skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Already published: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10565-what_s_left_for_private_me...

Another talk that's pretty awesome is this one:

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2019/Fahrplan/events...
I'd say this is spot on, particularly the part about going to college for lifestyle reasons, combined with a field that is low-paying, and a choice of uni that isn't particularly cheap, is a bad combination.

I'm not sure I agree on grad school, perhaps you could elaborate? It's true that it's very much hit or miss. But my experience is that there's plenty of grad schools which offer 1 - 1.5 year Masters' and tuition fees that aren't abnormal. Here too your second point rings true, either you pay a lot of money for a good rep (e.g. if you go into BigLaw, assuming you don't burn out, it gives a high return rate), or you pay little for a no-name university, and then I feel grad school absolutely does come at a premium. Compared to a 3-4 year Bachelor's degree, it's usually a relatively quick program with potentially bigger upside, especially if paid for by your employer.

I think what most students underestimate is just how many of them fail to finish the standard path. Almost half of students don't finish their bachelor's within six years due to delays and changing paths, and a lot of them quit entirely. I think college makes sense if you know what you're looking to study, why, are dedicated to completing it, and able to.

A lot of students go into fields of study as a teenager, literally never having had a 5 minute conversation with a person actually working in the field, having spent no time looking at the income tables, or indeed not actually considering the field at all, but just wanting to become a college student. It's these students who probably drag down the stats quite a lot. I've seen fairly unimpressive people go into a business course, work their ass off, do various internships, and land high-paying jobs. And I've seen smart kids start the same business course, muck around, graduate after 6-7 years and land a mediocre job that doesn't really require any particular degree. At the end of the day the student is still the most important factor here, and by the time they head to college, it's often already 'too late' for institutions to turn an B student into an A student, without the intrinsic motivation. There's lots more room in primary/secondary school for that, that's really where it's at. What college you head to after is less important in my opinion.
It seems doubtful that your guy spends 40 hrs/wk installing garage doors.
You see, the BJP troll army has descended on HN. They are all creating new accounts to spread their agenda. Their agenda = BJP good. Everyone else bad & everyone else is "anti Modi anti India anti Hindu pro Christian, pro Muslim Pro Pakistan"

(The last line is exactly what they say on social media)
> The issue is that trades don’t scale like all of the things you mention.

The UK famously has a plumber worth $100 million - Charlie Mullins.
As far as I can tell, a huge part is that they are incredibly overpriced. No one is going to pay $14k for an electric cycle when a brand new gas cycle costs $8k. People put together their own scooters from batteries, a controller and an electric motor on YouTube all the time, but companies are trying to get people to give up the same amount that could buy them a Ducati.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21895939
The name is literally British Broadcasting corporation! Also on their YouTube channel it clearly says "Public broadcasting of Govt of Britain"
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This is a really interesting addition to the literature if you dig through it, with subtle distinctions between income gains and wealth gains and interactions with demographics.

It's not a simple "college ain't what it used to be" story. The biggest puzzle is how to explain why recent grads still command significantly higher incomes than nongrads without accumulating significantly more wealth.

Increasing tuition is a factor, as is the declining return on capital gains over successive generations. Limited financial literacy and predatory lending seem to be hurting recent grads too.

Most notably, the inability to discharge school debt in bankruptcy since 2005 may have had strong effects.

That last legal change remains bewildering to me. You have three parties: schools, financial institutions, and teenagers. So uneducated teenagers are expected to know whether or not their choice in school, degree, expenses, and personal background will make their education worth it? When the other parties have all the data and experience? And if it turns out everybody was wrong, the now barely-employed twenty-something is least prepared to absorb the burden. More importantly, the least susceptible to incentives to improve this endemic situation for other future students. It creates a moral hazard which drives schools to overprice courses of education that are higher risk, and removes any incentive for lenders to educate borrowers on expected returns from different choices.

Policy circles are hotly debating right now how to overhaul the entire system. Maybe we should acknowledge the policy changes that helped break everything in the first place, and reverse those as soon as possible.
nosh being one of those.
My God, this is so stale. It reminds me of Python 2 vs 3 debate. Get over it, Sys V is just not sufficient anymore.
Why all electric motorcycles are so ugly?
>from 1950 to 2000 where any mediocre person could work hard and be guaranteed a middle-class life.

This is a fantasy.

I personally know a lot of mediocre hard working people, mostly baby boomers. None had or have a "guaranteed" middle class lifestyle, and many don't have a middle class lifestyle at all, even now. One moved to a retirement community to "retire" and had to get a job. Another is currently without heat.
The point is that Zuck and Gates had capacity to take on risk. There’s no guarantee that their risk would have paid off, but the other side of the coin wasn’t starvation and destitution. They basically had a heads I win tails I don’t lose type of situation.

