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> It used to be said that a college degree was a ticket to a well-paying job

I have never actually heard this said. Can you provide some sources or any kind of quote for this? I've heard references to this having been said, but never an actual source.

This is anecdotal, but even my older family members saw college as meeting gating requirements for some jobs, not a promise of getting those jobs.

> Now, a few decades later, we're told to get a STEM degree, because other degrees are worthless.

I don't think a STEM degree promises you a job, nor is a STEM degree inherently valuable unless you otherwise have the qualifications to work in a STEM field.

> Degrees aren't a symbol of skill nearly as much as they are a way for the market to allocate well-paying jobs

They're a form of gating, agreed.

> and the allocation is getting smaller all the time.

That's not clear. For some fields like being a Doctor that seems to be true, but for many fields like being an engineer that's obviously not the case. That being said, I would be surprised if there's a compiled data set that accurately tells us one way or another - the BLS data might be the closest.
Agreed.

If it comes to it, good luck out there hunting with all the amateurs who are hungry, unskilled and outnumber trained hunters 100:1.
"I'm sorry. Your message about labor rights does not fall in line with Amazon's mission and has been filtered."

You wouldn't even need a human to do this.
I don't really know how to address the kind of confusion that mistakes a statement of principle for an imposition of narrative.
Plus, I don’t want to risk giving the house a stroke or cognitive injury from the risks of the operation and general anesthesia when a comparable or better outcome could be done with PCI. It’s all about risks and benefits for her.
To echo this: Hunting is good for the animals.

I know, I know, that seems like an oxymoron, like jumbo-shrimp or old-news. But in the US at least, a lot of national parks are funded via hunting permits [0]. The same is true in many parts of Africa. Those photos you see of some rich person with an elephant or a 5 point buck? The permit to kill that animal cost a lot of money and the parks are very grateful to have the cash [0].

NPR had a good story on how conservation in part depends on hunters: https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/593001800/decline-in-hunters-...

Yes, the issue of hunters/poachers is a very complicated one. But what the sportsmen take, generally, is less than what they give back.

[0] The funding of parks is very complex, but permits do play a large part, generally. Each park is unique though.
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I wonder why they haven’t replaced touchID with FaceID on MacBooks. There’s a camera and I find FaceID to be so much more seamless.
Here's the article referred to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23025044
I've long thought that in many ways, a corporation is nothing but a system which shields people from the moral consequences of their actions. A company like Altria, for example, couldn't function if you were told your job was to give people lung cancer, so the company instead has layers and layers of bureaucracy and paper pushers so that each individual person takes actions which they're only slightly uncomfortable with at worst. When I was in my early 20s, I saw how it works first hand when I worked at a company that did market research surveys at a mall, and we had a survey from Phillip Morris, and I refused to do it, and my manager tried to say: "You're not doing anything wrong, you're just asking people their opinions, you're not giving away samples or advertising to them, etc..." It all sounded so convincing, but it eventually came down to me either doing it or being fired, so I quit. Easy to do when you're still living at home and don't need the job, a lot harder if you have a family.
Awesome, from the TOC it looks exactly like what I want. I'll check it out.
Another thing that really matters - Peer review from other experts in the field. We have mechanisms whose job it is to do what this article was talking about, see if the claims made add up/if the references are interpreted correctly etc. It's obviously not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than no peer review
Most people are busy trying to free their children, spouse, and immediate family, even if it means sacrificing others’ freedom to do it.
Exactly, the author was not an academic, which at the very least means they are "putting on airs".
If you only permit established domain experts to voice ideas you will severely limit potential advancements. Innovation is often the product of multiple disciplines intersecting to produce something novel.
My guess, it, along with the released 'UFO' video's that were leaked a while ago, and released last week, are some sort of an attempt to either make other countries think we have that tech, or waste a TON of money and time trying to do it themselves, while we focus on other things.
The functionality of implementing it yourself?

But that’s such a useless definition because then all software “provides nothing” since it’s implementation proves that you could have written it yourself.

logind is far more robust than any of the janky shell scripts
I’ve seen over the years to accomplish this.
The problem is not the toolchain itself, it’s the runtime. Go’s runtime is interfacing directly with OS kernels, Rust is linking against glibc, etc. I wish the Rust community would invest in a runtime that inreracts with the kernel directly in the same way Go does. Current approaches aim to implement libc drop in replacements in Rust. There are also the musl targets which could make building static binaries easier. A completely rusty approach without going through the libc interface would have tons of
benefits, though!
An advantage of the 13” is the lack of discrete GPU.

