skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a little sad but probably inevitable. I went to one of these rural small liberal arts school decades ago (good faculty but no national reputation). Even then it felt anachronistic with a bunch of privileged young people studying like English and philosophy and history but in a giant beautiful isolated summer camp. There was no real connection to industry or jobs (or the outside world) and not much STEM so if you didn’t have connections you kinda got screwed. Makes me want to reread The Secret History though, it perfectly captured the weird cozy but suffocating vibe of being trapped in an isolated bubble with the same people for years on end.
My thoughts exactly, I am hoping that these closures start leading to lower costs. If the price of education outpaced wage growth for a decade then we need a big correction to get back to where we used to be.
There actually is regulation, though. As I understand it, in theory GDPR could now fine Microsoft 1% of revenue if they've behaved catastrophically negligently at keeping user secrets secure.
Wanderlog (https://wanderlog.com) is a Google Docs for planning travel, and naturally, we had to figure this out early in the process.

If you're on a Node.js/React stack, we highly recommend using the combination of OT-JSON0 [1] and ShareDB [2], two excellent libraries. OT-JSON0 lets you perform operational transforms on any JSON-serializable structure pretty intuitively, and ShareDB handles synchronizing it between multiple clients and resolving conflicts. Building your own is going to be a pain, so unless your core business is a text editor like TinyMCE, it's probably best to stand on the shoulders of giants.

Another approach that we didn't end up using is Figma's: especially if you're working on anything other than text editing, ask if you actually want to use operational transform. Something simpler might be good enough -- in Figma's case, they use "last write wins" because they were able to break the document into small enough, atomic elements. [3]

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/ot-json0

[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/sharedb

[3] https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology...
As a note, the thought process behind the ‘if you lie you die’ theory is contingent upon one thing. The cop has be caught lying. This is primarily because the cop has now made it practically impossible to testify in court on any charge he may have investigated.
It’s not actually an appeal to authority. It’s stating the long historical precedent of building codes, and that there is a criminal component to knowingly violating a building code which leads to the death of an occupant.
You’re right, it’s weird, American Express has literature where they talk about being a closed loop network and apply that definition. Maybe it’s more appropriate to just say that visa and MasterCard don’t directly offer credit cards.
I practiced in Virginia for about 6 years. I handled approx 150 DUIs there. It is in the officers best interest to exaggerate their findings while investigating a crime. So ok. Yeah. Most officers don’t “lie.” But they certainly don’t act objectively either.

You know the onerous discovery policies in Virginia. Prosecutors don’t have to give you much. Even the Constitutionally mandated stuff is impossible to check because the only people who could, defense attorneys, have no way of knowing what exists.

Last, and I think this was op’s point: a lie only becomes a lie if it can be exposed as a lie. Most statements are very difficult to outright prove as a lie. This goes for defendants claiming they have someone else’s pants and for officers who are VERY sure she had bloodshot eyes “which in (their) training and experience are consistent with intoxication by marijuana.”
Probably for the same reasons they buy US dollars.
It looks they were using a free certificate from Lets Encypt. These only last for a few months.

Lets Encrypt only does "Domain Validation" so the registrant of the domain name is the only thing they check. They do not issue certificates for IP addresses.

https://140.90.107.147/GOES16/ABI/FD/GEOCOLOR/

This website works without a domain name. The traffic is still encrypted. How do we know this is really NOAA running the website at this IP address? We can check and see that the IP address belongs to AS 6629 and that AS belongs to NOAA.

It is arguable this information provides better "authentication" than the Lets Encrypt certificate. It is certainly easier to fraudulently gain control over a domain name from a domain name registrar than it is to fraudulently gain control over an IP address block from a regional internet registry or via BGP hijacking.
It indirectly does via loan guarantees
Hahahaha good one.
How? Stockholm syndrome is when a hostage befriends their captor, presumably thinking their captors cause is just. How is thinking that a situation is not "completely" terrible stockholm syndrome?
It's virtue signaling. Choosing the soy "milk" at the coffee shop, loudly, demonstrates to the other patrons that you're "woke" and "care about the environment". Never mind that if you actually cared about "sustainability", you wouldn't be living in a state that imports vast amounts of food, water, and energy from hundreds of miles away in the first place.

It's basically a religion at this stage, and virtue signaling lets you pay your penance in advance. One refusal of a disposable straw compensates for one six month backpacking trip in Nepal, or one vacation in Aruba, or something like that.

And this will get modded down into a smoking crater, because people always get angry when you make fun of their religion.
You read the old guys and they were in the opposite situation. I remember reading the intro to Goodman and Gilman's once; I think it was Gilman who noted he was the unfortunate who couldn't find a job in industry and had to take a job in academia. Grass is always greener.
I dislike Plaid & similar systems but I disagree.

