skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Secure hosts would be nice. I always say that VPNs and even firewalls are a band-aid. The problem is that the world is overrun with insecure legacy software and insecure-by-design new software that assumes it to always be running on a "secure network." This includes tons of database and orchestration software that has little or no authentication or where authentication is an obvious afterthought.
The point is that there was a time when you could have worked that factory job during the summer to pay for the next year's tuition. I'm sure you would concede that this is much more reasonable than working a full time job on top of a full time university load.
I've been there last year. The oxygen Level at that height is about 30-40% less so you breathe heavier and you move slowly. It's also utterly cold. Everyone is wearing heavy jackets, gloves, and hats.

It was funny seeing some people drive up in their rental mustangs. I can only imagine their brakes cooking by the base of the mountain after that downhill drive.
Facebook’s accessibility ambitions
But the servers have to have a public IP to terminate the wireguard link, or be connectable from a machine that does. Exactly like SSH, be it via a bastion host or direct.
You should teach them about insurance...
News flash, it hasn't been worth it for at least 15 years. That is when I graduated high-school. I toured some colleges, submitted my FASFA, and ran the numbers. My family was lower middle class. My grades were above average but not top of my class. I had two options: take out loans for college and go into immense debt at age 18 or learn a marketable skill and go to work. I was already self-learning how to code during high school.

I decided to avoid the debt and get to work. Best decision I've ever made. It wasn't always easy but being debt free except for a mortgage that fits my income has provided for a very comfortable life.

If you want to do something with your life that actually requires a college degree, go for it, otherwise learn a trade and live your life without unreasonable debt. During high school every adult in my life told me that I could never make a decent living without a college degree. They were wrong.
Yes, my HS counselor, in speeches to students at assemblies (c.1999), was constantly saying "It doesn't matter which college you go to, but you absolutely must get a degree."
One way to control unnecessary spending is to put the price in terms of how many hours you had to work to get that money. Then it becomes easy to put the item back on the shelf.
I have had trouble with Nest devices staying on an IP address after the lease expires, messing up the network once that address gets used by someone else. I had to reserve IPs for each one in the end.
More than once, I have had a Nest smoke alarm go off for absolutely no reason, in an empty house. It's always nice to get an alert on your phone at work telling you your house is on fire.
I don't think their QA department is the best.
I think a big question is since Cricket is an MVNO that runs on AT&T's network, is AT&T able to sell a Cricket customer's location data?
How dare you imply my Jake Take Shake'n Bake Rake Cake (JETSBRiCK) stack is too complicated!
>> It shouldn’t here, either: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, fewer than 20 percent of American jobs actually require a bachelor’s degree.

Ya ... well ... try applying for a job without one. In many fields university education is expected. You can get in on the ground floor as a uneducated kid and rise through the ranks of an organization but you will be locked in. Any job applicant over 30 is expected to either have one or at least have a good excuse for not finishing their degree.
I think the argument is to not prevent people from getting art history degrees - just to make all art history courses in the US artificially limit the number of students they take in to match the actual demand.

So if someone's super passionate about art history and is also able to meet the (presumably) more stringent entry criteria, they will still be able to get that degree.
Sure, right now engineering should accept a ton of students. And be encouraging more. Say, for instance by being free, and then using Progressive taxation on the graduates to pay for it all.

Note that I'm essentially advocating a Loan, but without a Principal. And it's means adjusted what the interest is. And you never finish paying it off.
The one advantage college will always have is that it is very difficult otherwise to bring a high number of intelligent people for 3-4 years at the same time and allow them to think freely. This will be difficult to replicate.
I do too, a core belief is that educated people are critical to success on a national and world level. However, colleges have an aggressive liberal slant which for me took a decade to even out to center.
So we don't have PI address space, but that'd probably cost some dough.

Anyway, our hosting provider wants money to give us a v6 prefix. And that's probably because the RIRs and LIRs also charge a fee.

And I don't understand why wouldn't they allocate prefixes for free to those who already have v4 leases.

Or maybe someone just wants to fleece us.
I dunno, I would consider flunking courses, with that high tuition, to be severe.
That's a perfect example of the trend I tried to describe. "Let's download it every 12 hours but optimize that shrinking the file size to just 305 bytes and caching it on the CDN". For a logo that hasn't changed since before the app was first developed.
Question should be re-framed as, of what is an undergrad degree a "costly and honest signal"?
The skeleton is not exactly good marketing.
Winnow the pool to rich people who can afford college that is.
Our current Student Loan Debts ARE absolutely devastating.

