skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I have with free college is that college, while expensive now, is already nearly compulsory for a lot of jobs that don't require it. A degree in any irrelevant thing is used as an arbitrary deciding factor. Free college will make for compulsory college as everyone will need a degree to have a chance. Then we actually lose value from the opportunity cost of people not working.

Disclaimers: obviously, yes, I think education is great in general. And I actually don't mind social education. I just think it's easier to get this wrong than right.
Personally I would say let people speak. Leave it up to the individual to filter messages they dont want to read. Twitter (FB, Google, etc) are fighting a PR battle these days, and are being leaned on by the gov as well. No easy answer.
Oh so in essence this is so root of all those annoying ugly ass anti-virus UIs that make it impossible to take them seriously in any way whatsoever. ;)
I think "secure election" is one of the few uniquely viable use cases for blockchain. In my opinion, elections should be easily anonymized, verifiable, distributed, and resistant to bad actors. That seems like a slam dunk for the things blockchain claims to be good at.

What's unique about blockchain compared to paper ballots is, everyone has access to every ballot if every ballot was recorded on the blockchain, which is unfeasible with physical paper ballots. The slow speed of consensus is also less of an issue for elections than it is for financial transactions.

That being said, use of blockchain alone doens't make a election secure.
Battle of wills between Uber drivers and customers over who cancels first
So many battery breakthroughs have been announced. Not one of the "breakthroughs" for cars have been released to the public. Most are "5 years away" or more.

Ionic with the polymer batteries looks promising, but again, as others have stated, it's the manufacturing process that is rough.

Works great in the lab, but scaling what was done in the lab to the public is really, really hard.
I read this word before I ever heard it. It looked like Quintuple to me, so that's how I pronounced it.
I spoke and speak from personal experience; and I'm not going to copy-paste my HN profile.

I do in fact hold rigorous formal education in high regard. But I doubt that more than about 70% of GA Tech BSCS holders have actually received such a thing; and a result from a 70/30 binary distribution is not a very informative piece of evidence.

I don't doubt that a Udemy cert alone is as close to bubkes as you claim. I do doubt that an Anytown State University degree is in the same bucket as Udemy certs, rather than the same bucket as a BSCS from GA Tech. I have also seen recruiters that can very easily convert autodidacts' and Udemy grads' raw experience and competence into employer signals.
> Pilot Metropolitans are ~$12 but feel really expensive. They are metal and have replaceable cartridges. You can get a italic nib which I love.

To expand on this, you can also get converters that allow you to use bottled ink. I use Pilot Metropolitans and a Pilot Prera daily. The reservoir converters really open up a lot of possibilities for ink color choices.
The difference being that in this case, ink, paper and even printing presses are readily available to everyone. The free private one-stop platform they were using before is stopping them from publishing, but for negligible cost almost anybody can publish what they like using their own private platform.

Nobody's taking down infowars.com, afaik.
alt: LaTeX TikZ for Cryptographers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17756302

https://www.iacr.org/authors/tikz/
Sounds interesting!

I would recommend you to add some examples of what your extention actually does. The code of ethics only gives me a vague idea.
I got _really_ into TikZ near the end of college. I've always been amazed by what people have been able to do with it. Stuff like this:

http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/focused-ion-beam-syste...

and

http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/textronics-oscilloscop...

Can't say I'm surprised that someone has implemented some great ducks!
> I think not being able to default on your student loans is the main factor in rising costs. There is no reason not to give out a student loan of any amount if it is guaranteed money.

Just because the loans can't be discharged during bankruptcy proceedings doesn't mean the lender gets their money back. Default rates are high (and rising). The lender may get some money, but that doesn't mean they get their principal back, let alone a sufficient interest to justify giving out the loan in the first place.
The new MoviePass plan has arrived, and it’s weird
I use mine everyday for signing Git commits and tags. Also as my SSH keys.

If it did that then it would potentially replace my YubiKey(s).
> This goes all the way back to peak US economics of the 1960s and early 1970s, when the US had a standard of living that it has taken the best European nations 50 years to catch up to.

So the "best European nations" will have reached a living standard, like the US of 60/70s, by the year 2020?

I mean, I'm not even convinced the US currently is anywhere near the standard it had back then, so that claim sounds a bit bold.

Could you quantify that in any way? The UN's Human Development Index could be of great help for that, sadly they only started doing that since 1990. So how are you measuring "standard of living"?
That's the point, isn't it?

