skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s more to learning and the life of the mind than how much money it can make you. College shouldn’t entirely be a STEM trade school. Creativity and innovation require cross pollination and I bet if you look harder you find plenty of studio art majors and linguists and English majors doing just fine in the modern world. We can’t all be engineers but we can all learn to apply ourselves across disciplines and that works both ways. The problem seems to be that people believe that college is the only ticket they need and that they don’t need to apply themselves further or continue learning and adapting.
I think this system would be greatly improved if the universities sponsoring this debt (and profiting from it) had some skin in the game. If the universities suffered financially when their former students did, they would get much wiser about how they encourage students to take on debt, and they would stop inflating their costs to match all the subsidies we provide.

I think the modern university business model is predatory and needs to be regulated.
I really failed at this in my relationship.
I'm not outraged and it's pretty silly to assume I am. That said, what if a factory owner in China makes widgets and sells them to Americans. Is that increasing inequality?
> If someone fuck up and use up all their UBI then they must seek private entity such as church or charity.

But if this is your attitude - people who mess up should be on their own - why are you in favour of UBI? Why don’t you also think that people who can’t get a job should be on their own?
Universal income, unrestricted immigration. Which is it that you really want?

Both of course, people tend to want it all, and dreams to pay for it all. In 100 years it'll supposedly all work out fine, despite "short term" problems, no need to compromise.

I'm sorry you have to withstand the opposition from those who have to weather the problems in the meantime. Perhaps a loaner crystal ball could help us weave our reservations.
It was disappointing that the article didn't have audio or video so we could hear what it sounds like.

Youtube offered some some hokey "learn some phrases" videos, but this is a guy speaking naturally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTBABGLJzIA
I'm surprised at the number of computer savvy young people who never google "starting salary by major" or such before college or while in college.

When I went to college (before the internet) the starting salaries and job markets for the various majors were well known and talked about by the students.
Correct - my mistake. The point is the same however - sovereign debt does not work like household debt, especially when the debt is denominated in a currency the sovereign controls, as is the case in the US.
It would be sensible to google one's career prospects before taking on major debt.
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Jason Headley made a very entertaining video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg
Awareness of the Laffer Curve is helpful for these discussions.
You're ignoring that the solution is to listen and absorb and not offer some way to 'fix' the issue.

It seems like a solution-oriented individual should feel comfortable offering that solution.
Government intervention, in the form of easily accessible student loans, is a huge part of what brought us here.
> Why do you care that jobs don’t work for everyone, but don’t care that UBI won’t work for everyone?

Because jobs and UBI aren't the same thing. You aren't guaranteed a job out of high school or college, so you are more likely to have some sort of basis for your claim that you need support from everyone else. On the other hand, with UBI, if you're given exactly what you need to sustain your life and can't, then it's clearly a personal problem.
When my parents couldn't spare $40, I took a job at a local motel. The author, in contrast, asked them to cosign for $200,040.
> the tax rate is foremost in entrepreneurs minds when they decide to build a company in CA

Sure, that's why nobody's built a company in CA in the last decade, and they all chose to build them in Seattle.
you can make your own in your oven, search for a recipe, I haven't made it in a while google a recipe.

Basically buy a cut of beef on sale, slice in to strips place on a wire rack over a sheet pan.

Turn your oven down to the lowest temp, and some even say crack the door slightly so the temp stays low.

A better fall or winter project but a nice way to test it out.
You are absolutely right (I lament the passing of the classic, well-rounded liberal arts education) but you don't have to be an accounting major to realize racking up $100k in debt for an English lit degree just isn't wise.
I do not really understand it. Posts about other technologies on here lead to civilized, intelligent conversations, but for whatever reason, any post about crypto or Bitcoin just leads to attacks and arguments.

The reason I find it more inexplicable is that when you think about just the idea of peer to peer programmable finances/money without requiring any trusted intermediary that is a huge idea. In my opinion, it is almost as revolutionary as the internet itself.

I guess we will see how things progress over the next 10-20 years.
Slashing benefits and wages. Making long hours and unpaid overtime the industry norm. Getting rid of whole departments and replacing them with third-party contractors. These all seem uncompetitive for businesses, but it must seem easy to do when your entire industry sector is doing it: truckers can't leave you if every other company is just as bad.

The dependent part is where these slashes and cuts are accompanied by lowering prices in a race to the bottom within the industry, to the point where every business in the sector is operating on near-zero margins. Then, when wages overall start to go back up, the first business in the industry to flinch has to raise prices immediately as well, and ends up getting out-competed into oblivion. But if nobody flinches, the entire industry's labour pool dries up, harming everyone.
+1 for Marko. Suits my needs very well.
So I was researching on product launches. I'm surprised this hasn't been submitted before.

