skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You serious? Did you read his email that was allegedly so offensive the dean drafted an apology letter for him?

I rarely use this term, but – clown world. Absolute clown world. You are one of the clowns, congrats.
The oppurtunity was never equal. It's directly related to net worth which is one of the most unequal things we have.
Can you expand? If the collection of people known as society doesn’t value something, it makes sense that someone studying how do that thing does not end up being valued.
>Almost all students cite getting a better job as a primary reason for attending college.

I think it's interesting how the intent of college has changed from one of creating a philosophy of life to that of essentially a vocational school that may or may not teach the actual skills necessary for a job. From what I can tell this shift goes back as far as the Morrill Land Grant of 1890 in the U.S.

It's also interesting to me how much inertia the system has. When I talk to young students, many seem to go to college because "that's just what you do after high school" or pick a particular school simply because "everyone" has agreed that's a great school without being able to articulate why. Marry that to human resources who require degrees to filter applicants because that's the method "everyone uses" while not being able to articulate what relevant skills that particular degree confers to the job and you get a self-licking ice cream cone.
If you haven't seen "The Birth And Death of Javascript," you should watch it.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
If this is an Ubuntu flavor, you can run the "software and updates" program and set "Updates -> Automatically check for updates" to Never.

https://media.howtofix.io/full/images/posts/2020/11/13/16052...

Other distros may vary :)
>I guess I just don't see what your objection is to their flow

...they're asking for my email in order to let me see the prices. Why do they need my email in order to let me see the prices? Answer: they don't. So, uh, why are they asking for it? I find this bonkers. There are all kinds of Hackers on this site; I consider myself a Computer subtype, but I suppose from the perspective of the Growth Hacker, this isn't strange at all.

>And honestly I see that as sorta worse: it feels dark-patterny to get people to engage with you (in this case, by putting the various hardware option selections first), and then after they've invested the time, require an email address to make that time worthwhile

Question, would you engage in business with a physical store that made you provide ID (or even just an email) before letting you see how much things cost? Personally I go to the liquor store, select some liquor based on price and whimsy, and then I show them my ID to complete the flow. Placing roadblocks in the path of that flow -- I can't see the price without ID, and I can't just whimsically browse the shelves if I have to signal my intent to be there by digging out my ID before I enter -- seems like a bad idea.
College would be worth it if it costs exactly ZERO. Otherwise it’s a scam outside of maybe top 50-75 institutions across the world.
> it opens Apple up for a lot of regulatory scrutiny given that they were able to flip a switch that annihilated a $50b mobile advertising industry, while making their own equivalent data collection opt-out (vs their competitors' opt-in). Even then, Apple frames their data collection option as "Personalize your experience" while forcing other apps to use the phrase "Allow this app to track you."

No, the phrase is “Allow AppName to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites?”

Apple’s text says: “The Apple advertising platform does not track you. It is designed to protect your privacy and does not follow you across apps and websites owned by other companies.”

These are not equivalent, they are the opposite of one another; one is about tracking you across third-party apps and websites, whilst the other is about not tracking you across third-party apps and websites. Of course they need different descriptions.
> It is a western liberal idea because it is clearly laid out in the founding philosophical texts which were written in the west

i completely agree with this. however i think that today the phrase 'western liberal' is taken to mean as policies coming from brussels/washington, instead of ideas coming from the enlightenment period

it is also hard to divide judicial adoption of 'right to privacy' according to geography and political systems. for example, australia does not legally recognize the 'right to privacy' while russia does [0].

also curiously, as somewhat of an aside point, i just tried to find data retention laws in russia and this is best i could come up with:

"The Law on Personal Data simply provides that personal data should not be kept/processed for a longer period than is necessary for the purpose for which it is processed (unless longer processing and, in particular, retention periods are mandated by Russian law or by agreement of the data subject)."[1]

Of course this opens up the possibility for government mandated retenition, but do these laws exist? i would find it very surprising if they do not. does anyone here know? i am talking about written laws, not corruption or rule-of-law factors

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy

[1] https://www.dataguidance.com/notes/russia-data-protection-ov...
I've just signed up for this.

I think "on average more willing to sacrifice privacy over ease of use" is probably a reasonable description of me. I'm not a fan at all of FB though, I have absolutely no trust in them at all. As such, I tried to get my world moved from WhatsApp to Signal. Inevitably I didn't succeed completely (although more than I expected) but now I'm split between those two. Plus I have some people who only communicate via FB messenger, and a few friends on Discord.

