skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always thought it was weird how the 'Information Age' has barely changed an institution entirely based on passing information to new generations (education).

Bryan Caplan (economist at George Mason) wrote The Case Against Education (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174655/th...). IMO, he's definitely too provocative and it's certainly not perfect but he makes really good points on modern education. My version of a summary below:

1. There's an enormous return to attending 4-year university. 4-year degree holders on average ~400k over there life time than high school graduates. This is somewhat suspicious, because it's not obvious 'HST 105: History of Ancient Greece' is imparting labor market skills.

2. Economists says education builds (1) 'human capital', i.e. education causally makes individuals more skilled and thus labor market success. There are two other stories: (2) action bias which is that universities simply selected people who would have been successful whether or not they went to college or (3) signaling theory which is that the degree communicates to employers you're smart, conforming, punctual, can accomplish ~4 year goals, etc...basically you're a 'grade-A worker'.

3. Bryan lobbies for the signaling theory. A flurry of educational psychology research is presented and it's impressive. A good example is there's almost
(A) no scientific evidence that 'learning how to learn' or 'transfer of learning' or 'critical thinking' are taught well in classroom. It's shocking how this appears on every syllabus but that actual research that classrooms can impact this essentially doesn't exist.
(B) The fadeout effect, where giving students extra education does boost tests scores for those individuals, but if you track them for the next 5 years the effects fade out -- like many things there's regression to the mean
(C) Memory isn't as reliable as we think -- this has been very important in the judicial system that has historically relied on witness testimony. I don't remember anything from my 'History of Rock and Roll' class when I was a freshman.

4. Non-psychological critiques are that (1) the econometrics almost never include the stat that ~50% of all students who attend 4-year college don't graduate (some transfer, so that number is a bit difficult to calculate). But almost nobody guesses baseline of ~50%. The returns to college look good because of survivorship bias. (2) Labor econometrics in general is weaker than we think...for example, how do you operationalize 'experience' -- almost all academic studies on discrimination, pay gaps, etc. have this problem. (3) There's extremely strong evidence and intuition that getting the degree matters, i.e. if go for 4 years but don't graduate returns are much lower.

There's a ton more in the book, but those are the big parts. I was a teacher for 5 years and it's crystal clear to me that 'passive learning' isn't nearly as useful as 'active learning', but for classroom management reasons active learning is rarely viable. Active learning also makes the teacher look like they're not doing much work, which is bad for their bargaining.
That is a remarkable documentary.
There’s a couple of excellent static analysis tools (phpstan, psalm) that can catch this kind of stuff. I’m 99% sure that psalm’s security suite would catch this.
This post would’ve been better if it stopped after the second word.
I bet they make more money by not fixing the problem.

Google could pretty easily drop scraping sites hard to the bottom of the list and prioritize fresh content. But it probably pays not to. So sadly you're not worth the effort.

I think DDG, being somewhat privacy focused has a more traditional index, whereas I strongly suspect google would be profiling the devices and people making queries based around time of day and device used to determine what type of results to favor.
I actually get good results with google. But my technical queries are all done from my work laptop, so i expect there's a profiling, fingerprinitng going on on the google side that's shaping the index I use. or its magic.

Could you ever see yourself paying for search? How bad is google, what would you pay to change it?
pyright only does typing and nothing else. You'd have to combine it with another python LSP for syntax and linting.
Maybe that's a sign that theory research in physics has become iredeemably suspect?

The Swedish bank (not an OG Nobel prize, but effectively one of them) prize for economics pretty much alternates (A) sharing the prize between econometrics (ie. tooling) and empirical research and (B) awarding deep theory.
Or those that play together stay together?
"Effective C" and "Modern C" are two books frequently recommended. I'm waiting both to arrive in mail to see them myself.
Context. It's just different for the two parties. Most of the time knowlege is highly asymmetric (which makes delegating financially attractive in the first place) and establishing the context is percieved as almost as expensive as doing it for yourself.