The US right holds the contradictory opinions that socialized government can't accomplish anything effective, and that the US military (which is fundamentally a socialized entity) is amazing and awesome and supremely capable.
What's wrong with overhead power lines?
I like how this article does not fall for "Betteridge's law of headlines": Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. I appreciate the straight answer in the headline.

That being said, reading a headline obviously does not equate to reading a whole article.
While I agree overall it makes me uncomfortable there are people that choose who makes it a 'worse' place. I dont have a good answer though.
In Europe when the government subsidies things, they usually also put a cap on what the organisation is allowed to charge. See for example universities and trains in the UK.

> people call for X to be socialized

Alas it never gets to the final step: X is socialized.
Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused – part 2
The integrity of a paper ballot election is verifiable by anyone with a grade six level of education. A digital blockchain election is verifiable by a small percentage of the population, which consists of techno-wizards.

Paper ballots win, hands-down, in that respect.

Blockchains are better then opaque electronic voting machines, but not entirely better then paper.
How much risk did those founders take though?

Consider the salary they could have made at a large company and that they effectively invested 100% of that at seed-stage multiples. (Assuming they were taking zero salary early on). There was significant risk the founders investment in the form of time could have gone to zero, they deserve some return on that risk.
CVE-2018-11771] Apache Commons Compress 1.7 to 1.17 denial of service vulnerabil
As a holder of third world passport, you will be really truly fucked up when your flight temporarily changed destination and landed on a country to which you don't have a visa.

This is what would happen to you:

1. The aircrew would tell you everything is fine and totally ignored you after landing. And you got no compensation from the airline.

2. The custom control would hold you in a small black room from 12 hours to 7 days, along with all kinds of illegal immigrants.

3. Usually you would end up getting expelled to your passport's country, with it recorded on their system and even stamped on your passport, which means it will become much harder for you to apply for a visa.
What about if the speech involves inciting violence? Is there a line that is drawn?
Browsers don't automatically attach cookies to all HTTP requests by default.
it's even mandatory, bilateral treaties are mostly forbidden.
> Maybe its worth asking what properties a blockchain would need in order to provide a secure election

Here's one: unhackable software at the endpoints. You don't really have a secure election if someone can hack your blockchain-based voting machine and spew votes all over your blockchain.
Foreign nationals (citizens) in the USA are bared from basically all security clearances, forever.

Its not completely impossible to get one, but excluding exceptional circumstances, its not happening.
France Germany both have something like a 50% drop out rate, much like the US according to my recent searches. The UK has ~7% but has been rising over the past 3 years.

As far as I can tell you still pay in the UK but tuition is fully covered in both Germany and France, expect France has already started the thing I said they would with a second more elite school. And you better bet a grad from a free university vs the elite university competing for the same job the guy who paid is going to probably win more often than not.

For what it's worth free and or guaranteed loan is the same, and I would expect the same outcomes in the long run. At least with the loan part we might wise up and stop demanding every kid goes and gets a higher education.

Note, I am not coming from somebody who was able to pay, or took loans out to go to school. I did the math, and I simply could not afford to go to any university, not even the cheap ones that were local. I tried, and saw the deb increasing while working for $8 a hr.

What did I do? I quit, and focused on my job, and spent every free second learning a skill that I could make money with. That just so happens to be computers/programming/and data centers. For a while there my friends and peers that went to school looked like they were going to pass me up, but by the the time they got out of school loaded with deb I had already double the income they would be able to start out with. Today I know very few people who went to school who make more than me, and those that do still have massive amounts of debt. Now I maybe lucky, but I know to many people like me, and meet to many people who have taken the same path as I did to put it all on the notion that I was just lucky.
Why would I use a field set instead of a section? They seem functionally identical, is it meant to be a semantic decision?
In fairness, this is true for getting a Brazilian visa in the U.S. My understanding is this is retaliatory, one way or the other.
It's a valid question to ask. To me, it's clear that the answer is it's better not to censor. But there are, of course, plusses and minuses...

Here's my perspective.

I remember the start of the second Iraq war very clearly. Something like 70% of Americans believed, falsely, that Sadam Hussein was behind 9/11. As someone that didn't believe that, it was almost surreal. It was like everyone had gone mad. Most MSM sources were basically de-facto propaganda arms for the US govt.

On that wave of public support, we ludicrously and tragically invaded Iraq.

I think if you replay that scenario with Twitter existing, there's a very good chance you don't hit that 70% number and a pretty good chance we don't go to war.

It's simply too easy now to be exposed to alternative narratives. And the false venere of infallibility that "the news" has historically had pretty much fades away when you see reporters duking it out on equal footing with everyone else on Tiwtter.

