skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with a lot of what you are saying. I agree that standardized or even blind testing is probably a much fairer way to evaluate. There is a reason scientific research uses double-blind tests. It eliminates a lot of biases and racism. (Of course only to a degree, since there is always the bias of the question asking and test structure.) But in principle I agree.

But here is where I think I differ.

If you are grading a performance, or evaluating the effectiveness of a drug, or which peanut butter brand you like more, then sure, go ahead and do a "standard" test.

But is that the point of school? Is the point of "learning" and "schooling" to test (in a standard way) how much students can do "math," or write "proper" english, or memorize "facts" about America?

I would say "no."

Does a score of 500 versus 400 mean that someone "learned more?" As soon as you have "tests" with "grades" you immediately optimize for providing the "correct answers" and to get "better grades". I think people jump to fast to correct answers = learning.

An example, in a similar way that if your code got graded, every coder would immediately optimize what they do to get that A. I am not questioning the method of how that A is evaluated, but I am questioning what are we optimizing for. And optimizing for giving correct answers is not a good idea, in my opinion, since it bears little resemblance to any of the important open-ended questions we are faced with on our day-to-day lives.

Schools should help people learn how to learn, cultivate their own interests, and develop skills and aptitudes for a changing world. Not "find" "correct answers" to problems that someone already knows the answer.

In regards to your points:
> I'd be much happier if my code received a grade
That's interesting and I'm sorry about the boss... I'm interested: what would be the criteria to determine the grade of the code your boss would give you? I'm assuming a few of them would be: does it run, does it follows proper syntax, is it simple and the best way to do this, correct? But what if you think there is a better way that goes against the criteria?

> School is more irrelevant...
Agree 100%. Again, what is the point of putting people in school then. Isn't it to make them smarter? Is it to get them a job? Or is it to teach them how to conform? What do you think?

Thank your for the link, by the way! Let me know if you find that study. Sounds super interesting.
Is it your property, or is it Facebook’s property? Facebook clearly has control of your friend list on their network. Perhaps you only have access to the data Facebook has without actually owning it.
Living in Rīga, I like drinking Latvian beer from Labietis, Malduguns, Nurme, Alķīmiķis, Hypnos, and a couple of other breweries.

But I have to say that there are some Estonian breweries that are really world-class, especially Põhjala and Pühaste made some of my favorite beers ever.
If you store your copyrighted paintings in a storage unit, cease to pay for that unit, and fail to clear that unit, the owner of the storage company has the right to dispose of your personal belongings. It's understood in the contracts one signs when renting a storage unit.

There is similar understanding about how de-corpification works if someone's phone gets de-corped (though I doubt most employees read the fine print).
I've wondered why operating systems, aside from hypervisors, are overwhelmingly the first abstraction - I know the obvious benefits, or rather necessities (processor sharing, security, file system, etc etc) - but in ultra-specialized perf-critical applications I'd have thought economic pressures would have materialized a greater variety of ad-hoc bare-metal software. I guess we're headed that way w/ the twilight of Moor'es law, FPGAs. Maybe I'm just ignorant of such implementations.
I wonder if that's actually feasible for this application.

Microdots managed about 32MiB / square centimeter (from the "you could fit the Bible 50 times in a square inch") measure. That's a completely arbitrary density to achieve, since it was photographs which were enlarged and shrunk, and you could hypothetically use any encoding for your gold etchings, and it also leaves out the question of "how fine can you etch gold plates while still having the engraving be 'robust'".

But in any case, that gives you a target area of ~325 square meters for a 100TiB archive.

That's a lot, but not like a crazy obviously impossible number like a million square km or something.
Same here, but for me I swear overly hopped beers are a migraine trigger for me. I have had some beers that will give me a headache before I have even finished them! The bad association was enough for me to no longer like the taste of these beers. I only go for lighter ales/loggers or dark porters/stouts now but the stores are overloaded with extremely hoppy IPAs, but I guess that's what sells unfortunately.
This isn't calling the recession; it's calling out the main area of rot in our economy that is likely to cause the most trouble / ripple effects whenever the next recession hits.
Let's not forget coffee, right?

But really, what's wrong with drug tasting?
Probably for two main reasons:

* Open APIs, if you care about being able to move away from AWS

* Tooling. People are likely to build a lot of tooling around Kubernetes, relative to Fargate/ECS.

That's my guess.
> Some people aren't good at inferring such things.