This is the big idea here - being born in the right situation gives you the ability to bear risk where a lower middle class kid can’t bear that risk because if things don’t work out, that kid is going to be homeless. When you can take a lot of risk with little downside, it almost always pays off in the long run.
I usually use a mini jack and and old stereo.

but “powered stereo speakers” are speakers with a built in amp. Most have analog inputs and Bluetooth (some even have turntable input). They can range in price up to almost 1000$.

I feel those analog inputs are important in making the device future proof.

Crutchfeild is a catalog seller but has good examples of this class of speaker:

Eg:
https://www.crutchfield.com/S-wbA54LW1kow/g_463050/Powered-S...
I think there is a societal benefit to the average person having more education. If we're being honest, many jobs don't even require a high school education.
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It does need binaries, though.
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Bankers have the luxury of taking big risks with your pension fund, losing all of it and still getting their yearly bonus when market forces are unexpected.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/22/skin-in-the-ga...

> Bankers are in the “Bob Rubin trade”, named after the former secretary of the US Treasury, who “collected more than $120 million in compensation from Citibank in the decade preceding the banking crash of 2008. When the bank, literally insolvent, was rescued by the taxpayer, he didn’t write any cheque – he invoked uncertainty as an excuse.

I'll save the doctors, lawyers and techbros for someone else. But there are equal examples you can find.
Complex analysis is why I stopped taking so many software engineering courses and turned to math.
From the fact that you are a libertarian I had already assumed you had no idea about economy, but thanks for confirming it.
Because the Linux community is not made up of product managers. It's full of software developers each who thinks their way is the best. Distros, maintainers and users will always be fighting political battles.
Ubuntu doesn't have sysvinit so isn't relevant here.
How about flutter for desktop?
To be honest, everyone has an agenda. So when BBC is critical of ISRO then it is not propaganda, it is just racial bias.

But what these fake news outlets(which include leading mainstream media of India) do is they blame opposition for everything.

A bridge had collapsed in Mumbai due to BJP govt alloting it 1 Rupee for maintenance for that year and all channels were "questioning" the previous congress CM.

"Built during Congress time 45yrs ago. It collapsed! Massive corruption suspected"

They didn't say that BJP spent 1 Re for maintenance.

They find a way to blame opposition about everything. Even now, although economy is screwed BJP wants to polarise the country by "throwing out infiltrators", their genius idea is of making all 130crore people stand in line to prove that they're Indian nationals and their parents are Indian born. So basically everyone needs to give documents of their parents from the 80s!

And when opposition questions it BJP Media says "Opposition doing fear mongering! Owaisi spreading deep hatred!" They literally name opposition leaders and say anything they want to suit BJP agenda
Worth noting that this sounds like a joke or a gaffe, but might have been a very reasonable thing to say. Assuming the green was on or near its spot (its starting position), which is likely, every snooker fan would know which ball was the green.
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Yeah, but the tariffs only provoked any growth because companies rushed to stock up on supplies before the tariffs went into effect, anticipating that the coming price increase would decrease profitability and potentially destroy specific supply chains.

Tariffs can't produce any net growth, they can just juice short term growth at the expense of long term growth, and they can produce localized growth (ie for US steelmakers) at the expense of the broad domestic sector (ie all US manufacturers that use steel).

In general, tariffs are an own-goal. Trump had to implement new subsidies for US agricultural firms on the order of tens of billions of dollars annually (and has cost more than twice what Obama's big three automaker bailout cost) to prevent the collapse of US ag that lost a ton of export business because of the tariffs. If we could get China to stop stealing US intellectual property, perhaps the tariffs would be worthwhile, but there is a zero percent chance that will happen.

Tariffs are just bad economic policy.
Would be interesting to see if in due time when the death toll rises we get to see proceedings in the international court in The Hague.
> You can still walk into the bank. Checking your account from home is cool, but hardly a vital thing.

What are you talking about? A lot of Alabama (and the US generally) is unbanked specifically because there's no bank in walking distance.
I'm having trouble finding the 2017 version of the guidelines where they added the rule but they specifically targeted competing parental control apps and mention that update and the subsequently-contrived violations here:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/the-facts-about-paren...

> We started exploring this use of MDM by non-enterprise developers back in early 2017 and updated our guidelines based on that work in mid-2017.

Then they did nothing about it for two years until Screen Time was ready:

> When we found out about these guideline violations, we communicated these violations to the app developers, giving them 30 days to submit an updated app to avoid availability interruption in the App Store.

