skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the entire point - people see this as a strict increase in out-of-pocket costs for people.

It's a reduction of subsidies, to maximise the government's ROI.

Plus, you still get a tax-free (although indexed) loan. If you want to do arts and/or humanities, you definitely can. Your loan, which you don't pay a cent of until a certain salary, and then only a percentage of your salary after that, will just be larger.
This was an interesting read. I'm a priori skeptical of the claim that choice of method is actually all that important, but the article did at least try to provide support:

"researchers estimate there's a percentage of kids — perhaps about 40 percent — who will learn to read no matter how they're taught." -- implying 60% are sensitive to method

'Goldberg decided to teach some of her students using the phonics program and some of her students using three cueing. And she began to notice differences between the two groups of kids. "Not just in their abilities to read," she said, "but in the way they approached their reading."'

And it does seem true that relying on pictures is fundamentally not reading. The whole-word and phonics approaches actually teach to read text, which is kind of the point of learning to read.
I just read Sentry—didn’t take long—and I wonder if the intervening years didn’t set up certain expectations. Because I pretty much knew where things were going.
Is this something we would want to know?
I don't really remember exactly what method we used in first grade back in the early 80s. I remember memorizing some words and being cued on them.

What I do remember is phonics in 3rd grade. I hated phonics and blamed it for not being able to spell because english is so inconsistent. It probably isn't phonics fault that I am terrible at spelling but I still remember hating phonics.
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Congress has some power to outlaw corruption (or the perception thereof), but not lobbying per se. Restrictions on donations to political campaigns have been upheld in the past, but those tend to be direct money donations to candidates.

Handing over money directly to a candidate is one thing, but the Courts have been a little more hesitant to uphold restrictions on lobbying or political speech -- and the spending of money to do it -- if it's being spent by or given to a third party not directly connected to the Government. The hesitancy is most recently exemplified in the Citizen's United case that is of significant controversy.
> I had to disable "Marketing data" and "Experiments" toggles. Not cool!

It would be nice if Mozilla adopted privacy-by-default rather than opt-out.
I also learned to read early enough that I have no memory of it, and I’m told I started picking up signs on the street, adverts on the subway etc.

I see most children drowning in colorful stimuli and toys. But what did it for me apparently was boredom.
I do that too!

(Long time no see, old friend.)
"Many topics in maths and engineering are very intuitive to pick without formal education." Name me a single university level math topic that backs up this claim.
I assume they are referring to Spinnaker which they refer to as "architecturally complex, comprised of more than 10 microservices".
On the other hand, I used to get clogged pores when I went an extended period without body gel (after being allergic to a body gel I used). I've since resumed with a different brand. So this advice is very ymmv.
Can I ask what sort of salary range and work you typically offer? It could be many graduates see the big US numbers and expect similar.
Surely there’s a statistical approach to answering that question, isn’t there?
yeah all these techniques are ancient in origin. Revived for every new generation.

Pranayama is at least a thousand years old and encompasses all of this. And many of the foundational texts refer to even older practices.
You can't say that the first amendment doesn't apply to companies when the law has found that it does. You can say that you believe it shouldn't, but legally today it does.
> It's a reduction of subsidies, to maximise the government's ROI.

Except, weirdly, the reduction in subsidy is less than the increase in fees, so institutions will get more money (fees + subsidy) for the not-job-ready degrees, while getting less for the job-ready degrees. Which makes no sense at all.
If a software company is like an automotive company the infrastructure tooling is like the factory.

Comparison isn’t perfect but it’s usually good enough.
I have a Resume, not a Résumé. No biggie.
Have you considered using qcow?

Sadly I’m not terribly knowledgable if this is easily implementable or not but theoretically you don’t need to allocate all the disk space, just the parts you’ve written to.
I would certainly not bet that they are, but if you imagine an employer that paid a reasonable amount in an ideal world, it could easily be that much. $11K is barely over half the 401k limit and health care for retirees is costly and not particularly visible so I at least have no idea how much that should add but it might be significant.

Two separate questions are - is $11K a reasonable cost in general, and is it reasonable for whatever the USPS actually needs to fund? I think it's obviously a reasonable cost for the sort of benefits that I personally would like, and for the sort of retirement most SWE HN participants expect to be able to fund. It could still be a vastly excessive amount for whatever USPS employees actually will get. The number really means nothing out of context.
It will switch naturally during the day several times, as long as you get enough rest, excercise, don't smoke, etc.

It's actually very easy to switch it. You can lean to towards the side (think yoga triangle pose) that has the open nostril.

You can place pressure in the corresponding armpit for the same effect.

Medidation, concentration, certain ways of breathing will all also affect the flow.

