skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think is the belief that a huge part of the value of a bachelors degree is growth you get living alone, in dorms, learning how to be an adult, etc. that aren't really part of a curriculum and would be hard or impossible to do online.

a counterexample would be the existence of respected schools with a large amount of commuter students, many of whom continue to live with their parents while going to school. I graduated from such a place. if you really wanted (in cs at least), you could only show up in class for exams and still get an A if you did all the homeworks and projects. this school is one of the most heavily targeted in the state for tech recruiting.

> In addition, I know that a massive number of people who take online courses (just the individual ones from Coursera and the like) tend to drop out, so maybe they colleges think that if they had an entire 4yr degree online almost no one would actually graduate (which may hurt their rankings or they dislike for some other reason that doesn't bother for profit colleges).

this is a bit more convincing. online schools already have a stigma since the originals were almost (or actually) scams. probably no one want to take the risk of offering the first online degree.
In Germany, there is Fernuniversität Hagen. I guess it scales better than "regular" universities, so there isn't really a need for more of them to meet demand? https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/english/
I’d like to know too. If it’s so easy to make money while failing I think I might start a business just to fail and make money.

Rinse and repeat and I’ll be rich very fast.
This is an interesting question and one I hadn't thought of before. In the market for talent, degrees are just a signaling device. They help employers identify "the good ones." So schools build their signal by making it hard to get in, doing the prework of identifying the good ones. MOOCs, on the other hand, do the opposite - they let anyone in, so there is no signaling. It does seem like you should be able to create an online degree that mirrors this signal by marketing the hell out of how hard it is to get in and complete.
That doesn't always work, because servers aren't always used in strict order.

For example, my default Kubuntu 19.10 installation flips the primary and secondary if the primary is unresponsive for a while. Since my laptop takes a moment to establish a WiFi connection upon waking up, it always decides that the primary server is down and to default to the secondary server. It has currently been 3½ hours since my laptop queried its primary server and it has queried the secondary server over 1000 times in the past 24 hours despite the primary having 100% uptime.

Most stub resolvers have an option to use strict order, but you can't rely on it as a network admin.
Fans of David Lynch’s work will recognize Penderecki’s “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima” as the soundtrack to “Twin Peaks: The Return” (in)famous Episode 8:

https://robertsabinbass.blog/2017/09/20/this-is-the-water-an...
You'd factor that in to the ceiling you set. Maybe your ceiling is 2x or 3x your expected usage. That could still be low enough not to bankrupt your company.
the feed: A Novel had a big impact on me as a teen, it's a relatively short read

Amazon has turned it into a Prime Video Original, which I have yet to watch since Episode 1 didn't strike me as great.

Edit: I think the best sci-fi fiction book I have ever read is Red Rising, it is a newer book.
How could one add undertesting to the model?
Ask HN: What to Buy with $1,500?
My company has a $1,500 education stipend. What would you spend it on to kickstart learning to program.
I already have enough "programming cachet" with C++.
There is literally no excuse for this in 2020.

Funding for rural telecom has been part of every budget for decades. Write a proposal and get it funded.

https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/all-programs/telec...
fellow fan of borges and chiang. start with exhalation
That's a great question, and I wish I was good enough at math to give you a sophisticated answer. But my thinking is that the entropy you might gain by allowing duplicates is negated by the huge set of weak/guessable passwords you allow. For example, the password "aaaaA1!" is probably more likely to be guessed or used by others than "agkxA1!". (I just checked on haveibeenpwned.com, and the former has been seen 12 times, while the latter has been seen 0 times. Not very scientific I know)

Though this isn't set in stone if someone wants to formally correct me.

And libsodium is indeed a pleasure to work with.
Unfortunately there's little visibility into this, so we can raise our pitch forks and go after companies with angry mobs, but at the end of the day we don't really know what's going on inside every company.

The law makers are the ones who write the cheques and make the system the way it is. The real problem is how laws are made and how the government functions.
> USO Fund Description

> USO holds near-month NYMEX futures contracts on WTI crude oil.

https://www.etf.com/USO

Without looking any deeper I don't think this is what OP is looking for. They want to bet that oil delivered a year from now is under-priced today, while buying this ETF is betting that oil delivered a month from now is under-priced today (and holding this ETF is repeatedly renewing that bet). It's a completely different thing.
Video Puppet + MDX Deck [1] would be a dream.

[1]: https://github.com/jxnblk/mdx-deck
>As long as someone is willing to pay for it, it will be provided. And even cheaply

This is only true until it isn't. At some point oil will become economically and technologically infeasible and alternatives will win out, because no one wants the million-dollar a barrel oil economy that results when we have to resort to mining Titan for it.
It is much easier to avoid malloc writing C than to avoid new in Java.
If this scenario isn't a good reason for provisioning an internal 'cloud', either on-premise or co-location, I don't know what is.

