skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or perhaps less cynically, winnowing the pool to the group of people who have the personalities and temperaments necessary to complete a college degree. It doesn't have to be a perfect filter; false negatives don't matter so much if your filter leads to enrichment.

I'm not saying it's "fair", I'm just saying there are rational reasons to do it.
But bad security that people will actually use is always going to be better than good security that they won't.

I know people that don't lock their doors because they don't want to deal with keys, or they forget to lock their doors all the time, or leave a key under a rock in front of their house.

For them, even a fairly insecure "smartlock" will be an improvement if it means they will actually use it.
Czech Rep. Is not the only country with this system, Germany has it as well.
In Germany we have the problem that a lot of parents want their kids to go to college and dont do the apprenticeship programs. In recent decades there has been a major shift in school attendance. Today, the majority of pupils attend the A-Levels school, preparing for college. Some decades ago, most pupils were attending the shorter school programs preparing for apprenticeships.

The result are full universities, with huge wave in Buiseness related fields. And on the other hand the traditional trades like carpenters or electrcians can't find new apprentices. Those who learned a trade now make tons of money due to the sheer lack of qualified tradeworkers.
To what extent is it still news. It's not just this topic, it's a whole range of subjects. e.g. the same articles are written and rewritten on housing all the time. And the notion I get sent an article by a friend, see it on FB, twitter, a debate, the paper itself and the half dozen that will cover it by referring to the article in an opinion piece, doesn't help. I'm finding it increasingly more difficult to get meaningful new news or rather, new insights from media channels. It's really frustrating.
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> Veterinarian programs specific limit how many students they accept, because if they didn't, their graduates wouldn't be able to afford a living wage.

Are you sure that's the only reason? Are the reasons the same for medical school too?

I think people should be allowed to pursue any major they desire. The only way you can really enforce quotas on everything is probably through laws or policies set by the Dept of Education by forcing schools that want to take their loans to set quotas. My opinion is, then you're getting into the central planning problems of the government knows best.

I would like to see tuition at community colleges reduced so its affordable to all, which would include free for those at or near poverty lines. For regular universities, I don't think it's unfair for those taking loans to have to attend some type of in-person seminar that:
* summarizes the work load and type of study their proposed majors require
* outlines current and projected job prospects and income
* financial planing that helps them figure out how many years it will take the pay back their loans based off of job prospects and income, and what that means for buying homes and cars, retirement planning, vacationing/recreation, and living expenses.

Perhaps then make them wait a short period of time before they can then "sign" that yes they do understand and that they still want to pursue a degree with loans. Kids that young (17-19) don't really have any good grasp on the finances and their parents might be blinded by hope.

Perhaps that "finance" seminar wouldn't help but it might at least get them to re-think their secondary education options.
I dislike JS and the current culture around it because of technical insophistication, but I should concede that JS people are better at this: they make the replica and do not bother you, whereas the Rust community is evangelical, they open issues on repos saying "stop using your shitty lang and rewrite this in Rust." The two are very different attitudes.
TED talks have gained a lot of traction too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMY63FF3Q
Welcome to the wild world of LuaJIT!

It's normal here to write things you would think would need C (or asm!) only to discover that DynaASM and the JIT make them 'fast enough'

Next time you're thinking "fast enough for what?": fast enough for real-time high-bandwidth packet inspection.
Not an aeronautics expert, but my understanding is that the 747 design sits on a local maximum, with regards to figures like wing loading. The A380 deliberately gets bigger by aiming for a less ideal design. Its wing loading is a bit high. I suspect that this tends to make it less suitable for cargo than the 747.
I fully believe dragnet surveillance is dangerous. My point is, I can't just say "Dragnet surveillance is dangerous." A well-formed argument has citations and metrics and something to show relative scale. The people pushing for dragnet surveillance (those people in positions of authority) feel like they're keeping us safe and doing what needs to be done - and that we just don't understand. We need to KNOW exactly how much surveillance harms us - we cannot argue with blanket statements.
There apps that can run as third party VPN providers on iOS. It's often used by corporate networks that use non-standard VPN protocols.

So there is hope. :-)
One might argue that "forcing its will" can manifest in forms other than annexation of land. There is a bit of a rumor going around about the US meddling in the affairs of other countries, but maybe that's just another one of those conspiracy theories.
Why is Windows Zip folders support stuck at the turn of the century?
This is a public policy issue, not a technical issue.
LOL, that's actually quite true.
> You can't do that easily for national programs.

Is this American exceptionalism? Many nations do this, with great results.
"By this same argument, I could say I will only accept candidates that are left handed."

If you find that filtering for people who are left-handed improves the average quality of your candidates, then yes.

