skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The emperor really has no clothes on: your* degree really was a waste of money....

I mean... my degree is why I can work in the United States and has been (and will continue to be) worth an unbelievable amount of money.

More seriously though, a university education can be very valuable (we can measure the wage premium [1]), but the cost matters. A 4 year degree at in-state state school prices is almost always worth it (provided you graduate). It is difficult to tease out how much of the value is selection effects vs. signaling vs. credentialism vs. networking vs. exposure to challenge/opportunity vs. skills vs. knowledge vs. stepping stone to a professional degree (medicine/law/engineering/nursing). Thinking about my own experience, obviously the credential was a huge deal, but so was my school's co-op program that got me my first software jobs, and there are still classes that shaped the way I think to this day [2].

Where things go off the rails is when people think they can buy their way into the upper classes by getting a degree from a prestigious school (and spend way too much doing so), or people get snookered by for profit colleges or people who don't have a good chance of completing get pressured into going to a four year program and end up with the debt, but not the credential (you mostly don't get partial credit).

You could argue that the wage premium is just class discrimination through credentialism. Maybe it is... but then that's the thing that needs to be dismantled. As an individual if you have a good shot at finishing a 4 year degree and can afford it, you should probably play the game unless you happen to have much better options.

[1] Eg. $640/week median college vs. high school in Q4 2020: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/07/is-college-still-wor...

[2] The crash course in epistemology in my Evolutionary Biology class, the complementary rationalism of my Discrete Mathematics Course, the Econ 101 perspective from Introduction to Micro-Economics. Not to mention the tour of data-structures and algorithms from my Computer Science classes so I can do leet code interviews :). Maybe I could have picked the stuff up on my own, but would I have if I was working in a factory back home?
I'd be surprised if they somehow limited side-loading apks on a PC.
By reading this comment you agree to pay me 100$. Except that’s not how contracts work.

A website is easily capable of requiring users to accept an actual agreement to see the content, but simply adding it to HTML isn’t a contract any more than listing it in some TOS somewhere is.
Seamless interaction between phone and Windows is their mobile strategy. Windows 10 already did a lot in this direction, with the ability to link a phone, or to cast the phone screen onto a dedicated window. Allowing apps to run in Windows is a logical next step.

The other part of their mobile strategy are tablets or tablet-substitutes. Basically their whole Surface lineup, which Windows 11 aims to improve.
Ad targeting worked pretty well before the advent of mass digital surveillance. Every ad does not need a "personal" touch.

The diner across the street has paper placemats that are covered in ads - they don't print a personal and customized one for every customer that sits down. They have one placemat that has a wide variety of ads that appeal to the general customer base of the business.

That's basically how it worked on the early internet, too. The problem with early internet advertising wasn't how it was targeted - it was that the ads were damned annoying.
From wikipedia: Billionaire Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and current Facebook board member, paid $10 million to help finance lawsuits against Gawker Media, including the Bollea lawsuit. He called his financial support of Bollea's case "one of my greater philanthropic things that I've done."
If they're not getting prosecuted enough to make them stop adding middle men and reducing profit means they'll steal more cats to get their fix.
The propublica tax leak is monstrously fucked up and I'm constantly shocked at how little anyone seems to question the validity of using personal IRS records for reporting.
I doubt we (humans) can be respectful enough to each other in truly a global event where an individual partakes in the war room. What I'm thinking here is, and I admit a rather simplistic view ... here is the problem; here is how to observe/debug, submit what you think would be the solution. This would be reviewed/vetted.

