skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has the University of Chicago ever advocated for free college? Their economics department, home of the late Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys, is among the most right-leaning in the country.
> In the day and age of remote work and comunication, there`s no more escuses to concentrate resources in places like California, NY, etc.

What about infrastructure and clients?
Bring back serfdoms!
Sure, but the price at which the shares are available decreases with fewer available buyers. Let’s not give oil companies the money or collateral to finance their expansion.
It’s not obvious because, as stated, it’s wrong: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05833 You can prove that the disk and the square are not scissors-congruent, based on a convexity invariant, but if you allow more exotic dissections you can construct an equidecomposition.
Ahh, the iron law of bureaucracy at work. https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
Whenever this comes up, I can only assume that people are talking about very different sorts of technical interviews than I’ve ever been subject to. I’ve been working as a programmer for 25 years now and must have been through at least two dozen technical interviews in that time (one just a couple of years ago) and I’ve never had this level of pedantry thrown at me. It sounds like the poster has been rejected from a job interview for missing a semicolon or writing “length” instead of “len”. Maybe I’ve just been lucky? I did once have somebody ask me if I knew SQL - I said I did since I had written some queries using it, but not much. He asked me what command was used to add data into a database. I didn’t know (like I said, I knew the query syntax, but that was about it). That seems to me to have been a very reasonable question to ask, and a good, quick way to figure out that I didn’t really have much experience with SQL.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-commits-two-poi...
It would be fair to mention that Linux actually includes two other schedulers in addition to CFQ: Deadline and Kyber.

Firewalls: Linux, and no mention of bpfilter?
Non-differentiable here doesn't mean actually non-differentiable in the mathematical sense, it just means that the function does not expose a derivative that is accessible to you.
Apple, Google and Facebook should invest on making other areas new tech hubs. Creating more and more jobs in the Bay Area just makes it worse. There are so many talented employees willing to work in other areas.
This is very interesting, but at the same time it seems like something the "free energy" people would have done and found a long time ago?

Maybe they did, but were dismissed out of hand due to everything else in their woo-based world?

Or maybe they tried it and saw no (or little) difference; the article did say that the effect wasn't shown to happen with every non-magnetic anode material - and I doubt that the "free energy" researchers tried a particular nickel-coated foam type of anode...

All of that aside, I do wonder if there are any "off-the-shelf" anode materials whereby one could experiment with this effect?
I would expect it's more complicated than that. I doubt that they just start over every time you move to a different city.
>"I'm more valuable than you because I know thing, so I want more resources for less effort"

Congratulations you just described capitalism.
I'd rather have a concept where some hours of the day or some day(s) of the week are considered "no meeting hours/day." I feel we waste a huge of amount of time meeting with "stakeholders" trying to get consensus and establish "sync" and deliver "status." I purposefully blow some meetings off and ask for meeting notes instead of sitting 30mins/hour long meetings. May be its just me but I strongly feel there needs to be less meetings.
I have started to block my calendar two-three hours everyday that I use to auto reject meetings, turn of slack and focus on deep work.
It's impossible to have a discussion based on news reports, so here's a link for the original paper. I copied the title and abstract below.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3195066

I browsed through the paper. Their main result, if I understood correctly, is that they found "considerable evidence that Tether is used to purchase Bitcoin following Tether authorization and a drop in Bitcoin price, and that this phenomenon has a sizable relation to future Bitcoin prices and other coins."

This result, if true, does not imply directly the conclusion ("rally caused by single whale").

First, it doesn't explain the original raise of the price before the fall (that followed with tether purchases). Second, these results can have, I think, alternative explanations. For example, Tether was used as a tool for shorting Bitcoin, hence it makes sense that it be sold after Bitcoin price drops.

I write this with knowing that perhaps my interpretation of the paper is wrong, since it relies heavily on professional jargon I'm not familiar with.

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title: Is Bitcoin Really Un-Tethered?

Abstract: This paper investigates whether Tether, a digital currency pegged to the U.S.dollar, influenced Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices during the 2017 boom. Using algorithms to analyze blockchain data, we find that purchases with Tether are timed following market downturns and result in sizable increases in Bitcoin prices. The flow is attributable to one entity, clusters below round prices, induces asymmetric autocorrelations in Bitcoin, and suggests insufficient Tether reserves before month-ends. Rather than demand from cash investors, these patterns are most consistent with the supply-based hypothesis of unbacked digital money inflating cryptocurrency prices.
I dont understand anything about this comment
"So what's your plan? Honest question. No sarcasm. How do we get from words to action? "

Get a gun, shoot the fuckers. It's that simple. How are all these bright minds on HN incapable of coming up with such a simple solution? The majority of countries supplying the world with oil are despots and should be wiped off the face of the planet.
Yes...except when you forget the password on your wallet after someone, as an incredible charity offering, sent you 0.75BTC, and that wallet turns out to be "ultra-secure and distributed", which means you can't recover the contents by sending an password change request email.

