skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You study arcane subjects year after year, knowing you’ll never use most of what you learned after graduation"

Well, that wasn't true for me, and I'm pretty sure for those in engineering or science, it isn't, but even the history, philosophy, and economics courses I took I recall and use. Even Steve Jobs, who merely audited a class on calligraphy, took a great value from it.

The fundamental flaw of Capland argument, who seems to be pushing this theme for years, is to view education purely in terms of economic benefit. It could simultaneously be true that the vast majority of your salary comes from signalling, but it could also be true that you gained great value from your education. Not everyone who gets an advanced education tries to maximize salary.

Capland's analysis, for example, would completely ignore the value of someone who chose to become a teacher or open source contributor.

Also, by induction, you could apply his argument to high school. Do we have evidence during the industrial revolution where blue collar factory work started to require more than an 8th grade education, that it made any difference besides signalling on salary?

Or, if you look at developing economies, where people often experience significant increases in wages as they move up the industrial ladder, sometimes without even full literacy, but merely from on the job experience. Should we assume education isn't worthwhile if you can't show a correlation between education and wages other than signalling?

One of the frustrating things about these kinds of economic analyses is that they narrowing look at only a sliver of what it is to be a human being, or the potential positive market externalities by having educated population. If we just measure the overall social improvements from the education of women, not in terms of individual wage performance, but in terms of overall health of society itself, it can't be reduced to a micro-analysis.

As a side note, I've seen Bryan's work forwarded within libertarian and right wing forums, in large part, to justify arguments to defund and dismantle support for college, both from a cultural aspect (Colleges seen as liberal/left institutions) but also from a notion that they don't want the government funding it. The fact that he's funded by the Cato Institute raises my suspicion that there's a political angle involved.

Even if you could argue college is not producing economic gains, but merely a signal, one has to look at a future where structural unemployment from automation may make a lot of work unneccessary, period. Do we eliminate education when work is no longer a necessity? Or could it be, that it might be better if people have a lifelong opportunity for intellectual enlightenment, it might be cheaper than funding prisons to house them, or falling back to religious institutions to give humans something to do that has meaning besides straight up consumption.
I got a coursera account and I believe that's good enough for a while for education. I will get a degree as a stamp when situation demands.
That's the general relativity world, not the quantum world. They are different models, which is where these things are being proven.
Can I use my startup for communication if it doesn't use the Internet at all?:
https://github.com/DimaBond174/SpecNet
Recursion should be off that list, or at least it takes "necessarily" to a farther percentage than anything else here. Tons of engineers teach themselves that independently. In high school.
Lemme hijack this opportunity to request someone to make the console I have always fantasized about, as a gamer and a developer:

• TL;DR: Basically an iPad with detachable controllers and open-source OS, SDK, app store and sideloading. OR: Basically a Switch with fewer OS limitations, sideloading and lower barriers to development and publishing.

• Nintendo Switch form factor.

• Capable of connecting to external displays and using wireless controllers, mice and keyboards.

• A semi-multitasking OS, where only one app has screen focus but you can have messaging etc. apps in the background, notification overlays and use a web browser at any time. (I'm mostly thinking of the dear old PS Vita here.)

• A single, centralized app store while still allowing users to run apps downloaded from anywhere else.

• An SDK that lets you write games in the language of your choice (but if we had to choose: Swift, please.)
Are there competitions for this? If not, I think there should be; designing the worst possible, but provably terminating and finite and non cheating (as in the author his definition which I think is a good one) versions of algorithms. The proof has to be provided by the author ofcourse.
Wi-Fi Roaming
This is silly. There is zero reason why Facebook can’t slowly erode whatever features of WhatsApp that don’t conform to the Facebook plan. They own it now.

If you want to make moral stands and gestures, don’t sell out. It’s not that complicated.
Show HN: Swiss German Rant Mugs
Also he probably realised that eventually Facebook would just clone what he’d built and then he would have absolutely no say in how things are done, it’s just to easy too criticise.
C# 7.2 – Let’s talk about readonly structs
> and the WhatsApp founders have more money they can use to influence the world in good ways

Yes, let's hope they start a privacy-centric messenger to fix this mess! I kid, but money is worthless, it's the things it can get that matter - what thing could they get that would better help privacy than being in charge of the top messenger?
That talk is great. It answers all the questions I had coming here.
Some work to raise funds, we work to solve problems
It just doesn't bring anything new. It was obvious it has to work this way, since non-elementar particles can be in superpostion. If we assume that the time is still going for systems that appear to be in superposition for the outside observer, there doesn't seem to be any other explanation other than superposition being relative - the observers in the system still experience time as usual, and the superpostion only exists for the outside observer.
It’s not up to you to decide the validity of speech or opinions, and who gets exposed to what. In a free society this isn’t your call to make.

