skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen Noteable+ChatGPT demo, where user can chat with ChatGPT and responses where executed in the Noteable-hosted Python notebook. It was cool!

It would be also cool to have such plugin for Google Colab.

I hope someone will come with a new way to interact with LLM models other than chat UI. It would make code writing even more faster.
Precisely; tertiary education should be free as it’s a matter of natsec.
>This article does a bad job clearly stating what the author thinks the problem is (just vaguely gesturing at average wages without explaining why that should matter)

I mean, it should matter. if you can't make a profit off a subscription, you don't do business. Hence, the "end of the subscription era"

>This is not an indication that subscription doesn't work, just that it's going to end up looking like acting, music, and professional sports. Those are all real careers that have persisted for a very long time where the "average" wage is extremely low.

it was low but still livable. The bigger problem is that minimmum wage itself isn't a living wage anymore, and subcriptions aren't even close to meeting that anymore. This may not matter to hobbyists, but if you ever had hope of high quality content then you're going to end up in a desert. Or fixated on professional organizations who have negative incentive to properly deliver that content.
Is that 35K for someone with a PhD?
>Of course, perfect discipline isn't maintained in this country.

well ok, I don't know but there are stats on how many adults have guns, and there are stats on misuses of guns. I suppose a clever statistician would be able to get to some potential overview of how many people who own guns have decent discipline?

Not saying that's you but someone on this site. It is difficult to find anything with a query on Google nowadays, but the things I do find - like https://time.com/6183881/gun-ownership-risks-at-home/ implies to me that the amount of the population that maintains your level of discipline is very low.
Speak for your own country, not mine. It's very obvious that in NZ, due to various factors (the most obvious being very favourable taxation or a lack thereof, but also our own wee sharemarket mania and crash in the 80s) money available in the market for investment poured into residential property instead of productive investment.

Just because the bubble hasn't burst yet, doesn't mean it's not a bubble.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/437107/housing-affordabi...
It's sad that "without ads and unnecessary permissions" is so rare that it makes it to the HN front page. It really should be the other way around: "A blacklist of apps with ads and unnecessary permissions" should be newsworthy.
I mean, if you are 18 and come into $80k, by all means invest? That hardly invalidates the value of college education, which is an option for most high school graduates.
There is no calcium chloride in my potato chips. I don't know if it's in the home made daal though.

You're massively shifting the goalpost by now requiring that I know what calcium chloride is. I do but I still don't think it makes chips better food than the daal, which includes tamarind paste, which I'm not entirely sure what it is (some kind of root?)
One could say it was somewhat too direct :)
> And 10% returns is rather optimistic, though the number I've seen most often in these kinds of calculations is 6-7%, so it's not that far off.

When we talk about compound interest it is way off. Also sustained growth of that magnitude - especially if we want it above inflation is very hard and has occurred in very rare circumstances.
I wouldn't switch to Apple even if it would be cheaper
If you're so inclined, the unlock is also pushed to F-Droid under Simple Thank You app. It's by the same Dev.
"We won't need to reject a flight plan as the data we receive will always be perfect!" sounds like an approach to error handling that will lead to these sort of situations.

The issue should have been caught in one of the higher systems, and then the error should have also been handled in a more appropriate way.
Studies seem to indicate that the cattle industry produces somewhere between 11% and 17% of global greenhouse emissions: https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-agriculture-environm...

How do you get from that to less than 0.1%?
I am happy that my teenage dream of an actual sub-genre of desktop PC usage is finally getting distros designed that particularly purpose.
A lot of sharpshooter/sniper types who have tried it seem to say it's pretty easy. Interestingly they tend to miss the first shot (like Oswald) due to the steeper downward angle.
> Why anyone would pay $$$ to have water come with their detergent is beyond me.

I pay so that I don't have to add yet another thing to my increasingly limited free time. The older I get the happier I am to pay extra so I have to do less.
Heard that said every few months. It has yet to happen.
I'm wondering what the "total ecological cost" is when also taking into account the sunken units.

For a traditional vessel, the main pollutant will be from the burning of fuel, and then leaking fuel when the vessel sinks.

How much does a tank full of diesel (in additional to the pollution released during opteration over the life time of the vessel) in comparison to a battery pack leaking into the ocean ?

These are questions, not challenges, I think it'd be very interesting to know, it might be that dumping some battery packs in the ocean is still overall better for the environment than burning fuel (and leaking some).
DDNS Self-Hosted with Cloudflare – ddns-cloudy
A simple script to update your DNS records on CloudFlare. This script leverages CloudFlare's API to dynamically update DNS records.
I recently took part in a panel discussion about design strategy. I kept on being dragged into discussions about project management and process. In the end, I just gave up trying to explain and they all triumphantly celebrated a "good design strategy" as being how you intend to build the thing. The question of why, or on what basis, just seemed irrelevant.
I refuse to use browsers that come tied deeply with the os. Last one I used was IE6

Thats all I have to say about these tactics over the last decades
LeetcodeBit instead of FitBit? ;-)
If there's one thing the human body has evolved to do over aeons it's running.

