skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But people seem to be blind to this very dark side of the Saudi leadership. He lets women drive. So that means he's an open minded liberal. What about every other country in the world where women have been allowed to drive since forever?

It's not by accident. After some increased scrutiny after 9/11, the Gulf oil states, Saudi being the most prominent, largely left the general public's awareness.

Meanwhile, they started heavily investing in and marketing themselves as a technologically forward societies.

They paid for many academics worldwide handsomely to move their research to satellite universities in the region, getting a foothold among intellectual elites.

They created world class luxury airlines promoted by the most expensive western celebrity endorsements, gaining a foothold among upwardly mobile international travelers.

This re-branding culminated with the much publicized, elaborate and warm Saudi reception of the previous US administration in the country, and the 2018 publishing of "The New Kingdom" magazine by the publisher of the National Enquirer (https://www.insider.com/inside-the-american-media-magazine-t...), which was Saudi-royal-family propaganda targeted at common Americans in the grocery checkout aisle.

This had the effect of normalizing the image of these regimes among the general public while papering over their history of repression of human rights at home and financing of religious and ethnic conflicts abroad.
How do you plead guilty and not get convicted? I'm not arguing - I genuinely don't understand.
I tried playing around with it and I didn't find the information that OP was posting. The closest I could find was the median salary per graduating degree / median amount of debt per degree
The best college teachers are he really grad students / postdocs with social skills / the personality for teaching.
They are still fresh on the material, energetic, and know some of the applications.
One of the main definitions of "progress" is "gradual betterment", which is yes definitely morally right.
This makes sense. I've done some code golf challenges but never fell into the culture. Anywhere in computer science that there is a culture, development of culturally specific tools comes into play. Perhaps I commented too quickly as an outsider, but perhaps @singlow is also correct that the title needs a bit more explanation. I thought I was going to get either jealous or sweet treats from a github repo
Agree in regards to sitting feeling weird at some point. Work from home has been great because I can take meetings on my iPhone while walking and also do a lot of dictation…
Dumb question (and actually a question, I’m not trying to JAQ here) - wouldn’t that make the dominant strategy for many to as quickly as possible declare bankruptcy upon graduation? Sure it would make it way harder to buy a house in the future… but many are resigned to renting forever anyways.

Also wouldn’t this make it very hard for the poor to ever get student loans?
The real problem with so few making it to a career is that the debt will never be repaid. This increases costs for borrowers who will pay back their loans. In the end we all pay the price for this so such schools should be privately funded instead.
Okay, so the school promised them success, but at what point is the student responsible for their own credulity? I can't name 55 working directors or screenwriters. If the entire high level staff of every movie and show I've watched in the past year retired, I'm not sure that would create enough openings. And there's other schools. And other classes. And not every one retires.
I just can't understand how someone can go through 4 years of intensive training, and not once do a google search on starting salaries in their major.

Heck, in my day, long before the intertoobs, a common topic among students was starting salaries for the various majors. It was well known, for example, that you couldn't get a job in AY. The AY students would do a double major - AY for fun, the other for money.
deaths from heat exposure have increased by 0.21 percent since 2000, while deaths from colder temperatures have decreased by 0.51 percent.

It's currently at 4.5 million from cold and 0.5 million from heat, so this means that deaths from abnormal temperatures are down overall, right?
Anecdotally, it's pretty much the most common major among top software engineers after CS and Applied Math.
> To evaluate Form Recognizer, I split the data randomly into 26 training documents and 25 test documents.

Training on just 26 documents seems woefully inadequate. I'm not a data scientist and have only cursory exposure to ML, but I'm not surprised to see terrible results with such a small training set.
I love webhooks!

I recently had to work with an api to integrate a card reader terminal. The system was intended to work with an on premise pos so it was oriented around events sent back and forth over a websocket. Only one was allowed per restaurant.

In the end, I had to build a distributed cluster that managed a pool of processes that each spun up a websocket connection and relayed it to our pubsub system. Luckily I built out system in elixir so it was pretty easy to spin up hoarde but this would have been extremely difficult in any other language.

By contrast, a webhook is easy to scale from ANY language. Just make a http endpoint. Those are way easier to scale than a stateful process.
Not being able to replay a webhook event is an issue with the publisher of the webhook. not a consumption issue.
I've never heard of it myself. But ZeroMQ I've seen used for a few projects (anecdotally)
A lot of digital audio applications just do programmable gain in the digital domain. My main rig extends samples to 42 bits and attenuates in the digital domain, then dithers to 32 bits for the analog conversion.
Muraki's case is most notorious one.

https://www.nippon.com/en/people/e00156/railroaded-one-woman...
It's definitely not guaranteed income (the competition is stiff if you're not on top of your field).

