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> However, I disagree that we should let lenders vary interest rates by institution and major.

Going to college is a financial investment, so I see the logic in this: just make it a flat "fee" and let the student decide what to study to make it worth it. I'm not sure what the ramifications of this might be, though. I can imagine there might be some unintended consequences.
Mapbox, Check, Marqeta, and Segment are basically already unicorns. Wouldn't be surprised to see them IPO in the next 3 years.
What is your opinion on the relevance of, and proper place for, trade schools?
Verily is building a high-tech rehab campus to combat opioid addiction
You don't see the inherited wealth here? The whole infrastructure you've described in your culture was built by previous wealth...

> learn in school

Easier in a wealthy school. May be impossible or extraordinarily difficult in a low income school.

> go to college

Easier if you come from a wealthy background. You may have legacy, or financial means to apply to more schools, or ability to take more test prep, etc.

> Learn to do something that pays

Are wealthy kids more likely to have mentors or connections in their network due to their parents? Are their parents more likely to understand which careers pay well?

> don't waste your money

Invest wisely? Someone taught me how to manage money beyond my immediate expenses, and compound interest works, and how different investments work, and what a mortgage rate was, and how I could evaluate a bank. Those are all skills that allow you to turn your money into more money more efficiently, and they are all skills typically associate with upper class folks.

> But thanks for smearing all 20% of us with your slur. It sounds like you don't know much about the bottom of the top 20%.

I am currently a member of the top 20%. I have also lived in the bottom 20% for years. At no point did I feel the parent comment was smearing anyone.
STEM is not the answer to all.

I mean, I love engineers to be in charge of tech companies, but that doesn't mean I want EVEYRONE to go to college just for STEM.

Also, I actually know a guy who graduated from a top public university IN USA as a mechanical engineer, and could not get a job as an actual engineer for almost 15 years. He did not do bad, but he didn't go all out to be top of the class either.

He did have odd jobs, but not as a mechanical engineer. He finally got a job as an actual mechanical engineer, after 15 years, including a stint in the US armed forces, which he did all because he didn't know what else to do.
About 1/3 of the US federal government's receivables are student loans. Allowing people to default on their loans has huge downstream consequences.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that they often break standards that a lot of people rely on, in particular the native zoom in browsers.
I imagine you're going to get a lot of "I don't have a degree but I have a great job!" responses, but that's largely because tech is a super weird industry, and not indicative of the rest of the job market.
„the top 20% possess superior values, habits, and cultural systems for social success“

If those „values and habits“ are supposed to be „be white and have a trust fund“, I may have misunderstood you.
> Because they actually are doing things that require them.

Citation needed. G-Suite's admin pages are half "modern" SPA monstrosities that suck up my RAM and peg my CPU to render a bunch of whitespace with bits of information strewn around, and ugly but functional regular pages whose performance is killed for being framed inside a SPA frankenapp.
Once again...that's use case. But ECC will affect both. You have 9/8 more bits you have to get from RAM, then you have to doo the ECC calculation for each byte
> 18 year olds can go fight in wars, vote and drive.

imo, we should probably raise the legal age of adulthood.

> They are fully capable of making informed financial decisions.

Yet so many of them obviously are not able.
I think I've read that medical cyanoacrylate based glues don't heat up as much when they cure, so they're less likely to cause burns.
Because they already spent it "on the free market" they just thought going to an expensive university was a good idea. The blame lies as much with all the people telling students that they must go to university as it does with the students themselves.
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> First, you overestimate western media influence on Russian population, which is essentially so minor you can completely disregard it

If it's so minor, why Kremlin (in current and previous reincarnation) so worried about it?
> Surely every student with loans would be bankrupt on graduation so no one would ever pay?

Student loans are a funny kind of loan. They're unsecured debt given to students with--on average--no assets or income.

We certainly went extreme with the "no discharge under any circumstances" threshold. There is no reason to over-correct to the other extreme of "everything is dischargeable at any time." A new chapter of bankruptcy would probably be needed to effectively deal with student debt defaults.
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I’m helping my partner and a close friend kick off learning to code in their spare time from scratch (know how to use a computer but never even opened terminal). Their goal is to be proficient at front end programming. I attempted to get them started myself, but let’s just say that I’m not the most proficient teacher and it’s likely better for my relationship that I don’t.

There’s a ton of great content out there, and I’m a little overwhelmed with options so I’m hoping folks can point me in the right direction for recourses that can get them started
Yet another masterpiece work by the fabulously lucrative sector called lobby industry. Lucrative both for the lobbyists themselves and the banks.

Bravo.
> You’re saying that children basically barely out of high school need to make decisions

Yes, 18 year olds (adults) need to be able to make decisions. If they decide not to go to college, they also need to be able to work.

