skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the schools are all that different myself and in some ways are probably better than ever. I do think it is easier than ever to get through school without actually learning what you are exposed to.

In engineering maths, people lean on Wolfram Alpha to solve and break down equations then pretend like they understand because they know the steps. You can look up endless discussion and breakdown of rhetoric and take a position as your own without applying much critical thought beforehand. Cliffnotes. People these days seems to think that because they can look up information it's the same as knowing it.

That's before we get into issues such as institutional cheating. I know a person who makes most of his daily cash shadow writing essays for college and high school students. It's done through an anonymizing method on the web. No idea how many he actually writes, but he seems to write a lot of them especially late spring/fall.
I know groupthink has a negative connotation and can be damaging but on the other hand it seems necessary to have some kind of groupthink in order to align an organization on a goal. Especially in areas where there is not a clear cut decision what’s best you have to form a group opinion that assumes certain things. For example in software dev at some point you have to decide on an architecture and live with it even if there are alternatives that are as good. People who constantly reopen that question are not really helpful at some point. The danger is probably for people to stick to that decision for too long even after weaknesses start showing up. But I think especially for a large organization it’s hard to find the point when it’s time to change course.

I guess all I want to say is that damaging groupthink is easy to spot in hindsight but that well functioning organizations also rely on groupthink. And that it’s quite hard to distinguish between positive and necessary groupthink and negative groupthink.
If you look at the history the preferred way for the US government (and others) to raise lots of money in times of crisis was through "war bonds" (named "Liberty Bonds" in the US during WWI). Back then the government financed itself by encouraging people to safe more and invest that money into such bonds. Your scenario has definitely played out in other countries - for example by forcing banks to invest the money in saving accounts into government bonds.
Just to note, Haskell is not that pretty when used for "real world" tasks.
We have private services as well, they have contracts with small stores to keep those packages. And a distribution center (unless very far away) seems better than a stolen package.
What's missing for me is cross-device sync of scroll back logs, push notifications on @mention even if you're not connected, and proper user accounting to handle abuse.

I want to be able to leave my desktop at home and pick up where I left off on my phone (with out getting disconnected when I change cell towers) and not miss anything
I have a question regarding IRC. I haven't really used it much since 2001-2002 but is there a self-hosted option where i can leave a client running on my server and then access it with my phone and/or browser on a desktop pc when I want to check in?

This would be especially helpful with less active channels where it's nice to have a client constantly online to catch chats.
Unless Dallas is significantly different than the rest of the world, I find this wholly implausible. That would match entry level offshore rates. So next $25/hr resume you see, please pass it along and I'd be glad to hire that them
I usually follow Givewell's recommendations as they do a ton of research into which charities have the most impact (the maximum lives saved per $). I also like to give to some far future stuff, usually those associated or endorsed by the Effective Altruism movement just in case AI risk becomes a reality

https://www.givewell.org/

https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
Why is an ocean current critical to world weather losing steam?
Except that a large number of them went bankrupt:

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

And took a lot of countries down with them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932014_Spanish_fina...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932014_Portuguese_f...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-2008_Irish_economic_downt...
If it's 6% in NY, and averaging 15% elsewhere, there must be places where getting a package delivered is pretty high risk.
Moments of Truth. feedbacks are welcomed
It's surprising that an entire generation has now joined the cyclical boogeymen of Russia, China and anywhere in the Middle East
Is it really so surprising that updating a universal standard takes time?

IMO, these processes should happen slowly.
I don't get this - one adversary most people (and certainly almost all individual users) worry about is the government.
It's trivial for the government to see who runs a VPN connection to this service and identify all users. Just using this service automatically puts you on the government radar.
Elementary OS 5.1 Hera
I'll update, because that's the sensible thing to do. But, frankly, I only use FF because the Zotero plugin works in it, but not in Safari.

And I tend to load FF, use it for a few minutes, and then quit it. That's because FF has a habit of going nuts somehow, and gulping energy on my OSX systems. I've no idea what causes the problem, and I don't really care, because Safari tends to be faster -- sometimes a lot faster.
I'd recommend going to https://savedotorg.org and sharing it if possible. There will be a public call through this campaign for people interested in learning more about this sale on December 5th at 12pm pacific time.
wait, can you use USPS and require a signature?
here in france, UPS/Fedex etc will hold the items in their distribution center, or they have many partnerships with local "tabac" stores.
but the official postal system (La Poste) will simply hold it in the post office for up to 15 days, where I can collect it against a signature.
I upvoted you because you bring up a popular myth.

So you are correct that they have to be paid market wage. But the details matter here. For the DOL, the "market wage" is the "prevailing wage". This is a function of the job classification (title), wage level, location and (most important) which wage survey they choose to use.

