skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The apprenticeship model in Germany does both things you mentioned, and to a greater extent. Even for trades we would consider highly skilled labor like office jobs on an executive path.

It's pretty unique that the US has the resources for these advances that developed nations have and simply doesn't do them. Part of it is the insular nature of where policy inspiration comes from, it has to be seen as a homegrown original idea, which hampers consensus making because examples of it working elsewhere also aren't accepted.
Designated Criminal
Great point. I realized that when working auto parts as a teen. There was zero incentive for me to care about sales, I just got my barely minimum wage.

My manager though would always be ready to wheel and deal on big items. He told me eventually they get bonuses based on monthly sales, so would do anything to get them.

Weird dynamic really. So basically you only might get a discount on non busy days when the store manager was in. This is probably why the whole 'Let me talk to the manager' stuff came about in the first place.
The CEO famously does not.
I went to a small college that actively avoided the “standard model.”

They focused on providing high equality undergraduate education.

No sports, research requirements, etc.

They found they could easily recruit junior faculty, but as the faculty got experience, they “cashed out” for a better position.

The “standard model” is hard to deviate from. Some schools do it, but it requires a large endowment, and there’s a gravitational pull towards sports teams and research grants.
There is no operator overloading here. The type Duration is effectively an int64: https://pkg.go.dev/time#Duration
Or maybe, the entire west is increasingly a gerontocracy, with the 18-64 working age group being squeezed harder in every way to support a constantly growing number of retirees, who also as a group obstruct construction and make the traditional markers of adulthood harder to achieve. To a 70 year old, everyone below 40 must look like a baby.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/age-dependency-ratio-old?...
what else do you want people to do though? Just not respond until you lower the price on the add your self?
I get that every few months, though I'd describe it a bit differently:

First of all, it is usually brought on by sitting hunched over and breathing shallowly for a while (like, an hour). And the pain isn't exactly stabbing, unless you're counting being poked hard with a Popsicle stick.

It releases if I breath deeply enough, with an odd crunching sensation, sort of like popping really small bubble wrap, or cracking knuckles on a tiny hand.
Rather than a direct no, some version of "Yes, if" usually works better. Yes, I can do that for you, if. If I'm given the resources to do that job, and I'm relieved of some existing work. Yes, if some prerequisite can be delivered by other people. Just lay out honestly what it would take to drop existing work and fulfill this additional request.
Another thing that really bothers me about Microsoft is all the logging they do. They don't care about privacy at all.

They send me emails about how I haven't done an @mention to enough colleagues on teams this week or that I should spend less time in meetings. Besides this being total nonsense due to not taking into account the type of job I have (of course different jobs have different balances of meetings etc), I also don't want them looking over my shoulder.

I can turn off the emails but not the logging itself. They proclaim that admins can't see what I do but as I was an admin I was actually able to see a lot more than they let on :( Sure some of it was anonimised (not all) but it's easy to filter by criteria narrow enough that that doesn't matter.

They seem convinced that they are helping us manage by data etc but they totally ignore the fact that many people frown on this practice. In fact some of it is illegal in the EU especially countries like Germany. Microsoft is clearly in the church of "Data driven everything" but they should not impose this on customers IMO.
This is not responsive to my comment.
This thread is like a parody of a wealthy tech-bro hot-take on any policy issue.

The purpose of the debt forgiveness is precisely to transfer wealth to people who need it. Whether the institutions can be profitable or not without further government funding is practically immaterial. If the institution is doing a social good, it probably cannot be self-funding. In which case, yes, we will bail it out again. And again. And essentially just make higher education something that the state uses it's tax revenue to provide for it's constituents because they've decided that that is what they want.

Of course, the rich will pay disproportionately for that. But then, they have benefited disproportionately from living in the society. The institutions that provide "social good" for this small minority are already funding proprieties for the state which panders to their every need and whim. So why shouldn't actually socially beneficial institutions like schools and universities also be funded?

Who could possibly be baffled by this? Nobody, except for multi-millionaire tech-bros.
I'm not sure I follow.

2 * 3 * time.Second is the same whether you group 2 * (3 * time.Second) or (2 * 3) * time.Second (namely, the implicit grouping under left-associativity).

You wouldn't normally write time.Sleep(time.Second * time.Second) because your units wouldn't work out. (Apparently you can write that in Golang; it's just very sketchy and results in a 30-year sleep.)
I believe many UEFI implementations allow you to replace the secure boot keys with your own.

I've not done it personally as most of my machines I just disable Secure Boot, but it's an option if you know about it and buy carefully.
A little different story while negotiating with family-run small businesses.

India is on a path to digitizing everything from all the mom-pop stores to the random tea-sellers on the corner of every street to even the beggars accepting payments digitally. Yes, India does have a financial infrastructure far better than many developed countries.

