skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The entire subject of this conversation, Caplan's spreadsheet, is exactly his attempt to estimate all of that.

Yes, but what I'm saying is that I don't care! People don't care! If you make your educational decisions based on optimizing the rat-race and delaying gratification in favour of some future calculated benefit, you're also the kind of person who has no idea what to do with it when you get there!

My counter-argument isn't rational or analytical or quantifiable, it's irrational! Emotional! Caplan might be correct. But boring.
It would be even more amazing if ads were stuck exclusively on search result pages. That would minimize the interruption while maximizing the reevance of targeted ads, with minimal tracking needs.
Messing with HIMEM.SYS to get games to load
https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/terrorism-financing-cry...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johntemplon/bitcoin-cry...

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2020/08/13/us-prosecutors-se...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/north-korea-stole-reco...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Will-North-Korea-be-the-deat...

We're in the early days of crypto being used to fund terrorists. The usage is growing rapidly.
But their lies more problems for a beginner.

What are extensions?

How do I find out about them?

Which should be enabled?

Is my code broken because of me?

Or because I should enable an extension?

Anyway. It’s all not caring about beginners the whole way down when it comes to Haskell and it’s community
I've seen people game bad search engines just the same.
I'm not sure how you interpreted it that way. I was talking about Amazon's fees in general

I'm not sure why you are so stuck on shipping costs. I was clearly talking about all the fees.
Rarely and only when I need a new job.
For the last few days I've been rewriting one of the company's legacy WordPress plugins to work better with modern WooCommerce.

That's right: PHP, baby. Ugly, hacky, sticky, oozing PHP.

Oh woe is me, etc etc, but you know what? It makes the customers money, which makes the company money, which makes me money. I've gotten used to eating and living indoors, so this is a good thing.

It's not serverless, there is no GraphQL, it's not within a mile of the nearest Rust compiler and it could not be implemented in golang even in my wildest fever dreams, with or without generics. There isn't even any machine learning!

We need to keep in mind the trillions of lines of legacy code out there that is still being maintained, refactored and rewritten, every day, that is not a new product or a groundbreaking new paradigm. It's just the internet, and the hacky PHP and smooth perl5 that keeps it running.

So yeah, 99% might be an exaggeration, but if I was making a new IDE (or whatever) today, I'd sure as hell target WordPress before I started making up my own buzzwords. I can't say for sure if that's because of my perspective or because of some objective data, but I do know that it would be a product with a hell of a lot more customers.
Well look at Mr Privilege over here, showing off!

(j/k)
> His book talked about those things; the spreadsheets are just him 'showing his work'. I think Caplan is trying to highlight that despite the fact that many challenged his conclusions, almost nobody challenged his logic or calculations.

Hermitian909 said "the spreadsheets are flawed by not including calculations for these additional levels of effect," and that claim seems pretty compelling: the calculations may be perfectly accurate and also perfectly useless because they say nothing about greater societal effects if everyone changed their behavior.

The problem of individual strategy given the current system vs the question of what the system should be is a classic one, and the latter is far more complicated to compute. The "Moneyball"/baseball stats revolution shows a bit of this: as the things that were initially undervalued were no longer undervalued, "smart teams" had to continue changing. The system wasn't static.

You say he talks about those things in his book in addition, but you can't call that "showing his work" if the work shown doesn't include the most relevant parts.
Goddammit I will never get those the right way round
source here - https://github.com/Ildaron/EEGwithRaspberryPI

paper available here https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357698587_PIEEG_Tur...
Solar and wind on a disused nuclear reservation can produce as much power as the nuke used to, or had been expected to produce if ever completed. The grid tie-ins come in handy.
I don't follow. Torture doesn't have to be used as part of an interrogation to be torture.

