skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Lessons from Chile’s transition to free college":

https://www.brookings.edu/research/lessons-from-chiles-trans...

HN discussion when it was introduced four years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9514404

An essay by By Andreas Schleicher, Deputy Director for Education and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary- General, OECD from 2013 that looks at free higher education and concludes that a combination of public/private financing seems best:

http://www.oecd.org/forum/education-for-all.htm

OECD data show that tertiary education creates large social benefits in the form of economic growth, social cohesion and citizenship values that justify public investment. Equally, in light of the very significant–and growing–private benefits of tertiary qualifications, individual graduates should be expected to bear some of the cost, too. The case for costsharing is strongest when tight public budgets would otherwise lead to cuts in the number of tertiary students, a decline in the quality of instruction, or a decrease in the resources available to support disadvantaged students. Cost-sharing allows systems to continue to expand with no apparent sacrifice of instructional quality, and makes institutions more responsive to student needs. Institutions also become less reliant on taxpayers’ money and are able, within certain limits, to raise their own funds. The savings from these kinds of arrangements can be used to broaden access to tertiary education by expanding student support systems.

All things in moderation, however. Countries that rely solely on the market to determine the cost of higher education, such as the United States, often see tuition fees rise to such stratospheric levels that higher education becomes inaccessible to many prospective students. And that, in turn, undermines these countries’ own intentions of raising the level of their populations’ educational attainment. Thus, there is a case to be made for fee-stabilisation policies that contain costs.
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There are different ways of measuring how large an economy is.

How much of the US economy is Wall Street and real estate? Does that really deserve to be 'GDP' as nothing is actually made?

Some say that a large finance sector and a rentier class is a burden to the main economy. It is hard to deny even if there is the 'trickledown' effect from the 1%.

What about militarism?

The trillions spent on war is supposed to be good for the economy but I don't see it myself. If all those bullets had been batteries for electric cars then the USA could have sold those electric cars to places like Libya, Iraq and elsewhere blown off the map or crippled with sanctions.

In China, regardless of whether they have stolen IP or not, they do actually make stuff. Making stuff definitely counts as GDP. Chinese folk are industrious and 'lazy' is not a word uttered in the context of China, even by the haters. I don't get the feeling that the Chinese economy has developed to the late capitalist stage where everyone who works is paying off rentseekers, monopolists and usurers. For this reason I think the Chinese economy is a lot stronger than the American one even if the GDP metric would lead one to believe otherwise.

I also think China are leapfrogging the USA when it comes to education. STEM subjects rule in China, they don't in the USA. When it comes to the fundamentals China is on to something. I am not sure USA Inc has a plan for the future.
Is the company not responsible for the actions of its employees? If so, are the responsible employees going to jail?
Way to narrow it down there?
As a "science folk" myself, I care deeply about people just shouting "BUT SCIENCE!" to pretend their emotionally charged opinions are, somehow, facts. Which is absolutely what happens when discussing this issue.
Nuance doesn't begin and end with "dog whistles".

You can allude to middle class phenomena without mentioning anything explicitly useful as a signal.

There's a "if you have to ask, you will never know" element involved.
The Euthanasia That Wasn’t
Or... if you're working remote it's because you like the peace and quiet of working in a private space ... and enjoy not having a 2 hour commute a day. There are more than one reason to do anything.

Now I'm sure if you were interviewing at GitLab, you'd know about this policy in advance (because it's public) and could plan accordingly. Or ...hey... ask your manager to be if they'd have any problem with you being a digital nomad on the job. The policy basically says you only need approval... so you could ask.
Except companies use opensource to make themselves richer and more powerful.
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It is an incredibly bold move. Just as tech monopoly power comes under scrutiny--in Apple's case the AppStore--they wield said monopoly power...but for a seemingly good cause.

Quite the gambit.
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A program's abstract syntax tree in memory is still a form of text; it's just chopped up (not a linear tape of symbols), and some of the representations are altered. For instance the number 5 becomes 101 or perhaps 10101 (01 type tag) or whatever. Bits are still text: reams of text made of two symbols.

The so-called visual programming languages do not get away from text. They show various boxes or blocks on the screen, but the contents of those blocks are pieces of text.

Every single screenshot of a visual programming language shown in this article is nothing but snippets of text inside boxes.

If we take a Lisp expression like (a a a) and show it as three boxes, each labeled with a, that is not an accurate tree representation. The actual tree is a DAG, in which there are three pointers leading to a single symbol whose name is a. If we show three boxes, then we do not have anything close to a purely visual AST language. We have a language of textual tokens which require passing through a reader so that multiple occurrences of the text a get turned into the same object.
It would probably think up a way to strap boosters onto itself and cruise the galaxy. Beats hanging around here.
> "Unhandled Exceptions" in Smalltalk

?

