skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the objective criteria aren't much better. What do we mean? GPA? Test score?

Those correlate maybe .4 with first year GPA in school, and even less with later criteria. So, putting aside variability from one day to the next in when you take the test, inequities in students' preparedness on the day of the exam, etc and so forth, you're left empirically with a fairly weak correlation with one very immediate criterion, that gets even weaker with time.

I don't disagree with your concerns at some level, but think the alternative has its problems too. We discuss "merit" as if people can't change, can't improve, and that, more importantly, all the proxies we assess are equal to what we're really looking for. And then we use it as some statement about individual ability as an inherent, perfectly assessed metric.

Imagine if we measured people's weights at age 18 with a scale that correlated only .40 with true weight, and then used that as an index of physical fitness that then determined important trajectories in their lives. It sounds absurd because it is.

Meritocracy is broken because we've become used to treating proxy metrics as equal to the real attribute of interest, and assuming that attribute can't change and is fixed with time. I think a lot of the problems we have in the US all come back to this, whether it be inequality, resentment, distrust, or dysfunction: there's very much a class divide built on sand, and a sort of daily cognitive dissonance we're asked to just accept.

I'm not saying these purely holistic strategies are better or worse; I have no problems with "objective" criteria, if used appropriately, but now they're not used appropriately.
Read the article and you might find out.
I work with asp.net web api and angular (typescript) but I think the point stands.

> Which of their former good selling products has microsoft open sourced?

Neither Visual Studio Code nor .NET core fits this criteria. Visual Studio IDE is not free and open source and neither is the older version of .NET framework.

Launch a .NET core application inside visual studio code. Even that comes with a warning saying you can only use the debugger within certain limited situations.
Well forgive me then if I totally disregard the policy prescriptions of people who hate my species.
There was an HN submission that was something like: "Make libraries, not frameworks." from some poor soul who was unweaving the magic of some framework someone long gone left behind that nobody understands.

It pretty much echoes your statement that unless you know you and others will be documenting and maintaining (and that is a big commitment), your probably just doing everyone a disservice long term.
> It sounds like you are dismissing the phrase "improve access" as some wibbly-wobbly social justice fuzzy meaningless concept that is obscuring the important stuff.

No, just as a term that is hindering understanding rather than helping it.

> I'm thinking of the idea that free markets can only function if transaction costs are reasonably low, and the economist Ronald Coase, etc.

Coase didn't say free markets couldn't function with high transaction costs. He only said it would be more difficult and take longer for those markets to reach equilibrium.

Also, the true observation that free markets in the real world are always imperfect does not justify the further claim that is usually made, that governments must intervene to "fix" these imperfections. In fact, the government "fixes" almost always make things worse, often much worse. Even on strictly Coasian terms this should be evident, since the most common source of high transaction costs in modern markets is...government regulations.

However, when it comes to basic necessities--things like food, clothing, and shelter, the kinds of things this thread was originally focused on--the issue is not transaction costs for the people who need these things. There are perfectly good, low friction markets for these necessities. The problem is that governments are skewing those markets by paying people not to produce useful things, or to produce useless things instead. Or, in the case of many third world countries, the government simply confiscates all the useful things for government officials and their cronies. I don't think "transaction costs" or "access" is a useful description of those problems.
For anyone who'd be interested, a fella named Paul Sheeky put together a top-notch 'History of Electronic Music' podcast series (commentary & selected tracks) in the late 2000s. He finished 19 hour-long episodes. They've bounced around a bit, many of them can be found at:

https://player.fm/series/a-history-of-electronic-music

RSS: http://www.triptreeproductions.co.uk/ahoem.xml
If that describes your current workplace, you really should get a new one!
> - 'Everything depends on something else' - really?

Yes. Really.

> Most 'installed software' doesn't depend on a whole lot else.

Yes it does. Your ignorance of this fact does not make this any less a fact.

> Does the author really mean server software? Development environment?

