skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've hit the nail on the head here.

Education is primarily a prestige product. Secondarily, the social and alumni effects of the network around you when you attend. Thirdly, it is the college campus experience. Fourthly, it is what you actually learn.

If you just price the value of each of these four pieces, the dynamic in the market is completely explained. Community college still provides learning, but not much on the other three factors. That is, it has become poor value for the fees it charges despite them being lower in absolute terms than prestige schools.
Today, I saw a police officer rescue a dolphin from a fishing net. I just need an assurance that he hasn't withheld information on a fellow officer before, or that all of his police reports have matched the bystander recollection, video evidence or subsequent investigation. I want there to be major consequences for these "little white lies" that are greater than "the thin blue line" of not snitching. Then I could exalt any particular officer if they make it through the dragnet. I propose mismatches to trigger RICO Act style consequences on the officers, DA, pensions and the unions, as it incentivizes related nodes in the system to enforce behavior to prevent that. Its just a starting point, I would accept some movement towards something more agreeable.

I think this is a good compromise because it allows officers to still make split second decisions, which seems to be a recurring concern amongst them, just an incentive to make more collaborative decisions. an incentive which is lacking right now.
The FBI's Honeypot Phones Were Widely Distributed in the U.S.
Oh neat! You did the Harder version and didn't use the game's own code to check it. I find that with JS games it's better to imitate the game's exact logic and call it's functions to make sure the state is working/updates correctly.

Of course, for how delightfully simple this one is, your approach is definitely faster/better!
> 1. You can also start your own business with a college degree. Let’s compare like for like here.

A degree is not required at all to start a business. Evidence: Microsoft, Dell.
Alan Kay has similar talks where he has some subtle condemnations of what the industry as a whole has devolved into. He uses terms like Cargo Cult and he calls out the wide spread hubris for not knowing and/or actively ignoring the history of the field.
I totally agree with you and I was also worried about uncouth behavior. That said, and not to undercut the smartness here, I have memories of this being the main mechanism to authenticate third party services to the SomethingAwful forums.

I have vague memories of thinking through how scraping could be used for much easier global authentication and then quickly how that was probably a dumb idea.
was wondering why they were using old PG's :-)
I very much agree. But this is written in a somewhat "this is bad" style and misses the "you should do this, instead" part. This article contains both: https://talktotheduck.dev/debugging-the-technical-interview-...
Also there are SFP ONU modules for GPON/EPON, I've been using one (with RTL9601C chipset) for a year and it works great, fiber cable directly to the router or switch, no more shitty ISP ONU & router.
Yup, or even if just one of the vehicles is in the way and the person with the keys is nowhere to be found it could cause a huge problem during an evacuation.
It's a reference to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving

The author is saying "Yes, I know I've built something that's not very useful here"
I solved it by starting my own company :-)
Police are excellent at protecting capital.

It's just that as the allocation of capital becomes increasingly unequal, more people are starting to question why we spend so much money protecting capital.
Yes, there is a really stupid thing you can do in Python, which is to add a property to an existing object, which is then available via obj.name syntax. It's not declared in a class or anything.
I similarly have a “tech blog” that only a couple of non-tech friends know about (admittedly it wouldn’t be hard to find if someone searched for it, but who would want to do that). It’s good writing and thinking practice, especially because when my friends read it they make fun of it in ways that help me clear up my writing, even if they don’t fully understand the content.

Maybe one day I’ll post it to hacker news.
The number was 12. It was discontinued in the early 2000 IIRC. You would call, get a human operator and could make complex queries like get the number of somebody you knew the sound of the name (but not the exact way of writing it) in a town or around a specific area, and the operator would help you find the number.

Also in France, 15 is medical services, 17 is the police and 18 are the firefighters. By calling 112 anywhere in Europe you'll get an English speaking operator that can dispatch any emergency service.
Gettr Promised Users It Would Free Them from Big Tech, but It's Still Tracking
With the volatility of BTC recently, this video seemed timely. Interesting take on how the fluctuations in price (including the dips) actually strengthen BTC.
I've done enough work in data collection and stats to know that generalized statistics are almost always associated with false conclusions that avoid context of their data. An org will not advocate against itself willingly because it's workers like their jobs. Therefore, I trust the bill that many students have. The evidence I have readily available concludes that scholarships are rare, student loans aren't enough, and students have become cash cows.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving
But IC interconnects have a very small cross section, so for them this problem is much more pressing.
> If it really is 5% (1 in 20 girls) then this would outrank something like COVID in terms of importance.

If you want more information on this, Besser van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score, considered to be one of the definitive books on the study of psychological trauma, discusses this in Chapter 10, "Developmental Trauma: The Hidden Epidemic".