To message someone I first have to remember which platform they prefer and then find it in my folder of chat apps. It's not an insurmountable problem obviously, but it does add friction. If I can have that all in one place, cross-platform with a decent UX then that's definitely worth $5 a month to me, plus all the bonuses:

* I am actually moving in a more privacy focused direction. Yes I understand the caveats with bridges, but being on Matrix means that I can start a (slow) process of moving my interactions onto it
* I don't have to worry about backing up my Signal messages (which is a pain to have automatically sync 'offsite' from your phone)
* I can use it as my IRC client (with message history hanging around), etc.

Let me put it another way - I've wanted to be on Matrix for a while but haven't quite managed it. I like the decentralised philosophy, both from a technical perspective and a privacy one but every time I've signed up it hasn't been worth it and/or it's too painful. This gets it over the hump for me (if it's as promised).
I'm not proposing that as a reason for taking an action; it's nothing like a justification for greed or cruelty. Instead, I'm proposing that as an explanation for the shape of the world as we observe it. Technology, capitalism, and human nature combine to make actors who prioritize money more powerful and visible than those who prioritize kindness.

Likewise, I believe that dishonest, wealthy, power-hungry sociopaths make poor political leaders, and yet we seem to elect a lot of those.

Power and morality are not well correlated - they might be orthagonal to each other, or even inversely correlated!
> The present subscription model and the prospect of where an entirely web-based equivalent will lead.

Aka the fact that, regardless of payment model, the latter is basically un-crackable. Photoshop has maintained some popularity, in spite of the SaaS move, because quite a few people can still get it by "sailing the high seas" (some of them pay for a while and then crack, others just get good ol' "releases"). I'm not so sure that turning off that tap for good will be a net positive for Adobe, but I guess we'll see.
I can't help but think that the series of extremely big operations by a fair amount of countries, interpol and resources can't be worth catching 230kg of drugs (which includes a lot of weed) spread over 150 sesperate vendors. The crypto $ amount is also misleading as crypto has 10+x'd quite quickly.

I wish they'd go after the operations that actually hurt people. Hell, you can walk in plenty of places in Berlin (and it's often German authorities in the lead) and spot much worse dealers than those selling online.
Yes, we know FB is bad. This is preaching to the choir.

I want to read an article about how to fix things.
I'll buy "undesirable", for the sake of the argument. But I'm really not clear why you think it is "impossible".

We have had repeated instances throughout history of groups of people practicing common ownership, and they do seem to work reasonably well. (I completely grant they aren't super-popular, but, again, I'm not advocating change, I'm trying to understand why you think this qualifies as "impossible")

What do you think prevents this on a planet-level scale?
there are bridges for several Facebook services which you can self-host
https://matrix.org/bridges/#facebook-messenger https://matrix.org/bridges/#instagram
The two ideas are mostly compatible (and neither assumption always holds):

(Evolutionary) If you generate enough perturbations then some of them are better.

(TFA) If you generate perturbations then most of them are worse.

In the evolutionary case you also explicitly design your model and algorithm to try to generate good perturbations, so the two ideas aren't necessarily directly comparable anyway.
You don't need to rank for "tinder for names" because I doubt anybody thinks that they need that specific service.

The obvious market is expectant parents and you should be focusing on that, either in terms of forum posting, SEO, or paid advertising.

I would look at your competitors. I searched for "Baby Names" and the #1 result I found was this site:

https://babynames.com/

It's hard to beat the power keywords in the domain name but you should understand how people get to that site, be able to explain fluently why your site is better than that site, etc.
IIRC a major sticking point was "antenna diversity": in addition to having something point down, Nav Canada wanted antennas pointing up for space-based ADS-B (NavCanada was an initial investor in Aireon).

But the extra antenna is still a bit pricey, but given Canada's vastness, satellites were the only way to get good overage outside of major urban areas.

NavCanada/Aireon would also be using 1090ES and not the UAT that the US allows for lower-flying GA planes as well.

However, if you're near the US border, your transponder can (IIRC) broadcast that you have an UAT receiver on-board (even if you have an 1090 transmitter), and the FAA's gear may send out UAT data (e.g., weather, UAT planes).

* https://skiesmag.com/features/diversity-matters-canadas-perf...
If i remember correctly, the whole app runs in the browser without a backend which is pretty amazing.
> Why then would these programs continue to survive?

Because the government provides no questions asked loans to anyone willing to attend these programs, and many people don't do their research or simply don't even consider the implications.
There have been quite a few photographic lenses containing radioisotopes: https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Radioactive_lenses

A few years ago I sent an Olympus Zuiko 55mm 1.2 to a friend in Russia. It has thorium in its glass elements. The lens didn't arrive for weeks and he started worrying whether it was lost on the way. He then was summoned by the customs authority to make a statement on the radioactive material he was importing. Turns out, during import they take a radioactivity reading on a container full of packages. This lens alone was radioactive enough to trigger the alarm for the container, and they had to make multiple readings (like in the puzzle with the coins of different weight) to find the radioactive package.