But it's an option.
I don't really see this as a hill I'm dying on. More than half my friends are not taking it. My work doesn't care. I don't live in a dystopian city with vaxxine passports. My life, actually, has not been negatively affected at all by not taking this shot, other than the internet ridicule. So I don't really agree with your argument; it's not like I'm ruining myself.
And haven’t had their hope and will ground down by the academic system yet.
My friend just left as a prof there. Things might be challenging moving forward if they can’t leverage that brand value with overseas folks…
If you're going to do that you might as well remove federal backing for student loans. Otherwise it turns into a handout program disguised as "loans", but it wrecks the students' credit in the process.
Many of the things on this list seem very common to me. As such, it seems the strategems don't make someone look like a total nut job, or... the pool of rational observers is smaller than rational observers think.

Definitely make enemies and lose friends, but based on my experience, also make some other friends and gain other allies.
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> they appear to have legit elections

You might want to research this point more deeply.
You're completely right, that's why I said basically. I suspect median salary is a decent way of answering what's behind most of their questions.

Edit: End up using their degree is also poorly defined, although the bureau of labor statistics measures something similar with underemployment.
While an awful situation, I couldn’t help but laugh very much at how ridiculous it is. Thanks for this comment.
Ok?

Are you saying that's a good thing or a bad thing?
There is no working around Amdahls law unless you redesign your app.
Govt funding of a student's degree in proportion to the need for that skillset. We need it.

China does something similar to this-- essentially preventing swaths of the population from getting useless degrees.
Why would they hide 69? It’s the best number
If we define 'progressive' as wanting to make the world a better place, then yes, yes it is.

The more interesting question is why would anyone be against that?
Never forget the bullies and what they put Uzi Nissan through (Nissan.com), he still kept the domain. Never buy a Nissan.
I am interested in the engineering side of things, for sure, but only insofar as their actual outcomes and justification as part of a value-add to a business.

GitHub Copilot, if it can create "mostly working" code, is a huge value-add to an early business trying to find product/market fit because it cuts down on the time it takes to prototype and generate early versions.

Not every piece of software has to work perfectly every time, and I don't think that's the standard to which we should hold any automated coding tool.
Wasabi has an important 'gotcha': they charge you for a minimum of 90 days of retention, even if you delete an object seconds after creating it.

https://wasabi.com/paygo-pricing-faq/#minimum-storage-durati...

That detail isn't mentioned anywhere on their pricing page or cost comparison calculator: https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/

I don't find that pricing objectionable on its own, but I'm wary of shopping with a vendor that advertises price as their main selling point, but buries such a potentially costly pricing detail.
Architecture also has an additional risk factor in that it is somewhat market dependent. You might graduate when construction is hot and firms are hiring, or it might be a downturn and no one is hiring. It's a roll of the dice unfortunately.
Wait till you find out where most of Mozilla's funding comes from!

(Hint: it starts with a G and rhymes with frugal.)
I've always wondered about code like this and what inspires people to write it. How is this any different from just directly writing machine code?

Or is this the exact opposite, operating at the highest level of abstraction?
Not sure. All the people I know that make a living off of art, musicians, sound designers, illustrators, film makers, fashion designers, etc. have one thing in common: a 10+ year grind of barely scraping by, working ridiculous hours and multiple jobs before getting in a somewhat comfortable spot.

There is just not much demand for certain jobs while it is a dream of many many people. As an average software engineer you'll still easily make an above median salary somewhere. But from what I've seen, as an artist, if you are not in the top few percent, not in terms of skill but perseverance, networking and self-marketing, you'll starve.
Exactly, my best "professors" were not, technically "professors".. a few were basically grad students, but the best were paid instructors who came from industry to teach. I'm sure perversely they were also the worst paid & treated.
This is in the same category of error as most programmers thinking that sRGB uses a linear light model. They try to do arithmetic like blending or blurring on the raw image data this inevitably does the wrong thing.

Similarly, most non-AAA game engines ignore the sRGB tone curve and treat all inputs and outputs as if they were linear, which results in unexpected brightness shifts in textures.

Up until very recently, Blender used linear light internally, but output that as sRGB without converting it to the appropriate gamma curve. There's guide after guide online on how to fix Blender by using "filmic" mode, which should be renamed to "not broken" mode.

Same thing as the colour picker in image editors like mspaint or Photoshop. They all have the same rainbow picker that has very visible discontinuities in the colour gradients, like a rippled curtain. It should be smooth, and it is, if using a perception-based colour model instead of linear light output straight to an sRGB monitor without any kind of colour correction.