AWS, Azure, and GC are horrendously expensive for what they are. Especially for long-lived services. They do have a use case but 99% of businesses just do not need it.

(queue up the downvotes.)
I don’t care about egos. It’s a cool thing to do that also helps their brand as an employer. I hope other CEOs emulate this behavior.
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One of the Pi-hole dev's here. The comment you are replying to is talking about the blog post about this CVE, not Pi-hole's aesthetics. (Which haven't changed, btw)

Say hi to J from me.
In these times of every significant company employing a PR firm to manage its public image, I doubt that's going to happen.
I was on track to have this paid service offering launched in the coming weeks, but the economic uncertainty brought on by COVID caused me to rethink the go to market plan.

I iterated quickly on something I could offer to those in need now and in the coming weeks. This is one way I can give back.

If you have been impacted and will be, or is already scheduled to, interviewing soon, I want to help. If you know someone for whom this would be helpful, please share.

Any and all feedback welcome.
It's all written in Go + Postgres. Nothing else. Not sure what TPS is.

No problem with scaling.

Stack Overflow runs on a single machine. Use a fast compiled language and a simple stack. No need in $6k/mo AWS bills which are the fashion these days.
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I used to work in the higher-education field for a respected private university, and I think I know part of the answer to this: institutional momentum.

This university launched an online MBA program early on, and built it out with a bunch of other offerings as well. We were genuinely ahead of the curve on a bunch of things, but we were also pretty separated from the rest of the university, physically and culturally. We had our own building removed from campus, and we did things a little differently. Not quite Silicon Valley agile, but comparatively. Meanwhile, the rest of the campus was adamantly against online learning, for years.

I think a big part of this is that we had an older faculty and institutional culture that was pretty set in its ways: they didn't see or recognize the value that the internet afforded their classrooms, and weren't set up to implement them. That's begun to change a bit as we got younger faculty, but there's still a tendency towards in-person learning, because of the tradition and training behind it.

I don't think this is necessarily malevolent on their part: they just haven't thought deeply about it. Plus, there's a lot of infrastructure that you'd have to build out to provide online learning: there are a lot of logistical obstacles in the way. You need to select a CMS, hire course developers, train reluctant faculty and staff, figure out how to make it accessible and ADA-compliant, design courses that make sense for online learning, then market to students who are willing to go up online to take their classes.

Those are a lot of hurtles to overcome for an institution, and it requires a lot of willpower and political wrangling within the institution in order to make sure it gets done. As a result... it just doesn't. I think it'll change with time, but it's like turning an aircraft carrier: you can't do it overnight.
In fact it's a good argument for using in-browser adblockers, since in-browser adblockers are capable of blocking such nag screens whereas DNS-based ones are not
Nothing to do with GC though. It's also fairly easy to avoid `new` in Go and C#.
That accounts for the left-right gap between countries as they follow the same trajectory upwards. That is to say, it is almost totally irrelevant when the data is displayed this way.
Lol, what
What I'm saying is that this particular explanation for the apparent difference in fatality ratios of Coronavirus infections is a fringe one, and it's not right to point to that as an example of sentiment in Germany in general.

I'm not disputing any of the other things that you wrote. Distancing started in Germany on March 12, at that point it was just a legally non-binding recommendation, it became legally binding on March 16. The timing is similar to what happened in many other European countries with the exception of Italy.

Based on that, it's fair to say that the seriousness was downplayed initially, but that is pretty much universal. We knew this was going to be a global problem by mid February at the very latest.
There is a huge amount of diversity in non American industrial nation health care systems.

Saying they're all the same is a bit like saying all foreigners speak the same language.
I had a similar experience now. Never had to do reCaptcha on a payment form with my phone before. And then the payment was rejected. I am a normal US credit card payer. I ended up using PayPal.
The jobs that a low population density supports generally don't have a lot of workers touching the same thing; only so many people are going to be using a tractor or mining excavator in the span of a month. That only leaves schools as a large potential infection vector, which considering the average age & thus risk group of parents with kids still in primary school will leave the situation a lot more manageable
Insurance only risk-pools by accident. In a world where they had perfect information, they would risk-smooth over your life, but not risk-pool between people.

Collective plans, like those provided by your employer, would risk-pool, but then should we really attribute the pooling to insurance companies?
From the linked report("new analysis") referenced in the first paragraph:

>"The potential impacts detailed in this report reflect
what could happen absent decisive federal action.
If these impacts are not mitigated, the public
health and economic consequences to consumers,
small and large employers and health insurers are
potentially staggering, including:

• Consumers and employees not getting needed
testing or treatments due to cost barriers,
both for COVID-19 but also for other health
conditions.