The benchmark of critical thinking faculties is commonly a political test when it comes to speech, and is a convenient excuse people, and governments use.

Look at Twitter. A bunch of people on all political sides of an issue labeling eachother as evil, dangerous, idiots, etc. No one listening to eachother. Everyone judging eachother, no one is immune from it.

Now give the power to shut down speech to one of those sides and use your litmus test as the basis for qualifying appropriate speech. What do you think is the end result?

Banning speech or ideas is lazy thinking, easy to do and repeatable once accepted as a solution, and most importantly dangerous. Far more dangerous than the idea it’s trying to silence.
At least having to file your own taxes maintains some pretense of financial privacy.
I haven't personally used it so far, but check out mermaid[1] which I bookmarked from a HN[2] discussion

[1] https://mermaidjs.github.io/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16889181
At MIT you can get a degree relatively easily if you make that your goal, but most people don't. I have respect for MIT grads because more often than not that means you have intelligence and work ethic. I've seen very smart people fail to graduate because their work ethic wasn't good enough (I don't think I ever met anyone there that wasn't smart) so having a diploma definitely means more than just attending.
The measurement is itself still in superpostion though. You know it's taken place, but not with what result. It's kind of like quantum eraser.
Daily Mail is a bad newspaper but it's nowhere near being "world's absolute shoddiest sensationalist tabloids". If you don't live in the UK then I think you have no idea how bad many newspapers are in other countries. Specifically the Daily Mail has to abide by the UK press regulation body, which limits its ability to publish fake stories. Try travelling abroad and seeing what some non-UK newspapers are like!
> Maybe Facebook assured him that they wouldn't destroy its privacy

It would be odd/irresponsible if they valued "assurances" in any way (that weren't legally binding)
The minute you take investors money, whether seed, convertible debt, series A, then you are not the only boss anymore. You KNOW you will not be able to be independant and stick it to the man.

That's a very important decision, very early. And once you make it, you can't change it.

The decision to agree to sell to FB was made when they took their first seed money.
Yep, it is more like Yep or Nope, 1 or 0. ;)
Freedom is choice is important because you might decide to base your choice on a property of a photon that originated in a galaxy far away.

If you have no choice, than that property must have been predetermined to have a specific conspiratorial outcome, essentially since the beginning of the universe. Just to make sure you and your friend make compatible measurements.

Without that assumption, every outcome can be explained as due to a highly unlikely conspiratorial setup.
Bristi - then one day while it rained
Use reusable diapers.
It’s so not. It’s conpletely missing what made the early seasons of new Top Gear so magical at times.

Now it is just typical 100% staged reality TV bullshit.
Add https://www.websequencediagrams.com/ to the list :D
Come on, have we really swung so far on the "game is rigged" and "college isn't what it used to be" pendulum that we're acting like college doesn't build useful skills. Before college I had never written a program in my life outside of my TI-83. Coming out of college I was able to secure a full time job at a highly respected software company. They didn't hire me because my program was great (it wasn't that great), but they hired me because I can code well, or at least I like to think so.
It's a breeze in the Netherlands.

I finished filing my taxes two weeks ago, a day after the pre-filled form became available online on the revenue service's website (works in all modern browsers, on all operating systems).

It took five minutes (two incomes, mortgage, bank accounts, all filled in correctly by employers and banks). Most of that time was spent authenticating myself and my partner.

Anyone fighting this in the US should make a bunch of videos showing average people from these countries filing their taxes in the blink of an eye.
Actually, the ATS compiler did beat a couple of specific C++ compilers, to be precise.
Espresso and the Man I Knew
Are they saying that there's no Siri or AirPlay2 integration because the Spotify developers just didn't get around to it yet?
Last I checked the documentation the capabilities of what you can get from Siri were extremely locked down to only a handful of usecases
Watch it. Look at it. Many of us have to deal with this s$$t everyday. When it gets so out of control that it creeps up into your privileged world you want to look away. Don't forget that today's global structure is based on widespread massacres and genocide. This extreme comes from overlooking a racist status quo much like an infestation comes from overlooking the first signs of insects. You look away from your history too. Looking away is not going to change things. I don't care if it makes you feel bad. Its the truth. Deal with it because others have to.
coffee aficionados tend to have lots of random bulky objects in the kitchen anyways. coffee makers,coffee implements, temperature sensors etc etc

it quickly becomes a hassle to stow it all away everytime so you end up chucking it all in one "space"
Chromostereopsis (2002)
Just looked at 8Chan's Twitter account. They've still got the shooter's preferred account image in their header. (The crass Australian wearing a hat).

https://twitter.com/infinitechan?lang=en

8Chan is now blocked in NZ.
How far can one get if he speaks English but neither Estonian nor Russian?
Off topic, but seeing the word "embeddable" in this context reminds me of old Microsoft OLE. It was kind of cool being able to drag an excel table inside an Access form, together with a media player and stuff like that...
The article clearly is pro education. It shows that the system is less so. Example quote:

> Almost everyone pays lip service to the glories of education, but actions speak louder than words. Ponder this: 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.

