skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s a recent article from NPR discussing the problems smaller colleges face when enrollment decreases [1].

Many of the issues (faculty cuts, etc.) have been discussed here, but something I find interesting is that, in order to stay afloat, they’re changing the demographics they target. Namely, first-gen students (this has been an existing target for sometime) and returning adults:

“
The challenge is that returning adult students are a lot harder to recruit. For high school students, Orians says, "we know where those people are. High schoolers are a captive audience." But when it comes to adults, she says, "they are everywhere. They are working. They are parents. They are engaged with their community."
“

That said, they recognize recruitment isn’t always enough. They also plan to explore industry partnerships, further teacher training, and, most importantly, student retention:

“
Last week, new numbers on graduation rates revealed that 60% of students who start college get their degree in six years. That's the highest its been in nearly a decade.
“

1. https://www.npr.org/2019/12/16/787909495/fewer-students-are-...
I’m curious when the turning point for this would be? Given that suburbs themselves are effectively a product of a car-based commuter model, wouldn’t suburbs have always had car traffic as a basic part of their formula?

Pre-ubiquitous-cars, suburbs didn’t really exist. So it seems that any suburb-dwelling children would have always had to deal with streets used by cars.
No, the state of the art CRDT solution for json is something like Automerge (https://github.com/automerge/automerge), that treats the document like a collection/combination of CRDTs of different types. (the author doesn't mention it explicitly, but it's linked at the end)
This comment feels like Commander Data having a similar discussion with Picard...

I can tell you, appreciating music and emotions are deeply connected.
> I'd pay a premium for that.

You already are if you buy Apple products :)
How is the screen recorded, and where are those sessions stored?
I can't see how, can you explain that.

You know Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone was checked out on 20-01-12, from my city's library .. how do you know who in my city checked it out?
> you can't get unremovable malaware installed on an iphone you buy from apple.

This is simply not true. iOS also allows "supervisor" apps (see MDM) that are extremely difficult to remove later, perhaps even more difficult than android.

I know because I used to work at company that did a kids protection app.
> Why should a wealthy person get a better lawyer

The moment we acknowledge that some lawyers (doctors, teachers, chefs, etc.) are better and some are worse, we must by necessity accept that there is no such thing as equality. Because some will by necessity get a better deal, and some will get a poorer one.
Microsoft is planning to phase out the Windows 10 Store for Business
There’s also a VLC app for Apple TV, no need for a phone at all (although you’ll probably want the phone remote to enter the URL).
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This piece is jumping from (un)equality in the family to (un)equality in the state. That itself does not seem to be a good idea. The state cannot be run as if it were a family.

Regarding the family conundrum I would say that the four children should get an equal amount unless there is a very severe reason not to do so. One does not want to risk poisoning the relationship between the children after one is gone.

Regarding equality in the state the answer is that the state should strive to not have severe inequalities of opportunity, especially if they are so severe that they inhibit social mobility. This can never be done perfectly, though. Also, a situation of equality of opportunity will not lead to equality of outcome because, as this piece also discusses, people have different abilities, interests, and other attributes.
But the article is arguing in favor of OT, not CRDT. A couple examples of those edge cases would go a long way, the one given is not very helpful to make a point.
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Are you a synaesthetist? I am, and your description pretty much sums up how I experience music.
Why does colleges have to be that expensive? I'd love to study, but simply can't afford it. Other countries can do it for less, why can't we?
> Windows evolved its default encoding over time, the code pages were popular in Windows 9x, starting with NT based (2000, XP...) They used UTF-16 I believe and then Windows 7? It became UTF-8.

They bolted on a separate set of functions that took UCS-2 and now take UTF-16.

The actual code pages, to this day, are legacy things that are mostly 8 bits. My system is set to code pages 437 and 1252, for example.