• Employers no longer being able to offer
affordable coverage, or dramatically shifting
costs to employees.

• Consumers and employers no longer being able
to afford coverage, leading to employer groups
dropping coverage or individuals deciding to go
uninsured.

• Even more unsubsidized marketplace enrollees
being priced out of individual markets.

• Small insurers risk insolvency, and if they
close, put covered consumers at financial risk,
damaging competition that benefits consumers
and the employers that purchase on behalf of
millions of Americans.

• Dramatic cost increases, many of which will be
borne by the federal government in the form of
higher Advanced Premium Tax Credits (APTC),
or by both federal and state governments paying
for increased Medicaid enrollment as individuals
and employers drop coverage"

Aren't almost all of these things not only already true but have also been true for years now?
my reply was for montalbano directly. He has K&R which lays a foundation of the language. Maybe you're right and this builds off of that as a #2 type of book, so you could be right there.

Safety-critical and security-critical are interesting for an intro book. I'd like people to be aware, and conscious of of them. Anyways, we could debate this one. It really depends on how paranoid a beginner programmer becomes.
There are usually people that know about the abuse. You have to hope for whistleblowers at that point.
How does AWS collect on the $80k debt? If you're a startup, you could cancel/freeze your credit card, dissolve the LLC / S Corp, set a new one up with a similar name, and transfer all IP assets over. Poof - all debts and liabilities erased.

What's wrong with this approach? It's not like they can collect on your personally, or go after the new company. (I wonder how they would even figure what legal entity is behind the new company/wesbite.)
I'd accept that pull request.
At the risk of getting hellbanned for sneaking in reposts of my largely ignored posts from yesterday, the projections for our current situation can be found online here:

http://covid19.healthdata.org/projections

paper here: http://www.healthdata.org/research-article/forecasting-covid...
Come on now reddit wallstreetbets is up there with Vegas now for gamblers looking for a fix
Looks like Monday for a sample chapter.
China: War Without Rules
Germany has a public option that covers a lot of people and the insurance industry is regulated to a degree that would make CEOs in the US scream, Japan has a draconian price schedule under a single payer system, and Singapore is more or less a managed economy dictatorship. These examples aren’t like each other nor evidence of the impracticality of a single payer system in the US.
I love this. I've been messing around with Premiere Pro and Audacity for the past couple of days trying to get more into making video. Video puppet looks way easier to debug and collaborate on since scrolling back in forth in your video looking for stuff gets very tedious very quickly.

Is there any way I can add my own voice and then still write the words that I want my voice to say?
I believe it also ended up tragically underfunded. I believe the co-op started in Illinois was still in a lawsuit over underpayments when it became insolvent and was shut down.
I believe the correct name for what time-machine does is differential backups.

Instead of doing a full backup and then having a chain of incremental backups, each differential backup stores all the differences from the full backup, so they are much larger but it allows you to delete previous differential backups.
Maybe a better way to put it is: that the end result is just a website where data is moved around and/or some calculations are done. The whole infrastructure/architecture thing are just strategies on where to place data, how to move data, when to do calculation in the name of mitigating load or making future changes easier.

Ultimately, the end result is we're just building interactive documents. "Interactive document maker" or "Dynamic form writer" is a more humble term than "Problem solver" or "Coding Ninja" because that's literally all we're doing.
That's a question of throughput, not latency, and there's material about ZGC's throughput as well if you're interested. E.g. Go's GC has good latency but horrible throughput; ZGC is much better.
Plumbers and custodians also save lives through sanitation. But when you google "Plumbers save lives" you get nothing.

I myself have had my cancer personally cured by AI and machine learning, but does the electrician who provided power to the computer get any credit? No, and that is a huge discrimination problem.
What are some examples of those services that handle close to 100% of SaaS needs?
I don't think it's entirely fair to just look at overall spending. For instance, nearly half of new drugs were produced in the US, so presumably you pay a premium to get access to the newest stuff. Second, other countries have price controls set by the government. This means that US is likely subsidizing for other countries to have cheaper meds. Due to the price controls, if a life saving drug is too expensive it may not even be available at all.

I'm not saying the US is perfect, but it does have some benefits other countries do not.
Self study is never going to be as good as immersion in an academic environment. The impact that ad hoc conversations and events with peers and professors have is profound. You just don't get this with online or remote learning.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I finished my last year of AA (psych) with University of Phoenix after starting at my local community college. Side by side I wouldn’t hesitate to say that while the data transfer medium was different, the work and testing was on par with the community college curriculum. I would note that there was a lot more written work than lecture at UoP, but that could be a discrepancy between first and second year studies.

The stigma for attending one of these schools is terrible. Not undeserved, as they are predatory and for profit. But so are community colleges, in maybe different ways, but for the same reasons.

