skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is OK, we don't all agree on the Oxford comma either. But I find it absurd for people to judge the grammatic style of others online - we don't even all speak the same language, how can we possibly all agree on proper punctuation?

Oxford comma master race FTW!

Seriously though, you're absolutely correct. The only valid time I can think of where one should probably consistently expect to have their grammar, punctuation, or spelling judged "harshly" should be in places/situation where those things are and have always been considered important. The writing profession springs instantly to mind, but other examples might be professional correspondence, documentation, scientific publication, etc. Places where language tends to be more "formalized".
I think we need to acknowledge the utter deluge of marketing material that liberal arts programs and the loan industry that backs them foist on students, pre-college teachers, and parents. It doesn't help that the odds of the teachers from K-12th grade having a liberal arts degree are pretty good as well.

We can try to say that students should educate themselves about the odds, but that's kinda like telling someone sitting in a McDonalds that they should get something healthy.

Even students going on to MA/PhD programs have a good chunk of sunk cost fallacy goading them on. No one entered these degrees without honestly wanting to make a go of it, but when they pop out the other end with 120k in debt, no idea how to pay it and a ~10% job placement rate - deferring for another 4 years and getting more credentials sounds pretty appealing.
Streaming model training for recommendation systems like tiktok, facebook, youtube, etc. If you want models to learn quickly to new events allowing them to do better on very new content/users you will want to use a streaming pipeline. I have seen flink used for model training at large scale here. Model evaluation can also be done in a streaming manner with training and needs to be done parallel for model monitoring.

The lowest latency model refresh time I've come across is ~5 minutes. Going lower is likely to be a lot of data transfers for model synchronization (sync the serving model with training model) for little value.
Industry training is probably a better entry to Arts and Entertainment. Since the director class jobs are going to be who-you-know and grace and favour anyway, pretending the degree got you there is silly: Convert this to classic apprenticeship with placements, stop selling dreams.
While I don't think it's perfect, and I don't use it myself, but because it was mentioned in the GP comment I responded to, we can look at the security model of Qubes OS which doesn't rely on its developer to decide what can and can't run on the OS.

Ideally, systems would be designed such that risks are minimized no matter where the app you want to run came from and no matter who signed it. Right now, that's how Apple, Google and Microsoft are dealing with security. They rely on developers signing software with certificates, and they revoke those certificates if they don't want that software to run on their operating systems. There was an incident last year the highlighted this system[1]:

> Last week, just after we covered the release of Big Sur, many macOS users around the world experienced something unprecedented on the platform: a widespread outage of an obscure Apple service caused users worldwide to be unable to launch 3rd party applications. Already being dubbed the “Apple Apocalypse” or “OCSP Apocalypse”, the cause was down to a little-known but essential service called “Online Certificate Status Protocol”

> The purpose of the OCSP call is to check whether a piece of software being launched has had its developer certificate revoked. Revoking developer certificates is one way that Apple deal with known malware. By using an OCSP responder service, Apple hope to prevent any software whose certificate has been revoked from launching on pretty much all Macs anywhere within minutes.

[1] https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/what-happened-to-my-mac-app...
Tie the ability for a student to take out a loan to go to a particular school to the ability for its graduated students to pay back said loans. Put simply, incoming Colombia film students can only borrow money Colombia film graduates have paid back.

Schools that have always graduated successful people with valuable degrees will prosper, and schools which prey upon idealistic young people will quickly find themselves only able to entertain rich dumb kids.

It's an indirect solution which will fix future and past wrongs, without giving any University the right to sue. It doesn't impose any unreasonable burden on institutions, other than the most reasonable one, that they're giving young people educations that actually have value.
Not OP, but my understanding is that the browsers 'compete' much less than the public thinks they do. The developers attend conferences together, they co-fund initiatives like the MDN, they ultimately collaborate on a common spec. Google wins as long as people are encouraged to spend more of their time online. Firefox needs market share to sell homepage defaults. Apple wins as long as desktop and mobile capabilities converge so that they can sell iPhones but remains hard to monetize so they can sell apps. No one wins if antitrust regulation gets involved.
I just went through a bunch of random cities on Apple’s Weather app to double check, and found an instance where 69° is indeed shown: https://imgur.com/a/KPz6PCX
> Since both Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook contain the proprietary computer algebra system MuPAD, they cannot be made open source.

Don't you just hate the viral nature of infectious *proprietary* code?

To co-opt some propaganda used against GPL in the past:

Using a proprietary library in your application mandates that significant swaths of your application be released proprietary as well. That's not a problem if you wanted to release proprietary software to start with, but it's a problem for anyone else on either side of the spectrum.

