skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A useful comparison but I feel like the real test is to compare to whatever the new Pixel 4 night mode is going to have. Apple had a year to play catchup with the Pixel 3
While historically the cookie warnings were only an annoyance these days they often have a (working!) option to reject cookies, giving those popups at least some purpose.

Really though setting cookies isn't the problem, and you don't even need to show a popup according to EU law. You only need that popup if you use the cookies for nefarious things such as sending tracking information to ad networks. Setting a cookie for functional things such as remembering logins has always been allowed without a giant-ass disclaimer and nothing has changed in that regard.
I would doubt that it really results in lost orders as people have already invested a lot of time by selecting their food choice and by that time are hungry.
> But when they actively lied to me by leading me through the entire onboarding process - when they knew from the beginning that they would reject me - that was beyond the pale.

It doesn't sound like an "active lie," but more like a badly designed on-boarding form (a.k.a. a potentially innocent mistake). They should have presented the dealbreaker questions first, but they didn't.
WGU is a regionally accredited non-for-profit institution. I am first in my family to attend and complete college. Started in a state university in 95, and dropped out due to costs then and the ability to start earning in the IT field.

WGU offered me the ability to complete my degree and it was not easy, it was however affordable and accredited. I get you have beef with the current system, I think we all do. Speaking for myself, it worked well.
Nothing in your cited article provides proof for the claim that majority of student loan debt is from for-profit colleges. Is this even true? 1.5 trillion of student loan debt, and the bulk comes from University of Phoenix and the like?

Doesn't seem plausible, especially after your linked article claims that University of Phoenix spent 400,000 a day on Google in 2012. Their source? A Reuters article that used SpyFu as its source.

This rabbit hole is insane -- is there any true information out there any more?
> That is impressively scummy.

It's also indistinguishable from every other company doing business.
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> is that it's also diluting the value of people with a proper engineering education.

Ehh, so what? CS majors are rich. I don't particularly care if their value is diluted a bit.
You read my post wrong. I don’t like them. I wouldn’t have funded them at all. In fact I wouldn’t even have entertained a prolonged discussion on them, they just don’t make sense the way they are released.
> By making "sacrifice" a requirement it makes it off putting for someone with kids, or working in a job that has them working long hours, or working multiple jobs.

I think I understand what you are saying, but perhaps you are talking at cross purposes with the OP. I don't think anyone thinks that sacrifice is required from the perspective that you owe it to anyone to do anything in particular. But, as you know from maintaining a project, what you do is always a trade off.

Even if you negotiate time for open source maintenance in your work, you may suffer in your career compared to the person who focuses only on climbing the ladder. In fact, I do not allow my work to pay for my free software work -- because freedom is the thing I want from that work. People who pay usually expect something in return and I seriously am not inclined to give it to them (especially since the demands are usually after the fact).

There are many people who think you can have it all. If you spend hundreds of hours working on free software, working on not-free software, playing video games, watching reality shows, typing replies into HN, etc, etc, that time is spent. That's time you don't get to spend with your kids. Or your spouse. Or walking in the woods.

It's important that people who choose to do these things actually choose, I think. It's all too easy to get to a certain age and realise, "Well, crap. That's not what I wanted to have done".

So, yes, it's a sacrifice. You don't get to do it for free. Someone with kids, or working in a job that has long hours, or working multiple jobs often will not choose to spend hundreds of house writing free software. They have more important things to do, and that's totally OK.
A house down the street from where I grew up costs $650,000 for 1500 sq ft on a sixth of an acre. Meanwhile I was offered $55k with 2 years experience. There is also a massively crappy public transit system that lets me commute 4 hours/day to work my 8hour/day job, or I have to buy a car as well. How is the math supposed to work out?

I moved out of the metro area and have been much happier for it... Sure jobs are harder to find, but when I started getting offers they actually paid a livable wage.

That was my story 7-8 years ago. I could probably move back and make really good money, but the quality of life difference is atrocious and homes only got more expensive.
Why would anyone want to live in a big city?
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My experience with standardized testing is that there are some unprepared students who are not familiar with, or fail to use basic strategies like process of elimination, jumping between question and text, etc and these students will get a hugely significant boost, but beyond that progress from tutoring at best equal to self studying. I also did well with little prep but that was because of my highschool experience.
What's the maximum tuition? Your website claims 20% gross income for 5 years, so if a new grad is making $195k/yr like you claim on the site, the full amount owed will be almost $200k or does this income garnishment end after a certain amount.
What bothers me is not the price, it's that the only documentation available is an ebook that one of the developers wrote as a side project. The tool is very powerful, but it's a nightmare to use, and it doesn't matter how powerful it is if you spend more time struggling with the software than fixing the problem you have that requires it in the first place. I'm just happy that someone is attempting to create an alternative with a focus on usability and cross platform support.
I highly doubt this is more than lip service.

