skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Viva voce was a substantial part of my final in Applied Physics at Exeter Uni. in 1977. It was nerve wracking but it was on a specific subject, my final year project on electron spin resonance, so I wasn't having to invent a long speech on the fly, just defend my conclusions, experimental methods, and analysis against critical but not hostile questioning.

In my opinion such examinations and written finals succeed in filtering out people who can only regurgitate what they have been spoon fed in class rather than being able to use that information to move forward. I think I was lucky to study when and where I did, it stood me in good stead in industry.

Of course there are some people who really do find such examinations difficult. In my opinion the solution is to provide assistance to those people to do better rather than throw the baby out with the bath water.
> Such as, the tempering effect of rising commodity and labor costs of new builds.

Understated from my experience. I recently had a relative going through the process of having a new build and the builder had very many excuses and delays due to scarcity of materials and costs. I was pretty sure the relative was getting scammed, or that the builder simply wouldn't be able to deliver.

They did finish that home eventually, and made a lot of progress on the development of that neighborhood. And all their issues were corroborated by what's seen in commodities circles and general supply chain issues. I think they could have gotten the resources they needed at a higher bid but they had to operate within the budget as they had collected money and credit in advance of the supply chain constriction, which would be passed down to the forecast of what the home would have cost.
> As with image generation, one thing I think we haven't adequately considered is once a sizable fraction of the available online data is machine generated, but isn't marked as such, and we begin training models on the outputs of the last generation of models, structurally we can enter a different regime.

Ahh but the spark of true genius lights itself.
Same here, I switched from postman and that combination is really all I need.
Repeat shell command replacing a word
From the CCP's viewpoint, there might be irresistible advantages to invading very soon - while the West is still busy helping Ukraine, and dealing with the waves of economic pain produced by that conflict. OTOH, waiting for more elections in the West - especially the 2024 U.S. Presidential election - might give the CCP a set of Western leaders who are far more indifferent to authoritarian invasions of small countries.
Every millennial lived trough 2008, plus also 9/11, also a global pandemy and now +10% inflation. Everything with real wages being stagnated since the 70's

I think we could give those "young latte-sipping kids" a break..
> The cause of the crunch is soaring interest rates: in America prospective buyers have been watching, horrified, as the 30-year mortgage rate has hit 6.92%, over twice the level of a year ago and the highest since April 2002. ...

Bond markets tell a very different story. In the US, the yield curve is either inverted or flat from the 1Y treasury all the way out to the 30 year. Parts of the curve have been inverted on and off for a long time.

This is pointing to much lower rates ahead. Mortgage rates, too.

The global house-price slump, if it occurs, will happen not because of high mortgage rates, but in spite of falling mortgage rates. The driver will be job losses and financial turmoil.
bet that's the best way to keep the best and brightest at your company.
> Eventually the models won't work and people will notice, and either create new training data or go back to only using older data to train

That has already happened in "free market capitalism". Prices are supposed to be the representative models of the product quality, but became decoupled from it because companies set the prices based on competitors and not based on quality of what they sell.
Replit (YC W18) is hiring engineers to make programming more accessible
Well at the very least, there is a level of clothing in many circumstances required to be sanitary... Don't really want completely nude people sitting on the bus seats.
I don't think they are at odds with each other. A city not being able to easily sprawl into the surrounding farmlands, as they have historically done, puts increased pressure in the city centre.

Maybe you prefer the city centre, but if you could build a new home in the suburbs for pennies on the dollar, it would be hard to pass up. But when building that suburban home costs just as much then there is little reason to compromise.

There is still a lot of sprawl happening, to be sure. But when competing for use, you're going to pay a lot more, which in turn drives up the cost in the city centre. Prior to 2007 when food commodities first started going nuts farmland was significantly less valuable.

Cities don't stand as islands. They exist within a much larger world.
Cloud Native versus Native Cloud Apps
I remember getting some tax notification, and attached was some 2 page doc indicating "we've spent a lot of time working on making our documents more understandable, let us know how we're doing"... and... the notice they'd sent me was... more confusing than it needed to be. My accountant didn't quite understand it. I mean, he knew what it was, but hadn't seen the new language, and to top it off, it was months late - indicating I owed money that I'd paid months earlier.

We replied the following Monday, because the notice said we had to reply.

THEN.. 3 months later I got another notice indicating they'd received the first reply, and they needed a bit more time to process.

This was over about $200.

