skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true in the US for a lot of people, and it was especially true during the recession. The fact that we've been in a situation where most skilled workers can easily job hop for that last 5 or so years is an aberration, not the norm! And frankly, we should probably take advantage of the situation while we still can.
In actual tests there's no difference in drying time found between using dryer balls and not using them.
How much money are we talking here because that makes a pretty substantial difference.
Just like debit cards are not widely adopted :)
More often than not, companies lobby for public policy which is favorable to the company, not necessarily favorable to the employees, neighbors, and communities which they are present in.

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...
There's a thread discussing that topic: https://lemire.me/blog/2018/07/25/it-is-more-complicated-tha...
Unix v0 now running on real PDP-7 hardware
Living Computers has built the first new device for the PDP-7 in a number of years. It is a storage device called the JK09 which makes use of an existing IO controller in their PDP-7 serial number 129. They also wrote a new device driver for UNIX v0 to support this storage device and have forked the PDP-7 UNIX code on github (you can run their new device under simh). They decided to do this rather than track down an RC09/RB09 controller and disk as was used in the Bell Labs PDP-7 or to emulate that device.

A video of their first attempts at getting UNIX v0 to run on the PDP-7 is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5MKwp2uj2k&t=5s
They don’t write tax laws or run housing associations. Policymakers and older Californians have managed to shift blame to a younger generation of working people.

Apple is also one of the most notorious tax avoiders in world history. They've taken extreme efforts to avoid paying taxes in every jurisdiction in which they do business, to the extent that a number of their tax structurings have been deemed illegal.

On the one hand, it's good that Apple is finally putting its money where its marketing is. On the other hand, if they hadn't spent 40 years avoiding taxes, they wouldn't have driven the development of an entire cottage industry of multinationals avoiding taxes.
Yes, though actually it's upper (the very top) level management that isn't so great. Many mid level are good, my boss included, who is understanding on this issue and says, "yeah, absolutely don't do work from home if you're not allowed to claim the time."

She's also extremely supportive of family time, taking an hour off to leave early for a kid's event, etc. She allows a very healthy work/life Ballance, which is part of why I stay.
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Looks like Uber has two types of businesses. a) Ones that are slowing down, e.g. Rides with growth rate of ~20% and b) Ones that are growing faster by unsustainable economics, e.g. Freight -40% EBITDA.
For Uber ever to thrive, they need a business that is growing fast with good economics. It doesn't look they have one anywhere on the horizon.
He did say UK so those low cost labour issues will not be a concern post them leaving the EU.
If my current non-"smart" TV ever dies, I'm pretty much just going to stop watching TV forever.
I looked for tuition costs over time, but didn't find much online. I did find Stanford tuition data going back about 100 years. Here's a graph of the log of Stanford tuition over time [1]. The log of tuition has grown pretty much linearly.

There doesn't seem to be much difference between how it grew before government backed loans and after them. Somewhere I've got a spreadsheet where I compared the growth rate to the inflation rate. I can't find that right now, but if I remember correctly the tuition growth rate was about twice the inflation rate.

It would be interesting to get this kind of data for a variety of schools, but I couldn't find it.

[1] https://imgur.com/fXnjDNn
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Salami tactics.

- Reduce flexibility over time

- Every expense needs to be justified a hundred times

- delaying approval of vacation days to the point that you take a vacation, and it is still not approved

- Adding unnecessary process where none is required

- Adding compromised people to the team (limited contract, needs the job desperately, needs a raise for kid's education etc)

- Strict butts-on-seats policy

- Constantly saying that we are going to remove technology <x>, where <x> is what you are hired for. Company will still need <x> for the foreseeable future.

And there are more, but I don't want to re-live dark moments. I hope no one actually tries to implement this stuff, because it shows that your manager is a control-freak, and you need to run for the hills.
I don't think electric = more unemployed.

Or rather it's more likely that they're just taking the big switch as a chance to redesign everything. Incl production processes.

