jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What this article does successfully through hyperbole is to remind us to add opportunity costs into evaluating the value of an education. Your quibbles about the obviously rough numbers don't subtract much from that key point. It obviously doesn't make sense to abandon education, but it also obviously doesn't make sense to pay $500k for it.

"That the current salaries of recent college graduates represent their probable average output over their lifetime."
It doesn't represent that at all. It is saying that the value due to education can be roughly approximated by the starting salary. The gains from there are then more based on experience/work, not the education. Of course, you ignore the money made while you would have been in school. You also ignore the periods of unemployment.

"I don't believe that the complete value of the education is in its utility for the labor market."
The fundamental question though is how much we should pay for it. I could read books, do "home work", and watch MIT lectures on the internet for a lower price. Many people are looking for ROI.

"That there is a reliable way to make a ten percent return on investment overseas."
A rough number, but definitely too high. The world is over-invested anyway as a result of too much money having been created.

"And that the normal personal investment into a college education is really $300,000. This is anti-factual. It is probably also wrong that each marginal elementary schooler costs $200,000, but I can't say for sure about that."
I don't think it says personal investment, the distributed cost counts too. It costs about 20k per year here for elementary school and 25k for high school, to be conservative. You don't need to look at the marginal costs here, because they are your costs.
I wonder how many people working on ground-breaking stuff today are doing so unbeknownst to them, without realizing that they are shaping the field that they are working in.
It's even better in French:

Le Poison

Le vin sait revêtir le plus sordide bouge
D'un luxe miraculeux,
Et fait surgir plus d'un portique fabuleux
Dans l'or de sa vapeur rouge,
Comme un soleil couchant dans un ciel nébuleux.

L'opium agrandit ce qui n'a pas de bornes,
Allonge l'illimité,
Approfondit le temps, creuse la volupté,
Et de plaisirs noirs et mornes
Remplit l'âme au delà de sa capacité.
Tout cela ne vaut pas le poison qui découle

De tes yeux, de tes yeux verts,
Lacs où mon âme tremble et se voit à l'envers...
Mes songes viennent en foule
Pour se désaltérer à ces gouffres amers.

Tout cela ne vaut pas le terrible prodige
De ta salive qui mord,
Qui plonge dans l'oubli mon âme sans remords,
Et charriant le vertige,
La roule défaillante aux rives de la mort!

In Immortal Ad Vitam (2004) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314063/), they quote a mix of the original version in French and the English translation, combined with the song Beautiful Days by Venus, and it's really beautiful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spMm3A2T-CM
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> This is an attractivity that is completely lost in modern racing, really, with its small, fuel saving, ecologically correct "cars". Thank God there's LMP...

LMP? You mean the formula where the major constraint is the fuel characteristics of the engine?
Being around people usually engages various parts of the brain that are involved in being aware of the local situation. Even if you're not interacting to someone, some amount of monitoring happens to maintain the brain's model of the local environment that we actually experience. This would include stuff like tracing the locations of people/stuff in the room, checks of stuff like body language or subtle social indicators, and probably a long list of other tiny checks that we never really notice consciously.

The problem is that some of the areas of the brain that do that processing are also used when handling other complex tasks such as programming. This overloading of processing areas will vary from person to person, of course.

This problem is the main reason I could never work in an open office, and have serious productivity problems even ion an office shared with only one other person. It's not that they are interrupting constantly or otherwise distracting in the commonly-used sense. If there are people around, I have to be aware of them, which wastes mental CPU time and introduces cache-flushing context switches at annoying times.
"We collect information from you when you register on our site. When registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address or other details to help you with your experience." [1]

"We do not use an SSL certificate because we only provide articles and information" [1]

Also, no mention of the likelihood of law enforcement coming to your door and serving you warrants/NSLs to get customer information.

Marketing your product as anonymous seems really misleading to me. Also please at the very least enable SSL.

[1] http://www.confify.com/legal/privacy_policy
That's a pretty brutal press writeup.

1. "For the first time, quantum entanglement of a single particle has been observed by researchers." -- No. This has been done many times previously. This is just the first time it's been done with the efficiency loophole closed. That's good, but not what the the reporter who wrote this thought. He'll probably write the same thing all over again the next time somebody repeats this type of experiment with one of the other loopholes closed.

2. "A single photon (particle of light), for example, can be split into two particles that are still connected " -- No. The photon is path entangled. It's still just one particle/wave.

3. "Using homodyne detectors -- that is, instruments that can measure waves and wave-like properties" -- This is hilariously imprecise.

