skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Primarily, forgetting to divide by 100 is an obvious error and easy to debug when compared to a database driver/interface being updated that tweaks the decimal conversion which is much more subtle and hard to debug. Your point is valid though in a situation where you only use one database system and one development language that both support decimal properly it isn't "bad" to use decimal, thought I'd still personally use integer for future proofing the data.

Secondly (and why I'd still use integers regardless), every language supports integers and division, not every language can support decimals properly or consistently. So for guaranteed accuracy it is best to use integers. Web being so javascript driven is a primary consideration here.

IMO this is something similar to dealing with time in distributed/complex systems. Sure there are types in postgres (and most DB's) that handles timezone, but it still is best to use UTC for everything stored in data and only do timezone conversions at the display layer when necessary.
Why/how does this waste bandwidth? These are opt-in, so they are only sent if requested.

I mean sure http being plaintext is silly but that's not down to the authors of this particular rfc.
Why would you hear about it...?
Of course rising population is at the heart of this. But unless you’re planning to Thanos our way out of the situation, the people in the Western world need to consume less. Less beef, which is hugely polluting. Less sugar, which is toxic and useless. Less paper products. Less air conditioning. And yes, fewer objects. The average American child owns between 70 and 100 toys. The average American woman owns 100+ items of clothing. The average American spends $16,000 on retail items per year. It is too much; it is more than we need. It all takes energy to manufacture, and to ship, and it all ends up in the trash.
BestBuy isn't on the hook if I buy $20k of stuff on my credit card and can't pay it back. The bank that gave me the card is on the hook.

We don't blame BestBuy for having prices that are too high, or not educating shoppers that their quantum dot TV's will be obsolete and valueless in a few years.

The main problem is that not only is the government subsidizing the loan, but they're never dischargeable in bankruptcy.

The banks are the ones that truly have no skin in the game. Universities at least need to be able to point to graduation rates and successful graduates of their programs, the quality of their internship opportunities and career services department. Not that they're worth $250k/student, but the universities at least have some vague reputational stake in this that will impact their ability to recruit more students. For a little while when someone google's the quality of Columbia's program they may see these posts. The more these issues come out, the bigger the impact on schools.

Banks on the other hand? They won't lose money, business, reputation, prospective employees... Nothing.
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Never once while studying physics have I been bothered by constant factors, especially nice integer ones like 2. I don't really care if I have to multiply by 2. Feet aren't really different from meters from a physical perspective. The only choice of unit that really has any solid claim to superiority is the natural units.
Yes the touchbar slider is heinously bad. If my memory serves, you have to first tap one area to get a slider to appear and then slide that. <facepalm>

I got the Air instead of the Pro basically for the hardware brightness / volume keys and lack of Touch Bar. It’s such a relief to use these keys without taking eyes off the screen and to not accidentally tap something on the Touch Bar that breaks flow.

By the way, I think you can edit the Touch Bar to replace the volume slider with volume mute/down/up “buttons” instead of the slider which makes it a little better.
Which would put obscene pressure on the legislatures to re-fund the education systems they’ve been purposefully defunding for a while. Arguably this is good.
It shouldn't cast doubt on the value of politeness, but it does cast doubt on its application and where and why it is appropriate. Are you saying that this legacy has not cast any shadows on modern culture?
Looking at Marx's quote on relations of production, could the money flow INSIDE a company be another topic that is worth exploration? From my simple understanding, in Marx's theory it was social aspect that mattered most. Do we still face such problems as it was in 19th century? I'm curious whether it would be a viable company where the surplus-value is distributed among workers and I have a fixed transparent salary as CEO and how it will survive the stage I and scale to stage II, IIIa, IIIb.
> An interesting idea I saw was the idea of making schools have skin in the game on these degree programs by requiring them to back some percent of the debt of these federal loans.

Since little short of death can cause a student loan to be discharged, I don't think that would actually put any skin in the game.
It is sad how much of Finance (primarily FP&A) gets run through Excel. There are many products out there today that can make the job easier, but as you point out, not all organizations are quick to embrace them.

My personal hope is financial analysts get more tech savvy over time. SQL should be a year one skill with Python/R soon after. These should complement spreadsheets which would still have an important role in ad hoc analyses. Combine this increased tech savvy with an understanding of a visualization tool such as Tableau/Power BI and I think financial analysts could be significantly more productive than they are today.

There would also be far fewer spreadsheets lying around on the network drives. It is amazing how many of those spreadsheets are simply the same model with the next month's data. Better use of databases would allow one spreadsheet with a database to store the changing inputs.
You don't need to compare permutations you reduce the set of possible permutations until you reach the one that must be the answer. Theoretical performance should be O(log n)
It helps IMHO to use it sparingly for emphasis, rather than just being a general potty mouth.

