skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but that's just silly.

I might agree that PHP is a poor choice in many ways, and that in many situations there's a much better alternative. But it's quite another thing to claim it's "objectively" a poor choice.

I have clients on small budgets who run on shared hosting, and the fact that these support PHP is enough reason to use it. I have clients whose needs are met almost perfectly by Wordpress, and using it requires using PHP. I know developers who have fairly successful small businesses on PHP and for them it would be "objectively" a bad idea to just drop all their knowledge and everything they've built so far in favor of an "objectively" better language.

Even just the fact that in some places or for some use cases it's significantly easier and cheaper to get an decent PHP developer than anything else is a reason to use PHP for some things.
"Fight poverty" is certainly a grandiose mission statement.

But this core function--checking benefits balances--is very helpful to EBT users.

Why? In my neighborhood there are quite a few EBT users. I've seen several of them run over their limits at the supermarket checkout. It's humiliating. (I volunteer at the drop-in center for kiddos in the local public housing project, so I know a few of these families.)

Plus, the nudges in this app to good nutrition are undoubtedly helpful. Generally super cheap food isn't the healthiest food, and an app like this can help.

I pay lots of taxes so poor people can have a fair shot at getting themselves and their families out of poverty. EBT helps fulfill that mission.

I know some people take the default position that recipients of public assistance ought to endure some hassles. I don't agree: being poor is hassle enough. The states where this big contractor does business should require them to cooperate with innovating stuff like Propel.
You are generalizing the criticism of "x-studies" to a criticism of the humanities as a whole, which I do not think is what was meant at all.
I am a bit confused by the last statement. It can take a lot of man power to support the academics at any university. Now this is not to say that there isn't a lot of staff padding going on.

From supporting the physical site of the university which can be across multiple campuses to managing the life and well being of the students. Then top it off with administrative people and their support staffs the numbers can add up quickly.

I think a better metric is how many students, undergraduate and graduate/professional compared to academics and then separately non academics. If the the ratio of those who teach to those there to learn tips is outside of averages we have a real concern
Dotcom-style revenue swaps?

"Internet infrastructure companies were simply swapping equipment and putting it on their books as revenue. They essentially handed pieces of paper back and forth and called it money."

https://www.inc.com/niel-robertson/brilliant-failures/dot-co...
You just paper swap with another uni. Oxford can hand it's engineering paper to Cambridge and see if it's hard enough etc. Not hard to do, it's just peer review for exam papers
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The purpose of universities seems to have shifted from providing academic research and learning to simply being another stage of school

There’s no “seems” about it, 50% of school leavers going to university was an explicit policy goal. There’s no way to reconcile an institution of higher learning with one that has to accept anyone that applies
Actually, the high paying customers won't be put off by whatever immigration policy the current government will put in place. It's mostly EU students who will look elsewhere.
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I was wondering when late applications (after the deadline) get processed. We applied for S18, and no views of our demonor video yet. Was wondering if we would get a rejection mail if things don't turn out too well after the application review?
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All ideas I think have a scale where they perform best. Some ideas do require starting capital of $10m or more to really work--VC there may be the best option. However, I've seen too many companies fail by taking on too much money too easily, forcing success to mean many times the multiple that's likely or even possible.
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> Ethereum tokens are virtual commodities useful for purchasing computational services on the Ethereum network

Wrong, ETH isn't a virtual commodity, gas is.
But gas isn't tradable, it's a virtual Unit-of-Account which uses ETH as the only accepted payment method.

IMO, ETH is a tokenized membership unit* in Stiftung Ethereum and by proxy a stake in the Ethereum mainnet.

*) Stiftungs not supposed to have memberships or shares, but that is the genius of Ethereum founders that they found a way to hack non-profit Stiftungs in order to use them for for-profit activities.
the only widely used license that i know of that would get violated by this kind of use (i think) is the AGPL.
Your tone feels threatening. I hope you don't bring that attitude to the campus...
FYI I created a quick tool for this at http://xluh.co/repo.

It's basic now but I'll be building it up in light of this.
But I thought we were talking about Jonathan Haidt?
I love your hustle. Your hustle is good. Also, your copy is inspiring. But sorry I got no money, heh.
I've been meaning to spin up some nextcloud and experiment with the options. It does sound like it's very close to many things I've been wanting to put together as an option for family, friends, and whoever to spin up their own watercooler making a facebook replacement.

