skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small communities frequently have this silly idea that "It would be wonderful if a bunch of people with money moved here! It would help alleviate local poverty!"

That's not how that actually works and small communities need to start preparing for more of this. This is likely only the beginning of a long trend that will reshape the US and if it isn't addressed proactively by locals, small communities will suffer because of it.

Remember the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.

People with money who move in are probably not there to play sugar daddy to your town and kiss all its boo-boos and make everything all better.
We've had a few pestilence-related retirements before the start of fall term, and so far the extra load has been distributed over existing faculty. Nothing has been advertised for Spring, perhaps for Fall, but the administration is waiting on enrollment figures. Not holding my breath.

I expect more adjuncts, less non-tenure-track teaching faculty and the same amount of tenured faculty, even at teaching institutions where tenure-track faculty members are not expected to bring in external funding. The caste system is as strong as always, and shit flows downhill.
Ask HN: Can you please review my side project? Should I continue working on it?
Yeah great, that makes Rust look like a good embedded language.

What about AVR though? I have been following the rust-avr fork for litterally years now, and it just got merged. It's still highly unreliable though, and Harvard architecture related bugs can make you pull your hairs.

If the rust community is going to promote embedded rust, it would be good to invest some effort in a wider spectrum of architectures. The language itself should be mature enough to take a break. Expanding the architecture range would be very welcome by a lot of people.
Most of that water usage is agricultural though, 68% in Arizona and 86% in Colorado.
Corporatism at it's best....
Entitled techies aka HN users ruining things wherever they go. What a surprise.
Having student accessible tools is really great. That's hardly the issue. The issue is the hundreds-thousands in the billing departments etc.
Salesforce ecosystem is huge. They offer online instructor courses https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/academy. I have used mulesoft which is expensive clunky and really a Java shell. My favorite tool is forceamp DBAMP which excels at replicating SF to a SQL server instance and bulk operations/updates to SF. Perhaps the easiest integration is Heroku Salesforce Connect that auto syncs SF with a heroku postgressql DB. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-connect
whats the problem with GnuPG and mailvelope ?
It looks nice. But when you ask something like "Should I continue working on it", that is a loaded question. What are your goals for the project, and at what point would you say that this project is no longer able to meet those goals?
which is exactly why when paper becomes digital, free software (FSF and GNU free, not open source) becomes quite important.

I fear that it will have to get really bad before everybody agrees on this, and it might even be the case that people like me who worry about free software are wrong about our fears and everything will be fine... ultimately time will tell.
Some instructors have been mentioned elsewhere in this topic. Its considered inappropriate for an individual who has not been promoted to instructor rating to teach/assign breathing exercises because of the contraindications and complications that a student may not have been exposed to (since the student was being taught to do the exercises, not to teach them).
They haven't gotten away with it yet. They are trying it on, wait until it is tested in a court.
So far I've seen friends move to Tahoe, Sacramento, San Diego and (temporarily) to Colorado from the Bay Area. Mostly when given the green light to go remote permanently but in at least one case they bought a house with no promise of long-term remote work.
So you can exhaust your monthly data in 2 hours and 14 minutes of fully using your connection?
Yeah, it's called June Gloom.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Gloom
Tenure is a thing of the past in low-industry-demand fields (e.g., the humanities and some life sciences). Nearly all full-time jobs are instructor or ad junct. This has been true for years.

In CS and a few other fields (some applied math, biz, econ, finance), tenure is non-optional because universities can't pay.

Every single decent candidate in CS can make $300K minimum in industry, but even the absolute best universities cannot afford more than $150K at the asst. prof rank (maybe 200 at the very best but also highest CoL places and even then only for the tippy-top candidates).

NB: that's at the very, very best universities. The budget for a tenure line is closer to $65K or so at the vast majority of the country's ~1,400 colleges.

If you're competing with a FAANG offer and your budget is $65K, tenure is your only chip to play. And even then you'll be super lucky to get a halfway decent candidate.
Snowden granted permanent residency in Russia
Ok so? OP never said his friend was racist. I don’t understand why you feel the need to split hairs on this point.
My guess is that there is every possible combination of items that is added to the cart, and then the API response returns what items are unavailable/out of stock.

Honestly, I'm not in love with this post for HN. It seems like something done and communicated for twitter clout and is devoid of interesting details.
> The write-ups of westerners working from Bali goes into a bit of this. Yes, it adds to the local economy. No, not always in constructive ways. Feeding young egos desire for european beer and fixing their skateboard falls costs time feeding local kids in schools and providing primary health care in a stretched local economy which is 10x lower down the scale.

Fake news. It pours foreign currency into a local economy that was already 80% based on tourism and which has a depreciating currency. Does selling tourists plastic trinkets and taking them on boat trips cost young local children plastic toys or prevent their fishermen dad from having his own longboat? Ofcourse not. Pre-COVID, money was being shoved as fast as it could possibly be shoved into a tiny island where people have tight-knit yet large family structures. All the locals on Bali are richer and better educated than they otherwise would be.

