skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> who chose to work hard and become wealthy the old-fashioned way

That's so last century. Now about as real as Santa. Now you can only get wealthy by inheritance or gambling. Even if it means gambling with you health you still need to win for it to amount to anything. There's absolutely no way to earn wealth now. I'm not sure if there ever was.
Many reasons.

Bad influence from other students

Bad policies for phone use

Bad teachers

Strange curricula influenced by ideology

Aggressive low performing immigrants from other cultures (Europe)

The last point will get me downvoted from people who can not handle the truth.
It's pretty standard for middle schools to hold assemblies discussing sexual harassment and healthy relationships, but they don't always do a great job communicating those concepts.

Back when I was in middle school about a decade ago, the principal got up on stage with a police officer and explained that sexual harassment is when you talk to a girl and she feels uncomfortable. He then went on to assert that the school had zero tolerance for sexual harassment, describe various authorities to whom victims could report instances of sexual harassment, and implore students not to risk their future by engaging in sexual harassment.

If you weren't super confident in your ability to predict or control other people's feelings, probably your takeaway from that assembly was that talking to girls was a risky thing to do.
My journey with NixOS is as follows:
1) great and useful for development work. (I use NixOS inside WSL)
2) but for your general Desktop environment, I'd say it's only great and useful if you find "tooling" fun/as a hobby (i.e. the type of person who keeps their dot-files updated in a git-repo [although, you won't need dot-files anymore :)]

I would say the biggest negative is that it seems the development of it is disjointed, as there are almost too many ways to do the same thing; some things are being deprecated before the documentation even keeps up with development.

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Also, some things are finicky and require some understanding to get to work (e.g. getting VSCode (on Windows) working with language analyzers and code sitting inside a WSL NixOS distro)

- I love Flakes but don't really love home-manager; I can understand home-manager being useful if your using Nix and not NixOS.
- My NixOS rules pretty simple:
1) A per-project flake.nix + direnv file (or an env playground)
2) Configuring "etc/nixos/configuration.nix" for global tools like "wget, git, etc." (don't get me started with programs.<program_name>.enabled, see above for "too many ways to do the same thing")
Can you say why you think nix modules are the "biggest plus" from NixOS? They don't even make the top 5 for me.
> What about entropy?

Look at 3.1. "spontaneous recombination of an unstable particle" for how this works.
AI TTS has been available for quite some time. Tacotron V1 is about 8 years old. I don't think we saw much bottom end replacement.

IMGO(gut opinion), generative AI is a consumption aid, like a strong antacid. It lets us be done with $content quicker, for content = {book, art, noisy_email, coding_task}. There's obvious preconceptions forming among us all from "generative" nomenclature, but lots of surviving usages are rather reductive in relevant useful manners.
The single greatest appeal of Pen and Paper RPGs is human interaction, where obviously the DM has the most important role.

We have a solution for playing RPGs when you have no DM. It is called a "Video game", you can even play it with your friends.

What I have used LLMs for is helping me prepare for certain things, giving ideas for organizations, quests, characters, etc. . They are pretty good at that, although I would avoid relying on them during actual gameplay.
> but few of it ends up commercialized by EU companies

ASML is massive, no?
I won’t be surprised if the US plants started referring to the 4NM nodes in their imperial form (1.575 × 10-7”)
I looked into the studies regarding the health benefits and the consensus I found was a big amount of shrug. It is true that heating the milk do break down nutrients and enzymes, but the significance of it from pasteurization is an decrease in the realm of 7-10%. The kind of feed the cow eats has a much bigger significance, so comparing raw milk with pasteurized milk is comparing a small number that is hidden in a large number of noisy data.

In term of lactose tolerance, the consensus seems to be that raw milk is slight worse for people with that problem, but again only with a very small margin. It is most likely related to that 7-10% number above.
Just like printing presses killed the profession of copying books by hand, eliminating the training pathway for illuminated manuscripts. Death of civilization itself I say, damn those printing presses.
In fact, that LLMs are typically steered away from sarcasm or irony (i guess via system prompts stressing on formalism), makes it easier to identify their output. Its output is so formal, taking the question very seriously though it is obviously just an exercise, that it sounds ironical.
Per square banana please. This is the internet.
to my mind, Occupy Wall Street and "wokeness", as it is generally depicted, are generally opposing movements. although it may have started there, "wokeness" was not primarily driven by universities and people on twitter, the overwhelming majority of it was driven by corporations and the corporate media. for businesses, it was a new way to buy credibility through moral posturing, and for the media it was a new cheap form of outrage to use to try and hold onto their dwindling readerships. further, "wokeness" is generally divisive to the working classes and far less threatening to the generally mono-cultural capital-holders. even further, it's a very nice way to distract young activists away from fighting against class structures.

to me, it's almost like the corporate classes saw Occupy Wall Street, a very very rare occurrence of genuine class consciousness and protest in the streets of America, and they realised that they needed to neutralise it somehow, and "wokeness" was how they achieved that.
Oh for sure, I have a family account, so that is 3 TB, more than enough for all our important personal stuff. Would be so nice to be able to sync my ZFS pool there for an off-site/cloud backup.
It's also possible to use stock flat assembler (non-g) for this, to some extent. I've done it before here: https://github.com/Rohansi/FPCompo11/blob/master/Assembler/i...
Have you reached out to your network?

