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For the past 6 years, I've operated a software engineering school[1] that uses ISAs and I have some thoughts about them. There are two main stated benefits to using ISAs (there are others, but those seem overblown):

a) commission based pricing (aka, incentive alignment pricing)
b) deferred payment

Of the two, imo the second is by far the most important thing for students. To the first bullet, I don't personally find commission based pricing to be all that incentive aligning. For example, it's not uncommon for me to advise someone to take a much lower offer because it seemed like a better long-term opportunity. This is in line with Sean's observation that quality education outcomes is difficult to reduce to salary numbers alone.

To the second bullet, the major problem of deferring all payments, however, is that you attract a lot of people looking for a shortcut. This is exactly the opposite attribute top employers are looking for. This is the "adverse selection problem" Sean mentioned.

Ultimately, the solution here is in selecting for the right type of students into the ISA-based program. Sean mentions that credit scores track with the type of students they're looking for. Other ISA-based programs have stated that they've found a secret sauce other than credit scores for detecting the right students.

We've found a different selection criteria:

We ask students to do a lot of work before we engage them with an ISA. I'm calling this model the ISA-later model, just so we can contrast this with an ISA-first model, which is what Sean and everyone else is doing.

An ISA-later program solves nearly all the problems associated with an ISA-first approach:

- adverse selection is mitigated since you have a long track record of student behavior and performance
- can still be egalitarian, without relying on credit scores or degrees or any socioeconomic markers
- still possible to defer all payments, without the lock-in of an ISA-frst approach

There are many other student-friendly benefits of an ISA-later model, but I'll stop here as this comment is getting long.

[1] launchschool.com
In the UK I think for at least a decade. I think I can remember submitting to a credit check for a mobile phone contract in 2012, and certainly again when I changed provider in 2015
Interviewer: "We have heard that a half a million children have died. I mean that's more children than died in Hiroshima. You know, is the price worth it?"

Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it."

This is from a 1996 interview with this woman [1] about the Iraq invasion. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM0uvgHKZe8
Good point. That's a good perspective.
I agree that it's scummy, but I don't think he creates "nothing of value." How is this any different from influencers promoting and following brands manually?
He's created a curated feed of NYC pictures that thousands of people follow and like. There is value in that, and the restaurants offering him free meals proves it. I wish he had posted about his follow-ups with the restaurants (does he actually tag them & promote their business?) If yes, he's fine and is upholding what he agreed to do.
Does it do Suricata, Zeek, Snort, Transparent Squid (with valid signed CA cert), and a furtive SSH port in which to monitor and API to block ports?
Site is down. I guess we've learned the limit of this self-hosting advocate's self-hosted setup.
200 years ago they cooked on open fires, which was dangerous. It's even more dangerous today. Indoor fires are not only a fire hazard, but a carbon monoxide hazard.

TFA is about cooking with gas stoves. If your income was marginal a few months ago, then you can't afford the increase in gas prices. To switch to "lower technological sophistication" would likely get them thrown out of their homes.

If you've got electricity, and a microwave, it would be safer. But a lot of poor people can't afford those. Living at the margins means you have no room for any kind of unexpected cost.
In the center of Moscow, somebody threw a Molotov cocktail into the Kremlin wall
The article references some seminar on rationality, so "thinking rationally" means "thinking like the person at the seminar says people should think" presumably.
I mean both unmoderated and uncriticized by the community. I know you can't mod everything but it's an not exactly secret that nobody snidely cites the guidelines when they're being lightly violated by people arguing for whatever the majority view is and people are happy to snidely cite them when people arguing for whatever the minority opinion is even get close to getting out of line. To then show up and do that as moderator is not great. Basically the ref can stand to go a little less hard on whoever is losing.
This a very insightful take on the current crypto and hacking cultures. Some people literally hoard money like dragons, then the megacorporations buy anything that threatens their virtual monopolies, then the rulers make questionable decisions that seem against the public good. The game feels rigged, and some people are tired of it and trying to play by other rules or plainly cheat.

People who (like many of us HN readers) can live well playing by the rules are the NPCs.
There's certainly a need for discussion about bad behaviors. But as some wise man advised: let he who's without sin cast the first stone.

Most young people make mistakes. When someone is 'cast out' because of something they stopped doing decades ago (in a different time), that's a violent, revengeful and counter-productive act. Without forgiveness, we live surrounded by hate.
Ironically also one of the first targets Serbs bombed in Zagreb during the previous war.
Spotify is a BIG Google Cloud customer with a $450 million commit back in 2018 [0, 1, 2]. Companies want to keep these types of customers obviously and will leverage other teams internally to get a value add to get that renewal. This is likely just another integration as they look to leverage the relationship across bizdev, partner marketing, and sales teams, internal engineering dogfood projects, discounts, etc. Lots of this type of stuff isn't even targeted at competition just an evolution of the relationship.

