skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you could teach the people about the hardships that come from accepting government-guaranteed loans to purchase an education that does not ensure income proportional to the size of the loan. But, yes, definitely get rid of the government meddling in student loans that has warped the market for education.
>Somewhat related, but I have hard time watching older shows/movies where the plot only works because people do not a have cell phones.

One of the funniest moments in the Buffy spin-off Angel was when the title character was trapped somewhere, and after managing to escape he's asked by his friends why he just didn't use his cellphone to call for help - at which point he's at a genuine loss for words, because he did have one with him at the time.
Crossing into personal attack isn't ok here. If you keep breaking the site guidelines and failing to use HN as intended, we're going to have to ban you. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this if you want to keep posting here.
Yes. I know from personal experience. Some machines require programming cuts to specifications, measuring and reasoning about tolerances, and understanding the loss of precision during routine use.
No value is created but if you are 18 you are well advised to play along even if it’s stupid.
Binary Compatibility Issues with C++
thank you :) I have other evil network related ideas for this in the near future :p
Poetry Atlas: Poems About Places
Is the socialization problem for homeschooling solved?

Every kid I knew in University that had been homeschooled had pretty serious issues with social skills, something I suspect is just lack of exposure to enough peer social interaction to learn how to get good at them. To be fair this is a pretty small sample to draw conclusions from.

I suppose there could also be a pretty strong selection bias at play where the only kids homeschooled in the current environment either have pre-existing issues or messed up family dynamics.
physical fitness should be the standard regardless of education, if only for the health benefits
this is a fabricated scenario.

you could have bought a xiaomi scooter on amazon for $300 - $400 anytime this year. who would ever buy into some maybe-scooter kickstarter if they were low on cash? and who low on cash is buying $700 christmas presents?
I’d rather they white-label the Segway than build the monstrosity in the video. Though the Ninebot won’t let you tote your three year old on it like in the video. (WTF? I know people do it, but advertise it as a feature? I ride a Boosted Rev to work every day, and my advice is: no one under 13 admitted, at all.)

Others in this thread are saying it was $700? Why not buy the Ninebot for $100 less? Or were the shipping models really going to have custom deck as in the video?
Yes, you go thru the auth process, pay, and then they email you VM details after provisioning. Fairly standard. I don't think they claim to be very "cloudy," so yeah you're not going to get on-demand VM's you can just spin up like DO/Vultr. Perhaps they're hourly billing is confusing or misleading to lead you to think that. And it honestly really isn't hourly billing I don't think, unless they don't bill if you turn the VM off (never tested that).
It is a bit of a dystopian wet dream styling. No wonder the guy behind it helped doing fashion for Death Stranding.

I personaly think high tech fashion looks already a bit outdated but i would surely love to have some Acronym stuff. Unfortunately its way off my price range.
Same with OPNSense.
I work in a dozen-story building, colocated with a half-dozen other tech companies. There is a daycare on the first floor. There's also a couple loud restaurant. However, due to quality construction practices, adjacent floors are not audible.
I bet if the federal gov mandated a higher minimum wage (say, $50k) for any position that required a college degree, they'd stop that nonsense pretty quickly.
You're being downvoted by people who don't agree with you. That doesn't mean that you are wrong. According to dang this is actually encouraged. [1] [2]

I don't think it's a good practice to downvote things you don't agree with, but apparently HN's current approach is that it is (and it's always been that way).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16574021

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
> I think homeschooling is an excellent hack given the current constraints of the system.

Maybe you are the exception, but homeschooling is generally centered around religion and churns out students who are FAR worse academically than if they went through even a really poor public school.
ORMs are omnipresent in web development, but I've seen this point of view that they're harmful being kicked around. I'm interested in knowing the tradeoffs, and also what it looks like to build applications without ORMs. What kind of stack are you using? Any information about the pros/cons?
Is coding different than typing?
many people don't want to be highly educated.
Well, why didn't my family think of packing up our bags and moving halfway across the world for my education? Interesting lil hack
IIUC you were doing technical customer support. I'd be surprised if companies have a CS degree requirement for that job.
I don't understand what you mean, but if you mean you want to edit that bit out, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com and we can reopen the comment for editing.
It's as if they read in "Brave New World" about the abolition of the family unit and they took that as an instruction guide.
Basically, Feynman starts with microscopic approach. We want to describe interaction where each piece of mass/energy is attracted to each other. So lets introduce a boson (whole number spin - 0, 1, 2, ...) to carry interaction. Then he talks about spin properties, rejects spin-1 boson (aka photon), somehow rejects spin-0 boson (I don't remember arguments) and start building microscopic theory of interacting via spin-2 massless bosons. Because they carry energy there is a self-interaction. He builds interaction rules, Feynman diagrams, and then goes to classical limit, where he derives macroscopic classic GR from microscopic quantum interactions. That's what I remember from reading this book. Apparently he did it on the fly, lots of errors in derivations which were noted and corrected in footnotes. Nevertheless, very entertaining approach...
Maybe throw in a once-daily, low-tech alarm, and you have both the timely reminder and the unambiguous record.
>Leading your life as if you may not have the ability to materially change the world isn't a bad idea.

