skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would offer a bit of a different perspective here, I think maybe even most do it for what you could call self-soothing.
>
> For example, a lot of people share knowledge, but it's _their knowledge_, which can also be defined as _sharing their subjective past_ and that's known to be a very soothing thing for people who may even be troubled by the unknown in their personal lives. Hop online, boom, you're a domain expert in your own past. Find a place that's _about your past_, be it /r/linux or /r/formula1 or whatever, and there you go, it's comfy. You generally get an upvote + reply vibes dopamine bonus just for being there, due to your relevant past.

That's a bit too psycho-analytical. A lot of what gets shared on technical/domain-expertise subs are simply technical knowledge. Most posts on such subs are questions, and upvoted comments are typically answers. If you accuse people of feeling good about helping others with their knowledge, well, I'd say that the joy is well-earned by the generous act.

In fact, if we are talking about the exhilaration of being upvoted, it's much easier to farm karma on reddit by lying. There are many big subs that are purely made up stories.
I listen to them during walks and commute, or while cooking. I live with the fact that I may miss some bits because of lack of focus.

It's not so much lack of time to read as much as enjoying a book-like experience while doing other things: I also read normal books.

It's also worth saying that some audio productions are not just dronish narration. Multiple voices actors, effects, music etc make for a different experience than the book itself. E.g. the "Sandman" audio production on audible is pretty great (although I hate the voice of Death).
So by No-FAANG engineer, you mean someone who isnt a robot ad hawker sell out?

Serverless allows anyone to be scale for minimal up-front cost and only pay for the usage they really need.

So glad that FAANG attract all this rare talent so us no-FAANG engineers can make a buck.
The obsession with “evidence
“ is killing discourse.

You don’t give “evidence” when drawing a conclusion, you have a set of assumptions and from there there’s usually only one logical way to go.

Imagine asking for “evidence” 1+1 equalled 2. You could be given a “proof” but there’s no “evidence”.

Even if there were some magical set of data that could “prove” something, humans are not and can not be rational creatures; because time is finite, you must cut off data collection somewhere, even though technically the very next bit of information collected could completely change the measured outcome.

Of course the author’s spreadsheets were ignored; of course people cut off their data collection before getting to them. It’s such an absurd notion, the idea of precisely quantifying value of education, that spending time trying to understand what the inputs were to this spreadsheet is a waste if time for… well, anyone.

The set of people with the time and the expertise necessary to evaluate the author’s math on its merits is apparently zero. That isn’t a “bad” thing.
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There is massive incentive, since Google earns over $50B per quarter selling ads to people who want to buy stuff. Targeting these queries effectively would be hugely more valuable than my current ad selection of increasingly desperate shitcoin/NFT shilling and pleas to buy Reddit gold.
I tried out the walkie-talkie feature once. It was with one of my wife’s friends.

Holly was the only other person in our entire circle who was geeky enough to want to try it out, and she likewise had not found anyone in her circle of friends to try it out with.

We tried it. It was okay. I don’t think either of us ever tried it again. I know I haven’t.

Therese just no draw there if you don’t have a large enough group of friends who are using it.
This explanation sounds like capitalism is a thinking being
Sorry, I have no idea and I have no relationship with the website.
> The theory gets made up to try and describe & understand what is going on with the music

... or you can go the other way and look at Atonal music such as Schoenberg :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJg4XbzSV9Q
Have sex with more people
Why are they 0%?
There appears to be a bunch of people defending Caplan in this discussion, but most of that defence boils down to "read the entire book!"

No, I'm not going to do that. And if you've read the entire book, and think I'm an idiot at this point, you are free to say so and disengage from this discussion.

But the reason I'm so dismissive of his work is that the conclusion is ridiculous and the premise inherently flawed because education has inherently unquantifiable value that cannot be expressed in a spreadsheet. Ever.

And the reason I'm dismissive of the defenders is that no-one seems to be able to come up with a succinct rebuttal to the criticisms fielded by me and others in this discussion other than "read the entire book!"
In this vein it used to be easy to find dissenting opinions on something:

<Topic> sucks

RIP "sucks".
There are times when I'd love to have page up/down on a tablet.
OP clarified the opposite here. As former amazon retail I can confirm we commonly lost money to vendors, sellers, and customers. Funny example was prime day promo fat fingered, with several expensive lenses shipped for $99.
That figure is misleading. Every one of Cloudflare’s pops run every service they offer. A large number of Akamai’s are running small CDN only deployments. They also have 20 worldwide ddos scrubbing centers. Cloudflare’s 250 pops all do it.

It’s not really apples to apples in terms of scale in the context of footprint
Labrador is my side project; my main business is actually in used video games down here in Aus. :)

I think Crowd Supply handle certain support issues specific to orders through their platform (as does Amazon), but there's still technical information that people need/want and so I help where I can.
Why don't you guys add a flat monthly/one-time usage fee?
>After World War 1 Germany surrendered. That did not result in a good outcome.

