skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All three cases by this author are only controversial because we have ignored a greater point: colleges don’t exist to get you a job. They exist for a class of society, a finishing school where they all meet each other and collaborate on the obscure arts that weave the fabric of our reality.

It has been this way for a millennium.

The workforce started using them en masse 60 years ago and we’ve been trying to patch this concept ever since. It is great that we have large populations educated in advanced multidisciplinary concepts. There is also no way for the university concept to not exacerbate inequality.

This still leaves the need for a way to screen for competent people, something that shows discipline and life stability to commit to something. I think the apprentice concept and trade school does that. Germany has this fairly institutionalized (and also free university). I hope larger economic unions are able to reconcile this.
My pleasure! I have a feeling that the visualizing any physical activity that you love doing, which requires focus to be good at will work.
>Is a position as a lecture of Economics at Harvard

Before I answer, are you seriously arguing that taking a job as a professor is the same as getting paid 1 million dollars for ~10 hours of work?
There are links in peer comments. But you are correct that the people that can command high dollars for speaking engagements are widely known. Reaching a high post in government fits the bill, as does being a top actor, entertainer, athlete, etc.
But this assumes that the payroll administrator became that and liked that job in the first place.. and probably the person graduating college did not say “I want to work on payroll”, they probably said “I need to find a way to pay off my student loans.”
> And we refused to risk any individual life in order to potentially save hundreds of thousands or more

But we are risking individual lives now. Vaccines have side effects. It's never about an individual life, always a calculus of number of lives risked vs number of lives saved, I would think.
Banks should have velocity limits to prevent such huge transfers from happening on a personal savings account.
Interesting thanks for sharing! It looks like __bitcode is used for static but not dynamic libraries so it might not always be reliable. I've also found that apps can include bitcode for frameworks but not the main app binary, but if it's included for the main app it is required to be included in frameworks. That's why Emerge checks for the presence of bitcode only in the main app executable.
To be honest, yes, I think that's exactly what's happening. As with the former presidents as well. These companies are happy to shell out a few hundred grand because that's chump change for them and now their employees get to brag to their friends that they heard a talk from Janet Yellen last Tuesday. Celebrity speakers (and I have no doubt that in the world of finance Yellen is a celebrity) are a nice employee perk.

I could be wrong here, what do I know. But that's my read on the situation, and it's why this sort of thing doesn't bother me that much.
Tip, the word is "response", not "responce".

In my view, software architecture should be part of the job of a principal engineer, and the role "software architect" should not exist as a separate thing.

Separately, you would be amazed at how many developers will happily give you code that they wrote a year or more ago, and then not remember their design decisions. So not knowing it inside and out doesn't imply that they are not the author.
Treating this as a binary question isn't useful for discussion. A better question would be "what percentage of the people who built the pyramids were slaves?". There will be semantic arguments about the definition of "slavery" in Egypt, but slavery did exist there in various forms [1]. Some people building the pyramids would have had a free choice about whether they wanted to work such as the skilled craftsman, bakers, etc. But others would have been chattel slaves, indentured servants, serfs, and other forms of laborers that didn't have a choice.

At a minimum, they would be wage slaves since ancient Egypt didn't have a proper social safety net to deal with the economic cycles caused by the flooding of the Nile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt
Note that Abscam is evidence that it only takes about $50K in 1978 dollars (which would be about $200K today) to bribe a corruptable U.S. congressman.
Ok, thanks - I'll give it a shot
I have never considered something like this, but it could be really useful.
Covid-19 lockdowns temporarily raised global temperatures
C++ Is NOT 9.4 Times Faster Than Python in Prime Number Test

I added 3 lines to the Python code and got it 10x faster:

(venv) $ python prime.py
Number of primes between 0 to 1000000 = 78498
Elapsed time: 6.502481937408447
(venv) $ python prime.py
Number of primes between 0 to 1000000 = 78498
Elapsed time: 0.6258630752563477

Diff:

3c3,5
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> import numba
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> @numba.njit
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The advancement in DNA sequencing tech for humans, have been a boon for fighting extinction of other animals too. Sequencing bird DNA from feathers to determine their migration and check population was envisioned decades ago and has only been made possible recently to the advancement of the tech.

The Bird Genoscape Project[1] was also showcased in this excellent Nat Geo video[2].