But of course, a college degree is not even remotely as arbitrary as you're suggesting.
That depends on the business selling the items. If they are stable, known and looking for any sort of repeat business, they are strongly incentivized to not con you, at least not in a way that leaves you upset with them later (if they trick you into buying something you like, I doubt that generally has negative consequences for them regardless of those other factors).

There's a big difference between the random online e-shop and the downtown storefront, or even big names like McDonalds. Many places are only successful because they've established a good, or at least reliable, reputation and people know what to expect.
Haha, that's my experience too. I keep it to myself a bit better these days. Somebody asked me at my last role if I had my masters in comp science; "Hmm, not yet! I've been thinking about it though..."

Sometimes when coworkers find out there is a remark like "Oh wow, I never realized that." Imagine after somebody had brought up their alma mater and I remarked "Oh wow, I never would have realized you went to college.."
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Yep. Basically haven't used twitter actively since the app stopped working.

Before it was always at a reserved spot on my 2nd screen.

I kinda miss it - but not enough to open a tab in my browser and log in.
The assumption is that holding a degree is a proxy for IQ, or work ethic, or some other positive trait. Left-handedness doesn't signal much of anything, beyond perhaps a slightly shorter life expectancy.
Does a candidate being left-handed add a significant amount of confidence that he/she is a good candidate?
On the other hand, the 4 years I spent working full-time were hands-down the best education I got and directly led to my best job prospects upon graduation, whereas I had peers who finished a 4 year degree and then realized they had no desire to work in their field. Eliminating any cost of college also eliminates any need to ask if what you're studying is actually worthwhile.
Or perhaps parent is aware that the complexity of software is often a product of bad design?
> Can you provide a source for this wild claim?

The commenter I responded to was so vague, that they could have been making that claim. After all, they were likely drawing parallels between the situation in the OP and the US.

But who knows what they really thought; they never clarified. I called that out at the time and in every comment since.
Please think through the fact pattern presented in that article.

The FBI raided a man's home on the basis of Facebook posts that the agency itself admitted couldn't be characterized as threats to any person or organization. They nevertheless held him without bail for five months while they attempted to find evidence to justify a charge of abetting terrorism or the like. They couldn't come up with anything. In the end they charged him with unlawful gun possession, but that charge was specious enough that it thrown out by a judge before even going to trial. In the meantime the man lost his job and his home.

This wasn't the normal functioning of law enforcement. This was abuse of law enforcement to punish politically disfavored speech (which speech, I repeat, the law-enforcement agency in question conceded was non-threatening).
I cobbled this together from codepen snippets as a fun way to learn how to add static assets to a Go binary using go generate. Just something silly I made to show to my co-workers that I thought others might get a chuckle from.

P.S. - Pull requests welcome. I suck at CSS, etc. and there are text overflow issues I am not sure how to fix.
I'd like to see new benchmarks for that.

If you recall from the V8 6.6 release notes, they talked about performance impromevents in promise and async benchmarks.

The Notes:
(see Asynchronous performance improvements) https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/03/v8-release-66.html

The Graph: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T_HWK2MlCOY/WrkGw1-ABJI/AAAAAAAAB...

Looks like about 20%, 30% for some benchmarks.

Note to release note authors: Please put IDs on your headers so people can cite you properly. Thank you.
I'd be happy with a feed that is in chronological order, even with ads & promoted tweets, so log as it does not include:

- "what I missed"

- follow recommendations

- the likes of who I follow - show me their retweets, not their likes
> Noone is going to "severely limit" air transport due to its emissions

If no one does it (and many other radical changes), we will have 4+°C warming and a major global catastrophe. I'm not optimistic, but that's what should be done.
College is not worth any more or less than before or after. If you can afford the college and if you want to go to college, college is a great experience. And for another thing, it's a great place for experiencing "pre"-job world. Out of your hometown, there are really various kinds of people from every part of the place. And college is a great place for meeting those people.

Associating with young, ambitious, hard-working people was a really refreshing experience for me. And think about the democracy and the principle of it. There's some amount of truth that more people can think better results. (spare me from the everlasting discussion of populism and totalitarianism) I don't think I learned that much from professors since I didn't go to college that much.. :P But rather, I learned from my peers. And I even learned how to learn from professors from my peers.

Another point: at that age span (of 19 - 23 and upwards), young folks are easy to make mistakes and fall for victims of bad things, be overly confident of their future. Being in a college prevents those unfortunate events from happening to some extent.

