skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "real median household income" in the US is $76k [1]. This means that $10k a year for university is far from being unreasonable considering that a family has 18+ years to save for it if they decide to do so. That's $185 a month (3% of income), ignoring inflation and interest rates, to get $40k in the bank on the day your child turns 18.

It is therefore not a question of affordability but a question of priority for most families. If they cannot set aside that much money it is, bluntly, because they chose to spend their money differently.

Edit: Apparently the average price paid for a new car in the US is $37k [2]... So basically the same as the average price of a 4 year degree in-state. People make their choice.

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-average-income-in-usa-fam...

[2] https://www.boston.com/cars/car-news/2019/06/09/average-new-...
Indeed.

Learning curves are a tricky beast though. While the incremental benefit during the early stages is enormous, it doesn't act as a particularly good competitive moat.

Someone with say a large budget and global operations can easily stomp on it. The fact that VW's INITIAL planned capacity (800 p/d this spring [0]) is almost equal to Tesla's total capacity after all their ramping up should be quite informative as to how fragile Tesla's lead is.

The traditional car makers clearly got sucker punched here by a masterful Musk move...but I didn't hear any giants drop yet. Which to me suggests they might be swinging back somewhere in the future.

[0] https://insideevs.com/news/380318/vw-id3-production-30-day/
> after San Francisco Unified de-tracked math, the proportion of students failing algebra fell from 40 percent to 8 percent and the proportion of students taking advanced classes rose to a third, the highest percentage in district history. Until 10th grade, students take the same mathematics classes. From 11th grade on, students can choose different pathways.

That doesn't seem like much time to choose different math pathways. For example, the "math kids" I grew up with took several classes post-calculus in high school. How can you do that if you're only taking calculus as a junior or possibly senior (depending on what the common coursework was up through sophomore year)?
accessed and dirty (where a page has been accessed and whether it has been changed)

You need to know "dirty" to know whether a page needs to be written back to a swap file (or needs to be duplicated in lazy copying cases), you may want to know "accessed" if you want to do the accounting to push out less often used pages when memory gets short
I've been modded down before for posting this, but we've been on this road before. Richard D Wolff is right: Uber is an old scam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwZcR0q6VE

It's not a tech company, even if it uses tech. It's about legal subterfuge, lack of responsibility, lack of safety, destroying the idea of employment, and turning the screws to make a fast buck until sued out of oblivion.

> Why have we lauded this company as a darling? Breaking laws isn't respectable. Call it fighting rent seekers if you want, pretty it up how you like, but they are lawless crooks.

It's because they popped up with the idea of "ignore sections of law", "destroy the idea of employment", and move faster than cities can sue, and you get a pretty penny. And they're public, so lots of people get rich over lots of others getting poorer.
It's better to have them pay taxes.

Taxes and their distribution are controlled by elected representatives who are ultimately beholden to democratic voters.

Companies and philanthropists are beholden to nothing but their personal whims.
Source:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Business_Administr...

Quote “... Master of Science in Commerce, the predecessor to the MBA.”
How did they instill fear?
Or keep them private but set a max cost per year. You can't give student loans and have no control over the price.
The irony is that without the practical experience of those intermediate steps, you might never reach the point where the diminishing returns become negligible.

You're basically describing the reverse of Zeno's paradox - the "why bother" paradox.
French universities are MUCH more competitive then programs in the US to get into (you can get into bachelors programs in the US at community college level / for-profit schools etc with almost no reading / writing or math skills or even English language skills.

Seriously - if you want to be a vet in the EU it is CRAZY competitive. You simply have no chance to get in unless you have top Abitur scores.

Everyone saying you just need a high school degree to get into a vet school or anything else is dreaming. Many of the high schools themselves are tiered schools.
A chart showing detonated hand grenades in sweden from 2011 to 2018. Whether the numbers are trustworthy or not is your call.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/116-granatattacker-pa-att...
What media says, conservative or otherwise, has no relevance here. These are not socialist nations, period. This isn't even debatable. And, frankly, it is amazing anyone would believe this in a day and age when it is easy to google stuff and learn.

For example: Is Denmark socialist?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzEPKrHalaY

Get this, Denmark doesn't have a minimum wage! How socialist is that?

You are truly confused about a ton of stuff here. Of course I know about what's going on in Europe. I've only been going there for nearly thirty years with great regularity. I have watched as these uncontrolled migrations have devastated entire areas and the culture in some locations. Terrible stuff.

I digress. You are comparing things that have nothing to do with each other. For example, these migrants are escaping war and, in some cases, genocide. They could not care less where they go so long as it isn't where their feet happen to be during the war.