By now you can probably guess how a company that wants to underpay can use these levers - under classifying, moving them to a suburb with less employers for that job, using a different wage survey etc.
It depends on what she did during school. I've worked with someone who had a masters in CompSci who couldn't use a computer to save their life, but they could write algorithms and design systems no problem. They had no interest in programming, but loved the mathematical side of it.
Memento Mori: Facing Death as a Fount of Life
Same here, if the newfangled hipster stuff doesn't have an irc channel it doesn't have enough of those really old people who again and again watched their stuff crumble in their hands for reasons they were sure were not going to happen. Just picture them sitting there silently raging at the invasive species that are colorful unicode smiles looking back at them from what use to be their purist text interface. How can you not love a place like that?
I'm a big fan of IRC - for me it is one of the best tools to communicate
And the distribution center in NYC is often in a far out place with no public transportation access.
I do this now, with irssi running in a tmux session that I connect to with juicessh and mosh.
I'm assuming 10$/month you're talking about the supplementary insurance like "mashlim" that 90% of the people with reasonable income do. The article also says that 53% of the higher income group also have private insurance, which I'm sure is more expensive than that. (the article is from a few years ago so things might have changed since; I don't know). But I agree that most people probably don't need private insurance.

Also to make things clear, when you say people in the US pay hundreds of dollars a month, that's also true for many Israelis. The public insurance is not free if you have a job. The more you make the more you pay. If you work in tech it's likely you're also paying hundreds of dollars a month. (don't get me wrong, I think this system makes sense, it's the same as income taxes). The situation in the US isn't great but it's been much better in the last decade. For example, I live in Massachusetts and everyone in the state is required to have health insurance. If you're low income then you get your insurance from the state.
Reminds me of libowfat [0]'s stralloc/buffer. It's used in gatling[1], a small (LOC/binary) http/ftp/samba server simple nonblocking IO.

[0]: https://www.fefe.de/libowfat/
[1]: https://www.fefe.de/gatling/
My app is missing... :)

https://github.com/mellowcandle/bitwise
Have you tried "Have you tried x?"?

This follows naturally from "What have you tried?", from the "information to include when asking for help", on which Q&A sites seem to agree.

It's rather innocent at face value and it leaves the door wide open for the person to explain what went wrong when they tried, or why they opted against it without trying, etc., without implying anything negative --except to a really frustrated and/or rough-edged person who is determined to receive everything in a negative way.

Yes there are a dozen mentions already for "did you try/have you tried" so here's my grain of sand on that pile.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/1...

> Elevated air temperatures can reduce the rated capacity of electric transmission lines, meaning that their ability to transmit power will be diminished during peak hours.

That said, it looks like it's just a couple percent, so maybe you just overbuild a little.
Some of the mitigations for this high tech security system are hilarious. Park a less desirable car in front of the target car.
The real incompetents are the developers of the system. It's clearly optimised to create the illusion of useful business activity out of bad-faith value manipulation and outright market fraud.

Of course they're not considered incompetent if they personally do well out of it. So perhaps the real problem is more systemic.
I generally agree about the hammer of the state angle, but another angle here is that if medical people are addicted to drugs and they have access to patients' drugs, they can potentially skim some of the drugs that they're supposed to be giving their patients.
https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

https://quassel-irc.org/ has a server component you connect to with clients (for desktop and Android, not sure about state of things on iOS), and https://github.com/magne4000/quassel-webserver if you need a web interface.
That sounds like a simple, clever solution. Thanks!
You can run weechat on server and connect via ssh (https://aaronparecki.com/2015/08/29/8/why-i-live-in-irc describes this setup)
I Wrote a Blog Post on Mental Health in the Technology Sector
I use JuiceSSH to connect to a tmux session running irssi. I understand this isn't necessarily for everyone, but it works great.
Former librarian here: in the context of public libraries, access to these works is covered by regional sharing and interlibrary loan agreements. As other commenters have pointed out, local public libraries have limited shelf space and usually no offsite storage, so they have to focus on the items that circulate most in the populations they serve.

But getting access to these works is by no means difficult in states with robust library systems (both public and state university). This week, I’ve had two obscure, academic works delivered to my local branch library from universities in the state. It took about a week from request until delivery and there was no charge to me whatsoever.
Firefox Private Network uses Cloudflare for the browser extension and Mullvad for the desktop and mobile clients.

> Our partner for FPN Browser Protection is Cloudflare. Our partner for FPN Full-device Protection is Mullvad.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox-private-networ...

