skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bachelor degree makes $541,000 more in life time earnings than an Associate's degree, according to your source.

College costs on average $26K and $52K per year[1] according to my google skills. 4 years of college therefore amounts to roughly $100 to $200K, which in fairness you have to subtract from that initial $541K difference. Still a nice difference.

However, the parent poster mentioned plumbers. According to my google skills again, a plumber makes $55,160 on average, compared to the $56,700 bachelor average. That difference is rather small, and a bachelor probably is worse off than a plumber once you factor in cost of education.

[1] https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/student-finance...

[2] https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/plumber/salary
you can basically ignore the effect of your intestinal worm and whatever else by just calculating yourself the amount of calories you need to keep the same weight. Eat 2000 calories and lose 1 pound per week? your baseline is ~2500 calories. Gained a pound? your baseline is ~1500 calories.

The fact you don't absorb it all doesn't change the principle in any way. It just mean you need to recalibrate. But since you can't measure EXACTLY how many calories you're actually eating anyway or that you can predict EXACTLY how many calories you need with a calculator, you need to calibrate anyway. So really not absorbing all calories changes literally nothing about the calorie counting method.

The biggest advantage of calorie counting is it's more reliable than looking at the balance everyday because a ton of stuff will make you a few pounds heavier/lighter at any time it fluctuates too much. The scale doesn't move for weeks and people panic but really it was just random and then they lose 5 pounds on the 5th week and they think "omg, i must have lost all the weight at once because i ate that one apple!" You just can't use a scale short term. But all you have to do is count the calories, believe in the process, and if after months it doesn't work, you adjust your estimate of how many calories you burn and change your diet based on that.
Hello, tone argument.

Throwing a temper tantrum when someone objectively mentions the ideology of a party - threatening to take your toys out of the sandbox - really doesn't help your case in the "superiority" department.

The reason things are so "partisan" is because of the political extremist actions and policies from your party.
Right because conservative = bad and deserving of contempt. This is exactly the type of kneejerk reaction that he is talking about. The 1% do just as well when Democrats are in office, but keep on playing the game ruled by tribe and emotion, see where that gets us.
It was however a pretty good excuse for their woes and a good setup for the big turnaround.
The other thread about earnings was talking about moats and this is a big one. The dinosaur car makers have many layers of entrenched suppliers all optimizing for just-in-time. If you do enough in-house you can redesign around shortages instead of depending on some contract 3 parties removed from you.
one of the things that helps generate new ideas that can be cultivated is the ability to be playful. once a given problem or subject is sufficiently loaded onto a brain, if that person can relax and have child-like naivete about poking and prodding, novel insight is usually not far.

cultivating this ability is fairly well understood in a lot of domains, i think. two examples that are top-of-mind are improv and jazz.
As Alan Kay likes to say, "a change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points".
Sibling comment already addressed this, but for the simple reason that when you are working to protect any asset or resource, including people, you invest where attackers are targeting those assets first.

Most frequently focusing on improving the safety and security of the most vulnerable has a knock-on effect of dragging the level of safety up to a simple baseline.

The frustrating thing about writing an answer like this is that it's necessary because based on your comment history you aren't asking that question in good faith, but others need to respond to it because leaving garbage comments like yours unaddressed is like leaving litter in the neighbourhood park. It's not my job or responsibility to take out the trash, but I like living in a clean neighbourhood.
I didn’t know that. Sounds reasonable.

I had never used Credit Karma’s tax service anyway, but good to know.
If IRS provides a portal to file taxes easily, who do you think will pay for the infrastructure, support and staff? Government? Absolutely but how does government get funds? From taxes. Bingo!
Now the options are :
1. everyone in the country to start paying more Tax so IRS can build and support such system or
2. only folks who have higher income pay a private company to file taxes easily and low income folks file for free

I’ll take option 2, thank you!
Do you know any mass produced car that has built in LIDAR?
If your comment doesn't exist, how can we read it?
No, this is a billionaire in search of rubes to scam.
Most pension funds would be prohibited from purchasing cryptocurrency assets under local laws or applicable financial best practices requirements (which prohibit large investments in highly volatile assets), so it is extremely hard to imagine a future where more than a tiny fraction of pension funds own crypto of any kind.
This divisive rhetoric is what got us here in the first place; a breakdown in civil communication. The blue team mimics the red team in this respect. I wish we could have a more mature dialogue but I wonder if we're past that. Violent communication is normalizing.
The college you're speaking of doesn't exist today. Students are absolutely going to college to be trained for a career afterwards, and they are incurring decades worth of debt in order to do so.