That would have happened by next cycle anyway in my view. Electric merely hastened it a bit.
I love the show, but think it could've ended with Season 4. I'd rather be left with the memory of wanting more than seeing it degrade.

Last season already felt like it had a lot of recycled ideas and Erlich Bachman was notably missing.
"ritual purposes" is the bane of anyone trying to interpret finds. Because whoever dug it up doesn't say "I don't know what this is" and therefore throws it open to interpretation, instead they say "ritual purposes" and anyone trying to interpret the find has to start by saying "this isn't a ritual object because...".

Archaeologists never have to specify which ritual was involved, or what part in the ritual the object took. Which you have to do for everything else. That one condition would massively improve archaeological find interpretation imho.
Age has nothing to do with that.
«I think it was the head of the self-driving division at Google.
When we asked him, “When do you think, we will find self-driving cars in cities?” He said, “Well, I have a daughter who is 10 years old. And I think by the time she’s the age of having a driving license, I hope that the Google car will be operational in the city.” So that was about 10 years ago.» – Alain Bertaud

Having worked in the automotive sector of German and Japanese carmakers, with European, Japanese and American plants I have to say news coverage on the industry to me has devolved into something more resemblant of sports gossip. I.E. there is an immense audacity of bystanders with zero experience in the field to make bold claims about things like what the customers really want (the fans), which technology really works (the strategy) or what kind of fallacies CEOs and engineers fall for (team-management) that these bystanders apparently all get.

The car is one of the most successful products in history, I'd like to call it the German iPhone (although it took Americans to make it a mass-market product in the first place). And like the iPhone it has left its visible imprint in our public life. If you think digital detox is a thing, wait for how much bad rep smartphones will get in 50 years (if they continue to exist). Cars shape our surroundings for over hundred years now.

It is no wonder then that cars get to be the scapegoat for all sorts of things. And it is no wonder that people have highly politicized arguments about technologies, markets and processes of which they have zilch experience whatsoever except their own filter bubble inflaters. Go to HN and say something positive about Tesla and watch how you get downvoted. Say something negative and watch how much faster you'll get downvoted. SUV drivers are getting socially leprous [1][2] although it is the strongest selling car of the last decades.

Talking about the automotive sector has become toxic.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_lz0diqWJU
[2] https://www.tz.de/muenchen/muenchen-suv-fahrer-werden-boese-...
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if (2) is possible, what's the difference if (1) happens? Someone will have to pay that debt eventually (the taxpayer).
> Well this is false, and misleading. The connection to Sidefinder is a red herring -- sitefinder was applied Internet-wide, OpenDNS was a choice.

It don't think it's entire unfair to say it was reminiscent in concept though. In both cases where someone would expect NXDOMAIN they were served something else just so a company could make money. Users did have more choice in using OpenDNS, and this was something that caused people to switch away from them.

Fair point on the google thing though. That should have been clarified.
You're right - it's not. In fact the median house price in San Jose is around $1 million. $300m is not going to go far.
Only if you take their made up, non GAAP, financial measurement of “adjusted EBITDA” seriously. This is no better than WeWork’s “community adjusted EBITDA” and we see how that worked out.

Adjusted EBITDA. We define Adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss), excluding (i) income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of income taxes, (ii) net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests, net of tax, (iii) provision for (benefit from) income taxes, (iv) income (loss) from equity method investment, net of tax, (v) interest expense, (vi) other income (expense), net, (vii) depreciation and amortization, (viii) stock-based compensation expense, (ix) certain legal, tax, and regulatory reserve changes and settlements, (x) asset impairment/loss on sale of assets, (xi) acquisition and financing related expenses, (xii) restructuring charges and (xiii) other items not indicative of our ongoing operating performance.
every US* shows end.

Most* European shows follow an arc and then stop. It helps that there isn't really an overwhelming obsession with reaching for syndication(~100 shows). Not much point either as rewards for non US syndication are tiny fractions of US.
> I don't know why you think subgradient is that important.