Having some experience with BP, it's really easy to get running, and even easier for other people to create a profile and start using it. Is there options with nextcloud for family and friends to join in any of the modules and have their own slice within it?

I'd love an easy button for people to get hosting and spin up a well defaulted nextcould, or buddypress system, or anything similar. With a BP setup, only one person in a family would need to spin up a server and everyone else could use it.. backing up data is the current weakness for easy button with that system, but I see that changing soon.
Ex-poly degree mills are rapidly devaluing this. It’s only a matter of time before British degrees become an anti-brand in China
I've anecdotes from two university lecturers on different courses. They both want some form of external moderation. its what happens for Postgraduate degrees after all.

What they report is horrifying:

* Essay writing skills are lacking, "its at GCSE level"

* Students contesting any form of criticism - they go via the official channels to argue why they should get a good grade. All schools are tied up in multiple tribunals with existing staff. Often its easier just to pass the student.

* In some cases, students are SUING the university for poor grades

* Plagiarism is commonplace. There is an automated plagiarism detection mechanism for electronic submissions - but they are turned off or ignored as it's so rampant. People literally copying from Wikipedia or copy and pasting from papers to make their own work. Wikipedia copying is especially used for definitions, e.g. "Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship...."

* Students don't see that their education is also their own responsibility, and see it as a purchase. Give me what I pay for.

* Students who don't turn up to classes and seminars demand the same grades as those who do.

* Hundreds of students email lecturers asking for help with their work (much more numbers and frequency than in the past).

They both despair as they see education standards falling, and theres not much they can do. They don't want to be sued by the students, nor do they want to spend all their time in tribunals, they are educators first. They see their own institution as being of very poor quality.

To me - I would look at a league table of education quality for UK universities. There isn't one, you cant compare. Previously a good chance of good education was the research output of a department, or the references of the teachers. But this, as my associates report don't mean anything anymore.
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Or simply answer that she has graduated from high school?

I'm not one for dishonesty in general, but if you have a post-graduate degree from an accredited college, ticking the box on an application form that you also have graduated high-school is damn near not a lie, IMO.
Parent poster here. I should have stated we took in 3 children in Foster Care (One was a kid at church that was abused and needed a home and from June to December we had three siblings)

So we certainly choose this for our lives and I am glad we did. Two of them graduated from college and one of them is serving in the Middle East in the National Guard.
No matter how cheap you got your degree (which doens't seem to include any university?), who do you think gets the most knowledge out of it:

A: that works 25 hours+ while studying at a school chosen because of its price or B: that study at a school that fits what is best for B and gets money from the school?

Now you might believe the system A uses is fine, but which country do you think will be ahead in 10 or even 50 years?
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I think you're in agreement. I believe your parent post intended "reasonable" to mean in the sense of "reasonable to be considered an impediment to free speech".
I'm happy to see Spolsky blogging again. Everyone should read his old stuff; most of it is spot on. I was young in my career when I found his blog; right around the dot bomb. His posts are very thoughtful and insigntful. They should be required reading for any programming manager, team lead, or developer.

Joel, if you are reading this, it's difficult to find your archives on your new site.
This is clearly the way to go, even private universities let you transfer some credits from community college and everyone with any care for their money should do this. The problem is that it is a bit hidden and young people get guided to do it the expensive way.

It also makes almost zero difference at the end, no one will care if your electives comes from a community college if they care about your degree at all.
Should I learn PHP or JSP?
But the native version already does that! What can electron do that the native version cannot ?
The point of electron is that it let you write code once (in JavaScript or something that transpile to js, like TypeScript or Elm) and built multi-plateform software. But if you have a native software that can be built in wasm, it also can be built on Windows + Mac + Linux. Why using electron in that case?

Electron is great if you don't want to write native code (and deal with the debugging complexity of C or C++). If you already have a cross-plateform native app in written with Qt, why the hell would you want to put that in Electron?!
And remind that if your C++ isn't cross-plateform already, you won't be able to build to wasm.
Yep. They might want to detail their business model before making any moral claims.
Believe it or not, some people make high-quality content on the internet with the expectation of compensation.