One can marvel at a slow motion video capture of a sprinting cheetah - the fastest running mammal -, where every bit of their body springs into beautifully orchestrated action. One can equally marvel at the same capture of the ruthless efficiency of an endurance running human - the longest running mammal, by far. Every bit of the human body engages towards that efficiency, from kinetic action via immediate energy storage and release via tendon springiness (not just in legs but all the way through the upper body, recovering vertical fall energy, as well as lateral counterbalance motion to be released for forward motion) to the cardiovascular system acting as a massive thermal regulator (via breathing mostly, blood and lung moisture as heat carrying fluids, but also fingers+hands that move for balance double as finned heatsinks), enabling the evolutionary prey hunting strategy of outrunning them to exhaustion.

Running does not damage joints because that's what we evolved to be ever since we started standing upright and to be able to do so as long as possible both in duration and age, and even if we take a hypothesis of extreme selective pressure since the days when food started coming from fields and livestock, a few thousand years would have barely put a dent on our physiology being evolutionarily built for running; instead, running with no or bad warmup by stomping on concrete with bad or unfit shoes and bad posture biased by our modern sitting-all-the-time world does.
I think people are confusing two types of studying:

- Undergrad level: Reading stuff that other people have already summarized books/blogs/etc and digesting it a bit. These days you might not really need to go to school to do this.

- Grad level: "studying" as in researching. I'm not in the humanities but I'm assuming that becoming a leading expert in "Germany 300 years ago" is a lot easier when it's your full time job.

Most of the responses here seem to be assuming the first case, whereas the case that is "fundamentally impossible" without some support is the more nuanced synthesis you get from the second case. And in our current system, half the purpose of undergraduate classes is to subsidize the higher level research.

I don't mean to make value judgements on whether further synthesis of "Germany 300 years ago" is needed, but until we come up with a better system killing undergraduate courses in field X is also a huge blow to the research there.
In most countries ministers are indeed elected. They had to win an election to get into the Parliament in the first place. And then they had to be selected by someone who won the party leadership contest.

I don't think there are any European countries where nobody can explain where the President came from or how they got into power. But in the EU, that's the case. Nobody can explain how someone as manifestly unsuited as von der Leyen ended up President, except via reductive arguments like "some people went into a room, and when they came out, it had been decided".

Additionally, cabinet ministers usually come from a party with a coherent agenda, and that agenda is at least somewhat connected to what a people in a specific locality wanted. The Commissioners come from all over the place, from a mix of political backgrounds and cultures, and they literally aren't allowed to advocate for their country.

So the Commission is very much not like ministers or a cabinet in general.
So, why does that make it a valid comparison? What data backs up this claim about not considering college (as opposed to chose not to)? The bottom third of people who do go to college don’t fare as well as the rest, and probably considered dropping out.

It’s simply not valid to compare the bottom third of college grads to the top, middle, and bottom thirds of high school grads. They only did that so they could say the college group’s income was lower, which is only true if you leave out most college grads. If you compared the bottom third of high school graduates to all degree holders, the ratio you’d get would be stark, with the college grads earning multiples more than the subset high school group.

It is valid to do what @brobdingnagians suggested, and look at the medians of both groups.
F 16 vs. F 35 Turn Comparison
All the more reason that a single flight plan that fails path validation doesnt (by design) shut down the entire air space of a nation for 24-48 hours.
>Your statistic is even more misleading because in the non-graduates category you are lumping in people that couldn't make it to college even if they wanted.

As someone who owns a business doing something I'm way overqualified for, this is something that's way too often overlooked.

A slightly-above-average Electrical Engineer (earning, say $150k pa) might be as competent as someone in the top 5-10% of Electricians (who can own their own businesses and earn $250k+).

Yet when we're looking for a career for our kids, we tend to compare averages rather than their personal outcomes.
and I believe that the versions on F-Droid are the paid versions, so you can just install it from there for free instead of Google Play
Side rant. Convenient how we've created a problem that requires huge infrastructure investment. This was a solved problem with septic tanks, that we could have spent many many multiples of money on improving and making ridiculously fancy with sensors and motors and and and. But alas, government is the Big Job Creator. Got to feed that beast.
They don't, it's in the manual to leave it open.
I moved from the US to Europe (first Ireland, now Netherlands) and one thing I really, really miss is junior colleges. Sure there's a few post-leaving-cert or adult education classes but in California I could just go to www.smc.edu/, sign up for stuff that looked interesting (Android dev, Assembly, and German in the last semester I was there for reference), pay nominal tuition and keep my career going, and go lean cool stuff. Want to learn welding, calculus, and philosophy this year? Knock yourself out! There was no pressure to build towards a degree and the mix of students was broad.
Having seen a number of different gov websites, I think that gov.uk are the most aesthetically pleasant and UX-focused. I would only say that at times they are excessively verbose, but that is less of a design system fault and more from the "let's protect us from any liabilities and people making totally silly assumptions about what, when, and how we do things" department.
My perspective of university has also degraded with time. I do not think it only has to do with the generation but with the universities themselves.

