skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Meanwhile I got a broader education, but the majority of it isn't very relevant on a day to day basis, if ever.

While I agree with your core sentiment, my opinion is that this is a symptom of a cultural/societal problem and not one of the schools. Modern Universities are certainly ripe with problems (largely driven by adopting business structures), including generally poor quality courses and curriculum within them, but I think you've identified a larger societal problem we have.

Why is it that broad education which is generally, at the very least in my opinion, clearly valuable yet so lowly valued in society? It's my opinion that we have institutional structures that, given a lack of opportunities, value specialized and specific knowledge over general knowledge.

Meanwhile, if you have the capability to escape these institutional shackles, general knowledge becomes far more valuable. On the labor side, labor markets are all about jobs and specialized roles with efficient production from that role. On the capital side, you need more general knowledge to see, connect, and sieze opportunities. It seems to me that most lack enough genuine realizable opportunity where general knowledge becomes valuable (say, seeking entrepreneurship) and in such a set of constraints, it makes complete sense why people specialize and chase demand of specialization because it's their most optimal strategy for financial success.

I work in R&D in startup-esk environments and my general knowledge is fairly well valued, however even here leadership sometimes fail to see how some book or article I read years ago, course I took, project I worked on years ago, etc. was critical to making the connection that made this research thing possible.

They value the general subset of knowledge I have that made their thing possible (oh boy you know A, B, and C and those saved us!!!), never mind the hydrology work I've done, it's irrelevant (D, or so they think, even though I may draw on concepts from such domains opaquely) or perhaps hours of video gaming (E, which lead to a game theoretic intuition about approaching an underlying problem). That knowledge was only appreciated after the fact because it made someone a pile of money or positioned a large contract.

I remember hating taking geology in college because "I'd never use it," then I did a lot of applied science and R&D in the fossil fuels industry and suddenly a lot of "silly" things I did in geology gave me a foundation to jump from and to build upon. That silly geology course made me boatloads of money in retrospect. Throughout my career I always like to look back when I have a problem and say "ah ha, I sure am glad I studied or read about X years ago, that's one less thing I need to internalize now to do this thing." I'm always surprised how much old general knowledge I draw upon for new problems and how valuable they truly are.
Wouldn't "being there" also include observers not directly involved in a fight? Like all the people supplying us with mobile phone footage of real life happenings. Usually real life shots are shakey and not that generous, but the kind would feel natural to moviegoers.
Most SQL systems have bind parameters for this sort of thing. That is a form of encoding the input. You have to encode the SQL values as well. You're basically saying if you don't use the suggested technique, the suggested technique doesn't work. Well, yeah. It has to be used consistently, all the time, every time.

Unfortunately, that's just life. There's no way around it. One way or another you're going to be doing something or you're going to get owned.
I have a fascination with segmented LED and LCD fonts. This, I expect, will be a major distraction for me today.

Before everything standardized on 7-, 14-, and 16-segment displays, there were a lot of creative alternatives. A bunch of different 7, 8, 9, and 22-segs, including my favorite one: https://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_sporka/1843883266

I once owned a Fossil watch that had an ~18-segment display that displayed the time in Chinese, and drew the characters slowly. It was endlessly fascinating.

For a Christmas bonus this year, my company sent everyone indoor/outdoor weather gadgets. Enormous beautiful screen, but I keep staring at it thinking about how it could be more efficient with better fonts and fewer segments.
As per the earlier drama with some of the Handshake admins and developers trying to bully developers out, I have linked up with some of the other developers who have experienced the same thing from them. We have setup a new discord server (it's brand new).

Looking forward to chatting there!
They read robots.txt right? You can easily add a Disallow rule for google-bot there
I feel like this is an argument for not sticking to 100% CSS. Tiny bit of javascript would fix this.
Part of the issue is that you can get these loans regardless your program. Chemical engineering? Here you go. Studying gay romances in 14th century literature? Yup, here's your 50k too.

One of those people can pay that loan off in two years. One of them is likely never going to pay it off without a career change.

Of course, we probably don't want loan officers picking what poor people can major in either.
In addition to the excellent points made by others, I would add:

1. Not using a real contract. Get something like hellobonsai.com if you don't have an attorney, but use a real contract. You're (probably) not going to end up in court, but if you do you will be glad you have a contract that lawyers understand.

1a. Not being very specific in the scope of work. The scope of work must be referenced in the contract, and you must keep it up to date by adding additional scope as appropriate. In case of confusion or dispute, you can always refer the client back to the discussion you had about the scope of work and remind them that they signed off on it (yes, make them actually sign off on it).