If you don’t need one, you won’t have to care about tweaking for power consumption (like adding utilities to force disable it) and your laptop will be less likely to take off like a jet engine.

I had to take the 15” to get the 32G RAM on the previous iteration, and it made me wish I could have had a 13” option at that time.
People focus a lot on whether online can replicate the in-person experience of networking, building relationships, etc. The other part of it is that student tuition pay for the use of facilities as well, not just classrooms, but also the recreation center and other campus amenities. So in other words, not all the money went into the "intangibles", but rather the very real tangibles.

Another comparison would be to prepay for a sit down experience at a high end restaurant, only to be told the restaurant shut down and you're actually going to actually have to get the food delivered. Presumably you'd want a partial refund not just because you didn't get the "magical vibe", but also because you literally did not sit in the physical space for 2+ hours.
Cube farm is nowadays a premium. We are just sitting in rows. Like school class. No walls, nothing. Managers sit in corners, so they can observe others. Upper management has private offices. With increasing pay office quality drops dramatically.
Huh, I thought it already had this! Must have mixed it up with a different object storage service (maybe DigitalOcean?).

I've been using B2 for backup storage for some personal projects. It doesn't necessarily do anything "better" than S3 from what I've seen, but never having to log into AWS's dashboard is a reward enough on its own.

They do have a command-line client that's a quick PIP install, so you can do something like:

b2 upload-file bucket-name /path/to/file remote-filename

Which is, of course, nice for backups.
> This was before AWS and Rails was just getting started, so just getting something up and visible was a major technological effort.

Before rails there was LAMP. That's what Facebook used. Java servlets existed as well. And rented clouds existed before AWS as well. Despite the hype for them on pages like this, neither AWS nor Rails were really big disrupting inventions. The market for both existed before them, and will exist after they've fallen out of favour.

Where innovation happened is in the scaling domain. Terraform, kubernetes, etc, as well as in the SaaS tools you mentioned. But most of those things aren't needed for earliest stage startups. You don't need to be super scalable from day one. You can just run everything from one very powerful box for a while.

Of course this all depends on what your application is. If your product is a cloud based tool to post process movies, it will be a different setting from a CRUD app to plan events.
Yeah, totally. People are so annoying with how they want to learn from history! Like you, I too wish people would just be total morons and not ever learn from the past.
I've heard that mosquitoes are believed to be completely replaceable in the food chain of the various species which prey upon them. Considering how mosquitoes are a vector for _numerous_ diseases, malaria being the most deadly but still one of many, what's stopping research into eradicating mosquitoes entirely? A lack of research and surety on the overall effect on the ecosystem?

Honestly, fuck mosquitoes. If the mosquito laser system were ever actually viable/purchasable, I'd happily drop thousands of dollars to keep those bastards out of my bedroom at night.
See "Central Bank Digital Currency" report and details by an actual central bank in the Eurozone[1]. "Cash is no longer king" and this indeed could go mainstream. But it is far far away from self-organisations. Finance (like aviation) is quite a regulated industry.

[1] https://www.dnb.nl/en/news/news-and-archive/dnbulletin-2020/...
Here is the reasoning why they didn't have "s3 compatibility" before: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/design-thinking-b2-apis-the-h...
I've not taught online, but I have a close colleague who was doing it for years pre-pandemic, and another colleague who did a bit of it and my impressions are the same.

My sense is that major universities doing online stuff have video production crews (from Communications etc) and everything is heavily edited and redone. It's more like a television show than anything else. Much more preplanning, and interactions with the students are much more structured.

It's not like some zoom meeting off-the-cuff with your professor who had to switch gears on the spot along with you, while you're uprooted like a minor refugee and living who knows where that you didn't plan to.

Students will be back in the fall. The risks of returning do not approach the risks of not returning for most undergrad-age students. This is especially true that universities will be prepared this fall, and were not in late winter/early spring.

My sense is that a lot of the schadenfreude and resentment here on HN and elsewhere is due to a general sense that something is really very wrong with higher education at the moment, at least in the US, and wanting to see it radically reformed. I agree, but I think the problems are not really related to the value of in-person degree education vs what you can get online. The real issues have to do with the cost of the education in general, how degrees are viewed in vocational settings, and costs and spending within higher educational institutions. Until those things change, it will take a lot more than SARS-CoV-2 to change things.
This link might help explain things:

https://www.scarsdaleschools.k12.ny.us/cms/lib5/NY01001205/C...