I think the worst thing about it may be that it's basically a classic case of the Resource Curse, except instead of oil they have beautiful beaches/etc.

Lastly, there isn't really a shortage of land. The island is 5,780 km². I've driven between all 4 coasts and 90% of the time you are seeing nothing but empty nature. https://mapfight.appspot.com/us.ct-vs-bali/connecticut-us-ba...
This is true but management practices already exist for this to happen already pretty effectively.
Has Uber stopped them?
In East Asia, but especially in Taiwan, Japan and China, people from the USA are usually called American. Normally, when asked, I state I’m from California or the US.
I think it’s just a language thing here. It’s easier to say America than it is to say USA or United States.

I’m sure Canadians and others get quite annoyed from that.
Coca Cola is canceling 200 drink brands
Show HN: How to bypass Facebook quite mode on iPhone fbbug
Salt Lake city is quite affordable and im ~45 minutes to Brighton, Park city, Solitude, Snowbird, etc, excluding traffic. But pretend i didn't say that, traffic in the canyons already sucks, and more people will only make it worse.
way too morbid for me.
Looks like some videos are coming up with a DDG search:
https://youtu.be/nzCaZQqAs9I
Glitter is an environmental abomination. It's time to stop using it
Me over here fully bald since 21 wondering what life could have been like if only
Disabling JavaScript globally seems like overkill.. I mean I couldn't even load YouTube with that option enabled.
It's a common trend because adjuncts can easily work near or below minimum wages when factoring in time commitments and nature of the job.

It's not just universities and tenured professor positions, businesses are attacking labor and pushing hypercompetitive behavior on labor everywhere because it's become common acceptable business practice now.

Many of these trends you see have been going on for quite some time, COVID has really just acted as an accelerant on the dumpsterfires raging through our country.

When I worked at a research corporation connected to a university, one of the deans asked me to adjunct a few times. I checked the comp and it was laughable. I could make more money and have less stress and overtime working at a stable minimum wage position and this was for a doctoral position. The problem is, for some people it's the only option or the best option for their career.
Congrats! Looks interesting. Do you plan to record similar videos for other languages?
Whoa, I was wondering if this would ever come out beta. So cool.
So if that's a problem then ...

... you cost X, but your peer, 10 time zones away costs 1/2 X.

... so who is at risk of getting 'eliminated and/or moved'?

Because if the '1/2 cost' team can do the job, it won't be them.

It's very basic math.

Again, it won't be everything, but many things.
Hard to say. The humanities job market never recovered after 2008. Its not clear that there will be an upswing in the near future.
Sounds like local police forces should get this to help keep citizens comfortable while they eat.
Looks fantastic but it seems pretty limited. Checked it out but "pkg install openssh" results in an error ... is it being maintained, or is just today an unlikely day?
Yep, things have been trending this way for a while. From 2001:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Where...
Thank you very much. Copy n pasting that, followed by

# apk add R

And I finally have R on my iPad!
That would be true if you don't have any video calls, or all the interviews are done without resume screening...
The effect on the nervous system is different depending on the technique. Also the WH method (I'm not a practitioner btw) has been experimentally demonstrated [0] to have the purported effects. Not all such breathing systems can say that.

[0] https://edlatimore.com/wim-hof-method-review/#the-science
Oh I see so it's a feature, not a bug. :)
I took half work Airbnb’s throughout the pandemic. Worked great for me.

The only problem is finding good internet. All they’ll tell you is if that have wifi or not even consistently working wifi. I learned quickly You gotta research this part deeply yourself.
40k/yr is above the average for private universities in the US. The average public is ~10k/yr. Community college 3-4K.
You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
thanks for the recommendation. I'll admit I haven't looked since I read your comment but I do not remember seeing breathing exercises in the Tao Te Ching.
If there were no reserve price there would be eight ads on every single search no matter how abstruse the search and irrelevant the ads were to it. Especially since currently only a small percent of searches have ads, Google could actually make more money that way, but everyone wound find it really annoying.
If you can afford to go to grad school without borrowing to do it, maybe that would be a good idea for some people. But this is probably a terrible, terrible time to bet on getting a well paying job in the future based on current degree programs (edit: by "bet" I mean for purposes of repaying student loans).

The pandemic has upended the economy and the economy was already something of a mess. We don't know what the future of work looks like and people are pretty bad at predicting the future under the best of circumstances.
Yes, hence it's already in use by Ag
Barcelona too.
The one major problem with these solutions is how expensive it all is. If you don't find out about these programs BEFORE your finances get destroyed by health issues (both in cost of lost work time and in the medical care; most insurance will only cover SOME of the medical bills), you'll never be able to afford the hardware and software to work around them.
I love the idea. Maybe there is a way to calculate the expected residual life more scientifically, based on life style and other parameters? I think the Acturial society might have something and I did pass a few exams, sadly I forgot most of the knowledge.

