skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Read a goddamn book.

> [...] to wholly discount its importance is capitalist orthodoxy

Touched a nerve, eh? You have no clue what books I've read or how many.

I didn't "wholly discount" the importance of so-named classical liberal arts. But there aren't many good reasons for putting one's self into debt to get a degree in such things. Be honest, liberal arts isn't heart surgery. Liberal arts can be learned for free if it is the knowledge itself that is of highest importance. The cost of majoring in these areas of studies are hardly congruent with how well they prepare someone to become a part of the world outside of academia and the cost that they bear. Perhaps to certain individuals the cost still is justified by the end result they are aiming towards, but to assume that everyone going into the liberal arts is in college not because society is cajoling them into it would be highly ignorant.

You're mistaking my valuation of the degree for a valuation of the subject mater itself. Are you familiar with the growing amount of student debt in the United States? Liberal arts are no exception, and there's nothing I'm aware of about fields it encompasses that justifies the expense in both time and debt. It appears to be a racket.
The sentence immediately after that is
"And of course use your SQL engine’s parameterized query features so it properly escapes variables when building SQL"
There's a fantastic (and quite funny!) French film "I'm Not An Easy Man"[1] that sort of explores this idea but from the perspective of what society would look like today if gender roles were flipped. I think it's available on Netflix.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Not_an_Easy_Man
This is only true for companies that have a large talent pool e.g. FAANG companies. For some small 30 person business in the back of nowhere that wants you in the office 5 days a week they cannot be anywhere near as picky.
This chart includes Social Security and Medicare. I don't think it makes sense to include retirees in a data set when making an argument about "welfare."
Why should locking up child abusers be controversial?
> There's literally lectures and a quiz you have to pass before you can take the loans that explains how repayment and interest rates work.

Yes, but they are told their whole life "after college, you'll make enough to pay it off easy, no problem!"

> For public loans the actual amount doesn't really matter because payment is income based. And the cap on lending is around $60k for 4 years, so I'd hardly say it's predatory.

60k, with an extremely high interest is most definitely a problem.

> Of course all this only applies assuming your American, which I'd guess your not since your friends call it uni.

Nope, I live in Texas. Anecdotally, my group of friends all flip between "school name"/School/Uni in conversation. In this case, I picked uni because I'm on mobile and typing is hard.
I don't think that's really a problem you can solve regardless. A STUN server would make most NAT irrelevant anyway. Most firewalls are setup to allow established connections, so you just need to create an outbound connection to allow the inbound. You can basically use the same techniques as SIP/RTP when they do NAT traversal.

PCP is better than UPnP IGD, most importantly because it time limits the opening so port reuse is easier. I wouldn't use either in practice. I wouldn't suggest NAT-PMP either. I wouldn't use port forwarding if I could avoid it as well. I'd use destination NAT with a source IP range I knew in advance so it wouldn't show as easily in port scans. Someone is likely to tell me why that's a terrible idea, but it's my (current) preferred method.
"Low rates" here meaning 8%?! It's lower than credit card APR, but would you take a large installment loan at that rate?

The interest rate especially shocking when you consider that interest is supposed to pay for the creditor taking on the risk of default, which is almost impossible with student loans.
As long as you are classified as an at will employee you should give your employer at will loyalty. They don't owe you anything and you don't owe them anything either beyond the responsibilities of your job in exchange for whatever they're paying you.

It's up to them to make sticking around your best option. But when I'm on interview panels and someone brings up that the person in question is a job hopper, rather than see that as a negative, I see it as a challenge to find a way to get that person to stick around. And the only thing that offends me when someone quits is if the offer to do so isn't better than sticking around.

I am not popular with my fellow managers with this attitude and I expect downvotes for this. Bring 'em. It really doesn't matter to me anymore, the remainder of my career will be spent on making hard things easier rather than making easy things harder.
Who are you to decide for other people what they find useless or not? And are you implying people have no free will to decide what to buy and they need others to "trick" them or to prevent them from buying?

Do you consider yourself above other people and some sort of arbiter for their decisions?
The trick is to recognise those early and switch to a different video. Or quickly figure out which channel is more serious about getting to the point, and pick their video.
> Choose CHAR columns. (The CHAR format is a relic nowadays. Back then, MySQL was faster with CHAR columns. Ever since 2005, it’s not.)

Is this vs VARCHAR? To me this is fascinating if so, I'd love to see a link or benchmark. My understanding that reading a stripe off a drive, then chopping it up indiscriminately at known intervals is faster than conditionally branching for strings of other lengths
That's an interesting point, and I sure imply sentience when I say intelligence, to a certain degree. I'd argue that GPT-3 does not actually "understand" it's output in any way, it just tricks you into believing it does, for example by having some kind of a short-term memory, or forming coherent sentences. Yet the model has no abstract concept of the things it writes about. It's all just probabilities.
Chilling but also a little reassuring. If you are a victim, knowing that a large percentage of the population has also been abused can help recovery. It says that it is very possible to be a victim and go on to a normal life.

