skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I agree. It's a difficult enough philosophical problem to understand the mental states of even another human, much less an animal with a completely different brain structure. There has been some work purring dogs in fMRI machines that shows that their brains respond to humans in ways that indicate they like us, but that's pretty far from conclusive. After all, I know my dog likes dinner, so she'd probably display activity in the pleasure center when presented with a bowl of her food. In any case, what matters is that I love her, and she is doing nothing to disabuse me of the notion. ;)

Oh, and, yes, I did choose hyenas specifically because they're a misunderstood species. Glad you picked up on that.
> We of course continue to care that C++ supports all of the major, modern platforms, the hardware architectures they run on, and the environments in which their software runs. However, this only forms a fairly small and focused subset of the platforms that have historically been supported and motivated specific aspects of the C++ design. We would suggest this be narrowed as much as possible.

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What criteria that you will use for admission won't correlate with wealth?

Grades? Ability to complete college successfully?
I agree, payroll tax could just take the ubi into account and take more depending on ur expected income
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I don't know Python, but I saw online (amazon and the likes) that there are plenty of books on Python for kids (search for that and many similar titles will come up). I was thinking of Python because it's a language that is useful to learn and make it more fun by learnyht it together.
Regulations, it seems. Here's an article that provides some clues: https://generalaviationnews.com/2012/09/09/the-cost-of-certi...

As I understand it, the most lenient certification to allow someone to sell planes to masses in USA is the (special) Primary Category¹, for the General Aviation, which Cessna's two-seat 152 model seems to be in. Cessna's four-seat model 172, however, is on another category, the so-called "Utility Aircraft", which required the more costly Standard Certification². With a broader (legally permitted) use, it's kind of natural to expect an appropriate price difference.

¹ https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/airworthiness_certific...

² https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/airworthiness_certific...
1) Everyone that wants to live a college lifestyle past 25 is already doing it, it's not hard where how things are currently (shack up with people, have minimum wage job, drink lots of beer). The vast majority of people want more out of life though.

2) One goal of UBI is to unlock human potential by allowing people to actual pursue things they care about. Smaller scale UBI experiments indicate that this most often means starting some form of small business. If you're doing something you actually enjoy, I think you are more likely to retire later, not earlier.

3) See above about unlocking potential. One of the greatest strengths of the US has always been the inventiveness of its populace. This would potentially be multiplied many times over by a UBI that allowed people to actually pursue things they want.
It's a shame it disappeared before educators became serious about teaching kids to code as well. All my math text books from the late 80's and 90's came with code samples written in basic that teachers ignored and now kids have dedicated coding classes where the snap together if statements in a useless visual programming thing on their iPads. We missed the opportunity to teach programming in a way that was both immediately useful (took away the repetitive work) and integrated way with other classes. I wish I could go back in time and show my younger self what to do with those basic code samples while I was wasting time plotting some function on a piece of graph paper.
JavaScript since they can make web pages that do things in browsers they are familiar with, which is a huge motivation. Lua so they can mess with Roblox scripting. Then C# mostly for the dev environment And strong types, and Python for the expressiveness. In my humble opinion and experience at least. It's almost always most important to start with something that will augment what they are already interested in.
Think of UBI as another lever in a countries' monetary and fiscal policies. In fact is it completely insane that this is not already in the mix from a purely pragmatic perspective.
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I don't have direct experience but I think the whole system in Europe is designed to irrevocably pigeon hole students very early in the game.

If I remember California State Colleges have a bunch of placement tests to gauge what level of classes to put beginning students in. I think I'd be happier with a system that throws a net wide and than deals with the result on an as needed basis. Than a hyper meritocratic system that excludes large segments of society.
I mean that’s simple math. But $100K won’t pay the fully allocated cost of one senior developer for a year in a medium COL area.
> But now if I decide to move to Tulsa, OK, you want to cut my pay and reduce it to 90K, because of "cost of living".

See if it makes more sense going the other direction. Imagine you started in Tulsa making $90K. After a few years facebook wants you to move to SF. Would you still be happy with $90K in SF since that's what your worth to facebook? Of course not, you'd want cost of living adjustments.
I did the same a couple of years ago, and came to the same conclusion, which is why I've settled more-or-less on the system above.
This is in the context of a free education system, the only thing the poor students loose is a bit of time.
You want a middleman to avoid a tax nightmare.

If you are selling directly to the readers, you potentially have to deal with sales tax or VAT in every jurisdiction in which you have a paying reader.

