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>the former closely aligns the incentives of the educator with the educated

Do you think the school cares if you pay them using a federal student loan vs a group of private investors making payments on your behalf?

How does one align the incentives of the school with students any more than the other?

The only alignment of interests the school has with the students is when the student has a rich parent who could be a donor or the student is a super athlete that can measurably impact the school revenue as an unpaid student athlete.
"- You want to work a certain way (remote, on the beach, whatever) and they are willing to go this route."

for this you have a much better chance at an established small company that doesn't need crazy growth. From what I see most startups prefer putting everybody into a big bullpen.
Seeing a black hole with half a ton of hard drives
If the point you are trying to make is:

1) loans should be dischargeable via bankruptcy so that
2) lenders refuse to make such large loans so that
3) tuitions are forced down

Then I think that's a perfectly fine point of view (as I already said above). It's just important to be clear about it and not simply say that loans should be dischargeable with the expectation that everything else will stay more-or-less the same.

Making this change would have an enormous impact on how higher education in the US functions.
Correct! Even something as simple and obvious as '.api' is not a TLD.
Securely contacting the authoritative servers from a recursive resolver under my control instead of relying on some big corporation.

Currently DoH or DoT are only used and designed with the goal[0] to secure stub resolver <-> recursive resolver traffic. Someone has to operate that recursive resolver and you have to trust them. So you only shift the problem from having to trust your ISP to having to trust cloudflare/google/etc.

Dnscurve is intended to secure the recursive resolver <-> authoritative traffic, which means you don't have to rely on another party to secure your traffic. I guess dns over dtls could in principle fill the same role, albeit with more overhead.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8484#section-1
Not many things are so urgent they can't wait until the following day. But if something like that did come up, you could just leave at your regular time and continue working at home to fix the problem.
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Been looking for a decent notebook, but I do wish this one didn't say bullet journal on the front.
For a interpreter targeted at small/embedded devices, it would be interesting to see the ROM/RAM usage.
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This is great, it's data science for any user.
Ceph. Although it's slightly upside down with it's block / objects semantics (and as such, you don't exactly get the namespaced append-only semantics of Colossus), and doesn't depend on an excellent separate BigTable-like and Chubby-like layer underneath, instead rolling their own.
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Sean Caroll has a great podcast, mindscape [0]. One of the recent episode featured Kip Thorne as a guest and had some great discussions about Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar [1]. It's a very informative and entertaining podcast, I recommend it.

[0] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/

[1] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/11/26/epis...
I understand the different goals part, but it would be nice if these technologies could run on other BSDs (and Linux). bhyve and vmm are exclusive to FreeBSD and OpenBSD respectively AFAIK.
The weird thing is that this state of affairs (a) doesn't save investors very much dilution.

Meanwhile, (b) options do a much poorer job of motivating/recruiting employees, (c) an even worse job of aligning interests and (d) the risk/downsides aren't reduced at all.

If stock "values" start to drop, it can really make a company feel like a sinking ship. That's the risk of equity sharing. They can make bad times worse. This happens no matter how distant/unlikely a liquidity event is.

The solution has been mentioned all over this thread: make them liquid somehow.

Alternatively, stop doing options and do something else instead. Aren't startups supposed to be breaking conventions and being creative?

I agree this Steve B's implication, the average stock option scheme is a vestigial artefact. Unless you're in a position (and of a mind) to negotiate terms, it's a checkbox.
Sometimes a problem that affects you is outside your immediate ownership, and the right answer is to escalate and seek to fix it. If you limit yourself to only considering changes that your immediate team can make on its own without consulting others, you're doing your organization a disservice.
I am not trying to throw cold water on this, but I have some questions.

This ted talk has a very basic explanation of how they constructed this image. I was curious if anyone with image interpolation experience could weigh in on the method. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7n2rYt9wfU

When she first starts explaining their method around 8:00m in, I was initially very skeptical of this result because she said that they feed images of what we "think" a black hole should look like and use algorithms to compare the captured data with those images.

She then goes into explaining the measure they take to keep the resulting image from being biased by passing environmental images and images of other astronomical anomaly to make sure that those images return similar results.

But I can't for the life of me figure out how passing non-stellar imagery could return something similar. And if it does, why do we need to feed it an example of what we think it should look like at all?
It contributes to a lack of social mobility, which is correlated with some negative things. It's likely a cause of reduced happiness in populations, among other things.
I wish the reality of our economy was talked about more. Without benefiting from the wealth of our parents, we'd be very poor indeed.

Most people I know are being supported in some way by their parents.