If you knew that an applicant had a Full Ride Merit Scholarship to a good degree program, it would "mean less" to you?

Can you explain that a little bit better?
Spoken like a true armchair economist.
i'm curious to hear more about your story!

if i'm understanding you correctly, the postal service somehow ended up in possession of your early prototypes and they sold them to somebody who then re-listed them on ebay. was this a lost parcel situation?
It's an opinion piece so based on what I've read in the NYT(or the WSJ, doesn't matter the ostensible political leanings of the paper in question) there will never be a retraction and the editorial board will double down on backing the editorial.
Why did you simply skip over the whole "a system could ignore the user's values and instead only offer suggestions and goals aligned with Googles values"? That was clearly stressed.
Why would that experience be aspirational? Why should that be the way we want to structure society?

Especially when other western nations show us that university can be free and people can have a rich college experience without that kind of death march.
You seem to be suggesting that the simple addition of a degree requirement is good because it narrows the search field. By this same argument, I could say I will only accept candidates that are left handed.
Why not just progressive taxation?

Don't predicate the rate on a hypothetical earning... Base it on actual earnings.
I agree with you completely, I meant for my comment to be sarcastic but forgot the /s. I think a large part of why people seem to fear free speech now is because they see people in the media and on tv get enraged about others beliefs and begin to think that it is the social norm to get outraged
So this is a dumb question, but isn't the question of reproducible builds made trivial by vendoring dependencies? Why is it treated like this holy grail when it should be dirt simple? I must be misunderstanding something.
Honest question, not trying to incite unrest: Why does IPv6 even matter for private networks? My understanding is the main (only?) benefit of IPv6 is the vastly increased address space, are there that many private networks in existence that exhaust all IPv4 private network IP ranges?
Employers are generally looking for a proxy for iq, since testing iq directly has potential legal problems. SAT, ASVAB, grades, degree attainment are often just proxies for iq. I think if Congress passes a law explicitly allowing iq tests for all job applications we'll see many of these seemingly irrational job requirements fade away.
Outside of this controller, if you and your dad have any interest in fighting games, you could check out Dive Kick - it's a two button fighting game, and they sell (sold?) a special controller with only two buttons.
Not always - the BBC was mentioned above and they are far less politicised than many of the other U.K. news outlets. It is argued that any bias comes from the demographic of those who want to work there rather than political pressure from above. A good local news source that is government funded, Radio New Zealand, would fall into the same catagory in my opinion.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC
I agree that 'education' is critically important.

But it is important to clarify: education in what is important.

I think there is massive difficulty in forming any sort of consensus approach to define a proper baseline of 'education' that works for everyone. Our school systems are frankly not designed for it, and it seems a utopian ideal that they may be 'corrected' to do so. Considering the diversity of motivators and systems/tactics used for schooling across cities/counties/states and the content that is covered/ignored, is it realistic to attempt to measure a 'baseline of education'?

To me it comes down to structuring a better formal definition of 'education' at a societal level. Economic utility is the obvious motivator in today's society, which pumps up many fields of 'education', but hinders the perceived importance of other fields. Some forms or fields of education that are not covered in our modern schooling systems may actually improve the education baseline, and vice versa with some content currently covered.
I feel that "digital physical security" might be limited, but it's still better or the same in most cases as regular old "physical security".

A lock that can be bumped isn't very secure. A lock that can be bumped or it's code discovered via some kind of power-monitoring attack isn't any less secure. But one without a keyway that can be attacked via power-monitoring is more secure in my opinion.

Everything is tradeoffs, and physical security is no different. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good here. If you are in the security industry, you should know that "bad" security that people will use is better than "good" security that people won't.

If a "smart lock" means I forget to lock my door less, I can monitor and record those who go into my house, and I can get alerts if the door is opened via any method, I'd call that a win even if there were pretty significant vulnerabilities that allowed an attacker physically present to get in.
Well put. Parent seems to be the classic middlebrow dismissal.
Well... chances are if you're going to PAY for a service, then you find it useful do you not? They might have found you as a customer from different advertising channels. Better optimization means more customers, means more revenue, which means they can iterate faster, delivering you an even better product.
In theory the Christian leadership is supposed to be leading the people out of Egypt, but in practice they're usually playing golf with the Pharaohs.

The aping of Greek mystical forms such as virgin worship I believe is a ploy to make the religion more palatable to the surrounding culture. The deeper principles of total forgiveness and relinquishing of individual claims to righteousness are the core, in my view; if not globally unique, at least a radical departure from classical cultural values and Islam.
I think good colleges are worth it, but mediocre/poor colleges aren’t. Good colleges are where you have high caliber instructors, a qualty network, a good reputation, and good counseling/support system.. ie things that will help you professionally. I’d amso factor in location/climate but not something I’d pay for explicitly
You missed the "charged with no crime" part.

