skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "open borders" book was recommended to me by a friend, but I passed after reading in a summary that my uninformed intuition about the bad economic effects of the policy on at least some large-ish fraction of existing citizens of rich countries was considered correct by Caplan, that he was relying on some kind of compensation to make these folks whole, in a world in which this plan was made reality. Seeing as we've rarely done a good job of this in the past, that sure looked like a great way to convince me open borders were not a good idea, from the perspective of most people already living in rich countries.

Does it make a good argument that doesn't rely on that kind of thing, or did I make the right call?

(Weinersmith's part, though I probably hold positions very similar to him on most issues, just looked... not even near the edge of being compelling, from what I could tell in the couple summaries I looked at)
The next logical step would be to do a meta-wordle to guess the wordle app.
Is it that bad? I'm kinda new to web development.
Where can I find the source code for qmlcompiler and qmlsc?

qmltc and qmlcachegen are available in the qtdeclarative.git repo (on either code.qt.io or GitHub) but i can't find qmlcompiler nor qmlsc anywhere. I believe they are commercial only under the "Qt for Device Creation" license.
What are the quanta of having some % of all societies members be some % more thoughtful people than they would have been had they never had to face ideas in school?

It's not something that can be reduced to metrics except possibly on the scale of entire countries over timespans of multiple generations, and even then the effects are probably not seperable from countless other factors because there are no two or more otherwise identical countries to act as the controls.
Ask HN: How to find part-time or contract work while coding full-time?
How feasible is it to find part-time software development work right now while working full-time for another company?

Not secretly work for two full-time jobs at once, but just to moonlight for supplemental income.

Are there better avenues than Upwork or Fiverr to find contracts?
"Stimulus", meaning corporate welfare.
This reads like cope.

You can't seriously believe this.
> Maybe unwarranted, but that also makes me less willing to accept his ideas. Who knows what evidence, lead, etc. was met with the same laziness?

I think you can only say that you’ve chosen not to engage with this these arguments, not that you’ve rejected them as that would require engaging with them.
Useful Test Automation Metrics You Should Be Considering
Propose an alternative comparison for a simple job that does not require a degree and has existed for a hundred years, and tell us - are the results are different?
It's very relevant to consider that the value of users is very unequal.

IIRC for Facebook American users the average revenue was 50+ dollars per year. Furthermore, if you're the type of person for whom saving a few dollars doesn't matter, you're likely worth more than that average; and for FB to break even on your ads an appropriate price is likely to be closer to $100 per year.
UX feedback: the gray “?” icon is nearly invisible on a white background. I didn’t see it at all at first.

Fun game!
Your comment would have been free of useless snark too if not for the last sentence.
I can give you the full hash so that you can be done in one guess if you have a giant rainbow table of precomputed hashes. Still, the full hash doesn’t reduce the search space at all, assuming SHA256 is secure. Sure, you can cut down on the number of oracle queries, but that’s not the limiting factor of this game.
> insulting to the Navy.

You do realise these "naval terms" aren't exclusive to the military? I'm deliberately throwing quotes around that phrase for good reason; Zuckerberg, and/or his marketing clowns clearly haven't read any of Patrick O'Brian's books, or any nautical references.

As someone else has pointed out, this is all sounding a bit L.Ron H.
Anyone have a non new york times wordle alternative.

Currently using https://wordlle.app, but I want something more authentic
Tokamak fusion is a complete dead end.

Advanced fission is, by contrast, just wildly uncompetitive, and getting more so every day.
Maybe. My idea is to shift property tax to income/capital gains tax. In theory (depending on the structure) that should provide less net income because the number of working years should be lower than the number of years living in any property, and it should impact the higher earners more. This lower net income should lower the amount one is approved for (and hopefully stay the same towards the lower income range). This should reduce the burden on people who are on a fixed income while keeping houses a similar size. Maybe even smaller since the tax is taken off the top rather than perpetually taken off the back end - people tend to notice a smaller paycheck more.
>> "I think they serve a good purpose in establishing a rapport and helping to build a conversation with a new person. Elbow bumps and fist bumps just don't have the same effect."

I hope you understand that someone who doesn't want to do handshakes doesn't necessarily get the same effect. Shakes and bumps would actually be misinformation in this case. For example: I never could work out how much pressure to put into a handshake. So nine times out of ten I get a dude on the other end crushing my hand because he either reads me as weak (too little pressure), or as challenging him (too much pressure). And I have no idea how to fix it! So I just don't.

It's the same consideration people like me want from others. We're doing you a kindness by not trying to read your mind through your hand or elbow! You're welcome.