A calm well spoken person grabs a lot of positive attention with an F-bomb carefully dropped. The step out of character alerts people that something must be serious.
Plagues and Empires
The box was chosen to be too large to fit in the x-ray machine. The checks were lax for private jets. I assume this loophole is already closed.
Driving education policy based off anything Harvard is doing is a mistake. Pay attention to state schools only, that’s what policy should be tailored for.
This has been my MO with home brew as well. But it’s not perfect. Unix-style apps don’t always behave nicely when it comes to cleanup and it’s easy to get borked, not to mention the difficulties that the homebrew folks go through each time there’s a new release of Mac OS. I really think the writing is on the wall and we’d all be better off dumping homebrew and just using VMs.
Pi is defined over a flat space with an L2 norm. It has nothing to do with physical circles except that physical space is locally flat and has an L2 norm.
> All this would do is ensure that higher education is utterly inaccessible for anyone not rich enough to pay cash.

Which would cause significant negative price pressure on that education.
As much as I hate leetcode type interview questions, I can't help but wonder what if film industry had a reliable* way to gather signal, and thus don't have to rely on institutions like Columbia to provide that stamp of approval.
Because inflation adjusted it used to be a few grand a year. It’s not like college is 10x better than it was in the 1960s or 1970s.
This is a good idea. I see a lot of concerns about potential abuse.

There are ways to mitigate this. You could use twilio to route numbers into a multi way conversation that is recorded.

There's probably a feature such that the numbers stay private on both sides.
True story, the npm registry was once taken down (not maliciously, just by accident) by a ReDOS in node-semver. That was extra fun to debug because the failure happened inside of CouchDB.
Stop subsidizing industry by socializing the cost of carbon and planting trees will be profitable.
I downloaded one right now, with sound, from Now for Reddit app. There's a little three-dot control in the bottom corner that includes an option to save as a file.
Space is locally euclidian. You can easily define pi as a universal constant in our universe, in terms of local flat regions.
>> don't disagree with you but that study seems like fucking bullshit.

Using the tactic you disagree with to drive your point home. Well played.
Saying net production of oxygen is zero is not identical to saying net sequestration of carbon dioxide is zero.

Photosynthesis: 6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2

You can see here that there's glucose (a carbohydrate) being produced in addition to oxygen.
I'm gonna guess it's the libertarians or the communists
For people who use these 47-key keyboards, how long does it take for you to be comfortable with them?

Is there any type of work that is NOT suitable on these keyboards? I feel that the UP and DOWN keys are kind of strain at least in the beginning.

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Holy just checked the price and it's above $200. Why is it so expensive? It's almost at par with my second-hand laptop. I guess it's fancy but do you feel the price is justified?
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Caltech freshman physics dispensed with 2 years of my high school physics in about 2 lectures. After that the piano fell on me, and I was in deep doo doo, with 2 years of physics required for graduation. My "honors" high school chemistry class fared even worse.

While I had a fine time in high school, hanging with my friends and mucking about with muscle cars, helpful in college it was not.
1) getdbt.com
2) fast.co
The page you linked to is for the Primetime Emmys, which are the biggest awards that make it into the main TV broadcast (Prime Video has 4 nominations there). But there are also the Creative Arts Emmys, which include many more awards, often in more technical categories (where Prime has an additional 14 nominations).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/73rd_Primetime_Creative_Arts...
I would love to understand what this is for, but the README went over my head. The subsetting and such that this software does is definitely very consistent, topological and hierarchically structured, I've determined that much. It's got referential integrity too!
I like this take.
"I mean sure we can side with the 18 year olds making bad financial decisions taking on debt for a BA degree"

Lets call it what it is: institutionalised debt bondage. Non dischargeable debt is a mind-boggling violation of liberty.

It's creating a class of serfs that will always owe their lord.
Can somebody please explain the SO2 thing? Im googling to no avail...
> Feet aren't really different from meters from a physical perspective

As a non American I can't help but think if you are doing anything that involves short and long distances feet must surley be painful. Either you use 5280 feet instead of a mile, or 0.000189 miles instead of a foot. And then you have yards...

Madness!
This exact thing is what trips me up about using Nix and I haven't been able to figure out how to get around it. Sometimes you want a global Python library. Here's one example from my own use case: I want to use a Weechat Python script that depends on a Python library called "pync". With e.g. MacPorts I can just run

sudo port install py-pync

and now the Weechat Python script will be able to "import pync". But this doesn't work with Nix since every package is completely isolated from each other.

