skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Citation needed!

This bad meme became very popular when the federal gov paid out an extra $600 (then $400, then $300) / wk in unemployment insurance benefits. In reality UI benefits have been utterly destroyed in some states (see FL -- underfunded, payout is dirt and getting approved or denied took people months) and in the rest of the states the payouts are so low they were totally insufficient.

Perhaps the biggest lie, however, is that people can just stay on these benefits or turn down work -- they are time limited per recipient and turning down work / quitting your job makes you ineligible!
> Most ordinary people, especially those who have kids

What are you basing this assumption on?
> super ninja rockstar programmer who is comfortable with the command line and SQL

These are junior level skills.

Read my comment not in isolation, but in context of your comment, particularly, "perhaps you're not understanding the audience for a packaged Mac application". I agree that audience exists, and the Mac makes computing easy for that audience. I just don't feel that audience would be running a database server. If there was a WYSIWYG that let people build React apps via dragging and dropping components and avoiding Javascript, the response would be the same (and completely appropriate).
And the reason to say “no”? Baseless and purely ideological, or there’s something better not found?
> If you buy meat from the dodgy guy in a pub then it’s cheaper.

I don't know about that. First of all, I've never had a dodgy guy in a pub try to sell me meat. Second of all, the market for meat, at least in the U.S., is relatively unconstrained and therefore the prices are pretty reflective of the cost to produce (including the costs for the various middlemen in the chain, etc.). So with meat, if some dodgy guy is selling it for cheaper, it's probably because it's subpar product in some way or another.

Televisions from a van? Stolen. Has nothing to do with economics -- the guy didn't pay the costs of producing those televisions, so his prices don't reflect them.

Among your selection of analogies, only the cigarette one seems comparable. But even with this it's a little different. In that case, the cigs are cheaper because the tax is not being paid. That might be a factor in the black market price difference for weed in Canada, but according to this article, price manipulation by producers is a big factor, which isn't reflected in the cigarette analogy.
Or just stretch and lift. Stretching and lifting did more for me than yoga did.
Those aren't run on edge devices. Apple's model saves them money and creates a capability - local scanning - which didn't exist before.
Or with the appearance of safety, which is much more important.

Unless you live in Fukushima.
I won’t bother. If they want fewer readers, fine by me. A shame to see the chronicle sink as it has but that’s capitalism for you.
Please read it carefully, and your clicks will be forgiven :-)

"Lies, Damned Lies, and Vaccine Statistics"
https://drrollergator.substack.com/p/damned-lies-and-vaccine...
Is it the best TLD for in independent forum? It could be completely irrational on my part but I'd be hesitant to click a search result that would bring me to a .forum domain.
Yup, even in the CS world I now need to get a masters degree to officially do the job I’ve been doing for 3 years at a FAANG.

Credentialism is self perpetuating.
If it hurts that much to stretch your hamstrings you're already very out of shape. You have other things to worry about as well. Pursue a fitness program, not just squatting.
When the regulation requirements are literally impossible to meet, you're essentially banning it.
It was authorized by the operators of the building. The pentesters literally did everything by the book. Even the responding police officers were about the let them go, until the Sheriff arrived. If anything this highlights the criminal justice system reform needed to deal with bad LEO through a system like mandatory self insurance.
I know people who have wasted resources on useless masters degrees, usually from for-profit schools who offer little learning and a credential with little value. I don't doubt there's a problem.

But I think there's a grave error in the framing of the issue, which is to measure degrees by only the latter, earnings, and not by the former, learning.

It hands over to the markets, and those who have influence in markets, the power to decide what is worth learning. While I think markets are powerful tools, we need to view them with a grain of salt - i.e., critically, the way we learn to examine things in school: they are distorted in reality (i.e., they are not theoretical ideal markets, some very far from it), and they yield many odd results. As one example, professional athletes, even those who never see the field, usually earn more than doctors and nurses saving lives, or more than the diplomatic and military leaders who are responsible for world peace and security, or more than the scientists discovering new states of matter. Wall Street employees make more than every teacher. Etc.

Our markets as they are don't reward arts, the study of history, the promotion of many social goods, basic science research, open source software, engineering privacy rights, any service to people who are poor and don't provide much revenue. That doesn't define the value of those things, or of learning those things.

It's entangled with market-based education, which requires schools to focus resources on revenue rather than on education. Again, it hands power to the markets, and to those who have influence in markets. It leads to schools investing in upgrading dorms or football programs, which attract wealthy people, rather than scholarships and assets that provide a return in education, not revenue. And it leads to useless masters degrees, but I certainly wouldn't include in that category a degree in film from Columbia, no matter how much the future earnings of the student (though market-based pricing certainly makes it too expensive).
Depends on what you need it for.