Your vision is good, but its not reality.
Funny, there's a good complement to this* that someone else just posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28947926 _"How to get useful answers to your questions"_

*Complementary to the headline and premise, at least; a bit less so the actual contents.
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How can you say this about Republicans when Democrats and their increasingly radical dogma include such blatant anti-science as: any distinction between men and women is imaginary, that vaccines are better than naturally acquired immunity, that skin color determines virtue, that speech is violence, that COVID is more dangerous to a child than forced isolation, that an unborn child is not alive, etc. etc. etc.

You're damn right people are going to be skeptical of higher education when they indoctrinate in the anti scientific cult of leftism. People are starting to smell the rotting corpse of common sense and rest assured there will be a societal reboot soon enough.
So what if you are ashamed? it’s human nature, you face it and move on. If you think that it’s something that it’s not to be ashamed, you defend your position.

I also suggested a mechanism to stay anonymous as long as you are not causing problems. If you need the anonymity, simply go that route.
That’s not what the southern strategy was. It was a cynical ploy by Republicans to court racist Democratic voters in the south who were unhappy with the civil rights bill. It worked and they switched to the Republican party, which realigned the ideological tilt of American politics.

Not letting the other team get any wins will be known as The McConnell Strategy in the history books, as he has practiced a policy of complete obstruction while in the senate.
If you are referring to this post: https://altinity.com/blog/clickhouse-for-time-series

That post was written in November 2018 - 3 years ago - when TimescaleDB was barely 1.0.

A lot has changed since then:

1. TimescaleDB launched native columnar compression in 2019, which completely changed its story around storage footprint and query performance [0]

2. TimescaleDB has gotten much better

3. PostgreSQL has also gotten better (which in turn makes TimescaleDB better)

In fact, IIRC Altinity used and contributed ClickHouse to the TSBS [1], which is also what this newer benchmark uses as well

(Disclaimer: TimescaleDB co-founder)

[0] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compressio...

[1] https://github.com/timescale/tsbs
Why was this flagged out of the front page?!
Thanks Andy! Yeah there is definitely some platform risk. I'm trying to build a close relationship with Notion which can help a bit. But at the end of the day there is still risk building on a platform. As soon as I can I'll try to be using the official api which will take away some risk. But it's not quite ready yet.
Agreed.

As a workaround, when a video provider is not supported on Roku, what I do is stream video directly from my Android phone to Roku using a free app which is available on both platforms. It is not as convenient as having a dedicated Roku app, but it works.
Okay so I think I understand your objection a bit more. So fish only wants you to define a function called fish_prompt in order to customize the prompt. That function can be defined however you want. It can be in fish’s equivalent of .bashrc (~/.config/fish/config.fish). Putting it in ~/.config/fish/functions/fish_prompt.fish is just leveraging more tooling around shell function autoloading and sane defaults.

You can achieve PS1-like functionality “simply” by placing this bit of code somewhere in your startup:

function fish_prompt
set -l prompt_symbol '$'
fish_is_root_user; and set prompt_symbol '#'

echo -s $hostname (set_color blue) (prompt_pwd) \
(set_color yellow) $prompt_symbol (set_color normal)
end

It’s very verbose but it runs as fast as both bash’s PS1 and zsh’s PROMPT and is much easier for someone new to fussing with prompts to comprehend.

Even as someone who doesn’t use fish day to day, I think fish’s prompt customization is much more approachable. If I had a powerline prompt I wanted to tweak, I’d know to start with `functions fish_prompt` to print out the current contents of the function and have the complete code to how the prompt is built. zsh requires a lot more reading and understanding of the prompt system before you can dig into how exactly it all works. IIRC, most dynamic bash prompts have similar issues. PS1 is just interpolated globals and color codes, creating a disconnect between the prompt variable and the shell functions that update it.
The trick is the realize that US politics today is essentially two groups of people who live in almost entirely separate realities that happen to spatially overlap. Public officials are in the odd state of being observed by members of both realities, but only acting and affected by one of them. The result is that their behavior looks super fucking weird to the other.

It's like watching someone navigate a glass maze that you can't see. The whole time you're wondering why they're taking such a circuitous path. They look like a crazy person to you, but it's because they're avoiding obstacles you can't see.

The reason we have two separate realities is that most of "reality" at the political level comes to voters by way of media. Almost none of us have directly witnessed, say George Floyd protests, abortions, industrial pollution, inner city gang violence, etc. Instead, we learn of these things through the news and social media.

But those in the US have become increasingly polarized. The picture of the world you get from watching Fox News or your Facebook feed if you have conservative friends shows an entirely different world than what someone watching CNN and the politics subreddit sees.

For politicians, winning elections is central. It is the source of all of their power. They know that the way to win elections is to get people on their side to show up and vote. Losing votes from the other side is essentially irrelevant — they weren't going to vote for them anyway. Politicians are fighting apathy, not the opposing party.