Many jurisdictions do have thresholds that you have to cross before they want you to collect tax, but those are often of the form ">= N transactions OR >= $S sales". N = 100 or 200 is pretty common for US states. It would be pretty easy to get a situation where you have enough transactions to have to collect, file, and remit tax, but not enough revenue from those to cover the costs of doing so.

Stick a middleman in there and you can avoid all that.

Arrange things so that all your sales are to the middleman who then resells to the readers, and then you only have to worry about whether or not your sales to the middleman are subject to sales tax or VAT in wherever the middleman is located. Any sales tax or VAT in the reader's jurisdictions will be on their purchases from the middleman, and dealing with them is the middleman's problem.

At the middleman level, the tax problem is much much much less bothersome. That's because the middleman can be dealing with other publishers besides you. The middleman might even be selling things that have nothing to do with news or magazines. That gets the middleman's revenue up enough in each jurisdiction that the costs of dealing with taxes there is just a tiny fraction of revenue.
because it would cost 18 million.
Sometimes I wonder if it would be easier to type out the commands letter-by-letter. (Alas, the calculators did not have a way to convert these to the tokens it expected…)
These days you might use Roblox Studio.
> So no, there's very very few ways to hit the sorts of revenue targets Twitter has without advertising

That is very different from saying that a Twitter-like service can't be profitable without advertising.
C# and .net core don't have as much cruft, and the simple dev environment in code or visual studio are invaluable - especially the debuggers which are imo one of the most important learning tools.
>However it has been my experience that whenever an explicit test or hierarchy is removed another shadow one builds up that is more subjective, more biased, and more subject to abuse.

I think it's naive to assume that this is an accident.

This is _exactly_ the reason to make admissions more subjective: to give a small group of people carte blanche to pick and choose candidates based on race, origin, etc.

This way the annoying statistics about affirmative action that look plainly racist just... disappear.
Easy to say 3 months later.

Can't wait for these same folks to ask us to roll the dice next time.
GW-BASIC was more of a reinterpretation of DEC's PDP-10 BASIC source code than a clean room reconstruction - ironic considering what happened next.

Gates and Allen had already been working on PDP-8 and Data General versions for a while.
Wow epic comment.

Serious question though, why post hog & metabase? Dont they overlap?
Thankfully, that's both not how democracy works - we don't ask a biased sample - and exactly how it works - we ask everyone what they think of the government's performance and they vote for or against.

When we all look back in 5 years, then 10, then 15, there will be different "obvious" conclusions drawn. Right now, anyone who sides with any action as correct should have a confidence level that is extremely small.

The more varied the responses, the more we learn as a species, and I am glad that not everywhere assumes they are NYC or Lombardy, and acts in varying ways so that in 5, 10, and 15 years the coming studies have different data points of comparison.
> Most people work more than they need to because they realize that the future is uncertain and having savings will be beneficial if there's trouble at some point in the future.

Not really though.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/58-americans-less-1-000-09000...
Those do all sound like significant differences between a physical mall and a video hosting service.
The FPSLIC comes to mind (https://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/fpslic/14188?mp...) and the Cypress PSoC
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So I've now been WFH for 2 months and honestly I love it. Work wasn't flexible before, so I had to commute into the office every day. In fact, everyone had to.

But communication and collaboration isn't that difficult with Zoom and Slack, you can't change my mind. You can make it work.

I love being able to walk into my kitchen at lunch and make whatever I want.

Many people who work at these companies live in big cities where they don't have huge amounts of space and and that's fine because your home is your space and you can make it work for you
- even with someone else working in the same room as you.

...
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I concur with your approach. I view every person as a carrier and proceed accordingly.
not grandparent, but where i live it's the same system: ten years ago tuition were 230€/year until your master degree, roughly half got cut after the first year and a fifth/quarter the second year.
HEIC is heavily patented. If it was apple's intent to push a new image format for everyone, they chose just about the worst one. It's much more likely they decided to trade off interoperability for lock-in and reduced file size.
How does it determine what is and isn't for kids? I noticed this "feature" watching Tom Lehrer's Poisoning Pigeons In The Park, which is emphatically not for kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-eIgFJg4w
Wait, so the 1968!flu killed 33k Americans throughout its lifetime (Over 1.5 years) and people were ok, so that proves that the lockdown isn’t necessary for a virus that has killed 90,000 Americans in 2 months despite massive lockdowns? And has certainly killed more Americans than that if looking at excess deaths (which is what the stat for 1968 reflects).

