skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something I wrote for a previous post on Hackernews re MBAs:

I went to one of the top-tier (top 3) MBA programs in the US. The way I've described that value of the top MBA programs is in 3 (roughly equally-weighted) categories:

1) The Education: Getting to discuss business concepts with a group of smart, successful folks for 6-9 hours a day is very helpful. Most of the content, I could get from books/ online articles at a fraction of the price, but spending the time in a focused way is actually helpful.

2) The Network: In terms of network, this isn't some vague amorphous thing at Stanford GSB, HBS, or Penn- it's knowing several hundred other folks who are going to be very successful in their careers. This can be useful in sales, fundraising, finding a next job, etc. and DOES have a tangible dollar value.

3) The Rubber Stamp: Having your resume say "Stanford GSB" or "Harvard Business School" does have value to future employers or customers- it de-risks you as you've been validated by a famous institution, and helps THEM to associate with these famous brands.

For the top 3 programs, even though they're VERY expensive (approx $250k in tuition + living expenses, plus at least another $250k in foregone income for most incoming students, for $500k in actual cost+opportunity cost), they're almost certainly worth it.

For middle-/ lower-tier MBA programs, 2) and 3) above aren't NEARLY as valuable, or perhaps don't even exist- is your "network" from Local State School MBA actually valuable? For these, the only real value is the actual education, and most students would be better served with an online program or just actually picking up some books/ case studies/ reading online articles. There are a few exceptions to the this- for instance, often schools that aren't in the top 3 nationwide can punch above their weight in regional networks. For instance, if you want to live and work in LA (or work in the entertainment industry) I've heard that it can be really useful to go to UCLA or USC for an MBA.
I'm shocked that they'd extend it to their lawyers. This thread (and the one the other day about telemetry and the GDPR) are a plaintiff and/or prosecutor's dream.

One of the hardest parts of most white collar prosecutions is proving that an action was taken "knowingly and willfully". Unlike other areas of criminal law, most white collar offenses require prosecutors to prove that not only did the person know they were doing the things they were doing, they had to know they were illegal.

Having the party's own lawyer offering legal advice outside the scope of privileged communication is normally windfall enough. Having them do it publicly and in the media's eye is just insane.
The closest thing is Thunderbolt cases - they give you a PCIe slot to work with so you can add a USB-C card so +2 ports and may have ports of their own, this one has +2 ports as well (but you use 1 connecting to it). Some have ethernet ports too. Since a PCIe card doesn't even offer many additional ports I would guess they have to make available a lot of power to each port. The physical size and cost of this is disappointing compared to USB-3 hubs.

https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Thunderbolt-PCIe-Expansi...

Another alternative is to get a small NAS from Synology or QNAP and shift your USB drives to your LAN, some are also connectable via Thunderbolt but that only consolidates the two drives and the bandwidth is overkill for music/movies/backup.

https://synology.com
https://qnap.com

You can also get multi-disk enclosures but they're 'dumb' peripherals, while a consumer NAS includes media consumption apps and stuff for phone/web/TV.

https://www.amazon.com/TerraMaster-D5-300C-Enclosure-Exclusi...
I can't remember where I saw the numbers and I'm pretty sure I'm off a bit. But I think only half of all crude oil gets distilled into "fuel". The rest ends up as plastics and other chemicals, as you mention. I just remember it's a very significant of non-fuel oil use is out there. A quick google search, I can't find the chart I saw. Maybe someone can chime in better on that?

Edit: Listen to Retric's comment below, not me on my stats
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This; I've had issues with Safari when trying to create a smooth animation of multiple elements synced up to each other to create the illusion of them being one continuous looping element. Chrome, Firefox, and Edge had no problem keeping the elements synced together, but in Safari, the time-resolution of animation-delay was terrible, and it forced me to overlap the elements by quite a bit, making things a bit worse across all browsers.

Safari also basically destroyed my animation whenever the window size was changed, which also applies to switching from portrait to landscape on iOS.
Yeah I was hesitant to post because of the negative vibe to it, but still, if all we've achieved in the last decade or so is a replacement syntax for what was already possible 20 years ago on the web (Adobe SVG plugin) and with today's browser out of the box, we ought to search our soul what our goals are with the web platform. Because absurd CSS complexity with some 20 different layout models (or any bikeshedding on syntactial issues really) just serves to dilute any future effort for implementing parts of the web stack for no good reason other than browser lock-in.
I think it depends on what circles you run in. I used to work in operations and there are definitely programs to get women in trucking, because for the employers it's a no brainer to get the potential labor pool to expand.
Hm. That actually raises a good point—how long until militaries can operate without gasoline and diesel? Or even significantly reduce their use? Hard to imagine anything competing with petroleum there in the mid-term future, which mean subsidized production will continue to be necessary to any state that wants to be able to self-sufficiently field an army worth having at all.