In government, it is common for pay and promotions to be attached to certain educational levels. A teacher with a Masters can often earn more just according to the pay scales.

My grandfather used to teach, before teaching required a bachelors degree. He has a bachelors degree because he got paid more by taking more courses and if he had a degree. So he just figured out a way to cobble together nearby and cheap courses into a credential that got him a raise.
This article misses out on some of the most insidious behavior, exclusive PHD programs that require a Master's degree. They know they are asking a large pool of students to pay for the privilege to compete for a small number of spots.
> A mistake like this really suggests that the proposed regulation is not well thought out, and that it should probably be revisited after further education and discussion.

What kind of sarcasm is most appropriate here? A coy shocked face or faux outrage?
Why not email? I just call the SES API and I’m immediately notified.
Trump Campaign: Defaulting recurring contributions
The loans for low demand majors should not be guaranteed and those students should be allowed to default.

Majors in high demand and good with prospects can have guarantees. These can be re-evaluated periodically to adjust to demand.
How do you know there was no risk to the GF? The article mentions she asked him to stop because she feared retaliation.
What Matt Levine Writes about (Or, the Rise and Fall of WeWork and GameStop)
The First Webcam (a.k.a. the Trojan Room Coffee Pot Cam)
That more impressive that he has started with something that may not pay off in his lifetime, but be vital for future generations down the road.
I agree - the author's use of "framework" here betrays the article a bit, and "inversion of control" is a much more accurate portrayal of what they're actually getting at. Of course this is a natural side-effect of what happens when terms are born without proper definitions.

It's almost as if the author has defined "blue" as "any RGB colour where B>0", and then their first example is magenta. Yes, it's a nebulously defined concept (both "blue" and "framework"!), but this means that trying to impose a rigid definition on top is bound to fail.
As many of them start migrating to more bespoke proprietary solutions I doubt this is going to continue.
The average medical student graduates with >$200k in debt, with medical residents earning an average of about $60k. But med student debt isn’t a problem because doctors earn much much more after completing their residency.

The article says “entering a job market that pays less than $30,000.” That doesn’t mean that masters holders earn that on average, or that that’s what they’ll be earning mid career.

Not to say that masters degrees aren’t a scam, nor that the article is being intentionally deceiving. But my guess is that it’s not quite as life destroying as it appears.
Er, every US company that hosts images in the cloud scans them for CSAM if they have access to the photo, otherwise they’re opening themselves up to a lawsuit.

US law requires any ESP (electronic service provider) to alert NCMEC if they become aware of CSAM on their servers. Apple used to comply with this by scanning images on the server in iCloud photos, and now they’re moving that to the device if that image is about to be uploaded to iCloud photos.

FWIW, the NYT says Apple reported 265 cases last year to NCMEC, and say Facebook reported 20.3 million. Google [1] are on for 365,319 for July->Dec.

I’m still struggling to see what has changed here, apart from people realising what’s been happening..

- it’s the same algorithm that Apple has been using, comparing NCMEC-provided hashes against photos

- it’s still only being done on photos that are uploaded to iCloud photos

- it’s now done on-device rather than on-server, which removes a roadblock to future e2e encryption on the server.

Seems the only real difference is perception.

[1] https://transparencyreport.google.com/child-sexual-abuse-mat...
Journalists need to eat too.
No politician wrote this themselves, so… yes probably.
Given that the Qatari regulator ordered the grounding and that Qatar Airways is state owned that seems like a pretty big conflict of interest. Especially with Qatar Airways refusing delivery of any more a350s until the problem is fixed (in a time of extremely low levels of international air travel).
>Exactly. Having a stable supply of food is more important than having an economically efficient supply of food.

Has there any empirical studies/evidence that supports this claim?

> Of all industries, the food industry in particular should not be left totally up to market whims.

The oil industry seems pretty important as well. After all, most of our vehicles run on it. Maybe we should be glad that OPEC is engaging in "supply management", so they're not "left totally up to market whims"!
It was just my last name. So in a way surprising it wasn't classified as premium to begin with. But the fact such a concept exists at all, and the goalposts can move at any time, is the troubling part.
I think you are supposed to join a fraternity, or skull and bones, or quill and dagger. Think of how much power the Harvard network wields.
At Oxford and Cambridge in the UK one gets their Bachellor's degrees upgraded to Master's 2-3 years after graduating provided one hasn't been arrested or divorced.
Wow. I hadn't thought of that wrinkle. That's a particularly sleezy way to limit access.
Is this true? Google and Amazon routinely spam me with recruitment emails and I don’t have a masters degree.
Or maybe be they are just doing what they said they are doing for the reasons they gave, to comply with the law, and that’s that. But apparently that not even a possibility you can conceive of.
This is good, because this will make renewables more competitive with natural gas than they already are, which will provide leverage to people arguing for more renewable capacity instead of gas. Natural gas has already fulfilled its usefulness as a “bridge fuel,” and here on the other side of the bridge, renewables are getting cheaper and more reliable by the day. It’s time to move on.
> Is my spirit cleansed from opening my spinal chakra?