2. Not collecting a deposit up front. Depending on the size of the client, 50% of the first month's fees in advance might be appropriate. More might be smart, depending on the client. This is also a good qualifying step to filter out clients that only think they can afford your work. You then invoice as normal, with the goal of keeping the amount in retainer constant (FIFO for money). If you don't do this, you will eventually have to eat a $5k or $10k invoice that you need to pay your own bills. Better to use the customer's financial reserves than yours.

3. Working with very small local clients at all. Working primarily with very small clients is a very risky way to run your business. If you insist, the absolute bare minimum you must do is have a real contract and collect a significant deposit up front.
It does TXT record lookups or equivalent. Those get resolved correctly without any interference from the captive portal. Here is something similar in technical nature to what I have used in the past (free DNS VPN apps on ios) https://github.com/JadenGeller/Burrow-Client
You don't have to make that trade, though. I have way more spare time at the higher paying jobs. To an extent I suppose.
I sense a new startup opportunity: Pizza-as-a-Service.
Memory location matters for performance
App ecosystem (great apps, often good UX/usability and lots of small "details"), interoperability between devices and to show their social status.

Why do some people buy an expensive Mercedes if basically any car can drive you from A to B?

I am a Linux user and I love FOSS, GNU CLI tools, etc. But it takes more time, crashes and nerves to edit a video using Kdenlive than it would by using iMovie. FOSS software is awesome but it is hard for their authors to compete with commercial SW made by highly-paid full-time professionals. And commercial software on Linux is often non-existent or problematic (mainly due to ensuring support for so many distributions).
It doesn't, so yeah standard is 33 days including bank holidays. How many are there in the US?
Schools will increase their expenses and tuition to fill loan capacity plus public funding, as they've already been doing.
But the torrents themselves tend to stay seeded... if you stick the site itself on IPFS and anyone in any jurisdiction can "seed" it, then it's going to be hard to kill by court order.
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That's an interesting take, but I disagree.

The reason colleges cost so much is that they've expanded their administration, facilities, and sports programs to soak up all of the available loan money.

I went to a state school that focused on STEM. The acceptance rate was low, class sizes were small, and the tuitions were reasonable. The buildings dated from the 60's. We didn't have extensive athletic programs, and our gym was falling apart. The school didn't spare expenses on things that didn't contribute directly to education.

We still had access to full machine shops, doppler radar installations, flow cytometers, BSL-3 labs, electron microscopes, wind tunnels, robotics facilities, and a boat load of really cool stuff. But it certainly didn't feel like an ivory tower.

Though our school wasn't losing money, the state board of regents decided to merge it into a much larger "liberal arts" school. This was done so that it could hit the student body requirements in order to qualify for building its own division I football program.

They built lots of fancy buildings for their dance program and theater productions. I can't even count how many stadiums and sports facilities they've constructed - it feels like two dozen! They're also purchasing lots of expensive real estate to enhance the size of the main campus. Meanwhile tuition has quadrupled and fees have gone up 1,000%.

It's bloat. That's why everything costs so much.
You're thinking of 20 years ago.

Most state schools are easily $20k for in state students once you add in the room and board. Then they try to get $50k from the out-of-staters. Top flight state schools like Michigan, Cal Berkeley and Cornell start at $75k+ for out-of-staters. Of course financial aid does enter the picture for many students.
The real question is in 5 years - after it is safe to be 100% in person with no mitigation measures will companies go back to full in office. Right now my company is saying anyone who wants to can be full remote for forever. I've been around long enough to know that once a certain number of people are in the office, the people around the water cooler get promoted first so I'll be going back to the office at least one day a week once it is possible. (I live within a long bike ride of the office so this isn't a big deal for me so long as the weather is okay)

Which is to say i don't trust full remote to last.
Salary of full-time faculty at American colleges and universities:

1970-71: $81,798

2018-19: $88,703

Mean salary of American college and university presidents in 1983: $160,640 (2018 dollars).

Median compensation of private college and university presidents in 2018: $668,000.

Median compensation of public college and university presidents in 2019: $495,808

More, and primary source links:

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/03/university-admi...
Can't speak of all schools, but at my local state school (which I attended) - which as far as sports teams is way down on the list of being considered important (i.e. you'll never see them on TV), they constantly bringing in coaches making $1M/year, who then hire a bunch of assistant coaches making $200K a year etc - and then when the teams don't do well - like losing 80% of their games - they fire the coaches (paying out the rest of their contracts) and hire the next million dollar coaches, rinse and repeat - and this is at a state-run school; I would imagine at private schools with top tier teams, its even worse.

There is so many overspending problems its not even funny - and yet the people actually teaching the classes are TA's, probably getting $20K/year, while the professors work on their 'research' and are rarely available to students.

