skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine how this would change if they were paying $100k+ for their degree in the USA.
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"top 20% or so of the population, those that are employed by and control all the American mega corporations"

Dont the top 2% that actually own these corporation control them?
> plastic bags are an extra charge (at least where I shop), it costs just a tiny bit extra to get nice reusable ones or bring your own - you can return most other single use plastics — like bottled water — and get your money back.

All of this is true of where I live in the US, though the 'return single use plastics for money' is fairly specific to beverage containers. And the single use plastic bags are banned outright. Most grocery stores provide paper bags, and charge a fee.

They probably need to bump the fee for bags a bit higher, though. We tried doing the reusable bag thing, but as of yet we haven't successfully built the habit of bringing old bags back to the store, so we just end up buying the paper bags every time. It's something like 5 cents a bag, which is so little that it doesn't inspire.
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Yes feel free to email selma.griggs at outlook dot com

Thanks!
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This is a good thing! I go to my home country and the media is just as bad but nobody seems to notice.
Invent multiway video calling 150 years ago, of course.
>oversight thats not commercially or politically biased

My firm belief is that that is impossible.
> Might it be for the better? More honest and real world feel? No?

Nope, it'd be a shithole of the worst of the internet; advertisers would stay well away, ISPs would ban it, and it would quickly go away.

Nobody wants "true" freedom. I mean Reddit tried to be a bastion of free speech and had to rein it wayyy back in, first with hate subreddits, then more recently delisting NSFW subreddits, making them much harder to discover - instead of creating filters or adding additional ways to specify why something is not safe for work.

Parler likes to pretend it's a bastion of free speech, but it actively bans any LGBTQ+ content and had to start moderating or be deplatformed by the likes of Apple, Google, and their hosting party.
With Windows 11, Microsoft can tackle its lengthy to-do list
> 8. A can of full fat cola 14%

WTF is this English people?
Climate change anxiety: Young people 'feel hopeless'
I spent a significant amount of my career working on opinionated software (Cloud Foundry), which still is used by larger companies to give devs a Heroku-like experience on their own clouds, that was steamrolled in the market by unopinionated, rather complicated, “one framework to rule them all” software (Kubernetes), which isn’t even directly targeted at the same problem space, it’s a more of an elegant set of lower level building blocks.

15 years ago, the opposite happened: working on unopinionated, complicated Java Enterprise Edition and app servers, that got partially steamrolled by Ruby On Rails (opinionated). That didn’t quite last in wide popularity but for a moment it was huge, and led to good reactions in the Java community like Spring Boot.

The moral of the story is that the market wants what it wants when it comes to “platform” software, or software that you use to help build other software: sometimes it’s opinionated software (like Apple and iOS), other times it is relatively unopinionated (like Android). It almost always is a fight between camps. There are many factors at play, not only developer desire: what outcomes does this software lead to, and who does it benefit? What new problems does the software create? These all have an impact on the reaction in the broader market.
As in most countries in Europe, the value of a university degree is diminishing because the vast majority of population has it. 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.

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I still remember how not so long time ago it wasn't uncommon to have masters as a bare minimum when hiring a secretary in my country...
In my jurisdiction annulment is certainly not a legal reality. Canon law has not been of any legal importance since the separation of church and state.

I do see now that some countries achieved the latter by importing some church laws into their legal system, so I suppose that's how in some western countries annulment is indeed still a reality. Amazing!
Thanks, yes I guess it was a consequence of something about the network I was on.
This looks great- much needed!
I wonder if this includes the Scottish students who get it for free?
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I mean “permanent” in a general sense. It varies by manufacturer. For most common cars, manufacturers put the VIN on a few places on the frame of the vehicle.
The silver lining: people recognize that the move from traditional to online journalism has created echo chambers that leave the public unsatisfied. Even though we're being fed what reinforces our view we realize it's not what we want, the article states that this is true for partisans as well.

Hopefully at least some news organizations will figure out a better path, I'm sure we won't go back to the old days but the fact that the younger demographic has pretty much left news media behind means that that generation will have to figure out something more balanced.
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I haven't looked into it in detail but I would be very surprised if this process was as simple as melting down some stolen lead flashing, surely it isn't the kind of thing you can do with a camping stove and an old pot?

There must be limited facilities with the ability to extract and purify the rhodium content.
Why do people use spreadsheets?

Because they are by far and away the best tooling they have readily available to them.

That's not a failing of the users - that's the failing of "IT" to provide tooling thats better suited and also more accessible. I'm sure many are quick to offer up a bunch of excuses or justifications for why that is - you know what? It's still a failing.