I think "racist/sexist" may be muddying the waters a little bit since they are not narrowly defined and probably have more implication of motive, but de facto discrimination is a well recognized concept and it is illegal.
It would be helpful if this linked to the original article/paper to put it in context.
S3 is now the standard for cloud storage APIs? Not sure if that's good or bad. I guess competitors have to reduce switching costs.
So this microbe is already circulating in the mosquito population at a 5% infection rate. The scientists propose either:

a) release spores en masse to infect mosquitoes

b) infect male mosquitoes in the lab and release them into the wild to infect the females when they have sex

There is an obvious third way. We could attempt to genetically engineer a more virulent strain of the pathogen and release it into nature. In the current climate I think this is less than likely to happen.
There's no way to respond seriously to someone who is suggesting we ought not learn from history.
Alternately, the person years of those children haven’t started, and can easily be replaced... Maybe we shouldn’t just be ranking people by age, if we want to come to moral outcomes?
Lua, certainly. Lua is basically a C library that just so happens to have a standalone interpreter. It's largely intended to be embedded in other programs, which it does very well considering it is pure C with (basically) no dependencies.
An interesting alternative to Disqus might be Commento. https://gitlab.com/commento/commento

It's a SaaS or self-hosted commenting application written in Go. I also set this up myself last week https://pieterhollander.nl/post/commento .
You don't even need the Arm machine for CI, with docker multi-arch builds you can build on x86 --
https://community.arm.com/developer/research/b/articles/post...
This is probably why we're talking about it now.
I think they bring that up as one of the many ways the original author might disguise their amateurism. It's definitely not a bad thing to write "well", but faking an authoritative voice is a common problem.
My guess is that:

1) the quicksort algorithm which was used was a recursive version, and relied on local variables to do its job.

2) in the discussed BASIC implementation, local variables are translated to global variables (probably with some form of prefixing based on the function using it to avoid name clashes). This means that functions in that language are never fully reentrant, and that somehow an explicit variable stack has to be implemented to recover the ability to recurse without overwriting variable prematurely.

Note: I initially had a doubt wrt reentrancy, as I had knowledge of this concept in the context of multithreading (I think it actually came up originally in that context), and indeed having concurrent uses of the same function relying on some global variable is problematic, but here there isn't any kind of concurrency. However, global variables can be a problem in the situation outlined above. Another possible issue, although not present here, is when a function F uses a global variable, and accept a function pointer. If that pointer is pointing to a function making a call to F somehow, then lack of reentrancy could also be a problem.

To refresh my memory, I must admit that I had a quick glance at stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3052393/reentrancy-and-r...).
Same - it's such a difficult technology to deal with when outstanding flavors of DB exist (many for free): Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL.

The Oracle projects I've worked on are just people choosing it because "it's the safe business decision and a household name". I've had semi-good luck convincing folks over to MSSQL in these circumstances which is a night-and-day improvement in ergonomics/features.
I’m mostly kidding about nano, I only use that when I have to. My main editor is HomeSite+ 5.5 running on Windows XP in a virtual machine on my Mac. And I’m not kidding.
No 14” ... why even bother? Major fail by Apple.
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I do not know how to put that nicely. I think that holding this opinion makes you a bad person.

I strongly believe that your are misguided and many people would not actually care.
Thank you. I wasn't aware of that.
In our state the conservation efforts, the DNR, everything comes from hunting and fishing licenses. So-called environmentalists who criticize hunting (at least here) are ironically doing little or nothing while the hunters are supporting the cause.
Why is some random non-academic's uneducated opinion about academic paper relevant, important, literally anything at all?
Appears the scientist [1] that filed this patent has a history of filing patents that “stretch the limits of science” — which to me increases the odds the only thing being stretched is the truth:

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Pais
That's already been done. More than once, in fact. The problem is that, although there are perfectly serviceable Emacsen written in Common Lisp, none of them are GNU Emacs.

For example, there's Hemlock from CMUCL, and its descendants built into Lispworks and Clozure Common Lisp.

Those implementations aren't likely to work well as a substitute for GNU Emacs. For one thing, there's a substantial ecosystem of software that depends on specific APIs and other characteristics of GNU Emacs. Writing code to bridge GNU Emacs APIs with those available in the Hemlock descendants would be a lot of work.

There are some other obstacles as well. CCL's implementation of Hemlock uses the Cocoa text architecture, so it's not portable to platforms other than macOS.

The Lispworks implementation is portable across Windows and numerous UNIXEN, but the Lispworks license will not allow delivery of a proper substitute for GNU Emacs (it forbids building an application that can be construed as a Lisp development system, and when I pressed them about exactly what limits that policy implies, they explicitly used Emacs as an example of an application that would be forbidden).