(Yes, you can pick a nit about whether that's really a "crime", and you can argue about whether it should be. It's still illegal, under the existing law, for those people to be here.)
There's a presumption that every company in the world is violating EU citizens privacy. That storing IP addresses can be construed as illegal. That everyone is liable for a fine of $20MM for any mistake, innocent or malevolent.

The EU itself is hyping up how fearsome this law is to win approval from their citizens and politicians. As well as to strongly encourage firms to take this change seriously.

But I am at fault for taking the EU seriously rather than being blase. I am fearmongering for trying to explain why businesspeople who are not in the EU are afraid of its actions and are afraid of a brand new law that grants a huge amount of discretion to prosecutors and judges.

What I know is that the EU can capriciously change its mind and go after the biggest companies for billions of dollars. I know that I don't have the resources to prove my innocence in a foreign country. I don't even have the resources to understand the charges against me, since legal translation is expensive and I could be faced with actions in any or all of the languages of the EU. If I get a package of documents in Estonian or Bulgarian I won't even know that I'm facing charges!

Claiming universal jurisdiction against every company in the world with a reverse onus of proof is a dangerous and malevolent tactic. Because it's your local government that you have confidence in, you're comfortable with it. I doubt that you would be so blase about a similar approach by the US or Japan.
Or maybe let people pay for Art History degrees if they want to.

And the free program should be based on Merit, and career demand.
An ex had a grandfather who put himself through school, including dental school and the extra 3 years for a specialty in orthodontics, working a summer job.

And he complains about his grandkids needing to go into debt. They don't realize how the world's changed in the last 50 years...
This isn't true at all. IQ is much less important than work ethic and attitude at many/most jobs.
It makes sense on all levels. Pay is not correlated with how hard your job is. It's correlated with how large of an impact you have on the business.

It's really easy to have $1M+ (or basically very large) impact on a business by making data more accessible and providing solid analysis.

On the flip side, it's really hard to have a really large impact writing low level embedded code.

The reason for that is because since it is a well defined problem (control this hardware, send data from here to there) there is not a lot of room for creative flexibility. So it's hard to differentiate yourself above others (even though very technical people know that the quality of low level code can vary dramatically, this often isn't reflected in the success of the business).

At the end of the day I always ask myself, is what I am doing driving business value for my clients. If not, I try to reframe what I am working on so that is the case.
So if you're paying for a useful service, you don't care about helping that SAAS company to optimize their campaigns, to net them more revenue, so they can build a better service that you're using??
Your argument is only valid if you are assuming that tuition is paid for out of pocket. If you have to finance that $50k, you will most likely end up paying closer to $80k. The 80k assumes a 15 year repayment at current rates, if they can pay more and get it done in 10 years it drops down to under $70k.
You're dramatizing the mental overhead needed to not write semicolons. Every serious project uses a linter that can add or remove them based on some flag.

I don't use semicolons. It's an unnecessary character. Life moves on.

I'd say Rust has worst of both worlds, if you want to compare it to something, where having or not having a semicolon can mean two different things (return the value or return void). That's an example of actual mental overhead that semicolons can create that still bites me after more than a year of Rust. And it's not something that tooling can necessarily fix for you unlike Javascript ASI.

Using semicolons in Javascript just to keep my brain trained for semicolons in other languages is probably the worst reason to use them I've heard yet. And every time someone finds out I don't use semicolons in IRC, they seem angry about it. So I wonder how much I avoid semicolons just for the sport of it, now.
We have decent data on this, and college is still worth it (for the individual) for all above-average students. Its social returns (which is some of what she's getting at without the vocabulary for it) are near-zero or negative, however, despite the many tropes about "an educated society" to the contrary.

For a much, much deeper discussion of this issue and the factors involved, read The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan (https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/d...). It's one of the more careful social science books I've ever read, and while it comes to controversial conclusions, even if you disagree with them you'll learn a lot about the issues by reading it.
See my other answers
> It sounds to me like you have some deep-seated insecurities that I really don’t think you should have. I think you should address these before you go around whining about other people’s attempt to discuss things.

How condescending.

I have a deep-seated frustration that threads on this and similar topics become trainwreck full of derails and distraction. I'd be surprised if the majority of comments in this thread even discussed China or the situation there, rather than use it as a jumping off point derail to a US topic. As far as I can tell, I'm the only person to have used the term Xinjiang in this entire thread. This is in a post about Xinjiang.

