skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did they make the wrong decision?

Yes. The average US college graduate has under $40K in debt. If you're able to get into a networking school for the upper class like Cornell you're able to get a full ride at a state university. UVA and UW-Madison means at most one of three children went to college in state, on in state tuition.

It's perfectly fine to choose the university to go to based on prestige but paying for a network is not morally superior to going to a less good university on a full scholarship, or doing two years at a community college and transferring to a state flagship for the last two years. Making expensive choices to chase status, a zero sum game, isn't eveil. Neitehr should it be encouraged.
They say that Vaccines can prevent infection? I thought with Omicron that was no longer true?
Show HN: Open-Source 3D Location-Based Wireless Mesh Network
I've decided to open source the project I've been working on called Hyperspace. Hyperspace is a suite of software implementing a wireless mesh network for IoT devices. My main requirements are listed on my repo but I'll copy them here.

1. The mesh shall enable nodes to route packets amongst themselves.
2. The mesh shall allow nodes with limited power to participate in routing packets.
3. The mesh shall be IPv6 based.
4. The mesh shall be local. I.E. not require connection to a remote server.
5. The mesh should provide 3D location to nodes in the network.

Nodes use the Decawave DW1000 UWB radio to transmit and receive data, and to measure distances to other nodes. Location can be determined with enough distance measurements (see the documentation for more details). The implementation is pretty primitive at the moment. The border router server and the iOS app are super basic and have very little in terms of actual functionality, but the core ideas are there.

I'm not happy with the state of smart home devices. I don't like it when a manufacturer shuts down a key server and bricks a bunch of devices. I don't like it when devices don't interoperate. Therefore, I've decided to open source this project in the hopes that it gains traction and that we can work on creating better IoT devices together.
Doesn't that make renewables the optimal solution? Recyclable, no pollution to speak of when generating electricity and no radiological risks.
The problem is student loans, if the students don't have the money the college will adapt to be less expensive.
The only direction Windows should go is being more modular and less features.
Speed is probably the only feature all users want.

So make all features modular with advanced user being able to remove and get a lean and mean OS.

We want less, we want speed.

P. S.
It is about time to upgrade the File System. It is too slow...
I'm not a twitter user, but I would think these stats speak to some measure of pop-cultural relevancy?

"‘Euphoria’ Is the Most-Tweeted TV Show of the Decade (So Far)"

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/euphoria-most-tweeted-...

and

"‘Abbott Elementary’ Is No. 1 Most-Tweeted TV Comedy of the Year to Date"

https://news.yahoo.com/abbott-elementary-no-1-most-171433284...

Also this https://www.imdb.com/chart/tvmeter/?ref_=tt_ov_pop list has Euphoria as #2 (formerly #1), although to be fair Abbott is not on the list, and I'm personally not familiar with Pieces of Her. So fair enough, might be overestimating for Abbott - but it is on ABC so perhaps relevant to average people. And of all of these shows mentioned, I've only seen The Dragon Prince - I'm only aware of the other ones via discussions.
Peak aurora season is during and after the polar night in Dec to Mar. If the shades were forced closed, your flight was likely during the Midnight Sun period of 24h light, meaning you wouldn't have been able to see them anyway.
With heat pump systems, "inside" is the temperature being controlled. "Outside" is uncontrolled --- it's where heat is being dumped to or pulled from.

Don't confuse the two.

The efficiency of a home heat pump declines as the air temperature outside the home drops. A freezer is working in reverse so it's efficiency declines as the air temperature outside the freezer box rises.

Neither a heat pump in an Alaskan winter nor a freezer sitting on a Florida back porch in summer are operating very efficiently.
I suspect many people would like to think that if they looked different they may have had a somewhat harder time succeeding but would have done so anyway.
> College prepares people to be adults in every way…

People repeat that but what is it based on?

Most of the adult population have not gone to college but somehow manage to become functioning adults.
This is going to be with us a long time!
> once your child graduates high school they have the option to either take out hundreds of thousand of dollars in federally backed loans if they’re lucky enough to have parents that don’t make enough money. If they have middle class parents they’ll have to rely on even worse loans from private lenders.

Um

> Currently, student loan debt at graduation is an estimated $31,100.

https://educationdata.org/average-student-loan-debt-by-year
The average math SAT for kids whose families make over 250k would put you in the bottom ten percent at fucking Boston university.
> This is such a naive take from someone who had never had to face
police officers blatantly violating your rights and physical
well-being.

What on earth do you think you know about that?
It's based on the entry level salary for California tech workers being six figures whereas the wage for farm workers is an exception to laws such that they can be paid below minimum wage.
It’s been studied some and there's at least some substantial evidence that it's the latter. (I posted this on another thread last week.)