All of it.
https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/who-pays-for-this/
I can't entirely speak for Nix, but I know they're fairly similar, so: Guix (and I'm pretty sure Nix) have optional binary packages. Realistically most users will use those, but the option to build from source is always there. So, while you say:

>To me, compiling from source is not strictly necessary to get reproduceability guarantees.

...I somewhat agree, but you do of course need to be able to build from source. And, in a system like Nix or Guix, you have an easy way to verify that a build and all its transitive dependencies are reproducible, if you have someone else's build to compare it against. See `guix challenge` for example: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-chall...
I would read that article, and vote it up, but I don't think we need to be harsh towards this one. It's a good read, makes some good points and I'm thankful for it.
I discovered TouchDesigner [1] a few months back- it’s an incredibly powerful visual programming tool used in the entertainment industry. It’s been around well for over a decade and is stable enough to be used for live shows. Deadmau5 uses it to control parts of his Cube rig [2]. I’ve seen a few art installations based around it as well [3].

There are some really amazing tutorials and examples here: https://youtu.be/wubew8E4rZg

[1] https://derivative.ca

[2] https://derivative.ca/community-post/made-love-touchdesigner...

[3] https://derivative.ca/community-post/making-go-robots-intera...
Recently heard the boss of Ryanair saying that he'd never travel by helicopter, it's not safe enough. How safe is travel in a light airplane compared to a commercial airliner, I wonder?
Helicopters and light aircraft vs Boeing/Airbus seem like motorcycles vs car to my safety first mind.
Show HN: TerraGoat, a vulnerable-by-design Terraform training project
>reasonable diet, enough sleep, exercise

For many victims this is already too difficult to achieve. The use of pills and therapy are the jump start they need to then use these basic steps to improve their lives organically.
> That's like saying "landlords shouldn't be incentivized to hand over apartment over to residents after x years, because all housing should be publicly held"

> You're not wrong

"Not wrong" seems like a... generous... description of this viewpoint. Lots of places tried the system of "all housing is publicly held"; it was not a success.
Credit Card Companies Make Money – Find Out
Does your Mooney have the TKS system, or are you saying there's a general benefit to a M20 over a 172 in terms of icing?
I wonder if this could be trained on just bug fix commits from GitHub in order to produce a model that could suggest bug fixes for an existing code base.
It seems like time is the key element, the faster you go the less time you have to assess the situation before things start going wrong and things keep compounding.

Extra guy, more chances of keeping on top of things, etc.
I love the DA-40, it was definitely a step up in capability from the 172 after I got my ticket. But the one time I flew it through the Mojave I definitely felt the DA-40's roots as a glider, I got pretty tossed around!
Doesn't a used 172 optimize both cost and safety? Are there any planes that are more affordable than a used 172?
Big issue with light airplanes is you can't fly through serious inclement weather as it'll cause dangerous icing conditions that the big Boeing/Airbus type aircraft can. Some light aircraft have deicing or anti-icing, but its pretty rare.
Robots that hope to save the US food supply chain
Need AoE!!
Genre-binding naming conventions are exactly the problem.

"Blog" originally stood for "web log", and as such didn't put any constraints or expectations on the media format, length, or quality. At some point format-specific platforms came in, artificially fragmented self-publishing into "microblogging", "photoblogging", "videoblogging", and took it over.

Not everything has to be a well written article, but blogging relinquished "just thinking out loud" type of publishing to mobile-first social networking walled gardens, and it's a real shame and a loss.

Shift to mobile is a massive contributor. Many newcomers to the internet are mobile first, and either don't have permanent access to desktop computers at all, or just couldn't be bothered.

And I don't see many blogging platforms that take this audience seriously. Wordpress seems to be the only one that has a mobile app at all.
A used 150/152.
> this design does require you to trust the web server hosting it (it could just send you JS to steal your password!)