Here is a post summarize the research: https://thenextweb.com/insider/2018/01/19/much-needed-resear...

I also found a similar post on Reddit: http://minimaxir.com/2015/10/reddit-bigquery/

Any other posts like this for HN or other communities that you know of?
> Why hasn't someone drilled down through all the irrelevant typing goo, and shown how to sort integers in linear time?

I mean, if that's all you want Radix sort and American Flag sort are wikipedia fodder.

As for the "typing goo" is, uh, fairly important for how it's derived and what it does. A lot of advanced CS work uses it now, because it's quite powerful. A huge amount of pure-CS research is done in that world.

I guess we don't see this work in more contexts because it's just very very difficult to get it right. Edward Kmett, who is globally recognized for his talent in the field, did a haskell implementation which we all use and love, but it's pretty excruciating to implement it outside of a functional and generic language (and it is genuinely hard to do it in a language without general side effects, so you get difficulty from both sides).

I think a lot of folks in industry just don't think it matters. Certainly when I talk to my peers they suggest it doesn't matter to their work at all.

As for "6 years", they author has continued to push the work. It's also been used in a variety of applications. You can cite search the original paper. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f425/7af9221ca7fe21dc84a049...

https://scholar.google.dk/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=180821...

One particularly interesting work was computing specific types relational algebras producing products in linear time, which is pretty cool: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1706372 (btw, sorry, ACM is down tonight they're showing us their cloudflare).

This is not new stuff in the world of graduate CS, anymore than succinct data structures or wavelet trees. It's seldom applied in industry, but many of these techniques and sorts are taught as upper division courses in recent, algorithm-and-theory intensive CS programs. That stuff just doesn't make it out of academia very fast these days. Academics face a lot of pushback from industry now with disruptive findings. Look at how Emin Gun Sirer has been blackballed by the cryptocurrency community, for example. Look at how steadfastly folks have stood by JWT despite Lentczner's team's work on a better alternative in Macaroons.
> I think the your parent post's implication may be that those receiving UBI who are on specific government programs would not responsibly budget the right amount of money to the right need, and that there will still be cases where people have run out of money and need the same safety nets as before. If someone (or their children) is starving to death, or in need of urgent medical care, are you going to tell them that they should've budgeted better?

None of these programs actually prevent that. If someone desperate for a job throws a dinner party to try to network and the guests eat weeks worth of their food, they starve before the next allocation whether the food was bought with food stamps or money. Anyone who wants to convert food stamps to dollars can find a little old lady, offer to do her grocery shopping and then buy the food with food stamps and pocket her cash. If the power fails and all your new food spoils, you're not "allowed" to resell your housing subsidy by subletting for a week to cover the replacement cost.

All the restrictions do is cause inefficiency. If someone wants to eat beans instead of steak or even just go hungry some days because they want to save the money for college or a down payment on a house, who are we to judge?
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When I was 8, my dad gave me a broken Mac Plus. He said that if I could fix it, it would be mine! So I did. Later, when I was 15, I bought, fixed, and re-sold a class set of 20 iBooks.

http://peterburk.github.io/blog/#iBookRepair

Then I went off to university and studied Electronic Systems Engineering. But for the last 7 years, I've had work experience in software. I still regularly fix computers for friends.

If there are tech recycling companies in NZ/Australia/Canada that are hiring, I'd be so excited to do this full-time. If I got another job in Vancouver, I'd volunteer with FreeGeek, just because I enjoy it so much. I wish I could get paid to do my hobby though.
We tried using EKS. Unfortunately, HorizontalPodAutoscalers are configured to use metrics-server and it is not currently possible to run metrics-server on EKS. Had to replace it with a kops + terraform setup.
Ask HN: What is the hiring pipeline in top tech co's for the more experienced?
If you have ever worked for a large well regarded tech company, I'd like to hear a bit about how hiring and interview selection is done for more experienced people.

When I graduated college, working for a high paying tech company was never in my mind for the immediate future. I chose to play the long game- start out in small, low paying local business that need qualified people more immediately. So it came as a shock to me to learn that the high paying tech companies would rather optimize hiring for newbies than for more experienced professionals.

I know there is a huge pipeline for new grads at those companies. They need to grow talent organically and from that POV having 1 more year experience really doesn't matter.