Yes...I do currently have 0.75 BTC in a locked wallet where I forgot the password and it's totally frustrating.
This is true, but keep in mind the experience of many people is at odds with this. Municipalities de facto wield huge authority through their control of the police and tend to never be challenged. As an extreme but rather common example, there are still locales in the south US that couple religious functions with their public schools and other government offices. Sporadically someone with the knowledge and means will be able to challenge the local government up to the state level, but until that happens the local government can run roughshod over community members (if they don't just force them out).
But right now, Uber is resisting, right?

And at the same time, the government is doing bad things with your data.
DC-DC converters. A lot of stompboxes use these internally actually
Shouldn't be a surprise; the person who wrote the algorithm without help took more than 15 minutes, and got a paper or a PhD out of it.
How to fix student loans...

The .gov backs student loans. And, they are non-dischargeable. So, it is zero risk for the lender to give loan to the 2.7 GPA moron getting a worthless basket weaving degree from the local private lib arts school for $100k. So, they give as many loans as possible, since they can't lose (taxpayer on the hook). Colleges are incentivized to drive up costs of tuition b/c tons of free money.

It's a classic moral hazard created by .gov guaranteeing the loans. Same thing we saw in the housing crisis.

Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy or take away the .gov guarantee and watch the market for student loans for worthless degrees dry up and tuition costs plummet.
The very first step should be to make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy again.
Ok so it's decentralized, very nice. Probably I misunderstood their sync-model when I saw the star shaped network with a central server.
How to Argue for a Wealth Tax
Yes, we're on the same page then. Sorry if I came off otherwise :)
It would be a concern 30 years ago. But nowadays the training part of education can be separated from other intellectual pursuits because the sharing and debating of ideas has become so easy. You needed to be in a university to be even aware of conference debates - not anymore. If anything you 're more likely to enjoy conference lectures in video. And there are tons of ways for scientists to interact nowadays. Some academics use twitter as a continuous conference.

There is definitely a level of irreverence towards academic standards from this kind of technologists but this is a good thing.
U. Chicago is left leaning? It produced the Chicago boys, the authors of neoliberalism in Chile.
>Developers didn't "care" about Edge, so sites would break (or be incompatible), and users weren't buying in because the upsides didn't out-weight the downsides.

Was that the actual problem with Edge tho? My problem with Edge was always the UI and lack of customization. Edge was already very standards compliant and didn't require an abundance of special testing like IE
Most countries here in Europe have not made positive discrimination illegal.

I'm arguing for understanding that most hirers simply hire people with similar backgrounds as their own. That creates the barrier I think we are discussing here. Using indicators such as gender (if your type of org has an extreme disbalance) may help you see that, and correct for it, if you so chose.

'Culture fit' is actually one of those criteria I hate: it usually means hiring similar people.
And where Google goes, it goes too. Forking and keeping up is likely too expensive.
It explains so many parts of what seems to happen on online dating, but like many theories it's probably waiting for a better one, or a better version of this one.

It definitely gets oversimplified/overapplied and abused in service of more extreme MRO/Incel people, but last I looked there were actual biological evidence from other species.
My guess is that Airbnb will stop using Sift after this article is published, because of bad press Sift generated for Airbnb by giving Airbnb messages back to the original user (the author of that article).
Sounds like they have hooks into the back end systems to query multiple insurance companies and pharmacies on the fly. - "Milliman instantly gathers information from multiple data sources"
I agree, what's more important IMHO is education/knowledge of existing data manipulation, after all 99% of the work is reuse not pure creation (incremental vs pure innovation).

Algorithmicians (? - well... algorithm researchers, obviously) and programmers are not working in the same field of work, even though the boundary might seem thin for most, there's a world between both.

Must all painters be artists?
Mcmoose, do you think the University of Michigan has regional appeal that justifies the tuition?
Uber appears to be claiming some kind of procedural issues happened here. They mentioned an "eleventh-hour administrative review process" in the article, although I don't have time right now to dig in and find more details on what they're talking about.
"That is, the CO2 emissions from ethanol are not a problem because they are matched by an identical amount of CO2 capture."

You're missing every other machine using non-ethanol fuel to operate which is required for harvesting/producing ethanol biofuel.

