skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience: Far less up-front specification, far fewer names/concepts, fewer lines of code, far fewer of those "oh, this should work, but how do I wrestle the type system into understanding it?".

Now, there's a continuum here.

When designing the main data store for a project, you want to iterate on that and get it just right.

Or if you're working on a library to be used by lots of people, it's definitely nice to be able to specify things that lets the compiler help people get their code right.

On the other hand, in almost all the applications I've worked on, there's also a much larger fraction of absolutely necessary and often complex code where each little module is working on some details. There the data structure doesn't really matter so what JSON provides (untyped arrays + simple objects/dictionaries) results in much less cognitive overhead than a fully specified and typed thing. A few black-box tests both documents and checks functionality, and also ensures that the thing keeps working after a refactor.

Of course, YMMV.
I really wish there was an ACT Acts Interpretation Act.
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> will go the way of VBScript and Silverlight.

So it will either die off quickly or be extremely popular and stick around for 20+ years?

VBScript is just as old as PHP and was the primary scripting language on Microsoft products for a solid decade. It was in everything from Office to IIS and still ships with every copy of Windows.

Silverlight is just a framework and was only in active development for 5 or 6 years before being killed off.
Beast-vs-RESTinio or is Boost.Beast really good for solving simple tasks?
Wait a minute, mistakes are a "way of learning" but you should avoid them in school?
Doesn't this just divert the decision making process to the PostgreSQL developers.
4 Uber drivers fined $6.2k-$75.8k by Denmark's High Court for illegal taxis
> After this, with good naming and conventions operations should be obvious

Why on earth rely on people for this when you have a machine available for you, that can automate all this? A good type system is invaluable for both on-boarding of new people, refactoring code, and maintaining a codebase.

Why would you not want to make sure you could never call the wrong REST endpoint[0] for example? Etc, etc...

[0] https://haskell-servant.github.io
> This assumes that punishment, as dealt out by the courts, is an appropriate way of going about healing society after a crime has occurred.

Yes, goodness gracious, how has this of all things become the sacrosanct, canonical representation of justice?

More humane societies will follow ours, and they'll look back with astonishment about our obsession with punishment to the exclusion of actual restoration.
Free college in the US will amount to wasted taxes unless the programs are highly competitive. Otherwise, if a state managed to arrange an associate's degree program paid by taxes, the programs would teach that which should have already been taught in high school. These college programs aren't college. They're the 13th and 14th grade.
Crypto companies need to stop looking for regulation arbitrage opportunities
Meet works fine in Firefox nowadays.
I didn't see your original question, so I don't know whether it was valid, but it also don't believe it is true that "there is no shadowbanning on HN". For instance, there are a few dead comments here from accounts that appear to be shadowbanned. I recommend turning on showdead. Every once in awhile I come across a good comment that is dead and am glad I have it turned on. I find that it creates very little noise.
Ask HN: 23 with nothing to show for it. How do I start anew?
Details in comment! Thanks for your time. :)

TLDR: I feel like I haven’t built meaningful deep skills, only brittle ones, and I don’t know what to do because time is just flying by.
Do you have anything to back this up with. I have a _very_ hard time believing that american youth is so different from the youth in the rest of the world.

Also, it is not free because not enough people wants to go to college. In Denmark, for example, we have educations where 95% of applicants are rejected.
Context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927972
I am from the EU (Bulgaria) and I definitely understand what you mean. People in the US are way more woke and in my experience better team players than people in the EU. I’ve worked with people from most EU countries and they tend to be somewhat more conservative and it feels like they alienate from each other easily when in a team. Don’t get me wrong you still get things done but I’ve had way more connection talking to my colleagues in the US and the atmosphere is more liberating. I think that Eastern Europe is definitely closer to the US way of thinking than Western. I highly recommend you first move to say Prague or Sofia and see if you like it, then aim for the US. Hey we might even have a beer at some point!
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They want you to comply, first and foremost. If you comply, then no fines. If you don't comply, you'll get fined, that's how I understand.

GDPR is a process, it's about pushing companies to good practices through compliance. A lot of it makes sense, for example, making sure your staff understand basic IT security practices, which is no different to health and safety.
When you test expected function behaviours, sufficient type testing tends to fall out of that pretty much for free - if your test suite is testing function parameters for the sake of testing function parameters and not for the sake of verifying it gets the right output, then the test suite is deficient.
Some countries have both systems. A network of public-funded universities, in which admission is controlled via standardized tests, plus private ones, in which the government subsidizes the monthly fees of many students in several ways. And both work to a satisfactory level.