For this reason, developers have to be quite careful about how they use proprietary software to make sure that it doesn't impose unwanted licensing restrictions.
Considering many of those read first party auth tokens they are particularly bad.
I'd be skeptical of that stat, almost all of my loans 10 years ago were private ( although I'm sure there is a federal backstop )
> They can’t possibly know better.

This seems to be kicking the can down the road a little. College applicants and students absolutely should bear some responsibility in making sure that their programs, degrees, and desired careers are actually feasible and practical in the long-term. Where you're spot-on, though, is that they don't bear all the responsibility.

The big problem, it seems, is that there's no safety-valve for those students who didn't (whether through their own fault or not) get the memo about programs being worthless. In those cases, making other stakeholders (schools, the state) have some skin in the game seems like it'd make the problem solve itself.

Like you said, if the students are the only ones incentivized to have universities give a good education, we're going to have a bad time.
Leader transfer is generally quick enough with Paxos in my experience.
Grad PLUS loans can be as much as tuition.

> The loan limits for Grad PLUS and Parent PLUS Loans also differ from Stafford Loans. There is no annual limit as a set dollar amount, but students or parents may not borrow more than the total cost of attendance, less any other financial aid received.
The R35 GT-R took down everything from Ferraris to Porsches and Lamborghinis when it first came out, both in straight line speed and handling on the track.

Results at 3m10s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDP7Pty8Qnw&t=130s

Probably a bit of acting, but Jeremy Clarkson had to be carted off the track while driving one because he injured his neck on a particularly tight corner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXFSVoVqhYw
Sure you heard and read about it, but I don't think at that age you fully realize of just how hard it is and how long 10 years can be.

Personally, I didn't study anything related but was in music semi-professionally (more on the production side) for about 5 years until I decided to just keep it as a hobby. In my case, I realized that in the end, I'm just not passionate enough about it to keep accepting the trade-offs. The ones that made it are. Deeply so, and they don't regret anything. Nobody wishes they had picked another career path.
That's right. Note three industries that suffer from constant attempts by the government to reduce costs - education, health care, and housing. The reverse is the result of these idealistic but misguided programs.

Note another industry with zero regulation - software - where costs have declined to zero. Capitalist swine that I am, I also give away the software I write for free.
Look who voted for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It wasn’t just Republicans. Interesting which Democrats voted for it.

Biden, Schumer, Clinton

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_...
FFXIV is a single linear game, which gets prolonged by regular expansion packs (Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, and now Endwalker coming out this year). To progress, you have to play the base game and then the expansion packs in their release order.

Starting point options are:

- Free trial (base game + first expansion pack) w/ a few restrictions.

- Purchase base game + first expansion pack + monthly subscription

- Purchase base game + all expansions + monthly subscription

Most people say that the quality of the base game is significantly lower than the expansion packs that came after. It is also possible to pay to skip ahead but I would not recommend it as the game eventually builds on its initially weak story.
that's interesting, so it's related to the device. seems obvious in retrospect. still, I swap between 3 daily (bulky headphones, earphones, and wireless earbuds) and have the same complaint for all of them. just a coincidence?
Funny noone responds to these sincere comments and instead drinks the neoliberal coolaid even harder. I agree entirely with your sentiment re curiosity and the inflated American price of education.
It belongs to Nissan in that Nissan alleges Ghosn bought the place with money he stole from them.

I used to live just down the street from the place. Lovely neighborhood.
>> What about loan companies, who definitely issued the loans, being on the hook?

> These days almost all student loans (90+% of the dollar amount) are being issued by the feds.

Well that makes it easy. Forgive those loans and then stop issuing them. Force the universities to come up with reasonable programs with reasonable tuition. Universities have gone from institutions of learning to scams exploiting students and low-paid lecturers alike.
What I find perplexingly awesome about how terrible Teams is is the fact that now people don’t keep bothering me all day with useless messages. The software is so terrible that like a gas station bathroom you just get in, do what you need to, and get out.
Elon Musk appears to always think crazy big. This seems crazy small?

Doesn't it seem that if you want serious teams / companies putting serious people on this for 4 years you need the prize to be $1 billion+?

Google had 100's of highly paid engineers working on virtual reality for a few years. Amazon had/has 100's working on Alexa. That's 100's of millions per year in each case. To incentivize several teams of 10's or 100's of really solid engineers, there has to be a pretty crazy high payoff given the chances of failure.

Elon how about a prize of $1 billion in Tesla stock?
Columbia also has the School of General Studies bachelors program for non-traditional students that costs $85k (including living expenses) a year, and it’s notorious for offering little to no financial aid for it.

You end up paying $340,000 to take the same classes as regular Columbia students while being almost cut off completely from the college social experience.
RSA signatures aren't really an issue. Big, but not that easy to screw up.

