skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Individual self-reliance and coping only goes so far. I think OP's thesis is that this is a larger cultural issue of capitalism increasingly squeezing every once of joy out of people's lives, and demanding more labour from fewer people under dehumanizing conditions.

Yes. The US lost the general pattern of an 8 hour day, a 40 hour week, time and a half for overtime, and employment duration measured in decades. Most people can handle that.

Most people cannot handle 996 work, "clopeners"[1], and "side hustles" for long.

That's really it. The US just needs to get back to what were normal labor practices from the 1950s to the 1970s.

The key item here is paid overtime at a higher rate. That makes it uneconomic to have people at work too long. It's cheaper to hire an additional person.

"Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest and eight hours for what you will." - Knights of Labor, 1888.

[1] https://calchamberalert.com/2023/04/14/clopening-schedules-g...
So here is ChatGPT's token list: https://gist.github.com/s-macke/ae83f6afb89794350f8d9a1ad8a0...

Is there some reason it isn't alphabetical? (More specifically, lexically sorted by codepoint) If you had a model with sorted tokens, you'd be able to solve this by constraining output to tokens with the desired prefix, probably with some mechanism similar to how this works: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars/...
I think like half of them did. The compromise over slavery cursed our nation.
No, not planning; attempting but failing. You didn't look at all of the eh, article.
In particular, (L)GPL3 require that you be able to reproduce the binaries that you were given, more or less - the anti-TiVo clauses.

The article suggests that AVM provided some code but not the build tooling or scripts needed to produce a useful firmware image out of them, or documentation around various opaque variables required for the build, and since they're required to do that, here we are.
The local scope leak seems to only happen when you drop down the call stack. See below how I can call func2 from the top level and it's fine, but if I call it from within func1, it will leak.

#!/bin/bash

declare -A map1=([x]=2)
echo "1. Global scope map1[x]: ${map1[x]}"
func1() {
echo " * Enter func1"
local -A map1
map1[x]=3
echo " Local scope map1[x]: ${map1[x]}"
func2
}
func2() {
echo " * Enter func2"
echo " Local scope map1[x]: ${map1[x]}"
}
func1
func2
echo "2. Global scope map1[x]: ${map1[x]}"

outputing:
1. Global scope map1[x]: 2
* Enter func1
Local scope map1[x]: 3
* Enter func2
Local scope map1[x]: 3
* Enter func2
Local scope map1[x]: 2
2. Global scope map1[x]: 2

UPDATE: I did a bit of exploration and it turns out ANY variable declared `local` is in the scope of a function lower down in the call stack. But if you declare a variable as `local` in a called function that shadows the name of a variable in a callee function, it will shadow the callee's name and reset the variable back to the vallee's value when the function returns. I have been writing bash for years and did not realise this is the case. It is even described in the man page:
When local is used within a function, it causes the variable name to have a visible scope restricted to that function and its children.

Thank you. You have taught me two things today. One is a bash feature I did not know existed. The second is a new reason to avoid writing complex bash.
What about this is security theater? This is about accountability for misbehaving cops.
How is civilian oversight security theater? Also, I dislike the use of civilian here. Cops aren't troops.
At anyone time due to the different radius of their orbits, some planets might be positioned so they would be visible during the day (making them not actually visible). These “alignmnets” mean that they are visible at the same time in the night sky. Them all being on the same plane just means they are located in different spots on the same line in the sky
Default of conforming loans was partially caused by people who could afford to keep paying their mortgage deciding it wasn’t worth it because the value of their houses was so much less than their loan, they decided to do a strategic default.

The prices of homes were inflated by investors overpaying for homes and non conforming loans that were not government backed.

There were a lot of tricks that investors and home buyers could play. I was involved in investment real estate and had my first house built between 2001-2005.

The first and easiest non conforming process that wasn’t government backed was to take out two mortgages - 90/10. I had a my first house built a 2500 square foot home and only put $1000 down. The cost at the time was $175K mortgage and the value of the house went up to $205K before the crash. It was also an interest only first mortgage.

I refinanced it before the crash to get fixed interest rate and had a HELOC for $30K

While one investment property I bought was 10% down, it also wasn’t government backed.

The second investment property not only was done 100% financed because I knew people by then, it was also valued by a bank appointed appraiser at an unreasonable high price, I overpaid for it and the seller gave me cash back for the difference. I knew this was shady. But I later found out that this was illegal.

They also took my word for it that I had enough income from my other investment property to cover the mortgage.

By 2008, I was making $70K from work and had five mortgages totaling around half million.

By late 2012, I walked away from all of them. The value of all three houses put together were worth $250K.

