skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nearly half of all students thought their degree offered poor value for money this year according to a survey that sheds light on the scale of student anger with their universities’ response to the pandemic

Emphasis mine on "this year".

> Twice as many students thought their courses offered poor value (44%) than in 2019-20

So it used to be better in non-pandemic years.

Seems that some people is jumping to conclusions about education in the UK when the article is specifically about presidential/non-presidential and other pandemic challenges.
Water shortages: Why some Californians are running out in 2021 and others aren’t
I really object to thinking about education as 'value for money' only. That's not to say that education in some countries is outrageously expensive (it is) or that student loans are terrible burden (it is). But the real issue is that modern education is increasingly shoddy, regardless to how much you pay for it.

Still, I think it's important to have formal education, because most young people aren't self-organized enough to learn on their own. Also, universities are important social institutions (yeah, sounds ironic in 2021) where social skills and connections obtained can dramatically influence your life decades after the education is finished.
100% true. I think we're still collectively in a honeymoon phase with remote work. Yes, we know it has its benefits, but also has numerous insidious downsides, including further insulating and reinforcing existing groups within a company. One way to combat this specifically though is if everyone is remote.
How is it that this is waterproof and durable packaging material, but also easy to decompose at home? It seems to me on the surface that those two things are at odds with each other.
Guys, police are self-abolishing. Victory is within grasp.

But seriously. Why is this surprising? This is a completely rational reaction of people who feel they're being unfairly demonized as a group despite most of them being professional and doing their jobs the best they can with the training and incentives they're given. Enjoy the crime wave.
> If back in the day,it used to be 10-20% tops, now in some countries it's as high as 60-80%, while at the same time competing for jobs that often don't require such education to start with.

The change is because employers love degrees... they prove that a job applicant can reliably get out of bed and do quality work in a timely fashion (and thus reduce the risk for the employer to hire someone who turns out to be a "bad fit", have mental health issues etc.), and especially the IT degrees have a large part of knowledge transfer and training in them that the employer doesn't have to pay for like in a classic apprenticeship.

Academia should be a place for science and those interested in advancing it, not for employers to save costs on vetting and training (by placing the burden on the government and/or the students)!
I think that rather than creating the echo chamber, it has just made them more visible and more niche. In the old days, most of the country was part of the echo chamber that Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, et. al. led. Since we were (mostly) all in it, it didn't seem like a bubble, just reality. Now internet tech is letting us inflate our own bespoke bubbles, and easily peer into the the other bubbles.

Yes this causes conflict. But in the end multiple echo chambers are an improvement over one big one, plus a few small alternatives that only weirdos like me were in.
It’s because we have only two major political parties and one of them has increasingly right wing authoritarian and nihilistic tendencies. It’s in their interest to sow distrust of the media / reality despite the damage it is doing to the country, and they have a willing coalition of right wing traditional (Fox, Sinclair) and social media properties to tow the party line on grievance and mistrust, with this latest astroturfed meltdown over “critical race theory” a prime example. As far as I am aware, no other rich Democracy has a set up as bad.
That seems like a strange comparison. Apple and my local kebab shop are not businesses in the same league and never will be.
Looking at stress management from a nutritional lens - get more magnesium.

Avoidance of all stress isn't practical, so give your body the nutrients it needs to cope.
Complaints against mobile payment apps surge 300% as consumers get scammed
Does anyone else have a problem with this? I often get multiple calls like this a day!

I firmly believe that the right to privacy includes a right not to be disturbed at random times on my phone.

FIRST: The phone networks need to quickly detect spam like this and block these kind of calls.

SECOND: This kind of behavior needs to be considered white-collar crime with appropriate fines, jail time, and other penalties. (Like not being able to have a phone and internet connection.)
On twitter, in the lawsuit below, it was basically government censorship, disguised by one step, through a consulting firm working for the government.

https://www.thedesertreview.com/news/u-s-senator-alex-padill...
Was it? Or did he go to a conference that Epstein staged? Can you be specific -the man is dead so he won't sue.
I'm guessing it would've been better if they went with "Distribute funds properly" instead of "Defund the police".
A much larger population of Indians are educated than you might think, and India has higher voter turnout than the US does.
And yet, I still came across one of these recently with vast amounts of absolutely radio active data in it.
Lol thanks for dumb take.
I wonder how proponents of this argument would feel if another industry was squarely in the hands of the right, like education. Let's say all the best educations were in private colleges and they didn't tolerate much in the way of left wing speech.

