skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems meaningless without more information about experimental design. There are many ways to measure happiness and well-being, and many potential confounds by demographics, as jobs are not assigned randomly. For example, age and social network have strong effects on both overall happiness and job placement.
My business has been blocked by ad blockers
After a few months working on MetricsWave, I recently discovered that some blacklisting lists are including my site domain, not the tracking script, but my landing page domain.
https://recruitonomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/German...
• https://this-week-in-rust.org/

• https://www.swedishtechweekly.com/

And then it's not exactly tech, but Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" :

• https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff
Yeah, it almost reads derogatory. Thanks for looking it up. Strange word
And grumpy old man also knows that compared to the 5-year overhead costs of some overcomplicated k8s system, it's quite reasonable to overprovision the bejesus at the colo bare metal>hypervisor layer as cheap insurance.
These are fantastic insights!

I'm aware of Snipe-IT, but could you recommend any other open-source solutions?

I have a hunch that the scope and requirements of such software are often tailored exclusively to enterprises, which only comes with a price tag.
Show HN: GitoCommito – A VSCode extension that commits for you
Hey, I've been obsessing over Conventional Commits and choosing the right emoji since I discovered the Conventional Commits extension for VS Code. This is my attempt to ameliorate that process.

I hope some of you enjoy it. It's been lots of fun working on it.
Banning sale just moves the problem. The carriers have already mostly stopped "selling" the data by moving the advertising analytics and other mining in house and selling access to that instead of the raw data. They probably make more money on the analytics than just the raw data, win win for them.
Adding to this: we should be looking at the actual amount paid by students have receiving financial aid. Analyses of tuition - average financial aid show that the actual amount paid has been relatively flat at private institutions. A lot of private institutions (mine included) give a 50% scholarship to most students.

Increased costs at public universities are driven largely by lack of state funding. This is also in part because the number of students attending public universities has gone up tremendously but state funding hasn't kept up.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/college-prices-arent-skyr...
He owns the site. If this is truly his intention then all he has to do is turn off the main switch. There's really no reason to give him the benefit of doubt and twist the narrative into "Musk is a genius and everything is going according to plan". The simpler theory is likely to be the correct one – he has never run a social network before and has no idea how to stop bleeding users and cash so is desperately throwing ideas at the wall hoping something sticks.
It's like this with so much media, it drives me crazy. For instance, in the country I'm currently in there is no way to legally watch a lot of movies - not because of censorship or anything, they are simply not distributed, even on google-play, amazon etc. No choice but it use torrent. Why?
Wow, I've been using Mitsubishi Hi-Unis as my go-to pencils for decades now, and always assumed they were part of The(tm) Mitsubishi group.

IMHO they outrank anything as all-round pencils - I mostly use mine in H grade for writing, occasionally bringing out a set of various grades for some drawing, but still - Hi-Unis are unbreakable, consistent, takes kindly to erasing mistakes and... Wow, beating Tombows, Blackwings, Lumographs, the works. IMHO, at least. YMMV. Terms&Conditions apply.
Great article, and pretty unusual for Rust to silently start doing the unexpected thing.

From the start, I wished that Rust had used different punctuation for method calls on a `T` and a `SmartPtr<T>`. For instance, `my_t.f()` but `my_boxed_t->f()` (or get rid of auto Deref and just require `(my_boxed_t).f()`). For subscripting it could be something like `my_vec->[index]` (or just require `(my_vec)[index]`. Just something there to remind you that you are in fact using a smart pointer. This would also let you distinguish between `box.leak()` and `box->leak()` and not require `Box::leak(box)`.
> If you're Facebook you can get 100 million signups for Threads easily

I was in university when Facebook started up and I still remember being spammed by them. I belive they were mining university email lists to try and sign up users.
And yet, some lenders (Navient is the big one) have now lost so much money due to COVID forbearance that they've exited that industry entirely.

There's inherent risk to everything, everywhere. Making the loans undischargable in bankruptcy doesn't negate the risk of non-repayment; it just hides it. Until, eventually, all the band-aids fall off, reality bares its ugly head, and we all wish we hadn't-a done that. Yet, in thirty years we'll forget about it and do it all over again, in some new, crazy, way.
https://archive.is/1YDlZ
I think naive approaches to digital physics have been inadequate, but newer works have made good progress on important questions. Arguably one of the biggest tools in the physicists' toolbox are symmetries, and there's now a good account for those:

A Noether Theorem for discrete Covariant Mechanics, https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08997
I enjoy closing the lid at the end of the day and leaving work behind. Separate user accounts doesn’t cut it. With WFH it’s tempting enough to spend too much time “at work”.
Two weeks ago I finished a project for a client who wanted a "talk to your documents" application, without using OpenAI or other 3rd party APIs, but by using open source models running on their own infrastructure.