Just to emphasize: this thread is such a trainwreck that it dropped like a rock off the front page. That does no one any good.

> It’s almost like this is one reason to read world news.

A better reason to read world news is to understand and discuss the world, not to compulsively engage in domestic topics.
I’m always in for some laughs, don’t get me wrong. But if there’s something I hate is a list of bad examples (such as “falsehoods programmers think") where there’s no reference to an explanation of why each of those is a bad example.

If you can’t formulate why it‘s a bad example then there’s no way it will be spreaded knowledge.
>well-meaning attempts to make college loans available to everyone for everything seem to have massively bloated the cost of education to a crippling degree.

I'm not so sure about this as a cause. If you look at the costs for colleges that have increased over time, you can start to see where a lot of this money is going. Spending on new and maintaining aging technology is increased. And now you have entire departments like Title IX that never existed in prior school models.

And with expansion, additional management overhead now exists. There is seemly at least a Director of <insert title here> for everything.
I've never been unemployed but I imagine it would be boring. I enjoy going to work and having new problems to face everyday so for me yes, low unemployment is good. And I've noticed there are less bums when unemployment is low, which is great for me because I don't like homeless people
You just made me want to make my own cheese! Thanks for that!
Half-assing anything usually isn't worth it. Given that most Americans half-ass their educations, why would we expect doubling down on half-assery to pay dividends?

If working hard towards a degree at a decent school stopped paying dividends, that might be news.
This may be true if you assuming that a degree is only important as a way to get a job. However, if you put a value on stuff they actually teach, getting a good foundation education in your field will make you a better specialist in a long term.
I got a teaching credential from San Jose State. The piece of paper helped me get a demeaning job in the indoctrination industry. Other than that the education was almost completely worthless. Except perhaps from the character building of enduring endless drivel, and I didn't need to go to college for that. Turns out the job wasn't worth the effort, and since then I've had a decent career doing things that I learned independently.

College was close to free for me. At that price it was still way too expensive. I doubt that is the case for the best students at the best schools. But for the rest of us, I advise being highly skeptical of the value of a modern college education. Especially of the education department at SJSU.
This statement is not always true.

May deployed PoW implementations are provably worse than most modern proposals for Proof of Stake. PoW mining opens selfish mining strategies, whereas Proof of Stake fixes the set of actors opens to scrutiny the mechanism for "who gets to mine the next block."

This doesn't mean that proof-of-stake is magical, but it's certainly less prone to issues than Proof of Work. It's also less inundated by religious zeal; PoS proposals face healthy skepticism and more vetting BEFORE they tend to be deployed. PoW is the axiomatic and beloved sacred "nakamoto consensus" in (incorrectly, but to many in the space) a platonic form.
Bluebird's promise implementation is faster in the common case (single thenable chain) and also includes some non-standard convenience functions for composing groups of Promises.

The performance differences are meaningless for most people but if you're used to coding with the convenience functions it's annoying to not have them available.
Interesting bot, but I don't understand why would it show only 3 top stories at the start. And saying "advance" after every paragraph is tiring.

As a side note, most of the Assistant bots I've seen are completely useless. Also I find it strange bots don't typically use the voice defined in Assistant options (why???).

Considering how Google is promoting Assistant as innovational tech, why didn't they create several cool "example" bots or partnered with companies which would profit from that?
> are there that many private networks in existence that exhaust all IPv4 private network IP ranges?

No, but there are many private networks in existence that use overlapping subsets of the private network ip ranges.
I thought I read something in the newspaper once suggesting the US had applied some "diplomatic influence" to a sovereign nation one time. Perhaps I'm misremembering.
It's more like a combination of general intelligence/aptitude and willingness to put up with BS and stick to a plan.
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I don't have a degree and honestly have never had any issues with recruiters or interviews for intermediate/senior 'software engineering' positions. I never represent myself as having a degree, but I don't go out of my way to point out my lack of degree either.

Never once in an interview have I been asked about my education. One nice thing about software development positions is the interview process tends to be merit based.

I have mostly interviewed with small/medium businesses in Toronto, but have also done early stage interviews with Google where it was also not brought up. I declined further interviews with Google because I didn't want to move, so maybe it would have been an issue later on.
But as you are pointing out, they took action on that thought. It was more than just fleeting.
IQ doesn't seem nearly as relevant as conscientiousness and ability to follow directions. College success really acts as a proxy for "I am able to complete assigned tasks under stress." I also imagine the relationship between IQ and productivity isn't exactly linear...