skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Electrical engineer is AFAICT a protected term in some places and not others, so you legally can't do that everywhere.

I've repeatedly stated you can practice in the capacity of an engineer without a PE except in some exceptional circumstances. IDK why on earth you would equate "you can be an engineer" to "you can be in every single case." You don't even have to have the 'Electrical Engineer' 'term' title to do electrical engineer things in most cases, this is a total red herring.

>By the time you find out, it is too late. See also "The Market for Lemons".

Apparently not, because here and now we're discussing why EE programs are lemons . I've heard the same 'lemon' statement from plenty of people that washed away in the horrible attrition during my undergrad EE. The program wasn't a lemon -- those students were the lemons.

>University is a protected term in many places, so again, you can't "freely" do that. This is to protect against the information asymmetry that the potential students have, precisely because of the aforementioned lemon market issues if they don't, and even then it's not perfect.

"University" and "college" are not federally protected terms in US and many other places. But if you want to go one of those other places, fine, call it a "training institute." You're never going to find a completely free market, just because you are free to do something doesn't mean you are free to do it precisely how you like. You are free to work at McDonalds but that doesn't mean you won't be fired if you show up wasted half the time.

>Except the potential students don't have any way to determine that until at a minimum of 15 years after you start, even if they're unusually highly informed and highly motivated. And university tuition fees in many places are fixed, so you don't get more reward than any other teacher.

Great more entitlement. You're not entitled to have your business be instantly successful. You can start a private service teaching people if you want control of your own salary. If the market doesn't choose you, then you can make sad statements about how the "market is uninformed." Good luck.
Note that there's quality creep in any established institution. Disneyland's attractions on opening day weren't all that different from a local carnival:

https://touringplans.com/disneyland/attractions/opening-date...

Favorites like Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion didn't open until the late 1960s, a decade after the park did, and Space Mountain & Thunder Mountain didn't open until the late 1970s.
There is definitely a debt, but primary industries aren't what they were when Europe and North America were deforesting. To use that an a justification now is a weak argument when there are alternatives that would add more value to the economy.
Human agency gives rise to economic observation, not the opposite. But their observation after the fact has been leveraged by lawmakers to dictate agency valuable to politicians.

The public has neither authority or intelligence to falsify it; so yeah it’s essentially the same “believe us cause you have no choice” thinking.

So we end up with specialized collective agency capture based upon the obvious; humans do things. May as well convince them there’s a very specific reason (nation state pride and success) built upon outdated philosophy.

Economists get the order of operations of their math right. They’re just not saying anything that’s mathematically interesting. It’s daily life logistics.

Fake social media accounts are linked to instigating the Zack Snyder JL cut, fraudulent asset value statements come up all the time when it comes to Trump and friends. The valuations economists rely on are made up. May as we’ll be magic.
If you are like me and wondering "What makes carbon different from Rust or Zig?

1. The ability to interoperate with a wide variety of code, such as classes/structs and templates, not just free functions.

2. A willingness to expose the idioms of C++ into Carbon code, and the other way around, when necessary to maximize performance of the interoperability layer.

3. The use of wrappers and generic programming, including templates, to minimize or eliminate runtime overhead.

In otherwords, what carbon can do that Rust can't do, is take a C++ class with a `foo` method and call that method. Or create a class with a `foo` method and call that method from C++. Probably one of the biggest hurdles to get over in C++ interopt. Most don't do that, instead you'd make a C function binding and struct and move data/invoke functions through that.
You can read the full reasoning here as it is too long to fit in a HN comment: https://exrocketman.blogspot.com/2022/06/about-hypersonic-ve...
"Another way of doing it is by sharing polarising, unconventional ideas you have. These ideas will repulse those that are close minded towards your ideas and attract more people like you."

This is absolutely true, regardless of the medium - but the internet allows you to do this at scale. If you have an unconventional idea, it makes sense to try to seek out the few like minded people with whom you can discuss. However, in today's world I would be very cautious of encouraging anyone of building their own echo chamber. It's one thing to go against the grain and seek out like mindedness; it's another to live in an echo chamber.
Since you asked...

Social (popular) medias all eventually implode. Lifecycle maturity models and all that. Seems to me that Facebook and Twitter are well into the top of their S-curves. (I can't speak to TikTok.)

If I wanted to accelerate their demise, I'd attack their revenue. Like pop the digital advertising bubble. Congressional and criminal investigations into digital ad fraud would mosdef do the trick.

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If we could go back in time, perhaps lessons for whatever comes next, I'd advocate three general categories of reforms.

1) All the "well duh" stuff that Sen Mark Warner et al advocate. Here's the PR for SAFE TECH Act and Warner's white paper.

https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/2/warner...

https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/d/3/d32c2f...

