skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing to note is you can put things off. My furnace is from the early 80's, I'll replace it when it dies but it works fine. I'm kinda looking forward to it so I don't have to use window units for AC anymore.

If the idea is you want a immaculate house with everything perfectly maintained then you can have high costs, but for example my microwave door handle busted off, I rigged up a fix, it looks terrible but not bad enough that I want to spend the money to replace it until it is completely dead.

The recommend replacement interval is useally a little pessimistic especially if you buy quality meterials and pay to do the job right.
No. The chance would be much smaller. If you choose 22 random days though...
My experience as well. It was pretty stupid since it was basically pass+/pass/fail.

On the flip side of that red flag is when the midterm average was a 20% which means whoever taught the class didn’t do their job, didn’t care and definitely wasn’t going to take shit for it so everyone passed.
The GPA doesn't matter once you are mid-career, but I'm amazed at how a prestigious university brand helps marginal candidates get through the filter to an on-site interview 20+ years after graduation. I was helping a company scale their solution architect team last year, and the CEO said of one candidate with a resume full of huge red flags, "why would we not interview him? He went to MIT!"
Anecdotally, degrees from the Ivy Leagues are not nearly as indicative of intelligence and aptitude as they used to be. They still function as great signals for prestige and networking ability, but they no longer translate to "this person must be a genius, they went to Harvard/Yale".

The source of my anecdote are the discussions I've had with the the recruiters at my company. They've also told me that Harvard/Yale graduates are way more likely to be prima donnas and leave the company after a short time in order to advance somewhere else.
Even the if they graduated didn't really matter. My last semester of college I could have failed every class except a survey of American lit and still graduated.

I failed the survey of American lit¹ (didn't finish the final paper).

For the next three years, I circumlocuted my way around the fact that I didn't actually graduate² until I finally got credit for that last class and got my diploma through an independent study with my academic advisor. Nobody actually checked to see if I graduated and the presence or absence of a BA wouldn't have mattered if I hadn't gone to grad school.

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1. I was working full time while taking classes full time which is not a recipe for academic success. I passed the other classes I was taking, at least.

2. For the record, this was my second of four droppings out of college in my checkered academic career.
My resume is quite similar. On the bottom, I have a link to something that I'm quite proud of under a small heading titled, "Ask me about it!" I've been interviewing passively / casually for the last 18 months. I've spoke to a couple dozen different organizations in that time. I've had exactly 1 person ask me about it. I've thought about removing it from my resume with the thought that maybe people are just put off by it.
How else are you supposed to get the next numbers from the machine?
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Amazon permanently disables Cloud Cam Devices
Below is the email Amazon sent out to customers who have purchased Amazon Cloud Cams. After December they will no longer work.

“To our valued Cloud Cam customer,

With your help over the last five years, Cloud Cam has served as a reliable indoor security camera and a hub for Amazon Key-compatible smart locks that work with Alexa. As the number of Alexa smart home devices continues to grow, we are focusing efforts on Ring, Blink, and other technologies that make your home smarter and simplify your everyday routines. Therefore, we have decided to no longer continue support for Amazon Cloud Cam and its companion apps.

What this means for you:
On December 2, 2022, you will no longer be able to use your Cloud Cam device or its companion apps. Until then, you will be able to download any video recordings if available. All video history will be deleted on December 2, 2022.

What’s next:
To thank you for your continuous support and feedback, we would like to offer you a complimentary Blink Mini and one-year Blink Subscription Plus Plan. Blink Mini offers customers an easy-to-use, indoor security camera experience with 1080p HD video, 2.4 GHz Wifi connectivity, night vision, motion detection, two-way audio, and works with Alexa. The Blink Subscription Plus Plan provides extra features and benefits for Blink devices – learn more https://support.blinkforhome.com/en_US/subscriptions/purchasing-a-blink-subscription-plan-through-amazon#plans.

Prior to December 2, 2022, you will receive detailed instructions on how to redeem your free Blink Mini and Blink Subscription Plus Plan via email.

Downloading and deleting your video recordings:
To back up your videos from Cloud Cam app, go to Recorded Clips in the top right menu. Click on each individual video and click on the Download icon on the right side to save the video or click on the Trash icon next to it to delete the video. You could also delete all videos on Amazon Manage Your Content and Devices at any time.

If you have any questions about this, please reach out to customer service for additional information.