This isn’t your usual generic advice. I see you and I have four connections in common and they are all my current coworkers.

I just sent you a connection request.
I'm not sure I would consider Russia having sat silent though. They've continued the war for nearly 2 years now (or 10 if you go back to 2014) and have worked with allies to have foreign troops fighting on Ukrainian soil.
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Found this newsletter: an algorithm finds trading "Zones"
Btw I'm not affiliated with them at all, just genuinely curious about their approach to identifying these areas.
If you imagine a cartesian coordinate space where your samples are clustered around the origin, then a zero vector will tend to be close to everything because it is the center of the cluster. Which is a different way of saying that there's a bit of nothing in everything I guess :)
The NATO strategy in Ukraine hasn’t been great for Ukraine, but the old cold warriors of the 1980s would be pissing their pants to find how well it worked against the Russians.

Wiping out significant portions of their army, navy, and air force for a fraction of a single year’s budget and not a single American death?
Interesting that they don't mention event based sensors at all.

https://www.sony-semicon.com/en/technology/industry/evs.html
> Everybody was screaming about how much I'd regret it, but ...

In a really healthy society, with really good schools, dropping out would (99%) be quite regrettable.

Some of those screaming people probably cared about you and your future. Most of them just resented you, for highlighting the actual state of their society and schools. And perhaps making them doubt their own choices.
I think it reflects the reality that specific groupthink is both tolerated and encouraged in school while other groupthink is harshly penalised.

When the allowed groupthink in question only has support among a minority of the population you can't be too surprised when the rest try to avoid it.
> nothing to brag about

Maybe some things shouldn't be about bragging but about getting the job done, and cutting edge isn't the only way to do it. If anything, the problem here isn't that it's "just" 16nm but that the EU isn't developing a end-to-end (research to manufacturing) true home grown industry and still relies a lot on external partners like Intel to do it from the outside.

But a good first step to develop enough talent locally that can later flow into domestic alternatives.
Why not just use Handbrake? It’s just FFMpeg but with a GUI.
> The AI isn't breaking your code, the engineers are. AI is just a tool,

Teams with CAPS LOCK on their keyboards, HOW DO YOU PREVENT THIS FROM GOING OUT OF CONTROL?

(A common trick is to unbind CAPS LOCK forcing developers to hold down shift while typing uppercase letters.)
To add some balance, I use them for my business and my family (3 domains, 6 users) and find it works perfectly. Even my father is happy after switching because the UI is much more consistent across his devices than all the various mail clients he used before (Apple mail, iOS mail, provider's crap webmail)!

Even so, I encourage everyone to first try the free tier to see if they like it (ie the lack of caldav/carddav and how much you're tied to their own apps for the encryption, yes I known about the bridge, yes I also want a Linux client, or better yet, an api or rsync endpoint). Even the free versions have 0 ads and don't use your data, perfect to see what you're getting into. What a nice company, I happily pay them for a better internet indeed.
But highly educated people believe this too. There’s lots of wacky and unscientific, ideas out there that people believe because they come from Columbia University social science professors instead of the Bible. After the last several years I take back everything I said when I was younger and an atheist about religious people and not believing in evolution.
> 2008 Great Recession

Recessions are benchmarked relative to the years around it not overall economy by historic standards. At the peak of 2008’s recession things were still doing quite well. 10.0% unemployment and 5.1% drop in GDP from the peak is tiny.

It doesn’t even qualify in the top 10 US recessions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...
>And even if Russia is not capable of MAD, what does that change?

They should be thought of and treated like North Korea with oil, not the Soviet Union 2.0.
With flakes I can get other people to run exactly the stuff I packaged with one command e.g. `nix run github:...` which can also be a reference to specific commit BTW.

At this point I don't even quite remember what would be the sane alternative without flakes but I am happy to discuss...
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My apologies for not being from (or exclusively referring to) the US of A.

From where I'm from I'd say yes, both sides at equal levels more or less, fairly favoured toward the left, but now changing a wee bit because the left went waaaaay too left.

Europe would now seem to be shifting towards the right at some levels, but from historically (recently at least) being fairly leftist.

