skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compare to the tuition equivalents:

1. Invest $20k in each student, etc.

2. Invest $500 in each student, and get paid $20k in pure profit right away, baby.

So while the ISA model doesn't prevent scammers, I have no counterargument to "they're strictly better than the tuition model".
Where are people buying Raspberry Pis these days? I went to go buy one a couple of days ago and it was sold out many places.
I believe GP was referring to access to capital markets, not permission to use cryptocurrency. "Access" to an empty cryptocurrency wallet is worthless no matter where you live.
How do you feel about short forward optimizations? If I understand it correctly, BOOMv3 can convert instructions under a short forward branch shadow to be predicated.
Does this actually reduce the fees, or simply let Spotify make it harder to cancel you subscription? I know on Mac+ios it’s controlled through centralized UI (which let me catch paramount charging two subscription when they renamed some service).
I didn't say it was some evil strategy but those signs aren't just for potential candidates, they know customers see them too. I think the appearance that the service industry is working harder at hiring than they are is an effort to justify higher prices to customers.

Remember demand has kept up despite higher prices and in many cases reduction to quality of service. Doing the same thing is the natural state for a business operator, even if they want to hire they may not have time to interview. There is no benefit to taking signs down in that case when every other restaurant has them up.
> why doesn't Stanford get paid recruiting fees

Stanford and most tier 1-2 colleges do get paid recruiting fees. If you've ever worked with a college career center or talked to a recruiter who has, you'll know that it costs a ton of money to set up a career fair booth or organize a talk.
Introducing Unity’s latest sample game, Gigaya
Nothing specific in that year but that was around the time when:

1. Everyone using FB ads and the days of FB ad arbitrage and cheap ad prices were going away

2. Cloud computing started to become more mainstream and building your own product became even easier

3. Instagram and YouTube started to really take over peoples attention and the days of getting attention by simply building something cool was disappearing.
Jersey City or West New York could be options. Cheaper than NYC proper, and a short ferry ride away. Might not be cheap enough, but worth exploring...
Folks in the US won't be so lucky if they are so unlucky as to have a war in their back 40. Intuit says IRS tax will be 25% of fair market value at time of finding.

https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/general/what-to-know-ab...
> I've yet to see any of these discussions to blame both.

Perhaps because they are outside the context of this discussion? For the purposes of this discussion, they are a constant, no matter what Spotify or Google does.

> And your own comment literally never mentions the Big Three.

I added a caveat to my "buying from the musicians directly" exactly because of publishers.

> Apple may have power over the industry, but they are an outlier.

Not exactly - they charge the same percentage as the other players in this space that I mentioned. No conspiracy theories required to point this out.

> Care to ask them where this money goes? No one ever dares to.

Sure, in articles about music producers (I recall more than a few hitting HN over the years, especially when Taylor Swift was raising a ruckus about them and Spotify).

> And the vast majority of popular music on the platform is likely to come from big publishers, not from indie aggregators.

I don't believe anybody is disputing that.
You still have to answer the emails and say "Sorry no I cannot refund you, go ask Apple" and have the customer not believe you.
> with a constant fear of death.

It will be a reddit-level comment but I chuckled at this typo
It's very easy to stop your Spotify subscription, on their website. There isn't any trick.
Oh, did Qiaochu finally returned to math after long hiatus?
This is a solid position to be in. We're so far out of balance with nature and living in a 'food bubble' essentially that what I'm actually most worried about is the correction of the food bubble essentially. Those who can live in harmony with nature will survive. Those can't? Let the hunger games begin.
Kinda evading the question, but: I get the sense that you'd enjoy it.
> Services depending in each other isn‘t complex or difficult to understand.

It is for me with Systemd - I had to spend hours (on two different occasions, if I remember correctly on Debian & Linux Mint) trying to understand how to set a dependency against an NFS filesystem mount so that a DB would not be started before that, and to make that work reliably => Systemd's docs & behaviour (& special distro settings related to systemD?) weren't that great for me.
The problem with this line of argumentation is - why single out phone OS providers as the only link in the very long supply chain that deserves a cut?

Why not internet provider? Verizon's infrastructure costs money, too - should they also be eligible for a 30% tax?