Btw, there is no notion of a spirit cleansing in yoga. This is all hippie marketing.
Interesting to note : Russia is only mentioned once at the end of the article and never specifically mentioned as a major producer.

Meanwhile, the US has been pressuring EU countries for years to not source their gas from Russia ( up to sanctioning companies working on pipelines ).
Yoga and just plain pushups also helped my back a lot.
Looking forward for the re-boost of nuclear space-technology so many scientific opportunities!
I up voted your comment...
> even former Prince Harry recently called the 1st Amendment "bonkers"

Shocking!

I'm starting to think we Americans are going to have to overthrow the British monarchy to protect our rights!

> Even The Atlantic publishes its doubts about it.

Unlike the Prince Henry thing (who cares), I read this one.

The Atlantic says the exact opposite of what you say it does. It starts and ends firmly defending American style free speech. Full stop.

In the middle it talks about how European style free speech allows for suppressing hate speech, and that there are costs and benefits to that approach. He explains that calls for such restrictions here cannot be dismissed out of hand as insane but that they have to be contended with. He then does so, arguing against restrictions. "Free Speech isn't Free" is just pointing out the often overlooked costs to totally free speech.

I hesitate to call people bad-faith actors, but in general the "article says the literal opposite of what I claim it does" is a giant red flag.

(Edit: I went back and read the Prince thing. I dismissed it because "who cares", but then I figured if you misrepresented the Atlantic article that badly I should check it out. What he was talking about was American vs. British libel laws, not general free speech. In Britain, it is much easier to sue for libel to the point that celebrities often sue international publications there. This protection in Britain especially protects politicians and royalty. In the US, it is almost impossible to win a libel suit against a news organization, especially if the person suing is a public official. This is based on New York Times vs. Sullivan, a first amendment case. )
It's been a couple years but I found it very verbose and not very well edited. It may have improved since then. I did appreciate their push towards doing more in the DB and less in the app layer, though, and I wish more devs would hear that message!
How did you find your personal trainer?

I have a chronic neck pinch, coming from a weak lower trap (I think), that I’d love to fix. I make it worse multiple times a year from lifting and have to take at least a week off the gym.

I bet I am doing what you did with using the wrong muscle.
They should recruit from submariners. I spent two months underwater and didn't mind it.
This is a bit of a catch-22. They need to be stupid so they don't realize it's a worthless degree. They also need to be smart because the admissions office only wants smart kids.
I have run the HashBackup upgrade server for years on a $5/mo Linode VM, and also have a dirt-cheap testing VM on Vultr that has been very reliable.

The main thing I don't like about DO is when I tried them years ago, they used a zillion different 3rd-party web services for their site, making it hard to use with NoScript.
Yeah I can see why 3500 pages are needed to document this inconsistent piece of software. Can never tell whether the method I have in mind is static or not, or how to access elements, (is it loc, iloc, query, [] directly, etc), will the results be a dataframe or a series or straight up numpy array/lists, index issues, etc etc.

If you think that these complaints are not valid or stem from a lack of experience, I urge you to use R first.
Useful degrees like computer science are.. useful. Some of the other ones are almost (or maybe full on) fraudulent and prospects are dim for lots of people. People agree to pay for college out of the expectation that they will receive a salary that justifies that cost. Colleges have a pretty good idea of whether or not someone will have a good chance at a solid career and it seems really fraudulent to hide that from their students.

I think students could benefit greatly if high schools had a class about various degrees, career paths and their salaries. Kids are mostly just picking a track at random without knowing what it entails. I recall having a vague notion of being some kind of business man later in life so I decided to go that route. Thankfully it was boring enough to push me to computer science.
Team USA top the Olympic medal table. Or is it China? Or San Marino?
> I have to trust Mozilla to securely save my passwords and so on

You don't.

Pass, CLI tool from Wireguard's Donenfeld, Bitwarden gets good reviews, etc.
We have hundreds of articles complaining about companies doing stock buy backs... how companies value their shareholders more than their employees. There is even an internet myth that companies have to be maximally profitable if they don't want to be in legal trouble versus their shareholders.

It's really quite simple. Companies grow and make profits. They issue dividends or do stock buybacks and return excess cash to investors. The market might be overvalued but bubbles burst eventually.
Not a bad article overall but I wish the author had spent some time talking about error and exception handling.

