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A bigger factor than pretty much all of this, for state universities, has been that state support for universities has dropped through the floor.

Washington State, for example, got state support cut by 50% during the 2008 recession. It's never come back.

This also has an impact on one of HN's other favorite higher ed topics, the state of quality research. With state support cut, the two available levers are tuition and more federal research money. With the latter, the pool of money is - at best - stagnant, and there's increasing pressure to get grants, which means more people cutting corners.
We had issues faxing rural areas through Twilio, like their SMS offerings (which lack shortcode support) it seems to be a partially baked solution. I asked them about it at SeaGL in Seattle, and the staff at their booth had few suggestions.
That I do not know, sorry. While he is not a good programmer (judging from what little is available on his Github), the AdBlock rent-seekers do not seem to have technical skills (judging from the way they do things). So I could see a justification for either case.
Because the buyer is making the decision to purchase. It's their choice, and particularly in this case they have very good data to support the decision (actually leafing through the book in a bookstore, reading the countless reviews available online, etc).

Caveat emptor.

If OP had bought the book from Samin Nosrat selling her own book out of a stall, I highly doubt he'd return the book a week later demanding his money back just because he didn't like what he read... that'd be a shitty thing to do. The reason he felt no shame in this was because there was a faceless corporation between him and the author.
No, I'm waiting for the day I can avoid the world of work, which has become progressively shittier since I graduated college in the early 90s.

When I started as a developer, it was NORMAL for an employer to:

- 1:1 match 401k fully, some even offered pensions

- offer PAID vacation time, not this bullshit scam "unlimited PTO" which is really just unpaid vacation.

- offer full zero-deductible/zero-contribution health insurance

- offer real equity to rank-and-file employees

- realize you came in to work at 9 and left around 5 and weekends were yours.

Practically everything about the working world has become progressively worse and I cannot wait to be done with it. I really feel sorry for people entering the industry now, they will probably see health insurance benefits worsen or disappear, and may even see themselves paid by the hour.
> They chose web fonts that hurt page load times and had kerning and hinting issues on platforms besides macOS.

Could you elaborate? macOS doesn't typically do TrueType or CFF hinting. Kerning should be identical for modern rasterizers on all platforms nowadays.
I don't understand the mass downvoting here. If the book isn't good and the owner got nothing out of it, what's so wrong with returning it?

EDIT: People read books that I write and return them all the time saying they suck / it wasn't for them / etc. That's kinda the point of a return policy. I don't take it poorly.
That's a visualization of my experience with them approaching me:

https://imgur.com/a/QIVHfu9
At that you absolutely don't need a special expensive institution to teach you how to behave. A century ago it might have made sense - formal conduct was rigid and failure to adhere could displace you out of aristocracy. You needed to know your proper dinner routines and manners perfectly. You needed to know the retinue of history and contemporary science topics popular in the era to not be left looking ignorant of a conversation.

Of course that later circumstance was only applicable in an era when major scientific advancements were slow and costly to disseminate. Thats why it required the infrastructure of a university to supply it. I feel like that might not be quite as much of a barrier today, and nobody is expected to stay current on all news - there is simply too much, too fast, even of the purely scholarly variety.

While I don't think your average 18 year old is of "mature" character or often fit to participate in normative adult culture it also isn't a danger to them to have to learn how in the moment. The worst that happens is they lose a job or two and rebound - it isn't a lifelong disgrace in an insular society anymore.
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I wasn't aware of the voting that took place to find out what the perspective of the general population thinks. The university I went to was public and the age for being an independent was for federal student aid. Seems like it doesn't matter if something isn't fair.
In terms of chemical composition, yes, but mostly carbs that humans can't effectively digest, so nutritionally, they would be considered low-carb.
eFax had some patents that it used aggressively for a long time to shut down competitors, though it looks like the main one expired recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16660890
Mainly because Unicode is the industrial standard steered by major vendors (among others). There is even the dedicated Emoji Subcommittee (ESC) [1] to meet demands. It's obvious if you think about it.

[1] https://unicode.org/emoji/#Unicode_Emoji_Subcommittee
Too many for what? I don't understand the scope of your question.
So sad to see all the downvotes without any real feedback for an honest comment and I think anyone that invested serious time in meditation knows the "danger" of becoming too detached. In my case, it seriously increased my resistance to stress so much that I could just calmly "walk away" from bad situations (impossible deadlines, bad bosses, etc.) when my mind said "no". This may seem great for keeping your sanity and happiness but it also causes serious problems with commitments and finances. I completely agree that you need to really work hard to balance the benefits of meditation with the adverse effects (as far as modern life concerns, unless you plan to join a monastery or spend the rest of your days as homeless) if you ever go beyond 30 minutes/day.
> the value you get from playing video games, or watching anime comes at a cost. Some people incur a huge cost, as they become addicted.

you could say this about almost any activity in life. the fact that facebook adds nothing meaningful to your life doesn't mean that others feel even remotely the same way, there's no need for the social media bashing that gets regurgitated ad nauseum across reddit/hackernews.
Questioning first principles.
Thank you. It's an ongoing struggle that I haven't solved yet. It can be very tempting and fun to just switch to a new project when you reach the point where you know what needs to be done but it's an insane mountain of work that you either dread (e.g. you need to rewrite an entire project from scratch to take a different approach) or can't even do at the moment (e.g. you need precision machining beyond what is available to you).

