skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to be the case that even if you took out massive student loans to attend elite schools, at least the in-person experience and networking opportunities would be worth it.

Now you don’t even get that. You get some bullshit online instruction that is little more than a glorified MOOC, and when you finally graduate, you have to compete for remote jobs with people from all across the country, and get outbid by people with the same skills as you but willing to work for peanuts because the cost of living in their area is practically negligible.

Meanwhile, you have to keep paying for that massive student loan for most of your life with cash flow that comes in well below your expectations, wrecking your ability to save money and making retirement a distant fantasy that is about as probable as the dreams people have of becoming multi-millionaires.

This should be an outrage, but no one will care. This will be the generation that takes it on the chin.
I'm sure that there will be plenty for sale next year, but from my experience out on the trails people are actually using their bikes more than they used to - which is a great thing!

If I ran a bike shop, I'd definitely add a consignment component to the business, and make it really fair to the bike owner.
Ah, I did not know that. Thanks
> So using your analysis of the single worker, which I agree with, it actually makes a very big difference when applied to all workers.

It doesn't, because it's still just 0.1%. That may be billions upon billions of dollars in aggregate, but per unit sold, it's still just 0.1%.

So, if your question is "how much cheaper could goods become by switching all production to free software?", then answer would be 0.1%, if we assume that 0.1% is the average share of software licenses in COGS.

In practice, software licenses averaged over all industries might be 1% or higher. Again, that might be trillions of dollars, but it's still just 1% per unit sold. Also, that money isn't evaporating, it's mostly going into the pockets of people who build that software.

Sure, there's a profit margin in software development, maybe 10% on average. So, if you eliminated that profit, you'd save 10% of 1%. You'd still have to pay for that development, even if it is free software. If you eliminate the profit motive, what governs development? Some form of bureaucracy. We already know bureaucracies are inefficient. So you would probably end up paying more to develop "free" software.

From an efficiency perspective, free software is strictly unnecessary, because the marginal cost of software is zero, the cost of developing it is a constant, and therefore its price naturally converges to zero as its development is amortized.

Let's say OpenSSL was proprietary and cost $1000. That would add $1000 to the cost of developing anything that uses it, until a cheaper competitor comes around. How expensive is it to implement SSL? Not that expensive. How many people use SSL? A lot! Do the math, make the business case, and you would probably find that you can turn a profit selling a competing implementation at only 10$. Why is this not happening? Well, because somebody already made OpenSSL free and it's "good enough".

It is a misunderstanding of market forces to assume the compounding effect of free software licenses would be greater than the compounding effect of cheap software licenses that the market produces all by itself.
Lots of things are impossible to calculate 100% precisely, but that doesn’t stop anyone from building models anyway.

Just like “How much US$ is out there in paper currency?”. Impossible to know, especially as it’s never been demonetized, but models exist and are used.
That's a completely specious argument. How do you know vegetarianism itself is causing CV disease to rise? Is it the vegetarianism, or could it be the concomitant increase in "western-style" diets, reduction in physical activity, alcohol, and smoking? Hint: it's the latter.

This paper establishes a beneficial association of vegetarian diet with CV risk factors compared to non-vegetarian diets in India: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4208768/

I'd love to see the basis for your argument that India's high and rising CV disease incidence is somehow an argument against vegetarianism.
Do you or anyone else have a video or screenshots of what you're talking about? Or is there a specific name of the product where AOL was doing this?
$50 for a bicycle tire!? Try $100! Maxxis and Schwalbe have no trouble asking for $90+ RRP on their bike tires.
Debt has both monetary and opportunity costs. My point is that because of those costs and that I don't think that it's fair to say things would have turned out exactly the same minus the pension money, it's unfair to say they would still be red or by how much.
> The sad part is that, by all appearances, the goal of this work was not to add functionality for NVIDIA GPUs in particular.

I don't see how that can be true given that it is designed to speed up ML, and only nVidia graphics cards are used for ML. Approximately nobody uses Intel or AMD.

Maybe they meant it wasn't written by an nVidia employee? But it's clearly intended to be used with nVidia GPUs in particular.
I use jumpcloud (https://jumpcloud.com). Works well, free for small teams. Not open.
I recently bought a BMW GS310 motorbike for 5.5k (new, not used), that is just 500 Euros more than my Mountainbike did cost. Sure, the BW is an entry level model, and the MTB is upper class, but still. Mountainbike prices are a rip off, especially if you consider that after 3 years you will have problems getting spare parts for some stuff on the bike.
This (over) reaction makes me worried about a real pandemic, should one ever come.
"If we tell people that we're going to delete their data then we need to do that." -- Chairman Zuckerberg

I understand the user utility of a brief soft-delete period, but that hard-delete sweep should be performed on a fairly tight delay.
Exactly, a lot of people move into small towns and then unintentionally create tension with locals because they have purchasing power that is 3 to 20x anyone in the surrounding area. Most people don't factor in envy when they move someplace.
Also you couldn’t use google search in a different browser without constantly getting harassed to install chrome
"Build one to throw away"
s/3911/391/

(This was not a large value of 400.)
Nomad [1] does it as well, also visualized nicely in their awesome UI.