I find that people who prefer nonverbal stuff often overvalue these as signals, while they actually mean nothing coming from me. They want to try and scry my inner state by reading my face or the way I actuate limbs, but they always get it wrong and ignore me pleading with them to listen to my actual words. I'm a very honest and upfront person, so you won't get anything from non-verbal stuff that you can't get from my words. Generally, the only people who get otherwise are people who've made me feel like I need to manage their emotions to secure my own wellbeing, and I try to disassociate with them.

So you can see why I don't find much value in even trying: the people who I want to know understand and come to trust the kindness and truth of my words, and everyone else gets flung into deep space. Life is too short to spend it trying to live up to someone else's expectations.
> People doing economic analysis should understand incentives.

For all we know it's just game theory. By doing X (pretending to be surprised, posting about how nobody cares about the math), the other party might do Y in response (someone is triggered enough and does go through the work). It might not add up economically, but that might be lost from sight. Or maybe it does add up now that publicity is in the mix.

(I don't necessarily believe that the author is truly being deceptive, but neither would I argue they must necessarily have understood one economic area because of work in another; if I'm understanding your point correctly.)

For what it's worth, I did not know this, so your comment was helpful to me at least. I did not realize it matters whether you're "in the field" or not, thinking that good contributions are welcomed equally as being good contributions.
Every location (in the US) I'm aware of requires houses to be signed off on by an engineer before construction. You always have to pay for it. The issue is engineers are usually obligated to enforce code, and a lot of them try to be stamp mills -- they only want to look over and assure designs that are very similar so they don't have to think about it.

There's an unfortunate number of locations in the US where you must use wood frame for your house, or you must route your power in exactly this way, etc, even if it'd be equally safe or cheaper to do something else.
I love the irony in all the comments here criticizing his spreadsheets and arguments by people who have clearly not read the book or looked at the spreadsheets.
Even if you cannot afford an upwardly mobile and financially secure life, you can easily be able to afford financed BMWs in monthly payments. As I understand, repossessing a car is not that hard nowadays with GPS and mobile networks, so there is a lot less risk. Also, it is almost never the more expensive cars I see making sounds. It is mostly cheap Honda/Subaru/Chargers that are modified.
I'm wondering how much acting experience you can get without an expensive college degree though? Would amateur productions take a volunteer?
>By the numbers, a lot more people play VR games today, but by percentage of gamers, it’s still a rounding error.

I think the big thing VR has going against it is just how antisocial it is. It's hard to have shared experiences around the technology unless enough people are already bought in.
Thanos, the HTAP King
> your private keys will never be used without your consent.

Unknown vulnerabilities won't need your consent.
I had a bias against art degrees, but the one person I work with and who's had the most impact has... a theater degree, plus another art degree I forgot. Or maybe philosophy? I thought he was just an exception.

With your surprising and well written example, I realize he's not an exception. There's great value there. And I now fully agree with you.

> And so from that perspective, someone who walks in with a theater or really any kind of arts or social science degree and a modicum of Python under their belt is a very, very attractive hire to me. I can teach you our framework of choice and how to run tests and how to use Jira, but I don't have time to teach you how to learn or how to communicate or how to take direction.

You fully changed my mind.

Being able to multiply matrices by hand is nice, but there's software for that. Soft skills or a rigorous thought process is very hard to find.
From the article:

"The loans of nearly 16,000 former students are being forgiven under a legal provision known as borrower defense to repayment, which allows students to have their debts erased if they prove that their schools defrauded them."

I paid off my student loans for the state university I attended. How does a student who can prove they were defrauded being forgiven penalize me?
I guess we need to agree to disagree.

In my opinion, having one physical key is better than a private key synced via cloud service to a half dozen devices. ”Something you have” implies in your custody.
Good name for a dating app, though
Honestly I haven't read the book or checked the spreadsheets, but neither of them answer the question: Are the findings true? Are they of value?

To make an analogy, we don't go back to Maxwell's writings or his calculations to figure out if his electromagnetic theory is true (within its domain of applicability). If no other scientific work were ever connected to Maxwell's, we still wouldn't know if it's true, or at least, his equations would merely be amusing factoids. His equations gained truth and value, along with a list of limitations, through their predictive power and track record.
> More importantly: If you require that medical devices be supported indefinitely, you will heavily discourage anyone from making medical devices. Such a requirement is an endorsement of the Copenhagen interpretation of ethics.[1] Had this company not existed, these people would have been blind for the rest of their lives. Instead, this company tried to help people and ran out of money. The net effect is that blind people were able to see for years. This is much better than the alternative.

