skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universities in modern day are used by staff and admins as a free tax payer funded paycheck. I would know. While the students are hammered with having to make money to afford to live there, papers, trivia tests, and subjects completely irrelevant to their field, causing them to not learn what they need in their field of study. We are pushing out students with little to no real world experience and very little ability to critically think or find answers on their own. Mostly because we give them no time to and instead make them write about what Plato did, or how we can create more gender neutral environments.

There is no accountability. A university can offer a degree and teach nothing. They don't have to prove their graduates go anywhere, and often lie with statistics like "90% of our students get a job in their field". Meaning maybe a desk clerk.

As for discrimination of opinion, its more akin to the spanish inquisition. Take for example these mask mandate rules. Students have to wear a mask, all the time, except not outside, or off campus, or when partying in housing. But the University police will threaten students if they are by themselves not wearing a mask. Everyone is vaccinated. It's all heavily politically motivated. They don't want their democrat institution to look bad.

These factual points have been brought up plenty of times and the school admins know they don't have to listen to anybody. They're getting paid, if the school goes belly up because of the lack of students ( 1 million fewer students overall this year), they know they can just leave to destroy another institution.

It's really bad, people don't realize just how bad COVID rules destroyed some of these uni's, how quickly they had to build new systems for "online learning" just to stay afloat. All because they can't manage costs and play politics. That all comes back down on the students.
> ...Their latest blog says to expect a well priced family solution in the next couple of days

Oooh, now that is interesting! Reference (near bottom of blog post): https://www.zoho.com/blog/workplace/honouring-the-commitment...
Congratulations. A big win for Internet decentralization! (It's not sarcasm, I'm all in for having your own space on the Internet).

I invite you to try Grav CMS[0], it's what I use for my personal blog[1].

Grav is a flat-file CMS, it doesn't use RDBMS. It's highly performant. I also have CloudFlare in front of it, but it was already faster than the typical WordPress you see elsewhere.

Grav also adheres to the latest PHP version, so you don't have to carry along legacy syntax around like other CMSes. Its error pages are comprehensive and the stack traces are actually readable.

I personally think it's the best out there technically speaking, the best of both worlds (Flat-file and at the same time, dynamic instead of compiling the build every new post), the only drawback is that its plugin ecosystem it's still in the early stages, so if you're to create marketing landing pages or similar, you'll still fall short there.

[0] https://getgrav.org
[1] https://www.ivanmontilla.com

EDIT: Typos.
It happened to me at Berkeley in 2005…the seeds were already being sown back then. I only found out years later that I was rejected for being in an apparently inappropriate facebook group. Someone on the committee was offended and that was that.
Looks cool! I'm not a much of a blogger so I'm probably not your target audience, but I've love to see more of an ecosystem around notion.

I would say I'm personally aittle dubious of the only two options being free and $50 a month. You might want to consider another price point in there in between. Although I'd do see that you're still in beta so I recognize the prices might not be final anyways.
I previously made a "joke" in relation the same point - dying among people who have died from covid is lower than among vaccinated.

But I understand that this discussion comes up about restrictions - why are the convalescents not treated the same as vaccinate?

I think they should. Both should have about 4-5 months before getting a booster. ;)
I'm reading OP as wanting to figure out what the consequences to them might be if they go along with this.
> I do not understand how IBM stays in business.

I don't think they do either, judging by my experience working there as an upper-level-support technician 15 years ago.

It seemed like the organization was book-ended with decent brains: engineers and front-line managers were decent to fantastic, and the upper-management seemed to be decent at the time. However, both ends seemed to be choking to death on a hundred layers of middle management. 7 years after Office Space was released and I actually had three(3) managers. Three! I had a technical manager with whom I had bi-weekly meetings where we talked about nothing, a non-technical manager with whom I had monthly meetings where we talked about nothing, and the head of my department who was the only one who meaningfully managed me in any way. (And he was absolutely fantastic.)

For example— they made some big announcements about their impending migration from windows to linux for everybody from admin assistants to sales to developers. Exciting! I loved that linux was getting more professional credibility, and my product ran on Solaris, so having a local UNIX environment would reduce some of the cognitive load for networking, scripting, etc. etc. There was no internal mandate to start the migration yet, but I was too eager to wait. I found the official image on the intranet and started writing documentation for my coworkers. It was pretty smooth! The complex GUI apps like the Lotus suite worked great! Well, as great as they did on windows, anyway. The installer was quite polished! I was excited!

I had one more thing to install— the ancient, internal defect and ticket tracking clients used by every technical worker, product designer, all of their managers, etc. Neither the intranet page for the clients nor the Linux image docs had any info. Hours later, I found a months-old internal note EoLing the Linux port, directing people to use the obtuse CLI instead. No problem— we're all technical people here, right? Problem. The API used by the GUI client supported necessary functionality the CLI didn't. That alone rendered the Linux initiative dead-in-the-water for most technical workers who'd benefit most.

