skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of The Onion's articles have true headlines with silly bodies, like https://www.theonion.com/frontier-spirit-airlines-merge-to-c... and https://www.theonion.com/new-york-times-buys-online-game-wor...

It's kind of unfair when we get those headlines in the game.
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My comment was purely rhetorical, and that was partly my point. The other part of my point is that no matter how carefully you try to account for the costs and benefits of some activity, there are intangibles and benefits that are extremely difficult to convert into dollars (much like the value of a human life when expressed in dollars).

(My comment was not an attempt to refute or disprove the main thesis, but I do think it's important to step back and ask: "what's the point of education? is the point just to make a profit?")
for an opposite take https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/dynamic-lan...
What happens in reality is someone writes the spec as "40% of the unit price" or something, and that gets taken from some DB table at Amazon that has "unit price", but the meaning is different from what the spec refers to as "unit price".

Meanwhile both sides of the interaction (Amazon and the publishers) are using words they recognize, but with different meanings behind them! And both sides are so used to seeing the words that _of course_ it's the right thing (until it's not!).

Of course the reality is probably more subtle than this, but spec documents don't save you from domain knowledge (or lack thereof) 100% of the time. Definitely helpful as a reference document, of course! And it eliminates a large class of discussions.
that was a great read! Shared it on my company's LinkedIn page :)
You have identified why grid-scale storage will not depend mainly on the kind of battery technology needed for cars.
> She then joined the (self-organized) Unix team, collaborating
on several applications with Bob Morris.

Bob Morris Sr, the grandfather of The Worm, I assume?
#Worldle #26 5/6
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

Got 2 bordering countries then looked at map.
Super Elastic Dot-Com Bubble Plastic!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Elastic_Bubble_Plastic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pErbVm-LGI
That seems like a pretty unfair summary. The author is a high school math teacher and the audience is clearly relatively non-technical.

But I didn’t know that rational tetrahedra (dihedral angles all rational multiples of π) were classified in 2020 https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14232
>would the reduction in college graduates reduce our nation's economic competitiveness?

Google had 20k FTEs in 2008, 135k FTEs in 2020: https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-ti...

In those 12 years, Google did not launch a single new product that they didn't shut down a year later. 115 thousand people, most of them college graduates, did nothing useful for more than a decade. Their primary accomplishment was to inflate house prices in tech hubs.

The United States is not short on college graduates.
Performance quote:

Compared to existing libraries like PyODBC, Arrow Flight is already as much as 20x faster (~00:21:00). Flight SQL will package these performance advantages into a standard interface, ready for clients and databases to implement.

Would be good to compare with more main stream ODBC/JDBC drivers, especially how it compares to the ones provided by the DBMS providers.
haha funny but my comment consisted of

1) straight-up language tooling (profiling that breaks down heap usage in various ways)

2) wolf-fencing, which has nothing to do with haskell
Seems like snaps were trying to solve a relevant problem (keeping software up-to-date quietly and automatically) but have a deeply flawed implementation. Almost daily I'll have Chromium suddenly completely break to the degree that it needs immediately restarting, losing all my open tabs/groups/auth. Working remotely with lots of web apps, this is a terrible experience for users!
Zoomers invented SOAP? Are we thinking of the same Zoomers? Same SOAP?
Milisearch is cool, but not a solution for “anyone” working on complex & large scale search.
It has large ears too. Which stereotype are you referring to that has large ears and noses? Brits perhaps?
AHHHHH... i figured it out...
or https://ddg.gg
> If you make your educational decisions based on optimizing the rat-race and delaying gratification in favour of some future calculated benefit, you're also the kind of person who has no idea what to do with it when you get there!

Do you have any data to support your conclusion?
Flow monitoring explained:From packet capture to data analysis NetFlow IPFIX
"His spreadsheets don't answer many questions I might have about such systemic changes"

Just curious, have you read over his spreadsheets?
I've built spreadsheets with financial data before for business investment and decision purposes and the idea that any spreadsheet or argument relevant to public or business policy would be value free seems laughable to me. There's always an agenda. Given that, I think the right starting place might be to ask cui bono, who benefits from these policy recommendations?

I'm reminded of the argument and policy prescription coming from that argument that we can't afford decent roads or other infrastructure such as sewage treatment plants in rural and suburban areas with little to no mention of the long term trend of declining taxes on the wealthy and major land owners.