I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure this out and was unsuccessful. I'd love to know what Nix's answer to use cases like this is.
Finance is like the engineering department in Star Trek. They provide critical resources, and are limited in what they can do by the laws of physics, but they still have to respond to constant demands from executives to somehow make it work anyway. That means they aren’t steering the ship, but they are going to interpret guidance from the captain about priorities in ways that make sense to them.
Really they're working a job for that college, and being extraordinarily underpaid for it
This is a fairly common use of no-code glue services like Zapier, IFTTT, Cyclr, etc.
On every iPad I've seen, only the lower 3-4 (of 16) steps are normal indoor range. Even the 1st step is too loud at night. I need half-steps.

Is this due to linear vs logarithmic scaling? Or are people throwing wild parties where the iPad needs to fill a room with sound?
> In other words, each and every year, Aramco has to pay out around three times the entire amount that it received for the entire IPO.

But actually, 95% of this dividend goes back to the Saudi government, right? So the real figure above is 0.15 times the entire amount that it received for the entire IPO.
So she was falsely accused, detained for a week, and released with apparently no consequences? That's not great, but it's hardly a uniquely Japanese horror story either.

For comparison, back in the Land of the Free, here's a kid in New York who was jailed for three years on Rikers Island for a similar false accusation of theft:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law
That's great for you, but as a societal discussion, that's about as useful as a story of how someone prayed and their mom's cancer went away.

You're taking a risk, in the context of a committed relationship where you've already had kids (so the stakes are lower than for a lot of people). So far that risk has worked out for you. That doesn't mean that is the right risk for everyone. It also doesn't mean that what you're doing is reliable for everyone. And it certainly doesn't mean that you're somehow more intelligent or competent than the people for whom similar methods of family planning have failed.
Title has "CIA", should be "CISA".
It didn’t happen that way until many, many years after student loans started to be a thing.

Some enterprising law students figuring out they could get a loan to learn how to get out of the loan - and end up with a very valuable degree out of it that could not be repossessed - and by the time they needed good credit, it would be off their records.

It took awhile for word to get out, and then they banned getting out of student loans.

So blame the lawyer (students) I guess?
Do they rely on institutions like Columbia? Almost none of the graduates work in the film industry, and the tweeter didn't even graduate. His department chair even shook him down to try and get his own TV pilot on the air! If being the film department chair at Columbia isn't a reliable enough signal to get your foot in the door, surely the degree can't be worth anything either.
To be fair R35 GT-R was Ghosn's project.
I guess this is as good a place as any to ask about a certain question regarding extensions.

With Chrome, I can control whether extensions update automatically and also have extensions disabled until I activate them for a certain page, and then they remain activated for that session.

Do I have such control for Firefox? With it being so difficult to trust extension developers, yet with some extensions being quite necessary for me, I find especially the ability to have extensions deactivated until I explicitly want them for each session very important.
Reminder that Flutter's primary job is to remove control from the user in order to show them more ads. That's why it's all a canvas element.

Do not use it, do not support it.
Googled "film and media studies starting salary" and this is the TOP result:

"The average film, video and photographic arts major who graduates from a school in the United States earns about $22,656 per year during the early years of their career."

It's not a secret.
I once was a total jerk on a mailing list (okay in my youth I was a jerk many times on mailing lists).

Someone shared an article I had seen earlier that year. “Why would you share this? This is old news it’s already made the rounds on the web.” Like I expected everyone to have the same experience as me. Luckily someone told me to chill out or I’d be blocked, that the list was for any news people found interesting. I felt very embarrassed and didn’t post there again for a long time, but it was my own fault.
Iranian Operatives Planned to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author, Prosecutors Say
I had hand pain and bought a Planck EZ for ergonomics but resold it almost instantly because of the issues you note. It’s small so your wrists are angled and your hands are bunched together more than even on a standard keyboard. I discovered that what I really needed was a split sculpted keyboard instead and the ortholinear aspect was not a panacea. Yes my fingers would more easily move in a line than side to side, but my wrist and arms were so far from being straight it was actually worse.
as per the article, in this universe, and potentially others as long as they have some notion of smooth space, we infer an abstract ideal of flatness and from there derive Pi.
People in Germany and Norway somehow start companies. Maybe they make do without receptionists?
on seeing Firefox Release news these days, I am more anxious to know "what have they killed / spoiled now" than I am excited about "what new features have they added now". sad.
I think the problem is that in the American education system, anything needs to be taught at a university. There are trade schools, but there are no "real" trade school degrees that actually mean something.

