I think it’s important to say this because people often fall into the trap of thinking physiological responses are indicative of consciousness.

Another cool thing about the vagus nerve is what happens when people get vagotomy (from Wikipedia)

> Researchers from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital have demonstrated that vagotomy prevents (halves the risk of) the development of Parkinson's disease, suggesting that Parkinson's disease begins in the gastrointestinal tract and spreads via the vagus nerve to the brain.[24] Or giving further evidence to the theory that dysregulated environmental stimuli, such as that received by the vagus nerve from the gut, may have a negative effect on the dopamine reward system of the substantia nigra, thereby causing Parkinson's disease
So turn off the lights and give the planet a respite.
High school lasts 4 years. Some people play for all 4 years but if the average is 2 years you’re looking at 0.5 million people playing for the first time each year.

Most players aren’t drafted. The average NFL career lasts 3.3 years. 2400 / 3.3 = 727 new players per year.

500,000 / 727 would be 1 in 687 or 0.15%.
Our quality of life more than doubled compared to ~50 years ago.

We have powerful computers with amazing screens, constantly connected to a global network that allows you to talk to pretty much anyone on the planet, with video. That allows you to search for all kinds of information near-instantly that previously could take weeks or months of digging through libraries or newspaper archives. Computers that translate in near real time.

We have medicine that solved so many diseases, and is so far ahead of what we had before.

We have robots that do all kinds of boring and annoying and dangerous tasks. I have two robots cleaning and mopping my floors at home. We have whole factories that are mostly run by robot labor.

We have freaking GPS!

Capitalism is not the issue. It's infinitely better than any other system, which most of the time steals labor, forces labor. I grew up in USSR, I know.
You're not the only one!

I also use `dc`, together with `grpe` and `gits tatus`.
The problem comes when you want to have an accessory that connects with Bluetooth, or notifications that 100% work, or you want to maintain a sound connection even with the screen off.

You know, what a phone is for.
> Second,I live in Tokyo

And this is where you need to remember that the rest of the world is not Tokyo. I have faith you’ll get there.
I "own" Finale and the Garritan instrument package, which cost me around $600 on a student license. I remember having to guide my music composition teacher through installing his MIDI interface which connects his keyboard to Finale when he upgraded his computer.

He is the conductor of a local musical group and rewrites the scores for different instruments depending on the orchestra he can find/pay.

This guy has spent thousands of dollars over the years, and now he is faced with.... what? Relearning the interface? Can he still open his old scores, and (rather importantly), will the score "work" in its entirety, with all the accidentals in the right place, the lyrics in the right position and split to the correct notes to be sung, the trumpets in the right key, the timpani using the correct symbols, the repeats and coda correctly defined, the personal additions still working? What about linking each instrument to the correct MIDI output or instrument package?

This goes way beyond just cost, even if for a musician who doesn't make tons of money. The intellectual investment over decades is hard to express to someone who doesn't write music for a living.
I am from Brazil and I find this funny because in my circle of friends/co-wroekers we mostly use "coding" when speaking English, or "codar" (code as a Portuguese verb) with other Brazilians.
I am not sure why, but I think it is because "program" has a strong association with prostitution in Brazilian Portuguese.
Is Apple’s version of this any better? Clipboard is synced between phone/computers logged into iCloud although it doesn’t log history (at least visibly)
Stop pretending the rest of the world is like Tokyo, it isn’t.
Including providing free social networking for everyone on the whole planet?

(Not that I'm a fan of Facebook, and many of their practices are questionable. But if we want to think in a less biased way, it's not correct to leave out the part of the equation where they also do good. We may find that it's nowhere near the bottom of the humanitarian scale.)
Absolutely fascinating article. I wasn't aware of any of the Navajo history of Farichild Semiconductors.

Thanks for sharing.
> Many of these students have not used the command line. Many do not understand the difference between a text editor and a word processor.

After taking a course using Python?
Better in being good enough to be hired for the job and being paid.
Place your hands on the back of your head, with the fingers interlocked, and the thumbs pointing down gently pressing/rubbing on your neck.

