skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That starts at $60,000 (CAD) and it's not clear what kind of experience is necessary to waive the requirements for an undergraduate degree. They say that experience + unrelated undergraduate degree (with excellent grades) can be sufficient. I'm not sure that 6 years as a front-end developer will cut it.

I'm still not sure whether that degree alone (without a bachelor's degree) is sufficient to get a work visa in the US (they generally ask for a 4-year degree).
What's the point of filing then? It sounds like absolutely critical data.
This article doesn't spell anything out very well.

The anti-facebook audience is very engaged .. so it's a profitable topic to publish content on, and media companies like NY Times directly compete with Facebook for advertising spend, so they kind of have an incentive to try to attack Facebook.

Facebook has plenty of legitimate things it can be criticized for, as well.
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The example here: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/developer-guide.html?hi...

suggests that serializability is violated when atomic ops are mixed with regular ops on the same key.

Note that transaction pipelining in Calvin does not have this issue.
The main problem is that students in the US are insanely busy. The curriculum is substandard no matter where you go. In the future, I’m hoping to see more individual studying encouraged by the school. It’s a good skill to pick up, esp considering skills might age faster.

Classes are a waste of time, out of the 1.5 hrs, there’s maybe 20 minutes of content.

Teachers tend to be full of themselves and incompetent.

Professors are busy with research, grants etc. curricula tends to be out of date.

God when I think about the shit I could have done in the 16 years that I spent in school I legit want to puke.

But the worst people are the administrators. I’m yet to see a single school administrator make a rational decision. This is particularly apparent in the responses to school shootings. Yeah, make it more like prisons, thats are gonna help. Also the prevalence of women in school administration is not good for the male school population, they make decisions that tend to ignore certain gender differences.

Don’t even get me started on the idiocy that is school athletics.
So thankful organizations like the EFF exist. If you work for a FAANG please take the Santa Clara Principles to heart and push them up through your ranks.
Any other ideas on what "could be the better tool"? I haven't really used plantuml or one of the couple of others like memraid or flowchart other than playing around with them, but my dream tool in that arena is something that has the same accessibility (`->` and other minimal notation) but to drive more of the note taking process like I have on paper. I think it would be great to be able to right justify or write on both sides of the same line or otherwise position text or wrap it in a box like can be easily done in a tool like OneNote(or my notebook) but driven entirely by the keyboard. If there were something like markdown but for text positioning rather than styling.

It seems to me that a keyboard driven OneNote would be fantastic. I already do a lot of writing in my vim/markdown setup because folding is so useful. I just want more mindmap style control, or the ability to define my own notations. On paper I often comment or converse with ideas on the right third of the page, and I should be able to do that with a `<` denotation just like markdown does blockquote with `>`.
I keep coming back to it too. I would love for some more control on layout but it works for simpler diagrams
Is there any throughput performance numbers published?
And even if not, it never hurts to double check.

Certainly not hurting anyone to publish a "repetitive" paper. Worst thing that happens is more people have a chance to hear about it.
I don't know about this case, it wouldn't surprise me either way. Borg is certainly old, probably pre 2008. The same story as Mr/Hadoop wouldn't surprise me.
It's an arms race tainting a lot more than education. Hopefully we can UBI + healthcare a détente.
It's a sensitive topic that gets some people really riled up, but essentially it doesn't offer the protection people think it does.
> give notice to users who’ve had something removed about what was removed, under what rules; and

The reason nobody actually does this, is because bad actors will use this as a unit test, to figure out how to get bad content onto your system.

When you are trying to build a secure websystem, the common advice from the tech community is to deny all invalid, unauthorized, malformed requests - with a generic "Request failed" page. Don't give the attacker any information that they can use to understand your system.

In the same breath, that same community completely disregards this best practice when it comes to social security.
Why didn't you drop out then?
The magnetic drift affects the entire globe. Whether the phenomenon exists elsewhere depends on how common building walls along magnetic compass lines has historically been. I wouldn't be surprised if it were more prevalent in colonial America. Much of Eurasia was divided up earlier, and much of the rest of the world later. This is pure speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if the window of "compass-driven surveying" was brief. Likely the author just focused on his neighborhood, though.
Haha, that isn’t how I saw it.

That’s a sad bookending :(
Have you even used it? According to my tests Go is quite well optimized. It beats most languages at prime number crunching/array push/map set.
These routes are configurable using Prometheus.
> Researchers consistently find that most of education’s payoff comes from graduation, from crossing the academic finish line.