They put together a code page for UTF-8 but it's behind a 'beta' warning.
Public services such as power plants, aqueducts, waste disposal and garbage collection require a whole lot of money and manpower yet rarely are even noticed. They just "exist" and "work" until they don't.
Mandating a large proportion of units constructed to be high density 3 bedroom would change the London housing market. Currently young couples get a 2 bed (with one bed being a box room) and have to move out once the second baby comes (the pressure when a first baby gets to three is high as well). Three beds would make for long term family viability and would knock the pressure out of the housing market.
What type of 2FA are you using? I have the default (SMS based) and it works for me.
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It's a bit hard to understand without the background philosophical knowledge, but Schopenhauer's aesthetic ideas on music are quite beautiful. A concise, oversimplified version of his thought would be that lyric-less music brings us closer to direct reality, since it doesn't replicate any forms in nature.

Unlike all of the other arts, which express or copy the Ideas (the essential features of the phenomenal world), Schopenhauer affirmed that music expresses or copies the will qua thing in itself, bypassing the Ideas altogether.

Schopenhauer holds that the experience of “absolute” music (music that does not seek to imitate the phenomenal world and is unaccompanied by narrative or text), occurs in time, but does not involve any of the other cognitive conditions on experience. Thus, like the feeling of embodiment, Schopenhauer believes the experience of music brings us epistemically closer to the essence of the world as will—it is as direct an experience of the will qua thing in itself as is possible for a human being to have

Read this full article if you'd like to know more: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer-aesthetics
If you're running Android, I suggest you install one of the open source "firewall"s available on FDroid.

Even if you don't plan on using it, make yourself aware of the sheer number of requests being sent _constantly_ from not only your applications, but by Android system services themselves.

I'm not saying these requests are always related to ad tracking, but you can't argue there's a lot of information constantly being sent back an forth.

Pro-tip: Your battery life will possibly double running a software firewall on Android...
I came to the same "LWW on fragments" solution for peraspera.io. In a lot of cases, all OT gets you is being able to watch someone else's cursor move around. The new wore off on that a long time ago.
Sounds like this quote (posted elsewhere in this thread):

Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub;

It is the center hole that makes it useful.

Shape clay into a vessel;

It is the space within that makes it useful.

Cut doors and windows for a room;

It is the holes which make it useful.

Therefore profit comes from what is there;

Usefulness from what is not there.

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 11
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Away’s former CEO is returning as its co-chief
Tax Revenue-to-GDP Ratio declined, Tax Revenue on the other hand has increased YOY. Perhaps read your source first before spreading false statistics.

What was your argument?
> I paid a premium for a high-end flagship Google phone

Unfortunately it seems paying a premium isn't enough to get any respect from manufacturers these days. Just look at Samsung and LG TVs, you can pay thousands for a high-end model and still have to set up PiHole to avoid being shown ads in the menus.
Well now we have a Populouspanotpicon. Everyone surveils everyone.
Interesting list, I'm wondering how did you get this data?
It's only working for large, existing players, is his point. For me wanting to build automatic syncing to my budget tools, I'm still out of luck. They don't even let you access your own data.
> If you are representing strings as bytes, you are intrinsically using an encoding.

It's just binary data that might resemble a string. No encoding necessary.
You actually can enroll in other countries?
There are a lot of 8GB phones out there, where space certainly is a huge issue. (Or have things improved since Oreo?)

Even with a microSD card, not all apps support being "moved" to SD.
For the non introduced people can anyone explain what 3DBuzz was?
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The default file encoding for Windows was changed to UTF-8 in Python 3.6. That particular problem on that particular platform is now a thing of the past.

It was just an example of why implicit conversions in the standard library functions don't save you from having to think about encodings. You get much more robust and user-friendly programs when you explicitly consider your encodings and the error-handling strategies to go with them.
Guess they survived the 3.5 year security risk [0]...

>7 points by Rainymood on June 21, 2016 [-]

>I'm going to be really rude here (forgive me) but I feel like every time a security question comes up you dodge the question really hard.

>I want to know one thing: If I log into your service with my bank credentials. Do you store these as plaintext files (or "encrypted" files of which you have the encryption key)? Yes/No.

>Furthermore, congratulations! I've been trying to start something up like this in Europe but I feel like there are way more restrictions in Europe on banking data and this kind of third-party aggregation. Sorry for being so rude.

Here is some previous news on Plaid on HN.