This kind of thing has been going on for decades, and will continue for decades more. Programming is still a growth industry, so the average developer is inexperienced and doesn't know about these subtleties.
The dividend "millions" are per day. The capital spending "billions" are per year. We'd already repeatedly been told that the dividends were 75 billion per year.
The worst volume control in the real world is Bluetooth on cars. Somehow every time I connect to my car the volume gets lower. Now I have to turn it up to the max to hear a little bit. I have tried all the methods on internet with no success.
Except athletes generally are getting free college whereas in this case most of the students are taking on tremendous debt.
>For those asking, of the other 51 students, the most common use for their MFA is teaching... in MFA programs

This was thrown in at the end of the thread. I imagine this is true for a wide variety of postgraduate degrees outside the STEM, law, medicine, and business. For example, what percentage of people with a masters in art history use that degree outside of teaching art history?
The people he's up against? Physicists...?
The new Lamborghini Huracan Evo is especially bad at this with its touch screen volume control, no knobs at all.
It would be simpler to track loan repayment delinquencies. If a physics PhD is a pipeline to a well paying quant fund job, from a loan/career perspective that's probably a win. If the loans aren't getting paid, even if somebody does find work in their field, that's probably poor value.
Ford moved volume control to the touchscreen, but people wanted a knob. Solution? They stuck a knob to the touchscreen. Under the knob is an artificial "finger" that touches the screen.

I haven't used it personally so all I can say is it's a hilarious solution.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/02/im-obsessed-with-the-ford-...
I did that for about a year. It's a gateway drug. You'll be running a Thinkpad shortly. ;)
I thought Kafka stopped using zookeeper.
One key thing to recognize is that terminal masters programs like this are different from the bachelor's degrees and the PhD programs. They are generally smaller, and are very much run as cash cows for the departments.
Operational analytics when dealing with real world systems (transportation logistics, tracking machine states on factory floors, sensor data fusion, real-time operational dashboards for capital markets, etc).
Right this is why I like the idea (that will never happen) of having schools being on the hook to backstop some % of federal loans on their degrees. May quickly change how many kids they allow to get $300K in debt for useless degrees.
I think the idea is that it would shift the incentives to take on less debt, make college cheaper, and encourage shorter payback times.
Masks aren’t zero cost. They are a very visible indicator that something is very very wrong. They heightened the hysteria and panic. And they are uncomfortable and quite frankly silly. If you are sick enough to need a mask, don’t go out.

The gaslighting around masks, telling people they are crazy to object to being forced to wear one… almost despotic.

And plus, who knows if they even worked! They could have very well made things worse by giving people false security! Yet another uncontrolled experiment forced down upon an unconsenting population. I’m not some lab rat to be used for study by some “experts.”

2020 was the year society threw out all its ethics, morals and values in a fit of hysteria and panic. It grosses me out.
I completely agree about the owners being corrupted. Under the semblance of "open source", the owners are only increasing their take-home salaries while firing away all the lower -level staff.
Press release from S&P including links to new and previous crypto indices: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sp-dow-jones-indice...
> China, classified here as a developing country

I'm curious what the criteria is for classifying China as a developing country. Last I checked, they had lower levels of extreme poverty than the United States.
Why having <video> why having MIME
If any AWS service has replacement at this point, it has got to be S3 (unless locked-in via peripheral aws services).

https://wasabi.com, https://backblaze.com, https://min.io some of the ones I've seen frequently mentioned on news.yc
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GE is probably hiring.
It's El Reg. They are witty. It's a joke.
wth. How is that even considered acceptable from their end?
What would you have preferred, US$0.205 billion every day?
I don't think it's easy winning a power struggle. But I do think winning a power struggle counter-selects for many traits that make it very hard to create a well functioning economy.

In 'Designing a fighter' to win a power struggle, I'd take: ruthlessness, sudden betrayal, and a willingness to use violence.

Yet economies and cultures that tend to succeed value investment, rule of law, cooperation, learning, property rights, and finding win-win arrangement.

The original article was about how a forced dividend is cutting necessary investment, which does not seem wise, but very much seems like the act of a powerful monarch who doesn't understand what underlies long-term success.
What do you think "Orwellian" means?
I admit that I might be a special case but I’m insanely annoyed by advertising and I dislike any tailored tracking like crazy. All it ever gave me was links to buy something I already bought for weeks afterwards. I’d much prefer it if everyone who sells stuff online would just spend that budget on making their product catalogs easier to search and discover products I’m looking for.
>Citizens of both countries seem to hate America, but ordinary Iranian citizens never did a 911-style attack on the US. Is it because of historical reasons that Saudis are the friend and Iranians the enemy?

The real quick spark notes are:

Iran tried to socialize their Oil Production as they believed that Irani's deserved more than 10% of the profit generated instead of just paying Britain forever. In response the CIA did a coup d'état and there's been instability ever since.