[1]https://www.birdgenoscape.org/

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p43ksRgIlk
There's such a thing as bad charities. This one just paid himself. But there are charities that are fronts for horrible evil behavior, turning a good dead into a fraudulent evil act. If you are going to police them, you're going to get the profiteering crooks too. Didn't know where he was at, as in most people go to these places to die, in a good way. Better to be poor.
It's open because it's out in the open. It's not corruption as in behind-doors bribery or such, but it is getting there. It's certainly a moral corruption - it's absolutely not conducive to her representing the the people in any democratic fashion.
> If you didn't know what a gamma squeeze was 48 hours ago, you are their exit strategy

Absolutely this.
"Nowhere have archaeologists found signs of slavery or foreign workers."

What does (or would) evidence of slavery look like?
Sure it does. Senior figures in the government should be barred from accepting these sort of fees after their service. Those that have accepted these sort of fees should not be appointed to positions of public trust.
Just so it's clear, that truly frightening stuff is on haven.org, and not on the OP's havenweb.org site.
A retargeted ad threw me in a tailspin
The strongest pillar of this argument "Degrees are a poor indicator of on-the-job success" is buried almost at the end of the piece. Most of the data the author provides refer to a lack of qualified job applicants rather than impact a degree has on being qualified. They do mention that specific in-demand skills aren't being taught in many places, but I think that misses the point (and alleged value on the part of employers) of a liberal arts education.
Yes, several retail investors have accused them of acting illegally to protect their emergency loan to Melvin capital by raising their collateral fees for certain stock transactions, resulting in restrictions on GME buys. Citadel effectively has a conflict of interest in letting GME buys occur, and it was after they had that conflict that GME buys became restricted.
My dad had a similar experience with the IRS. He had startd a small business and was supposed to be paying something monthly, but he thought it was quarterly. He got fined, and when he mailed in his payment, he included a letter explaining that it was his first time running a business, and it was an honest mistake. ~6 months later he got a check back from the IRS for the fine amount, plus interest. They seem to be pretty lenient as long as you aren't actively trying to make their lives difficult.
I have been using bitrise.io for iOS CI/CD for a few years. I noticed that they added a new step that seems to at least tackle the app size monitoring side of this.

Other than builds being dog slow (fine for me), I couldn’t be more happy with the service and the price ($40/mo. for the single dev plan.)
Seems like in all these methods, you need to be in top 10% or top 1% to make money.
Maybe your plan would work if we had a generous a pension plan that required a certain number of community service hours. One problem would be that most of these speeches are anything but public or open to the community.
Last nights episode made S5 worth the space-opera vibes. Really happy it’s getting back to sci-fi and hopefully leaving game-of-thrones-in-space behind a bit
WSB was heavily pushing the "fight against the injust hedge funds" narrative and the way that community speaks is a pretty big indication that they don't normally align themselves with SJWs.
Enter the Draghi: can 'Super Mario' save Italy as he did the euro?
This is most obvious in the gaming industry. Compensation for developers seems to be lower and hours longer within the gaming industry due to more demand.
and bullshitters
So it's better that we get this situations like this? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210122/09463546102/brita...
Why can't someone simply go to any hosting service (like bluehost) and do a point and click webpress installation on their purchased domain to host their own website. Webpress also has a bunch of add-on modules for authentication. I just don't understand why this post is the top on HN ATM. I imagine there are bunch of more worthwhile posts. Or maybe we are just too obsessed now with big tech etc?
Op here:

In years to come we will look down on the 5 day working week in the same way we currently do with 15hr factory shifts during the industrial revolution.

It absolutely blows my mind that 99% of office roles are still 5 days / week, Monday to Friday - why is there basically no variation on this model? I'd be more than happy to work a job for 80% salary for 4 days per week...

That's why I made https://www.fourdayweek.io/

Keen to hear any feedback or suggestions. In the mean time, I'll be looking to add more jobs to the database
I agree with that premise but not the conclusion.

No one gets into public service in order to enrich others, but one day people wake up and find themselves open to a little bit of corruption.
I hope people can see through it, but I've also come to realize that good PR can be insidious. Having a really 'dumb' excuse like the one we see here can work because it actually makes people focus on how stupid the excuse is.

It takes oxygen away from the actual controversy and shifts the discussion to how stupid the cover is. You might even have people start arguing about gender and earnings gaps. Diversion successful.
> For end-users, free software does the exact same things as proprietary software.

Really? I suppose you'd be fine with me replacing your VLC with QuickTime player.

VLC gives you way more options and abilities, because people can openly contribute to it.
> This is obviously incorrect if you wanted to talk about effective tax rate. But using effective tax rate is also incorrect when changing marginal income. So it depends on context.

The GP said "a 20-something engineer at a six-figure salary can tell you how much of that they get to keep.", which can only mean "effective tax rate".

