skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a double standard applied to educational reformers like MOOCs, bootcamps, and video courses.

Education largely does not work for most people who enrol. Most college students do not finish, and something like a third of university students do not either. And even among those students who receive the credential, many are probably able to slide through without actually learning much.

Anecdotally I think you'll find education has a pareto distribution: the top few percent of students learn enormously, the top 20% learn a decent amount, the next 20% or so squeek through with marginal benefit, and the bottom half does not even finish.

The reason I get annoyed is that I think these new, data-driven forms of education shoot themselves in the foot by gathering data. If they just shut their ears and pretended that everyone was learning based on the grades/assessments like universities and colleges do, they might be just as successful.

In other words, the proper comparison is not whether the education is most likely to succeed, but how likely it is to succeed in comparison to other forms. Sort of like those quit smoking aids which reportedly double your success rate of quitting--in a notoriously difficult task like quitting smoking, going from a 3% success to 6% is profound.
That's an interesting point. What interface do they use for the integrated display? It looks like there are multiple sets of chips involved in the physical ports for Thunderbolt or USB depending on what is connected.
I knew System76 had made a nice name in Linux laptops as alternatives to the mainstream. How does Star Labs compare to System76 generally?
It isn't just Lambda School. I mentor for [insert large coding bootcamp here] and I will say things have been going badly across the board for more than 50% of students. They recently had to cut a lot of staff, and completion rates seem to hover around only 50-60% when you take into account all the students they remove from this calculation when they withdraw for "personal reasons". The employment numbers I don't have as much insight into but I have definitely had students who I don't think will get hired easily, and students reach out via LinkedIn 6th months later still looking for a job and wondering if they can work for me.

That said, two of our best junior devs (at Arist YC S20) are Lambda School and Ironclad grads respectively, and neither of them had any background in programming and went right from bootcamp into their current positions. So it definitely works for some people.

One thing I've tried to emphasize with my mentees is the need to go beyond the curriculum (because it simply doesn't cover enough) and do personal projects. I always tell them the narrative about how back in the early 00s, the only resources available were things like w3schools.com, documentation, and the occasional dubiously accurate blog entry. I was able to learn almost everything I learned not for the sake of learning it but because I wanted to build X or Y. Bootcamps will teach you a vertical slice of some skills that are relevant in [current year], but they do not do a very good job of getting you started on a lifelong process of self-learning and side projects, which is the only way you get anywhere in this industry. Plus the only way to stand out when you went to a bootcamp anyway is having a very exceptional github profile with open source contributions that demonstrates you actually have an interest and do things beyond what is required by the bootcamp.
>Back when the one-click Kodak dominated, most pictures—unflattering, off-center, accidental, overexposed, and everyone as red-eyed as vermin—were not worth keeping.

The author appears to be referring to the point-and-shoot/disposable era (where the cheapest cameras often had no focusing mechanism), which might have been the nadir of photography, looking at "average photograph."

Photographs taken on good film by a moderately-skilled photographer with an SLR or rangefinder camera from the 1970s (or even earlier) look great.

Here's an example from ca. 1945: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppprs.00004/
Hah. Same. Disappointed about the subject, and the use of "Amish" is misleading.
Not much new AFAIK. Of the "big three" racial/ethnic groups, Whites and Hispanics are underrepresented and Blacks are overrepresented, which has been the norm for a long time.

I don't know why they don't release the same data for convictions though. Hate crime hoaxes are more than common enough to distort the results.
How are such precise measurements possible? Have you got an intro reading? I just don't get how we could have found and cancelled all the sources of noise on something like this.
" China has successfully transitioned into a mostly capitalist economy while keeping the one party control."

Well, so have we. I'm being 70% sarcastic.
Interestingly enough, I watched this growing up in Saudi Arabia. In the late 80s, early 90s there were only 2 TV channels.

Channel 1 was in Arabic. Channel 2 was mostly English and had a lot of old school American programs. We watched sesame streets, the electric company, old episodes of Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes.

I can't say it taught me how to read, but it taught me English for sure.

> Take the detective character Fargo North, Decoder (get it?), who would solve missing letter mysteries. "Kids don't know Fargo, North Dakota," Fowles points out.

There was a show my wife watched when she was a kid in Florida. One of the main character was called LaCienega Boulevardes. It sounded like any other name. Until a couple years ago she moved to California. She started laughing hysterically when we drove on La Cienega Blvd.
COVID and global warming are both proving how medieval these conditions are.
> They didn't test a game with a native version.

If the native version doesn't exist then... gamers don't care?

