skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not blaming "the 'market'", whatever that means. I'm saying the shift from government-paid higher ed to student-loan-paid higher ed was promoted as a more market-oriented approach. Part of the theory was that if we put students in debt bondage for their education, they'd made better choices than if the government was controlling things.

Personally, I look at markets as tools for solving optimization problems, and I'm saying that one of the factors that makes that work well is missing here.
Many of the most actively involved parents are already removing themselves (and their children) from the public school system, as the payoff to fighting for improvement won't come until after it can benefit their kids. I don't think it's exactly a tragedy of the commons situation, more of the inverse, but the costs (to the parent) are so high that it's hard to blame them. Personally, I think the best we can hope for is that models like Outschool can develop into supplements that work in concert with public school, reducing the relative ROI of going private.
Is Apple preventing anyone from buying a competing smartphone? Microsoft paid companies to only sell PCs with Microsoft operating systems, is Apple pushing Samsung to drop Android and use iOS? Microsoft undercut competitors and used their marketshare in the OS space to make their products (Internet Explorer) the dominant product in the space. Is Apple drastically undercutting Android phones on pricing?

Microsoft forced Windows into being basically the only OS on the market in the 90s, and dropped their prices to 'free' in order to destroy competition. They didn't force you to buy a PC, but if you wanted a computer, because of Microsoft's practices, Windows was basically your only option. Conversely, if you don't like Apple products, you're in luck because smartphones are an incredibly competitive market and Apple only reaches the very highest end of that market.

In what way is Apple pushing the market into buying more iPhones and locking out Android from the market? It doesn't matter how monopoly rules work unless the company actually has a monopoly.
HN's policy is to allow paywalled articles if and only if there is a standard workaround for the paywall, such as opening an incognito window. In other words, articles that everyone can read, at the cost of the annoyance of jumping through an extra hoop or two.

I'd be curious what articles you're seeing that don't have such a workaround and yet are remaining on the front page.
Yes! At Origin we built a Marketplace creator that allows you to create a decentralized marketplace for buying and selling anything in a matter of minutes.

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This makes a lot of sense. If I might restate it:

There are certain fields of study that lend themselves to a college format, where you'd benefit from doing things hands on with lectures and instruction.

Not every field of study, including those that can be extremely valuable, has this feature. Acknowledging that the one-size-fits-all college lecture/homework/test format is not the ideal way to learn everything might help us figure out how to learn more efficiently.
Which is slower than extension-based blockers. https://dev.to/remusao/adblockers-performance-study-5b47
I am surprised how incredibly lazy some people are. I have been standing at train stations waiting for the train to arrive and there is a trash can ten feet away and the smoker will just drop the cigarette right where they are standing.
And in those places, it's common for them to pay close to %50-%75 of their income on rent & commuting costs.

And I was unclear, I should of said economic rent. The supply constrained basics of life will expand to consume new demand in the face of a UBI subsidy. Not just your rent.
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The world is overpopulated. Humans have already eliminated as many species as other great extinction events. Our industrial activity has changed the Earth climate. There is very little wilderness left anywhere. The forests are getting clear cut and eliminated. We have exceeded the Earth's capacity to support us already and there is no end in sight, unfortunately. Humans are the disease and unless we learn to live sustainably (as opposed to infinite expansion), the life is going to get worse for every subsequent generation and we are toast in the end.
Minneapolis did the right thing with its light rail: Going from the Airport, to downtown, to the Mall of America. When I was consulting in Minneapolis, getting from the Airport to the apartment I'd rented downtown was just a typical jaunt on public transit.

Here's how to win with public transit: Build it where people want to go. Amazing how difficult that is.
So what’s this fascination with tunnels? In Chicago, there are overhead elevated train tracks, and they work just fine. They seem a lot cheaper to build and maintain than tunnels. You can even build them over existing avenues. Why don’t we have more of that?
"Comparing a modern nuclear power plant to Chernobyl is like comparing a 2019 Honda Civic with a 1961 Chevy Corvair"

That's a pretty interesting metaphor, because while the newer car is indeed much safer, there are many types of accidents where the driver will be killed no matter what car they're driving. Perhaps they'll still have all the body parts attached in the Honda though ;)

One of my favorite books is "Normal accidents" by Perrow, where atomic plants are the perfect example of high-risk systems which invite system accidents.