Thesr organizations are run by certified psychopaths, who don’t care about being good, but only about looking good. So they can keep doing what they do. Which is maximizing profit.

I’ll accept it when I have seen, checked, scrutinized and double checked evidence for at least ten years, for the obligatory sneaky technicalities and spin.
We're starting to build out more math and deeper on algorithms, particularly for people who want to go the AI/ML route or grad school. Currently if you're keen on grad school it's probably better to go to a well ranked research university.

On average you'll pay $100k, but it's a sliding scale based on your income so we ensure it's affordable / there is downside protection. Given that you have 2 more years of earning than a traditional university you'll usually come out well ahead.
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Will Amazon Buy Plaid?
For those of you in the UK or willing to travel, Andreas will be speaking at The Things Conference UK next month: https://thethingsconference.uk

We have discounts for various groups including Women in Tech and Students, so just contact the organisers and we can sort out any support that you need.
Mysterious wave of unbootable Macs due to flaw in Google Keystone
> Aside: Is this weird income share agreement model common in the US at this point?

No, rather radical, and a key point of this school.

What is common in the US is debilitating levels of student debt upon graduation.

edit: typoos
That is, in fact, one of the main arguments the article is making. Cities are too expensive, millennial are fleeing to less expensive suburbs.

Also because public schools in the city continue to struggle compared to their suburban counterparts, and millennial with children care about that.
I've been using this for over a year on multiple phones. The amount of negative feedback here based on zero experience reads like corporate fud.
It actually does mention and link that paper.
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non-paywall: https://archive.fo/PGRcH
Ask HN: Why are we so bad at weather forecasting?
Before leaving the office today I checked 3 different weather apps, all of them said 0% chance of rain. As you have probably guessed I got 100% wet on the way home. Why are we still in 2019 so incredibly bad at weather forecasts or even just saying what the weather is exactly at this moment?
> noisy physically-based raytracing...detail generated from a visual statistical model

That is an optical simulation :)
I tried to build an automation that would send a message to my wife with my expected time of arrival as soon as I leave work.

Unfortunately, the transit skill can only tell you the travel duration, but doesn’t take into account departure times.

It will tell me that I need 20 minutes by train, but it’s impossible to tell at what time the train will depart.
Not everyone will understand that the problem is related to their autofill not behaving properly - it's not too far fetched to think that after trying to submit a few times, that someone would abandon their efforts because the "site isn't working". Probably not as high of a lost revenue as proposed, but I wouldn't doubt it leading to some lost orders.
Are Facebook Employee's Depressed?
For anyone considering this, please know that it would be cheaper in the end to go to an excellent California community college and transfer and pay two years tuition vs. giving up 20% of your income for 5 years or paying $70K.

Anyone who seriously considers this doesn't know how much cheaper alternatives are.

You can graduate with an associates from a community college pretty much anywhere in the country (United States) for $5000. If you're so broke you'd need an income sharing agreement you likely qualify for a Pell Grant so really your associate's would be free.

Let's say you do poorly and can only get into the easiest public university in your state. Using California as an example, UC Merced is about $15K a year. So it would cost you $35K to get a legit bachelors in computer science from UC Merced vs. $70K from a no name. The only way Make School would be cheaper is if 20% of the sum if your income for 5 years is less than $35K. Needless to say that's unlikely.

EDIT: And this is to say nothing of the fact that you can actually take other classes other than computer science and live a more well rounded life.
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Nice catch! As you've noticed, we plan to keep tracking the new drafts as they come out. 22 was the current version at the time we drafted this post, and 23 is now live.
Not intended personally to @norberg, but corporately to Google.
I've heard quite a few times now that some of the reasons these automations aren't completely automatic is to avoid them being abused by people with bad intentions.

Say for example someone setting one up on someone else's phone (without their knowledge) to run every X minutes and using it to track someone's location, without them ever knowing about it.

I'm not entirely sure that's the real reason behind these notifications, but it does seem plausible.
Are there any benchmarks comparing HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3?
You shouldn't need a lawyer, but it may require a couple hours of time (but not all at once).

The next time they call, tell them that the person they are looking for is a minor and you are their guardian and because of that you are required to speak on their behalf.

Immediately inform them that all further communication must be done in writing and that you are requesting that they validate the debt in writing. They are required by law to communicate in writing if you request it and to also validate the debt.

If the next letter from them is not a debt validation, you should send them a simple cease and desist response stating they have not validated the debt and may no longer contact you. Send it certified, return receipt requested. Keep a copy for yourself.