Gotta get those games ported over
> I think the basic unit of democracy is the citizen, and the citizen is not a private person. Being a citizen means participating in public life, and public life brings with it, trust, accountability and reputation.

I disagree with this, mostly for the reason that the requirement for trust, accountability and reputation to exist in a society is different person to person when conditioned on wealth. If I have massive wealth, I can participate in society and democracy entirely anonymously. I vote, which is anonymous, and that's it. I have no requirement for trust, accountability and reputation.

Not only that but trust, accountability and reputation are all subjective measures based on who is measuring them. Mark Zuckerberg is trustworthy, accountable, and has high reputation for some folks at FB, while a large number of other people would disagree with that. Who's opinion matters? Has his measures of trust, accountability and reputation changed over time? Additionally, trust, accountability and reputation don't matter to him if he's still one of the richest people on earth.
Yeah, really felt like they were too zoomed in on one effect of a mindset shift. They could just as easily have said "cats lead to increase in resignations without a solid financial plan in place."
macOS 12 Monterey: The Ars Technica review
The piece: "ZOMG that's a $6,000 office furnishing budget per employee!"; Also the piece: "Over 10 years, and that includes various moving and storage costs including things like emptying a building of all furniture before renovations begin, and that includes stuff like conference room tables and who knows what else, so it's not like employees personally got the benefit of anywhere near that $600/yr" (and yes, I checked, the $6,000 is the over-10-years figure, not per year, which would be way too much, plus they're dividing by a number of employees that's significantly lower than what they had for some of those years)

Yes, some furniture pieces are very expensive. No, that's not always unjustifiable. Nice furniture that works well and will last continues to cost actual money—compare it to Ikea or Ashley Furniture or whatever, and it'll always look expensive. It's also possible they're under restrictions, explicit or implicit, about where they can spend that money—your budget-tier options are going to be limited or nonexistent if you're restricted to American companies, for instance. Given these figures, what they were not doing was giving any significant percentage of their employees insanely-nice furniture.

I'm also curious how many of the top-end items the piece singles out were for political appointees' offices. That could be corruption, sure, but it's a very different kind of issue from the EPA itself having a spending problem.

Meanwhile, $600/employee/yr seems well within the bounds of normal.

Piece is bullshit.

[EDIT] it's also—and this was the most credible-looking source I could find for this, mind you—some guy "reporting" on figures that an organization he heads came up with. Check the about-the-author bit at the bottom. So. There's that.

[EDIT EDIT] I just checked Herman Miller's price book. That $15,000 conference room table the article calls out (inattentive reader: "Oh my god, my dining room table only cost $300 at Ikea, that's insane!")? Based on what I'm seeing, it must have been enormous. Think "20 feet long" enormous. Tables that big are expensive. Are there cheaper ones? Yes. Are 100% of tables that size—which are in limited demand—going to seem absurdly expensive when presented this way? Also yes.
An account only requires an email address, I think. I'm wondering what they could share with TV Licensing that would allow them to correlate with a TV License. Are you going to have to use the same email address going forward? Or enter the license number or something?
The Semantics of Jamstack
The biggest change is the built in redis caching, which I believe needs to be implemented before the async ORM
Just an old monitor (2 actually, I mirror it on the other side of the wall) - 17in - I don't think it's even 1080.
I read all of Google antitrust filing — either Google is screwed or society is
Is this a real thing? What happens if you make a trade on a boat in international waters?

Same rules would apply I expect.
I would demand a clause that says you will be paid a minimum of X hours per week if you've spent that time on underestimated tickets.

Eg:
even if I take on "5 hours" of tickets, but spend 40. I will at least be paid 25 hours. Basically a kind of floor on what you will be paid. Then you have discretion if you spend beyond the floor on a ticket.

Also the employer is setting themselves up for your cherry picking over estimated / fair estimate tickets and refusing to do under estimated tickets.
> …with a high dpi screen and 120hz refresh

Having shopped it recently, the desktop monitor market is abysmal right now. To get a monitor remotely comparable to the new MBP internal displays you're looking at spending $3k on one of a tiny handful of FALD displays which run hot enough to need a fan and have worse DPI, or rearranging your desk setup to accommodate a 48" LG OLED TV which is subject to burnin with serious usage.