Want something very chilling? First year criminal law lecture on rape. Professor says "We have about a hundred people in this room. None of you future lawyers have criminal records. Statistically speaking, about fifteen of the fifty or so women here are victims. And probably fifteen of the men are rapists." Also see the opening sequence of the movie Copycat (1995) where Sigourney Weaver's character does a similar trick regarding serial killers.
I was going to respond to parent with "or just write it in Rust /s" but I should have known better.

For a greenfield component I do kind of agree though. I wonder does Mozilla still have the in-house Rust expertise for something like that after the layoffs?
Some sort of measurement or score for more hits per unit time would be cool. Overall, fun little game, nice job.
Yes, but remember in a lot of cases nearly anything is valid input.
I'm currently about 2/3 through an online Master's degree: Georgia Tech OMSCS. Same as you?

For me it's been a drastically different experience compared to my in-person undergrad. Whereas my Bachelor's degree was full of camaraderie and formative life experiences, my Master's has been more or less bereft of social or personal growth and focused entirely on course material. This is okay for me since my primary goal is to develop a deeper technical background, but I would not recommend such an experience for your average 18 year old kid who is about to start their first university experience.
> That is in fact why prices are so relatively consistent- no sane tenant on the market is going to pick a more expensive apartment when the complex a couple blocks away costs less, so they end up about the same.

It's a reasonable assertion, but I'm a bit more cynical. I don't think prices are consistent due to competition based on price, I think it's consistent because they've all figured out what the maximum rent is the market will bear. Again, the important thing to remember is that people need housing. The sellers of housing are taking advantage of that and will charge the absolute highest price they can.

There's no reason to compete on price when you're essentially guaranteed a customer.

> If we finally see sufficient housing construction then you’ll see prices stabilize and possibly even come down, because those new units compete with the existing units.

I've seen first-hand people arguing against construction of new housing. They try to frame it as worrying about traffic, but the quiet part is that they know the higher supply could cause their home value to level off.

We need to stop looking at real estate as a form of investment. It creates extremely perverse incentives that result in housing scarcity for the lower classes.
I was a one of two developers at a small relatively unknown private college (costs over $70k and wasn't even top 5 in this state) in a communications (see: marketing B team for admissions, mostly PR and crisis response) department of around 15. I cannot emphasize how inept and slow everyone was. Simple tasks took 10x longer than they should. There were 3-4 people dedicated solely to managing contractors for the bi-annual magazine that likely gets tossed by 90% of the recipients, then people whose sole job was to manage an ad agency in a committee with at least 4 other people. They were in the 6 month process of launching a 5 page WP site for the newly funded careers institute that had ~15 employees to try and help graduates find jobs paying more than $15/hr with their newly minted liberal arts degrees when I finally left. Their solution for making soon/new graduates more employable? Linkedin courses for specific skills like digital marketing, Excel and microcertificates through external resources.

Then there are other leaks, like $50k/yr hosting bills for a CMS serving under 200k pageviews per day, or other ancillary a11y compliance tools that cost nearly as much. If there is budget, it has to be spent.
> I really hope you are wrong in this prediction.

For the record I also hope that I am wrong on this. I very much believe that we really don't know at this point (unfortunately rising hospitalization data, and uptick in deaths has me concerned).

The trouble is the media chanting of "it's mild!" has meant people have basically ignored Omicron when we didn't have enough information to say "it's fine!" being mild and highly contagious can easily mean more deaths, and we haven't had enough data to say where the balance lies.
That's exactly what I'm studying right now at holberton school in tunisia, it's project based and we dive into the fundamentals pretty well for a year and then choose a specialization in the other year, it's pretty good so far.
When I write process/operating docs, I write it for the person who is on call, at 02:00 Sunday morning, after overindulging in alcohol Friday night. I don't assume stupid, just not firing on all cylinders due to being half awake and distracted.
There are three problems that colleges need to fix.

1) Skilled trades pay better than most bachelor's degree track jobs. My kids can make more money with a six month apprenticeship than they will with all but a few 4 year degrees. If you can drive a forklift, you can make $45K/yr... which is identical to what an firsty year teacher makes.

2) There are better options than college for many. One of my daughters did a six month digital marketing bootcamp. She made $45k year one, and a year later is the director of marketing at her company making over $100k/yr.

3) College is way over priced. They claim graduates make 40% over their lifetime vs. non grads. JP Morgan Chase did a study two years ago that shows kids that had a job, any job before age 18 make 35% more than their peers over their lifetime regardless of degree.