As a descendant of genocide survivors and one who had extensive conversations with my grandparents, I can tell you that they didn't get out their World Almanac and Political Science books along with world economic reports to figure out where to go; they got on the first ship, train, cart or horse that got them the hell out of there.

Please, stop and do a little reading. I'm sure you are an excellent person and one of great intelligence, you are simply operating with the wrong information and, as a result, have reached very flawed conclusions. The good news is this can be fixed if you are willing to consider things might not be as you have grown to believe.
Probably not. But legacy and competing priorities make it harder to just switch away.
HP-UX is EOL. I use both Redhat and HP-UX at work. HPE's plan is to containerize the OS (an X86 container, not a HP-UX container), to help with migrations. Although some people have replied with less then positive things to say about HP-UX, there are a several features in Linux that stem from HP-UX, such as LVM. I'm hoping HP-UX gets open sourced so the good parts can be learned from and be used in other projects.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13924/intel-to-discontinue-it...
Then the first payment would have to be much larger, because the amount going to interest is determined solely by the interest rate and principal.
It is good for GitHub but it is not how it should work. Money should go along with pulls. Its only way to push some money to architects of the IT
When I was in elementary school we had this program called GATE and basically it was like once a month you go to a different school with other GATE students from the other schools in the district. There would be special classes like oceanography, robotics, etc. I don't think it added any value into my life ever except variety of experience. I also think it made other students who weren't in it feel kind of bad because they didn't get to go do anything. They should have just done it for everyone IMO.
Depends on and culture. Quite common where I live to commute by bike (Netherlands), even up to 45 minutes, also in winter.

But you’re right of course for eg UK/US in most cases. Difference between ‘where companies are’ and ‘where (affordable) houses are’ is much bigger in less bikeable countries.
Pony is the LAST product I’d ever recommend to anyone, ever. It’s probably the worst open source software I’ve ever used.

That being said, thanks to Pony I was called in to fix a shitshow and it likely earned me an additional 25% in consulting fees... so maybe I do like it in that regard.

But in all seriousness, stay far away.
Is the blurb around the Amdahl's law chart wrong or am I misreading the chart?

Shouldn't it be 50% and 2 processing units or 90% and 10 units?
The difference is that if I don’t want to let anyone know that I watch My Little Pony... I don’t have to! There’s no little black box connected to my TV that tells an advertiser that I’m watching it without asking me.

I can also have a discussion with my friends about My Little Pony and how amazing the last episode was without an algorithm picking that up, unless I publish it to the world or explicitly send it to the advertiser.
The cost he mentions is the A average you have. If you had a C or D average you would not have made it in.
This is not limited to the tech sphere, nor is it limited to people over 40. It’s actually really simple. Some people are great managers and some are awful. You know only know where people fall in that spectrum once they have been given a chance to perform those duties.
Cowboys vs. Giants Live Streaming
The Bill Gates effect. He's all Mr. Philanthropy now, and doing great work, but only thanks to the 90's-2000's ethically questionable shenanigans of Microsoft.
She was against the use of force to take money. She was forced to give money. She took it back through that same use of force. Government is not a charity and there is no basis under which you should give government a gift of your entire working history.
Facebook Isn’t Just Allowing Lies, It’s Prioritizing Them
Americans aren't "completely oblivious to the obvious solution." 80% of first-year college students are enrolled in an in-state, public college.
Sorry, you can't have it both ways. If it's not worth it because the universities are overrated then people won't go. The problem will solve itself.
unfortunately it's woven into the fabric of the country. american culture simply has a fundamentally broken relationship with government
I suggest pony because it would be quite good for people who have a deep understanding of SQL, because the translation is quite nice.

The alternative - SA is really overkill for most things.
Say you built a computer in late 2009 with AMD Radeon HD 5870, Intel Core i7 975, Intel's X25-M SSD and 16 GB RAM.

That computer would still feel pretty snappy today for desktop tasks, running dual 2560x1440 screens. Although new AAA games would probably have issues, either low frame rates or not running at all. Most indie games would work just fine.

I think the change will be even less in next 10 years. 2019 hardware will perform just fine in 2029.

Unless something dramatically different pops up, we're in the era of diminishing returns.
Space ripples reveal Big Bang's smoking gun (2014)
These 12 results are not good. When they start offering 5-series or 7-series with Linux support, we may consider them.
Fatal shootings linked to criminal gangs have increased from around four per year in the early 1990s to over 40 in 2018. And while the blasts that have taken place in Sweden have caused no fatalities so far this year, they could be seen as a sign that the gangs are unafraid of causing damage and potentially harming people.

https://www.thelocal.se/20191030/whats-behind-the-growing-nu...
That's funny how people who don't understand history and facts always choose to attack the messenger rather than the arguments being presented.