Apple can't release those lower-priced 27" displays that've been rumored soon enough.
"Hey you guys" was always fun to hear on the TV. I was born about a decade later so it also instantly reminds me of another show that was on after The Electric Company: 3-2-1 Contact. That theme song always got my little heart going too.
Uff, happened again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27614742
Re Highway fatalities there are two reasons that come to mind. Many poor people are being pushed to suburbs. Since they don’t own cars so they have to brave crossing roads that were never meant to be crossed by pedestrians. Also historically freeways were built through poorer urban communities.
I get the impression that virtually everyone in Developer Division understands this - except senior leadership.
In the case of your JSON lookup table, as long as the damage was to the tune of < $50 and you don't need to run those jobs frequently, I wouldn't spend too much time on it.

I would ask for documentation and put a few notes about what to do if you started needing to run those jobs on a frequent basis - because it can be difficult to predict whether or not that one-off script that someone hacked together is going to become a foundational pillar of your product.
I don't think categorizing obesity as important for economic activity is accurate. There's many more angles to promoting a healthy lifestyle than just consuming less. For example: eating healthier (more expensive*), buying a gym membership / joining a sports club, hiring a personal trainer / dietitian, purchasing exercise equipment, etc

*Yes, you can eat cheap and healthy, but this often comes at a price of convenience. Healthy convenient snacks tend to be more expensive. You can also charge more for leaner/free-range/grass-fed meats, healthier cooking oils like extra virgin olive oil, etc
What would change if everyone was vaccinated? What is the goal or end game here?

If vaccines wane in effectiveness, does the booster work towards the same goal as vaccines?
Nim is my all time favorite language. The devs deserve this and more.
Was mandatory monitoring of your bank accounts spelled out in the agreement?
For the people who need that security, it's often over something that could get them physically harmed or even killed. For example, there are a lot of places where simply being part of a homosexual relationship could mean death if discovered.

I don't mind paying a little bit more if it means people living under certain regimes have a better chance at survival.
I would rather they did less well
Heavier car doesn’t mean it can’t stop well.

If the larger car also has a larger tire contact patch and larger brakes, it can stop just as fast as the smaller vehicle. This shown by many performance SUVs and various other vehicles that weigh in 5000lb+ but somehow come to a stop about as fast as their 3000lb counterparts. Consider the Tesla model s plaid - it has a super fast acceleration rate yet is also stupid heavy. If it can accelerate super fast - it can also stop super fast because the tires work well in either direction.

I’ve watched enough brake tests of cars to see this pan out. It’s all about the tires and brakes. Weight doesn’t matter that much when the manufacturer accounts for it.
They cancelled his program before he finished it.

Income share agreements are just disingenuous loans, eventually most people are going to get to $50,000 a year even if it has nothing to do with their education. At least a loan is upfront about what you're going to pay, I sure wouldn't give my bank account information to some sketchy company.
Cryptocurrency is a divisive topic on HN. For better, for worse, pro or con.
Since I've been asked a couple of times in the threads for Node-RED examples, here's my home automation write up from a couple of years ago:

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2019/01/13/1900

These days I've changed the setup a bit and now take advantage of Node-RED's debugger plugin and Projects/git features, but the rest still applies.
We definitely only get wooden-handle hammers. They're considered commodity so it's "cheapest that gets the job done." I end up buying my own pens, note pads, etc. because the government ones are so bad. (It's possible I'm committing an ADA violation but I'm not a fiscal specialist so I'm not sure.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_parachute
Apple Releases macOS Monterey
> while Eastern Germany was looted by the Soviet Union

This.

All manufacturing capability of USSR was based on equipment looted from Eastern Germany.
I was thinking along the same lines but with mobile phone usage in cars in particular. It's the fastest growing contribution to car related fatalities in the last decade and as a result laws have been passed for exactly that, in addition to a cultural shaming of distracted driving.
Mapping neurons in brain involved with social interactions with others in groups
As another commenter said, it's a reference to an internal parody video about how hard it is to do simple things at Google. It was made with some video generation software with stock animated characters and synthesized voices. I found Broccoli Man playing another role here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d0TVpCIyLY

In the internally famous Google video, Broccoli Man was the jaded production-savvy SWE/SRE who told the earnest SWE (Panda Woman, I think?) what hoops she needs to jump through to launch her service. Among the most famous lines: her "I just want to serve 5TB of data" to his "I forgot how to count that low".

The video had a huge impact because it was funny and had more than a little bit of truth to it. Lots of Google infrastructure was oriented toward huge problems and required the same heavyweight processes for things that aren't so huge. It inspired a bunch of changes to simplify deploying small (by Google standards) services. Many small things are still difficult at Google, but a bit less so now.

