skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just thinking.

I remember being part of online community for a game (starsector, if you're interested) and a user had taken it upon themselves to create effectiveness measurements for the weapons in the vanilla game and in mods. To do this, they created a spreadsheet that mapped out damage per second, range, energy cost, points to use... ect. Numbered them all together, and ranked them with each other.

Personally, I thought this was a valuable contribution. Plenty of mods go off the deep end with the kit they added to the game, so to me, this seemed like a valuable tool to help keep their kit in line.

But the author? They thought what they had produced was an unassailable statement of fact.

Many people came forward, including me, countering that the actual simulation of the game is substantially more complex than the pile of multiplication and addition they had cobbled together. But like OP's article, those criticisms weren't specifically addressing the formulas themselves, so the author didn't really consider them.

This is a bit of a puerile example of course, I bet Mr. Caplan is substantially better at multiplication than my hobbyist friend trying to categorize weapons in a silly space ship game.
It's entirely possible for Caplan to be correct about his material analysis, and that still not be the right conclusion.

If the government doesn't subsidise education, then anything that doesn't promise a return is financially debilitating. Personal choice can't exist when your ability to eat and pay rent rely upon you making a specific decision.

If you don't believe that humanities education has any kind of broader social value, then that's a whole other argument to make.
It's also that, in the past, the capacity of our monoliths to scale was far lower.

There's many apps that need say, a 100GB database in 2022. Those apps also needed 100GB database in 2007, when horizontal scaling was the hottest thing around.

Nowadays however, Moore's law has steadily overtaken an order of magnitude of use cases from 2007.

Maybe 1/10th of the 2007 use cases still need that kind of enormous, big tech scaling.
Question: if I have this on Windows (1Password for Windows), is it possible to do this via WSL?
https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:ffk6sxmrj60492pf7jymqv3fqz...

The models are mostly user trained and submitted, and can widely in quality. Some of them are great, but many of them are not.

This one is trained on graphemes only (no Arpabet phonemes, which hinders pronunciation), and doesn't have a fine tuned vocoder (which causes spectral distortion "noise"). No notes on the data set source or quality.

It's about what I'd expect for a Jpow model.
Sounds like the marketing is misrepresenting the contract - which consumers have some protections against, but I'm not sure how many similar protections exist for what are supposed to be sophisticated counter-parties.
I am not sure what the point of the article really is.

I mean it’s not wrong, we all live in that real world (my job is literally migrating off stuff) and recognize everything the author says.

It’s just that I don’t see those myths being myths in the first place.

In fact, thinking that the 1% is any different is perhaps the biggest myth in the article.

Sure they have distributed crap to handle and uptime commitments to go by, but I don’t expect the life of these people to be much different
Why on earth will they keep doing it? They might do it as many as two times, then chalk it up to being some computer scam and never trust it again. But, I cannot see anyone who buys in after 2018 ever buying in again if they lose their keys. Maybe if they bought in pre-2018 they believe in crypto as opposed to want to make money, so they try two times.
Not my site but neat :).
For what it's worth, after spending a little bit of time looking at his intro and conclusions, it appears to me that he is actually not arguing in bad faith. His assumption is that the purpose of an education is to raise your future earnings potential, and that the higher your salary is, the better for society you are.

I'm sure his numbers and spreadsheets are correct.

But if you think this is a good argument, a worthwhile argument for educational policy, then JESUS FUCK could you go outside and touch some grass? Please? Go hug someone. Look at the stars. Read a book. Be human. Feel something!

A lot of people choose universities based on which ones have the best parties. Is that even quantifiable? This whole thing seems so ridiculously out of touch with human motivation that what you're saying is correct: It's simply not worth anyone else's time to debunk.
It's lead generation for the project behind it.
Weird I find "Climate emergency" a poor use of words, but I think "Climate crisis" is fine. A crisis can take a long time to play out. Just look at the crisis of the 3rd century. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century> It took 49 years to play out.
I could see this eventually being built into 1Password's Secrets Automation product which can sync to each user's 1Password client. It allows the use of Vault for a backend so now that SSH Keys in 1Password are a thing it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to have Vault generate short-lived per-user SSH certificates that are automatically rotated into the user's 1Password vault.
Why federal gov wont claw back these billions from these same colleges that failed struggling students and their shareholders like Betsy Devos?