Normally how this type of stuff happens, is you'll have some internal team working on a new initiative and looking for headline customers, they will reach out to the sales teams, and say, "hey, you are working with XYZ customer, want to float this idea with them". It's a win-win.

So, having said all they. Google vs Apple, etc, and other large competition politics almost never are on the radar of these teams. They just want to help the customer win, get the sales commissions, and make their internal product successful. It's easy to look at this stuff from the outside and think there is some big plan but the motivation down at the teams level has nothing to do with that since they want mostly to look good on perf reviews.

I have no knowledge of the internals here just talking from experience from what I've seen.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/spotify-will-spend-nearly-45...

[1] https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/spotify-google-cloud-pla...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/customers/spotify

Note: I originally had Shopify here. The same strategy/tactics apply.
and yet the double diamond safety bicycle is a minor miracle of efficient design.
> * Google to link to me, by seeing my mobile phone in another person's contacts

I'm pointing out that it takes only one of your friends or acquaintances to add your real mobile number to their address book alongside your VoIP number to ruin your system. People don't think twice about giving apps access to their address book. They're also regularly scooped up by malware.

Your scheme requires you to have perfect OpSec 100% of the time. Just human nature says you've probably goofed and given out your mobile number once or twice. There are enough huge database leaks that your info has probably been leaked by someone you don't even know.
What about the alternative to ISAs proposed by OP?

Better than an ISA is an income-dependent loan with some minimum amount that must be paid back regardless of the program outcome.

With this setup:

1. You concede and comply with the existing regulation

2. You get access to the existing capital markets so financing costs come down

3. You can use credit reports as a way to enforce the contract so collection rates go up

4. Consumers already understand debt

And, most importantly, the consumer gets a better deal than a classical loan.

Similarly a bad idea relative to plain old federal loans?
Better title might be “the average bicycle isn’t designed to maximally leverage human anatomy.”

To which the answer is: so what? The market doesn’t care about efficiency that much, else clip-in pedals wouldn’t be optional.
It's quite lean, it requires a lot less code than OpenGL does! But it does require some -- partly because there's some cruft left in the spec, but also because there's always some work that can be shared. SPIR-V and NIR being the big ones, everyone needs a shader compiler, and a good chunk of the work around that can be shared. And then the stuff on top of that like pipeline caches. That's stuff where the spec got it right, but just everybody needs some infrastructure.

There's also things like subpasses, which, if you can ignore it, you can just use a "default" implementation that acts like a desktop immediate-mode GPU and ignores subpasses. Not always appropriate for a mobile GPU or a tiler, where subpasses are meaningful to you, so it's provided as an optional helper.

Then there's just leftover spec mistakes like VkFramebuffer, where the spec is just thicker than it should be. That's fixed in future spec versions but someone needs to implement the old way.
This is not the experience of the vast majority of crypto owners right? How can it be a defense of anything if only very few people even use it like that.

Also, you haven't solved the question of middlemen. Now instead of mostly trustworthy Binance you would have to deal with the guy in the dark alley who pinky promises not to run away with your cash.
It really bothers me when obituaries of political figures omit the negative or controversial things they have done. It feels like a denial of history to not mention the legitimate complaints that exist against someone. In her case I'm thinking specifically of her involvement in sanctions against iraq, and the human consequences of that - consequences that are especially relevant today as we heavily sanction russia - but the specific issues are pretty moot to my point.

I don't think every obituary needs to be critical, but I do think political figures have opted into that by being a part of history.
"Using this method, you break your workday into 25-minute chunks separated by five-minute breaks. These intervals are referred to as pomodoros. After about four pomodoros, you take a longer break of about 15 to 20 minutes."

https://www.themuse.com/advice/take-it-from-someone-who-hate....
I do a split approach -- Most services are available internally only, some are reverse proxied out. It used to be caddy2, but after a recent issue and switching to TrueNAS, I just use Traefik with k8s Ingresses and only set it on the few containers I would like accessible.
A warmonger who caused an incredible amount of pain. Waiting for Kissinger myself.
> Self hosting is hard. You need to take care of security, backups, software updates, software installation and so on.

automation is not a thing? I'm pretty all cloud providers do it...
Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s?
I'm approaching my 30s, and I thought I could draw on the wisdom and experience of the HN community, particularly those of you who are 40+ years old.

Thanks.
>We live in different worlds

You're damn right we do -- I don't share this fear that the government is going to be randomly "getting a subpoena rubber stamped and railroading someone into prison". Maybe this is a function of my ignorance of plight of the little-guy big-businessman, or maybe it's a function of the way I make a living. Are you engaging in financial activities that would invite government scrutiny?

