skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Columbia has a pretty questionable record with other masters programs in creative fields. The school is exploiting the Ivy brand, the NYC location and talent, and legions of students desperate to stand out in highly competitive creative fields. For instance, a 10-month MS in Journalism is $116k (including living expenses) while a 12-month M.S. in data journalism is $160k (https://journalism.columbia.edu/cost-attendance).

Yes, studying under true experts in NYC is a wonderful experience for people in film, theater, journalism, writing, the arts, etc. But there should be no expectation that a very expensive degree will lead to high-paying jobs in those fields. The fact that every year Columbia is setting up all of these new grads with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and little hope of repaying it in those professions is downright predatory.

The WSJ article that prompted the original Twitter thread is worth reading. A few graduates have managed to find low-paying, entry-level jobs in the film industry that pay under $50k per year, and probably did not require a master's degree. One of the grads they talked with is working at the local TJ Maxx ... the same job he had as a teenager.

Via one of the WSJ reporters who worked on the report:

At least 43% of the people who recently took out loans for master’s degrees at elite private universities hadn’t paid down any of their original debt or were behind on payments roughly two years after graduation.

It’s not just arts degrees. Other high debt, low-earning master’s programs: NYU publishing (debt: $116k, earnings: $42k), Northwestern speech-language pathology (debt: $148k, earnings: $60k), USC marriage and family counseling (debt: $124k, earnings: $50k).

All this is made possible by Grad Plus, the no-limit federal student loan program. Created in 2005, it’s now the fastest growing program. Based on partial data from the 2021 school year, grad students were on track to borrow as much as undergrads for the first time.

https://twitter.com/anfuller/status/1413160574205284352
And they would not notify me in advance, simply take it. And if it was in my garage, the repo man would use his master key to break in. And they keep a list of all items everyone has purchased, from cars to things as small and cheap as books, to be taken without notice if any legal issues come up in the future. The surveillance is total, the law is absolute and inescapable, the devices you own are backdoored to betray you.

Compare this to buying a physical book, with cash.

If you don't find this Orwellian, I don't know what to say.
Absolutely. This guy is a grab-bag of red flags.

There's a wide swath of libertarians like this (yes, I know... not all libertarians)... they want to reduce regulation and give people more freedom so they can swindle them.

He doesn't disagree with FLOC because it's wrong, he disagrees with it because it's not his proposal.

Soltani has it right:

> "I'm very much concerned about the influence and power of browser vendors to unilaterally do things, but I'm more concerned about companies using that concern to drive worse outcomes,"
Are you saying there isn't informative content on tv? That's pretty obviously false. There's a lot of misinformation too, but I don't see how the internet is better there either. You need good critical thinking skills period.
> most of the instructors were struggling to establish a career themselves

One of my best friends is an architect in Europe. After years of struggling in the field, they went to be an instructor.

I dunno, I feel like it's a pyramid scheme, and it makes me sad.
That person would presumably be vaccinated, thus they wouldn't get the virus from him. Why does everyone talk about how the vaccine works, but then use this argument against people that don't want to get the vaccine?
oh Australians really like rules.

so when lockdowns come out we (especially in the west) just loved going into lockdown and dishing shit on those that flouted the rules. its a weird dichotomy that we're very easy going and freedom loving yet also love rules and enforcing them.
> What is the separation between the Saudi government and MbS

Nothing. The KSA is an absolute monarchy. L’etat, c’est il.
You could use the battery as a charge pad. Could be handy while travelling.
I took industrial design in school. I’m ballparking here, but I’d say the numbers are somewhere around 15% of my cohort are imployed in industrial design? But - many more are employed in adjacent fields, like UX, interior design, arts, etc.

(Also this wasn’t an American education so it was dramatically more affordable - still, a decade on and I know many who are still paying back those loans.)
Hi Basta! Can confirm both that he works at Stripe and is right.

Years ago there wasn't even a Kafka portion, that's newer.
I suppose it's like football. There are only so many athletes that can make it to professional leagues. Best to check out the career prospects before undertaking the effort to train.
It’s weird how I nominally know this but never really thought about the implications... How does the hardware world do it? I’d expect the normal way to make a volume control would be to have an adjustable-gain amplifier using the standard opamp circuit somewhere, but those aren’t logarithmic in any resistance you could wire to a knob, are they? (Yes, I am deeply ignorant about electronics.)
How do people feel about making this a regulatory requirement for your students receiving federal aid?