And another point: Being young and curious, sometimes you might need to dig deep into your curiosity and study about everything - being in a college means you have lots of free time. So you are in this ivory tower for limited period of time, it's up to you how to use that free (& paid by your parents or you, which means it's not that free at all) time. And since you're still "student", you're immune to many responsibilities also. It's somehow an opportunity for you.

These were the benefits of college in my opinion. Of course, there are lots of cons of college - being too expensive, only delays your chance to be in the real adult world, college has become a school for job market decades ago so why bother, etc.

I think it's one's choice to how to look at this double-edged sword & opportunity that comes once in your lifetime.
Correlation does not imply Causality. Pearl's work shows that it is sometimes possible to reason and make inferences about causal relationships in data even when a controlled experiment is not possible and sometimes not. Machine learning algorithms that differentiate between known causal relations from correlative relations should perform better. The amazing thing is how good an approximation to causality correlation may be.

Interested in persuing this further? See http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-impl... and, I suppose, read Pearl's latest book.
>I think we should consider a well educated base of voters, workers, and neighbors as critical infrastucture (sic) along with roads and internet.

A lot of people are disinclined towards education and education isn't so important that people should be coerced into submitting to it. In fact, educating people against their will usually impairs the learning experience for motivated people in the classroom. The people who interrupt the teacher and misbehave usually do so because they don't want to be there.

Beyond that, a lot of public schools are failing to do their jobs or prioritizing knowledge poorly. A school district near me has rapidly declining test scores but touts a social justice curriculum. I certainly don't want to forbid anyone from learning critiques of colonialism, but I think that's "dessert" and should really only be taught after students have a strong knowledge base in more practical knowledge.

>I think some decisions lately have highlighted an open hostility towards science, education, and by implication, democracy. This needs to be reversed.

To the degree this is true, I primarily blame those who politicize science and education. Look at the "march for science" - the well meaning folks at my local march were too happy to use climate change predictions to demand others make massive concessions. In this, we see the difficulty in using empiricism as a means to support agendas - the climate change models aren't performing well, and even if the predictions were accurate, there should be some discussion about the cost and benefits. America does better than most nations under climate change predictions and the countries that will be the worst impacted as those who play the biggest roles in it: the oil rich middle eastern and African states sure enjoy selling oil but beg for help to deal with the consequences of their customers using the oil they sell. To some degree, the people who don't care about the consequences of climate change aren't hostile to science and they don't want to debate the issue at the level of science which is probably the right way to handle it because the discussion isn't really about the climate, the core issue is the degree to which we should sacrifice for people we don't care about.

Lastly, it sometimes seems like the more schooling one receives, the more hostile they are to science. High school graduates might not like things like racial differences in IQ, but it's my experience that individuals with graduate-level education are more hostile to the same thing. I would hope that the additional schooling would make these people more open to accepting things based on the strength of evidence but that's not the case. It's not clear how we reverse that hostility but the answer doesn't seem to be "more school".
In principle at least, it might be nice to have live performances and music videos too.
While I get the author is tired of people who have mastered the use of Arduino libraries calling themselves "embedded programmers", that additional capability is available which opens up embedded programming to more people isn't a bad thing. It will be incumbent on people who hire them for jobs involving Fire & Life Safety (FLS) systems to recognize their limitations.
Even with private networks, having plenty of address bits makes things a lot easier.

My employer's internal network includes hosts with addresses in the 10.0.0.0/8 private address range. So does my home network. I have to be careful when choosing subnets, or else things will break in weird ways when I connect to my work VPN. With IPv6, I don't have to worry about this because every machine can be assumed to have a globally-unique address, even if that address isn't normally exposed to the outside world. And more importantly, it's easy to look at the address prefix and figure out where to route packets.
Yes, Vulkan includes compute capabilities. For example, here is a relevant section about compute pipelines in the Vulkan specification: https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0/html/vkspe...
The airlines now ferry around extra fuel from airport to airport as well. Some logistics smarty-pants figured out the airlines can save money this way. (Basically doing arbitrage with regional differences in fuel costs.)
Yea, obvious slant that makes about zero sense.. embedded devices firmware devs are worth a ton if they can quickly figure out how to use low cost chips to get a lot done. Maybe in the authors case he is like: “Step1: buy 450MIPS processor with 1GB DDR, step2: install API abstraction layer, step3: sell product for $200 to monitor your water pressure in your house”.. then sure that maybe is a thing.. but the reality of making products is, oh hey can I use this poorly documented 25 cent processor that has an adc and some gpios and needs a custom bit banged protocol to talk to a special purpose sensor chip.. yea so where’s the magic api for that???
It was a brand new design so I just used IPv6 from the ground up, there were no adaptation/rewrite involved.