Everyone knows that 3 SV companies have a politically charged uber-monopoly that they are exploiting to silence the political enemies of the DNC and increasingly enemies of the CCP. Everyone.
Sounds like you've never worked with a good PM. A good PM knows the product and problem space extremely well, and guides the engineering team on what needs done. Yet at the same time sits back and lets the engineers devise the actual solution. They talk to all kinds of stakeholders, internally and externally, and build the roadmap. They know if an incoming bug is urgent enough to do right away, or how long it can wait. And they know which incoming feature requests should be done, which should be modified to fit a broader audience, and which are simply one-off bad ideas.

All that being said, there are engineering teams where the leads know all this and do all this. There are more engineering teams where the leads think they are good at this, but really just run all bugs and requests into the product in FIFO mode. The point is that somebody should be in this role of deciding what gets built through a deep understanding of the "why" of the product. A PM who does this job well brings a ton of value. A bad PM kills products and teams.

My advice is to care just as much about the quality of your PM as you do about your boss when making career decisions.
When I first discovered talk around "mindfullness" I at first cynically dismissed it as new age pap - but many of hte techniques for calming and focus do work. They don't work overnight - it takes practice and effort, but I have found it worth it.

Meditation/introspection in general is a good thing and something we don't value, especially in the days of constant notification bombardment from all our devices. That's why I'm really enjoying the new focus features Apple is building into all of their platforms with the recent betas. It's pretty presumptuous to assume everyone should be at our beck and call (and vice versa). Time to return to more asynchronous communication and reset expectations as a society!
It’s a 30 minute class and probably a no brainer for most people. Sometimes you have to take these for a fishing licenses or to ride a Jet Ski without a license. Hunter education courses are usually mandatory. In Florida you have to take certification course if you plan to Shark fish.
Looks like it does: “Students from Scotland are again the most positive, but there has been a statistically significant (6%) fall this year.”[1]

However fees are only paid by the government if a Scottish student (including those from elsewhere the EU, at least before Brexit) studies in Scotland; not if they study elsewhere in the UK.

[1] https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/student-academic-...
On the site all prompt variables end in "tput sgr0". I haven't seen that before. What does that do and why is it needed?
This is a spicy read, thank you for the link.

My favorite bit:

> It is often said that doctors are interfering monsters obsessed with disease and power, who will not be satisfied until they control every aspect of our lives (Journal of Social Science, pick a volume). [...] The widespread use of the parachute may just be another example of doctors' obsession with disease prevention and their misplaced belief in unproved technology to provide effective protection against occasional adverse events.
Coverage (let's say) of left-wing bias in the media has been a major part of right-wing media since at least the early 90s. Limbaugh, for instance, talked about it a lot back then (and I doubt he ever stopped—don't know why he would have), and if he wasn't receiving payment from the advertising department of Fox News, when they started up, he sure should have been (there was a lot of, "well, except Fox News" in his, ah, coverage of left-wing bias). The "the media hates conservatives" thing got his treatment where he acted like it was just a fact that he and his listeners, of course, knew to be true, sometimes calling out what he perceived as examples, but more often just stating it on the way to some other point. From what I've seen, the rest of right-wing punditry (I suppose you'd call it) picked up on this and took a similar approach to it.
What a lot of teams in my company do is have a less formal part (more like brainstorming) done with Quip (https://quip.com/) before having the more formal part in Amazon WorkDocs (https://aws.amazon.com/workdocs/... Disclaimer, I work for Amazon). Workdocs is a pretty good tool for versioning, commenting on and sharing Word documents, but it's not great for multiple people working on a document at the same time. Quip is great for multiple people working on a document at the same time, but doesn't really have any versioning mechanism.

For personal stuff, I use emacs org mode in a git repo. Org mode lets you define a hierarchical structure to the topic, hide the hierarchy that's not relevant to the part that you're focused on now, track what things you've done, and when relevant provide supporting information in spreadsheets embedded right there. Worth checking out.
Sounds like 'defund the police' is stupid, self-defeating sloganeering that makes no sense given what its apparent settled-upon meaning (only settled upon many months after becoming popular).
Wow, if that's all it takes to get published then I will start pushing put trash papers to pump my CV.
My Pentium from 1996 had a 133mhz processor and 8Mb of onboard EDO RAM (you could upgrade, but that’s what it came with). A 1994 machine would have been weaker, but still much stronger than PS hardware.

The PS was a specialized machine though. Don’t discount either the benefits of developing and optimizing for a single set of known hardware, rather than a wide wide array of PC hardware.
As a counter example, you can get a MSCS degree from Georgia Tech for under 10,000 dollars (total cost). GT is a top 10 CS program. Anyone in the world may apply. I expect more of this in the near future from other top programs.

Online, Cheap and Elite: https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018...
And if you make the incorrect commit in the moment -- or don't check with compliance, then a person is dead, you're on trial by the public; and possibly at risk for jail time.