If you're even remotely interested, do yourself a favor and check out the arXiv preprint posted by timnic. This cnet article is much worse than the usual low standard of journalism when it comes to QM.
Since we heavily rely on peer to peer technology, we don't need much infrastructure as file go directly from one user to the other. We just maintain broker servers that enable you to search for other Infinit users and exchange address information so you can connect directly. As for when we actually store data (links generation feature), we use GCS and/or AWS as a backend.
Can one submit a FOIA request, load that data into a database, and sell that data to others?

Why do companies pay the DMV for this information if they can just FOIA it from them for free?
I live in New Orleans. We call you “a gifted program”.
that's not heresy, those are pure reactionism.
2500/month

- 400 taxes

- 600 rent (at least there's a listing for something at that price in San Jose, whether it's legit or not I don't know...)

- 0 car (Happy Birthday, college student)

- 100 gas

- 125 groceries (warning: not luxurious!)

- 440 health care

- 100 electricity

- 60 water

- 16 netflix premium (you said luxurious)

- 13 amazon prime

- 46 gym membership

- 30 internet

- 160 clothing

- 125 car insurance

- 0 car repairs (you lucked out this month)

= 285

Dating?

130 dating

= 155

- 350 car payment. (Happy Birthday, full grown adult.)

= -195

+ 130 impending breakup

- 0 alcohol (you lucked out this breakup)

= -65 savings
Your Blender example doesn't really hold up in this case because it's not like Blender has been funded historically by some large company replacing the expensive proprietary tool Maya. In fact, there are many fully open source products that do not fit into some larger corporate-backed business model: VLC, Gimp, ffmpeg, to name just a few.
The facts of life.
Correct. This is why, for example, we all agree that it is unethical to get laser eye surgery, because that would be deceiving potential mates about the genetic viability of poor vision.
That's what I was wondering about.

Honestly I was thinking that some sort of integration where content creators could be directly contacted by advertisers - who would pay for in-video advertising by the content creator (this is more for personalities than for corporations) - and have a vetted way to be payed for their time / platform / ads would work (with companies paying to be part of that system). This would result in higher quality ads that are more beneficial to the content creator than the video distributor (a goal I view as equally good). And to benefit the companies advertising, you could create a tool where shorter clips of the advertisement could be sent back and forth, previewed, and approved as needed (if integrated with a payment system, this protects both parties from a bad deal).

I also think some, but not all, content creators would view paying for a small hosting company to store and stream their videos in the same way they view buying a new webcam or microphone.
For people who travel a lot, the main things they seek probably stay relatively constant. You could set things up as, "I care about [bagels] [hotel] [coffee] [gym] [atm] [thai food]" or whatever, and initially just search for all of them when given a location. If they're looking for something specific, they could add more constraints, but that may be a good default.

The weather thing sounds good, but I didn't notice it. Also, searching my home zip code - google has surprisingly poor taste in bars.
Performance is not the only reason to scale. Redundancy / failure tolerance.

Cassandra is a big PITA, but it hasn't gone down (knock on wood) in the 6 years I've been using it. PARTS of it have...

How many distinct services do you have in your monorepo? A monorepo is fine...

until it isn't.
> It doesn't seem like the complaint is that Chrome collects data on you in "Incognito" mode, rather that websites (e.g. Google Analytics) still collect on you in "Incognito" mode.

Isn't that a distinction without a difference though? It's not Chrome, it's Google Analytics. It's all Google in the end, isn't it?
No such thing in the coldest metropolitan area in the US (Minneapolis/St. Paul, at least there are none which are larger and colder). Avg daily high/low of -5C/-13C in January over the last ten years. City streets are lined with cars, and only very rarely will you see an extension cord pulled to a street parked vehicle.

Diesel at least was much more popular in Europe which would explain the prevalence of block heaters and the popularity of their use in gasoline/petrol engines, but that doesn't mean they are necessary.

Growing up we had a block heater on our large diesel farm truck and on diesel tractors, I have never in my life used a block heater on a non-diesel vehicle having spent the first >25 years living in climates which regularly hit -30C.
Having everyone on site is almost essential for an early stage startup, but the more established the business the less frequent the dynamic you describe, imo. I think many companies would benefit from hiring a few remote workers. It is one of the many ways a company can win the war on talent. I think one underrated aspect of Google's success in attracting top talent is that they do R&D in many more locations than e.g. Microsoft. Also IIRC the main engineer on Chrome/V8 started working for Google from his home in Denmark.
Oh. My. God. YES!

I moved from the UK to France in 2018 (in part due to Brexit but that is a longer story) and dear god the banking systems here are utter shit.

I am with HSBC and I can't even change the PIN on my debit card! Hell I couldn't even get my card and cheque book (yes they still use cheques here!) delivered to my address as it was a temporary one so I had to collect it from my branch in person.