Only for very well known tasks or well established relationships where the right pre-knowledge has already been established, delegating is instantaneously beneficial.
The world does not owe maintainers protection from negative feedback. They are not high priests of open source whose behaviour is above criticism because they "make free things". It sucks to be criticized, even as politely as in the gist, but it's part of being an adult operating alongside other adults in a complex domain where disagreement is inevitable.
Thank you for the essay reference. You raise many excellent points.

I don't have answers to all the nuanced questions you ask, but on evaluating quality: my approach is to research how involved and "invested" the author is on the topic they're talking about. Also, I'll simply read some articles and chunks of paragraphs from their book to get a sense of tone and competency. I realize these are all value judgments of some kind; but it is inescapable.

A journalist writing about "the benefits of neuroscience"? I'll skip it. I'd rather put the likes of Antonio Damasio, Robert Sapolsky, or Michael Gazzaniga—all of whom have spent decades studying cognitive science—under the rubric of "proven worth". Also, their writing is accessible for the non-specialist and specialist reader alike. Note though, this doesn't mean that the journalist's writing doesn't have any value. It simply doesn't meet my bar of quality (again, value judgement).

Another rough rule of thumb is, usually, books from academic presses have better value-to-noise ratio than popular presses. Even this is slowly degrading, with universities having heavy-duty marketing departments to drum up their books.
Yes. The rules of DIY: If it moves when it shouldn't, use duct tape[0]. If it doesn't move when it should, use WD40

[0] A slightly heretical alternative here is to use cable ties, daisy-chained if necessary for larger jobs.
I love fish. On any host, if I can just get fish running, I feel 100% at home. I don‘t need a single bit of customization on it.
Thanks for the kind word and your insights! We're investing in our UI libraries, and I hope we become your "default go-to UI widgets library" soon ;)
Being obsessed with football and knowing how to deal with big data, it is a challenge to put those 2 worlds together. Predicting the football results means working with big data and the results is https://rowdie.co.uk
"because of Fedora" <- So, why not use Fedora? Is it Amazon Linux that you find awesome or whatever Amazon Linux is based on?
I think I met this feature specifically in an editor made specifically for markdown and markdown only.

Although I can definitely imagine this being a plugin in different editors
This blogger (whom I like don't get me wrong) is a health crank who has written before about the health harms of sugar and how aspartame is comparatively not as bad. It's part of his beat, if you will.
Some of those basically bankrupted budgets and despite staying until today, they were more of narcistic show of power then actually good decisions. So you have higher taxes or actually needed investments postponed for not other reason then finishing those.
well at that point it would be wise not to use ids for queries, but the logic remains the same.
This is a sort of response that makes the conversation stink and as well has no optimal solution would come out.

> I know that some people

I know that this writing will make no change in your bigoted perception but at-least it might to others. So, I'm writing it.

Addiction is NOT a choice, and it is a form of chemical imbalance that happens in our complex brain that makes the person get into addiction with any substance. It could be said like any other mental health illnesses. AND when the person who got addicted doesn't get enough support and the compassion (likely not from you) to the way where they can be able to stay away from their addiction, there is a possibility that such person could go worse.
> I answered your question with a joke because your question is a joke, what doesn't benefit from a 10-fold increase in processing power?

You misread the question pretty badly. They asked for new use cases, not things that would benefit.

We can fold proteins pretty well now, 10x wouldn't fundamentally change things.

There was a point where 10x in power made VR feasible. We're past that point, and can already do 144Hz VR with pretty good graphics. More power would increase the resolution but that's not a new use case.

Deep learning, hmm. A 10x increase in GPU RAM would be pretty great for using things like GPT-3, but the limiting factor there isn't really processing power.

Remember that you said "sorely need". That's a much stronger statement than benefiting.

> Why would no new use case arise from a widely available 10-fold increase in processing power when the last 40 years have shown that new tech always materializes?

