skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but what may be individually rational may be detrimental from a societal standpoint.

There's a compelling case that most college degrees are mostly valuable for signaling reasons. Most people use very little to none of what they learn at university. Yet employers still care a lot about degrees because they signal that the worker is most likely intelligent and diligent enough to successfully complete the degree.

Even if its mostly a farce, it's still a smart idea to play along. Not having a degree can lock you out of a lot of important activities. But from a policy perspective, the signaling model tells us something very different than the human capital model (which assumes that higher education is valuable because it confers useful skills).

If we're all just getting degrees to signal our good qualities, than its inherently a wasteful zero-sum game. The more people that get degrees, the less they're worth. Rather than talking about expanding people's access to higher-education, we should be figuring out policies to discourage people from going to college.
>I knew dozens of people who could do that job at a third the cost, but they'd never hire them.

That isn't the point. The point is to blow up your valuation to multiple billions without making a dime in profits by making all sorts of vague and pompous statements. Like claiming that you only hire the best (and actually hiring the people based on their ability to make buzz) and then dump it on the unsuspecting retail investor from outside the Valley.

This will prevail until the public investors stop drinking the hypergrowth kool-aid and start demanding actual profits. May take another decade though.
I got caught up in the hype of Bitcoin and thought it would change the world, but the reality is that it doesn't really 'do' anything. All the apps that I've seen on the blockchain are pointless, or more efficiently built using non-blockchain stacks.

I was interested in a coin called MedicalChain which promised to store your medical records in the blockchain, but it seems to be vaporware (lost a little bit on that one!).

When Libra came along I thought that it would be 'the one'. Finally, a blockchain that could reach the mass market and actually be usable. Just a shame it's Facebook...
Yea, you could self host the server.

But I want to work on easier ways soon.

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In my first office job I remember thinking that I should take up smoking, not just because my coworkers were heading downstairs all the time to take breaks, but because the HR higher-ups were smokers too. My office-mates who smoked always had the latest office gossip and knew what was coming down the pike long before the rest of us!
Social Pyschology research should show any tweaks made to achieve results
It might vary by location. I grew up in rural British Columbia and homeschooled for a year due to a family feud with the local grade six teacher.

The other homeschooled kids I interacted with were homeschooled for religious reasons or so they could help on the farm. They were poorly socialized and poorly educated as best as my then eleven year old self could tell.
Interesting CSS you’ve got there on your blog page ;)
2012 MacbookAir is unberably slow with Catalina installed
is there anything to do? or I have no option but to buy a new computer?
Nothing was "destroyed". Rather, it was rolled over for bidding the next day (or 14 days, depending on the specific operation). It's an important distinction, because until the actual FRB balance sheet unwinds back to the $3.76T level it was in September, it is precisely as OP describes.

The delta of the FRB's balance sheet between Sept and now is 4066-3761 == 305B. It's not 415B, but it's not even remotely close to 0, either. During this period, there has only been a single weekly draw-down. All other weeks have been accumulative, and should be considered QE4 unless and until these operations stop occurring.

Ref: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
Yes, that's why I don't store data I don't need.

But of course, I agree with you. Don't trust anyone.
Thanks for the correct term. The newsspeak of exaggerated figure of speech has got to me. :)
> I think that's more of a side effect of a population increase.

I don't think so.

Cities are much more efficient for the masses.

If you have 20 people that all evenly dispersed within 20 square miles, or 20 people within a square mile, more progress can be made in the square mile.
Wow you're the second guy I met that went home to a good salary. Is this a manager role I guess? My cousin in law is making like 10 zl/hr so I'm not sure what is going on.
Because they encroached on land that rightfully belongs to the Muslims.
I count at least three scooter companies in the capital.

They are all startups funded by quick venture capital.
Their scooters litter the street for blind people.
They pollute the sound space of the street with battery charging sos sounds. Questionable.
There is not much difference from one brand to another.
The scooters last about 6 weeks until they need replacement.
I question how good is this for the environment?
> Ultimately the job was customer support some mild technical skills / ability to learn / take good notes / ask good questions / the ability to formulate a theory, test it, and so on.

> They couldn't find any of the fancy CS degree folks

Fascinating.. I wonder if their creating a high barrier of entry actually backfired and caused them to hire less competent people?

My hypothesis: people with CS degrees are fairly high in demand, and on average are qualified to get much "better" jobs than customer support. This being the case, if you require a CS degree, you end up with predominantly the people who were unable to get a better job elsewhere, who are less capable whether it be due to motivation, intelligence, or something else.