Exactly three years after the last foreclosure to the day, I got approved for a mortgage of $335K FHA and had my house built - 3200 square foot 5 bedroom 3.5 bath in 2016 with 3.5% down and 3.5% interest rate. I just sold it last year for $670K

The house I had built in 2003 and walked away from in 2012 just got back up in value to the price I paid for it in late 2018 and the price I refinanced it for in mid 2020. It sold for $270K last year.

The bank bailouts were because banks were making a lot of risky non conforming non government back loans and as investors like me started walking away from houses, the economy crashed and people saw it made no sense to try to keep their homes, they walked away.

> The banks were the ultimate underwriter of these mortgages and thus defaulters would impact the banks, then the banks would've been way more diligent and restrictive about loaning out the money
Banks also lied about the credit worthiness of loans in their portfolio when they sold them off

That’s just the thing, as soon as the banks made even non conforming non government back loans, they bundled them, lied about the credit worthiness of the loans and sold them off - mortgage backed securities. They weren’t ever at risk.

The banks servicing the loans were not the original underwriters
Very fair, and worth addressing. May I ask- what are the main barriers preventing you from socializing? Could intentionally designed apps or social structures reduce those barriers? What do you think would be most helpful?
- bash is available pretty much everywhere, so if you learn it you can always use it, whereas if you learn a weird new shell you'll be occasionally forced to fall back on bash anyway, so people learn just bash for efficiency's sake (because learning one shell is painful enough as it is). And any proposed replacement will be non-portable.

- some of the things that make shell scripting terrible can't be fixed in the shell itself, and need changes to the entire ecosystem of console applications. e.g. it would be awesome if every Unix utility output structured data like JSON which could be parsed/filtered, instead of the soup of plaintext that has to be memorized and manipulated with awk, but that almost certainly won't happen. There's a bunch of backward-compatibility requirements like VT-100 and terminal escape sequences limiting the scope of potential improvements as well

- there's a great deal of overlap between "people who do a lot of shell scripting" and "people who are suspicious of New Stuff and reluctant to try it"
There is no separation. You're expressing politics whether you want to or not.

Musk has politicized his public image and by extension his businesses, especially because he is the marketing department and public face of those businesses.

The only way to avoid it is to avoid buying his products.
That's very interesting - it aligns to something I've felt for a long time about the way the internet and modern media has made it so people just know about so many more things in the world and thus feel like they need to care about them. It's "eat your veggies because some starving African child doesn't even have that" but applied to everything, and juiced by live footage of a child dying of starvation.

This also, I think, leads to detachment from local issues. Why should I look into who's on my city council when I'm hearing about the French government falling apart or the mayor of New York doing crimes? There's always something bigger, worse, more important to the world going on somewhere and there's nothing you can do about it, but also every part of you feels like you should do something.
Ah. Well then yeah, I think it’s safe to say the business model of PE wealth extraction is broken. That or businesses that need to take on PE funding are probably not very sound.
You're parsing a compound word and assuming that you can get the definition that way. A "busybody" is someone who is busy in other people's business. That's simply what the word means, not an interpretation or a value judgement.

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> Susanna Centlivre wrote a successful play, The Busie Body, which was first performed in 1709 and has been revived repeatedly since. It is a farce in which Marplot interferes in the romantic affairs of his friends and, despite being well-meaning, frustrates them. The characterisation of Marplot as a busybody whose "chief pleasure is knowing everybody's business" was so popular that he appeared as the title character in a sequel, Marplot. The name is a pun — mar / plot — and passed into the language as an eponym or personification of this type.

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> And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

> — 1 Timothy 5:13

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busybody
Thank you. I wouldn't exactly call France a tiny state. Are there any others that I should specifically be looking at? The Europeans pride themselves as being quote unquote civilized people, did they not have uniform ethnicities within their borders before the founding of their states? If not, then what did define those borders?

Have states such as France ethnically cleansed other peoples from within their borders? If so, then why isn't that mentioned in the well-known histories?
One example that comes to mind is the (abandoned) proposal for safe arena allocation in Go. It takes advantage of the fact that 64 bit computers have absolutely massive virtual memory, so that "freed" memory can be permanently unmapped from virtual memory in order to make any future accesses an error instead of a use-after-free bug.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51317
> No multi-threading

That isn’t quite correct, because you can take the address of a VB6 procedure and pass it to win32 CreateThread. See the related chapter in Hardcore Visual Basic for example. And of course you can use win32 mutexes and such. Thanks to the win32 interoperability, there aren’t a lot of limits of what you can do in VB6.
Which is because they're not hashmaps, they're associative arrays. Article treats them as the same thing, but they're not - that's why the "declare -A" is A and not H - it stands for "associative".
Maybe I'm missing or misunderstanding something, but isn't this a criticism you can levy against most news articles that describe events? These seem to be factual descriptions as well as descriptions of ought-statements and -positions taken by related people and groups of people, which is the same case for articles about inflation, or social statistics, or pretty much anything else.
Because the article is about binary searching an array. Obviously algorithms must be adapted to what they are used for.
The engineering is fascinating. The river walk itself is hardly worth the trip.
>Not every animal views a zoo (or for that matter, a farm or a pet-owners house) as a prison. For a significant population of zoo animals, life in captivity is the only life they know. For the most part, they are as happy and content, as they are well-fed.