The original CMUCL Hemlock and its portable version are designed to work with CLX. It could probably be made to work in a modern X environment, but making it fit well into modern GUI environments and porting it to all the platforms GNU Emacs works on would be a huge amount of work.

I'm probably overlooking some other Emacsen, but I don't know of any off the top of my head for which the situation is any easier.
Is the headphone jack still on the right? (Rhetorical question.)

Still an insane choice as headphones have their wires on the left ear so when on my work macbook i have a wire either under or over my wrists. (Or behind the display, which shortens cable length significantly and pulls a sharp angle which will ruin my Sony MDR 7506 soon enough.
The problem is that if your idea isn't a CRUD app then finding funding to pay for the expenses is effectively impossible outside of raising from friends and family. VC funds (and especially public money that VCs control) should be invested in genuine innovation, not yet-another-Uber-for-meal-kits.
Hi, sadly I don't have a full video demo right now, but there are 6 short demos on the landing page you can check out!
> Colleges, though, reject the idea that refunds are in order. Students are learning from the same professors who teach on campus, officials have said, and they’re still earning credits toward their degrees. Schools insist that, after being forced to close by their states, they’re still offering students a quality education.

In summary, colleges are only in the business of pimping professor time and selling credits to a piece of paper. Apparently access to those expensive campus buildings and all the friends you made along the way wasn't part of the deal. Therefore, no refunds are necessary.
Almost all your income is going for essentials, not much in the way of savings.
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Given my experience with non MS Surface touch screens, I'm not really sure if I consider that a strong pro--if I were writing the sales pitch for the laptop yeah, it's a pro, but in terms of day to day use, I'm not sure how much I'm looking for a touchscreen on a laptop.

Regardless though, the gesture support on MacOS touch-pads would probably cancel it out as anything I'd probably do with the touchscreen frequently could be supported through a gesture.
> Hard to know what's really going on with anything with all the conflicting information.

Yes, but you don't have to give up. If you use critical thinking and assess the competing claims and the strength of the evidence for them, it becomes clear that the evidence for inflated counts is extremely weak, bordering on hearsay, and inconsistent with the overall data, while the evidence for extra uncounted deaths is much broader and stronger and consistent with the overall data, so while there is uncertainty about the true numbers, on net it's reasonable to assume more deaths are being missed than overcounted.
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Good on Tim Bray for doing what he did, but imo the only solution is a union.
Ding ding ding.

Read a great article once about how trading stocks will turn pretty much anyones actions sociopathic. The gist is that nobody really has to take responsibility, so most just follow the money. Unfortunately, the closer to slavery the better the profit margin.
Isn't this just a holder that keeps the objective lens at the desired distance from the sample/camera?

And if you can buy the optical parts for cheap on Alibaba, then why not buy the holder there as well?
If the comments section of HN can figure that out then wouldn't an international superpower?
"Library rules" are difficult in a lot of situations. Many job functions require a lot of time on the phone; it's not practical to be constantly seeking out conference rooms/alcoves for calls. Or, indeed, every time you want a word with someone. Companies can (and do) try to isolate different functions but it's always going to be an issue with more open environments.
Awesome. Thanks for the info. I wasn’t sure if it was supported or not.
On what grounds do you say that public companies have to be unethical within legal limits? If there is any law which states that publicly owned companies have to maximise profit at any cost, then I am not aware of it.
And yet wage theft (by employers) seems to be the largest form of theft in the US by far. Is it really a wonder that people would steal / slack off when they are so consistently getting screwed at their workplace?

https://www.nelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/BrokenLawsRe...

https://www.deseret.com/2014/6/24/20543670/wage-theft-how-em...
I’m glad to see this again. This patent is the first thing I thought of when the “UFO” admission news hit last week. I’m guessing what we’re seeing is probably some experimental stuff. Hopefully it’s our stuff.
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Hi! I'm currently working on note sync as it is one of the most requested features so far.

As for the trial ending: You will have the possibility to export all your notes as Markdown once the trial ends, so you're not locked in.

A mobile version is also planned for the future, currently researching on the best approach!
Can't help but notice the author's title, No, I won't read your amateur COVID-19 "research paper", which suggests it should be about COVID-19, immediately begins by criticizing an unlinked "paper" that seems to be about public policy impact from government actions.
>Most people are busy trying to free their children, spouse, and immediate family

what you're basically saying is that most people are primarily concerned with their communities. that's true and it's not even unreasonable but what's also true is that the communities of most people in positions of power are not marginalized/precarious.
Hence the "maybe". He clearly missed his chance.