[Addendum: And you're being promoted based on arrests, while sharing frustration with management about compliance, and likely seeing other cowboy coder style actions]
Democracy is said to be the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

However, I note that, from a democratic perspective, it appears that the broader public does not actually want a reduced police force, and this appears to be true across racial lines[1].

So, let us perhaps say, instead: democracy is the theory that the extremely-online elites and activists know what they want, and that the common people deserve to get it good and hard.

1 - https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-r...
> And the sacrifice would be to have nice glass containers like we use to have? How is that even a sacrifice?

The sacrifice is less consumption, due to prices rising because costs of using glass containers is more. See how pissed off people in the US get when gas prices rise.

When gas prices rise, people have to cut back on all consumption, and that pisses off the voting population like nothing else.
I bet it's even worse in the US.

For a decade+, people have framed "the college experience" as the reason you should attend instead of getting skills online or on your own. Then they promote their great facilities, beautiful campus, state of the art labs, etc.

When THAT is your main value prop and then suddenly take it away, what do you expect will happen?
Could you point me to a defi project that lets me borrow some crypto even if I have none in the first place?
Please be polite, this is not adding anything to the conversation.
A very good summary. I think it's important to factor in the comment from someone else around here that distinguishes between a degree and a university education. I think there's a market for a three-year back-to-basics course where you are doing rigorous self-study and small-group tutorials intensively for the whole time. Possibly Oxford and Cambridge still do that to some extent? Certainly it addresses all five of your points, including the one about propaganda (too much free time).
I'm sure that around half of UK university lecturers, admins, and senior management also believe the degree is poor value for money.

UK universities mostly exist to print money at the moment...

For many students, university is a 3-4 year government funded (student "loan") binge.
Excellent advice! If you want to know the meaning of a British slang phrase for a soft drink, seen in a British news article, definitely don't ask a British person. You probably want a Belgian for that.
Just curious, what benefit does google get by making it opt in? Do they hope that developers missed the message and profiting on the difference?
I wonder to what extent the M1 has been designed with thoughts towards vendor lock-in?
The issue is accountability. Police unions are much too strong, so the bad cops are reinstated even when they're on camera doing something heinous. How is the public supposed to feel about that?
the loan has a very low interest rate, you wont ever get another loan like this, and if you never earn above a certain limit you never have to pay it. its a very good thing. the degree costing 9k however is bullshit
It’s a fair question. I can’t speak for all trans women, but the impression I get is that many trans people would prefer to think of their transition as a medical issue to be managed back into the gender binary. You’ll probably get varying answers depending on just how far someone is in their transition.

This doesn’t come up often but I think cis folks aren’t aware that many trans folk “graduate” out of the community once they feel sufficiently transitioned. After a few years of hormones and surgery, many would just prefer to go on with their life — skipping the debates and games of political football.

Personally speaking, the concept of a third space wouldn’t be so bad, but making gendered spaces less necessary to begin with seems like a more realistic target. Historically, women were chained to their homes because of a lack of public restrooms. Why we didn’t opt for single-stalls and shared facilities is probably more to do with existing building codes and social norms, rather than a natural order of things.

This reply is getting a little too long, but I’d like to pass on the much wiser words of Kate Bornstein:

Then there's gender attribution, whereby we look at somehody and say, "that's a man," or "that's a woman." And this is important because the way we perceive another's gender affects the way we relate to that per­son. Gender attribution is the sneaky one. It's the one we do all the time without thinking about it; kinda like driving a sixteen-wheeler down a crowded highway...without thinking about it.
In this culture, gender attribution, like gender assignment, is phallo­ centric. That is, one is male until perceived otherwise. According to a study done by Kessler and McKenna, one can extrapolate that it would take the presence of roughly four female cues to outweigh the presence ofone male cue: one is assumed male until proven otherwise. That's one reason why many women today get "sirred" whereas very few men get called "ma'am."
That’s ok, we have “social response squads” now (or whatever they’re called). Those should be even better than police! So we are led to believe.

In reality this will just turn into private police/security forces for the rich, and go F yourself for everyone else. Austerity by another name. Mission accomplished.
Well, communism is heavily documented in history books.
What does "think" mean? A belief? Did each one sit-down and estimate future earnings with, without, and the opportunity costs of time and money?
My opinion of cops has changed as i've gotten older. I used to think they had nothing better to do but bother me, the youth, but in hindsight they have too much to do and are expected to always be on, alert, and accountable. Something that takes a lot of courage. I respect them more, especially after the extremely divisive events of the past 2-3 years, riots, attacks, etc.
I studied EE in Canada as well in the early 90s. My tuition was less than $2500/year but I had a scholarship that paid for it.

