skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am happily paying taxes so that someone else can get an education in ancient Peruvian anthropology with a minor in medieval French poetry for the absolute sheer fucking delight of it.

Oh, I love this. What a droll, dull world without this attitude. Many of our societies are rich beyond imagination; we have more than enough to support all sorts of activities which don’t directly increase someone’s wealth.

It’s one thing about a rich society without a public safety net: people are more jealous and resentful of perceived freeloaders, i.e., anyone not directly employed in the increase of capital.
Both you and the author can simultaneously be right though.

The answer is to reduce the cost of education.

The price of education is far cheaper in so many other countries.

America's just a shit hole.
Technical education is not different. Everybody knows that every kind of education in every field is bad for the world. Demonstration: with absolutely zero education we wouldn't have had roads, guns, world wars, hundred of millions and possibly billions of deaths. So education is bad.

/sarcasm (but not 100%.)
Yeah, me too. I had severe time constraints (heh) and just wanted to be done with it with minimal conversion. Which I then had to do anyway later. I also learned on that day that Javascript's getUTCMonth() is zero-based (January is month 0). And I had to sync time between timezones as well. I don't want to work with dates ever again.
I found the magic behind "play on TV" so creepy that I made sure my LG TV was never to be connected to a network. I can achieve similar functionality via my libreelec box without proprietary software connected to my LAN.
Marxism is a failed 19th century socioeconomic/political philosophy with a nine figure body count. Like Nazism, it is to be avoided at all costs.
> Well, you were claiming that the book/study did not take this into account

No, I did not.

> Whether it is a bad thing or not is irrelevant to the concern you expressed

No, the entire point of me asking about it is because I think it has value to people making educational choices.

> that the socialisation and play is not addressed by the study.

Yes, and the way the study addresses this is batshit insane, unless you are an unfeeling utilitarian robot.
I've had a similar experience, but I keep on producing less than perfect code even for my hobby projects. What we think of as "high quality code" usually boils down to maintainability. We like code that is easy to understand because it is easy to maintain and evolve further.

But maintainability is not an end in itself. The software also has to do what it is intended to do. That is way more important than how the code looks, in my (current) view. Therefore I write some pretty sloppy code. The reason not to write "perfect code" is also that lot of code gets thrown away at some point. Then all the effort that went into polishing it was wasted.
> in the feedback system which marries surveillance and the construction of personalized information streams.

You've continued to terrify me. How can we construct "personalized information streams" without censorship? By definition you either allow someone to view information outside their stream, or you don't. It clearly sounds like you're saying we shouldn't allow people to construct their own streams, but have someone else do it for them. Therefore censorship.

> I do not posit any particular answers.
> But we need to have the hard discussion, the sooner the better.

And again, what would the results of this conversation be? You have one side demanding control over speech, and the other demanding no control over it. One side, once some perceived threat arises, wants total control and extermination of the perceived threat. Yet the other side doesn't perceive this threat. The other side believes this threat to be an authoritarian attempt to stifle non-aligned speech and thoughts.

What great societal damage has you wanting to control speech so much? COVID? Vaccine hesitancy?
Wolf fencing = Using the bisection method/binary search to find errors.

Essentially what people intuitively do.
OK, so don’t use a tool/framework that companies bigger than you are using, but also don’t be the biggest user of a given tool/framework, got it.

(Edit: For the record I think msh is the correct one, it’s GP’s reasoning that is bananas)
How can wolf-fencing be Haskell-specific when it's 8 years older than Haskell is? https://doi.org/10.1145/358690.358695
Like the people who, legend has it, clap for minutes during Stalin's (or Saddam's) speeches, because they don't want to be the first to be seen to stop clapping...
I’ve never really understood why javascript developers hate global scope and state in general.

I always make a point of having some form of app object that I can drill into and inspect from the console to see what’s going on anywhere in the application. It just speeds up development so much to be able to know what’s going on without having to set a breakpoint deep in some nest of function calls and hope you’ve been handed some form of scope that tells you what you need. It’s also handy not to have to pass a user object down through every single component in you app so that it trickles down to the corner of the navbar where you’re going to use it.

I can certainly understand if you’re publishing a library that other people are going to use, you wouldn’t want to leak out of your own box. But when it’s your own app, it just feels silly to stick in these artificial restrictions so that some junior dev who took a functional class doesn’t make snarky comments.
I thought reMarkable only takes ePub and PDF?
>We need better alternatives to Reddit, or Reddit needs to fix the mess because the post/comment quality there is straight trash there.

I've looked for years but nothing's popped up. Everytime I saw a lead it had other issues either with population, or cultural problems which would make it even worse than reddit.