So! I think the banning of Alex Jones is just step 1 of a plan to "fix" this problem; it's an attempt to reassert the ability to control the narrative and what the public thinks.

I know that all might sound a bit conspiracy-theory-ish, but, well, how else to interpret things like this?

https://twitter.com/chrismurphyct/status/1026580187784404994

More broadly, it's surprising to me that so many people who believe in freedom of speech, democracy, etc in their governments, are so gung-ho for autocratic, censored governening structures in the online realms.

Twitter is more important than traditional press; shouldn't it have similar protections?
Down votes because "China" is a country of 1.4 billion people and not a single hive minded unit. Also this was clearly a simple scam to rake in investor money, they just told people what they wanted to hear so they'd throw money at them. Has never happened in the west huh?
IMO, it's apparent from the context, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nitpicking here. But is it possible to have intellectual curiosity without the political/cultural wrapper around it?

The fact is that we can express and engage in intellectual curiosity is a result of politics.
Elections should also not allow someone to verify how they voted after the fact.

I'm not sure how blockchains allow for that.
Yeah it's backwards. We need to first characterize how to implement a secure election, compile a criteria for that, then evaluate tech platforms against that.

Given that experts already know how to secure elections and that traditional tech solves the problem just fine, Blockchain would almost certainly lose.

Election tech experts like Verified Voting, Black Box Voting, and Ed Felton & co at Princeton already know how to secure elections, but for whatever reason that knowledge hasn't promulgated to all the local election officials in the country that make the decisions on how they're run and what tech they use. That's the real problem, not a lack of secure voting knowhow/tech.
I've heard "quintuple" both ways so after reading your comment, I still don't know how you specifically pronounce "tuple" :P
Isn't language defined by common use over time?
What you cite isn't a problem with using communication as a value, it's a problem with sexism. Being a good communicator is a pretty uncontroversial positive trait in any employee. Can you use it as invalid justification for sexism? Sure you can, along with many other things.

I guarantee you that whatever special process you use, it can be used as a form of racism or sexism. E.g. do you think that article's "look for musicians to find data scientists" can't be used as an excuse for racism or sexism?

The problem of discrimination is way more nuanced than naively throwing some things you may not personally like into a bucket and putting a label on it like "dog-whistle."
There are lots of non-technical reasons we wouldn't hire someone, but they're straightforward enough that we can list them up front before meeting a candidate, and they're mostly objective.
Can you give an example?

I've never had this happen to me and my assumption was that if you stayed airside (didn't cross immigration) you would be fine.
It's all about pushing Azure and dedicating resources to said goals
yeah I'm sure the wildlife at Chernobyl is safe to eat as well

get outta here
If you are a descendant of a family that lost their German citizenship because of Nazi policies you can reclaim your German citizenship without giving up your current citizenship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Citizenship_Project
It's better to take payment for a license granting the privilege of doing a job, than to go through the rigamarole of hiring someone to do it, paying them, and keeping them paid even if there's no work for them at the moment. The reduction in payroll expenses, plus the license revenue, can then be invested into conservation-related projects. Plus, as fun as hunting may be to those who find it fun, many such people have other skills too, and wouldn't want to stop honing them just to be paid to hunt.
Redcore CEO admits ‘100% China-developed browser’ is built on Google’s Chrome
Student hacked into Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of ‘secure files’
The most important tenet of toxicology is that "the dose makes the toxin." In high enough doses, everything is toxic, and in low enough doses, everything is safe. Toxic warning labels that are not informed by good dose-response information are worse than useless. They create noise that consumers must wade through in order to discover if a product is truly a risk.

One of the worst examples of chemical paranoia that I've encountered in my career were the MSDS guidelines. The MSDS for water has an exhausting list of dangers and precautions. This made it much more difficult to assess the danger posed by other chemicals because they frequently had the exact same warnings as water. When everything is "dangerous", nothing is.
Looks like king county is getting them for $9/dose:

https://www.jems.com/articles/print/volume-42/issue-6/featur...
Astronomers discover a new way to supersize baby black holes
So this then claim stems not from knowledge but from a "seemingly logical deduction". It is clear that there is no actual substance to this idea that "organic farms often use more pesticides" - even the notion is false that "more pesticides" is a meaningful concept as it alludes only to pesticide weight or mass and ignores all qualities of the substances involved - in the accompanying "logical deduction" - such as ecological and biological impact.