I'm sure you can determnine the various other physical ways, based on these, to swap nostrils.
I upvoted you because there is truth to this sentiment. But I want to add that physics is IMO one of the hardest fields intellectually of our time. Just to get your feet wet, you need to be well versed in an intimidating array of mathematical disciplines. DiffEQ, Discrete Math, Computer Science, Topology, Differential Geometry, High Level calculus,... the list goes on even at the undergrad level. To make a meaningful contribution is quite a feat.

I have massive respect for those who bravely tackle the frontiers of Physics; some physics majors have a broader understanding of Math than a mathematician! Though importantly, your average mathematician will have a much deeper understanding of more focused topics.

I don’t mean to suggest that any of Math, Physics, CompSci, etc is fundamentally harder than the others. Each field presents different challenges! But they are also intimately related IMO: the recent MIP*=RE proof has convinced me. In short, we’re all on the same side.
this is one of the best posts of mac history on hacker news in a while someone should try this on their developer arm mac
How has putin not been mentioned here? The judge must be a Putin asset to deny the spies requests! They're against Putin (Philby, Burgess, etc etc aside) so if the judge is against them he's Putin.

Oh you want evidence? That's not how Putin asset accusations work. Boris Johnson is currently being attacked for being Putin's. As is brexit. No evidence. Evidence of Russian meddling had largely evaporated, but hey. Putin is an awful human and Russia would be better off with someone kinder so WMD it all the way!
It's not legal to pay off political leaders in the U.S. You can spend nearly as much as you want on lobbyists and campaigning, but the money has to stay with the lobbyists and the campaign organizations. And direct contributions by individuals are capped at relatively low levels.

In fact, the law is so strict in the U.S. that you can't even bribe foreign leaders either (see the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act).
This kind of thing makes it really easy to get interested, and stay interested, in decentralization tech.

Once you see things in this light, the new flavor of the month online service just doesn't hold any allure.
A 1.5 hour video with no context and no TL;DR top comment did NOT make it organically to the top of HN, it was upvoted strategically by members of Oxide. Could you at least do the rest of us a solid and post the TL;DR?
Yeah, 音読み - literally sound-reading.

There definitely is a phonetic element to it. Since most/many complex words (jukugo) you'll encounter are formed from the same ~2k kanji, you often end up quite literally sounding it out. As a simple-ish example, 音読み itself: 音 is read 'on', 'in' or 'son' in descending order of frequency. 読's usual onyomi is 'doku', but the み ('mi') at the end clues you in that this is a on-kun jukugo, where the second kanji uses the kunyomi reading because... nevermind. Anyway, kunyomi is... 'yomi', so, onyomi.

It's plenty complicated in practice with all kinds of stuff messing you up (multiple onyomi, nonstandard readings of all kinds, rendaku, etc.) but fundamentally you're operating phonetically, at least when you first encounter the written form of a word you probably have heard before.

On furigana: it's useful but also absolutely can be a crutch. Although you're generally going to want to acquire jukugo vocab from various sources and not just sound everything out after learning common kanji, that process of phonetically processing a compound word is a great workout for your fundamental kanji knowledge. On top of that, for whatever reason, I find it makes me feel like I've comprehended the text when I actually haven't, like the kid in the article with the dog story, though in this case it's lack of understanding through phonetic over, rather than under, emphasis. At least personally, it's easy to rip through the furigana reading and have my brain be like "yep, just turned all of those symbols into sounds, job done." That's probably part of why many resources, like https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/, allow you to quickly toggle them. Open a story and hit the 漢字の読み方を消す button.
I use pandoc [1] to generate pdf/epub from GitHub style markdown. I didn't know css, but learned enough to customize a few settings.

[1] https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/c...
I don't mind the idea of take home exercises as long as I have an actual chance of getting in.

If i'm really serious about joining a company and the many months/years to come with them, I can probably spare a day to show it.
I'm a big fan of Bryan's talks and this was another great one. It's easy to forget that once you move outside of the hyperscalers, what's available to you is really showing it's age, or is filled with a whole bunch of honestly useless features. As such, i'm very keen to see what Oxide cooks up!
We wish these irrational fears were confined to the 1920’s, and not still with us in the 2020’s.
How do i join the slack group? It says to request invite from the workspace administrator?
You can put bluetooth beacons throughout a store. If you have a loyalty app on ios, it will inform of your precise location. On Android I suspect it is much worse and you might not need anything. Google probably collects each contact. I don't know what gets passed on, but some edison beacons have URLs.

When you go to the registers there will be beacons there and it can correlate it all to the identity of the purchaser.

If you have wifi on and I believe if you have connected to a private ssid, your phone will broadcast requests for it. You can passively listen to phones and look these up in online ssid to location databases.

