skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's what we've been talking about. 120V 15A is not enough to run two burners at any kind of reasonable heat output, much less four. That's 900W->3000BTU/h per burner, assuming the electronics work optimally. Even accounting for the fact that induction is 100% more efficient than gas, you're talking about the equivalent of two 6000BTU/h gas burners, effectively. For reference, that's less power than the simmer burner on my gas range. The main burners of a cheap gas range are 15000BTU/h, and more expensive ranges go up to 25000BTU/h.

All this is of course fixed by installing a dedicated circuit for a real induction range. 220V * 40A increases the potential output six-fold, which is enough for any reasonable use case. But doing that is much more expensive, which is the whole of what I was trying to convey.
Thanks for sharing your code. I had seen other people also mention that these 5 guesses (AESIR, ARISE, RAISE, REAIS, SERAI) all narrow down the list to 168 (in the worst case), but I was curious why the code I wrote to play with this was giving different answers.

After reading your code, I see an error in it. In fact, only RAISE is optimal; the others are worse, and leave bigger lists (according to my code):

RAISE: 168
…
REAIS: 203
…
AESIR: 220
ARISE: 220
…
SERAI: 241

The error in your code is that your "evaluateGuess" function (right at the top, in the first 10 or so lines of https://github.com/christiangenco/wordlesolver/blob/9c3bd94a...):

function evaluateGuess({ solution, guess }) {
return [...guess].map((letter, index) => {
return {
letter,
included: solution.includes(letter),
position: letter === solution[index],
};
});
}

is too simplistic, and not actually what the real game does. In the game, for each letter position, there are three possible responses:

• Correct (Green), what you call "position"

• Present (Yellow), what you call "included"

• Absent (Grey)

Here are three test cases, that you could try out on the real Wordle in recent days:

• When the solution is "FAVOR" and our guess is "ERROR", Wordle's response is [Grey, Grey, Grey, Green, Green] — note that for the first two Rs in "ERROR", the correct response is Grey (Absent), because the last R has already "used up" the "Green" response.

• When the solution is "FAVOR" and our guess is "ROARS", Wordle's response is [Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, Grey, Grey] — note that only the first R in "ROARS" gets a Yellow response and the second one gets Grey, because there's only one R in the solution.

• (As pointed out by @pedrosorio in a sibling comment) When the solution is "ABBEY" and our guess is "APNEA", Wordle's response is [Green, Grey, Grey, Green, Grey], but your solver thinks that the second "A" would get a "Yellow" response too.

You mentioned Donald Knuth's Mastermind paper; in fact in the paper (http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/teaching/cs3530/resources/kn...) Knuth points this out on the very first page:

> Rule 2 is somewhat difficult to state precisely and unambiguously, and the manufacturers have in fact not succeeded in doing so on the directions they furnish with the game […]

and gives an exact rule that you may want to study carefully.

In my code, the `response` function I use (it's not the most efficient, but we can just memoize it) is:

def response(h, g):
'''
- The hidden word is h.
- The guess is g.
For each position in the word g, some color:
- 'green' if in the same position
- 'yellow' if present (after subtracting 'green's)
- 'grey' if absent (after subtracting "green"s and "yellow"s)
'''
assert len(h) == len(g)
L = len(h)
green = [i for i in range(L) if h[i] == g[i]]
yellow = []
for i in range(L):
# We want to check whether g[i] is "present" in h
if i in green: continue
for j in range(L):
if j in green: continue
if j in yellow: continue
if h[j] == g[i]:
yellow.append(i)
break
return (green, yellow)

Note the three "continue" statements — they are crucial, to match the behaviour of the real Wordle (or Master Mind) on the three test cases I mentioned above.
I wasn't saying a manager should need to babysit the emotional state of all the team members, but I think they should be generally socially adept. I have had many managers who were unable to engage meaningfully in any way. People who could eagerly analyze my Meyers Briggs type but would be unable to talk about their vacation.
My last manager would unintentionally haze new employees when they asked questions in meetings, he just could not express compassion and understanding with his face/tone so he seemed belittling and annoyed with them.
Substack seems to be an option, is less user-hostile.

Though I would not expect some piles of money unless you have an army of invested readers.
read up on L2 chains - both optimistic roll-up and zk-rollups. this problem you are breaking down has been the subject of study and development for years now and is nearing implementation - https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/layer-2-scaling-zk-rollup...
But in government entities usually the immediate superiors have very little leeway to change your salary, so the employees know it's pointless to argue over differences in a salary that has very strong rules that very few people can influence.