And to clarify, some "kids" emancipate at 16.
You're talking about telling people to "go to college" when food security is a daily problem they have to deal with, never mind affording SAT/ACT test prep/exam fees, and I'm not going to even bother with AP/SAT Subject Tests, probably things you took part in. And some of these people do go to college, but I very much doubt that the subset of colleges they applied to had much overlap with yours.
I guess Europe hasn't figured out how that you can make guaranteed money off a subset of the population whose risk vs rewards centres have literally not totally developed in their brain, or it has enough ethics not to.
It doesn’t even need to be a killswitch. If the hardware checks firmware signatures (as it reasonably should), then I can just hold a critical patch hostage. You can’t patch against some nasty bug until $DEMAND is met - and meanwhile I can sell the exploit to some other enemy of yours and let them have fun with your systems.
> This may be a mean thing to say, but basically I think SPA's are massively overused, because developers want to demonstrate that they can do them.

This may be even meaner, but they usually end up demonstrating they can’t. 99% of them are terrible. Even Google’s latest efforts are a bit on the slow, low-information-density side.
It's clear that Amazon doesn't mess around. They're literally going into bull-dozer mode to capture all the connected home market.

It frankly makes Google look extremely slow, especially with how hard it has been for them to make sense of that Nest acquisition, in early 2014.
In case it isn't clear, Buzzfeed≠Buzzfeed News.
An open question to people born after 1980 - did you hear "what will you do with that degree" early and often?

The end career was an important part of the decision making process when I started college, harped on by parents, advisers, processors, etc, - but maybe things changed over time.
It's a good example of how broad based politics is dead. 90% of the public is locked out of the political process completely.
I think when it truly clicked for me was when they had a workable ecperience (old reddit) that was made pretty great by a plugin (reddit enhancement suite), and then when they did their redesign in an attempt to make RES obsolete, they managed to make something even worse.

They had a perfect opportunity to just roll all of RES's functionality into reddit, and messed it up. Can't even collapse comment trees in the browser app, but you can on mobile.
I'm not sure what the Italian model is now but I know it used to be something like this:

- University is basically free but does not include room and board

- First year of university is essentially open to anyone

- To get to the 2nd year, you must pass difficult exams with a very low pass rate

That means that the number of people with "some college" is very high but the number of people with a degree is much, much lower. This way they get to say "college is free for everyone" while also getting to limit who "everyone" is.
> I think it's subtler than that. It is mostly safe to run a process as "root" because in theory the ways that root access can be exercised is highly sandbox by the use of various namespaces, as well as things like capability restrictions (you generally don't have CAP_SYS_ADMIN or a few others), limited syscall attack surface (you generally have a syscall allowlist via seccomp-bpf), etc. Yes, it's wrong to not understand that the runc process runs as root. But I think it's only very slightly less wrong to claim that runc has root access in the way that, say, ssh root@host-system has root access. It mostly does not, and this vulnerability is notable in that it's one of the few ways to exercise that root privilege.

> We looked at this at $work and got into a serious rabbit hole about how exactly Linux capabilities work. I think if I started asking interviewees to explain permitted vs. effective capability sets and how file and process capabilities differ, I'd never hire anyone. (And I think to figure out yourself how to "correctly configure" a container, you need to have at least some understanding of that.)

I think you've hit the nail on the head. I only ask those interview questions because I believe it's important to find out just how much a candidate understands. I have to admit I've let some of these things go, otherwise I'd never hire anyone either. I think in the end what it comes down to is that Docker is an ambitious project that is somewhat flawed from a security perspective. There have been numerous namespace vulnerabilities to date and I expect there will be plenty more found in the future.
Thanks. Have to avoid them from now on.
Nice from a business perspective for sure. I shudder as a privacy conscious consumer.
Using web API means tabs work even if the developer doesn't put in the effort.
I took out some student loans for a grad degree and still have around $20k left. This was a few years ago so my fixed interest rate is 5.6%, which today is only a little higher than the rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage.

I stretched out the repayment to 25 years and it's on autopay. The monthly payment is around $150/month. Also, interest is tax deductible if you make less than $85k.

I barely think about this loan at all except for filing taxes. Of course everyone's situation is different, but even ~$40k in debt for one of the most forgiving loans you can take out (both in terms of the fixed rate, the amount of time you can stretch out, and the tax deductibility of the interest) is not worth the stress.
Why focus on the individual? There are at least two entities who made decision here: the student and the lender. Of the two, the lender is in a much better position to make a smart choice.