If you're interested in something similar, send me an email.
To sign up for threads, I had to install a new app and log into my instagram account. Google+ just hijacked my youtube account.
That's a popular opinion, but how do you quantitatively prove it? While the formal education of a population may correlate with wealth, I think it would be harder to prove a causal link.
The opening thesis of the article is very misleading - that endangered video games would be like Titanic only being available in the library of congress.

Titanic was a blockbuster released in 1997, so it would be like Final Fantasy VII only being available at library of congress, which it isn’t. In fact FFVII is continuously being rereleased on modern consoles
There is an answer that "just" requires the political will: instead of doing public K-12, do public K-16.
I personally use bottled water for cooking. Agriculture mostly doesn't happen where my house is so is unrelated to the house price.
Often times during a Teams meeting someone would wonder who had filed this ticket and I would "Control-L p Jose Smith" to instantly bring up the org chart for Jose Smith. People were amazed.

The Control-L/Command-L(mac) to focus the url bar. p is the keyword set to search the internal company org chart.

Another useful Firefox feature is to right click, Take Screenshot, and save the full web page rendered as you see it as an image. This is useful for those internal webpages with tables and fancy javascript rendered widgets that never properly render to pdf when saving the page.
This is true in high-density to medium-high density situations, like most of the east coast. I challenge you to describe such a system that works for eastern Montana. The US is very large, and a lot of important things are done in places where the density is insufficient to support a greyhound route, let alone high speed rail.

Not everyone lives in a city, and if they did the nation would cease to function.
What I always point out is that markets are a form of rationing too. They are just form where people with money are allocated more goods than people without it, sometimes to the total exclusion of large parts of the population. Given that we set up polities for the common good, I'd argue that any necessity which markets fail to deliver to everyone should use some other kind of rationing strategy.
Sorry to hear that. We're using cobe, which is an open-source project for the globe and will report it to them
I've got the Corne-ish Zen, and I also recently acquired the Kinesis Advantage360. Both very niche, ergonomic boards but I'm very happy with it.
Configurable. Also runs ARM on Intel Macs if you want.
Psychology really isn't the worst field out there. They do at least talk about their problems and claim to care about them, which is better than most fields. They actually do try to replicate each other's results sometimes and publish it when they fail. I used to believe psychology must be uniquely bad, these days I think it's just uniquely honest (!).

There are dozens of well known fields that are built on epistemological quicksand yet which point-blank refuse to admit to or talk about their problems. Because they have a culture of deny deny deny, even when the evidence is overwhelming, they actually get less attention because why bother doing a nice writeup of fraud if you know the result will just be stonewalling? It's better to focus on fields where there might be some actual response, a chance of improvement, no matter how minor.
Easy access to credit is a good thing. I cannot believe I am saying this on HN. The problem as I see it, as a non-American, is that university in the US is a business trying to turn a profit. Even if most universities are technically non-profits, they are managed like businesses by MBAs. In the EU many countries offer guaranteed loans for Uni education, but this has not spiked the cost of education because Universities are not run with the aim to turn a profit.

IMHO, easy access to credit is one of the best things about the American economy, and hiring MBAs to manage things that aren't for profit corporations, one of its worst aspects.
Yes. In plenty of places people use bottled water even to brush their teeth.
I suspect it'll be compliant carriers, not compliant devices.

And your carrier will know when you're in a jurisdiction they need to care about.
Not disagreeing with anything you are saying. In fact, why get a job at all? Start a business during high school, make millions, and skip it all. There's plenty of information out there to make this a realistic option.

However, for people that did not pursue that route, it is also true that many employers require a college degree for many jobs. Some 19-year-olds may "pattern match" well enough to get some hiring managers to grant exceptions. But these are exceptions and by definition not good general advice.

> Not all answers lie in institutional credentials.

Also consider that the truth of this may depend on the specifics of a job-seeker's phenotype. YMMV.
The supply of Picassos are limited, since there is only one of each piece. Software and other digital medias don't have this constraint.
the US constitution contains an Interstate Commerce clause, which bars individual states from interfering/obstructing interstate commerce. Does banning the sale of location data in Massachusetts do anything?
good article except for the rag on communism in the first paragraph
Oh, really? I totally misunderstood then. I thought I knew physics a little better than that! Thanks.

EDIT: Hmm, so doesn't the fact that this particular value makes the math simplified not also imply some kind of meaning?
A government getting ungodly sums of money to do a very complicated task when they can't even manage the simplest tasks without corruption or mismanagement?
> Does a mom know that she has to block twitch and instagram when she blocks pornhub?

Yes? It's the task of parents to monitor what their children do on the internet and how they use social media, not Instagram's. What is it with this new generation of morally enraged prudes coming after every platform because they outsourced parenting to an ipad?