I underquoted. It's more the approach to handling of nondifferentiability in deep learning problems that is of interest to me, whether it involves subgradients or some other recovery approach.

These approaches typically do not work well in general nonlinear systems, but they seem to be ok in deep learning problems. I haven't read any attempts to explain this until I read parent comment.

> It's just a shorthand for anything reasonable. DNNs are overwhelmingly underdetermined and have many many minimizers.

This is not true for general nonlinear systems, hence my interest.
"Why is the assumption "universities are private endeavours that should make a profit" something that goes unchallenged on HN?"

Because:

1) that's a true statement - private institutions are free to be for or not for profit and charge whatever they like.

2) public universities are already funded (in part) by the government and the problem exists there as well, just not to the same extent

I agree entirely with the OP that the source of the problem is in what I will refer to as the "financialization" of college. As OP mentioned, we saw the same thing with the housing bubble. We see it anywhere this type of "easy" money is offered because most people are not long term thinkers or don't fully grasp the details of the terms of the contract or the impact. Put simply, if you offer people money (even with interest attached) as a loan - especially when they are young and broke and want to pay for something expensive - they are going to take it.

The same thing happened with housing. People's incomes didn't magically do up. Rates went down and so the banks said "hey, we'll loan you more money now" and people did exactly what people do - most of them took out the most that the banks would offer them to buy the biggest houses they could afford. This drove up prices across the board.

The same thing has happened here. The actual cost of educating a person hasn't gone up dramatically. Faculty to student ratios are largely the same as well. Yes, the colleges added a bunch of non-teaching staff that increased cost, but they didn't actually need that money to function (in the beginning). They were just suddenly able to charge a lot more because the government guaranteed a bunch of loans to people who otherwise couldn't get them or at least could get them at reasonable rates. So now there was more money chasing after the same amount of services. Unsurprisingly prices went up (a lot). The colleges then spent money on building new dorms and offering all types of new programs and things. And they hired a lot of administrative staff. Now they need that money to function because they got bloated with all that easy money.

It's just the same process we see over and over. With the federal, state, and local budgets - it's not a tax problem, it's a spending problem. Similar story here. There is far too much bloat and debt within these universities. But it all started with the same shitty easy money crap that we've seen before. Same scam, different industry.
You can buy an adapter from a number of third parties in addition to Apple.
I don't really think that's what happened here (that LIGO's work is unprofessional) and I think the vast majority of scientists believe that LIGO's data (and the analysis) are reliable enough to conclude that they did, indeed, demonstrate the existence of gravity waves to a reasonable level of evidence.
My high school education (Canada) worked like that. Calculus was taught in grade 12, so there wasn't any time to specialize more than that in the curriculum. My experience (granted, not in math, but in an abnormally math-intensive engineering program) was that colleges assumed you knew nothing more than basic Calculus, and built everything up from there. Even if you had gone to an advanced program (AP, TEALS, etc...) it really only bought you a semester head start at most.
Pretty sure lone bitcoin bear created bitcoin fall via futures as well - the CTFC.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is an independent agency of the US government created in 1974, that regulates futures and option markets. The Commodities Exchange Act ("CEA"), 7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., prohibits fraudulent conduct in the trading of futures contracts.
While I hate how subversive tech has gotten — I don’t know if I agree. You are ignoring key factors: incompetence and corruption. I would bet that Apples plan is better than whatever plan some local/state politicians will put together. In fact maybe the CA laws should simply compel companies to offset the negative impact of their employees on the surrounding housing market.
I like your comment but it got down voted into oblivion probably because you forgot the /s tag. Some folks are serious here.
> For better or worse I've always made the choice to take the high road, and I've never regretted it.

How high of a road do you think you've really taken? This whole industry is super-connected to some unacceptable atrocities, from plastic pollution to the torture-at-scale perpetrated by the military industrial complex.

You may feel as though your hands are clean, but what about your customers and suppliers? How far down/up the dependency chain are you from materially supporting real suffering?