At some point code you’ve written is going be called by the framework and throw an exception. Recovery is often more difficult or not possible because you don’t have much knowledge of the calling frame. Are any of these approaches better or worse suited, or do they have any special requirements?

I’m thinking of among other things Java Runnables throwing exceptions and silently killing threads.
My theory - pandemic is mostly a religious event. Mind that much of world religions is mostly anti-epidemic advice presented as God's commands (with some world creation myth and some moral advice on top). So people are prone to react with religious fervor in response to each epidemics.

And since the main purpose of religion is dividing people on Us vs Them (Us - clean and moral, Them - stained and evil) this is exactly what is happening with pandemic. Plus some overzealous virtue signaling.

Rational arguments and rational people are doomed to fail in the circumstances.
Which is why it’s important to continue to push for coal generator retirements and demolition [1] [2] [3] [4] [5], so those plants can’t be restarted. Because given the chance, people would, consequences be damned.

[1] https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2021/07/31/tva-c...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfSNBn47m7E

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzXwx7oMXmg

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D02xWn-JsQ

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYaF6ERQKyM
The universities go out of their way to give this impression by presenting “success cases” and misleading statistics.

Many of these students would rationally believe that studying “film” would lead to a shot in the film industry.
This is for a master's program in filmmaking at Columbia. For the most part we are talking about children of the elite and privileged being taken advantage of here.
I think a good progression for people that cannot do it properly right away is to have something steady in front of you that you can hold with both (or one) arms and allows you to keep the position for longer periods, until your joints, muscles and tendons start adapting.

This is the way I’ve seen different people with different limitations continually make progress until they can do it properly.
The best you can do is raise tech awareness, take apple interviews and cite this reason for not moving forward. Facebook faced constraint not just after a avalanche of bad press but also as the tech workers (employees and applicants) pushed back and worked to improve things. The biggest asset in information economy is the people; the employees can enact change. See many examples in how Google direction has been influenced in military contracts or what not.
There were plenty of long and bloody wars during the High Middle Ages (such as the Albigensian Crusade and the Anarchy, just to name a couple).

I think a large part of the author's point that this is a long period of time (even if we restrict it to 800-1300, that's about the same length of time as between Columbus' voyage and today), covering a large area (even if we restrict it to Western Europe), and it's difficult to come up with a single criteria of comparison.
This is good, because this will make renewables more competitive with natural gas than they already are

Doesn't this also make coal more competitive against natural gas?
Odd, then, that Facebook reported 20.3 million photos to NCMEC last year, and Apple 265, according to the NYT that is.
I actually think Biosphere 2 was quite successful. As an engineering project it failed, but in terms of research it provided a lot of useful data.

The core issue with the design was actually concrete absorbing Oxygen from the interior air. That’s exactly the kind of issue you want to consider if we ever want to actually make sustainable habitats. Unfortunately, they never tried to make a biosphere 3, but I suspect that would have been far less ambitious yet more successful.
Most folks without a home don't want to be seen. Hell, most folks with a home don't want to be seen most of the time (since most peoples' free time is probably spent in their home).

It makes perfect sense that the people in the absolute worst position (severe mental illness or disability or severe, hard drug addiction) are going to be some of the most visible but it doesn't make them a majority.
The lawyer mentioned in the article apparently took eight years to get his Ph.D in physics from Old Dominion University; he worked as a patent examiner for a year or so of that time. He then went to law school at GW, which is a pipeline school for patent attorneys, during which he worked as a "technical advisor" (usually means a drafter of patent applications) and then patent agent for different law firms. After law school, he held several jobs for a few months to a few years each, before opening his own practice, and then co-founding "Insigne LLC." He got his five-year undergrad B.S. in engineering physics in 1992; that would put him at roughly 51 to 52 years old now.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drtquick/
Squatting may have helped because a squat tends to stretch the hamstrings along with all the other muscles down there. It's both a nice stretch and a great exercise.
Put more simply, loans should not be given out when there is a low chance they can be repayed. The term is “loan shark”. That this disproportionally enslaves minority and first generation college students makes it all the more outrageous.
That will never happen. If I were a merchant that accepts Bitcoin I would want to acquire as much today as possible and my desire to adopt it would shrink as its value goes up.

The best years for Bitcoin adoption are already over.
Do you have any sources for either of these claims? This goes against my general intuition (which could itself be wrong)
I felt the same way about the text.

In Bitcoin, it could either be interpreted as exempting both miners and node operators or neither. That is because the Bitcoin node software does both validation and mining, but the economic environment and network topology means typically people running the software will only do one of the two. Very strange turn of events.