As if, what; this is the way things have always been? College attendance, funding, and cirriculum are akin to laws of physics?

This is a relatively recent issue which began when the fed started backing student loans in the mid sixties.
Why don't people say this about population growth? The US population is 2x what it was in 1950. Yet nobody says that this depresses wages causes problems. Would we have a stronger middle class if we Thanosed the population? That doesn't seem right.
Many states (perhaps all?) must have a balanced budget every year. This means that these programs also need to have financing attached to them—so your free childcare plan either includes a new/higher tax, and/or cuts to other programs. Makes it a much harder sell.
Generally speaking, cutting off educational opportunities for people that desperately need them is probably a bad idea.

Even if you did get rid of government guaranteed loans, companies would happily step in to grant people guaranteed loans in exchange for servitude over the rest of their lives. If they don't find a well-earning job well that's even better.

There were multiple non-government loan options back when I was in college that were just that.
... for 50 years
*taught

See, education is worth something
WireGuard VPN is a step closer to mainstream adoption
> do I remain in the workforce and pay $1-2k/month for childcare, or do I quit my job and raise my child/children?

That the program "pays for itself" in increased taxes implies that the additional tax burden is at least the $1-2k/month required to pay for the childcare.

So if you just cancelled the childcare and reduced the taxes you'd end up at the same place on average, except you wouldn't have non-parents subsidising childcare for parents.
I'd say every single thing one does in a day is 2-10x as difficult and 2-10x as time-consuming (usually some amount of both, but the two don't always scale in propotion) when youngish kids are involved. Things that might be quick & mindless become slow and mentally taxing, that sort of thing. Of course making mistakes in raising kids, or simply getting unlucky and having kids who are sick a lot or whatever, makes things even worse—in the best case everything's still much harder and takes longer.

And each extra kid bumps up the difficulty & time factors to some degree.
It may well vary depending on which C standard you're talking about. ISO C defines both a byte and a char as at least long enough to contain characters "of the basic character set of the execution environment". They must be uniquely addressable. Although it seems their definitions don't preclude them from being different, or from sub-bytes being uniquely addressable by pointers.
Brains of Scientists Shrank After Antarctic Expeditions: Study
This sounds great if you buy into the ridiculous notion that everyone is basically equal and would thrive in college. This is not at all the case.
This has indeed been my own experience. I do wish we could get rid of our ORM and use Postgrest instead but the opinion was put forward that we won't be able to hire people who can write correct SQL.
Reading the first few lines of the paywall makes it seem like the WSJ is trying to have its cake and eat it too.

>New manufacturing jobs that require more advanced skills are driving up the education level of factory workers who in past generations could get by without higher education, an analysis of federal data by The Wall Street Journal found.

Considering the 1.5 trillion dollar student loan crisis, it seems natural to tap unemployed grads for manufacturing work, however this isnt happening anytime soon. You dont take 50 years of denigrating trade jobs like ironwork, machining, and manufacturing and expect to hire a college kid whos been told tradework is the devils black hand.

It also implies college begets manufacturing education when in most cases it does not. Statistical Process Control, C(pk) ratios, and center process math can be learned on the job just as easily as it can be learned in college. Trade schools teach this stuff, but for fifty years they too have received a scornful rebuke from boomers pushing collegiate success to every kid, come hell or high water. It means someone who might have been a damn good welder wound up with a philosophy degree and enough debt to sink a city council.

And what of apprenticeships? Well if you have a good union (International Association of Machinists is amazing) you'll get on the job paid training and a rewarding career. On the other, more common hand, unscrupulous profiteers running auto body shops and HVAC will often tell you to "wait for a slot to open" for your apprenticeship. Until then you're mixing paint, buffing wheels, and basically never intended to advance beyond your hopes and dreams.

This might be the tradesman in me, but perhaps its wishful thinking...perhaps this is just a generation of older managers and directors hoping against hope that they can create meaning and worthiness for the college education again if they just demand it in every single hire. That somehow the blunder of turning your higher education system into a profit center will smooth out if you just make sure no one questions the validity of an underwater crochet degree. Or perhaps this is an increasingly terrified old-guard. Boomers who see what theyve done, and are willing to sweep an entire class of workers out the door just to make sure their college graduate kids have something, anything left, before they shuffle off.
On embedded systems, it is quite common to have cut down libraries that only support a subset of types.
e.g. floating point formatting is quite regularly left out.
Would it be correct to say it's a quadratic complexity causing the run time to grow exponentially? Or is the word exponential still wrong here. My Mathematics terminology is rather.. dusty.
What if your idea of proper is different then that countries laws?
If you disable wear levelling, you could force it to end in a final all-zeros state.
super small nitpick on article formatting:

> All examples provided below are sourced from this repository.