If I buy something on my card it takes at least three days before it is listed in the HSBC mobile app or web site.

I generally use cash so it isn't a huge issue for me (check my post history for some explanation on why I mostly use cash) but god is banking frustrating here.

The only positive is that I do have an actual account manager (as in the same person) who I always deal with and he is excellent at sorting my problem. I have to say I do like that consistent human content. Obviously if it is an emergency I use their emergency line (lost card, etc) but for general inquiries that don't require instant action my account manager is my go to.

(thank you for bringing this up I feel I needed this quick rant!)
> Another interpretation. Clearly, the sentence is open to interpretation. My interpretation remains that in the second of two independent clauses it's quite possible for the phrase "these fucks" not to refer to the first at all.

While there is some room for interpretation there is no way to interpret it as conservative hating. I'm guessing that by ignoring half of my post you've come to agree.

> Then why are they closed? Political opportunism?

I cant believe that you are being serious here. No really, I can't believe it. In case that you are being serious, they are closed to reduce the attack surface of the virus.

> Yes, yes they do. And they've had lockdowns since the beginning of the epidemic, starting in NY just three days after the first in the nation and in NJ one day later.

> And integrating over all that time under lockdown, they have the worst per capita death count.

> And that is the most reliable statistic because it averages out most of the noise and short term trends in the daily rates, and avoids the differences in testing rate between states.

I already explained why this is wrong. Again, instead of quoting and addressing the whole part you quote the smallest bit and then go on your rant ignoring everything else. Judging by these few posts that you've written here I'm guessing that you are either a troll or an idiot and I have no desire to waste my time on either.
Companies do dumb stuff to their branding ALL the time. See the Wix article where they shoot themselves in their own foot. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26728471)

I am NOT saying Twitch is doing a good job. But it is the company's platform, not society's, and they can do whatever stupid thing they want with it.
You need to not do that unless you have it in your contract stipulating you can.

In my contracts, it states you will not use the work until we've received payment, and we will unhappily file DMCA takedowns against infringing users who've not paid for work done which isn't theirs yet but they aren't paying yet continue to use. (As we only transfer rights to the work upon final payment).

After a certain (long) period of no payments, we have a forfeiture clause, which removes all right of them to ever use the work without removing the debt for items already performed. This works considerably better than interest.

A TRO is a much cheaper thing to get than a small claims judgement.

For most clients, we additionally do not provide the source code for them until they've paid in full.
If you own copyright on any of it, all of it is a derivative work. File a DMCA takedown today.
Because Chrome has a multiprocess rendering architecture, and OS 10.5 doesn't provide a good path for hardware-accelerated rendering across processes. This means Chrome on 10.5 has to render each frame on the GPU, read it back to main memory as an image and then repaint it to the screen elsewhere. The bigger the window, the bigger the image and the longer this readback/copy takes.
because there are fewer and fewer children.
http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/05/us-birth-rate-hits-all-tim...
Smell is an extremely powerful memory trigger.
It feels unnatural to see any new feature in the Haskell world that is neither from nor in the form of a PhD paper.
Also speaking from the point of view of Canadian doing a startup, I'm really happy for these guys, but it highlights the frustration I know all too well now. Not being in the Valley is a huge disadvantage, especially when you read stories on TC of companies being funded that have no business model to speak of.
People with higher incomes also tend to have better access to credit cards and are have more disposable income to make purchases in the first place (especially when it comes to things like booking flights). They also probably have fewer qualms about buying the $500 TV without physically picking it up and carrying it out of the store because they're not awaiting delivery of something that represents most of that month's disposable income. The [possibly inaccurate] perception that internet transactions are inherently riskier than offline ones is much more of a concern if you can't afford the loss, and higher paid people are on average savvier about avoiding scams in the first place.
That was my intuition as well, but doesn't seem to explain why we can still use the syntax with modules (i.e., Set.map), unless the capitalized module name makes all the difference.
One of the features of a hammer is its weight. If you want a lighter hammer you can just buy a smaller one. But people buy 1 lb hammers specifically because they weigh 1 lb.
You should probably either take them to whatever your local equivalent of small claims court is, or use one of the "we enforce your rights but take 30%" portals.
Efficacy, like stock prices, can go down as well as up. We don't know what would happen to that chart if the second dose wasn't given. It could look like a bell curve for all we know.
miniKanren is great. Here[1]'s Will Byrd on the difference between it and Prolog.

[1] http://minikanren.org/minikanren-and-prolog.html
> punishing the corporation mostly harms the shareholders, who aren't responsible because they only have indirect control over the corporation

Then why should shareholders get the profits from the work they don't comtrol?

> the individual employees who commit crimes face criminal prosecution and punishment.

