skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven’t even heard of my insurance giving me a discount for wearing a full face helmet instead of a bucket helmet.

Actually, is there a single thing that insurance gives you a discount for?

Like, I’m with GEICO and as far as I can tell, it’s only age of license without accident or ticket that counts.

Either every factor is a wash or insurance companies are keeping the spread as profit on their side or they have no means of enforcing.

Like, do you install a Termignoni and then call your insurance agent? “Hi, I got louder exhaust pipes installed. Also, I’ve decided to wear a nicer helmet. Also, I now keep my bike inside a garage. Just wanted to call about the discount”
Interesting because, between easy-and-wrong and hard-but-perfect, there is the solution of subtracting the size of each country from their distance.
> The question is how the students would avoid this bad behavior.

they would avoid bad behaviour by the lenders not enabling it. The lender's incentive must align with the student's incentive - getting a paying job that a degree would enable.
Yeah, well it is a lockdown.
I will be much better at this than I am at Wordle.
well, the hardware has to exist to develop it, it's a chicken and egg situation. We're clearly in the very early baby step phase here
A brief history of gasoline: Searching for the magic bullet
Which is why most countries turning to intermittent renewables are using gas as backup, and why without massive energy storage (TWh), we're screwed using those.
This is an important cliche to keep in mind, but the problem is that "games" play out. Incompetence can become willful or even strategic. Even if it doesn't start or develop as a mustache twirling plan, a year later someone might look at it and say "looks like it makes money, why fix it."
It nearly broke my monitor lol!

I have modern designer level BenQ 4k monitor and I watched the money go BRRRRRRR for about a minute and then when I turned off, there was burned in image still flashing. I never knew this was even possible on modern monitor. Luckily after doing couple restarts, in about 10 min it dissipated.
Thanks for terminology. Will check it out
21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes
> For instance: Microsoft allowed government entities to check Windows security-related source code for many years. Just having access to the code is enough for audits, regardless of the license.

You don’t need a FLOSS license to audit the code. You just need the clout that comes with being a government able to launch meaningful antitrust action. Easy-peasy!
This is a universal problem, it's so universal that there's even a field of development which solves the problem - Domain-Driven Design.

It's not exactly rocket-science either - you basically involve domain experts in the development proces directly, and codify their knowledge in a form that they can understand (be that very explicit models, or focussed domain-specific languages).
I'm so glad someone said it. I have long stopped working in GUI space, but I remember how horrible HTML/CSS is for app development and how great and flexible Qt was. Even more frustrating seeing where the industry is going now with Electron.
The last paragraph when certain character is dancing and laughing, saying he will never was imprinted in me since I read it. I still get chills when I think of it.
The Big Here Quiz
It's the other way 'round. We're all good at tacitly accepting broken processes if it benefits us but will quickly fix things if opportune.
Wow that’s a loud car. What’s the decibel level inside at highway speed? My Forester is loud to sit in on the freeway but what you’re describing is crazy loud. Can’t even imagine it.
I don't think you can tow a truck that doesn't want to be towed. You have to have a legal reason to do so as well.
Assuming by "size" you mean something like average/longest distance from the center this is the worst possible answer because it's super non-intuitive and can create crazy results like negative answers.
The lack of a Reddit search engine suits me fine. If I want to use Reddit then I go via Google, visit the page that has the information I need, and RUN.

I don't want to spend any more time within the Reddit ecosystem than that. It's a vicious miasma of hate and stupidity. Is there any community on the Internet more susceptible to propaganda than the front page of Reddit? They make boomers on Facebook look like James Randi in comparison.

At least Facebook and Twitter actually try and flag misinformation. Reddit actively promotes it, and it's by design!
Yeah! It’s a language that’s highly praised for good reason. But it’s also quite challenging to grasp some of the unique concepts to a degree where humor is the only viable self defense!
I would offer for you to read my comment again. You have reaffirmed your points, without evidence, but not addressed my points to the contrary.

Further you have framed my position as one of luxury, but this is just a stereotypical additude of people that aren't willing to do the necessary things.

Are you arguing for your family or just some theoretical family? I suggested "5 minute meals", which are really meals you can make in five minutes or thereabouts. Search for one. There are few apartments I've seen in years that don't have dishwashers and I would know, I grew up without. Dishes don't take hours unless you never do them and have a massive pile to wash. Washing a plate and fork takes minutes. Do that when you finish eating instead if placing them aside in a pile.

Spending time with family or kids is what you make it. Teach your kids to cook and they will have that skill for life. It's called active engagement. Cooking is not a chore, it's a fulfilling activity where you can become an expert and make things others enjoy.