If you don’t want to subsidize poor educational decisions, that seems fine, but the way to achieve that is to stop giving out loans to people who won’t be able to repay them, not to criticize people for choosing the wrong major.
Shouldn't they pay the first few generations of volunteers to move to Mars? Anyone going there has the obligation of doing a lot of work in a very hazardous unforgiving environment.
This is called explicit versioning [1].

But in my opinion the correct fix is the one suggested in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19138143

Windows is a great example: the number behind the name (7, 8, 8.1, 10, etc.) is just marketing gobbledygook. It doesn't even have to be a number (XP, etc.). The real version number of Windows is hidden from regular users---though they don't follow semver so I'm not sure it has much value per se. But they could plausibly adopt semver and regular users wouldn't need to know.

Let the marketing people choose the branding and the developers choose the version numbers. Keep those concerns separate, don't force them to be conflated.

[1]: https://medium.com/sapioit/why-having-3-numbers-in-the-versi...
How is the ISC (version of BSD license used by OpenBSD) less free than the GPL3? This is very far from a "paid/proprietary" version.
> I should amend my statement to say, "Is that a reasonable metric to use to declare success?"

Got it. I think there may be confusion between a metric and a threshold. The metric being certain objective measures of quality of life. The thresholds being where we were 100 years ago, where we are today, and where we should be today.

More broadly, anyone "declaring success" on such a broad question is--at best--deluded. More common is people throwing their hands up at what looks like an insurmountable problem. I've found pointing out the often-unappreciated magnitude of recent historical performance to be useful in that respect.
Nope. Those Kremlin trolls are already on VPNs pretending to be 'real westerners'.
I think it's more accurate to say that they are missing information, rather than being mentally underdeveloped.
How do you propose this working given the fact every student (who isn't from a well off family or didn't get lots of scholarships) comes out of college with near zero assets and lots of debt. Have a X number of year waiting period?
In the experience of my friend (I know this equates to hearsay since they aren't here to directly comment) it definitely did affect people's work.
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Love the discussion of “Optimal Currency Areas”. However, some people argue that even the dollar has issues, since it unites a large area with very different economic realities at the local level.

Here’s a piece that blew my mind on the subject connecting quantitative easing & housing shortages with the idea of Optimal Currency Areas. Basically, the author, Yale Professor, David Schleicher argues that since housing supply is severely constrained in certain places like San Francisco and New York, the Federal Reserve is unable to satisfy the dual mandate of low inflation and low unemployment at the national level without causing inflationary pressures in places with tight housing markets (ie San Francisco).

Agree or disagree (and I tend to agree), it makes for a great read!

https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
That's incorrect. The government controls most of the US wealth. For starters, the government spends 40% of the GDP. Add to that the value of the military, roads, buildings, schools, etc., and all the land the government owns.
I believe that you can be in tech without a degree (and I know a lot of people who are) but we just posted looking for a new developer and, of course, it says "CS degree required". If you don't have a degree, you have more of an uphill battle if you go the traditional employee route and that is where most of the jobs are.
I like rapid unscheduled disassemblies as a term for things blowing up.
Student loans reinforce existing socioeconomic boundaries.
Effectively, if a student can't afford to pay tuition and living expenses upfront then the cost of a college education is 15-50+% more than for a student who comes from a wealthy family. How is this equal opportunity?
Thanks. Sometimes I forget that people will abuse the intent of a comment to be technically correct.
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> Even for gaming, having your game crash/misbehave because of bit flips is at the very least annoying. But maybe this is uncommon enough that it doesn't make enough difference?

My gaming system with non-ecc memory will run memtest all day long never spotting a single error.

I know these errors can & do happen, but I'm fairly certain the number of crashes I've experienced that would have been prevented using ECC memory is single digits at most.

But ECC being in general slower than non-ECC? Well that's very noticeable.
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Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms
You may want to read those links you posted, since this story does not fall into those well-defined categories. Telling people their statements hold no weight based on false accusations is definitely inflammatory. Me simply pointing that out is certainly not inflammatory. If you follow the HN rules of etiquette, then we can have a productive conversation. If not, then good day to you.
I get the feeling the "open" part was because they were hoping to get it included in OpenBSD like OpenSMTPD, etc.
"Perhaps I am too German to understand this problem, since in Germany, nearly every child is taught by their parents that you should only go into debt if you have really, really good reasons (i.e. almost never, except perhaps for buying a house/flat; and in this case it is a mortgage and not a credit)."

In Germany you typically don't have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for your education like in the US. If you don't have well-off parents you pretty much have to go into debt.
>I think eSports, particularly DOTA2's TI is far, far more relevant to young men than Football at this point and has true global appeal.