Their dedicated chapter is comically horrific. e.g.:

"In 1978 a worker changing a light bulb in a control panel at the Rancho Secco 1 reactor in Clay Station, California, dropped the bulb. It created a short circuit in some sensors and controls. Fortunately, the reactor scram controls were not among those affected, and the reactor automatically scrammed. But the loss of some sensors meant the operators could not determine the condition of the plant, and there was a rapid cooling of the core. [...] did not in this case damage the core. But this is probably only because the plant had been operating at full power for less than three years. A spokesman for the NRC said: “If it had been 10 to 15 full power years, instead of two to three, which it was, that vessel might have cracked.” A cracked vessel would result in a loss of coolant and a meltdown; no emergency system would be available to cool the core."
I was also home schooled (4th and 5th grade) and it wasn't scary. I missed out on some social opportunities but I joined clubs and played sports to make up for those interactions.

Homeschooling put me far ahead of my peers. I went back for middle school (6th grade) and skated through the next 3 years until I could take AP classes in high school. I am by no means exceptional nor were my parents great teachers. I think being able to go at my own pace allowed me to learn faster and more thoroughly than if I had been in a classroom.

I'd say there are a lot of upsides to home schooling if parents can swing it, and the downsides can be mitigated by a little extra effort on socializing.
We still issue speeding tickets instead of firing everyone at the DMV.

Educate all you want; no consequences, no behavior change. Incentives matter. Employee opsec metrics should be a part of corporate cybersecurity insurance pricing IMHO.
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Hitchhiking and realtime carpooling is not the same experience. Former is random car, random passenger; latter is known car, random passenger.
Sure. I didn't figure this out, but was relatively close to the investigation. My team provided a lot of data that ended up being used to come to root cause.

My team and extended teams managed almost 200,000 network devices, spread all over the world, most of which were Cisco, and most of which were installed in stores. And most of the switch ports were connected to customer facing Point Of Sale devices. Among these are employee facing registers and customer facing card scanners. That is, the devices you interact with whenever scan your card to pay for something.

With that many devices in that many locations in a largely unmanaged environment (the switches would be installed all over the store, often in the ceiling, and many of them experienced extreme temperatures), there were a constant stream of failures. The process to manage these failures was optimized, streamlined and largely automated.

However, it was discovered that switches were failing far more frequently in the northern Midwestern US than elsewhere, and then only in the winter.

So this wasn't a really big operational issue, but it had a substantial cost impact, and the rate was high enough that a lot of the affected stores did notice and were complaining.

Right. Very strange, very mysterious.

So, briefly, the root cause:

Apparently, people in the upper Midwest wear wool to stay warm far more frequently than other cold places, specifically the US northeast. And much of the time, the humidity is quite low. So, you have a lot of people wearing a lot of wool in low humidity air. These people generated a lot of static, which they would all too often discharge while interacting with the customer facing point of sale device. And, all too frequently, that pulse of static would end up flowing all the way back to the switch, often killing it.

I didn't follow the subsequent remediation efforts, so I don't know what if anything was done about that.
Don't hate on people who ask easy questions ;)

I have a short post about it here:

https://docs.sweeting.me/s/ask-stupid-questions
> since all the ratings are from other "users".

Posting racially-discriminating for-rent ads gets both the landlord and the newspaper in trouble. "We're just a platform" doesn't work as an excuse.

It's also not hard to detect statistically - with enough data you can see that a given driver is giving worse ratings to protected class members compared to similar drivers at the same time and place.
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MFA as provided FIDO/U2F seems like a much more sensible approach, that doesn't break down on even a momentary lapse in vigilance.
they also have an army to maintain it
Willing to bet your savings on it? I'm not.
Sure, but that doesn't really change my point, only the dates involved. You can debate how fair the Kasparov - Deep Blue match was, but even being maximally generous, by the mid 2000s it was completely impossible for a human to beat a computer in a serious, fair match.
Adding some shameless self promotion :)

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There's still a big problem with many of the centralized exchanges that have sprung up: a bunch of them are exit-scamming, or otherwise have had incidents that make your funds inaccessible.

That's the reason to do this on the blockchain: you don't need to trust that the exchange operators will keep your funds safe, because they don't have your funds.
Software developer, graphic designer, sales, technician, trades... Supporting yourself and socializing with people of different backgrounds and ages is definitely good for personal development.
Anything posted here is suitable during discovery. The risk/reward of posting on HN... doesn't seem worth it.
Apparently your bitter comment brought you here by some interest, either to love it or hate it, but you were interested.
Thanks for that, the point has not been made in mainstream media, but time will reveal what a farce the Homeland Security thing was, a project fear to keep everyone believing what they have been believing. Meanwhile the FAA has been changed from being the helpful body it once was.

Blaming Boeing is one thing but we know from our own coding work that you don't have the programmer test and deploy mission critical stuff, you get someone else to do it. It is a team effort. In code if you cut the people out that do all the testing and just ask the programmers to deploy stuff when they want to it goes wrong.

