skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A degree from an expensive private school or out of state school is a luxury item, and parents need to treat them like the Jaguar or Porsche with a comparable value. If your child got their license and asked for a Range Rover, would you plunk down $100,000? Then why on earth would you do it for an undergraduate degree to an expensive school.

If anything, the money should be saved for graduate school, where the big payoff happens. If they can get through undergrad at the instate school (or maybe an out-of-state public school) with the grades and pedigree for grad school, then maybe Duke Law School, or University of Chicago Medical School (or a masters from Stanford in engineering) is a worthwhile financial investment, but never for undergrad.
Mobile phone "platforms" are just thinly veiled attacks on users.
> most arguments from the socialist side of the debate concede that capitalism has greatly improved quantitatively measured standards of living

All that shows, IMO of course, is there is some common ground between capitalists and socialists when defining some objective quantitative measures. In a sense, we first agree on the rules of some game (i.e. the quantitative indicators of our qualitative desires) and then we turn the crank of the mathematical machine to see what scores the best.

> qualitative thinking cannot simply brush aside the use of statistics, which is relevant in many (but not all) instances.

I agree on this but in a subtle way. Analogies are the worst but I'm going to do it anyway. It's like a boat that has both a rudder and an engine. In this analogy the rudder is qualitative reasoning and the engine is quantitative reasoning. We use qualitative reasoning to "pick a direction" and quantitative reasoning to "move towards the goal". I sometimes think both sides are missing the fact we need both. A rudder without an engine doesn't get anywhere and an engine without a rudder moves aimlessly.

My original argument was that the engine at this point is pretty well known: logic, science, math and computation. However, choosing good qualitative measures and then choosing good methods to convert them into quantitive measures is really difficult. You mentioned that quantifying "domination" or "exploitation" is tricky. I believe that choosing "domination" as your qualitative measure (before you even try to quantify it) is the really difficult thing. So often we go into quantitative mode with very little consideration why we chose the qualitative measures we are using.

It makes me think of Habermas and his work on communicative rationality (another topic I'm very weak on). I'm not sure that is the right tool but I think we need a set of agreed upon tools other than quantitative reasoning to help us solve disagreements on qualitative measures.
the problem with an age appropriate resume is that it signals your age, and most companies aren't interested in any 'relationship and expert' power that candidates can bring since they have already filled those positions.
It reads like they have found a model that mimics how the brain's electrical signals propagate, in a visually familiar manner. I couldn't read the article either, but the summary doesn't really point at anything that suggests what the title and subtitle suggest.

Spending the 90's studying Artificial Life, I got quite used to reading about code and chemical reactions that were clearly endowed with dramatic flair and excessive personal projection. Eventually you find yourself having to read between the lines in hopes of figuring out what the studies really discovered.
Well let's not conflate front-page and "getting shot-down." Something can be both.

Also, one reason this is getting shot down less hard than the atlantic is that it's a simple point being made in <60 seconds of reading. The atlantic would take >10 pages to do so.

This thought would be even more viable as a tweet.
The texture was... lumpy
Went to the site, excited to try it, then gave up after the login screen.

Would it be possible to have a section for me to upload images to see the effect first? If I like it, I will create an account (presumably to save the images I upload).

I could see people being willing to pay for API access to this too to enhance pictures for others.

Seems like alot of potential, but again I gave up after I realized there's no way to try this out without creating an account.

One thing that also irked me is that you are asking for tips in addition to requiring me to login / create an account: https://pichance.com/donate/

I think that is asking alot from your users before even letting them try out the technology.
In that case it's critical to go to an excellent school where networking is easy. If the probability of a job is low, go where that job is. NYC schools or USC/UCLA, I don't think the job opportunities are as plentiful in Chicago as you get competition from talent from both coasts and everyone with a pipe dream in the mid west. Otherwise it will be that shit underpaid job that you can't crawl out of, because you aren't going to get that 1 of maybe only 2 cushy theater company jobs in Houston, or a job as an illustrator in the entire mid west.
Ask HN: What Happened to Grsecurity?
It seems weird they are under GPL yet don't release any sources at all, going so far as to blackmail current customers against this.

Has the community recovered? What are the current alternatives?
I have to say... the only political candidate trying to solve problems pragmatically is Andrew Yang - and that's why he's my guy.

Even if you think his solutions are horrible, you have to admit he's bringing new ideas to the table and focused on measuring the right metrics and solving problems.

UBI might seem like a pipe-dream but when you break it down it's way more realistic than "amazing government jobs for everyone" or "break up the big companies into little pieces."