Also I'm fairly certain looking at hot people is why 90% of users are on instagram. It's like when tumblr banned porn, probably worst mistake ever made in internet moderation history
The obsession with EV range is all wrong
This balances the good of people being able to see/read/play the work against the good of incentivising future people to make more of it.

Grandma can make money from her new mysteries and get some from the first five years without needing to charge.

As it is, many works are being irreparably lost to time.
NDAs are a thing. You don't need invasive copyright laws for any of this.
<Nods> Yet another reason to avoid it.
I think the jury is still out on self driving vehicles, but the ever larger trucks and SUV's on our streets are a clear and present danger to life and limb. I'd focus on those in terms of street safety, as well as safe infrastructure for people walking or biking.
Haven't read the newsletter, but really enjoy the System Design Interview book by Alex, who writes ByteByteGo.
This is absolutely correct. For public universities, the amount of state funding hasn't kept up with the increase in the number of students.

While tuition at private institutions have also gone up, so has the amount of financial aid (scholarships) that they've made available:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/college-prices-arent-skyr...

The result is that the net price hasn't increased all that much for the average student.
I wonder if there's any data comparing tuition growth rates at "normal" schools and those schools that don't accept federal funding of any kind (including federal loans). There's not many of them, and they're usually small, Christian-oriented schools[0], but I'd be curious to see if there's actually any obvious difference in growth rate. A quick google search didn't come up with any data.

[0] https://deanclancy.com/a-list-of-colleges-that-dont-take-fed...
Seems like if we don't think 18 year olds are not legally responsible enough to drink alcohol, then perhaps we shouldn't allow them to take on life-destroying amounts of debt.
https://sqlfordevs.com/
My understanding is that other countries that bankroll higher education also get to decide who even goes on to that level of study. Could you provide a list of countries you had in mind so we could see if they have that kind of process?
Unstructured – OSS libraries and APIs to build custom preprocessing pipelines
I recommend giving Statsig[0] a try. I was actually surprised at how well they did stuff like this around Feature Flag management.

[0]: https://www.statsig.com/
> and that's a measure of how many "worlds" there are after a quantum measurement, which helps translate the wave function values into testable probabilities (the Born rule).

All interpretations need to induce a measure over observations (not "worlds") to produce meaningful results. Without that all you have is an abstract mathematical object.

> As you can see, the two interpretations require the same amount of extra postulates above and beyond the wave function itself.

CI isn't really a single thing. Some people use it to mean "shut up and calculate", which requires no postulates by virtue of making no meaningful claims. Some people use it to mean various sorts of subjective probability anti-realism, which is similarly not really competing for the same territory as MWI. And some people use it to mean objective collapse, which requires actual modifications to the formalism.
Whatever you think of autonomous vehicles, we should not continue to normalise maximally disruptive acts of protest by tiny groups.

Serious protest should involve serious people power, not just a handful of radicals aiming for maximum disruptive impact (usually knowing they'll face zero consequences for it, and may well turn more people against their cause, e.g 'Just Stop Oil' in the UK)
Why do you want less people to read the book you made after 5 years? And why should society indulge this desire?
My first credit card was a $200 secured card. They offered me a real card after about 6 months of usage.

This was about 5 years ago.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Progress, even incremental, makes it more expensive for the brokers and shows evidence that _something_ can be done.
I use Firefox mainly because of TreeStyleTab which lets me have 1k-2k tabs with no problem. Beats all other vertical tab options I've seen so far in other browsers
Enjoy using it. Use for non-critical and various IT related type tasks. Will do more with it when it hits 1.0. Maybe at 0.5, but have to evaluate at that time. Want it to be a little more stable, so don't have to rewrite programs due to changes from earlier versions.

According to their roadmap, they will do 0.5 and then go for 1.0. Which at their pace, seems like it will be this time next year, if not earlier. They are coming along quite quickly and nicely. Seeing V people doing lots of nice things and projects with it.
and not a single person has complained about difficulty reading or maintaining that code

Developers extremely seldom complain about other developers' code to their faces.

Instead they go to lenghts to avoid it if they dislike it severely; right or wrong.
> You don't need to own a string in order to check if all of its ASCII characters are all caps, for instance, because it's an operation that's also valid on any array of bytes, without the whole concept of "owning memory".

Interestingly you can ask whether a string is ASCII, "this".is_ascii() is a predicate which does exactly that, but for what I think is your question, "are they all ASCII caps?" you'd need to go via an iterator and a lambda: "THIS".bytes().all(|b| b.is_ascii_uppercase())

The iterator is because there is no provision of each such predicate over the whole string, which seems reasonable (the character class predicates are provided on u8 (ASCII only), and on char (all of them)), but the lambda is due to Rust's 1.0 compatibility commitment plus an unfortunate historical choice. If not for compatibility we'd fix it so you could just write "THIS".bytes().all(u8::is_ascii_uppercase)
This is one of the dumbest "tactics" I've had to witness.

