skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a bit of a rat race in colleges posturing to get ahead of each other always, and that takes capital investment and the recourse to raise funds ends up being tuition.

These things and reputations take years and tons of willpower and planning, so the risk of falling behind is immense.
The culture of higher education isn't what it used to be. The advancement of knowledge is now secondary to economic growth in a university. Students begin as customers and turn into products by graduation. Universities used to be gatekeepers to better economic opportunities but those opportunities have disappeared. This is a relatively recent phenomenon in that Baby Boomers don't have the student loan obligations that generations following them do. Boomers changed the policies to suit their own financial interests, destroying the opportunities that they benefited by for future generations. Massive student loan debt constrains major life decisions and limits access to credit. It's a lot easier to navigate life when you don't carry inescapable debt burdens. Government refused to limit access to credit and that allowed universities to constantly charge more every year. You can't escape student loan debt as you can business loans by declaring bankruptcy because of a fundamentally flawed logic about what the student loan enabled. Higher education is an economic investment. Yet, when the investment fails, the lenders aren't exposed to the losses -- the borrowers are. This has been a great deal for lenders as they aren't exposed to risk.

Unfortunately, neither a Trump nor Biden administration is going to change anything. It's up to the free market and entrepreneurs to disrupt this exploitative system.
What happens is that different teams build out their own wikis , or come in via acquisition). The company then ends up with a dozen of them, and re-orgs occur and a single team now has two wikis, and people wonder why the information isn't centralized. Everyone agrees it will be great to have a singe company wide wiki and the project is born.
What I did is to do all my work in a VMware virtual machine.

Then I wrote software for backing up VM's automatically (disclaimer: this is a commercial product I sell)

There's options for getting an email on success, failure or both. The VM files are all hashed.

VMs are easy to restore, so an actual restore is pretty easy without risking to overwrite the original. If a file hash does not match on restore, then my software will complain, but continue the restore anyways.

FWIW, all my code etc... is also in source control, so I am not relying on a single layer for that.
You would think Microsoft Teams would beat them, but they inflated it with Office 365 "Features". In comparison, Slack feels more like a complete product the first time you use it. Any other must-haves for your organization are treated as add-ons.
This feels very similar to the Black Mirror concept of "Ashley Too", which comes with a warning of "Ashley Too may perpetuate loneliness".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQyzn3CWJuM
maybe the dept of education should stipulate that 80% of college operating budgets be direct teaching/research costs, lest their fed loan largess be taken away. and progressively tax endowments, particularly targeting above a threshold of $100K/student or something like that.

currently, the incentives are such that greedy people can just milk all the unrestrained cash flow coming into what should be a non-profit-oriented institution.
well in your 50s your kids are grown, in your 30s they were just born. So companies are better hiring 50 year olds?
I think a big factor is health insurance in the USA. If you are in your 40's you probably have a partner and kids. Your company will have to cover all of this, and if the kids get a condition things can be expensive. So, I think that they consciously focus on younger people to drive the costs down.
Linux home directory management is about to undergo major change
No. But that's another point: there should be a burst of demand initially. Delayed service appointments; postponed repairs and replacements. It seems temporary, and may only cause a roller-coaster effect but we'll see.
Fuzzing with WebIDL
Probably not, jumping jacks don't take much effort. Think about for how long people can sprint at their maximum speed: 3 minutes would be world class. But doing 3 minutes of jumping jacks is pretty easy.
A similar project is Lumen [1], which is targeted primarily at WebAssembly.

[1]: https://github.com/lumen/lumen
Really strange that how back-end developer you never had a use-case for Redis yet.

First you could check at

https://redis.io/topics/data-types-intro

If you look at single data type you can see how redis takes care about complexity(indicating the Big O notation) of each single data structure and operations.

Many devs use it for caching but in my opinion is super nice for evil-write applications.
>> The adjunct professors get paid next to nothing. Let's give them a slight raise, fire 90% of the deans

This is where the education industry can learn from the law schools. They are certainly ivory towers, but part of that tradition is that law school deans still ussually teach. My first year contracts prof was also the school dean. Law school deans remain largely 'first among many' rather than a separate profession, the 'professional administrators'.
Talk about timing, I was just looking for this in unicode for my website yesterday. Didn't find anything that looked good so ended up going with Font Awesome: https://fontawesome.com/icons/external-link-alt?style=solid

I think it's a missed opportunity for unicode.
Why not simply use wireguard instead of each tool implementing its own ssl support?
I'm not saying it is against the rules, but what should be common decency. People going to the office having a cold don't break any rules, but the lack of self awareness is usually frowned upon.
You can easily make your own beer at home, yet I doubt AB InBev is worried about that. I don't think DIY hobbyists are relevant to companies operating at this scale.
Ask HN: The one thing in software development that should improve but has not??
I think in state tuition at a public university is often still a very good deal w/o nearly the debt profile.
New Search Engine: Million Short: Exclude Top Results, "What haven't you found?"
Are we Turing machines? :|
Ask HN: How do you find 10x content?
I've noticed recently that I can't seem to find top tier content very easily. For instance, if someone is building their first startup, I point them to Sam Altman's "Startup Playbook" or PG's essays — they're concise and invaluable. Everyone has a favorite startup book or YouTube channel, but there are a few materials that universally get a nod.

