skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I suspect, without proof, that this is because a large segment of the global population watches music videos and variety show clips on YouTube, over and over on repeat.

That's a great point, and could very well explain showing me videos I've already watched. Fixing my other two complaints would require keeping track of how many times a video has been recommended, and consulting my watch later list when building the recommendations list. It seems safe to assume YT is not unaware of these possibilities, so they must have reasons for not adding these signals in.
Thank you for the link, that's very interesting and a neat thought experiment to highlight what I meant.
Open source doesn’t mean there is no monetization strategy. For example you could be using Firefox on Ubuntu. Both of those are monetized. Plus most open source software couldn’t monetize as easily or harmlessly as a webpage.
"Make more of X" is a very dumb and ignorant way of addressing these problems. This obviously comes from someone who doesn't understand basic economic principals like supply/demand, price as a signaling/rationing mechanism, and opportunity costs. Hands down the worst article I've read all week.
I’m using the 2018 se
Some percentage of tuition dollars are effectively cross subsidizing other students (e.g., masters candidates subsidize PhD students, wealthier undergraduates subsidize other undergraduates receiving institutional grants or discounts, etc.), but the biggest factor in private education has to be the increase in administrative staff and facilities.

The one place is almost certainly not going its faculty salaries. The industry's shift to adjuncts has been great for university endowments but terrible for those who got their PhD in the last couple decades
Keep a bucket handy, because you are going to hear it again, because it often isn't. The fact that a million people are acting entirely contrary to the spirit and text of the agile manifesto, but calling it agile, does not change that.
i've been working with PHP for almost 20 years and to be honest i've never had to think about memory management until the last 10 years or so and only in case of long running processes (e.g. cronjobs)
Making you think twice before opening tv tropes is probably for the better. Do you really want to go down that path right now?
It's a single anecdote, but between online resources and alternative training programs, it seems harder to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars on college.

The evidence suggests that bootcamp grads struggle at finding good jobs, and also bootcamps charge a lot up-front, whereas collages have more aid and other programs to defer payment.
Totally anecdotal but my girlfriend and I recently went to wedding and even with pre testing and everyone vaccinated, a lot of people got Covid.

I was super high that night (as most nights) and walked away unscathed. Obviously this could be due to a lot of things but that hasn’t stopped me from rubbing it in all my friends faces.

It’s been of the few times in my life where my weed habit looks smart, and I’m loving every minute of it.
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Like how Windows slowly removed colors from it's icons, until they almost became black and white, only to reintroduce color back in Windows 11.

And how Windows 11 lists rounded windows and corners as a "signature feature"!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/signatu...
> If it is impossible to understand, but never needs to be understood, it has no cost

You've just argued that difficulty of understanding times need to understand is cost, not complexity. It doesn't make sense to claim that complexity becomes simplicity if you no longer need to understand it.
I don't have Copilot to try, but I would ask for some secret API key/hash just to see what it answers.
> What exactly do you think an English major is like? Humanities majors absolutely force you to think in new ways

I agree, and was on the edge in not including that major, but did so because there are English majors and there are undergrads who got a degree in English. At a lot of tier 2 public universities (e.g. the one I went to), the latter dominate. A student showing initiative can get a top-notch liberal arts education. But the average student won't. They'll skim, read the SparkNotes and pass through unchanged because the point isn't studying literature but getting a diploma.

Students who want to learn anything should be given the opportunity. I strongly believe that. But more people with degrees doesn't make for a better-educated population. And driving money into encouraging that doesn't necessarily advance society either.
That whole comment was chilling AF
Google and many other companies that use Looker do something else, too, which is that they store models in source control as opposed to SQL. Models describe the schema of the database, and things like calculations, measures, rollups — which are reusable and composable.

https://docs.looker.com/data-modeling/learning-lookml/what-i...
>Much of the rest of the world has realized that society requires and is capable of supporting advanced education for all -- after all we want humanity to be advancing, right?

the number of STEM degrees in the US has basically been flat for decades, majority of degrees being handed out are effectively useless in terms of boosting productivity and "advancement". Go around and ask people with college degrees how often they actually use them, probably 90% admit it was worthless, I know mine was. Luckily I had academic scholarships so I didn't have any debt

kids are effectively being propagandized and brainwashed into chasing worthless credentials while racking up debt that will impact their lives for years. The amount of emotional manipulation around college is disgusting
I feel the key bit here is to look at the outcome of the education. He is right to be worried about a quarter-million dollar tuition bill, and there is absolutely no point in doing so for a path with poor job prospects.

There are some paths where the university choice does matter, others that don't.