4) Student loans are a horror that needs to stop. Young people should not be put in debt-bondage. Imagine America's financial health if we let young people start families and careers debt free.
What?

Sorry but that makes no sense to me. There are good developers and bad developers. Doesn't matter where they're from.

If you're talking about "understanding of the market" that has nothing to do with development. Might make a difference if you want the 1 man startup kind of person, but still, that has nothing to do with actual development. I sincerely don't understand how you can equate lack of knowledge of a local market with writing code that doesn't scale.

Hiring developers for their understanding of the market sounds to me like you're not in need of a developer. Even then, once a good developer gets into a specific market he'll learn it just like a local developer would.

For some anecdotal evidence, I've never set foot outside of my country (Brazil) and worked with very few US developers that are in the same ballpark as me. I've met people from the Philippines, Greece, Sweden and many other countries that are better. Country is a non-factor.

IMO being a good developer has nothing to do with the zip code you were born in. People become good developers if they're invested in it and work on it. Maybe you're a tad better if you were born with the right genes, but 99% of it is self-improvement.
Perfect way to become an early investor in an anonymous Ponzi scheme. Get out of jail card for the guilty parties.
I can't be the only one who's nonplussed by this sites lack of certificate?

Not a lack of a publicly trusted certificate...but a lack of any certificate whatsoever.

Am I missing something about his legacy, perhaps not trusting CA industry?
Students tour campuses and look at facilities, including dorms, and that factors into their decisions.

Research may be funded. But research salaries are high as are facility costs and upkeep. There are numerous costs to support a top tier research program and maintain it that are not covered by grants.
The pertinent question of where the money goes needs an answer. Afaict universities are simply spending money on more things because they can or taking on debt to drive prestige projects.

We know college can be cheaper, Brigham young goes for 5k/yr, European and Canadian schools still charge less than 10k/yr.
>I think foreign colleges have stricter entry requirements and fewer amenities compared to American colleges. So yes, college may be free in Japan, but also much harder to be accepted.

Yeah this is problematic, on one hand you have people who work harder for it pass the entrance exams and get in (like in France for example where some engineering schools like Polytechnique and ENS have a super difficult entrance exam but then you know everyone studying there earned it), but on the other hand you get some people who are just lazy or not good at physics get filtered from top tier positions in CS because the entrance exam had Math and Physics equally attribute to your grade.
The Doctor Killer (2017)
This is a great little time waster!

Couple of recommendations, in no particular order:

1. Keep the ball moving even after you die. Instead of pressing start, the user will just click when the ball is back inside the colored area.
2. You can click anywhere to restart, but you have to click the play button to restart. You should allow the user to just click anywhere to restart.
3. When you fail, show where the ball was.
4. As for collision detection, I think you should err on being lenient and count success if the bounds of the circle overlap, rather than the center or entirely. I think this is also due to the rounded linecaps for the arc potentially not counting as part of the valid area.
5. Show where the next arc will be. This is more of a game design thing. If you do this, quick fade out of the old and fade in on the new would look nice.

I understand that this was probably a small little one off project, and that there's always more you can iterate on, so I just want to say nice job in putting out a fun little time waster!
People should have the freedom to not be manipulated.
Unlike student loans, those debts can be discharged in bankruptcy.
Funny that he knew this, and yet somehow the first LoTR was still 2 hours of battle scenes and 1 hour of interesting stuff happening.
Edit: Thanks jinto36 -- I was wrong on JNP -- ACS is actually a co-publisher.

More to the point -- the dose always seems to be the issue -- no affect until you're past 10 micrograms/mL (https://pubs.acs.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/achs/jou...) but that's hundreds of times higher concentration than almost any available method of consuming CBD (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2018.0136...).

Doesn't seem too useful unfortunately.

Original Comment started with this: Its just a link on the ACS website -- it was actually published in the Journal of Natural Products.
Agreed.
Also. Make sure you gave six months income easily accessible.
Negotiating when living month-to-month is extremely different thing then when you have lots of leeway.
No where in the article do they use "output" to mean from the database engine; they use it to mean "outputting HTML".
Flagged because title is not technically correct; Facebook is expanding in Austin, but not leaving California.
In my experience, it is less about skills but more about cultural differences that make them appear less skilled.
1. There are plenty of privacy-focused and self-hosted web analytics packages. Their adoption is widespread in EU online publishers and is growing in the US.

2. This has to do with specific implementation of Google Analytics, wherein psuedo-PII is collected without appropriate disclosure and consent, and may be considered sale of data if the option to pass data to other Google services is selected. A vanilla installation of GA without opting into information sharing or passing custom parameters generally is GDPR compliant and falls under the Measurement (Purpose 4) category of cookie consent.