I mean I guess there's ethanol from plants. Maybe all that corn subsidy stuff actually makes sense in a long-term strategic sense, then. Though you can ramp that up inside a year if you need to and probably much faster by rationing food & feed use of existing corn to repurpose most of it for fuel, so that's probably not what they had in mind and it is just a form of corruption. Crazy, though, if arable land becomes directly correlated to ability to support armored divisions.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/27/slender-man-...

14? They’ll gladly do it with even younger kids.
(This is a duplicate of a story posted this past weekend. I want to copy my comment from it for greater visibility.)

Fuck everything about 5 day work weeks.

I'll gladly switch to any job that offers a 4 day work week. It's one of the best perks.

As someone with ADHD, work days are entirely spent getting work done. There isn't any extra slack or allotment for personal tasks. They're 100% owned by the employer.

Weekends offer barely enough time to catch up with chores. There isn't enough time both to catch up and still have fun. I use vacation time to catch up on chores, so that's spent too.

I don't want to spend most of my life working. I feel like a slave, and now my youth is almost gone.

I don't care if it's a 10hr/4day schedule or a 9hr/4day 8hr/4day with less pay, I want an extra day for myself. I'm an excellent engineer aside from my ADHD quirks, and I'll go anywhere that offers this where I live.

My own startup (I almost have the capital for a long runway) will be 9hr/4day.

Fuck everything about 5 day work weeks.
"The DNS was co-opted in this effort and OpenDNS tried to achieve this with a recursive resolver that performed NXDOMAIN redirection into a search engine, in a reprise of Sitefinder. For a short period, OpenDNS also redirected the domain name www.google.com to a different search engine."

Well this is false, and misleading. The connection to Sidefinder is a red herring -- sitefinder was applied Internet-wide, OpenDNS was a choice. Saying OpenDNS redirected www.google.com isn't accurate either. There was a URL that was redirected for a portion of users for a very short period of time because Google installed a hijacked version of the Google toolbar, and once we did this, they reverted their erroneous behavior and we reverted ours and we wrote about it extensively (https://umbrella.cisco.com/blog/2007/05/22/google-turns-the-...).

Geoff knows better, but is being lazy or sloppy while trying to provide a historical record. A shame, because it's a worthwhile topic to go over.

The real conclusion he fails to make is that between Android, Chrome, and Google Search, there is a total monopoly on navigation for the vast majority of the Internet. That's distressing, and until there is a major platform shift, it's hard to see that changing.
We are all most likely explicitly authorizing this activity in the reams of fine print you sign without reading or otherwise accept by agreeing to service by your local hospital group or pharmacy combine.
Bitcoin would be the ~20th largest company in the S&P by market cap. Hardly a penny stock.
Ah. My point is that it’s manifestation on TikTok specifically is significant.
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Many jobs are "warming a chair". Pretty much all of retail and service jobs. In manufacturing you will absolutely lose productivity if you shave a day off of the schedule.
There's less and less work where you can be tired and productive. There is either a customer watching you, a great deal of variety in the task or a machine with a quickly falling TCO after your job first.
Yeah, because everything that happens roughly the same way twice, continues happening again and again, forever ಠ_ಠ
You sound like a victim.
Depends on the granularity of the data. What's wrong with (say) 100m square blocks as spatial granularity, with ride time to the nearest minute or even 5 minutes.

The city should be able to ensure regulatory compliance, while anonymity is preserved.
"I'm not against hiring black people, just those who live in areas controlled by gangs or have family members who live in these areas."
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Fortunately, the Labour Party doesn't control businesses and every company is free to negotiate whatever contracts it feels like within the law, so a subset, such as 4 days instead of whatever the legal maximum is is perfectly possible.
“We don't want to be the next cancer village”
Another anecdote of SCCA Solo 1 racers at a GoKart closed course;

0 drinks, average times

1 drink, better lines, quicker times

2 drinks, horrible lines, sloppy corners, slower times.
Personal transport going close to 100% electric is going to take a long time, but combine all electric vehicles with plug in hybrids and demand may start to drop within 10 years. Especially if bio fuel production remains steady, the total demand for oil could actually start to fall significantly within ~15 years.

