skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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2017: 33.4% of Americans (25+) have a Bachelors or higher

2007: 28% of Americans have a Bachelors or higher

1940: 4.6% of Americans had a 4+ year education (post high school)

You're right, college graduates are still a minority, but there is definitely a largely increasing. There's definitely more people enrolling than that.

70% of Americans will enroll in a 4 year degree but <2/3 of them will get a degree and 56% will drop out by year 6.Also Full-time students are 55% less likely to drop out of college than students who go to school exclusively part-time.[1]

So while college graduates are still a minority, it doesn't look like Americans who enroll in college are. They are clearly in the majority, and just because they don't graduate doesn't mean they haven't gathered debt.

[0] https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/326995-census-more-...

[1] https://www.collegeatlas.org/college-dropout.html
Here in suburbs of New York, if you have no college degree, most of jobs will pay you $12/hr, some decent employers will pay $15/hr but if you get lucky and have some useful experience you can find something for $18/hr which result in around $2400 paycheck every 4 weeks of work.
Most 1br apartments are around $1500/mo.
Car (Lease+Insurance+Gas) is $500/mo roughly.
After groceries there is literally no money left to go out.
How the fuck are we supposed to build up net worth?
That is a good idea, but it generates accusations of special pleading. Medical science is plagued with many kinds of fetish, and medical doctors are not generally obliged to actually understand science.
The Sony psp/vita.
Or, this is how Facebook replaces US Customs and Border Protection.

I reckon Facebook could do a pretty good job at that. Deep network checks, location history, call logs, content history (if they're active on the sites you browse). Terrifying but through. Makes the NSA look like a nosey neighbour peeping over the fence.
Evaluation of Antibiotic Rx for Infection Prophylaxis Before Dental Procedures
> Customers correctly perceived that Uber offered greater availability and reliability than traditional cab companies used to, but failed to recognize that all of these improvements required billions of dollars in unsustainable subsidies. If a new entrant in any other established industry suddenly offered much more service at much lower prices than incumbents ever had, the normal response would be to demand evidence about the productivity breakthroughs making this possible.

This paragraph is baffling to me. Why shouldn’t consumers want lower prices subsidized by billions of dollars of VC money? There are other industries with huge subsidies (American agriculture, for instance) where consumers are also happy to buy the artificially cheap products indefinitely, and the only people complaining are conservative/libertarian think tanks and public health groups.

Investors had reason to question Uber’s efficiency, but it’s tough to argue that they weren’t aware the prices were too low to be profitable, as it was their money subsidizing it!
Just a reminder that land is a limited natural resource that does not have a monetary value assigned to it except by political choice.

We could assign zero dollar value to land and allocate it democratically based on utility to the public and with an eye to preserving the environment. Allowing a market in land doesn't allocate it to the best uses (why do we have fancy hotels on the best real estate when there are homeless people?), just to the purposes of the people with the most money. If the people that own the construction equipment refuse to build when land is worth less, the public should step in and do it.

For the liberals out there, if we did this a certain person would not be president and the country would be a better, more egalitarian place. Imagine having nearly everything you pay in rent back in your pocket instead of being progressively squeezed more and more each year and spied on (given the increasing installation of monitoring equipment that you do not control).

If we could ban owning properties that you do not personally use, imagine how that would change the composition of cities. Gentrification would be vastly reduced. Shops, community centers, and other things that people love wouldn't get kicked out of town because the rent always increases.

That would be revolutionary.
“Who wants London's property market to crash?”

People who value housing as a place to sleep rather than a financial investment.
This was premature automation caused by not fully understanding the context. Results in less friction at the cost of enabling a black swan. Bad trade off. The Viking Sky cruise ship that was 1 minute away from releasing its damage potential of about 1300 people. 4 engines stoped simultaneously to protect them selves. Risking the entire ship in one of Norway’s most dangerous waters during harsh weather. There are so many similar examples. Tank turrets self protecting and killing soldier during peace time. Automatic gearbox on military vehicle self protecting against overheating although vehicle is under enemy fire, but the sensor can’t know that.. we need to rethink how “security automation” should work. How do you know if an override is relevant? How to train the operator?
So, in this country, the Democrats tend to do better (electorally) in the big cities, and the Republicans find more success in small towns or rural. So, when a big city is run by Republicans, there is always a very real and ever-present chance of Democrats taking it away at the next election.

On the other hand, there are many big cities where Democrats think they will never lose to Republicans, and in some cases (e.g. Chicago) they're right. So there is less of a check on their power.