I've only said and heard "I forgot how to count that low" as a reference to this video, making fun of the unexpected difficulty of doing something small rather than actually making fun of someone for wanting to do something small.
And I wonder how often a candidate actually follows up to ask why they failed and whether many interviewers will give honest/complete answers.
How to add analytics event tracking in SwiftUI (the elegant way)
Feh. I have plenty of blurry photos with my fancy iPhone 6. Or backsides of things walking out of frame because it takes so long to boot that the moment has passed.
Message passing at first seems interesting and neat and useful. It is for some cases. But it comes at a cost of complexity and latency.
> speeding, drinking, texting, failing to indicate turn

Are these not already against the law? BY no means am I asking to repeal these sensible laws.

Also, I dunno what I'd wager any more. I used to think that people would not accept being forced to hand over personal medical information to enter a location to prevent a disease with an incredibly low deathrate for most of the population and with an incredibly low deathrate for the remainder of the population with a freely available drug, but everybody else seems to think this is normal.

Or like, after 9/11, I thought having your nudes photographed by the government to enter an airplane would be considered a gross violation of privacy, but now having a pornographic photoshoot / assault is considered totally normal at the airport.

It seems to me people are increasingly willing to trade freedom for 'security'.
> ...any machines which come close to the M1 for software dev?

If you can stand using macOS, that is.

Personally, I'll continue using Linux because that's where all my software gets deployed to and macOS simply can't approach the value of that or the value of open source. On a Mac, you'll be fighting the OS the whole time.

If speed was all that mattered, Mac users would have left Apple a long time ago because this is the first time they're faster than a PC.
Ponzi type scheme. They want to use funds from investors for Orbital Reef to fund their existing efforts.
The words "just" and "cache" should never appear in the same sentence.
Since this is just going to be connected to DNI-U / NIPRNet at most, so only unclassified / sensitive but unclassified, it probably is more "Enterprise-Ticks-All-The-Boxes-Secure"
Its kind of interesting how all these other companies need to combine their efforts, no company really has a shot to compete by itself outside of SpaceX.

SpaceX has the massive rockets, crew vehicles, cargo transporters, experience with human space flight and are vertically integrated to build these station modules as well.

Blue Origin has the big rocket to launch it (at least in theory). Boeing has the crew transport (again in theory). Sierra Nevada has the cargo transport (at least in theory).

Will be interesting what design SpaceX will come out with. They often surprise. Many people believed they would bid Starship for the Lunar Station resupply but they came out with Dragon XL. Many people didn't believe SpaceX would use Starship to bid on Human Lander for the Moon landing.

I would be shocked if its not designed around Starship. But the question is if they would just launch huge modules with Starship or literally build the station out of Starships. You could even use the gigantic tanks of the Starships as living room. You just need to make the likeable in orbit.

I hope the integrated something to test different G forces. Would be great for testing things that need to work on moon, mars and so on.

P.S: Those that have missed it, Lockeed Marin and Nanoracks are another competitor. That system seems smaller and they can use current rockets and they will use Dragon for Transport. See: https://spacenews.com/nanoracks-and-lockheed-martin-partner-...

Axiomspace will almost certainty bid something too. They are working Thales Alenia Space for manufacturing.

So far Northrop Grumman is not in any of the camps as far as I know.
3 years for SD card is very long. Mine requires SD card replacement after 3-4 months. I hate that storage medium.
The team actually became part of a company-wide effort called Client Foundations! And no, we haven't changed our mind on this. (BTW we're hiring. :))
Not really. It depends on the mirror size and geometry. Not to mention many are starting to use an array of video cameras.
It is clear by the mention of "several orders of magnitude" that we are talking about a database which fits in a few MB of disk space on a machine with a few GB of RAM.

If the interviewee has never worked with a database which would fit in the memory of the machine, and if the company only deals with such databases, then it is clear that it was not a good fit. Failing the interview does not mean that the interviewee is bad, just that they don't know how to count that low, and thus were not the person for the job.
The first BTC usage I remember (before hearing that it was also used to buy drugs) being talked about was poker players using it to do "person to person" transfer between poker sites. Someone had money on PokerStars and you didn't but wanted some immediately. That person would send you $100 on PokerStars (using a "player to player" transfer) and you'd sent that person 200 BTC (back when BTC was at 50 cents). This was kinda common on poker forums between regulars (sadly I was too dumb to realize the value back then).

Sure it was gambling but it was neither black market nor money laundering.

P.S: an estimated 3% to 5% of the world's GDP is linked to criminal activities. There are hundreds of politicians in the Pandora papers. Money laundering predates cryptocurrencies by a very long time and it's a problem on a whole different scale.