Starting to think the whole higher-education model is hopelessly broken.
sanitize (client side) => confirm with user => trim+escape (server side) => insert
this times 100x. The problem may seem really bad, but wages are high enough that college grads still earn more than high school grads even after accounting for inflation and student loan debt.
I also did remote for a long time before Covid, and I noticed the industry moving towards accepting remote in sort-of lurches.

First it was OK for exceptional cases where the person was really important or had some medical-ish rationale. Then ten years later all those remotes were "normalized" and people got home-office subsidies. Then Covid hit and it was WFH everybody temporarily. Then Covid obviously wasn't going away maybe ever, and it was "hybrid" which I read as "manager decides." Now the workforce is making demands and we'll see where that leads.

(Ironically enough I turned down a job last year because it was on-site and would require a move, and then Covid didn't go away and they closed that office and put everyone on remote.)

I believe it was Andreessen who said over and over again that proximity is a competitive advantage and thus startups will always favor it and by extension so will the Valley. I don't even disagree with the premise, but it sure looks like people are going to "route around" that advantage in order to capture other advantages for the foreseeable (forever-Covid?) future.
My first job out of university, I ended up doing one of those by mistake. My second job after university, I ended up doing another three of those, but at least we confronted the thing head on and deliberately, knowing that we were aiming to create them. Trust me, it's better to do it deliberately than by mistake.
He's a fool. It's just a game not some service to humanity. If anything it's a disservice to humanity by allowing people to waste time gaming for free.

On top of that someone else is already rushing to monetize it. (presumably)

There is nothing admirable about working for free while someone else takes your money.
Agreed. I’m a pathetically slow learner so situations like #1 were always an essential part of how I got ahead of the curve. #2 is very cool also... but what is an EM?
Scenario for music videos makes some sense if you're one of those, but wouldn't it be easy for the algo to only do it for music videos only? I agree with parent, that behavior is absolutely senseless..
Yeah I ended up just waiting 5 minutes and it started working again.
The paper itself is behind a paywall, or I would have read it to get a better understanding.

The article specifies that "Using this technique, researchers claims they could record 100,000 measurement traces from IoT devices infected by genuine malware samples, and predicted three generic and one benign malware class with an accuracy as high as 99.82%"

I'm very skeptical of the material practicality of such a system. I am not sure whether they are correctly measuring the accuracy here (or if they are ignored precision and focused entirely on recall). It is hard to tell on the article content alone. But furthermore you would need to run this routinely to catch malware, which means at its very best it's wrong 1 out of every 500 attempts. How long does 100000 traces take? Is it wrong every 500 milliseconds? 500 seconds? To be useful it would have to be wrong every ~500 days, or at least hours.

Based on the title of the paper, I think the technique is specifically looking for certain kinds of machine code obfuscation, and classifying which was used. If this is the case, the application would NOT be to scan for malware but to use such a system after malware is confirmed as an aide to a forensic analyst attempting to understand the malware better. But if that's the case, the article's central claims around the technique "could help companies thwart these threats without needing any software" would appear to be at best wrong if not outright misleading.

Anyone have a link to the paper without a paywall?
Ooooh, related one of my favorite topics.

Part of the reason modern lots are so big and why parking covers so much area is simply because cars are too big! There is zero reason a person needs to own a 7 seat SUV to transport 3 people or five 2x4s twice a year. The proliferation of oversized vehicles continues to exacerbate a significant number of local and global issues and I'm of the belief that we need strong regulation to limit the size of vehicles.
It's probably my Canadian experience talking, but this sentence:

> 85% of graduates have less than $50,000 in student loans. Paid off over 20 years, that’s really not much.

It is pretty terrifying that you manage to mentally justify going in debt for 20 years over your college education. I understand that given a good job it's easy to pay it back, but I never even borrowed even a tenth of that to complete my engineering degree and I've probably paid my education back several time in taxes to the government.
Thanks. For an endeffector in a robot arm, the articulated motion, with friction, backlash, gearing, coriolis terms, contact etc. can be very complicated. Would/could you use a physics engine to compute the state in t and t+1 , and then compute the A matrix from that? (state as in world space position and orientation of the end effector)
this is actually already a thing. Damn i forget the app but it exists I did the trial once

https://www.eatyourbooks.com/
Yeah but there was a huge push just last year, basically every single SaaS app to Firefox, everyone folded. During the Aqua days, every company had their own unique take on design. Today, it is a design monoculture driven by the types of Stripe and Apple.

Design used to be a differentiating feature. Everything looks the same today. Kind of a Big Tech dystopia, even in design.
Presumably to ensure behaviour as near to identical as possible with earlier multi chip systems. Because they're fixed targets developers can end up coding right to the limits of console hardware, and end up with lots of reliance on exact timings etc.