I absolutely agree, which is why that is not even remotely what I proposed. Rather than require indefinite support, we should require that support be made possible by the owners of devices, or, when this is too technically demanding, anyone with the know-how and desire to help (out of kindness, profit motive, whatever). Currently, this is very difficult because devices tend to require proprietary information to maintain (such as software). Thus, I believe it should be a legal requirement to open-source and make publicly available the materials needed to maintain/modify/repair the device (e.g. firmware, internal tools) once you've stopped supporting it. Right now, maintaining an unsupported device requires serious reverse-engineering skills, and usually plying those skills for that purpose is illegal under the DMCA's anti-subversion rules. I believe such a measure to be necessary to reduce the insane amounts of waste companies create by releasing proprietary devices and then obsoleting them so that they will inevitably stop working, but the mere existence of cases where a device is critical to some function (like a medical implant) constitutes another compelling reason why this requirement is necessary, even if this particular article about this particular device is somehow misleading

I will add (because it's fun to be provocative on the internet) that this is, I think, a reasonable compromise from the position I hold emotionally (which is that all proprietary software is a user-hostile scam and should be outlawed in its entirety) which still accomplishes not leaving devices that have lost support inoperable junk

EDIT: I'd like to add that it's super uninteresting to me to talk about "malicious intent" with respect to corporate actors. They're not people, they have no capacity for malice. I don't believe such an entity's intentions ever matter. They are machines built out of rules and only ever are guaranteed to serve the purpose of trying to make someone money. This is fine, but it's important to ensure that they are built safely, as with any machine
Take 3 college classes each summer and aim to get your associates as early as possible when you factor in your math courses
Don’t know the guy or his work and don’t care.

But his statement is true.

Numbers, research, facts and logic rarely change opinions or drive policies. It is a miracle when they do
> has been repeatedly proven through hundreds of experiments from labs throughout the world to be total junk science.

Point to one, please.
I fail to see the relevance, land is zoned for farming or reaidential, that sets it value

You could reform zoning, but its not a requirement
In KDE:
- Double Click PDF, Opens it in PDF viewer "Okular"
- Select "Stamp" Annotation Tool
- Draw region to place stamp
- View stamp properties and click to select image source
- Select SVG file I always use that has my signature that I created using my wacom tablet.
- Adjust placement if needed
- Save file

Takes all of ~15 seconds. Don't see how that equates to moving mountains.
You can work happily 100 hours a week, but it has to be something you're passionate about, e.g. John Carmack. If you're already getting low mood and energy, you're probably doing the wrong thing.

Also some things involve different intensities of work. Management, for example, is mostly information filtering and routing. It can be done for longer periods of time with less fatigue.
>it doesn't sound like you are offering an alternative.

Actually, I create a library github.com/thebinarysearchtree/artwork which I use but haven't documented for public use. You can probably see some earlier versions of actual components in the history with the initial commit. I think I created a login component or something. The essential concept behind it is that html is no longer necessary in a component world, where everything is broken down into little pieces and spread out inbetween loops and so on. Removing html and having access to the live dom elements, and using modern JavaScript and dom API features is now a better alternative than all of these ridiculous libraries that are just variations of React or Vue or insane with their own compilers and virtual doms and god knows what else.

>State updates -> View updates

state updates -> query updates

state updates -> url / history updates

>A library that let's me focus on business logic rather than boilerplate or implementation details is one that I want to continue using.

From my experience, these implementation details are important. The library I use is less code than React and shows the implementation details so you know what is happening.

>The [rules of hooks][1] that React provides is just two items

That definitely isn't correct. It is missing the warnings about dependencies, where async methods can run, and a lot more. There is a list of eslint warnings somewhere. There are a lot of rules of React and hooks and the different types of hooks and they are all in the documentation and not visible in the code. The order of your setState calls is important, you can't use async in certain places, the state has to be assumed to be stale unless you do setState(a => a + 1) etc. It is quite frankly ridiculous. There is so much happening that is all hidden in magic.

Bluntly, I think it is all complete garbage that is more complex than it should be and there are now so many people writing incompatible React instead of standard JavaScript that works for everybody. I just find it hard to believe that there is anybody who has written a large project in React and has come away with any conclusion other than that React is complete and utter garbage. It is a failure and it will not stand the test of time. The only people who could think otherwise: have some kind of cocoon set up by a large tech company and they basically just write demo code all day, or they haven't worked with React long enough.

My library, which I have used to rewrite a large application with, is less code, faster, and easier to understand. I proved that React is complete garbage to myself by doing that.
Gene editing is cool. They just put a gene edited pig heart in a guy a few weeks ago and its working so far.

They also put a gene edited pig kidney and it's working as well.

Pretty cool possibilities on the horizon for saving lives.
> Desperately need these in San Francisco. These cars and motorcycles that have been modified to be super loud are a menace.