> For most students, the salary boost from going to a super-selective school is “generally indistinguishable from zero” after adjusting for student characteristics, such as test scores. In other words, if Mike and Drew have the same SAT scores and apply to the same colleges, but Mike gets into Harvard and Drew doesn’t, they can still expect to earn the same income throughout their careers. Despite Harvard’s international fame and energetic alumni outreach, somebody like Mike would not experience an observable “Harvard effect.” Dale and Krueger even found that the average SAT scores of all the schools a student applies to is a more powerful predictor of success than the school that student actually attends.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/does-it-ma...

That’s not “education” directly, but does suggest an extremely strong applicant pool selection effect is happening.
Thanks much. I'd love to roll something like this out across both my 9-to-5 and a couple of the consulting gigs I do. I see immediate applications in proposal/RFP management (where there are numerous existing solutions, all of which have some critical flaw), contracting (to ensure contract docs align with references and data sources), legal briefing management (which is, to me, the ultimate use case for any system intending to refine the integration between documents and other documents, or documents and data) and obviously academia. If you are looking for early product-market fit, designing to serve one of those markets extraordinarily well could get you some traction.
How about adding the 15 kHz flyback transformer whine? Though most people who remember these terminals probably can’t hear that frequency any more.
You just saying that most students don't go to an icy league school, right? :)
Wholeheartedly support this. I want my OS to be as boring as possible so that I can do all the interesting things I want.
If it's expected that children of today will spend most of their adult time indoors, then maybe it's a very good idea that children and teens get outside now before the opportunity to live outdoors passes!
> you’re not helping the situation by advertising it for free.

I disagree. the point here is that DDG misses what "hacker news" really is, not advertising a website.
Like every Windows user, I have had a lot of frustrating experiences with the abusive behavior and dark patterns that have taken over the platform. Like when they started having Skype silently run in the background logged in with the user's Microsoft account without any notice or human intervention, and removed the setting to disable it from launching at startup so that it couldn't be prevented. I had to completely uninstall it, which didn't really help, because they still kept bringing it back after every update. I assume that they're going to do this with Teams now.

For every egregious user-hostile behavior, you can search and find a ton of forum threads where people discuss at length how to reverse or mitigate them. The fact that Microsoft is aware of this and continues to prioritize this kind of abusive growth hacking over user trust, knowing fully how that impacts the company's reputation among enthusiasts, is perhaps more damning than the actual practices.

Nobody at Microsoft who has decision-making authority actually cares. Contempt for the users is so deep in the DNA that this will never get better. It's disappointing, because it ultimately undermines all of the great effort that people elsewhere in the company have put into features like WSL that might otherwise make the platform attractive to modern developers.

It creates a really adversarial posture between the user and the platform. When they introduce new features, I'm reluctant to even try them because I don't trust their intentions. It's like being in an abusive relationship.
Mitmproxy is so much fun. I used it recently to inspect the traffic between a `node --inspect` process and the Chrome devtools. I then used my understanding to "fix" a few things that annoyed me about the node debugging workflow - like how each time the debug server starts, it has a unique URL that you need to manually attach to in the debugger. It's very hacky but it works for my needs.

https://github.com/b0o/ndbproxy
They don't fuse it. They have the branch and the following instruction both go down one integer pipeline just as they would if the branch was predicted "not taken. They are linked/tagged together such that if the branch actually happens then the result from the second instruction is simply not written back instead of taking a branch mispredict.

So the four input operands and one output operand are not a problem because that's just what two pipelines do all the time anyway.
And the theme is unusable on KDE dark theme to a red blue color blinded user.
Speaking from anecdotal experience, the university I went to put a lot of thought and money into things like being sustainable, producing zero waste, having high quality healthy food, etc. This is fantastic if you're looking at things from a long term perspective.

On the other hand, if your goal is to churn as many bodies out as possible with degrees, it's a pretty big waste of money. We could ship in frozen tyson chicken from China or whatever and just deep fry it as dinner, and turn the dorms into pod hotels or something.

Of course that goes from ideal to complete dystopia, but if that's your goal... lol.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs...
This article nails a lot of the issues with Windows 11.

I bit the bullet and upgraded to Windows 11 late last year thinking it must be an improvement over Windows 10. It turned out to be a big step backwards.

- Changing the default browser is a lot of work instead of a single click.

- I can't move the task bar to the side, even though almost every monitor nowadays has much more horizontal space than vertical.

- All apps are not readily accessible from the start menu; I have to click another button to get to them.

- I have a 2-in-1 laptop, and turning it into tablet mode is wonky.

- I can't choose to not have grouped buttons on the taskbar.