Going into the trades is not a bad idea I think, but again it needs to be a conscious decision for the pros and the cons.

I think the key bit is do some research, try and get a week long internship in the job that he is looking for and/or try to speak with seniors/grads.
i have never personally called out anyone anywhere ever
Yeah, it obviously changed over time, and is no longer in effect today.

Hadrian was quite late in Roman history, far closer to its collapse than its founding.
Having a place to live and food to eat seems to me to be pretty important part of your education.
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The American Chemical Society is a pretty reputable source.
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About 7% (3.2 million) of federal student loan borrowers have over $100,000 in debt. Many of these are likely law (avg $145,500), pharmacy ($179,514), veterinary ($183,302), medical ($201,490), and dental ($292,169).
The question (that I cannot answer) is will companies find ways to work full remote. Hallways and lunchroom accidental meetings are where a lot of things get discussed.

I don't believe hybrid with some full remote some not can work. You can do everyone in the office on specific days (M-F, or only Tuesday...), but I don't think a mix can work.
That’s a good point, I wasn’t thinking of the coding angle despite it being the whole point of the post.
If you have a law that would be impractical to enforce fully and in all cases because you'd end up penalising almost everyone it affects, it's a bad law. I don't believe we should legally prohibit normal behaviour for fallible humans, particularly if no real harm is caused and no ill intent was present.

Selective enforcement is rarely a good solution to that problem. With selective enforcement you have not only reduced the risk to those who really are doing something seriously wrong, so also reducing the deterrent effect, but also penalised those who paid a price or gave something up to do the right thing and were then left disadvantaged relative to the wrong-doers.
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not only the higher costs of education but my generation (millennial) learned that most degrees offered provide no real jobs that can contend with massive rise in cost for every significant thing that constitutes a decent life (housing, childcare etc...). Things look even bleaker for younger generations. The people who were born just in time to ride the swelling wave greatly benefited, if you were born when the wave is crashing down, unfortunately your life will be much much harder. We have this notion that everything we earn is based on merit but as i get older i see how much external context greatly influences the opportunities for merit as well as the outcomes.
right, and those jobs also tend to pay the most
But there is no magic you are paying higher taxes and that’s not for 20 years it’s forever
> If they don't use SAT scores then what should they use instead?

The answer depends on institution type.

Highly Selective Institutions: the admissions process is so hands-on and personal that I could believe they are able to get a good sense of each candidate without testing. E.g., I absolutely believe Harvard's admissions folks have the bandwidth to compare grades between high schools (not that they need to). And they do all sorts of stuff that gives you a better sense for the candidate than test scores (alumni interviews, essays, rec letters, delving into performance in highly competitive extra-curriculars, exceptional community service work, etc).

Non-Selective Institutions (let's say admissions >70%): Standardized tests are kind of a waste of time and money for all involved. These institutions are functionally admitting everyone who can manage to fill out the admissions paperwork and didn't systematically fail high school courses. It makes sense to make test scores optional, because there might be a few diamonds in the 30% "oof" pile who can pull off a decent SAT score to compensate for their D-average-no-honors-courses transcript. But requiring the SAT/ACT is silly when your admissions standards are extremely low.

Moderately Selective Institutions: I definitely see utility in these universities still using the SAT. But notice that this is actually a very small set of institutions. Perhaps 100-300 the US's 3K+ colleges fit in this category.

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FWIW, my opinion on SAT/ACT is somewhere in the middle.

I think standardized tests can be an excellent instrument when some form of assessment is necessary but more nuanced assessments of merit are cost-prohibitive. So for places like competitive state flagships, I think getting rid of testing and replacing it with an admissions process that works at least as good as testing is probably more expensive than it's worth.

However, I also think the pro-testing camp is often extremely hyperbolic. Testing is just one way of assessing merit. It has all sorts of flaws. Tests are a model, and all models are wrong.

As an aside, I'm not surprised that so many pro-SAT-the-sky-is-falling folks are mathematicians. That entire field is completely fucked up when in comes to testing. Math as a discipline is bad about intellectual peacocking in general... if you think Mensa is insufferable, spend an afternoon in a math dept. Math professors are exactly the last set of people in the world I would trust to have a healthy attitude toward the ability of testing to suss out real merit. They literally talk about their prelim exams the same way frat bros talk about hazing rituals. Systematic misuse of testing is the second biggest reason that people choose to do phds in math-adjacent fields instead of math. (The biggest reason is job prospects.)
some of these studies published data in 2020. i wouldn't be surprised if the writers simply did research.
If you go to a big name school the aid packages are usually much more generous, so total cost may even be below $22k (depending on your circumstances). Also, I’d push back on the idea that outcomes are comparable across schools. A degree from most Ivies has a measurable impact on future earnings, even controlling for parental income and academic aptitude.
their relatives and possible girlfriend, not so much.
If you don't want to pay it, then you probably don't need it.