I don't even want a true reddit alternative per se either. Just a subspace where I could talk about games and anime and not feel like I'm walking on landmines just because some people see a one-off potentially offensive scene and think suddenly that games/anime are the source of all problems.

>All the default homepage subreddits are trash

FWIW, defaults aren't a thing anymore. It still is in spirit because the design of reddit means the old defaults still have the most subscribers. But new users aren't instantly being thrown into gifs/videos/earthporn/etc.
Thank you! This is really helpful!
Reddit does have its own search engine, it's just bad. The premise in the author's post is that as soon as it becomes "good", the SEO optimizators will ruin it in the same way they ruined Google search.
> mRNA isn't new (it was discovered in the 90s)

Actually the 1960s, and yet I’m still not wrong as the first mRNA vaccine approved for use was Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. So an actual large scale usage of an mRNA vaccine just happened.

> and has been arguably studied far more than other types of vaccines

Gonna need a source for that.

> Also, there are non-mRNA COVID19 vaccines available as well, if that is your issue.

> Accounting for both these facts, how is vaccine hesitancy justified ?

And this is covered by a lack of fear of the virus. Many people have caught it and recovered, substantially more than have died. So therefore the vaccine is not needed.
But the error that this article complains about is from a compiler that's 3 years old and 4 major releases out of date, and doing the exact same thing on the latest version will give you a better error.
I don't like this saying because it generalises too much.

For example, if you follow this line of thought you'd never investigate murderous cops simply because their cameras where turned off due to their incompetence rather than purposeful, malicious action.
This is incredibly invaluable. Thank you.
Everyone knows the certifiable random is 4, but I agree that 1 is the least random of them
They have given up, as in if you Google anything technical these days you'll get tons of spam sites who just copies the content from GitHub and StackOverflow. Google used to punish sites that just copied content from other sites, but that isn't the case anymore.
> If you consume enough misinformation, it doesn't matter who you are or how smart you are

You said it yourself, so how does it not logically follow?

> I can see from your other comments that you have some beef against expertise, and all I can say is that I hope you find a way to reason.

No, I have a problem with ego and narcissism.
>>We have presented evidence and arguments that huh?, or more precisely a short questioning interjection with the function of other-initiation of repair, is a universal word likely to be attested in similar form in all natural spoken languages

Since they used word "likely", then the whole article does not mean, that huh applies to every language. They also used "more precisely a short questioning interjection with the function of other-initiation of repair" - and that is more closer to truth, as such questioning interjection might be present in all languages. But it hardly represents topic of huh.

Only because of logic used in conclusion, I can dare to say with absolute truth that: "Earth is flat, or more precisely - it is not round as ball". You can just marvel when scientists became lawyers and when science died because of that type of language.

PS With exception to English, other 2 languages that I use as native user do not have any equivalent of huh? at all. Unless it is what?, as a shortened form of question - what did you said?, but it is hardly a candidate to huh? unless we are really stretching the argument to include everything else. With that argumentation we can stretch even mouse onto a elephant.
> education has inherently unquantifiable value that cannot be expressed in a spreadsheet. Ever.

Any attempt at modeling any phenomena will fail to capture some aspect of that phenomena. So are you suggesting that all attempts at modeling are inherently flawed and must lead to ridiculous conclusions?
Discussion might have been a bit easier if he'd just listed the assumptions and the model underlying the calculations. But the Amazon blurb of the book shows that the author isn't really interested in that

> Learn why students hunt for easy As and casually forget most of what they learn after the final exam

We know why, ok? And focusing on "the primary function of education" is like focusing on the primary function of cars, and concluding that traffic accidents contribute to the economy. It reads like a libertarian disguised as a utilitarian who dreams of the 19th century.
There's value in expertise, but at the end of the day it's not the experts life and decisions should be left to the individual. Once you realize this, these types of comments become meaningless.
House was a short sale back in 2011. Beautiful house, for an absolute steal.
Only real downside is the road, which my bedroom is about 100ft from.
Although I describe it as a major road, during rush hour there are a few thousand cars an hour. After 10pm, it’s down to a couple dozen an hour. While sitting here for the past 15min paying attention to the road noise, I can barely hear the tire noise of a 4x4, the way off acceleration of a sports car and the barely audible road noise from regular passengers vehicles. Nothing at all like this motorcycle. Kawasaki sports bike, so a high pitched whine, not the low rumble of a Harley.
I am, typing from my Librem 5 right now during my usual morning browsing.
webauthn is the solution
I'll just copy my comment from another leaf of this thread:

I don't like this saying because it generalises too much.

