skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what story you think I'm trying to tell. My main point was that anecdotal data can be valuable when the empirical data doesn't tell the whole story.

I agree with your point about the doctor. It's a good point that uses storytelling which is the thing you seem to be against.

As for what I believe personally, I think college is still the right choice for most students who want to pursue a STEM field or study business. I went to college, studied a STEM field, and it worked out well.

You say that empirical data is always better than storytelling based on anecdotes. I disagree. Misleading empirical data can be actively harmful and worse than no data at all.

For example, if students assume from the existing correlations that college will automatically raise their income, regardless of their intended career, they might be left with no career prospects, crushing amounts of debt, seemingly no hope of ever owning a home, seemingly no hope to ever support a family, etc. It's very depressing and what many of my peers are facing now.
I feel the best strategy to win at Wordle would be to see if someone already posted the answer.

If no answer, use reliable hints ( i.e on Twitter) to better inform the initial guess.

Beyond that, the best initial word goes beyond information theory, letter frequency, etc to also be a word that has a realistic chance of being word of the day. As a trivial example, AEIOU may reveal some information on the first guess, but I find it extremely unlikely that you will win Wordle in 1 with this guess.
If money’s tight, I go counterintuitive and buy top shelf and do tiny wake-and-bakes. Tiny hits of good weed after a restful sleep and tall drink of water is the best high.
Thankfully here the pitch is at the very bottom in the conclusion (although it's also in the sidebar).
Earth clock time and calendars arose specifically to measure time as concerns earth-related experiences --- events within a day, throughout the year, and across multiple years.

Measurement systems ultimately serve the needs of those who are doing the measuring. This fact alone accounts for many of the idiosyncratic aspects of traditional measurement systems. An acre-foot measurement (a volume of water) makes sense when you've got a pond whose surface area (in acres) is known, and whose depth (in feet) can be measured against a post or dam face. An acre itself is the amount of land a farmer can plough in a day (in German, Tagwerke), and would vary by terrain, farmer, plough, draught animals, and hitches.

Time systems suitable for other needs may come to be used. So long as a substantial human population remains on Earth, an Earth-centric time system will all but certainly exist, and adapt to changes in the Earth-Moon-Sun system's orbital and rvolutionary characteristics.
I've noticed that "animating with mouse" has become an animation style of it's own on youtube recently. Mostly in comedic contexts which does look quite charming but in education videos as well which seems to be very functional.

An easy way to achieve this style in video is to fire up gimp (or some other image editor) and hide cursor in the recording software.
I've never cared much for the berlin interpretation (it focuses too much on the specific mechanics rather than the more abstract design principles than one would naturally associate with a genre), but this article's definition definitely bends far too strongly into its abstractions... to the point that almost every game is defined under his new term, and games that no one would put together... are put together.

IMO a roguelike's defining feature is the "fairness" of its simulation (most of the world's rules are equally applied to all its denizens.. though some may be more equal than others with custom spells/abilities/etc), in combination with the inevitable ADnD dungeon-crawling and RPG elements. The grid-based, turn-based, modality, procedural generation, etc of the berlin are too pointed to be relevant IMO.

Though procedural generation is a little interesting because I feel like it inevitably falls out of any game targeting a "fair" simulation -- how much good is a hand-rolled map design if you can't also hand-design the mechanics and interactions with the entities in the map? So it naturally lends itself to ceding control over the world generation itself.. and of course if your rules are fair and sane enough that the player can use them with their uncontrolled and arbitrary strategies and combinations.. then they're probably good enough to randomly smash together by the machine. So the monsters gain their flexibility, and everything just works -- so why not. The only issue is leaving the AI flexible enough to deal with the fact. And permadeath kind of just falls out of the procedural generation mechanics as well

Thus its not that roguelikes are an endless interaction with complexity.. its that the game-universe itself operates more closely to a proper simulation of the universe (not a detailed sim, mind you, but not a sim that simply revolves around the player(s) ala megaman), and complexity of the interactions are a natural outcome. And then differentiating between say a colony-sim (DF), a 4X and a roguelike is largely on the basis of the scale at which the player interacts with the simulation (colony, country, individual, respectively). [Note: you also have actual simulators, but they're clearly a different kind of interaction -- In DF the simulation is in the backseat, whereas in EURO TRUCK SIMULATOR 2 the simulation is the main point]

Of course you could probably differentiate even more within that.. but there are so few games that actually make a real effort at any kind of "fair" simulation that the game name alone is sufficient. Which is also why Noita feels like it belongs with the other roguelikes, despite violating most of the berlin interpreation -- it implements a "fair" simulation.