Remove oil as an energy source and industry would still keep 1/4 of current demand. So, oil is not going to become stranded, but that’s still going to crush any company or country depending on current profits.
I think Wikipedia is wrong here. I never knew that anyone referred to any generic set with operations as an "algebra". That's a magma! An algebra has much more structure than any generic set with operations.

Does this really happen? Do people really say generic "algebra" for any set with operations?

(And as an aside, I don't like the "abstract algebra" monicker. It sounds so immature and undergraddy. There isn't an ordinary algebra and an abstract algebra. It's all just algebra.)
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> 10 million give or take per cell

That just astounds and confounds me. An astonishing amount of stuff in just one cell! We're amazing beings at so many levels. Thank you for that link :)
So tell me then, why didn't the shift from 6 to 5 days cause that?
Reminds me of another place in the south - QuickTrip. No matter what part of the metro area that I am in, the people at QT are always efficient, friendly and no bars up to the counter as if they will be robbed.
> Triggers are implicit, have side effects and are not deterministic.
> ...
> A procedure call is explicit, a trigger is implicit.

Method dispatch (whether the language be OOP or otherwise) is also "implicit".

Think of triggers as controlled code injection.
To add to this, even if you don't own a checkbook, keeping a tracking budget with something like YNAB, Mint Wallet, or Personal Capital makes a huge difference. I've caught so many weird charges on my credit card that way. It also let me know when my bank decided to start charging a "Checking Fee" on their "Free" checking account >_<
Reminds me of another post (3 hours but everyday) by indie app developer with a good discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11277033
> To be fair, I think the "peak oil scare" was good. That's when we all started to focus and take renewables seriously. I

No not really. It made me focus on looking into the 'peak oil' claims and I then realized that was major nonsense and people who proclaim it should not be taken seriously and are instantly discredited in anything they say.

Peak oil was a major distraction about the actual issues that should have been talked about.
A lot of things are non-obvious, especially when you're not aware of them and don't expect them.
You’re describing all the ways remote work is a problem at an office-first company.

Remote-first companies operate differently, in particular communication

https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/
Another reason is people don't like sharing. In democracies the majority of people don't vote for a program where they have to pay for others, even if the net result would be in their advantage.

so it's money, and stupidity :)
You can contract for 4 days per week at plenty of employers. It's called a part-time job.
Anyone working at MSFT know if the work hours vary according to your country? e.g. If you are in the US, do you punch in at 9 and go home at 5? how about Europe? If you transfer offices from Seattle USA, to say, London UK, do you suddenly get more vacation days due to EU standards?

I hear Japan has cultural practices where workers are supposed to remain in the office until the boss goes home. Was it like this at MSFT before they tried the 4-day a week experiment? Or were they doing a Westernized 9-5 gig? Which in that case, would probably already be viewed as a 'dream' lifestyle to normal overworked Japanese citizens.
Oh yeah, they're definitely a problem, and work should be done to reduce and eliminate them. But they're not directly a climate change problem.

Also, if you live in a major western city, especially a non-coastal one, your garbage is pretty reliably ending up in a landfill. 90% of river-borne plastic pollution comes from just 10 rivers, all of which are in Asia and Africa: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...

This is not a get-of-jail-free card to the rest of the world, but it does change the nature of our responsibility— in particular, it means that individual action is almost entirely worthless. Because the issue in the west is not the trash, it's that we're culturally exporting a single-use lifestyle that creates all that mess when it is imitated in places without the pipeline in place to manage the waste. So what is needed is a collective cultural change in order to alter what we export via our media, and the actions/expectations of our politicians, celebrities, tourists, etc.
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> which is a variant of Markdown (or perhaps vice-versa)

Neither, AsciiDoc has similar design goals to Markdown but it's a completely separate markup language. I like to explain AsciiDoc as a markup language that sits somewhere between Markdown and LaTeX, it handles far more things than Markdown (and is therefore more complex) but isn't nearly as complex as LaTeX (but also doesn't handle nearly as many things).
About turn! Was just about to freashen up a site using Ubiquiti, forget that!
The ‘mother of all bubbles’ could blow up the economy if profits don’t improve
Yeah, the advantages are obvious and real, especially for individual contributors. I am myself quite pessimistic about the reality of a massive change there because of the points I raised, and the ability to do commute < 30 minutes has always been a strong factor when changing jobs for me.
> If by cash you mean Tether tokens, maybe.