So, the better comparison to Democrats running a big city, would be Republicans running a state where Democrats haven't won state-wide elections in a long time.
A more definitive statement regarding projects using Amethyst:

We have several so-called showcase games lined up. The only official one at the moment is Evoli: https://github.com/amethyst/evoli

It will have its first stable v0.1.0 MVP release in a matter of days. It’s designed to be easy to contribute to at scale so it’s a very suitable starter project for anyone looking to tinker with Amethyst in its current state.

As mentioned, the engine itself is still considered pre-release, but games like Evoli and more to come will demonstrate where Amethyst already shines, e.g. games that can take especially good advantage of the engine’s very close marriage to the specs ECS.
No matter how good of a book you write, having a name publisher like O'Reilly gives you substantial credibility that nothing else will.

Perhaps, but as they say, credibility doesn't pay the rent. What matters in commercial terms of how much money the book ends up putting in your pocket.

If a publisher is keeping 90% of the revenue, the services they offer had better generate at least an order of magnitude more sales to break even, less anything it would have cost you to obtain any other relevant services they provided directly instead. Does anyone here believe that this is in fact the case with the level of marketing that a typical tech publisher will do for a new work from a previously unknown author?
Did you have a cosigner? I have a interest rate around that but my dad cosigned. Him doing that really reduced my interest rate.
You are welcome to try to play my rust rewrite of this exact engine on lichess https://lichess.org/@/sunfish_rs

If you're not a top 5% player, it can absolutely give you a good game (especially on fast time controls)
Ok, so you chose a random Android phone because it is mentioned on the Google Fi homepage, although a simple search would let you know that any unlocked phone is adequate. You realized you bought a bad phone for you without previously looking into what are you buying and you're dissatisfied with Android? You know what, stick to your iPhone.
+1
Almost every day of every week I read (online) news items regarding the way that FB `handles' its `clients' privacy and/or data and I'm grateful not to be included!
This looks very interesting. From my layman understanding they use very abstract input images (like tetris objects) in order to train the network to detect first-order logic statements. This demonstrates that a network might be one day fully restricted to utilizing strict logic internally, and thereby making it more auditable, efficient and generalizable.
I feel like the android ecosystem is so diverse its hard to write any comprehensive review about it.

I've had a fantastic experience on my OnePlus devices over the last few years.

To this point, I would have titled this "hello moto whatever and samsung whatever"
Remember kids, if it isn't the science you like, it isn't science at all.

For me, the best thing about this person's interview from TFA is their call for others to do the same. Just like me ubering to school or work is not science, the mass collection of data points yields opportunities for better studies down the road.
> But if we look at the actual companies targeted, no, GrubHub, Uber, DoorDash et al are NOT low-margin industries. With worldwide services like this where your costs per-unit are basically only server costs, the margins are extremely high because your costs approach zero as users increase.

The dominant unit cost by far is paying the drivers, which doesn't go down with scale. Then you get a bunch of other stuff like credit card processing fees and customer service that also doesn't scale much if any better with volume either.

The server cost is barely a unit cost at all. That's fixed cost. Though it still needs to be paid from something.

> You don't think employees notice when they are paid less? You don't think customers realize when they pay more? If you really want to make the claim that employees don't notice lower pay and customers don't notice higher prices, that's tantamount to admitting that the free market doesn't work.

They notice how much they're paying and being paid, but they lack the information to know how much they would be paying or being paid in the alternative. So they think they're getting "free" insurance when they're really getting insurance instead of a cost of living increase.

> Yes, obviously investors will pass the cost off to employees and customers, but if they pay an unjustifiably high insurance premium and try to pass that cost off, they open up a business opportunity for a competitor to pay employees better and/or charge customers less by buying cheaper insurance and passing off less of that cost.

You're assuming that the problem is caused by which insurance company the employer chooses and not that it is difficult to accurately detect insurance fraud without using invasive methods, so all the insurance companies charge rates that exceed the value of the insurance and the companies only buy it at that price because it's required by law.

> There are additionally some regulations in place that prevent employers from passing off too much of the cost to employees or customers (i.e. minimum wage or fixed taxi fares).

There are two options here. One is that the money comes from somewhere. The other is that it doesn't, the cost of the service now exceeds its value, and you lose your job.

> The advantage that a big company has is that when they shop around for insurance, they're much more likely to be able to get a good price than an individual because they're a large, valuable customer.

Insurance companies compete aggressively on price for all customers. Historically larger buyers had a slight advantage because they could get a discount to account for the lower per-customer acquisition cost of getting many customers at once, but now that insurance is a thing that you buy from a website after comparing prices on the internet, even that is becoming an increasingly negligible advantage.

Meanwhile if you buy it yourself you get to choose the policy that you want rather than whatever your employer stuck you with.
Yes. I had simply said accidental to differentiate from homicide, but you are right.