>“Hm we don’t know what they did, what legal strategy they employed, and even if we got a subpoena on the little evidence we have, we cant use any of their communications for evidence, attempting parallel construction will leave us caught red handed, and we already know they have the funds to see this through, maybe we should stick with someone that cant afford their base level of rights”

Making one's particular malfeasance that much more difficult to investigate would indeed disincentivize beleaguered underfunded government white-collar crime investigators. Solid!
Quite surprised at seeing CasaOS mentioned so often here. It's quite a young project & best as I can tell it was sorta a sideproject of the guys sitting on their hands while trying to ship Zimaboard kickstarter hardware during a ship shortage.

Good for them that it is seeing traction :)
The post is about Spotify, not Shopify.
Potentially, sure. If you can’t measure risk effectively, that means you’ll have to offer everyone the same terms. Since some portion of the population probably ‘deserves’ worse terms, they’ll take out more loans than they otherwise would, using the better terms, which further increases the aggregate risk. So, the equilibrium repayment terms you settle on will probably be worse on average than otherwise. Especially since a lack of credit scores will mean less disincentive to renege on the agreement via non-payment.

Honestly, loans seem like the least objectionable use of credit scores to me. Repayment of debt is the main thing they’re built around.
I think even the narrow definition includes drugs more dangerous than alcohol.

Chemicals like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25I-NBOMe#Toxicity are among the most potent agonists of the 5-HT2A receptor, and are also extremely dangerous due to potency and their vasoconstrictive and cardiovascular effects.

(There are horrifying stories of people being sold "acid" and then their lips turn blue from vasoconstriction and subsequently need hospital intervention - see: https://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_25INBOMe_Health_...)

A significant number of the deaths the nbom family has caused can probably be attributed to the difficulties of clandestine dosing in microgram amounts, but I think they may still be more dangerous than alcohol even when dosed accurately. It's certainly more dangerous for naive users without the proper equipment to measure and handle it.
>The process of solving reCAPTCHA V2 Invisible is similar to the recognition of reCAPTCHA V2: we take the captcha parameters from the page in the form of the data-sitekey parameter and the page URL and transfer it to the 2Captcha service, where the employee solves it, after which the response is returned to us in the form of a token, which we need enter in the appropriate field to solve the captcha

I was under the impression these invisible "captcha" were much more difficult since a bunch of metadata just gets scooped off the device and sent in to some proprietary Google algorithm. I'd think it'd be hard for the service to generate enough unique fingerprints to prevent Google from detecting it's the same service solving them but maybe recaptcha just sucks
In general these are referred to as embedding techniques
PCA/SVD is still common along with other linear methods like ICA, CCA, PLS
t-sne is pretty popular statistically inspired with some manifold learning
non-negative matrix factorization is useful recommender systems
topologically inspired techniques are gaining traction, like UMAP, LLE
the author notes neural embeddings, like autoencoders.
Also I believe you could use a paid public relay service (like mailgun) to get around those blocks.
After having seen people enter into ISAs (not this one) I'd avoid them like the plague. They might be okay for a traditional university. You could do the math and see what it says. For other institutions it's a scam.

There's a serious incentive problem and I'm not talking about the student. The company put literally nothing into it. A few "lectures" to provide "training" and that was it. No help lining up jobs. No preparation for interviews. The "teacher" had no clue how to teach and anyway the material was useless. Nobody would hire you based on that material. An ISA works well if you get a share of someone else's income and don't have any costs.
I think you may have gotten mixed up between Shopify and Spotify - this is an announcement by the latter, not the former. They're spelled so similarly so it's an easy mistake to make.
FWIW I've contacted the Render support team a few times and they have been very responsive.
FYI The announcement is from *spotify not shopify
PCA is pretty close to optimal in situations where you want to preserve global structure and variance-covariance matrices are highly informative. This comes down to the min-max theorem for Rayleigh quotients; I won't grandstand going over the math here. It won't work well for gene sequences or text embeddings because the desired structure there is local (UMAP seems to reign supreme these days for that).

An older explanation for PCA is that it's a sort of default factor model prior to rotations that introduce structural assumptions. (Varimax etc. factor analysis is really underrated in exploratory statistics; but then, by now data science training never introduces people to the FWL theorem, identification, etc. With large enough deep learning pretty much anything is possible -- also because using deep learning implies having truckloads of data -- but the median xgboost guy is way out of his element.)
> Even on something like a QNAP (which can be compared to managed hosting) this can be hard. Flip the wrong switch and you expose something to the world. Missed a security update: your device is now vulnerable.