I don't have experience with alternatives though - they just don't do as good of a job as Fathom does.
> Not that it should ever not be set

I am an HTTP/1.1 dinosaur. Is chunked transfer encoding no longer a thing in HTTP/3? It used to be a valid reason to omit Content-Length.
I would not listen to a federal govt source's opinions on weed, tbh.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29904261 includes response from the maintainer
> Every refactoring comes at risk of breaking something.

Refactoring is code transformations that don't affect functionality. If something broke, that's a failed refactoring.
He did vaguely gesture at it. But I think he hasn't really come to grips with how much he personally profited from credit card fraud. He certainly isn't up front about it.
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The point is that now we have cars and we have lots of space to grow and people don’t want to huddle together, so we don’t. Furthermore, people like trees and fresh air and natural spaces. You won’t find any of that in dense urban areas. The best you can hope for is a couple of trees lining the sidewalks and a park here or there.
CS and IT have very low barriers of entry.

Hardware is cheap, especially if going back a gen or 2. Software is free if open source'ing it. Piracy is also cheap too. Books and resources are plentiful, and predominantly cost time to experiment and do. And you can get hold of the developers pretty easy in open source, or dev with them.

Science has costy expensive lab equipment, knowledge is less shared and more guarded for their guild, people are harder to get to.

Engineering, depending on discipline, isn't even legal to teach yourself (professional engineer). Or it requires more expensive lab equipment in the ranges of 10's of thousands (think good oscilloscope, signal generator, rf anything). It's possible but really hard.

Math is possibly just as 'easy' as CS/IT. However, it's a super elite group. They have their own in-language that's near impenetrable for outsiders. And the people who excel are not at all easy to get in contact with.

Outside of STEM, there's other possible avenues. But given that Marx said that a capitalist society trends towards money-making activities in mathematics, science, and technology (STEM), the other avenues are probabilistically a bad bet. And yea, that sucks. But we also like to have enough money to live and enjoy life.
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I love these anecdotes. The only way to disagree with these is to tell the OP that they are too talented and skilled and that the average person wouldn’t make it in their shoes.
As somebody who has done it for almost 11 years, it depends: on its own, it's actually cool that you get the flexibility to deal with kids' schedules; however, if it means sharing the house 24h with them or the wife, as it can happen in early age or under lockdowns, it can be very challenging, and there the office feels like respite.
When I was in school the loans were called stafford loans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Loan

I guess they've since changed to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Direct_Student_Loan_Pr...

They are very much for private schools. There's no real limit on them. They tend to cover the difference between what a family can pay and what the tuition is. They're generally low interest and you don't need to start paying them back until you're done with school.

Since the loans always cover the difference the impact of tuition costs going up isn't immediately felt
I think a lot of tutorials get re-watched too.

I also think that whilst the algorithm is quite good at finding things I'd like, it's quite bad at contextualising them so music videos and tutorials get mixed up in playlists it autogenerates for me anyway.
That's not what the word predatory generally means in the context of loans.
I wonder what would happen if banks could deny student loans. Students would need to prove that they are a good investment but it also means that colleges would have to prove they are good investments as well.
Not as much as Rust has, though. I'd be hard pressed to go back to C-land now. I'm surprised they wouldn't consider a greenfield component (HTTP/3) a good candidate for it, sad.
I think we probably agree here, but I'd like to make an adjacent point: Animals have been known for a while to communicate, and even have languages of their own. Mutes are no feral humans either. It's definitely more nuanced than that, and I follow that actual intelligence consists of more than just the ability to form coherent sentences.
1000ppm is quite normal indoors. My office is 800ppm right now.

