skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't necessarily disagree, but something I didn't consider until later when exposed more to the "sausage making" of academia was the extent to which the course creators are just incompetent at creating material "on level" for those students. Many just assume the material must be hard, when in fact it (often times) moves too fast as well. Also inability to teach complex concepts simply is another huge impediment. This was one of Einstein's pet peeves, and is one of mine as well. Teachers and students alike seem to want to cram/jam as much material into each course as possible, but I think it ultimately does a grave disservice.
I saw this post this morning and thought it was a cool name but didn't open it. Then I just watched the newest 8-Bit Guy video and saw it again, came back here to see if this was about that and found these comments :)
Or, PFH?
This is great - Incan imagine something like this for ongoing professional development - or like a refresher driving test you take every ten years.
I want a system where I can create destroyable email addresses, so when I sign up for something it creates a single channel, and if they resell that email address I can burn that channel.

Unfortunately `+alias`ing built into gmail is too easy to subvert as everything after the + can be removed and the email will still reach me.
Ah yes, the "we should be able to hire anyone off the street and replace you instantly," fallacy. I've never in all my career ever been asked to walk out into the street and grab a random stranger and pull them into our office to fix this code now because Jerry just got hit by a bus and won't be making it into the office ever again. We can barely hire other programmers.
Very well written, but an introductory tutorial shouldn't ignore fundamental difficulties like multiple conflicting instances of the same typeclass for the same type.

Your example would be a good fit, since Pokémon can be "naturally" ordered by number, by name, by which one has more types, and in infinite other ways.
> in the name of improving marketability of the kids for data science positions, or something.

They have been very clear and upfront about the goal. They want to "solve" racial discrepancies in graduation rates so they've taken the classes often failed and are removing them.
Nah, If I was wealthier I'd probably be driving a Tesla. I've probably been watching too much Louis Rossmann, but I do have concerns about right-to-repair and battery replaceability, and (possibly overblown) concerns of battery degradation - based mostly on experiences with phone and laptop batteries being essentially dead after a few years.

EVs do have real issues limiting mass adoption, though. Even if I could afford a nice one, I couldn't charge it at home (living in an apartment, can't really dangle a power cable down 3 floors).

And as I'm a very-low-mileage driver at the moment, able to WFH, keeping my boring Ford Focus running for a few more years is probably much better for the environment than replacing the entire car.
You just haven't met the right people yet. I've felt the way you do in my CS journey several times, but I have also worked at places where I have been the least knowledgable person. The thing to know is that even within the industry, the range of skills vary wildly. Just don't fall into the trap of becoming arrogant. Be patient and helpful, and you will do well.
I run my business' email on a cloud VPS. It's a two step solution, with a FreeBSD host running a tightly configured Postfix as my mail gateway, and a Windows server running hMailServer (This is a great piece of Windows-based open source software. Highly recommend.).

This solutions captures the majority of spam and phishing. Occasionally, a well-crafted piece of spam gets through, and I check the Postfix config to see if I can close that hole.

What I do monitor closely are the valid emails that Postfix rejects. This happens a couple times per month, and is mainly due to the sender using GMail, and Google's mail servers being marked as sending spam.

Overall, I'm pleased with this solution. It's minimal configuration, minimal maintenance, maximum usefulness.
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I had a very similar experience with a new dentist this week and the front desk was very pushy with getting me to schedule an appointment for a routine cleaning. I'm still mad at myself for acquiescing but they were determined to steamroll right over all of my attempts to politely demur. I don't intend to return to the practice but I am absolutely dreading the phone call to cancel the appointment because I know I'm in for even more of their aggressive "encouragement" to change my mind.
But that only describes average temperature increases for a particular area? I'm not talking about regional variations, I mean that "an average increase of n°C" doesn't mean "it's now always n°C warmer than 100 years ago". If much of the year is only 0.5°C warmer and the occasional heat-wave several degrees warmer, then you can still end up with an average that's much lower than the top of the heat-wave spike. I believe in some areas winters are actually even cooler than before and summers warmer (don't know if that's also the case in India).

Averages are a really poor way to understand most things.
Do we even need a tool like that? I mean, just use the language you know to do something with the json you have.

Alternatively: the tool should use sql.
Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (April '22 edition)?
There have been threads like this before (last one in 1.5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30628375), but I'm not really sure what to do. I've emailed Maciej on 4/13/21, 12/11/21, and 4 times in the past month (a more urgent issue) with no response.

Full-text search is regularly broken, archiving doesn't work sometimes, and most recently my >5yr archiving account was disabled on 4/1 with no warning or ability to re-up, so as far as I know I've lost archived bookmarks from up to a decade ago (don't remember when I turned on the service). It doesn't look like

When I tried to re-up my archiving account, I selected 10 years, but was charged for 1 year (without the 10 yr discount, of course) instead.