Track how many people graduate:
- Go into a career in their field
- Continue on to a different field of their own choosing
- Never use their degree.

This information would align the goals of students with the goals of institutions a little bit better.

I know that it would be hard to track, but that kind of program feedback would have guided my choices more than graduation statistics.
Maybe he's working behind the scenes to free them, but in the interview, he did not seem overly concerned about their fate.
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Seems like the critical missing piece of information is Aramco's annual profits.

"Saudi Aramco profit of $49 billion in 2020 is down from $88.2 billion in 2019 and $111.1 billion in 2018."

https://apnews.com/article/dubai-saudi-arabia-united-arab-em...

...so if 2020 was an off year due to the pandemic, then the $75 billion/yr dividend probably isn't going to bankrupt them in the short term.
I used to own a BlackBerry 10 phone running BB10 OS. At the time, the dev team accepted suggestions on how to make the OS better, and I suggested they make the volume controls logarithmic instead of linear, and they did! I loved how quiet that phone would go while still remaining clear—I used to listen to audiobooks as I fell asleep at night, and rather than use headphones I would just set the volume to level 1 or 2 and put it on my pillow beside my ear. I haven't been able to do that with any other phone since because the volume doesn't go low enough, or if it does the audio is muddy.
Yep, that would suck for them. Anyone who is fearful of getting covid should get the vaccine. If they get vaccinated and I still end up transmitting it to them, then that sucks, but again, people get sick and that's life. I'm willing to acknowledge my selfishness in this matter.
I'm also amazed by the fact that that John Nagle from the popular Nagle's algorithm is still active on HN!
I think you're making a very common mistake, which is misunderstanding the carbon cycle.

We could, theoretically, grow enough plants to get down to pre-industrial levels. However, plants decompose when they die, re-releasing their carbon into the atmosphere, and lots of the plants alive to die are grown using petrochemical fertilizer, which was taken from under the ground, not the atmosphere.. So, we'd have to keep all of those new plants alive, forever, or maintain that extreme level of plant growth forever. This seems like an even harder problem.
Perhaps it would be best to say companies support privacy in web browsers inversely correlated with their dependence on ad revenue. So Google is worse than Microsoft, which is worse than Apple, etc. I think it'd be fair to assume if you gave all three a choice to keep their ad products or their browser, Google would keep ads, and both Microsoft and Apple would keep their browsers, because of their relative value to their core business.
>> Imagine if Amazon "invented" Wikipedia.

You can get an idea from how much IMDB data costs. They didn't invent it, but they did buy it.

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results?page=1&fil...
> This took the total capital spending down from around US$40 billion to around US$25 billion. Further reports stated that even this US$25 billion figure was reduced by another US$5 billion, taking the total capital spending in the year from US$25 billion to US$20 billion. However, every second of every day of every month of every year - whatever Aramco does, whatever it sells, whatever it cancels, whatever it cuts back, however many people it sacks – the meter keeps on running, adding US$205 million every day

Notice the convenient change of units between billions and millions there which makes this seem much worse than it actually is. I also didn't realize Oilprice's bias, but seeing that change of units certainly warned me.
I use a zero gravity. Specifically, MWE labs. Downsides were taking it apart to get it to my second floor home office. Upsides are comfort and not getting pain from working long hours. I've owned for over 2 years now. I don't use the zero gravity aspect of it a ton, though. It's still worth it in my opinion for the ability to make micro adjustments and overall ergonomics.
> He couldn't meet his wife seems like an unreasonable condition for someone out on bail

It’s also not ridiculous? She isn’t his lawyer. He’s accused of a multibillion dollar fraud. And he was clearly a flight risk, one she personally amplified.
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Everyone gets pissed off because the Apple way of fixing security "problems" is to take more control away from the owner of the system.
Isn't this the typical experience for a field that's winner-take-all and have tons of people who are "passionate" about it and are willing to do anything to get in? Or is columbia especially bad here?
Hi HN! I have been playing with the idea of building a lightweight interactive office map for a while. I finally caved and built this after starting a new job and finding it near impossible to locate anyone on their Google Sheet office map.