The economy is shifting due to automation and the exploitation of workers through the on-demand gig economy. We need major changes and big ideas. I want someone who innovates and uses data to back up his political stances - so Yang has my vote.
It's been around since 2015. It shouldn't take 6+ years for a news aggregator app to become pretty competent. With its current model, it's already lost a lot of momentum (I don't know anyone that uses it) and will just continue to lose it, especially since its not a "necessary" utility or has as little competition as a maps/navigation app. In my opinion, it's more likely to be abandoned or maybe even transitioned into something else as Newsstand did when it became News than for it to become successful, especially since Apple is moving more and more to services.
Yes, I agree. I think there is going to be a move away from the free/spyware based model back to actually paying for the services/product. There is far too much corruption with the former.
The IDA disassembler is pretty irreplaceable. Or at least it was until the NSA released Ghidra - I haven't tried it to know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Disassembler
Poverty is an economic matter if there ever was one.
So someone making $1 per day put the t-shirt in the bag in Bangladesh, but Uniqlo has a robot that can move those packaged shirts?
Hmm - I think you'll have better luck searching for 'TKL' keyboards (Ten Key Less). They are extremely popular and a wide variety are available. For instance:
Drop 'ctrl' ($200): https://drop.com/buy/drop-ctrl-mechanical-keyboard

GMMK offers a fullsize, TKL and 60% : https://www.pcgamingrace.com/products/gmmk-full-brown-switch

HTH and Happy New Year!
All these finance companies keep trying to brand themselves as "tech companies" when they're really just technologically literate banks, even ycombinator is like this.
Not even then. They advertise a lot of stuff, and it's almost all unwatchable.
Good list. I'll add a couple. Develop and maintain good ergonomics. Invest in a good chair if you sit while working. A task chair is a really poor substitute for a good chair.
I'm ... mostly ... a fan.

Though I'd very much prefer a linebreak between index listings as a bit of contextual segregation / clausterphobia breaking.

I also find search ... nonintuitive.

Though on balance, it's pretty slick.

By the original newsbeuter author, rsstail and multitail are also damned slick. I've got an rsstail script (with a lot of pretification / scrubbing of the feed streams) that runs as an xrootconsole window on my desktop, alternating amongst various feeds.
I think the most likely reason is that highly functional and customizable interfaces remove the ability of marketers to implement coercive experiences like the article discusses. I see this all over the internet and apps. What used to be standard customization options are becoming rare. How can a company A/B test something if users are running hundreds of different customized versions of an interface? Better to keep things as standardized as possible to ensure the desired experience and facilitate fine-tuning.
That was my reaction too. I'd expect that if it was intentional, they would have gotten rid of the URL handler.
As a leader do you feel you are setting an unhealthy example? Your actions are being noticed and replicated.
Check out the book "Accelerate", it answers your questions about which metrics matter, and how.
Disruptive Innovation in America and China
I learned to reverse into spaces in the military. That's the way that all military vehicles are supposed to be parked. I started doing this in my civilian vehicles and found that once you get the hang of it, it's absolutely the best way to park a car. Once you have the skill--and spatial awareness--you will find that it's much easier to get straight into a space with this method. Leaving the space is obviously easier, too.

I drive a large Ram pickup truck and backing in is pretty much the only way that I can park it accurately.
I kind of regret doing CS instead of music. Maybe if I had done something more art focused the competition wouldn't have been so bad and I'd probably still have a girlfriend, which is more important to me personally than money.
I feel so seen! For a very long time, I couldn't sleep without watching TV shows on my laptop, to the extent that I'd have insomnia if the Internet went out. In fact, even though I've weaned myself off it for the past several months, I'd probably still have trouble sleeping if I didn't at least know I could watch reruns of 30 Rock if I had trouble sleeping.

More to the point: just like the author, there's a very particular kind of TV I'd watch to sleep: nothing for the first time, and nothing tense. The West Wing and the US version of The Office were both great for me, since there's so much of it to get through. I've probably seen every episode of The West Wing at least 15 times by now.

Which, to me, sort of answers/challenges the concern the author has about binge watching. On a normal night, I'd barely make it through half an episode before I'd notice time slipping as I watched, my cue that I'm nodding off and should shut the laptop. I'm never watching first-run stuff like Mindhunter or Russian Doll, the stuff Netflix really wants me to be streaming, because it'd keep me alert.
Expressing liberal or conservative opinions will also get you a ton of accusations of being a communist or a fascist, that's how the internet works.
> In what other country do large businesses get to dictate the contents of government websites

Australia does that one.
SSRF to metadata service to S3 access was the entry point. There's a lot of focus on the SSRF and metadata service components but the S3/IAM component is possibly more intriguing. Did the role/account follow the principle of least privilege? If not, how did they miss it? This is the company that opened sourced Cloud Custodian. They're capable of identifying risks and creating tooling to reduce lead time on finding those risks.

Possibly more intriguing: I'll bet Capital One deals with more compliance initiatives than 99% of the public sector. Another Heartland Payment Systems example? Did leadership have a false sense of safety after passing an audit?
My experience/conclusions are similar to the comment above.