These are the same people falsifying data that makes autonomous vehicles appear more unsafe than they are.

"New letter from CA state accuses SF officials of data manipulation: In the 4
@Waymo traffic collisions SF cited to prove driverless cars are less safe, 3 were the Waymos being rear-ended and 1 didn't even involve any cars touching, CA says."

Source: https://twitter.com/annatonger/status/1673403230804385813
Memory (DDR4) is like 1.50€ per GB nowadays. There is no need to skimp on it. The most expensive component is still the CPU if you actually want to do work and not just idle your webserver 99% of the time.
I'm wondering when and where you went to college and what other circumstances affected the size of your Pell grant.

I went to community college in 2009. I filed my FAFSA and if I recall correctly, my Pell grant was $300/term. Meanwhile, tuition was $115/credit. My full-time class load was nearly $2,000/term once you included the books.

When I transferred to the state University, tuition was double that and my Pell barely changed.

I was 27 years old when I started college, working at a Subway restaurant for $10/hr, had no savings, and parents that did not give me a dime after I moved out at 21.

I finished my degree with $45K in debt.
If you wanted to try to design a system to let nepo-babies get out of any crime short of a felony with zero punishment it would be hard to imagine a system better than that.

I can form a 501c3 today, and as long as it doesn't funnel earnings to an individual (other than a very lavish salary) I could let people 'donate' their time at one of my community service parties, pay me a small fee, and issue a small donation to some local cause.
An informative prior requires good data… it is a misnomer that Bayesians just “make up” priors, they are generally the result of a past experiment. Indeed a prior can encode just a hunch or intuition if you have nothing else, but in practice that will be nearly identical to a uniform prior.

Personally, I always use a uniform prior unless I am able to cite or present the data that led to something else.
Yep, every big success in social media has some bodies buried in terms of where it got traction.

In 2001 I worked for a startup that developed a chat application for Brazil that got pretty big. Amazingly we sent out about 20,000 unsolicited emails and got close to 10,000 signups, probably the best response to an email campaign I’ve ever seen and not something we were able to repeat, particularly when we got crappy lists where some of the addresses didn’t even have an “@“ sign in it.
I was happy with a low income until I had a kid. Then the calculus shifts. Same with physical disability or taking on caregiving responsibilities.
The lack of native sidecar support was my biggest surprise when moving from ECS to EKS, and it was not fun hacking with shared process IDs to accomplish sidecars. I'm glad this is finally in but also curious how it takes roughly 3ish years(?) from KEP proposal to merge?
In case anyone is interested, we had a similar thread three weeks ago:

"Ask HN: Which substacks do you read as soon as it hits your inbox?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356476

("Substacks" was quickly turned into synonym for "newsletter".)
You're suggesting that bottled water is worse for me than non-drinking water from the tap? Billions of people in the world don't have access to clean drinking water. You're lucky if you do.
Yeah, ad-blockers tend to err on the side of false positiveness; by blocking the domain, they make sure that they block the ads.
Given that your business is about, well, analytics, it seems that the best you can do is be creative about circumventing them.

At first I thought you had another kind of business. But, as an analytics provider, it's unsurprising that you're prone to being targeted by ad-blockers. It sucks though. After all, ad-blockers do not care whether you are privacy friendly or not (look at Plausible for starters).

Anyways, keep us posted in how you solve this and good luck!
Worse: the original Dunning Kruger experimental design doesn't even make sense.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31119836
The inherent faults or even just speed differences[] of hardware.

[] In the real world, a lot of resources are oversubscribed and not deterministic. Just think about how scheduling and power management work in a processor. Large model training happens across thousands to millions of processors (think about all the threads in a GPU * the number of GPUs needed, and add the power throttling that modern computing does to fit their power envelopes at all level... and power is just one dimension, memory and network bandwidth are others sources of randomness too).

Making such a training deterministic means going as slow as the slowest link in the chain, or having massive redundancies.

I suppose we might be able to solve this eventually, perhaps with innovations in the area of reversible computing (to cancel out undeterminism post-facto), but the current flavor of deep-learning training algorithms can't.
Comedian Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT
> Oh no I get that, but two comments above inciampati was suggesting that we will end up in a situation where some variable will have to have an infinite value

The black hole information paradox from that article presumably fits. The conclusion from GR is that no information can escape, which is ultimately incompatible with QM, and that conclusion ultimately depends on the infinite density of the singularity.

I think the more charitable reading is that we'll find situations where either no sensible calculation can be done, or the sensible calculations we do churn out nonsense. Divergence in the UV catastrophe was an example of that, and Baez covered more here:

Struggles with the Continuum, https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01421