I'm sure the manager who canned the Linux client was solving a very real problem, but a) a decision directly affecting company-wide strategy getting lost in the ether, and b) nobody checking to see if these big overtures were even basically feasible, embodies their organizational shortcomings. (I might have gotten some of the details wrong— it was a long time ago— but you get the gist.)

That's almost certainly why they're getting sued for purportedly blatant age discrimination, too. Managers in the middle with too much sway to have that little top-level visibility solving their problems using means that end up screwing lots of people.

That they style themselves as a technology-focused business consulting company rather than just a tech company is pretty rich.
Yeah, I'm with you - I just got an e-bike for riding in the winter and it comes with a lot of constraints you don't have to think about with a regular bike:

- It's way more expensive so I'm worried about theft.

- You can't leave it out in the harsh weather, or shouldn't.

- It's much heavier (70lbs, though it is a beefcake of an e-bike). So I can't, say, just bring it up the stairs to an appartment.

- It has a $600 battery and a bunch of fancy electronics which are nice, but probably will require more of an investment to maintain/replace.

I think there will always be a place for conventional, unpowered bikes.
It was a very minimalistic and tidy UX in an age of pop ups, ads, bloated menus, unecessary features, etc. it was great for reading and for writing

Then it became all of those things. It has the distinct stench of a growth team making all the classic short term moves to boost DAU
The networking technology from IPFS/etc will likely be helpful. Something a little different about Ethereum shards is that it needs stronger guarantees on data availability. On the other hand it's less ambitious in terms of total storage capacity.

I tend to get heavily downvoted here whenever I suggest that Ethereum might be useful for something, so I tend to keep my comments strictly technical. But I'll take a chance and say that Uniswap, for example, is a pretty interesting financial innovation with no equivalent in legacy finance. And just the other day, the International Emissions Trading Association published a statement saying:

> Digital tools hold the potential to revolutionise monitoring, reporting and verification, and they offer new means for highly secure, transparent and globally accessible registry infrastructure. There are also innovations in asset formation, such as issuing carbon credits in the form of digital credits or native tokens secured on a public blockchain.

https://www.ieta.org/page-18192/12286504
same issue in FF I think. "Couldn't start server"... and it is a pretty quick timeout, like 2 seconds
It's interesting that conservatives don't have it any easier outside of academia. You can count on the fingers of one hand the prominent conservatives who feel free to make non-offensive statements about the results of the 2020 election, global warming, or even any principled concept of conservatism.
IBM has acceptable tape systems.
Would be nice if they did not keep changing tape buffer sizes/times and other conditions without properly advertising the changes, but LTO is bad at scale so they have that going for them.
Like many VC-backed startups I think it was a bit of a darling for a while and then there was the inevitable realisation that something needed to change if it was going to have a viable business model.

That's the charitable version. After all, they did amass a decently sized userbase in its darling stage, all ideological and disruptive as it was.

Now it's yet another domain I exclude from search results.
The guy again gets his name in the headline. There has been no shortage of plans how to speed up CPython in the past 20 years. How about delivering a working product when it is done?
As a music journalist in the 90s-2000s, we were often sent promo records - particularly 12" dance singles - with blank white labels where the title was just written on in sharpie.
Yeah, absolutely. I think the best way to understand this kid is that he is definitely at the intersection of privilege and talent.

That is not to take anything away from his achievements. This kid's kicking ass.
In Ireland cops don't bother to enforce the EU law. I've encountered 10 year old kids doing max speed on e-scooters on the pavement (sidewalk to you Americans). There also seem to be lots of pretend-pedelecs that require no pedaling, and they're not legal without a licence and (I think) licence plates.
Yeah, exactly. I just hacked together a similar thing here :)

https://gist.github.com/softwaredoug/bbfa2541d48c685908ebd6a...
I've worked with Django, and I feel like it's a 10000 line framework to keep you from having to write 10 lines of boilerplate 50 times. The ROI is not there for me.

Too, there's SO MUCH magic in it, that unless you work in it all day every day the abstractions take longer to remember that they're there and how to use them than it does to just write what they're doing "longhand".

I'm starting a new job with Rails and while there's a lot of magic there too, I don't get the same "how the $#! do I do this again" angst I got with Django. Maybe that's to your "bad abstraction" point.
Why do you think nobody important (politicians, primarily) is really trying to solve those major healthcare problems?

If politicians are willing to pork and barrel over a random soy farm employing 2000 people, for sure they're not going to throw away, say, 5% of the US GDP and possibly 5% of all employment in the US.