Enforcing stupid & unreasonable ToS in court is a slippery slope that can be used against users.

You want to use an alternative client to export your data because the official client doesn't allow it? ToS violation and the developer of the alternative client gets sued.

Want to screen-scrape some website to automate some tedious manual behaviour? ToS violation and you get sued.

Etc.

The ability to delegate some manual process (logging into online banking and getting the data) to a third-party (like Plaid) should be a right that we should defend.
Hyundai Aims 1M Vehicles in U.S. Sales Yearly
Did US Colleges struggling with low enrollment not close before? What kind of chicanery was going on to keep them open? Is the increasing rate a coincidence? The converse of this statement sounds borderline hilarious: US Colleges Not Struggling with Low Enrollment are Not closing at an increasing rate. Intuition tells me the larger colleges, especially those with sports pedigree are growing substantially, as consumers are now increasingly more aware of costs associated with degrees, and are opting in for more affordable options. The NCES projects an increase of 2% overall increase in enrollment in 4 year programs and a 3% increase in 3 year programs over the next 10 years, so these kids are going somewhere.
>Honest question, why do companies do this? It seems disrespectful to everyone - employees (both fired and current), customers, and any adult for that matter.

generally because it keeps the person who wrote it hire-able post closure, and makes those that lost money or effort on the deal feel as if their loss is actually being spun into something else, like concepts, innovation, future profitable IP, whatever.

I agree, I think it's disrespectful, but then again there's a lot about business that I feel that way towards.
Exactly, let the cures march on. Its depressing when medicine looks to death as a solution. Seems like a copout and a failure to actually advance medical treatments.
Wrong. Apple sells its software for an extremely high margin already.

When you buy Apple hardware, you are locked in to use Apple software and nothing else. A hardware vendor like LG/Oppo/Xiaomi would rely on Android, a commodity software, and thus, have very little pricing power against its competitors. Even though the technical specs of these phones might be better than the iPhone, they would struggle to sell for half the price.

The software lock is further amplified by those custom chips that are used across the Apple ecosystem. You're likely to pay exorbitant prices for the software on MacBook and iPad as well.

Remember, Apple usually doesn't touch a single phone throughout the manufacturing process (Most of the components are manufactured by third-party vendors squeezed into razor-thin margins). After paying these vendors off, they get to turn around and sell the same hardware for $600-650 more on the market. That wouldn't have lasted if they had licensed iOS out, their pricing power would be severely diminished.
This is obvious self-promo, but with that out of the way I'm genuinely curious what you think about something like Lambda School - https://lambdaschool.com/isa
Just FYI state schools have generally have good resident tuition rates. You can get a 4 year EE or CS degree for less than $40k (cost of a nice car these days). Those degrees count just as much and they might fill in some gaps you don't know you have.
I knew I recognized his name, so I looked him up. Turns out that his book Louie was one of my absolute favorites as a kid.
Well, well, well... if it isn't the consequences of your own actions.

1.) Colleges jack up their tuition to the point of being un-affordable (multiple years of salary), forcing students to take on massive amounts of debt at the start of their careers

2.) Prospective students are unwilling to become servitude to student loan debt at no-name small colleges and realize that college is hardly the only means for employment

3.) Small colleges close due to low enrollment
Knowing that cops carry, would you really want to risk it?
When you re-read the GP, recalling that the police are allowed to lie to you, realize that includes telling you it's ok to lie to them.
C/C++ is a language with limited facilities to ensure correctness at compile time. The languages are riddled with undefined behavior in common features that programmers with multiple decades of experience still get tripped up by. NULL access - the so called "billion dollar mistake" - out of bounds reads and writes, and use after free create a litany of security issues and create massive liability for companies who choose to author software in these languages.

Not what you want to hear about an operating system :p
loser this loser that no matter what don’t get fat!
Mint uses its own system I think. Personal Capital uses Yodlee.
See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/optimizing-p... for more specific guidelines on S3 scaling. It used to be you had to be careful and use randomized prefixes... It looks like that might no longer be the case. Also note there is a limit (arguably pretty high) per prefix on request rates.
“The first important principle of science is to not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool” — Richard Feynman

The challenge is that rationality is often useless approach in complex systems.
If I might be a little provocative, even “truth” and “facts” might be ill-defined concepts in complex systems (how will you establish controls? How big a sample must you run randomizes controlled trials on? What if that’s much bigger than feasible/possible due to exponential scaling? Not possible even in principle!)

A fundamental problem is the human tendency to try and optimize outcomes (using available rationality) — because we invariably overfit to temporary/local optima at the cost of the long term. To counter this failure mode requires sacrificing optimality (always defined by a proxy metric which holds only temporarily) for plurality/diversity. It is understood/expected that this deep principle has numerous manifestations in biology and culture (eg: sexual reproduction, enforced pseudo randomness, etc).