I feel like the hardest skill in jobs like programming, design (or any creative jobs, to be fair) is managing your cognitive resources, understanding when to approach problems requiring particular modes of thinking and when to stop, work on something else, or learn to do nothing.

In my mid 20s I did my share of reckless 80-100h weeks—ending up with depression and health issues that took years to recover. Some days are still challenging. And, I’m just 31.
The fact that poverty exists at all when there is unfathomable amounts of wealth[1] is a glaring sign of capitalist failure. Pointing to a reduction in the rates of poverty is not proving capitalism’s success. It’s pointing out capitalism’s most damaging and least ameliorable problem: poverty!

Poverty does not have to exist. Having “only” 750million people living beneath the poverty line globally (and a similar proportion in the U.S., about 11%) is not success!!! It is a mitigation of failure!

[1] - One commenter on this site last week or so in the VC community commented there are “trillions sloshing around.”
Oh, I didn't know this was a thing. Thanks for the link.
The channels I'm trying to use, in order of most success:

* Hacker News

* Dev.to

* Reddit

* Twitter
From the article:

> The placement of logic with an FPGA can be trivially randomized by incorporating a random seed in the source code. This means it is not practically useful for an adversary to backdoor a few logic cells within an FPGA. A broadly effective silicon-level attack on an FPGA would lead to gross size changes in the silicon die that can be readily quantified non-destructively through X-rays. The efficacy of this mitigation is analogous to ASLR: it’s not bulletproof, but it’s cheap to execute with a significant payout in complicating potential attacks.
I really hope this post is satire
The legal version of this is called a commissary kitchen (see: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/article/259/commissary-kitc... )

They have been around for a long time. Not every commercial kitchen is open to the public on a day to day basis, some aren't open to the public at all (airline food).

Retail space is expensive, because it is designed to attract foot traffic (or car traffic). If your not trying to accommodate the general public (seating is an expensive use of square footage), you could save a LOT of money.

I suspect that the placement and use of commissary kitchens is going to be a big step in the "food truck" movement. If you can be "mobile" and do "delivery" it poses a great way to "grow" your business.
This is really cool. I know people have been messing around with Gameshark codes for decades, but I'm finally getting to the point where this type of stuff doesn't seem out of reach anymore.

I just don't know what to do with the information!
I don't understand this. if you don't want people to engage with your ideas then don't publish them; there's a very well known medium for this kind of expression/exercise called a private journal. the obviousness of this fact proves that published ideas are intended to be engaged with.
I find it disappointing so many HN comments don't understand this post has nothing to do with politics really. It's general to any set of tribal belief set A and B.
I can't speak to that either way (I haven't done a manual installation in a long time) but setting

d-i passwd/root-login boolean false

in a preseed file seems to still work just fine (to skip "creation" of a root account).

The "sudo" package will be installed and the user created during installation will be added to the "sudo" group.
Oops. Typo. I meant IaC.
Considering the amount of publicity he gets from Twitter, they can definitely be considered productive.
Yeah, that kind of low intensity work I could do for longer (although I'd rather not). Try to maintain the level of concentration required for non-trivial programming for more than a few hours a day though - it doesn't really work. It's the difference between a leisurely bike ride (which you could do all day) and running five miles.
They are locked in a desperate struggle, though- the struggle for votes.

They're competing for the same resource. That's why they're hostile towards each other. Actual political differences are icing on the cake.
>The defining quality of an ideologue, whether on the left or the right, is to acquire one's opinions in bulk

It's not true. An ideologue has committed to a single idea or system of ideas.

Acquiring in bulk and picking and choosing is the antithesis of an ideologue.
Show HN: Makefile and Docker, a pipeline that can be shipped in any CI system
Sending the deep link is the default behavior when you hit the convenient "Share" button. The only way to share the regular web page link is incredibly cumbersome:

(1) Copy the Apple News deep link to your clipboard

(2) Paste it into a browser that will actually show you the final destination of the app link. This step is impossible to do in Safari on iOS (it will force you to use Apple News, and if that's not installed, it will force you to go to the App Store). So you end up pasting the link into say, iOS Chrome. This still prompts you to go to the App Store for Apple News, but it allows you to cancel this and just load the web page.

(3) After the link has loaded in your alternate iOS web browser, now you can copy the real article link and share it.

The above is way, way, way too cumbersome for the vast majority of iOS users to ever want to do, let alone think about. So, in a practical sense, sharing true article links surfaced via apple news is cumbersome enough to be virtually impossible for most users.
Currently reading this book on programming language design: https://books.google.de/books/about/Principles_of_Programmin...