In that sentence "this repository" is a link however it has no affordance [1] until you hover a mouse over it.

1. https://uxplanet.org/ux-design-glossary-how-to-use-affordanc...
I couldn't disagree more, by looking at how badly Debian dares to diverge on basic packages such as Apache, nginx and exim it's clear to me that they don't care at all about quality.
If child care is so expensive, wouldn't the income loss of one parent staying at home be irrelevant? Plus, the parent could find some simple side gigs that fit into at home childcare, or even do paid childcare themselves.

I think the real problem is people don't like taking care of kids, and would rather have a stranger do the job. Understandable since kids are noisy, disobedient, stinky little things, but we were all that at some point (probably still are) and someone took care of us.

Then there are all the single parent families, but why are there so many single parent families? Again, I think it is because people aren't willing to put up with each other's imperfections. Yes, sometimes there is real abuse going on that means staying together is actual a danger to life. But, is that the majority of cases? I am doubtful.

So, the real reason child care is so expensive is because we aren't willing to suck up and stick out with the imperfections of other human beings without a paycheck.
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe you could argue that such a statement was intended to keep people from doing charge backs or demanding refunds. In any case you probably have enough to begin discovery, and given the cost of a lawsuit and the embarrassment of what that might uncover, the people behind the company may decide it's easier to settle.
The fact that the “line of reasoning is circular” is kind of the point: they are invariant fixed points in the space of possible sets of laws, such that they remain unaffected by iteration upon themselves. Kind of like Y Combinator or Turing’s Theta Combinator.
iPhone 11 – casual user's perspective
My comment was not about psychology studies. It was about bad posts to Hacker News.
We're using Typescript with typeorm and a Postgres backend. The backend speaks graphql to a frontend written with Typescript and React.

Pro: Lots of people seem to be doing it this way, so there's plenty of info out there and it's probably easier to hire more people to work on it.

Cons: It's easy to make mistakes about authorization and even just wiring things up since typescript's type system doesn't catch some bugs that it seems like it should catch. It's tedious compared to postgrest, at least from what I've seen so far.
Five cities accounted for more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth
What was discovered is the existence of gravitation waves, long wavelength limit to the weak quantum gravity (aka propagating and interacting gravitons)
Population growth leads to more consumers as well as producers. Activating a "dormant" producer segment (as if stay-at-home parenting isn't producing tangible value...) leads to an increase in producers, while the number of consumers stays the same.
I'm guessing not a CS degree, but a degree period.
Ironically the managers in the factory are probably baby boomers who started working their way up from the factory floor straight after high school. Which is the way it should be today.
I was 5 when Mr Hooper died. I can still remember not being able to understand what it meant and Big Bird's irrational response just made me feel upset and confused. I think they knew exactly what they were doing.
They were taking orders and spent the money on something other than delivery, hence could not deliver to creditors. In the UK (where my current company is incorporated) this would make the company insolvent under the Insolvency Act of 1986. It's against the law to operate in this state. [1]

We have to sign documents that assert our finances are in good order for this reason. Violating the law subjects you to various penalties. I'm not eager to find out what they are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insolvency#United_Kingdom
Ooops I meant 13000 meters. AKA 40k feet or so.
Goroutines are still pretty darn light-weight and relatively "easy" to use. Compared to processes and threads, you can spawn thousands+++ with sane defaults and minimal overhead on crappy hardware. Having decent stdlib-support for things like mutexes and sync.pool, means using what works. But yeah, channels and "synchronization by communicating" was heavily oversold, more as a cool idea than anything to cargo-cult. There are many other mechanisms offered in standard lib that may be used to improve scalability and performance. Overall, Golang is overall "good" in many areas, do have some snags (but like in C/C++ these provides you with some lower-level control), though will not approach C-performance. So it's a trade-off to be able to use those sane defaults until bigger foot-guns are really, really required (avoiding premature optimizations).
I've never heard of that before. Many homeschooled kids I knew were very smart, but definitely lacked social skills. I've never heard of them having FAR worse educations, especially compared to bad public schools. "Really poor public schools" are an incredibly low bar.