While I don't have the book in front of me to quote explicit statistics, the chapter references a number of research studies backing up the conclusion of the doctor in sandworm101's comment.
Data structures and algorithms are important to very important in software engineering and I think it's quite right to include questions on them in interviews.

But that's not the same as knowing by heart how to implement non-trivial algorithms. There's the green lumber fallacy.

To have a feel for the 'right' data structures and algorithms to use for specific problems is a key skill. But then the detailed algorithm is only one Google away these days, although I would expect someone to be able to derive the simple ones themselves.
Billions might be a little oversized.
How we migrated 541 components from Styled Components to Emotion with zero bugs
It is important to develop the confidence that you are not actually wasting time reading something which feels as if you understand almost none of it.

It is counter-intuitive because it tends to feel a little bit like a small child who has not yet learned to read, picking up a book and pretending to read by mimicking what the behavior looks and sounds like.
I meant that as "unhappy with the potential topping out at" rather than "unhappy having topped out at." But that isn't the central point anyways.
Absolutely. and this is a view shared by prominent US national security officials, that it is the United States that has caused this crisis.

https://theanalysis.news/is-nato-for-security-or-aggression-...

Remember, it was the United States that broke the promise to not expand NATO after the fall of the Soviet Union.

> Paul Jay

>Crazy! Larry, how much of this is driven essentially, really by what domestic politics, that you get this saber-rattle and look all huff and puff on both sides, not just the American and west side, but the same thing goes for Putin, satisfying the nationalist fervor in Russia. And two, and maybe this is the most important thing, continuing this rationale of enormous arms purchases, and NATO helps keep all these countries within at least the Western arms market and mostly the American arms market, but they can’t be serious about actually fighting? They know what a shitstorm that leads to.

> Larry Wilkerson

>I hope you’re right. The history of warfare, especially major warfare in the last 200 years or so, doesn’t support that logic. Let me go back to something Yves said. I think one of the greatest travesties of US foreign policy in the last 25-30 years, and that’s a lot of things, including the invasion of Iraq, was the violation of Jim Bakker and Eduard Shevardnadze, and ultimately Reagan and Herbert Walker Bush, and Gorbachev’s promise that NATO would not go one step further East if Germany were allowed to reunify and remain in NATO.
What little I know about the subject suggests it has to do with retention. It seems users of VR are much more likely to pick it back up after the initial honeymoon phase has worn off if the whole "picking it back up" process is just strapping on a headset rather than involving a second device, pairing it, etc. The less friction the better.
Interesting. However, it requires your trust to the service. So probably the identity user shall build and host such service by themselves.

Or a more trusty solution is to make the identity verifiable. Oh, did I say Keybase(the former one not acquired by Zoom)?
My nephew did community college (free) for two years and transferred in state to the UC system which is about 14K a year. He qualified for some grants/scholarships which covered more than half the cost for each semester. He was able to pay off his school loans in his first year out of college. School costs are insane, but there are easy ways to save considerable amounts of money.
2. Your stats are incomplete- how many of these people already have degrees? What’s the breakdown between that and wages? What’s the median pay for college graduates who go into the same professions?

3. Not cheap compared to what exactly? College graduates generally get paid more money over the lifetime.
Are not all humans biased in one way or another

This appears to be binary thinking. There are nearly infinite degrees of bias. Strong emotions are one way to ensure that someone is heavily biased. That's what the jury system is trying to avoid.

So someone who has never been abused can still be biased in literally any way. But the presumption is that without having such an emotional personal experience with it means they are less likely to be heavily biased. They'll be more likely to be swayed by the testimony in court rather than their experience outside of the court room.
4 000 out out 330 000 000. So 4 out of 330 000. That's a bit more than 1.2 every 100 000.

Good luck with those odds!
White House will meet execs from Apple, Amazon, IBM to discuss software security
I have no first-hand knowledge: I am just going by what ESG, who does have experience with EPA and related filings, explains. So, for more detail, read there.

I don't know what happens with fraudulent environmental impact filings in a nature preserve, or how people like the Kochs succeed in weaseling out of them. What happens with SpaceX should be instructive. I imagine most other violators try not to attract attention.
Would be interesting to come up with a nice use case now with this.
Alternatively...

validate (client side) => insert using sql parameterization (escaping) => escape per context when outputting

Sanitizing is the idea that you are cleaning dangerous things from the original input (different than validating which is disallowing user's to input characters that don't conform to what your program expects).

One BIG issue here is that validation is generally clear to the user ("That is an invalid email address") whereas sanitization normally doesn't consult or inform the user that there were changes and may result in unexpected things happening from a user perspective.