I'm particularly grateful of how I've been actually paid to study for the majority of my two Bachelors, my Masters and now my Doctorate. Not a lot, and without all the rights of a salaried worker, but still. The difference between debt and a small net gain (even though you may still require assistance from your family) is astounding for your mental health.

Edit: just an addendum, and it might be particular to my country. Some of these private institutions are very renowned, specially regarding post-graduate courses. However, the public universities are typically considered to be the 'best' ones.

As far as I can tell, the entrance exams serve as a filter of o high-quality candidates (or at least that's the consensus among professors). Another factor is that private universities have a higher share of undergraduate students that work concurrently, which impacts their performance. In any case, the relation cost (to the individual)-quality is not observable.
I was wondering about the abundance of propeller hats in the audience, if it's some insider joke or what. But seriously, new employees have to wear propeller hats?!
Why would it need runtime support? It would just desugar into an if-else chain.
I don't have first-hand experience with US colleges, but you hear complaints about the same issues from there too. I'm not sure what about the power structure is actually different to dis-incentivize those, from what I see it's very similar?

(I also wouldn't describe the places I've seen first-hand as strongly as you did, but those issues existed to some degree)
Does anybody actually take the SPLC seriously anymore? Violent racism having been largely eliminated from the US, they accuse ever more moderate and irrelevant groups with being the reincarnation of the Clan. I don’t want a dozen idiots who like to drink beer and play dress up with hoods and swastikas as my neighbors, but they’re not an existential threat to anybody either. When you treat these minor groups like the reincarnation of Hitler, you don’t have the ability to call out serious threats when they do arrive. When everything is Nazis, nothing is Nazis.
Rubbish. Both major parties would be sensitive to the backlash, as neither is in a particularly strong position. 'U-turn' is an integral part of the UK political lexicon.

That's the benefit of a working democracy where decisions are taken within the reach of the people.

When legislation like this is steamrollered through the EU, it's obvious that resistance is futile.
The US is only allowed to export ideas to the rest of the world. Because we're the best country on Earth and everyone should follow our example.

The moment you dare suggest we follow the example of other countries you get a lot of handwringing about how the US just isn't like those other countries and it would never work here. Maybe if we privatize college more eventually it'll work better, don't worry about all those millions of people deep in debt.
I'm pretty extremely compassionate, understanding, etc. I'm finding that once someone wrongs you, most people won't voluntarily make amends and it becomes absolutely necessary to play hardball. Nor can you force them to make reparations. But you can punish people.

I would like to see more focus on crime prevention by helping everyone get their needs met, not criminalizing things where no one is victimized, etc.

But once the deed is done, I don't know that it really works to not have some element of consequences, unfortunately.
BMW apparently wants to start by just helping to cut down on the most avoidable accidents.

The most avoidable accidents are not operator dependent:

- the “one party is going straight and the other is turning left at a four way” accident which is so common it has its own acronym: SMIDSY (Sorry Mate, I Didn’t See Ya)

- right hook at an intersection

That said, if BMW can do things like stabilizing the lean-in when you go into a turn hotter than planned and fail to commit, that might be nice. The solution is “push harder into the turn”, but it’s easy to be scared of this and thus go wide instead.
The "order of magnitude" statement is completely false.

If we're talking about algorithmic complexity: for some algorithms quantum computers won't be any better than classical ones; for others, the improvement will be exponential, not multiplicative, say from O(eⁿ) to O(n).

If we're talking about actual performance, we have no idea, because there is no general purpose quantum computer yet.

So the mention of "orders of magnitude" belies a complete ignorance of the topic.
What percentage of the population is able to take advantage of the free college? What are the job prospects like for those who don't go to college?
Don't you can just forward your booking/flight ticket emails to trip it?
I don't think you have dob in those type of emails?
A system restore from an image would wipe everything, luckily all user documents were intact, including user login, password and desktop background. But all personal data pertaining to 3rd party browsers was gone (all passwords, all bookmarks) which suggests that an algorithm decided that something in the user folders had to stay and something else had to go.
I keep running in this type of problems all the time with our developers. Please keep it simple. Take a step back and ask yourself, do i need all this stuff, is this the best approach. Often they just blindly accept all the external libs. For me as an old school guy, i don't trust all those dependencies at all.
That's changed recently o-o

Woo!
> If it were up to me to decide, I would treat them as an adult for the purposes of the trial, but take into account their young age as an extenuating circumstance when sentencing.

And how would you treat other cases that are 17.9, 17.75, 17.5, 17, 16.99, 16, 15, 14, 12?