* 2016-06-20 Fintech Firm Plaid Raises $44M (wsj.com)[1]

* 2018-12-11 Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation (techcrunch.com)[2]

* 2020-01-14 Visa Buys Plaid (wsj.com)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939103

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18654880

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18654880
Apple already collects all the data of their users heavily and moves like these are simply meant to annoy their competitors (mostly Google) and keep the data to themselves while looking like a good kid in the valley.

The number of gullible people aka Apple fanboys is staggering here who actually think Apple is trying to _save_ their privacy from advertisers after reading this highly biased article. Hah.
There is also an opportunity for public databases of patient outcomes (post marketing) that we would all greatly benefit from. A lot of that data is still discussed behind closed doors and authorities are also to blame because it is their prerogative to force data to be open if they wish to.
Correct. That's not objectionable to me, so it would make no sense to compare it to something objectionable. It's similar to the difference between organ donation and organ theft. Although the transplant operation is identical for the two, the analogies we might draw for each are entirely different because the life costs are different.
Having worked filling shelves in a supermarket, I disagree that it applies to every field.
Venezuela today is an on-going example of how you try to deal with it. Their inflation rate is far beyond 3,000% for example. [1][2]

Shops often try to set prices daily in their local currency, for the limited items they stock, and typically also have separate dollar prices. Many items can't be kept in supply with hyperinflation, so stores tend to dramatically narrow what they carry. They also have adjusted to selling far smaller portions of goods (less risk and consumers can't afford as much). All of that is usually still not enough once inflation gets bad enough, it becomes an impossible juggling act, most get wiped out. The demand collapse that has gone along with the hyperinflation has killed a large number of businesses, shops, manufacturers.

From the Wall Street Journal [3]:

> Giuseppe Cordivani’s factory on the outskirts of the capital used to make nearly 300 pairs of women’s shoes a day, from pumps to high-heeled dancing shoes that sold nationwide. With hyperinflation biting, he’s making just 20 today.

> “No one beats hyperinflation—no one,” said Mr. Cordivani, whose father founded the company 55 years ago. “We work just to try to cover our expenses.”

> A 2 million percent inflation rate is ravaging savings and salaries, devastating a once-vibrant manufacturing sector by suppressing demand.

> A handful of food plants are still producing but at minimal capacity. Food prices nearly quadrupled in January alone, according to Caracas-based Ecoanalitica. With shoppers buying only the most basic products, demand for canned tuna, milk, cereals for children and other products has fallen more than 80% since 2012, according to household polling by the Caracas pollster, Datanalisis. Consumption of meat fell nearly 60%, the polling shows, while demand for chicken dropped 74%.

> a family of four that bought food and covered other basic on the equivalent of $105 in December 2017 would now need more than $700, said Asdrubal Oliveros, an economist and director of Ecoanalitica.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/02/venezuela-inflation-at-10-mi...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/29/economy/venezuela-inflation-i...

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/hyperinflation-shatters-venezue...
I like the UI of this product, but how does it differ from using Vault's[1] SSH secret engine?

[1]https://www.vaultproject.io/api/secret/ssh/index.html
Public budget is a big part of private companies earnings.
Kind of obvious one, but I wish more people knew that — critical thinking.

On the one side it helps to avoid bad/stupid things in life: quackery medicine, scammers, bad investments, etc.

On the other side it allows to peep deeper into things and see more choices even in ordinary life. After some practice you gain nearly magical ability to peel couple of additional layers from reality and to see non-obvious things everywhere.
Traditional view: Jobs with a high amount of physical labor are low skill, so people with more skills (i.e. intelligence) have jobs with less physical labor.

Your parent's opinion: This view is incorrect, people with higher social status, not higher intelligence, receive jobs with less physical labor.
Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

https://www.academia.edu/11274021/Cipolla_-The_Basic_Laws_of...
Lightning cables are more popular than USB-C cables at this point. If I'm at a party or something usually someone has an iPhone cable, USB-C, not so much.