It didn't really make it into the top 100 of programming books of the 80s/90s, I found it in my grandparents attic. Still, it is a really fascinating read for a young person today. People back then obviously had very different expectations on the future of CS. Even more fascinating I think is the broadness of thinking that programmers were expected to have. The exercises at the end of chapters in this book go further than anything I did during my studies, and while certainly hard, they never feel unfair either.
There's a big catch with this though, your teenager/college student can't budget & spend like a mid career professional. $10k is far dearer to them than you. (They also have far fewer expenses)

I don't know what the answer is, perhaps you start with basic financial literacy & later mock up what their life might look like with X debt and Y income.
An undergraduate degree from an elite school helps with networking and gives the student a "brand" that will help with getting all subsequent jobs. Same phenomenon for business school- the curriculum isn't much better but the connections and brand are much better.
Using Light to Encrypt Communications
You are already footing the bill for the art history student to go through over 12 years of education, what's 4 more?
> Web based chat servers that scale.

Riot is nice. https://about.riot.im/

Mozilla just adopted it for corporate communications. https://matrix.org/blog/2019/12/19/welcoming-mozilla-to-matr...
While I recognize the prevalence of Goodhart's law among smart thinkers, it fails to meet my "important truth" threshold because it's not hard to find counterexamples:

* In baseball, batting average and OPS are metrics that are richly rewarded. Players who successfully strive to improve their average/OPS will help their team win more, and they'll get richer for it.

* In finance, ROI is rewarded, and investors whose ROI is higher will generally be more successful

* In sales, "conversions" is a useful metric that salespeople strive toward and are validly rewarded for improving

* In software, if a metric like "story points" (as decided by group via planning poker) could be generated consistently for every issue worked on, there's no apparent reason that developers or teams would be worse off if developers used "story points completed" as a goal to strive toward

I suspect the prevalence of folks citing Goodhart's law is because it is usually true. But this may just be a consequence of the frequent disparity between "metrics available" and "desired underlying phenomenon." There's no fundamental reason that they can't be the same.
what you’re missing is that complexity doesn’t correlate to price
Youtube should be the best bet.
GUI clients for SVN. There are plenty for git, but when I started working at an SVN company I had no luck finding a free one. Ended up paying for SmartSVN, which is okay but still not as good as even some of the OSS git clients.
> I'd like to see the theses of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

It's not what you were asking for but here's Buzz Aldrin's doctoral thesis on manned orbital rendezvous: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/12652
One thing I'm really missing from Debian is zfs.ko.

It was always a big one for me, I ran with ZFS root for 2+ years and every kernel/zfs update was a bit of a Russian roulette (I did have to perform elaborate recovery once or twice). Even if it was 100% guaranteed to compile and work, there was 1. a very scary window during which if the system hung, you're semi-bricked; 2. the long build.

Running a desktop/laptop without a time-traveling file system is quite simply not an option (especially once you get used to it).
There is a privacy policy on Sign up page.

It informs about Terms Of Services.
I don't think it implies that worldview, but rather states a simple fact. Lots of people who say that phrase have still chosen to buy a boat/plane or get married, which would actually imply the opposite.
85 million monthly active users according to Apple.
foobar2000 (media player for Windows)
But not as tightly coupled as in FPTP systems. There's a greater variety of platforms under proportional representation. European countries have Christian democratic parties, which are mildly socially conservative coupled with mildly economically liberal. They have Liberal parties that actually win seats, which would be roughly equivalent to being mildly libertarian in an American sense. They have far right nativist populist parties that are xenophobic yet are pro-social safety net. They have more single issue groups like animal rights parties, and stronger green parties. They also have populist movements that attempt to appeal to the politically apathetic by being post-partisan, such as the 5 Star Movement in Italy.

Overall their adherence to the left-right dichotomy is less rigid than in the U.S.
Ask HN: Your favourite non-mainstream programming language?
What is a non-mainstream programming language you've used and enjoyed? What's unique about it? What paradigm/type/etc is it? What did you love about it? How did it change your thinking?

By 'non-mainstream' I mean languages most people won't have tried, not in the top few dozen used nowadays. And especially languages that changed the way you thought about programming, and were more than a bit different from others you had tried.

Also, maybe, what were the best, most helpful books or resources on it that you came across?

Thanks!
Double Commander?
Powerful Psychology Tricks to Get What You Want
Sure. A more mathematical description would be "standard deviation of beliefs across numerous issues predicts thinking for oneself"

Of course, thinking for oneself might not correlate with being correct. I can think of numerous issues where those who challenge the status quo are more likely to be wrong (e.g. medicine).
Related from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9350972
All politics is meta.

Eking out a decision from the great power jumble requires self-awareness about the forces that gyre and gimble therein.

Not all politics is tribal.

PG explicitly establishes two different cohorts, each with its own way of thinking, from the outset. His argument reifies tribalism.
Its not going to be little old ladies selling pies doing the vast majority of business on a platform like that.