Obviously we could have a sliding scale, but that's a different hypothetical. What's your binary verdict?
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In Spain, which is a quite big country and has almost-free tuition, there are way too many graduates working in low-wage jobs because the national market cannot just offer them qualified positions. Here is one source: https://elpais.com/elpais/2011/12/09/inenglish/1323411644_85... (2011 but still applies and in higher percentages according to recent studies which I will link later).
From the mid 70's until the late 80's, Australia's university education (tuition) was free.

In the late 80's, a scheme was introduced whereby degrees were assigned to a number of bands based on your likely income as a result of that degree. At the time, IIRC, medicine and law were in the top band, while eg. philosophy was in the lowest band. Each band had an annual price for enrollment, but they were iirc, $2500, $3500, and $4500 in maybe 1988 or 1989.

You paid nothing during your studies, but once your taxable income exceeded a threshold, you paid an additional couple of percent on your income tax until the accumulated debt from your education was repaid. This was part of the income tax withheld for most salary earners, and so was largely invisible.

In addition to that, students enrolled in a recognized educational institution get an allowance for living costs. In the 80's and 90's, this was sufficient to live on (food, rent) and you could earn enough extra income to get a social life and textbooks and so on without losing your allowance.

Healthcare is basically gratis in Australia too, so it was quite feasible to attend university with a small amount of part-time work with limited or even no financial support from your family.

Over the last 30 years, the repayment percentage has increased, the starting threshold has gone down, the annual fees have gone up, and the weekly allowance hasn't kept pace with the cost of living. But ...

Even without going to the "extreme" of genuinely gratis tuition, there's plenty of precedent for a system which gives everyone a decent opportunity for education regardless of their financial circumstances.
Those customers signed up for it. It wasn't a random sampling. It's similar to running a Firefox Nightly or being part of an open Beta.

Microsoft's Insider program is an opt in where you get to try out potential features. There's a history of features being pulled from the channel, their Sets feature was pulled in June.
The data doesn't really show this. A slightly larger percentage of Americans have tertiary education than Europeans, but not by much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_...

Canada - 54%

Japan - 48%

U.S. - 44%

Switzerland - 40%

Sweden - 39%

Estonia - 38%

Iceland - 37%

Belgium - 37%

France - 32%

Germany - 27%
This is a very good point. It's free because it can be, or has to be. That is, a given economy / country needs more upper edu'ed. The gov makes that happen by lowering the price.

The US, on the other hand wouldn't benefit nearly as much. The need for still more (relatively) over-edu'ed isn't there.

On a similar note, US edus charge more because they can. As demand increases so does price. Top that off with the available of "cheap" and easy money (i.e., subsidized student loans) and prices go even higher.

Not everyone is college material, and that's not a bad thing. Unfortunately, most in the US are unwilling to accept this.
What is the new reason? I don't really have the impression that students paying fixes anything about the incentives for individuals in the system.
Please read the article and not just the title. It is not stating that tax funded college is infeasible. It is describing gotchas of various state's subsidy programs.
An 19.5 : 9 Screen Body with the same width of iPhone SE would incidentally lead to a 4.7" iPhone Xr. I think it is highly likely we see that next year. Although also likely to cost $649.
> On the other hand, you risk ending up in local optima.

This would only be a risk if the difference between the local optimum and the global optimum is large, but there is no evidence to suggest that is the case (and a lack of evidence for a big effect is usually evidence against it). To be more precise, no one has been able to find a drastic productivity boost among apparently reasonable alternatives, so either there's a plateau or no one has found the global optimum. Either way, as things stand, there is no such risk.

A risk that does exist is failing to create a viable development environment or simply not having the resources to even attempt it. As others noted, this is a big risk (or an almost guaranteed failure) for small organizations, but hardly one for a very big one.
>But wasn't that a social construction of the oppressive patriarchy?!

According to the latest edition of : I_blame_everyone_but_myself
It is. Of course those essays all sound like written by house elfes anyway, who want to solve every problem with a appeal to all wizards or further discussion.
Good thing they prevent discussions about those deficits.. Imagine if somebody wrote a app to get around mental limitations instead.

Long life the talking dead. More alive then the living when it comes to science.
The United States is now the largest global crude oil producer
I'm looking forward to the first quantum computer with hundreds or thousands of qubits, to see how the Many Worlds deniers explain its existence.
What money is Facebook pouring into PHP? You think Facebook is deploying their own developers to maintain PHP?

