skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> four years is a long time to spend treading water wrt employable skills.

Only if your sole goal in life is the pursuit of money. Most of the people I know enjoyed their time at university, they got to learn in a structured manner about philosophy and other interesting topics while having freedom to indulge in intellectual curiosity. Life isn't a race to get on a career path.

I do agree that flunking out is probably the worst outcome though, so if academia isn't for you don't feel pressured to pursue it - it certainly won't make any difference in terms of your job prospects by the time you're 30 as a developer. We just need to stop treating university as a vocational training session.
On the contrary, because parentheses are reserved, percent-encoding them is not necessarily safe:

> Percent-encoding a reserved character, or decoding a percent-encoded octet that corresponds to a reserved character, will change how the URI is interpreted by most applications.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-2.2
Mask requirements at this point is a silly relic from the past, time to end this nonsense right now.

Travel should not be dictated by luck of the draw, ie. do you get a positive test or not before traveling.

Enough already.
Sounds like it was a MySQL database:

https://github.blog/2022-03-23-an-update-on-recent-service-d...
Is that using Docker on Beanstalk or Tomcat on Beanstalk?

Because oddly enough Beanstalk only supports Corretto 11: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/platform...
I thought this looked familiar so I checked my collection of 2 player abstracts and sure enough I own an octagonal variant called "pathagon". Haven't played it yet. Hard to find people interested in this genre (except for chess and go, grrr).
A week or two is what I was always told a household should be prepared to manage without food/heat/water etc.

So I finally started and got some water storage etc.

I’m not prepping to live months in a shelter. I’m prepping so I wouldn’t be a burden on society at least for a week or two after a disaster.
The Old Man Murray piece "Death of Adventure Games" sums up my feelings on the genre.

>Who killed Adventure Games? I think it should be pretty clear at this point that Adventure Games committed suicide.

https://oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html
The cost of nuclear energy is actually in the law since EDF has to sell some of its production at cost to other providers. The evaluation is done by the CRE.
Humans are often referred to as long pigs. Any barbecue recipes should work fine.
This post is from 2016, it says at the top.
AFAIK they do it without revenue sharing because it keeps customers using steam (running their client, seeing their ads, viewing their store, and being tied to the steam ecosystem). They don't need to turn a profit on the tiny, irrelevant volume of off-site sales.
It's rarely 8 hours a day "applying to jobs". This is similar to an employer saying "you should work 40 hours/week". In that 40 hours are lots of varied activity, including breaks and lunch and any other activity that will allow you to succeed.

The idea is that we want to set expectation that people should focus on searching for a job and not, say, go on vacation. The wording here also is far more severe than reality only because we want serious participants.
It's the other way around. You think there is "nobility" in working more than 40 hours a week. There isn't. Stop pretending.
What if... the author wasn't aiming this post for a completely lay audience, but rather someone with a undergraduate/graduate level of mathematics/physics background who was interested in learning more about some phenomenon?
There's plenty of people who, having not tried anything resembling modern VR, completely discount it as a medium. So while you're not alone in your belief, your criticism also has red flags that will cause most people with experience in VR to not take it seriously, even its informed critics.

- Handling latency is more akin to client-side prediction behavior, rather than synchronous awaiting on network response for frame-by-frame accuracy. So it's more of a distribution problem of how to replicate and conflict-resolve state most efficiently, rather than round-trip latency.

- Black is not that much of a problem. The brain adapts.

- Focus is a problem with active work on it (using eye tracking) which we'll see improvements on in the near future, but it's worth noting that a fixed focal distance actually helps vision for some people.

- "There's no killer app for VR (optimists will add "yet") and no hint of what one might be.": no, optimists would tell you you're wrong. Someone mostly neutral would point to things like VRChat driving a noticeable portion of sales of VR headsets or additional equipment, which is promising in that there is a viable non-Meta social VR app currently in existence. A pessimist would argue that VRChat hasn't achieved a sustainable business model. A contrarian would further add to the pessimist's point that the top sellers in VR tend to be stagnant year over year, suggesting the industry isn't as live (optimist: yet) as many perceive it to be.

- "you're pretty much predicated on a pure brain-computer interface for it to feel realistic" - not quite. You might depend on that to present approximate realism, but VR - and we're talking 6dof here, 3dof is far below any threshold of believability/immersion - does not require much approximation of hand position for the brain to very quickly allow a virtual world to feel "real" enough for some fairly deep immersion.

Better-informed critics of VR typically question its broad appeal based on motion sickness, lack of support/indifference/hostility from other game developers or middleware developers, difficulty of authoring plausible VR content in general, inconsistent hardware depressing the quality of software aimed at the "lowest common denominator" device (though this last one has largely evaporated due to the Quest 2 being very cheap and very good), possible risk of effects on children's development of physical balance if they play too much, and so on.
The trades can be great, but they are absolute hell on your body.

