skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a client (a national company with multiple locations and call centers!) that was using Lotus Notes for email in 2022, and for all I know they could still be using it. They had to run parallel calendars to work with external event invites, and apparently one of the calendars was backed by a system with a clock that was 5 minutes off because everyone was always getting to virtual meetings at the wrong time.
The Curious Case of Sidd Finch (1985)
https://archive.md/WXa2c
I'd think about considering a more common instrument because you'll have a bigger support network.

You can find guitar teachers literally anywhere, guitar tabs are all over the internet, and you probably have friends who can give you a few pointers if you get stuck. Ukelele and bass guitar aren't that far behind.
Very interesting perspective
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What the Fuck Is Artificial General Intelligence?
The situation is a bit more complex in F# than C#, as there are multiple ways to do it. Scott Wlaschin has a good overview post about it here:

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/dependencies/

FWIW you can do it exactly the same way you do it in C#; it’s not “wrong”, it might just feel a bit out of place.
You seem to have failed to see the thorniness of the problem maybe because in the current instance (Le Pen's ban by the French judiciary) you agree with the outcome.
The 2023 education and general fund budget for Penn State allocated 5.7% to equipment and maintenance and repairs of approx $2.5 billion in use. I assume that would include thing other than just lab equipment.

Overwhelmingly, most education fund use goes to salary, benefits and student aid (~$2 billion, 81%).

Interestingly the amount of money raised by tuition and fees almost exactly matches the amount spent on salaries, benefits and student aid. So one way of viewing it is that things like lab equipment are basically funded by grants, gifts, and state appropriations.

I assume this would be similar at Wisconsin in the late 90s, I doubt universities have changed much.

Maybe research budgets offer more flexibility and better equipment but I doubt the undergrads get to touch that stuff.

Source: budgetandfinance.psu.edu
It wasn't received as right-wing propaganda at the time. Endorsed by Bill Gates and others less-informed to education research with leanings towards the left.

But it is definitely anti-education and proposes solutions that aren't justified, like the right-wing-aligned push for chartered schools (which tend to be religious in nature, hence the wholesale gobbling for it by the rightwing).

Stanford studies in 2009 & 2013 put the fork in superior performance claims -- no better and no worse than public schools on average. So the charter school miracle is really just cherrypicking with a side of encouraging (or, if malicious, enforcing) segregation (since poorer people both tend to be minorities and tend to not have capacity/time to jump through lottery hoops). With careful planning and policy structure, perhaps good charter schools could overcome their entrance bias (RIP college entrance for either economic class or historically disparaged category), but good luck getting anything like that from the political minds that brought you DOGE and the nonsensical trade war.
> It would be like using public funds to run for presidency in a country while campaigning for that country to cease to exist.

You seem to think this is an absurd scenario - I don't know how to tell you this, but it's not. It's allowed in healthy democracies. To give just three contemporary European examples:

1. In the UK the Scottish National Party gets public money for being in Parliament, yet has the stated goal that the UK should cease to exist. SNP MPs aren't thrown in prison or banned from politics. That's because the UK is a democracy.

2. Flanders has independence parties that poll highly and take part in regular politics without being banned from Belgian politics.

3. MEPs themselves are frequently arch Euro-nationalists. They get public money and then campaign to effectively abolish the countries they represent, demanding their national governments be replaced by the EU institutions. This is of course not considered illegal.

Whilst there are regions that criminalize attempts to actually become independent (which they shouldn't), even they typically don't criminalize merely being in favor of it.

> Note that they didn't forbid her to campaign on a platform that is against the EU - which I think they should - they only forbid her to use public EU funds to do so.

She's been banned from politics entirely and given a prison sentence. That meets the threshold for something being forbidden.

It honestly sounds like you'd have been happy with all the other attempts to unite Europe under a single government that happened in the 20th century. Not only are you delighted by this clearly despotic move, you think it should be illegal to even be against the EU at all: a purist argument for the EU as totalitarian dictatorship. You should really think about whether that's the place you want to be, philosophically. Especially as frustration over the EU's undemocratic approach was the primary reason the UK left.
Such a beautiful magazine design. Does anyone have recommendations for more skillfully designed online magazines, blogs, etc?
AFAIK the entire lawsuit was about Jobst falsely accusing Mitchell of driving Apollo Legend to suicide and then not properly retracting it (Jobst buried the retraction at the end of an unrelated 30 minute video). The reason why Mitchell's cheating was brought up in the trial was that Jobst's side were attempting to say that all reputational harm Mitchell suffered during that period was caused by cheating accusations, not Jobst's suicide accusations (as if being accused of cheating at Donkey Kong is equivalent to being accused of driving someone to suicide). Mitchell was able to prove this was false by producing emails from events that specifically said that they weren't hiring him due to Jobst's suicide accusations.

Additionally, Jobst kept making videos berating Mitchell during the course of the trial, which seems to have pissed off the judge. From the decision: "Mr Jobst’s attitude seems to me to have been one of, “Well, if I’m going to be sued,
I may as well go for broke and damn the consequences.” Far from being evidence of his bona fides, I consider his conduct to be reckless and to show no regard for the truth or for the effect of his video on Mr Mitchell and his reputation."
Only when seeing “4 months ago” in the post that I’ve let my April Fools guard down.