And in the noisy neighbors scenario, are they just loud as a by-product of their self-centered preferences or are they making noise intentionally to make everyone miserable and get something they want? Either way, they are causing sleep deprivation and constant stress, which is a form of torture. In the second scenario, it's even done intentionally as a means to an end. Even so, folks are rarely prosecuted for crimes against humanity even for the most grotesque mistreatment of under a dozen people.
This article doesn’t even bring up construction unions which can hike construction costs by about 20%. IF they allow construction in the first place. SF and London Breed couldn’t get affordable housing off the ground because a proposal by non union modular housing company in Mare’s landing was not within the county.

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[..] Builders say apprenticeship requirements drive up the already sky-high expense of affordable-housing construction in a state where it can cost as much as $700,000 a unit to build in dense, urban areas such as San Francisco. They also argue that the union-backed provisions could slow or halt construction of affordable homes in lower-income rural and inland areas where there isn’t enough available union labor.[..]
There's a great audio clip from Ira Glass about the gap between your taste and your ability.

https://vimeo.com/85040589
15 seconds and a wacom tablet. The killer part of the preview.app is that it uses the front facing camera to capture a signature, quite well if i might add.
> The most novel feature of my return to education calculations was that I tried to count everything that matters. I took the countless papers that start with the standard return estimates and tweak them with one novel complication. Then I merged all the tweaks that seemed convincing to me to get final policy-relevant numbers.

(emphasis mine, highlighting in the author's own words enough wiggle room to potentially undermine for the purposes of general policy whatever number comes out of said estimates; if you pick and choose the conditions, you can get any arbitrary value as an estimate; I'm not arguing his estimate is not valid, it very likely is - but only under the author's choice of values)
I've used graphql at a small company because it solved a specific problem we had, which was how to deduplicate all our kludgy page-specific views and let front end devs write new ones easily. I've also written runbooks and playbooks and used lambda functions to grab webhook payloads.

The given examples are really weird to me because they're some of the few things from gigantic companies that actually work properly.
NATSpeech: High Quality Text-to-Speech Implementation with HuggingFace Demo
Please stick to copying the Ux. KDE desktop shines for this very reason that there is no learning curve. First versions should always be heavily inspired by something and later versions can be about innovation.

Thank you for working on KDE!
Union Demands Pose yet Another Obstacle to California Housing, Advocates Say
There is no way to do this with no artifacts; it's just fundamental to how audio works. We have pretty good algorithms for it, but in the end you're doing psychoacoustics to try to make it sound good. There's no mathematical model for doing this "perfectly" like there is for resampling.

It's not hard to hear the artifacts in DJ tempo stretch algorithms if you listen closely, especially when they are applied to a full mix (as opposed to single instruments). Of course they're small these days, but when you're trying to measure a subtle effect, they're too much of a confounding variable.
You're basically describing a Manhattan or Brooklyn townhome/rowhouse/brownstone. There the lot size has traditionally been 25x100 ft.
I don't get prosecuted when I visit someone's house and don't burn it down when I ring their bell.

There is no excuse for this. None.
God. Those example how to archive currying or composition are painful to read. Not wonder why I never write code this way in Java. Still. I want to be more diligent in that domain because I know it pays off down the line.
Wisconsin checking in, lots of people say ha? here.
It's more like, "university is good for most individual who actually complete it, but in aggregate, it is a net loss to the society, both when people pay their own way, and even more so when society subsidizes it".

If that doesn't make sense to you, imagine an alternate universe, where employers greatly value completing the Appalachian Trail, Continental Divide Trail, Pacific Crest Trails, and other great American hiking trails. People who hike through entirety of one or more of them are highly valued on the job market, as this clearly shows that they have patience, grit, spatial ability, following through with commitments to the very end etc. In that alternate universe, we'd have entire industry of check points on the trails, with proctors ensuring that people actually dutifully hike the entire thing without cheating, and issuing diplomas of completion at the finish line. A good number of people greatly enjoy hiking, so they'd love to be able to hike non stop for a few years. Many others couldn't care less about hiking, but will still somewhat enjoy their time on the trail, thanks to people they meet there, and unique experiences they have. Others will slog through, despising the entire exercise, but persisting because it will look good on their resume.