Not even. Just being able to show that you "went" to Harvard is a powerful enough of a signal. You can join, drop out immediately after, start a startup, fail, an then likely end up somewhere really prestigious anyway.
Admissions based on standardized test scores ONLY. Make colleges co-sign loans. Fixed it.
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The issue is one of scale.

Engaging with anyone who is troubled/hurt (esp men) is not a simple thing. Engaging with them, when they are in a troubled environment (full of ever increasing negative triggers), surrounded by or in daily contact with other misguided folk is even more complicated.

Just think about it. Say there are N troubled people in your family. And for one reason or another, none of them have access to the right mental healthcare. But instead, they have unlimited access to ever growing signals from the media/social media/internet etc that reinforce their fears, anger, distrust etc. What are your options?

Until you are able to get them all access to high quality mental health care, the only other option is to reduce the negative signals they receive.

There are many reasons whey high quality mental health care infrastructure and access doesn't exist. That's the main issue here. Not free speech.
A certain number of shares of stock are set aside for you. When they "vest", that means you get them.

The vesting schedule varies, but probably the most common arrangement is that you get 1/4 of the shares per year for the next 4 years. Often you get nothing until you've been there for a year, then get a whole year's worth of stock in one big lump sum, and then get smaller amounts more frequently thereafter.

In the US, the stock is taxed as ordinary income on the day you get it. If its price goes up before you sell it, you also pay capital gains tax on the change in price that happened while you were holding it. (I sell all my stock immediately on general principle, so my capital gains taxes are tiny.)
Brokerages are required to report sales of securities and cost basis information to the IRS when you sell. The IRS already has information about your capital gains and can fill out that part of the return as well.
> The reason nobody actually does this, is because bad actors will use this as a unit test, to figure out how to get bad content onto your system.

The real reason nobody does this is because it requires a human in the system. And humans cost money. And, if your transaction cost isn't high enough, you can't pay for that human.

This is the real reason why none of these services will do anything about this.
Not required, but recommended :)
Indeed, especially as the US legal system gives strong protections in this area. For instance, if you sell illegal narcotics you’re required to buy tax stamps from your local tax office. Due to the illicit nature of the transactions, they have to sell them to you in total anonymity. The IRS only cares about receiving your taxes, not snitching, and there’s no reason for this to change.
Globally or in Silicon Valley (and other tech hotspots)? It's common knowledge among experienced founders (or even just people who read a bunch of startup blogs) in Silicon Valley - that's why people raise "a round" of fundraising instead of just going to a single VC.

In areas that aren't startup hotspots I can certainly see that dynamic, but this is why people move to the Bay Area for fundraising.
In my experience, teachers are competent. It's just that their main competence is teaching those who are unmotivated and unwilling to learn, so those who are willing mostly get neglected. It makes perfect sense if you think about it.
More culture in Miami than San Francisco.
The HN user peteretep got onto the M.Sc. without an undergraduate degree which is how I first heard of it. There’s no reason to believe you can’t get in. His email is in his profile.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=peteretep

> However, more extensive experience may compensate for a lack of formal qualifications, and a strong, immediately-relevant qualification may compensate for a lack of professional experience.

You have the “more extensive experience”.

I would be surprised if a Master’s degree did not suffice in place of a Bschelor’s. I doubt you would be asked to submit the latter if you submitted the former. To be certain you could spend one or two hundred dollars on a consultation with an immigration lawyer.

If you really want a US Bachelor’s degree go to

https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/

They will be more than happy to tell you how you can get a legitimate, regionally accredited US Bachelor’s degree in under one year. It involves doing many, many tests like CLEP, AP, DSST etc. and using job experience to get proof of prior learning before eventually matriculating at a university willing to accept a great deal of transfer credit.
Since the article says the same thing happens in high school, it seems incredibly likely that your solution is not actually a solution and would have no impact.
Do note that Go also heavily uses reflection (from what I recall) for parsing json, so it can be a bit slower than one would expect.
Technologies like online education would crush the existing education system if the playground is fair. Unfortunately the latter has public funding in it and prevents the society from moving forward.
The usual complaint about wealthy families buying college access is explicitly standardized test prep courses and tutors.
There are presumably other colonies where prior property boundaries, if they existed, we're ignored.
Why no video?
Yes, but Harvard etc is super special snowflake exception.
What's new with facebook?

Just leaving this here:
https://coincircle.com/l/50VVxbObg3
Standardized test is still better than alternatives for reducing poor-rich gap.
But.. they're a development agency! Right?
You're aware that people can pay other people to take their tests for them, perhaps?