I don't know how you're going to get out of it...

[1] "There were 22 million workers in the health care industry, one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors in the United States that accounts for 14% of all U.S. workers, according to the Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey (ACS)."

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/04/who-are-our-h...
I thought it was the opposite, that everything is moving towards value based payment, or at least it seems to be for government funded healthcare:

https://www.chcs.org/its-not-just-risk-why-the-shift-to-valu...
60 years of prosperity before the wheels start coming off? Probably
A quick web search finds some answers. eg

https://www.spigglelaw.com/employment-blog/employers-affirma...

"""
Title VII prohibits employers from making employment decisions because of an individual’s skin color, national origin, sex, religion, or race. Therefore, it is illegal to give an applicant an advantage solely because of the applicant’s race. However, this is not always the case.

Under United Steelworkers of America v. Weber, an employer may voluntarily implement its own affirmative action plan. However, this is permissible only if the purpose is to remediate past failures to hire minority employees in areas that contain few minorities.

Under Executive Order 11246, certain government contractors must have affirmative action policies to identify instances where they are not hiring qualified minorities. Contractors can take steps to fix any such hiring discrepancies.

Despite these two major exceptions, employers may not use affirmative action to hire more minority employees solely to increase the diversity of their workforce. As a result, the Fisher case only applies to schools, not employers.

"""

So, uh, it depends.
Is this related to the author, or just something you personally think is interesting/worth reading?
Mediocre GP makes 200k cash in Omaha or any average city and has choice among many employers and systems. Stanford CS represents top talent and moreover does not make 200k cash in Omaha, and can only make the big bucks at a fixed number of entities in fixed locations with fixed hierarchies and systems.
> It is in fact the case that we do often do bad things for more important goals. We kill people in wars.

I may not be a utilitarian, but I do think war is a bad thing, so I’m not sure how this is a great example.
Nicolas Bernklau on the unending life span of typography
I believe he can use the microscope to visually position the die right where it needs to be. It's a very clever setup!
First post on Indie hackers, hitting $300 MRR
Back when Facebook was more open with their Social Graph, it was possible for companies like AirBnB and Uber to create marketplaces that had the same access to the social proof that the person you were interacting with was legit.

Now, it’s not possible to build a competing marketplace with those mechanics given FB keeps the data siloed.
There's a lot of copyright breaking NFTs that are being sold that are a complete legal mess and one of these "artists" is going to be slapped with a lawsuit soon.
Well that clears things up!
Yup, this is bound to happen sooner or later, because nothing about NFTs is legally binding. From what I understand (which isn't much) you could even mint your own NFT that has the same image as another NFT but since the underlying address is different, you won't be prevented from doing so.
I don't think its bike shedding FWIW, Python traditionally eschews fewer keywords and more obvious operators. So it's a reasonable concern.
Not only that, but the sixth link is to a substack post which links to the very same paper to support its claims.

The linked paper gathered opinions from American academics via an email survey where the respondents self-selected and the response rate was 2-4%. So the results seem about as statistically useful as a Twitter poll.
Nextdoor is a good alternative but highly location dependent.
I run all my own services but just relented and setup mailgun as an outbound SMTP relay. It works well and solves the deliverability problems associated with low-traffic IP addresses. The only tricky thing was making sure my outbound SMTP requests authenticate to mailgun using domain-specific credentials depending on which address I'm sending from (I have 5 different domains).
Since he already takes the one with a higher number of dots on either die, wouldn’t that make it a d12?
Buying cryptocurrency in the UK is a pain because of the regulations. A lot of exchanges simply won't deal with UK customers.

The only way I've been able to acquire cryptocurrency is by mining it. I mined ETH back in 2017 and converted it to XMR recently which netted me a nice amount.
I have thought about leaving. My first goal is to confirm that I really understand what I'm observing. I don't want to resign because of a legal issue only to discover later that it's not actually illegal and I misread the situation.

I have no animosity for the company or the leaders. No desire to "take them down" or cause any drama. But avoiding drama definitely wouldn't be a reason to do something illegal imo.
Those names are reflective of various ways you can dismiss people without considering their positions — or more charitably, categorize and dismiss people espousing positions you've already considered and dismissed. It shows that those techniques are non-ideological, independent of the views of the person employing them. Use of language like that of a sign that if you're looking for substantive discussion of ideas, you're in the wrong place.
We're talking about marginal changes here. I think plenty of people are still happy to have their money in these speculative assets.

Those taking the money out may have liquidity needs elsewhere due to expected Fed actions, or may have lost confidence that the asset will appreciate at the rate needed to justify the investment at higher interest rates.