In all, people who do finish the trails will clearly benefit, but only through the virtue of existence of people who do not finish them, not through anything inherent to the things they learn or experience on the trails themselves. If everyone finished the trails, the society would not be better off compared to the scenario where nobody finished the trails. In fact it would probably be worse off, because we'd have millions of people spending years of their life on useless activity (notwithstanding some small percent of them enjoying it). Caplan argues that in our society, college is kinda like the trails.
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/california-needs-more-affor...

[..] California’s State Building and Construction Trades Council, which represents 450,000 ironworkers, pipe fitters and other skilled laborers, has blocked numerous bills it says don’t guarantee enough work for its members. It contributes tens of millions of dollars to political candidates and campaigns, engages in aggressive lobbying, and pays for advertisements that portray opponents as lackeys of greedy developers.

Legislative insiders say the success of the union known widely as “the Trades” is one of the main reasons Sacramento politicians have struggled to pass bills streamlining construction approval and easing zoning restrictions. Researchers say those steps are urgently needed to address skyrocketing real-estate prices and rents, as well as homelessness.

“They’re a gatekeeper for any significant legislation moving through Sacramento” on housing, said Ben Metcalf, managing director at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley and former head of the state’s Housing and Community Development agency.[..]
The US has large apartment buildings, the problem is that there is not a whole lot of anything between 5-20 stories, and there is a construction premium for 20+ story buildings.

(And in the US it would be two staircases and 20 single story homes, specifically because building codes require two staircases to prevent a Grenfell-like disaster.
In a lot of ways, large tech companies are living in the future. They have to invent things that later open source tools will imitate and then others start to use. Examples: map reduce, various rpc standards like graphql and grpc, and a whole mess of non-relational data stores. I work with kubernetes a lot right now and it's effectively a smaller, less featurefull version of what google runs on, but it's light years ahead of what we were using before.

A huge portion of the industry will be 10, 20, even 30 years behind and that's fine. I don't think there's any myths about this.
I suspect that for most companies, the tech stack they run, the custom software on top of it, isn’t meant to be a competitive advantage. It’s just the cost of doing business.
Interest in other people? This is a thing that happens. If you're not interested, no big deal. But it can at least help to understand others, and there are even some really interesting theories on this kind of connective effect. It's worth looking into at least at an academic level at some point, IMO.
Compare this to the error message you get from Rust with the same program though:

error[E0277]: cannot add `[{integer}; 2]` to `{integer}`
--> src/main.rs:2:7
|
2 | 1 + [2, 3]
| ^ no implementation for `{integer} + [{integer}; 2]`
|
= help: the trait `Add<[{integer}; 2]>` is not implemented for `{integer}`

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0277`.

Good error messages are important for adoption of languages with strong type systems. The complexity is already foreign enough for people who aren't familiar with type theory.
Have you tried the various profiling modes to hint at where it is?

Other than that, wolf-fencing it down is a good way to go usually.
So yes and no.

One important factor to increasing house size is that localities in the US tend to have fairly large lot sizes. To recoup the cost of building on more expensive land, builders build more house, because the opposite (building 2 or more houses and subdividing the land) is just illegal.
I worked with date range in a service that expected start date to be inclusive, but end date to be exclusive. So when you wanted to get data from dates 12-15, you'd have to send query for 12-16.
Unless you’re a megalomaniac CTO. Amazing what companies will do (typically disastrously) when a new CTO arrives.
Your comment doesn't even engage with the article's premise. You are attacking a strawman. They specifically mention the Japanese version of other-initiated repair and it isn't "Ha?"
> Yes, if you don't even have the entire hash, you're kind of out of luck.

Well, no-- I'm saying that if you have 9 guesses, you can get enough of the hash that you can eliminate all of the passwords but 1.