In the end, I think he had to give up the lens.
> Their review workflow, for instance, is innately structured as a dehumanizing pipeline for delivering soundbites of impersonal criticism that Must Be Attended To.

I'm not at all a fan of GH's PR UI*, but this is a very intense characterization. Could you expand on the flaws you see?

*I think it doesn't do its job of presenting information and letting me navigate the change very well.
Depends on how you calculate it.

If had become say a plumber instead of going to university, had lived as cheap as a student with a plumber salary and invested the surplus 100 percent in the stock marked that would be a lot of money now many years later. I prefer not to calculate it.
We're stuck on the market value of a major with no regard for the less tangible benefits to society a discipline may bring. Teaching someone X makes them better at producing business widget Y. But we can't put a monetary value on teaching someone Z to make them a better neighbor, a better voter, healthier, less polluting, etc.
They are as free to be offended or request an appology as the author is to say what they like. Everyone is quite litterally free.

Everyone is also free to judge these people on their actions.
Whether you include "stale" issues to your view of "open" issues or not, those are not triaged. And once closed as stale, they are never getting triaged.
College only has two economic benefits: human capital improvement and signaling of values. My personal experience is my rate of learning in college was much less than on the job experiences. College honestly made me learn how to learn because the lecture model that colleges use does not work well for me. My college benefit was 25% human capital improvement and 75% signaling of values. Also, it was a lot of fun.
Has all the makings of a great move. This should hopefully, let founders focus on the business instead of devoting all efforts towards securing an exit for the investors as the fund nears its cycle end. Particularly, if an investment is made later in the cycle.
And they're broken broken broken, and such by design.

Current app uses Phone as primary and allows for one other-non-phone-device. If you try to log in on e.g. your tablet and computer, or switch between them often, you'll hit any amount of trouble and will get locked out of account.

The current beta has enhancements for multi-device support which may support several non-phone-devices at the same time, even if your phone is offline for short period of time. But it's buggy and your Phone is still your primary and it still won't allow you to sign up without one (it assumes Phone is Me and my life centers around my phone, which is true for my in-laws but not for me:), and the list of limitations is sky high and likely to remain that way.

Whatsapp fundamentally prioritizes end to end encryption; primacy of phone; and convenience of contacts for privacy-non-conscious, over everything else. It is good for those who highly value end to end encryption, for reasons of need or principles.

For those who need multi-device support, Whatsapp is way way way worse than other chat services of today or 1990s. Right now, I am logged in to Hangouts on three computers, tablet, phone and Galaxy Note (whatever we call that these days:). I am available via Hangouts whatever I do and wherever I am. And frankly I find it more private as it doesn't advertise my existence to all my contacts and siphon them off, doesn't require my phone number which is one of my most private pieces of identifying information, and provides me actual privacy and anonymity if I choose, but that's a whole other discussion.

Whatsapp does not, and will for foreseeable future not support my use case. It may or may not be rare, it may or may not be something anybody else thinks is important, but Phone is not the centre of my existence or my sole & preferred method of communication, and as such whatsapp is completely unusable for me. I may be 1% or 0.00001%, and I'm open about that, but this whole notion of "Whatsapp totally works on multi-device" is just getting tiring to misspell - it's right on their FAQ that it is counter-indicated by design by current production version.
Well not to be inflammatory, but aren't you making your life more difficult by doing development on Windows? You could just run Windows in a VM if you need any Windows specific software, and have your main OS be something more suitable for software development.

Of course ideally everything would just work on Windows, and there's nothing wrong with running Windows as your main os, but the reality is that especially bleeding edge software development tools will never be as good on Windows as they are on Linux or MacOS, just because bleeding edge open source software developers generally do not use Windows.
I don’t see Rust becoming mainstream in the enterprise layer anytime soon. 90% or enterprise software consists of a REST API getting JSON payloads and saving them in a DB. The most complex part is often managing the “bus factor”, rather than some technical challenge. You often need just a bit more than VB6.

Rust requires a higher cognitive cost than C# or Python, but doesn’t provide massive improvements in the areas most relevant to enterprise developers (ORMs, JSON serialization, SDKs, etc…)
Yeah, if this was possible, why are the authorities not doing it to catch buyers?
As a confused european: this one word can cause "harm" in the USA?
http://web.archive.org/web/20211026133005/https://www.washin...
Maybe, but AI tooling is becoming relevant and if Adobe plays their cards right that will let them maintain a premium edge for another decade or two.