> You can see the same priorities when students pick their classes. Students notoriously seek out “easy A’s” — professors who give high grades in exchange for little work.

Also, some comments here somehow manage to read into the article that it claims that you don't learn anything. Even just the quote above shows the opposite when the author describes the difference between going to Princeton lectures for free or for a piece of paper. From the second quoted paragraph, which is as testable statement, it seems that in practice education is not the main priority - and I don't see how one could interpret the article in a way that he supports that. It clearly is a criticism of those sad facts.

The author clearly shows what he would like even in just this single sentence alone:

> indeed, the rare, earnestly curious student touches our hearts
Show HN: Pawnbarian, a chess-deckbuilding-roguelike game I made for 7DRL gamejam
Actually, you could "mouse look" in the original game, sort of - in addition to looking left/right, moving the mouse up/down would also move the character forwards/backwards.
It's a weird choice of voice, I reckon. In German, the English word "Billion" translates to "Milliarde", and the English word "Trillion" translates to "Billione".

So, in my head, millions feels closer to billions than billions does. It's weird.
In an office, coffee consumption would be fairly constant, such that you can just buy it on a schedule.
you just leave your coffee bags lying around after you finish making coffee?
Me and a friend we didn't have money but we had a great plan for a company, which already after a year was making a profit. But we needed some investor in the beginning and a friend of my friend just made a lot of money buying and selling a flat in Stockholm and he wanted to invest in us. So he got 51% of the shares and we would get money to start.

We two started the company, started making profits after one year and started growing. It was a great time back then, especially as one of the first companies which could make small iPhone apps for other companies. We had so much to do.

But after some time, I think it was about 2 years after we started, the guy who invested the money needed it back, but because we were growing and invested back into the company we ourselves didn't have the money yet to pay him back. This is when he sold his 51% shares to a guy who nobody of us knew.

Which was the beginning of the end of our company, because in direct contrast, suddenly we weren't in the driving seat anymore but that new guy who had completely different ideas what to do with the company. He also screw us up on a personal level and we hated his guts for that, which didn't help or a professional level. And because he already had more than enough money he started using this company as a way to avoid taxes more than to deliver great products to customers.

We still tried hard, but after 2 years my friend left and shortly after that me and the other two devs too, which left him the sales guys and the accountant.
Don't buy a Mac then. Apple managed to break the build on the latest version.
When wondering what's the point in trying to find bad sort algorithms, I shed a few tears thinking about a few StackOverflow questions in its early days where a programming beginner would ask for basic algorithm implementations and a few mischievous answerers would suggest things like boggle sort.
Are you referring to this? http://perl11.org/blog/seed.html

That's controversial the way climate change is controversial.
Why don't you make a whole container with the weight scale at the bottom?
Smart IoT Coffee Container...?
In a word, yes. A proper answer requires a long essay with a ton of context, so I'd rather direct you to a good and quite up-to-date book on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Insurgent-Supremacists-Rights-Challen...
You make a couple of very good points. And your right, if it were that simple they hopefully would have described it that way.

In general pitch trim runaway incidents are easiest to control at low speeds. It gives you more aircraft configuration options available to try and reduces the aero loads general.

But perhaps they were just not ruling out either.
So they believe.
It's the YIMBY developers that are destroying mobile home parks here, including the two closest to me right now (on El Camino near Poplar, and the former Blue Bonnet complex at Fair Oaks and Evelyn).
Joined a code base and all I see are bugs ( eg. Casting bugs are easy to find) + logic errors.

I think good programming is how much wtf/ minute you have, when you read the source.

I'm normally easy to talk to, but I'm having difficulty for that now because:

- fixing a simple bug leads to a rabbit hole of fixing bugs.

- no seperation. Something can influence something everywhere. It's nuts, eg. A text explanation on a enum ( state) has been added in the businesslayer and transformed 3 times before it reaches the frontend. ( I removed all those texts to show only on the view with the appropriate conditionals)

- code is unreadable -> too much time spend in debugging

- a bug was fixed when it did something wrong, instead of looking for the root of the problem. So actually fixing a bug correctly creates a new bug, because it has already been fixed 2 times on different places. Just the root case was never fixed before.