MessageNotUnderstood
> Why is he suddenly not a supporter because he disagrees with a small part of the discussion?

That trans women are women isn't a "small part" of the discussion. It's kind of the whole point.
Yeah, I wrote about that exact thing a while back. https://hackernoon.com/the-two-hard-problems-in-computer-sci...
I've noticed that some words have different pronunciations. For instance, the word for "definitely" is pronounced zaroor in Urdu but in Hindi, it's pronounced jaroor.
Building my own home server I went a different route with the latest, fastest i3 processor (at the time i3-7350k, not i3-8350k) to prioritize lower power and single thread execution speed.

E5670 holds up surprisingly well, similar total performance – 1/2 single thread execution speed 2x threads – in a similar power envelope for half the cost.

The value in those used workstations is mostly in the case and that is hard to replicate in these days of style-driven (wtf?) computer hardware where everything has LEDs and is generally targeted to excite 12-year-olds.
Japanese manufacturing industry is a really interesting blend of manual artisanship combined with cutting edge technology. One of my favorite shows is "Supreme Skills!" - a 'reality competition' produced by NHK where teams of engineers/fabricators compete making "impossible" objects.

Watch a guy on a lathe go head to head against an EDM to drill a hole through a pencil lead lengthwise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCtWPbTDbuY
>I don't think the US system is uniquely reliable in this regard

Completely agree. I'm just speaking from an American perspective. There are plenty of other countries that are similarly stable (perhaps even moreso thanks to having more than two diametrically opposed parties).

The "general agreement to operate within the framework" bit was what I was getting at with "good people". I'm not sure how stable it would be against a concerted effort to disrupt/distort it. But I haven't looked into its governance in much depth, either, thus my original question.
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> Countries that rely solely on the market to determine the cost of higher education, such as the United States,

This essay ends with a correlation but not causation conclusion. It is not the free market that makes private colleges expensive in the US.
I think you mean "bugs", not tests.
> ...but with alternative-media sites rising...

That should be happening, but isn't - not to the degree it naturally would. Debanking. Payment processors have been very busy weeding out potential competitors to the big names in SV. I almost want to laugh at the fact that the early cryptocurrency proponents experienced the exact same treatment while building the very thing that would protect those presently being targeted by Visa/Mastercard. I'm still banned from two major banks...

This youtube censorship stuff is going to pale in comparison to the coming wave of debanking. There is a very freaked out class of people who have their hands on the wheel at the moment (especially true at Mastercard), so you can't rely on traditional profit motives to predict behavior - anything is possible. My financial adviser suggested, with a straight face, that I consider a portfolio built around some new social equity index... my account has been self directed ever since.
Then what's the explanation for the thousands of private non-profit universities who have never received state funding?
Then the title is a lie because it's not the hero engineers who are deadly. It's crappy managers but, "poor project management can be deadly to your project" is obvious and resulted in low click rates.
>That would satisfy the common carrier aspect as you could simply email the links out to your existing audience.

Yes, but the analogy with traditional delivery services breaks down because people don't ask the delivery service to find new content for them. Preferring certain people's videos in search and recommendations based upon their political content is a deliberate reduction in the ability of the penalized people to meaningfully participate in the political conversation, which is what we should be trying to prevent. It's dangerous. Less dangerous than banning them altogether, perhaps, but still dangerous.

Google and Facebook et al built very successful products that a lot of people enjoy using. But I don't think very many people think that should entitle them to shape the political conversation. The people being shut out to varying degrees will certainly not see it that way.
I worked in oil and gas (Halliburton) for 12 years.

The amount of stuff we got in "for review", "for test", "preview", etc. was simply amazing. Even pre-production gear a lot of the times. I found a pair of Tesla cards just sitting in a box in an office I cleaned out one day... and I know we got a system with some Phi cards in it when they came out.

The most interesting thing I ran into was when cleaning out a facility after a move, we found a Dell Itanium-1 box that not only did Dell not want back, they wouldn't even admit to making it in the first place... It ended up going home with one of our devs...

Nice thing about being a sysadmin was that we would get "video cards and such from our developers who had just upgraded to the latest and greatest - and the stuff they were throwing out was only one or two years old.. so our own desktop workstations built with cast-off parts were pretty nice.
Not if you're running Docker it doesn't.
Imagine files being moved from tape to disk to optical disc to NAS over the years. What now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16886607
From a different point of view, almost everyone has made a lot of money on the current relationship, Chinese and Americans, so why mess up a good thing? Even with the ownership requirements, IP transfer, market access, and IP theft that occurs, this has still been incredibly profitable for American companies and multi-nationals, so there wasn't much pressure to bring an axe down on China. The same goes with Mexico and pretty much every other trade partner.