Maybe the United States should have a discussion about why most of us our getting poorer. If the American dream is to live better than your parents, then that dream is dead.
> but broadly speaking world governments expect America to take care of business.

This is only true of Japan, who as part of the WW2 reconstruction, agreed to draw up a pacifist constitution and receive protection from the US against threats in the Cold War era.

Asian leaders have "taken care of" plenty of business using US training, money and technology. Sukarno's regime in Indonesia killed 500k-1000k people alone in anti-communist purges in 1965-66. Back in those days, you could say the words "they'll nationalize the oil fields" and the US would come-a-runnin'.
I'm a 22 year old immigrant to Canada.
Moved there when I was 13.

Starting grade 10 I started working, I paid my phone bill, transportation and most other expenses (except of course food and room)

I have worked my way through university, bought a car, and will graduate with $20k in student loans that will vanish once I get my sign-on bonus in two months while making more that 2x of my whole household combined. It's very much possible to move up the social ladder in my eyes.

Am I a low life? What should I feel indebted about.

I'm grateful for their support of my life path, but most people don't have the privilege of living cozy lives.
They account for it even if it doesn't exist. I got screwed on financial aid (before the FAF and the other one were merged into FAFSA - it was a long time ago), because the amount was predicated on a much higher parental contribution than actually materialized (due to health costs). Not only that, but a far higher percentage of that total was work-study instead of grants.

I mention that not to gripe but to warn people, and to highlight the fact that differences in parental support really matter. I already see several people trying to minimize this by saying it's not new, they got plenty of support Back In The Day and so did their friends. Well, good for you. Not everybody did. It was a symptom of inequity then, and it's a symptom of inequity now. Enjoy your privilege, and hope that your children appreciate theirs.
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This may be true, but I don't want MS having ANY say on what goes into a Linux or FreeBSD OS. None. They have an agenda that doesn't fit in well with FOSS. May no mistake about it, driving everything so that it works with Azure/VS, whatever, is about staying relevant in a world that is largely leaving them behind. Short of having to write PS at work (required), I haven't run anything MS at home since 1998 and have no need to do so. EEE is alive and well. Ask why they want *nix compatibility so bad. To extend their hegemony into everything. There is nothing MS offers that I need. Nothing. I'm about to set up a shop for some people that is completely and utterly MS free. Cost will be only the HW. No software license costs. Freedom to do whatever. No stupid, arbitrary concurrent connection limits. FOSS all the way.
Are you just asking for a software capable of playing the right notes from a written piece?
OP wasn't talking about funding the school via federal student loans, but instead via taxes which is why the inequality in my comment said "tax funded" and not "loan funded."
It's only a problem in that before this was an accepted and expected practice and now people in this situation are looked down upon for needing help. I say it all the time, Americans have not acknowledged that the rules have changed and the conditions that led to prosperity for the previous generation no longer exist in the same quality and quantity for today's young people.
Github's has also become a haven for starred repositories gamed from China.
What's "valid" isn't a matter of immutable natural law. Clearly there are some contributors to startups---founders and early investors---who demand and get low-probability, high-reward financial bets that can, albeit probably won't, pay off big. Whether that bet is available to others, and to what extent, is a matter of choice.

If you've got something valuable to offer, and want founder-like exposure to risk and reward, negotiate a founder-like equity package. If they won't give it to you, it's not because they're a startup. It's because they're unwilling to give it to you. Perhaps they don't think you're worth it. Perhaps they just don't want to share the pie like that.
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Sure companies are worth more in 10-12 years. But when VCs are managing 7 year funds, their LPs may require returns sooner.

I'm surprised this article didn't mention Investors ability to simply hold shares post-IPO. Leave it to the LP pension managers to decide how much upside they want to risk.
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I'm working on an article about neurodiversity and why I think the forces of capitalism, technology, and complex cascading social dynamics are increasing its dispersion. I.e., breadth is going up (extremes getting more extreme) and variance (less of the population is close to the mean).

That "Technology is Heroin" might be true at the immediate level, but the real question is what are the secondary effects. Evolution doesn't require fitness in a physical sense, but in an algorithmic (survival and reproduction) sense, which technology enables if you have the money to pay for it.

If anyone else is looking into this, please reach out.
Computer Vision is a somewhat outdated course that gives a good foundational set of knowledge in the field.

It's run completely by the TAs, it does have one project at the end that allows the students to explore a bit outside of the basics.