I studied in Latin America and lived there for nearly 20 years in total. I KNOW THIS HISTORY because I both studied and lived some of it. She is telling the truth.
He/she is talking about being able to deploy a `Dockerfile` or use `docker-compose` / `docker-machine` on FreeBSD.

It's very common in backend development to run a Dockerized version of Redis/Postgres for local testing/development. A lot of developers develop Go/Python/Rust/node.js/etc. on a Mac, then deploy it to nix. They would need to deploy the same Docker containers built locally (or in CI/CD) to BSD, which seems unsupported given the comments.
Civil RICO is almost always a joke.

https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-...

"Dupes play along by describing RICO claims as "charges," and generally by acting like a RICO claim suggests that there's already been a finding that someone did something wrong."
I've read about those. But now that I've put in the investment to learn and adapt a tiling setup for my needs I won't be going back any time soon.
Standard Univ courses (at least in science and economics) are way subpar compared the same degree pursued in schools or high-end universities with a competitive exam in France. Source: I did an engineering school and did one master in university.

However, I liked more the atmosphere in University.

Also, most private eng schools are crap though they're quite expensive.

So it doesn't seem that tuition have an incidence on quality, at least in France.
Makes you wonder how many shipments of grenades made their way into Sweden in the first place, and how many are still on the streets.
> paycheck, flexibility, or even benefits

At many, many companies, your manager directly decides or at least influences all three of these, so if you quit due to them, you're also quitting because of your manager.
I believe that's exactly what I said
It is true, you cannot get in without your Hochschulzugangsberechtigung (University Entrance Qualification).

Can you name a SINGLE well known major university that does not have this and allows anyone a free education? I will post the requirements here. It is not open to all by any means - their are STRICT quotas.
Gluu vs. Keycloak (2018)
A lot of people don't use dollars, and/or find the USD/$local_currency exchange process cumbersome and expensive.
> "bank-USD crypto", that is, the numbers in your bank accounts

Thanks for saying so. I see so much hype about digital money from people that apparently have never used direct deposit and a debit card, which is exactly digital money.
Don't know when you went, but Montana State is more than that now.
Seeing as 40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency, I highly doubt the average American family has a surplus $185 each month just sitting around.
Maybe the bug is wishful thinking. Legitimizing things we view as positive even though rationally you can see why they would never happen.

It's a nice bug. If enough people were guilty of having that mindset, maybe those nice things could make sense?
> People that lost on the Bitcoin bubble burst caused in part by tether may have a stronger case though

The complaint [1] seeks to certify precisely this class.

"Plaintiffs and members of the Class have suffered actual damages and injury in fact due to artificial prices to which they would not have been subject but for the unlawful conduct of the Defendants as alleged herein" (¶ 260). This is par for the course when it comes to "part-fraud, part-pump-and-dump, and part-money laundering" (¶ 2) schemes.

Note that the defendants are various, from Tether to its affiliates, including Bitfinex.

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.524076...
Sweden should consider banning guns.
I learned SQL in high school as my first "programming" class, though that's more of a quirk of how I moved through the curriculum. This was prior to learning C++ and then transitioning to Python some years later.
I don't think anyone is saying that we've already done enough and the prognosis is good. Also, you appear to be criticizing the people who are doing useful things, without offering any alternative. Bleak indeed.
so your manifesto effectively says that any software licence that isn't GPL/WTF should be illegal?

Software licencing isn't DRM in my world... how are you equating them?
Perhaps they didn't have the right casting for such a character, and they would have to finesse the writing to avoid lazy tropes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel_Bad_Arabs

That said, this show once again unintentionally predicted current event relevance with its creative choices:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/world/americas/chile-prot...
What did you think of Python, and was it difficult to grasp the differences between the two languages/paradigms? I ask because, for myself, any general language I pick up (Ruby,Python,JS,R), I have a good idea of underlying concepts like memory pointers and garbage collection, even if it's all abstracted by the language. With SQL, I have an incredible ignorance of the most basic programmatic concepts, like how to define variables or custom functions. The deepest underlying concept I have of SQL is that it has a query planner that does all the thinking for me.
Latest 1903-v2 "Home" version does not have offline account button without being offline. I had displeasure of configuring it two days ago.

See screenshot here: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/295445-microsoft-reall...
If this argument is made in public, people will never support debt forgiveness. not only it breaks the social contract with severe entitlement, it's also very hard to accept that people who can afford harvard or stanford "suffer"

populist emotional arguments are good when there is the populus to empathize with it. the vast majority of people won't care for such "plight".
A few years ago an American friend told me the cost of his masters at Colombia was about USD$180K for 1 year, taking all expenses in to consideration. Journalism.... insane... no way that money is coming back without a pivot to public policy!
That hasn't been demonstrated. You're citing the treatment of Chinese people abroad who are affiliated with CIA-funded separatist organizations and drawing conclusions about how random people working for tech companies will be treated. I don't think these situations are analogous.
I don't think it is unprofessional to make jokes in chat channels. It helps to build closer connections with colleagues which helps with non joke communication. I am honestly quite surprised you have not seen any jokes in 20 years in chat channels.
The link just goes to a trailer for the movie which is available on DVD/iTunes/etc.