Most likely school/college/university teams knowledgeable in the subject matter would be the "individuals".
See the United States “Occupational Injury and Illness Classification Manual” at https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/oiicm.pdf
I think there are more people who are happy with (or at least tolerant of) Windows 10 than some of us geeks might like to admit. A lot of non-techie people aren't going to run into the negative aspects of Windows 10 much in practice. They aren't going to be changing enough settings to be frustrated by the multiple UIs. They won't look up each OS update online before deciding whether to install it. Many of them care less about issues like privacy than we tend to and willingly hand over huge amounts of personal information to online services anyway. Some of them will get stung badly, and they'll receive the same half-sympathetic, half-contemptuous look their techie friends would give someone who chose a dictionary word as a password or who didn't back up their precious photo collection. Most of them won't get stung, and probably have no idea about any of these issues, and happily carry on with their lives worrying about things that are much more important to them.

That said, the same rise in online services that Microsoft seems to be betting on as a corporate strategy has made Windows increasingly expendable on the desktop. For day-to-day use, most techies I know are now on Linux or Apple desktops. A lot of non-technical users are fine with just their phone and maybe a tablet for everyday stuff now, and Apple laptops are popular with home users who are OK with the premium price. Windows laptops are seen as the cheap (in every sense) option, and I don't remember hearing anyone ever say they specifically wanted one. It's different in enterprise world, but in enterprise world the technical advantages of Windows 10 are more useful and most of the worst disadvantages don't apply.

I also think reports of Windows 7's demise are premature. It's obviously only a relatively small part of the desktop market now, but people are still using it for a variety of sensible reasons both at home and at work. I imagine they are more interested in being able to run whatever software or hardware is keeping them there than in lectures about security from people whose proposed alternative would disrupt their work and compromise their privacy by design anyway.
Astronomers work out when the first stars shone
It's the "we have to do something!!!" mentality driven by the piles and piles of cash Microsoft has just lying around.
I'm not an expert on Shiro, but there are a number of high level differences, e.g.,

- Shiro covers authorization, plus authentication, session mgt, etc. The Carta project is authorization only

- Shiro relies on external data to make authorization decisions. The Carta project stores that data internally

- Shiro is run as part of your app. The Carta project is run as a separate service

- Related: Shiro is specific to Java.
BofA customers can now sign-in and protect financial transfers with the YubiKey
> This might happen for post-Paypal Thiel. Definitely not pre. This is way easier said than done unless you have good access to deal flow (he does) and founders willing to pay for the privilege of having you as an investor vs. some random VC.

He purchased shares of PayPal at 0.001 when he first founded it using his Roth IRA, it's all explained in the article.

> You're not paying fractions of a penny per share for something that has a "good chance of one day exploding in value." This investment doesn't exist

That's where the article alludes to something maybe slightly fraudulent, for him to have his PayPal startup at the beginning sell shares to himself at 0.001$, as a special declared "employee discount rate".

He then managed to make 28 million in his Roth IRA from the IPO of PayPal which he paid no taxes on, because his private PayPal shares were all in the Roth IRA. Then he took that 28 million and reinvested it in Facebook, his Hedge Fund, his other startup Palantir and others, and those investment further did not get taxed, because the whole pool of money was all in the Roth IRA from this point on.
> that kind of identifying data is absolutely useless because you by yourself aren't worth anything from a data perspective.

I hate to get all Godwin's law on you, but you don't think, say, Jews in the 1930s might have had reason to worry about the business model of third-party analytics companies if they existed back then?
You're also not allowed to put ISOs or anything "earned" into a Roth IRA (or buy it from yourself).

The problem here is that this was clearly a prohibited transaction, but the IRS state of limitations is effectively 3 years for stuff like this (unless you have really pissed someone off). It's likely that by the time the stock was worth enough (in terms of 409A guesstimate) to look in to, or there was any kind of reportable transaction showing a gain, the time frame on investigating the initial transaction was long past.
It appears this transaction would invalidate the IRA under today's law because he was an officer of the company.