So almost all of their public behavior serves to make them appear good to their camp when viewed through that camp's media lens. The way it appears to the other side doesn't matter one bit because it won't significantly affect elections.

Once you understand this, Parson's behavior makes perfect sense. He got caught looking like a dumbass leaking SSNs so he has to do ("do" in the sense of some visible political behavior, not in the sense of solving the actual problem) something. If he frames it as the liberal press are evil hackers, then Fox News is happy to carry that narrative for him. His voters will see that narrative, be satisfied that it fits their worldview, and continue to support him.

The fact that his narrative is nonsense doesn't matter. No one likely to vote for him will ever see that, and those that do see it weren't going to vote for him either. Actually fixing the problem also isn't particularly relevant. Conservative media just wants him to win so won't run bad press if he doesn't fix it, so there's little incentive.

Every year, the US looks more like China Mieville's "The City and the City".
Anecdata, but PHP is still growing outside the valley. It has the shortest effort to MVP measure of all languages. So if you only have money for one part time engineer, you go with PHP.
This just sounds ripe for abuse. Data mining, doxxing, swatting, more and more aggressive ads, identity theft and so on.

Are people toxic on the internet (not just social media)? Yes. Does changing it so people have no protection or privacy change things? It instills fears in them, yes, but does it change human nature? No.

The internet is just a reflection of what we are has a collective. You might not want to admit that we're twisted little things while also being altruistic and creative, but that's what we are, and saying mean things online shouldn't be punishable. Using this privacy to do other less savory things is a whole other issue, but they'll happen regardless and that's why we have people with the authority and tools to persecute those people.

Also, I find it amusing that half the people defending this are also using online usernames with no photo or personal information directly attached to their account (maybe they have it somewhere or they'll give it to you if you ask nicely).
I really like sleep sort because it trades (fundamentally) cycles and memory for time.

In theory you could do this in hardware. Hardware timers are pretty trivial, you could imagine a hardware chip that accepts a number, then writes the value to the next free slot in an array when the time has elapsed. As timers go off, the array fills up. Obviously you need to handle collisions and whatnot but nothing in this screams that you need to go O(n^2).
Agreed, PPP would be better, but my cursory search didn't turn up a convenient list like the one I linked for GDP. (This is a bit like the old joke about a guy searching for his keys 20 feet from where he dropped them, because that's where the streetlight is.)
> retribution is an important social construct

I would like to see evidence to back up your claim - evidence that supports the extension of this idea from the real world to the internet, because you don't get that for free.

Moreover, I can think of far more examples of retribution causing harm in the real world than doing good. Bullying in school, being fired for whistleblowing, being jailed or executed for wrongthink in China, getting slammed with jail time for uncovering criminally bad security on some website, losing your job because a mob on Twitter saw a doctored video of you doing something they didn't like...

Are all of these "very few cases where anonymity is useful"?

> What if we remain anonymous to the discussion parties but guaranteed linked identity to the systems that host us?

That still enables every most of the above abuses - which also happen to be the worse ones.

If you don't have even the potential for anonymity on the internet, then you get suppression of speech by tyrannical governments.

> If someone does something very bad, the identity could be revealed, i.e. doxxed

This reads as an ad for mob justice - and even if it weren't, this mechanism would absolutely still be exploited to that effect.
Are you still pursuing new discoveries ?
Phones as Security Keys in Chrome
“You’re right but don’t say that” is not a persuasive argument.
As I said, I would love hydrogen to be mainstream. I can appreciate an argument that Elon musk has a whole “fool cell” army. I still don’t see the anti hydrogen conspiracy. I follow the space industry and can swine that similar challenges with hydrogen storage exist at 1 atm.

Toyota (and Japan) still haven’t done much H2 stuff for nearly a decade despite their awesome success with the Prius. Would love to be proven wrong.
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There are breakthrough cases in individuals who have been fully vaccinated for ~2 months.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4308373

October 7, 2021:

> During a press conference on Thursday, Taipei City Deputy Mayor Huang Shan-shan (黃珊珊) announced that genomic sequencing revealed that a China Airlines first officer in her 40s, who received her second dose of the Moderna vaccine in early August (case No. 16,377), contracted the Delta variant of COVID-19.
$120k sitting in a fund earning 5% a year for 30 years will be worth $518k.
Republicans have been trying to hold Democrats to a higher standard for 40 years, all the while playing low ball ... it has been a GREAT strategy for them that is nearing end game (courts stacked, gerrymandering, control of state houses, etc)

The "other side" has ZERO capacity/will/desire to ACTUALLY engage in meaningful dialog , but sole goal is to "win" no matter what the cost.