The author mentioned elsewhere in this thread that it's all static and client-side, so if that was a concern, you could just clone the repo and just open the HTML file in your web browser (no web server needed!).
Check out Dremio. The interface and speed were awesome when I tested on some pretty large datasets.
Bruh long axial length stretches the retina and detaches the vitreous jelly faster from the back of the eye since eye volume keeps increasing (you see this as flashes of light), putting you at risk for retinal detachment, which very much leads to blindness. :v

I live in constant fear of it (though chance is smol).

And I only played WoW for like 2 years .w.
"There's a whole movement now of people coming out and saying that they don't like having kids - as a society, we made that impossible to say without severe chastisement. We have no idea if the women in your life who regret it now would be happy with children. It's all a gamble, and tell people that their time is running out isn't particularly helpful, and running entirely on guilt."

Their time is running out.
In a natural average progression, people have a peak in healthiness, and then decline starts as age progress.
Whatever you hold as "fair" does not matter.
Mother Nature has a different plan. We can buy sometimes not all time.

"Are non-optimal babies undesirable?"
We as a society have whole care with conception, prenatal care, prenatal screening, and checks.
That shows how we care about it.
That is a signal that yes society as a whole wants healthy babies.

... .... ...

The path of having babies is NOT for all.
Society had a place without children for positions as mentors, charity, and educators.

If you are OK and it seems you are happy with your option that is great.
You remember me of my "wise uncle" that has a lot of stories and wisdom to teach us.
And his role was to mentor and give a different perspective.
When we got angry with parents or don't know what to do and need advice without the parent's bias he was our mentor.

But my point is:

1. Time is a factor;
2. No, you don't have all the time;

The message my friends and me got and BELIEVED was:

"you can do it all!"

"After your Ph.D. you can marry"

"Once you get your assistant professor position you can start".

"Better finish your Ph.D., buy a house and then get a raise to have kids".

"After you finish with your startup then we have kids".

Now imagine what happened:

Dotcom bust, 9/11, financial crisis, mortgage crisis, wars...

One thing is to have it clear and decide not to have a kid like you. clear as crystal.

Another is like me and believe in the lies.

I am not saying that you were wrong.

I am saying: I was wrong

Please consider I may have some valid points whoever is reading this.
Distillery has 2 strong use cases; it has config providers which allow for a lot of config flexibility and it can support hot code upgrades.
"One website can use resources from other website using img, script, link tags."

Interestingly, you can't do this for web fonts, because they require CORS, which was only added to make type foundries happier by making hotlinking fonts not possible.
This is more of a young person thing, and only for specific personality types.

And America is much less forgiving of disobedience today than it was, even just 20 years ago. Unless you come from a privileged group, run-ins with the authorities are not pleasant.
AdonisJS and FeathersJS has been pretty successful.
> America attracts top talent from all around the world.

The current administration seems to be trying hard to change this via travel bans etc. The one actually good idea that Trump floated in his campaign was meritocratic points based immigration ala Canada, but it seems that topic got dropped in favor of more attention drawing stunts like the border wall.

> technology investment funds being used to further inflate the property bubble in disguise

Same thing in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser extent many other US cities with good tech jobs.
Conversa pitches its modified chat-based tool to monitor employee health in the
alphago and alphastar were certainly creative. this project in its current state may not have that capacity but it also may not be a huge leap to get there.
Ah, this is great. I haven't done a ton of interaction fiction (mainly just this and a couple from itch.io) but each time I find it a lot more enjoyable than I would've imagined.

<side track> I'm usually of the persuasion that the web as a platform is way too big and messy and complicated and abusable, but little things like this (and Listen to Wikipedia [1], and A Short Trip [2], and orb.farm [3], and ...) sort of redeem it a little bit. Most of the web is still abusive trash, but it's nice to be reminded of the good stuff once in awhile. </side track>

[1] http://listen.hatnote.com/

[2] https://alexanderperrin.com.au/paper/shorttrip/

[3] https://orb.farm/
My approach is always like:

- Donate 40 hours to that idea. Doesn't matter the goal.
- During this 40 hours evaluate the following:
- Feasibility
- Long term goal.
- Team needed it.
- Create a score card (2x2 concept here positivexnegative, fastxslow).
- Explore ideas for it(Design thinking approach here).
- Explore the feedback from people you know.
- Now that you have spent 38 hours. Use the last 2 hours to pitch and collect from other people that you don't know and pitch the idea, and place in the score card.