(Unclear whether the original law was written that way or whether this loophole was closed sometime after.)
He put the shares in when it was still a private company.
Thats not the right analogy. This would be more akin to selling your own bitcoins to yourself (into an IRA) for pennies on the dollar.
They also ate berries and even some of partially digested plants from the stomachs of some of the land animals they ate.
You really want the same people in charge of government websites (most recent memory: unemployment applications) to be in charge of facebook/google?
I did, but I'm not sure I have enough information to conclude if what was done should be illegal/allowed or not, since this is based on various sections of leaked documents, but it's quite possible some bad things were involved. (One may remark that turning small investments into the many billions quickly clearly is a sign that foul play was involved, but recall that his original 10% stake in FB would be worth almost $100B today in less than 20 years. I do think he sold most of the stake long ago, though.)
Teams is built in in Windows 11
"Code sharing is a bad idea."

What? He lost me there. While that fellow clearly knows a lot more about OOP than me, statements like that, which are not exactly self-evident and go against prior best practices ("don't repeat thyself") need to be justified, otherwise it just looks like just some other random dude's opinion piece.
Let's take a look at my salary history. I am a PhD, I didn't enter the Real World Job Market until 2001, when I was 28 (others in my cohort went straight from college to SWE, while I spent 10 years just doing research).

2001: SWE at UCSF, making about $75K/yr. This is roughly triple my graduate student salary and higher than my postdoc salary.
2007: Architect at Genentech. Make about $100K/year
2008: Join Google as L5 with a starting bonus of $25K, $125K salary, and about $100K in stock options. Stock options are refreshed every year. One year, Eric Schmidt gives everybody a 10% raise. I get promoted once.
2019: leave to work at a startup for a year, same base pay as Google, and stock grants that are now worth $1M but aren't fungible.
2021: Leave Google as L6 with base pay of $225K, 15% bonus target (which I get), a $45K annual bonus, and $700K stock vesting over four years. I count this as "around $450K/year total comp" before taxes etc.

If I had managed 2012-2016 better, I'd be an L7 or more, making about $550K/year total comp. However, these are all exceptional situations made possible by the insanity that is Google.
He litteraly got a TATTOO to say he wouldn't never do this. And do you really think he would kill himself without posting a last tweet? He is either still alive and escaped out of jail, or murdered.
The intent of ProPublica's entire series of articles is to imply that wealthy Americans are immorally building their wealth. They are taking advantage of the fact that the public doesn't have basic financial literacy to turn the public against wealthy Americans and some of our most important systems in America (Entrepreneurship, Joint-stock companies, etc).

Thiel bought a lotto ticket in his Roth IRA, after which he invested the earnings into other high-risk ventures which also worked out.
What do you mean by meme activism and meme war?
Arm CCA – confidential compute architecture
> He purchased shares of his own startup at 0.001 cents, way below market rate.

Source?
Why is it not a risk on MacOS?

Answer: the MacOS customer base expects a computer they can run stuff on, and would not tolerate it without defecting.
Except for one small detail, they appear not to support the latest Surface Go 2 tablet! According to the PC Health Check tool, my maxed out Microsoft Surface Go 2 that I bought new a few months ago (with 8GB RAM, 64-bit Intel core m3 processor) is NOT supported to upgrade to Windows 11. Wow. Their system requirements tool also doesn't say why my tablet doesn't meet the requirements, just that it doesn't.
They existed for other applications, like NetApp and the ZFS Appliance. Long, long before 2009.
Windows 11’s news feed has built-in tipping to support local content creators
I realized after the fact that I have been contributing above my income level - I was sort of aware I might have been out of the range but I never paid attention. The screens are nagging you about being at $0 contributions.
No, it's more like mandating map companies do not even list certain addresses in an effort to thwart freight companies from servicing them. A DNS resolver like Quad9 just provides the addresses. There's no allegation here that any infringing content was served by or delivered through Quad9.
"Google FUNDED virus research carried out by Wuhan-linked scientist Peter Daszak for over a decade, new report reveals, amid accusations Big Tech has silenced COVID lab leak theory"

If this is true now you know why Google has pushed so hard on controlling any information around it.
I'm guessing somebody high up in sales is thinking "hey, we're Microsoft -- we're gonna dictate how this is going to go because people aren't going to want to be without the latest version of Windows!"