Well, I can look back about a decade for the last 10-fold increase. Everyone has an SSD now, that's major but not based on processing power. VR is the only significant new use case I can name. That's cool but it's not exactly a big impressive list.
I like that he establishes the intellectual history,
I don't like that he doesn't know that intellectual history, but still better than nothing I guess. Fichte is pretty cool, fun trivia: he also invented the passport.
Haha - wonderful, good plan, fingers croseed! :)
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In Florida a new subdivision was put in that kept all the live oaks, used permeable paving stones for the road and the landscaping used all local plants, replicating the original ecosystem. The difference was amazing and quite beautiful. Yes, it was a fancier, more expensive subdivision but not so much so that the design was unfeasible to be replicated elsewhere. From the beginning it was a neighborhood in the woods, not some sterile, paved over monstrosity.
Commies are really, really rare in Germany. I find it personally doubtful that so many are involved in that research area.

Also try to assume that they are acting in good faith.
My first commit to a fairly big opensource project is still not merged. The project is very beginner friendly but the project maintainers wanted my commit in a certain way as per their standards. It was not even the actual code but the commenting and variable names that needed to be changed. I had to re-review it many times before it was ready for merge. It took almost 2 to 3 months with some long time gap before I made perfect submission. In this process it seemed crazy to me why anyone will be looking through all this code made by a beginner with so many mistakes and patiently guiding them through it for free of cost. It made me appreciate their work more. Even though it isn’t merged yet I still got to learn a lot in this process.

Btw the PR didn’t get merged yet because we need to fetch data using an api of another source which is poorly documented.
> the F-35 isn't any more expensive than other aircraft. For example for the latest budget proposal (2022), the DoD plans to acquire 85 F-35s [1] for a total price of $85 BN, or about $150 MM per plane.

But isn't that in all probability the same kind of thing as large American IT companies do with their international subsidiaries, i.e. moving money around on paper to where it looks the best?

That is, Dell and Facebook and Apple and so on have their European headquarters in Ireland (where corporate taxes are the lowest, and on top of that they negotiate sweet deals to make it even lower), and pay the mother company "royalties" for "use of intellectual property" to siphon profits away to where they're hardly taxed at all. In a similar way, defense contractors make the sale price look like what they think gives the best chance to get the sale (including what the great unwashed public will "buy", so they don't put pressure on their politicians, and those in turn on the military, to reject it) -- but then add that money on to maintenance contracts or future development where it's less visible here and now.

Looking at just the stated "sale price" and thinking that that actually represents the "true cost" of a machine seems rather naïve to me.
Yes, Kitty is too resource hungry for my taste as well. And the Alacritty devs outright refuse ligature support because all existing implementations are too low quality in their opinion.

So now I'm just using st with a ligature patch. Not perfect and rather slow when dumping a lot of text to stdout, but it's otherwise snappy and does everything I need.
Why not?

Airplanes designed by humans fly.

Calculators designed by humans calculate faster too.
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I have experimented with a design that only allows the application to access a set of stored procedures via it's SQL user.

It seems to work, if you write complicated enough stored procedures you can enforce things like each entry must be created by a logged in user or whatever. Then the application is limited to interactions it's supposed to have, so it can't drop a audit table or something. I even did login via a stored procedure, confirming the hashed password matched and generating a bearer token that future stored procedures require to function.
Yea you could for sure keep the printed menus, but one of the extra benefits of having an online menu is that your can keep your menu up to date with daily menus and all. Printing new menus everyday can be a struggle and is not very ECO-friendly.
No. I use a recipe from an old Good Housekeeping Cookbook.

+ Put the bird in a roasting pan
+ Put foil over the roasting pan.
+ Cook at 450F
+ For the last 30 minutes, remove the foil

The standard instructions produce dry turkey because they are solely focused on food safety to reduce liability. Think about it this way, if you are using the "recipe" on the packaging, then you don't have experience cooking a turkey another way.
> Wahhhhh! I can't impose my fascist lockdown

It's strange bedfellows these days.