Slowly move your eyes to any fixed direction (say, to the right) and keep your eyes open, staring to the right.

This will initiate a yawn or deep sigh in most people, stimulating vagus nerve.
This seems very "Anaconda's a mess, so here's this one weird trick" then suggests a foot-gun.

Arguably step one is: https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/uninstall/

Or for miniconda: https://gist.github.com/pulkitgangwar/421a1af800c5a9c6d4a77b...

Then, adopt `uv` instead, for all your Pythons: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/

The 2024-08-24 update finally does "all the things" — unified Python packaging: https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging

. . .

PS. I noticed this original article's subsequent blog post gets into "env as code" but for "one tool to rule them all" one may want to consider a tool such as `mise` instead: https://mise.jdx.dev/about.html
Automating agriculture is a current trend, but there's so many components that it's hard to say when such a project would be considered "completed".
> Hello fellow dc user!

What are the chances all four of us would find the same thread? It’s so fast, so reliable, so omnipresent. Between that and being able to turn multiplication into addition by working in powers of two, I get answers while my colleagues are still waiting for excel to start.
agreed

as you know, though, there is a connection between this kind of security and garbage collection. specifically, if you're using a language that bounds-checks all array accesses, so array overruns are impossible, but relies on that same application programmer to free pointers manually, you can have a use-after-free bug, where a function pointer is written into heap space previously occupied by an array (or other data structure) to which a pointer still exists. if the attacker can cause writes to happen via that pointer, they can still break your security

garbage collection is a perfect guarantee against use-after-free bugs, unless of course the garbage collector is buggy. it's not the only possible solution; alternative solutions include statically allocating everything (abjuring dynamic allocation completely, like cobol), linear typing, never deallocating anything, and mlkit's region-based memory allocation are some alternatives which have been used. garbage collection is the most popular and probably the most practical

so it's not just that we have thousands of applications use the same debugged low-level buffer manipulation routines. it's also that we have thousands of applications use the same debugged garbage collector

i want to point out that even without having code and data in the same memory space, there are a variety of things an attacker may be able to do. when non-executable stacks, aslr, and w^x protections started being implemented, attackers started returning into libc; function pointers that point into the middle of libc would work just as well. (return-oriented programming might be more difficult, unless the thing being used-after-freeing was a large stack-allocated variable, which would be unusual.) and of course if there are shell commands, sql commands, java bytecode, or the like in data memory, overwriting them with malicious data may be just as good as uploading malicious machine code
Then why teach Python? All of these issues are because Python is a ridiculously poorly designed language which is still having new features added to it. It's generally a mess.
If your students are in a software engineering or engineering adjacent context, they should have some idea as to how the things they use are put together and how to adjust them.

Hyper-specialisation to the point where you "know python" but do not "know environment" (be it environment variables, virtual environments, shells or operating systems) seems like a rather pointless exercise.

If, however, someone wants to scope their class to teaching only a single thing and dismiss everything else and stick knowledge in a silo, why not provide them with a preconfigured option? This is an avenue that works with many languages, with or without GUIs, and with many steps or very few:

Maybe a Docker Container and a free download of Rancher Desktop (for any major OS) is a good option. You give them 1 link and 1 command (or just a picture of the GUI!) and you're good to go.

If that doesn't work because you're using some sort of fancy editor that doesn't work with containers, the fancy editor (like PyCharm Community) usually comes with a built in option to spawn a managed python environment just for your project. So that's a second great option to "solve" this problem that shouldn't exist in the first place.

If both of these options are too 'big', there is the super simple option of not involving the local computer at all. Stick them in a webbrowser. From CodeSpaces to just Python playgrounds, there are a ton of indestructible options to pick from. Works for other languages as well.

All of this will allow anyone to not learn anything about where a language and runtime sits or how to make it do what you need it to do, and instead you can write a bunch of code that doesn't interact with the world at all, but still get a certificate that says that some course was followed.
I remember seeing a Vice documentary on this drug, but Googling now it seems a lot of doubts about whether this drug has effects like claimed.