Perhaps they were even mass manslaughter, but that is for a court to decide.
iPhone / iOS may sometimes be a pain due to how closed it is, but it just works. And it doesn’t spy on you (allegedly).
If you follow the footnotes, you'll see that the only references for this claim are almost 30 years old. One of the two is just a Congressional hearing.
Check out realtime bidding[1]. About 5 million impressions per second are bid upon by hundreds of ad companies. Yes they all see all the data, including IP, cookie, useragent, url, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_bidding
If your name is Baby, then seemingly every song is about you
Wow cool, I've been wanting to run a more true Linux based phone. What country and carrier are you using?
Even if they don’t have debt, while they’re enrolled in college they’re not building net worth.
Measuring paternal discrepancy and its public health consequences (2005)
I don't want to sidetrack y'all's discussion but any user base curated social media platform is going to be an echo chamber, HN included. It's not a unique feature of just Reddit.
I’m not sure how that is any different from the OP.
Could you please not post unsubstantive comments or flamebait to HN? You've done quite a bit of that already, and it's against the site rules and we ban accounts that do it.

If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended, we'd be grateful.

You might also find these links helpful for getting the spirit of the site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
> a high-quality turns-out style refutation of the existing narrative...

Ok, well played.
As a gay person, I definitely get less reamed by Democrats... Can we please stop with the false equivalences? The entire system might be garbage, but I can tell you who is and is not trying to take away my rights.
There’s a beautiful Turkish movie with prominent use of whistle language. It’s used a lot in that movie since main character is mute and thus uses it not only for long distance communication but for everything. It’s called Sibel.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8696440/?ref_=nv_sr_3?ref_=nv_s...
How much data lies behind the scientific paper you're reading?
I agree, and there's no simple way to signal that you really do know your stuff and really have investigated other solutions. The one or two times I tried this, responders became slightly hostile after a bit, implying that I didn't know what I was talking about, that I was doing things wrong, that my constraints weren't real, etc.

It was probably as frustrating for them as it was for me.
This is a reasonable argument, but an unfortunate corollary is that the author of a really successful book is losing out because they're subsidising all the commercial failures that the publisher took a punt on. The bookie always wins, but no-one else is guaranteed to.
Premature brain development likely means that the pruning stage of brain development occurred too early and too rapidly.

That or the brain formed too many connections too rapidly before the pruning stage.

Either way, the very structure of the brain is borked.

Not a neuroscientist though so take my input with a grain of salt.
Best of the SF Bay Area – A Curated List
I've lived in the Bay Area for over 30 years, and I'm always amazed when I hear about something fun to do, or a great place to eat, that I never knew about.

So, I've started compiling a list of the "best things to do", and shared it here:

https://github.com/the-best-of/bay-area

This is the list I wish I had 30 years ago! Even while working on this fun project I've learned of some pretty cool stuff (check out "Lazy Bear", or the "Cheese Trail"). I would love to hear your ideas.
Yeah, unless the author just wanted to write in a dismissive and flippant style, it seems they didn't do much research first
If you ignore the bullying, Trump is rather pragmatic. He's not tearing down NATO but pushing other NATO countries to take responsibility, fund their militaries and maybe buy US weapons in the process. Poland and Romania are quite receptive, Germany not so much because they aren't directly threatened.

The focus on China and Iran is also pragmatic. China has gotten more aggressive lately and Iran is likely getting punished.
Welcome to stack overflow.
I'm not sure what your complaint is about here, but it breaks the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not posting comments like this? If you're concerned about something not being right on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it.
Yes, they’re called ISRC ids. But while they’re used to uniquely identify audio recordings, they don’t solve the problem of metadata being wrong or getting stripped during transfers
MCAS only exists to paper over a small handling deficiency. Apparently nobody (at least nobody with the power to force a change) thought that it could pose a safety problem. It’s not safety critical, so who cares if it fails? Except that it can fail in a way that crashes the plane.
Though it should be noted that the effect originates with author Michael Crichton and has little to do with Gell-Mann himself:

>I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.
gaming reddits default subs to farm 1k+ karma/post was fun for a couple posts then you get it and move on

step 1: follow news source that targeted subs hold in high regard

step 2: post an article with a title that's going to cause lots of comments, grammatical/spelling errors always get the ball eolling

step 3: wait for the karma to roll in
This should be about 100% of the voters right?
SF and San Jose metros are crazy, but the entire state has a median housing price well above the national average. In fact, it is 2nd only to Hawaii, at >$500k. It is absolutely fair to say that there is a systemic housing affordability issue in California.
Moore’s Law Isn’t Dead: It’s Wrong – Long Live Wright’s Law
I just got a pixel 3 about 3 months ago.. They delivered it in about 48 hours, and it was ready to go w google fi. Have been using it like crazy, and it takes the best pictures of any camera I've ever owned. The voice recog is flawless to the point where I literally rely on it. I've never seen it download an update. Granted it cost me about 1g all together, which is more than I've ever paid for a phone.. but so far my experience has been fantastic.
My point is that it’s not mission critical. You can lose MCAS and be just fine. That’s why two sensors would suffice.
The difference that adults have figured out is that announcing your current role is usually a better option than boasting your talents, both in terms of inner psyche and how it sounds to others:

"I am a researcher" = oh, so you must spend a lot of time in the lab.