Xbox 360 was getting into the era where consoles had OSes and things should be abstracted through DirectX but I guess Microsoft decided the safest thing to do was create a clone with artificial slowdowns rather than risk games pushing the limit breaking.

Nowadays consoles can change CPU / GPU microarchitectures seemingly without problems...
Does anyone have a link to a pre-print of this article?
I have some professional expertise in both Google Analytics and data privacy.

The headlines always mention GDPR alone. I think it's more accurate to say that there are two laws which are incompatible: GDPR in Europe, and the CLOUD Act in the United States.

GDPR allows data to be transferred to other countries. There are a number of other countries where it can be transferred without restrictions, beyond needing to notify users that a transfer exists (you don't even need to name the specific country!). Such countries include the UK, Japan, South Korea, and Argentina.

Every court ruling that I've seen stemming from Schrems II focuses almost exclusively on the CLOUD Act. The US has, intentionally and explicitly, made it easy for law enforcement to access personal data stored by a US company. Like, literally the reason why this law exists is because one time Microsoft didn't hand over data to the FBI because it was stored in Ireland. The problem that it was written to solve was European data protection laws.

Personally I think the CLOUD Act is more to blame for this situation, and the law that I would rather have changed.
They want a single-family home in a major world city in a walkable neighborhood, moving is not an option.
Good. It’s a scam. It is a horrifically inefficient knowledge delivery system enabled by predatory loans, with tremendous societal pressure to participate, and a tribal mentality that causes former participants to pressure their kids and friends into making the same mistake they did.
it is my vague impression from history that in real yet slow-moving crisis, those that are able to command and control high-value resources do in fact continue to thrive while others fail in increasing numbers. This works, until it doesn't, to make a cute phrase, because in dynamic systems, either the system re-stabilizes in a new and different composition, or there is sudden, increased failure.
Chrome browser extensions aren't really compiled, though I suppose they can be obfuscated. If you install this extension you ought to be able to find it in your Chrome profile directory and look at the manifest and JS source.

(former longtime chrome engineer here)
It doesn't just require changing roles. People making 140,000,000 annually are basically only the founders of the very largest tech companies. CEOs of the very largest tech companies will get stock grants in the nine figures on occasion, but not annually. No staff engineer who changed jobs every three years for three decades is making nine figures.

So yes, if you start as a junior engineer and end your career as a CEO of one of the most successful companies on the planet then you can see this growth. But those aren't regular raises for doing good work. Those are completely different pay strata for completely different jobs.
Yeah, fentanyl is terrible! So are cars, and I spend most of my non-family, non-work time advocating for city planning that will let people who chose so to avoid cars.

That does not lessen the impact of 3000 deaths among people who did not take on that risk.
"Over time, the absolute authority of the pater familias weakened, and rights that theoretically existed were no longer enforced or insisted upon. The power over life and death was abolished, the right of punishment was moderated and the sale of children was restricted to cases of extreme necessity. Under Emperor Hadrian, a father who killed his son was stripped of both his citizenship and all its attendant rights, had his property confiscated and was permanently exiled."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pater_familias
> Their universal concern is the cost.

I have a senior in high school right now and although I think you're right - he's concerned about a potential quarter-million dollar tuition bill before this whole thing is over - he's also concerned about the whole selectivity of it all. From the outside looking in, you never know what's important and what's not. He has this feeling (and I'm not sure I can dispute it) that the only degrees that matter are degrees from hyper-selective ivy league schools and if the only school he can get into is Texas Tech, he might as well just give up and go into a trade. I remind him that I went to a no-name school and I'm doing fine but he says "things are different than when you were young", and I'm not 100% sure he's wrong.
A college charging $50k/year does not mean it actually gets $50k/year from said student. The amount paid is often much less than the sticker price.
This is actually more Brexit related than Covid related.

It's a lot harder for these companies to hire in London now, so they've been somewhat forced to find new European places (most of which already had small sales/policy offices already).
He's a maniac and he must be stopped!
"SQL is a query language. Why would Google treat it like code?"

Because...it's a programming language, and therefore...it is code?
To put a point on this, I saw an opening for a Chief Data Engineer (or something like that) at Ford. I asked my friend, a long tenured mechanical engineer there with friends on the software side, what that would pay...he said 200k! I bet it's closer to 300, but still, it's no wonder everyone hates their car software.
None of this is a requirement of advertising. Adsense isn’t the only form of internet advertising. There is a reason I said a static banner ad. It can be as simple as a native HTML anchor element with an image inside.