The current state of advertising is ethically and technically questionable in many ways. But the idea of advertising as a revenue model is not.
A person with knowledge and ties to one of the small operators within the GSMA eSIM group mentioned there are many problems with interpretation and acceptance of certain proposed guidelines, especially by the big members.

One big issue on the table is carrier selection freedom once you have chosen your initial operator. Big Telcos want to have the last word when it comes to letting you go if you decide to, and were trying to bake certain clauses into the agreement that would enable them to "oblige" the end user to pay a penalty for premature contract breaking.

Basically, they want to replicate the existing regular sim-lock model with the eSIM, but nothing else regarding free number portability would change.

Regardless of the eSIM, over the past 10 years carriers have been forced by their governments to unlock phones for free in many countries but have always ended up finding loopholes to make this really hard.

Only in Spain which has a population around 45M, we've gone from over 500,000 to just below 1M number portability changes per month so with so much at stake, I really doubt the eSIM is going to make things any better for the end customer.

Edit: formatting.
I love that talk, but for some reason I never found it to be mocking in a 'bad' way. Perhaps it's because all these bad things are so obviously bad that they're like 'the sun rising'.
> And this is perhaps the main difference. You stopped tinkering.

Or stopped tinkering with their work machine so that they could spend more time tinkering with things that they actually wanted to tinker with
It's not a very radical idea either! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system
I have no idea what you two are talking about. Could you enlighten those of us that don't know?
The cities you listed are 3 times older than even the idea of an American continent. They are culturally rich and unique in their own way. They have survived several countries around them and are historically significant regardless of their size today. Cologne for example is the 4th biggest city in Germany and 2000 years old. They have traditions the rest of Germany finds odd and a strange beverage they seem to think of as beer. If that isn't enough for you culturally, than Germany really cannot compete. I don't see any reason to create some artificially big city for the sake of competing world-wide.

Also you forgot that those cities are often very close to each other. The Rhein-Neckar (Mannheim, Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen), Rhein-Main (Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Wiesbaden, Mainz etc.) or Ruhr (too many to count really) area do form hubs, which can compete worldwide and are economically MUCH stronger than Berlin ever will be.
If a company provides a service on behalf of the government then really open data should be a basic requirement with default arrangements for high use, like a standard payment across all government open data per 100k accesses.

Government enabled private monopoly is surely anti-capitalist too (ie as well as anti-communist, etc.).
I would guess by selling out their customer's privacy, which seems to be the standard operating model.
Are there any good checkers for URLs in text files?

I wrote https://github.com/jwilk/urlycue , but I'm not quite happy about it, I don't have energy to improve it either; so I'm looking for alternatives.
Or the subconscious memories could have been transferred through other methods, e.g. socialising with people who knew the donor.
Obviously opposing views are allowed to exist.
I don't know how shaming can even be measured objectively. What makes you feel shamed? The fact that someone downvoted you? Thats merely the expression of someone's opposing views... (I did not downvote your comments btw)

There is no "the" discussion. There is a discussion consisting of commenter beliefs, and then responses challenging beliefs.

You classified some beliefs as political as opposed to technical.

Lets define 'technical' as relating to matters of fact.
Lets define 'political' as relating to selection of options.

i.e. technical statements are positive statements, and political statements are normative statements.

Every technical discussion contains tradeoffs. Tradeoffs are the source of political disagreement: when the family needs a new car, the tradeoff could be price, performance, appearance,... and the husband and wife will not in general agree. The technical tradeofff generates the political difference.

In the example I gave, some people prefer cryptocurrencies, other people prefer nuclear energy, there is no objective technologically superior future. There is only the choice among viable futures. In democracy politics should belong to us all.

Nobody is censoring you (nor me!)

If I were forced to define shaming, it would be something like: a behaviour where the perpetrator(s) make an appeal to a groups supposed definitions of virtues/sins, to change the groups perception of the victim(s).

In order to identify any such thing in this thread, I first need to identify the group: hacker news users. From reading your comments I think you (wrongly) believe the cliche "we come here for technology, we dislike politics" Then I read your posts where you identify anti-nuclear ideas as political vs pro-nuclear technologies as technological. So it seems you are the one who is shaming anti-nuclear ideas.

I am not appealing to any group virtues or sins here, and if I did I would not classify "politics" as the sin, since I regularly see people discuss tradeoffs and how they feel about it.

