skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a question of if we value it - we have yet to automate trades, and we still require tradespeople to carry out the day to day work of construction and manufacturing. There's nothing wrong with that, as there are many people who'd rather work with their hands as opposed to sitting in front of a computer.

So long as people have ready access to a trade education if they want it, the wages afforded to various professions should be sufficient to handle the distribution of students into the future - clearly, degrees are still desirable enough to the alternative that trade wages will have to go higher before more people start moving into it.
This page really drills into you how pathetic this settlement is. Less than $3 per affected person for something that affects over a hundred million people.

And as if to rub salt in the wound:

> 3. I don’t want Equifax to have my data. What can I do?

> Equifax is one of three national credit bureaus. These companies collect information about your credit history, such as how many credit cards you have, how much money you owe, and how you pay your bills. Each company creates a credit report about you, and then sells this report to businesses who are deciding whether to give you credit. You cannot opt out of this data collection. However, you can review your credit report for free and freeze your credit.
A couple things:

- I just picked one at random. I'm sure the bleeding edge is harder to get and datasheets are harder to get, but I wasn't trying to find the newest or best.

- the specific subthread here is about the diy-ishness of ssds vs. spinning rust, where the difficulties are of a fundamentally different kind. I feel like it goes without saying that a home built ssd is not going to perform to the level of mass production devices, the question was just can you.
I would much rather have that over the Jakarta Method.
Incredible how bad the security posture is for companies like this. This should be illegal.
If you made it this far, I hope you enjoyed, and thanks for reading! If you're interested in the screenshots I took periodically as the sim went on, or the ones in the end showing the stat breakdowns and graphs of how stuff turned out, let me know. If anyone cares I'd be willing to crop and organize them and post 'em up as an imgur album. :)
Maybe contact Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs? I bet you could write to the guy and get some response. They aren’t manufacturing drugs but may be able to help. Or just contact XYZ large generic drug manufacturer in India
Around 2010 I went freelance and was shopping for medical insurance. I'd been on Blue Shield from a previous employer plan and liked them, so I compared their plans.

I was taking one prescription medication that cost $195/month if you paid full retail price. The two plans I was comparing had a $100/month difference in premiums. They were pretty similar in most ways, but the more expensive plan had full coverage for this medication (minus a $20/month copay), and the cheaper plan did not cover it at all.

This was a no-brainer, right? Obviously the more expensive plan would be the better deal.

Some years later I happened to join Kaiser, and their pharmacy page listed the actual cost of the medication: $23/month without insurance, not $195. And if I bought a 100 day supply the total copay for the three month+ refill was $30.

Out of curiosity I checked Blinkhealth and GoodRx, and yes, they each showed a total cost of about $23/month cash payment with no insurance.
A $5k car is probably not very safe compared to newer cars. It might not hold as many passengers as you need (especially if your family gets bigger over time). Or it might get lousy gas mileage.

As for moving to a state with sensible tax rates, I think the moving costs or proximity to family/jobs would probably swamp the tax benefit for most people. But in the long run, people will surely take these factors into account (and perhaps are already, given recent trends!).
Anyone here looking to build tools for TikTok? Seeing it usurp every other social network so fast has me looking into opportunities
Just like with tech, Americans are the worst engineers. That's why they import all the Asian and Russian engineers to build their products.
Imagine the 'indirect effect' that these kinds of things have on discussions throughout the industry.

Reddit just had a discussion about the video 'Fat' (i.e. 'Bad') by Weird Al Mocking Michael Jackson.

It 'couldn't be made today' first because it wouldn't even be pitched in the first place - too much risk. They'll try another idea.

Maybe it's 'not nice' in 2022 to use the term 'fat' - or, maybe it's not so bad, and we're just too concerned about everything - the point is - the concept won't ever really be 'thought of' because everyone is aware of the 'new rules'. It's a form of systematic oppression. It's all over the place.

I suggest we should probably err on the side of expression as long as people aren't directly doing something obviously hateful.

Especially in non-populist channels like academia.

Fox News will always find 'something' to harp on, let's not worry about what they have to say, unless we're in some kind of emergency i.e. war, insurrection, pandemic.

Let's publish, create, then talk about it.
It should be priced at the maximum value someone is willing to pay for it… and naturally in market economy it often will. The Artist needs to also make a living and not all of their artwork will sell at earth shattering prices. It seems just as arbitrary to limit the price of the item to a fraction of the value of a single item. I do wish more art was auctioned rather than come with a fixed price tag to make the market more fluid and less egotistical.
I'm assuming the parent is referring to the much later Wolfenstein 3D.
The possibilities are endless (albeit enumerable), sure - that's the chuckle - it's a given from the outset and flows from the axioms of the game.

