skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
U.S. fleet welcomes newest USS New Jersey, the first gender-neutral submarine
Wonder why that would be the case?
> I have a side project. wanna see the code? you can't! screw you it's mine!

Lol. Are you ok?

> MS is a wildly different disease than Alzheimer's.

They didn’t say it is the same disease. They said “I know several people who developed Alzheimer's or MS around their 60’s.” Which is while not the typical age MS appears it can still certainly happen. (It even has a specific name to describe it. Late-Onset Multiple Sclerosis)
Sorry I was joking because your generic description of isolation was relatable.
I live in the USA.
As another French I'm consider migrating to Africa, closer to my lifestyle
Yes. E61s are full of springs and an orifice and a valve body that ramps the pressure mechanically. This is not only overly complicated but it exposes the brew water to dissimilar metals and adds a ton of surface area to shit up with rancid coffee oil. A group with a shorter water path is better since we can easily have control over the pressure with a computer.
Regulation should allow students to forgo their tuition payments if they can’t land a good job in their field of study.

That’d help align incentives.

Schools would compete on placement rates and quality. They’d need robust post-graduation placement services and would need strong partnerships with industry players to stay in alignment with required skills.
I would wager more people open a CSV by double-clicking on it rather than using the import data wizard. And even if you use the wizard it takes extra work to specify the type of each column, which most people won't bother with.

Writing some VBA is a simple process if you're a programmer. I wonder how many genetic researchers fit that description?

P.S. when I said "too late to fix it", I meant by some process within Excel. Of course you can re-import the original file, but maybe you only notice the problem after you've done a lot of work with it?
why compete in the consumer domain when Uncle Sam pays you not to
What surprises me is how undiscussed the actual underlying issues are.

Cultural stability and assimilation rate are real processes, that can be influenced by various policies.

Similar, economies run on labor and skill, and growth or shrinking of a labor pool has serious ramifications.

Yet these things aren't part of most of these discussions: instead it's sound bites and hyping extreme scenarios (on all sides) as common occurrences.

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In most countries with low birth rates, it would be extremely beneficial to everyone there to boost population growth through immigration.

Yet immigration and assimilation create cultural friction with the then-dominant national culture, so that needs to be managed.

Ultimately, I'd like to see more honest communication around "We're encouraging immigration to drive our economy" and "Here are the things that immigrants are having to deal with, as they adjust to living in our country, and what you can do to help them."

It sucks when someone is outcompeted by immigrant labor, but that should probably prompt some self reflection -- how can someone new to a country substitute into their job? And why weren't they doing more to find a job where that wasn't possible?
I'm fine today but the decade following high school graduation was really rough for me. Stints of homelessness, substance abuse, depression, run-ins with law enforcement (some deserved, some not). I ended up enlisted in the military to escape my situation and it worked out for me. I'm in AAA games today but have had a good career in software engineering and we could probably retire today if we were willing to move to a LCOL area. But we aren't, because...

Today we have a rich and deep group of close friends, mostly formed around our children, and I pour myself into my family obligations. I'm trying to develop small communities where I live and it's starting to pan out. Again, it's primarily based around our children, but we've developed some lasting connections with a couple of other parents.

I'm currently building a 2D 16-bit platformer with my (twin) daughters, who are 5. I let them pick out some asset packs to use and, once I get this level editor finished, will have them help build levels. My aim is to get it running on a SteamDeck (will just copy the required files over) and let them play it on the TV via the dock. They've seen a bit of Mario and Zelda so far and are curious for more. I figured this way would be a bit more hands-on and they could get some sense of how the sausage gets made.
How does this work exactly? Is every log line a separate transaction in autocommit mode? Because I don't see any begin/commit statements in this codebase so far...
Tools are designed for a particular use case/userbase. Excel was not designed for gene scientists. It wouldn't make sense for me, a home owner who uses a jigsaw to cut molding, to complain to a chainsaw maker that their chainsaw isn't right for my job.
Depends immensely on use case — what are your compute limitations? are you fine with remote code? are you doing symmetric or asymmetric retrieval? do you need support in one language or many languages? do you need to work on just text or (audio, video, image)? are you working in a specific domain?

A lot of people wind up using models based purely on one or two benchmarks and wind up viewing embedding based projects as a failure.