And my advice to those people is exactly what I said: if you're not sure how to communicate what you think is a good suggestion, or how to ask a question you're curious about, without giving offense, because you don't know the people or their work well enough, then don't do anything. That uncertainty you feel is a clue: it means you shouldn't be doing anything at all. Heed it.
I get that I'm in a minority here, but I'm not even sure such a thing is necessary or a good idea. Generally speaking simple things are better than complex things, and from a computing perspective human written languages are ludicrously complicated. I'm not convinced that complicating all our software to support poop emoji is better than allowing human language to adapt to the medium in the manner it has done since language was first written down.

> For 99% of all development, Unicode is a non-issue.

Until it suddenly is an issue. Like, dealing with unpaired surrogates in Windows file paths.

I mean, we're talking about an encoding where you need a rather large database and quite a bit of code just to tell how many characters are actually in a string.
And then they start putting lots of kümmel (caraway seed?), corandier, oregano...
Tony Macgee of Lagunitas has a full on book on this. Fun read. Henhouse and Lagunitas are basically across the street from each other and both have great beer. Bonus they are next to my office!

https://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Start-Brewery-Lagunitas/dp/1...
only when i need stripe support.
A coworker of mine lives in the east Bay Area hills and had power outages on two occasions for a couple of days at a time. Their Tesla worked just fine, backed by solar panels and a power wall.

If grid instability becomes a bigger problem, due to e.g. decades of corruption surrounding infrastructure maintenance, I expect household-scale battery installations to become a more popular thing.
Websocket message inspector, yay!
A low spread allows increased junk borrowing, resulting in more pain when we do hit a crisis and the spread goes up.
Thank you, I appreciate the perspective.

Perhaps WebAssembly kernel-space programming would still be viable for major trusted projects, like Kafka, where you literally dedicate the entire machine to that application.
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No better to do a UBI. The jobs aren't good for the workers, only the money is.

Minimum wage you can think of as subsidizing automation—pay more or automate. That's not bad to the worker, and not a policy I'd complain about, but the tech industry doesn't deserve the subsidy.

UBI is more neutral, you pay more whether you automate or not, and the worker still has more negotiating power. This is better.
Over and above the policy that a Corporation has over your phone (personal or otherwise) when you access their stuff, nobody talks about the potential liability that can open up to your personal device during an e-discovery process.

You could potentially have to hand your personal device over to lawyers where they can then put your personal device through an e-discovery process should your employer be sued .

People need to really think hard before they relinquish that kind of control of a device that you own.
Or--dare we dream it?--chemistry notations.
These days, I maintain a presence on the #txr channel on freenode.
I've used IRC since 1988 or so, when all the users were from the University of Oulu, Finland. I hang out in a couple of channels of old pals (in IRCnet) and in a few technical channels in Freenode (#sway, #clojure, occasionally others).

I have a tmuxed session that is always connected, and I attach to it from wherever I happen to be. As others have stated, I too find it a non-intrusive, pleasant way to be in contact with certain groups of people.
>t's a great idea to use Firefox like Wirecutter

I feel we have reached peak Firefox. I have no qualms about supporting Mozilla by going with their VPN offering, even it costs a little more. I don't particularly have any objections to some of the recent features like Monitor, DoH, Sync etc. Once the rollout of their VPN product is complete, sometime next year, I would expect them to work with what they have at hand, rather than having too many balls in the air ie. instead of chasing down Chrome or integrating even more services, I hope they will concentrate on staying close to their values and committed to strengthening the core products.
Counterpoint: my burner gmail for account creation with 30k unread emails, mostly spam. Also so much spam gets into my university email accounts, much of it from predatory journals offering to publish anything and everything.

For the university accounts, I'd say only 80% gets trapped into the spam folder (my gmail is an absolute mess, however), but so does 5% of actual relevant emails and conversations, so I'm forced to inspect my spam folder pretty regularly which kinda defeats the purpose of hiding it from view.
Bingo! Those Roku / FireTV / Netflix / Amazon/ Etc logos on the boxes don't pay for themselves.

Although what's insulting is when the super premium tvs that STILL include all the same tracking junk. A 3k dollar+ tv shouldn't need any subsidizing at all, yet here we are.
Thanks for providing a link. Just comparing the two.. the backend might be the same but the slowness and non-obvious graphs makes you feel awful but the card based layout was fresh.

Both could be more engaging.
I don't regularly use AWS services, but it would seem to me that writing operational tooling (deployment descriptors and such) to the Kubernetes API allows more control over the management of your app and more portability to other cloud providers compared to ECS. On the other hand, ECS is a bit more "turnkey", doing more of the detailed control isn't required. It's worth someone with more regular usage weighing in, though.
Notes on adding IEC power symbols to Unicode
Are there any i2p torrents? I guess anonymity might be helpful if I want to mirror/seed this data...
Google does pay employees for time spent on-call outside of normal work hours. On-callers for services with tighter SLOs get payed more.
Google does do that. Lot of misinformation in this thread.
I wouldn't know, as I haven't been invited to their meetings.