I get a thrill out of besting myself, and find that helps extremely well when I've all but given up hope but conversely that makes it really hard to motivate yourself when it's something you know you can do (perhaps you've done it before) but just aren't looking forward to. Also it's really hard to do something that takes so much insane time/effort (literally years) when you know there's a good chance the world just won't care.
> I suppose this is to be expected from people raised in an environment where multi-billion dollar corporations compete for customers and can afford to offer "just because I didn't like it" returns free of charge.

you hit the nail on the head. amazon has a policy where they will let you get a full refund within n days as long as you haven't significantly damaged the item yourself. they're not stupid; they do realize some people will just use the thing a couple times and return it. so they do the math on their end and figure out what kind of return policy they can afford to offer. why wouldn't you take advantage of this? companies only offer this kind of policy because they expect to make even more money because of it.
Does burn calories mean lose weight?
At least, that's the way it's been since the deletionists won in 2007.
Running x86_64 binaries on the Talos II
Is Google just desparate to expand in the Bay area? I guess its nearby to commuter rail, so there is some infrastructure, but unless San Jose starts doing many upzones, or Google includes over 10k units of housing, this will boost rent and property prices in the area.
Green Eggs and Hash Sprinkle on the Salt and Pepper
Why would it be just filler? You're probably not eating enough. It has high fiber content, just like most vegetables (and actually a very similar macro nutrient ratio)
Ask HN: Patterns for Users Organizing Data?
What are the options for letting users organize their data in a complex SaaS product? Is there a name these patterns go by? And what patterns make sense when?

For example, here are a couple options I see in use:

1. Hierarchies/Folders: creating a tree, where data can be stored at each level. Think classic email interfaces.

2. Tags: A list of "tags" (ie strings) can be attached to each piece of data. Each tag acts as a category, allowing the user to search/filter. For example, gmail, stackoverflow, etc.

3. Labels: A list of key/value pairs (ie string -> string) that allow users to create their own metadata fields for data, and values for those fields. More flexible and more complex than tags. For example, kubernetes labels and annotations.

Anything else?
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I'm not hearing anyone dispute these facts. Media-driven fervor is rarely devoid of facts. Rather, with story choice and interspersed op-eds, the narrative becomes clear even if not untrue. For every fact-based article, there are dozens of opinion ones (happening with all big-web tech) and my flag-clicking finger grows weary. These digital opinion pieces sharing the same domain become much harder to differentiate than in print. Even if you're focusing on facts, many don't care about them or at least don't consider them or their consequences as damning as the coverage might deserve.

At this point, I'll take my bulleted lists of uncovered facts and eschew the rest of this crap. Sadly my peers, pitchforks in hand, can't do so and are hastily cheering on government oversight. Something none of us can ever recover from (a one way street in almost all instances).
What a poor comparison. Have you actually used any CAD software? None of it works like Sketchpad. Design software in general doesn't use shape recognition, that's a pointless gimmick.

> The way forward to visual programming might not be super clear, but we'll get there.

This isn't even visual programming, nor is it a step in the right direction. My text editor has all kinds of visual tools. The data I edit however is textual, which has a lot of benefits.

> If you don't think text-based REPL-style programming is limiting...

I don't think REPLs are very useful for programming either.

> ...I encourage you to check out Bret Victor's explorations of abstraction and direct manipulation.

I'm aware of this stuff, it looks nice, but I don't think you need an entire visual programming language to get that benefit. If I need visualization, there are lots of tools to use.
All tunnels are not created (or located geologically) equally.

Here's the 3 high risk factors for Seattle Bertha, from: https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2014/12/12/mcginn-e...

Technically, he said the machine's diameter, as the largest in the world, warranted a "high" level of risk, a five out of five.

Also rating a high level of risk – a five – was the underground material. Neff wrote what he called the "geologic setting" was "Highly complex, sticky clays, flowing sands, abrasive materials, large boulders."

And third, the high water pressure at the tunnel depths, which seems to be proving a problem now, rated "above average" risk at a four.

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This is not to try and take something away from TBC - they may be making very good choices (2 smaller bore tunnels than 1 big one? Better locations?) who knows, but it's just not apples to apples.
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They're not entitled, they’re just not being compensated enough to do labor which has quite a bit of negative effects on your health and quality of life compared to office jobs.