It would have been a quite bold April Fools though, the entire network is read-only for the duration of the business day.
> Even they, and the rest of the right wing press in the U.K, seem to at most indifferent to Trump at the moment.

I must admit that I don’t go out of my way to read the Daily Mail. Maybe I should. I wonder which way they are going now, with the conservatives missing in action, Reform intent on sabotaging itself and Trump quite hostile and not very sensitive to the “special relationship” argument. Same for the Telegraph, actually.

> Hitler in the 30s was threatening to invade neighbouring countries, saying Germany needed places like Austria, Czechoslovakia, for national security reasons

The history of British international policies is fascinating. It has always been a combination of splendid isolation and playing continental countries against each other. I can see how there could be a tendency to support anybody just to annoy the French, or to have a strong right-wing government to eliminate the Communists. There is some kind of internal consistency, if you assume that no problem will cross the Channel.
Eh, both sides of the isle took issue with it.
I find this highly unlikely. My first day at Amazon I encountered an engineer puzzling over a perfect sine wave in a graph. After looking at the scale I made the comment "oh. you're using 5 minute metrics." Their response was "how could you figure that out just by looking at the graph?" When I replied "Queuing theory and control theory," their response was "what's that?"

Since then, Amazon's hiring practices have only gotten worse. Can you invert a tree? Can you respond "tree" or "hash map" when you're asked what is the best data structure for a specific situation? Can you solve a riddle or code an ill-explained l33tcode problem? Are you sure you can parse HTML with regexes? You're Amazon material.

Did you pay attention to the lecture about formal proofs. TLA+ or Coq/Kami? That's great, but it won't help you get a job at Amazon.

The idea that formal proofs are used anywhere but the most obscure corners of AWS is laughable.

Although... it is a nice paper. Props to Amazon for supporting Ph.D.'s doing pure research that will never impact AWS' systems or processes.
It appears inevitable that we can fully map a dead person's neurons and synapses. [1] is doing essentially that for a tiny sliver, with some amazing images to show. From there, it's "just" scaling up.

That alone wouldn't be enough to fully clone a person's consciousness. There is information stored in the actively firing synapses. For example short-term memory seems to be stored by sending signals in a loop, and there might be more such mechanisms. Those signals are obviously lost once the brain is dead. Another issue are hormones. The same brain regulated by a different (simulated) body might behave completely different. And then there are probably a lot of unknown unknowns. Despite decades of research there are still a lot of open questions, and more questions will become apparent once we actually start simulating complex brains.

But that doesn't mean that those early methods wouldn't be useful, both for science and for more questionable efforts. For example accessing the long-term memory of a recently deceased might be comparatively viable if given enough funding

1: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/15/world/human-brain-map-har...
> Also: I'm not ... to a strictly economic one.

Agreed. And offering dystopian prospects for the future is an excellent way to reduce fertility in rich countries.

OTOH, if they were actually competent and honest in their economic approach - then they would have mentioned the too-many decades during which the costs of education, housing, and medical care have all been growing much faster than incomes, for the 99%. And maybe even suggested that that's a real problem.

Conclusion: This is pretty much a program to be enacted by the 0.01%, for the benefit of the 1%. The 99% are left somewhere between "lip service", and "claims of their existence are exaggerated". And conveniently, "yet more of the pie for us" sounds far less dystopian to those at the top...
I find it weird that people don't think of the BBC as a tech company, from their work on microphones way back in the day, to launching iPlayer (before youtube, and launching on christmas day iirc) to regular live streaming of huge events in 4k (something netflix has struggled with). But yet they are never recognised for their engineering.
Due process exists. The ability to compel a government to respect it does not exist.
When the joint report recommending “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.” is due. Haven't seen it reported elsewhere, so might just be nonsense.
>edit: I will say though, you don't have to make those ADHD type videos with screaming and quick cuts. There are other technical youtubers that are slower like Applied Science, Great Scott, 3 blue 1 brown, etc...

This, you can make make good content and people will watch it. What a lot of aspiring youtubers don't realize is that good production (sound, lighting, animation, video quality in general, etc.) goes a long ways towards helping people find your content engaging. Luck is necessary too, but most of the big youtubers work a lot harder than those of us working normal 9-5s.
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Matplotlib is a bit painful. Often seaborn will work quicker, especially when using Pandas dataframes with proper column names and seaborn compatible layout.

Its annoying that you cannot create a broken axis out-of-the box, but I am sure you can wrap this to make your own convenience function: https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/subplots_axes_and_figu...
If "get to decide" implies the government is actively forcing the business model to be viable, then it stops being an obvious answer of "of course let them decide!".
> timers that counts in dollars instead of minutes

Not the best way to measure time imo.
I'm half inclined to believe that all the controversy is part of the persona and the self-promotion. Andy Kaufman demonstrated it pretty well, the world love to hate a bully and they'll pay for the privilege.
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The case for "old school" CSS
For me, I already had all the featues I needed.