> If the password is long enough, it will take longer than the heat death of the universe to brute force the space. So in practice, brute forcing secure passwords might as well be impossible.

Here, the password has 88-90 bits of entropy. Out of reach to brute force, but just a few characters shorter and it wouldn't be. And, of course, if there's weaknesses in the hash function ever found, it may be able to elide some or all of this search process.
Thank you, Not just for the book recommendation but for introducing Royal Road and Fiction Press.

I've been wondering occasionally on how people discover web novels, Do you know of any successful blog type web novel authors? i.e. Those who write web series on their own blog, I guess one has to be already well established to create web series on their own blog.
It would buffer the data and flush to s3 every few minutes, then run redshift s3 imports.
here a usb key is given to me by the bank, so i only get one. and it requires some invasive proprietary driver to use too.
if i loose it then i am stuck until i can go to the bank to get a new one
also, it's actually bad for public health as well. Walking rates have declined significantly over the past few decades due to sprawl making it impossible to walk anywhere.
Reddit can’t even make a rich text editor for comments that isn’t borked in browsers.
Maybe the researcher should start successful businesses on their own to capitalize on their ideas?
So much wrong with this...

80db is a measure of relative sound level, not the absolute level.

And vehicle noise levels must be measured at a specific distance to be useful.
Thanks that you like it.

> Part of the website is a screenshot of text rather than actual text for seemingly no reason?

I shall fix it.

> The examples aren't raw text and include HTML list elements which makes copy and pasting them awkward.

I made it in list form ,so users can understand that which symbols are table/column names. I can provide copy button on samples.

>The rest of the website really needs to be run through a grammar checker and proofread.

Sorry, English is not my native, but I shall try to proofread

>The output of the tool is hard to read and poorly formatted.

I shall add space between lines, you can also stretch the text area, based on your requirement.
>in general they give a guarantee

"in general, except for the edge cases" is the opposite of a guarantee. they create a situation where users assume a level of trust that can't be actually guaranteed, which is exactly what fraudsters exploit.

browsers aren't actively blocking attempts to tackle this problem. browsers are blocking schemes which falsely claim to tackle the problem.
Why would anyone who has the talent to "make more happen for less" stay in education considering the abysmal pay?
it's interesting that the novel/hobby projects all failed.

the ones that succeeded, are those that can be used for marketing by other companies (whoismyisp) or which already exist (nslookup) so there is a proven demand but you made a cleaner solution.

i was always into this idea of building mvp to test markets. but the main issue is getting an audience. often success is 98% luck and timing and 2% hard work.
You can use FreeOffice instead of LibreOffice, it has a more refined UI.

https://www.freeoffice.com/en/
Sure it is, dictionary attacks are extremely efficient, if the password is made out of dictionary words.
Show HN: What The Fake: Guess which headline is real?
Last time I was in Silicon Valley, I was shocked at how the nerd aesthetic had gone away.

Lots of athletic folks.

I think it’s because Ivy League and Wall Street folks have been invading (or taken as captives), and the Ivy League/Wall Street aesthetic is not exactly geeky.
I disagree. Reddit already has more than enough information to effectively target users. Just because they aren't doing it well right now, doesn't mean they need a new approach.

The subreddits you spend your time on is basically just you classifying your interests for Reddit. I'd argue that knowing that someone spends 1-2 hours a day scrolling through hiking subreddits is just as much of an indicator of their interests that any combination of Google searches. Reddit basically has access to all the information that Google ties to get through 3rd party cookies, except they get it way easier since you're never leaving their platform. They know where you're going, how long you're there, and even if you like or dislike the content (upvotes and downvotes). I'm sure their targeting could be improved with search, but like I said in my first post, I think that's a lot of effort for a small improvement.
+1 for wooden American homes, made from naturally sequestered carbon :)

I haven't done the math, but I'd bet the energy efficiency requirements would more than make up for it. Uninsulated/underinsulated homes are a huge waste of energy.
Japan, blockaded, would have had to surrender by year end, in any case. A Japan bereft of fuel imports could not maintain industrial output. Nuking them was a way to send a message to Stalin.