I really have enjoyed using Pinboard, and have been since at least 2011 (when the entry was created in 1pw), but this is a bummer and I'm not sure what to do. I really respect Maciej and wish him the best, and would love to keep using Pinboard.

Edit: Maciej, I hear you're in Taiwan. I'd love to give you some recommendations off the beaten path!
> By the fact I get answers to emails I send to others (eg people using gsuite, people using o365)

Do you get answers to 100% of emails you send? I don't find this plausible. Now, if you get answers to maybe 30% of emails you send, how do you know the other 70% is just because people didn't write anything back? How are you ruling out the possibility that some of those 70% never received your email in the first place?

> I don't get issues from the sites that I run that use the mail server for sending - it sends confirmation emails for a forum I run, for example.

So far I haven't encountered a single email provider that successfully delivers 100% of mail sent. Postmark sometimes fails to deliver, SendGrid sometimes fails to deliver, etc. But you're claiming that you have found the secret sauce and you actually have better deliverability than SendGrid and Postmark - and that's for confirmation emails of all things, the type of mail that very often lands in the spam folder. I don't believe you.
It's not a business transaction, you aren't paying for the opportunity to go too fast, it's meant to be a deterrent. As such scaling with income makes sense, it's only a deterrent if it affects you, and realistically people with lots of money aren't going to be deterred by a relatively (to their income) fine that's going to deter people who are less well off.
On that front, Google and iFixit are partnering, with iFixit selling OEM Pixel repair parts.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/58542/working-with-google
> To me, it sounds like the real problem is greed.

The thing is, money can be exchanged for just about everything else. So in peoples' thinking, money stands for everything else, and everyone has a "something else" that they want enough money to get.

I think, though, that people want four broad categories of general things. They want security, they want identity, they want satisfaction, and they want rest. The last two you can have enough money to be set for life. Security you kind of can, but (I suspect) you always worry about a big enough black swan and whether you're diversified enough.

But if you're looking for identity, money will never be enough. You're always looking up at someone else who has more money, or a bigger yacht, or a more successful sports team. (Or so it seems to me, someone with nowhere near enough money to try to find my identity there.)
My statement was not regarding exclusivity to university, but a rebuttal to the parent comment (re: who cares about what they learned other than the piece of paper?).
preface: my parents are retired nurses and a big chunk of my family works in healthcare.

It sounds like the issues nurses face are global and do not significantly change across different systems (the system in my country is completely different from USA)

It probably comes down to the fact that this is a human problem and to solve it we must radically change the expectations around care and primarily being taken care of.

There's no technological deus ex machina or amount of training that can change the situation without shifting the POV.

IMO people working in HC are subject to a lot of stress and must be protected at the cost of making it a bit unpleasant for the patients to be cured.

It's such a fundamental foundation of our lives that the system should be calibrated to create the best possible working environment for those who are working instead of moving it toward a customer reviewd activity that focuses on their satisfaction.

I know it can sound unpopular, but receiving the best medical care possible is not a right, it's a goal that more often than not it's almost impossible to achieve, so let's improve the working conditions so that the workers can give their best without questioning too much all the sacrifices that the job requires.
If you're open to something more powerful, there is DaVinci Resolve [0]. It's free but proprietary.

For fully open + browser based there is mebm [1]

[0] https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

[1] https://github.com/bwasti/mebm
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At what point is it worth it to splurge on Final Cut Pro?
There's no such thing as a "free market" for healthcare. The ability for consumers to exit a market is one of the prerequisites for the invisible hand effect. You can't exit the healthcare market.
I had a similar experience with a dentist.

All my previous experiences I had minimal issues, and then suddenly at a different dentist I needed several fillings and needed to drill a good tooth to "fix a cavity" in-between my teeth.

I didn't get any of that done.

My next visit at a different dentist a couple years later and I had a single tooth that needed a filling.

When something feels off, it's always good to get a second opinion.
Moderna investors reject proposal to transfer vaccine tech
It seems that iFixit will officially be selling replacement parts for Google's Pixel phones [0] and Valve's Steam Deck [1], so hopefully, they are not going anywhere.

[0] https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/...

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675180/view/4347665...
If I would be kind of person that tattoos his body ... I would tattoo that sentence.
>It also takes an exceptional amount of knee jerk assery to interpret my comment as "change the US system to the Belgian one"

Well you literally said "I'd sign up for a significant increase in my taxes if the US system were replaced by the system that I experienced in Belgium for the first 30 years of my life" so why don't you tell me how that was supposed to be interpreted?