Not if they are given a space which is too small and not stimulating enough for them, then they just pace around for their whole lives.
What's giving me burnout is work from home. I got much of my social needs met by working at work with people I liked. We'd talk. We'd go to lunch. We'd meet up after work and on weekends. We also collaborated at work. Designed things together.

Now, 40% of my time is alone in isolation, working at home. Collaboration and design work happen in documents at best and not in social conversation like it used it.

All of this is making work a chore, "for me". Instead of work being an opportunity to hang out with people I like it's just a list of things to do alone.
Imagine if you had antivirus for your server.

The antivirus is only updated once every 12 months, using discounted old licenses bought from eBay.

Am I hating antivirus? Are we better for saying the servers are secured?

No. The “civilian oversight” is a security blanket that has not demonstrated effectiveness.
No announcement has ever been made about the integration of FATMAP into Strava. The only announcement was that FATMAP would be discontinued.

Strava has been stagnating for several years now in terms of functionality. The last two evolutions I remember are the introduction of the dark theme, which has been requested for years, and the AI coaching tips, which are unbelievably bad.

Personally, I'd like to see more competition in the field of sports apps. It's becoming increasingly difficult to find interesting activities in the Strava feed. There is little or no possibility of editorialization (highlighting certain contents, collections, etc.).

It's very difficult to find a friend's activity if it's more than a week old. Would you like to know if anyone has made it over the pass at this time of year? Fuck you, here are some Zwift activities.
What could go wrong? Qualified immunity plus zero oversight and military style equipment- no way that the police officers wouldn’t feel emboldened to overstep.

https://www.tspd.us/swat
Gruene has a fossil shop with a no returns policy. The sign used to say something along the lines of "you can't return it, no matter how much your pastor says you'll go to hell; if you're that worried, bury it: that's where it came from!"
What benefits does your linguistic framework and redefinitions of commonly used terms offer? I'm not seeing it.

Looks like you're desperately looking for some seams from which to break fabric of cohesive society appart.

Homogenous societies do not need nor should they offer special affordances to either atheists or religious people.
Only diverse societies that have imported bunch of incompatible religions that beef with each other and prevailing culture (often violently!) that need "special" accomodations and guard rails to prevent escalations of conflict.
> Here in Berkeley and other SF Bay Area cities, we have imposed an "Empty Home Tax" [0][1] at some $ and % per year.

It's not $ and % in Berkeley, its a fixed $3,000 for the first year the unit stands vacant for 182 days or more, $6,000 in the second and subsequent years.

Oakland's measure (which is older) is also a fixed dollar amount (varies by the specific kind of unit, either $3,000 or $6,000 per year), and only applies if the property isn't occupied for at least 50 days in a year.

San Francisco's new one (like Berkeley's, passed in 2023 and would have gone into effect for 2024 with payments in 2025) was struck down as a violation o both the Federal and State Constitution, so until and unless that decision is overturned on appeal, it effectively doesn't exist.

> I figured it would incentivize people to either rent or sell their unused properties which will house people and get rid of blight. Neither has happened much and these owners just take the hit.

Well, the only significant one that is in effect at all (Berkeley's) hasn't had much time to have an impact (it only applies to rental properties with units vacant for more than 182 days in a calendar year, and it went into effect Jan. 1, 2024, with the first payments due in 2025 based on 2024 vacancies.)
Is multi-user use "modern"? Back in the days everyone shared the same mainframe, now I'd say most computer systems have a single user.
What on earth are you talking about? This doesn't make any sense.
Lmgtfy
Try https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve, it's extremely easy to self-host and it's an all-in-one solution, dashboards included (though admittedly I've seen prettier ones).
Clinton's claim was effectively that he believed the definition was not associative for that specific statement. There was also the later statement which he described Monica's statement about having not had a sexual relationship as true.

The trial court disagreed that these statements truthfully responded to the deposition, and fined him for his misleading answer.
Actual socialism requires collective ownership of the means of production, especially factories and farms. It's believed that private ownership of those things will inevitably result in abuses so ugly that the entire capitalist system will collapse.

"Socialism" in common parlance means "the government does stuff. Any stuff. With the possible exception of things that benefit them, which are of course right and necessary.