Well I don't know. But having tried drugs like Ambien which is a prescribed sleep medicine and it kind of completely removing all filters far, far more than alcohol would when not going to sleep immediately after and then not remembering anything the next day at all I found it plausible for there to exist really scary drugs like that, which would congitively affect you and your personality.
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> Because every option sucks for teaching.

The answer is really quite simple: F#
The difference is in the intangibles. Real art – differentiated from commercial art – is an inherently human-to-human communication medium.
After learning Forth years ago I became addicted to RPN and stack-based calculation, to the point where I wrote myself a calculator for Android that does just what I need it to (no existing calculators satisfied my Forth-like craving).

The really nice thing about stack based calculators that keeps me coming back to mine is that I can get all the numbers I'm working with down in one shot and then figure out which computations I'm applying in which order as a second step.

Until I tried RPN I never noticed how much mental bandwidth I was using shuffling numbers around in my head so I could input them into my calculator in the right order. With my stack calculator I just get all the numbers down and then swap and roll as needed to get the computation right. The number of times I've had to redo a computation because I started out wrong has been reduced to effectively zero, because I'm able to fully engage my math brain instead of juggling numbers at the same time.
So, working as intended? Without internet access, you can't leave any future negative reviews.
I eagerly await the release on Apple Books.
One problem is how fast change is coming. We can adapt to change but we can't at the speed that it is happening. People are talking about giving everyone free money to help with the transition. OK. But that leaves millions of people with more free time that they can healthily use. The quote "an idle mind is the devil's workshop", is absolutely right. Look at people that have lots of free time. See how hard they work towards killing themselves, through dangerous activities. Now imagine a whole society where the majority of members are bored because they have exhausted their entertainment. Yikes! Or just as bad, a population that is plugged into constant entertainment. Neither is good.
If anyone with a pulse can do it, it's unskilled. And I say this having worked those jobs for a number of years.
Let's look at it the other way around: what new categories did Jobs unveil? iPod, Apple Store, iPhone, Apple TV, iPad. Everything else was a remix. It's five things. People can point to four under Cook; Watch, AirPods, HomePod, Vision. Of course the company has slowed down, it's just normal but it's still innovative.
Yea, the only way to get close to programming efficiently in Python is to turn MyPy and Pylint up to 11.
Counterbalanced by the upside that the librarians don't have to do double duty as pest control, although the absurd mental image of them handling the task in a similar fashion as the bats doing it is rather amusing.
I'd argue it's a lot more than "minimum". You need them to be comfortable with the host system, and also manage the running container, which will have a different OS most of the time, and the virtualization mechanism (docker here).

Simple things like having a student access another student's web server becomes overly complicated, as you're dealing with 4 systems talking to/through each other.
The Thomas attractor reminds me of the ship in the film Passengers.
> And you can’t really remove people, they can always keep and decrypt old versions of the vault, that means that you do have to rotate all of the secrets in that vault manually if someone leaves. And then, there’s also the support cost for non-tech people. GPG on windows is a particular pain.

In a way doesn't this just more directly reflect the reality that anyone you've ever given access to a password may have made a private copy of it? It's not actually safe to leave passwords unrotated when someone who had access to them leaves.
AHh gotcha.

Well yeah I reckon you render a full custom 4004 w/ koru patterned transistors into about 4m x 4m stained glass panel. Would look good as the foyer panel for the CS dept at the University of Waikato
Commercial artist, maybe.

Real artists, nah.

I'm aware the difference between those two things is mucky, but 'real' art is exclusively a human-to-human communication. You can use AI to augment your work for sure, but even then it won't carry as much emotional weight (read: value) as Guernica or the Ecstasy of Santa Teresa.
I mean, AirPods is an accessory to the most successful computing platform in the world. It's a Fortune 500 company all on its own. Do not discount AirPods. People stick to iPhone because they love their AirPods. I sure do.
A Local Directory boilerplate that you can launch in minutes
Yea, first time I hit their site from this machine. And the alert showed on my mobile phone - "allow aluminium?"

One of these days I'm gonna log in with the debugger active.