[1] https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/nomad/job-blue-green-a...
I would have to agree that HTML and CSS both being declarative is a distinct advantage.

Also prevents them from falling victim to the halting problem, etc.
Something I haven't seen anyone here bring up yet: many URLs are meaningless to humans past the domain. For an example, look at the top of this page. The only semantic meaning in the URL for this post is `news.ycombinator.com`. The rest, `item?id=24156986`, is meaningless to a human. (But, of course, meaningful to HN's backend.) A lot of (most?) of the URLs on the web are not semantic. They're naked application look-ups. I claim that for this current page, there's no meaningful loss of information by just showing the domain.

But some URLs are semantic. I think losing those would lose useful information for human readers. If we could perfectly know which URLs have useful semantic information for users and which don't, and then only present those with full semantic meaning, I wouldn't mind much.

Main point: I see people saying things like "these designers think people are too stupid to understand URLS." But that ignores that some URLs are not actually meaningful to anyone.

Anticipated responses:

1. You are losing information by taking off the "application lookup" part: the information that an application lookup was made. Fair enough. But I claim it's a small loss.

2. We can never perfectly separate out the URLs with useful semantic information. Which, also probably true. But I think we can do a decent job, and as long as the full URL is present when I mouse-over it, I probably wouldn't object.
All the binary deploys I created at work run over git.

Honestly both of those are non-issues. Rsync is as much set once and forget as git, you'll need to script both and configure it there. And git slowness is a one time per deployment server issue.

The one advantage of git is that it will keep an history of your deployments. Of course, CD tools do that too, but git is way more transparent and reusable. The one disadvantage is that it will make your deploy scripts more complex and stateful.
> Many fishes are fed with grains, this destroys their nutritional value,

Citation needed
Can you please give examples of businesses that are required to prefund their pensions in the manner that the post office is?
> Imagine if we lived in a society where you were given a small fine for the first time you commit (an offense) and then (a harsher punishment) for the second offence.

We do live in that society. For example, the first few time you get caught speeding, you get a warning or a ticket with a fine. Keep getting caught speeding, and you lose your license and/or go to jail.
Couldn’t agree more. Also fuck you for writing it from a throwaway account.
With Firefox axing the entire Servo team along with a bunch of other technical people, I am very afraid for its future in terms of technical development. Especially for the macOS version, that so far has always been the red-headed stepchild.

It’s got me in quite a pickle since the only alternative that is privacy friendly and cross platform (macOS, Linux, iOS, Android) is Brave, and Brave, despite good or at least decent intentions, has done some questionable things.
Software isn't any different.

Cars with defects don't have to be recalled.

Cars with defects that kill or maim people have to be recalled.

Software that does the same, also is recalled.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls?combine=software
Earn with Gaming – Workshop
Someone on Twitter mentioned Servo's "Layout 2020" project which would have ensured that Firefox's layout engine stays competitive: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Layout-2020
People think the screen is the computer.

People think Google is the web.

People think the search engine is the browser.
Using 'this' incorrectly in C#
I've met very intelligent people who have zero understanding of computers: they have been trained to click certain icons to be able to reach google for a search. I'd be interested in data supporting either more or less fluency than we might expect - but you wont be able to do an online survey to get it :)
That's a really weird conclusion given that it specifically targets nVidia GPUs, it's for machine learning, and everybody uses nVidia GPUs for machine learning.

I don't see what working for nVidia has to do with it. He works for a company that uses mountains of nVidia cards for ML.
>The point of the article was to demonstrate that everyday consumer behavior is completely dependent on big tech.

yes but all it really demonstrates is that in an interconnected consumer society everyone is dependent on the biggest economic centers, go back 50 years and everyone was dependent on GE in the same way.
In our local group rides there is a guy who rides in the fast group on a mountain bike. That is always my reminder that money is best spent on something like trainer road rather than upgrading your components to save grams.
Belarus said it will release detained protesters after reports of torture
Really? Shaming shaming? That's very low of you to do.

In all seriousness I think it's fair to judge people by their actions and tell them in simple terms that you don't approve of them. Not just fair; I think it's fundamental to society that we are able and willing to do so, and that the recipients are able to feel shame as a result. This curbs antisocial behavior.
From all these, only mean plans money go to university? If they are signing leases, it suggests they live outside of university.
What are the puzzle pieces at the top for?