I would love to see them resourced appropriately, but the "let's hire more IRS employees" has been viscously attacked as "87000 more people with guns coming to take all your money!". I've been hearing that propaganda for weeks (months?) now.
That would actually cost money. UHC systems have the same people paying as making the rules for what's acceptable, of course there is a tremendous problem with lowering the standards to save money.
First rule of buying twitter. Stay off twitter.
As a teacher of English as a second language, I find the Jane Schaffer method quite helpful in teaching structure, idea generation, and the skill of supporting statements by providing examples.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaffer_method

Of course all essays shouldn't be written exactly this way, but for students just learning about writing long form, it is a brilliant stepping stone to get the basics down. Too many students—and readers—can't differentiate between a "concrete detail" or statement of fact, and "commentary material" or statement of opinion. This method helps to distinguish them.
those limits can be removed by changing societal norms, but feeling constrained by clothing is something that someone can not change about themselves.
For me its the first resort if I'm staying for more than a few days.
Exactly, I was so optimistic that the only path was one of human enlightenment because of the internet's ability to scale up the distribution of information and allow groups to collaborate instantly.

It all went horribly wrong.
Isn't that what JCL did?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Control_Language

True, they didn't call it "Infrastructure as Code" but it was used to define mainframe resources for jobs to use when they ran?
What exactly do you think "critical thinking" is?

The first prompt presumes to pick what was important about the book, mandate the form by which the book will be analyzed, and set up a minimum amount of effort before the writer can quit.

The second prompt picks a very general bit of opinion and then demands an open-ended argument requiring original thought. In fact, it's even better if the reader liked the book, because it forces them to write as if they didn't, and opens them to the possibility of a satirical essay.

(Note that I am aware that an average modern student wouldn't like the second prompt any more than the first, but that has to more with the system than the prompt. I'm speaking about the pure act of teaching an interesting writer to write well.)

Critical thinking requires both the desire and ability to think outside of frameworks that were predetermined by authority. This is part of the reason that modern schools are so bad at "teaching critical thinking skills". The most basic form of critical thinking, in fact the first openly critical thought that students have about learning--"this is a waste of my time"--is suppressed for the convenience of the administration.

> Maybe the solution is more fluid classes, let people move at their own pace, pick their own areas of interests, even if that's directly going to a trade, etc.

I could not agree with this more. I believe that 'school' should be life-long, year-round, and optional. Ideally we'd go in and out of some type of formal education until we died. However, this level of societal flexibility is directly incompatible with modern school.
I will believe this when I see it, thank you

the zealous "you must obey the law" tone of SOME comments here reinforces the worst stereotypes of corporate apparats.. individuals doing the bidding of institutions based on the letter of their "laws"

Human history has shown again and again that this ends badly .. HTTP is OK with ME
A lot of the bay area is filled with people from another country who try to keep a low profile in order to not ruffle any feathers and risk their visa/immigration status. Along with that they have the right to pay taxes, but not to vote.
> tried to start the war by having NATO flirt with Ukraine.

They've been trying to do this for over a decade. The reason the war started now is because this was the peak moment for Russian advantage - the Ukraine Maidan coup had been frozen for years in the east and the US was paying attention to other things, but the actor that the Ukrainian population had desperately and cynically elected for relief from the tug-of-war between the US and Russia (parallels with Trump) was a lightweight owned by an oligarch who would give the US whatever they wanted. That meant that assaults on the East would escalate, Ukraine would join NATO, and Russia would have anti-Russian troops stationed on its borders.

Russia's military and economy are horrible though (although not as bad as the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe, Ukraine.) If they were going to win they would have to win quickly before the US was able to ramp up again. They failed this, so now they're going to have to use nukes on Ukraine.
Your point would be more clearly made if you shared the details of where you live and the medical system that you trust more than the NHS?
PGA Tour sues LIV Golf’s Saudi backers to force evidence discovery
> You see the issue here right? They are trading on past FAANG brand names.

No, I gave those as examples of what hourly rates were possible. Otherwise there are a lot of people who started and grew at Upwork, charging around $100/hr.

> People drool over FAANG jobs just like finance bros drool over goldman

Nope. Small and medium businesses and individuals would avoid those names since they would think they would be too expensive. Sweet spot for contracting would be in between $60-$120/hr. Assuming that you have enough experience in the field that you work in and also can demonstrate good track record.
At what point are you just re-inventing what Ansible already does if you're going down the DSL path? I sometimes feel like I'm in the minority, but I truly do like Ansible and if you slap Mitogen[1] in front of it makes the whole process even more enjoyable!

I'm honestly trying to understand whether this hating on Ansible is more of a bandwagon thing (similar to how people shit on the Python dependency management ecosystem) and stems from having bad experiences that have completely turned them off of it.

Honest questions in response to your points:

1. What are you deploying where you would need static analysis?

2. If you did end up writing your own DSL on top of Python at what point would you concede that it's probably better to use someone's else creation as opposed to forever iterating on your own thing for the sake of using your own thing?

3. Why would you want "custom arbitrary operations" and how custom are they that Ansible and Jinja2 can't do that for you in usage patterns that are far more common than your own creation would be?