But nobody knew about that when Hanford was set up and running, before then.

The firestorms were horrendous for the population, which had no influence on leadership, and were anyway ineffective against industrial production, so were doubly pointless. Blockade was massively underused in the Pacific theater.
I often want to do the opposite: I know that the value "HelloWorld123" ends up somewhere in a variable in the global scope. Probably in some variable, nested deep deep down in got knows what. And I want to find it. Is there a good way to go about this?
Hi all, I created a little web game while learning Angular.

The objective is to guess the real headline over 5 rounds.

Players can also challenge their friends by sharing a unique link of the same headlines.

Have fun and post your scores :)
the twitter thread and linked web page are doing poor job making the case agains audible. Someone should be able to write a succinct 1 page summary in plain English explaining the scheme coherently.
>> I think it's easy to sort of gloss over how good shell scripts are at the sort of things they actually are good at.

>> Consider this:

> for f in *png; do convert $f $(echo $f | sed 's/png$/webp/'); done

This is buggy, and it actually represents exactly the problem with Bash scripting.
But that's the complaint: People aren't finding flaws with the premises. They are simply asserting that the premises are false.
Upcycled
> there is nothing free, it is just someone else's money.

And in the case of doctors, it's my money, and I can either pay now, or pay five times later.
Oh no, now someone will make wordlecoin, where you have to work with others sharing hints to mine each block.
Supporting VIM shortcuts.
Google is an advertising company. So it makes sense that their search engine (and youtube) exist as a platform for advertising. It really is that simple.

Reddit don't want people to be able to easily find information. They want to make it just easy enough that you wont leave but hard enough that it will take you longer to find what you need. They are all about retention and finding that balance between aggravation and engagement. Twitter is the same.
I read somewhere that in college, Mark Zuckerberg was a big admirer of Homer, whom he read in the Ancient Greek.
Plank is probably the dock you want.
I copy/paste from a previous post. "Exoteric" is a stretch (in particular, because there are no alternative glue languages, if we exclude all the shell variants), but cryptic, unintuitive and error-prone fits well.

Arrays:

- `${#myvar[@]}`: unreadable

- `mapfile myvar < <(grep pattern file)`: "mapfile" is not exactly a clear term (there's the synonym
"readarray", but "mapfile" is the reference; worse, you may find both used inconsistently); the
command as I wrote it also has two problems

Strings:

- `${myvar##.*}`: unreadable

- `echo $(IFS=,; echo "${myvar[*]}")`: unreadable; most also don't know the difference between `[@]`
and `[*]`; this doesn't also work for two-char join operations

- `[[ $myvar =~ $(echo '\bpattern\b') ]]`: unreadable, and most don't know why command substitution
is needed

Redirections:

- `3>&2 2>&1 1>&3`: most don't know what this means
very nice! I was looking for something like this a while ago for defining tiled window setups with commands pre-run over ssh [1].

Not nearly as polished (or well documented) as your solution - quite nice to have something that does "one thing well". I will keep it in mind next time I'm in that situation.

[1] https://github.com/isaac-ped/iTerm-Split-Automator
That only begs another question: if the point of education is not learning things and building human capital, but rather play and self-expression, why do we put on the charade of classes and exams? If play and self-expression is so important for young adults, why would anyone think that college as it actually exists is the best way for them to get it? Why does the state subsidize college education, instead of private businesses, which offer 4 year programs specifically designed to allow attendees have lives full of fun and joy, without stressing them with memorizing of useless (to them) facts that they'll permanently forget as soon as they leave the examination room? I mean, I have a lot of good ideas for a 4 year self-actualization program, why won't government give people non-dischargeable $100k+ loans to attend it?