You can argue calories are calories, but no healthy athlete dismisses nutrition. Fast-food is not nutritious. Eating healthier has benefits that normalize the cost relative to Wendy's or any processed foods. The same calories with more nutrients are supplying you with more benefit. You can dredge up some garbage studies that claim otherwise, but you won't read into the data and methods to understand why these are falsehoods and generally poorly designed investigations.

Walking is free. You just have to get up and walk. The healthiest and longest lived people on earth eat simple diets and walk 2-3 miles per day. Often to the store. Read about the Japanese or Sicilians.

I just saw bananas on the shelf for 19 cents a piece. I bought one.
I make custom search engines for this. In Chrome, go to Settings -> Search engine -> Manage search engines -> Other search engines -> Add, then add this

Search engine: Reddit through Google

Keyword: r

URL with %s in place of query: {google:baseURL}search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%s

After that you just type "r best electric bicycle" in the top bar and it'll turn that into "site:reddit.com best electric bicycle".

I also have

n {google:baseURL}search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+%s
w https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s
wk https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%s
u https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%s
l https://libgen.is/search.php?req=%s
a {google:baseURL}search?q=site%3Aarxiv.org+%s
t https://thepiratebay.org/search/%s/0/99/0

and a bunch more I never use. The LibGen one isn't great because it sometimes breaks if they get kicked off their TLD. I worry that someone could snag the domain after they get kicked off and I wouldn't notice, but that's a bit too paranoid.

Then I also have

p {google:baseURL}search?q=site:docs.python.org%2F3%2F+%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

which goes straight to the first search result using Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature (turns out that's what that button was for), but in order to avoid having to click through a redirect notice, you need to install (at your own risk) the "Redirect Google Redirects" extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirect-google-re...
Building a Micro RC Car
"Attempting to invalidate random quotes you read on the internet by taking them to logical extremes is kind of missing the point."

- Albert Einstein
I quit my last job because I was done learning what I could learn there, and I also tough I deserved more money. I got what I was after. I don’t think it has anything to do with being “special” though.
Actually they can and only they can.

As noticed, once Reddit builds a search engine, people will flood it with spam. But Reddit is in the unique position that they can figure out who is a genuine user. They have the ip addresses of all the submitters and they have the source redditor of each downvote.

They can still show the comments from VPNs and such. But for their search engine, they can exclusively rely on using the signals from verified IPs.

Instead of building it themselves, they could cooperate with Microsoft and Facebook for the search technology and to know each user even further. Those signals, combined with the downvotes to identify spammers, could create the foundation for Google's nightmares.
Dang. We’re SOL in Canada: there is no ultralight exception for helicopters.
mod_php is a serverless compute platform. The better question, will anyone’s requirements ever scale to a point where it makes sense for them to NOT be deployed as a serverless service? FTPing source code to a shared hosting provider is about as simple a deployment story as it gets; people bring all kinds of incredible complexity and thousands of hours of work on themselves messing with daemons, init scripts, systemd units, VM images, containers, schedulers, etc.
Yeah, and what for? Mediocre returns wrt CO2: https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/AUS-SA
> Just my dumb opinion here, but... there's something extremely implausible on its face about the idea that a sufficiently complex spreadsheet could calculate the difference in value generated from kids going to school versus kids not going to school.

I mean, we make lots of policies around education all the time. Subsidizing or not subsidizing various stages of education. Forcing or not forcing kids to go to school. Etc.

What are we basing these decisions on? The idea that "just a spreadsheet" isn't enough raises the question- what is? What is better than a serious academic doing heavy research on the topic, combining various fields of study, and actually sitting down and quantifying and doing math to get actual results, and then publishing them?

I think this is a more serious way to make policy than most ways it gets done, which mostly consists of people arguing without having research or spreadsheets to back them up, but rather relying on much more on feelings.

> If people could be convinced that this was something more than a castle in the sky, maybe it would get more attention.

The book got a lot of attention. But all the attention, both positive and more commonly negative. But nobody actually challenged the calculations - they used hand-wavy statements for or against it, but didn't acutally bother dealing with the numbers themselves. That's his point.

> I mean jeez, what did he even compare our status quo education system against? Where did the kids go in the counterfactual no-education scenario? Did the kids all go home to an infinite supply of stay-at-home moms? Did they go to extended daycare, all the way up to age 18? What did they do with all that time?

I mean, he wrote an entire book about this. You can read it. It's not like he didn't provide answers for these questions.
Unfortunately, however, peer review in these fields extremely seldom involve someone actually checking the code/all the calculations/the underlying data.
good for you! good to know about castnow :)
As far as I know many many towing companies are refusing to help.