I've built the core set of features I would like to use, but still have lots of plans for the future. Currently, you can import a set of employee records from csv, map them up to photos, and create an office map with seating. The office map can then be accessed from anywhere once a user has joined the organisation in Looksee.

If you've got any feedback or run into any issues at all, please feel free to let me know.
Yeah I'm kinda curious what the lines are. Even in my SE degree program, probably half of the grads ended up in careers not really related to SE (Comcast support people, technical support, project management, etc). This isn't bad, and I don't necessarily think the purpose of any specific degree has to be getting a job specific to that degree. Getting a degree proves you can get a degree, and in certain industries better prepares graduates for a career path.
MBS was accepted by the previous administration because Jared Kushner was convinced he was key to a Palestinian-Israeli peace treaty. That gave Erdogan leverage over the US, when he kept pounding the media drum with the footage he had of the Khashoggi murder. He used that to get the US to abandon the Syrian Kurds.

We haven't yet seen if the new administration will view MBS the same way, but I doubt it. We've had two populist presidents in a row lose European control because they thought they knew better than their advisors about the Middle East. (Obama's version was surrendering Crimea to Putin so that Putin would give him an out for his Syrian "red line" blunder).

This administration seems more boring and professional, like the staff have taken over the government for 4 years. So I don't think they have any misunderstanding of who MBS is and what value he does and doesn't provide.
Firefox users are running uBlock and Badger on mobile too
The one asking the user to make noise as loud as you want the volume to be made me laugh but it does have a hidden feature... It will never be lower than ambiant noise. Perhaps a desireable feature?
For what it's worth, I did recently read somewhere (Wikipedia long covid page? Vaccines page? Not sure, but think it was in the last sentence of the intro) that uninfected vaccinated people do not report any long-covid-like effects. That's not exactly what you're asking but last week it was finally my turn for a first shot and this was something that I was a bit worried about, since we are injecting viral parts and we don't know what causes the long cases. Getting covid is obviously more risky so I got the vaccine and would have chosen to get the second dose too regardless, but I remember looking for this info a few months ago and there was nothing yet.

Maybe there is now also data on what you're asking, I think I might have seen a paper about that when I looked for this related question but it's been too long to remember what the title might have been.
> The kidnapping was carried away by an Australian professor and a couple American guys working there,

Did charges ever get filed against the kidnappers? Like back in the US?

And was the professor reported to their university?
Lancaster, PA resident here. Many, possibly most, Amish are not farmers anymore. To your point, a lot own businesses like lawn care, grocery and hardware stores, tourist traps, and construction companies.

Since childcare is mentioned, I would be remiss if I did not point out that the Amish have a disproportionate rate of child sex abuse. Offenders often get off because the Amish community pressures victims not to testify. Victims are sent to re-education centers. It is pretty gross what goes on in plain (pardon the pun) sight. But they bring in tourist dollars. Most Amish are lovely of course, but their lifestyle has a very dark side.
What disappoints me is that people make these claims without taking a few seconds to Google…

Academic work I’ve seen suggests it’s basically down to case selection:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/468111

But what also fascinates me is that people can so easily come up with strong opinions about a culture based on limited information I.e saying “a society that prides itself on honor can act so dishonorably”…

It’s weird, people talk about Japan like it’s an alien planet. Klingons may have been based upon the Japanese but I assure you Japanese life is not very much like Star Trek.
They have the momentum.
That's basically what collegescorecard.ed.gov is. I suspect that the reason you didn't know about it is this sort of "tell people spinach is good for them" style intervention has limited efficacy.
Volume controls: Why is left down and right up?
> According to my auto mechanic friends Nissan once ranked up there with Toyota and Honda for reliability, but their quality plummeted after the Renault deal.

Nissan went to crap when they took a controlling stake in JATCO and started using those god awful CVT's in everything, and then stopped putting any effort into their sports cars to keep them competitive enough to lure enthusiasts to their brand. I owned a GT-R for several years and it was a great car, but it's going on 13 years of the same generation and the 370z is hardly any different from the 350z that first came out in 2002. I could rant for hours, I used to love Nissan. I'm hoping the 400z will turn things around for them in the eyes of enthusiasts if it's priced reasonably.
This is a great idea! However, the pricing is atrocious. There has to be a simple pricing structure since you have created a link between Telegram and Stripe API. Good effort though.
How is natural gas a competitor to oil? I know of nothing that can be powered by both. Natural gas is way more competitive in electric generation, but oil is not commonly used for that if there are other alternatives. These are two very different markets.