From article: name is "John O'Brien" now displays as "John OBrien" (this is a trivial example but still an issue)

The name thing is a great example of things you might not expect your users to do but are still totally valid use cases. Sanitization can be Extremely frustrating from a user perspective.
My wife has a doctorate in occupational therapy and works as a hand therapist, when pay is the only metric looked at you really do miss a lot.

The body condition of construction workers, fork lift operators and even welders is worn down and in pain.

Not to mention, they have to live with unfair medical standards. When she does hand strength assessments for workers comp the number is based on natural average. So lets say a normal office worker squeezes on the test at a score of 100, a construction worker squeezes at 320. Workers comp says they can return to work if they can squeeze at like 120. Which terrifies the construction workers but they won't get any more time off.
Simply due to evidence of criminal behaviour, which mounted up in the last years.
Omni helps you use Chrome like a pro
Shocking that this is getting upvotes.

The only way to treat this as gospel is to never be present with another woman alone.

That the tech industry is so inept with opposite gender interactions that they have adopted tactics from religious zealot evangelicals is APALLING.

Treat people as humans. Regardless of gender or sexuality.
Global leaders are terrified about ‘social cohesion erosion’
Only people who never have to deal with the police say things like this. Their only experience with policing is reading articles about how evil cops are.

edit - people are responding with anecdotes of the police being unhelpful. The comment I responded to suggested that the police are never helpful.

If police presence is diminished, who is going to lose? Not HN posters. Likely working class people.
Yes, a long bus is like a resistor-capacitor delay circuit. You can speed it up by using a bigger driver for more current, but that takes up more space and adds its own delay. I expect that the bus in the Xbox is split in two, with a second driver in the middle. This makes the first half faster, but the second half of the bus probably takes another clock cycle, which would explain the observed behavior.
In this case, the rolling guy does lay off after 2200h. It’s the hobo who is over my bedroom and makes noise at all hours.

But that said, you’re right. A friend commented I should have bought the hobo a pair of slippers as a house warming gift. I will totally do this next time someone moves in above.
Would you be ashamed if your child was a forklift driver? The world needs people to do useful things, and we shouldn't shame people for doing useful things.
What? you slam that post for not supplying the information and yet state
>[trades] are not welcoming to women at all
/ last time I looked at ANY trade, they are begging women to come WORK. Maybe that's what you meant though
Yep. Squeenix really jumped the shark on this one. I have become an expert in disengaging. We're in an attention economy and I have wrestled back control of my attention. If they want a slice then they'll need to abandon dark patterns.

I know I'm not alone in this. The noise levels are at all time highs and people naturally have developed a sense of tuning out by default and carefully tuning in.
Well in the past employees got ISO's. Now employees are getting RSU's.

And in our lawsuit-happy culture (with a perverse incentive for companies to always settle lawsuits even when they can win), even the most employee-friendly place probably needs such an agreement for CYA reasons.

I do agree ecompanies can do a much better job of treating employees like partners instead of "resources" to optimize. Even on HN, we have fellow engineers talking of the importance of (soul-crushing) processes that ensure no one is essential. As if it's undesirable to let anyone be special or important...
I expected billing problems, or maybe reliability problems, or maybe horrible support... but the reasons turned out to be: "would not let me assign a floating IP to her load balancer." and "does not have integrated DDoS protection"

Someone really had pampered life -- this does not look like core functionality at all. I'd expect any service to have limitations like those.
Stafford loans are not a thing anymore since 2010.
Cryptpad is licensed AGPL. Some people might see that as an advantage over Skiff.
Question - are you affiliated with HN/YC at all? If not, I would be concerned about the colors/branding on the homepage being the same as HN/YC. I see the word “unofficially”, but it feels like there still might be some confusion of how it relates to YC’s software.
It's not in the "future", it is a lived reality of many men and women today because of something that happened in the past.

Some women can be high functioning in every other aspect of their life and be rather well adjusted to being asexual.

In theory a woman could benefit from several years of therapy and hard inner work but it is going be much less fruitful if they are doing it because of somebody else.

A man can be completely dedicated and loving towards a woman who isn't responsive, want to grow old with them, be giving love in many ways and be very willing to give more and very motivated to work towards change but face the reality that anything they do is "pushing on a string"

It's a cruel reality that Aella's sexuality is worth $103,000 a month but that a man's sexuality is worth negative. A man who comes clean in public about their experiences and feelings inevitably attracts insensitive comments and abuse simply because of their gender. It is one of the many double binds that we face that we're told on one hand that we're supposed to open up emotionally but we get consistently punished when we do so.
Community security is important, and it's the sort of thing that you don't really realize is so important until it goes away and has been gone long enough that bad actors know they don't have to worry about it. Think inner city gangs, narco states, that sort of thing. You end up with de facto "security" provided by whoever is vicious enough to maintain local power hierarchies by force.