Do they?
Cloudflare didn’t take any position. Cloudflare lost customers because 8chan became a forum to recruit and radicalize domestic terrorists, and they couldn’t convince their other customers that was ok. I’m not aware of anyone who has shown that Facebook protects a domestic terrorist recruitment community and protects it against the wishes of their customers.

So cloudflare pulled its support of 8chan because they lost money, not because of any moral qualms.
The volume tied to mortgages is high compared to other countries because you can essentially keep 2/3rd of the debt forever, and even more if you indirectly amortize through your pension fund.
That is what I figured when choosing tax as a project. She will learn programming but also doing tax which is going to be useful to her and perhaps others who will come in her contact over time. And who knows, if the tax project takes off, it could be a revenue generating side hustle for her.
I was writing a comment asking what's the point of a lighter hammer, then I realized that a lighter hammer you can swing faster is actually exponentially more effective than a heavier hammer.
KE = 1/2mv^2 babe! Physics, bi*ch! :)
> I started programming on my own at 7... Mainly because my IBM PC booted into a BASIC window if

Same here!

Getting started in programming seems so much more daunting these days.
why do people have to bring up Automattic in this thread? i don't use wordpress but i appreciated it for being an open source software. if you don't like wordpress, there are a lot of open/close source CMS out there.

Wix's negative attack campaign which confused people and really speak about it self should be the focus here?

why you even attack an open source software? source code is there for you to review and play with. if you don't like it or it doesn't work for you then move on.

i just don't understand the point of attacking an open source software. it feel like Microsoft attacking linux back then.
This is comparing apples and oranges.

If you want to self-host email, you need a trustworthy static IP address with reverse DNS. It's considerably more expensive to get this from an ISP. Our annual fee also includes storage for offsite backups. You don't get the same privacy assurances using Protonmail as you do with self-hosting either. For example, Protonmail is privy to the content of all outbound email messages in the clear unless you are communicating with the recipient using E2EE.

From a cost perspective, Helm V2 starts at $199 for 256GB of storage. First year costs, including subscription work out to $298. With Protonmail, their entry level plan with added storage at the same price buys you an inbox with about 28GB, a small fraction of what you would get with Helm storage-wise, not to mention we don't limit users, email addresses, domains, etc.
I realized later that it's Geocities v2; essentially. Still a fun thought that sort of service is still a thing. I think Medium.com is probably the best offspring that I can think of.
I feel like you're being obtuse. The concept of free speech was not invented by the US Constitution and has existed long before it was written. Free Speech as a societal principle and ideal has been around for hundreds of years.
As they say, bluetooth in linux keeps only the honest people out.
Aviation engineers guard their shit and embed themselves like ticks. Access databases, spreadsheets, Fortran (like old ass fortran spaghetti code), servers under the desk. All this was common at GE.

They know what happens when you don't hold the company hostage. Nearly all of them retire and then "consult."
Can you expand a bit on the need for "types" in numerical computation? They sort of seem like overkill to me. The only types I use are float and double, but I could really do with just doubles.

OK, admittedly I also need complex numbers (two floats) and ad numbers (however they are represented, typically by two floats also). But that's it. They are numbers after all, associative and commutative. The "dispatch paradigm" that these types require seems really simple, as it is implemented by e.g. generics in C as in tgmath.h. I'm wholly unconvinced--or more honestly, wholly ignorant--of the interest of a really complicated and powerful type system with multiple dispatch, broadcasting and whatnot that is offered by Julia. Fortran really seems enough for me. [And I do not care at all for the REPL, but that is a separate issue.]
eh, I ran the command, alt-tabbed to something more interesting, and checked later in the day to see that it was done. Never had an issue running it, and only ever needed to when I was doing the initial data migration.
For Twitch and other corporations it seems like it's not the "right of association", but more the "sin of association" that makes them heavy handed towards individuals with banning, censoring and demonetizing:

The extreme social media dynamics somehow holds these corporations accountable for any wrongdoings someone might post on their platforms which is impossible to prevent or moderate in a timely fashion. They respond with more sophisticated and sweeping algorithms that lead to self-censorship by content creators and unexpected actions like shutting down the demoscene event a few days ago.
F# is indeed very interesting! For the JVM, one alternative (based on Haskell 2010, so it has philosophical similarities to F#) is Frege (https://github.com/Frege/frege). Frege is probably even less mainstream than F#, though. I don't use it because I'd rather code in Haskell using GHC.
> Reactive Programming is an Enlightened Path to Programming Utopia Yet to be Grokked By Mere Humans

Is this slide a joke I don't get? The whole presentation seems to focus on terminology and buzzwords more than discussing merits as far as I can tell.

EDIT: The authors commented and I'm going to assume this is an example of missing context.