The data will be transmitted through Cisco routers or Nokia's BTS - it costs a lot of R&D to develop those

What about the phone manufacturer - Xiaomi or Samsung would definitely not reject their fair share

None of this would happen without electricity - power transmission companies deserve a portion

There really isn't a coherent moral argument in favor of the current status quo - it's simply about market power, nothing else
What you say is true, luckily. But I honestly don't understand what are you are arguing for, you mean that you believe that his wives and followers couldn't find solacing obituary to read? if so than I'm firmly believe that you are wrong, but I'm not going to search for it as this isn't the kind of things I want to engage with - the Economist's was more than enough for me. And if you are right on this and I'm wrong, well, even better.

Edit, in response to OP edit:
I am not sure if Hubbard is comparable, I don't know if his family and followers cared about what the NYT write about him, for example. But Bin Laden's followers don't care much for the approval of outsiders, that's pretty obvious.
A "silent war" is to a war as a silent rock opera is to Bohemian Rapsody: something entirely different, even if you try to change the definition of words.

War crimes need a war, and crimes. Albright didn't commit any crimes, and you can't even name a war.
Or any other single character query.
From what I’ve read the evolution of adult lactase was almost instant. Humans naturally produce lactase as babies, but what had to happen was to extend that production into adulthood. This is really a straightforward mutation then, what had changed was the non silencing of the gene that is already active at birth.
I actually agree with this. We’ve really struggled with Apple Pay. It’s partly our payment processor’s fault but the limited documentation from Apple and the strict limitations we’ve encountered trying to debug Apple Pay has taken us way longer than it should have to get right.
Ah, that’s a more specific point than what you seemed to have been making before.
An International Relations Theory Guide to the War in Ukraine
＞ Assuming google works like Apple (correct me if I am wrong), disabling a subscription should be able to happen from a central location with a click or 2.

As a user I might go with Spotify exactly for that reason.

My Google account is personal and already attached to a lot of services, while the Spotify one is dedicated and shared. I’d hate to go hunt for the right Google account that has the subscription.

Also, Apple subscriptions have several issues like the service provider can’t cancel your subscription. Given that Apple will not let you cancel the current running month, even if the provider agrees with your case, it leads to fucked up situations that only emerge because there’s a middleman.
Write your howto on your private blog and disable comments. Problem solved. You can thank me later :-)
Contrast that with a private loan for tuition.

You pay if you have no job, or any job. Debt has no expiration and is not disc arable in bankruptcy.

It is clear that ISAs are worse if you will be successful.
It is also clear that traditional loans are worse if you are wildly unsuccessful.

The tradeoff is the tricky part.
I would like to see this happen for other games like the old Inform game Trinity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(video_game)
If your software is not publicly accessible, it may be possible for you to continue running on 10+ year old dependencies indefinitely. For anyone else, other than a hobbyist, it is just not practical.

Otherwise, you are going to be influenced by external factors (security vulnerabilities, wanting to use a feature only available on a newer language version or OS, etc.) If you are a business, you'll also run into more practical concerns, like engineers not wanting to work on a mountain of technical debt.
Heh, reminds me of my thoughts around bitcoin. The things that would need to happen to cause it to fail would be on such an order that bitcoin failing would be the least of my worries.
Which is why it's far, far better to pre-panic buy than to panic buy.

Surges are one thing, but they're not going to end the system by themselves. There are other things which the supply chains can't deal with are what worry me more.
So, you’re saying, you have a better and most trusted method of measuring productivity, than the CB, WTO, WB, and OCED. Would you let me know what metric you use, then?

Also, every legitimate economist states that measuring trade policy by the size of the goods deficit is probably not a passing grade in a basic economics class. Do you have any clue what you’re talking about?

“Deficit” in the term “trade deficit” is not analogous to a deficit in personal or business finance. Trade deficits are always offset by capital inflows. A trade deficit with a financial account surplus does not necessarily mean that the U.S. is over-consuming in the present and under-investing for the future. When a trade deficit’s offsetting inflow of foreign capital goes toward government debt, it increases U.S. productivity by freeing capital for private investment.

A country like the U.S. runs an annual trade deficit with a partner country when Americans buy more goods and services from the partner than they sell to it. As a result, money flows out of the U.S. to the country, which sounds bad.

But that’s not the end of the story. Those foreigners with the trade surplus – let’s say in China – now have extra saving that needs to be put to work. A lack of productive investment opportunities at home means they look to other countries – like the U.S. – to profitably use their money.

In other words, money flowing out to pay for imports flows back in to help pay for productive investment in new capital.
This is a super, super annoying type of comment, and against HN guidelines. It adds absolutely nothing to the conversation. Don't go digging through people's comment history to throw mud.
The hardest part is drafting a series of questions for the end-user to understand and answer before we get that “MAGIC-PRESTO-CHANGO” get those configuration files that just works.