In private companies on the other hand there's usually a much larger margin for salary to be negotiated, which incentivizes the consequences you mentioned.
There is still also a niche market for underwater photographers. Housings are available for some smartphones now but the photos are mostly crap due to small sensors and poor integration with external strobes.
The fungus grows better in space. Probably because it's radiographic (uses radiation for energy). But also possibly because it came from space and incidentally populates environments on earth (I'm semi serious).
>Two easy examples:

>Obama passing health care regulations greatly increased my health insurance costs.

This is called paying into a system to support others in society who suffer healthcare events. Sucks if you are healthy and never need healthcare, nice for when you get hit with a NICU baby, cancer, heart attack, or any other healthcare event where you need hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars of healthcare.

ACA explicitly transfers wealth from the young and/or health to the old and/or sick. There is no other way to provide more healthcare to more people, at current levels of healthcare supply.

Of course, letting people go without healthcare if they cannot afford it is also a perfectly valid position.
This may just be your personal feelings though. I know quite a few people who work for public schools and government entities throughout Florida who really really are uncomfortable with their salaries being public knowledge, and at least one has felt it has been used against them.
Elon Musk’s Tesla Asked Law Firm to Fire Associate Hired from SEC
An extremely useful hidden gem in Rich is its `inspect` function [1].

When called on an object, it pretty prints a list of its public attributes (though you can also request private and dunder attributes) [2]. It can also be called on a class or function; it'll then pretty print the docstrings, parameters with types, methods, etc. It's great for debugging and for starting to code with libraries you're not familiar with, don't have comprehensive documentation, or have some dynamic aspect.

In a similar vein, `objexplore` [3] is another library that lets you dive into an object's nested attributes to understand how it's laid out.

In interactive debugging sessions I often find these to be more useful than the IDE's features which provide similar functionality.

[1] https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/init.html#ri...

[2] https://i2.paste.pics/798cff2903f6b3351289a24c839d4f44.png

[3] https://github.com/kylepollina/objexplore
I'm not interested in defending specific examples of communism. My point was that it's not part of the underlying ideology, hence "inherently". Whereas hatred of jews is a core part of nazism
He is right about it not being open [1], but since I don't see anything at the repo that claims it is open I don't see anything wrong here.

Books aren't computer programs, and most people even in the free/open source software world seem to be OK with book licenses being less open than software licenses. If the book is available in a good digital edition and can be freely copied and distributed they usually consider that good enough.

[1] It is a CC license, but it is not one of the 5 CC licenses that meets the "Open Definition" for data and content of the Open Knowledge Foundation [2].

[2] https://opendefinition.org/licenses/
Why bother? Recent salaries for SWE and SWM are already on levels.fyi: https://www.levels.fyi/company/HelloFresh/salaries/

Sidenote: I live in Austin and I get their spam in the mail all the time. I had no idea they were based in Germany! But that explains the crazy-low (by US standards) comp for these roles.
This implies that a "job class" has relatively similar value output across job titles. That may be the case in universities (or rather, the high performers are more differentiated on directorships/board memberships in private companies, not disclosed on that web page) but in tech two people with the same job title can contribute wildly different value to a company.

You can just invent a billion different job titles, but you could also just figure out what each person is happy to accept a job for and bump their salaries by the saving you make on not employing people to create and maintain and negotiate salary bands.
> recent and old anthro research

"Anthropology" is a field that so thoroughly discredited itself by political advocacy that no one to the right of Trotsky could possibly take it seriously. These are the people who trashed Napoleon Chagnon, who actually lived with the Yanomani, for the audacity of reporting what they were like, which wasn't what they like to hear.

From the NYT obituary:

Dr. Chagnon dismissed as “Marxist” the widespread anthropological belief that warfare in tribal life was usually provoked by disputes over access to scarce resources.

“The whole purpose and design of the social structure of tribesmen seems to have revolved around effectively controlling sexual access by males to nubile, reproductive- age females,” he wrote in his 2014 memoir, “Noble Savages.”

Other anthropologists rejected these assertions as exaggerated and even racist, saying they could do harm to the tribe by casting it in a bad light. Many argued that human behavior was best explained not by genetics and evolution but by the social and natural environments in which people live.
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On-street parking: comparison of prices in paid parking zones around the world
This is the exact thing that people worry about with these kinds of technologies. We are always assured that our data is safe. Then when people forget about it, forces muscle their way into your data.

I guess this is the promise of web3, but it looks like we’re technologically a ways out from that, if ever.
> If you know someone had to burn $10 of electricity to make an authentication, it hurts more to get banned.

Metafilter charges $5 to get an account. If you can't afford the $5, you can email the mods to join for free.