I have been on the back-end side of one such digitization effort and have seen the data. Everything that we do, or anyone in the ecosystem does to optimize profit -- end target/product are always those small businesses and the mom-pop stores run by the neighborhood uncle and aunties.

When I buy from the local stores, the small businesses, I try not to negotiate, even when I know I could have and everyone else does. I know they make a tiny more profit, and I'm happy with my decision. If your help (maid, errand boys, others)[1] bought something and might keep the change. You know they kept the difference, but you just ignore it. It is a tiny sum for you but might just be dinner or different snacks for their kids.

I had my experience, and I don't want to be on the other end and be that smart-ass negotiator. My aunt helped me sell edibles during the Indian festival of Holi. In my first year (when I was 6-8 years), I was out-negotiated to reduce price and/or add more that I lost money in the transaction. I believe I cried, and ever since, wherever I can, I try never to take advantage of someone smaller/weaker on the other end of the negotiation.

1. India has a surplus of cheap labor. It is prevalent, affordable (and thus generate employment) for middle-class households to have maids around.
Since 2020, Youtube can put ads on all videos, even those that are not "monetized" by the uploader (in which case Youtube just keeps the revenue for itself). https://www.searchenginejournal.com/youtube-is-showing-ads-o...
Hope its OK to share a quick tech rage rant?

So, gotta jump in here and say - I'm going thru the "Let's figure out Emacs, Org-Mode, Org-Roam - get my todo, calendar, files, notes all in one... somewhat coherent system". I've got my Emacs cheatsheets, and all that. I'm on the journey. But I can't help but think - some one really needs to do the UNIX->Next->MacOS of this. That is, figure out a solution that works, standardize it, make it easy.

I saw a guy made an Raspberry-Pi, with Emacs, & an e-ink display. When someone makes a "personal productivity device" - some sort of E-Ink Palm Pilot + Blackberry keyboard + Easy mode Emacs-org/notes/todo/calendar/rolodex, that syncs to your laptop, phone, refrigerator calendar... that's going to be huge.

The reason I am going through this journey is because I am treating it as a life-investment. Getting your personal productivity / information systems in order, getting that problem solved... for LIFE. It would be a huge win. So despite the pain, I'm sold on the benefits, have many people who have told me about the impact of org-mode etc on their life. So, I'm taking that at face value, trying to actually apply this advice to my own life (instead of reading about it, agreeing, and then taking 0 action on it). The irony of not prioritizing setting up a reliable TODO system is not lost on me... It's a daily laugh, as I Google search yet another Emacs package manager, or diagnose random Lisp errors - this programming language I have never used before, but this important tool requires me to know in order to... configure a note template. What.

I know there are historical reasons for the various keyboard shortcuts. But all these "arcane" (I know, "different") keyboard shortcuts for "Yank", "Buffers". Emacs keeps on opening windows. I can barely remember how to even save a file & quit. Don't worry - got Doom Emacs! I'm getting it, but still a whole 'nother set of "non standard" keyboard shortcuts.

I genuinely appreciate the various bloggers and Youtube videos out there, where people explain their system, walk you through installing & configuring stuff.

But I can't help to think. This system is so powerful. So many smart people working on it, making plug-ins for it, creating systems for it. Where is the smart person who can tie it together as a holistic system, make it EASY, and still be open source. Am I missing something? I'm thinking "Green" mode on the SLR camera. It works. If you want to tweak, you can experiment with aperture/shutter priority as you learn when/why to use it.

Ok, thanks for hearing out my Emacs rant. (as I go smoke a J, and go back to learning Emacs)
The impending explosion was going to be from the molten reactor and sand they dropped on it melting through the concrete and hitting a large underground lake, instantly vaporizing it and causing a massive explosion, and ejecting radioactive debris in a very wide area. I have read several articles criticising some aspects of the accuracy of the show (though none even venture close to saying "nonsensical"), and none of them say anything about the inaccuracy of that plot point. Do you have a source?
I used to charge in the hundreds per hour when I still worked, mostly making MVPs for startups. As for how I found work, the work found me basically. I'd get recruiting emails and LinkedIn messages and I'd pitch them that I'd work as a contractor instead of employee and many times they'd accept.
> Considering that being a farmer has basically no barrier to entry, I doubt it will get to that point.

Care to breakdown the costs?
A road bridge?? Ugh
Oxford is a global institution, so is Cambridge. What portion of British college attendees attend those two universities? How do the universities in France, Spain, Italy, and Germany compare?
Hope to see a write up on it somewhere! I bought my M1 air specifically to run a powerful arm computer with Linux/BSD once it is decent enough! I am in my last semester and don't want to tamper with my machine until that is over, so once I graduate in a month, I have plans to look into doing this. If OpenBSD is in a usable state, that'll be what gets loaded on sometime in may.
>In Germany you study for free.