There is another “meta rational” idea that to understand things and do science, you have to first “survive”. Science only gives a reasonable guarantee of eventual correctness. Nobody guarantees that it is the best guide to live your (finite) life by. In Newton’s times, theology and alchemy were considered as promising (if not more) than physics (natural philosophy). George Washington’s doctors recommended blood-letting (SOTA medical technology of the day). What will humans two hundred years from now say about our current views?

The most important principle is to iteratively take insured risks and keep learning. If you hang around long enough doing that, knowledge will accumulate and compound.

Eg, see:

1. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret...

2. https://www.edge.org/conversation/nassim_nicholas_taleb-unde...
"To me, "Hispanic" is a wide spectrum of ethnicities but really more of a linguistic, cultural and national/political specifier"

Every form I can remember seeing in the US that asks whether you are Hispanic says that it includes people of any race.

So how do you like this election season?
This is a sham. You need to go through lots of audits & other administrative BS in order to be declared an "AISP" even if you don't actually process banking data yourself and it never leaves the user's device.

Imagine PCI-DSS compliance but without the exception that you don't have to be PCI-compliant yourself if you don't touch card data and pass it directly to a PCI-compliant payment processor.
Ask HN: How do I find good computer science related research papers
Recently I read a bunch of research papers and found those to be quite insightful. I have been struggling to find good research papers as there is an ocean of results in a single google search and quite difficult, as a beginner, to go through all of the results. Are there sources where I can find such research, not necessarily very recent .
Show HN: Nocturnal – A Dimness and Night Shift Menu Bar App for macOS Catalina
>are you suggesting that Americans looking for unskilled factory work can just move to China and get a job? Aside from the cost and language barrier and family ties and other challenges of relocating, I think legal barriers alone (visa issues, work permits) would make that hard. It's already hard enough even for highly skilled professionals to get work permits in another country.

I'm saying this just to play devil's advocate here and propose something slightly contradictory - many people who were facing the same issues (no work, or poor work) in other countries jumped those same hurdles to find work they found meaningful and could provide for themselves and their families in the US and Europe.

If there's an opportunity for a better life elsewhere now - sustainable work paying a sustainable living which can provide for life sustainably elsewhere - what puts American's above picking up and doing their best to go there?
Abstracting away from this specific case, it is IMO just another example of potential very significant and real risks of being reliant upon cloud or, more generally, technological platforms operated by potentially acquirable companies. While some acquired companies remain relatively independent and continue offering original products (in short-to-medium term), many don't [I have compiled a long list of case studies ...]. And if this (along with IT security) doesn't make most CTOs and/or CIOs to wake up in the middle of the night, then I don't know what does. Industry consolidation is IMO a pretty scary, but probably inevitable, trend. I think that the safest approach (sans some corner cases, e.g., a unique technology) is to build one company's technology platform on an "unacquirable" technology infrastructure (for the cloud, that would be AWS, Azure and, to somewhat lesser extent, GCP). Thoughts?
Yeah I have some limited visibility to a very large law firm. Paperwork you can just script never comes up as a problem and it's not like these organizations would just duplicate effort like that if they could avoid it / save themselves money.

Also I never got the impression that the really profitable customers are shopping for those kinds of efficiencies....
There's no shortage of water in most major dairy-producing regions.
I've read of "Smart" TVs that will scan for and connect to open WiFi. That's fun. Even if you don't let the thing on your network it might still be able to ruin your television watching experience.
Depressionalism can be a constant threat but someday you may want more so it’s up to you to find your inner core.
X.509 and TLV is gnarly. So many edge cases. Then there are encoding formats and many other things. It’s 50kloc easy. The file size is like 500k. A lot happens in there for sure.
Case studies: Incidents &potential incidents caused by protective systems (2004)
What about Yodlee? I'm under the impression that Yodlee is a bigger and much more established player here. Although Yodlee's API certainly isn't great.
Private colleges do receive federal funding, and can even receive more public funding than public schools. A few colleges like Hillsdale are notable (or notorious) for refusing it.
Bullshit Asymmetry Principle
1.5 --> students with massive amounts of debt delay childbearing, making next generation smaller...
I wish I did. I think programmers deserve a little more than managers, because the work is harder.

It's similar to sports team management - sure the manager is rare and more experienced, but they're not burning their mind off trying to meet irrational deadlines. The stress of management mostly comes from team issues, so I'd think paying them more would solve a lot of problems.

But it's also sort of a hierarchy thing.
> Van Goor’s fix used cells derived from human bronchial tubes to test the potential of drugs.