There's probably a better term for "fair".
Hey Dang, so actually I DO wait 30 seconds -- what actually happens is that I check on the frontend every 5, but the backend checks every 30 (that's the default) interval. If you can believe it the code looks something like this:

export const DEFAULT_HN_POLL_DELAY_MS = "30000";
export const DEFAULT_HN_POLL_MAX_CHECKS = 10;

The code isn't F/OSS but I hope you can take my word on this, worst case what happens is that someone launches two intervals (I don't have any locking on that side) due to hitting two different machines.

I'll be switching to the API by the end today and worst case by the weekend.

[EDIT] Forgot to add this -- hope I didn't cause any disruption on your end. thanks for all the hard work as always.
So you did increase your savings rate after all?
ssh -o IdentitiesOnly=yes

to prevent ssh sending any public keys except those you specify. Can be nice to have this set as default in ssh config.
The correct link is the one used above:
https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/you-cant-afford-this-expens...

It was changed from the original title "You Can’t Afford This Expensive Hollywood Camera Gear" to the current one as its more in the spirit of the article. I did not do the change, but agree with it. It does not editorialize and its within the guidelines.
> The availability of source makes a big difference, doesn't it?

It helps a lot, but it's not sufficient by itself. Am I still allowed to use the software if the company goes away? Can I distribute it to my customers? Can I deploy it on servers it's not already deployed to? With FOSS, the answers are clear. Some commercial software also has clauses like "if we cease to exist, your license reverts to the terms of the MIT license" or such.
I don't know any reason to insist this caused by some gadget. Poison seems more likely.
Phone cams and optics have definitely advanced remarkably in recent years and are capable of surprisingly good-looking output in the right contexts, especially when combined with a little effort and knowledge. But... as someone who has shot film and video (both professionally and for personal projects), there is still significant incremental value in going up to a full-frame DSLR-style camera body for most contexts. Most fundamentally, it starts with the size of the "light hole" (ie lens diameter) and the size of the imager - which constrain the number of photons at the top of the funnel.

To your point, this is balanced by the old photography truism, "The camera you don't have with you is always zero megapixels." Thus, for personal day-to-day use, there is tremendous value in a good camera that fits in your pocket.
Didn't Syndicate originate the "unit training" type mechanic in the RTS context, where you upgrade individual units?
If you’re looking up the answer, then you’re cheating. What’s the point? You can already get it via JavaScript if you’re so inclined.
There is a company near me called KTByte https://www.ktbyte.com/classes that my son used to teach for. I see JavaBlocks mentioned for elementary school children.
No. Good conspiracy though.
The point is that scientific discussion and debate was shut down by some of the most powerful scientists in the country. The disaster is not COVID and it is not the source of COVID. The problem is the lack of free discussion and inquiry.
Thanks so much for this comment. You've got me thinking. My mind certainly hadn't gone to real estate on this.

The hard part here is always leaving enough flexibility to serve a lot of potential products and business plays. When the software is mass market, bound to do a lot of self-serve online sales, that's going to overwhelm any benefit from "gaming" rack rate. I'm not concerned. The prickly case is relatively niche products licensed for big dollars to relatively few customers. If your market is six big firms, so your upper bound is six total deals, you're not losing much by gaming your published figure. With six you probably don't advertise a figure, since you can tell your whole market with six sales e-mails. There might be an unhappy medium between that tiny addressable market and a mass market where both advertising pricing and gaming advertised pricing makes sense.

A lot of software shops do state a fixed per-seat, per-code, or other incremental rates. Perhaps with volume discounts. I don't think that actually hurts the license, since that tends to bound negotiations, based on publicly available evidence. But it's just as common for those pricing pages to have, say, a one-user price, a ten-user price, a fifty-user price, and "call us" for anything above that, which might still be priced by user, but might be all-you-can-eat for a flat fee. There's market segmentation, and it may not be immediately obvious which segment corresponds to the company requesting an offer. If it falls in the "call us" segment, there won't be an advertised price, so the definition of "fair price" in the terms falls back to just "a fair market price for a fair commercial license".

I follow the logic of a stated upper bound. But I'd have no idea how to set one dollar figure for every project that might use the Big Time License to reach small businesses. The temptation would be to give a lot of headroom, which could make customers nervous. Why am I looking for comfort from a $500k/year figure for this library with competitors selling $3k perpetual licenses? And from the business side, I'd never tell a software company, especially one focused on a single product, to publicly cap how big its sales can be. That could be the effect, since a big company could ask for an offer under the license, receive one, point to the definitions of "fair", and cry foul. Big hassle.
I'm not convinced this is a bad thing honestly.
That was my intent, but looking back on that post I really mangled the text when editing it. (Just look at that "is temporarily is".)