Ethanol's net CO2 output is positive, not negative. That is not good.
I highly recommend reading their statement, which is btw the only content on their site - https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&u=http%3A...
How big of a customer one needs to be to request some other country citizens to be banned from working as SRE? How much do we need to pay to ban Israelis for example?
So? There's nothing wrong with mental illness. For the record I also have ADHD.
From US News, its #6 in national rankings so its pretty good. But the way the economy is structured around knowledge work and with the effect of credential signalling, our society is convinced of the need to get into the best school possible. This belief could be utter bullshit, have some truth (top rated schools teach better), or be somewhere in between.

What is probably very true is that getting into a top school is a signal that you did very well in the competition of getting into a good school. And employers absolutely pay attention to where you went.

so getting into a good school becomes a societal self fulfilling prophecy in terms of importance.
In historic shift, The Salt Lake Tribune gets IRS approval to become a nonprofit
Insert reminder of Charlie Munger's talk on human psychology and incentive caused bias
> All of the policies that drove this mess are local. Which means solving the mess can also be done locally.

Right. But what's a "housing crisis" for society at large is a huge money source for local home owners, who are the demographic setting the local policies.

Don't expect them to vote away their source of riches.
zoom pane is reason enough to me.
Truck/suv sales are certainly up, but I think the F-150 has traditionally always been the top selling vehicle—more having to do with fewer options in the domestic full-size market and fleet sales though
On the other hand, TUM (technical university in Munich) costs only 220 euro per semester, and you're still enrolled into top25 university in the world.
The land of free..
The tuition price being talked about is the top sticker price. If you care about inequality, that isn't the metric to care about. You should instead focus on something like median tuition paid since financial aid can mean that any individual student is paying anything from zero up to the full tuition costs. The concept of the richest students paying a six figure sticker price in order to help compensate for the students on the other end of the socioeconomic spectrum who can't afford it is the exact type of thing you would expect from a "left leaning" institution.
I understand this thinking. I think, though, that the more we understand about cognition (and sleep and health in general and its impact on thinking), the more we'll tend toward somewhat lighter hours (more like 30-40 hours a week even in a startup situation). Not because we can get away with it, but because the output is actually superior.

From a business strategy standpoint, my experience has been that sometimes companies try to compensate for poor strategy by piling on the hours. To me, it's like trying to do push ups to solve math problems faster.

Similarly, I have noticed that strategic structural soundness is vastly more important than hours worked. When the structure is there, all your efforts are leveraged many times over such that, effectively, 30 hours a week becomes more like 300.

Hard work is important and satisfying but duration is not the real measure we should look at, imo.
I can’t comment on your opinion here because I don’t know enough, but I wanted to highlight how interesting the use of the word “cosplay” is.

I understand exactly what you mean when you use the word cosplay, however, it also strikes me that this word wouldn’t be used in the same way 10 years ago as it is today. Just an observation.
If you say the wrong thing, and people call you on it, and you demonize them and call up the mobs against them for it, then yes, it's bad.
>will our representatives actually give teeth to real data protection legislation

No. The majority of them don't even understand what data is being collected, how it can be used, or the technology behind any of it. Until the people in office change, the idea that our representatives can or will protect us is toothless and spineless.
Microsoft mocked for surfer-style Edge logo
Well, Henry’s Ford and Kaiser were there before the govt was, and Sen. Edward Kennedy didn’t want to help Nixon with health care reform so Edgar Kaiser’s HMOs won out.

I doubt most Fortune 500 employees would support turning their company plans into some medicare-for-all. Next step would be turning Social Security over to Goldman Sachs.
Yes. It’s a top tier university.
University of Chicago has amazing economics, and is know for its unique approach. The Chicago school is descended more from the right-leaning Austrian than the left-leaning Keynesian that essentially every other school has. One of the best places you could hope to study for economics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_school_of_economics
I've been working 4d/week for the past 2 years as a software engineer, and it would be very hard for me to go back to a full time position.

I'm pretty sure I'm making more right now compared to how much I was when working full time.

I explain this by having had more time to become a better engineer, as I've been able to spend time on side projects (learning new things), distancing myself from my professional duties (thus avoiding unnecessary/inefficient work), and recovering better during the weekends. Exercising more probably helped a lot too.

Overall, I deeply think that more small tech companies should start offering 4d/week positions, as it will make them able to compete against bigger companies that can offer bigger compensations. Most of the best programmers I know would happily trade a 15% net income reduction for an additional day off. This is also reflected by how popular such articles get on Hacker News or Reddit.

As a side note, part time work for white-collar positions is already very common in the Netherlands[1], and the country if one of the richest in the world.

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[1] https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2015/05/11/...
I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which had a "total cost of attendance" for out of state students at $40,000 in 2010.

For in state students it was only $15,000 per year.