Anyway, aren't CNN, MSNBC, The Guardian... overtly left-leaning?
That sucks and I really don't mean to well actually here.. but in that scenario - which doesn't sound like the default outcome of going to a public school anywhere - would this not be "just" a reason to go for homeschooling later, only after the system has provably failed (long-term).

Also maybe I have a false impression but I always thought people decided about homeschooling long before the kid(s) get to normal school age.

That said, I don't have a strong opinion here and I can see how it's useful in certain situations, but I guess might have hated it even more than I hated school (after a certain age, I liked it when I was little) - but also none of my parents went to university or something, so I was on my own in math etc after a certain point, so not sure how they would have even managed to get me to finishing.
This is what they did in my school district when I was growing up. You had 3 tiers. First tier is regular school. If you get expelled, you go to tier 2 which is a school for people who got expelled. If you get expelled from there, you go to tier 3 school, which is where all the really bad kids go. This worked pretty well, keeping in mind all the students' needs in mind.

They did away with that since I was young and now they just let the disruptive kids run rampant.

Keep in mind, you only have one chance really to get an education. If your learning is impeded by uncontrollable children, you now have a greater risk of life failure because you weren't able to learn the fundamentals, because a class of 30 was always being disrupted by one or two people. Say you didn't learn pre-Algebra well because of disruption; now you're behind when it comes to the higher level math for the rest of your school tenure and ultimately, life. These disruptions could have major long term consequences for other kids trying to learn.

Finally, teachers' average turnaround is 4 years last time I checked. That means there are very few veteran teachers available to show new teachers the ropes and how to manage a classroom full of teenage kids. Not that it matters, the new teachers will look for other careers within 4 years on average. The cycle continues.
I think that's misleading on it's own and that makes this list useless. From that logic you should block every single corporate blog out there.

This looks like someone's personal list not a serious effort.
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How is a Google App being useful representative of how Google stopped being useful?
I would never have made that link.
Size of the budget is all in the eye of the beholder though. I don't think its unreasonable for someone to see 12% of the total budget going to defense as massive, especially when the country isn't actively at war.
4 years can be a very long time in a project, especially when the "network effect" hit around that time, where the active user count (and contributions) grown significantly.

Also, the language is quite simple, it's just foreign and you felt more at home with Scheme, so you might not have given Nix as much of a chance. This is the classic "simple vs easy" from the Hickey talk.

Documentation is no perfect, but has become quite a bit better over the years, and many of the problems that still linger are simply architectural ones of the nixpkgs repo, irrespective of language and wouldn't be solved in any other language/DSL in itself.
Window's A APIs and conversion functions are best ingored entirely.

Always use W functions and use your own converions (that can round-trip invalid UTF-16 like WTF-8) if you want to use an 8-bit encoding internally.

Most (all?) of the exploits here are already bugs because the applications don't properly handle unicode data.
If you see podcasts as useless in modern society as illuminated manuscripts, no big loss I suppose, but I do enjoy the human made ones and would be sad to see them go extinct as the manuscripts did. And the same thing is happening to other entry-level creative roles, some of which you may personally regret the loss of too.
Yes, i do! At least that all of their heads are 17, IMHO a pretty good and already common size.
My reply is a counter-argument to @southernplaces7's opinion that elections, as a means by which democracy works, can't be bad for democracy itself. They can, and Hitler proved it.
It seems like there was an era of journalism where the minimum quality was higher : in between the disappearance of the yellow press (WW2 ??) and the rise of social media.

Was that a result of economic consolidation ?

Or am I mistaken and the yellow press never went away ? (And why does it seem like it did for a while ?)
I know they won’t understand, but the fact remains they are a 10 year old and can cry about it all they want but they are still a child and supposedly you are the adult. Who really runs your household?
Given that the printing press was the root cause for the century of religious wars that soaked Europe with blood, and was key in the revolutions that overthrown absolute monarchies all over Europe, I don't think it's as good as an example as you think it is.

Death of a civilization doesn't mean disappearance of mankind or even overall regression on the long term.
> takes for granted the open seas

The open seas is a myth. It is the American seas unless you have a lot of nuclear weapons.

> that come at a great cost to Americans in reduced social services like health insurance and higher education

But also brought lots of business and investment too. On total it's positive, otherwise the US would not do it. *I am not saying the distribution of the incoming wealth was equal.
Are private schools all that ridiculously expensive though? I'm enrolling my kid into University School (a private boys only school in Cleveland) and the tuition is like 30k$ per year.
It requires super sensitive sensors through. The prior rev could be read from orbit. (/s)
How does this invalidate what I said?