The main cost was the time spent reading the various IPv6 RFCs to make sure I understood the details (it mostly mapped well to my IPv4 knowledge but there are differences). Beyond that it was smooth sailing, although I'm regularly annoyed that common tools are rather clunky when dealing with numerical IPv6 addresses. For instance Firefox requires that I put [] around the IP for it to treat it like an IPv6. SSH on the other hand does not understand the address between brackets. On the other hand SCP does requires the brackets (since it uses a : to delimit the path) which is even more annoying than Firefox because zsh treats [] like a match pattern. It's just small things but it does hurt usability.

Oh and ZeroMQ didn't support IPv6 in their experimental UDP implementation so that was some additional work.
If a political party isn't appealing to fear, it will be replaced by one that does.
Did you actually watch the videos?
Thanks.

Totally agreed that forums (and communities in general) have the cold start problem, and there's no real good solution for it.

I do have some ideas though.

1) I'm interested in whipping up a simple phpBB mod that enables Link posts (like here on HN). That will help with the News posting aspect of the community. Thread here: https://hackerforums.co/the-lounge-f3/idea-extension-for-php...

2) I'm going to write up a fairly detailed thread later today that explains in more detail the Why of setting up the site, and the How I did it (literal technical details for those interested). I'll post that here and on Reddit and a few other places to hopefully get some exposure. Cool kids call that "traffic leaking" where you get valuable content in front of active communities, so might drive some traffic.

3) I'm debating setting up a contest of sorts, where members can earn a special badge/title by actively participating in the forum. So for example, start 10 threads and post 25 replies in threads and earn a special badge on your account for eternity. Silly, sure, but could be a simple fire starter.

But yeah, overall, it's a challenging thing to do, and I've failed at it a few times over the years in trying to start forums. I still really love them though, so I wanted to try it again.

BTW: Post your project here! :) https://hackerforums.co/show-hf-f7/
> You need time to ponder, to explore, to be curious.

Most of the kids going to college are not mature enough to do any of the above (come on, these are 17 year olds going 30k into debt for their first year alone.) The 'college experience' today is partying / drinking yourself into a stupor and amassing a ton of debt. No, not everyone, but for most that's reality.
While it would not be technologically difficult to design most products to not require 'cloud' connectivity to provide full functionality, it would cut the companies out of data collection and they don't want that. How else will Google decide that saving the planet by manipulating everyones Nest to lie about the temperature its actually set at by a degree or two is too irresistable to pass up? One degree for an hour over 100 million people... just imagine the scale of CO2 emissions reduced, power consumption reduced, etc. Honestly surprised it hasn't happened yet.
The interest rate is acting as a market signal to pursue majors/professions that would lead to higher actual earnings.
> and it's amazing to have so much flexibility in your addressing.

More flexibility than having the entire 10.* block to yourself? What are you, Google?
Ive done 3D printing for Able Gamers, a group looking to help provide assistive technology to those in need. I recommend check them out and if you have a 3d printer and want to help, send them an email.

check out thingiverse.com for freely available designs.

http://www.ablegamers.org/
Yeah, I'll have to think a lot harder about full PoS to maybe answer that question. One thing to note us that there are certain hidden timing assumptions (eg in casper-ffg, there is the 4 month unbonding period, and the timescale over which an inactivity leak occurs) that are necessary for security (they seem to correspond to the time scales needed for weak subjectivity social consensus and hard forks respectively)

I think the most precise name might be something like "affine timestamp"; you don't actually need timestamp wrt the big bang but being able to measure the rate-of-time is stronger than merely being able to order events
I don’t have a degree and have never run in to an issue with that fact. Came up once in an interview about 20 years ago for a very early job, and that’s the last I’ve heard of it.
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Indeed.. There's no way at "OlderCorp" where I work would be able to move to this "YOLO BeyondCorp" public ip everything, we would be owned in seconds.
Great. I hope they can call it n thousand counts of extortion and effectively get a life without parole sentence.
This is because software development is one of the few industries where you can learn the craft without putting lives at risk. For example, there is a huge step from playing with Lego to building a load (and life) bearing bridge. For some industries, self directed learning is completely inaccessible. Medicine is a good example (you also really wouldn't want to hire based in practical tests for that one, too).
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Secondary education performance is often a function of time/money invested as well.
The performance of OpenVPN is atrocious though.

Good enough to load some jira/confluence but that’s pretty much it.
To be fair, this is from the opinion section. It's not news. Most of the articles you are talking about are probably opinion pieces as well.

I do think they should do more to differentiate between news and opinion pieces.
Well, where's the CEO? Where's Sundar?

All these different music apps and messaging apps... What's going on at Google?

What a mess.