Want people to stop stuffing everything into spreadsheets? Provide them better alternatives! I'm so sick of reading the majority of technology press or sites like this one with their overt navel gazing, focusing on tech for the sake of technology. Look at the man years jettisoned into the ether as everyone rushes off chasing after the latest trending tooling or language instead of using "boring" tooling to get actual work done.

Where's the discussion about how this technology is actual moving society forward? It's easy to take pot shots and call people stupid for abusing spreadsheets - I would argue the pot shots shouldn't be lobbed at the spreadsheet users but the whole "computer science" discipline that is anything but disciplined or scientific in it's approach.

The more I see crap like this bandied about, even though I am loathe to see yet more government regulation maybe there is serious considerations that need to be made towards equating software development more along the lines of professional engineering. After all the whole premise of this bombastic piece is that lives were lost. Maybe if technologists had a bit more rigor and customer focus instead of chasing technology for technologies sake stuff like this wouldn't be so prevalent?
==The people who are more financially stable and on the same page seem to have the easiest time. ==

How does this square with people getting unsuccessful treatments? Wouldn't you have to be pretty financially stable and "on the same page" to afford fertility treatments?
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For mindstorms, I always found NXC more intuitive than using the blocks. And that was even before I properly learned how to program.
Colleges want students to get a vaccine. But they’re split on requiring shots
That is a good point, and generally they want as many paths/redundancies as possible. The DoD has its own molniya orbit satellites, quite recently launched, but capacity is limited.
XMind is no longer open source. another option is kitty and the accompanying vscode extension.
https://archive.ph/5T2I6#selection-539.0-539.94
Even if you renounce citizenship, you still pay exit taxes..
This reminds me quite a lot of the typical smalltalk editor window.
Move the hands on the crypto doomsday clock a bit closer to midnight I suppose. Douglas Adams tried to warn us: "[to] revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and ...er, burn down all the forests." https://benoitessiambre.com/specter.html
> In order to partake in give and take, you have to have something to give.

Are you going to start doing so, or are you just going to go on as you have so far?
Here's a few jobs that are OK:

- Shovelling shit all day

- Listening to and dealing with other peoples traumatic experiences

- Lying to people (this is really a whole lot of jobs)

- Making sure locked-up people don't escape, using violence if "necessary"

- Driving around with so few chances to take a break that one has to pee in a bottle

- Working several shifts in a row saving life

- Shooting people for a living

- Bombing people for a living

- Deciding who gets shot and/or bombed

All of these are perfectly okay, according to society, yet getting laid is somehow "spychologically damaging" to the point where the decision cannot be even left to the individual? In what world does this make any sense?

Let's ban sewers, therapy, all borderline-scammy business models, prisons, delivery drivers, hospitals, wars (3 times) first, then we can talk about telling people how bad it is for them to have sex for money.
Oh, I'm sorry. I've totally wrong for a while then. Yes, written in C, 97.5% C.

https://github.com/swaywm/sway
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Perhaps the point was never to educate, but to differentiate. Peeling off the top 10% has it's own value.
The question was why is there no meaningful competition in app stores - not sure how charging more for the product would cause there to be more app stores for that product?
Full sugar (no saccharine), likely comes from the types of milk on sale in the UK, full-fat, semi-skimmed, skimmed.
Congrats! Seems like a neat project. I just skimmed through the article and saw "it tries to be cheap". Maybe you can evaluate whether ultra-cheap steppers can give you acceptable results. They cost around 1/10 compared to the kind you're using. They are a lot slower and have less torque, but probably could give similar results.

Good luck and thanks for sharing this!
I got an advice from a renowned psychiatrist to avoid naps at all cost. He was the fan of sleep fuel theory, where if you nap during the day, you'll lose sleep fuel and won't be able to have fully restorative sleep at night.
It is important to pick a time in the morning and always wake up at that time no matter what. After a few weeks you'll get your sleep pattern right and won't need any naps etc.
I kind of like my gray hairs.

I first noticed them (and assumed they were from stress) the summer after high school -- back then, it was a single, stark-white hair that popped up. I was certainly stressed in undergrad and then grad school, but I didn't feel horribly so while going through it, though I do have more than one now. :)

I understand the vanity aspect of dying them away, but that never resonated with me -- it seems like one of the few dignified parts of aging.
I did my masters in journalism in 2015... you have no idea how right you are. It was more or less a masters in blogging about your feelings on a topic you just heard about.
One would hope that most students (certainly the median one) think of it as value-generative for them, and for only the students seeing the least value as break-even (otherwise one shouldn't go to uni)
In other news, a company selling a GDPR compliance service is trying to scare companies into buying their service. Shocking to see!