This paper doesn't take a broad view and show that many things are possible, it takes a narrow view and demonstrates that one specific thing (among many) is possible.

ie. a dull trite result.

The fact that many possiblies can follow from evolution does bring any specific light to bear on the actual extent reality of human evolution as it is today.

The same arguments here that show it is possible for a mechanism of weights to favour more variation in males can equally be used to show that weights exist to favour more variation in females, or, as in the case of spider, that weights could exist to favor a size variation in which females dwarf males.

Fascinating .. but an abstract result that sheds nothing on the current extant actuality.
As sucky as this is, I still prefer the Steam model (and the chance of something like this happening) over a bunch of dusty disks and trying to find the latest patch on some sketchy website.
High-energy physicists make up theories for the mechanisms behind phenomena that may or may not even exist all the time.

One can question the utility of this but no one strings up such authors for heresy.
Do you know of some place where there are still nerds into neat tech problems?
Isn't TiKTok doing a better job than incumbents like Twitter, IG?
I don't know, maybe in your country this correct, but the video spread out across whole world. even in same country, it is probably that there are different species in different regions. the only way can escape this is maybe ladybugs will die soon in urban/city, but is this a good behaviour we hope kids learning? bringing so many creatures and let them died for fun are bad.
You are just reinforcing my "clueless and naivete" comment about your posts;

>By edgy Internet users. The state had already sent condolences through official diplomatic channels. Do you believe trending Twitter hashtags as official statements from entire countries as well?

No, the state-owned media were more nuanced in their attack. See the commentary from the state-owned "Global Times" - https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202207/1270082.shtml. Also keep in mind that Internet media is officially "The Fifth Estate" and is used by Govts. the world over to influence public policy. It would be foolish to dismiss them all.

>You think one person did it single-handedly?

Again, you have no idea what you are talking about. Abe was instrumental in getting India into the Quad which is no mean achievement given that India wanted no part of it in the beginning. He also shared military intelligence with India which has never been done before and was willing to bankroll the entire thing. See - https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/shinzo-abe-controver...

>He's not the first senior party member in the LDP. Previous ones don't directly meddle with current government policy or it would be a constitutional crisis.

Abe was very very different from previous Japanese politicians in that he was more assertive w.r.t. military matters, was willing to put money where his mouth was and in a word was a "doer".

I urge a study of Geopolitics for personal edification.
True? But I wouldn’t call creating new data from non-anonymous data “making data anonymous”. Instead, that’s new random data whose values are constrained or based on real-world data. I’d call that newly generated data, not anonymized data.

To me, anonymized data has an inherent risk of leaking the original transaction because it is a one-to-one mapping of the original data. If you generate new data, it will by definition diverge from the production dataset in some way that might be unrealistic. For example, fields with address components might not actually point to real places, or might not be written the same way as they would be in production. Perhaps a portion of production data includes international addresses or rural routes that your software might fail to generate, or worse, maybe it would generate them incorrectly.

Frankly, generating data is a better approach than anonymized data. And I know of anonymization techniques where good data is mixed with bad data and statistically, the bad data can be filtered out later but only in aggregate, etc. But I’m drawing a line in the sand between anonymized data that closely matches real data, and that which is “generated data”, because you can still potentially learn from the anonymized data but you can’t learn from generated data much more than you would from the initial model that created the constraints used to generate the data. I’m probably explaining this poorly, it’s a bit late at night in my time zone. :)
What do you mean barely feasible? C is basically a slightly abstracted/elevated syntax with a particular calling convention on assembly language, and PDP-11 is just a computer (that i remember too).
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A) if the situation is so dry and boring that you’re joking all the time, find a more exciting / engaging / challenging situation. I know your job is great, you _are_ engaged, excited, yadda yadda yadda (so was I). But when you find something that really knocks your socks off, and demands you to be your best, you’ll joke less. You’ll probably still joke some, but the jokes are less, better timed, and hit harder. The crowds usually better in these situations too. Comedy’s a powerful tool.

B) I don’t recommend this to the uninitiated, but you can try just getting kinda high before the boring situations. This helps because 1) you’re a little stoned, so inane details seem more vivid / interesting. And 2) you’re probably a little paranoid about whether other folks know you’re high, so you joke less. Being high all the time killed my dopamine though, so I quit permanently after a couple years. Got me through the boring stuff (shoutout school, my first couple dev roles), but much preferred the sober exciting stuff (option a).

Throwaway because well, you know, the above is very personal experience.
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Yes, it's true that stock photos usually have this "checkbox diversity" where the photo must contain one of each (one white, one black, one man, one woman, etc)
Rarely profit. But it goes towards higher salaries, larger administrations, financial aid, and various amenities that today's college-bound kids' parents demand, like comfortable dorms, gyms, etc. College in the 80s didn't look much like college today.