Well, too late to fix it now, I suppose it's a lesson on the perils of inadequate sleep and the risks of video-conference calls with people in wildly dissimilar timezones.
You may be surprised that Spotify may have rather large holes in its coverage, and these holes are also dynamic: things recently available may become unavailable without notice.
Not anymore

loopTapApp.score = Infinity
omg, thank you!
Don‘t forget that many countries don‘t have spotify or any other streaming service.
These are countries with much lower GDPs, where buying a song for .99 is not an option.

Music is culture and important. Yes, it is important to be paid for your music, but it is more important for music to be heard. Piracy should live. Fuck the labels, fuck the whole music industry creating plastic „art“ that has no meaning whatsoever.
Let‘s make art, not money.
Was that a three letter US government agency?
I was replying in different threads, and I am far from the only users who uses an on-topic comment in this way. I’ll avoid doing that in the future. Just wanted you to know I didn’t invent this practice, nor am I the only one doing it on HN. I take your point, though.
In this particular case, you might look at the Affinity Suite.
I made my own Wordle solver recently that uses frequency analysis of letters and bigrams of five letter English words as a scoring function. It works fairly well.

Someone in this discussion suggested using frequency analysis at position, which seems interesting, especially when trying to locate misplaced letters. I might have to try that.

https://github.com/jonathankoren/wordle-solver
> a real app

This is just moving the goalposts.
Isn’t everything though? “Finally, the box of blinking lights is showing the pattern of lights I want it to!”
> kids are effectively being propagandized and brainwashed into chasing worthless credentials

They also force each other into "worthless credentials", as many college graduates will only date other college graduates.
Happy to see tares as your top choice. I used the same method and came to the same word.
That's right, back in the day, music publishers were up in arms about that outrageous new invention, the phonograph!
The New Vue by Evan You – VueConf Toronto 2021
I can relate to your sentiment more than TFA these days. I spend very little time on here and youtube (my chief prior addictions) these days, but I have tons of things I want to do and little time to fit them in - projects, books to read, a blog/educational site to start, paintings to finish, etc etc. It's quite frustrating because I used to be very dissociative/escapist like the author and now I'm not I wish I could have all that time back! Especially now that I also have a baby on the way; much of my time is taken up preparing, and when he's here I'll be spending lots of time looking after him.
Thanks, yes I actually raised a bug with the issue Chromium issue tracker. I have set Wayland as the default and the resizing issues have settled.

There currently isn't a fix for the scroll being slower than other system windows and there also isn't a fix for issues with dragging tabs.

Middle click doesn't work but I think that's system wide
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*seems you meant 'close' to be '[contract] clauses'
"There is a joke in Portuguese literature; Who are the four greatest Portuguese poets of the 20th century? A. Fernando Pessoa."
At least our db doesn't support parameterized lists for use with IN operator. Not often I need this but when I do I'm glad our db layer has macros for SQL with automatic string escaping.
It’s not a good argument. Zero good writers learned it in college.
Our Rust Mission at Huawei
What was your source for "English words"? This is an interesting problem, itself.
It's not at all obvious to me how Linux package managers have figured out the problem of versioning web apps. They've figured out the problem of versioning Linux packages, and I applaud them for that. They certainly work better than any Mac package manager.
My first two words are POINT and SHEAR though I'm going to change it to SNARE. This covers most of the vowels and frequently occurring letters. From then on it's trying to guess the other consonants and the position of the letters.
I don't believe in A/B testing at startups
Docker running badly is just as much a Docker problem for it being so tied to Linux as it is a macOS problem. It’s one of the big cons of a “ship the whole rainforest” approach: you’re trading fewer variables for your application for performances losses due to greater possible incongruities between the abstraction and the host.

One would have similar issues rigging up Docker to run on FreeBSD, because that’s also not Linux despite being plenty UNIXy.
It's exciting to see a new desktop environment that isn't just someone's hobby project. When was the last time this happened?

The fact that System 76 can just tweak Gnome, but is choosing not to, points to the deep levels of custom development they want to be able to accomplish. New ideas... now THAT's exciting.
> However, because Python does not support curly braces, it cannot directly define an empty function like other languages, that is, void test(){}.

> Based on the above analysis, when python defines an empty function, it must have a legal function body,

I'm not sure I understand the reasoning behind this. What problems specifically would arise if you simply allowed empty functions like

def fun1():
def fun2():

Are there ambiguities that would arise?
Both banks and credit unions are required to perform the stress test. The biggest source of fraud is likely loans from parents marked as gifts, but it doesn't change the borrowers have to show evidence they can handle 5% interest rates on the mortgage portion.
While others saying 50T DB is relatively normal, personally I can't imagine myself dealing with that sort of data which is always online. If I were them, I'd ask myself, could we archive this data into split chunks? Is this archive even required to be online? What is the size of a subset that has actuality? And so on. Of course they have answers to that and they are generally "no", but my imagination just stops here.