If it doesn't stop at that point, you will need a lawyer, but it will most likely be at no cost to you:

If they send you another letter or call you again attempting to collect, get their information and if you are inclined, contact a debt collection attorney. You would be able to sue them for up to $1,000 per incursion plus the fees from your lawyer. Provided you collected their information and have your initial letter, it should require very little time from you to go through the legal process.
Shortcuts is an amazing, truly underrated app. Almost anything your phone can do, Shortcuts can do. Extremely powerful.

For fun, I created the Martin Luther Insulter shortcut[0]. Say, "Hey Siri, have Martin Luther insult me", and it fetches the list of insulting quotes from Martin Luther's books via GitHub, then reads the insult back to you in a dark, slow raspy voice.

[0]: https://shareshortcuts.com/shortcuts/725-martin-luther-insul...
poppycock
Asking for proof of debt doesn't require a lawyer and almost always results in them going away.
You think so?

I have the feeling, many the co-ops are formed "because" regular company wouldn't survive.
Hmmm, that's not what happened in the Seveneves I read... The reason for the moons destruction was never mentioned iirc. The 'Agent' was never revealed.

Good yarn though.
I B2 with Rclone:

https://rclone.org/b2
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I agree, although Fox News is only the top US cable TV news channel, as far as I know.

Now consider all late night shows, nearly all newspapers, most big news blogs, and the other cable (and broadcast) TV news channels. But regardless, there's not a lot of point in debating what "mainstream" means.

My point is that seeing things like Jimmy Kimmel cry over health care policy [1] is exactly the kind of thing OP is describing. You don't need to be a cartoon politician to fit the bill OP describes. People like and respect celebrities and media personalities, and they see a lot more of them than they do of Trump.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2017/12/12/media/jimmy-kimmel-son-late...
Secure ApacheKafka Flows with Namespaces&more in Lenses.io 3.0 Released Today
Funny thing about that: Complainers always seem to think that the code that they could have written but didn't is better than the code that you could write and did. The trifling fact that theirs does not, in fact, exist never seems to register with them.
They think everywhere outside the US is a 4th world country.

International shipping does require a bit of a knack for risk assessment. There are countries that most think are fine, but with terrible postal systems. Or annoying customs. Or people that flip out when a package takes more than 3 days to arrive.

Shipping to Sweden is fine. Shipping to Italy isn’t.
German Customs will inspect a lot and send a bill, Canadian customs often doesn’t bother with American packages.
It's certainly very retro looking
lol I've never even heard of that. I'm just a little fearful of playing games with asteroids. Probably because I suck at Star Fox.
> So, instead of doing johndoe+hn@example.com, I can do hn@example.com.

Fastmail has an interesting variation of this that supports multiple users on the same domain: hn@johndoe.example.com. My wife and I both use that feature heavily on our domain.
> I went to a pretty fancy prep school with a lot of rich folks...

I suspect you might not be aware of what a vast number of public schools in the USA are actually like. SAT prep becomes more and more critical for students as they come from increasingly underperforming high schools.

There are schools where ~1/3 of the students just wander the halls aimlessly instead of going to class, where teachers turn over at a rate of 25%/year. In such schools even students who intend to go to college are going to be utterly unprepared for the SAT. These students actually need a prep course.
>If you pull your funding out of oil and gas, less scrupulous people will take their place and happily rake in the profits,

Agreed. You create opportunity for at least a short term advantage.

>make alternative energy cheaper, and the demand for oil and gas will disappear

IDK, it seems the actual demand for oil will remain high. We’ll shift from using it in energy production and transportation to plastics, manufacturing, lubes and other refined oils, aviation which to shift to electric will need another 50 years of battery tech it seems, etc.
I've been helping PM the AMA on our side. We've had multiple team members support answering the questions but I explicitly asked people not to ask questions.

We have a lot of students and alumni who see these posts and want to be supportive, so usually there end up being comments or questions that feel canned or overly enthusiastic. Not much we can do here :)
I mean, at top tech schools, lots of students do similar levels of work load.

The program might be "intense" compared to the average college students workload, but I doubt it is outside the norm of someone taking a difficult degree at a good college.
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Wouldn't we see some radiation from dust falling in these primordial black holes?
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I don't see the point though. Isn't this precisely what bolt cutters are to be used for?
An Earth mass black hole has a Schwarzschild radius of about 9mm. It would devour mostly CMB photons, individual gas molecules, and very rarely small dust particles.
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Yeah but that site had mentioned phones officially supported, and then no longer.