For me it was worth it. I immediately went into programming, and taught myself everything. While being useless for programming, my EE degree gave me a foot in the door and I made the most of it. I started in a bank in IT but was able to move into programming by lying and saying I was a full time programmer. I was doing programming on my own at home so I could legit program (they didn’t have interviews like Microsoft or Google back when I was starting off).

Soon after I moved to Silicon Valley and it’s been pretty good ever since. I’m mostly retired now after 25 years and the pandemic was the thing that convinced me into retirement.
Maybe they can try a really dangerous job next, like delivering pizzas.
> The only field McAfee has contributed to is wherever they bury his charred remains.

That's a ... tad harsh?
>” and see themselves more and more as activists changing the world...”

That is the main problem.

They no longer see themselves as a medium to disseminate events but rather shapers of opinions about events.

Like laughtracks for situational comedies, they see themselves as having a responsibility to tell people how to think of an event.

It’s like Pravda but worse. Pravda at least had the decency to not want to pit a population against itself.
This is great news. About a month ago a scofflaw drone pilot wiped out an entire generation of elegant terns: https://news.yahoo.com/generation-seabirds-wiped-drone-o-110...

More training and harsher penalties need to be proportional to the amount of damage recreational flyers can do.
> Apple customers place a high value on products that are simple, refined, innovative, and easy to use, and that’s what we want to see on the App Store. Coming up with a great design is up to you, but the following are minimum standards for approval to the App Store.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#des...
Dropbox,OneDrive, etc. If you want
You might want to use `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD` or `git name-rev --name-only HEAD` instead of `git branch`. Plumbing commands (such as rev-parse or name-ref) are generally more interface-stable to use in a script than porcelain commands (such as git branch) which are designed for interactive use where output may change depending on user environment and configuration.
How to 10x throughput when serving Hugging Face models without a GPU
Is that really a serious question? He wouldn’t be notable if not for those aspects of him that involve being “eccentric” or whatever you want to call it. A lot of software people take a dim view of anti-virus software.
What Was Elon Musk Smoking When He Chose Germany?
Another explanation of why Germany doesn't have silicon valley rivals?
Law enforcement can be dangerous but it's only #22 in occupational death rates. Lumberjacks and roofers are far more likely to get killed.

https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-j...
I've seen plenty of support here that Assange was not guilty of rape but not on the basis "he wasn't legally convicted" rather other reasoning. I.e. the opinion of guilty or not guilty is different but that's not what the line you quoted is talking about, it's just saying the lack of legal conviction is not the same thing as evidence they didn't do the crime (which seems consistent for both McAfee and Assange).
Imagine just doing your best to help your local community by building some online community notice board, only for a rabid horde to start picketing your house, shouting ALL PROGRAMMERS ARE BASTARDS!!!
I'm at the point where I instantly dismiss any "world" news that comes from the US. I'll simply wait for an independent source from another country to report on any such story.

I also hold the opinion on US political news that it is beyond the stage of a possible recovery without some dramatic changes to the fabric of the country itself. Every argument is wedged into an imaginary Team A vs Team B battle and it seems that to remain relevant as a publisher, you have to play that game. People feel personally attacked/validated by every article now because those are the most engaging and publishers will omit certain contexts and facts in any story to facilitate that emotional trigger.

Given that the journalism industry is energised by advertising and political propaganda, it has reached a point where it has become nothing more than an itchy wound that the public keep scratching.

The 24 hour news cycle isn't an issue in itself, but the power games combined with a dangerous economic model and all of the mass media manipulation on sites like reddit, are the core of the issues imo. Having the 24hr cycle (online, and on cable) just amplifies it all and makes it so omnipresent to the fact that despite the great efforts of dictators who put their picture in every place they can, I can bet that Trump managed to become a part of everyones daily life, and in a much more direct fashion, than any dictator could ever dream of, in the anglosphere during his term.
I read it and it didn't say this. It said that on average, data sows women in society have different aptitudes and interest in than men, so it is unreasonable to expect equal representation in swe at google.
How Orwellian /s
The article you linked has a poor understanding of what cryptocurrencies are. First, understand that cryptocurrencies are not just money or currencies. Crypto-assets are programmable and allow many different applications, it's not just limited to purchasing transactions. Realize that there may be many different types of crypto-assets. Some will allow voting & governance, some will have price-stabilizing incentives built in, some will be inflating and mimc fiat, while others will be programmed to mimic gold, some will be interest bearing, some will be non-fungible, some will be a mixture of various properties and incentives.

The term "cryptocurrencies" is really misleading.