The way that the police are organized in the US, and the way they operate, is causing lots of needless harm and injustice. To my mind, the big question is, how do we substantially reform those failings while maintaining (or, god forbid, improving?) community security? There are lots of ideas out there, but the US sadly doesn't seem to be in a place where broad and substantive reforms are likely any time soon. Perhaps some local governments will provide effective models of a way forward, I'm still holding out hope.
It works because people want to buy things, as I said at the beginning of this exchange. Advertising works with them, not against them.
Because the PC or laptop required to run a dumb terminal well is more powerful than most people have. By selling an AIO unit you have a console like uniformity of hardware and ease of use experience for both the devs and the customers.
Cannabis mandates now!
> Nobody said they were worth that much

Four years of a young person's time is worth tens of thousands of dollars. So beyond the direct cost of education, that is the opportunity cost, to the individual and to society. I think that's money well spent for e.g. a proper liberal arts degree. It isn't for a piece of paper pursued for its own end.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29901824.
Maybe not, but think of the political applications.
"Largely" does not mean what you seem to think it means.
Show HN: Create animations by dragging an element with your mouse
Latency and bandwidth.

We push about 3.4 GByte/s (or 27.5Gbit/s) to our displays. Even a 26Gbit/s DP1.4a HBR3 link needs display stream compression for that. So a wireless link will absolutely need strong compression.

H.265 can push that to maybe (ballpark) 200Mbit/s, which is fairly feasible. But that will need to be evaluated and optimized for text quality and latency. Some googling suggests 100ms end-to-end latency as good. That's pretty high for VR, IMO.

[Edit: fixed the DP1.4a bandwidth)
Sometimes, you just sanitize input for user reasons. The username and password above are different ASCII strings. The non-tech savvy (very elder) user does not know the difference between "`" and "'" which means they are locked-out. This results in phone calls to support, which in volume result in "fix the password field"

See
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html
Violence against women and girls is endemic, and the scale is shocking. We must do everything possible to promote safeguarding and protect womens spaces.
I've come across "My job is to eliminate my job."
This is not what my links say. Do you have your own references?
This can disadvantage those people in other ways though. Just trying to get work done, it helps to be able to drop into someone's office without arranging for a chaperone. Or stopping by somewhere without checking the number and gender of people who will be there ahead of time.
Sometimes I learn the name for something and think "I've noticed that thing before but never had a name for it, but this fits!". I'd never heard the term 'social cohesion erosion' before reading this article but honestly, it fits my mental model of how things have been going over the past couple of years.
That seems like a win-win -- it separates the XP-chasers from the "play for fun" cohort, so they don't annoy each other.
> In addition many are not welcoming to women at all

Economists are now finding that as more women move into a profession, the pay goes down. Similarly, when computer programming moved from a female dominated profession (early days) to male dominated (now) the pay went up. Medical fields that have higher proportions of women have lower pay. Along these lines, as college skews more female (college grads are like 60/40 female/male now) the "college grad" professions are having a declining wage premium compared to non college grad jobs.
Yes, exactly. We want people to just put on a headset and use it, instead of having to boot Linux and plug everything in. God knows it's a pain when I'm developing with a tethered headset.
Crazy idea of the day: why not offer NATO membership to both Ukraine and Russia? Then if either side attacks the other, all the other members are obligated to defend against the aggressor.

Entangling alliances are like abstraction. The only thing that solves it is more of it.
This article is predicated on the assumption that immediately going to college after graduating high school is important. The pandemic skews the decision calculus greatly for many students ranging from safety to finding short-term employment enough for their current situation.

If college is important factor in improving economic outcomes, it shouldn't matter if you go to college at 18 or take a few years go at the age of 21 or even later in life. We have this stigma around adults who get a college degree later in life. I've met a several people who went to college as older adults (one at the age of 26 and the other at the age of 30) and ended up having highly lucrative careers. My mom got her masters at the age 55 (and rightfully lorded over my sister and I that if she get her degree with straight A while holding down a job, being a mom and in her 50s, then we have no excuses).

I believe college is valuable (though greatly overpriced in the US) but you don't need to be a young adult to attend. In terms of the labor effect of having fewer college graduates available for the labor market, honestly most jobs don't really require a college degree (including office and white collar jobs). Employers tend to use college degrees as cheap filtering signal instead having better hiring processes. Most entry level jobs have onboarding and training where college knowledge is not a perquisite for success.
To be fair, you would be the PERFECT candidate to fill that role for a company. You'd probably have to accept a fairly hefty pay cut though!