Organic standards are not so simply drawn as to focus on the weight or mass or price of pesticides - they concern the ecological impact and risk of agricultural materials and practices.
Ok, that is just perfect. Thanks.
One of the truly sad aspects of this phenomenon is that smart speakers, in principle are totally fucking cool. That's literally Star Trek technology! You have a cheery computer you can boss around! Except now corporate greed had to shit all over it.

It would be one thing if the Alexa was free... but they actually charge for the thing, and they don't even develop their own apps/skills, that's on the community.
It seems to me that you've gone off topic here without offering detailed support of your arguments.

Re: "Conservatives have a far, far lower bar to censor people than Twitter, et al. (i.e. /r/The_Donald on Reddit)" This is a generalization with only one example for support.
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> You're arguing not for free speech, but speech that's free from consequences

Ah, I'm delighted to see that I'm getting somewhere. Yes, I am indeed arguing for free speech that's also free from consequences; one of the core values of classical liberalism that sprang from the Enlightenment. Freedom of speech doesn't mean much if actually exercising it invites repression and it does not matter in the slightest whether that repression comes from a government or from an outraged public.

An analogy with Jeanette Rankin comes to mind, though not precisely a speech issue; she was the sole member of the US Congress to vote against entry into WWII after the Pearl Harbor attack because of her staunch pacifist convications. After the vote she was forced to take shelter inside a phone booth until police could escort her home. According to modern liberals, she should have faced the "consequences" (your word, not mine), no matter how horrific, since they weren't coming from the government.

Note that I don't even agree with her action but, as the old quote goes "I (may) disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Nvidia forecast lags Wall Street as crypto demand evaporates
Building a simple static site generator in 100 lines
I had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled 8 years ago (USA). Was given 60 Lortab pills for pain. I only took 1 the day after the operation, the pain really was not bad at all. Insanity.
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No. It takes years of building contacts or at least 6 months of building really focused relationships with the already "right" people.
As a self taught software developer, I struggle with the intellectual aspect of culture fit. On one hand, I have been told that all the stuff I have showcased on sdegutis.com is amazing. But on the other hand, I don't know many algorithms, can't comprehend math more advanced than high school algebra, and what I do know about software took me twice as long to learn it than it normally takes others.

I have found that freelancing avoids even coming to the question of culture fit. Clients don't care what you know or what kind of books you read or where you went to school, they care what you can do. I have been turned down for jobs for not figuring out their algorithms, whereas the one client I have (I'm open to new clients btw) has told me that he's glad that he found me, because I get the job done fast and well and for cheap.

The downside of this is that you're expected to do a perfect job 100% of the time and have to bite every minute that you lose to yak shaving or other problems, whereas if you work for an employer, they are more understanding if it takes a day to solve some stupid Java XML configuration issue.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who tests internet connectivity via HN!
Many countries require a transit visa AFAIK.

For example: https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/transit-schengen-visa/
I live 10 minutes from downtown Kansas City. I rent an entire house with an acre backyard for 700$ a month. I could have got more for less if I wanted to live slightly further away from family.
The article seems to skirt around this. It gives the energy per weight for just part of the battery and then gives a theoretical energy per volume for the whole battery. The claimed theoretical improvement for the whole battery per volume is 2x so if the density of the whole battery increases 1.8 to 5x then the solid state battery could be anywhere from slightly better (10%) to significantly worse per weight.
Unless you roll your own email server, the majority of spam never hits your spam folder, but is bounced without you ever noticing it.
Interviews for software engineers are the most nepotistic bullshit and full of every variant of petty bias and discrimination possible. It's absolutely horrible. If I start getting asked about my hobbies in an interview, I walk, and you should too. My personal time is none of your business, and if having to like my hobbies or have them resonate with your project in some completely esoteric way is essential to your hiring criteria, you need to rethink your goofy ass life. I look for a job for the same reasons as every other person: because I have subsistence needs that can only be fulfilled by money, not because my life is so completely harmonious with your company's bullshit mission, and frankly you're a weirdo for making candidates have to lie to you about this.

Another thing I'll add is that if you have any input into the hiring process PLEASE try to convince your employer to subsidize training and prioritize that over hiring to a bulleted list of particular technologies a candidate must be familiar with. I can't tell you how many engineers could very easily get up to speed with something new, or perhaps are inexperienced and just need a little guidance and could become incredibly better with the right investment in their training (including many long time employees at your company, I guarantee it). I was lucky enough to take a week course from some very knowledgable instructors at a previous job and everyone I know who took that course was bettered by it. Startups are frankly lying to themselves if they think they hire hyper-qualified people anyways, but the entire concept of professionalized industries that are unwilling to invest in the education and training of their employees is absurd and something we should all adamantly reject.