Note this completely assumes that software engineering jobs have better compensation/benefits than customer support and I acknowledge I don't know your previous employer's specific case. I also don't want to knock any customer support people, so I hope you will excuse my liberal use of the word "better": I only mean better in terms of compensation and I understand there are more important things than money.
I worked tech support for years and completely agree with that statement. I work in test automation these days and try to meet regularly with support to figure out what usage patterns are like and what pain points people are actually having in the field. My current company is too small to have a dedicated support team so I just get all the emails for the engineering team, but as we grow I plan on implementing something similar. Good support people are worth their weight in gold and I feel like they get dismissed too often in the field. It seems like that's starting to change though as I see better pay at startups for support positions.
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The destruction of the middle east is an Israeli agenda. Thinking that the US government and its media apparatus gave us all the facts of 9/11 is a poor read of the situation. The official story is a farce. The entire explanation is absurd.
Bitcoin by design is not meant to be an investment. Its a bank account, that cannot be seized. It cannot be inflated. That's the solution to the worlds endless debt cycle. Although it does not do a fantastic job at day to day transactions it has other attributes that make it the most amazing technological breakthrough of our lifetime.
You can train it on three D models but that's just a stand-in for the parts as though you have them. But - and this is quite important - if you want to achieve some efficiency with the 38000 or so parts that Lego has made over the years then you're going to have to cut a couple of corners and one of those is to give some more weight to the parts that you do encounter and to train your model to the point that it will come up with the right category even if it has never seen the part at all, virtually or IRL.

That's roughly what I got it to with showing it samples of wheels but not all wheels and it detected wheels that it had never seen before just fine and so on. This is a lot easier than it might seem, you'll get a good match on a class but no good hit for any of the subclasses: that's a new part right there.

And yes, that's exactly how I did it, multiple passes. But more bins is certainly useful, I just ran out of room, the machine was already getting quite large, and the belt and frame I used was fixed in size and dictated a lot of the dimensions of the machine (it was a re-purposed running trainer).
This completely defies logic, considering that 2 kids is replacement level fertility, the world has experienced generally consistent population growth, and most of the labor ever done in the world has been low-skilled labor.
Yep, still wrong. Exponent != Exponential
By third party, do you mean this github repo? This app is also just using the maxmind data, afaict and providing the info in that db over the web.
Is this TTS? I tried getting into Curio.io for a while, but the audio format article genre is very hard to make into a unique product category. Especially when the big news organisations such as WSJ, Economist and The Guardian have their own audio versions of articles.
They have the software, but they only have some of the numbers.

Your tax return includes all those that might not be reported.

For example of you are doing small non w2 jobs on the side that you haven't received a 1099 for, the IRS had no way of knowing about those without an audit.
China is communist.
Ok, then - expect to wait at least 5 years, maybe more.

PCIe 4 was standardized in 2011 and it's still not that widely adopted. So let's say 9 years from standardization to wide availability.

PCIe 5 was standardized in 2017... 2017+9 = 2025. Good luck.
I wonder just how strange and alien most locals would find the above comment about their town.

Not trying to be offensive here, I just find the thought of using Google Street View coverage as any kind of metric for such a place so... jarring.
2^n (by the virtue of Big-O, m^n is in O(2^n) for any fixed m).
With the onset of Starlink, I expect such locations could experience a population boom. With urban housing prices skyrocketing (demand exceeding supply = bidding war), many are discovering the only thing they need to live where they actually want to is reliable high-speed low-latency internet. The land is cheap ($150,000 for 321 acres in Ingomar, Montana), the region attractive (drove around there this summer, very nice), just need a good data feed. Leverage it right, and that old bar could spawn a happenin' site for remote workers.
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The issue is likely matching up these spaces. What if parent A wants care on Monday and Tuesday but not Wed-Fri. The daycare then needs to find parent B that wants Wed-Fri. That might be easy in large cities, but in small towns that might only have a handful of daycares that becomes much more difficult. Additionally, since there are mandatory staff to kid ratios, part time parents make scheduling really difficult.
Personally, I'm happy to lose the data. I found it odd that with both phones and the SIM on the desk in front of me, I couldn't figure out how/if I could vouch for my key changing in any way.

Needing to say I have a new phone just trust me largely defeats the purpose.
Quadratic complexity causes the runtime to grow quadratically ;-)

- Quadratic = x^2, e.g. 0,1,4,9,16,25,36,49,64,81

- Exponential = n^x, for example 2^x, e.g. 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256

Already very bad for small x even if n=2, but for n higher than 2 you can imagine you will run out of time very, very quickly ;-P
That is not a lot to work with.

If there wasn't any overhead, the childcare worker with one infant would pay 1/4 of their wages on childcare, which doesn't leave a lot for housing, food, transportation, student loans, etc. They are only infants so long however...