- The context menus UX is horrible. Some context menu items are now two clicks away instead of one. Also what's with the excessive rounded corners and slim selection padding?

- The stacked notifications is confusing, and always shows the calendar when I open the notifications panel.

- Lots of crap pushed on me, like chat (aka Teams), widgets (which require a Microsoft account), 3rd party apps that look like they're installed but actually get downloaded/installed on first use.

I was able to fix a lot of those issues with ExplorerPatcher [0]. However, one day after a Windows update, Explorer didn't start at all after login (black screen, I thought Windows was hosed). This has since been fixed. But I decided enough is enough, and finally "upgraded" back to Windows 10.

The only good thing about Windows 11 is wslg, which provides out of the box support for Linux GUI apps (not available on Windows 10). But I can get the same result with an X server and some work.

[0] https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/wiki/All-features
Have you looked at shadertoy.com? Searching 'CRT' has about 160 results, some look pretty good though you may have different requirements

For example, https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Ms23DR
> I love having more engineers, scientists, and doctors, but we desperately need non-STEM work to be a viable option

I’m not sure I agree. We could open more research labs, and dramatically increase the number of positions in STEM.

We could double or quadruple the number of teachers, and if we got even a small increase in the number of highly successful students who can do original work in research or STEM it would make all our lives better.

We could increase the number of nurse practitioners who could do basic medicine like fixing broken bones and treating common illnesses.

There’s room to add lots more mechanical and robotics engineers, and a lot of that work requires more spatial reasoning skills than math, despite what one might think. A lot of people who we wouldn’t think of as STEM oriented can do and enjoy those jobs.
My careful reading of the facts (disclosure: my daytime gig is making the wheels in a university's student records system whir)

* Forgiving student debt is an endless political cycle, promising to piss off anyone who has either paid off their large debt without forgiveness (raises hand - five figures (think 1990s luxury car) between my wife and I) or didn't acquire the debt in the first place (self-funded or scholarships).

* Standardized test scores going away: Read the fine print (I implemented this policy in code). The test scores went away for admissions. You can get in without standardized test scores. However, public and private scholarships are still tied to standardized test scores. Funding agreements (I was involved in maintaining the university's implementation of these) from private donors or public sources have mostly not been altered. Rhetorical: Are standardized tests really going away?

* Tech hiring without degrees: Culture and HR fit is important here. Does HR, protecting the company from itself, quietly screen and discard resumes without necessary keywords? This is an effective way to remove non-degree holding candidates.

* Alternatives: Yes, we (in the United States) do need them. We have needed them for at least 30 years. Politically, all we ever really seem to get are NEETs and High-Schools-With-Smoking-Areas.

I like that Mr. Altman's thinking of alternatives. Please share them. I want to see a successful implementation. My job, and the way I define it, relies on making it possible for as many to dream as possible. I support widening the number of paths to dream as possible. I believe that this is not a zero-sum game.

As for price, there is already an economic force that will cause interesting swings ahead. In my circles, it is called a demographic cliff. My university is already seeing it and has made short term changes. I foresee many small universities and colleges closing and merging. Eventually, when shrinkage cannot happen any longer, the price of services (tuition and fees) will be lowered. Just in time for the current administrative overhead to retire.
Related: When your house/office/data centre/whatever has an intermittent bad smell, what's a good way to find the source?

I have a dog, but I'm not sure how to train it to locate smells I find objectionable.
If only Germany were smart enough to give people who study here a 2-3 year work visa after they finish their studies. As it is you still need to find an employer willing to sponsor you (which at least is easy if you earn a lot).
> But the true corrupting power gained from getting someone to turn a
blind eye is in getting them to do it more than once, because then
they are compromised without deniability;

Insightful observation. I am reminded of the Bluttkit (Blood cement?)
treatement used by SS officers on new recruits.
I love this! Just the fact of walking with no purpose helps me think so much clearly. I often think a lot of my work gets done on walks. Sadly I don't do it enough.

You might find this app that someone told me about interesting:
https://deriveapp.com/s/v2/about/

It helps exploring neighbourhoods in more spontaneous ways. It essentially gives you tasks (go to a crowd, follow a person with a dog, take a right on the next street). You follow it and then see where you end up! Always fun to discover places you would normally not visit.
Not everything is like the laws of physics, which continue to work over many orders of magnitude. Supply and demand for employment works backwards at both the top and the bottom of the salary range. At the top, beyond a certain point supply decreases because people save enough to give up working. At the other end, reducing post can increase supply because people's need for income of inelastic below a certain point, so they start working longer hours and working second or third jobs.
That you cite Japan as an example of reliable nuclear safety after Fukushima…
> the only seemingly rational explanation for inequity is discrimination

Wait, this is not what I said and is not how serious social science is done. In many ways, public K-12 education is equally abysmal for everyone. It may not overtly discriminate, but it lets people fall through the cracks in a way that amplifies the causal influence of pure luck (i.e. randomness, noise in outcomes) and external factors such as different cultural attitudes and generational history (such as whether your grandparents and great-grandparents happened to be educated or at least literate), that account for much of the observed correlation with race.
Your attempt to turn this argument into a personal attack is out of place, please review the commenting guidelines. It's also factually wrong, as I've been on the "team member doing the personalized onboarding" side plenty of times, by choice. This is why I feel qualified to say that it does take a significant amount of time away from the team if they have to do this all the time.