Although it's a common and dishonest rhetorical tactic of those who oppose taxation to conflate the two when advocating for lower taxation. There's nothing wrong with arguing for lower taxation, but it's wrong to misrepresent the rates you use to argue that.
I'm under the impression that many of the blockchain-ers see it more as a new internet and less of a means of executing "trustless logic"
I don't want instant bank transfers.

I want bank transfers with a progress bar like in the movies. And if you interrupt the transfer before it's completed only part of the funds will be transferred.
Get Waves – Create SVG waves for your next design
/u/deepfuckingvalue? he also posted screenshots iirc.
Estonia’s X-Road solution launched in Mexico
> over $150

going to guess you are missing the `m` from `$150m`
I’ve heard this sentiment call hundreds of tech bubbles since the dotcom boom, and we’ve seen only one in an unrelated sector. I am not saying it isn’t a bubble, just that market enthusiasm tends to look like a bubble but happens all the time without crashing everything.
It seems to me that the problem is not the chemistry, but the geopolitics that allows using raw materials that were made under such conditions. I bet Congo could get their act together if other countries actually gave them proper incentive.
The Fed Chairman makes $203k per year. That's not a "set for life" level of salary. After their term is up they're gonna need ongoing financial support from some source or another. And being independently wealthy is not an appropriate solution either, then you've ensured that nobody who is not "of certain means" can ever hold that position regardless of competence.

If you want former fed chairs to never work in the industry again you're going to have to significantly increase compensation and make it a pension for life even after they retire. And the fact of the matter is that's just not how the system works right now so "well maybe we SHOULD tear down the whole system and do it differently" is not really a constructive point in the discussion, it's just a childish tantrum. If you think that's how the system should work, go pass some legislation.
Ah, I haven't read the books, and didn't even realise the series was based on books until this thread!
public websockets API? Doesn't that introduce a lot of scaling issues for the API provider?
It's important to note that the lawsuit being dropped doesn't imply that Yale doesn't discriminate. The evidence from the lawsuit is enlightening. See page 23 of https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1326306/downl... for admission rates by race.
+1

It was clear the US government made the wrong decision when they backtracked and tried to buy more doses from Pfizer + Moderna[1]. Given how much the US has spent on stimulus, you would think even like 10-15 extra billion would be nothing.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/trump-covid-vaccine-pf...
I don't think giving a few speeches is worthy of recusal, no. Unless people are alleging that she entwined with them in some material way (e.g. consulting, advisory, etc.) then I honestly don't see the problem. The party who could have a problem is Citadel, who might be at risk for finding out that she gave the same speech for less money to a nonprofit.
Presidents give hundreds of speeches for the low, low price of $400k per year.

After their last term, their official political career is basically over and almost anything they know worth telling is classified.

It seems hard to justify increasing prices after the fact outside graft.
Wow really? I love season 5, so much depth to the world building and big actions. If it follows the book it builds to an amazing pay off IMO.
> So, while archaeologists still have much to learn about the people who built the pyramids and how the work was organized and executed, it is easy to throw out this basic misconception. The pyramids were built by Egyptians.

There are over 100 pyramids in Egypt, build over a time span of at least a thousand years. How can we be so sure that not one of them had foreign slaves working on the construction?
Exactly. Better analytics can enable this technology to produce better results than competing technologies in less time. Once automated/easy/rapid sample prep comes, there will be mass adoption in the space.

Disclaimer: Co-Founder of BugSeq[0]
0: https://bugseq.com
Not initially. The early adopters were touting business fundamentals for a very long time. The deal with microsoft, the impending release of PS5 and the new Xbox, all this started the ground swell.

Where this hedge fund idea came from, i'm not entirely sure. I think it was just a game when someone woke up and explained that this massive amount of shorting could not be covered if everyone bought shares. At some point that just spiraled into some altruistic hedge funds are evil marketing thing.
Why are Janet yellens (or really anyone’s) speeches worth 700k? What could she possibly teach citadel employees in that short time that could generate so much value?
It's a silly theory, but I wouldn't say I'm surprised, because the entire idea just doesn't make a ton of sense from first principles. If the NYSE has some stocks for sale, and I have money to spend on those stocks, why is it more complicated than buying a water bottle off Amazon or a Netflix subscription? There are good answers, sure, but they're long and complicated and it's entirely fair to be suspicious when you first hear them.