I am not cutting Boeing slack in this, if you go back to the programmer analogy, you still get your code written to best practice before you put it anywhere near the testing and deployment people.
You've heard it from sensible people because there's a significant social-sciences literature studying the idea, and largely confirming it – no "dog-whistles" required. I want more ethnic diversity in the US, but my eyes are open that in practice, such diversity (for at least a generation or two, maybe longer) tends to weaken political support for public services, and strain such services' competent administration. The right cultural & policy innovations might be able to overcome this effect! But probably not, if merely acknowledging it becomes a taboo, and we pretend it's not an effect at all.

And it's not just ethnicity – it's many dimensions of "largeness" and "diversity", including geographic dispersion, variety of economic industries and incomes, religions, density, etc.

Only 2 countries in the world have a larger population than the USA: China and India. They're not known for top-notch free public services, either – though China's anti-union, anti-local-control authoritarianism allows public infrastructure development at a crazy pace, and (forced relocation into) public housing. The other 7 most-populous countries (Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, Mexico) aren't stellar examples of public services, either.

The "high services" models most often highlighted tend to be less than 1/30th the population of the USA and far more culturally/economically homogenous (the Nordics), or at most 1/6th to 1/5th the population of the USA (UK, France, Germany), and still less varied geographically, economically, and culturally.
Interesting thoughts. Not sure what the developer could have done differently, here?

He couldn't have done anything different. That's my point! If we cede the power of algorithmic and viral discovery to large corporations, we're ceding the powerhouse of 21st century culture to them.
It's possible to both get it and still be fooled.
> Are people really so gullible & trusting?

Yes, and it is not a “bad” thing outside the niche of security I think. We should all hope to live a life where we can implicitly trust other human beings.
The only star rating system I ever liked was Netflix, in the disc era. It worked in part because the stars had responses connected to them (“Loved,” “really liked,” “liked,” “disliked,” and “hated”) and in part because it was entirely calibrated to the user’s taste. It didn’t really matter what criteria anyone else used to rate a movie three stars versus five stars as long as you were consistent in your own ratings.
Yes.

This is only one of these "must-read book list", what you can do is search several of them and see which ones are quoted by almost everyone!

About "everything" I would rate the following books very highly, for their sheer usefulness:

- Thinking Fast and Slow (really do the exercises!)

- then Neuroleadership which describes the purpose of brain structures, it's somehow wider than kahneman

- A Mind for Numbers (include very useful data points for knowledge workers)

- Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

- Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

About programming I would rate the following books highly, but at the same time it seems a bit fruitless to me to read about programming, rather than spending more time reading about psychology or sociology:

- the Economics of Software Quality

- Peopleware

- Pragmatic programmer

- Mythical Man month

^you'll see that these books are hardly kept secret, it's just that people quote them but don't actually read them, or so it seems.
>adults can spend $X for their own welfare

yes, but spend on what? Rent, privatized healthcare, and uber rides? This article is exactly right, it's idiotic to think that giving money to people with no affordable services to spend it on is going to improve their lives.

Give people $1000 per month and watch the next rent cheque go up by $900.
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I'd suggest adding #4. Not using turn signals. This makes things slightly less safe for everyone else on the road (including peds + bikers) and it costs the driver nothing to properly signal.
You should add the first step: investors make a pile of money so huge that existing service can't possibly compete.
Why should I launch an exchange when there are already hundreds of existing exchange?

Because you can steal the assets, like about half of Bitcoin exchanges to date.
Ask HN: How old do you feel?
Not how old you are, how old do you feel?
Example : 10 years older or 5 years younger or something like that...
Why do you feel this way?
Do you often hear 'He doesn't look his age.'
Yes. I know. This has been my job for the past months, and all my personal projects for the past 2 and a half years. Still, no sysadmin.

As for the rest. No-code / low-code solutions don't just pass nice drawings / uml diagram to a gremlins-powered CPU. They rely (and will rely) on code behind the scenes.

Analogy still stands
It actually wasn't Uber + Lyft (or their class better UXs) that convinced me. It was a taxi cab driver turned Uber + Lyft driver who looked at me incredulously when I asked him if Uber/Lyft was worth it.

"You bet ya!", he said, "I'm on vacation!" he said. He went on to talk about how the taxi cab industry was a dirty industry and uber/lyft reformed it.

Meanwhile one of my journalist friends declaims the "tyranny" of Uber/Lyft. It's not hyperbole its simply inaccurate.
I'm looking at a recent contract that was signed by a large national brand and a large national retailer right now and literally none of what you said is in there.

You keep using the wrong terms for standardized language (for example, you keep referring to breakage as "liability" even though both have very different meanings and keep referring to a number of very different things as "entitlements"), so I'm pretty certain I also have a better exposure to the legal and practical underpinnings of the retail market than you do.