There are a lot of folks on high horses in this industry, but unless you're dead set against the bulk of it, you're colluding in some really, really nasty–not to mention undignified–exploitation, violence, and depravity.
> It’s strange that people seem to have assumed that I want to confiscate all inheritances.

Not really in the context of the post I replied to up-thread -

> "I would love an inheritance tax. Even a 100% inheritance tax, on anything more than zero dollars"

I know that wasn't you, but the subject of 100% inheritance tax was definitely raised.

> Do you feel that inheritance taxation implies a greater form of “state ownership” than the compulsory taxes on labour imposed during your lifetime?

Yes, very much. I pay my way during my life, but what I build with what's left should be mine to disperse to my heirs, if any.

I'm not completely opposed to all inheritance taxes either, I think there's probably a balance somewhere, and it's in society's interest to (for example) break multi-generational acquisition of vast amounts of land that result in effective aristocracy.

It's just the 100% crew I object to.
You can't get faster engine without having slower one first.

How do they even know what to improve upon without building it and experiment with it?

Also simulation is not a replacement for real world testing. They should launch stuff into space to figure out if it works and their simulation is making the correct assumptions.

Also I'd imagine these launches are sending back valuable data that they can use to make adjustment and improvement for future engines.
Are they powered via PV? IIRC one of them (satellite/probes) had some nuclear fuel.
Reminds me of the work of Edward Tufte, a pioneer of graphical data representation: https://www.edwardtufte.com
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Even his philanthropy (or at least that of the Gates foundation) is ethically questionable [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat... ... And that's just barely scratching the surface. Honest curiosity will lead you to understanding how the megalomaniac in Bill is still alive and well.
For anyone who, like me, was wondering what a "volunteer knob" is, I suspect it's an autocorrecto for "volume knob".

Took me a second to get it.
You're assuming the entire point of college is to make you a worker. But a lberal arts education has always been about making you a complete human. If nothing else, it's important for citizens to be well-rounded enough to be informed voters.
not in a modern tax regime, not really. If it's a store of value, like say bonds, then it's property.

You have to report gold transactions, too, after all.
Ugh yes, I recently moved back to one of the few places in the country that actually has history and it is SO NICE compared to the time I spent in LA and Seattle. There’s variety!
Then the people that downvoted should provide a correction. I still don't know what IC is supposed to stand for. I'm assuming it's not integrated circuit which is what I think about when I see IC.
You might be interested in reading this:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/10/14/the-gervais-principle-...
>At the same time I don’t feel comfortable that funding is for a person not a project

i'm guessing this was an intentional choice to head off controversies about how a project divies up their GitHub sponsorship money. If everybody understants that they are giving to specific people, that avoids a lot of potential drama.
Why won’t crowdsourcing hospital pricing data work?
Thanks, I was just about to go digging for this stuff myself!
Yeah I am going to go ahead and agree with the 'compensated (somewhat) fairly'.

Tech employees offer unprecedented leveraged effort -> work put in affects so many people, and has huge effects. In terms of return to capital, right now employees, especially for startups, are getting shafted beyond belief.

Thanks for attending my TED talk on "why I will never work for another startup again".
• Items surrounding Gilfoyle’s workstation include “Shadowrun” and “Magic the Gathering: Ravnica” from the Dungeons & Dragons world.

Actually, Shadowrun is an RPG set in a cyberpunk world completely unrelated to D&D and Magic is a card game set in a fantasy universe also completely unrelated to D&D (though Magic and D&D have the same publisher).

Sorry, I just had to say that.
That's not a response to parent comment, which is about competitiveness in the ad placement market, not ads on Google Search.
Few direct managers have the ability to give you a raise that a new employer would, in cases where you're being underpaid relative to the market.

They also rarely have much influence over work flexibility or benefits.
Don’t confuse “nonprofit” with “no profits”. There are plenty of people making a lot of money in nonprofits.
I seem to recall that one ending differently. But I guess since we're mixing & matching...fair play