SomethingAwful charges $10 (and offers a platinum account, and a paid add-on to view old threads).

Both of these payments are done through PayPal, and both exist as a way to filter spammers and trolls.

I thought the whole point of decentralisation was that you couldn't be banned though.
This is a favourite topic! Arguably, a true heresy is sort of like an optical illusion, where you can both view the same thing and see something completely different. The "what color is this dress" meme is an example, where each perspective would be the complementary heresy to the other if an authority decided one was going to be the orthodox color.

To have a heresy, you need an official orthodoxy for it to be against, but an official orthodoxy is an enforced belief - which means it is not necessarily willing, which further means the orthodoxy is not a belief in truth at all, but the effect of compliance. Heresy is a non-compliant view.

However, the classic heretic error is they think other people are ignorant of what's going on, when they're really just trying to hide any doubt that would set them up for exile. It's the Assange/wikileaks view of "if only people knew how sausage was made, they would revolt!" without realizing the reason all those people are climbing over each other to parrot absurditiies is because they don't want to be the ones left without sausage.

Also, not all heresies are true, but they must be logically equivalent to be the true counter-point of an orthodoxy. The crappier the logic of the orthodoxy, the more broad and absurd the heresies. This is where you get into Big Lie territory, where Kim Jong Un hitting 11 holes in one on the golf course is the absurd orthodoxy that makes all truth that deviate from it heresy, and that's a filter to catch people who can't sustain the dissonance and submission.

I'm optimistic that few people really believe strongly in absurd orthodoxies, but we align with them because it's strategic or wise to stay out of the way of the enforcers. Stalin's totalitarianism was based on millions of people knowing everything authorities said was absurd but still competing with each other in the zero sum attrition game of staying ahead of those who could not sustain the dissonance.

It's trivial to set up. You put an absurdity at one end, and a plausible or merely spectacular threat of violence on the other, and give people the option of compliance or exile/death, and their fear will drive them to compete with each other to demonstrate their alignment to the absurdity. The minority who cling to truth even at the risk of the violence become an internal enemy, as the ones competing at being absurd need a flow of people to sacrifice behind them, and you get a snitch culture. This is basically a playbook.

To absurdity, everything is heretical. Given this logical relationship between an orthodoxy and a heresy, it's less interesting what a given herectical idea might be than it is whether the quality of its logic is equivalent to that of the orthodoxy it is in reaction to.
Helminth therapy is supposed to help moderate it. I did it to get a handle on my asthma and allergies and it worked quite well. There's various websites and support groups which detail the process and why it works etc.

There's a bit of squick factor to get over but it is worth it for the relief.

https://helminthictherapywiki.org/wiki/index.php/Helminthic_...
I think I might be a type B procrastinator in my personal life and a type C procrastinator at work.

I have a Trello board for my personal projects that I started at the beginning of the year. There's a list of features that I would get real utility from in one column. In the Done column are mostly tech things that have dubious value. I've been prioritizing unimportant tasks.

At work, I'll often be assigned some task that I view as unnecessary or complicated. I procrastinate on that while working on simpler things that are immediately useful. This leads to some friction since assigned tasks slip and it appears that I'm working on the wrong things.
I think you're correct: Cowen never answers the question. He does do the philosophy thing, and try to provide categories of heresy.

I'm tempted to be snarky and try to tie Cowen's "economics curmudgeon" reputation into this and say that Cowen is just trying to toot his own horn, like the "Intellectual Dark Web" folks did, but that's uncharitable.

How about "heresy is a canon law thing and doesn't make sense outside of some rigid system of religious authority" as a take? I mean, Triclavianism is (maybe) a Catholic heresy, but virtually all the world's population would either shrug it off, or laugh. Of course Triclavianism is in Cowen's #3, Not globally heretical.
This is really interesting. I was reading the thread waiting to find a hard, technical reason for the cost difference. Instead, this really seems to be an opportunity for disrupting the US market. I wonder if someone could make some good money for a while importing Bosch stove tops. Your margin blah blah blah..
> Typewriters had immediate value

The GP pulled one of the cryptobro rhetorical scams: X existing technology took Y years to catch on!

Besides the statements rarely actually being true they're nonsensical. A typewriter (or whatever technology they point out) has obvious utility. No honest assessment of whatever they can bring up will say that X technology is useless. Maybe at the time typewriters we're released fountain pen manufacturers or penmanship clubs said they were useless. But they have a vested interest in the status quo.

I don't think most anyone pointing out flaws in cryptocurrencies have a vested interest in the status quo. I certainly don't. I don't and doubt you have some sort of short against Bitcoin or own a bank full of fiat currency.