I think I'll stick with my comments.
I meant OR (|) as a do not _know_ having only tried OpenSSL, updated to clarify this - I thought using bitwise operators would be safe here, I guess it doesn't work with english.

RE man pages, I am speaking generally (as i said), i know nothing of OpenBSDs man pages, and it doesn't matter, my point was not that LibreSSL or OpenSSL man pages suck for examples, but that it's a bad premise for an argument against Open/LibreSSL.
This is a good point, and I think there are parallels to other areas of the industry.

For instance, let's say I'm a junior developer and I'm told that merging code that fails a suite of unit tests is a serious offense.

If I one day forget to run the test suite and merge code that breaks stuff ... it might be my fault at an acute level.

But at an organizational level, someone should be saying, "If it's that important to not merge code that breaks tests ... then we should change our process so you _cannot_ merge code until all tests have passed."

And if nobody gets faulted at the organizational level, then the junior dev is really just a scapegoat.
What about the sending and reply-to address? If the account is actually compromised at a system level, that is an IT issue. Again, are people so trusting that they don't check when asked for confidential data?
I know VSCode had an issue where people would type whole sentences into the settings search bar. They got around it by incorporating some of Bing’s NLP logic. Goes to show, even amongst the “technically inclined” (those who not just use VSCode, but also try modify things in it), this still holds.
I worked for a defense contractor that had a 3 strikes policy for security violations. Failing the phishing emails was a strike. Other breaches of security policy (like getting caught letting someone tailgate you in) could be strikes too. You got fired at 3. Nobody thought this was unreasonable. Part of your job when you work in defense or finance is giving a sufficient number of fucks about things that people in other industries don't have to give many fucks about, like security. If you don't care enough about security that you click on obvious phishing emails then you're not doing your job. Don't do your job and get fired.

They also did have a reporting system. Presumably you wouldn't get a strike if you clicked and reported. People who reported "legitimate" phishing attempts were rewarded. Spear phishing is a totally different game and nobody in their right mind would fail people for clicking on a (well crafted) spear phishing email.
Yeah, the magic is a big problem for me. When I was a absolute beginner, even knowing which magic (ruby gems) to pick was a problem. In contrast, Django has all of the functionality within the library, all working together. After I launched my website and became more experienced, I started replacing the default parts with custom parts. Django's explicitness and lack of magic made that easy.
My rating drops when I want to go somewhere far away or in busy traffic, I don't feel like talking to drivers or just use uber pool / lyft line.
I think it's very case by case. On first fail of a phishing test, absolutely not. They should have phishing explained to them again, maybe in a more personal setting (instead of educational video/talk).

It's definitely true that anyone can be spearphished or can fall for a sophisticated enough phishing scheme, but if someone is continually failing the most basic phishing tests (responding to random emails asking for your password for example) I think that's grounds for firing.

It's akin to locking up after you leave. Is it a fireable offence to fail to lock up the office when you leave? Probably not the first time. But if you never lock the door, at some point it becomes a liability.
Sure a professional could break in even if you lock the front door, but it's not like locking up is pointless.
OK then why not put a couple extra AoA sensors in? I thought everything critical on airliners was supposedly redundant?
The tests I have seen are more like a macro enabled office document attatched to an email that says it is from an address actually on the corporate email server. And it has a line like "review my schedule update, a week less for test creation is fine right?". Except I don't work with the sender and the corporate firewall as marked as having actually been sent from outside.
True, but they hadn't even gotten to that stage of the triage yet, and had no explicit documentation or training to make them aware of the counterindication of dealing with airspeed unreliable (by dealing with it actively, or postponing it) followed by stab trim runaway.

The important takeaway is that no matter which way you look at it, this "you don't need to know" item absolutely needed to be known since new error cases altered the process of "walking the fault tree" had been substantially.

Calling them on the throttle is a bit like blaming a blindfolded man for walking off a cliff with his shoe untied.

Yes, the untied shoe may have tripped him up, but the culprit is still pretty damn clear.
Or if you know you can achieve some tasks with one of these tools, you might suddenly realize more tasks than you imagined might be solved with them.
Where did this title come from? I usually can't stand HN's fussing over titles but this one really seems tendentious.
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True, but you are learning ubiquitous programming concepts in about as well conceived of an implementation as you will get in a frontend scripting framework.

While none of the extra complexity is crucial to making a dynamic website, it earns its keep when you try to build a big online application. Why not just learn that stuff.

I think all the bundled pre-built functionality, like reactive forms, is the hardest part of Angular. That can be tedious to learn. But then again, so is 3rd party library X, so it's a wash.

Factories are no longer in Angular 2