How do you get rid of trucks without towing trucks?
Almost but no. Today all the SI base units are defined in terms of a universal constant, so that if you understood how SI works you can do all the same metrication work from a distant galaxy, you don't need to be here on Earth. The metre is defined by the constant c, the "speed of light"

But because of this original definition the equator will work out to about 40000 km.
I take the opposite view. I respect that he is willing to change his opinions.
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So, a RegEx (melody syntax) to RegEx (unspecified syntax) compiler? I mean, the syntax is nice, but 1. please specify which kind of regular expression it compiles to, 2. are those really regular expressions or a language higher in the chomsky hierarchy? 3. I suggest to add a graphical output of the state machine, e.g. with graphviz.
I’ve thought about this a bit, they may not have many people who know how to drive a truck like that :V
Recently have noticed a business creating fictional threads on reddit (multiple on different communities) working as an AD to sell something.

Example:

„What is the cheapest best cooling for cpu now?”

All discussions point to product that more experienced users know its crap.

But still the wrong product is at the top with most (botted) upvotes.

Companies realized that ppl look for opinions on reddit -> that created demand for those services -> bots companies implemented new strategy.

Its getting very very hard to get honest expert opinion. Seems like the only way now is to belong to specific closed communities.
> One reason for this was the fact that most of the sites back then were indie websites, which did not care about SEO and money and created websites for sharing information.

I was around when it started. Let me tell you there was a massive amount of SEO going on back then. The big driver to Google back then was that it was a crawler not directory, so you could get newer results. But most importantly the search was clean and the landing page was empty.

All the other search pages were so rammed with crap and asking to install ask Jeeves toolbars. Google was minimal.

Webrings were the main way to find indie sites for me anyway. Digg was always good too
Right? I think that companies just say they want senior level so that only people willing to work extra hard to deserve their salary would apply.
It's a no brainer, right. Until you need to turn on the lights at night, that is.
Sometimes there are none. Sometimes you have to pay more for less convenient service if you have your principles. And people really do that, you cant always have your cake and eat it too.
Why would clearing an illegal blockade aimed at causing economic disruption be "seeking to curb free speech"?
I see a lot of people at my place of work giving from their gross income via salary sacrifice simply because they've maxed out their pension allowance and would rather see a charity get it than pay the government another penny in tax.

Once I reach that level of income I'd probably do the same, even if on a take-home basis I didn't feel "rich" due to high CoL.

Right now though, my primary concern is having a big enough pot in retirement, so my tax advantaged contributions go to pension (401k equivalent)
NSA's Backdoor of the PX1000-Cr
> Isn't the real problem the economisation of education? The desire to express the value of education in monetary terms is really only useful for those running education businesses, like e.g. many of today's universities in the US ans UK.

I'm a big fan of education.

However, when education is subsidized, you're implicitly making the decision that it's more important to pay for that education than to pay for e.g. more help for the homeless, more money for healthcare, etc.

That might be the correct decision! But it is a decision.

There is no way around the idea that education, like everything else, costs resources, time and money, that can be spent on other things. It's a totally valid thing to wonder whether it's the best use of that money there is.
> A few critics bizarrely claimed that one recent paper had refuted my entire enterprise.

For them your whole enterprise is also "one recent paper". And yours is the one with extraordinary claims.

I only skimmed the spreadsheets and my criticism isn't quantitative so feel free to ignore it. For one thing signaling provides value, so just treating it as useless isn't fair. You can argue it's not worth it at the current prices, but at some price over 0 it would be worth it.

For another thing there's a lot of nonlinear special cases that you throw out of window by looking at aggregates. Scientists and engineers don't grow on trees. For example imagine we save 30 years of education spending but we don't have quantum mechanics and relativity. Are we better off?

Unicorns in education have crazy high potential value and can be used to justify a lot of wasted spending.
> A wise government would listen to them and respond politely, taking their complaints seriously and patiently explaining why covid restrictions, though onerous, are necessary for the time being.

This seems unlikely to achieve anything, given that the convoy seems consist of antivax folks for whom patient explanation of the principles by authority figures is ineffective.

> The police already have ample powers to quell disorder.

But apparently haven't been using them.

Entire article is fluff. And not at all tech related.
Yeah but hate speech. It makes people feel unsafe.

And while you’re at it, we need to protect the children, so we need to monitor 100% of the internet and ban encryption.

But it’s for your safety.
That would make crypto vastly less attractive. I think the sentiment that government can just freeze access to peoples accounts is a great argument for cash. Government will try whenever you need to rely on your rights to protest, regardless if you support this issue or not.
"Imply" is a big word that requires logical proof. Even formal verification may fall short of implying security, unless it's from the transistor level on up.

The issue is that, rather, non-FOSS implies the existence of significant hindrances in the area of security. It also implies a dependency on a single vendor, and their responsiveness to incidents.
You forgot one subtle but very important detail.