Btw, I am not against nuclear energy in any absolute way:

we may need nuclear power for space travel, why burn it up here and now? [no, its not in nature decaying at the same rate as we use it up, in a reactor we promote radioactive decays]

research reactors are extremely important to have for scientific progress, and cryptocurrencies are very promising for humanity too, perhaps governments should simply have a clear public policy promising to neutralize any plane [passengers or not] coming too close to a reactor or surface-storage of radioactive materials: this would decrease the probability of attempted hijackings.

I think we can both agree that nuclear reactors would ideally be aneutronic, from a waste perspective, can we not focus on that instead?

If we ignore the waste threat there is still the centralized dependency threat: irrespective if it is downtime, sabotage by employees, accidents, vulnerability during war, ...

With all this on top, I think it is not crystal clear to all of us that alternative energy sources are more expensive.
A cover letter should usually not be about your skills, but rather reasons why you want to work a specific place and more commonly personal stuff.

Skills, projects etc. are for your resume (CV)
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It's quite appalling how UK universities seem to have changed since tuition fees. Most saddening is the effective destruction of the Open University as they now charge the same fees as everyone else. Few can afford to take an OU course for interest, or mid life career change any more.

The youngest is looking very unlikely to attend university at all thanks to feedback from those already in the system. I rather get the impression that paying £9k per year has turned academic excellence into a simple commercial production line.
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I still find myself using PHP for really quick and dirty mostly-static stuff. It's still so liberating to write HTML with some snippets of code, FTP that shit somewhere, and have it just work.
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I was seriously tempted to switch to launchaco for landing pages, but $50/year (while on BETA), this is what worries me. I don't want to make 3-4 landing pages for the products I work on, then a year later on they are going to increase the price 2-4 times more.
I think this is depressingly true. As a pure technical person, there is a limit where your technical skills will take you in many companies.

I've been stuck as "the guy who quietly fixes the problems no one else can figure out" for years, while being passed over for promotion because I'm not sufficiently externally visible in that role.
110k$/year? I really find it difficult to believe it, even if it was 110k£/year.
I've seen a website that has control codes for a particular scanner, because it doesn't just send digits/letters but the device can be controlled by special barcodes to send/hold Ctrl or Alt on the "keyboard". He was using it to access the OS behind the kiosk UI on a ticket machine.
I worked on a React project for a good six months and even though I hadn't touched it in a while I still felt like I had a good grasp on things. Looking over the code samples in that article, and some of the other things that the article links to, I really struggled to make sense of it all.
Well, the heart apparently has 40,000 neurons, which is cracking on for the same number as a fruit fly. Although one would assume that they're not arranged for the sort of thing which would make a person crave a beer.
Historically, French was the court language of Europe and therefore the the language of diplomacy. (US Passports include English, Spanish, and French; I think they used to only have English and French.) Of course, that's not going to happen even though Brussels is primarily Francophone.
Roombas are garbage, in my experience. Look into the Xiaomi Robot Vacuum, it's about $300 and quite fantastic. Yes it builds a map of your home, but if you dont need phone control then it doesn't need wifi. Unlike a Roomba, it knows where its been and a good idea on what its doing.

This thing is too convinient and I know some us data broker will have a tough time getting the data to do anything with it
Not parent but, your statement doesn't explain why the ratio of academics to administrators should have fallen, do academics now need more administrators than they did. Are the newly employed non-academics really serving the research aims, or are they meeting the schooling requirements?
i'm not blaming russians, on the contrary. I said that blaming them was ridiculous.
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I was Google with their most popular Reader client that in practice 'killed' RSS, to get users on their shiny new G+.
Most people who are stuck in large cities would simply starve to death.
That being said, the doctors also took on a huge risk in performing a difficult, new surgery.

Whether or not it was good for their careers (I don't doubt it will be) doesn't negate the altruism they offered.

It also strikes me as patriotic.
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I'm always reminded of the documentary following the recording Bernstein conducted of West Side Story with various opera singers.

The tension between him and Carreras that rises to a crescendo is awful and compelling at the same time.
I admire the spirit of the post but it seems contrived and hard to grok.

As soon as you go down the state and lifecycle method route my spidy senses start tingling.

I have yet to see an example on the new context api that wouldn't be clearer with stateless components + recompose. Perhaps someone could point me to the advantages?
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