I keep it on my resume even though I work in IT. I’m personally proud of it as an accomplishment despite the crap I catch whenever it’s brought up.
Death of German State Finance Minister Official Linked to Virus Crisis
It kinda happened with Gamestop here. They tried to classify themselves as essential business first ( I kinda bought the argument btw. - there are people who don't handle isolation well; entertainment helps ), but after backlash all of a sudden delivery @door came into being.

I will add that all of a sudden, I have way more respect for Amazon ( not for their employee practices ; it is a separate can of worms ). Their website just works. I tried to do similar things yesterday on BestBuy I did on Amazon and it was just made purposefully difficult.

In my darker moments, I want some of those companies to fail hard now so that something better may be ushered in. But then I remember people don't behave in a civilized manner then.
found a good summary for [2], guess that will do for me: https://thepowermoves.com/extreme-ownership/
I doubt there will be any serious backlash or even a non-trivial amount of reporting about such cases. Also, not sure what kind of backlash there really was over war profiteering - plenty of American companies collaborated with Nazi Germany, and plenty of Nazi companies are still around and going strong today. Grassroots campaigns to boycott 'bad' companies seem to start, fizzle out and disappear all the time these days. There is no support for such boycotts from mainstream media or the powers that be.
Knowing something about the 19th century press, it bares a lot more resemblance to today’s social media “bubbles”, hyperbole, and opinion driven journalism than the post WW2 media environment. Whether it was Frederick Douglass’s publications or the local political party backed newspaper - newspapers that existed to promote their agenda more than to give some objective reporting on the facts.
I'm working on my scheme/lisp interpreter in JavaScript, it's getting closer to real Scheme. Right now I'm reading R5RS spec and adding new functions. It have pretty nice interop with JavaScript and work in browser and Node.js.

https://jcubic.github.io/lips/

There is lot of features in devel branch I need to release soon version 0.21.0, but first I need to write unit tests.
Scrutinising unverified medical advice on social media which could be false or a joke isn't a sign of depression, it is skepticism. The concern is towards medical advice from unverified sources like social media related to the outbreak which is very serious if not dangerous; joking or not. It's just as serious as people jokingly pretending to be doctors or medical professionals to diagnose people on the internet such as yourself.

It's kind of bad taste and timing to throw around April Fools themed medical advice around this pandemic when there are people actually taking anything 'recommended' by so called 'social media experts' to cure themselves from the disease don't you think? Unless you're willing to trust everything you see and read on the internet?
> the Picard series (streaming free on CBS right now)

I went to look at this, and it appears to be part of a $10 / month subscription, not free. Is there a giveaway somewhere?
By proclaiming this publicly, you influence other CEOs to consider taking this action. It's a good thing to market these actions.
Yes, Lightsail’s egress overage fee is the same as EC2’s crazy egress pricing (at least $0.09/GB), whereas Linode charges me a much more reasonable $0.01/GB if I go over.
The Geekbench score is a pretty useless metric when you have a specific workload in mind. If you are choosing a machine for video editing you're not going to look at the Geekbench score. If you are choosing a machine for compiling code you're not going to look a the Geekbench score. If you need a machine for gaming you're not going to look at the Geekbench score. If you have no specific requirements then you might not even care about having the best performance.
a question I like to ask to my reports is "are you solving a problem or are you solving a puzzle?"

puzzles are neat! They're a lot of fun! But we shouldn't mistake puzzles for problems. Just because something isn't right or doesn't fit together doesn't mean that it matters. You can do great engineering work coming up with beautiful solutions, making order and beauty out of something that doesn't work quite right but provide no value whatsoever if the thing you were working on solving wasn't actually a problem for anybody.
Are we really surprised though? This is just capitalism at work.
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Berlin (AP) -- The state finance minister of Germany’s Hesse region, which includes Frankfurt, has been found dead. Authorities said he appears to have killed himself and the state's governor suggested Sunday that he was in despair over the fallout from the coronavirus crisis.
The body of Thomas Schaefer, a 54-year-old member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, was found Saturday on railway tracks at Hochheim, near Frankfurt.
Police and prosecutors said that factors including questioning of witnesses and their own observations at the scene led them to conclude that Schaefer killed himself.
State governor Volker Bouffier linked Schaefer’s death to the virus crisis on Sunday.
Bouffier said Schaefer was worried about “whether it would be possible to succeed in fulfilling the population’s huge expectations, particularly of financial help.”
“I have to assume that these worries overwhelmed him,” Bouffier said. “He apparently couldn’t find a way out. He was in despair and left us.”
Germany's federal and state governments have drawn up huge aid packages to cushion the blow of largely shutting down public life to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Schaefer had been Hesse’s state finance minister for a decade.