Add on the difference between the scores of people who can afford to pay for tutors and the scores of people who can't, and you'll begin to see the problem.
“If a student wants to study at Princeton, he doesn’t really need to apply or pay tuition. He can simply show up and start taking classes. As a professor, I assure you that we make near-zero effort to stop unofficial education; indeed, the rare, earnestly curious student touches our hearts. At the end of four years at Princeton, though, the guerrilla student would lack one precious thing: a diploma. The fact that almost no one tries this route — saving hundreds of thousands of dollars along the way — is a strong sign that students understand the value of certification over actual learning“

Isn’t this how Steve Jobs treated college? And “Apple” was his “diploma”?
The parent post was talking about the UK. CGT requires a tax filling (if you have CGT in excess of the tax free allowance).
Has anyone seen a framework for companies to screen emotional skills such as resilience, drive and internal motivations for candidates and have done it well?
> The IRS doesn’t know how many kids live with you

They can guess based on the prior year, which generally only changes during two years per kid. If they're wrong, you correct it on the form and send it back.

> what you pay in mortgage interest

Your mortgage lender files form 1098 with the IRS with interest you've paid. The IRS already knows this.

> and whether you’re still married to your spouse

Same as the kid situation. They guess based on the prior year, and if you've gotten married or divorced recently, you correct it on the form and send it back.

All of these issues are either not issues, or are trivially worked around.
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s3 is really good - the car reviews are back, the panoramic views and cinematic genius of top gear is back.
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For me, it's really sad to see animals in that high density scenario as shown in the video. I'm not a plant based eater but I do feel myself getting pulled in that direction as time goes by.
My point is that signaling works without any sort of coursework. The instant you make it into Stanford, you're a Stanford kid, which puts you into an elite group of desirable employees.

And of course these colleges are special snowflakes, they wouldn't be signals otherwise. Nobody cares if you went to a community college down the street, it associates no household name with you.
South Korea actually kinda does this (your university depends on one single test), and the results aren’t that pretty...
So you added to the demand for this otherwise mediocre product (education), and then wonder why the product quality isn't better? I think it is just supply-demand economics.
The bottom level tends to be basic Arduino shields that just switch power, but don't have a current limiting controller. Those need digital signal lines to tell them when to step. They waste a lot of power and can't be used with larger motors.

The next step up is a current limiting stepper motor driver.[1] These can handle more voltage and current, and have the sensing to avoid burning themselves out. You still have to provide pulses for each step. Go for at least this level. Stepper motors use considerable power when stopped, and you need current limiting on all but the tiniest motors. Otherwise you get to choose between overheating and too weak.

Next are drivers and controllers on the same board. These accept commands over USB, I2C, or a few other data paths, and take care of operating the motor.[2] If you're not into really low level programming, this makes life simpler.

[1] https://www.pololu.com/product/2968
[2] https://www.pololu.com/category/212/tic-stepper-motor-contro...
The surface level free-speech argument is beaten to death. Yes, we know free-speech is important. We fight hard for it because it is important. Speech is incredibly powerful.

We know speech causes material changes to the world, that is why we fight so hard for to protect that freedom. So lets move the conversation forward, to the material changes this rise in anti-intellectual, conspiracy minded, anti-science free speech crusaders are attempting to cause--what world are they attempting to create by using powerful speech?

Let's not be disingenuous and pretend these types of speech should be brushed away as if they don't matter, as if speech is harmless, as if it has no impact on the world. We know it has impacts, that is why we fight to protect speech.

Speech can't be both powerful enough to protect and simultaneously meaningless to the point that no one should be concerned. We can't say "Speech is the most important thing we have." and then turn around and say "Oh, its just words, ignore it, snowflake." We can't have it both ways. If we protect speech because of it's power, then targets of hate speech have a right to be upset when it takes aim at them. If we protect speech because it is powerful, then we all have a right to be concerned with the enormous rise in anti-science or just plain bad information masquerading as science. Speech matters, we have a right to be pissed when it's used for nefarious purposes or used carelessly--it is not meaningless, it is powerful.
Not sure what your point is; this is a thread about tax filing in the US, and the parent was comparing it to the UK. You, referencing capital gains tax, were (I assume) referring to the US? So was I.
I just checked again and it was Firefox. Opening in feh gave me the right colors
Who defines the terms "Nazis" and "terrorists", who defines who to ban? Is it the original "Nazi" definition, or some modern diluted definition where the number of Nazis has skyrocketed? Do we allow content from "freedom fighters" and "rebels"?
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South Korean here. The reason this continues is that while it may not be pretty, everyone agrees it is a lot better than what came before.
I wish I could upvote you 100 times! The idea that this could scale out to a bunch of different household products seems absolutely insane. I can only think of a handful of items that we keep “in stock” in our kitchen and only a fraction of those that have a distinct placement in my kitchen. It just seems like so much hassle to knoll all my food items to make sure they are tracked correctly. I can’t even begin to imagine my wife going along with this and we have a young child who is just discovering how to get things from cabinets and the fridge so this is just a nonstarter. It feels like I would spend a good amount of my time just making sure every food item was exactly in the right spot.
Also the main students have very little say in this.
Maybe for the elite. But for middle class people like myself, I developed marketable skills, secured multiple internships, and found it easy to get a full-time job straight out of school. I had about a years worth of industry experience via internships (one for 6 months, two others 3 months each).

