jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think it's not misguided as a way to obtain traction. If, say, Singapore unilaterally opened its borders, it would be overwhelmed by people from ID, PH, TH, etc. But, if they slowly opened borders bilaterally with say, MY, their economies would have time to adjust, as they adjust they can then extend their borders to VN, let's say. It gives economies a way to adjust without the economic shakeout disrupting the locals too much.

Look at Mexico, it clamors for the US to open its borders to Mexico, if they believed open borders were beneficial and without repercussions, they would open their borders to Guatemala and Honduras, among others -but they don't because of labor protectionism (ethnically they are very similar, so it's not so much ethnic antagonism0.
MOOC completion rates matter if we live in a world where they have replaced traditional colleges. Not the overall completion rates, because that includes people who start them on a whim - which is possible since the cost of entry is so low.

But if we discover that a significant number of people who would have completed a traditional college program are not completing a commensurate MOOC program, then that would be a problem. That would mean that more people are getting even less education than they are now. I don't think we have the data for that, though, as I don't think we have a large enough population of college-age students who opted for MOOC-only programs instead of traditional college.

To be clear, I am not arguing that all of the problems you pointed out are not problems. They are problems, and they are huge ones. Student loan debt is a paralyzing social and economic issue, and the cost of college is an enormous barrier to social mobility.
It's possible to build a stronger window that's still vulnerable to those "Window Punch" devices that all firemen carry these days. I'm sure this was considered, I believe it's regulated in some regions.

Otherwise, if that is indeed the case, if it was a family car for use with kids that would be a borderline deal breaker. But that doesn't seem to be the target market here. For me personally as long as they communicate the risk honestly I don't see the problem.
Read some of the Motortrend articles that are going up about this. It's all about manufacturing and "The machine that builds the machine".
I disagree, I wish we could have fewer vehicle restrictions for a certain class a vehicles for people who accept the risks associated. A truck with bullet proof windows might be nice for people who live or drive through certain areas.
What if they anodized it red?
> overpriced hardware running warmed-over BSD. Sure,
> its got a fancy skin, but the in terms of the substantive
> stuff, it is BSD.

If you want to get technical, it's based off of NeXT and NeXT is based off of BSD.
I know at least a dozen or so of those click-throughs are me trying to hit the little "X" dismiss button in the upper-right corner. Yes I know Wikipedia needs funding, no I can't offer any right now. If I've closed it a half dozen times please don't show it to me for at least a couple page views.
I was hoping it is a magnet I can stick to the back of an iPhone to attach the iPhone to my fridge.
> And anyone who thinks that tables are easier to deal with either did not work enough with CSS or did not care enough.

Probably both, in my case. :-)
Well, not everyone, but I agree with your central point.

An "asset bubble" has certain characteristics, none of which is really present for higher education -- mostly, it's not an asset in any usual sense because I can't flog off my B.Sc. to some eighteen-year-old for a hundred grand. Asset bubbles are marked by prices being driven up by speculation followed by a crash... since there's no speculation there's no bubble.

Now, if instead of asking "is there a higher education bubble" you want to ask the question "Is higher education overpriced" then you might be onto something. It's better to ask a more specific question though, since prices of degrees from different universities vary from nothing to craploads. It's like asking "Are cars overpriced?" without distinguishing between Bugattis and Kias.

Certainly at the high end of the market you're likely to find some overpricing, because that's what always happens at the high end of the market. A Bugatti really doesn't have many practical advantages over a Kia for the average commuter.

So, in conclusion, some people are paying too much for their university degrees and getting lousy value for money, while others are getting the deal of a lifetime. All I can say is do some research, choose wisely, and don't get blinded by the prestige of a big name if you can't afford it.
OS X became so popular as the unix hacker laptop over the last few years, because it "just worked". That and "normal" apps from MS and Adobe run on it.

Imagine it's 2003-2006 or so - sending your linux laptop to sleep/hibernate was like russian roulette - will it start up again? Won't it? Kernel panic? ACPI improved things, but often still has hardware specific issues.

Nice hardware and good design helped as well.
You had me up to here:

> You don't really know if it's worth what you spent, because the seller is purposely keeping you in the dark about the value, continuing to assure you that this type of purchase at these rates is absolutely necessary.

This isn't like buying a car or a house. My degree has no monetary value, as far as I can tell. I'd love to sell it to the highest bidder, but it's non-transferable. I essentially purchased a license from my university. This license (read: degree) entitles me to say that I completed a program there.

The seller isn't keeping me in the dark. I got exactly what I was promised: the license to say that I completed sufficient coursework for the school to confer a degree upon me.

The license does not explicitly certify that I have any knowledge. It simply does not make that claim.