And a layperson's summary:

https://diginomica.com/sen-mark-warners-15-common-sense-rule...

I particularly like clearly identifying bots. Some are authentic, legit activity. So not an outright ban of bots.

"Media literacy" is quixotic; I guess they want to say they tried.

I want to know more about "information fiduciaries"; see #3 below.

2) Nerf the algorithms, squelching instead of boosting viral content. Addressed by section 1.4 of this commission's recommendations. (Which also has a lot of "well duh" general purpose civil society stuff.)

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54901083

https://informationdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/...

3) Most radically: Individual property rights over personal data. My data is me. If someone is using my data in some economic way, I want my cut. This nicely dovetails (necessitates) the misc proposals of treating aggregated data as a liability, instead of as an asset. Which would totally flip the current script for investors, regulators, insurers, etc.

I've tried to understand the opposition to "personal data sovereignty" -- just came up with that, clever!, because I don't know what else to call it. I dimly recall some "privacy experts" in California concern trolling that state's initiatives. I think their reasoning was something like "we can't put a price on personal data because that'd encourage more collection". Um. Okay. Felt very cassandra, unattached to our reality. So a philosophical rather than a practical opposition, I suppose.

FWIW, talking about this stuff is really hard. My "pay me for using my data" proposal doesn't make sense unless the audience already understands the current ecosystem.

As I've said elsewhere, I worked on electronic medical records information exchanges. Our startup was bought by a national laboratory (Quest Diagnostics). I sat in various meetings and calls, with PHBs, lawyers, and other goons, brainstorming ways to further monetize medical records.

Back in the mid-aughts, every single participant (doctors, hospitals, labs, scripts, insurers, pharma) absolutely considered patient data as "theirs". And our potential partners like Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault and Cerner and EPIC were all hellbound in trying to figure out how to monetize it.

It was absolutely disgusting.
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Depends on the make. For my 2013 Volvo I can adjust some of the driving assistant configs (e.g. disable blind spot information) and switch the light to left-hand traffic. This won't explode the car, but might be enough control for some malware to cause an accident.
> The basic, economical attractions are still there if you look.

Yeah, I live in Baltimore, and my wife and I go with our toddler to a beach at a state park. It's a 30 minute drive away, little patch of sand on the banks of the Back River, no waves, not more than 4 feet deep at the deepest part of the swimming area. Lots of shaded picnic tables and we bring food from home. More than one playground if the little guy wants a change of pace from the water. Honestly perfect for us, since shallow, placid river water is a lot more fun for a toddler than straight-up ocean breakers, and big shade trees within a hundred feet saves us schlepping a shade structure.

It's 18 bucks plus gas for a full- to half-day outing.

We bring friends and they're always amazed that it was right under their noses - people in Maryland are just stuck on sitting in traffic for hours and paying for lodging to go to one of the big ocean beach destinations (e.g. Ocean City).
Well, the data structure is called a dynamic array
> It really sucks it was never ported to later versions of python since there's been nothing like it since.

I clearly remember a tool like that that was not on the desktop, from years and years ago. It was working quite well I'd say. For example you could draw a very crude sun and a blue sky (a simple example) and you'd get matching pictures. Now... It may just have been someone who wrapped ImgSeek and put it as a webapp: no clue. However I'm 100% positive I used an online tool exactly like what you're describing.
should have continued reading. they follow with "not so surprising".
Disney was a thing that my pretty average middle-class immigrant family was able to do. We would drive down from Northern California, stay at a cheap motel, and then go buy a general admission ticket. It was never a “for the rich” vacation.

In the last 10 years, Disneyland has become an activity for wealthy childless millennials, which is almost certainly driving up the costs and turning Disney from a middle class activity into a wealthy one. Disney, just like any other corporation is gladly taking their money.
Courtesy a rentier investor class intent on not sharing the growth of the economy with workers.
If nuclear was an easy solution the French reactors would be running. Or as the article states.

> In France, nuclear availability is currently at 24.8 GW, less than half the installed capacity of 61.4 GW due to safety checks at several reactors.

The real problem isn't electricity, it is natural gas as a feedstock for industry and for heating. There you don't have the same instant fungibility pure electricity brings, and nuclear can't magically solve either.
This is a very useful resource! Thanks to the author :)
I was looking exactly something like this as a DevOps Engineer who wants to play around during the spare time to sharpen my own skills but avoid using any company resources!
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Was looking for some guffaws this morning

Thanks for supplying!
One detail some might not realize is the fact that research code is often a heaping pile of garbage written by a single graduate student. Some are ashamed of their code and simply don't want to publish shit code. Also, strategically, it is probably better to _not_ publish code than risk being rejected by a future job interviewer because your research code is shitty and you didn't prioritize refactoring it.