The (biggest IMO) problem with RSA is that unlike ECDSA or ECDH or EdDSA it's usable for BOTH signing AND encryption, and re-using the same keys for both signing and encryption can be catastrophic (if you screw up the padding, which is another uniquely-RSA footgun). It's far, far easier to have a signing algorithm with signing keys, and an encryption algorithm with encryption keys than it is to have a single algorithm that does everything but requires the user to get all the options right. By working the same "both ways" RSA makes asymmetric key management even harder, and it's already one of the hardest parts of cryptography!
Speaking of Apple, it is more than a little frustrating that if I start driving with Google Maps, and I realise it's too quiet, the volume control changes the Ringer instead of the media volume unless I time it to be while she is speaking. Which is kind of tough if it's really quiet, and hard to catch during shorter snippets anyway. I remember on Android when the app had focus it'd always change the media volume in these situations. I'm not sure which of them to blame!
I don't really get how there is on one hand only a few bad apples but also kidnapping a child is business as usual within their society?
Maybe not even that. By the time they dropped the nukes, 90% of structures in Japan were razed, in a far more deadly manner. Russians were a looming, merciless threat the Japanese leadership was very conscious of. There has been the suggestion that use of the Bomb had allowed for a good excuse to surrender to the U.S. then and there, because dealing with Russians would have been worse. I'm writing this from memory of an article on foreignpolicy dot com 5-7 years ago
Haha, many of the finest software engineers were trained as physicists, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, etc.
Safari's great, and IMO it still counts as supporting the open web because you're supporting standards. No company is going to support "just Chrome and Safari"; it's going to be either "just Chrome" or "everything but IE". Put in your vote for the second.
I really don't understand that part to be honest, from the point of view of the two Americans. Given their part in the escape you'd think they'd be aware of Japan's terrifying justice system and of the situation with the extradition treaties. Why would you help someone escape all that if you have to go back to a country with an extradition treaty with Japan.
Oh, I can write a book about all of the things I saw there!

Send me an email (check profile) and we can chat for sure.
They were there to let the wealthy and the above average middle class get educated. They were not for most people. They were an advantage for upward mobility. Now they are table stakes.
I just don't think there's a good answer.

Audio settings in every app is it's own source of frustration for me. I pretty much test them each time I join a different conferencing or audio related app...
Imagine a world where people are creating 36000000000000 kilograms of snakes every year
I’m in the EU (unsurprisingly). More specifically it’s this feature: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211903

See also: https://piunikaweb.com/2021/01/28/ios-14-2-update-disables-o...

“Reduce loud sounds automatically“ cannot be turned off here, not even if you change your region. The only real solution is to keep classifying Bluetooth sound outputs and lighting adapters manually when you connect a new one. I’m fairly certain that even that feature was added in after they implemented the main automatic volume limit thingy because I remember looking through every option and forum for a solution. It for me annoyed enough that I was considering going back to Android at that time.
Elon Musk has already amply demonstrated how he loves Mars. Now he is showing how much he hates Venus.
The Saudis support US oil interest by for example selling their oil only in dollars and buying US weapons which props up our military industrial complex. This is why the US govt likes them and much of what Americans learn about the middle east is heavily influenced by what the govt puts out.
The US government already pays many farmers to plant things other than commodity crops.
Ask HN: What innovations have resulted from recent investments in space tourism?
Not really. You're primarily the side character of many others first and foremost. You are essentially unimportant.
Yeah basically but I've yet to work on a team (that I didn't build myself) where the FP&A is separated from Accounting/Tax and not a direct report to the CFO or CEO if the company is pre-CFO. Sometimes even seen Accounting/Tax as a direct report under HR with zero product connection. So I just hadn't come across that term before.
I have worked in FP&A for the past 6 or so years after working in the investment world. For a short time (8 or so months) I supported a CIO and had to approve the NPV analysis of every tech project that the company did.

The thing that most project managers / engineers don't see is that finance's real job is to simplify the story and fact check the assumptions so that execs can rely on the investment being reasonable. Execs don't care if the NPV is to the penny, they care that it makes logical sense and that business leaders (brand leaders, region leaders or whoever is SVPsh level) supports the project. More than 50% of my time was just talking to execs trying to lock down support for other people's projects so they could get them done.

Often times when a project get rejected, its not because finance made the decision, its because tech didn't get the right business leaders on board before asking for a project investment.

> Risky and unproven new projects with unclear (but potentially massive) returns or indirect relations like production engineers increasing the productivity of application engineers through automation do simply not exist in that world.