Actually there is overhead, the child care center has to pay for a building, administrators, marketing, and possibly taxes.

Contrast that to the auto worker, who probably gets a new car relatively often, let's say it works out like a $300 a month, or $3600 a year.

I think auto workers are relatively well paid, so the cost of that car is 5% of their wages as opposed to 20% or more.
I'm confused what the variables are in this example—what's already in the container vs. what is being looked up. If we conceptually don't even have a proper mapping to begin with, then it doesn't make sense to ask whether it's hashable or comparable or not in the first place. If we do—then what is the "key" in this example?
Apple may be ditching the lightning charging cable for some iPhones
If you have Verizon mobile service, call them!

In the US, dial 611, say "representative" at the prompt, then dial 3 for "something else."

I have Verizon prepaid, so switching is easy. I called and politely explained the situation to the customer service representative. I informed them that I will definitely switch away from Verizon if they delete the Yahoo Groups data without allowing archival. They promised to inform their manager and email me back.
I know I think I am a much better parent having daycare during the week. I am able to give a lot more to my kids when I am with them since I get that break. I think overall, it improves our relationship.
> Like someone said in the comments, this is a program that could paid itself with the income tax from both parents working

That's a bit of a weird point to make, though. That income tax is already going toward paying for government programs. If you divert some of that to pay for early child care, some other programs will be left under- or unfunded.
Program/process migration was a thing in the 1980s but was largely abandoned and ultimately replaced in the 2000s by VM migration, which solved the problem of migrating OS and network state by migrating the entire OS and network stack (though there is still some complexity regarding IP forwarding when a VM moves to a new physical network, as well as the annoying problem of data access potentially becoming non-local and therefore much slower.) But VM migration always struck me like hiring a truck to haul your entire house to the grocery store.

Now that containers are supplanting VMs, we've largely abandoned that migration capability. Instead the approach seems to be to make containers disposable, spinning up a new container and shutting down the old one. Migrating minimal, per-application VMs is still possible but not very popular.

Gate reduces OS state and cleverly moves across CPU architectures by leveraging webasm, but IP address forwarding is still a pain across networks.

It always occurred to me that something like this would be doable (even with older webasm-like systems like NaCl), but the network/IP forwarding bit and non-local storage problem still seemed like it might make it more trouble than it was worth.

Nonetheless, I would like to revive the approach of a distributed OS on a cluster of machines where you wouldn't really care which machine your code was actually running on, and could easily add more compute/memory/storage/interconnect in a modular manner. Live hardware and kernel upgrades seems like a nice feature as well.
blame my friend Ben, I just cloned his blog and Cynthiaified it :P https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/
That happened some time ago. In fact, one of the issues with so many women in the workforce is that in the 50's that same class of women were providing community networking functions, allowing for local problem solving and support that is somewhat extinct now. Frankly I am unsold on the benefit to society of women in the workforce. Did we gain women's freedom at the cost of strong and good families? It's a taboo, now. I'm not saying we should go back, but as a society we appear generally unwilling to discuss this reality and loss to family. As if nannies are an entirely sufficient replacement for mothers, but I don't think they are.
i am a bit disappointed that what has been done is basically installing linux and setting up a bridge using usb ethernet dongles. not what i was expecting. its still somewhat amusing though.
I mean, he's got a point. Forsyth has less than 2000 people in it. As someone who used to live in Montana, the nearest town worth mentioning is Billings which is 111 miles away, and the nearest town worth really going to is Missoula which is 371 miles.
> 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

I don't think you're contradicting fossuser's narrative. Being correctly socialized (evaluated as an adult) is being maladjusted (evaluated as a student). By this theory, homeschooled kids are well equipped to interact with the world, but unsuited to interact with college students.
I tend to agree, but look what happened; supply went through the roof, and the four year degree is today's equivalent of a 1960 high school diploma. It's not like all of the people going to college are getting much out of it. It's just a thing you are told you have to do now. Most of my friends spent more time drinking than studying and got very little out of it. They would have been far better off learning a trade.

>most of the people who wouldn't "thrive" would be much more able if the earlier systems hadn't failed them so spectacularly.

Most? Maybe, maybe not. Some amount of them absolutely, but that's once again a different problem to solve, not something to band-aid over later.
I imagine the reason it’s viewed as significant news to share is that they specifically acquired docker’s enterprise business. It’s not just another new KaaS offering in that sense.
as if they had plethora of other entertainment options to choose from ...
Good to see the satire detection capabilities of HN posters are alive and well :)
I’m a techlead who is in charge of mentoring the juniors on my team, most of who have a CS degree.

There is a world of difference between work and a degree, particularly in the UK where a CS degree varies widely.

It’s a surreal experience to be teaching people who on paper blow me away on academic qualifications on the other hand I’ve decades of producing code that produces value, experience with business side of things and knowing how to get stuff done mostly on time and mostly on budget which by the standards of our industry is pretty good.

Not the only one at my company either, the senior dev/tech lead side of things is about 50/50 degrees/no degree depending.

The CTO and Head of Software Engineering are firmly on the a CS degree is only a weak signal at best that someone will make an effective commercial developer.

Not like we are doing crud of the week either, we have VR division, are solving complex problems and have about 4K employees (only about 100 devs though).
That reasonable people feel the need for anonymity to even comment on such a topic is an example of 'vicarious outrage culture' becoming destructive through second and even third-order effects.

Another example is how some people expressing their opinion about Joi Ito engaging with Jeffrey Epstein were lambasted for not criticizing Ito enough (second-order effect). Even if we ignore what happens to Richard Stallman when he bumbles in with a comment suggesting Ito may not be that bad of a guy, look at what happens to those who condemn Stallman and Ito but in so doing point out that Stallman is an uber-nerd, well-known to have no human interface and possibly on the spectrum (third-order effect). Some of those folks are roasted online and even doxxed for the sin of not condemning Stallman enough and for even suggesting facts which might serve to put some context around Stallman's behavior.

The blast radius of vicarious outrage reaches from "Epstein --> Ito --> Stallman --> Commenters about Stallman" which is getting ridiculous. BTW, I'm giving even money odds that someone here on HN responds negatively about me for not criticizing someone (or everyone) in that chain enough, thus adding myself as another link to the chain for making a meta-meta-(meta?) observation about the situation.
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Intel Introduces ‘Horse Ridge’ to Enable Commercially Viable Quantum Computers
Looks like a corral for rodeo, cattle auction, county fair, etc. next door just south of the bar. Appears to be used.
yeah, tbh, I wanted to do it with the it still functioning as a game console. However I realized that it would be way too difficult for me and would never get done :/
I took a trip to Eastern Montana, to a 'town' of about 20 people. Turned out the local pastor was from my home town 5 states away.

It's such a different way of living - and difficult to imagine without actually going there and experiencing it.
College is only partially about getting educated directly - it's also about proving you can adult on some level. Can you get to classes on time and manage a schedule that's more complex than "be at this building for 6 hours a day"?

Of course that's a very poor proxy (some people live at home while getting 4 year degrees, etc), and often times college becomes more about signaling you're part of a certain socioeconomic background (with all the subtle discrimination that entails).

Either way, even if the things you learned are entirely irrelevant to the actual job, a lot of employers look to it as a very rough signal for "had things together", and have a set of beliefs about people who have them.
I’m running the Docker image on the smallest Hetzner VMs, with 5 concurrent groups and 40 shared rsync threads per container, and 12 containers per server. Start one container, do docker top on it to make sure it’s pulling, then start the others one by one, taking a few seconds between each to avoid overwhelming the CPU. I’ve got 6 of those little VMs going, and have rolled up 4GB and 2800 groups worth in 6 hours.

After they settle down, they’re more memory than processor intensive. I’ve considered playing with the settings a bit, but thought it was more important to get a bunch of them running on a couple different VMs at different sites.

If I were really feeling fancy, I’d write a nice deployment definition for orchestrating this with microk8s...
Ah. Well, now that Microsoft have said they want to contribute to OpenJDK, maybe you could persuade them to do something about that.
That's negligence and AFAIK as a GmbH the general managers/ceo are personally liable.
We aren't talking about therapy for DSM-V conditions in this thread, is that more clear?
I suspect Hadoop was just used as an example. For another, I would suggest Concourse (build/CI tool). When I tried it, it was docker images for the default install, vague instructions, and a dev forum which seemed rather hostile to anyone asking for support to build or configure outside of containers.

Might have changed since then, but a big turn off.
If you want to drop the price of equipment you can go down a level and use 433Mhz. Athough wifi chips have gotten cheaper lately and hopefully the smart home iot gadgets will keep dropping in prise.
Homeschooled mid-life adult here (graduated high school in 2001)

Socialization is an issue because, depending on the size of the community you interacted with and how integrated your parents let you be with the rest of America, many of us who were more sheltered are literally from a different culture that people who live in the same country. I have worked long and hard to be able to socialize with people from ‘Regular’ America, and I still, nearly 20 years after I graduated high school, and more easily socialize with people from a Midwestern conservative homeschooled background.

I sometimes tell people I grew up the in the same geography as you, but not the same place.