Which is exactly why the Allied forces agreed to only accept a unconditional surrender.

Most people arguing "Japan would have surrendered anyway" are basing their argument on the Japanese trying to negotiate a conditional surrender.
The amount of IO we gained in the switch from spinning rust to NVME SSDs means that a SQLite scales serialised 'concurrency' much further than eg. Postgres ever could before.
Have you ever searched for a recipe in Google? Have you noticed that the top results always go on for a few pages of SEO-optimized storytelling and explanation before you actually see the recipe?

I'm sure someone at Google has. They could fix it if they wanted to, and boost well-known sites that get straight to the recipe (allrecipes.com, foodnetwork.com) instead of making you scroll through the SEO spam first. They haven't.
> I wish all forms of cross-app tracking identifiers were simply abolished

Interestingly, I noticed today my Android/Pixel phone lets me delete the advertising ID instead of just resetting it to a new one.
My job is to make web tools that people use for free. I can set my own hours, live whenever i like, and someone else shoulders the stress of keeping a buisness afloat.

Its the world we live in. Once you break free of the box, your parents dreams, you can realise your own version of what "life is".
Money contributed to an HSA never expires. It's your account, not your employers.

_FSAs_ do expire.
That said, I do use my Apple Watch to answer FaceTime calls from my wife, multiple times a day. It’s much less hassle than pulling out the iPhone. Sometimes she gets a bit annoyed at this, because she had something she specifically wanted to show me on video, so I have to call her back with video.

And sometimes I use my Apple Watch to answer telephone calls, too. But I look at the number first. Some are worth taking a bit more time to get out the phone.

But that’s about as far as I go with using audio features on my watch.
I'd prefer a take home project instead. I recently implemented poker and chess and really enjoyed it.
What is the Amazon fork being called now?

Edit: I see it’s called OpenSearch now.
Avoids objectifying the other gender as an adult. The lack of relationships as a teenager leaves the understanding of girls to stuff like books, movies, bro talk, and let's be honest porn. The resulting mishmash of cliches and stereotypes might turn ugly in later stage or at least hard to get rid of.
Internet discourse will never resemble the church in its capacity to pursue political ends. Sometimes these ends are a good, sometimes, to many people, they are a wrong, but that structure gets people in the habit of concentration and concentrated effort.
sure. but intimate connection (and the lessons learned from that, both good and bad) is a net positive to one's psyche.
> Given all of this, it is much easier to calculate if an education is "worth it" or not than in the US market, because you can look at average salary progression in different fields to do a pretty good estimate of whether or not you'll repay your student loan before retirement.

It's harder than you think. You also need to take into account probability of actually finishing the degree vs dropping out (which depends on your individual ability, preferences, and other aspects), likelihood of actually getting a job in the field after completing a degree (e.g. there are many more people with a diploma in History than there are jobs in that field), job satisfaction (some jobs tend to have much lower or higher job satisfaction than others, which often is not clear to high-schoolers, and which results in wide discrepancies of monetary compensation, to make up for low or high job satisfaction), and other things too.

The entire subject of this conversation, Caplan's spreadsheet, is exactly his attempt to estimate all of that.
I would, with a straight face, suggest everyone is wrong and the real purpose of education should be building better voters.
It would not be surprising if costs for storage fell much more than photovoltaics, over the next decade, and for the same reasons as for the latter.
( not OP and not disregarding the issue at hand ) have you tried practicing usage of the shift key opposite the key you want to press? Learning to make that change was hard for me, but is one or if not the largest improvement for me over the years in both typing speed and general typing comfort
Assuming a standard QWERTY layout, shouldn't you be using the left shift when typing < or >? It'll significantly reduce the contortion effort in your right hand. Same goes for most chords- use opposing hands for the modifier and symbol keys.

(Oddly enough, I don't bother doing this with ctrl/cmd + a/s/f/z/x/c/v, but I think that is mostly because keys to the right of the space bar vary so much between laptops and keyboards that I never bothered trying to stick with it).
I discovered this a few days ago, but being the huge geography nerd I am I've never done worse than one attempt...
> and come very damn close to real disaster

That's what I'm smoking. For there to be a fucked-up American accident the accident has to actually happen.
How can you get it wrong, though? You are basically presented the solution. It's like if Wordle would show you the picture of a tiger and asks for the word "TIGER". And if you don't recognize a country by it's borders and just take a wild guess, something like "you are 5000km off!" probably won't help you much anyway, which is apparently what you are getting shown on a wrong guess according to comments here.
If evidence we obtain from social sciences is so effective, why are they suffering from deep and wide reaching replication crisis?
What you seem to be implying is that there isn’t a profitable market for dev tools for the “rest” of developers (whatever the % might be). 2 observations:

* it’s possible the market isn’t lucrative enough for a VC funded SV company; perhaps other models in other locations might make it more cost effective to serve that market

* putting the profit motive aside: I think there is a lot to learn from understanding how the 99% of developers work and how they may be enabled by tooling to make them more productive. The solutions to the problems faced by that group may actually help build better technologies.
I would have a 1:1 conversation with the CEO or CTO. Ask them if this meeting matches what they expect the culture of the company to be like. Express that it doesn't really match how you like to work.