> If you want to modify your vehicle for performance on the racetrack, fine. But when you leave the racetrack, make it compliant again.

I can almost guarantee the cars you're annoyed with are mostly clapped out V8 Mustangs, Camaros, Challengers, etc. and large v-twin bikes like Harleys (I mean - they're probably literally Harleys). If that's the case then you can bet that these cars and motorcycles have never and will never see a racetrack - or likely even a backroad at a spirited pace for any period of their life.

All of the really loud cars and bikes I hear in SF are not performance oriented. The performance oriented ones... they go by before you even really register it. (Again - the whole point of performance cars is to go fast - not just slowly build RPMs from 10-30mph)
My favourite is the test suite where each test relies on data from every other test, so running a test in isolation fails, and adding a new test is almost impossible without breaking a bunch of other tests.
Japan wanted to defend the home island, and if it weren't for the threat of continued nuclear annihilation, they would have. This means either the Soviets would have to figure out a way to launch and maintain an amphibious assault, or they would have to sit on the sidelines.
Also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqUCX5rPQug
I heard this as part of "You should think of Meta, Metamates, self", as in "Ship, Shipmates, Self".

My first reaction was "So, where does you family fit into all this?"

This sounds like someone who read the history of WeWork, but skipped the part at the end.
Not really. If you put it all together Caplan's world would be a United States with a population of 5 trillion uneducated people. This would propel us to unimagined and unprecedented wealth somehow.
Note that ImageMagick isn't always the best tool, since ImageMagick always reconverts the image, often with lower quality. Often it's useful to have the image to go in as is, or use a loseless resizing. I use img2pdf for that with great results.
I'm assuming it is some loading animation.
I prefer Stadia’s pricing model. I’ve gotten tired of everything requiring a subscription.
This is an interesting perspective, thanks for clarifying. I think it would also be interesting if it leads to a more equitable method of funding schools.
As cheap storage comes online, power becomes fully fungible, albeit at a discount because storage round-trip efficiency, and long-distance transmission, have losses. But control systems can take all of that into account, in real time, maximizing profits for the best operators.

Being slow to start up will be a huge competitive disadvantage. Most storage providers will need a stock of front-end batteries, but there might need to be regulatory support for baseline capacity storage.
It was pretty smart to buy out the then-emerging competition from Instagram. The price seemed absurd at the time, but in retrospect, it was cheap and prescient.

That move doesn't work anymore, though. The cat's out of the bag with TikTok, Snapchat, etc.
Some code that might help with hexagons here:
https://observablehq.com/@nrabinowitz/h3-tutorial-heatmap-re...
Idris 2 is a nice alternative to Agda. It seems to be a bit more focused on practical programming.
Emacs lisp provides a similar tool (with better syntax IMO): https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Rx...
>Does anyone actually see the majority of the planet strapping Oculuses to their face and spending even a fraction of the amount of time there that people are currently spending on FB and IG?

I do, although it's very possible current attempts are too early for tech reasons and will remain relatively niche for years.
Fundamentally the appeal of vr isn't games, it's to have communication and control ability on the level of a real life activity (or even better) but online. I'm not sure if that can be achieved without brain implants (not for vision - that's likely to remain external for a long time - but for everything else, especially motor control, sense of touch).

If brain implants are needed Facebook's attempts are at least a decade too early.

Regardless of Facebook's/Meta's current attempts, in the future majority of work and social activity will happen in vr, but the timeline is unclear. Well - at least in the timeline in which technical civilization doesn't collapse.
I re-read the novel after my interview with that idea in mind and got a Sixth Sense vibe surrounding judge Holden in the way the character interacts with the others.
Yeah it gets bashed a lot.
I don't think I have any good explanation for the causality. Some people only need their intelligence. Other people need hard work.

You can't control some factors, but you can control others. I think we should focus on the later, as they're more actionable.
Speak for yourself. Firefox on my PinePhone is not pure overlay scrollbars like almost all other mobile platforms, and I certainly appreciate the ability to manipulate the scrollbar to achieve more scrolling with less effort, and to jump to different parts of long documents with it with just a touch rather than potentially multiple swipes.
Chernobyl was uncontained, but is also estimated to eventually cause 27,000 cancer deaths. So a contained accident could be much better than that and still cause thousands of deaths.

https://allthingsnuclear.org/lgronlund/how-many-cancers-did-...
> Shouldn't we be much more concerned about data portability than application portability?

If you use the same app on your phone and computer the data is almost certainly portable between them.
That sounds like it'd be solved by a filter rule in their bug tracker, removing theming altogether seems like a strong overreaction imo.
The post ends with the term “fishpilled”, which I have never heard before and cannot find a definition for. Anyone have a definition?