I think defaulted student loans should be charged back to college to create accountability
My keyboard and mouse are broken.

This is actually true. I'm typing this on a phone.
I'm sure you looked it up, though in case you didn't, caulk is a thick paste-like substance that drys, usually used to seal gaps between two surfaces, for example adding a water proof seal between a shower and the wall, or used around a window pane to eliminate any air gaps.

For a person who does home repair, caulk is generally well known.

Tip--if you put in a nail or a screw into the tip after you're done caulking, it makes it easier to use the caulk later.
Can you explain how you collect credentials but don’t store them?
Yeah, that is not what recruiters seem to care about. Nor what is tested in interviews.
It's terrible for the narrator too. In many cases the narrator makes a bad decision to record the Audiobook not for a per-finished-hour rate, but as a "Royalty Share" where they only earn on the Royalty -- that's 20% (50-50 royalty split with the author) on the audiobook version.

In most cases a narrator will never earn even close to minimum wage for the effort to create an audiobook. And it's more effort than you might guess. A skilled narrator might produce a finished hour of audio in 5 hours, and a less skilled narrator may take 10 to 12 hours to create that same finished hour. So for a 10 hour audiobook a narrator will have between 50 and 100 hours of work, depending on the material and the production skills of the narrator.

It can take literally years to earn $500 to $1000 in royalties -- thats $10/hr -- on a book. And most books never sell enough audiobook copies. And that's why any narrator who understands this should never accept and ACX / Audible exclusive Royalty share audiobook deal.

Now with this Audiblegate revelation it's all to clear that we narrators are destined to never make our money back.
Yep, great write-up . I spent so many years in companies that were perpetually behind the times and rarely catching up. I now work for a large scale SAAS offering trying to sell to these developers. It's consistently an up hill battle trying to sell my peers on the realities outside their bubble, but it seems pretty fruitless.
Many commercial products (Descript, etc) are hella good; so is 15.ai ( https://15.ai/ )

The tinker in me wishes there existed a high quality open source voice synthesis solution, but I get it, ethical concerns (plus making $$$ if it's locked behind an API).
The point the article raises is whether those "non-FAANG engineers" should be using serverless at all.

Will their requirements ever scale to a point where it actually makes sense for them to be deployed as serverless services?
It'd be a nightmare to support for anything more than trivially simple, though.
The idea of reddit building competent software is hard to take seriously. I am appalled every time I try to buy an ad. Those folks have no idea what they are doing. Rank amateurs.
Germans say "hah?", too. Or at least the Bavarians do.
So what does he say about care-free student life?
If the benefit is not quantifiable then how is it possible to draw the conclusion that there is a benefit (or negative impact on the same token) in the first place?

If the price of education is quantifiable and the debt for it enforceable, then the benefit better be quantifiable.
Moose, Mouse, Moo, Mo ... bah! Just give me The Damian's simple blessed hashref.
It's not theft because it was "accidental" every single time in our favor is a new one. Don't think many courts would view it favorably if you don't have the extremely high priced lawyers Amazon will use to deter and defend this.