However, some people didn't win out, and in fact lost out significantly because of all this globalization: American blue collar workers. These people became disgruntled, elected a rightist populist nationalist to the presidency, and now they want change. In reality, it wasn't just China doing them in, but China (and Mexico and immigrants) make great scapegoats for those rightists, ATM.
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Genuinely curious - how long of a session is required to burn those 1900 calories?
Right, thank you for the clarification, I should have been specific about that.
I couldn't name the specific person, but someone did. The words "shut in" didn't always have that meaning; etymonline says it happened around 1904.

Without that you could be "shut in", but that just meant you were inside something with the door shut. It didn't have long-term or social implications.
I've been on both sides of the spectrum. At first, I couldn't ever imagine working remote. I was an office rat, spent a lot of time at my desk and then socializing with coworkers at happy hours and such. It was a super fun life. When I got the job offer at GitLab, I was super excited about the opportunity and took it in spite of it being remote.

Fast forward to a year later, my perspective has changed. It took me about 3-4 months to adjust but slowly I hit my stride. Today, I can confidently say that I am a lot more productive working all-remote. I don't have to travel or change rooms for meetings, I am fully connected to folks via Slack and Zoom and GitLab issues, and I am working in the comfiest clothes :p. So 8 hours of work in all-remote is equivalent to probably 10 hours in an office.

Socially, I do co-working calls with people, hang out in the slack channels (#dad_jokes and #dog being two favorites), and Zoom as I need to. I never feel left out. I have to say though, I would probably not enjoy being remote when others are in an office because then there is a clear hierarchy of social interactions then.
I have a feeling that for Bitflow (the Bittorrent downloader) many customers will strongly prefer bitcoin. Offering it is not an arbitary choice but a requirement for success of that part of the product.
Could be Washington. https://www.geekwire.com/2015/revealed-how-we-found-amazons-...
Meaning, they have tested in WA before.
Trivia:

"The term Radical (from the Latin radix meaning root), during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, identified proponents of democratic reform, in what subsequently became the parliamentary Radical Movement."

"The term political radicalism (in political science known as radicalism) denotes political principles focused on altering social structures through revolutionary or other means and changing value systems in fundamental ways. "

And of course the classic Rules for Radicals book about community organizing and starting grassroots movements.

Let's not label all radical things bad, it can become a way to suppress dissent and societal change.
So the game just crashed?
Could only move forward after that.
I'll never understand this reductionist argument. Yes, YouTube/Facebook/Salesforce/etc can do whatever they want. That doesn't mean that it's good for society or that it's not worth talking about.
Mother Nature is good at keeping her house clean. Especially if Bigfoot likes to live far away from people, as they are purported to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uHJkGKcbKo
Additionally, take a look at Fig. 8, "linus C". Those points scream "your data is bad".
I don't see how this is related to the previous matter discussed -- namely that the energy projected by another person is somehow helpful for work getting done.
That all makes sense for the vendors.. but what does ARM get out of it? A false sense of security?
Most new organizations are also general-purpose, meaning the organization will cover everything from politics to sports to tech to finance to gossip. My assertion is that trying to be all things to all people leads us into impossible-to-moderate scenarios even before you look at the motivation/resources available with which to perform said moderation.
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The block is 'published' when the store to the write pointer is performed. That's a store release which will have an implicit barrier before the store.
One thing I've never seen discussed is how the behavior tests eliminate sense of smell (or some other sensory input that is different/better in the test subject versus humans) as a possible tool used by animals - several of the tests they discussed seemed like they could be explained by the test subject smelling what is the situation rather than reasoning.
> slight, local compiler complexity

I think the biggest piece of added complexity would be that String would need to be a lang item, giving the compiler special knowledge about it. Currently Vec and String are plain library types, so conceptually this would be a pretty big change.
China has manufacturing facilities and capacity that far exceed any other nation. This includes making high end products based on foreign designed specifications (I.e. iPhone). GP is saying that it is not if, but when, China will have attained the baseline IP to spend remaining efforts on exceeding foreign innovation and using their domestic manufacturing capabilities to deliver on them.

Currently the “trade war” just attacks Chinese companies that have done exactly what I described above (Huawei being a primary example) - claiming cybercrimes, arresting executives, slamming lawsuits, barring imports, etc.