Given that, I don't feel sorry or surprised on behalf of the author that nobody is interested in the construction of their spreadsheet. Nor do I feel the need to take their argument any more seriously on that basis. It seems to me to be a matter of literally just politics. Especially so when I notice that he's a scholar at the Cato Institute and a self described libertarian. So yes, it's no surprise to me that he's advocating libertarian policy. It's also worth noting that he got a prestigious and expensive education with a BA from Cal and a Phd from Princeton.
Ahh, this is such a nice improvement over literally anything i've used for agent key management on Windows or Linux, and easily competes with using the Keychain integration available on OSX; It sucks that I can't really use the functionality due to the v8 requirement, and am once again in the position of paying for something where I don't get to actually use new and useful features due to really aggressive ( if not outright anti-user ) product direction.

For some context on my bitterness: v6 stopped working with chrome based browsers a few years ago due to an issue with browser signatures, and the official guidance was to ( pay to ) upgrade to v7 rather than fixing the app, and so the software I had paid for was no longer usable in the way that it was when I purchased a license for it, effectively being downgraded through no fault of the end user ; Similarly, the Windows variant of 1pw has... kind of always just been a bad experience compared to the mac version, and while the controversial Electron-based unification for v8 promised to bring the experience in line with the Mac app ( not requiring purchase of another license type this time because I'd since bitten the bullet and paid for a subscription so I could actually use v7 ), it also required migration to the hosted vault system, as support for local vaults was completely dropped in the same version.

I would feel a lot more comfortable using this otherwise legitimately fantastic functionality if it didn't also require me to migrate from a local vault to the hosted version. I already didn't want my passwords hosted online; I definitely don't want my ssh agent and its private keys to be bound to said hosted service, and nothing has yet come out of 1Password's survey for self hosting the vault server in order to maintain a vault that works with 1PW 8 locally.

It's an unfortunate hill to die on, I realize; I just want to maintain control of my own stuff, using a tool that is actually nice to use ( 1Password is and has always been miles ahead of everything else in terms of the day to day user experience, otherwise I'd be able to justify looking at alternatives )
We have a shortage of storage because it takes a long time to build out that much capacity. Until intermittent sources represent a much bigger piece of the pie, a renewable dollar has been much better spent on generating capacity.

As the fraction of capacity increases, the need for storage starts to rise. So, now we see big storage projects breaking ground, to come on line in the next few years. The amount of storage finally built will be astonishing to contemplate.
> is your business cool with a business disruption

Every few years in Seattle, there's a big snowstorm, and everything just shuts down. We live.

If a service goes down once in a blue moon, I could catch up my email, spend some time morale building with my team, or, god forbid, just go home because work isn't that important.
Huh, this could actually be a good query for relative frequency normalization. I had been searching for a way to display trends in a way that doesn’t just reflect overall content volume, without a good way to get a number for overall query volume for a period. https://jacksonkearl.github.io/HackerTrends/?query=“Huh”&fro...
It's impossible to win, if you don't shake a women's hands you are treating them in the old fashioned, less progressive way, if you do, you are looking for excuses to touch them. Interacting with others in any context requires some sacrifices and compromises, it is impossible for the other party to know what is appropriate unless you tell them as shown in my first sentence, and most times it is best not to cause animosity and just go with it. Men do this social adaption too btw.
> Assumptions and reductions are always required, there is no researcher in the world that reads every book or paper released in their field

It's good practice to read the ones you're commenting on.
Was the Mysterious'Russian Flu' a Coronavirus?
This reminded me of the fact that the US Navy maintains a forest of trees that are of appropriate size to keep planks for the USS Constitution, the last remaining wooden US Navy vessel.

https://taskandpurpose.com/mandatory-fun/constitution-grove-...
He edited the only Mathematics ScFi anthology I seen, Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder.

He has two stories in it, like all anthologies some stories good some bad (From my 20 year recollection, some really stuck with me though, "The Tale of Happiton" by Douglas Hofstadter is like "Don't Look Up" for mathematicians, so missing the partisan "Basket of deplorables" about the wrong side and more about human nature and mathematics)

https://archive.org/details/mathenautstaleso00ruck
> It's entirely possible for Caplan to be correct about his material analysis, and that still not be the right conclusion.

How do the critics know that it is not the right conclusion? Where are their numbers that support their conclusion.

Look, I understand research is hard and that it may occasionally result in an incorrect conclusion from the data that was gathered. It happens.

But it is not logically consistent to call the conclusion wrong when there is no data to support that position.
tl;dr: The union bosses want to make it effectively illegal for you to work in affordable housing construction if you refuse to join their unions.
Isn't this basically the case with the entire west coast of North America as well?
20 million meters is indeed about the maximum distance between any two points on Earth.
If you need a cleans with humor while also getting that Cormac style, I might recommend Yelping with Cormac. https://yelpingwithcormac.tumblr.com/
Yeah. PageRank worked because web site owners were linking to each other as a service to the "Surfers", signaling what they think are high quality sites. There is an incentive to keep sites high quality or it'll risk being delinked.