It can also be pretty expensive to get set up. You don't get into making serious money until you work for yourself, which frequently involves a six-figure investment in tools and equipment.

I do agree that college as a way to get ahead in life is over-sold in the US in particular. It's not a coincidence that colleges don't track student outcomes past graduation, despite their sales pitch of 'preparing students for the future'.
I agree with the thread as a reflection of the industry.
Still, as an individual the results bum me out because I'm now getting paid to develop software in a warm dry building thanks to the low risk of an ISA. So why ISAs clearly have issues, the safety they provide is amazing for someone with limited means.
That's how you double the rate of physics/chemistry students.
Yeah, it was more like dishonest politicians suggested to the US public that Iraq and 9/11 were related and a lot of people didn't know the difference, and didn't bother to learn. In that respect the US public was responsible and at fault. But not a "prime mover" as you say.

I thought Richard Clarke's book a few years later was pretty informative. Iirc, in his telling, they wanted to attack Iraq before 9/11 happened, and when it did happen, many in the administration didn't care at all who did it, they just wanted Iraq to pay. There was a line attributed to Rumsfeld "but Iraq has better targets".
Link to a BBC story featuring photographs of some of Rod Stewart's model railways:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50403561
Yep. One major difference is that with Google/Apple (and also Steam I believe), app makers can at least choose the price of their apps and services themselves, and they know how many units they sell. If Google/Apple are charging you 30%, just increase your price.

With Spotify, however, musicians can't choose how much their music is worth, and the payment of royalties is also not exactly transparent.
Hola bebes
Everything you are talking about seems centered around cultivating humility. You are absolutely right. It’s ultimately the ability to allow yourself to make mistakes. Being wrong is no fun. Best to get it over with, accept it and work forward, rather than to bring yourself into some delusion.
It's probably inversely proportional.
This may sound like a snippy question, but I'm genuinely curious as to why this is considered news? Isn't this just getting another payment option, similar to what many, many other services have been offering for over a decade? Seriously, am I missing something?
The inca empire was built on this business model. However on the internet you'd need to do a bit of a foundation shift to make it work (which is incidentally what I am working on).
> The argument was “if X can do it, so can you”.

So when are you going to question this user [0] and others here planning to do the same thing for not having a 'multi-million dollar budget' for self-hosting their own services then?

Since clearly according to you they 'can't do it', despite me saying 'if X can do it so can someone else'. Where 'X' can be even a toy project like RedoxOS, or a messenger project like GNU Ring hosted by themselves and accessed via a subdomain.

Seems like they and other lesser known and funded open-source projects are doing just fine like that for years.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30780874
Because those other companies are paid for their service directly. You don’t directly pay for the app stores.
I could change a few words in your main paragraph and match them to any time in the last 40 years.

You seem to be hanging on for magic better times but at the same time not expecting things to get better. This doesn't seem to be a good strategy, especially in the case of having children where delaying a few years will very likely result in more difficulties.
Until they realize that most of the work is much more boring.
> The original post is just wrong. Aside from the default set for convenience, Metamask isagnostic to whether you want to plug it into a centralized or decentralized API service.

This is all true!

But I think Metamask only uses the OpenSea API for displaying NFTs (at least I haven't been able to find a setting for it). That was raised in the Moxie piece, which explained a lot more about the design decisions that went into this:

"What I found most interesting, though, is that after OpenSea removed my NFT, it also no longer appeared in any crypto wallet on my device.... MetaMask accomplishes this by making API calls... what other option do they have?"

I think this is a valid criticism because it is balanced and nuanced.

But you are right that the linked article missed all this.
Live in a non recourse state And buy real estate with leverage. heads you win big tails you walk away with fixed losses
If someone is interested why Picasa was mentioned, it's because of the face recognition. Still best offline version there is.
I’m very much aware there’s waste. Yes, it needs to be addressed. However, for myself , the feeling of building financial security is worth more to me (right now) than quality of services derived from taxes. Only reason I’ve ever lived in the city is due to work. If I didn’t need to manage a hybrid schedule I would move. My interest are wholly in the outdoors, so I really wouldn’t be missing much.
Break up with her now. There are plenty women your age of younger that know they are getting closer to the point of no return and are desperate to have kids. I’m similar age but my wife is 35 and lemme tell you what, she wants to have some dang kids now (and we’ll have one soon).

And what do you mean by “in time”? Assuming you are 32/33 you have plenty of time to find another partner. When you’re 50 you will feel so silly for feeling old at 32/33. Just make sure the next partner is on the same page relatively early.

It’s your life, not your partner’s, go live it how you want.
It's called Linux Mint.
The middleman is going to get paid one way or another. My main issue with ISAs is that they often take an excessively high percentage of your income and/or for too long a period. A lot of them are structured as if an ongoing service is being provided.