The cryptobros can't seem to fathom that they got sold on a bunch of useless shit. When they're not at the top of the Ponzi scheme they can't seem to conceptualize that they've been had. It's kind of sad to see. At the same time it's infuriating because their scam is literally wasting a small country worth of electricity to mint Geoffrey dollars.
https://archive.is/eGqxU
It is also true that hobbyists love gadget, even if they don’t really change their hobby capabilities.
I couldn't reply to a deeply nested comment you made in which you suggested that you'd like to see workers with more power to determine wealth distribution (after the creation is done).

Aren't workers free to not take up job offers, or to change jobs (which they have been doing at record levels recently), which, in effect, would mean they are rejecting the employer's proposed wealth distribution scheme?

I think Noam Chomsky would respond to my question with a resounding "no" (haven't read deeply, but I believe he supports "abolishing the Job Contract as it stands today", or something like that). I'm genuinely curious as to what you think about this.
You got me, lawyers can stay :) But a bunch of clerks and middleman are out.

Today the job of a middleman/clerk is to modify a centralized database in a regulated way. They got their licenses, exams, special education and so on. There is a government machinery behind every such database - agencies, controllers, educators, bookkeepers, etc. While you may be paying $4 for a notary signature you might be paying way more from your tax money to keep governing bodies running across the country.

My point is statement that a centralized database is cheap because it is easy to modify simply ignores governance cost which might be huge.
Looks like it’s using Tone.js[0] with a sample library called ‘Salamander Grand Piano V3’[1].

Tone.js is great. I’m using it to convert MIDI files and sync visuals on a jazz piano tutorial website I’m building[2].

[0] https://tonejs.github.io

[1] https://archive.org/details/SalamanderGrandPianoV3

[2] https://www.jazzkeys.fyi
Decentralized software development already exists, we trust it and it works. Besides, as long as you speak the same protocol and use the same data, lots of people can roll out their own software. But indeed, if a small enough percentage of the population control enough of the mining power things could collapse or at least degenerate back to a centralized society. It is up to the members of a decentralized society to do their share of mining and be in the lookout for that not to happen. In order for a society to be decentralized and remain so, a big majority has to want that and hold it as one of their values. It has to be something embedded in the culture. It is the opposite problem of trying to build a decentralized society over fiat money. In that case, you want the fewest people possible printing money. That's the reason BTC can work for a decentralized society, but the regular currency we use today would not.
With more Silicon Valley firms opening up in Europe, Berlin especially, I have heard that it's causing salaries for all engineers to be pushed hire as these new entrants start paying bonkers numbers.

Apparently when Tesla opened in Berlin they were paying such high salaries that local companies got upset. I think it's come down some but why? It should go higher.
Balance is key in my opinion both for protocol and programming language standards. Decades is too long and months is too fast irrespective of use-case.

I can see javascript,python updating every few years and once or twice a decade for HTTP,SMTP,SSH,Rust,C++. But that's just my opinion, what I stand firmly on is avoidance of extremes in either end.
Microsoft has to have wrestled some power away with Edge. They have a seat at the table.
If they did put a decent encoder behind the knob that wouldn't be a problem.
But hey, decent encoders cost.
I was in Bali for 3 months during the peak period of the Mt. Agung eruption. It was a pretty surreal experience and will stick with me for the rest of my life.
For a lot of people, the headlines are all they really want to read plus maybe a snippet of a sentence or two. News outlets that expect to sell those eyeballs lose out and consider this unfair competition from Google.

Google, for its part, has been perfectly happy to remove publications from Google News at their request. Or leave entire countries.
But… Why did you think induction hobs were slow? It's almost their whole point that they're fast! Now, admittedly I'm speaking as someone who has never used a gas cooktop, and accustomed to coil-plate or glass-ceramic cooktops (gas hobs are very rare around here), and I guess anything is fast compared to a coil-plate, but still.
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> I think there was a peak in hobby photography

By "hobby photography" it sounds like you mean SLR hobby photography. Of course, hobby photography has boomed off the charts with phones.

Meanwhile, professional photography is nearly an extinct profession.

Over the last 20 years, as print publications were replaced by online, the professions of journalist and press photographer declined to the point where they now hardly exist.
Go Pro results look stunning, come in tiny housing, affordable. Anything more elaborate is no longer hobby-tier.
Yep... look at just the cookie prompts,.. they suck, the users just click "agree", and if they want to disagree, they have to invest sometimes literal minutes, to unheck all the cookie providers.

The default should be always to delete everything after a website/tab is closed. Want to store a login? Set up a button next to the url bar to enable persistant storage for that specific webpage, and you're done.
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