skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The stats show that going to university is a massive increase in long term earnings. That means it is good for the individual financially (as well as for the country).

If that is the case, why was there so much drama about canceling student loan debt? The earnings of these people allegedly increased but not enough for them to pay their loans off?

> From my POV college/university is great for teaching people how to think and getting a better understanding of the world. I think we could improve that in high school by mandating philosophy/ethics, financial literacy, critical thinking from 9th to 12th grade as well.

Woke-ism has captured most of higher education and stifled free debate in a number of ways. You effectively can't challenge certain ideas without being ostracized (e.g a debate about whether affirmative action is good policy).

> You should also check out the stats on degrees, you will find that a lot of humanities majors actually have super high payoffs. I don't think there are any shit degrees

I didn't say all humanities are bad. But I would tell anybody getting a degree in psychology or philosophy that it is money wasted. If you want to study those things because you like them, by all means do. But don't expect it to be the thing that assures your future financial success.
Well, first, throwaway kind of deserves the snark, but you're descending to the same level, which is not ideal.

Second: I think there's a difference between an article being a video, and a reply being a video. An article that's a video you can just skip, just like you can an article that's on a subject that you're not interested in. (Even there, though, it's kind of annoying: We use domain name to decide how trustworthy the article is, and what kind of bias it has. Well, youtube.com doesn't tell us anything.)

But a reply is part of a conversation. A video totally destroys that dynamic. No, I am not going to follow your link to spend an unknown amount of time watching a video from an unknown source just to try to figure out what your point is. Tell me, or be ignored. Video replies pretty much don't exist for me. I don't care how compelling you think the evidence is, you failed to convince me, because you couldn't tell me.

("You" meaning "people who post links to videos", not the parent.)

There is a place for videos in replies: To answer questions like "Where did he/she say that?" "Why, here, in this CNN interview, about the 14:40 mark." That's perfectly valid. Other than that kind of use, though, no.
I do find this annoying now that I recall, but it's the same way to go to a thread here, the timestamp.
I am stunned by the lack of good google matches to what I assumed was a well understood academic humour reference. My entire belief in the universality of experience is crashing down.
The example does NOT point out objectively how the CGI is worse even as the tech advances. The artistic aspect could be fine i.e. this is what the vision of the movie entailed.
One of the guys who bombed Syria was shot down while bombing Chernigov :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkszHkNoQNo (here he confesses to his mission of bombing the city), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWrxX_gpNjM . That guy with Putin and Assad https://theaviationgeekclub.com/sukhoi-su-34-pilot-who-stood...

That is a video of Russians in Bucha just shooting at anything that moves on the street : https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-drone-footage-appears...
PowerShell allow you to do a lot and with the typing even a basic "ide" like the preinstalled PowerShell ISE allow you to explore efficiently new API without having to read docs.

If you need to find out a performance issue in windows and the task manager is not enough take a loot at ETW the tooling is awesome.
Young people struggling amid inflation are entitled, says CEO worth about $400m
“Current thing” in this context is the “current thing the Internet is outraged by or is perceived to be overly-concerned about”. An oblique reference to Cancel Culture.

It seems like he’s become emboldened by Elon Musk’s tweeting and is trying to play a similar role.

(I have no opinion of pmarca, good or bad, except perhaps that he wastes too much time thinking about Internet drama.)
>> All this is true and bad but the Canadian market is primarily driven by supply issues, not red tape.

My point is that if you reduce the red tape (and deadweight loss) there are actually people who want to sell, but wont sell if they are losing a ton of money on the sale. Reduce the loss and more supply appears.

In the US this is a huge issue. If you switch cities twice and sell each time, your entire downpayment has disappeared in fees/taxes. You literally have nothing left to buy your next home with. So people stick around in houses they dont want in cities without ideal jobs because they have no choice.
Yeah this is the correct take on all this. It's simply not reasonable to add more than 10% to the size of a file on the off chance you need to perform a tiny manipulation to the file's metadata later.
The biggest impact I see in my 40s is my video game reflexes. I used to crush my friends and do well on fps games. Now I am consistently at or near the bottom. My other older friends also get crushed by younger players. It’s just this weird thing where things seem to move faster than I can perceive.
'Historically low supply' because it's been bought up as investments?
The Ruble isn't allowed to be freely traded so that exchange rate is bunk.
It would be more fair to say you can’t use it to it’s full potential outside of it’s host since its most useful features are implemented in emacs
> Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that the BND had intercepted radio traffic discussing murders of civilians in Bucha. It stated that the radio traffic had been linked to the bodies photographed in Bucha. However, further research has revealed that the communications can only be geographically assigned to the region north of Kyiv, even if they show clear parallels to the killings in Bucha.

that's a pretty big correction.
While this article focuses on Nouira’s rediscovery of this process, much research has been done on how to consistently create specific colors long before his quest began. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekhelet

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/w...
If that Wall Street Journal documentary about supply chains on YouTube is anything to go by, I expect this to continue to rise.
I think it was a little more altruistic than that - he just found people with criminal backgrounds were struggling to find places and on the whole were just as reliable to pay rent on time because they appreciated the opportunity
Awesome, when can we get that in the US?
I would say yes.