That's the only one in that specialty I've taken so far.
I have two reason to like DoH: public wifi blocking sites and ISPs blocking sites. I understand that it is "wrong" from the perspective of a network stack, but for my use case that is far from being even a weak issue.
That's a great point. You're absolutely right.

For context, initially HackerNews was a site for startups, so the topics were generally along the lines of "using tech to make something people want" (People will debate what the site was about. I came here for startup stuff 2-4 months after it started. Ask PG)

Later on it switched to the more generic "Things hackers are interested in" (Once again, I'm generalizing)

So at the time, we were all swimming around in the question "How do we build things that people use a lot?" After a few years of that, I started wondering what would happen if we got what we wanted -- people using our stuff a lot without, perhaps, being able to look back years later and feel like they had spent their time wisely.
I mean technically you are correct, but usually when people talk about performance, they are considering the recreational qualities of the car. most people don't buy fast cars to shave fractions of a second off accelerating to 35mph.
Phew!

Now for the mystery of “the the” which I sometimes encounter...
After having said that, I did a bit more research into how the image was made. I am of course reserving judgement as I don't fully understand the underlying technology. But it sounds like they used an interpolation algorithm to come up with the image based on renderings of what we "think" a black hole should look like. This high level overview from a ted talk goes into how they 'unbias' the data. But it is obviously on a very basic overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7n2rYt9wfU
Mind you, that's a JPG you are editing, so in the 8 bit sRGB color space. That means manipulations can lead to errors and illusions due to the color space being non-linear and clipped[0].

The original data was likely linear and at a much higher precision. If the source was a 16 bit linear grayscale PNG for example you could be much more assured you're not seeing the effects of JPG compression and things that were actually measured.

EDIT: Found better sources:

16-bit sRGB PNG: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/files/eht/files/20190410-7...

180 MiB original TIFF: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1907a/

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKnqECcg6Gw
Perhaps consider this: "VLBI allows the EHT to achieve an angular resolution of 20 micro-arcseconds — enough to read a newspaper in New York from a sidewalk café in Paris [6]."

What's surprising about this image is how utterly microscopic the thing is that was observed - from our location. The width of the event horizon is 40 billion kilometers. That's only 267x the diameter of our orbit around the Sun. But the M87 black hole is 26,000 light years away. 26,000 light years is 2.45979e+17 km, or 639,903,746,098 times farther away than the moon.
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the end of each page washes out and isnt readable
Right, it's like the joke the General Motors is a pension and health care bureaucracy with a car-making division. That yes, GM's core business is (rightly regarded as) car-making, but the financial flows related to that other stuff are so big as to dwarf the "car thing".
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There is a skill to asking for help and it is much deeper than the single question "how often". One key to the skill is a mindset where you recognise that you are delegating a task and therefore should try to set your answerer up for success.

* What type of attention do you need? An answer to a specific question? A pair-debugger? A 20-minute walkthough of an area of the codebase? Feedback on a design? A sounding board to talk though a tough problem? A pointer to the best person to ask? It is important to give this to someone so that they can manage their attention.

* Why are you trying to do what you're working on? This is important so that they can frame the task in their head and can be creative in helping you.

* What have you tried before? what is your understanding of the problem? This is important both to establish trust that you respect their time but more importantly to give them space to spot your misunderstanding.

Julia Evans has written two really good blog posts on this topic and you should read both: https://jvns.ca/blog/good-questions/ and https://jvns.ca/blog/answer-questions-well/
ScyllaDB, which is basically a C++ Cassandra reimplementation, which in turn borrows a lot of design ideas from BT.
Already watched the video, thanks. However in his example the disk is not perpendicular to the viewer so the beaming makes more sense there I think.

On the other hand, "almost exactly from the top" is not the same as "exactly from the top".
The USS Wasp [1] is the flagship of Task Force 76 [2], "the USN's only permanently forward-deployed Expeditionary Strike Group" [3][4] according to Wikipedia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wasp_(LHD-1)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_76

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expeditionary_Strike_Group

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibious_ready_group
At some point in my career I discovered - to my horror - that I was learning as much or more new tech at consulting gigs than I did as a salaried employee. Even, I daresay, when I was working at startups.

When I pointed this out to people they didn't believe me. So it turned into a bit of a troll for me to say "yeah I'm going to go consult for a while to build up my skillset" and then watch their eyebrows do gymnastics.

You might assume, as I did, that they hire contractors who already know everything. They hire people with a reasonable skill in a couple areas they don't possess. But to actually contribute you have to drink from the firehose, going deep into the tech you were hired for and the constellation of technologies they use that interact with those things in any way. As soon as you start discovering XY Problems you find they were trying to get you to make X happen because they don't know how to do Y (or didn't know Y was possible) and the clock is ticking.
He's talking about Powerline networking, not PoE.