To be fair, it is also much muuuuuch cheaper to go and watch a Live match of League/Overwatch/Dota. I went to TI8 and the tickets were $190 for the final 3 days; I even got a cosmetic that I was able to sell for $400 on the steam marketplace. Even comparing a Major LAN event to a Single match of any sport can be a magnitude of difference in terms of price.

Also like you mentioned, the global appeal is crazy strong. I saw so many people from China, South East Asia, South America, Europe and the Middle East at these LANs regardless of venue.

However I do think OWL represent the future which is overly stuffy, no fun allowed, corporate events that are just trying to appeal to advertisers and investors; which is kinda lame. Dota and fighting games still have grassroots feel despite having massive tournaments with hundreds of thousands of viewers.
Isn't moving the goal posts the whole point, though? If we didn't do that then we would declare "mission accomplished" as long as everyone wasn't sleeping on a dirt floor and dying of malaria. Social welfare success should always be a moving target relative to the ability of the society in which it exists to create it.
This is probably a minority opinion, but having acquired two bachelor degrees (one in Computer Science, the other in Business) and a Masters in Cybersecurity, I think it's a fallacy to assume that people coming out of college are educated. Some are, but many are not (yet they still get that piece of paper).

I have now spent the last 10 years studying all kinds of things that I'm interested in, such as philosophy and physics, history, theology (both from a position of belief and disbelief as I've transitioned), and many more. I am now utterly convinced that if our goal is "that this populace still becomes educated" the correct answer is to make information more accessible, lower cost, and more entertaining. I still think there's a place for a traditional college degree, but that place is generally not as training for a career IMHO.
Players actually died all the time when we had leather helmets. This is not a solution.
The history of exploring new frontiers is a history of the desperate and motivated being ruthlessly exploited by the rich and powerful. The justification is usually “they volunteered” and “it’s worth the sacrifice.” Personally I find such arguments unconvincing when the people making them aren’t making the sacrifice.

With our current technology it seems that a trip to Mars would be one-way, and you would die young. You’d hope that means we develop better technology before shipping people out, but again, history seems to suggest otherwise.
This article frustrates me. I suppose the whole debacle of student debt frustrates me. I would fall into what the article labels a "retributive view."

'“I think there’s this assumption that millennials are spoiled, naive, and entitled,” Jen said.'

That's because they often are. Jen racked up $50K of students loans in one year at an Ivy League school. My daughter is finishing up her first year of grad school at a state university, debt free. She works multiple jobs while going to school. It's hard. Sometimes it's really hard. And when she's done she won't have a diploma from an Ivy League school. But she won't have any debt, either.

Jen's case is intentionally special because she had a stroke in the middle of all this. So we can't criticize Jen. We have to sympathize with her. By extension, we are supposed to sympathize with everyone who has racked up student debt.

The cost of a college education is crazy. I agree with that. But the onus for student debt should fall on the debtor. Just like the onus for a car loan so that somebody can drive to work. Or the onus for a mortgage, or credit card debt. You can't repossess an education. When a student defaults, that knowledge and experience can't just be transferred back to the bank. So it is fair that such loans are secured differently than debt on hard assets.

If you don't currently have a cash flow that would allow you to make a $2000/month mortgage payment, don't take out that mortgage. If you don't currently have a cash flow that would allow you to make a $500/month student loan payment, don't take out that loan. If you could afford a $200 monthly payment, find a degree that fits your budget. Try a $3000/semester school instead of a $25000/semester school.

Don't rack up $50K/year and then pretend that you're not entitled.
I mean, I suppose that's comforting in the long term. In 500 years I think everyone alive will be just fine that it happened. But as a human alive and on the planet today, I find it painfully lacking. I mean, I even mentioned in my first post that it would probably be just fine if the consequences for specific subsets of our society weren't so dire.

As an analogy: if you were living in an isolated tribe of 300 people and the smartest 5 people got together and said: "we have an idea! if you give us 50% of the tribe wealth we can make the lives of our great-great grandchildren wonderful. We've done the math and we acknowledge that 60 people will die unnecessarily and 50 families will lead miserable lives for the next few generations... but we're going to do great things!" I would much prefer if someone stood up and said: "how about we do this slowly, live happy lives now, and then our great-great-great grandchildren can live great lives".

As in: what do individuals and small groups of individuals see such need to be the personal figurehead of success in a society, especially at such great costs to those below them? I refuse to accept that it's OK to moralize someone's actions by letting them say "but I'm going to help everyone from my throne." It sounds more like justifying greed and less like benevolence to me.

Also, I'm of the cynical belief that the phrase 'assuming good faith' is a pretty goddamn big assumption.
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Lifelong consumer debt (mortgage, car payment, credit cards, medical debt) is pretty normalized in the US. Even stuff like taking equity out of a house to, say, go on vacation isn't considered shocking.