- ...

All in all, solving a bug is tedious. Fixing it the right way, creates so much bugs, because previous workarounds for probably the same/similar bug everywhere around.

I'm pretty sure that good programming leads to better communication.

And bad programming leads to a clusterfuck of problems
Everyone is on WA and i prefer it too, but I still need their mobile number, so it's more for close friends/family. I communicate with some coworkers i hang out with on Messenger because i haven't bothered to ask them for their number yet. However, i have definitely reduced my FB usage to an absolute minimum, which is mostly a couple of bigger groups I am part of. Instagram is kind of limited as a messenger.
At the end of the day, be it FB, WA, IG ...it is still FB your giving your data to ;)
you just spent a minute typing out a list of problems that could be solved by their product? stocking,having to vary orders based on usage(that you can't track but very well could with this product)

also juicero didn't "make" juice it just pushed it out of a bag into a glass, this is doing actual analytics and inventory management.
Hyperbolic non sense.

Child porn is illegal and has a clear legal definition. We don’t argue as a society over what is or isn’t child pornography. We don’t look at puppy videos and complain to others that it’s child pornography.

We do have people simply express discomfort with how our government behaves, legitimate concerns with immigration, civil rights, or other aspects of society, blanket labeled as nazi’s or extremists and banned from online forums.

It’s dangerous, and it’s being used as an excuse to shutdown speech and information now, specifically more and more to one side of the debate.

So he asked a legitimate question.

Define nazi, because much like labeling people as communists simply because they want better access to healthcare, these terms are being used fast and loose these days to describe anyone someone else may politically disagree with, even when it bears no resemblance to the person being labeled.
I don't really see how the article title is misleading when you view it as a play on the classic wisdom of the crowds model. Moderate polarisation creates more diverse opinions which makes the Wikipedia pages better because they present a wider array of arguments.
FYI, there is a mature implementation of this idea called YieldProlog.
I'll give it a try at defining the author's intuition of "doesn’t cheat" in the sense that it is always "making real progress". I'll define it as every intermediate value that is generated in the computation is eventually consumed. If a function, say, computes Ackermann(5,5) and throws away the result and then starts the actual sorting process, then the Ackermann(5,5) is unused and would be considered cheating. In a sense we can draw a data-flow diagram of the computation and everything has at least one outgoing edge, except perhaps the final output.
I've always been a fan of "Waffles House," as in "passersby" and "inspectors general."
When Pagerduty calls me, it's because I've missed the push, email, and SMS notifications. The phone ringing gets my attention but I usually hang it up and open the app.

If I'm driving, secondary oncall can get it.
Yes, I know. But if you want to tell YC they don't get their pro rata (or practically speaking, convince the founder to tussle with them over that), have fun. I've seen them not budge even when it makes the founder's life much harder as they struggle to balance the pretty typical ownership requirements of new money.
Often when people [0] discuss the difficulty of writing linked lists in Rust compared to C++, they mean intrusive linked lists.

These are still very difficult in Rust. I've heard pinning being stabilized makes them possible safely, but I haven't looked further.

[0]: At least, when I was starting Rust, this is what I would mean when I complained about linked lists.
Mainly the syllabus and being told what to ignore.
Get History’s Best Letters Mailed to Your Door
That seems like, in many cases, reducible to finding the biggest number, and then using that number in some way in the algorithm.
This is about 10x larger than i would call a few lines :)
Sounds like all the company had is people and your expertise. Why didn't you quit and create a new company with the same people?

Also, knowing what you know now, would it be better to sell the whole company when your investor wanted an exit? Or what you think you should've done?
IIUC, for typical programs, most of Rust compilation time is spent waiting for LLVM to spit out results.

There's a plan to use https://github.com/CraneStation/cranelift for debug builds instead of LLVM, which would make them faster at the cost of supporting fewer targets, and producing worse code.
That is an oversimplification, very often you know something that cannot be expressed in the types, so escape hatch (cast/unsafe) are useful.
That said, if you can wrap around these 'hack' in a 'sane' API, then it's OK if you canno/didn't the result is quite ugly..
Me either, I mean I pay for Netflix and Intellij out of my own pocket (even though I use the latter at work) but when it comes to SaaS I just multiply the monthly price by 12 and think "hah, no thanks".

I've no issues with paying for a SaaS but it has to provide value and this for me doesn't.
It is not really all that different from the later Top Gear Seasons though.
It's not a good inference from the employer's perspective that he is skillwise almost the same. The dropout happened for a reason, i.e. he was not on track to meet the degree requirements, which at least creates doubt about the underlying skill.
Hopefully also addressing the question: is HN an internet echo chamber, and how do you tell?