My whole point was that the quoted "cold productivist viewpoint" completed neglected the productivity of the team members doing the one-on-one onboarding. I didn't start this line of argument, I was just engaging in it, so it makes no sense for you to hassle me about your perceived morality of said viewpoint: You accused me of approving of "A" when all I did was refute "A implies B".
All of my programming classes have been helped tremendously by having access to a computer…

In all seriousness I think we are still in the discovery process of what tech will help with and what it won’t.
> More importantly, college is about much more than job training. College prepares people to be adults in every way, not to be a resource for corporations

The "preparing to be an adult" value decayed exponentially for me. The first year staying in halls with my peers was extremely valuable. The rest of the years were not so valuable.

Also, this value was 95% social. There was very little that uni itself taught me about being an adult.
Turkey has some top-tier construction firms. Also, it's actually a lot easier to build mega-projects in autocratic societies, for both better and worse.
+1. It is hard to read articles like this about contemporary economics research without having “first, assume a spherical cow” pop into my head.
That's still far too much time for far too little progress. Six hundred videos and counting, each over an hour in length. What is there to learn except how not to develop a game, much less (as I recall him claiming) a AAA quality game.
> farm workers is an exception to laws such that they can be paid below minimum wage.

I’m all for setting the minimum wage for farm workers at $25/hr. Within 2-3 years every manual farm worker will be replaced by a machine, and we’ll all be better off for it.

Well, not the manual workers, temporarily. But then we’ll have to deal with the problem of unemployment honestly rather than leaving make-work jobs around.
The possibility of getting brain fog from long Covid terrifies me so much that I will probably wear a mask indoors for the rest of my life.
For those who didn’t click through the right chain of links, here’s the original article this one was respond to. I do wonder what they were trying to do that didn’t happen though.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/11/21/choices-headaches/

The thing that stood out to me is this is from 2006. Joel‘s suggestion of the “b’bye button“ is effectively what we got on the iPhone and later the iPad (minus user switching). The user no longer has to care about all those different states. They can either go away for a little while, or go away for a long while and have the hardware turn off.
Do you think Americans were less adult in, say, 1930s, when only small fraction of them went to college?
Office on the Mac is awful.

When I worked at apple I wasnt the only person who ran office in a windows vm. It was a supported config.
> "Also, there are lots of US tech people here - with overly inflated salaries compared to approximately everyone else. "

And even then, you're usually required to live within reasonable driving distance of the office. You don't make enough to buy a place. At least half your salary post-tax probably goes to rent. So yeah, you've got a few bucks in the bank probably, but it's not like you're saving up to buy your third Porsche or something lol.
Might be able to get enough understanding as to "what we have" (if not "why we have it") to be content for a human lifetime, though.
How did you get connected with the the volunteer opportunities?

Do you live somewhere that you can afford to have enough space for a home workshop? I want to woodwork, but the Seattle area is prohibitively expensive to have the woodworking space.
So is the proposal a system for identifying known images of stolen bikes? That doesn't make sense because it isn't against the law to have an image of a stolen bike.
Server isn't too far off...
Just as capitalism fails to account for economic externalities, it also fails to account for education helping people make good choices for themselves and the country, including voting. There's often unaccounted value, in a democratic society, for people to be educated.

Also, just because someone is doing a menial work it does not mean that they should not have a access to higher education. Especially since there's not enough of higher valued jobs for everyone and to assure worker mobility.
No to what exactly?

That's replication, not partitioning, and involves scaling up every instance to be big enough to hold the entire dataset. You must scale up first before you can scale out.
> Why not?

See, Prometheus: the gods really don't fancy this line of questioning.
Also what's with the excessive rounded corners and slim selection padding?

The people who worked on the design use Macs. Seriously.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019307
> Room and board is already more expensive than the in-state tuition on an average basis.

As Bronn of the Blackwater said, “it’s all [housing policy] in the end”.
As an engineer working at Microsoft in Windows, I 100% agree...it's just as frustrating seeing these from inside as well

(edit: from throwaway as a protective measure)