But not I'm trying to find the equivalent in a few other subjects:

- Leading small remote teams (growth and technical)
- User defined data schema architectures (i.e., how AirTable, Notion architect their data)
- SaaS integrations best practices (how to integrate your SaaS product with SalesForce, agnostic db connectors, ETL data pipelines, etc...)

I have a faint memory of once using Google to find things. Now there's just a deluge of content from all directions and I can't seem to effectively wade through it.

Analogous to the 10x developer, how do reliably (perhaps counter-intuitively) find top 10x content on a given subject?
This is where the continental european model of the university is so much better than the anglo-american one.

Universities should be about coursework and research, that's it. Dorms, dining halls, gyms, social clubs, sports etc. are not part of the university's mission
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I think they'll try, but I honestly think we've got a perfect storm coming.

Now's the best time ever for automation to take off. There's also going to be more big businesses eating little businesses and consolidation.

Globalization's biggest leaders will come out ahead, and thrive as always - but a LOT less workers are going to be needed in general from here on out thanks to ML/AI/Etc...

It's first step towards post-scarcity, except for the millions who will be hurt if govt's don't create repurposing plans to give people a purpose for existing and enough $ to eat and live.

Also, I personally won't step foot in a sit-down restaurant or movie theater for at least 2-3 years, or until there's a viable vaccine. I'm sure I'm not the only person boycotting crowds.

Real estate analysts estimate that 50%+ of mall retailers will close their door by q4 2021. that's a shit ton of jobs gone forever.

I was starting to get skeptical of the claim that 40% of jobs would be gone by 2030, but 2020 definitely is showing it's highly possible. What do we do w/ 40% permanent unemployment?
/s ?

For my computer graphics and processing work, multithreaded tasks scale amazingly well with the number of cores so single core performance doesn't matter all that much. A single thread isn't even be able to process all the data that's streamed from an SSD. I need three threads just to process/prepare the data in the background, in addition to the main thread that keeps rendering.

I suspect it's only a matter of time until multithreading is a must for games. The additional programming effort may not have paid off if players only have 2 or 4 core CPUs, but now that 8 cores with 16 threads are increasingly common, it's going to make a difference.
>> Pretty sure that is an acceptable solution in most cases

No, it's not. In almost all high-security compliance audits you are required to have the data encrypted anytime it's in-flight.
If you are a 10x developer, you should either angle to get 10x the money or dial it down for your own benefit. Don't let some company get free value out of you!
With coroutines, your program logic itself is the scheduler.
It's too bad Zuckerberg didn't host a very public annual roast like having jesters of the court calling him out on issues over the years.
I understand the sentiment, but things are a bit different than they may look. About SSL, there is no way out of this. I opposed to this feature for a long time, but simply now because of changes in regulations, policies and so forth, a lot of use cases are migrating to SSL internally even if Redis is not exposed. And frankly it is really a mess to handle SSL proxies now that everybody look like needs encryption. So what I did was the best I could do, when checking for PRs to merge: 1) Opt in, not compiled by default, no SSL libs requirements. 2) Connection abstraction, there is no SSL mentioned inside the code. Everything is in a different file.

About the "Kafka" thing, actually streams were wanted by myself, very strongly, and not suggested by Redis Labs. Let's start thinking at Redis ad a data structure server and at streams without the consumer groups part (which is totally optional). It was incredible we had no way to model a "log" in a serious way. No time series easily, using hacks and with huge memory usage because sorted sets are not the solution for this problem. But then why consumer groups? Because for a long time people had this problem of wanting a "persistent Pub/Sub": you can't lose messages just because clients disconnect in most use cases. Btw this Kafka monster is a total of 2775 lines of code, including comments. 1731 lines of code without comments. In other systems this is the prelude in the copyright notice.

But ACLs, in order to manage to survive 10 years without ACLs we had to resort to all kind of tricks: renaming commands to unguessable strings. Still with the panic of some library calling FLUSHALL for error because the developer was testing it in her/his laptop. Really ACLs have nothing to do with enterprise, but some safety is needed. The ACL monster is 1297 lines of code, and is one of the most user friendly security system you'll find in a database.