I blame the program providers.

Some Debian maintainers are trying to do this simple querying of complex configurations (dpkg-reconfigure <`package-name>`). And I applaud their limited inroad efforts there because no else one has seem to bother.

I have made a bash script to configure for each Chronyd, named, sshd, dhcpd, dhclient, NetworkManager, systemd-networkd, /etc/resolv.conf, amongst many. They try and ask simple questions and glue appropriate settings then run their own syntax checkers (most are provided by the original stream).

Postfix, Shorewall, and Exim4 remain a nightmare to my evolving design.

CISecurity and other government hardening docs were applied as well and then some I took even further like Chrony had its file permissions/ownership even further and MitM block feature as well.

These are dangerous scripts where it can write files as root but as a user, you will instead get configuration files written out in appropriate directories under `build` subdirectory.

If these designs work across Redhat/Fedora/CentOS, Debian/Devuan, and ArchLinux well, I may forge even further.

https://github.com/egberts/easy-admin
Because the logic inside blocks can contain constructs that do stuff that aren't expressible as physical hardware, but are useful for other purposes/otherwise expressible in Verilog (some people think it's an anti-feature such things are even possible to express, but it's open to debate). You still have to implement the content of the blocks somehow, be it grabbing it from a library or writing the logic yourself. I didn't mean to imply that Verilog/VHDL are purely piecing together functional blocks. It's just one of the main abstractions to allow you to compartmentalize, like implementing functions that you can reuse in a traditional programming language. The other reply also goes into some good examples.

You could of course only build on top of very simple blocks that are trivially correct like say piecing together logic gates and other very simple circuit elements, but that kinda defeats the purpose of using an HDL and doesn't scale well. Some of the blocks you get included with your development tools might be quite complex, e.g. entire complex DSP operations that are designed to exploit specific hardware features of your target.
Back in the 80s it was a low-level language as well as a high-level one. It was the language. I did do a bunch of low-level work with it, so there's that, though I also had to write enough assembly to go with it.
I realy hate the part when they say "But this is outside of the scope of this manual."
Last year I took out a new line with a EE and from looking at Experian it was a hard pull by them and a soft pull by Lexis Nexis for identification.

I don't have my records from 2015 to recall if it was hard or soft.
I would hate carrier-based charging. We still have a shared cellular account in my family so I would end up billing someone else, rather than my credit card, and that's on top of giving my carrier more lock-in (subscriptions? delayed billing? etc.).

The Payment Request API existed in browsers for years (always saw it in settings but never in actual use other than Google Pay/Apple Pay), what about something like that? If you install the PayPal app, it can export a "payment receiver" control that apps can call. Your carrier could then implement that too, bank app, credit card company app, etc.
>"You download the app and it doesn’t work"

Steve wouldn't be happy about this.
Google Play, which charges 30%, is not a monopoly either. Nor is Steam. The Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo scene is a bit less clear, but they charge 30% too.

Musicians have about the same freedom in this respect as any application developer, practically speaking. AKA, they're just as exploited (if not moreso, see other comments about how musicians are also being screwed over by studios).
I wonder if you can apply the lessons learned here to, say, various creative fields, most notably producing music and writing books.

When an artist gets a recording contract they will get an advance and the resources to produce recorded music (eg studio time, a producer). The label will end up owning the masters and get a percentage of sales. Whatever percentage the artists get first has to go towards the label's "costs" being all those services they originally provided (eg studio time) such that an album can make millions before the artist gets paid at all [1]..

Only the very top artists can actually make a living of royalties and sales. Almost all artists have to support themselves by performing. It's also why top artists who support the current system (cough Metallica cough) never talk about performance income. TDhey try to frame music piracy as stealing from artists when the artist almost never gets any of that money.

But why I bring this up is that it seems to bear a lot of similarities with these income sharing arrangements (eg the mismatched goals of the participants).
1[]: https://www.gerryhemingway.com/piracy2.html
I don't think it's Oracle's coders that people worry about so much as its sales model and lawyers.

Particularly, that it makes it too easy for end-users to stumble into using components that do not come under its open source licence. This makes it a headache for organisations and users, because it is very difficult for an organisation to police "you can use X, but you musn't pass Y command-line flag that could invoke a non-free part" and other actions that could create a liability for the organisation (and a disciplinary row for the employee)

It's a little like deciding you're going to set up a sweet shop, give out free samples, and lay landmines one foot either side of the entrance.