What a lot of people want is "democratic socialism", which is actually capitalism with strong government regulation and safety nets. It often includes strong mandates about the necessities of life: food, housing, health care.

There are few genuine socialists any more, though many democratic "socialists" take note of the failures of capitalism and try to mitigate them.
The only people opposed to "civilian" oversight (Are cops the military now?) are corrupt cops.
There is no Y other than 0 which would be allowed under the California Constitution (Prop 13 limits ad valorem property taxes to a fixed 1% of allowed tax basis value, as well as limiting the annual increase in tax basis value, local entities can't add selective additional ad valorem property taxes on top of this), and there is no X which would make them sell which would not be regulatory taking without compensation in violation of the 5th Amendment to the US Constitution (as well as provisions of the State Constitutions.)
I got burnt out at my last job working hard for them and my reward was being laid off and the whole team replaced. Fuck the rat race, we’re all killings ourselves and giving our lives so the rich can get richer.
You’re assuming that the community oversight is automatically effective. I answer that it needs to demonstrate effectiveness, or otherwise, police can use the claim of being overseen to get away with even more nonsense. At least with police overseeing themselves, the flaw is well understood.

It’s better to have a flawed system but with well understood flaws; than a new theoretically good one with unknown flaws.
The United States is a country where we only pretend to have the rule of law and equal application of it.

In practice, most laws simply don’t apply to the police.

The ownership class makes this concession to them in exchange for their unwavering fealty in service of the protection of capital’s fixed assets.

The illusion of democratic and legal process governing their behavior paints the whole scheme as legitimate, but there is large scale graft and corruption in the law enforcement apparatus of every major city in the US.

I remember explaining to a visiting Russian friend who had just won a poker tournament in Las Vegas that we couldn’t drive around with his $70k in cash my car because if we get pulled over the cops might steal it. He was astounded that this is how the USA works.
Also, born and grew up in Korea to missionaries, only to be deported to the US by the Japanese when they took over Korea. Then moved back later in life.

Talk about an unusual life!
The nominal oversight is being rolled into the police organizations. More theater, not less.
"enjoy the tasks assigned to you however dull or basic they may be after you mastered them. Be proud of your work."

Ohhh, this is freakin hard to me. Bunch of users are complaining about feature not working properly in our Enterprise product, but it's not impactful enough to fix, because those users are not going to complain to their CEO/COO about broken feature in our product, because they themselves might be labeled as COMPLAINER and eventually kicked out.

What's impactful? Of course new shiny AI-powered green button, it's so amazing, project created by a super talented story teller engineer and who is good at selling it to leadership. Does it impact metrics? Yes, of course, those metrics are also crafted specifically for that feature. (more time user spends on that page, more impactful. Is it? maybe users are confused or can't find what they're looking for? Can you tell it to leadership? Ohh they approved this metric and project, are you against VP+ leadership's decisions?)

And we wonder, why do we have double digit customer churn rate.
I never would have considered using an SFP to transmit arbitrary signals over a mux, this is fun and kinda crazy.
Salt is not bad for you. The small hypertension decreases people experience on low sodium diets are capped at roughly 10% and salt is almost never the actual cause. It is another victim of choosing a boogie man to hide the fact that sugar is by far the most destructive thing to consume by a huge margin
How can one “be a communist” when the entire idea is predicated on a small central authority telling the rest of the country what to do and how to do it?

Or did you mean “one of the small ruling elite” communists?
As other people have posted elsewhere in this, purchasing power and the economy is linked to the incentives that cause people to burn out. You keep pushing against the tide because you want that promotion or raise because costs go up over time. Or because you want to do something costly that you think will improve your life, such as having a child or moving somewhere or fixing an annoyance in your life.

Some people surely burn out because they're just obsessive, but many people, myself included, slide into it because "just 4 more months of this and I can afford X".
Better that police overseeing themselves is well understood and a claim that could be made in court; than an ineffective community oversight system providing cover.

Nothing is more potentially dangerous than an organization which claims that they have a 3rd party oversight system, so they can be trusted, with this claim then being taken at face value.
Most cheap amp ICs perform well when they're outputting less than a watt, with distortion barely audible. Try connecting the same amp board to your main HiFi system if you have one and do some listening tests against the original HiFi amp. Then turn it up and it's a completely different story.

As always the speakers are the crucial part and having decent speakers will make a big difference. What a DSP can do is correct bad speakers to some degree. A typical cheap computer speaker has a muddy midrange, can't reproduce past 13 kHz or so, and has little bass due to the small driver. With DSP the manufacturer would typically low pass the amp input, smooth out the nonlinear frequency response, lift the bass a bit, and apply compression and limiting to increase perceived volume and protect the system. The results are still constrained by physics but the manufacturer is in this case able to save money on the drivers and box while getting similar sound quality.