America shares a very long border with a nation with a functional healthcare system and we generally prefer to compare to them.
Well it turned out optimistic at the end, right?
The government's incentive to lie (regardless of which party is in power) is because if you upset consumer confidence (https://www.conference-board.org/topics/consumer-confidence) it will spook consumers into spending less...risking a recession...which will be...blamed on the government.
So raise the reimbursement rates to the point where hospitals can survive, or cut the fat. See? Simple.

Every time someone makes an argument like this, it's always to say that somehow, medical treatment in the USA is special compared to other countries. We couldn't possibly have universal healthcare work here. Please.
I am always extremely doubtful of these types of blogposts that take a well-known algorithm and somehow beat all others (including academia, bioinformatics tools, etc.) with a fancy implementation in <insert cool programming language 2022>
The gaming youtuber is more common and pays better.
Jfc that is terrible.
Without harsh enforcement, this type of negligence will just continue.
Stated and revealed preferences are very different.
That almost certainly wouldn’t kill you - at least not from the opioid. For a personal anecdote, I’ve stepped on a carfentanil dart at a nature preserve that was not properly disposed of and didn’t die. Given how much stronger carfentanil is, I am skeptical that an insulin syringe needle and the extremely small amount of fentanyl that would be on the tip alone could be enough to kill someone. (That being said, I’m also skeptical of all of the “cop faints from fentanyl powder absorbed through skin” claims too.)
Have you considered creating a discussion platform where people can't post images, URLs / things that would be URLs if you added a URL scheme to them, ASCII-armored baseN-encoded anything, etc? For 99% of the discussion you want on the platform, text is all you need. For spammers and people who want to host porn, text alone is useless.
Imagine how much global power would be saved if NOBODY ran standby devices overnight. Not practical, but an interesting thought.
Deliberate lawbreaking should result in a fine so large the company goes under.
Those aren't necessarily incompatible. Nobody can avoid linear algebra, but almost nobody actually needs to use or know linear algebra. Heavily symbolic fields like math are probably not great examples though - different methods can be used to reach the same results because it's all fundamentally the same, just differing representations.
Someone should do something similar with Lyft, who will allow the drivers app to report you’ve been picked up and dropped off all the while the rider is still standing waiting for the car to show up. Adding insult to injury they ask you to “rate” the ride that never occurred before providing a button to report it.
Unfortunately as far as I can find there is no optimized encoder or decoder for JXL yet. Everything uses the spec encoder, which works fine on modern hardware, but for an example on my 20 year old laptop it takes several seconds to decode an image. Encoding an image with "tortoise" mode takes 10+ minutes. One nice feature though is that JPEG->JPEG XL lossless encoding was a priority, and it's as easy as doing "cjxl my.jpg my.jxl". The result is a lossless encode with EXIF data kept for a full bit perfect JPEG if you do "djxl my.jxl my.jpg." It's also pretty fast even on my old laptop.
Yes. Massachusetts which is NOT a right-to-work state. That means the union can negotiate a clause in the contract that any nurses working at the hospital must join the union. Here is a current contract that includes pay ranges:

https://www.massnurses.org/public/resources/bargaining-unit/...

'Step' is years of experience
> I really wish keurig would just have a big capacitor inside to insta-heat the water beyond what’s possible from mains in real-time. But I guess there’s too much risk of shocky shock.

I'm not sure that's an option unless you have a capacitor larger than the device. Heating water takes a lot of energy: let's say we're talking 200mL water (0.2kg), ambient temperature is 20C, water has a specific heat of 4.2kg/kg.C, so that's 67200J.

A Maxwell K2 3000f 3.0v would store a hair under 13500J, which isn't even remotely close, and these things are huge (https://youtu.be/y8tQesYvCig?t=10), heavy (>500g), and each would be a significant fraction of the keurig's existing price.

If you need to strap 5 capacitors to the keurig, danger aside, you've added 2.5kg to the thing, you've strapped a pack twice the size of the brewer, and you've at least doubled and probably close to tripled its price.
They did not imply that. They just said the piece of paper was a barrier to other things they wanted to do.

That's the situation I'm in, and somebody recently suggested I check out WGU. I was thinking of doing a Master's degree, and it is an absolute bedrock requirement everywhere I've looked that you have a Bachelor's to apply to the Master's program. Would I get more out of spending 8 years doing a BS part time in the traditional way? I'm sure. Am I going to do that just so I can do a Master's? Fuck no. But if I can get the piece of paper in 6 months, that's starting to seem doable.
yeah I think that is a better way of phrasing it.

I suppose most people are better in person than they are on twitter - I should stop reading people's twitter accounts :D
Consider both to be true as these are not mutually exclusive.
You are correct, applying traditional education methods to online/home school is unlikely to work well. Concepts like "homework" are generally obsolete at the home school level. Independent learning replaces the antiquated idea that our children need to be preoccupied with boring, grindy work when they are out of the "classroom". Children will have plenty of time to grind when they get older. Building a love for learning is 100x more important than rote memorization.