It is not so. Facebook doesn't really interact with the PHP community, except for when they published HHVM, and even that was limited.
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Source?

My totally anecdotal experience (mostly Italy, Spain) is the opposite, even in countries where higher education is cheap/subsidized, people tend to go to University "just because", mostly because it is expected by family/parents, and most don't really have a long term plan.

It is really rare for a 17/18 yo to have a clear picture of his/her own future, IMHO.
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See, that would imply it's not free for everyone. It's free for 5% of people who are able to get in. What happens to the people who don't qualify?
I similarly don’t get the enormous popularity of Carbon but it offers two things that a screenshot doesn’t:

• It frames the code properly; this is an aesthetic choice, and certainly subjective, but many people seem to prefer it. At the very least, it provides consistent, even margins around the code which are fiddly to achieve with a screenshot.

• If you paste a normal PNG screenshot on Twitter, it gets converted to JPEG and downsampled, creating ugly block artefacts around the text and changing the colours. You can avoid this by making at least one pixel of the PNG partially transparent. Carbon does this automatically (but you can of course do it manually with a screenshot).
And who knows who will derogatorily and condescendingly be deemed a "social justice warrior" simply for trying to be a decent human and remove the world "slave" from a code base, on the off chance that some people might truly feel the pain of that word and its ugly history.
Most gamers install drivers. This process is much more difficult on Linux than it is on Windows, though.
There are certainly downsides to those programs that progressives in the US would hate, though. For example, in Germany, part of why it works is that they have a fairly strict "tracked" system post-elementary school that's kind of classist, that makes gaining admittance harder.

Plus they don't really 'support' students in terms of counseling or special programs or anything the way US universities do; it's expected that you're an adult, and if you can't hack it, you're out. In practice, lack of support means students who come from more affluent, educated backgrounds have a large advantage over first-generation college students.
Only the work of those who create value below minimum wage has to be automated. I agree with you that their jobs have to be automated by software developers, or restructured in another way. E.g. delivery or Uber drivers can earn less than minimum wage because they are often not paid for their time.

However, every other job can be continued. Why should people be fired if employers can still make a profit? Minimum wage is like a hidden union that ensures that unskilled workers don't outbid themselves.
I looked at 4000+ .xyz domains only to find out most are for resale
I can examplify with Sweden, which I know, where 43% of people aged 25-64 has "some" amount of higher education, and 27% has at least 3 years of higher education.

But way more than this are "able to", as you put it. In order to be eligble, one needs passing grades in a high percentage of high school subjects, including some mandatory ones. But failing that, one can always study for that credit later in life.
That was probably with a 28.8k modem under less than ideal circumstances. He probably could optimize it further though, sure, is that your point?

Yes, technology at the time did limit the kind of bloat that would be tolerated. Is that an excuse to go all in now just because we can?
Does it require at least one fully dedicated FTE to set up, maintain, and use correctly?

Curious where logdevice would be a bad decision..
Ask HN: Apple introduced Neural Engine a year ago. What are the applications?
A year ago Apple has introduced Neural Engine, dedicated neural network hardware, in A11 Bionic system on a chip. What applications, beyond the stock ones (Face ID and Animoji) has it been used in?
Hey, I've experienced similar feelings in the past. Feel free to reach out if you want to chat outside of HN bout this more (my email is in my profile).
Product Management isn’t a major one can study
Ride-hailing's potential to improve public transport
Just don't watch the news and problem solved.

Life is great here and I rarely come across divisive political fights except on TV and the internet. The media thrives on it, so that's what they focus on.
Google will consign Inbox app to the knackers yard come March 2019
I think CoffeeScript made transpilers mainstream (though it wasn't the first) and i appreciate that (having a sane language like clojure in your browser is amazing), but damn that syntax was confusing more often than not. Sometimes less is not more.
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All I can say in response to this is: this certainly is tricky!

Punishing crime has a disproportionate negative consequence on those who have already been traumatised by the circumstances of their lives.

So I agree with your point about everyone's needs being met, but we can't have that until we, collectively / globally, make some significantly different choices.

So we'll probably have to continue getting by with an obviously suboptimal crime and punishment system.

Edit: fixed a word
Additional read on the topic:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/analysis-deadly-threat-f...

Maybe I'm looking at it from the wrong angle but I'm under the impression that excluding 9/11 from the stats is wrong and paints a drastically different picture of the state of terrorism in the US in general.

I personally would prefer to know how likely I am to die from the hands of a right-wing extremist vs islamic terrorist.

You need to look at the total number of victims of each group to come up with correct number, no?