Actually all those features have a great impact on the users, huge impact on day to day operations, and are designed in order to be as simple as possible. And Redis Labs actually has only to lose from all this, because those were all potential "premium" features, instead now they are in and every other Redis provider will have it automatically as a standard. So... reality is a bit different, and it's not a conspiracy to gain market shares or alike.
The US economy entered a recession in March 2001, which it exited in November 2001. So 9/11 was shortly followed by a recovery, not an unraveling.
That was an unrelated localised issue.
There's no details on the evening's Libertal Global issues.
Wow. Just Wow.

I'm a 56 year old software engineer who grew up in London and now lives in a tiny village in New Mexico. This article manages to somehow cover a huge part of the culture that so influenced my life growing up - Bateson, Van Der Ryn, Brand, Alexander, and so many more - even though I lived thousands of miles from the putative "new age state" it describes. My subscription to CoEvolution Quarterly, my prized copies of Domebook 2, Shelter, the New Alchemists, newsletters from the Farallones Institute - odd source material for a teenager living in the middle of the punk explosion, but well, that was what I did.

The ideas that were circulating then form part of a semi-coherent body of knowledge that I tend to feel is insufficiently visible, especially to today's younger people currently exploring the same questions and dissatisfactions.

Understanding why these efforts failed, and when they didn't, seems to me an incredibly useful effort. This article was written in 2016 ... it would be nice if there turn out to be more critical but highly informed analyses of the evolution of and outcomes from the ideas of the "movements" (whatever you call them) that were surfacing in the 75-85 period. The Observer (UK) had a similar though less in-depth study of the New Alchemists recently:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2019...

Putting on my old(er) person hat: you kids who want to change the world, go back and understand why the efforts of people 2-4 times your age turned out the way they did.

And now ... I need to get back to working on my own install of a 6.6kW solar array, and my New Mexico garden (featuring sub-irrigated beds, and idea that should have been in CoEvolution Quarterly, but wasn't) and our old adobe house, as I get ready to release version 6.0 of Ardour. Meanwhile, Stewart Brand's friends (Shel Kaphan) and his intellectual children (me) helped build that e-commerce website we all increasingly love to hate. Funny how things turn out.
Why unfortunately? Ethereum is great
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That was an excellent and entertaining comment.
I was often told stories from the Boomer generation of people "working their way through college", holding part time jobs through college to pay for both living expenses and tuition. That is, quite literally, impossible today.
Yeah, my point is just to have the screenshot "right there" (embedded in the README) so it's nearly the first thing people see. :)

When people need to click on links to see the screenshot(s), it seems like a missed opportunity. ;)
While I think the overall rate of production of EVs is frustratingly slow, once that giant industry is spun up the oil industry is going to suffer like nothing before. It can recover from this corona situation, but it won't be able to from a shift to EVs. I wish they would see this as their final warning.

It's doubly frustrating for Alberta, which has a high baseline cost of production and bills itself business friendly and talks a lot about "energy". Imagine for a sec that they used a small part of the Heritage Fund (say $1 Billion) and a set of business-friendly regulations to set up an X-Prize type competition for advanced nuclear? How much private investment could they attract? But it's not gonna happen, all their talk of "business" and "energy" just means oil, oil, oil.
So much this. Linux distros with popular package managers offer official and 3rd party sources through one API. It's a dream compared to Windows and Mac IMO
I'm not so sure. I would probably choose a vocational apprenticeship over a B.A. in Sociology from State U.
I think Canada has the same systems.

Singapore don't penalize saving and you see how competitive they are. More importantly, they have a lot of savings.
Try refreshing the page and check whether you can see the pictures.
it's capitalist hypnosis
I think the level of economic anxiety (precariousness) people have is one of the biggest mental health risks in the US. It lowers people's ability to perform cognitive tasks and results in more bad decisions.
It would be awful but ethics change often so what can you do.
A Kobo would be far easier. Some people have even written entire document readers for Kobos in Rust:

https://github.com/baskerville/plato
If you open the box to check which one it is, be sure to catch the cat or remove the cat's body.
s/November 2011/November 2001/
The TV set index seems like a nice counterpart to the Big Mac Index.
Not the OP, but I can say in Japan the spot electric market price is set by the marginal generator: LNG peaker plants.

Thus if renewables were selling into the open market the price for their electricity would indeed be determined by the fossil fuel plants. Yet the vast majority of renewables being installed world wide are doing so under more favorable deals.
I think it's time to decouple education from all of the other things tied to colleges. When I studied abroad in Australia, things like the gym or meal plans were available, but not "bundled in" to your tuition. The idea of tying competitive sports teams to a university would be laughable.

We need to remove all of the "excess" stuff from higher education and get back to the core of education and research. Sure, things like football might be net profitable (for some schools), but lacrosse, baseball, swimming, gymnastics and all of that are not and students shouldn't be paying for that.
Juul is big tobacco.
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I self-host a couple of blogs using Wordpress. For over eleven years, I've posted a photo every day at https://www.75centralphotography.com/, but that's not really writing. For writing, I've just recently spun up http://www.robotsprocket.com/ to share ephemera, code and other things I've found interesting. Having played around with Medium, Squarespace and Wix, I find WP to be superior in its flexibility and the fact that I'm ensured that I own the content.
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How to fail miserably at giving away money.
> when recruiters call and find out I'm married with kids they can't seem to hang up fast enough.