Mozilla previously sold ProtonVPN as an affiliate for $10/month, but Firefox Private Network doesn't use them at all.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/10/22/testing-n...
Brendan Gregg talks about it in the talk in the link at 17:50.

Here is a short transcription (not verbatim):

> People have asked if BPF is Turing Complete. Is is possible to have a BPF program that can run BPF programs? We have had some serious discussions, as are we there yet. And the answer is no. The answer is no because the verifier rejects unbounded loops and so that there is some things that are not possible. There are bounded loops in BPF now.
The Ethical Dilemma at the Heart of Big Tech Companies
In the end, it still makes sense to realize this, and to be cautious. The NSA, Israeli Intelligence, BKA, FSB, etc are all not much better than the StaSi, and one should treat them, and their (ex-)employees with as much trust and respect.

Of course using SELinux or TOR, or Intel products is something that’s hard to avoid, but one shouldn’t trust blindly.
This is what finally pushed me to delete my Facebook account too. Many people only use Facebook to communicate even if they have my phone number. So, they'd send me something on Facebook and expect me to read it there. Sometimes they'd even get angry if I didn't despite me telling them many times that I don't login to Facebook. I mostly don't hear from those people anymore and I'm fine with that.
This! People on hacker news have called 45 of the last 1 recessions! Having a finance background I can't stand finance related discussions on HN anymore. Any attempt at science immediately goes out the window and it just gets me so tilted. Too many armchair economist, not enough people willing to admit what they don't know and learn.
Quassel works like that - you've got a core, and few clients - the default, Qt-based one, Android one, web-based one, even an Irssi plugin to connect to it.

There's also The Lounge, which looks pretty nice, but I haven't tried: https://thelounge.chat/
OP here, I've been working alone on this project for a year and would love to know your thoughts !

Thanks to this [1] HN thead 2 years ago, I noticed that in tech, price was not always correlated to quality, and wanted to help compare benchmarks and features faster. Thus my will to create this project.

[1] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14561498
The comment below yours (in my view of HN) contains one of my core criticisms of our financial system:

> Modern loans don't work the way a classic model of lending would suggest. That has implications - loans represent a redistribution of real-world resources away from people who have worked for them and towards people who the banks like.
Watching Firefox sinking to essentially licensing its name like an obsolete fashion brand is sad.
Skin Orgasms from Listening to Music
I do not know much about kernels and OS architecture. But I am wondering how this relates to the idea of GNU Hurd. Wasn't its concept also about microkernel-based design?
just stop using facebook. no more ads.
Would be interested to know what the experience is of this in other companies, smaller ones as well as large corporations with masses of $$$$ swirling around.
Does anyone else go crazy in the presence of groupthink?

I've never been unpopular and I'm the kind of guy to make friends with individuals in various groups, but I've always been allergic to cliques.

Whenever I find myself part of an in-group that's rapidly converging on groupthink, I get deeply uncomfortable and don't last long there. When I'm on the periphery of a rapidly coalescing clique, I often find myself becoming the outspoken outsider.

I just can't stand people agreeing on everything -- I've got to play the contrarian. Universal agreement just doesn't seem safe or comfortable.

I feel I have a natural resistance to groupthink and it's a huge liability. Most people seem to love forming into tribes.

And frankly, how do you stop the ever-present march of groupthink? I guess key is creating a culture where respectful disagreement is encouraged and expected, where people can openly admit to being wrong without losing face.
>During the 2009 crisis, “BBB-rated” companies — the lowest rung of investment-grade — faced borrowing costs almost 7 percentage points higher than higher-quality companies. Today, the difference, or “spread,” is just 1.4 percentage points.

Besides, doesn't that imply that a high spread means we're in a crisis, so that the reasonable spread we have today is a good indicator?
I think what you are looking for is called a "bouncer" in the IRC world.

https://www.reddit.com/r/irc/comments/35vcth/eli5_what_is_an...
Thank you so much!

That's actually exactly why I built it in the first place, so definitely going to be "eating my own dog food" with this for the next project idea :)
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If it wasn't bad enough that the politicians feel the need to change things up regularly, you have the well known problems of the morally bankrupt textbook and calculator industries. Unless of course, your school doesn't have enough money to have a book for every student (not a hypothetical; I never saw a math textbook during my time in BTR).
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I did a similar route for Arkansas and the Non-Traditional Licensure program. My first year teaching circa 2004 I had 18 math text books for Algebra I class that had 25-ish students. The kicker was it was the exact same book that I had when I was a freshman in high school in 1993.

Not only did I not have enough text books, I was using a text book that was at least one maybe two shifts in teaching standards away. Hell, we had a smart board given to the school as part of a grant but no one could use it for fear of tearing it up. A locked up resource does no good, nevermind that a Smart board is useful but at best is a nice to have. Textbooks are a must have in comparison.