Naturally the US aligned itself with it's own oil company in the region (California-Arabian Standard Oil, which is now the Aramco) given that it had just made an enemy of Iran. I think a pretty weird quirk of history is that if you squint hard enough Aramco is technically a Silicon Valley startup, with beginnings in San Francisco that was one of the largest IPOs of 2020.
What car?

Tesla actually seems to have gotten this part of the Bluetooth implementation right and it syncs the car’s volume with your phone’s volume.
I was at the meeting and they simply preferred to add more people to the tab redesign rather than the FTP code.
How about just making college cheaper? That's the root cause of the grief.

I have a masters degree in Japanese studies. It helped me get my first commercial software job at Sybase, testing localized products for the Japanese market. I have not done anything related to Japan since then, but the critical thinking skills and understanding of economics stayed with me my whole career. Not to mention the discipline of defending ideas when other people try to beat the crap out of them.

Looking back, it was one of the more worthwhile things I've ever done, up there with learning Latin and reading Cicero.

I would hate to see a scheme of incentives against following your curiosity.
Bought one of these for travel but made it my main keyboard to force learning the smaller layout. It’s a steep upfront cost, but setting up and learning the multi-layer layouts (which you basically have to use on the Planck) is so worth it. Numbers, symbols, app switching, and window management are all on the home row and my hands are thankful. Don’t imagine it’d be comfortable for someone with broad shoulders, though!
Argo Smart Routing is not free, but the tunnel is. The tunnel used to be only available under the Argo umbrella, but they changed that at some point.
I'm hoping that the next generation of VR headsets will be good enough (mainly in terms of resolution) that I'll be able to use one for coding. Seems the majority of the $5k is just for the fancy hanging screen.
> wouldn’t that make the dominant strategy for many to as quickly as possible declare bankruptcy upon graduation

Why not do that now as soon as you get any type of loan?

You don't just "declare bankruptcy". And bankruptcy law can be changed as desired to prevent that. There's nothing special about student loan debt versus other types of debt.

In any event, requiring repayment based on income (like 7% of income up to a certain monthly amount) is almost certainly a better policy. The students and lenders both have the right incentives with those schemes.
They are only similar in a technical sense. The legal distinction is important because when someone views a video, there retain more of their legal rights - they can stop hosting it, for one, and people can't watch it.

When you download the video, you are asserting more control over it than the legal system believes you should have.
I feel a problem is that at 18 you still have "main character bias"

You spend a lot of time consuming uplifting media during childhood to where you unconsciously think of yourself as the main character of the story.

When you're picking a major you just can't imagine things not working out, that's something that happens to side characters.
Correct, thanks. Incidentally before seeing your post I just edited that part for clarity. Since I already made the edit, I'll leave it as-is.
good list - also add big direct investment in the US smart phone ecosystem, therefore Board level and Angel'ish activities too
It never was a single thread but a meme that lasted for a while, with people making lots of different top-level posts. So linking to search results is the best you can do.
You mean Peter Thiel's "mini me?"
Engineering Masters can be even less than that. I don't remember what my Engineering Masters cost all-in but it wasn't a lot including CoL at an Ivy.
> I think this is why Apple and the others are trending towards the design that they are, because a deep capability approach that's integrated into the UI helps offload some of the complexity and overhead of managing that liability at scale.

I don't think this is an accurate description of what Apple is doing at all. If anything, they're moving more towards the direction where they are implicitly trusted and if you don't trust them you don't get any security.
The subreddit /r/Programmerhumor sometimes had a whole bunch of memes around volume controls, but there are often times other funny themes that can go on for weeks...

- bad phone number inputs

- how large node packages can get

- software interview process

- backend vs front end engineers

And my favorite meme was when they parodied the Hawaii missile alarm back a few years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/7qk25w/an_...
Tesla’s have great physical controls for the stereo under your left thumb. For all the complaints about the Tesla touchscreen, the Model 3 has really well thought-out physical controls.
The most curious thing: Why were none of the Japanese executives arrested? Not even briefly for questioning? Ghosn was held for hundreds of days, Kelly is currently undergoing trial.

It seems to me that this was a corporate coup with assistance from the prosecutors office. The plan was Ghosn would be arrested, admit guilt straightaway, possibly under some questionable interrogation[1] and then get a fine/suspended sentence. Nissan could be free from Ghosn with a minimum of fuss.

Of course, it didn't go down that way, but Ghosn fleeing the country was probably the next best thing. Public opinion in Japan generally seems to be "Why would you run if you are innocent?" and the case is forgotten.

It will be interesting to see if any revelations come out in Kelly's trial (currently underway).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/world/asia/11japan.html
Putting my SRE hat on, I'd generally agree that a leaderless protocol would be the way to go to prevent failures but you will still have to consider the costs involved with running such a system.