Just my speculation. It's interesting to think about!
I personally think Python is nice to work with and I really like Django as monolithic web framework with no dependencies- a rare thing these days. But when thinking about long term projects I’m unable to reconcile things I like with the fact that Python is among the slowest modern languages. Why would I start with an unnecessary handicap?
NFTs are not being seen or used as a ‘system built to funnel money … to artists’. That maybe one vision you have for them, but it is not the artists getting paid for the NFTs. Some company that is hosting/running/administering a blockchain is getting money. There have been numerous cases and public postings about these companies selling NFTs to buyers and the artist did not know, authorize, or consent to the sale.

Sure, maybe that is one possible usage, i.e. artists getting paid for art, but for now there doesn’t seem to be any patronage happening. It’s all corporate press pushes or scammy looking behaviors.
Jordan Peterson has some interesting critics of universities on YouTube.
This is a good summary of this debate: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03054985.2016.1...
This posting looks recent enough that you should still have the edit button yourself.
Robot Vacuum Cleaner Escapes
When NIH/NSF sets funding priorities, provides information on what they think is important, etc, it is natural that scientists will submit applications more homogeneous than otherwise: Funding keeps the lab going. I wish that they'd instead create a system of block research grants to Universities, who'd then allocate funding. The whole grant process takes up too much time and makes Scientists into perpetual salesman.
Show HN: Decorator for better default Python parameters
Yeah, there free tier was useless when I tried it. Essentially couldn't send email to anyone, including myself, since their fiercely guarded IP addresses were crap.
> aside from the Linux kernel and proprietary Raspberry Pi bootloader — only contains Go software.

Given this is what the README states, how can it be a GNU/Linux distribution?

It doesn’t include a shell or anything like coreutils either (GNU or otherwise).
When you say it's not the administration, but the other students, realize that your problem isn't what you're allowed to say, it's that you hate waht other people are allowed to say. That's the authoritarian position.

If you care about people getting fired, work for labor rights.
There is no better way to do duck or pork confit than a circulator.
Well, it's even worse than that, they caused a breaking change in Java and 2 parallel type systems, if you can call them that, with primitives.

They did the same for C#, where 2.0 was a breaking change from 1.1.

I still think Go should have bitten the bullet earlier. Though I'm still glad they're doing it now. Just that now there's a ton more code and they're going to divide the ecosystem until adoption is widespread, from the stdlib to every minor corner of the ecosystem that needs it.
Yes. There are things you can’t do by yourself, and we’re a social species.
Stats, stats, stats. Hospitalizations among people who got booster are incredibly low but meaningful difference appears from age of 50.
"tech elites" aren't altruistic. They have enough money to solve many worldwide problems, but instead choose to throw it towards more advertising-based "growth and engagement" crap or AI-powered dog food (I wish I was kidding, but yes that is a thing).

When tech people talk about the "unbanked", they are interested in them from the purposes of skimming money or "engagement" off them which up until now wasn't possible. They aren't actually interested to solve any of their problems or actually improve their quality of life.
Used it once for other typos but then the edit link disappeared!
I am afraid education (with the social currents impacting intellectual space) is a matter of intellectual value.
Go Faster.

Real missed opportunity here
Title made me wonder if they changed it or added a new feature around it.
Because the future is for doctors to not make 3x compared to them. The mid levels are being used to increase supply of healthcare, using the doctor’s license for liability, in order to reduce the price doctors collect (per unit of time and effort).

Basically, they are watching their expected wealth / purchasing power be reduced.
I get the feeling OP doesn't want to end up in court if he follows the instruction in the spreadsheet.
I'm not surprised that on HN, basic ethics is too much of an ask
Yeah, it's probably not bikeshedding when it concerns a very popular programming language's syntax. I just find myself prone to bikeshedding and pedantic naming indecisiveness in general.
Users focus a lot on the gas price since it's a consistent indicator of the cost to transact, so they've tended to use the terms "gas fee" and "transaction fee" interchangeably. Your transaction fee is used entirely to buy gas, which is spent in running your transaction.
Pixlr E has a batch tool with 20+ things you can batch .. also in the browser, just like all of the Pixlr tools. (https://pixlr.com/e/)
Borrowers cannot be "made" to repay debt in traditional finance either. Lenders must make decisions based on some measure of the credit worthiness of potential borrowers. The same mechanisms could be replicated on blockchains. See:

https://docs.truefi.io/faq/
https://teller.gitbook.io/teller-docs/protocol-1/overview
https://youtu.be/qn3PBB1rkG0
Another insult to the injury: they were doing e-commerce with WebSphere Commerce series as early as 1998, yet they could not even go beyond the limited presentation-controller-db tiered architecture, and could never imagine something like shopify.
FWIW, depending on your applications, other modalities might be easier: fluidics or even clockwork logic. You'll never be as efficient and fast as silicon, of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconventional_computing