At the end of the day, the degree is simply a license to add another line to my resume. What's that worth to me? I guess it's up to society to decide, but so far it's not been worth very much for me.

Personally, I think that I would have been better served using the money in almost any other way.

In my opinion, there's already a term for all this debate around the education 'bubble': "Buyer's remorse".
Although it can be argued that current higher education is being commoditized, the OP is making an unrealistic comparison to some idealized past where education meant more and people were more educated simply because they went to college. Looking at the recent links on HN about the entrance exam to Harvard et al. in 1900s, I would be very skeptical that the students then learned greater or more applicable skills. Memorizing the philosophies of esoteric 18th century Frenchmen and the intricacies of "noble society" has equally negligible impact on real-life skills.

It is true that education is more commoditized - more people go to college and there is greater opportunity to obtain education - but commoditization by itself does not mean a decrease in quality. Because it is now a commodity, brand name means much more.
This is something I also do. I have more than 5 accounts proxied.
Committing on the spot can happen, but it's the exception, and a small one. I'd be surprised if it accounted for 5% of investments out of DDay. So it's misleading to describe DDay as if that was how things worked.

It was not a tactical choice by Greplin not to raise a large round after DDay. No one would give them one. But your advice for me was not to tell people only to raise small amounts. I often do that. You said I should tell people to quit, which would be a mistake, because I don't know yet which ones I should be telling to quit.
Most teachers are put in a situation where metaphorically they have 10 weeks to teach 30 toddlers to walk. They may be painfully aware that learning isn't a straight line, but the system limits what they can do about it.

Montessori is different. Kids stay in a mixed-age classroom for 2 or 3 years, and have a system conducive to self-paced learning. If you can get to Beverly, MA tonight there's an open house that will amaze you: http://www.stoneridgecms.org/
EZ Pass CEO: "EZ Pass could replace credit cards."
Also very popular in Belgium.
CAMFANG?
Fully agree. It takes some thought :)
> And why should anyone care about yours?

No reason at all, thanks for the reply.

> You seem to be operating under the extreme naiveté of someone who believes that the massive presence of bandwagoning speculators, would-be manipulators like the Elon Musk/Winklevoss billionaire cheerleaders, Chinese miners buying massive amount of asics, various schemes such as Tether, are irrelevant to Bitcoin.

Not at all.

> You can say the same of $TSLA, $GME, or any other meme of the moment. Why did BTC increase in value in 2018- until it didn't?

Price != value.
Do you have a source for that? That is counter to everything I've learned.

Here is a pretty thorough page from national instruments that agrees with what I stated: https://www.ni.com/en-us/support/documentation/supplemental/... (look at the "calculating drive endurance" section in particular).
Wasn't Mozilla VPN just a white label of a shady VPN company? Or did they switch partners?

Vaguely recall some unsettledness when it was first announced.
Yes but getting Americans to use public transport is one of the worlds greatest challenges.
Hmmm, I haven't found it to be true that Germans and Dutch people speak English equally well. There really is a pronounced difference, especially in the older generations, but also in younger generations. I speak German when in Germany, so of course I have some bias, but there is evidence to back this up [1].

As for how intentional it is, your theory seems plausible. That said, I don't know of any real evidence for it — even if it is an organized conspiracy, most normal Dutch citizens aren't aware of it.

[1]: https://www.wittenborg.eu/netherlands-top-english-speaking-c...
If you were using the same arguments about the French instead of the Germans, I'd agree. However, for (us) Germans I wouldn't say it's so much proudness as it is about having a huge market by itself (like GP said) and also its industries are very strong, meaning Germany doesn't have to rely on being a tax haven or its financial services as much as other countries. I do agree that Germans have a certain proudness but arguably since WW2 we are also more humbled than we probably were before and it still shows (also because of how much we are being humbled by our education and also by our media culture. Not as much as the Japanese, though :)).
This is incredibly interesting and super clever.
I love all the little examples of what you could do with this and am definitely going to play with this.
> ProtonMail doesn't have stellar record for privacy

Customer here. What have I missed?
JP Morgan, himself, used to do this.
They like fortnite!

My wife wishes my son wasn't so into gaming. I'm like, just push him to do gaming more, force him to game, then he will get into watercoloring.
How is 10 million fine deterrent to other companies trying to do the same or what is the incentives for companies to really impose internal ethic guidelines, rule following ect. and not just in name only?
How are the company holders incentivized to hold management accountable? Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but as a major holder of the company it seems it would be in my interest to encourage my management in doing what ever they deem necessary to come on top, even if it means breaking the law, as the "spoils" in the end will justify the fine. This reminded me of the VW case where management involved in illegal activates surrounding emission test fraud, prepared funds to pay the fine in advance.
Sure. The basics of a lot of vocations is something that is very useful to be able to do for yourself. A bit of plumbing, a bit of carpentry, a bit of cooking, a bit of cleaning, a bit of accounting, a bit of public speaking, etc. Pretty much the 101 of being an adult.