Your goal is that once you leave everyone says "It just wasn't a good fit" as many times as possible, because that's what lets them still recommend you to their friends.

And yes, you should feel free to leave.
I think that's precisely what the very idea of the sacraments is! Full disclosure, I'm a Lutheran, and so I obviously don't fully agree with Rome's take on things, but in this very specific bit, I do agree this is how the means of grace work.

Even in the Lutheran service, where we have a norm of corporate confession in the middle of the service instead of individual confessions (and prescribed acts of contrition) beforehand, the preacher says to us, "As a called and ordained minister of the church of Jesus Christ, and by his authority, I therefore declare to you the entire forgiveness of all your sins." This phrasing is clearly not meant to mean just "Because I am a called and ordained minister, I can tell you for sure that Jesus already died for your sins." It is meant to be an actual thing that happens, through the authority given by God to the clergy - i.e., God is obliged, because God has chosen to grant that authority.

Here's my denomination's take on sacraments in particular: https://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/What_...

> Historically a sacrament was viewed as "an outward and visible sign of an inward and
spiritual grace given to us, ordained by Christ himself, as a means whereby we receive
the same, and a pledge to assure us thereof" (Anglican Catechism). Lutherans have
traditionally tried for greater clarity by stating that a sacrament is an act that is
commanded by Christ, uses a material or earthly element, and through connection with
the Word is the bearer of God’s promise, as the definition above indicates.

I think I see why it feels sort of "unfair" that God is obligated to do something when we invoke a sacrament - but we're not the people imposing that obligation. God did! It's a "pledge to assure us [of grace]" / "promise" in the wording above, and it's not unfair to make use of that pledge / promise. Going back to the analogy - if I'm root and I give you a sudoers file, you're not imposing on me by running sudo. Yes, you can always ask me to do something and have me form an opinion in the moment about whether I should, but for the things in the sudoers file, you can also just run sudo, I'm not going to be unhappy about it. That's why I put it there!

It seems to me that the alternative position is that every baptism and communion is nothing more than a prayer that God might choose to do something - and might just as easily choose not to do so. To me, that seems harder to believe: you'd have to say that God gave us the sacraments even though there's no particular point in them beyond just regular prayer. Why should they exist, then?

(Also, there's a connection here to the ancient argument of the Donatists, that priests and bishops who apostatized in the face of Diocletan's persecution lost their "powers," so to speak. That view was declared heretical, and the view that won out, advocated by Augustine and others, is that sacraments derive their power from God's grace and the simple fact that they are done, not by the merit of the person trying to do them.)
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Much of the confusion and misunderstanding is because when this subject is taught and explained, the teacher usually jumps from sine waves to music, where a musical note is thought of as a sine wave.

But it is better to think of a musical note as a set of sine waves. Each sine wave in the set has a frequency which is an integer multiple of the frequency of the longest sine wave. These frequencies are known as harmonics.

If we plot these frequencies on a logarithmic scale, they'll be evenly spaced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spectrogram_of_violin.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_voice_spectrogram.j...

Imagine a note as a comb, where each tooth represents the frequency of one of the sine waves. Now imagine a second comb where the teeth are spaced farther apart. Now imagine that you put one comb on top of the other so that the teeth line up. You'll see a nice pattern. This is the harmony of the combs.

C4 | | | | | | | |
G4 | | | | | | | |
C5 | | | | | | | |
E4 | | | | | | | |

But these combs aren't only in an abstract frequency space. The cochlea inside your ear maps each frequency to a specific physical location where your ear hairs are tickled, forming a comb-like pattern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Journey_of_Sound_to_the_B...

Consider this chord composed of the notes G4, C5, and E5, which some of you may know as C 2nd inversion or G⁶₄.

chord | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

This chord will tickle your ears in many of the same places as the note C3.

C3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

One way we can tell human voices apart is by the relative intensities of the harmonics. And the way we tell different vowel sounds apart is by the relative intensities of the harmonics. So our brains have lots of wiring for interpreting relative intensities of harmonics.

https://auditoryneuroscience.com/sites/default/files/Fig1-16...
(source: https://auditoryneuroscience.com/vocalizations-speech/forman...)