You can't make mistakes like this any more than you accidentally burn one of Bezos' house to the ground "accidentally" trying to get proper restitution ringing his doorbell and it all going wrong somehow. It's just not an accident in any meaningful interpretation of that word. It's a level of incompetence that we don't accept as any kind of defense.
At least in Finland, there has been a trend of forest owners to favor faster growing species or just felling them earlier. Most of the trees won't be good enough for quality lumber so it's just sold at bulk prices to paper mills. With the method you can probably get 2 good harvests in the time of one. If you let the tree grow 100 years instead of 30, you might not still get 3x the price and you would have to wait 70 years more.
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Redreader on Android.
RSS feeds instead of subscribing. Goes straight to my feed reader with everything else.
The products are shipped from China to Amazon's warehouses...
Does your contract have the retail price in it? Or were the net sales $76? I don't think both of those can be true.
inflation due to overprinting of money, as evidenced by BTC and DJI crazy high stock values. things with known intrinsic worth continue to climb higher in USD, which, for it's part, is cheapened as part of the madness of the west careening toward annihilation. the system is a self driving Tesla car and it's about to hit a pylon / dog / human thing.
Ukrainian Armed Forces Fire Mortar Shells, Grenades on 4 LPR Localities
I've never heard of anyone with azure properly set up then. In two orgs I've had the exact described behavior. Even for a school that uses azure =(
> WAL2 + BEGIN CONCURRENT

Woah. There are some gotchas. It still won't support as much concurrency as row-level MVCC. But it'll still be a big improvement.

https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/wal2/doc/wal2.md

https://www.sqlite.org/src/doc/begin-concurrent/doc/begin_co...
Oh, only 50+ million monthly active users as of January 2022 - who will both earn BAT and, by default, contribute back automatically...
Astronomers came up with a cool way to tessellate a sphere called Healpix. The tiles are quadrilateral, though, so they may not have the same freedom as hexagons in the context of a game where players can move to adjacent tiles.

https://healpix.jpl.nasa.gov/
Greenpeace's take on nuclear power [1]:

> Nuclear power is dirty, dangerous and expensive. Say no to new nukes.
>
> Nuclear energy has no place in a safe, clean, sustainable future. Nuclear energy is both expensive and dangerous, and just because nuclear pollution is invisible doesn’t mean it’s clean. Renewable energy is better for the environment, the economy, and doesn’t come with the risk of a nuclear meltdown.

The Sierra Club's [2]:

> The Sierra Club continues to oppose construction of any new commercial nuclear fission power plants. Further, the Sierra Club supports the systematic reduction of society's dependence on nuclear fission as a source of electric power and recommends a phased closure and decommissioning of operating commercial nuclear fission electric power reactors.

[1] https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/fighting-climate-chaos/issues...

[2] https://www.sierraclub.org/policy/energy/nuclear-power
Nah, I disagree with you there. I don't think the nature of the product being sold affects my opinion or expectation of whether or not producers are expected to shoulder the cost of a discount given by a middleman.

For the record, I also disagree with your blanket claim that supermarket discounts are negotiated ahead of time. Some are.
It's rare that I wish I had multiple upvotes to give, but this is one of those times. I'm just commenting to raise the visibility of a comment that reads so simply that I feel it could be easily overlooked, and yet says something so profound.
Because farmers depend heavily on software engineers to create and maintain highly complex software for their automated GPS navigated tractors.

Plus supply and demand, farm labor can come from Mexico for cheap, but firmware software engineers in agriculture aint coming for the same price
FAQ about the Electronic Frontier Foundation DES Cracker
That’s not generalizable to every country though.
why hasn't anybody mention Vala programming language? it's a really good and convenient language for making GNOME apps.
> either rewrite on not write the book in that case

Your comment doesn't actually answer anything lol - he would - or wouldn't and you say both
The Damian was a phenomenon of pure inspiration. In fact Perl community in general had a pantheon of acolytes I've never seen in any other programming community. Ruby has a few but nowhere near as many as Perl. Perl in the early 2000s really was on fire.
> Besides the fact that cocoa on mac has evolved over a decade(when linux people were busy constantly reinventing gtk themeing engines and display servers)

I'll be the first one to concede that Wayland has been more or less a monumental waste of development effort, but can you point to the constant reinvention of themeing engines? Stylesheet modification has been a thing for decades now, there's very little that needed to be done to accomodate for them, at least from a GTK development standpoint (that I'm aware of).
> Bluntly, Free software is usually much less full of skeevy bullshit.