If you have enough evidence (data) you can discover insights (analysis) to peruse or not not. If you still have other areas to cover, I will limit the cut off time to 100 hours.

That's how I discover if ideas are worth my actions.
Repetition paired with a slight twist is much more addictive than novel content. See: memes, pop music, MCU, etc.
I haven’t broken any bones. My parents were up and coming immigrants with their own business, but not successful enough to afford health insurance (pre ACA, but not post ACA either), and there weren’t poor enough for Medicaid.

So my dad was clear to me that any injuries could cause us to have medical expenses that would derail us and my younger sibling’s future as well as the aging grandparents my parents were taking care of.

So I didn’t partake in activities that could have broken bones, but that is the hand my parents and I and others like us are dealt in the great old US of A.
Internal Spanner does support protobuf columns.
There's four roommates in total. My 4 bedroom apartment in Manhattan several years back cost more than $4,900/month and it was a good deal.
Yeah I dont judge movies by their trailers nor books by their back cover. Who does that?
'Upside-Down Cosmic Ray Shower' May Be Evidence of Parallel Universe
OpenAutoComplete: Shell-agnostic, cross-platform autocomplete specification
For legislators on Twitter, an engaged minority creates outsize share of content
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Estimates for anything sufficiently complex are pure fantasy. They just serve to place an engineer in a bargaining conundrum and makes them implicitly decrease the scope for the 1000's+ decisions they will need to make during the course of implementation that they are not going to deliver the desired (also implicit) expectations. Its better to work from deadlines, then at least the engineer can try to hedge down the scope and deliver something they are comfortable with.
How do you grow an economy with negative birth rates?
most of the "power mods" are likely semi-bots reposting from other subredddits anyway. i won't be surprised if they're internally created.
Another reason there are so many Cirrus accidents is that in an effort to improve its safety record, Cirrus began advising its pilots to use the parachute whenever in doubt. I don't mean this as a knock in the slightest -- the statistics are very convincing that this is saving lives[1]. But a funny side effect is that you see a bunch of accidents where someone parachutes a Cirrus into a field that any other airplane would have just landed in.

[1] https://airfactsjournal.com/2016/08/whats-right-cirrus-pilot...
Happens with charter pilots too it seems.

I read a report where the pilot was trying out a turbofan that his employer was looking at buying. The guy selling the plane felt like the pilot was just not keeping up with the plane, didn't sell it to the charter company.

Charter company got another plane somewhere else ( it didn't say how or where ). On a flight the pilot somehow didn't notice the autopilot disconnected, plane drifted into this long turn. Once the pilot realized something was up he grabbed the controls and pulled them hard over and snapped off the wings.
I’d avoid the toilet simply due to avoid increasing risk of hemorrhoids.
I’m sure you’re making a general statement, but breaking a bone is pretty traumatic and the complications can be quite serious. I hope my kids never experience a broken bone.

That said, I spent my childhood outside and never broke a bone myself, but my brother did and ended up having to wear orthotics the rest of his life and routinely experiences discomfort as a result. So, my advice, don’t limit your kids, but teach them to be careful at the same time.

I’m pretty sure if one of my kids break a bone, I’m going to be a wreck.

EDIT: Your comment about boys breaking bones more than girls is ridiculous, as a parent with a daughter who loves risk taking, I can assure you it’s not a boy vs girl problem.
Absolutely true, absolutely a valid criticism, but it's sort of a 'first level selling'. If you look into people who are REALLY good at what they do, things start to look real different and the value system you're concerned about goes out the window.