When people stopped "surfing" and starting "searching", the whole mechanism broke down. Plus Google started using other metrics for ranking sites these days.
In fact, cost of storage is expected to fall over the next following decade or two. Problem is, we needed to start solving climate 50 years ago. We don't have time to wait another 10 to 20 years. We now are forced to go the unoptimal route and more expensive.
Making a DCF analysis for education is going to be extremely murky.

That said, since it was done in spreadsheet, it would be easy for a relatively non-technical person to tweak the numbers to refute the author's argument (sidenote: only in the world of hacker news would people think python is more accessible).

I think the lack of interest in reviewing the spreadsheet reflects how people with education department degrees protect their jobs and win public policy arguments: they prefer to argue that ROI is not a relevant concept for education investment (even if it is at the core of virtually every other type of investment analysis).
Only thing keeping me from switching to this is the ability to jump from docs -> source code. It looks like they do support this in some form, but not in a way that's backwards-compatible with existing packages, which is kind of a dealbreaker.
The funny thing is, when it comes to books and tutorials and such, there's way more material available at the beginner's level than at the intermediate or beyond. Seems like after a certain point you're expected to understand everything from looking at some type signatures.
Nice... but how you fix the way something fundamental as the way `if` works in bash? Each `if` is a bomb. `if grep -q ...;then ...;else ...;fi`. Two branches for three possible exit codes. Given a long script and big amount of output, you will miss the error message such as "file not found" and the execution will peacefully continue into the else branch.

Things like the above motivated me to create Next Generation Shell.

Edit: hint - yes branch, no branch, exception.

More about motivation: https://ilya-sher.org/2020/10/31/bash-or-python-the-square-p...

Project: https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs
I have one on Sierra Nevada Club https://theredphoenixapl.org/2012/02/25/the-sierra-club-took... (there's plenty of other search results you'll find this is just a random one)
You read this and, unless you have no trace of humanity left, will be left sympathetic to the civilians and children of Japan.

But you must remember that another group of Japanese were busy raping, and bayoneting babies, and killing and torturing captured soldiers, and instigating suicide attacks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1m523p/this_is_a_japan...

This is not the Japan of today or even 50 years ago. But its just sad that the innocents had to pay for the depravity of their military.
They're inexcusably awful. I still don't know why it is like that. Haskell gets hard things right and easy things terribly wrong.
This misses the mark, Reddit's search is completely useless for any sort of query, and has been for at least a decade. Searching for a post's title verbatim but without quotes will frequently return completely unrelated results. That combined with the fact that Reddit constitutes something like 90% of downtime of top 10 global websites and that their video player is, by all accounts, terrible, tells me they have institutional technical problems.
It is largely Google's fault.

Example. If you searched the word "flight" in 2002, the first two results would be NASA links and the third would be the Museum of Flight. These pages still exist. But now the entire first page of Google search results are cost comparison websites. This is Google's badness, not the web's.
That's a very visually repulsive website with titles for graphs/charts made for Antman and co.
The cost of solar is now much better than hydrocarbon. And cost is still in free fall.

We don't have storage because we have not needed storage. Now that we are starting to need storage, storage is being built out. It will take time to build out, but the scale will be astonishing because the demand for it is very predictable and stable.

Gates is investing in nukes because it can be very profitable to make them. Not so much, using them. But there will always be pigeons.
Shout out to gumroad. Wished all platforms put creators first.
ytcast search functionality is a great feature. When I come across a video that would be interesting for my kids, I cast it on tv. Now I don't need the url to cast, I can just search by the text.

Castnow, mentioned elsewhere in the thread, seems to be able to cast videos saved on the laptop directly. Our usual routine is to copy to pendrive, move to TV and then switch the TV source to usb. This would be a welcome addition.
> I've wondered about the effects of 60 cycle hum. If 440 is an A

If practicing an area with electrical hum, tuning A down to 420 (7 * 60) is definitely a relief.
Hey, this looks interesting, but, to be honest, there's a lot of errors and typos in the post and its hard to follow. You might want to proofread this and repost it.
> Here in SF, the issues have been renaming schools, murals, school closures, Black Studies, and desegregating Lowell.

Only one of which actually relates to education for most students. No wonder you were voted out. You were more worried about labels, paintings, and ideological courses.
> > What are students doing with their extra free time? Having fun. Instead of being socialized for lives of boring work in hierarchical organizations, they’re being socialized for lives of play and self-expression.

> If you think this is a bad thing, you are well and truly lost.

Well, you were claiming that the book/study did not take this into account so GP posted evidence that the book/study does indeed address your concerns.

Whether it is a bad thing or not is irrelevant to the concern you expressed, to wit - that the socialisation and play is not addressed by the study.
> But then you get Canada and you instantly know it's the USA next.