Once you see people opting for the trades, then you will know they are getting proper compensation.
> Snowden leaks in 2013 were greeted with general apathy.

The only mass domestic collection (phone metadata) that was ongoing at the time of the leaks was shut down soon after and had been known about since 2006. Why would you expect more
of a furore than what we
had? https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-n...

> Gmail launched in 2004.

Email servers collect emails. This has been the case since long before 2004.

The reason people are pissed off at Facebook is that Zuckerberg has not only been collecting users' data but also using it in shady ways (including to attack critics and competitors) since he was at Harvard and has shown no sign that he's changed.
That excludes 99%+ of people from the conversation which defeats the purpose of a site like HN.
> Adding support for a new memory or PCI-E version requires a new socket and a new chipset

Memory, sure, you don't want compatibility issues. Why PCIe, when the important lanes are all driven directly off the CPU?
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I have one at work that is open to the 120+ people on my floor. Stop by to have Snickers, 3 Musketeers, Milkyway, red licorice, Hershey's kisses and my fav, peanut butter cups. I do a pound a week. People take and a few put a 5 or 10 under the jar sometimes. I'm overflowing now with Halloween candy donations. But overall I spend about $50 a year on candy. It's a good trade for goodwill and the daily scuttle butt.
My Chinese is still pretty basic. Yes, learning some conversational Chinese and a few hundred Chinese characters pretty quickly, is required, if only to keep sane. But, my Chinese communication skill wasn’t/isn’t/hasn’t been a critical key success factor for business success. More important has been, utilizing employees well and having the sense to recognize and call “bullshit” when needed. Like, if a process seems illogical from a good business practices or efficiency point of view. And someone is telling you something that seems wrong. It’s probably wrong, and they don’t know what they are talking about. And, learning quick, most of what you see here in China, is not as it appears on the surface. Underneath, it’s probably a rats nest. Being a good detective is required to survive.
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Khronos is a standards group. It's their job to make standards, not tooling. Individual vendors that are part of Khronos can make tooling.
Western concept of meditation (mudra-holding sitting in a crowded room, wearing special yoga pants) has almost nothing to do with the original meaning, which was "let the mind stop by itself, become 100% idle, so the so called primordial awareness - life itself, which is prior to the language-based intellect, could be realized as one's own true nature", which uses breathing techniques, isolation from society, solitude (contrary to the narcissistically idiotic group settings), moderate austerities (the Buddha strongly emphasized futility of the extreme ones) and balanced body-mind complex in general.

All that cosplay, which almost screams at you - "I am yogin, look at me, I am meditator, look at me! I have this spiritual hairstyle and all the mystic tattoos", is so distant from the original meaning of the ancient practices, it is just ridiculous.

Study must be bad, because they obviously does not have any proper setting, like everything-else-being-equal, proper control groups, etc.

I could challenge any naive yoga-meditation zealot with assertion, that breath-holding divers, Nepalese porters (high altitude goods carriers) and marathon runners will exhibit similar but much better physiological reading, because the most important part is any yoga/meditation practices is regularity and restoring the original balance of the body/mind complex which is just proper homeostasis.

Rally, try these divers, porters and paraphon runners - they will put all the narcissistic yogins/meditators into shame.
Thank you so much for posting that list, somehow it slipped under my radar. Great suggestions!
Snowden's leaks showed that Obama shut down programs instituted by his predecessor (including bulk email metadata collection). There was one bulk domestic data collection that was ongoing at the time of Snowden's leaks, and Obama immediately called for its end, which happened soon after.
I love the bravery of just quitting to try something new. Not having something lined up but knowing he will, it’s kind of admirable.
Intel has a chip shortage, so AMD might be able to sell their CPUs and motherboards while Intel cannot meet demand.

I always wanted to make an Amiga with an AMD chip and get AmigaOS into X86-X64 and away from PowerPC so it can sell cheaper and faster systems. Compete with Apple at least by merging AmigaOS with GNU/Linux work with Valve on SteamOS to run AmigaOS apps and get some classic Amiga games into SteamOS and GNU/Linux.
No, I don't like it. I push the "home" key to get back to the top.
vim

It's really worth the time to learn. It's pre-installed basically everywhere, it's amazingly useful. It has the features of a modern text editor all in a command line.
AMD is planning to upstream their work and some is already there, but are still behind in versions they support.
shrug I knew plenty about ZFS at the time - just not that particular fact.

I was also making the point that "make a new vdev" doesn't solve that particular problem.