It will take probably 100 years to get to 1000ppm.
I interpreted the message as not sanitizing inputs at the point they are received, a la PHP magic quotes. Instead, escape at the output (the output to the database engine).
Not necessarily. I often use native Web Components when I need to write a quick website SPA or not. Native web components also gives you component scoped styles without having to use any tools which alters the class names.
Since the vaccinations are stopping the spread?
They do, LinkedIn shows a number of developers working for these companies from Netherlands.
"Stupid thumbnail" as a proxy for low quality is no longer a valid metric. The good channels have been, reluctantly or otherwise, mostly been forced into following suit.
HTTP/3 is QUIC but it is not Google's QUIC aka gQUIC. The IETF's QUIC working group developed this protocol over several years, and it isn't much like gQUIC as a result. Most obviously gQUIC pre-dates TLS 1.3 and so it has its own cryptography layer, in the standard QUIC that's provided by the TLS 1.3 engine, so almost all TLS 1.3 work can be reused.
I find it strange that you would attribute success to capitalism in this case when there were no free markets involved in the development or sale of these vaccines. The bulk of the funding for the initial research came from government. The testing was done in partnership with the FDA, a government agency whose emergency use authorization was required to allow these vaccines to ship. The sales were made to government entities not individuals or even hospitals. And finally, the medical-pharma industrial complex has exactly nothing to do with free markets and open competition. In short, capitalism doesn't get the credit here. I'm not saying it was socialism that should get the credit, just that none of this involved capitalism as I understand it.
It took me way too many loops to figure this out. I was thinking the same as GP, someone next to me already proposed a penalty for letting it slip a loop and wanted to fork it, but this whole time the game has been ahead of us!
> biggest complaint from anyone I know who studied medicine/pre-med is the sheer amount of memorization

This is a straw man. Nobody said memorization is verboten.

A certificate granted for mainly memorization, where no new modes of thinking or doing were involved, is not worth tends of thousands of dollars. If a med school matriculated students who never did practical and had never deliberated treatment modes and tradeoffs, et cetera, yes, it would be close to useless.
> There are situations where named pipes fail, where you actually do need a plain file

In general: If the command you are passing the named pipe to expects a file which it can randomly access, a named pipe won’t work.

I ran into this today using a python tool, yamldiff. I was trying to diff a local yaml file with one from a cluster obtained via kubectl, eg:

yamldiff localManifest.yaml <(kubectl get … —output yaml)

and it failed with python telling me the file wasn’t seekable. Then I remembered this thread which I had initially read a few days ago and tried =() (since I use shell) — and it worked!
I share your sentiment, and try to avoid dependencies like the pest. But, I wouldn't write my own crypto library, and TCA falls into a similar category - it's a really good solution for a hard problem. Those guys invest a big part of their time into just those few hundred lines of code. There's word that even Apple uses their stuff internally.
I knew that someone was going to pick up on the scent of Bayesian fallacy here ;-) ...though I think there's probably an economics-style-argument that can be made here that a market where companies reject a lot of candidates won't be in equilibrium if there are a lot of candidates who seldom get rejected. -- Whether the exact number is 9, 99, or 999, and what kind of measure of central tendency that number represents, whether it's a mean, a median, a mode, or whatever, has no real bearing on the argument I was making.
Yep. Gift that keeps on giving. Was gotten to myself as a kid and 50+ years on it’s still hard to read this kind of thing
Again, I see what you're saying, but you take it too far. You have to look at the whole basket of outcomes if you want to evaluate the policies from Upwork's perspective. Is the PR damage less than $12.5k? Maybe. But the proper number to compare with is 12.5k * all the other times this happens or even could happen if the freelancer gets slack.
This is such a cool project! The font looks really nice as well :)
To me this is clearly worker exploitation and I wish everyone realized that.
They are currently discharged (without bankruptcy) at 20 years. Yes that's a big difference, but it is an important point.
The point of Activation Lock is that you can’t activate an iPhone without access to the iCloud account that it’s locked to.

So, no.

You could bribe an Apple store employee to unlock it but that’s against their contract because it would allow stolen phones to be activated.

You could perhaps use a jailbreak or something so you can use the phone without activation but it’ll never really work right and the developers probably aren’t interested in working on it, because it would mainly benefit thieves.
I didn't understand your point 12 at first but I think you mean that you should always write down in the invoice what you did for free so that the client is always in the loop about all the work you do (whether you bill for it or not). That makes a ton of sense. Easy for humble people to not think of. Better to keep everything in the open.
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>There's a huge negative impact here that society has not yet realized.

Applies to the writer too. Blue collar workers aren't getting paid enough, they have to go to work, pay for their rents and such. And yes they get Covid. Not everyone is a fancy writer who can sit at home self-isolating for months or years and work from there. Poor people never have, never had a choice, you either lose your home, your job or you get Covid and get with it. That's it
Wokeness alert! Did some censor insert this phrase after the rest of the article was written?

"the leading elements contributing to toxic cultures include failure to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion"

and yet there is no other mention of "diversity" anywhere in the article, and no surveyed person mentioned it.
fprof, recon trace, observer have proved to be the holy trifecta for me for debugging challenging production issues. I miss these deeply when working in other languages.
A lot of community colleges have comprehensive transfer agreements with four-year schools in the same city and/or state. You can generally avoid getting screwed on transfers if you do a little research.
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They very likely are stopping the death, yes.
Among other problems, it would be pronounced differently in different countries...