Yes and it's amazing how much smaller, faster and battery-efficient it can be without all the marketing and tracking crap.

Most apps on F-Droid are a few MB as opposed to tens of MBs for the play store ones. Most are well written and efficient. The quality of these has really increased the last couple of years.
And then Amazon charges the fees that it costs to get it from the warehouse to the customer within 0-2 days. If the seller thinks they have a cheaper way to get it from the Los Angeles port to rural West Virginia they are free to not use the service.
I think it happens a lot more than people want to acknowledge.

I worked on a discount calculating service with no prior knowledge.It was supposed to replicate an existing system, so we went through the oroginal specs and general litterature to get a sense of what we were supposed to make.

First day of test with a employee in the field, and it appears that they have specific calculation rules that are so obvious to them that it didn't warrant to be written. Welp. And a few iterations after we were still hitting blocks of "what ? didn't you know that in case of X you do Y?" due to us being outside of their field.

Real world systems are hard. I'd still blame Amazon for not having caught these issues very early in the process, that's on them. But bugs and gross calculation errors are par for the course.
Ruby is a much better option than Python for expat Perl geeks.
Two possible counter arguments:

1) The people who do the math are too busy read these articles and books.

2) Amazon has 15 phd economists running a single structural model of consumer behavior. They use it to inform feature changes.
By the same logic they should bet the house on nuclear fusion. It’s a sure winner and I’m sure they can connect billing to your Facebook Pay account or something.
A Bitcoin based economy would be unable to handle more than an infinitesimal number of transactions that take place and would be remarkably slow handling that infinitesimal amount of transactions. Price volatility would prevent businesses from selling in Bitcoin, workers from being paid in Bitcoin, taxes being collected in Bitcoin, and international trade agreements being contracted in Bitcoin.
Get laid. Get laid with every single person that shows interest in you, even if you don’t consider them that attractive (as long as they match your sexual orientation of course). If I think back at my high school times, that is the only advice I would give to my younger self.
old.reddit.com, and third-party mobile apps (Apollo on iOS, Sync for Reddit on Android)
Sure, the error that talks about FlexibleContexts could definitely be improved, but if you do enable that extension, then you get a much better error:

• No instance for (Num [Integer]) arising from a use of ‘it’

This one can be more straightforwardly understood to mean "you can't use a list of numbers as if it were a number". Also, starting in GHC 9.2, FlexibleContexts is enabled by default, so you'll get that better error the first time.
The retail price is on the storefront. It’s determined by the length of the finished audiobook. The net sales show no full priced retail purchases. 13 of the sales were from US customers using free credits, which were valued at $1 each. Of course, those also fell in the 0% royalties category to add insult to… well, I don’t know what to call it anymore.
Cities in the Netherlands have been making great progress as well: https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8
I think this will put dumper on me listening to Buffet’s musings about the market ever again. Apparently, he was just kidding when bashing cryptocurrency.
Not at all a fan of Amazon, its anti-competitive business models, or Jeff Bezos, but this Twitter thread is a bit ridiculous. Unlike other goods, Audiobooks can be distributed in literally dozens of ways, in hundreds of formats, on quite literally billions of websites, to just about anybody. How is Amazon/Audible some sort of bullying gatekeeper here? If your book is good, it'll get noticed, and word of mouth is more powerful than Google AdWords or Amazon listings. Distribute on your own website.

Crying about unfair bargaining power or exploitation - welcome to the real world, kiddo. There are plenty of criticisms one could level at Amazon (See Nina Khan's law review article for a good synopsis). Amazon's contractual terms vis-a-vis Audiobooks (as usual freely consented to by the authors) isn't one of them, IMO.