For many schools, the actual cost the average student pays has not changed as much as the sticker price. One reason is that some colleges discovered they could price discriminate: by charging $XXk/yr as the sticker price, they could let in some fraction of students who can afford to pay full fare, and use that money to offer financial aid to the students they want to attract but who can't pay full fare. Another reason is that basically no college competes on being less expensive, because that might imply that they're not "worth it".
has been reflected in the student body as well in some ways? tia
Two things can be problems. The solution to a fire is not to add more fire or gasoline.
Business Insider hired an analytics firm named Numerator to create a report that finds on the average Costco customer [0]. I couldn't find the original data or report in Business Insider's summary, but from its article:

"Numerator found that Costco's typical shopper in the US is an Asian American woman between 35 and 44 years old who is married and living in a city in the Pacific Northwest. (Costco was founded in Seattle and is based in Washington.) She typically has a four-year degree or higher level of education and earns more than $125,000 a year."

I'm not sure whether the income of the "typical shopper" was defined based on a median or mode, so there could well be a large variance of customers with a lower socioeconomic status. A separate article by Investopedia [1] also asserts that Costco mostly opens stores in affluent suburban areas, and originally targeted college-educated and financially wealthier customers.

So, Costco's customers are likely skewed to have a higher socioeconomic status, based on the location of most of its stores in wealthier suburban areas and findings from an analytics report (with some skepticism towards the article about the report, as the raw data and methods weren't shared, as far as I could see).

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-costco-shopper-demog...

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/061516/whats-...
Not unheard for me too: it seemed for some that having both parents with PhDs, and a partner too, basically made them feel like they needed one.

Plenty going on in such a phenomenon I feel. There’s the relative directionless-ness that can plague smart people coming out of unchallenging high school environments; the often accompanying “prestige for the sake of prestige” logic that you can get in middle-upper class culture, and, IMO, the inflated value and prestige of actually having a PhD in the modern (ie production-line) education system. A healthy dose of cynicism about the corporate world is often involved too I’d say.

I personally find it unfortunate how classist and stupid Grad school would feel at times.
Standard procedure. Who knows what customer or other data is on an employee laptop seized in a raid. If they have a justification for accessing the data, the authorities can get a search warrant from a judge to have the company produce that information. They don’t get to riffle around in a laptop looking for whatever.
Invading a country is the opposite of self-determination, and justifying invasion based on an abstracted universalism was also used by the British empire.
UK response to China's tech ambitions labelled 'incoherent and muted'
286 was a very shitty system: it had only a beeper, practically no DMA, no graphics hardware acceleration of any kind (not even hardware scrolling; sprites were science fiction). Almost everything in that shitty PC bucket was driven by the processor, and that processor was dog slow.
and a con artist
He could be an excellent journalist or critic. But he chose to write a comment on HN instead.
More societal good would be done if governments enacted policies which help people instead of relying on charity from the wealthy...

Also watchmaking is blue collar work.
what? how? how can they sell it for $195 then? pharmacy knows if you have insurance and then sells it to you for a more expensive pricetag?
not at all uncommon with other highly specialized professions either.

MD's kids are 24x more likely to become MDs as well.
> They would love it if you could fix a vehicle instead of having to replace the entire thing, which is what the OEMs want.

The auto insurance industry knows how to influence car makers, they run the IIHS crash testing rating system, and they could probably also rate cars on repairability. Although, sometimes the safety features make it hard to repair, so there's some tradeoffs there.
Except all the weird/interesting cab stories are no longer going to happen.

Mine include:

Cabbie suggesting we pick up girl from bus stop on the way to club. we did and yes we had to pay the extra for his amusement.

Cabbie runs out of fuel. Gets help, gets to petrol station, wants to
charge us extra for the time!

Ordering 2 taxis just in case. Anger
ensues.

Cabbie looking on the floor for his phone while driving. Seemed stoned.

Doing a few hundred miles in a random cab because the whole train system was screwed up.
when was the last time China invaded another country and killed hundreds of thousands?
I really not interested in arguing good vs. evil, China VS US, but your blindness is just amazing!
Discovery+ has been a Godsend. It's much more entertaining and interesting than many other venues such as Hulu and Apple TV.