Sincerely,
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No. There's about a 22/365 chance that somebody has a birthday on that day.
But this is getting close to the intuition.
Go through the 23 people. For each one of them, there's about a 22/365 somebody else in the group has the same birthday as they do.
So adding these probabilities up over all 23, you get 23 * 22/365.
Of course, adding up the probabilities is obviously wrong since the events are not independent (and 23 * 22/365 > 1) but it gives the intuition that the probability of a shared birthday grows like N^2.
[and actually, you can add up expectations]
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There are many more conspiracies in plain sight.
A work in progress guide about web scraping in python, anti bot softwares and techniques and so on. Please feel free to share and contribute with your own experience too.
Yes. Elite hedge funds, private equity firms, etc. all care about academic credentials. Even within quant firms lots of Harvard grads will look to see if a candidate is a "Math 55er" and the grade received in the course if so.
> s for bad style, the same could be said about a random person in a forum shaming the many hours of work by a diverse group of hard working individuals putting their work up for free.

Regardless of your intentions or how truthful that is, this bit will only make the point your trying to make weaker and needlessly antagonize any potential user.

Or, if you want a shorter version, you unintentionally made yourself look like a dick here.
Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2011)
When considering the spread of post-biological intelligence we should also spend some time thinking about what the substrate on which it exists would look like. Even just working out a likely size for such a substrate would be informative. It might turn out that we are looking for relatively small objects in orbit around stars. Would we even stand a chance of finding a single such object? Could there be one orbiting the Sun? If so, there could be an alien civilization with trillions of individuals existing in our solar system. We'd have little chance of contacting them unless they decided to speak to us or we managed to accidentally identify them through a telescope.
> landlines as a reliable emergency line

Unfortunately, carriers are letting POTS rot.

It is arguably unreliable now in some places. My grandmother's land line (semi-rural Ohio) goes out every few months and it usually takes a week or so for them to fix it. When we talked to them at one point, they suggested she get a cell phone.

Just another example of how planning for quarterly reports causes massive value destruction.
Useful is in the eye of the behold... that's largely the point. No one can judge what or how "useful" something is besides the rightful owner of the asset. That includes cash (under a mattress), bonds, stocks, options, toilet paper, apples, bananas, etc.

If short term bills are serving a "useful economic function" and "in-the-mattress savings" does not... then there must be some asset that serves "the most useful economic function". No? Are you suggesting to know the true intrinsic value of all assets?

So, to assert that "Devaluing in-the-mattress savings is a good thing" one needs to assume that this objective way to measure value exists. Otherwise how can we [de]value things if we can't objectively valuate them?

Unfortunately, since the value theory of labor fails in so many ways where the subjective theory of value does not, it's hard to see your rational as anything but an appeal to authority.

Continuing a mindless appeal to authority just leads to tyranny. And therein lies the slippery slope.
I spent a few day in Ulanbataar and then went on a horse trek in the Altai in 2014. Ulanbataar felt, to me, like a post-soviet city bursting at the seams with informality (which it is). The main plaza with its status of Ghengis Khan is something but I got the sense that the locus of Mongolian culture is outside the cities.

The Altai was amazing. The horse trek was an organised affair (through Zavkhan trekking) and struck that sweet spot between immersion and comforts. Comfort preferences vary but we got hot meals, someone else dug our pit latrine, but we still had to pitch our tents. On horseback or not, I highly recommend it.
You can do this across the whole index if you want already, and many sources do report annual changes only: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA

As for why a moving average isn't used for this one price, if they did it that way prices would be 12 months old and wouldn't reflect the most up-to-date economic conditions.
Well yeah, there are tons of empty "booths" just without phones. They're commonly used by drug dealers as stash points / occupied by homeless. Admittedly, while living in NYC I'd use them to duck out of the rain on occasion :)
Student evaluations are part of how faculty retention/promotion are determined. Evaluations correlate most strongly to the student's final grade.
The old electric Chevy Spark was a great one for an around-town car.

But the new gas Spark gets the same fuel economy as the Saturn I bought in 1999, which--to drive the point home on how zero we've come in terms of compact car fuel economy--was 23 years ago.

It's a pity about lack of smaller cars in the US. I've always preferred them, whether cross country or around town. Cheaper to buy, cheaper to own, easier to park, harder to crash.
You would have loved the 90's!
Intel AVX-512 a Big Win for JSON Parsing Performance
I agree fully with you but I don't think secret management is as easy/cheap as some people pretend. On AWS, for example, each secret you store is $0.40 + $0.05 per 10,000 API calls and that can add up if you only have 1 api key/password/etc per "Secret" (for an individual at least, I hate bleeding off $10+/mo to store tiny bits of strings). Then, once you have the secret stored, you need setup roles/policies to be able to retrieve them.

I have this setup pretty well in my code now but getting there wasn't simple or easy from my perspective and keeping the list of secrets your IAM user can access up to date can be a pain as well.

I'm working in a lambda environment so my options might be more limited but I'm interested to see how other people are solving this issue (maybe specifically for small/side projects). As it stands my lambdas all get a role applied to them that gives them access to the secrets but something not AWS-specific would need a "bootstrap secret" to be injected before the code could call out to the third-party to get the other secrets. For Lambdas I suppose I could inject that "bootstrap secret" in via environmental variables but now I've got a new issue to deal with. Injecting at build time via something like GitHub Actions Secrets is an option I guess.