As an aside, I can’t stand long Twitter threads like this. It’s so ugly and inefficient. Just write a blog post. I know Twitter has a lot of eyeballs and is free and easy to use, but so is Medium or Ghost.
Just a note I think game programming could also be good place to find applications.
Thank you! I think there are a lot of us who need to (or at least can benefit from) hearing this.
I'm sure Spotify will pass on the extra profit from the savings to the artists, right?
Depends on how much energy they have left.
In fact it was Guile Emacs exactly. What that entailed was both the ability of the Guile VM to run eLisp so that all existing eLisp packages would run on the Guile VM without modification and that Emacs users could write in Guile (or any other language that the Guile VM supported) instead of eLisp if they chose.

The big selling point was that no eLisp packages would have to be rewritten in Guile, but that wouldn't stop new packages and other code to be written in Guile if users chose. Both of these were essential for users like myself who actually prefer to write their own code in Scheme, but realize that rewriting all existing packages in it is an unrealistic goal.
> that are exploited and paid like s__t

I wouldn't say that they are badly paid compared to local wages.

One of the FAANG's outsourced customer support accounts here start at $11,000 yearly.

It may not seem that much compared to U.S. wages, but that would easily place you in the highest 10% wages here.
I will say this, I personally know several Serbians who dislike her. You should go to Belgrade and ask around how they like the Clintons.

I agree that there is a lot of bot/shill activity in places like Twitter/reddit, but please reconsider thinking everyone who thinks different is doing so in bad faith.
XML/HTML Extraction and Removal on Nim. Features Nim Excellences
> Kids from much older parents (40+) are also almost completely weird.

By what measure? I was 42 and my wife was 40 when we had our daughter who is now 13 and headed off to full time pre conservatory program in violin next year. Well adjusted, sensitive and empathic, I can’t think of any way in which she’s ‘weird’ Certainly not by any conventional definitions of the word.
The difference is the artificial limitation placed on Play Store listings and Apple App Store, versus the freedom of an artist to sell their music to any other platform (it's just that it would be far less successful).

The only "pull factor" Spotify has is the userbase, which is arguably fair. For Google, though, the "pull factor" is because you literally cannot sell directly to users through the Play Store.

One could argue (on Android) that it's possible that you can install third-party markets, and that's true, but there's also pretty big roadblocks to installing, whereas selling on another music platform is much easier in comparison. (Don't believe me? Send your father an APK file and ask him to install it. Let alone iOS where this is not possible at all..
So is "powerful" "high performance" "scalable" "fast" and the #1 weasel word of IT is:

"lightweight".
Most work is structurally boring, from obligation, low risk and repetition. At least you're bored AND educated :)
assuming unbounded time and memory.

not being pedantic.

you can exhaustively enumerate all inputs for a program.

tautologically self-references aside, axiomatically, yes, we can determine if a program will halt, if it has a finite amount of time, or memory.

if it doesn't [have unbounded range], then it must [terminate], but it is very, very, very hard to determine if that is the case.

but not impossible.

and this nuance being lost seems so pedantic, but so integral to the claim, that I can't help but think those who repeat this sans the disclaimer, do not _truly_ understand the paradox
It's a token of recognition that other parties do need your goods and services and hence are backing a currency of your issuing as a legal tender. The more parties are involved in the trade with the same currency the more transactional trust the currency gets (as non-issuing parties could credit one another in the same currency for future purchases of various kinds from the issuing party). You can ask yourself a similar question to get an intuition about the importance of the move: what's the difference between IRS accepting payments in Bitcoins or dollars vs. accepting only dollars?
AFAIK a table at a Stanford career fair costs about $1k:

https://forum.stanford.edu/events/careerfair_affiliatefactsh...
I can't understand why they are not:

a: building new systems on an internet scale non-relational datastore
b: migrating relevant features onto an internet scale non-relational datastore

Are there a lot of folk who are operating at Github's scale still deploying core services to platforms like MySQL?
Does it matter? Github is a closed source service. If they run Microsoft SQL Server vs. MySQL it doesn't matter or change anything for its users. All that us as customers and users care about is the experience and performance. Whatever they want to do internally to achieve that doesn't matter at all IMHO.
What evidence do we have that the dark matter isn't interacting _at all_ with light? I would have thought there would be limits in our instruments.
Even Nokia N900 had a perfectly legible screen in direct sunlight, so it's not like it's being at odds with smartphones. I really miss that.
This is such an attractive yet mistaken way of looking at the situation.

The more accurate framing is "100% of people pay for 100% of people to have the opportunity to go to college".

A good analogue is insurance: even though 99% of people might never file a claim, it's not 99% subsidizing the 1% the do-- it's 100% paying for protection from financial ruin that 100% receive.