The child's age is also significant... I certainly would not have a child under 12 working under the the same expectations as a teenager. Additionally, every child develops at a different rate, so finding that sweet spot is an important part of home schooling. These are all things that the public school mentality finds incredulous.

So I agree with what you are saying, but so many people still think the model for home school should be the same as a public/private school situation, which is where things fall apart. It's obvious to me that children always need to be well socialized and have a variety of teachers and experiences, but that can be achieved if the parent is proactive and willing to spend the required time and money to foster learning over optimizing for succeeding in the public school system.
Also, if your rig goes over, say, 400 watts of power it is definitely worth it to get an 80+ efficiency rated power supply. There are quite a few tiers, bronze, silver, gold, platinum, titanium, etc., but that's the equivalent of extra 9's uptime where just the 80+ rating is the first 99%
Archegos Founder Bill Hwang and CFO Charged with Securities Fraud
SELinux, and all of the other bolt on security model extensions, all have a parallel system problem. Fundamentally it's about adding a security definition layer that just doesn't exist in the traditional UNIX privileges model; and it isn't even the typical extension of ACLs on objects. Instead it's a whole new set of tools or patch extensions to existing tools (which may as well therefore also be custom tools) that is completely opaque and therefore impossible for anything to interact with or provide good error messages for when it does inhibit interactions.

What I really dislike about SELinux and similar tools is the pivot in management. Inevitably since they're bolt-ons they also add a second policy area, no longer on the file or device but instead in some other database of inscrutable configuration files. A second and totally alien location to check when anything isn't working.
Sounds like bad design to me. But yeah, if that's the case I agree that's indeed a major inconvenience.
It's not only that life spans are longer with higher care, it's that society has also hamstrung fertility rates and removed the pyramid-shaped scheme that population levels and society have grown accustomed to supporting for centuries. We're in uncharted territory with an upside-down pyramid. Without immense automation, young labor will be priced very high and deflation will naturally occur without constant inflationary monetary intervention which has other nasty side effects. Imagine society always had 2 young people helping out 1 elderly and just within the last two generations we've flipped to needing 1 young person to help out 2 elderly. That's 4 times the burden.
This isn't particularly reasonable analysis. A large chunk of the unvaccinated population is elderly and contraindicated for vaccination or in hospice care. From talking with nurses, the elderly population has its own set of problems and frustrations. Imagine trying to administer care to someone who has no idea why they're in a hospital setting. Similarly, vaccination status in American COVID-hospitalization research classifies people of unknown vaccination status as unvaccinated. These people are often homeless, isolated and elderly, or mentally unwell and unable to provide reliable information to caregivers. Again, likely unpleasant to work with.

Grouping these people as conspiratorial is unfair and seems politically motivated. While you definitely have some overlap with conspiratorial people, people have a right to be skeptical of medical care, which is often incorrect and potentially life threatening. Being able to explain things concisely and with evidence is a core skill for a nurse, much like being able to explain to someone why their technical decisions are setting them up for failure is a core skill for a software architect.

But from talking to nurses, this isn't the drive for negative workplace satisfaction. Patients who are hospitalized are less likely to be mentally stable: many pathways to hospitalization come from extremely poor decision making, and many of these people are repeatedly hospitalized. Combine this with the fact that it's a very physical job, primarily handled by women, and you have a multi-faceted problem that's not as easy to solve as just giving people right-think.

Personally I think the pathway to fixing this is appropriately valuing nursing care, what is often a highly-skilled profession with large physical, legal, and downstream risk, and compensating people appropriately. While nursing is a disproportionately paid job relative to educational requirements, current compensation really doesn't accurately account for just how demanding a job it is.

The amount of nurses you see who become addicted to painkillers, benzos, etc., is truly sad. Much like teaching, it's an area where I feel that society is inaccurately evaluating what the overall impact could be if the role functioned well.
I just finished watching the Imitation Game and while it obviously took artistic license with the story, I never realized just how high the stakes were during WWII. Turing and his team were incredible.
Why can't they stay independent and objective if they partner with Apple (or any other manufacturer) to sell their parts?
Fractional fines are perhaps better than flat-fee fines for law breaking without a clearly assignable dollar value, but still face the problem of log-ish utility of money. A person living paycheck to paycheck will be extremely burdened by any kind of fine, whereas a richer individual is much less likely to be, and even if they are - have more ability to make downward lifestyle adjustments to absorb the burden of the fine.

To put it another way, it is more painful to lose $250 when you're making $25,000, versus losing $3,000 when you're making $300,000.