With that being said, this is not an excuse for refusing to share paper code or making sure the experiments are reproducible.
Appreciate the link to Project Independence. Despite way too many late nights reading about atomic/nuclear history, somehow I missed this one.
> Imagine every scientist would say "In my experiment, I perfectly predicted this and that, oh but no one else would ever be able to run that experiment again, so just trust me, ok?"

I don't know much about this topic, but isn't this kind of what's happening with for instance the Large Hadron Collider? We seem to collectively trust the results from LHC experiments, even though no one can replicate them because there is only one LHC and AFAIK no one is building another particle accelerator for similar or greater energy levels. There's no guarantee that we'll see another particle accelerator of that scale in our lifetime.

It seems to me that your point implies that LHC experiments shouldn't be considered to be science, since they cannot practically be replicated any time soon (except at the LHC itself, which somewhat defeats the purpose of replication). But I (not a physicist) find myself quite trusting of their results tbh. I'm not sure I can fully articulate why, and I'm not sure I have a good reason for it.
"GERMAN NUCLEAR OPERATOR: WE CAN KEEP RUNNING, ONLY NEED "OK"
News clip has emerged showing that Chancellor Scholz and Economy Minister Habeck have been falsely claiming that nuclear plants cannot operate because of staffing and lack of fuel.

They only need political permission."

https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1548269133300543499
> we intend to run some more tests in the hopes of discovering a screen reading technique that yields material benefits. We're aware of a couple other technologies that seem interesting including BeeLine Reader, Spritz, and Sans Forgetica.

BeeLine founder here — feel free to reach out prior to your testing (nick@[domain]). We can share info on past testing and implementation techniques.

We've wondered about Sans Forgetica in the past, which may increase reading comprehension (at the expense of speed). It might be interesting to try a BeeLine/Forgetica test, to try to get the best of both worlds!
This is yet another instance of a phenomenon: When you have good outcomes and bad outcomes, and you take some preventative measures to reduce the likelihood of bad outcomes, as time goes by people start believing that the bad outcomes don't really exist and get rid of the preventative measures. Example, energy independence from Russia and shutting down nuclear reactors. Another example, people think there's no point in taking vaccines.
The US government does not agree with China that the US army created SARS-CoV-2 in a lab. But every scientist and rational person also doesn't agree with China. You're going to have to update your definition.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/vaccines-c...
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> The number of people working in agriculture is only shrinking

The number of people working doesn't matter. What matters is that the country gets through agriculture the resources needed to invest in the other sectors.
We had deaths reported just this week, by Sonia Guajajara who represents one of the most prominent indigenous people's association and is running in the next elections.

The thing is, in the end, its often poacher/miners shooting at unarmed people, often in the middle of the jungle, far away from the effective jurisdiction of whoever else would care. And the very insitutions that could oversee and act to prevent violence have been sistematically dismantled by the current fascist-in-chief, either by removing key people or by being financially strangled.

But hey, at least now you won't lose your license for speeding and buying ammo is easier than ever.
> I don't think our Congress actually cares about our economy enough to do something that smart.

Unfortunately it seems to be a pipe dream in most countries I know.

> But you also have the problem of those dollars then going towards labor and materials, which will keep demand there high, continuing inflationary pressure in those areas.

Yes, and I am not sure there really is a solution to that. I guess hiking interest rates would cause a shift from debt to the new income stream, but it would be complex as ideally you’d still want lower rates to stimulate investment. Probably an increase in corporation and capital taxes as well, but then I might as well wish for a unicorn.
I’m not sure why Germany thought that it would be a good idea to decommission nuclear energy in the first place. It’s the greenest energy source at scale!
I don't see any reference to it in the GH readme, but I do wonder what they call actual arrays (as in, fixed size allocations of memory that store a contiguously typed value).
We can agree on that.

My point was not that the current model is a good one, but rather that its problem is not one of generating wealth but rather one of distributing it, which you just demonstrated as well.

I guarantee you, I was not defending the current focus on developing /latifúndios/ at the expense of everything else.
the distinction feels somewhat arbitrary. the fact that you can also pedal doesn't make it not a motorcycle. it's just that electric motor take a lot less space so they look less bulky, but the functionality is the same
Would love to hear more about the specific needs and ways to help with hardware or manufacturing, if you can point me to somebody or drop me an email (address on my profile).
So if they do, it's fine to add another entity to the list?
But it's not the same vantage. You're literally standing below them. Their feet are at your chest, your head is at their butt level. By the time the teams bring out all of their gear like big fans, work out equipment, storage cases, etc, a large portion of your direct view of the field is blocked. Then, even if you do get a view of the field, once the ball gets to your part of the view, the teams all mass around to get the same view you are wanting so now it is a solid wall of legs.