By "free" I think what you are trying to say is that in Germany working class people, the majority of whom don't go to college, pay for rich kids to go to college, rather than having those people pay for themselves.
Skim is effectively dead. fzf continues to receive new features and improvements. One of the stated goals of skim is that it will be option-compatible with fzf.

Unfortunately that's only superficially true at this point. I recently removed sk support from a project because I was tired of special-casing for it. (ZFSBootMenu).
> I also have a suspicion that people even find haggling rude.

I do. Or used to. Then I kinda learned how it all works. If I had an item that could sell for say, 100 on ebay, I'd list it for 80 to get a quick sale without shipping. Then people offering 50 seem rude or crazy to me.

Then I learned to just price it high. So now, that item I'll list for 120, and 'fine, final offer' it to 80 and that works way, way better.

I think people just want to feel like they won, more than about values of items.

Another protip: Never list anything for free. You'll find the worst in society. List it for 5 or 10 dollars, then just tell the buyer it's free when they come.
> And a million views on a YouTube video (which this one is approaching and sure to exceed) can get you up to $40K in ad revenue

1 million views on YouTube is closer to $3-$4k in Ad Revenue (If you are lucky)

Not $40k
If you look at the PRAXIS exam (there's example tests out there) you'll see that the bar is set extremely low already. Dropping it does nothing to improve the talent pool and will certainly not attract quality applicants.

I've said it already - it's not the best students that go to work in teaching. You can fire a low performer, but chances are that the replacement is just as bad. It's a supply issue, a training issue and a culture issue - the anti-intellectualism in large swathes of the population really doesn't help matters.
Gnome has very excessive window borders though. They're so big they seem to be sized for touch, very wasteful when you don't have a touchscreen.

And it has even less configurability than Windows.. Add-ons don't count because they often break.
I really don't think what you're saying is universally true of Seattle banks, although I hesitate to comment as I haven't stepped foot in many of them. Have you? In fact, I'm not sure I've ever seen armored glass and sliding trays -- but I haven't visited many banks.
Can it be both? There are schools using facial recognition - not just electronic learning devices (1)

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20843076

I'm not sure the frustration is any different than when my teachers would pop in a movie rather than teaching me about a subject
that's not what "adult" means, you've chosen the wrong word, and now you are changing the definition of "adult" to an activist who has to have opinions about grandiose things in the world.

Again you keep making the argument that university is the only place where you can learn how to think, which is a pretty basic human skill. If that was true, then it's a dangerous system that needs to be fixed, not something to celebrate.

I said "was true" because I didn't know that the government installed locks on books and encrypting mechanisms on the internet and public libraries so that they are only accessible from universities.
Curious if the mid 30s distribution is from carrying infants around
> why can't it change again?

who said it can't? It will be changed by looking into the mirror and fix the incentives or whatever that corrupted higher education. Not by preaching people how they should invest their time and efforts. Preaching only works in churchs.
Why do that, when they can sell the debt to a collections agency that's willing to pay:

(probability of recovery) * (1 - profit margin) * (amount owed)

today, for the right to sue on you behalf?

Note: I think the current debt collection system in the US is terrible, especially for medical debt. I suggest looking at the charity "RIP Medical Debt" if you do too.

At the very least, when selling a debt to a collections agency, the (re)seller of the debt should be obligated to first offer the same price to the person that owes money.
Wonder if the VC crowd also has a problem with European universities (which of course, are mostly free) or if it's just the US ones...
Energy is fundamentally an economic problem so you're looking for places that reduce the incremental cost to deliver a kWh of renewable energy consistently over a long period of time. There is a shocking amount of soft costs (lawyers, permitting, financing, insurance, monitoring, sales, etc.) in renewables. Software can help with a lot of that. Fintech too.

The scale of our global energy infrastructure is incredible so small gains can have outsized impacts. I encourage you to just dig in.
> World population is likely to steeply decline, and globalization plus high living standards will most probably go away. We just won't consume as much energy or make and trade as much stuff in the future.

So, rewording that: a bunch of people will die, enough to reduce the global population, the ones who are left are going to be miserable.

And all of that makes you _less_ worried?
There is a German word that translates as forest death that I cannot recall. It was coined when tree farms became a thing and they quickly learned that creating a monoculture of all the same kind of tree undermined their health.

Trees thrive in a climate of diversity.

We've known for years that trees do things like give off chemicals when insects attack or give off a pulse when chopped into, like a scream not intended for human ears.
My point is that both will kill. There are, of course, some differences between fires of different types. However, one thing remains constant: the occupants can be killed by any of them if they don't get out.