And I would go a step further, I owe my career to the Free Software and Open Source movements.

It's not that I couldn't have made my way in a world of proprietary software, but that world of money, license restrictions, vendor lock in, black boxes and deferring control to some megacorp's product managers, neither appealed nor was very accessible.

I'm not a purist to the extent RMS is, but I consider the 4 freedoms the FSF promotes to be very important practical features. Most of the gripes I have at home and work with software ultimately pertain to missing one of those features.
He’s talking about how the mainstream media is whipping people up into a fury over one crisis after another while civilization collapses, with free speech crumbing, supply chains failing and the potential for large scale war and disease a real possibility.

Also some stuff might get even more exciting in the political arena, WRT the revelations of corruption around certain high profile figures.

Also the threat of cyber attacks seems very real.
Out of the tar pit (2006) [pdf]
I see a lot of possible root causes being mentioned, e.g., blind bidding, zoning, foreign buyers, corporate buyers, and the vested interests of existing home owners.

Here's two more: income inequality, and the construction skills crisis.

Income inequality: You might think "prices are crazy, no one can afford this", but the fact is that some people are affording it, even repeatedly. Depending on your family and circle of friends, you may know someone who owns 2, 3 or 4 homes or one over-sized home. It is not uncommon, just not usually discussed openly. They buy or retain homes and then rent them rather than selling. Why horde houses? Some people just like to see a tangible asset. Most upper middle class people have most of their assets in stocks. But with stocks up significantly in 2020 and 2021, a lot of people are ready to diversify into real estate. And those who own homes can watch them appreciate even if the home sits empty.

Construction skills crisis: At least in the US, there just aren't enough construction workers to fill construction jobs. You could open up zoning rules, but that won't make housing starts instantly increase, because there are not enough workers. A generation of people has been taught that knowledge worker jobs are the best. I think that is a largely correct. Even with construction salaries up, I think that it is tough to have a long career doing physical labor in the trades.
You can have NVMe disk arrays that are faster than the main memory speed of even quite recent desktop PCs these days for reasonable money. My laptop can do 7 GB/s from one drive. I've seen demos of 30GB/s by simply using a 4-port PCIe x16 adapter card. There isn't even a need to venture into exotic technologies like NVRAM DIMMs..
I don't understand what people mean when they talk about their 'darkness.' It almost sounds like some people don't understand their own motivations. I can't even imagine how that's possible. To me, it's trivial.
say for the zoomy lawn darts we call fighters.

pushes glasses
Justice Department Announces Disruption of Botnet Controlled by the GRU
The older I get the less I care about "expressive power" and "speed of development". I don't view these things as an advantage most of the time, actually often the opposite. The price is always paid later on, and it is high.
>> Hire a law firm in each country to handle your cases; No need to have lawyers all over the world as employees. Have a small team of international lawyers as employees or hire them as contractors to oversee the contracted teams of lawyers around the world and negotiate when needed.

I generally agree with your response, but note that you've just converted FTEs to contractors/outsourcers and "reduced" FTEs that way. You'd have to do the same with accountants and many other country-level positions. But w2-->1099 isnt really a "win".
I really don't get the part around 1:20 with the house swap. It's not some crazy location - why would they CGI that? Cutting the cost of actually filming away from the studio?
Thanks, that's more stunning than the ink drawing made of it. Far more detail than what I could see in the drawing.
John Oliver did a video a few days ago [1] about some of the problems that truckers face. I can see where having an employer and a fixed salary, even if it's from Walmart, might be preferable to having to deal being an independent trucker.

Among the things that independent truckers have to put up with is that if they show up to pick up or drop off a load and it isn't ready, they just have to sit there and wait, and they're not compensated for their time. If we're looking at industry practices in need of reform, that would be one.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phieTCxQRLA
It’s funny, I’ve been writing Ruby code since Rails 1 and over the past few months I’ve been learning and using Node and Typescript and I find it incredibly productive compared to Rails. I get that Rails comes with a lot of great stuff out of the box, but the benefits of static typing for actually writing a lot of code are immense.
I think you can see a similar effect in the music industry. Technology has practically eliminated the barrier to entry for recording. On top of that, sales are down, recording budgets are slashed. Why spend valuable studio time tweaking amp settings and mic positioning when you can record direct and scroll through a list of plugins - or so the logic goes.
Well, since this topic popped into my front page this also just happened locally to me:

"Amazon tractor-trailer crashed into five other vehicles on the Thruway"

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/thruway-crash-albany...
The standard method for including album art (outside of iTunes world, I don't know what things are like there) has always been folder.jpg or folder.png in the folder. (And several other common names.) It can be as big as you like. Software should always copy the art, and of course dragging and dropping the album in your file manager makes this happen automatically.

It's absurd to spend the same 0.5MB or more on the same piece of art over and over on every tiny lossy-encoded track. Even with FLAC it's pretty questionable. Better to include a tiny 100x100 jpg or nothing at all.