The backlash they faced led them to recant and update their guidelines allowing the very same parental controls and using the very same MDM technology instead of the APIs they built for Screen Time:

> and in limited cases, companies using MDM for parental control services.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ (5.5)

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/04/apple-lets-parental-app...
I have a degree, but not in CS, and after seven years in the industry I still occasionally come across recruiters who treat me like I must have no idea what I'm doing, or interviewers acting like I must be a genius for solving easy problems. It's got to be worse if you have no degree at all. I'd tread carefully.
That seems to have stopped working too, here's google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:D8y6DGJ...
> No

Implying you disagree with me, but then:

> ...you can also build up a set of ideas of how people behave in response to desires, norms, and stimuli. Those ideas let you make predictions of how people would act.

Correct. But I'm sure you realize that there is a difference between predicting something and knowing something. Don't forget, "knowing* something is actually limited to under a certain set of unique circumstances - whenever human beings are involved, very few things are absolutes, there's just too much randomness and inconsistency (matters of opinion vs matters of fact, hypocrisy, etc).

> But at what scale do they need to be tested?

That's the thing: we don't know - once again, you can make a well-reasoned prediction (now we have nested predictions) about how well they need to be tested, but forget that you're making predictions at your peril (see: the current state of affairs on planet Earth).

> If you've seen a 20-person student group engage in a long wankerous meeting for 6 hours until 1:30am, does that experience provide valid information about what can happen in a Direct Democracy the size of Singapore (pop: 5.6 million)?

Yes, absolutely - the key phrase being "can happen". However, what else can happen?

- do we know?

- how would we know?

- does anyone actually care? Let's say, just for the sake of conducting a thought experiment, we could magically invoke an omniscient being who could provide us the answers to these and other questions. Based on your reading of political arguments on HN and elsewhere, what percentage of people do you believe are truly interested in discovering The Truth (the best approach to yielding the maximum benefit to all people on planet Earth)? Personally, I would put that number at about 5%, tops. To be clear, I'm not talking about people that truly desire the best outcome - that number would be much higher - but rather, I am talking about people who are willing and able to set their egos and axioms aside and truly open their minds to all opinions and reasoning in pursuit of maximizing the outcome for all people. Most everyone thinks this is what they're doing, but watch how they react to the slightest hint of criticism of that belief.

EDIT: I won't mention the dreaded d-word, but excluding "Let's say, just for the sake...." and onward, I would absolutely love to know any thinking on how one might disagree with what I've said? I say this in interest of improving my personal thinking, which I perceive to be sound, but have no actual way of knowing.
Even without home internet, cell phones with data plans are cheap and ubiquitous. Even most “poor” people have at least a cheap Android phone with a prepay plan with data.
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Electrics are still milking the premium market, is the problem.

In the West, a brand new Ninja 400 fuel injected sport bike is $US 5000, new. Through economies of scale, and their getting the bugs out and widening tolerances over its 30 years history, they're now the AK-47 of bikes: cheap and dependable. You can spend $20k on a bike, but you don't need to. Similar Honda and Suzuki models. Harley and BMW can't and won't touch this part of the market.

The Zero starts at $US 11k but you need to spend more like 18k to get something as useful as the current gas bikes.
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Most people don't, though. They provide some install instructions using pip in their README, and IME these barely ever work without modification.
Fair. I'll get those added.
Yes, but every time I tried it, it always fails me with some obscure error that I run away from it with bitter memory(why did I do this in Python!?!).
If it is not a priority for the language, I’ll rather choose a language which cares about it.
Developer here. Thanks for posting! Feel free to ask my any questions.
Python 2 is now EOL

https://pythonclock.org/
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Your anecdotes don't mean much to me other than that you can take action on things you care about. Which is good.

I simply dislike vacuous "someone, somewhere should do something" statements. Be they from you or anyone else.

And yes, we should hold at&t and other who were granted monopoly power and government mandates accountable for their failures. No disagreement
That should be illegal. It's discrimination for a basic service.

So instead of giving a discount for signing up online, they should charge everyone the same price which would be the non discounted price - how does that help?
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Which crate/framework do you use ?

I'm looking at REST API frameworks for rust these days, but nothing looks decent...
It’s not just carbon. Methane is much worse and mostly comes from cows.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80033772
Can you move the repo to GitHub? GitLab UI is ugly, I refuse to use it
How does money “run out”? Are we not collecting more of it every year?
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This is a rant. I use elementary OS as my daily driver OS. I've been reading (like you have any choice) about Flatpaks and Snaps like they are the future.

Here is my no crap opinion: they suck. Long live apt. An they suck badly.

So snaps. What exactly is all the deal. Does the same as apt and silently updates apps for you come what may. How awesome to suddenly have incompatibility issues with some file or whatever, without a single way to address the issue (probably install from apt at that point would be the only way out).