"I am good at research" = how many papers have you published lately?

But one role we do not know how to deal with well is "unemployed", and likewise we are hesitant to accept the spectrum of roles that are generally unattached to institutions, from "musician" to "entrepreneur". It's much easier for everyone if you say "PhD student".
I kept getting told to go android. That the Apple ecosystem doesn’t jive with my normal hacker/ricer/keyboard warrior persona.

So I got a oneplus one (when they were new), and it was a fairly decent phone truth be told, but the store was woeful and it felt a lot worse put together. On the whole I was left with a pleasant idea of what Android could be, and aside from the huge size of the device and the motivation span I was pleased.

Fast forward to the release of the iPhone 7/8, and I’m rocking my 5s which is what I was using when testing the oneplus- and now Apple are making phones as large as the oneplus and removing the headphone jack. Also that protruding camera is gaudy.

So I bought a Samsung Galaxy S8, which is large but the curved corners made it fit my hand quite well.

I figure since it’s a flagship phone it will be a premium android experience and preceded to make it my daily driver (which I had not done with the oneplus)

Now, something of note: I roll my own carddav/CalDAV and mail servers, in iOS these slot right in to the default apps and you can do nice things like push notify on email if you set your server up to do so. I spent weeks trying to find apps in the play store that could handle CalDAV and carddav. There’s a heavily promoted one that just doesn’t work. The default apps definitely didn’t work, Samsung’s version of android (at the time) was simply incapable of it.

Not to mention the UI bugs, the themes that had black text on black backgrounds in menus, the freezes and crashes and after 4-5months I had started to get quite sour.

The thing that tipped me over the edge with going from disliking the phone to hating it was when it decided on my behalf that it wouldn’t let me send an sms without signing up for a Samsung account.

I had avoided making a Samsung account for over 5 months and then it brings up a dialog that never goes away while I try to open the messaging app.

I gave that thing to one of my colleagues and he’s happy. I went back to an iPhone SE.
I'm not an advocate of permanent surveillance, nor am I used to it. As stated in the comment I expect no surveillance in my home, at hotels, etc., and I expect little enough surveillance on the street that I can walk to a FedEx and pay in cash without being facially-recognized all the way. I am, however, used to the norms of my life at work being different from the rest of my life. When I do browse the web on my work computer, my employer might monitor it (and I have a personal laptop at work for this exact reason). When I develop copyrightable writing/code/etc., my employer owns it, even if it's not totally relevant to my job. I don't tell off-color jokes or flirt with people the way I could outside of work, nor do I have any desire to. Work is different from the rest of your life, because you're doing a task for your employer, and your employer controls the space. If your employer wants to install a camera, that's like you installing a camera in your own home—totally reasonable in common spaces, creepy in bathrooms. I think analogizing being surveilled at work to being surveilled in general makes as much sense as analogizing losing copyright over your writing at work with losing copyright in general.

(There might be a problem that people are at work too much of their lives, or that people should work for themselves or worker-owned coops instead of for bosses, or something, but those seem like independent problems; trying to solve symptoms of those problems and ignoring the underlying issue doesn't seem productive.)

Precisely because allowing people to do minor personal tasks at work is the norm in the industry, I think there is little risk that cameras will prevent people from doing minor personal tasks. Mine is the same: I feel quite comfortable checking personal email / IM / Hacker News on my personal laptop at work despite having a camera somewhere looking at me and easily being able to tell when I'm not looking at my work screen. Basically, I think that if they wanted to crack down, there are easier ways to do that than cameras, so they don't, and cameras won't make them decide to start cracking down.

And to be clear, I'm much more interested in video evidence to back up harassment claims than to deny them. I'm of the opinion that a lot goes unreported because complainants know there isn't much evidence. But you make a good point about lots of it happening off-site.
I want to pile on the hate of both that garish startup screen. Seriously, it's not just terrible, it turns the brightness to the max and switches between high saturation colors so fast it literally hurts my eyes. If anyone working for Moto is around here please speak up about it, it's _that_ bad.