There is no logical appeal that can sway the state-level propaganda and brainwashing that billions have been spent on over the last 40 years.
> Pointless name calling.

you realize you are the one referring to women who do sex work as 'whores'....

> You already have bodily autonomy, you can a) make sure you use a condom or better yet, an IUD b) refrain from sex unless you are OK with getting pregnant.

again showing your misogynist colors; where is male contraception? where is the vasectomy in your list of recommendations/strategies?

> ignore the choice aspect of having sex in the first place.

seriously, you are digging such a deep hole here

> Maybe it is not clear to some people that sex is first and foremost a means of reproduction, and not just pleasure?

um what?
Yes, and I would argue this is one of the goals of asking basic questions. Specifically, when asking foundational questions, one of the objectives I keep in mind is to figure out the scope and my ability to understand the scope of the problem. Understand where that boundary exists is useful information.

Personally, I don't really care about this second-order effect that asking such questions might identify others that don't understand the problem correctly. I think it's, as you say, creating its own bias that pollutes your thinking. I've worked with enough experts outside of my own domain expertise, that this is not something that happens often.
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Trump had a win on getting covid vaccines made

And another one on setting a timeline for getting out of Afghanistan

His administration wasn't very good at running a government, but they still had a couple wins
I propose we actually HIJACK the AI acronym to be 'Advanced Instruments'.

I've had a ranty blog post in my head about this for a while so really glad to see this article.

People are going to use AI forever - but we need to change what it stands for, since they will never switch to using machine learning or ML.
Flagged. From the article:

> The video is produced by Uniting Missouri, a political action committee created by Parson supporters to back his 2020 election campaign. [...] It operates without direct input from Parson on its activities.
What are the other examples you’re referencing?
Boeing's Starliner capsule won't fly this year
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Gotcha! My apologies for not seeing the thread nature. HN threads get me sometimes. :-)
This would solve the problem of identity, i.e., knowing your customer, for decentralized financial platforms worldwide. It's a very real problem that must be solved, in a way that respects everyone's right to privacy. I hope Blania and Altman can pull it off. Kudos to them from trying!

That said, at first glance I thought the headline was for an article in The Onion.
I appreciate the detailed response to my question. But...

> as a general purpose language there are just better options

I don't think PHP ever pretends or tries to be a general purpose language or cutting edge. But I think to say it hasn't evolved is a bit misleading.

PHP has always been a domain specific language.

It is designed to do one thing well: stateless request oriented applications with strong ability to scale horizontally. And for that, it does pretty well.
Disconnection from the end product, specialization, bureaucracy... it sounds like this guy really just needs to work at a startup.

I mean, there are a ton of good reasons not to work at an early-stage company (not the least of which is pay), but:

- You want to be connected to the end product? At a 5-10 person company, you'll be seeing customers (and customer complains) pretty frequently.

- You want to own more of the stack? The "ops team" will be your left arm. Everyone will wear a ton of hats and you can be as full-stack as you want, up to and including non-coding roles like Product or Project Manager if you want to.

- You want to avoid bureaucracy? Hard to have much of that when there's only 1 or 2 other engineers.

I agree with other commenters here - it sounds like the real fix is to just work for a company that fits his preferences better. And given the recent surge in remote work, that's never been easier.
I understand (and happy they exist) most of the frustrated comments here.

However, one thing to this is interesting to me. The idea that access to token of value exchange can (and maybe should) work based on biometrics, just because you exist. I absolutely can’t see how such a thing can be privately owned though.
I don't get what the big deal is here. If you fly United a lot then you will get premium service. It's in recognition of how much money you are making for their business and how much they value keeping you as a customer. Similarly, if you build a large audience on Facebook then you get premium service in content moderating and its in recognition of how important you are to their business.
The smartest minds of the last generation were wasted on building intrusive internet advertising.

The smartest minds of this generation are wasting on crypto.
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From the article:

> https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/OrbOperato...

Wowing the natives with shine and magic. Neo-colonialism alive and well in SV. They have to be self-aware, right? Right?!
Sacha Baron Cohen on ethics
My PiHole blocks the Roku data collection, too
If you look, most trades limit the number of new students they will accept for apprentiship programs. Even if everyone suddenly wanted to be a plumber (or electrictian, etc) they can't get into the programs that will allow them to become certified.

Its not just the trades, in my state, we have had an epidemic of retirements since 2008 for teachers, nurses, and police officers.

yet the programs that are required to get your licenses don't accept any more applicants per year than they did 15 years ago. The gatekeeping has to stop, or at least be increased to allow the market to actually meet demand. But the groups benefiting from that mismatch in demand have no reason to increase capacity.