If you do answer some of those I’d be happy to give my anecdotal feedback :)
nice use of WebRTC, which somehow is still underutilized.

>If you're self-hosting and you want to access the signaling server remotely via mobile data, you may need to set up DDNS and port forwarding if your ISP provides a dynamic IP.

this also exposes your server to the internet. instead you can use one of the open source solutions which creates a private connection between your Pi and server (so there is no network access to the server - make it unreachable), and doesn't require static IPs or port forwarding.
>ageism will cause you to be out of a job at say 60 at the latest?

Do you feel like you'll be much less productive at 60? Why would you work for a company that thinks that way? Can you no longer solve business problems by that age? We have 80 year old politicians, so I'd hope not.
Would you accept $34k to move to Syria? I have no idea who this incentive is designed for. The (financial) opportunity cost alone totally swamps the incentive before we even consider the risk in living in a volatile dictatorship.

On a macro level, moving people from functional, high-productivity countries to failed states makes even less sense. Totally hapless policy from Sweden here.
I will study our zip code I do know that they seem to follow a sequence but I have never seen it broken down.
The question was about writers, though.
The Ironic part being that the COBOL in that example is completely wrong and non-functional.

Note:

WS-MENU-ITEM(1) OF WS-LABEL

When the syntax, which is similar to natural language is:

elementary-var IN|OF group-var

It is a good example if you want to prove to people that they are a bad idea.

I prefer to use these tools as a form of red/green/refactor workflow, where I don't use them in the refactor step or the test case step.
In Arabic, “the one who can’t dance says the floor is crooked”
So isset and empty don't actually check what their name suggests.

I think the problem is finding a short name for a little complex functionality
What made it ahead of its time? Seems like Google Daydream and that wave of 3DOF headsets came out in a year later and had their 15 minutes of stereo 360.
> GPT-o1, which performs an initial reasoning step before running the LLM.

Is that an accurate description?
I thought it just runs the LLM for longer, and multiple times,and truncates the beginning of the output.
PCMCIA cards were cool. It's much nicer to have peripherals in the laptop.

Although my modem card didn't have this XJACK thing, it had a big chunky end that stuck out of the laptop to fit an RJ11.
This was evident fron the beginning. The mystery to me is why was this adopted as the default way of working?
> moving people from functional, high-productivity countries to failed states makes even less sense

Depends who you're moving.
Refugees typically apply for asylum (you can look up what this means under international treaties). The base claim is that their lives are at risk in their home country, for example due to religious persecution.

Lots of grey area in the middle of course.
I think I'll just stick with multiple glasses.
The most telling sentence in the whole piece:

My retirement day is practically at least thirty years ahead.

When you are young, old age seems a long way away.
Never used this but have seen talon recommended

https://talonvoice.com/

hoping you recover soon
It's behind my normal router/firewall so not directly internet accessible, but yes, I have it on my normal home network.

Most network traffic to it is via a samba server on Linux configured to be accessible to SMBv1 still for use as a file dump.

It doesn't really talk out to the internet much - you can't get modern browsers and even if you could it would be too slow to be practical.
Two things. At 65 I'm applying for a job for the first time in 12 years! As a man I have had the luxury of being married to someone with better career prospects than me so I put my career on hold (p.s. there is no such thing - it's dead in the water) to do family things. I've done a great job. I've contributed to society and done it in a selfless way. All those girly things like PTA, cake stalls, committee meetings ... and my peers have thought I really ought to get a job. Well, fuck off is the expression that comes to mind. I am now going to get a job because I am bored, not because I feel I should contribute - I've done that. And I don't think I am exceptional. People get bored and contribute independent of reward. So I'd suggest UBI is the answer to many of our woes. Everyone gets to do what they like doing; if you're indifferent, but like the things money can buy you'll do the crap jobs if they pay enough. What is more, with guaranteed income and proportional tax on other income, businesses would get a few more people willing to work for a "non living wage" - too few hours or too low income to live on, but enough to play the pokies or a good night out. And there would be no need to think about welfare or pensions. Sure a percentage will not lift a finger, but let them. They are a drop in the ocean compared to the "financially independent", the "house wives" and "pensioners" who can already do that if they wanted to.
The GPT Share links are 404 for me
There seems to be so much distinction between immigrants and citizens. Citizens can be 'smoochers' too, but you don't see anyone exiling them from their home countries.