If you do a lot of risky and unproven new projects with unclear (but potentially massive) returns, the business will go bankrupt and everyone will lose their jobs and equity. Incremental, but repeated small and correct bets usually are best for driving high returns on capital overtime. Sometimes when an intuitive exec sees an opportunity they need to take a shot on goal and risk some capital. In those cases, finance is kind of out of the picture as the exec needs to stand on their own.

> And that includes the finance department, of which I've certainly seen some of the most stupid ideas. Like software capitalization/activation that did made sense for converting opex to capex in the GAAP sheets, but in the end drove all the best engineers away because of all the mindless paperwork. Just one of many examples.

The opex to capex justification stuff comes from accounting, not finance. Its very painful, but the accounting teams must follow the law/gaap rules of accounting.

> Finance isn't any more intelligent than the other players in the company.

Absolutely correct. Just another cog in the corporate machine. If you find yourself frustrated with any cog (co-workers) its probably best to talk to them and figure out what you are missing.

Most people are trying their hardest.
The general advice I give to anyone considering grad school, and the same advice I was given by professors, is: unless you are absolutely certain it will be worth it, do not go to grad school unless you are paid to do so by the school or through some other form of compensation.
> Ending a sentence without a full stop is normal

> Ending a sentence with a full stop feels cold or aggressive.

> Ending a sentence with an ellipsis has a negative connotation depending on the context...

It has to be considered that some of us who grew up in a world where "proper" punctuation and grammar were drilled into us in school as "important skills" may find these things to be natural and reflexive. Even folks like myself, lucky enough to have grown up with Internet access since before it was even called "Internet" often had the English teacher in school who would severely dock your grade on bad punctuation, grammar, or spelling. This of course has directly (and probably permanently) affected how we write in all aspects of written communication, online or otherwise.
I’ve been a professional dev for a decade, full-stack, backend and database all the way down to firmware, which is where I sit now.

I finished a two year online MS in Comp Sci. last year, and I often tell people it’s really a Master’s in Self-Discipline with a focus on CS. I definitely had primarily challenging classes, more so for the content amount and work expectations than understanding the material, but that’s to be expected with a program targeted at professionals.

I went into getting it because I knew I had some holes in my knowledge, and I felt like I needed something to really stir up my career. I funded it entirely myself, to the tune of ~50k, but halfway through completion also switched companies for a ~30k raise.

I can’t necessarily make an objective argument that it has paid for itself, as I might have been able to get the new job without it, but I without a doubt have a different level of self-confidence and time management discipline that I would not have without going through the program, especially considering my first-born came a month after that job switch, with 4 classes to go!
I have a crown action which commits its own log. So, always active!
One solution that I feel is regularly overlooked in these discussions is the establishment of kelp forests. Kelp grows at a far quicker rate than trees, requires no fresh water or land and has the added benefits of restoring marine ecosystems.
A decent article about human like robots, and why they do not live up to our expectations.

But in the industry there are several robots that have a good performance, but they don't look humanoid at all.
Carbon tax + petrol cost > Carbon sequestration subsidy
I'm pretty sure the rich people going into these programs don't think that all 55 of them are going achieve the big film career, but rather that they themselves will be one of the 4 of 55 that make it.
What if we put a time limit on it? Say that student loans can be discharged in bankruptcy only 10 years after graduation?

Then few students would want to stay poor for ten years just to get rid of loans. But lenders would also have incentive to not back very poor career paths.
>they were always trying to tear each other down

Or demolish each other, you could say.
I'm curious what your estimate would be.

Mine would be somewhere between 0.5FTE assuming the bare minimum of keep-the-lights-on QA testing for each release and ongoing bug triage up to maybe 3FTE if it requires periodic security and design updates to keep up with changing standards/platforms/protocols.
You are right, audience is everything. I liked the original comment and wouldn't change a word of it.

Not every statement is to be boiled down to intellectual delivery devoid of emotion. We're expressly humans, not computers.

The idea that "Intelligent people resist emotional persuasion, or at least try to." is for the consumer to apply, when and how they like.

Communication with vulgarity is not to make you emotional but to succinctly communicate the emotion of the poster.

Depending on your perceived relationship with the poster you may feel something yourself.

Similarly, if you are not the desired audience for this comment, you are free to move along with no further thought.
Right, if STEM kids could figure this out in the late 90s on dial-up and pay by the minute internet, then 2020s kids with iPhones in their pocket can check this in seconds in between classes and TikToks.
> Don't you just hate the viral nature of infectious proprietary code?

Sure, I agree with you.

I'm currently looking for a term to replace "infectious" and "viral" since I want to talk about the GPL without bad health connotations. Any suggestion?
I’m fairly worried about a future student loan crisis and collapse because this is not sustainable and certainly not something that functions as intended.