Smells like Classic Redmond Hubris.
This is how "civilized" governments kill people they don't like slowly and legally: invent a crime and delay, delay, delay.
There’s quite a few impressive fellows. Founder of Figma is probably one you’ve heard about.
>I'd like to think that, but I am not sure if that's actually true.

It's hard to get real numbers, for sure. There's counts based on what the server shipped with, when those used to be bundled, which favors Windows. And there's counts of active servers on the internet, which favors Unix-like. Both counts are fundamentally flawed for various reasons.

I did, though, get a chuckle out of Microsoft's slide that showed more Linux instances than Windows ones on Azure: https://build5nines.com/linux-is-most-used-os-in-microsoft-a...
> The kids are too dumb to be corrupted by this book!

Or Joyce is just that impenetrable. Have you seen Finnegans Wake?
As a result of these discoveries, the US will be starting their own investigation into similar institutions: https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/us-boarding-schools-to-b...
*removed for being rude

> Attracting public attention is not theft of attention.

Yes it is; you don't have the consent of the public to have it; it is ergo theft. And indicative of an entitled mindset worryingly common in other malicious groups.
Please don't take HN threads further into cheap ideological flamewar. It's predictable, boring, and nasty, regardless of what you're flaming for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, 2K over 10 years, for 15$ a month. Not worth keeping that going, given the expectations.. $100 for a feature does not make sense for me.

I am on GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/aardappel) but really only use that if you feel very strongly about it, since it is never going to compete with my day job. Getting people on patreon etc also requires a lot of "marketing" I don't have time for.

There's not a ton of examples of the scripting functionality yet, but here's one: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/blob/master/TS/scrip... and the reference (view file locally, sorry): https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/blob/master/TS/docs/... Beyond that you'd need to check out the language site to learn more on how to use it :)
Stealing Data with CSS (2018)
I've only ever seen gaming mobos with those 14-pin TPM connectors and no module. There's also really no reason to use a TPM module, as far as I can tell.
Generally agree; I mention it since from my point of view, I would have spent most of the article criticizing the rules and policies politically and finding ways to improve them, rather than constantly going on about the personal lives of some that have exploited them (although it does seem like it cannot be helped sometimes).
US boarding schools to be investigated
FWIW, this is exactly what we do at EthicalAds. You can read a bit more about it here: https://www.ethicalads.io/advertising-vision/#how-our-ads-wo... -- but we should really have a better page explaining how we're doing content-based targeting. Our advertiser find it works really well, and our publishers enjoy having tasteful, reverent ads on their sites.
Avoid Hidden Complexity
Also 8.8.8.8
Weird Dailymail-as-MSN story...
Do you have any information about what problems this is expected to solve?
That's how they get you. First you sideload one app, you think you can stop with just one, then next thing you know you've got F-Droid on your phone, your sideloading left and right. Then before you know it, all your money now belongs to a Nigerian Prince and hackers are ransomwaring your grandma.

Yeah kids sideloading might seem fun, but it's a gateway to disaster. Just say No to sideloading.
Switzerland isn't in the EU. In this case it is a separate treaty which allows it.
My sense of smell is just really weak. I can barely even detect the smell. I’ve never smelled a strong flower and I run a home garden.

I’ve done wine tastings and what not as well and I can’t really tell apart anything.

It’s funny because people say I’m a good cook but I bet I overload my dishes with spices more than I need to.
They don’t have support to export to consoles afaik but for a pc game it should be enough. I’ve tried some tutorials in the past with success and enjoyment but I’m in the process of learning gamedev myself
I’m not taking about Availability of iOS App in the MacOS App Store that devs can opt in and out of. I’m talking explicitly about side loading iOS/iPadOS apps to MacOS. This was possible when M1 apps were released and then explicitly blocked by Apple after an update.
Totally recommend it too. There are a few things that I don't like on Mac, but overall, works really well. And you can have a local account
1. Thiel was not rich when he did this. He was 32 with $2K tucked away in a Roth, maybe more in a standard IRA.