All that to say, while I agree secrets should never be in source, in practice it's not super easy (I'd love to be proven wrong, maybe I'm not doing it right).
Amusingly enough, in a mass-review situation like with the Lyft driver, there really are only two options, 5 star or 0 star (or whatever the lowest is) - as everything else is sub-optimal in actually affecting the rating.

They should switch to a "would you ride again y/n" instead.
The population in general continues to grow much faster than the number of people admitted to Ivy League schools. So it stands to reason that the few who manage to get in are going to uncharacteristically intelligent and driven, even compared to previous Ivy League cohorts. Which will drive up GPAs.

Honestly, if the median GPA at Harvard was less than a 3.5, then that would raise questions. Because it means that either grading is unfair -- i.e., grading on a curve, rather than on an understanding of the material -- or that students aren't as capable as the school's reputation implies.
This looks awesome, and almost sounds too good to be true. Certainly I'll be investigating this one some more. I wonder what the expected lead time is for a pre-order? (and what the actual lead time might be). Couldn't quite tell from a quick glance if any have been delivered and what their run-rate is. Anyone know if it would qualify for the $7,500 federal tax credit?

https://fueleconomy.gov/feg/taxevb.shtml
What do the links you posted have to do with Marxism?
You're assuming that the daily commute is short for most people.

I live in a fairly dense US city, and there is a fair percentage of downtown office workers that live more that 40 miles out, which given the routes they have to take and the traffic involved can often take 45 minutes to an hour.
Uvalde police confronted the shooter outside but feared being outgunned by the AR-15 : they eventually let him in and took an hour before entering the classroom just for that reason.

So yes, it did make a difference (and also shows that "let's arm teachers" is a ridiculous solution)
Apache Camel: Create and run your own Yahoo Pipes
I wouldn't say someone should choose the University of MD over Harvard, since many potential employers would not know how to map a 4.0 MD GPA onto a Harvard scale. If you're between Harvard and Penn, and Penn gave you a great scholarship, that's a bit easier. Maybe for UC Berkeley even. But if you get too far out of the ballpark people will (1) assume you didn't get into any top-notch schools, and (2) not know how to compare your success at a lower-ranked school to moderate success of your peers at top-rated schools.

Full disclosure: I went to the top-rated college I got into, and purposely chose not to go to the top-ranked law school that I got into. The difference wasn't huge (UCLA vs Michigan), but it did mean I wasn't in the top-10. But I saved a bunch in tuition, and that allowed me to have the flexibility to leave the law several years later and bootstrap a startup. OTOH, maybe I would have had an amazing legal career had I gone to Michigan!
A friend who got his MS at Penn State then went to get his PHD at American University was told by his boss when grading students, that he had to give "Genteleman's Cs" to people because their "parents paid a ton of $ to get them here." He/She was used to giving out real grades at state schools.
Are those emergency telephones, or the "press big button, speak into mic" public safety call posts? Can't order a pizza or call a cab on the latter I'm afraid.
Here is the sketch note of the entire post as well.

https://architecturenotes.co/content/images/size/w1600/2022/...
No, its because 10-20 years after you graduate, no one asks you for your GPA at Harvard but they certainly think you are a genius just because you went there (you could graduate with a 2.0 GPA). As opposed to average state school guy with a 4.0 GPA. Many years after you graduate, you regularly get asked where you went to school but rarely asked "what was your GPA". This isn't even mentioning the type of whiz kids or socially powerful people you can befriend at these type of institutions. Steve Ballmer is smart but if he didn't meet Bill Gates, i doubt he would ever have become a multi billionare.
The issue is mostly the timeline. "recharging" your petrol car is a few orders of magnitude faster than an EV. If I'm doing a long drive of 100 miles, I now need to make sure I recharge before coming back to make sure I'm not stranded, since unlike a petrol car, if I run out of battery charge, I can't just have a friend drive out with a gallon of battery to get me going again.
How about get rid of your fake GAN-faced reviews?
It's called diversity. There is no right or wrong.
After even 2 years post-graduation those grades will only be inspected for McKinsey/Bain/BCG consulting positions and maybe some corporate executive-track / future C-suite-potential type roles.

Almost no one will ever use them for hiring decisions.

But also curious how much of the grade inflation is driven by increasing selection bias. With the bar to get into top schools is raised higher and higher, maybe most of the students really are earning their inflated grades?
Right, but it makes no sense that Harvard's grade distribution is so different than schools with similarly strong student bodies like Princeton, Columbia, UChicago, Berkeley, etc.