It's a much better view as an on field something. I've been on the field as a credentialed photo/video person to so many stadiums. Been "on TV" more than once as I was caught near the action and people start texting "I saw you on TV" kind of stuff. I've even pulled another person out of the way as they were keyed in on the wrong part and the play was coming right at them (some people have zero situational awareness). That level of on field experience of sporting events is better than any suite experience.
Hopefully in the future, language models will be able to read books for us and summarize whether or not they’re worthwhile. Bumping from 200 wpm to 300 wpm doesn’t put a dent in the 100+ million books circulating in print.

Unrelated Readwise questions (love the work y’all do, thank you!)
- any idea when the chrome app will support multiple highlights in one go?
- is there a random quote API that references all sources at once?
- has the team considered adding semantic search to the app?
A large portion of this is due to the corporate enclosure of deep learning and machine learning that has occurred over the past 10 years. This, combined with the scale required for a lot of deep learning research, means that neither the code nor the resources required for reproduction are accessible outside of corporate labs.
I certainly hope so. Maybe we can now move boldly forward into a nuclear future since the Boomers got cold feet about it
Interestingly enough, Chicken Scheme has a library that allows for interop with C++ to this degree:

http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/bind#c-notes
actually that is pretty decent for a vendor
For me, it was a little surprising that there was no effect at all. For whatever reason it felt like it ought to have an impact.

However, if I think about it, reading has been done for thousands of years and by now something like that would have prevailed if it was effective.

Anyway, we need more experiments like this. I bet there are a ton of things out there that we think make out lives better, but in reality don't do a thing.
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> In the first stress test in spring, the German government pointed out that nuclear units would hardly help to save gas as gas demand in Germany was mainly driven by heat production and industrial use.

That's what I already thought was the case and the article adds it as the last paragraph. I get a lot of people want to focus on the nuclear angle but it's only one part of a frustrating string of poor energy choices by Germany's politicians.

Edit: removed a word.
At least in the US, commercial property (ie rental units) have their value tied to their annual income. So not only is the landlord incentivized to push up rent for short term gains but they’re also disincentivized to lower it or keep it flat if they want to see their property value increase.
Java: ArrayList

Zig: ArrayList

GLib: GArray

Objective-C: NSMutableArray
FOOD AND BEVERAGE POLICIES

The San Diego Padres permit guests to bring food into Petco Park intended for individual consumption (not for groups of individuals) and should be consumed in one’s seat. Outside food cannot be brought into any ballpark restaurant, club lounge, or suite. Guests must also adhere to the following:

All food items should be wrapped, bagged, or left inside a container to avoid spillage.

Food that might be thrown as a projectile must be sliced or sectioned (i.e., oranges, apples, and other fruits).

Food containers must be soft-sided and comply with Petco Park bag policies.

Guests are allowed to bring one factory-sealed plastic bottled water that is still, clear, and unflavored and that is one (1) liter (32 ounces) or less, and soft-sided single juice or milk containers or ADA required liquids in a sealed container.

One (1) liter reusable water bottles (no glass) are permitted and must be empty upon entry into the ballpark.

California liquor regulations prohibit guests from bringing alcoholic beverages into Petco Park. Security officers at every gate will inspect packages, bags, and purses to prevent guests from bringing bottles, cans, or any other type of liquid containers of alcohol into Petco Park.

Seems pretty reasonable all things considered.
To be fair, and I'm not fan of Trump, but if Trump hypothetically supported something good... like let's say universal healthcare, a lot of Democrats would oppose it just because Trump supported it.
Because renewables are handily greener with a fraction of the negative side effects nuclear brings. Both from taking care of spent fuel and safety measures.

You can't even insure a nuclear power plant. That should tell you how safe the private market think they are.
I agree. Plus most of the code is written by a single person, and while most first authors are relatively responsive on github, they soon get overwhelmed with other projects, manuscript responsibilities, and job hunts. Coding and its maintenance is only a small part of an overworked and underpaid academic's responsibilities, so frankly its understandable. There's also a good chance that they are no longer employed at the same place a few years out.
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>The trend over the last 50 years is clearly away from car dependence.

Uh... no. The few streetcars and bike trails built are drowned out by the massive growth in suburbs and people living even further away from city centers (or these stadiums).

Your trend comparison is leaving out the majority of the picture.
In theory that makes a lot of sense. Truly. In reality, believing that and going froward with this plan was an immense setback to the country and the population.

Europe/US/etc letting Brazil keep doing what it's doing is mostly helping Europe/US/etc at the expense of Brazilians and the environment.