Read some of Guy Kawasaki's stuff. That guy is stupidly good at selling, had much to do with introducing the Macintosh back in the day, but it is anything but a burden to him, and if he found he was grinding away selling junk because it was easier, he'd jump out the window.

There is NO substitute for being able to try and convey your excitement about something you're REALLY good at and REALLY care about, and when you are able to bring that to bear, everything is different. I make my living on Patreon 'selling' open source audio stuff I make, and one of my PRIMARY arguments there is, 'this is amazing! Because it is completely liberating! Getting paid this way I get to make weird stuff that maybe only one person will like better than anything, because I NEVER have to hold back and alter things to fit in with what I think the market will bear!"

And it's true… but there is also a market for people who want stuff off the beaten path. I never spend anything on advertising or marketing, and it costs me quite a lot in discoverability, but there is also a market for people who want someone that will not SELL to them in the normal sense, who seems to be out there just doing, and never comes knocking expecting to make 'a sale' or hyping their latest nonsense.

It's not as big a market as the mainstream. But the mainstream simply does not serve everybody.

The bottom line is, if you expect to sell stuff, the most enduring way to do that is to be yourself and then hope like hell there's a market for YOU… because you can fake it, but you can't really get away from who you are. But, if you're prepared to just go full tilt and be consistently who you are, the connections you build are not disposable and don't require trickery to maintain.

When everybody got hit with coronavirus lockdown and were facing great financial risk and the loss of their livelihoods, I worked out an arrangement where I declared that I cut the price of everything more than half, and told all my people on patreon that they should cut back or cancel what they were giving. And I braced myself, certain that I could withstand it: I'd run the numbers and I'd be able to tough it out.

And of course they all did the opposite and gave more, and I got upset and had to be told to allow people to be generous when they wanted to. Because I'd really meant it, it wasn't a 'bit'. And because that was who I really was… yeah. So I got the opposite of hurt, and had the opposite of being out of work. And now I'm trying not to overwork like a madman, knowing that people cared, but also that they wanted me to be well.

If you can be yourself as hard as you can, and it's a self worth being, the idea of 'selling yourself' seems pretty ridiculous ;)
Yeah that's why dumbass Pelosi introduced a 3 billion dollar bill that she knew would never see the light of day.
Any turbocharged airplane with a hot prop will be better than a 172 in icing. Turbo gives you altitude flexibility and power to get out of the ice (rarely more than 4000’ thick vertically) and the hot prop will help you pull through it.

(I have a turbo and TKS on my A36. Almost never need the TKS.)
Cross-compiling is finicky in any ecosystem, things like numpy especially so. When working on armv7 projects, I got a few TinkerBoards and ran the builds native. The first one took a while, but i just kept my binary cache up to date and normal CI/CD builds were fast. I'd also push core builds to https://arm.cachix.org. I haven't updated it recently, but I am considering doing that again.
Nice work!. Thanks for sharing
> We live our lives as if they were a business enterprise with a balance sheet, always selling, always advertising, always figuring out how to put our personality on display,

I think this is a very American thing to do. In most other cultures this is not true. Notably the OP is presumably British and my British grand parents most definitely were not "always selling" nor "putting their personality on display".
OK, now I'm really confused.

The author has published papers in the past, such as:

https://journals.aps.org/prab/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.1...

My work happens to be related to accelerator physics, though I don't know much about free-electron lasers (the subject of the paper). But here's the thing: The paper looks pretty normal, though I don't understand chunks of it. It only has one author, which is a bit weird, but nothing jumps out at me as bunk.

Gosh. I hope she's OK.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Defends Pixel Team
has anyone seen endmyopia.org?
a friend of mine suggested it because he said he was able to perform “eye exercises” to improve his eyesight. He said it wasn’t perfect, but he no longer needs glasses.
Pelosi accuses GOP of ‘political retribution’ in wake of subpoena vote
That was my reading, based on the fact that they glossed over Nix itself and attributed most of the issues to code complexity.