You can turn off bluetooth and wifi (although apple has dark patterns wrt to this and android? maybe you can turn them off?)

I'm uncertain about NFC.
Good idea. Never thought of that!
Seriously! I have the same issue with a lot of modern online communities/projects too. They all assume whatever platform they're currently publishing on will be there forever.

Brb archiving my Twitter posts
Very timely article ... people in this country needs a calming effect that is non toxic at this time.
I felt like that too until I found that atril [1] and calibre ebook-viewer [2] work very well with epub.

[1] https://github.com/mate-desktop/atril

[2] https://calibre-ebook.com/
Amazing stuff. We have been investigating for a few years and wondering why someone has not done this.

Congratulations.. Looks exciting.

Any plans to run this on premises with serverless stack being available for on premise also.
Prior to this year, shutting down the world economy for months was an anathema. Even saving the planet stuff could not achieve that. Leverage points and priorities.

Prior to this year, the US society devolving into a third-world developing one was unthinkable.

When I ask my kid to do something he doesn't want, he pouts and jokingly says "Never ever".

What this pandemic has taught me is to never say never ever.

The US become isolationist, losing it's military supremacy in the next decade ? The rest of the world going it's own way and not caring enough about what the US thinks ? A world war with US against the RoW ?
What percentile of entry level devs get this?
I'd imagine perhaps the top 10% or top 20%.

I imagine the 50th percentile get something more like 100-150k, which in the bay area, compares to perhaps 60-80k in the middle of the country.
landlords drive up housing costs? try the pyramid scheme we call our economy. your scrutiny is severely misguided. i could care less what anyone thinks of me choosing to keep and rent the house i moved out of. work 60 to 80 hours a week like everyone else or go buy a tiny house in the woods and find happiness
Another one
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaida
By coincidence, I'd been looking into the problem of bitrot and what options exist. Hard drives are a starting point and last longer than removable discs. If going for optical, M-DISC seems to be by far the best option.

https://uncentered.saigonist.com/decentralize-your-data-part...
https://uncentered.saigonist.com/decentralize-your-data-part...
> Try it. there is not much to lose.

And since you can't really measure things well with n=1 you end up with confirmation bias at the end of the day.
> As long as it does something beneficial

You can't easily measure if something is beneficial. Which is precisely why a bunch of plants that people were taking before for different ailments were found to have absolutely no medical value when tried through a scientific method.

And in the age of social media, individual confirmation bias and a megaphone is the best way to promote non-science to hordes of people.
> education is an investment in human capital.

This is not universally true. At least, not all education leads to the same increase in human capital.

I would argue that getting educated about art history does nothing to increase human capital. You may have enjoyed learning about art history, but knowing what a tryptic is does not make you a more productive member of society.

And the fact that art history majors earn a lot less than stem majors on average seems to confirm this. Being able to build bridges is simply more valuable to society than knowing some obscure facts about dead people.
i’m not
"The hotel shop only had two decent books and I'd written both of them."

Favorite line.
This is such a bad view on education that we don't even realize is so based around a broken system of economy.

I hope for a better future where education isnt a commodity and isn't merely a way to prepare you to join a company that takes away most of the value you produce as profit for themselves.
Do you think those 12B people are going to pollute the ocean with less plastic or agricultural runoff?
I thought a number of vendors sell "OCP Accepted" products that use the OCP designs?

I've not yet watched the presentation, and I'm not familiar with this stuff, so apologies if I'm missing something, but what is the difference between buying a server from Oxide and buying e.g. https://www.opencompute.org/products/109/wiwynn-tioga-pass-a... (from one of the vendors on the right)?
>the people doing a BA in gender studies probably won't make a great addition to the STEM workforce

You never know. They do keep demanding diversity. Diversity of thought might be just the thing.
Please point me to where in the article Dan Berger claims the book’s facts about Lincoln Hospital are wrong. Until then, I am inclined to trust the fact checking apparatus of Penguin Books over your vague suspicions. I’m not asking you to prove a negative; my claims about the hospital were specific, falsifiable, and straight from a book printed by a reputable publisher.
If anyone wants to experience this kind of breathing in the context of a Yoga class, I really recommend this Sivananda class. It combines sun salutations with breathing exercises for really interesting experience. I have no idea on the science, but it has been a positive addition to my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmMww1Wo6Tc
the data that google shows from websites is provided by websites as structured markup, websites started providing this with the expectation that it would provide better ranking. Nowadays, however, google could probably just render the same thing thorugh nlp without any additional hints from the sourced pages
> And so if we're talking about climate stuff... is nuclear really the only way? Renewables continue to get cheaper and scale up; grid storage with batteries and pumped hydro is already a thing, and plenty of other storage methods are in development, it seems unlikely not a single one of them will turn out to be useful?