It was an utter shit show and explains more about why education in Arkansas is horrible.
I'm glad I could help :) You should go for it!
The problem with tracking is that parents of slow kids don't like to admit there kid is slow, they would rather point the blame at the teacher/school
“I almost sold Baremetrics for $5m”
Can’t they start the company and then sponsor themselves?

Also H1-Bs are specific to The US so does not negate my comment about most countries and their attitudes to remote workers. Even if technically not allowed somewhere, no one’s going to start a campaign trying to deport remote tourist workers.

Remote workers pay local consumption tax while not draining value from the local economy.
Ahah - I like that. That's what I'm going to say from now on :)
I am personally not looking for "a perpetrator". Many people share responsibility for a failure like this. But that's all the more reason that we should clearly describe who did what, when, and why.

Please note that you are working very hard to make up a fantasy situation that entirely exonerates the person like you. Your fantasy does not match the known facts. Think hard about why you think that's the most important thing for you to do here.
Then why did you hire them?
if you are using GNU grep, -H option gets enabled by default when there are multiple input files
IRC and XMPP are relatively easy to set up servers for, too. I looked at Matrix a little while ago and it's a serious PITA by comparison, so far as going from zero to achieving client-talking-to-server. Of course the company behind it appears to make their money selling hosting, so....
Exploring the Universality of Human Song
J&J's actions are also very similar to those of the tobacco industry and oil companies- the dangers of their product were well-known within the industry and yet they took steps to obscure the issue and limit regulation rather than address the problem. (In fact I just did a Google search for "hazardous talc" and the first result is an ad: "Johnson & Johnson | Get the Facts About Talc‎" https://www.factsabouttalc.com)

In the ceramics industry the dangers of talc are well known, in recent years well-known sources of talc have been closed down due to asbestos contamination. In addition talc-silicosis is a very real concern and we never touch raw talc without an OSHA-approved respirator and dust extraction system.

Article from 1979 about the R. T. Vanderbilt Company's fight to keep talc mines open despite the presence of tremolite:
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/03/archives/new-yorks-talc-m...
> Whenever you look at a problem somebody’s been working on for a week or a month or maybe years and propose a simple, obvious solution that just happens to be the first thing that comes into your head, then you’re also making it crystal clear to people what you think of them and their work.

I've been successful with a different approach.

Ask "What happened when you tried X," where X is a simple option, instead.

It implies that you think X could have been tried, and opens the door for an explanation for why it didn't work.

If X wasn't tried (and I am surprised how often it was not), then you find out. No chance for misunderstanding, except from the most defensive types.
I worked in an academic library for several years, from the IT side of things. For the last five, I was heavily involved in "weeding" in a few ways.

I think I could go on at length about this manual from a critical aspect, but suffice to say I think it is wildly optimistic, to the point of being pollyannaish.

The faculty: the manual ignores the agonizing battles one will have with the faculty over discarding a book that has not circulated in twenty years (note that this circulation number might be incorrect because the faculty member has instructed some hapless grad student to locate the book and then squirrel it away in a locked faculty carrel or perhaps in the ceiling tiles); the faculty will then wish to have each and every book to be removed to be up for debate by each and every member of the faculty. You can imagine how efficient this might be, with each volume treated as if one were callously pitchforking puppies and kittens into some kind of Moloch-furnace. My favorite offender was a duplicate of an index to some other library's special collections that was out of date by a few decades.

I say without a trace of exaggeration that faculty will also debate the language used in the process by comparing it to the verbiage of the Holocaust.

I may have missed it in my skimming, but I do not see anything about automated tools for comparing the catalog against the union catalog of the libraries in one's own local ILL system. I can find nothing on the long-term strategic outlook. While other libraries are trying to shovel books out the back door and out of sight, others are trying to win Hearts from the other angle by keeping what others would throw away, thereby becoming centers for inter-library loan.

Of course, the best code is the code you did not write; similarly, the easiest book to get rid of is the one you did not buy. Acquisitions should be rather tight and yet many libraries blindly pull great palettes of junk from a pre-determined approval list, typically formulated from best-sellers and the like, which results in your science fiction section being inundated with various Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, and WH40k issues, starving out the rest. These circulate early and then not at all. Acquisitions are filled with these trivial mistakes which accumulate in the calculus of time.

I could go on and on about this, but the manual could use a more cynical approach to better effect.
This is basically implying schools haven't updated their teaching methods to consider the access to infinite information through the internet.

I've taken courses in grad school where the professor lets you bring a laptop to the exams to lookup whatever you want. You still can't solve his problems if you don't understand the basics.