Manufacturing is not a switch that can be turned back. America had severe oversight when allowing our manufacturing capacity to head south to Mexico and east to China. We are pretending the trade war is the US “sticking it” to China. But in reality China has all the cards in this war - the US is bluffing to its citizens; the economy of the coming decades will be on China’s terms.
Ah the days.
I mean the HP Z220 workstation he has a photo of has an i5, is the power consumption that much more than any other PC?

https://www.wattdoesituse.com/hp-z220-workstation

This says 8 hours a day would be $23 a year.
Ah, OK. I expected that if I add a new address when already having the preference set for sending notices to the main one, they would go to the main one.
i had to show them my grades, then they reimbursed me.
It's so funny hearing Americans talk about China as if the Chinese government is somehow "cheating"

As if America doesn't do all of that and more
I mean, the paper just describes an experiment that confirmed the theory that's from the 90s. So it's definitely not a surprise, since this behaviour was expected...
re-reading this whole thread, and the ways that multiple other people already explained it including myself, I don't think grandparent OP is going to get it.
Fascism was not "reactionary". It was, in many ways, a sibling ideology to 'communism', but with glorification of violence, a broadly "irrational" (i.e. explicitly anti-intellectual, and almost relishing in the use of blatant propaganda as a means of influence) attitude to mass politics and either nationalist or (in the more extreme Nazi version) racially-supremacist ideology as major selling points. "White nationalist" is somewhat inaccurate as you point out but "reactionary" is totally wrong, and Soviet propaganda is the only reason why some people today still think of fascism as "conservative" or "reactionary".
For one thing, some of the burial practices and rituals in the region pose significant risks of communicating Ebola. And, when health workers recommend suspending those practices, those recommendations are not well-received.
The original stannous fluoride formulas stained your teeth, it's not just marketing.
FWIW, I work for Google (not on google.com), and would definitely fit into the "geek" category, and I still assumed you were talking about an OSS search engine.
Obligatory vaccination is oppression, however you twist it.

How far are you willing to go when it comes to oppressing individuals in the name of the common good? Force women to have children to repopulate aging countries (or, alternatively, force sterilize them in overpopulated countries)?
My own thinking about conversational AI changed recently after a coworker of mine pointed out that most dictative conversations only require 2 or 3 pieces of carried context. That’s a level of depth that does not require a massive technical breakthrough, but could be semi reasonably solved with tremendous effort (exists), and current technologies.

It’s true that a good PA brings much earlier context, and “out of band” context to the table, but a customer support service (e.g. delta) really does not.

With this in mind, I think these conversational agents are going to be much more performant than expected in the fairly near future.
>You can't pay for someone to not work for 20 years; who's going to pay?

For one, people pay pension savings throughout their careers (in most civilized countries).

Second, we've already discussing UBI for life, compared to which "paying people not to work for 20 years" is nothing.

Third, money to pay people is an artificial construct, which is not really what's missing. We have the wealth to sustain them. E.g. we have increased productivity dozens of times over the past 100 years, and yet we don't enjoy those fruits in increased leisure time or work-less access to food, health, studies, shelter, etc. If anything the latter have inflated many times over. Where are those "trickle down economics"?

>Productivity is what generates wealth, and we can't afford to have a large class of people merely consumptive.

We have increased the productivity of the average worker dozens of times over the past 100 years. How's that wealth distributed?
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> impose Hindi on all states

This is so blatantly false. I am from South and a Kannadiga and I can tell you with conviction that in my lifetime I have never had anyone impose Hindi on me.

This frenzy of Hindi imposition exists only in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala (and a little in Karnataka but has since died down once people became more aware). I blame the excessive regionalism in part but major part of the blame lies with the regional political parties and media that is under their control. Too much misinformation is spread and negativity created to make it sound like the Centre is deliberately trying to impose Hindi. Since I am from the South and know the languages (Tamil and Kannada) and follow the local media, I can tell you with conviction that malicious misinformation is indeed being spread. Until this is stopped, the southern states will remain balkanized.

> federated Indian Union that could eventually make way for Bangaladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Nepal to become member states

This can never happen. It has been tried since Ancient times (the concept of Akhanda Bharat) and even though it succeeded for a few centuries it eventually failed. Even though we are culturally similar, the differences arise because of religious intolerance. The European member states have always had their own identity maintained irrespective of invasions. Hence why they can exist as a Union (even that Union is showing signs of crumbling after the Brexit but that is a different matter). Indian identity was split right in the middle and was done on religious lines. That is a deep scar that cannot be recovered from easily. Those who initiated that division are suffering today. And to bring it back into a Union is impossible. Why would India bear the burden of member states that are economically weak? A Union can only be of equals. Else you'll have a situation like Brexit happen sooner or later.