I came from a "middle class" family and received "grants" from the school, such that my cost of attendance per year averaged to $25,000.

Ever since I graduated, not a single person has ever asked me anything regarding my education, and I currently make $93,000 per year as a front end dev.

Strange times!!
I see this now. When I first glanced at it, I thought it was another PAM module
Make it illegal to aggregate data about a person.
I just tried requesting my information from one of the links provided in the article. As part of the process I had to upload an image of my government-issued ID. After that, I was told to expect an email confirmation link that I would have to click on before they could proceed. That was an hour ago and the email has not yet arrived.

I don't really have any reason to suspect that this is a scam, but I can't help but notice that if one were to set up a phishing site for government IDs the UX would likely be indistinguishable from what actually happened here.
Stocks are, generally, asset backed and revenue generating.
The US was the second country to industrialize (Britain was first; France third) and that industrialization had been going very strong for many decades before the start of the American Civil War. Also life expectancy, infant mortality, adult height and similar measures were better in the American colonies than in the most advance Western European countries a century (and probably a century and a half) before the start of the Civil War. So I don't agree that it was a 3rd-world country at the start of the Civil War.

(I have no opinion on grandparent; I am reacting only to your choice of the term "3rd-world country".)
Yes, admin is a problem, but its not just admin. If you are a professor making 150k+, you have to ask yourself how much of your salary is being funded by rampant, unsustainable borrowing.

Colleges need dramatic, across the board cost cutting including professors, admins etc.

Colleges are in for a world of pain in the next 50 years.
"The Greenpeace buying Exxon for pennies" scenario is deeply unrealistic for the moment. It's like finding $295.000.000.000 on the street.

Exxon doesn't change if it's share price declines, the lower the price goes, the more attractive the opportunity from a risk-reward perspective.

With pension funds and hedge funds hungry for yields, somebody will always buy.

To go with your police scenario: In the oil industry, the police officer protects you while picking up the $100 bill and takes a 25% cut. That's the story of many oil-rich nations.
That is true to some extent, but if a stock tanks the company's value goes down, and lenders will not give them the same access to capital they had previously [1]. So they can't grow at the same rate, and in extreme cases will fail. For oil and gas, this effectively means locking some of it in the ground for the time being, while society (hopefully) works to reduce the demand via development and deployment of alternative technologies.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/investing/why-do-companies-care...
I really don't like PR operations like this, but here's a thought experiment:

Presumably it's OK to voice one's opinions on social media, but:

1. Is it acceptable for private interests to do the same?

2. At what point does something turn from personal opinion to propaganda?

3. Is it more problematic that a private entity (e.g. a PR firm) is _pretending_ to express an honest opinion? Would this be acceptable if this were a group of up-front political activists instead?

Personally, I'd draw the line at private interests trying to influence public opinion. Sadly, this is a process as old as the hills. Marketing and propaganda have existed for a long time, it just seems like it's become much harder to pin it for what it is in the era of social media.
> studying of them all to see if they solve any new issues

But you don't find them that way - you look for a solution to your problem, and you come across them. That's why they say "scratch your own itch"; someone else might have that itch too.

You search for JSON transformation, you get jq (that's how I found it, some years ago).

You're right that it was easier earlier. But there are new-unsolved-important problems all the time --- and "solutions to problems" radically narrows the search space.
From the first paragraph:

> On January 15th, we expect to release the “Stable” channel, at which point Microsoft Edge will be generally available to download on Windows and macOS.
> Why is there no value in the general knowledge and coursework itself?

There's a bunch of things a manager needs to know - but:

1. Some things in the course won't be applicable to your industry.

2. Some things in the course will be presented very credulously, while industry practitioners may have a different view of them.

3. Some things in the course are vital skills, but can't be usefully taught in a classroom.

4. Some things you'll already know.

Depending on your experience before the course, and where you're planning to end up after the course, after you eliminate 1-4 there might not be much left :)
Is Canada’s tap water safe? Thousands of test show high lead across country
No, that happened on the watch of the prior, technical CEO. The current CEO's layoffs have mostly been about consolidating and outsourcing IT.
If it's not clear, the quoted critic did not write the OP's submitted article. Perhaps "substantive" is the wrong word here, as I did not mean to imply the critic had the space to elaborate on what she meant. What I intended to convey was that her critique was based on valid grounds – e.g. a dispute on the methodology and research. Not "waaaaah i'm a SJW and this paper hurts my political beliefs so please ban it", which is how I interpreted the insinuation made by the parent commenter.

And again, it's worth reiterating what the critic does not assert: that she doesn't want the paper to be published by her journal. She explicitly tells the reporter that her editor-in-chief has complete authority and independence.