But seriously, I do accept that none of these problems will get better. The young and old are behaving as they always have and always will. As you get older, this becomes clearer, and the complaints of the young provoke a wry feeling when you remember issuing similar complaints yourself.

If it makes you feel any better, most of the people on HN are considerably younger and higher paid than I am.
Ah, I see you are talking about helicopter money with leverage restrictions for banks. The money distribution part is being discussed as a potential successor to QE. I don't think restricting leverage for banks is in anyone's interest - assuming banks adhere to their capital requirements, don't take up unsustainable amounts of risk and need a bailout. Fractional reserve banking allows banks to offer their services for free and pay you for your money on their savings accounts. If you take that away you will simply have to pay for keeping an account or do your own research on how to invest the money, which will probably cause you more work and a worse risk / return ratio. Or take banks entirely out of the equation and allow everyone to simply keep their money at the central bank.
I'm not in the US but "It’s pretty normal to test features in one market and then roll it out" and "Just like Disney+ that started in the Netherlands months before starting in the US" make perfect sense to me.

I get that everyone wants everything right now, but if you're not in the US, surely you still understand domestic-market roll out? Doesn't seem like it's worthy of anything more than a passing "damn, too bad."
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In other words - desire and greed. There is no way to talk about financial systems without at least mentioning the psychology that drives money systems the way they are now.
A corp wipe shouldn't touch personal data, so that should hypothetically be possible. If they can't, my guess is it's because cloud backup was disabled (and corp wipe will conservatively blow away the local camera cache because there's no way to know if any photos contained corp-sensitive data).

Worth keeping in mind the target use-case of corp wipe: a hostile agent has taken control of a corporate asset. Application of policy to minimize the risk to the corporation, i.e. blowing away all cache that could be reached without an additional private user credential into a personal account, should be expected.
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I feel that the kind of person that would even use that app would have little interest or knowledge of the politics involved. While we're may not be surprised others likely might be
Urine: Perfect Medicine
Not always true. If you are a first time seller and you are trying to put a dollar amount on your product, it can sometimes be tough to do. There is the tangible value your thing provides but also all of the intangible value, the FOMO factor, etc... that can infuence things as well. This equation is totally unique to SV but the fundamentals transcend geography and industry.

I certainly appreciate candor when it comes to these sorts of things.
Then wtf was/is Gitmo? This is terrible, but hardly the first except by claiming this particular provision. Beforehand, not even that level of accountability was reached.
We knew the powers of the Patriot act went beyond the balance, but have not pushed back. It seems odd to now blame the user of that power, rather than those who errantly put that power in the presidents hands to begin with.

I would posit that the Patriot act is a bigger threat than any single politician, because while electees change, the law still stands, always repugnant in its nature.
Not safe + 'working' means people will die. When people die due to negligent engineering, the company goes bankrupt at best.

Safe + not working eventually leads to bankruptcy too, but people don't die in that case.

Not to say that advancing aerospace engineering should be totally without risk. But these folks are not building space vehicle or fighter planes, they're building commercial aircraft. In that sector, tolerance for risk is far lower, as it should be.
A subway map is only incidentally supposed to be geographically correct. It needs to be basically a graph diagram, ideally with distances weighted by travel time.
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In the case you describe, that's mostly correct; however, you would end up paying on a $2mil valuation if you built a $1mil home on the property. Under a Land Value Tax, you'd only pay taxes on the property ("ground rent"), regardless of what's built on top of it. This incentivizes productive use, rather than idle speculation. (In urban settings, where the location value of property is at a premium, the most profitable use is often a parking lot rather than residences or businesses: not because it's the greatest return, but because the improvement cost and therefore the tax increase are near-zero.)
The unreasonable effectiveness of algorithms in boosting team happiness
Procgen Benchmark
EBITDA is cyclical though. Debt / revenues would be a better measure.
I don't know what the total breakdown is, but at AWS we get a bill every month for our own spend, and managers get it for the whole team. We don't have to pay it, obviously, but it's to show what the spend is.
> What's X? 4 to 10?

And this is exactly why he didn't come out and say a number. X could be anything. Someone else in the comments was speculating 10 to 14. But it could just as easily be like 1.2 or something.
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Also in Oregon though only tangentially connected to the industry. We’ll see how long the CBG premium lasts. If American farmers are good at anything, it’s oversupplying demand.
The own backdoors are always doubleplusgood. Other's backdoors are bad. Doesn't matter which side you're asking.