I also recommend Amazon Prime. You get access to many great titles, plus the option to buy individual titles that are often pretty moderately priced.
Similarly, macOS has had basic local grammar checking for text fields in native apps and Safari for around a decade now.
Put differently: we want market economies to be about satisfying the greatest need. In practise, they're about satisfying the greatest ability to pay. And ability to pay does not come with need -- it comes with privilege, luck, and political skill.
My kid was in quarantine like 5 times within 6 weeks, got tested twice a week and guess what, still whole class got it anyway while ruining their education and everybody was fine, it was just big waste of everyone's time - children, teachers and parents.

I'm working from home for many years and guess what who had COVID first in our family, so much for anecdotal experiences.

> You cannot make the case that closing schools does not reduce contact and spread of sickness and death.

Obviously reducing contact reduces contact, but it doesn't mean in real life conditions it somehow reduces spread of sickness, that's just wishfull thinking of people admiring Chinese totalitarians, who implemented Chinese nonsense through this pandemic to democratic societies.
I'm enjoying how unhinged some of these comments are sounding. Should make for a good case study later on.
It can be a bit of a complex process. But basically, what can happen often when we seem to struggle in a particular aspect of life, the "solution" can be somewhere else.

What's important to do often is to assess the various aspects of your life to see whether things are going well. Many things can seem "fine" on the surface, but maybe they are not really giving you what you need. Depending on what kind of person you are, you may need something meaningful to invest in, or maybe you benefit greatly from having supportive relationships, or maybe your job is draining you, or all of the above, etc etc.

Once you got some of those important things sorted, you can evaluate your FOMO tendency more "objectively". For me, eventually I realized I didn't really care much for the stuff I was collecting as compared to other aspects of life. At least, it wasn't worth the effort and the time/attention it took away from the other things.

Always ready to talk more about this and other related things. My email's in my profile if you're interested. Good luck!
> There is no such thing as hardware obsolescence

I guess if you assume that computation requires no energy…
That's what I thought. My only qualm was I found an old reddit comment calling it "open source."
They had to be "cleared of wrongdoing" after they criticized a mathematics paper?

The morality police in the US aren't so different than in other places.
Mechanical watch pricing has become silly. The Rolex Submariner, a useful tool in the 1950s for mariners and pilots, sold for $150 in 1953, or about $1500 now. It now costs about $8950. Same item. “Rolex is not in the watch business, we are in the luxury business” - attributed to a Rolex chairman.
Dude, no matter what anyone says, you don't have to fit in with other people or any framework in society. That's the type of person you are, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Yes, everyone wants some prick to change for the better, and sometimes it even happens. But who decides how much of an arsehole a person is? Where is the line after which a person needs to make an effort to become "normal"?

That line is blurred. I doubt that you're abnormal or a real villain. Just be yourself!
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Report cited in article, Encoding values: Putting tech at the heart of UK foreign policy [1]

- Third Report of Session 2022–23

Author: Foreign Affairs Committee

Published: 8 July 2022

[1] https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmfaff...
What Is Becovi Search?
Because no one wants to sit and wait around wondering if a car will show up?

> Dispatching worked fine when you had to call a phone number.

Dispatching absolutely did not work fine when you had to call a number. You were often left twiddling your thumbs wondering if a car will actually show up.

> The app could literally be an interface to texting.

Why not start your own competitor then? I'm sure it will be easy to create such a simple app. Better include some load-balancing, because I'm sure everyone will rush to use your featureless app instead of these other apps with nice interfaces, that show you exactly where the car is, with accurate ETAs, integrated payment, safety features, etc.

Have you ever even used the Uber app?
I would like to draw the attention to the precise wording around the statistics:

"""
In 1970, just 1 in 5 U.S.-born PhD graduates in economics had a parent with a graduate degree. Now? Two-thirds of them do, [...]
"""

These numbers (1/5, 2/3) refer to US-born PhD graduates (in economics).

But the number of US-born PhD students is very small. The vast majority of PhD students are immigrants.
Somewhere there's a grandma that still has a garage full of toilet paper thanks to getting in the door early.
Uber works like a terrorist organization. Their city teams work like terrorist sleeper cells...no office, no call center only email contact. They bribe, they buy, they infiltrate and they have a huge fanatical base who won't listen anything against them.
Quartz watches are not shitty or small. They are more accurate and reliable than mechanical watches.

(I say this as an owner of several mechanical watches. I love them, but they are strictly worse than anything decently priced in any watch store.)
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They wouldn’t say it like that, but there are plenty of citations that easily fall in the bucket of negative treatment, at least in biochem, health science, environment and ecology... What you describe is a neutral treatment, and is probably the most prevalent type of citation.
Lots of things predate Stonehenge. Come on BBC.
The standard $60 a year membership can pay for itself fairly quick just in gasoline price savings (often 20c or more better than other local stations) if you happen to frequently drive along a freeway that has a Costco on your route.

Can easily be a $8 per tank difference.