Signaling doesn't buy you much. At least in engineering, because a technical interview will sort out whether or not you actually demonstrate basic programming skills very quick.

Software Engineering is a notable exception, most other fields don't quiz as part of the job interview process: soft skills and credentials or state licenses or bar exams are relied upon more heavily. Maybe signaling matters more in these fields? Again, signaling is no measure of real skill.

Obviously, like most people I'm upset about the pay-to-play scheme but in reality very, very few people choose that option. 99.9%+ of applications are not pay-to-play, so we should still hold a good deal of faith in our higher education system. It is imperfect and has many issues, but this article title is broadly incorrect about the purpose of higher education today.

edit:

> Researchers consistently find that most of education’s payoff comes from graduation, from crossing the academic finish line. The last year of high school is worth more than the first three; the last year of college is worth more than double the first three. This is hard to explain if employers are paying for acquired skills; do schools really wait until senior year to impart useful training?

My first company that hired me out of college got a much better deal waiting for me to complete my senior year. Yes, each year isn't worth the same. This makes sense. Senior year was my capstone -- building valuable communication skills in a team environment. Year 1? I was finishing the basics of CS 101. Of course the last year is worth more than the first.

Would you pay 50% the price for a half-finished version of Microsoft Word? Probably not. It'd be far less useful of a piece of software.
They're not being honest about it. They're hiding behind disingenuous claims that the government preparing a first-cut tax return for us would be exploitative of the American people.
The voight kompff test is still in beta. People change over time and have complex motives which change in different environments. For instance, I know I work harder when my coworkers are more personally friendly, but generally despise work-related social events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check#Standa... suggests that Castagnoli has better "error detection capacity". What that means exactly (in terms of information theory) and whether that difference matters in practice is getting beyond my expertise level. In any case, existing formats like Zip are what they are, and as I mentioned in the blog post comments, it is still possible to SIMD-accelerate the IEEE flavor.
No, community college diploma is a strong signal compared to no diploma. You seem too preoccupied by concerns of top few percent.
Standardized testing is horribly broken in multiple ways and relying on it heavily also destroys the quality of education. Moreover, if you'd read anything about this latest scandal you'd understand how much it's possible to game standardized testing.
This can probably be grouped with the "poor advice in this thread"
Yes, Software Engineering is a super special exception that does not apply anywhere else.
Not really - this sorta thing is only the beginning - you roll over on a thing like comp and you'll get rolled again and again. Either get it fixed, or get out.
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it is not only operating cost but also costs for licensing.
So much of this thread is just people working off the assumption a bonus is part of your comp.

Its not. It's a bonus. If it's part of what you think of as your comp, you got shafted during negs when you got hired.
Free speech absolutists love talking about unfettered free speech as being a universal good, without ever providing evidence. Has there ever been a society without any limits on speech anywhere in human history? How do we prevent people with limited cognitive and critical thinking skills, including those who are young and immature, from being influenced by malicious actors?

It's telling that even in the "land of the free" members of certain groups are proscribed from expressing their vilest and most murderous ideas without heavy-handed state intervention (to the point that some have been killed by drones for doing so), while other groups openly flaunt similar ideas, and hide behind "free speech" when anyone dares to criticize them.
yUML creator here.

Think I know what you're saying. That said, there are many people using a command line wrapper to generate yUML diagrams as part of an automated workflow.

The paid features are more for people who want better management of diagrams.
Do you see the contradiction in saying that school was easy and pointless, and simultaneously saying it kept you from doing things? It sorta has to be one or the other.

The blatant sexism is also a problem.
The article title is misleading. It is about the wisdom of diversity in well refined arguments. People tend to magnify their stupidity and ignorance in groups to achieve confirmation bias as the beginning of the article eludes.
What sexism?

No, you are required to pay attention, and therefore unable to do something more productive.
I thought you made these headlines up to show how the same news might hypothetically be presented by different outlets and thought you got them pretty spot on. Then I saw the sources. What a sad world we live in.
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