Personally, I am not even mad about CEOs earning billions. What is however totally unacceptable is how corporations systematically try to lower pay to maximise profits. I am pretty sure you're American and that's why you haven't mentioned it. You probably think making 300 or 400k is normal. But it very much is not. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, open offices in India to hire cheap labour. How many Indians would you say earn above 100k USD would you say? I can tell you none or not many who are in non-management positions. An engineer @ 400k in California may very well earn 40k in India doing the same job.

"But India is cheaper" sure. That's true. But what's your disposable income in San Francisco and New Delhi in those scenarios? I can guarantee you that your disposable income is at least one magnitude higher in SF than ND. Like, rent is expensive, yes. But nobody pays that much so that salary compensates. The real reason why they pay less in India is because they can. No competition. In USA you will never get good engineers if you pay a shitty salary, because engineering salaries are ultra inflated in any company anyway.
Oh I see. I checked the repository and it's being stopped very soon: https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/14331
GPT-3 trained on only English can produce French text? Citation please! I've looked for one, but I can't find it. I can, however, find more than a little information suggesting that GPT-3 is trained on multilingual data.

> I think it is quite well understood that deciphering a language without external information is possible?

I don't think this is understood at all, and I would have to ask you for just one example of it. I would, in fact, say it is categorically impossible, if by "no external information" you mean that we have only text or sound.

The reason that it is not possible to extract meaning is that meaning is a substance that is not present in the text. It is more than the relations between words, in that it is connected to the world.
The URL contains the term "leaders" which is UK English for an editorial piece.
Not saying this one is poor, but I recently surveyed all of the text to speech models on hugging face, and they were not usable. There is a massive gulf between accuracy from the main cloud providers text to speech API and hugging face
This is such an ugly hack...
> Nobody can actually justify charging people with precrime, right?

This is not unique, in most countries you can be charged for planning a terrorist attack as well.
The biggest battery in the world is about 400MWh. That's the output of the Diablo Canyon power plant for 10 minutes.

What is this mysterious storage that you speak of?
You're misunderstanding the quote. It doesn't mean to never investigate, but to never start with the assumption that it is malice. You can complement it with the famous "trust, but verify" quote. Or with "giving the benefit of the doubt".
Fat fingered is one thing. The best price error I’ve seen was something else:

In 2020 the German government lowered VAT in a reaction to covid from 19% to 16%.

On the first day Amazon had reduced thousands of products by exactly 19% and only increased by 16% after a few hours. AFAIK they did honor every sale during that time.

I can totally see that happening. Who develops systems with short term VAT changes in mind?

Aldi iirc just kept the old prices and simply gave a 3% discount at checkout
and one minute of longitude on the equator is 1/360/60 =1/21600th of it or around 1.855km or approximately 1nm. This decreases with cos of your latitude.

One minute of latitude is always 1nm
Can you really still call what Expensify uses SQLite? It is very heavily based on SQLite, but they say that they've "wrapped it in a custom distributed transaction layer named Bedrock". Feels like they've gotten much closer to a traditional DB architecture, with the related management overhead that people try to avoid by using SQLite.

http://www.bedrockdb.com/
Those modern, 1-pixel wide, scrollbars that only expand when you manage to hover over them are a pox on usability. And I say this as someone with a mouse with scrollwheel.

They make it hard to see the size of a document and as you said: operating the scrollbar is fiddly. You can't just grab it. First you have to make it expand, then you have to move the mouse again to grab it, but don't move the mouse too much or the scrollbar will shrink again!

This is on both Linux and Windows. I have no idea what it is like on OSX.
Sweden planted 300,000 oak trees on a particular island in the 1830s, after the Napoleonic wars, to provide lumber for future naval ships. It takes the trees about 150 years to reach a suitable size, so they were well obsolete for their intended purpose before they were ready.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/visingso-oak-forest
He also wrote an entire book on the subject, and gave numerous talks on the subject. It's very easy to hear the main parts of his argument without grasping with spreadsheets.

His point was that, if you take the trouble to disagree with him (you being another academic, a reporter, etc), then you should also actually grapple with the numbers. Which I think is valid.
Definitely less than $100 via past pocket subscription and Firefox vpn. Wanted to support the org but canceled both. I hated pocket and realized the vpn service is just a mullvad resale.
I'm the Docusaurus maintainer, let me know if you have questions

I think Docusaurus looks like a good fit for you.

If your project is very large, we are not the fastest SSG on terms on build times and definitively want to improve with modern Rust/Go tooling for bundling
> this is an editorial, right?

Yes

Not just the tone but there are several indications. Like the "Leaders" section. Or phrases like "The Economist has long argued..."

But yeah the lack of an author byline is weird and not something I agree with.