Plus, I'm not going to be downloading, configuring, or running any separate code at runtime. The project is the project, it's going to process some files, communicate with some services, and communicate with the UI, if any.

If I need to consume a service, it should be defined such that I manifest the interface module (perhaps via WCF) and then connect to it progressively from stub to ever greater functionality in test to final implementation. Trying to write a program to do all that at runtime is not sensible, IMO.

Metaprogramming via reflection, however, was useful for exploring the vast .NET framework, and I used those to great effect, especially in exploring .NET's various UI frameworks (WinForms and Silverlight), but never to create code at runtime via the emit functionality. No, that's my job: to emit code that is tested and works and is comprehensible.
Right, "race to idle"
And what teams use these methods exactly?
> If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it a duck?

No, if it doesn't do everything else a duck does. You can have a robot dog, but you won't need to take it to the vet, feed it, sweep up it's hair, let it go outside to go potty, put up a warning sign for the mailman, or take it for a walk. You can have a simulated dog do all those things, but then how accurate will the biological functions be in trying to model it's physiology over time?

Will it give us insights into real dog psychology so we can better interact with our pets? Or does that need to happen with real dogs and real human researchers? Wildlife biologists aren't going to refer to simulated ducks to research their behavior in more depth. They'll go out and observe them, or bring them into the lab.
>Why the hell did I get two degrees and grind actual employment making actual things for 25 years?

Likely because you didn't dedicate yourself to learning video production and weren't good enough at playing video games to sell yourself as some sort of professional video game promoter. I'm not sure why you think either of these guys work any less hard than you do.
> Right on up to professorships, this is how science really works.

Reminds me of Feynman's "Cargo Cult Science" essay[1]

One example: Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment
with falling oil drops and got an answer which we now know not to be
quite right. It’s a little bit off, because he had the incorrect value
for the viscosity of air. It’s interesting to look at the history
of measurements of the charge of the electron, after Millikan. If you
plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bigger
than Millikan’s, and the next one’s a little bit bigger than that,
and the next one’s a little bit bigger than that, until finally they
settle down to a number which is higher.

Why didn’t they discover that the new number was higher right away?
It’s a thing that scientists are ashamed of—this history—because
it’s apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number
that was too high above Millikan’s, they thought something must be
wrong—and they would look for and find a reason why something might be
wrong. When they got a number closer to Millikan’s value they didn’t
look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off,
and did other things like that. We’ve learned those tricks nowadays,
and now we don’t have that kind of a disease.

Yeah, not sure I'm 100% agreed on that last statement (:

[1] https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
Removing tariffs or similar barriers is what I assume a trade agreement for avocados would do. Do you have something different in mind?
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My personal opinion: It will be similar to how computers affected jobs.

No jobs are safe, but no skilled jobs are immediately on the chopping block either. AI will boost peoples' efficiency, such that it will take one skilled worker to do what it used to take five skilled workers to do. Law briefs, ad copy, scripting, code refactoring, engineering. Everything will use AI as a tool, but AI won't replace most people. People will instruct AIs to do sub-tasks and validate and integrate its responses. Similar to how people use computers today. Some peoples' specialized skills will be rendered obsolete, similar to what happened with secretaries, switchboard operators, elevator operators, proofreaders, etc. with computers.

I think it will change what it means to do many jobs, just like working with computers changed, for instance, accounting, or visual design. Working with specialized AI tools will become an essential part of many jobs, just like working with specialized software tools is today.

Long term, I think AI will eat further into current jobs, but I think they will be replaced with different human jobs. I think there will still be skilled careers and roles to be had, but I don't think any of us can predict what those jobs will look like.
> I guess this is targeting the vuejs crowd

Typescript support and usage with Vue is very large. Vue itself is written in TS and most large libs are also written in TS. According to /r/vuejs and my personal experience also most new apps.
In fairness it wasn't _just_ him (or Microsoft); everyone was very, very excited about voice in the late 90s.

Meanwhile, today, almost 30 years after Dragon NaturallySpeaking (which was kind of in the ChatGPT role; it seemed so magic that everyone thought everything was about to change), voice recognition is finally just about good enough that it can be used for unimportant things. Though personally I still wouldn't trust it to control my computer.
That is enraging. I've seen similar things happen too and it blows my mind how ridiculous some of these teachers can be. I don't know if it's dehumanization of their students in their minds or an utter unwillingness to devote 30 seconds of directed attention to understanding the situation and making a reasonable judgment, but whatever the cause it is prolific. The only thing worse is when one of them will add something like, "life isn't fair, get over it" when it's fully in their power to make a reasonable determination.
Elixir getting a strong type system is interesting, but watch out for gleam though

But they still miss the computation expressions, which open interesting possibilities like https://github.com/CaptnCodr/Fli and https://github.com/fsprojects/FsHttp
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For years, I had a bad habit: every time I had a new startup idea, I’d jot it down in a notebook or dump it into Notion—fully convinced I’d come back to it later. Spoiler: I almost never did.
I wasn’t short on ideas, but execution? That’s where things fell apart. Validating an idea, finding a name, designing a logo, building a landing page, it all felt like too much.

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this is how you end up with the living hell that are Android and iOS