A bit of context: I undertook my 1st undergraduate program from 2007 to 2011, did an erasmus on 2010-2011, masters on 2013-2014 and Phd from 214 to 2017.

When I started at 2007 (in Spain), there was a lot of freedom. No need to go to lesson (only certain labs were compulsory), most of the the courses will not have any compulsory hand in course works. For 95% of my courses was enough to sit for the exam and pass it. Exams were difficult, rarely less than 2h and always 'unseen' problems. Failing was an option and we all experience it. You could always enroll again and try the year after. Another thing I had rarely experience afterwards, lecturer will treat you as an adult. They will talk to you as an adult, give you the freedom and expect you to behave as one.

All these freedoms allow us to learn about ourselves, do you really enjoy the topics? Do you need to spend 3h a week listening to the teacher or are you better off dealing with a different subject? Do you need 1 week to prepare for an exam or rather 9 months?

Making failure an option helped maintaining a high standard on learning outcome. There was no need to lower the bar so everyone could pass.

Also getting fees were nearly null and there were plenty of scholarships. The idea was something like everyone should have the opportunity to go to university, but only those who were ready could obtain a degree.

Later on, as I explored universities in other countries I felt it was more like, you can pay us X$ for Y years and at the end you get a shiny diploma.

Then as I shifted into software engineering, I found all the resources I needed were online. That together with the fact that universities tend to be slow to introduce new material and shift content, plus the high costs, plus the little freedom they provide, plus the focus they have on money, make universities loose appeal.
You are basically ignore the laws of physics. There will never be a airplane with decent range running on conventional batteries. Even now, battery powered airplanes are just powered gliders or ultra-lights, not something that will send real passengers.
Good husbands don't let their wives use Windows.
How do you switch mid-career?
> I use some of those via F-Droid, but I've stopped installing updates because the nagging to "upgrade" to a "monetized" version is getting worse.[1]

Huh? The versions in F-Droid are the monetized versions. They don't include any nagging. I've been using them for years.
How about you get VMware and install in there a vanilla Win10/11 just for the testing of Edge? Yes, it is heavy. Yes you will only fire it up when you need it. And this won't contaminate your machine.
for mobile, sure. IOS and Android moved fast and odds are software you buy 5 years ago simply won't work if not maintained. Because that's a design choice of the mobile OS.

Meanwhile, Windows and Linux focused a lot on backwards compatibility. Not perfect, but you can trust that 99% of software from Windows XP onward will work on Windows 11 with zero tweaking. Microsoft Word '00 and Adobe's CS1 suite (2003) were complete packages sold at a single cost and should still do their job in 2023.

>There are also new truly useful features that people have come to expect that doesn’t work well with packaged software. Online collaboration, syncing across devices, etc.

That is one fair point. Featues that require upkeep of a server make sense to monetize as a subscription.
Engine in Correspondence Chess Essay
Trees also provide a significant cooling effect by releasing water vapour into the air from the soil (evapotranspiration), which you won't get under an umbrella.
Has Software Development Become Slower?
But there will be no desire to do so. Nobody in the EU power hierarchy actually cares about technology or phones, they're mostly quasi-geriatric retirees from national politics. They enjoy whacking tech companies because they're soft targets and it lets them strut around claiming to care about the environment, not because they care about the right way to charge phones.

Come up with a better way to charge devices via cables and you'll discover that they mysteriously are always busy adding new regulations elsewhere.
Reversing or amending a single "fat finger" trade happens all the time and the exchange generally has procedures for this that don't involve a regulator.

Even in the most controversial recent example - LME cancelling a day's worth of nickel trades [0]- I understand it was their call and not any external regulator. That said, while I'd count LME as a "highly developed exchange", it's the Wild West compared to the US NMS.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-14/inside-ni...
If you wanted to introduce a carbon tax then you could return the money to the population as a carbon dividend. The poor would be better off (because they don't consume much anyway) and everybody else would have an incentive to reduce their emissions.
Very much a thing in some places.

Discovery (SA) gives you rewards points for activities, among them step counts: https://www.discovery.co.za/vitality/active-rewards-goals
I just do a wash with CLR once every year or so.

https://clrbrands.com/Products/CLR-Household/CLR-Calcium-Lim...