So when we hear this chord, our brains are likely using some of the same wiring they would use for a human voice singing the note C3.
That would not solve the issue of Audible offering free or heavily discounted products and then paying a "royalty" based on the discounted price.
I am one of those who had to put it down; after losing interest in TV and movies for a decade and becoming resensitized to violence (finally growing up and developing some empathy during adulthood also contributed), I just couldn't take it. Nor can I typically take extremely violent movies unless I watched them a lot in high school.

I'm quite interested in the history of the era and might give it another go; I think I've got it on a bookshelf somewhere.
I suppose, that in terms of Twitch monetization we can talk only about revenue from:

1. subscriptions

it takes only 250 tier 1 subscribers to reach that 15 000$/year, if we take into account, that twitch is taking 50% from charges

2. ads

This actually turns away all the casual watchers, who are not subscribing, but only donating. Subscribers do not see ads in most cases anyway, so there is not that much income for streamer.

3. bits

They were implemented to take away cut from donations. Not really useful, compared to other types of donations from paypal, patron or from donations that are going into cryptocurrencies wallets.

I'm very sceptical about that twitch streamers who do streaming as a serious job only get 15 000$/year(more like 15 000$/month would be more realistically, otherwise there would be not that many twitch thots who have switched from streaming in adult industry to twitch - their income numbers from streaming on twitch were posted to be in range of 60 000$ - 90 000$ per month, so they are not nowhere that poor, as those who are donating to them). For a well established streamer donations are rarely less than 100$ per stream. That makes very decent salary even for US.

PS only insane person can write with green ink article, to irritate anyone else who is trying to read that BS crap article.
yes it's easier to get one in highschool when you're young and she hasn't been jaded by 10 guys before you. plus getting comfortable talking to women is something that happens over a long period of exposure.

lots of rich well off nerds here have absolutely no charisma and the only women they'll get are gold diggers or foreigners who want a green card, unfortunately. so you have a load of nerd regret.
I hate writing resumes. So I found a job I like and haven't felt the need to apply to anything for thirteen years and counting
Oh I totally missed that this was from Cato, got it :)
Isn't most everything in life just piles of multiplication and addition?
All that reading to learn that one property of triangles doesnt extend to tetrahedron? Blah.

Did you know if you make a 4x4 matrix where the columns are the (x,y,z,1) vertices of a tetrahedron, the rows of its inverse are the coefficients of the plane equations of the faces of that tetrahedron? You can also use the adjoins. Geometry is fun.
The counterpoint to that is that I'm not spending money, and substantial amounts of hassle, to buy an EV to increase my customer base by 0.001%.

Im not sketchy, my site isn't sketchy, and so there's nothing for the 0.001% to complain about.

So my site is DV, always has been, and no one has ever complained about that. So the money, and more importantly the hassle has no benefit to me.

Rinse and repeat for (some large % of web sites), users don't care about green bars or not, and EVs become useless.
I remember that deal being shared online, and being corrected fairly quickly.
I have a small banking account at some German bank.

Their 2FA basically forces you to use a weak password: if you want to log into the web interface on a desktop, you get sent a code to your phone after successfully submitting your username and password.

To receive the code, you must install their mobile banking app (which is something I don't want to do, but have to). If you don't use the banking app regularly your device, it won't accept biometrics to unlock it, you need to input your password into a password field, username field memorizes the username.

The app does not make use of Google Smart Lock or any other means which allows you to securely store your password and easily insert it into the field, so you need to type in your 16 character upper-, lower letter, numbers and symbols-password through the popup keyboard while keeping it visible on your desktop.

This really wants to make me change it to an 8 char no-symbols all-lowercase password.
I don’t think it’s petty as such. Amazon’s naming was likely to cause confusion. This is a good win for Elastic to protect their trademark.

Of course, Amazon has every legal and ethical right to continue providing their fork under a new name as they’re now doing. That’s the whole point of open source.
As they say, "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"
I think the interesting point is that apparently very few people even tried. I don't know how everyone is dancing around that in this thread but that's what Caplan seems fascinated by in this blog post. He's not saying he's right because nobody checked them, or that everyone ought to have. He's fascinated that nobody chose to challenge his conclusions on quantitative grounds. And he gives some anecdotes that suggest that this is because people in the field are not interested in crafting optimal policy -- which does almost by definition require some amount quantitative approaches -- they are interested in publishing.
Thanks for your answer, I think I’m stuck with Java for the time being but I least I now cater to a modern codebase. I think it’s … alright. But I miss the function being truly a first class citizen.

Those advice ring familiar or interesting. I need to give effective Java a second look. It’s been year and I’m a different dev now.
The name's immaterial for me, because I never type it. Using Google is actually a bit higher-friction because I have to actually type it to use it.