The idea of academic research is valuable in pretty much any field. Do we want academics studying film as an art form? If you mediate about this question, I think you'll come to the conclusion that we (as society) do want that. Similarly, I have no doubt that these professors care first about their research, second maybe about teaching, and consider anything else as sideshow. Because that's how it is in any academic discipline (with whatever rigor you want to attribute to the scientific aspect of it).

However, in the US, people go to university to learn a skill. I'd ask: Why? I have a friend who became an extremely skilled TV producer, and he has never seen a university from the inside. He did a dual-path education, working for a public broadcaster and visiting a trade school for film at the same time. This dude is superb at what he does.

I see this pattern in many areas. University and practical skills are often distant. In some sense, they should be. Yes, the Humboldian ideal states that researchers should also teach. But they teach research. Today, to become an excellent researcher, you essentially have to forgo practical experience - there is so much pressure to be excellent in other areas.

The weirdest arena to see all this are business schools. These schools exist to educate practitioners. They make their money making MBAs, who generally have zero interest in academia.

However, talk to any academic professor (which is the high status position compared to "professors of practice") at a business school. What do they really care about? Their research, their academic peers, their PhDs. Everything else is a nuisance that pays the bills.
> Because you know everything that made the headlines up to 2017?

No, and I didn't mean to sound condescending. I'll take out the "only" in my message.

Edit: And to clarify what I meant, I may not have known every headline in 2017, but I sure as hell heard about most of the Vault 7 releases. An organization anonymously releasing a world power's cyber tooling is something out of a cyberpunk novel.
I don't think havin a tech degree guarantees me a job. If you think it does, you'll be in for a rude awakening some day
I recommend to anyone who will listen that they do not get a graduate degree in the arts unless they are financially comfortable to do so. I love writing, but I didn’t get my MFA until I was making enough money to get that degree with the full knowledge that it probably wouldn’t pay for itself.
> probably because he didnt wanna pick sides

Ghosn was pushing the merger. His plan was the headquarters the merged holding company outside both Japan and France where he would have yet even less supervision.

Ghosn pillaged Nissan and Renault, and a merger was his perfect chance to cover the tracks.
It’s more common if the specialty shop has expanded to a chain. Because the same skills and tactics it takes to make a chain business also make a salable / maintainable business.
A lot probably go to work for school districts rather than into private practice.
Fuck that wasteware. It wastes power, storage, hinders IT markets and speeds up the climate change.
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That's like asking when violent revolution is justified. There is certainly a point where it's legitimate, but the people undertaking it have a rather biased perspective.

People at every level do what they can to evade justice systems, and of course the richer you are the more dramatic that will be. IMO it's more relevant for us to judge for ourselves whether he was right or not. Did he flee a system that we consider fair and reasonable, or one that's arbitrary and unjust?
Network Link Conditioner
As someone with a relative currently going through bankruptcy, I can assure you that every student would not go through this process. It is incredibly difficult, intensive, and horrible process that takes years. It is not pleasant and I think that the idea that it would be utilized in this way by students is totally coming from a place of ignorance of what modern bankruptcy actually entails.
> SMTP

But... Why?

The HTTP protocol is so much easier to manage, load balance, use, etc.
Basically I want a text version of a stock photo.

Wikipedia's description of a potato:

Potato plants are herbaceous perennials that grow about 60 cm (24 in) high, depending on variety, with the leaves dying back after flowering, fruiting and tuber formation. They bear white, pink, red, blue, or purple flowers with yellow stamens.

It's not quite human enough. Also you'll get the same thing each time and it's probably plagiarism. Just like you won't want that stock photo that everyone recognizes, a description like this is recognizable as being from Wikipedia.

In certain situations, I don't even want the exact writing but something inspiring. The Wikipedia potato stifles creativity.
You can do this with BenkoBot, we just launched custom webhooks (although it's not in the interface yet). So you can receive a webhook and run some arbitrary javascript to transform it then send it on somewhere else:

http://www.benkobot.com/

Our main focus is on handling Trello notifications, and the Trellinator library I wrote is built in, our objective is to create more API wrappers over time to make it as simple as possible to deal with as many APIs as possible. You can see some example code here:

https://trello.com/b/IoHmhz5c/benkobot-community-board

You currently require a Trello account API key/token to sign up, but you can use it as you described to be a generic endpoint, transform however you want with JS then post the data onto another endpoint.
If you got the same degree for 10k (what it used to cost inflation adjusted), why would that not be better for everyone?

Every professor or co-professor I know gets paid peanuts, gets poor support, and gets waaaay too many students. These folks are at Yale, Princeton, etc. It’s a scam and the money disappears into the machine with little accountability and a ton of hand waving.
If you consider solutions to one of the simplest non-trival second-order differential equation, f''(x) = -f(x), then you will find that the solutions all have period 2π, no geometry needed.