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[1]: https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/ansible_detailed.html
Worth mentioning...

The platform Garth Brooks uses to sell tickets the way he does: Ticketmaster. So it's available to other artists/promoters, if they want to do it. The nickname for that approach is "Garth mode".
Besides reduction with unsigned min, one can compute a product, which will of course be zero if any element is zero. An OR reduction of the leading/trailing zero counts of the elements would also work, but would be unlikely to be fastest.
> The United States has only been legally multicultural and non-apartheit since .. the 1970s?

That's only legally; socially, multicultural acceptance was lagging by decades. The majority of Americans disapproved of black/white marriages well into the 1990s[1]

1. https://news.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-...
The GDPR lays out a straightforward threshold:

2. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: ... (c) by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity

Once something is done commercially, it inevitably scales in frequency and continuity.
Is it really "needlessly" complex if this is enabling styling that wasn't possible before?

Re your second point that CSS might become a compilation target for styling... have you never heard of Sass, Less, Tailwind, or any of a million UI frameworks that provide alternative ways to write CSS, or even avoid writing it directly altogether? This isn't exactly new.
She was mad because she had to cook? Perhaps she didn't realize it was an AirBnB? I had no idea there were fully-catered AirBnBs.
I'm with you - I don't need (or even want, really) my room cleaned every day. It's friggin annoying. I always happen to be needing to access the room when housekeeping is in there. Just come once every 3-5 days if it comes to that, thanks.
If you like anything in the spacefaring sci-fi genre and haven't yet watched the 2000's iteration of Battlestar Galactica, you're in for one hell of a treat.

Be forewarned. It is very difficult to avoid binge-watching the show.
I wonder if it's a matter of English education? I don't think my grandmother on my father's side was formally taught and my father started learning English only after he emigrated to the US as a young boy.

Your wife perhaps learned not to and subsequently your daughter emulates her mother's speech behaviors? I'm not sure if daughters tend to emulate their mother's speech and sons emulate their father's, though, or if it's simply coincidence.
It might wake people up and cause real change? Just a thought.
US might bail Musk out by blocking Twitter deal over national security
This is a bad rebuttal. He’s not mentioned race. I’m actually not sure which race you think he’s insulted. Care to elaborate?
I also think the same, I want metal self-hosted, anyone have tips how to do the security too?
It's really simple (not easy): pass a US equivalent of GDPR, and make sure biometrics count as "personal data" as they do in the EU.

CCPA gets you a lot of the way there (indeed I suspect you can request to have Google delete all your biometric data under the "right to be forgotten" clause), but I think CCPA doesn't prevent collection/processing of data without an agreement in place as the GDPR does. (Basically, GDPR requires you to have an agreement in place before storing any of my Personal Data, since it's that agreement that then binds who you can share it with, and how. If I don't use Google, then Google can't process my biometric data. I wonder if they get around this by approximately everyone using Google in some capacity, and having a "I also agree that you can process my biometric data" term in the ToS?)

Interested in any lawyers' opinions on the above; my read of e.g. https://www.bakerlaw.com/webfiles/Privacy/2018/Articles/CCPA... is that Google cannot (i.e. would be forbidden to) do biometric recognition on people that have requested for their data to be deleted.

Where I'd like to see CCPA go further is that it doesn't strongly restrict transfers of data; under GDPR you explicitly approve a set of Processors and Sub-Processors, and must be informed when that changes. CCPA does seem to restrict sales of data, but doesn't tightly control where it is shared without sale.
IMO this reeks of data-driven myopia. Slow bleeds to goodwill are incredibly difficult to properly capture into a model. Anything that isn't measured - or poorly measured - is liable to be traded off for what is measured.
Google has not given their data away at all, voluntarily or involuntarily, except when compelled to by court order.

Texas did voluntarily give their data to a third-party, the insurance software company Vertafore, who then inadvertently exposed it publicly.
Also another drive by question, but I was surprised that the Apple TVs have A-series chips. Has anyone worked with Asahi on the A-series? I assume the performance isn’t great but curious about the technical challenges.
I believe that Twitter is 2 top-down edicts away from drastically improving their efficiency with fewer employees.

1) Dramatically reducing the size and scope of the speech rules they implement to something akin to "If the speech is legal in a country, then it's legal on Twitter" would reduce technical and operating complexity. Between developing the technical infrastructure to automate restrictions and bans, to having staff trying to judge all sorts of petty bickering between groups trying to take advantage of the rules to report and ban their rivals, I feel like Twitter is wasting a large amount of resources on stuff that they shouldn't even be trying to do. A smaller team could focus on the essentials: removing illegal content and responding quickly to actual issues of safety (stuff like death threats that might pose an imminent harm). Hell, I feel like Twitter is so involved in trying to get involved in Internet drama and disputes that they currently do a mediocre job on actually dealing with genuine safety issues.