As for integration, I don't see why people who are judgemental. There are tons of immigrants to the US who don't speak good English. Are you going to tell them to get the hell out of this country? What if they're parents of children who learn to speak English better than their native languages? That happened a lot.

People should be able to improves their lives. Sometime that means moving to a different country. Sometime that means struggling hard where they are.
I went to the other extreme. I have a somewhat elaborate fish function which detects any use of -a and refuses to call Git with it.

I had gotten lazy about good commits, basically, `git commit -a` was in my muscle memory. Forcing myself to treat staging as a step before committing, and getting in the habit of using `git add -p` when called for, has made a meaningful difference in the quality of my commit history.

If one is disciplined about making changes in the first place, I suppose this matters less. But I'm not, and also don't want to be: if I spot something else which needs doing while I'm in flow mode, I'm not going to put it off just to keep commits nice, not when there are better options for doing that part.
People lie.

80% of “refugees” vacation back in their source country. If they were truly afraid for their lives they wouldn’t be doing that. They just want a better life. Can’t blame them. Who wouldn’t?

https://rmx.news/article/four-in-five-refugees-living-in-swe...

The downvotes are hilarious. No counter argument. Just “I don’t like it”. Well, I don’t either. But that’s how it is.
From what I observe of 80+ year old politicians, I find that to be more an argument in favor of ageism rather than against it.
They decided to use the silicon space for other things. The Pi5 CPU is powerful enough to decode most h264 streams in software. The Pi5 has an h265 hardware decoder.
Quite a few years ago as a teenager, who knew even less about the physics of sound than I do now, assumed that it wouldn't be long before technology was developed that lets a single device (say a consumer TV) output two different audio tracks aimed at two different people, and even track the people moving around the room to keep their audio being directed at their head.

Visually the technology for two people to see different video on the same TV has existed for a while, there's just no demand or market for it (either glasses syncing with TV to block certain frames, or there was a technique that depended on the angle you're viewing from).

And for tracking people walking around the room, to then know where to point audio or video at, there's released & integrate-able technology available like head and eye tracking from Tobii.

Is there also some very expensive option for having audio split between people in the same room (without using any devices like earphones) and just equally no general demand from consumers wanting to use or pay for it, or do the laws of physics prevent sound waves from working well this way?
Pro tip: when you check anything about the US skip the average and go for the median, it's completely skewed by the top 5%

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...
Gavin Howard here.

There really isn't a design choice to be made. POSIX requires unary negation to have higher precedence.

The only precedence change (I can remember) from GNU bc is that I changed the not operator to have the same precedence as negation. This was so all unary operators had the same precedence, which leads to more predictable parsing and behavior.
You can amortize the write speed significantly by not committing often, either in the sense of a SQL `COMMIT` or in the sense of doing a _synchronous_ `COMMIT`. You could commit every N seconds, say, for some sufficiently large N, or you could commit after N seconds of idle time and no more than M seconds since the last commit. You can also disable `fsync()`, commit often, and re-enable `fsync()` once every N seconds. There are many tactics you can use for data where some loss due to power failure is tolerable.

I.e., you can probably get pretty close to the storage device's max sustained write throughput, though with some losses for write magnification due, e.g., to B-tree write magnification and also indices you might want to maintain.

Write magnification due to B-tree write magnification can be amortized by committing infrequently (which is why I listed that _first_ above). Though there should be no need because SQLite3 already amortizes B-tree write magnification by using a write-ahead log (WAL), so be sure to enable the WAL for this sort of application.

Write magnification due to indices can be amortized by partitioning your tables by time ranges, and then use a VIEW to unify your tables, and then you can create an index on any partition only when it closes to new log entries. This approach causes reads to be slow when searching newer log entries, but those probably will all fit in memory, so it's not a problem if you have a large enough page cache.

Now I've not built anything like this so I can't say for sure, but I suspect that one could get very aggressive with these techniques and reach a sustained write rate of around 75% of the storage device(s)' sustained write rate.
It doesnt matter what you feel. It matters what your employer or customers feel.

Unless you are super lucky to have own company and own product(s).
> why would we use anything but actual natural language?

Because natural language is not a good tool to describe computational processes.

Which one would you rather write:

(a) p(x) = x^2 + 5x + 4

(b) Let us consider the object in the ring of univariate polynomials with complex coefficients defined by the square of the variable, plus five times the variable plus four.