Have you heard of Operation Paperclip? The moment China steps in Taiwan, all those vital TSMC engineers will be flown to the US along with the critical IP and given a blank cheque to replicate Taiwan operation on US soil ASAP. TSMC is preemptively building the infrastructure there in preparation for such an event, so it can outlive whatever happens to Taiwan. TSMC has little inventive to tie itself to Taiwan and its people who are not its employees. Every big company thinks and acts like this. Taiwan can't force TSMC to stay there if it doesn't want to.
I am having a very similar setup locally, which uses Chrome with the 'Read Aloud' plugin. I am capturing the audio stream via QJackCtl/VLC. Voices, speed, pitch can be adjusted. Efficient and quickly set up
Exactly, I don't want my shit sent all across the internet without my explicit prior consent, period. No amount of explanation can erase Apple's fuck-up.
Good advice for being a god co-human being. It's refreshing to hear a reminder that when you are paid to do something, your self-entitlement needs to be checked in at the door.
I think you can probably generate TTS audio by classical means, and voice2voice that audio through RVC or Beatrice V2. Haven't looked into it in a while but Beatrice is apparently super fast and CPU only.
there is not much of a choice here. sure, i could use the time i spend reading and commenting on HN to read books instead. so technically speaking it is a choice. but i want to do both and many other things besides also having to work and a family to take care of. so the result is, i can't afford the time to read without giving up other things that are also important to me. listening to books allows me to access books i would otherwise not be able to read because of these priorities.

there are other factors as well. i love reading so much that i tend to forget time around me. as a result reading would cause me to neglect other duties. i can't allow that, and therefore i am forced to avoid reading. i also don't like long form reading on electronic devices, and as a frequent traveler, printed books are simply not practical and often not even accessible.

i agree with the retention issue, but i found that a much larger factor for retention is how well i can follow the story. a good story that is easy to get into is also easier to retain. and finally, reading fiction is for entertainment. i don't have to retain it.
Ah thanks just noticed that. But which voice to use for French?
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Drop off in my area is a line of cars. No mingling. Activities are great if the kids share one, but plenty of friends don’t. By high school, parents tend not to be doing the organizing at all. Outside birthdays, the same thing happens with “hey wanna come over?” ad-hoc scenarios.

It isn’t a pretend scenario. We had to loosen up rules because it was happening to our kids.
My argument is that school experiences vary drastically, that everyone commenting before me was saying that homeschooling their children was egotistical, stupid and harmful.

When I, have a good reason why I might consider not sending my own kids to state school, because my experiences were so bad.
Can AI really accelerate product development? I built a short video generator in one day using AI and CE.SDK to find out.
First party who would propose it would lose support for cops/justice system workers.
ah, ffmpeg, the tool that powers the entire online video industry, praised for its stellar code...yet no one still knows how to use it without getting a phd in sherlocking the internet for miniscule and obscure references to common problems.
Gamers Are Turning PCs into Fantasy Worlds of Their Own
https://archive.ph/Np34x
It is up for testing, but you likely get the effect of "don't think about a pink elephant." So I guess that for most embedding models, "articles about San Francisco that don't mention cars" are closest to articles about SF that mention cars.

The fundamental issue here is comparing apples to oranges, questions, and answers.
Great Britain's energy system operator blocks access to grid connection queue
Surely the only reason they would choose that would be if he offered business as usual?

Either that, or there never was a threat and it's just waste of time.
There's no mention in this of him trying to delete uploads (or I missed it, do you have a timestamp?).

And also, the original lecture isn't a reupload but found on the channel of his own university (both at the time of the first and the second lecture): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
> To quote the curl maintainer “curl is a victim” here — but who is the culprit?

Security vulnerability or not, it's a bug with curl on windows as it doesn't correctly handle unicode arguments.
Zuckerberg's Macho Posturing Looks a Lot Like Cowardice
TLDR; It is short range primarily because the underlying fields (those of the W and Z bosons) are “stiff,” causing any disturbance to die off exponentially at distances much smaller than an atom’s diameter. In quantum language, that same stiffness manifests as the nonzero masses of the W and Z bosons, so their corresponding force does not effectively propagate over long distances—hence it appears “weak” and short-range.
>> if you don't have check-sums on your block (zfs) or files (restic)

....
It should be theoretically possible for Google to display a public Google doc as a search result. Google doesn't show good search results because they do not want to at this point.
Wikipedia is literally a website that does this and has existed for >2 decades at this point.
Google loves doing this.

If you dare turn off Play Protect for example, you will be asked to turn it on every time you install or update anything. Never mind that you said no the last thousand times it asked.
I would think such a course might ingrain bad habits. The case system sounds strange when used incorrectly, and it'd be much harder to re-learn it if the wrong version started to become familiar to you.