2) I realize that the infrastructure to run a site as large as Twitter isn't trivial to maintain, but for a site that has so few real user-facing features, it's kind of surprising that their technical team is so large. If somebody just laser-focused them on a clearly defined set of important features and policies for the business to execute on, it seems like Twitter should be able to move much faster on the handful of things that are core to their business.
> It will take time but the investors will get a very good return on their investment.

I think you're underestimating how much money he's paying for Twitter. Just for comparison, Snap's current Market Cap is $12.5B. He's buying Twitter for $44B. Both companies make about the same annual revenue with Twitter losing less money but still losing money.
And how do you even "look" at it from the outside? Ask interviewers and they will always tell you that they have great culture, teamwork, etc
> 1: Never book an apartment with less than 50 ratings

The only good experience I've had was with a place that had zero reviews. I got to the point where i figured the review system was so unreliable and unfit for purpose that I would just take a chance and it worked.

I found a lot of those place with multiple good reviews were mainly from people who had stayed two nights and as part of a group where a cheap place to sleep was their number one criteria.

Mostly everyone else is just doing the ebay thing where I give you a good review and you give me one back since there is zero incentive to give an honest assessment that your next host will read and consider you a trouble maker.
> The US military would come down on them pretty hard.

Or maybe they'd just buy an exclusive contract.
It's hard to believe, but maybe, just maybe, scalpers might sign up for artist clubs?

Also Pearl Jam uses Ticketmaster now: https://www.barrons.com/articles/ticketmaster-pearl-jam-good...
I really enjoyed the way this article was written. I took a couple semesters of Japanese and this is the first I've heard of "aizuchi".

This article connected several dots for me :)
Interesting. Sending a request using PowerShell's Invoke-WebRequest results in the request simply hanging. I'm using Fiddler as a proxy.

GET https://www.opentable.com/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.opentable.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Microsoft Windows 10.0.19045; en-US) PowerShell/7.2.7

Invoking the request from Firefox works fine.

Definitely looks like some kind of TLS termination/proxy/load balancer problem.
Container queries allow devs to step away from the classic small, medium, large breakpoints for screen sizes and consider the best look for a certain component at different widths. This is much better because a component on screen can be affected by many different parent element’s breakpoints, so it’s hard to define when a screen size should affect a component. With containers, it’s very clear.
I love how the emphasis on initial letters are understood and colored red!
The only help is from the bootloader side and by not having Apple actively obscuring things.

Conpared to other reverse engineering projects, the M1 macs are not a moving target and they dont have to encounter new lockdowns every time, unlike other reverse engineering scenarios lile the cracking scene or emulators
If a boy constantly watch media of pretty girl, he may want to become a pretty girl himself. Which is fine IMO but traditional parents are not worried about this possibility much.
Nor true Scotsman, apparently.
This attitude that women must be modest because men are helpless

I'm not saying women have to do anything. Women should be allowed to dress however they want. I'm just saying I'm going to avoid participating in situations or places I find onerous.
Create your own culture.
Mosquito Repellant Mobile Phones
> Saying that sure, they evolve like ours, and sure they effect ours, but even so they are not real - that is I suppose one stance, but then you are getting pretty close to solipsism.

No, you'd get something like Bohmian mechanics, or Rovelli's relational interpretation. Which is my point: you can only take this as evidence of other worlds if you basically smuggle those assumptions in.
Does pointer events block focusing with a keyboard though?
Oh, come on! I am in fact a front end developer. And when I saw the result first time a few years ago, I was surprised and wanted to use this “just JS”, but the reality was quite far from what I was expecting. It might look like JS, but if you check the source code of the app for the benchmark, you’ll realise that it looks more like C or C++.

More details in this thread:
https://github.com/just-js/just/issues/5
0. The tickets not sold by TicketMaster dynamics pricing are resold on StubHub. (Aka TicketMaster)

TicketMaster can extort the performer for a bigger cut because if the performer takes no action, TicketMaster gets the resale, and the performer gets nothing. TicketMaster owns the data, so they can negotiate the dynamic royalty more efficiently and get a yield better than resale.
And the REAL real problem is that the market will bare a lot. I once sold tickets for a Die Antwoord concert I couldn't attend due to illness. I advertised the tickets on Craigslist for $100 for both, the retail cost being $50 each.

But when I arrived at the venue to sell the tickets, the buyer put $200 in front of my face assuming I had meant $100 EACH. My greed got to me and I took the money.

My conclusion was, ticket buying is not rational, and the ticket market is extremely liquid, so without tying tickets to an identity like airline tickets there isn't a good solution.