WTF. Has Joe Nocera lost his mind? That’s absolutely not comparable at all. COVID-19 has killed 3 times more people in a 10th of the time, despite a lockdown.
Thanks! It's much more sophisticated than anything I've tried
I'm not familiar with modula but this doesn't appear to be a valid program ;)

I think it wasn't until Vim 8 that the default for .md files became markdown.
Interesting. Didnt Linus Torvalds create GIT around 2005??
FFWD 6 mo and it'd make
more sense to publish a "List of companies NOT going full remote after Covid"
in it there are no 5 hour per week jobs. and cv gaps are frowned upon if you want a new job.
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Beer costs about $0.50 a liter here in Shanghai. At 50L a day, $25 that’d be $750 a month. Doable in most of the first world.

If you want to know the realistic upper bound for local price of water see how much Coke costs. That’s not something the government much concerns itself with anywhere. Or look at the price of water in someplace like Gurgaon our Dubai, cities so hideously planned that drinking water and sewerage are transported by tanker.

Water can be provided for very low cost even with less than competent governments.
That's actually a really interesting thought. I wonder if you can just serve a tiny JS torrent client and a magnet link and automatically download the content. You would need to have a way for visitors to seed the content too, otherwise you still have to serve everything anyway.
Does it have to come from schools that are known for what they did 40 years ago?
I am actually not a founder of any sort. I just mean if I put myself in the shoes of a founder. But true story, I am working at a successful startup that started from a Wordpress blog with a bunch of remote workers from Prague.
If you're not making into year 2 (or year 3), you can repeat ad vitam aeternam.
prolly don’t need an os. or a platform.
you are right, the overhead is bigger than i thought. i suppose if one wants to be a youtube journalist, google somewhat takes over the role of sales, tech, social media, and even data analysis if you count their optimization of pushing your videos to key users. either you pay out of pocket or put yourself at the mercy of google.
How old are you, and how long have you been traveling?

Seems like FAANG is a good bet. You could also go for a top tier hedge fund and bust your balls for a year. They pay straight cash and a huge bonus. Prob the best bet if you have a 1 year time limit, since the FAANG vesting doesn't help.

I'm well-traveled but want to do the same thing. Idk if I'm good enough for the top tier companies though. Might just chill at my fairly easy banking job at 130k.
>That sound you hear is panicked elites, rushing to the "side door" of the UC system [...]

Are you sure? Because I think the "elites" or very wealthy will be perfectly fine with removing objectivity. In fact, it helps them.

This hurts working class and poor applicants who don't fit the, shall we say, "background" that admissions offices of elite universities are looking for in 2020.

As time goes on I have less and less respect for credentials from elite institutions because of this.
> not be able to decide which videos it hosts, pays for in storage and bandwidth?

I didn't say they shouldn't be able to. I said they shouldn't, even if they are able to.

> Why not?

Why should they?
Ah I see, thanks for explaining.
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Note that many students take many of these tests, even dozens, so $100/test is quite a lot for what is usually a few hours sit down in a big room with a handful of proctors for hundreds of students (i.e., no more expensive to run than a typical university intro-level class final with a professor and some student TAs).
Another great museum (not for young kids) is the George Eastman House. Beautiful old house, with lots great photography related history.
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Ohio and vietnam and russia and bulgaria. Let's add to the list. People who have moved to costlier cities have done it at a significant cost and sacrificies. Making it all decentralized can potentially cause large harm to those individuals.

It'll boil down to completing with countries that have large human capital.
Clearly USA is not a winner there. Talk about jobs being taken by people living in Bangladesh/pakistan/Indonesia and other highly populated countries.
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Fintech / HFT firms are known to be the highest paying for SWE, even higher than FAANG companies.

I routinely get LinkedIn messages and emails for companies like Citadel, Two Sigma, Hudson River, Jane Street - new grads for these companies make around $250-300k, and I imagine you would make a good deal more if you can negotiate well.
For starters, believe there is a option to identify a video when uploading it to YouTube as being for kids. There also settings to identify channel as being made for kids.
> But I understand how this might be a foreign concept for someone from the US.

What? In the US, knowing how to operate your vehicle and the laws around operating a motor vehicle IS the drivers test.

Your argument is not reasonable. Knowing the nuances of file formats is irrelevant to AP exams in US History, Calculus, Physics, etc. This is a failure of the administrators to make a proper test. The College Board specializes in tests- that's what they do, and they screwed up.
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I don't really have a point, just going to add in my experience and some thoughts.