Reminds me of a similar looking UI contraption I saw recently: https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/1704/images/921/92... (the multicolored database icons at the top)
I really don't get why people think that signed exchanges are this super nefarious plot to destroy the open web when it's exactly the thing that would make a distributed web possible.

Disconnecting content authorship and publishing with hosting so that literally anyone can host web content securely is fantastic!

* Want to bootstrap your IPFS network? You can safely and securely host a huge chunk of the web from big publishers on day 0.

* Want to compete with AMP? Now you can because AMP isn't special anymore!

* Are you a small ISP that wants to cache web pages close to your customers to reduce bandwidth usage?

* Archiving website has never been easier since they're already bundled and packed.

We've already reached the point where the content you're seeing and the server you're connecting to are completely disconnected. Signed exchanges just democratize the process instead of requiring every publisher to pick a CDN.
No one considers these things trades. Trades and trade school have a very specific meaning in contemporary American English.
Yeah but there are outbreaks of everything at the beginning of the school year, at all levels.

Flu, mono, the clap. It's why you're supposed to be up to date on your vaccinations.

It's just what happens when a bunch of people who've been in separate microbiomes come together and start sharing the same air.
I had the opportunity to be an outside examiner for an honors exam at a private college. It was a fun experience for me; I got to ask probing questions and have them answered by a brilliant young person. I don't know if this was inflationary or not, but I voted to award honors.
> I would consider all of those “trades.”

Well good luck communicating with other people because is not how anyone else anywhere uses the word ‘trade’.

They’re not ‘trades’ they’re ‘professions’.

And I would guess you already know this and you’re trying to be contrary rather than you’re genuinely misunderstanding a basic word.
The title is misleading and people don't read the article.

Chrome is not hiding the bar address, it is only showing the domain in normal times, and showing the full url when you hover the bar

Personally I find it better for non technical people, because they can focus on the domain only. For tech people you have the option to keep the full url visible at all time, which fixes the issue.

As for people complaining about AMP, this is something different, which has nothing to do with displaying only the domain, but instead "showing the real domain when you are on a google AMP page"
Discussion from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24109565
I'd wager most of them
I prefer what Firefox. Just keep the domain name black/highlighted and the rest of URL gray.

But, for average user this might be more effective to detect phishing attacks since they never check full URL anyway. (Unless when a website does something stupid with query string parameters)
I'm not too experienced with Terraform, can one use it to, for example, do a rolling deployment with something like haproxy as the load balancer?
Yeah I've watched streamers with stable bases. Old and new.
Funny how it's a parallel to electric current having the "wrong" sign...
Feel the same. I don't want to waste my time learning intricate details about cloud providers.
I think MS thinks very differently. Some months ago, one of their PMs said:

"It's time for @mozilla to get down from their philosophical ivory tower. The web is dominated by Chromium, if they really 'cared' about the web, they would be contributing instead of building a parallel universe that's used by less than five percent?" [1]

[1] : https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-guy-mozilla-should-g...
Thanks for the info. I’ll look into it, though I’ve got to say, that’s probably 4 liters more than I’d need in a lifetime :-)
When dial up Internet was a thing, AOL was the leader in that universe. It was basically one of the earliest walled gardens out there. They had their own chat, email, etc. You accessed it all through their desktop client. You never had to leave the AOL application to experience "the internet". They of course were still providing general Internet access, so you could still fire up Netscape [and earlier browsers] and cruise to whatever websites you wanted. The Internet eventually eclipsed what AOL could offer for most people and their premium price and sometimes dodgy Internet service eventually fell by the wayside to a more open Internet experience for most users.

Edit: AIM was a really popular messaging client for years after the fall of AOL as a premiere dial up Internet service.
Movie trailers often had them, sometimes long after AOL had declined in relative popularity. An example I mentioned in another comment was at the end of one of the lord of the rings trailers:

https://youtu.be/V75dMMIW2B4?t=143

I have no idea how popular they ever were, but I'm sure there's a large segment of people that find it easier to remember and to type in "Lord of the Rings" into their computer than "www.lordoftherings.net".
Based on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_supernova it seems like we'd probably be safe, although there's not a lot of specific information about Betelgeuse so perhaps not. The global temperature increase mentioned in the first paragraph is pretty significant and added on top of the imminent anthropogenic climate change maybe don't buy green bananas for the next hundred years or so.
This is completely off topic, but you’ve triggered me with your date format of 05.08.2020. Why not 2020.08.05?? So much less ambiguity, plus then it will match your directory structure!
Do you think that Apple would care? I'm sure plenty of customers would be angry though - but not on Apple.