For example, if you follow this line of thought you'd never investigate murderous cops simply because their cameras where turned off due to their incompetence rather than purposeful, malicious action.
If by "special" you mean "I have a special set of skills" and you want to put them to use at another place, than this is true most of the time.
More Polish opposition figures found to have been targeted by Pegasus spyware
It's really a shame the developer didn't add this feature. One might be scared off by the large number of geometry files involved with this, but actually this is a great example of when hard coding can supersede dynamic/robust code. It would be better to simply store an object of all countries borders and the their relative direction to one another. I could see this being a slight issue with countries that share a border with another that is many directions of their border (Lesotho and South Africa, for example), but it would still be much less deceptive than saying "the USA is 2000km south of Canada."
I mean fair enough if that's what one wants to spend their time on, but imo, nobody will notice.
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Just implement `Num a => Num [a]`, easy.
Totally agree there are many other frustrating things with 1P. I’m still self-hosting my vault locally and I hate that someday they’re going to force me to switch to their cloud based options. Just on my list of issues lack of multiline support is near the bottom.
I think you're to harsh with saying it reflect the state of mind of educational departments, and far to lenient with 'extremely murky'.

Sure, its very likely people don't want to engage with something that is saying they are doing inefficient/useless work.

But the author's premise is literately "I've crunched the numbers and people don't care" on a subject that would be my go-to example for an incalculable ROI. You could make an argument for an individual, but that's not what the education department or society at large is doing.

Just for starters, at a national scale over decades, there are no unbiased units to measure with. Next i'd like to agree on how we deal with the correlation between 'Patents that changed society' and 'Patent authors being generally higher educated'.

Maybe you can argue for a decent proxy for these things, or their irrelevance. But since i only have so much time, I'll assume your excel sheet is correct in how it processes the input, and instead argue on what the input should be in the first place.
I’m intrigued, but it may be a while before I look at the book and spreadsheets. But there is definitely a point when education becomes a net loss. Current US education system might be an example. You can make a lot of conclusions from current US economy. E.g. look at Tesla stock. It means something, but it will take decade to learn who is right about what it means.
Sure they did, it was implied in these three points:

> - The less expert you are at a subject, the more energy is required to sift through the crap.

> - Most people are either not expert at anything, or are expert in a narrow field of interest.

> - Information no longer flows in the same way it once did: it now diffuses through a social graph which is prone to significant network effects. Non-experts can have a bigger influence than experts, even when the information they share is entirely meritless. Echo-chambers form naturally and require a lot of deliberate and conscious effort to get out from. It is very difficult to reach certain pockets of the graph.
Who won the Melania Trump NFT auction?
What matters is cost, and the cost picture is crystal-clear: Nukes are very expensive, and not getting any less so. Solar/wind/storage cost is much lower and still plummeting.
I use my LinkedIn profile as single source of truth. And then I update the PDF file. But this is actually a bad strategy...

It would be great if there was a tool where I could just click "Include this..." and that way to update/add/remove points from resume.
> BTC is also completely unsuitable for using as a currency given the block size limit.

You can transact with your bitcoins *today* without being affected by the blocksize: just use the Lightning network.

It's a solved problem, so it's stupid to bring it up again and again nowadays.
Wow! What kind of sites are these to generate $40k MRR and fit on a $5 linode? I can think of one or the other but not put both together
BTW - Starsector is an excellent, truly amazing game, and the absurd amount of data that a single run can produce also makes it a great candidate for anyone who wants to do Data Science/AI on things in the game.

Basically, Mount and Blade in space but frankly, I think it's a better take on the formula. Excellent modding community (though I'm upset that the Knights Templar and Blackrock mods are still not updated...)
Thanks for checking out!

It's likely that the trailing slash wasn't included in the .mobi path set by you.

Can you try this?

./hntoebook -c

/home/auraham/Kindle/hn/

If you still receive any error, Deleting the 'db' folder can help. If it didn't I'd be happy to receive a bug report over GitHub.
I have read his spreadsheets, so here's my critique. (And I will say that, throwing all the spreadsheets out the window, I still agree broadly with many points to some extent.)

The input numbers (in meta.xlsx) come from imperfect samples of the real world with non-zero error -- often quite a bit higher than 0 -- which is compounded pretty far in some cases. I don't think any person actually can actually evaluate these studies, which is a major problem with this entire idea and is a fundamental problem with any overly-quantitative solutions to problems.
Freezing bank accounts is an ugly overreach. Going to give sympathy to the protesters
That would let you make the instance only be a little bit unlawful instead of totally unlawful, but I don't see how it would affect the type errors you'd get.
1. 22% of the US population are children. so it doesn't have to be UBI the moment someone pops out of the wound

2. we put almost a trillion dollars into welfare every year.

3. You don't have to provide Equal UBI to every citizen regardless of their income. You can make it like a reverse tax that decreases as you go higher in income that peters out at 100k or so (which 30% of Americans make).