Now if Amazon isn't paying its authors the contractually stipulated price, that's obviously different, but this guy's problem seems to originate with his perception that the royalty split is innately unfair.
50/50 It's what employers look for in Senior Engineers, but junior engineers are often hired on pure tech. Historically there was a high amount of BS where people would take credit for deliveries that they were only tangentially a part of, or get ridiculously lucky on their first big project.

It's next to impossible to hold an engineering team together to even KTLO if you don't have some project which grow's their careers.
Since you're so willing to share your experience, was your initial product overall saving Amazon royalties or causing them to pay out more in royalties?
This is a good point I'd never considered before. The better your search, the more people will try to game it, the worse your results will get.
DeX is pretty useful yes. A bit compromised though by Samsung's latest phones skimping out on the memory side, the S22 has the same amount that the S10 came with 3 years ago. DeX really needs lots of RAM as you'll typically have multiple apps open unlike on a phone screen. Once you run out browser tabs will start refreshing as soon as they so much as lose focus...

Really 12GB or even 16 would be much better for DeX. But you can only get 12 now on the ultra and not everyone likes massive phones.. I don't anyway.

Even if 8GB may be enough now it won't be as apps get bigger. It was nice in the beginning on my S8 but the last years I had it I hardly used DeX anymore as the experience became too slow and the refreshing too annoying. For example, just moving away from a form in a browser tab to copy something from my password manager would result in the browser tab refreshing upon return and the form inputs lost..
Although that makes sense, I actually just figured out what the other person meant.

A perfect 5th is a 3/2 ratioof the base frequency (3rd harmonic). If you square that fraction you'll get 9/4, which is a 9/major 2nd.
I don't doubt that Amazon's practices are shady. Creating obscure and complex pricing plans out of seemingly straightforward fees has become something of an art-form on AWS. Who here has not been hit with an unexpected charge?

What I honestly find hard to believe though, is the popularity of audio-books. How do you all focus on the material if you're doing other things? Or am I mistakenly assuming the mode of consumption i.e. the audio-books are primarily listened to by those who don't have the time to read?
Why are you defending Amazon's fees here so much? The costs they charge relate more to their monopoly on where people shop than their actual costs involved

It's just scary to think how much product quality suffers when these companies charge so much in fees. It's a race to the bottom to make any profit at all and they don't have much left to actually consider quality
Oh I fully agree, investors won't be nearly as credulous with FB as they were with past companies with wildly optimistic visions (and not nearly such rosy results in reality) like WeWork or Uber.

I think it's both a function of investors having been burned in the recent past with unicorns failing to deliver on their lofty promises, but also the reality that FB has suffered significant (read: catastrophic) reputation damage from the endless stream of scandals. FB employees seem to have an inexhaustible belief that they can weather any storm without permanent harm, but I suspect that isn't actually true.

More than that, the narrative shift isn't convincing. At least with Uber they had fancy robot cars to show off, even if they didn't work. What does FB have to convince us of the metaverse future? A lot of expensive CGI-rendered "concept reels" and very little actual product that is actually here (or imminent). The recent Superbowl ad did not contain a single frame of actual product footage - nor did the "fake" product in any way resemble anything FB has announced!

And the little that does exist (Horizon Worlds) is... really... really... painfully bad. The fact that FB has even let the public at these experimental products (rather than iterate internally) is baffling.

As someone who's been in the consumer tech space for a really long time the strategy here is just mind-boggling. The company continues to pitch no actual product - it has remained frustratingly vague about what the metaverse even is - but also insist at the same time that the entire company is reorienting around it. What little is released is shockingly poor - to the point where one wonders if these half-baked products will poison the well against a better thought-out and genuinely useful product further down the line. It reeks not of visionary thought and more dragging whatever you can out of the experimental arm of the company to try to cement the narrative shift.
It highly depends on the subreddits you visit. Some are relatively small and aren't run down to the ground by memes.
I mean they lost that argument. Even without assembling quotes we can conclude that their opinion was not convincing and did not carry the day.