So in your hypothetical scenario....this hypothetical player would know that the only country Canada has a land border with is the USA, but not know what the USA looks like so as to be able to solve this without first guessing Canada?

This seems improbable to me. Chances are that if someone knows enough about a country that it's a 'single neighbor' country, or that it has a 'single neighbor' country, they will also know what the country looks like.

For example, if someone instantly knows that if they typed in Haiti it must then be the Dominican Republic, chances are very high that they wouldn't have typed Haiti because they also know what the Dominican Republic looks like. Much like chances are high that if someone knows that Canada only borders the USA, they also wouldn't have typed Canada in the first place, but would have guessed USA right away.
A bit OT, but what about executable size? I installed shellcheck (using brew on macos) that is written in Haskell and the executable is over 70 MiB.
This argument makes precisely zero sense. We've already established that people are using site:reddit.com in search queries so the incentive already exists. And frankly Reddit is already at least 50% astro turfed. But search results on Reddit are still more useful for many queries.

It's also worth noting that unlike Google, Reddit has total control over the content that they're indexing. If they detect bad SEO actors they have far more power to influence them or shut them down completely because they're indexing a platform they control. Google is indexing the open web.
Are you saying you wouldn't take a look at this spreadsheet? I definitely would. Though I don't think it's possible it would certainly be interesting to see someone try, and if it failed to be interesting I could entertain myself by writing a comment explaining how they had failed.

You say that education's value is "unquantifiable" but that's not quite even wrong. The question isn't "What is the ineffable value of education?" But rather, "How much should we be spending on education?" and that is perfectly quantifiable. Indeed, we spend some quantity of money on education currently - should we spend more or less?
That’s your parent’s point; the article states that the Japanese other-initiated repair word is “e”, which it is.

The article argues convincingly that “e” is “huh”-like, defining that as having an unrounded mid-front vowel with a glottal onset (or no onset).

Interestingly, in addition to “e” and “ha”, Japanese also has “hai” with a rising intonation, which is a more polite “e?” - all of these are “huh”-like.
Similar, but not exactly the same:

I've come to appreciate that the bleeding-edge really means you'll bleed over it. In the search for "magic" to make my job easier, it often falls apart of the edge cases. So to just get stuff done, I'll trend towards lower-level software even if it means more boilerplate.

Also, there's a great idea that seems very worthwhile. I don't recall the source or exact phrasing: you only have 1 innovation point for a project. Everything in your stack should be familiar to you (and you know the pros, cons, and issues) but you're allowed ONE new magic/helper/tool. That limits the blast radius of all this new-fangled stuff and gives you room to try out new tools.
GP means GraphQL is a Zoomer's version of SOAP (with all that implies)
That part in my FAQ came out of frustration - I wrote it after a guy basically copied my entire site, including website name, domain, and logo - he did this three times (the last time he also served the downloads from my server). I honestly don't mind people sharing the books at all, but I'm not going to lie - that was annoying, especially when, at one point, his site was second in the results when you searched for mine.

With the copyright, I was more talking about the logo, but I can see why I didn't make that clear.

But in general, I absolutely do not care when people share the books.

So point taken - I'll rethink it and re-word it in the next couple of days. Thank you :)
That’s not what “strongly typed” means, though.
Not about programming for quantum computers in the sense of the article, but for understanding quantum computing itself and learning to create combinations of gates to solve problems, I recommend "Quantum computing for the very curious": https://quantum.country/qcvc
> Also ease of use doesn’t really convince me. It’s like 5 lines of code with socket.io to have working websockets, without all the downsides of sse.

You can also implement websockets in 5 lines (less, really 1-3 for a basic implementation) without socket.ii. Why are you still using it?
Japan refused to sign IV(1889)/XIV(1907), so the restrictions on aerial bombardment wouldn't apply to either party.
I found this stimulating. I don’t need to be shown some ancient mysteries of prime numbers to be entertained, it is quite sufficient to put my mind on the track of “why would that not work in higher dimensions?” Why isn’t our universe built to scale with dimensions and where exactly does it say that?
Your first line sounds very similar to one of his paragraphs:

>Don’t get me wrong; The Case Against Education drew plenty of criticism. Almost none of it, however, was quantitative. Some critics appealed to common sense: “Education can’t be anywhere near as wasteful as Caplan claims.”

"There's no point in looking at it, because it can't be calculated."
Nice! I wrote something similar for local video files:

https://github.com/Reggino/chromecaster
Can you link us to the exact location on OpenStreetMap.org? The someone can make sure that the situation is correct for users of OSM, too.
I guess the Yao Julia package you mentioned in another comment also doesn't have a IonQ API yet, and that's the reason it isn't part of the article?