To be honest with an iPhone there's not much reason to want to sideload anything. Sideloading on Android is dodgy enough with dodgy APKs. Who knows what they're doing in the background? At least with the App Store (and Play Store for that matter) being a walled garden, for both it's positives and negatives, you know an app has been vetted and is safe from malware.
Do great work and charge equally for it.
I never understood why it is a desireable thing to put the young into unimaginablly high debt just to get educated. This, the death penalty and no public healthcare are the reasons why I dont really consider the USA as the role model for modern society they'd like to be.
I would personally like to see higher buildings with parks around them rather than having houses packed.

More space, higher density. Win, win.
This absolutely infuriated me. I bought a very expensive new TV a year ago. Then last summer it suddenly started showing ads in the menu. I was planning to return the TV to the store and getting my money back but it would probably just be a headache inducing hassle. Now I pi-holed my entire network.
What makes you so sure about that?
Lying typically refers to intentional deceit (as in you know what you are saying is false, or at the very least you don't care if what you say is true or not), so you can not be unaware you are lying.
JavaScript tip: Create debug friendly unique references using String
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My current workplace.

We have one diva who build the vast majority of the system. He is smart and likes algorithms, but doesn't write particularly easy code to follow (he values cleverness over simplicity). Any suggestion that it could be improved is met with a bit of an argument. And he isn't much of a team player compared to the other devs.

But he knows the system inside out....
Agreed.

I am an investor in Apple but at the fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent level but regardless of that my lounge-chair MBA analysis would be that if they had iterative hits like AirPods they’ll be just fine. Keep trying things and they’ll continue doing great. The stock price is surprising even me
Google is an ad and data company, so they can't help but push ads and watch what you do.

But on the flip side Apple is addicted to building their ecosystem. They will happily cripple the functionality of their devices to force you to buy their MacBook, AirPods, HomePod, Apple Watch, Apple TV, etc.

I personally prefer companies who sell solid hardware and focus on their niche.
AI dubbing 12x more engaging than normal dubbing
Are you sure about that? Especially in iOS 13, killing apps seems to have gotten a bit more agressive.
I would imagine the depth there is in determining what goes where on the shelf. You as shelf-filler probably didn't get to make this decision though.
The interview process is where the challenges are technical in nature. The only time I have been asked to implement a sort algorithm after university was for interviews.
I remember reading this article the week it was published! I found the historical anecdotes about Parfit interesting, but I didn't become any more convinced of his ideas. The discussion of Bernard Williams and moral skepticism is particularly good.
> Python haters always say

Stopped here immediately. I have been writing software for more than 20 years, mainly in C++ and Python. No professional would start this kind of discussion with this childish attitude (apart from the fact, that content-wise the problem was beaten to death for decades).
Leap Technology (keyboard vs. mouse on a Canon Cat machine, ca 1987)
Much less than dealing with an employee that has burnt out...
Finance jobs teach you that you should always be ready to "cut your losses". Whatever time/money you invest in anything, you should always re-evaluate your position and see from where you are now if your project is worth pursuing.
More on the Canon Cat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jErqdRE5zpQ

http://www.canoncat.net/

There are also a few previous HN discussions on this machine.

EDIT: I just have to post this lovely scene from the original video separately. This is about human-computer interaction after all, isn't it!

https://youtu.be/o_TlE_U_X3c?t=375

Aren't we actually approaching an age where this kind of (almost-)single-purpose machines might be making a comeback? The focus this model seems to allow or enforce on the user feels kind of... healthy.
The cheapest western Android phones like by Motorola, Nokia or Xiaomi (the around 150€ models) don't have this and you can uninstall everything that IS on there.

Actually the expansive ones like Samsung are the really bloated ones.
try adding .exe

wget.exe
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People can be made rational.

For the sake of discussion; One could watch new inmates like a hawk for an initial probationary period and enact disciplinary action should they reveal themselves as described.

In fact, taking the idea to its (awful) logical conclusion, randomly enacting disciplinary action in the initial period regardless of inmate behaviour would prove effective. "Beatings will continue until morale improves" I believe is the saying.
Causality’s the pig. Outracing your own light cone presents a problem, to say the least.
I find a lot of "bugs" are that inconsistent / missing data gets into the system.
Any app you've got in mind? The only one on https://search.f-droid.org/?q=firewall doesn't seem to be of interest for that purpose.