I'll also need to program an app that shows up as Windows 10 lock screen, so that every time I slacked I got notified.
Why? Who cares? It's an API of zero consequence or value except to mcdonalds. I seriously doubt anyone who uses to corresponding app will give a shit. Why not target a state unemployment interfaceor something that actually matters to literally anyone? What a waste of engineering effort.
in other words... Since we've given out federal education loans, educational outcomes have been drastically less effective
Without the university system we'd just be Saudi Arabia though.

It's just a matter of time until we nationalize everything and finally get a modern system. It's inevitable, the US university system just isn't competitive anymore for actual US citizens.
Show HN: Super simple JavaScript coding challenges for absolute beginners
First and foremost, thank you for digging up the information. I owe you a beer.

As you said, the problem seemed to be with funeral homes not picking up bodies. I wonder if this was primarily due to increased deaths (which I do not doubt) or restrictions that made the funeral homes not able or not willing to handle the funerals.
The Sacklers lied to doctors and told them that OxyContin wasn’t addictive. They and their henchmen should be strapped to a gurney and sent off with a IV drip of OxyContin.
Actuaries (like a life insurance company) don't take the average life expectancy from birth.

They take your current age, and find your life expectancy from then. At 55, Kevin Kelly was expected to live 25.5 more years, or 80.5...

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
Because subscribers have no other choices. Captive markets are fun to abuse.
Charting 20 Years of Home Price Changes in Every U.S. City
We'd do better to find a list of business modeling books and tools.

And then take a look at integrating actual data sources; hopefully some quantitative with APIs.

Uncertainties supports mean±"error" w/ "error propagation":
https://pypi.org/project/uncertainties/

Sliders etc can be done in Jupyter notebooks with e.g. ipywidgets: https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Cool use of preemptible T4s! The Chrome Clusterfuzz folks were a launch partner for Preemptible VMs, so I have a soft spot for preemptible fuzzing :).

Let me know if you need more quota or have any feedback / questions. We recently improved the preemption rate for preemptible GPUs drastically, so I hope you’ve experienced that.
Uh, I don't eat the poisonous parts of plants? I use a knife to achieve this most of the time. I also don't eat the digestive tract of animals.
So for example let me ask for your knee-jerk opinions based on this idea:

- does a matrix have the same left-eigenvectors as its right-eigenvectors?

- what is the relationship between the left-eigenvalues and right-eigenvalues?

- is there always an eigenvector? when is there a complete set? how do you generalize your notion of eigenvectors so that matrices always have a complete set of them?

I am not sure any of these are intuitive here.
Ask him to talk to as many profs in the dept as possible. Something will click. Thats what I did. Specifically that he is into programming, what excites him etc and that he is looking to work with them in whatever capacity available. Profs with research labs always need extra labor.

I wasn't a fan of exams and deadlines either and consistently goofed off, but I got into a research lab doing odd jobs for profs/grad/phd students which slowly turned into full time lab work. The profs I worked for gave me enough independent credits for the work I did there, to coast through.

He is right in that mentors and the right/encouraging environment is crucial for learning. I learnt more in those labs than in any classroom. And he should actively go look for those mentors/environments and prove to them his interests are genuine. Good things will happen but he has to do that work.
I don't agree, Switzerland is a really well run country and politicians can't just overrule votes there. I'd go as far as to say that you don't have a proper democracy if the people can't overrule the will of politicians.
If you go to public school in the American West, it can be even cheaper. Boise State was $6K a year without room and board.

It is a football team with a school attached though.
I assume you are aware that each heater will need to be on its own circuit? A garage typically only has 2 or so, so you'll need to run extension cords to various rooms in the house.

Also you'll need 14 gauge extension cords, many regular ones are only 16 or 18 gauge.
Keep in mind that in many European countries, even if college is free, not everyone gets to go to it. In Germany, students are heavily segmented into tracks from an early point in their academic career, and if you're not in the traditional "college" track, tough luck: it's very difficult to get moved.

Honestly I don't know whether or not that's a better system. Whether students come out with a degree or a trade, they don't come out with debt. It's trading a degree of social mobility for economic gains, but in the US you can find yourself left out of either choice.

As for cost, $40,000 is the typical private school. Absent the top tiers, there's no reason to pay that price over a public University, where tuition in most states hovers around $10k per year. And if you do 2 years of community college first and finish up at a 4 year school, you can cut the average cost per year down to something like $7k.