It doesn't answer the question which of these phones is a viable one to get now to have Lineage support. Clearly, its not better to get a newer one, it is best to get the one with most support. Which one that is, I do not know.
For context, in the US there are 15.3 million students enrolled in high school, 3.7 million of which are expected to graduate this year (i.e. a little under a quarter, as one would expect) [1]. So the 2.2 million graduate test takers mentioned in the WSJ article represent about 60% of the pool of fresh high school graduates.

Also given the surrounding numbers sum to 100%, I'm guessing the author meant to say 56% percent of SAT test takers have parents with a college degree, rather than "56% of students whose parents have a degree took the test". Probably just a careless mistake, but I still find it ironic (or perhaps indicative) that no editors caught it even though it appears a few sentences after "students struggled most in math".

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372#PK12_enroll...
If they continue on this path, democrats will not get elected for the next 20 years.

Can't they stop humiliating themselves?
For the same level of quality and hands-on-ness? Even at more expensive places the quality and one-to-one with professors/teachers is not what it could be. I only assume at places with less at risk the drive to excel (and for teachers to be very one-on-one) is rare
It seems likely. It was _quite some time ago_.
We're not considering an online only program, though we are making more and more of our resources available online for free.

For a full degree program - given that it takes 2-2.5 years of full time work to complete - it's not super feasible to expect people to get through it without a strong social learning environment.
An interesting read, but the dollar figure is author guesswork. I appreciate this kind of digging into web behaviour though.
Basecamp is not a $100B business. It accepted $1 in exchange for 0.000000001% of the company in order 1) show how you can hack valuations and 2) demonstrate that valuation is the wrong metric to focus on.

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
there's a phrase I use to remind myself of reality when I go down these thought paths:

>Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Remind yourself the demographics who overwhelmingly commit violent crimes, especially domestic abuse, when considering relationship dynamics. Eliminating violent domestic abuse by men would help bring equity this situation.
Nice to hear from you and thanks for the feedback. I'll share this with our Dean and instructional team as they consider more specializations to add!
My experience confirms the decrease in motivation after anouncement of a new exercise routine, diet, or life plan. Keep it private unless you already have a 100% committment within yourself to follow through. I pre-announced that I was quitting smoking, but I was really ready, and haven't smoked in 12+ years.
I hate the way companies try to do custom formatting and validation as you type. It breaks form handling in many different and exciting ways and pretty much ensures that autofill (or even just copy/paste) will fail.

If you must do client-side massaging of form data, at least wait until the user has pressed Submit before messing with the form's contents. And don't assume that the keypresses are the only way your inputs will change.
I'll try to describe it. The stats are correct in that the working classes have shrunk. In the UK, Labour was the champion of the working class, now they look upon the same people as "vulnerable people". Losing touch in that way and instead adopting a more paternalist role towards them due to a much larger middle class. The left used to work with the poor, now they work for the poor, if that makes sense? Socialism now is no longer about the working class but about the middle class looking after the working class.
The description confuses innovation with effectiveness:

> The tech industry was rapidly evolving and yet college curriculum was frozen in time. My high school CS teacher had been more innovative in offering a project-based education than my MIT professors were.

Project-based learning isn't new. What makes it valuable is that it works -- in particular, at developing skills useful for work and life more than lecture-based and other mainstream university pedagogy for most fields.
Oh, okay. I can't speak to that specifically, that seems like an unethical healthcare provider if they're genuinely performing unnecessary procedures. They should probably be reported to the state medical board.

I think there is also a matter of what you view as 'necessary medical care'. Preventative medicine is vastly cheaper (and more effective) than reactive procedures to fix things that have become serious issues.

(It makes practical sense, right? You properly maintain your roof so it doesn't leak, that's cheaper than fixing the damage caused by the leaking roof).

This is particularly true with older people who have higher incidence of cancer, heart disease and major organ problems.

So yeah, they may send you for a battery of tests that they can charge the state for, but it might be preventing a much more expensive (and traumatic/painful) surgery down the line.

But people seem to focus on the collective bargaining and price aspect of everyone having proper healthcare, which is weird because it shouldn't be about that, it should be about increasing the efficiency of the overall system and quality of life of the people involved.
Billions of microplastics... why don't they just say thousands of plastics?
Thanks. I just tried the demo, but it's not working in Firefox 69.0 at all. It loads, but nothing works.

https://imgur.com/a/w8cyFWf
I keep a keen eye on 538's polling data [0]. They suggest that there is only the slimmest of wafer thin margins between Trump and Obama approval ratings at this point in the presidency.

I'm sure it would be lovely if Trump spoke in complete sentences and behaviour is important; but decisions, tribe and policy are ultimately more important.

[0] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/...