2. What he did was in no way illegal. He did not cheat the system. The IRS would have come down on him with a hammer already, and they haven't managed to figure out how to do it for the last decade.
> ”Games”: hard to say, because Windows is a better platform for games than Android by 10x.

Note that there are quite a few commercial "Android on PC" emulators already, e.g. https://www.memuplay.com/, https://www.bluestacks.com/ and https://www.bignox.com/.

In terms of scale, Bluestacks claim they have 50 million monthly active users which makes them pretty substantial! From https://www.bluestacks.com/promote-your-game.html. Overall mobile gaming revenue is now larger than console gaming and more than 2x PC gaming, and rapidly growing (https://scaletech.medium.com/mobile-gaming-statistics-trends...). Android gaming is a much bigger market than you'd imagine, especially for the younger generation.

> hard to see how it competes with the median user getting an iPhone

> This is the case with the consumer in China, where ... the iPhone is still preferred by those who can afford it

I think you're seriously overestimating how popular iPhones are, even to users who can afford them. Especially if you're looking at Windows users, Android is hugely dominant outside the US.

In China for example, iOS market share is actually constant around 20% or maybe slightly declining over the last decade (https://www.statista.com/statistics/262176/market-share-held...) despite the huge increase in average purchasing power, which makes it seem unlikely that the only thing holding people in China back from them is the price.

Globally, Android is at 70% of devices (https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide) even in relatively wealth areas like the EU. iOS is primarily popular in the USA (where it's about 60% of devices). I suspect iOS and Mac usage are fairly closely correlated, so the Android percentage goes up substantially if you're only looking at Windows users. I think Android integration actually makes a lot of sense for Microsoft!
Built in Teams in Windows 11, sounds like new anti trust is coming.
App Store is defended by Apple due to Antitrust Debates
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27581343
You'd call either.

Just like if there is other suspected illegal activity, you contact the branch of gov't that handles it and not involve yourself. If you see someone speeding, it's not legal to speed to catch them. You call the cops and let them deal with it.

Personally I don't see this working at all, or at least won't have much of an effect. Most drone pilots aren't sitting there for hours in the same place waiting to get caught, especially if they are knowingly doing something bad. They usually fly for 15-30 minutes and go somewhere else. By the time the cops/faa get to you, the drone, pilot and all their "remote id" data are long gone. In a lot of major US cities, cops aren't even responding to anything but the most serious of crimes due to budget cuts and personnel shortages. I don't see how they will even have the time to follow up given the list of priorities they have, maybe unless the report included a weapon mounted on the drone (which has happened). And people intent on breaking the law just won't register or get a drone with Remote ID anyway. They'd build their own (it's a fun hobby and how all this drone stuff got started to begin with - the first ones just used arduinos with appropriate sensors [see ardupilot project]) or use some of the millions already in existence built in the last 15 years that don't have the capability.
I'm not sure I understand this. Humor generally doesn't "contribute to a discussion"—it's purely that, humorous. I'm not sure how OP's comment contributes any less than any other joke one could have made.
Proof-of-stake (rather than the more energy intensive proof-of-work).

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/proof-stake-pos.asp
If you don't have access to a college counselor or someone doing a similar job, that is still an opportunity you don't have.

The internet helps as long as you have something to look for. If you don't know you are lacking knowledge/information, the the internet isn't going to help you find it.
Most app developers rarely visit Play Console once their app is published. Either they aren't making updates, or they are a larger operation and use the API to deploy. Unfortunately many of them also don't notice Play developer emails because they get in the habit of ignoring them. In some ways Google I/O and the press are vital in getting the word out to devs about important changes.

Source: Worked at Play on developer tooling.