3. The European internet for publishers is noisy with consent banners, but continues to monetize and thrive. Advertisers haven't pulled out en masse and audiences still consume content. Ad targeting is harder, but the old ways of matching ads to content remain viable, along with other techniques.
Do you have sources for this, because the numbers don’t reflect this.
True, we're not completely out of the loop. But let's not fool ourselves: we are far from running the show. And with an attitude like this we will be left watching how progress and innovation will keep coming from the US, driven by our own best and brightest emigrated there.
Not sure how your churches work in Oklahoma but I grew up in the south and there was Sunday morning and night church, wednesday church, some kind of Friday prayer group or teen socialization night, a soup kitchen day, and probably others.

The entire congregation isn't going to these but I'd wager most churches are actively using their lots throughout the week.
Media Founder/Journalist Aarti Tikoo sues Twitter, wins gets account restored
https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1481670721449385984

There appears to be a denial of components of this from senior AWS figures, not a blanket denial but I think some of the statements could be a potential overreach.
But it has to be on-chain so you can invest in the coin of your favorite decentralized pizza.
This is a great reason why programming languages should support named arguments.
Death rates go hand in hand with (delayed a few weeks) unvaccinated people getting together indoors without high-quality masks, and breathing each-others’ breath.

People working public-facing jobs or indoor jobs with many coworkers, taking public transit, with kids in daycare, etc. end up with a lot more inevitable inter-household exposure. And obviously people who are elderly, immune compromised, or with other health problems face (orders-of-magnitude) higher individual risk when infected.

But personal choices to avoid exposure make a huge difference to the reproductive rate of the virus.

And government responses providing free test capacity, mandating masks in indoor public spaces, restricting indoor dining, early in the pandemic closing gyms and schools, providing places for people to isolate away from their households, providing financial support for people unable to do their jobs safely, guaranteeing sick pay, etc., and recommendations discouraging unmasked indoor inter-household mingling make a huge difference.

SF has not been perfect by any means. Something like a third of the deaths throughout the pandemic were caused by spread resulting from the relaxation of the restriction on indoor dining for a couple months in the fall of 2020. Early on the city did a poor job getting test capacity where it was most needed in low-income neighborhoods. The city could do a better job providing and encouraging the use of high quality masks. The messaging on boosters hasn’t been forceful enough. And city guidance was too slow to react to changing scientific knowledge (e.g. a 6-foot rule makes limited difference; sanitizing surfaces is useless; masks need not be mandated outdoors except maybe in dense crowds). But overall response here has been faster and more competent than almost anywhere else in the USA.
The economy cannot stay open
Am I misunderstanding this, or is there a word missing from a key sentence in the abstract?

"There was also a pattern of considerable within group variability."

How does this get published with an obvious mistake in the abstract?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vz06QO3UkQ
The ryhtm should accelerate each N clicks so that the game eventually ends. Otherwise no matter how many points you get by clicking fast it's possible to accumulate the same amount by playing it safe.
The demand for top tier education drives prices, just like the financing structure for loans for that education drives prices. Excluding one or the other is a false choice. Maybe if risk of default were factored into loans that would change the trajectory of the tuition cost curve. But taking away agency the consumers in the model doesn't lead us to the insights we need to actually fix the underlying problem.

I have a vested interest in this problem. But saying popular things for upvotes isn't going to change the underlying problem of how to allocate scarce resources.

I disagree with you on "teenagers don't understand fiscal policy, and shouldn't be expected too.". This isn't fiscal policy. This is a pretty straightforward introduction to being an adult and budgeting. I went through it, too. A mortagage was harder and more daunting. Rental terms on apartments were more predatory. The fact that people even discuss bankruptcy to discharge student loan debt is a horrible sign, given how much of ones' life potential one i throwing away to recover prime loan eligibility.

Also, "And then to tell them that they can't discharge it in bankrupcy because they knew what they were getting into is very much bullshit." - what part of where I wrote, "The fact student loads have special bankruptcy treatment is bad" is unclear?
The US scenes were more than just brightly colored and clear, they also had a very blueish tint to them. It all felt very clean, clinical, sanitized, to the yellows of Mexico and further south.
> Why, if it isn't possible to use it in compliance with the law

As far as I can see, the problem was the way a specific site was using analytics. I.e. it's possible to use anaytics in compliance with GDPR. Have I misread it?

[Edit] The website operator seems to have failed to scrub IP addresses from data uploaded to analytics. This stuff about "EU Users can't use US cloud services" seems overcooked.
Well it is a single scientific study. To believe it as fact would be a fundamental misunderstanding of how science works.

I agree with the spirit of your comment in that I would hold out for more scientific replication of these results to increase my confidence beyond the level of simple curiosity.
2) D4 is not any mainline opening

4) C3 is just a terrible move that gives away a knight for nothing.