I think this is really under-appreciated as an argument in favor of lower settlement times. There's a lot of indirect societal costs in having the financial system look so strange.
Can a user from one Haven server post something in another Haven server? Is this desireable? If desireable, how will access control work?
And yet, not only became a public office holder after, but a key one overseeing and influencing the industry giving her the nominal 'bribe'?
This is also part of China's plan also outside of the camps.[0]

[0] https://share.america.gov/china-coerces-uyghur-women-into-un...
The fees are just as much a reward for past favours as a signal to future favour-givers.
Ukraine plans cryptocurrency mining data centers next to nuclear plants
One chance to prove you are not bought. I don't have much hope but this is a big enough test early enough.
No, it is so highly improbable that someone would receive the equivalent of a years tech salary in SV for a handful of speeches that the act itself is immediately suspect. If we required the kind of evidence that you are talking about no bribery cases would ever be put forward. Also, what you are asking for is NOT required by law to bring forward such a case legally speaking. You aren't required to have a smoking gun.
sorry I thought Social Justice Warrior is a term for 'people who rally to do good for the society but are just a bunch of fools'
Even if an official seeks no further office and is "impotent" at the time of payment, the prospect of speaking fees can still be a perverse incentive. There's no evidence this is happening here, but theoretically an official could install policies favorable to a company, then be rewarded after leaving office with outsize speaking fees, and this would be a stable system of corruption because the company would have the reputation of following through on a practice of rewarding officials who produce favorable policies.

One could take this further and apply it to the entire concept of a revolving door; if an official can make a career out of lobbying and consulting after leaving public office, they'll be incentivized to prioritize future employers over the public interest.

Realistically, it's difficult to fully remove perverse incentives and still be able to attract talent (this applies to technical recruiting as well!). But there still need to be systems of accountability. Unfortunately, with two-party non-proportional representation, and a limited opportunity for voters to provide referendums on the corruption of party members separate from their policy viewpoints, there are many layers of insulation that prevent people from being held to account.
> Are there any linux distros for any platform that aren't shipping terminfo?

Ah, I was referring to higher-level languages such as Ruby here (I have a lot of scripts where I use it a shell script replacement) rather than C, where you can just download a compiled version and use it without any fuss. Ruby moved its curses interface out of the standard library a long time ago, so now you have to add it to your gems list.

> If you're pretty printing text for a human to read then I don't think the couple extra ms it will take to spawn a handful of tput processes is going to be an actual performance concern.

For scripts, I agree — I used to use tput, and only stopped because I'd eventually seen the ANSI escape codes enough time to just memorise them. But I find that if your program needs to use enough colours (my software has been called "overly colourful" before), the time it takes to run a tput once for every bold and normal variant of all eight colours quickly makes it seem like your program is running on the JVM, even if I cache the output. I appreciate that not all software needs every terminal style available to it, but it seems to me that the best interface should be able to scale to many styles, not just a few.

> I was going to refute the any language comment with libraries based on terminfo, but all the ones I ran across in 30 seconds just hard code the ANSI escape sequences.

This doesn't surprise me! I used to be concerned with the growing number of comments and guides on the internet that say things like "this is how you do bold in a terminal" as though it applies to all terminals, so I asked a question on Stack Exchange a while ago:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/548158/in-2019-is-i...

I was hoping to find an answer from someone like yourself, who regularly works with non-ANSI terminals and was becoming increasingly annoyed at the proliferation of standards-shirking shell scripts... but I only got comments saying I was doing it wrong, as though I was the only one who didn't get the memo. You're the only obscure terminal user I've ever talked to in the wild, congratulations.

Anyway, I agree that we're stuck in this situation, and even though I am taking the easy way out, I still find that a shame.
Yes, it is called stretching.

Cryptographic hash functions are typically designed to be computed quickly, so it is possible to try guessed passwords at high rates. You could try billions possible passwords each second. This is why we have password hash functions that perform key stretching, such as PBKDF2, scrypt, or Argon2. They increase the time (and sometimes even memory) required to perform brute-force attacks on stored password hash digests. Use a large (256-bit is fine) random salt value. All the salts are random values (note: they do not have to be a secret), so each user will use a different salt value, and now the attacker has to compute the stretching function once for each password combination, rather than once for each password, and this is a lot more work for the attacker.

If you only hash with a salt, it still leaves passwords exposed to brute-force attacks and dictionary attacks that they can easily run on GPUs. Key stretching is important! This is why we have dedicated password hashing functions that are slow enough to mitigate brute-force and dictionary attacks.

TL;DR: salting and stretching on passwords, along with password hash functions (slow password hashing functions: PBKDF2, bcrypt, scrypt, Argon2, Balloon and some recent modes of Unix crypt)! Do not use fast cryptographic hash functions on passwords, as it defeats the purpose of stretching. Salting is not enough.
So many people fail to see this. The number of stock market "investors" making Tik Tok videos and people gambling with rent money might even be worse than 2000.