Overall, I'm quite happy with ZFS.
> It's that I have a desire to eat dramatically fewer calories on a low-carb diet

Precisely my experience as well. While it’s true that really no one type of nutrient is universally bad or evil and technically weight loss comes down to calories in/out, there is a huge difference in how satisfied you feel after eating X amount of calories in various forms. I can eat an entire loaf of good bread or a big bag of chips without even thinking about it. Fats are tasty too but I don’t find myself wanting to gorge on them to the same extent.
This is exactly the talking point I mean. It uses weasel words to trick people into believing that democracy is bad.

Saying "the US isn't a democracy, it's a constitutional republic", is like saying "Garfield isn't a cat, he's a cartoon and a vertebrate". None of these things are mutually exclusive.

Democracy: government where political power ultimately comes from the popular vote. The opposite of democracy is autocracy.

Republic: government where the state belongs to the people and is run for their benefit. The opposite of republic is monarchy.

Constitutional: government with ground rules for how the levers of power work that nobody is allowed to break. The opposite of constitutional government is absolute government.

You can have government on any of these axes. Being a constitutional republic doesn't preclude being a democracy. Contrast the United States and North Korea. Both are constitutional republics (fundamental law, no monarch), but one is democratic (all votes matter), and the other is autocratic (only one vote matters).

Democracy does NOT mean "absolute rule by a mere majority". Republicans lie and weasel to try to get people to think this so that they can say that democracy is bad and we should accept minority rule instead (aka, autocracy)
I love watch.

watch df -h
watch ls -sh
watch cat file
watch nmcli device wifi list
watch -n 10 --color curl -s wttr.in
I'm not sure if you're saying that what I'm saying is a distortion of the situation, or that the compromise represents monopolistic distortion of the market. I think the former? If so, that's a much stronger reading than I intended; I wasn't saying "this is what's happening" but rather "this is a thing that happens in general, it may be part of the explanation here, I don't know how to really pick it apart."
सुभ्मस्तु should probably be spelled शुभमस्तु. Transliteration would be "shubhamastu".
Uh, doesn't the "P" in PTO stand for paid?
Not everyone has ‘production’. A mathematician running experiments only locally, for example.
It is (or at least was) all based on Cassowary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_(software)
Yeah, he should set up in the good ol' US of A, where kids are never separated from their parents when their parents are seized for dubious reasons and ethnic groups are never targeted for placement in `extraordinary rendition` camps.
To think about going to China, you're going to have to think about how to LEAVE china first

"once the news goes out that you will be leaving China, alleged creditors will come out of the woodwork. The tax authorities will come up with taxes that you owe. Your landlord will explain why you owe it way more than you thought you did. Your suppliers will send you bills for items they never actually gave you. Your employees will demand all sorts of severance."

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2018/09/how-to-terminate-your-c...
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If you need to handle XML, xmlstarlet (http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net) is fantastic, and much more powerful than the standard line-oriented tools like sed and awk for this task.

Similarly jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) for JSON data is great.
I agree this is stupid, most document you shouldn't need any scripts to display them.
Your analogy doesn't make sense. In basketball, if your opponent gets tired, that gives you a better opportunity to win. In chess, if the game nears the end and neither of you can see a way to win, then there's no good opportunity. Your analogy would make more sense to say the basketball game was tied and there are three seconds left on the clock and both players have broken wrists. Playing three seconds of game to risk injury is not worth it for either player.

It also doesn't mean the game was unexciting.
There's a fair whack of poetic license in the headline, but isn't there always?

The idea that you can get a meaningful take on a story just from the title seems a bit lazy to me.

I reckon, having read the article, that the headline is reasonable.
This is misinformed. Iceberg lettuce contains very little fiber, either.
I agree, but I use user CSS to fix that (and many other problems, many of which have nothing to do with JavaScript anyways). One thing I saw in one webpage is in the comments of the JavaScript code they mentioned it is for "click jack" protection, apparently.
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I just entered the industry, and the benefits you listed were included in every offer I considered. My current job includes all of them except equity and, based on conversations with my peers, that's the exception rather than the rule.
What's so special about tradition? Just because something has been done many times in the past doesn't mean that it's useful, worthwhile, or right.
There exist women who are good at and interested in chess.
I'm not big on applications, period. Activities should be decomposed (or at least decomposable) into individual actions that I can stitch together in the shell.
When it comes to nation state affairs. Generally, entrepreneurs can only observe, predict, and act.

In 2009, the USA economy was tanking. As a new MBA who had studied options and derivatives, for example, I had a job offer on Wall Street with Bear Stearns, it made me angry. When I got the chance to come to China on a management consulting project, I noticed, China was booming. It was a great time to start a company here, and that’s what I did.

I don’t agree with all the social issues here in China. I also don’t agree with the USA financial system still being privatized after the greatest global robbery scheme ever invented.

Every nation has their problems, buddy. At this point, as an entrepreneur, I’m just in position to think about how to make money, given the political environment. I don’t think that makes me a bad American. That’s the American way.