Socialization is a hard problem to fix. I know they try with after school sports/activities/clubs, but that's not quite the same as being around peers for 8+ hours a day. In non-homeschool, the children are around other children more than adults/parents.
Asymptotically safe quantum gravity may not be a dead end, incidentally.
I see. So it's a face-saving way to talk about this. That seems plausible.
I posted it elswhere. Cheap clothes are travesty payed by unhuman labour and environment. Most stuff should cost 10x more. Probably 30x if you want to make it last long and be ethical. (we you should)
> Every kid I knew in University that had been homeschooled had pretty serious issues with social skills

I’ve heard this narrative before but have yet to see it in real life. All the homeschooled kids I’ve met were years ahead of their peers in every respect, especially in social development. They carry themselves like adults and interact with adults as a peer at 16 or even younger.

I suspect those who homeschool because they think their family and community has something much better to offer than the standard fare often do.

Healthy families beget healthy children, regardless of schooling option chosen. I’d argue that unhealthy/unstable families are the ones whose kids would benefit from being educated outside the home.
I’ve noticed the same. One of them now runs a tech business and based on his social media presence, I can see why he’s hard to get along with.
The new products from Affinity (designer, publisher) as well as the usual suspects such as Adobe.

I'm still blown away by how bad OSX is compared to Mint - much less productive using Finder.
First step: Primary education is made easier, everybody passes, so the minimum standard is secondary education

Second step: Secondary education is made easier, everybody passes, so the minimum standard is university.

That's why everybody needs a master's/doctorate now.
You would be surprised, but it's fairly common practice.
Large requirement docs need to be refactored too.

We got up to 600 pages for a spec one time. And we could only do that because our intern figured out a trick to keep the text editor from panicking on that much text (edit chapters, concatenate them only to produce the final doc).

We got a nasty architectural surprise one day because the same paragraph appeared, ver batim, more than 40 times (I think it may have been as many as 60) in different sections of the document.

But one of them was worded slightly different from the others in the middle of the paragraph, negating some assumptions we had made about the information architecture of the system. I was pretty upset by this. What a hostile way to write documentation! It felt like sabotage.

To stop this happening again I wanted us to move clauses like this high up in the document and instead of repeating them, using one sentence to refer to the common constraint elsewhere. Then the difference would have stuck out like a sore thumb, and might not have been accepted. Unfortunately they weren't biting. As a consequence, document review got a lot slower after that incident.

One of my bosses at a previous job was a shockingly open and pragmatic person. On several occasions he stated that something we were planning to do was a trick you only get to use once, and did we really want to spend that trick on this particular issue or save it for something more important. This documentation trick felt cheap and poorly spent.
>On Monday, the New York Post reported that Kennedy had been reluctant to fly into Martha's Vineyard in the first place, but had been pressured to do so by his wife, Carolyn. Kennedy reportedly told C. David Heymann, the author of "A Woman Called Jackie," whom he was recruiting to write for George, that "I don't even want to go to Martha's Vineyard. I'm flying my own plane ... Unfortunately, I have to take my sister-in-law with us. She's going to Martha's Vineyard. My wife insists I take her there.

https://www.salon.com/1999/07/20/reckless_2/

Visual flight rules aviation is far more prone to weather delays than any other mode of travel. You can walk in a rainstorm or drive in a blizzard if you really want to, but it's straight up illegal to fly in conditions below certain visibility thresholds.
They sure did.

In fact after the company was acquired again later (well a few acquisitions later) I had moved on and was thinking of changing careers when a former coworker(s) and a manager contacted me desperate for help. I was only mildly interested but I agreed to interview at the new company. Their system rejected me for no CS degree, it was an automated email from their HR system ;) I had years of experience with some of their proprietary systems, but nope.

Before they could fix that glitch I had reconsidered and told my friends I wanted to move on (more so based on my personal interests).
That's certainly not the standard. If anything, exponentiation is usually performed right to left, with some exceptions [0]. However, the fact that we even have carets in this conversation isn't because the GP wanted to adopt a left-to-right convention, but due to limitations in the richness of HN's text editor.

If you write a tower of 2^2^9 on a whiteboard and ask 1000 mathematicians and computer scientists to evaluate it, I'm sure 999 or 1000 of them would evaluate it as 2^(2^9).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations#Serial_exp...
Actually it's not. An ISA can save a ton of debt and it's more efficient (less than a year versus 4 years) to get a good job. It's up to you to show you can execute. I know people at lambda school who work weekends and week nights building their portfolio, and have online followings already and are creating awesome projects. No need for a degree. I'd hire the best of them in a second if I were a manager.
Working with Let's Encrypt's certbot for a Lisp webserver
Unless she gets the job a the daycare - I hear they have money to pay well?
If you have never read Mickens out loud, I highly recommend it, the humor is even more visceral on performance.
Yeah, I'm sure you've never made a typo on a phone. You really believe I confuse 'taught' with 'thought'? You made a throwaway account just to leave this brain dead comment?