We - here on HN - are far from the average customer.
I like to look at my factory in terms of the Theory of Constraints. Improving anything besides the bottleneck is a waste. Find the bottleneck and fix that one thing, then figure out what the new bottleneck is. Avoid creating excess inventory (buffer chests).
Going by the recent discussions about anti-competitive practices employed by Amazon against incumbents in any space that are hosted on AWS I'm not sure this concern is overblown. There's a reason some major competitors to Amazon (Walmart) refuse to do business with companies that host their stuff on AWS. At first I thought it was just being a sore loser, now I'm starting to understand it.
Back in the day I bought a lightroom license because there was no stable version of darktable for windows. I should probably reevaluate that decision these days. (That was pre lightroom cloud. Also I can't find my lightroom key anymore and will not switch to a cloud solution.)
Are there real use cases for type coercion?
But I provided a range to absolve myself of the culpability of a citation. :)

Jokes aside, I'm sure you can find processors charging < 2% for customers with high volume. But you're right, it's certainly not standard. Maybe 2-4% is a more accurate range.

Point stands that it's a lot lower than 30%.
Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety
I said at the time that Microsoft should have stepped into to sponsor Firefox, and make a firefox-based IE. Surely between the two of them Chrome could get some better competition.
If it is sarcasm, it’s not great. These exact points are commonly made by people who clearly take them seriously. These people are obnoxious enough, there’s no need to reproduce their talking points.

My experience is that as much as some geeks love to go on about web apps, real people still do more than browse the web on their computers.
Do you have any sources for the increase in government assistance? Because that doesn't seem right to me. Tuition has increased at a far higher rate compared to say government expenditure on Pell grants and government subsidized loans. But I could be wrong.
I disagree about the college format going completely online. There is so much about the college experience that is not directly related to earning a degree. It's a place where most people are exposed to new ideas, new types of people. It's a place where lasting friendships and relationships are formed. It's a place of growth that an online experience could never hope to replicate, and that's the REAL benefit of college.

I know people who went to college, but lived at home with their parents "to save money". In reality, they didn't need to save the minimal room and board fees of a state school; they were mostly just cowards. They are the people that haven't changed at all since high school. They're the people that are afraid of everything in the world outside their small circle.

I guess that's fine for them, but I would want more for myself, and for my children.
Lots of universities own residence buildings on and around campus. Students sign leases with the university directly.
We are too busy writing new stuff to think about whether something doesn’t already cover our needs. Additionally alot of high profile programmers have to „prove themselves” to the world by reinventing a wheel but supposedly „make it better”.

I see that especially in the world of relational databases.
While I wasn't a TA, we did a lot of peer grading and reading of reports and papers at my college, and I can confirm, there is a lot of stuff where people just turn in complete crap. The number of nights I had to stay up to fix sections on my team's report that someone had written horribly were way more than I ever thought should happen.
It's not about just eye contact, but a whole lot of body language that we are totally blind to with a just video of someone who's not even looking at you. This body language is a very important part of communicating and can be mediated with VR.

This blindless in webcam meetings make everyone something like socially "autistic", and is a big part of what can make them much more draining than in-person meetings.
> and crappy tooling means they are instead stuck with an mangled over-engineered monolith

Not sure you read my post. I called it a "mangled over-engineered monolith"
Going to the beach where it's cooler. It's going to be well over 100F this weekend.
More here:
"Belarus state TV broadcast chilling footage of bruised protesters promising to give up after the election was widely condemned as rigged"
https://www.businessinsider.com/belarus-state-tv-bruised-pro...
IIRC nox was in the paris office, and jdm in the Torronto office.
to save other readers a click, this is the same author as the NYTimes article in the OP, so this is that author recycling their own content, not plagiarism from someone else
This expectation probably comes from seeing how even Word->Word can break things. It's reasonable to try and develop a heuristic from that.
Is there still a possibility to defer? I would‘ve definitely done that back in April.
After doing Java Spring I realized that the Java monolith was very leaky and inflexible. That is why you have strong trend of micro services.

In 99.9% of cases in web development you want the PHP model of doing things. The 0.1% case is the asynchronous background job, that can be solved, maybe not as elegant as in other languages, but why optimize the edge case?
> It maybe because the design people think people are too stupid to understand URLs

You may be right, but it's hard to see why this would be a concern in 2020. The number of users who have actually grown up with URLs in their childhood increases all the time.
On the contrary, google contract has been rumored to be 99.99% certain (company sources).
Freshers’ flu we used to call it. And everyone getting physical in the first couple of weeks means it spreads very quickly.