In reality, a US business with no EU presence only has to follow US laws. The only "enforcement" power the EU has would be to order the website to be blocked in the EU, and I'm pretty sure they can't even do that.
if you want complexity, you really want hypergraphs. ;)
My degree has nothing to do with my career. I value the experience and learned a lot, but don't think it was good value for money.
amazing. does something similar exist for ZSH?
You can practice until the nerves are gone. I've been doing Leetcode weekly competitions, after a while it's just another timed coding challenge.

I've noticed training cardio helps me handle anxiety better, both because I can better handle the physical effects when they arise, and the training itself removes anxiety I'm feeling at that moment.
My hair started turning gray after COVID infection, I’m 34.
75% of those who identify as being on the right thought coverage of their views is unfair.

This is interesting given how many local news outlets are owned by the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group.

I guess it doesn't help when they run segments like this, sowing more distrust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI
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Well that explains why I get random white hair on some occasions and seems to go away I was thinking I was getting really old but I am already old and was expecting my hair to turn white.
Yes but they survive and don’t go bankrupt.

USA is the only developed country with a falling life expectancy.
That looks extremely nice. Hexagonal too!
Ah I should be more specific: urban areas in those countries. The level of petty crime in any major city in the US is far higher than any city in those countries I mentioned.

In non-urban areas in the US things are better for sure, but you still have to deal with other things like having complete asshole neighbors that you really can't do anything about because small quality of life crimes like partying every night with loud music is not a crime.

If you move to rural areas this goes down even further, but then you give up a lot of amenities.
I'm not sure about this, I've found the longer you have to do something the better - if you have 4 things todo in a month then spending a week on each in turn isn't the best way.

Get one started but think about/research/explore/plan/design/start the other three - keep an eye on how much time you have left but when you get stuck/bored/want a change work on something else.

If I've completed something hard and feel good about it, a while before I want to stop work for the day I'll move on to something easier - so I leave my laptop feeling good and not knee deep in the next hard problem.
Those weren't even fully-compatible PCs though, were they? If I remember correctly, the really popular ones were 80186-based.
Protip: do not ask Brits any tips regarding food. That's a millennium of experience talking.

- the rest of Europe.
uk student debt isnt real debt. it functions more as a tax where the middle class pay more overall than the poor or the rich.
Many plans are highly punitive towards smokers; it's not a huge leap to imagine something new becoming the Sin Of The Week.
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When you make a bold claim that "Education does not significantly improve outcomes. Period." and correlations with every positive outcome are very high - the burden is on you to prove a non-causal link, not me.

But of course, proving causation is near impossible. So people love to make bold claims with no data and just say "prove me".
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Mine was terrible value for money. Went to a red brick in the UK and studied electrical engineering in the early 90s. My first job on the market was a start from scratch experience. I learned almost nothing of value at university and my personal experience as a hobbyist was far more useful. Turns out 95% of EE work is gluing bits of data sheets together and scratching head over problems where the idealistic mathematical models don’t work out. I found this depressing and ended up slipping out the side into the IT industry which was full of charlatans which were easy to get an advantage over.

My only saving grace was it was free at the time. If I’d had a (larger) pile of debt placed in front of me I’d have done something else with my life.
“A decade since”

Its been known since Flory Higgins back in the 1940s, and DeGennes completed the understanding in the 70s: the crux of the problem is melted plastics dont mix.

If anything in the last few decades methods for recycling plastic have been investigated fairly successfully. But they’re either expensive (sort plastic, return to feedstock), or have image problems (burn in thermal plants, turn into diesel).
In the USA, the Stored Communication Act lets law enforcement pull call records without a warrant, if that's what you were asking?
Yet another case of big tech applying the letter of their law over the spirit of their law.

People who have disappeared can't exactly be harassed as a result of a YouTube video...
So Marvin Minsky got a HN black bar and it was revealed that he was part of Epstein's....

Well you can fill in the blanks.

I think at that point, no one should get a HN black bar since it is an empty gesture.
A picture is PII.

I doubt they would take down pictures of the Jan rioters just because PII.

If that’s not the case, I will admit they are being pedantically consistent but socially irresponsible for erasing evidence of systemic and illegal harassment and imprisonment of their own people.
I’ve heard so many times that ideas are not all that scarce in business — that ideas are everywhere, and that execution is the true differentiator that can make an entrepreneur successful.