Also keep in mind that a very, very large portion of students are legacy / recruited athletes / very wealthy donor parents.
You need hard seperation on roads between cars and pedestrian traffic regardless of size. That has been shown to be true. Most european countries keep resisting this, again because their streets are way to small, but everyone would be happier if you fixed it.
Simon, I have a wish list item for Datasette, pagination of ad-hock queries. I know thats a really difficult thing to implement as it would require parsing and altering the sql query, but with large datasets it would be so useful!

(Love Datasette!)
You've been breaking the HN guidelines frequently. Please stop posting ideological flamewar comments or we will have to ban you.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31531832 also. That flamewar was particularly egregious and you were one of the worst offenders.

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Yeeep, Honda Fits arent sold anymore and and good luck finding a Prius in the lot without going out of state.
> If you had that ability, investing in another asset at the same leverage level (such as shares) would net you even more financial income (obviously, its higher risk).

This sounds like Reddit "live in your Mom's basement to save on rent" type financial advice. It doesn't work if you have to use that money to pay rent. Rents tend to be about the same or more than a mortgage. If you happen to live in an area where rents are considerably lower than a mortgage than this is an outside possibility, but this also depends on your rents not skyrocketing over the course of 30 years. One of the great things about 30 year fixed loans is that they allow you to ride out market insanity.

This is the dirty little secret of these housing bubbles. It's mostly the poor who get seriously burned, because people with money have mortgages. They don't have to find a way to pay a rent that increased 40% this year. In fact many of the people are the landlords who are enjoying a massive windfall thanks to the housing crisis. They have an incentive to make sure it continues.
Doesn't T-Mobile USA have a free international roaming deal or something for North America + Mexico? Also back in the day Verizon had a "US+Canada" sub that was quite reasonable (not unlimited but nothing was back then).
Dunno how Harvard works but where I work in the UK, in the unlikely event we had a cohort full of Einsteins they would all get firsts (hoping we're smart enough to recognise genius when we see it lol). We have an absolute sense of what each level of attainment should look like, and don't grade to a bell curve.
It can be a pretty good market! Personally I've spent my entire career as a furry artist drawing stuff I enjoy bringing into the world, and the vast majority of my clients have been pretty chill. Lots of slightly-socially-awkwards IT types with active imaginations who are happy to pay me a pretty good rate to put their dreams into concrete imagery.
It was immediately obvious for me it's a child's ear and connotation is good for me.
The Technical Pay Gap
oh dear. ok my email is shawn at airbyte.io

but just for reference you can also make a post at https://discuss.airbyte.io/ and our support team will prioritize/get back to you asap
I don't believe this is actually the case. I spent 15 years driving in the US. I'd say 95% of my trips or so were under 6 miles.
If you continue to post like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31484029 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31455957, we will ban you. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. No more of this, please.

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Electric cars are absolutely the solution. No one wants to live in your slow mass transit fantasy world. On the other hand we have no problem installing solar/battery systems to charge our own vehicles. Invest in that, drive down prices, and make it more affordable. That's a realistic option. Not owning a car is a non-starter in America. And given the amount of cars sold around the world every year, pretty much everywhere else as well. It really doesn't matter how you get around, what matters is where the energy is coming from. Focus on the root of the problem.
My own fun math mind reading trick: https://sambernheim.com/blog/the-party-math-trick
And at MIT the maximum grade is a 5.0
(A=5, B=4, C=3... etc)
I've been using DuckDb a fair bit recently and really enjoy it... When it has slightly better ide support (eg, I can use it in pycharm) and can take in geospatial data, I'll be ecstatic.
> Oh goodie we have an outlier of a country which we can hold as an example of the majority of the world.

"Addressing the Quality Change Issue in the ConsumerPrice Index" by US BLS (1997):

* https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/addressing-the-quali...

"On quality bias and inflation targets" in Journal of Monetary Economics (2014):

* http://www.columbia.edu/~mu2166/quality_bias/quality_bias.pd...

I'm sure all these peer-reviewed folks are wrong about calculating the CPI and measuring inflation, and you're right. That the academic researchers, pension funds, futures traders, bond traders, union negotiators… all those folks missed this. But you… you've blown the whole thing right open.

The other possibility is that perhaps the professionals know what they're measuring and the pros-and-cons of various metrics.
In countries with socialized health care, the high tax on tobacco does not cover the costs of treating cancer patients : https://www.science-environnement.com/modes-de-vie/les-taxes...

It's a mistake to believe the tax is here to fund "whatever activities"
Easy answer - because cars are a status symbol. Safety possibly plays a role too.
Digging deeper/building taller lets you removing parking roadside and street level though that makes things way more walkable and just better in a lot of places.
Wow... I'd actually forgotten these even ever existed until I read this comment, so I guess you're right... What a blast from the past!
In Thailand they use Toyotas as Taxi Cabs. They have a drop in electric engine for the Toyotas and replace the gas tank with batteries and have a small palm tree like device that has solar panels on it. One charge lasts all day. Why can't we do that for old cars in the USA?