If they historically used a model more similar to JetBrains or other companies that have a commercial open source product (where the program looks for a licence key in order to activate the non-free features, or where there is a completely separate install process for free and non-free versions) I expect they wouldn't face the same regular criticism. It's the 'Surprise! Lawyers!" aspect that people find stressful and unattractive.

With JDK builds, this separation of free and non-free product is what the community has essentially provided: if you install something like Adoptium Eclipse Temurin, you can be a bit more confident it hasn't bundled non-free programs that could create a financial liability alongside it. You could try to track which Oracle downloads are what, but they've changed their licence from time to time, so some people find it easier simply to differentiate by what organisation provided the packaged JDK.
They found another way to avoid work.
Oh dear. So other than those double outages, I should expect at the very least that GitHub should have at least one outage every month, not 3 or 5 in one month?

I don't think we are going to see GitHub be up for a full month without an incident anytime soon and I guess my entire comment chain [0] on the whole situation has aged for two straight years in a row, especially yesterday's one from [1]:

>> Until the next time GitHub goes down again (hopefully that won't be in another month's time).

*Goes down the very next day*

That says it all really. Lets reset the counter and try this again.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30779275

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30767821
If you want to see ISAs in practice, a very close thing to look at is the UK student loan programme.

Students can borrow 9k per year for tuition + 9-12k for living expenses (all univerisities are capped at 9k fees despite incredibly disparate outcomes and revenues). So a full time student could be borrowing between 27k (3 year degree, self-finance living) and 126k (6 year degree for a doctor, london cost of liiving). Or nothing at all if your parents can pay your way (why do this? We'll see...).

It grows indexed to RPI+3% if you earn enough. This was a "loan" but you only pay back when you earn over a threshold. When the system was introduced the threshold was like 25k and it was indexed up by inflation. You pay 9% on everything over the threshold and the loan is forgiven in 30 years if you haven't finished repaying.

Here was the problem: Before the first students under this scheme even graduated, the "loan" terms were changed to be more onerous on the students, and have continued to do so pretty much every year since. This year the minimum threshold was due to increase by 5% due to inflation this year. The government froze the threshold increasing the burden on graduates by hundreds of pounds. Essentially, it turns out that by taking this loan you signed a blank cheque for the government to tax you whatever it wanted in perpetuity. The latest proposals are that new student loans won't be forgiven for an extra decade.

Why all this fucking about? Well firstly, it's young people who don't vote. Secondly, it's a relatively small demographic so you can mess them about with relatively little poltical implications. But most importantly, as all the data showed: The scheme doesn't work. It doesn't generate enough revenue to actually pay for the thing it's meant to pay for. Most people are just going to age out of paying off the loan.
I don't know. I guess I'd prefer to believe in a religion where I'd fit in culturally.
I think the biggest issue is that they're advertising it as a way for literally anyone to break into the tech industry. I love to imagine that everyone can code but that's not necessarily the case.

If you're capable you'll probably get a job regardless of what path you take (4 year university, community college, or bootcamp) and if you're not capable then it will be a struggle. However, the people who are capable overwhelmingly choose the more traditional paths and bootcamps end up getting the rest.

If there was a way to select students who were extremely smart and create a class of those people then I think you'd get a really good flywheel going. Smart people attract other smart people.
>A lot of people survived in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

That wasn't an exchange. That was a sucker-punch. I made a bet with my friends several weeks before Putin invaded that I think that's what could be on the cards for Ukraine because I didn't forsee any other way for him to win and concluded that he wouldn't accept not winning and it's really the only asymmetry he has. However, I don't think that would lead to an 'exchange' by any other nuclear power as that would just be suicidal and I'm sure Biden would rather live his comfortable lifestyle than kill everyone on earth.
not really, though i have been considering long term repercussions for big purchases.

Small renovations on house are now a bit bigger with the idea that my kids will live with us late into their 20's early 30's due to the price of housing.
My point is: Spotify's 30% is not a fair cut. It's no more fair a cut as the Apple/Google/et.al. cut from developers.

Since HN is a lot more familiar with the cuts the stores take out of developers earnings, it makes for a nice point of comparison.
About $360 of that is Apple One Premier.

Disney+, Budget app, weight management, couple yearly apps. Not that hard to get to that point I don't think.
i did not dig through his comment history. i was directly participating in that thread i quoted! and it was a recent thread. please check it again.

i agree though my comment could have been nicer. apologies.

as to adding nothing to the thread: disagree. he literally dumped on AWS with false claims. how do you know i don't work at AWS? why is it ok for him to say stuff like that?