No point in taking the plan someone gave as an example so literally. These are econimic problems that experts spent decades thinking aobut and would take months to draft in order to prevent these obvious counterarguments.
I'll repeat what I wrote above: Discussion might have been a bit easier if he'd just listed the assumptions and the model underlying the calculations. What can you learn from modifying a single cell? Very little. Just the (hidden) model's sensitivity to that parameter with the rest staying equal.
I use Storytel instead since 2 years. The catalogue it's quite reach for what concerns my tastes.
Note that while it's already possible to get really good looking photos out of L5 camera, there's still quite a lot of software work left to do for it to work in an effortless point-and-shoot fashion. It will come, just be aware it's not there yet.
I always assumed we are only hearing Babbage's side without the context of the question. Was this part of a series of questions presented to Babbage trying to help him along in almost a Socratic method to understand the Parliament's hesitation? Knowing that most politicians of that era discussed 'to whose benefit' and 'for what purpose' when most of the upper class were landed gentry, it would be most likely affecting a whole new sector of the economy they didn't understand. How would this machine be used for Law? Could it help the homeless? War widows? Managing pensions?

I presume the question could also be directed at whether the machine would require a specially trained operator and thus more funding or whether anyone skilled in the Arts and the Trades could work the machine efficiently without oversight or much necessary direction. Given the machine was a whole new step and direction of the economy, I can understand their hesitation.

A computer without a program, while brilliant, is useless.
It's an old saying that: Having opinions is great, because opinions are already half intelligence.

But come to think of it, is there any AI which has "opinions"? Wouldn't that take AI closer to human intelligence?
Agree, the article takes us on an intellectual journey. The same could not be said of grandparent comment
>Would you buy a car if waiting meant you could have it at half price?

That's exactly what happens with computers and, last I heard, computers are still being purchased.
> what youre really asking is "why do credentials matter and why should randomly samplibg information not result in a appropriate confidence in a result"

No, not at all. What I'm saying, is that one's ability to speak on ones experiences with some subject should not be gaited by credentials. One should also not create a rank structure based off of credentials. Is it not apparent to you yet that one can be an expert without any formal credentials?

> the probablem as you are responding to, is how cheap messaging is and how effortless it is to both produce information and entrain the body politik in its recitation.
> these can be over come by what you deride, credentialling and weighting sources. because in the exam0le od the cown, theres no people interested in giving wrong answers or mani0ulating responders to effecr a skew on the answers.

What are you fighting to hard to protect here? You want more people to take the COVID vaccine? What exactly, as there's many more solutions than just listening to your closets high ranking technocrat.
Ok, but then I still don’t understand this piece:

> If they are running on Hyper-V on Azure, there is no underlying kernel doing anything.

In a Xen model as I understand it, the dom0 kernel is still actually responsible for talking to all the hardware directly and presenting a virtualized implementation that Xen can mux other guests on, no? So there’s still a kernel there and it’s doing quite a bit of work, no?
> Discussion might have been a bit easier if he'd just listed the assumptions and the model underlying the calculations. But the Amazon blurb of the book shows that the author isn't really interested in that

He wrote a whole book about this. A very detailed book.
Nope. Try yourself with a, b, c, d, e, f, g as guesses. You will see that green letters that are coincident will be the same. So to reconstruct the original SHA256 of the password is easy. The problem then turns like every other hash -> password reconstruction: hard if the original secret is hard to guess via dictionary/brute-force, otherwise easy.
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Someone needs to create a sexy marketing video showing how easy it is to style a card using plain css :)

But how do we sell CSS?
Isn't this a straw man argument? Nobody in their right mind promised flying cars, it is just not feasible energy-wise.

On the other hand, VR headset is just a mobile phone strapped to user's face, with it's screen always on. So the tech is already here, and if you check out Quest and Quest 2 - it is basically just that, even powered by the same Android OS.
> Each one of those needed, at the absolute most, a staff of a hundred.

Ah yes, this is why AWS is noted for employing only 100 engineers, and Apple employs 200 across its browser and OS divisions.
>justified to kill 200k Japanese civilians to save a small handful of allied lives

Sacrificing your own soldiers lives to save enemy lives isn't usually a great or even winning military strategy.
The real experts or people who create great content just for the sake of sharing information never care about backlinks and whatever else Google requires for SEO.. OTOH the SEO scammers like Pinterest create little content and give the search engine exactly what it wants (backlinks, social signals, etc) which is why the good content is so hard to find.

But at the end of the day it's the search engine's job to separate the wheat from the chaff and google has been doing a very poor job of it lately. Like the article right said, the best is to prioritise websites that are about sharing knowledge not affiliate marketing, paid ads, marketing, etc.