Anyone know the back story on this detail? I wonder what cells specifically we're talking about.
Show certainty while scribbling. Even if your scribbles look terrible, if people feel like your mind is magic, then no one will care about bad handwriting or whatever.
Yeah, but if it boosts your income by $50k, you’ll pay it back in 3. If you’re 37 now, and it’s paid off by 40, you’ll then have 25 or more years of $50k more a year. Let’s say you put that in a mattress, and so have an extra 1.25 million at retirement. You can then withdraw it at 4% a year for the 30 years after that. It’s an income boost of $50k/year through retirement.

Now, of course, you can put it somewhere better than a mattress—but also of course, you don’t expect a $50k/year raise from a college education. Which educations might give that? Top tech schools. Pharmacy. Not much else.
I think the seize the means of production can be done. The ensure a ruling government whose core is utilitarianism is the tricky part.
I think you are generalizing your own perspective.

Facts: 87% Android and 13% iOS
Wenyan: A programming language that follows the grammar of classical Chinese
4.) Regardless of how you feel about it, college faculty and courses generally urged students to postpone marriage and childbearing, ironically resulting in less children to grow up and take college in the next generation.
>In Vermont, three colleges have ceased operations this year, losing roughly 1,000 students.

So 333 students per college or an average freshman class of about 100 per college?
I can say with absolute confidence that the ability for law enforcement to DETAIN you on less than no evidence is vastly more than slight, it’s enormous. Further, law enforcement’s ability to arrest you on ZERO evidence is extensive and it take time, money, and effort to get free and clear of the unsubstantiated charges.
Depending on where your waste water is dumped, it is.
Disclaimer: I work at a low-code startup.

If anyone discounts nocode/lowcode they are missing the forest for the trees.

NoCode always existed, the term is getting popular now. Wordpress is a nocode website builder.

When you hit a 3rd party API, you are reducing a part of the problem to nocode. Would you care if the API was written in C/Java/Python or was a Zapier interface?

Can nocode/lowcode reduce bottlenecks or speed up developer of critical but not urgent things/components definitely.
Certainly an idea with good intentions, but how many people are honest enough with themselves to acknowledge that they're easily fooled? And if the end result is healthy skepticism about all the stories with positive spin, is that enjoyable? Would I put time, work, and money into leaving the Platonic cave? (I mean, I would, but I don't know if that's common.)

As a side note, a friend of mine has PhD in early childhood education and says that teaching children skills like these is extremely effective. I hope society will do more of that.
For internationals, it is easier to get Visa and Green Card in academia.
Is "if you lie, you die" in the code book next to "blue lives matter?"
Are you somehow trying to equate ad companies hoovering up our location data with the first amendment?

I was simply trying to convey how addicted they are to that data.
This makes me extremely happy to hear and it seems others are following the same path! Good on you. For me, it just seems like the logical way to go. Progress comes for us all, no matter how many years we've carried a tradition. If the colleges are struggling with low enrollment, it must be time to go back to the drawing board.
I didn't want to make the post overly long by adding a section on "failure modes," but certainly one of them is: spend a long time building and tweaking a blog rather than writing. I've done this too and work to avoid it.
I agree with you. That said, my reading of the article is that they do identify themselves as conservatives within a context - that of medical care in the US in 2020. They make their argument on the basis of a utility function, which one can debate the merits of, but the whole arguemnt seems very contextualized.
Music is just tickling peoples' eardrums in the same way that looking at your newborn baby is just indirect light illuminating your retina.
We've got a happy mix of both. Increased surveillance and propaganda ala 1984, and plenty of media and other such attention hoggers to keep us all happy. Why settle for one when the two have synergistic effects?
> Did US Colleges struggling with low enrollment not close before? What kind of chicanery was going on to keep them open?

The rising tide of population growth lifted all boats. High school graduations peaked in 2013. That's total, not rate. Presumably the rate peaked even sooner. There's no more American-born students to victimize. And with the current administration's immigration policies, the US higher education market has had an "opportunity to explore a limited growth marketplace".
There are a great many things in legal practice that are ripe for automation but the vast majority are junior associate-level tasks at best. Nobody is going to automate a non-negligible portion of a $500+/hr partner's job. The best you can realistically accomplish is automating work that large groups of people billing $150/hr or less would perform in parallel.
IC, that’s unfortunate. Believe that is the time to cut a legacy branch/release rather than block progress for a decade.
This guy has clearly never heard of mobile Safari / iOS
I think you mean "condemned"? To condone is to (often implicitly) approve of something that is ethically or morally dubious.
The NYPL is a big library system! Currently it seems they have at least 166 copies of Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone[0]. Probably more: I think these are only the copies of the standard edition, and they also seem to have a few copies of an illustrated edition, some special editions, etc., plus of course translations.

[0]: https://catalog.nypl.org/search~S1?/Xharry+potter+and+the+so...,