Your framing would apply if there somehow were a group--people with blue eyes, people born in May, whatever--to whom access was limited.
> As a few of you noticed, narrow searches do not work very well because this is not a general web search engine and has a tiny index compared to Google. Use Teclis to discover more about a broader topic you are interested in and to discover writing from 'clean' websites on the web.

Are you getting better results with vector search?

I've been looking at this problem with my search engine as well. I've recently side-loaded all of stackoverflow and stackexchange, and searching in that part of the index is still not great at finding narrow results like you can on bigger search engines, when that reasonably speaking should be possible.

I think, beyond the fact that my index is DIY and fairly crude, algorithms like BM25 are designed to identify topical keywords, and they do that rather well, but narrow searches go far beyond merely the topic and often involve words that aren't important to the document but are important to some particular context within it.

I may have some ideas to get around this, but they're fairly half baked. Experiments are needed.
I know it's not meant for narrow results, but I still chuckled a bit when searching my own nick surfaced an entire serp with nothing but unrelated blog posts about being dyslexic. Wonder if it's just because "drusepth" sounds similar enough to "dyslexic"?
> But everyone occasionally makes typos, misreads requirements, has blind spots, etc.

Case in point: OP used the word "effect" when he should have used "affect".

Just like pudding, there's always room for a code review.
Impressions: this looks like extensively-researched scholarly work. It raises questions about the veracity of hierarchical model of evidence-based medicine (EBM).

However, I was lazy and skipped to the conclusion[1] to determine most of that. People with experience of both statistics and healthcare policy would have more useful thoughts.

[1] - http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3284/1/Blunt_heirachies_of_evidence...
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contractum_trinius . There are lots of ways to slice and dice cash flows and quibble over what's interest and what isn't. (See also repurchase agreements, Islamic finance, general structured finance, etc. etc.) It's generally more useful to compare cash flows in terms of yield-to-maturity, instead of strictly by interest rate.
I think this is among the more complete lists:

https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...
I used to use DataFramesMeta.jl, but eventually I found that the mini-DSL that DataFrames.jl has created is really powerful and not overly verbose. Now, going back to the Tidyverse's syntax makes me feel a little uneasy, like there's just too much magic going on behind the scenes, even though I used it for years with no problems.
Losing money at first is how almost everything works.
Now [all but several countries in the world] have [leaders who oppose unprovoked wars in Europe] - Fixed it for you.

Are there credible sites, books or videos that try to say there wasn't a genocide and brutal war being perpetrated primarily by the Serbs against muslims?
What is "$prevjob"? I thought it's meant to be a stock symbol (by Twitters' convention at least) but I can't find any company with this ticker.
Domestic investors and banks, I suspect.

Me personally I'm thinking of buying 2-year notes once they reach 3%.
First, let me acknowledge that some companies do truly have terrible customer service. But some have great customer service. Both types of companies exist.

However...

> The "customer service" role itself is an invention for companies to absolve themselves of core responsibilities.

This seems like a pretty extreme take. Are you saying that customer service shouldn't exist?

I could easily reframe this to say "Companies employ customer service departments to fulfill their responsibilities which they otherwise could not scale without a department dedicated to it".

Even if software is perfect and has no bugs, most software that has a customer service department behind it is also sufficiently complex that at some point, support is going to need to get involved. This is especially true in the enterprise software space where Okta plays.

What is the alternative?
You lost me at

> Buddhism is

This is where beliefs usually cross into no-true-(scotsman)-believer, or worse, victim-blaming.

You see? This is because _I_ misunderstood. The way it _really_ works is...

I studied all kinds of dichotomies in buddhism, from Batchelor to Nichiren etc. and spent hundreds of hours studying and writing about buddhism in general. I even baptized many lifelong buddhists into the home brand of religion I brought with me before I left that faith myself.

I believe I know many of the Top Sales Secrets for migrating buddhists between religions or to a religion of your choice.

But...I accompanied some of them on the way out, and buddhism as a single thing, as a belief that works like X...that's done for me except in general analogy, sorry.

Plus there need to be contradictions IMO, they are really important for contextualizing religion vs. sect. If you don't have contradictions you can't have internal structure. You'll never be able to add 1 + 1 and make anything new.

You don't have to _call_ it a contradiction though...you can say there are these "mysteries"... ;-)
Only NIMBYs! Perhaps worse.
It's OK, thanks.
I'm far from expert in linux debugging, but I liked my experience with VS code gdb support - you can set breakpoints, stepping in/out works fine, you of course get nice code navigation and so on. My experience was mostly with Postgres code base, which is pure c, FWIW.
I'm a big fan of obsidian and use it for all my notes already but being basically just text, links, and pictures, it's easy to long for the power of org-mode.
"Chief Freemium Business Officer" is an interesting, genuinely not-made-up title.