You can see the same trailer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwT3QgKORuQ
A Data Analyst is a Data Scientist who can't prove Bayes Theorem.
Thinking bit more generically, you might be really thinking about concrete with air pockets (though ensuring they're spherical might make for excellent load distribution through the side walls). There are already concrete variants called Aerated Concrete and Foam Concrete where bubbles are formed inside the concrete, resulting in a lighter product, though with different structural properties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoclaved_aerated_concrete
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam_concrete
For some reason Instagram Social strikes me as more fun than Facebook.
SQLAlchemy is a buzzkill but it’s not as heinous as Pony which is a straight up ticking time bomb in your project. Read the source code for 2 minutes and it should be enough to shy you away.

As far as lightweight Python ORMs, I really enjoy Peewee and it’s usually my first choice.
Professional might be different. I can personally confirm this issue on Home, version 1903-v2.
BMW and others should be making BYOB (Bring Your Own Battery) models. Let the dealers leverage the best battery for their market, and battery warranty plans.
If your rent is $400 a month why would you bother to have 3 jobs paying Silicon Valley salary? It doesn't make sense at all.

If rent is $400 and you are making 120k a year, most certainly your salary is over 5 average salaries. Why would you work all day to get 15-20 average salaries? You can work 2-3 hours and already afford all the stuff you want.
The bug is that in order to make a difference, you have to have power. But in order to have power, you have to compromise your character. And thus, you compromise your ability to make a difference.

Obviously this is a wildly simplistic generalization, but it is a very powerful rule of thumb.
The U.S. has competitive rates of college attainment compared to European countries, especially among older workers: https://www.oecd.org/education/France-EAG2014-Country-Note.p... (see page 2).
One big problem here is that they'll be rewarded in the rankings. A bit part of the various rankings models (US News, etc) is how much money is spent on each student. So squandering $10k more on students next year is, in certain respects, a good investment for a university with decent cash flow.

And the question of how much money is spent on a student can be disconnected from the question of tuition, at least at top-tier schools:

At my alma mater, Bowdoin, the college spends just shy of $100k per student each year. The comprehensive fee (incl. room & board) is around $72k per year, and for students qualifying for financial aid (abour half), the college provides grants that bring it down to about $24k per year, which almost resembles something sensible.

But if you're a donor, and you give an unrestricted gift to a top-tier college or university, there should be absolutely no expectation that your donation will be spent frugally. In fact, for rankings purposes (which help all the cash flow stuff above), it just matters that it gets raised and spent.

I think this is one of the biggest problems in American higher ed, and I'm hoping there are a few institutions with the fortitude of character to stand against it and work toward, rather than against, a cost-effective education model in the US.
Most phones turn off before the battery is truly 100% dead.
Loans for education are different from loans for a house or car since your lender cant repossess your degree/the connections you made while in school, which is the original reason these loans were made to be non dischargeable.
Six seasons and a movie!
1. Thanks for the correction.

2. I don't think we disagree here. However, it's not possible to do a cost effectiveness study of every possible patient population. As long as the studies are funded by the drug manufacturers, the data we have will be skewed to make the drug look most effective.

3. I'm not sure it's such a complex topic. If drug companies do their jobs well and come up with genuinely useful products that extend people's quality and length of life significantly, and they price according to $150k/QALY, we will all go broke. The best we can hope for is that they fail to come up with anything useful so that we can still afford to eat. Perhaps the food companies will get wise and start charging the government $150k/yr for beans and rice for everyone in the country.

4. It's not the patent system that's causing this, it's a very complex network of regulatory and institutional capture including Medicare, PBMs, insurance companies, insurance regulation, and drug regulation. All other western countries also have patents but don't have the same drug price problems. These problems are showing up even in generic drugs now.
If I had to complain about things, it would be these:

1. Lack of workplace training - very few employers will pay for you to train/gain experience, partly because there's nothing preventing someone from jumping ship for better pay once the training is complete

2. Credentialism - the things that actually matter in hiring are either difficult or illegal to test for (conscientiousness, knowledge, intelligence), and so degrees are used as proxies instead
That's a cute saying, but it's not a universal truth.

I have quit bosses before. But I have also quit jobs where I had excellent bosses before, because the job (or the company) had problems.