For sure, though, sod Adobe.
These whistleblowers, whose whistle are they blowing
Airplane mode?
Turn it off?
> unrepentant sexual predator

What is this? I don't have any context.
I think that's because most things that run in the browser aren't using web assembly.
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As a programmer, Rust reminds me of why I fell in love with programming originally.

Among programming languages, there are informally two camps: the academic languages that try out interesting ideas but are tough to use for real things (like Haskell) and the pragmatic languages that get the job done but lag by years in incorporating the best ideas from programming language design (like Python). Rust finds a nice balance in between the two, by being unapologetically pragmatic, but incorporating more modern ideas.
Or, what about factoring in long-term and steady stability as being "worth it"?

There's definitely a bit of insurance and fallback with having higher education that isn't measurable simply by some ROI analysis.

There are a lot of jobs you will never be able to apply to if things go south simply by not meeting the minimum requirements. I was considering a dirt-cheap online MBA once simply for this reason if my biz stuff died (did not pursue).
I think it’s still very similar. Misinformation is still bad stuff but not the worst of it. If a foreign political group was buying billboard or newspaper ads there would be some kind of legal accountability. Instead of ads like this we have troll farms targeting Black and Christian Americans with misinformation. Maybe it’s time there was some kind of legal framework about posts and foreign influence but I don’t pretend to be any sort of policy maker.
Hey, I don't think you should discount all of the great work Apple has done on Safari lately, such as... making tabs ugly and hard to use
On the other hand, maybe people who can successfully graduate college are more conscientious, and are better able to maintain a healthy diet. Proper diet and exercise isn't rocket science, it's just hard to find the motivation to do it.
So basically the Michael Dell equivalent for VC.

Might make sense
Oh no, it's all in-browser apps. I use it when at work by connecting to my server through chrome and using those apps. We only have chrome access at work, in fact all port besides 80/443 are blocked.
Once again I'm skeptical. From where I stand the entire promo reads like FB demanding regulatory capture. Of course it is done in an underhanded way, "Oh, we've been so naughty! We need the firm hand of regulation"

Shades of Castle Anthrax from Monty Python's "Holy Grail".

Maybe others here would like to argue the minutiae, but I see that as largely irrelevant.
Sounds great to me, as a Swede I hate being forced to take 4 weeks consecutive vacation. Would love to instead have 2-4 weeks spread out through the year. It's a stressful burden for me as a single person who's life naturally revolves mostly around their job, to suddenly invent a new life for myself for 5 weeks. I just end up bored and restless, wasting time, even if I travel 4 weeks is just too long. 1 week at a time is perfect really

Edit: And you have to take those weeks in the summer as well, you can't take 4 consecutive weeks in fall, winter or spring. So it's really inflexible. If you want to go hunting in fall, and skiing in March, tough luck, in Sweden everyone "needs" to take all their vacation in the summer for some unknown reason.
Unfortunately in the U.S, it's not really an option if you want to have a high quality of life unless you have rich parents.

I've noticed that the majority of maintainers of a couple of high profile Linux distros are all European; the opportunity cost of doing so in the U.S. is just too high.
We could have a whole talk about that too. Since GitHub added a "move issue to discussion" button, I've been getting a lot of replies like "I'm not sure how to address this immediately so I'm moving it to discussions".

Yet another way to mangle your issue tracker into uselessness. At least this one is manual (for now).
You can demand anything at any time. Doesn't mean you're getting one. He said something that people took offense to. They demanded an apology. He didn't apologize. I'm not sure why this necessitated a blog article, much less one circulated on Hacker News.

For what it's worth, I'm a white guy who grew up in poverty and have seen more than one trap house. I'm uncomfortable about the use of trap house here, because it's ridiculous. Yale Law School is one of the most privileged places in the US. It demeans the experiences of people who have been subjected to actual poverty and drug-infested areas to equate anything at Yale with a trap house.
Obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/radiation/
When speaking with hindsight, it's easy to make the mistake of conflating a point in time where an idea existed/was published (an easy fact to establish upper bounds on through records) with a point in time where that idea was popular and/or taken seriously (much harder to establish and usually localized).
My first thought: Maybe include a link to the ddvault post in the template?

On second thought... maybe not. I could see it quickly becoming a battering ram that just annoys OSS devs. Ultimately, this isn't something users can't improve, it has to be the maintainer. Nagging OSS maintainers is how we wind up with incidents like left-pad. In the most extreme of circumstances, if a maintainer is hiding issues behind the stale bot, it could be interpreted as abandonment and a fork should be made.
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And now every time you want something from the freezer you have to suit up. And forget grabbing food during a snowstorm.
Modern marketplaces don't even use js (and some don't work if you have js enabled) and I expect a higher chance of malware on random clearnet sites..