The US and fracking have been the major competitor to the Saudis lately.
How many Japanese Americans are incarcerated per capita in the US?
Code golfing is a game, and golfing with Jelly (Husk, etc.) is a version of it that some people find more fun. Most of the time it's not just a matter of picking the one crazy function that obviously solves the problem, although that does happen. I'd say there's usually more room for creativity when using a golfing language, because more strategies can be competitive instead of some being ruled out because the syntax for them is awkward. A typical golf is [0]. The components aren't complicated, and you can probably see there are a lot of ways to approach the problem.

Designing golfing languages is a game as well. Code golf uses byte counts, not character counts, so that there's a limit on the number of 1-byte operations (users of unicode-based languages count in UTF-8, or define a custom encoding to fit every character used in a byte). At that point it becomes important to pick out more useful operations, something that Jelly is known for being very good at.

The convention is that only programs in the same language compete with each other: everyone knows that it's nearly impossible to use fewer characters in Python than Jelly. Although most code golf is casual with no prizes. If you come up with something clever you can show it off and maybe people will appreciate it.

[0] https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/281956#answer-281962
The worst one I've seen in actual practice was that of the Openmoko Neo Freerunner, which I saw at a mobile industry tradeshow years ago. The guy, and I must stress this the type of nerd who thought Openmoko was pretty good, had to open up a teensy little xterm and run alsamixer before making a call. So bad.
Nix generally performs pretty well... as long as you're using the "right" commands. For example `nix-env -i git` takes about 30 seconds on my laptop (it evaluates the entire package universe and does a bunch of sorting and string comparison), but `nix-env -iA nixpkgs.git` takes about 600ms (it... doesn't).

`nix search` is really fast, and gives much better results than Homebrew's search. It creates a local cache of Nix evaluation results and searches that, and you have to update the cache yourself, but that hasn't bothered me in practice.

There isn't really an equivalent of `brew info`, but this is close:

$ time brew info git
git: stable 2.32.0 (bottled), HEAD
... lots of other stuff omitted...
0.98s user 1.28s system 61% cpu 3.678 total

$ time NIX_PAGER= nix-env -qaA nixpkgs.git --description
git-2.31.1 Distributed version control system
0.13s user 0.02s system 95% cpu 0.165 total

You can have a much faster package manager, if you're willing to put up with the ergonomics. i.e. Nix currently lacks an equivalent to `brew upgrade`, which is kind of bad. It has something that sounds like an upgrade (`nix-env --upgrade`), it doesn't actually do what you expect. And it takes several minutes to run, depending on how many packages you have installed.

Another performance datapoint:

$ time brew update
...infinite output omitted...
82.11s user 99.19s system 95% cpu 3:10.58 total

$ time nix-channel --update
unpacking channels...
created 1 symlinks in user environment
4.13s user 11.29s system 97% cpu 15.812 total

I haven't updated Homebrew in a while, which might explain part of the slowness there. But as the original post points out, Nix updates take the same amount of time regardless of how long it's been since you last updated.
I’d be interested in sources on this…
Probably at least as far back as WW II we had linear taper pots and audio taper pots. Bam. Done.
Bummer, it's out of stock.
Armchair astrophysics lover here. FWIW: I've always felt like PBS Space Time on youtube is one step short of a bachelors in astrophysics, at least, it's very good for picking up the abstract ideas around many of the major principles and then you can go research them deeper via reading papers.
Please stop speaking negatively about Americas man. He’s doing good for things for bro-colonialism dude. Those dictatorships are good for business and America’s business is business.
More painters should take the Thomas Kinkade-pill and create art for the masses!
I think this advice is probably the most straightforward suggestion: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/to-save-money-on-your-aws...
I'd suggest the sense might be more that he is billed as "progressive" in that he's supposedly modern and forward-looking and tolerant... but it's still Saudi Arabia levels of progressiveness at best, and he's a butcher, and thus indeed, not morally right.
Trees take a lot of water to grow but they also hold water and share it through the air and ground with other plants and with other creatures in the form of transpired water vapor.