I came from a lower middle class background, not white if that matters, did next to zero studying, paid nothing to prepare and got a 96th percentile score. The extent of the preparation I did was practice tests held at my high school.

However, I didn't come from the background you described: living in poverty, unable to afford basic needs, parents or guardians infrequently present, with unsteady income.

I had a roof over my head, never worried about where my next meal was coming from. The only thing I'd might have in common with people of that background is that my parents didn't graduate elementary school, parents were paid less than min wage under the table, and that I grew up on welfare.

That's my background. From where I stand I'm skeptical that tutoring really skews the results to the extent that wealth is primary thing measured by the SATs. I had no tutoring and only relied on the education I received from public schools. That said, the quality of public schools still correlated with wealth. But school quality being linked to wealth is a much bigger problem than standardized testing. And it doesn't change, ultimately, how much education the test taking has absorbed from school. Removing the SATs as a requirement may or may not make things better. But doing it and claiming that you're making things better for those that are less fortunate seems like a stretch when the root cause is that they're receiving a poorer education in the first place given that if you fixed that, this problem of standardized testing would benefit the rich to a much lesser extent.
reminds of dogs bringing the toys, balls, etc. to suggest and initiate play.
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Depending on your usage patterns, SQS can be significantly more expensive, too.
A few years ago, I was advising a group of undergraduates at a university and noticed that one was the President of their club. I thought that was cool and met another.. who was also President. Then a third.

It turns out, they called all their members "president" so they could all declare they were a "president of X" on their resume and could talk about leadership. Creative way to game the system for $0.
I actually can't believe how many people are crying because they miss talking with their coworkers. Sounds to me like they're the office distractions ruining everyone else's productivity.

You may like your office conversations, I like not having to commute to work, not being distracted, and making my work space mine.

Try picking up a phone or hop on Slack instead of attempting to sabotage WFH because you're a social butterfly.
Well, I have had Russian coworkers and coworkers from South East Asia, so it would seem I already have competed with them.

edit: I see you've modified your post, I'll update mine, too:

> People who have moved to costlier cities have done it at a significant cost and sacrificies

They're all welcome to return to the places they want to be. We often encourage people in dying towns to move elsewhere to find work or sustainable living. The people that have made 250k+ a year can do that, too.

> Talk about jobs being taken by people living in Bangladesh/pakistan/Indonesia and other highly populated countries.

I see the argument here; but, I don't expect it will be nearly as bad as is said. The platform may certainly change; but, there are still reasonably-sized development teams in countries that do their own thing. Further, a deep understanding of a given culture is very useful when developing software for them, or working with them as a team. We will become more global, certainly; but, there will still be advantages for US companies to pay for US developers: culture. Also, working hours. I had enough struggle on a team with a 3 hour difference in working hours. Having a team with members in Europe (7-8 hour difference from Pacific Time Zone) or India (13 hour difference) has a real impact on productivity that shouldn't be overlooked, unless the whole operation is moved elsewhere

But if the whole operation is moved elsewhere, what are all the developers in the United States and similar going to do? They'll probably start their own companies (yes, probably at diminished wages) and produce their own products; and, recognizing the job losses they've seen to skilled, overseas competitors, they may choose to prefer to hire relatively local employees, and the whole cycle may start again.

I believe the assumption that it will fully swing to 100% of development being out of the country is misguided.

Microsoft might not hire Silicon Valley or other US engineers; and, Facebook might not; but Stellar Games Interactive and the next "YNAB" or FreshBooks might.
> I know some people protest measures that are considered more "objective" over measures that are more "holistic",

I don't think anyone does that; “objective” and “holistic” are on orthogonal axes. The opposite of “holistic” is “narrow” and of “objective” is “subjective”.

You can have narrow or holistic subjective criteria, and narrow or holistic objective criteria.

> Sure the SAT/ACT does favor students whose parents had enough money to afford private tutors,

Well it favors students for whom the cost (both financial and opportunity) of taking it multiple times isn't an issue, even if tutoring isn't a factor.
Visual Basic 6 next please! :)
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I would say it's a very naive assumption that admissions will look that deeply into a story of a "low-performing" student saying they have been wronged with no evidence otherwise.

Especially if I did not have a standardized test score, a public school file documenting it, or anything to back up that claim other than recollections of my own and my father's.
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Initial commit was 38 years ago. Heh.
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Much of the source code from those days is simply lost.