But after a while you won't qualify for the new grad pipeline after that time, so it gets harder to join since the bar is higher. What is that bar like then? What experiences are expected out of a developer of 5 years? Or 10, or 15? Because as one gets more experience, the number of possible paths your career can take grows exponentially.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146

You don't need to have an increase in fake news to have an increase in the perception of fake news. Another way to get an increase in the perception of fake news is to change the structural graph through which news propagates. The two most outspoken people I know of on the topic of the problem of fake news both happen to be twitter users (Elon Musk, Donald Trump).
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Pretty sure 'problem solvers and engineers' is not quite the correct category of people who run into this.
<reductio ad hitlerum>Didn't they try that in 1930s Germany?</reductio ad hitlerum>
I'd say it's a prevailing theme in most modern psychotherapeutic practices
I just stopped working. Between state and local taxes, I only got to keep 46 cents of every additional dollar I earned. I shut down my business, let 6 people go, and stopped.
> it has no opinion about what it offers

... Thank God?
"College shouldn’t entirely be a STEM trade school."

I appreciate the feedback, but here you are distorting my argument. There is not a binary choice between getting a STEM degree and going into debt for the rest of your life because you spent more than $100,000 on two English degrees. For instance, I think more people should consider learning a skilled trade.

"I bet if you look harder you find plenty of studio art majors and linguists and English majors doing just fine in the modern world."

There are millions of people with degrees in studio art and linguistics and of course plenty of them are doing just fine. That says little about the wisdom of pursuing such degrees.

"The problem seems to be that people believe that college is the only ticket they need and that they don’t need to apply themselves further or continue learning and adapting."

This I agree with.
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Yeah, my first reaction to that was to stay away, I wouldn't want to use something created by a team that thinks "military grade" JavaScript is something to brag about.
> basic income does not replace any of these safety nets.

Yes, it does, in the same way that any other income already does, which is why those all tend to be means-tested programs.

> you will still have to have them.

No, you won't, once the UBI level is above the income level at which the programs would not be available.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/241555/homemade-beef-jerky...
I don't think they should be singled out necessarily, it's just one example of the general phenomenon of the web/content becoming centralized that we're all seemingly sad about.
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And perhaps you're ignoring that some people give emotional support by analyzing and offering some way to fix the issue? Many people when they don't care, they wouldn't bother trying.
We just made ours with salt and pepper and it was the best I've ever had.
Did you mean awareness of how it’s the most thoroughly debunked idea of the Reagan era, or something else?
I don't really understand how this is a response to what I said.
You can still buy some junk food and soda with food stamps, and none of that is good for you. You could theoretically trade whatever food you buy for drugs or money to purchase drugs if you so desired. Should we force feed people nutritious food?

No, obviously not. Removing all individual agency from welfare is simply dehumanizing. Let people make the best decisions for themselves... and get legitimate help (not food stamps) for the people unable to do that.
I'm aware of the Laffer Curve. It's generally used as a argument for decreasing taxation, even after experience finds that decreasing taxation leads to lower revenue. Just because it's true that there are two levels of taxation that result in $0 revenue (0% and 100%) does not say anything about the shape of the curve connecting those points, nor to where we currently are on the curve.
> then it's clearly a personal problem

Right - so we still need a food program for people who have personal problems that cause them to run out of money - like being innumerate, or having mental health issues, or a controlling abusive partner, or just being super crap with money no matter how hard they honestly try.

You can say we’ll leave those people to starve to death, but that’s not going to get me to vote for UBI!

You’ll probably more realistically say ‘ok well we’ll help that one mother just one time with the baby starving to death because she is addicted to gambling away her UBI’ but then bingo you’re now running a food program as well.
What is the expected career path for an English Lit major? I know there are lots of fields related to writing like copywriting, editing, news reporting, etc but is there a job that's a more direct application of the degree (besides English Lit professor)?
It's a simple enough solution...

X = average starting salary for degree

Y = some predetermined payback period for student loan

Z = some acceptable percentage of income to put towards student loan

X * Y * Z = max available student loan for your degree track
What you described is offering informational support.
Tying loan repayment to a percentage of income is a good idea. Under a certain amount you pay nothing, over that you pay 5-10% annually.

This realigns the loan companies to make investments with the students vs. selling them a presidigous ego degree with no real value in the market place.

If there is anything governments ought to do, it’s to help align the interests of all parties Via creative legislation.
You spent over $100k on an MA in English from a private school in the most expensive city in the United States to live. Sorry, but that's on you. There's no math in the world to make that a good decision.
It's always going to be better for you if you get direct connections and referrals, but that is not happening at a fast enough rate to satsify employer demand for vetted employees. Additionally it's putting the onus on the employees entirely for making sure they are a good fit for the companies.