Powerline networks (Powerline AV and g.hn) send ethernet through the electrical wiring.
Interesting, "insider insider" trading then, where some insiders are more inside than others.
One of my long-idle projects is oddly popular in China (it's about 30 lines of shell script total) so I've been adding pro-Tibet and pro-Taiwan messaging. Figured it's worth using it for _some_ good.

Anyone have a suggestion for a good pro-democracy message that could be targeted at Chinese developers?
> I was pretty shocked when they said it was over €100k. I pulled up the same car for about $60k at my local dealer in the states and that price is before bargaining.

I don’t believe you. The only stock 5 series over €100k is the M5 Limousine (€119k). All other models are well below €100k, unless they come with options / BMW Individual. 550d Touring xDrive is €82k base price (with taxes).

I’m looking at a 2019 530d M package with full option and that thing would cost me €82k, after discounts comes as low as €60k (trade in).

What you say with $60k is probably something like 520i base option before taxes (knowing US).

So, I don’t believe that story.
Yes, and I also see a spot in the shape of it after looking away, though that may just mean my monitor is too bright
It doesn't contribute to a lack of social mobility. It is a perceived result of a lack of social mobility. And if your parents are in an income bracket, you are probably going to be in that income bracket. The only thing a high number of people getting help from their parents indicates is they might end up worse off than their parents, in income. But you'd need to wait until they've reached their peak earning years to know for sure.
> Note that with DoH on Firefox, your intranet domains do not work

That’s part of the plan. From now everything is cloud only, and everyone doing anything differently gets thrown under the bus, with less and less control left for the user.

We’re progressing backwards into the future.
Now every time I want to update the contents of some file I am serving I need to also update my web content. This would work, but also be frustrating. Would managing this actually be easier than just serving the file over https?
I'm not sure this one is actually directly connected. I can visualize things in my head, but I rarely do that when reading fiction books, despite enjoying them immensely, and far more than movies. If you asked me to, say, sketch any of the characters from the last book I read for pleasure ("The Left Hand of Darkness", for umpteenth time at that), I wouldn't be able to do so; it's all abstract.
I'm a little bit paranoid. All devices have voice interaction programs turned off. Microphones have tape on it...
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Wouldn't this just add more fuel to the fire for China to crackdown on access to GitHub and ultimately make it even harder for engineers there to use and contribute to projects? Only asking because I recall a time where they did indeed block GitHub because of some of the projects hosted and I'd imagine this might potentially cause a similar course of action.
I was in a car where the driver was stopped for prolonged driving in the passing lane in a US midwestern or plains state. This was maybe 25 years ago, but this has been a violation in at least one state at some point.
I subscribe to a couple of newsletters that send the most popular repositories in several languages to my email every week. There's been a trend of increasing Chinese activity for months now. The problem with Chinese programmers is that they very rarely bother to use English, as the rest of the world, rendering their technically "open source" code largely useless for most of us. There's clearly a niche for a Chinese language counterpart of Github, and I suspect it's going to be filled soon.
Because "normal" = "insecure and not private"? "Legacy" might be a better name for it in the near future.
But how much will be broken or worn out after three years of service? Germans don't engineer for reliability.
From reddit:

>"Hi, regarding the image itself: What I don't understand is why does it look like a donut and not a bright sphere? Assuming the black hole is actually spherical and not disc shaped, I would expect the Halo to be spherical and surrounding the black hole? so all we would see would be the ball of bright gas, even though there is a black hole in the middle?"

This is also what I would have expected.
I use it for the limited menu selections my car supports and usually have to repeat myself 3 or 4 times before it gets it right. I also use it for texts because it's less aggravating than the awful on screen keyboard. Enjoyment and pleasure don't enter into it, it's just barely better than the other available UIs.
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Mismatch...mismatch...no network...mismatch...well if I have to correct every word thrice, might as well type it.
It's not a nefarious plan to stop me from doing what I want in a FOSS browser on a PC where I can compile and run what I want. It will be used that way, however, on locked-down devices users pay for but don't actually own.
If your object is diversification of your investment then one year isn't too short. However, typically your option vests monthly after the cliff. So you don't have to stay for two years unless you want to.
With Windows and AD “internal” names are FQDN, which resolves fine with the DNS server provided with the DHCP settings.

Of course DoH will break this and leak. Enterprises everywhere will hate this and ban Firefox.