I don't really understand why this would be the case. From a purely practical standpoint, people loaded up with a family are more likely to stay and perform in a job for income stability.

I guess if a company is looking for people to burn through like firewood this might not be the case, but I think those are the places you want to avoid anyway!
I use Hugo and I host my blog out of an AWS S3 bucket.

Pros:

- Cheap.

- Static and small. Hugo lets me really make everything tiny.

- Learned more about AWS.

Cons:

- A lot of work because I had to setup Route 53, CloudFront, Certificate Manager and S3.

- Learning about the permission model and setting up an IAM user with right permissions.

- Figuring out how Route 53, Certificate Manager and CloudFront work together so I could have SSL.

Reading this back, my pros and cons list sounds ridiculous.
Those things you list are pretty rare, though. And I say this as one who is both disabled and has seen more than anyone's normal share of bad luck.
Note that upstream suggests rsync rather than scp in the general case. Of course pipes work too. I sometimes forget, and the remember half way through a big recursive scp operation. Just use rsync.
That's not a good analogy for OS sandboxing:

• Will third-parties have the same standards for checking if an app uses only the authorized APIs and gating privacy/resource access?

• What happens when Apple/Google introduce new OS APIs, will those third-party signing authorities update their standards at the same time?

• What if a third-party goes rogue and starts signing malicious apps? How and how soon will we know?
Or "Never Twice The Same Color"
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Any SMS conversations that aren't with trusted friends. Like landlords, or bosses, or maybe arranging the visitation with your ex.

As far as an audit trail is concerned, you'd need to have all the cell carriers update their SMS infrastructure to save the associated edit history along with the text of each message. That's definitely non-trivial.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea to have this feature, just that it's much more work than you realize, and the benefit is probably not there to justify the work. Slack has the luxury of controlling their entire platform. They don't rely on Ericsson or Qualcomm or Nokia to implement new features the way SMS would.
Are there actually games that take advantage of a CPU this fast? I would imagine that all the game developers would be targeting the more modest hardware that most of their players actually have.
Revenue maximization by way of price discrimination. Charging $x as the list price but giving 65% of students a big need-based financial aid package is a lot more palatable than saying the price is $x unless you're rich or foreign, in which case it's $x * 3, even if they're functionally equivalent.
> > By the mid-1920s, interest on [British] government debt was absorbing 44% of all government expenditure, [...]
That definitely sounds like an issue. Without the debt, they presumably could have cut taxes in about half.

That's not an issue if, by taking on the debt, the government allowed the economy to grow sufficiently faster.

The conservative analogy to a household budget doesn't make sense. Analogizing to a startup where you're best off taking on debt for more capital, to increase growth, also don't make sense. But it's an open question, which of these makes the least sense.
The hunger itself is less of an issue because the food itself is pretty damn cheap. With resturants the labor is the biggest cost component.
Especially if it is just "rice and dried beans boiled in water plus multivitamins". Hell the supply chain issues show distribution is an expensive part in comparison - although unfortunately the cheapness comes from high scale too.

The real issues with scalability are things like medical care and other higher skilled labor - not just because of task switching inefficiencies but because any proportional hour reduction means increased demand - assuming that the hours worked are useful.

Less skilled labor is more or less commoditized and would be easier to spread the burden around and would likely show a boost instead of a decline in productivity (although involving say 10 people working 4 hour shifts instead of 5 working 8 hour shifts).

Regardless of stance on what we should do a massive societal lifestyle shift would neither be easy nor well received.
> Another example is closed OSes like iOS. Consumers love iOS because you almost never see malware. Open OSes easily acquire malware if the user is not tech-savvy (and even sometimes if they are), and finding software outside a walled garden is an exercise in picking your way through a minefield. Have you tried to search for a Windows app on the open web recently?

Windows is a minefield to download for.

Linux is a yum or apt away.

And iOS is antiowner garbage.
I think if we avoid heavy handed government intervention to "save the economy" things will return to normal fairly quickly. OTOH, I expect gov to jump in as always to create a self fulfilling prophecy.
Microsoft: Why We Used Rust over Go for WebAssembly on Kubernetes App
I remember reading Engines of Creation some 35 years ago and actually believing it, but there has been essentially zero progress. It remains pure science fiction and I expect nothing else in the foreseeable future.
You drape the spaghetti over a dowel, let it dry, and cut it before you try to build a bridge with it!
A B.A. in Sociology isn't a good comparison to vocational apprenticeships. A better one would be a B.E in some kind of engineering.