Part of the student debt crisis are families making poor economic choices. Choosing the massive debt of a private school, or paying and extra $12k per year to live in a dorm "for the experience". That's how you run up $100,000 in debt before you even get a job. Don't have the money without taking out loans? Stay local, commute, find friends that live on campus and crash at their rooms every once in a while. College is expensive partly because our society treats it as a right of passage rather than an educational experience.
Everyone is talking Istio/Envoy but what's up with HAProxy? Last I looked(about a year or so ago) they were making huge advancements in platform at every level and in particular extensibility. It looked all open source too.
Neural Filters featuring Conan O'Brien [video]
Thanks for the initial impression. I'm still trying to figure out if to increase adoption requires more marketing or more features!

I have a full backlog but before executing them I'd like to get some external opinions...
Another perspective than what BillFranklin wrote above (which is still a great answer) when compared to an internal load balancer, which is what you’d traditionally have to route internal traffic otherwise:

* typically mTLS is provided and abstracted away for applications (traffic between services is now authenticated and encrypted)

* no single point of failure in the same way

* no traffic bottleneck or needing to scale the LB (e.g. limited to bandwidth of what LB can handle)

* typically integrates natively with your existing service discovery/control plane (kubernetes/consul/nomad)
Suggestions:

- KVMs usually are expensive and terrible; switch at the destination instead. For example, Dell's UP2716D has 4 inputs (2 HDMI, 2 DP). Dell's other professional grade monitors have similar numbers of inputs. The downside is that switching inputs is mildly awkward using the monitor controls but the inconvenience is relatively minor.

- As for wireless audio, physically wire up your audio sources to a 3.5mm audio switch or even a tiny mixer (search for "mini audio mixer" on Amazon) and connect it to a Bluetooth transmitter. Pair your headphones with the transmitter.

If you use the monitor for switching video sources and can configure your machines to output audio over HDMI/DP, then the BT transmitter can be connected directly to the monitor's soundbar output, saving you some wiring.

- That leaves you with needing to switch your USB devices but switch boxes for USB are plentiful and cheap.
Whatever the merits of the argument, the author of this article sounds pretty judgemental. To quote:

"The photographer happens to be the great Jay Maisel. I feel on fairly safe ground saying that any one of his photographs is worth more than all the “chiptune” ever produced."
Someone released the Snyder cut trailer in 16-bit
For whatever reason, everywhere I went they were using ACT!

(Salesforce killed em all for a reason.)
If it's a good PhD program then they will pay you to attend. No need to take out loans.
> $40K/year for similar academics you get almost for free in Europe.

It helps to recall that taxes pay for this 'free' service. American tuition has risen pretty much in lock step with state funding cuts, which itself is often motivated by a combination of partisan politics, constitutionally mandated balanced budgets, federally prohibited bankruptcies, and negative economic shocks.
In the ice cream situation, broken and down mean the same thing. In the Sartre anecdote, milk and cream mean the same thing.
I am comparing basic rich text editing (eg the Mac of the 1980s) with the plain text areas and email composers that Markdown was designed for.

In rich text interfaces, keyboard shortcuts do more and work better than they do when typing Markdown in pure plain text environments.

That you can build better keyboard shortcuts for plain text areas is of course true, but it’s still a hack on top of a hack.
i think you are failing to see the value — much of what the academic community produces is a public good.

i agree there are huge problems with higher education, but I think if all humanities departments were disbanded as you suggest, you would miss them after they were gone.

Look at how terrible and shallow a lot of journalism and popular nonfiction is. Imagine if that was the highest level of thought available on most topics. Nothing but Medium posts forever.
This sort of submission is typically done as a Show HN, not an Ask HN. You might check the rules for that and see if this qualifies and, if so, submit it that way.
Somewhat ironically, the linkage arose in large part due to government price controls on the labor market during World War II.
Will our robot kids do well in other areas if we’re just teaching to the test? :)
Switzerland is an ethnostate which doesn’t even grant citizenship to “foreigners” after a lifetime spent in the country. It works for them but would not be a suitable form for a country that was formed out of hodgepodge immigration.
I'm moving to a Colorado ski town next week on a 6-month winter lease. I had the flexibility to do it, so it was kinda a no-brainer for me.
none - but they are not "encryption at rest by the mail server provider" which is what the article is about
Several months after they eliminated all open positions and stopped contributing to 403b funds (at least for staff), the University president sent out a self-congratulatory note about how they'd scored a coup by recruiting the CFO/COO from Johns Hopkins to replace the retiring Executive VP.

Oh and nearly all of the austerity measures put in place back in 2008 are still in effect despite them being "temporary" (caps of 1% on annual cost-of-living increases, no more than a single merit raise per department per college per year, no new positions created without highest-level approval, etc).

Has someone spun up fuckedcollege.com yet?
Sure, it is easier, and the management may well be willing to pay some premium for that. The question is, how large is a reasonable premium for it? 10%? 30%? Certainly not paying three times the amount.