There is no shortage of talented, capable people in organizations, who could dream up and lead the next profitable line of the business. The challenge is empowering and encouraging those people in organizations with top-down structures and constraining, predefined success metrics for employees’ managers. It follows that making more ideas (by chance meetings or what have you) is not going to help if the bottleneck is the organization’s enthusiasm to support the ideas that happen.

Perhaps randomly bumping into an executive is the traditional avenue for an individual contributor to get their ideas to the decision maker with the ability to help them? I’d argue that a direct instant message to that executive is much more efficient.
The article says some universities - taking into account living costs - are £20,000 a year, so yes a four year course would be above $100k. Given that UK salaries are so much lower than the US (the average graduate salary is £24k vs $50k in the US), I'd say UK degrees are worse value than the US.
This is just to build a national database of drone users right?
Not to put down carbon emissions, but microplastic pollution is a much much much worse problem to have

I'd rather not eat a credit card every year.

And the sacrifice would be to have nice glass containers like we use to have? How is that even a sacrifice?

The fact that governments and the media talk only about carbon emission (without doing much, if I can add - they gave plenty of time to the oil titans to diversify their investments) and don't do anything for plastic is already telling you which industry owns your governments.
> 3) They are probably going to be forced to do stuff like this anyway in compliance with local government rules, so there isn't much they can practically do.

Isn't YouTube banned in China? What "local government rules" are you thinking of, specifically?
>Any sage advice?

Probably more than you want haha.

We adopted domestically via a local agency. Our first 3 were adopted at birth, and our youngest was in and out of foster care for 5 months before his mother decided to make an adoption plan. This route is more costly than going through foster care (which can be more or less free), but much less than what some of our friends ended up paying to adopt internationally.

I would personally advise anyone adopting in the US to investigate what kind of special needs support (whether it be through Title IV-E or other programs) is available. MANY of these children have latent (if not immediate) mental health issues stemming from substance abuse (especially alcohol) that isn't always apparent at birth.

Our 12 year old struggles immensely with any kind of abstract way of thinking (including most mathematics), and our 9 year old only learned to read last year really. Neither are classified as special needs, but they really should be. The psychiatric and therapeutic care they require can be expensive, even just for reaching a diagnosis.

By the time we adopted our younger two we became a bit wiser and had them evaluated at birth. They're both classified as special needs under Title IV-E, which grants them free medical care (including things like speech/cognitive/occupational therapy and corrective surgeries, all of which we've used multiple times).
Apple also supports much older iPhones which are not premium price anymore. In the other hand Google itself sells premium device line (pixel). I don't think your generalisation carries a strong point.
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Honestly, I wouldn't mind some form of content moderation. But I'd prefer some honesty and objectivity in the enforcement.

I've had a couple of accounts banned from social media (one on Twitter, one on YouTube). In both cases, I had no idea what policy I had supposedly violated until after I appealed, which is less transparent than a Soviet show trial. In the case of YouTube, the appeal itself got stuck in limbo, and someone at Google briefly locked my main account (rather than the "brand account" sub-account associated with the channel). The thought of having all email since 2004, my family's TV service and my domain names all ripped away from me for arbitrary, capricious and clumsy enforcement of vague policies was like an ice bath.

I've migrated most of my stuff away from Google now, or at least have accounts I don't care about losing.
> make sense

I don't personally run requests like this through an internal filter to figure out whether or not I agree with them or whether they make sense to me. To your point of titles:

> But a personalized pronoun is like someone informing you that they identify as a doctor, even though they have no degree, and you must therefore address them as Dr.

I don't think I've ever looked up someone's PHD after they asked me to call them doctor. I just do it, it's no skin off of my back. If I find out that they're not a doctor later, I might think that's kind of weird, but I'm probably not going to fight them over it.

Same if someone says they got married, or if they're getting married and keeping their last name, or if someone gives me a pronunciation of their name that doesn't match phonetically with how it's spelled. I don't really know that I have a validation criteria for any of those things, I don't think I've ever needed one.

I guess I can theoretically think of examples where it would be an issue, but I've never personally encountered them, and I don't think xe/xim rises to that level. Memorizing xe/xim isn't any harder to me than memorizing how a name is pronounced.
The voting process in India has excellent coverage of rural areas.
Perhaps those in the media will reflect on this and make an effort to be more trustworthy.
It does mention a Bloody Mary about halfway down the list.
I don't follow Apple news as I don't own or buy Apple products.
While I wholeheartedly agree, this is for the poor Britons, who know not the delights of Żurek! (available at your local Tesco's - you're welcome!).

Also, Full English is pretty damn good too...