Never mind that all backdoors work more or less the same.
Many of them connect to 3G automatically.

Edit: I guess I was mistaken. They were not caught doing that yet.
That's a big "I would use Firefox if ..." vanishing, at least judging from the most common complaints here.
I live in Seattle where the IPA thing is just out of hand.

My uncharitable pet theory is this: A certain class of men (sometimes women, but it's almost always men) get interested in something and then desire to make it part of their identity. That in turn means they want to convey that they are more into it than other people. Their passion expresses itself as competition.

Most people that aren't really into beer don't like hops and bitterness. It is very much an acquired taste. So liking hoppy beers is a good signal that "look how much more into beer I am than you!" Even better — and this is always a good signal that bros have shown up to suck the fun out of your hobby — there is a number you can use to measure it. Menus show IBUs so a table full of dudes can pick their poison and show how hardcore they are.

I like some amount of hops, but I've had beers that literally just taste like hop tea. The flavor just dominates everything else and leaves little room to enjoy all of the fun nuances you can get from the actual brew.

Before IPAs it was porters with the darker the better. Or Belgian beers with competitions to see who can handle the highest ABV. It's always about getting the best score and not just, you know, enjoying some beer.

My favorite Tweet ever was someone who described this process that dudes do where they show up, take over a hobby, and drive all the fun out (and thus women) as "MENTRIFICATION". It is my new favorite word.

See also: Riding bicycles, listening to music (ugh audiophiles), metal guitarists playing 64th note scales, etc. I can't wait for the day that bros discover knitting and it becomes nothing but a race to see who can make the longest scarves.
>the comments here are cringeworthy

This is true for anything engineering-related outside of computers. There is something about programmers being overconfident about their own knowledge of technical fields outside their own which is particularly painful.

Skip the comments if the article has anything to do with something that flies.

I once failed a job interview when I started talking about radios (licensed amateur, did some RF engineering at university) with a programmer who didn't believe me.
Citations would require the doctors that I have had multiple of both fat and bone marrow derived stem cell treatments from over the last 3 years including last month.

The FDA has considered your own stem cells as a medication to bring it under their control - honestly that claim alone is pretty disingenuous, stem cells and properties of your blood are your body's natural healing mechanisms; with these treatments they're not changing or manipulating the stem cells, which you could more reasonably argue should be classified as a medication.

Another claim big pharma is trying to use is that injecting bone marrow into joints shouldn't be allowed because it's non-homologous - meaning that bone marrow isn't naturally in the joints, so it shouldn't be allowed to be injected - the reason they want to prevent it is because injecting stem cells into joints will clear up the pain caused by osteoarthritis.
I just left a company that used an in-house cloud object storage product for their cloud DVR service. It was an amazing piece of tech that was hamstrung by some of the most irritating "features" of Cassandra. We spent more time cleaning up than anything else. I am looking forward to seeing how people use this at scale.
Does this integrate with persistent volumes to allow you to mount EBS into these? If so this is a great offering since it directly integrates with VPC, EBS, ELBs, and everything with no node overhead to worry about.
> I realized that one of the things that brings me the most joy is a clean house; but I hated to clean.

On the flip side, obviously only if it's something you can manage to do, this is also a good litmus test for whether you should just hire someone to help you out.

* If you don't care about having a clean house and don't enjoy cleaning: Don't worry about it.

* If you do care about having a clean house and don't enjoy cleaning: Learn to enjoy cleaning (as you have), or hire someone to help clean.

* If you do care about having a clean house and don't mind cleaning: Clean it yourself.

To bring it back to the topic at hand, I'm quite surprised to see the article dismiss the idea of hiring an accountant to manage your books and give you a general sense of your financial health/etc. I think it could be well worth the money, especially if the most likely alternative is (as it is for most people I would imagine) to just ignore it.

That doesn't mean you have to be ignorant of the financial health of your company, in fact just the opposite: A good accountant will let you know about problems you would've been ignorant of before they even arise.
One of my side projects is a canvas-based graph editor with vim-like controls: https://troywolters.com/modal-graph-editor/

It’s very basic, missing a lot of features, and likely buggy, but I’ve had fun making it and using it.

It saves to and loads from localStorage, so you can use it without an account and save and load graphs on the same machine.
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Announcing UltraWarm (Preview) for Amazon Elasticsearch Service
I haven't looked at IBU, but I found ratings people seem to give beers, increases with ABV - https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/beer-review-analysis/

(see the Alcohol By Volume graph).

I'd love to see data on sales of beer in relation to ABV though.