Bingo. For those curious, here is a very thorough history of Tether and how it's use brought chaos to the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem. It was used as a money printer to prop up an insolvent (and criminal) exchange while creating insane volatility in the markets. It is still alive today and continues to be a massive liability for the entire industry.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/
Being able to code on my iPad Pro would be one for me.
Note that they explicitly did it with the intention of clamping down on informal breaks, socialising and other "distractions". The founder heavily suggested he decided on this solution because he wanted to cut down on on-the-clock use of Facebook, private conversations, etc. They basically enforce a rather strict work focus during those 5 hours and justify it by offloading that overhead into leisure time. Also the 5 hour cut-off is socially enforced with a strict "countdown".

Our company is in the same region of Germany and we independently started experimenting with our work time but our focus was employee well-being via stress reduction and encouraging our employees to use the extra free time for self-care.

We ended up with a flexible 25-40 hour work week (or similar 60-ish % adjusted for non-40 hour positions). The goal is to keep each employee's work hours as close to 25 as possible but allow for "overtime" (up to the full 40 hours) if necessary. If we notice employees are working "overtime" over a longer period of time, we rebalance the work load or adjust timelines as possible to get them back to 25.

Despite the reduction of work hours by 30-40% the effective work output only shrunk by 10-20%. But the real benefits are social.
>Why there is no national healthcare - money, someone makes a ton of it by preventing nationalization of healthcare system

It could also be that things cost money, and taxpayers don't want to pay for some things.

The Democrats have decided that the rich must pay for it. Republicans have decided that it's too costly. By splitting the crowd, we have reached an impasse.

We could do what every other country has done, and have everyone pay more in taxes to get it, but both sets of votes have blocked it. Dems want European benefits without European taxes levied on the middle class. Reps realize how much these plans will cost and scare people with taxes in general. The end result is people want others to solve their problems instead of accepting the pain and paying for it.

It's not companies - it's voters. And it would cost a lot more in the US than anywhere else, and it's no single point of cost added - every part here cost more, from doctor and nurse salaries, to drugs (which are a small part of overall cost), to people wanting more end of life care, and on and on.
>Teaching people about ethics doesn’t make them more ethical[1],

Anecdotally, I can agree with this. Ethics class seemed to be more about learning how ethics are vague and how they can be used to 'ethically' justify even atrocious things. I really disliked my ethics class. Most of my classmates didn't like it either. We actually ended up getting into a big argument with the teacher once over something that ended with her just screaming at us all to shut up, told us we were all wrong then just made us read for the rest of class and wouldnt teach any more that class.
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You were replying to a comment that said "a binary score is still a score"

The comment you appear to be arguing with, is completely true. A binary score is of course a score, and in fact that's almost always how credit and trust scores are actually perceived.

From the company's perspective many scores are continuous, but from the consumers perspective that's mostly a distinction without a difference.

Usually from the consumer side you're being told you got the job or didn't, or got the credit card, or loan, or apartment, or didn't.
And how is it pegged? Someone asked the various exchanges very nicely if they could only trade it for $1?
With all of the Russian collusion conspiracies surrounding our current president, I pretty much put our mainstream news like CNN and MSNBC on the same level.
Can confirm that if you do, follow his script. Get the patty melt and a pecan waffle and you'll be happy.
I'm interested in hearing from business owners.

For those of you who own businesses with employees -- how do you feel about 4-day work weeks?
Would it be practical for your own companies?
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Connecting to a centralized DNS provider over tor defeats the purpose of tor and makes it easy to deanonymize your traffic completely.
The claim here is that men don't pursue higher education at the rates women do. Does this mean PhD and graduate school programs are not competitive? Or that a PhD is staying home and taking care of family?

I'm very confused where this is coming from.
This weekend I started digging into OpenBSD. I'd never used a BSD - been a Linux user for the past decade. While the table linked might show OpenBSD as the "least complete", what seems to be the case is that they pick one tool to fit a use case and then use that one. There aren't 400 different shells installed by default or 5 different process monitoring/inspection programs, because they have the one they like and use/improve upon it.

OpenBSD is a fascinating operating system. I'm only a few chapters into Absolute OpenBSD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_OpenBSD) by Michael W. Lucas, but from a Linux user/admin perspective it is enthralling. I can't wait to learn more about it.
Wait until you realize that the total length of all the DNA in a single cell is 3 Km... How's that for folding@home ;)
I love putting books on hold on Libby. I basically pick out a few books I want, and when I get one, I suspend any that are close to being available so I don't have to go through the whole queue again. I usually have a problem with too many books available.

Yes, I need to wait to read a specific book, but I don't need to wait to read something I have on my list.