I definitely agree that manual locks are safer -- school bus emergency exits don't even have locks, they simply only have latches on the inside. This isn't a problem with batteries though -- this is a problem with Tesla.
Small one but I negotiated at Safeway (chain grocery store in parts of the US) recently, for an item without a price tag. Ended up getting it for a dollar, half of the original offer of $2. Later found out the real price was like $6 which would have been a bit of a ripoff.
The “college experience” of living in a dorm for 4 years is probably overrated, but if you can afford it, there’s definitely a benefit to spending 4 years on directed learning. Both in subjects you’re interested and in being forced to learn subjects you would never touch on your own.

I went back to school after a decade of web development, and learned a ton. I think I’m a much better developer than I would have been had I learned only what I thought I needed for my job (could be wrong about that, but I don’t think I am). I’ve also worked with plenty of people without degrees who were better developers than me, but to a person, I think they would have greatly benefited from a broader theoretical foundation than what they built through self directed learning.

One thing you should think about is that rationalization likely applies to you just as much as it does to the college educated people you’re talking about.

I was in the college is useless boat before I went back and most of it was rationalizing my choices—plus a bit of feeling inferior.

It’s one thing to decide that college wasn’t the right decision for you (and maybe it wasn’t). It’s another entirely to write off everyone who went as suckers.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. /s

Anecdotally, I have yet to meet a single person IRL over 2 years of the pandemic who enjoys wearing masks. It varies from minor inconvenience to a thorn in your side.

For one, uncontrolled observational studies show that there is pretty strong correlation between the pandemic and depression. [1] In narrow studies, masks are shown to reduce interpersonal trust [2] , ability to evaluate emotions. [3] and might accelerate cognitive decline in older populations [4]

There is an alarming lack of studies directly targeting the mental health impact of masks. I couldn't even find a survey. On one hand, I understand that getting any good self-reported data from the hysterically polarized population is probably futile. I tried to find peer reviewed studies, but I am not a public health / psychiatry professional. On the other hand, silence can be deafening.

Tangentially, my trust in peer reviewed medical research has declined sharply over the pandemic. These folks need statistics, a sophisticated understanding of causality, experiment design and variable control. I can see why many of the best healthcare writers exclusively stick to meta-studies instead of individual studies.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-96500-7

[3] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.5668...

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8418138/
Isn’t the actual problem that we’re sending people to 4 year institutions who… don’t actually need the education they’re getting? I have so many friends that graduated with ridiculous amounts of debt to go into escape room design or being a barista (neither of which had anything to do with their degrees). They were told a lie, like many others, that they should “choose what makes them happy” when studying and now they’re screwed for the foreseeable future finance-wise.

Debt forgiveness addresses a symptom, not the core issue. I support it because I’ve seen firsthand how much of a hole it’s left people who made bad choices as a high schooler in, but we can’t keep making the same mistakes that got us here in the first place.
or you wont find anyone at all - listed some chairs for free, no response, changed it to $25, and 3 offers in an hour...
UC Berkeley CS has teaching professors who no longer do research and solely teach.

They introduced this well after I graduated but I did take classes with some professors who became teaching professors. They were research professors when I took them.

I found the experienced professors competent even if some were uninspired. On the other hand, I generally had negative experiences with the graduate assistants and new professors.

The graduate students and new professors didn't know the material as well and didn't have much experience teaching. The older professors mostly knew the material much better and had an established process.

I had Stuart Russell, Raimund Seidel, Randy Katz, John Wawryznek, and others.
Except the constant ui changes with no reason other than change, with no option to switch them back.

Or the ever more locked down environment, or the iOS style dumbed down apps they prefer now..

I think it was pretty much downhill after leopard :(
I reluctantly admit, I laughed pretty hard at this.
I just watched a video about a Japanese website where you can put in an item you received as a gift, and it recommends items that are 30-50% of the gift's value that would make for an appropriate okaeshi or "return gift"

https://tinytotintokyo.com/gift-giving-in-japan-uchiiwai-%E5...
also

- getting paid below (barely above if you are lucky) 6 figures

- requires 3+ years of postdoc training which paid even worse
But why? If the complaint is just about the logo this makes no sense.
Yep the iMac Pro and Mac Pro have had the same setup. I’d assume the 4/8TB configurations populate both ports from the disk speed tests I’ve seen.
I've got allergies galore, but the animal dander faded (no idea why) while pollen is still going strong seasonally.
Key part is without any energy saving features. Once those are implemented it will improve. I am pretty sure MacOS has a number of energy saving features implemented.
Eh, Hitler was a politician who regularly made rousing speeches. Hirohito was never seen in public, and the gyokuon-hōsō was the first time the public had heard any emperor's voice. On a regular basis, Hirohito would sit through entire meetings without speaking. If Hitler was a "void", it was definitely in a different sense than Hirohito was a void.
Ask HN: How to remove YouTube Shorts from subscriptions page?
The change today made the subscriptions page really hard to wade through. Any uBlock origin rules or something else to hide these from https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions ?