skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the writing on the wall is clear regarding student loans.

The entire notion of taxpayer funded student loans is a scam on both taxpayers and students. It’s a system that allows the colleges/universities to charge any tuition they want and guarantees there will be an artificial demand.

For about a decade at least 1M student loan holders default per year. Long before the defaults reached that high, everyone involved knew that student loans were far outpacing the economic value, and yet not a single college or university stepped up in goodfaith to blow the whistle, they continued to suckle at the tit to the detriment of their own students.

Education is supposed to benefit students and the nation as a whole but the ridiculousness of loans has ensured it ruins lives and at >$1.5T in taxpayer funded debt that continues to grow exponentially it is a detriment to the country.

Collapse of student loans will of course have an impact of the college/university landscape, but the industry as a whole will not collapse, rather tuition will “collapse”, or come down, to what students can actually afford out of pocket without going into debt. And if the universities/colleges somehow can’t survive on existing taxpayers subsidies from the Dept. of Educations $68B annual budget plus out of pocket tuition rates, then welcome to the real world your university/college is a failed business.
The author probably knows that Google could sue the ever living hell out of them for copyright and trademark violations, or maybe even go so far as to try to extract "lost revenue" from skipped ads by arguing that the trademark violation might have tricked people into thinking the app was official and therefore unknowingly deprived Google of ads.

I'm guessing the C&D was followed by a "we won't sue you if you do the following" proposal, which includes not releasing the source code for their tweaks.
It would take probably another $100M in engineering pay to do this, so unless there are 100k other people willing to pay $1,000 for this, you're short on how much you need to pay to actually get this done.
It would also help you learn Rust, which will likely be a more in-demand skill than C++ in the future.
> Teaching? Never heard of it.

This view is starting to become outdated. Plenty of schools now have a role known as "Teaching Professor" that focuses on teaching, with no research expectation. They have all the same qualifications as any faculty hired for the role, like a Ph.D. in the field. At UPenn at least they can even get tenure.
FreeBSD is about 30% faster than Ubuntu on arm64
Testing SMS 2FA with Twilio and Playwright
Easter egg in Windows 1.0 RTM
Θα προτιμούσα να μην το κάνω.
The mRNA vaccine is not your grandpa's vaccine. This is a new and experimental technology that is not even close to being fully understood. And there is no data on very long term adverse events.

The trial data will not be released by the FDA for another 55 years or so [1]

The J&J Janssen vaccine is a more traditional vaccine and it's not pushed by the media or the governments almost at all.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants...
My propeller hat is a dignified part of my professional attire, thank you very much.
I’d be curious to see this over time. Definitely doable via git
> Maybe you need to rethink that. Do your friends really warrant less respect than colleagues

Are your friends paying you to complete whatever tasks they ask of you?

Really what it means is this:
A friend may ask something of you and you decline with a stated reason. Then they start finding ways to tell you your reason is invalid and then therefore you shouldn't refuse. This is the part that's disrespectful. Sometimes you are willing to have a discussion and change your mind, but there is too much of a culture where people think they can always out argue your "no".

With people who don't respect this boundary, giving a reason is never good enough and just gives them fodder to exhaust you with pointless arguments. Sometimes you really are not willing to change your mind. This is where the title of this article applies -- don't give them any material to go on and end with a "no" alone.
I've negotiated 40% off of mattresses at different Mattress Firm stores. Most of sales people do not want to negotiate, don't waste time with them and move on, matress chain stores are a dime a dozen. You can even call them and say you're looking to buy X and are calling around to find the sales person that will sell it to you at $Y.

Don't ask for a "deal", "discount", "best price", etc, ask, "Can you do X at $Y?"

Consumer Reports has a good chart you should scroll down and look at:

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2013/08/how-to-...
Minetest scratches that itch pretty well, open source and no MS nonsense.
I think you've twisted "personal contexts" into "friends" and "explaining yourself when you say no" into "respecting other people".
I'm sure it was specified somewhere in the EULA that you were forced to agree to long ago while installing the OS. It's been a while since I've looked at it too, but I believe there's a clause in there that also permits them to change it at any time without telling you.
If you have a setup which replicates the autocomplete from Xcode, I'd love to hear the details :)
This is excellent. Your approach of solving the hardest problems first is great engineering. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
Then how do any of these distributed systems tools/frameworks write a meaningful or concise landing page? Making informed trade-offs are obviously important. But in a world of saturated information, it seems like there’s even more value in being hyper clear about what the purpose of a thing is? And even better, what it’s _not_. Unfortunately, many of these tools claim to be broadly applicable, in a way that makes it hard to understand their true purpose, without also investing significant time into them. That seems kind of unfortunate.
Do you think access to education is a human right?

I find your last paragraph a bit troubling, I agree that becoming a part of the elite does not really have a significance with regards to your own worth. But the USA is not a country that revolves around the middle class, its a country that revolves around the elites. In America not being part of the elite is a failure because the political and economical system is made to benefit, empower and sustain elites. Becoming part of the elite is a very good way of sustaining your family and the future family of your family for generations to come. Look at the downward versus upward mobility! To pretend like there is a social class that just isn't for everyone is extremely offensive; everyone should have the same chance. Not everyone can be the best, but everyone who wants to should have a fair shot at it and universities and education as a whole is the best way we have to pave the way.

In Europe, in most countries, universities are accessible to all and they do have some excellent institutions. But not only that, children of all social classes go to the same schools (yes you do have mega elites but I'm talking here about the vast majority of the population) on the other hand compare that to america where children go to school that depends on their location and where you have an incredible disparity between where the poor and where the rich live. How could you say "not everyone can be part of the elite" when being part of the elite is already largely determined on the area you were born in!

I think the US education system needs a complete reform and so much has to change, but really, if youre a politician and you are part of the elite what incentive do you have to make things harder for you and your class? Your kid is going to a top high school then its going to go to a top university. And their kids will do the same if you keep things the way they are.
The poster upthread called registeredcorn questioned why we have any tenant protection laws at all.

I guess you wrote something intended to have nothing to do with that. While I see that wasn't your intent in context I read you as saying tenant protections don't matter.
The greatest leverage is in your willingness to walk away. Being more willing to walk away than your counter-party is an enormous advantage in nearly any negotiation. (Being perceived as more willing to walk away is almost as good.)
> stuff like tasks on startup should be managed in one location that is easy to find

Task Manager's Startup tab?
Just make or buy cheap body cams.
As somebody who started playing back in alpha, it's amazing how many user-hostile changes have been made. Needing to transfer accounts multiple times, finding the cross-platform Java version among all the various Windows-only or mobile only versions, finding out that the account had been archived years ago.

And that's not even getting into the mess that is the licensing that was Minecraft Alpha. That was changed even before Microsoft took over, when lawyers took one look at the license and realized that players getting "all future versions" [0] would include any sequels, spin-offs, platform ports, etc.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20101214061702/http://notch.tumb...
That is correct, you can enroll into BYOD / regular work profile mode without reset. But for COPE mode and COBO mode you must factory reset to enroll.. because they are triggered in the startup Wizard by tapping 5 times on the background and then scanning the QR code (or by entering the token at the Google setup screen). These are fully managed modes.

And those modes are the only ones that allow you to push certificates to the system store. Normal BYOD work profile mode doesn't allow you to do that anymore. They only go into the user store where apps are free to ignore them - since Android 7. This mode is only meant for user owned phones and thus Google wants to limit what you as an admin can do. And manually you can't add them anymore either.

So that's why I mentioned the factory reset there.. It really is needed if you want to add root CAs to the system store.

(I managed 60.000 phones, 40k of which Android until a couple months ago :)
A prominent researcher noted that the following question was tested by the ETS but never made it onto the SAT:

The actor's bearing on stage seemed ______; her movements were natural and her technique _____

A. unremitting...blasé
B. fluid...tentative
C. unstudied...contrived
D. eclectic...uniform
E. grandiose...controlled

Apparently 8% more black students answered this question correctly than white students, and it was never moved from a potential question into the real test. The allegation is that the racial outcome of the question is the cause of its never making it onto the SAT.

I think it never made it because the question is bad. None of the answers makes much sense (the correct answer is apparently C).

1: http://www.jayrosner.com/publication-onwhitepreferences.html
Not really. Small liberal arts colleges offer the chance to be friends with your professors and small classes. Research universities can offer classes that just aren't going to happen at a SLAC. For example, majors in our department have the option to take graduate courses before they graduate.
I bet you could do this with user space probes but it would be somewhat difficult so probably not worth the time.
There are a lot of compromises in our body design to support breathing air. One is the risk of aspirating food, which kills lots of people.
Regardless, last time I was in Walmart Chromebooks where the only laptop available. For better or worse (mostly worse IMO) as far as a large portion of the population is concerned "regular laptops" are specialized equipment that they won't have.
LOL I bet the people of Arizona didn’t expect THIS when all they wanted was lower taxes
> but also the way he haphazardly stripped a $16K Studio

the version they tore down is $4k and even the maxed out version is $8k,
don't know where you got $16k figure from

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-studio/20-core-cpu-48...
Tends not to require hospitalisation

That's massively understating the effects of vaccination or acquired immunity on hospitalizations for omicron. 3 doses of MRNA are 99% effective, and where it doesn't work there are often other health issues at play.

VE against hospitalization with Delta or Omicron infection after three doses was greater than 99% across the study population. Of the four patients hospitalized with Omicron infections who had received three COVID-19 vaccine doses, all were older than 60 years and had chronic diseases; one had a compromised immune system.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/02/3-covid-...
Quite a lot of people will indeed pay Alice more, especially if her degree is from a brand-name school. You can look up the stats yourself, but they're striking.

I personally build my hiring processes to be relatively blind to elite status signals. But interviewees tell me that's pretty unusual.

> You can mention having further disagreements without making it a gratuitous diss.

I believe it was both accurate and necessary to divert the replies away from the politics. And given that you can't even find the politics, I don't understand why you consider it necessary to appoint yourself my editor.
Forgive my ignorance, but what's the difference between this and VS code? Other than look, feel, and architecture. or is it merely a for fun project?

I'm using vs code or vim and tmux as daily editor (except for java which i use IntelliJ) and have been very comfortable with it. I used to try different editors back in the days just to explore for fun, but now when you want to get the work done, it'll be very time consuming to switch editors, map keys, themes, setup, etc.

either way, congrats for the new cool project!
Why? You just showed how much that single word conveyed. For which I thank you. Being overly specific is rarely productive.

I was writing for people such as you. As for the rest? Well anyone who can’t make such a trivial inference obviously has nothing interesting to say about didactic methods.
I got the vaccine. Does that make me anti-vaxx? I'm anti-mandate for an experimental drug that is not fully understood.

I am ok with the MMR and tetanus and the older traditional vaccines. They have been very rigorously tested and proven. I got all those for school and whatnot and I'm cool with that.
Kinda changing the subject.
Why I love Vim: It’s the lesser-known features that make it so amazing
Engineering Deep Learning Systems
"I've seen [visual] editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them. I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing."

- Ken Thompson on the superiority of ed to editors such as today's vi or emacs, as summarized by Peter Salus in A Quarter Century of UNIX (Addison-Wesley, 1994)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
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Do you have any numerical evidence for that? I would suspect it is slightly denser.
At least in my limited knowledge, it's the small time farmers that commit suicide (so owner that works), and generally in the older population. What else are you going to do if you've been doing that your whole life, you're 50, no college (or it was for agriculture)? You likely can't stay where you are because many of the areas are depressed and they'll take your land if you can't pay the taxes, are foreclosed, etc. Just making it to the next year and all the hard choices become a heavy burden - one that you can struggle with for years and only make it that long because you've motivated yourself that it's the only way and only goal. So it's not just a job, but their entire way of life and identity that are lost.
I strongly suspect HR has nothing to do with any of this, because some of these questions come close to the line of inappropriate and problematic.
Chrome OS has a good shot at displacing windows not because it is better or less user hostile, but because it is putting cheap machines in the hands of kids who will one day, grow up, and enter the workforce and lead the workforce later on.

That's even worse, because as the saying goes, those who never had freedom (or ownership, for that matter) won't miss it.
The problem is that those criticisms are almost always wrong. For instance the ARM proponents criticise RISC-V for having long instruction encodings and then they quote a few carefully cherry picked examples. But if you look at actual compiled programs RISC-V is nearly always 10-15% smaller than ARM.
The USSR was not a "despotism of the proletariat". Soviet propaganda portrayed their government as the will of the people, but in fact it was an autocracy. The actual despots during the space race were Krushchev and Brezhnev.
Max Tech is... really something. I stumbled upon a few of his videos a few years ago and thought it was a parody of JayzTwoCents/LinusTechTips channels, but... nope. Guy is a real gem of modern YouTube and algorithm pandering.
Probably the interesting thing will be if we ever get videos of deep hardware fixes of these. Like the “I bought 5 broken PS5s to fix for this video”
Apple has really stepped up their cooling game in the past few years.

The heat sink in the iMac Pro was where things really started to shift. It keeps the Xeons in those machines reasonably cool while being whisper quiet at idle/low load and reasonably quiet at load. They really kicked it up a notch with the Mac Pro, which remains nearly inaudible at all times, and now that’s carried forward into the Mac Studio.

Really nice work. I’d love to see this kind of innovation in more standardized PCs — the NH-D15 and front fans in my custom built tower do a good job on thermals but their acoustics leave something to be desired, despite Noctua coolers and fans being some of the quietest on the market.
On the cutting edge research point, one of the reasons universities are structured this way is because students want to learn from leading researchers in their respective fields. This ensures that the education they are paying for is not out of date. I agree that this isn't that important for the first year or two as an undergrad but it can be pretty great later on in your education.
> Choosing to go to a research institution seems like such an obviously poor choice it’s strange people get suckered into it.

The best educations happen in research labs. Undergraduates should get a good foundation years 1 and 2, and then find their way as a junior research assistant years 3 and 4 if they want to make the best of their University years. These days you can follow along with any course you want on YouTube. At University you are paying to get access to top researchers and the work they do.
Much like with underutilized amusement park rides, the system must accept 'negative' value on some queues (lost guest displacement time in that case) to correctly price the value of the desired outcomes.

As far as the 'sewer room' option goes, I think it would have to be priced at the cost of renting somewhere else; so a negative value.

For the split on the surplus rent there are a couple solutions to this.

IIRC it might be a dutch auction rule? The one where if N of a thing are available a there are N winning bidders all the winning bidders pay the lowest price? Take that rule except apply it to the lowest choice total among the set that yields a full rent.

There's also an argument about how to split the savings. In the 10 + 9 * 1 scenario the portion of the total rent the distribution of savings might be better split up as:

'refund' = SURPLUS * nROOM / (RENT + SURPLUS)

nRENT = nROOM - SURPLUS * nROOM / (RENT + SURPLUS)

If A = 10 and B..J are all 1

5.263... = aRENT = 10 - 9 * 10 / 19

0.526... = xRENT = 1 - 9 * 1 / 19

Rent (10) == A (5.26315789474) + Everyone else (4.73684210526)

Even in the pathological case offered this works well enough.
It's also available on certain sites.

Although I haven't figured out how to ...install the latest version, it seems more complex than the one before.
His architecture for designing a machine that can drive is for it to learn from mediocre humans.
The free market applies at every level, but it does take time to find it's level. Is the problem that people won't just raise the wages, like the other poster described? Absolutely not. The location that doesn't raise it wages will end up losing in the end if there truly is a labor supply problem. They may refuse to raise their wages, but they will get the lower quality applicants, lower quality workers, and maybe not any workers at all if they don't raise it enough. The fact is it takes time for market to adjust and those that don't follow the market get left behind. The businesses that aren't efficient enough to run on fewer employees will get left behind. Companies don't go bankrupt overnight but they do go bankrupt eventually if they aren't as efficient as other companies. Those that make bad decisions, that raise wages to much, will get hurt, and those that don't raise them enough will get hurt. The fact is wages are only one factor and in a free market it will always find the correct level over time.
Ask HN: Why do people work at evil megacorps?
Recently read a tweet from a person complaining that most FB engineers studied for months to pass the interview, and how 'that didn't sit right'.

It made me think 'But working for a company accused of huge violations of personal privacy, as well as actual harm to vulnerable demographics.. does sit right?'

Do you work at or aspire to join a company like Meta, Alphabet, etc, and if so how do you reconcile that desire with their problematic histories.

Are you hoping to be the change?
Is it about money and recognition?
Or is it just not something you think about?

No judgement, I'm genuinely interested.
Counterexample:

"What's your favourite kind of theatre?"
"No."

I'd need more explanation if they said Yes¹.
Thats doesn't mean we need more farmers.

Yes, feel free to say that farmers are payed low. But it remains the same that if they are paid this low, then we don't really need more farmers entering the industry.

Instead hopefully less people will join that industry.
I also think we could subsidize a few years of on the job training. It can be difficult for trade schools to keep up with industry.

A year of trade school for some very general health and safety / common sense / anything they missed in high school, then into the workplace to learn from people actually doing the job.
Only from US IP addresses
There is no supported GUI framework that isn't a dead-end, formally unsupported, or restricted to "mobile phone app" levels.

Win32?
It is not gaslighting to point out that your anecdotes are not data, or that the plural of anecdote is also not data.
> If I want to learn about history, it would be good to have experts in history, books about history, other people studying history, etc.?

That would be true prior to the internet and/or digitalization of resources.

Today, a kid in the 3rd world country can access those very same resources. Whats left is the value of the credential - accepted in the marketplace.
It's very difficult to get meaningful action out of people whose paycheck might depend on not acting.
> - minor league sports teams

Light data for this: freshman admissions, at least within the state of Georgia, commonly have exemptions made for athletes: https://investigations.ajc.com/football-admissions/
Parent is talking about mask mandates, not vaccine mandates.
That wouldn’t be blind.
> I'd imagine single-purpose electronic noses would be a much more tractable problem than general purpose ones.

We already have those, to a very limited extent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_detector
Depends on your calculation. If you are calculating the energy input to the system vs. heating output of the system, then yes, it will be more than 100% efficient. However, if you are calculating total energy input to the system vs. heating output of the system, then you are at less than 100% efficiency.

The heat in the atmosphere, is also due to some energy consumed somewhere, whether man made or not.
Wow, how does he think it appears? I don’t know anybody who doesn’t consider it a total disaster.