Or put another way, a skill or service being a vocation just means it's useful enough for enough people, so that society can support it functioning as a distinct job (or set of jobs). The more useful it is, the more demand there is for that job - but that also means the more useful it is to know the basics yourself. A random Joe or Jane doesn't really need to know how to x-ray stuff to find material defects, but they sure as hell will benefit from knowing how to wash their own clothes, fix their own faucets, balance their own books, ... and how to automate this and that in their use of computers.
A monopoly on payments, for sure. As for other domains, a tendency towards monopoly doesn’t require being literally the only supplier.
Absolutely. But I think wasmer is a lightweight VM compared to those.
Same can be said about the amateur bands.
Counter opinion: Hyperion books are recommended every time some of my favorite authors are mentioned (like Gene Wolfe and Peter Watts), but I found them very mediocre. Not as bad as Vernor Vinge books that are also always mentioned in similar contexts, but still quite meh.
You need to be a bit more specific regarding whether you mean:

1) using the same handle in new services

2) using the same handle in services that you have already registered with

I personally dont change my handles during the lifetime of a service [for example, Ive used the same AIM screen name for over a decade]. It's a pain to have to go back and inform others that the name has changed, plus id have to change my personal workflows to match the new names ...

However, I do change the handle that i use when i register for new services. veyron is the flavor of the month, but that will change at one point.
Typically i'd agree with your sentiment. Unfortunately I remember what getting around was like pre-Uber and that unregulated minicab companies are no better for workers exploitation or working rights and passenger safety...where is TfL(Transport for Londons) action on those firms? or the many uber clones that have popped up recently (Bolt, Kapten et al.) Uber is really an easy target for them. The alternative is the black cabs who are apparently the safer/regulated option however the number of times in my early 20s catching black cabs and not seeing any driver registration and having their card machines constantly not working and paying sky high prices in order to pay for their obsolescent knowledge test and fume producing diesel chugging machine makes me really sad at the thought of returning to this.
Hopefully uber can clean up their act and get something sorted as seems to me the consumer is the loser in all of this.
Worth noting that thelondoneconomic.com does not hide its clear political agenda.
TLDR: Apple card is more of the same, and they didn't fix the author's pet peeve (US credit card/score system is broken and discriminates people).
The thing is - nVidia uses shared source for all of their drivers. This is why you always have the newest GPU feature support and performance on their Linux driver - it's the same codebase as it is for Windows and was for macOS.

Linux community on other hand wants nVidia to restructure their driver just to fit Linux model and essentially lose the source parity or publish the source completely. It's not an invalid request, because nVidias APIs don't really fit into Linux kernel design and userspace APIs. It's also not very likely to happen, especially due to poisonous behaviour of kernel maintainers towards nVidia, unwilligness to compromise and nVidias refusal to add more resources to refactor the driver.
Worth noting that the 'thelondoneconomic.com' has a clear political agenda.
Never forget: education and intelligence are note the same things.

Take a group of people, wherever it is, you'll find 80% of followers, 15% of innovators and 5% of geniuses impossible to follow :)
The college is no exception, because of cost, accidents of life, etc. Even a genius can miss his way in studies...

Use this time to learn all you can, meet the important people and be the better in what you want to do. It will never be wasted time.
Annotating each move manually seems a lot faster than the MVP app in the article, which seems to take some 10 seconds to recognize the whole game state.

It also seems suited towards an altogether different use case, where you don't already know the previous game state or the moves that resulted in it. This recognizes the entire game state over and over again, which is a lot of redundant work if you already know the previous game state and only consider valid moves from that state.

For the purpose of recording an entire game, a much simpler computer vision approach would be possible based on the previous state. Just find the empty square where there was previously a piece, consider where it might have ended up according to its possible moves and look for changes in those squares. The hardest CV issue then is figuring out what a pawn was promoted to.
Jaw dropping demo, great work!
I was a freeloader for 5 or 6 low traffic sites. But now I have a production-grade app at over $700 a month.
The greatest embodiment of this essay I've come across recently is a Korean artist named Kim Jung Gi, known for his ability to conjur up epic scenes with a brush pen. As well as his obsession with drawing.

https://youtu.be/aoqu5SEFqRI
Same here. Over the past 20 years (25?) I've tried numerous times to self-host email and the issues I had with spam and blacklisting were too involved for me to resolve, and only got deeper. Definitely not something to attempt casually.
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“ 6000 observations”. I guess a single whole night can be enough. You sleep at a hotel, your key fob is cloned.
Source:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3011
"The richest programmers, like Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, become billionaires."

I've often replied to people who ask 'why do you do programming' with 'there's been more billionaires under 40 from programming than any other field'. I admit to making it up, and don't know (or care) if it's true, but it certainly gives them something to think about and smash the nerdy-IT guy image they invariably have in their heads.
Revenue != value ok?
I think your definitions are good, although thread-centric - to be really precise you have to talk a bit about 'steps' in the operational semantics of the program, but it's not helpful usually to do so.
Right, but if you make assumptions about the scheduler, you are tied to that scheduler's implementation, which introduces a significant coupling between OS implementation and language runtime that doesn't win you much and commits you to an implementation that, honestly, can and will change over time.
The cognitive dissonance is a little too thick to parse. Are you saying if another nation other than the USA had done the deed, you'd be cool with it, since it comes to an end that you support?
For 1, at least as I hear it used in the tech industry, I think there is some connotation of doing it later. More like defer than give up entirely.
I shouldn't feed the troll, but have people like you really not grown beyond platform-fanboy poo-flinging? Or is this some measure of irony I haven't yet learned to appreciate?

(Posted from a Linux laptop while using a Mac as a footrest.)
> Perhaps, but as far as I know, farmers don't feed antibiotics to vegetables.

Nope, just pesticides. Though some people avoid those, too.
Some strains can produce staphylococcal enterotoxins that stimulate the vagus nerve, inducing vomiting and abdominal pain. The article mentions that those strains weren't found as contaminants though.
This is very link-bait-y.

Declaring the death of anything is usually link-bait, but the death of the artist is absurd. I get the argument, which is basically - the economics have changed a bit.

But this idea that genius is gone and in its place is entrepreneurship, is just so, so silly. All artists are in marketing, sales, and so on, and always have been. Dali was as much a self-promotion genius as he was an artist. Not much has changed except the ability to view the past through the curved lens of history.

Geniuses still exist in all of the arts. Nothing has changed. Nothing is dead.
The fact that they outsource their news-gathering doesn't bode well either.
I wanna upvote this so many times. I used to work in geointelligence surrounded by some of the world's smartest people doing some of the most amazing work I will ever see. We were doing things with pixel data that Google is still at least a decade away from, and the efficiency of the ground processing ingest systems were so insane that when the government tried to give the contract to someone else, it took their software 21+ days to do what we could do in minutes. But it took decades of fine tuning to get to that point, physicists and mathematicians working in close concert with engineers who understood hardware, software, and orbital mechanics equally well.

Meanwhile, I left and am now making double, in some cases triple, what some of my old coworkers are making, all because I'm in a hotter industry infused with VC cash, not because I'm any better.

And I absolutely miss it and understand why some of those people don't leave. The problems you get to work on and the access to classified data and close collaboration with so many world class research laboratories is unmatched. You'll never get that level of intellectual engagement working for a web company until you're in one of the handful of moonshot programs staffed by PhDs, but you will get money, so I chose money.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing! I personally use this Chrome extension so I don't have to bother updating the filters: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unhook-remove-yout.... YouTube was by far the biggest distraction for me.
>The real irony is that the rationalist community’s strong reaction to this article as propelled it to a level of popularity that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.

It wouldn't need much popularity to do damage. A modestly popular article exposing the guy would be enough for him to have personal consequences. People have been cancelled (from their jobs) for less.

On the other hand, the big reaction might stop the next such bullying, or at least make the next journalist consider that they're doing something scummy and tacky.
I've read a bit on type invalidation and I know it's a hard problem (in fact it's hard for me to even wrap my head around it, lol). Still, it's unfortunate. One thing I would like to know is if the difficulties with invalidation are a symptom of the dynamic semantics, or of the compilation model.

Namedtuples are cool, but I'm not sure I understand the tradeoffs between using them and using structs. Can I just replace all structs in my project with named tuples, without having a performance hit?
>Why is it not possible to set up a similar company elsewhere which makes similar revenue and should be either insanely profitable or pay 150K and employees would become insanely rich as cost of living are lower.

The canned answer is that SV provides easy access to capital and talent. These are rationale incentives, although they may be overvalued and this is changing.

Companies can absolutely pocket the difference. I know a SV CEO who is building out his software team in Pakistan because college educated programmers are paid $6/hr and the talent is adequate
That's right! No one is ever allowed to change. Ever.
Where "creating adoption" means "hopefully the price of the speculative assets I own goes up"