Every scientific discipline moves away from natural language as soon as possible. Low-code, no-code and the likes have been a dismal failure precisely for this reason. Why would I move back to natural language if I can effectively express my problem in a formal language that I can manipulate at-will?
> "what does the camera see" <facepalm> It SEES EVERYTHING!!!!

This is such a bad take, haha. Its as bad as telling the cinematographer to look forward. Obviously there's the exact point of view of the device but also the exposure, and other camera intrinsics you don't want to guess at when you're about to shoot a take.
Japan had a similar policy, with respect to legal immigrants it had made a point of recruiting, in the immediate wake of the global financial crisis. They'd buy (largely) Peruvian/Brazilian factory workers of Japanese descent a plane ticket and approximately $3k of compensation (IIRC) in return for them surrendering their work-compatible visa.

It was controversial, from a number of angles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/business/global/23immigra...
It’s hard to overstate how much I want to see this topic the same way as you do. I think, so far, I’ve only become more productive, and I don’t feel the cynicism that many seem to acquire past a certain age (“all frameworks are just the same”, “wheel is reinvented all the time” etc - I have a more nuanced view on this). I’m not really worried about my productivity at 60, but that the market will favor cheaper, superficially quicker-minded folks, who tend to be young.
>>> To learn mathematics, historically students had no choice but to memorize fundamental facts and apply memorized algorithms. Since 1995 in the US, all states have adopted standards to govern K-12 mathematics instruction, and in most, standards have de-emphasized memorization and emphasized reasoning based on concepts.

My kids are both past high school. My view is that while states may have adopted standards, the curriculum was to a large extent governed by standardized testing. "The test is the curriculum." This suggests that memorization and algorithms remained central to school math. I saw it in the homework assignments that my kids brought home, or worked on through online courseware. If I'm not mistaken, the tests and the courseware are in some cases made by the same company. Moreover, the prevailing culture was reinforced by demand from parents.

My message to my kids was similar to the thought expressed in the abstract: "Trust me, math gets interesting but the low level stuff has to be practiced until it ceases to detract from thinking about the interesting stuff."
Well no need to be so mysterious about it - is there any group in particular who you'd like to put under Assad's thumb?
For some sites. For years many search results didn't have a cache link in the drop down.
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CEO Lisa Su says AMD is now a data center-first company
Thanks! That is some extensive level of social engineering, reconnaissance and exploiting. Takes a lot of patience and discipline to pull such sophisticated heist.
That's not GP's question. GP wants to know how high the write rate can be regardless of the systemd log rate limiter, likely so as to be able to increase that rate limit!
Can't have malinformation that may make the so-called King(s) look bad..
> Not only does AI eliminate the need for developing a custom DSL, as your DSL now is just plain language

Plain language is not precise enough.
The article slipstreams drivers rather than any updates - but yes, you could slipstream updates, and there are unofficial pre-updated ISOs available.

I've tried ones for 98, 2000 and XP and I've found that most of those unofficial updates go too far - they tend to try to do things like backport DLLs or APIs for better compatibility with newer software, but I've found they make the system less stable and less period correct - which affects software compatibility.

In my case, I'm trying to run a mix of old programming software and old games - both of these had problems on unofficial update packs.
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I wrote a set of "language games" which used a similar set of functions years ago: https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/Language-games
If the 'LLM revolution' proves to be as effective and scary as you imply, a motivated 85 year old coder could easily hide their identity behind whatever deepfaked voice/video/photo/text identity they choose and never be revealed to be aged
We can safely say that nobody can predict how our profession will evolve. I don't want to assume I will stay in this profession forever. I currently love my profession and am trying my best to do it well and learn the fields close to my field (like psychology or philosophy). On the other hand, I'm doing other things I enjoy (like writing on my blog), although they don't bring any income. However, writing is a skill I can learn, grow, and become an income in the future (if I enjoy doing it professionally).

I'm worried that not only ageism but also a sudden accident or any other sickness can put me out of a job. That's exactly what I meant by "have enough savings to cover detours during the journey." That's why I used to "only" word in, "Instead of relying only on forty years of commitment to retirement schemes, ..." I still have retirement and government support to cover my problems up to a certain point. However, it's up to me to make the journey safer by investing according to my goal.
lame response.