Snaps, and Canonical's sick push to move everything into it. Oh boy. Ubuntu just died. So sad man. But it did for me. Windows is better at that point (I mean, struggle for struggle).

Flatpaks. WTF? Sandbox? I believe this is trying to mimic Android's app permission model. Hey it sucks. Really badly. VSCode terminal just isn't. I mean no bash? No filesystem? WTF? What is it useful for? Installed document viewer, oh wait you can't just double click the pdf. No, you're doing it wrong, open the app and search the file from it; oh sorry no filesystem access. Screw it.

So a terminal that can't access my filesystem or apps and a document viewer that can't access documents.

If I had any patience for this crap I would have way more to write. For the time being snaps and flatpaks are useless to me.
Not seen this service before. Does it work with all paywall sites?
Read the HN guidelines, which advise to not post short, unfounded dismissals.

I for one, really like the design. It shows something different than the past decades of motorcycles.
What if they don’t want a job in their area (ie want to move away?
They have a really good discussion of this in the middle of the study, admitting it erodes predictive power.

They point out that much of your lifetime earnings are predicted by your parents' level of education.
I’m baffled as to what makes you think that.
Here’s a list of drinks and packages affected by the compulsory deposit:
https://dpg-pfandsystem.de/index.php/en/compulsory-deposit-f...

Here, have a random statistic - they talk about the decrease in percentage of beverages offered in reusable packaging:
https://de.statista.com/infografik/amp/8077/anteil-von-einwe...
It’s apparently “only” 42% for reusables, compared to 56% for disposable ones. It’s not perfect, but It’s better than what pretty much everybody else in the world is doing.

Edit: turns out the statistica link is not so random - it’s based on data published by the federal environmental agency. More (in German) here: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/verbrauch-von-g...
You’re making choices for your future self that your future self probably won’t appreciate!
"told by Sonos support that there's no way to stop the countdown" really means "can't", though.

It's purely our own cynicism on the respectability of companies that we assume it probably really means "won't".

We can accept that when customer support says "can't", it means "won't". But we can also hold them to some, any kind of standard.
Sure, tariffs are rough in the immediate if your business model is selling cheap Chinese steel to a dwindling middle class. You might even miss your quarterly numbers and donate to Mitt Romney. However, wage growth for the bottom 25% is at a decade high. https://www.frbatlanta.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker.aspx Trump won’t be in office forever. Soon enough, you can sell us all out all over again.
The Germans owe tens billions of dollars to the Greeks due when a final WW2 peace treaty is signed.

The billions of dollars are loans the Germans forced the Greeks to grant then during the war and at the end of it were to be paid by de-industrializing Germany by moving the capital goods to Greece.

The Germans, not wanting to pay or default, asked the four powers not to grant them a peace treaty when they reunified.

The Germans are quite touchy about this, but the fact is, they’re deadbeats.

Uzzgx: when lacking arguments launch the ad hominem attacks.
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I wrote a tool called pipsi which I believe has influenced pipx but despite the existence of such tools I have no idea these days how to install python packages any more. Ir has become only more confusing and complex. Both for cli tools as well as libraries.
A friend of mine drives a zero. The very low cost per mile makes it cost effective.
How? Are there reusable tools for this now?
Better reference than Netflix?
Actually, thanks to Weka, I knew about Waikato University :-)
PG&E's problems are due to a change in liability laws combined with decades of poor maintenance.

A non-profit government-run utility wouldn't have a profit incentive to skimp on equipment maintenance for decades. It would have other, more interesting problems.
I can't imagine any of the contractors I've hired successfully navigating the setup for DRM-enabled power tools, let alone the inevitable hiccups when working in unnetworked areas etc. I'm not talking about Harbor Freight scumbags like myself. I'm talking about the valuable trend followers who have a new cordless from Dewalt or Ryobi or Milwaukee every six months and buy more expensive items regularly as well. Those guys cannot handle DRM shenanigans, and will forever despise with a burning passion any firm that inflicts such upon them.
Nothing. You can get the same secure sharing service with zero hassle with a simple shell script:

sum=$(sha1sum "$1" | cut -f 1 -d ' ')
ssh your-vps mkdir /srv/http/files/$sum
scp "$1" your-vps:/srv/http/files/$sum/
echo https://your-vps/files/$sum/$1

+ nginx or whatever
This sort of thing varies from person to person. For example, my wife and I are both very introverted and don't really need the human contact part. My wife does work from home full time and loves it.

I can do almost 100% of my job remotely and so I work from home one day a week. I could do more work from home, but my coworkers can't do their jobs remotely so I don't want it to be unfair for them.

Personally I would recommend against going back to your old job, even if they welcome you back. That won't look good on a resume. Give yourself some time, let your superiors know that this is an adjustment for you and they should be understanding.