The general population will believe China is using the pandemic to impose power, but won't look introspectively because the media won't report that.

Xi's China is closing to the world. And it isn't just about borders - https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/14/china/china-border-closur...

> the population has a duty to respond with electronic warfare.

I think power is digital and this is where it needs to be fortified. The physical world has been lost to the authorities.
I’m more fed up with people who can’t seem to able to grasp that that has been tried before multiple times and shown not to work.

Corona spreads through wildlife and it’s endemic. It’s never going away. Not with vaccines and not with 15 days to stop the spread.
I think this is a great step. I hate when Mozilla does things other than make their browser better. This seems like a feature pretty unique to Firefox (or if there is another implemention I'm not aware of, it's probably not as tightly integrated) that can make them money.

People can complain about the Mozilla VPN or Brave's BAT but at the end of the day they have to fund themselves somehow. I'd rather it to be through very interesting new ways of using a browser rather than through Google's money. Up until now I'd see the VPN as a lazy cash grab but now it seems like an actual premium feature.
Show HN: Automatically convert your paper menu into a digital QR menu
I had a friend that cried about the hole in the ozon layer many nights in the 80s. I will never do this to my kids.
I have some buildroot external trees on github that build images using github actions. It's for personal stuff I needed and only need to update occasionally.

The Buildroot manual is fantastic and it's worth working through the getting started section to get an idea. It boils down to creating a br_external tree that contains everything necessary to create a custom sdcard image as documented here:

https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#outside-b...

Building images from a br_external tree is pretty trivial, see the gitub actions in these example repos:

This builds a raspi4 64 bit image for tvheadend (I'm using this image for a SAT-IP TV dish w/ Kodi clients in my sister's house - so far no complaints about a crashed tv server after 1.5 years of uptime). This image runs the whole rootfs from initramfs w/o mounting a persistent root filesystem. I don't care for the additional ~150MB RAM that is used in this use case:

https://github.com/markuslindenberg/dvbheadend

My most recent buildroot based raspi image builds a 32 bit image pulling binary distribution of openhab and it's recommended jre into the image, running them from a read only root filesystem. I'm using this to reliably run openhab home automation in multiple places. This repo also is a br_external tree and embarrasingly doesn't have a README yet, I really really need to write one becaus I think it's quite useful and mature.

https://github.com/markuslindenberg/habfw
you can't provide anything absolutely and undeniably true, except maybe in math. I mean, I used to do debate and after some time I noticed that none of it was based on truly logical arguments; everything was about persuasive seduction and coming up with the minimum to cast doubt on your opponent's position.

But yeah, I like the way you put this; we're just arguing on the internet about things which are too messy to have a true false dichotomy.
> I just don't see that happening, especially given the extremely slow rate at which climate is changing. Personally, I haven't really perceived the change in my lifetime (30+ years).

Where do you live?

I'm originally from Brazil, I live now in Sweden.

In Brazil during my lifetime I lived through a massive deforestation of the Amazon. I saw landscapes change from lush jungles into arid and depleted soils. I went to places in the Pantanal area as a kid that were completely transformed 20 years later, rivers drying up and a different kind of flora was taking over parts of what used to be wetlands.

In Sweden I have less than a decade around so my own experience is pretty limited. Here I can only get a glimpse of the changes through the eyes of my local friends, my girlfriend parents and other older people I talk to have noticed how much shorter and warmer winters have got. How hot summers are happening more frequently. The winter season used to last almost a month longer and snow wasn't a possibility but a given. Now they live through winters where less than 5 days of snowy days are a reality. Planning your skiing season varies a lot between years where when I talk to older people they just used to consider it a given that there would be a skiing season in most parts of the country (maybe except for the south in Skåne).

The warming is much more prominent closer to the poles.

The climate is not changing slowly in my experience, given the size of the system it's changing pretty fucking fast.
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