This is probably a 'different problem', in that I have hard water, and calcium buildup is a thing here. It also builds on the plates and everything. So.. I do a full load, all dishes, with CLR. Yes, I do a second wash after.

To give an idea, if I put a pot full of water on the stove, and boil it to empty, I'll end up with a solid disc of calcium and other elemets at the bottom, about 1mm thick!
Libraries continue to exist.

Though I'm a little salty because my wife bought in to the lie that studying the humanities is what you do for a career, yet her acquaintances who "made it" mostly have low-paying but high prestige jobs and a spouse who covers the bills for what is, in effect, a hobby.
For 10 years ago I was in the position of both of you. I hate being ineffective, but because of company policies I just had to go along. Anyway, the madness inside made me quit and after that I've booted several successful startups. Quitting was the best descision I've ever made. It is a big leap for sure, but heck. If you're not happy with current work, you shouldn't continue.
> Why was USB 3 invented? Or USB4?

To compete with Thunderbolt and Lightning?
I'm in the position of that user. I have a boss telling me to not turn Team Microsoft's problems into mine. She's happier if I take someone from that team along my troubleshooting journey. It now takes two people's time to arrive at the same conclusion. And most of the time that conclusion is that microsoft screwed up and the only thing we can do is reinstall.
bankruptcy discharges eligible debts (student loan is not eligible).
Black Friday in the SMS
>completely disregarding a professional researcher, peer reviewed and published paper

As someone who used to be on the track to academia, this is something that more people should do.

Most published research is false, and even most of the correct stuff is useless.

I'd go so far as to say any research that hasn't directly lead to at least a physical demo being produced can be safely ignored.
I agree 100% Canada is screwed. They never had a housing correction in 2008, even though they had a massive run up just like the US. Then had another massive run up in prices after that. Average home price is 2x that of the US despite lower wages, higher taxes, and no 30 year fixed mortgages.

It's going to get ugly.
Breaking Language Barriers: A Question Answering Dataset for Hindi and Marathi
This lines up with my experience. In my case, the teaching materials were some PDFs with the typical content recycled from old textbooks. The price tag was hefty, which made it feel like a scam.
That is one great thing about how Jetbrains monetizes. You "subscribe" for a year of some IDE and after a year's worth of subscriptions you keep the 20xx version that you subscribed to. So you can use 20xx as a standalone or subscribe so that you get updates for 20xx + 1.
Fascinating video and indeed pretty straightforward.

However, the bank robber analogy starting at 26mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8tO16xdrY&t=1601s does not sit quite right.

You can't just stick with one theory and keep fitting other facts to that theory forever - there is going to be a breaking point.

To keep going with that particular bank robber story - Jake.

In the example barring other facts, it is 99.9% probable that Jake indeed is the bank robber.

What if instead of finding $9k out of $10k, police only find $5k out of $100k on Jake?

What if not only talking to his girlfriend about robbing the bank he also talked about robbing the bank at the bar the previous week?

What if there was an amateur theatre troupe at that bar that night?

What if one of those actors was also an accomplished make up artist and high speed driver?

Okay, the story keeps getting sillier.

Even with these new facts the prosecution would still win.

Let's add a new fact security cameras at a bar also show Jake, with similar timestamps to the bank's cameras.
There are 3 more patrons that are willing to swear it was Jake.

An old lady reports that she saw a car drive up at a high speed to Jake's car and leave a package.

At that point we have a problem with being so sure on Jake being the guilty one. There is some reasonable doubt now.

My point is you can never be 100% sure. All you can do is adjust priors.

With JFK as it currently stands we might say 95% chance that Oswald was the lone gunman and 80% that he acted completely alone.

We can also say there is a 40% probability there was a conspiracy to assassinate JFK, there might have been even more than one, but those might have had nothing to do with Oswald.
Opportunity cost is a factor everywhere, though.
I cannot think of any open source endeavour, without finding monetization, to be sustainable...
It uses methane and oxygen, could that be easily mass produced from solar or hydro? It may turn out better than burning fossil fuel in a plane. Just a thought, no idea if true or not.

Also, Starship doesn't need pilots, so freight transport could be automated.

On the other hand, I wonder about noise emission. Probably much louder than planes.
If you write html properly - in 5 years do a minor tweak to the css and you have a new fresh look.
With lsp, the gap between IDEs vs text editors is narrowing. While I still prefer Emacs, I’m pragmatic enough to jump on to whatever tool does a better job for a specific task. At times, that is Xcode.

Was also sceptical about ChatGPT and changed my mind like OP. I was less pragmatic on this one and brought ChatGPT over to Emacs https://github.com/xenodium/chatgpt-shell. Pretty happy with the result so far.