It doesn't even require actively flipping switches, but can be from not knowing a vulnerable feature was enabled by default. My QNAP got hit with ransomware because of a vulnerability in the cloud access software that I wasn't even using. I've since locked down all non-local traffic.
Looks like Heroku posted a status page incident, largely retroactively: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2409
Two brothers working at a gas station swindle $1B from a bank
Initial promotional footage is... not very impressive.

https://twitter.com/colossalcave3d/status/150637770280619622...
Honestly, HN has been invaded lately with accounts posting brazen Kremlin propaganda.
> but that’s not the point.

Yes I literally started my comment by explaining that I was ignoring the point to make a different one.
I've always lived pretty close to the coast. No matter how good the culture is and how cheaper the cost of living is, it would feel weird to be land-locked.
> The defense architecture of the Western hemisphere now needs to cope with unpredictable dictators posing a nuclear threat.

So pull the damn manufacturing back to your own shores and start having a bit a self-sufficiency!

Shifting things halfway around the world to save 2 pennies was never a good idea.

And, we have learned NOTHING. How many hospitals are back to buying masks from solely from Asian suppliers again?
I haven't heard anyone complain that Fred can work from home because he lives more than X miles away from the office. Everyone, at least it seems to me, is OK with distance being used to determine if someone is allowed to work at home. There may be people who are irked about it but they aren't particularly vocal. I think it's more that company X just down the road allows it so why not us.
1. I don’t understand why you conflate security with privacy. Or to be more precise, it depends on your threat model. A badly secured self hosting will make yourself vulnerable to targeted attacks over your privacy.

While it’s an issue you should consider, those attacks are pretty unlikely. However traditional cloud services will harvest every bit of what they get about you with a frightening efficiency but they’ll never automatically scan your server for vulnerabilities to read your mails.
I rode a recumbent for years. It actually ended up giving me back problems and I switched back to a diamond frame. Also recumbents are bigger, heavier, and way more expensive.

Critical to my enjoyment of longer rides on a "normal" bike:

- upper and lower body strengthening (lifting moderate weights)

- suspending my body weight with my arms and legs, don't rest on the saddle

- yoga regularly

I'm intrigued by some of the modern cruiser-style ebikes, e.g. RAD. Seems to me that these are pretty darn comfortable. Perhaps this problem is finally solved!?

https://www.radpowerbikes.com/
I agree with the issues raised, but I'd say there are costs and risks associated with self-hosting, and those aren't factored into the post.

Self-hosting will have the same appeal as off-the-grid power: It's expensive and technically complex to implement, comes with it's own unique risks, and is way less convenient than sucking it down through the same pipe everyone else is. But it does provide a sense of empowerment.
Yet Kissinger still walks among us. What's his secret?
Europe's "free" college is only available to those with the aptitude to likely be successful. Kids are separated into college-bound and vocational educational tracks somewhere around the middle school age.
> This is from a 1996 interview with this woman [1] about the Iraq invasion.

Actually in regards to the sanctions against Iraq during the Clinton admin.

> Good riddance to bad rubbish.

I’m sure we’ll hear plenty of swamp creatures lauding what a trailblazer she was over the next few days.
UMAP.
Adding Okra to drinking water removes micropl astics
And how exactly Americans created volatile situation in Europe?

Seems that Russia is very invested in American success, because there's no single tense situation in Europe without some Russians meddling in the background, which greatly contributes to volatility level.

Btw concept of EU army actually existing is pure fantasy (I assume used to scare non-informed people in Russian media).
Basic choice for payments became a discount offering for Google cloud use....
Total monopolistic behavior
Title should say "hardware description languages are weird for software people". JS guys have it easier, but for the rest, it takes time to rewire (no pun intended) your brain to think in async terms.
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FYI it's still accurate: https://cloud.google.com/customers/featured/spotify
Ask HN: Disable GitHub Mention/Resets
I have my first name as my GH username. Although it is a nice-to-have thing, since my name is common enough I get junk mentions to all sorts of repos, spam PR & constant password resets (attempt to break in?). It has locked me out of my account in the past as well. Is anything doable? Can anyone at GH chime in?
Show HN: My NFC business card with wireless LEDs made of a PCB
I'd imagine politicians only care about it because the media may report on it.
You can use a popular Linux dist and turn on automatic updates, and use Snap apps that update by themselves. But you still would not have control - apps could update with breaking changes.
The only way to win is by choosing simple tools that are either considered "infrastructure", or simple to build and even patch yourself if needed.
I remember the wild west that dominated the Palm software. Poorly written apps abound. Memory leaky apps would bring the device to a stand still in a few short days. These apps were not written to be malicious, just low standards. The devices back then didn't have net access, and didn't hold your world.

Opening up iOS devices to third party un-vetted apps will be very bad for users, and Apple's image.
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You seem to mix up Spotify and Shopify. The Announcement is made by Spotify, you talk about Shopify. But interestingly, your point still stands, as Spotify is also a big Google Cloud customer.