If they truly have a shortage of workers they are going to either reduce the stringency of their requirements, raise wages to entice workers to come to them instead of competitior's, or train employees. The SF area does some of the wage raising, when they aren't colluding with each other to keep wages down, but the rest of the country seems content to just complain about a lack of qualified people without doing anything to change their situation
Yep, really learned it the hard way.
Seems what was missing was a sensible discussion along the lines of "why not go to State U which would cost about half that. Or maybe community college which is much less than even that."
I'm guessing the fact that there are 4x more people in China compensates for the cultural differences that would lead you to believe the average person does not consume ice cream.
If a person can't take care of themself then a social worker should be the safety net. Adult protective services should step in and emergency assistance could be granted. But people with patterns of mismanagement should have a guardianship assigned.

With guardianship that UBI could be directed to an organization to provide that budget management. They can issue a food stamp card, housing assistance, etc. That management could be a government agency or privatized. If privatized it would have to be regulated as a fidicuary.
Listening is like walking alongside someone, whereas informing is like walking in front of someone. Ultimately life itself is a "problem" that has no destination, it's just nicer to know we're in it together.
None of those are react specific.
I'm waiting for Haiku to actually have a modern web browser and built in support for kaby lake refresh wifi. I want to use this on bare metal so bad.
How does it get to the top then?
> Right - so we still need a food program for people who have personal problems that cause them to run out of mone

We don't have one now; it might be nice to have with UBI as it would be now, but why would it be any more necessary with UBI?

Sure, if UBI is a more efficient means of solving the problems addressed by means-tested programs and unlocks economic potential forgone due to minimum wage, it might make the existing need for such a program something that we can afford to address, but it certainly doesn't create an unmet need that doesn't already exist.

> You can say we’ll leave those people to starve to death, but that’s not going to get me to vote for UBI!

But, that's exactly the status quo for people with too much income to qualify for food aid who don't spend it well. Why would losing that existing situation unchanged whole improving other areas be a reason to oppose UBI?
Dhyana was Sanskrit, Chan was Chinese, Zen was Japanese I thought
Well, what is the ranking based on? It would be refreshing for a platform to be completely transparent about how post rankings are established, but then I guess you'd have spammers gaming it to get their crap at the top. The alternative is you have spammers paying money to get their crap at the top.
It really helped me understand this article to follow the link describing what the author means by "Emotional Support": https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/basics/empathy

Basically, emotional support is "understanding another person's thoughts, feelings, and condition from their point of view, rather than from your own"
This conception of education ... brings me at once to state my own view of the purpose of university training. It is exactly the opposite of that of the eminent and learned gentleman to whom I have referred. It is that the purpose of higher education is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. And by this series of mixed metaphors I mean to assert that education is not to teach men facts, theories, or laws; it is not to reform them, or amuse them, or to make them expert technicians in any field; it is to teach them to think, to think straight, if possible; but to think always for themselves.
500>300 so it's not really gonna help without a multi year plan. That would be an ideal move if humans were emotionless automatons but that point people need some amount of entertainment or hope to keep on going day after day. If you took away everyone's vices _and_ subjected them to the reality of life as an average American you'd have riots on your hands
Where is the Haskell implementation? Are there public benchmarks of its asymptotic performance?

I'm pretty sure a worst-case linear sorting algorithm would have multiple NYT articles about it.

EDIT: The edits to the parent since I made this comment make it look a bit silly. It made more sense in the context I was initially responding to.

EDIT 2: Thanks for linking the paper. From there:

> As Proposition 1.1 and the corresponding well-known combinatorial lower bound of Ω(n log n) (Knuth 1998, Section 5.3.1) for comparison-based sorting show, we cannot accomplish efficient generic partitioning and linear-time sorting by using black-box binary comparison functions as specifications of equivalence or ordering relations. Instead, we show how to construct efficient discriminators by structural recursion on specifications defined compositionally in an expressive domain-specific language for denoting equivalence and ordering relations.

Which sounds like the advantage I speculated on in the grandchild below. I understand, now, and it's a nice result. Thanks for pointing it out.
Yes, it is arbitrary. The idea of "ownership" is just an construct/idea self-aware matter (i.e. humans) happened to come up with because it worked well at that phase in our evolution.
I don't think this post is correct. The Bayes theorem is mixing up variables v and u in both the source code and the equations.
I operated under a much thinner one at the time. Saw the present situation arriving, somewhat, and abandoned that.
Youre entitled to your own wishes, but really? Out of anything at all, you'd put 100 (talented) people to work for 100 days to implement an obsolete console in FPGA?

Think big.
Is that the same as Casella & Berger? Nice Sherlock Holmes quotes at the beginning of each chapter.