Maybe one of them will work out. Do you want to bet the planet on that?

> Plus, carbon capture for fossil fuel electrical generation is possible, just expensive, and not all fossil fuels are equally bad for the climate, so possibly carbon capture + cleaner fossils could be part of the future, too?

Again, maybe.

Yes, there are a bunch of other things that might work out. But fusion is the possibility that's closest to proven. Surely it's worth trying? If it turns out we figure out a storage mechanism that's good enough to make solar viable (say), great. But let's not abandon one of our most promising approaches until we're sure.
Buy used! You get the upgrade without having to spend as much money.

I do think the upgrade from a new $300 bike to a used (originally) $1200 bike would be very worth it.

I owned a pretty cheat big box bike, an $800 Kona Stuff (probably don't even make that anymore, and a $2700 Santa Cruz Bullet. Every time the upgrsde made a big difference and you could really feel the quality in what you were getting. I will say the upgrade from hardtail $800 bike to dual suspension $2,700 bike was a MASSIVE increase in performance.
i used to rent. then i grew up, worked a lot and bought a place.
> Advances in technology are usually the result of tinkering as opposed to directed research or science.

In older times yes, but you can easily demonstrate that scientific progress was WAY faster once we developed actual methods to test things in a reliable way.
I think you overestimate the ambitions of the vast majority of state college students here in the US whose primary reasons for getting an art history degree or english literature degree has little to do with english literature or art history being their path to happiness, let alone earnings.

For most, they get a degree because society says they should get a degree. The value is in the paper that says they are a graduate. The educational value is highly questionable. These graduates then get many of the same jobs they would have gotten without the degrees, or those jobs where "any degree" is suitable. Basically, what they are paying for is the paper that the degree is printed on and not the education that went into it. Many of these same graduates happily live their lives once they get the paper without further pursuing art history or english literature. If they were truly interested in both we'd see huge demand for art and literature continuing education from the large quantity of art and literature grads. But this is not the case.

I don't equate a college degree with a desire to pursue that subject.

For many the paper that says "college graduate" and the checkmark on their resume is the value they seek because society says they need that. But I don't see many altruistic undergraduates getting the paper for pursuit of higher liberal arts goals.
I don't understand how take home interviews are being held up as a better solution. They have two major flaws:

They lower the cost for the company to zero. So they can widen their pool, and take a chance on more candidates, with no extra cost incurred for them. If you take this to the extreme – every company asking every candidate to complete a take home – then the result is far worse for candidates.

There is no feedback mechanism for candidates during the process. I can say "you shouldn't spend more than two hours on this" until I'm blue in the face, but candidates think they need to polish far beyond what is reasonable. On occasions where we had a system for capturing progress, I found that most candidates far exceeded the time recommended to them. Some were spending up to six hours. The frustrating thing was the extra time never made a difference to the outcome. I could tell from their initial hour whether they were going to pass.

As a hiring manager I've used them, but work hard to be considerate to the candidate. I'd prefer to design a better in person interview than take the easy route that is disrespectful of candidates' time.
"Many topics in maths and engineering are very intuitive to pick without formal education."
Name one university level math topic to back up this silly claim.
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> You don't bump the semver because you've fixed internal server bugs, you don't bump it if you've added logging to your code, you don't bump it if you've refactored internally.

All of those would be patch-level changes in semver (assuming they were in an actual release.)
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TFA links to this comprehensive review of airfare search websites, the top ten of which all outperform Google Flights. You may not have even heard of their top picks like Skiplagged, Momondo, and Skyscanner.

https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848046-the-10-best-and-w...
VPN firms with no-logs policy end up exposing 1.2 TB of user data
No access to Canadian banks that are supported by Plaid ? What's up with that ?
Well we've got to be a bit careful when we use the term 'cost' here. Cost inputs to produce law/economics/philosophy are sweet F all compared to some of the inputs required to produce science/medicine/etc. And then we've got the university internal-cross-subsidisation structure between degrees, as well as the full-fee paying structures for immigrants/externals.

The 'price' of the degree is not based on cost/demand, but essentially by government decree of which fee structure it sits in. I got my economics and arts degrees when they were in the lowest and medium bands (IIRC), and now they're in the highest bands, and its not because of the cost of supply...its because government policy is trying to use 'regulated price' as an attempt to bend applicants to particular areas it desires.

Add on our HECS system (whereby graduates pay back their student loans via our tax system upon employment) and suddenly the simple idea of tax payer covering the cost of these degrees becomes incredibly murky...