Some time ago when I studied bitcoin ledger structure, I was confused about how it does sum up all transactions to get the balance so quickly, like we in accounting usually do, with the help of some period caching, which is another point of failure and maintenance. Bitcoin is a large enough database to not do that easily. Few docs later I realized that it doesn't do this:

mining -> A 1
A -> B 0.2
(sum(A) == 0.8)

And instead it does this:

mining -> A 1
A -> (B 0.2; A 0.8)
(last(A) == 0.8)

No sums required, all balances are checked by essentially "lookup the latest appearance in a db", where lookup also involves some merkle trees optimization, which I didn't understand enough to remember.
As has been mentioned in this thread countless times. Any kid can get loans no question asked for college. Not just the privileged.
I don't keep todo lists.

Todo lists are for assistants and entry level engineers grinding away at bugs.

(not to be disrespectful to those people, just trying to get my point across).

Senior staff focuses on vision and long term goals of the company, which are mostly emotional and in your head anyways.

And things like „fix broken bike bell“ - if it‘s important enough, it will come up often enough to bug me and I will get it fixed.

Just make sure not to outsource reminders in other people, ie don‘t rely on people having to remind you several times before you actually do something.

Delegate the task away right away, or reject it, or become passionate enough about it to not need a todo list.
caused by software having to or choosing to reinvent the wheel is a major problem.

One of the biggest examples of this is "dark mode", something which arguably isn't that old in a Mac context, but Windows let you choose the appearance of individual UI elements --- colours, fonts, sizes, etc. --- and everything native in the system would automatically match. That is, until Windows ~8 or so, when they gutted most of the customisation, only to later reintroduce as a half-baked "dark mode".
I pretty much always start with stare
For the string encoding thing, however, it does have UTF-8 and you should not use anything else to express arbitrary human text anyway.

PKIX actually leverages the weird encoding restriction to our benefit. It defines two kinds of names which things might have on the Internet (you can and should stop trying to name things which are actually on the Internet some other way), DnsNames and IpAddresses. IpAddresses, since they're either 32-bit or 128-bit arbitrary bit values, are just represented as either 32-bit or 128-bit arbitrary bit values. So you cannot express the erroneous IPv4 address 100.200.300.400 as an IpAddress, which means you can't trip up somebody's parser with that nonsense address. DnsNames use a deliberately sub-ASCII encoding from ASN.1 which can express all the legal DNS names (all A-labels and the ASCII dot . are permissible) but can't express lots of other goofy things including most Unicode. So a certificate issuer, even if they're completely incompetent, cannot write a valid DnsName that expresses some garbage IDN as Unicode. Hopefully they read the documentation and find out they need to use A-labels (Punycode) but if not they're prevented from emitting some ambiguous gibberish.

Even in forums where you'd once have expected pushback, "Just use UTF-8" is becoming more widespread. Microsoft for example, once upon a time you'd get at least some token resistance, today they're likely to agree "Just use UTF-8". So ASN.1 ends up no worse off for a half a dozen bad ways to write text you shouldn't use, compared to say XML, HTML, and so on.
> lots of Linux-based hardware that they design in-house.

Are their Clevo-based laptops designed in-house? If they are, why are they designed with such abysmal speakers, mediocre webcam and no attempt to go past the full-HD screen resolution? Why not design something cool like Framework?
I’m noticing a paradoxical trend across multiple goods where the food is somehow becoming too expensive to be used.

- Housing
- Education
- Healthcare

If costs are too high for students to afford, why doesn’t the price fall? If it’s scarce why isn’t more of it produced?
> Patched to fix crash without systemd.

This is only a beginning, I’m afraid… The last bastion of the glorious BSDness in the Linux world, I applaud you! And I wish good luck.
> Presumably, the live-action dramatization includes no copyrighted assets

A derivative work of a derivative work is still a derivative work, and if the first derivative is unlicensed and thus a copyright violation...
You can be right as much as you want, but the majority of users do not care.

Native apps are better in so many ways, and users continue to not care. And that’s what apple is just ignoring. That’s what users like you are missing.
I wouldn't limit this just to games! Many of my favorite and most used tech and websites are labor-of-love or common-good projects like internet archive, sci-hub, libgen, github, and uBlock origin. Notwithstanding the ascendancy of the monetize at all costs mentality, there is a strong lingering undercurrent of "information wants to be free" in the tech community. Long may it prosper!