I actually recently encountered a bug with a music encoding tool where it failed to resize my album art when creating Opus files. I ended up with an Opus-encoded album that was bigger than the FLAC version because every single song had a 30 MB high res scan of the vinyl album art embedded in it.
After watching Last Week Tonight talk about the multitude of ways that companies screw truckers, I wonder what asterisks are beside this salary number? Is that a straight salary number, or is it before expenses, or are there unpaid waiting hours, etc?
Harder than what? Harder then a smarter person? Then Yes.

I also wouldn't call it a "selectivity theory." It's more common sense. You select a group of people with a record of great past performance they are more likely going to have an easier time. It's actually your ideas about selectivity are counter-intuitive.
Is it really that important which particular town they massacred people in?
What were you doing to it for 8-10 hours? A week?

This is mind boggling to me. I’ve run Debian as my main workstation OS for years now, and I’m not doing 8-10 hours a year maintenance, if you don’t count the actual time running aptitude updates/upgrades (and that’s not a lot either). I’m not even running “stable”.
‘Huh, That’s Funny’: Physicists Delighted by New Measurement for the W Boson
Hi OP, if you want drop an email to my HN handle at protonmail dot com. I can't promise magic but can speak with a person at work tomorrow to try to get this resolved for you.
The advances they've made in virtual production studio backdrops are amazing. Camera-linked floor-to-ceiling 180° LED screens and synced lighting is just amazing. The stuff they're able to do in The Mandalorian is incredible. Though once you know what to look for (the camo hiding the floor/wall seam) you can tell they're using it a bit too much. But still it's incredible.

https://youtu.be/gUnxzVOs3rk
Most Downloaded Apps in App Store in Russia (February vs. March)
Powershell runs on linux too so it can be the Year for both of them!
> Note however that US academic institutions basically cut all research into these subjects due to political and industrial pressure. It started with Republican attacks on USGS funding for environmental pollution research in the early 1990s, and continued with NIH cutting funding for environmental carcinogen research in favor of inheritied genetic explanations for cancer. Hence, 'little firm evidence'.

Thank you. I’ve been saying this for more than three decades. It’s nice to know people are finally getting on board. Younger people might forget that Republicans were at one time deeply invested in conservation and protecting the environment.
"in February I predicted trouble is heading for some late-stage startups"

... meanwhile back in 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/business/better-zoom-layo...
The post is a rectangle that spans the width of the column, which contains the picture, and any text commenting on the picture, and the author's name/avatar, etc. It's got a divider above and below to indicate the boundary, and it (at least used to) lights up when you hover the cursor over it.
Perhaps, but none of the plastics we're discussing (other than PC) have BPA in them at detectable amounts.
Actually, there's a totally apt device in LOTR already: the palantíri.

https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Palant%C3%ADri

Except instead of there being only seven, Sauron mass-produced them and now everyone has one, maybe two. Hardly nobody even meets at the Prancing Pony anymore, at least without a palantíri call first.
In the shadow of warships: How foreign companies help modernize China's Navy
Thanks for your input. I'm sincerely asking out of ignorance and curiosity around these things.
I miss my W6-LI "Lightning" dual PPro board. Spec built that system with all SCSI internals for $5200 in about '95 (with just a single 180MHz PPro, upgraded later to dual)
There's nothing unfair about a bidding process. It's an efficient means of price discovery. If you get emotional about it then that's your problem. Some prospective buyers get irrationally attached to a single property, which makes no sense. Just go buy a different home.
Depending on what and how far a trucker hauls, the national median salaries range from as little as $40,000 to more than $264,000,

I checked the source for that and it seems in all areas the $264k is from "Big Ass Freight and its just one number. Thats not a median salary. Actually presenting the median salaries for different distances traveled would be way more useful...
> that's a pretty big correction

Well only geographically. It's still Russian military radio traffic discussing murders of civilians, is it not? Just maybe not in Bucha.
That syntax of JS bugs me the most. The “in” keyword could be scrapped and have a .keys() on the object but alas back-compat.

Mnemonic: of = objects fail, in = index names

Yeah yeah objects can be arrays and iterable but you know what I mean. Best I could do! If you dont like just use the “in” mnemonic and Sherlock Holmes.
UHT milk is just not common in the US. It's not rare, but you won't see it in very many homes. The milk in paper cartons that we in the US speak of is almost always pasteurized whole or skim (2% or 1%) refrigerated milk that is good for about a week max after opening, and not a whole lot longer if refrigerated unopened. I kind of like the convenience of UHT milk (the kind you can store at room temp for a good while if unopened) and to me, it tastes less "cowy". I don't like a "cowy" taste, but then I'm not a milk drinker. Milk in plastic cartons is most common, but there's plenty milk in paper cartons alongside those plastic containers in the refrigerated section most US markets.

Google cone-shaped milk cartons. Interesting bit of historical trivia.
I wonder if that includes commercial insurance? A quick google search says it's around 16k/year for a new driver [1]. I guess it makes sense, but wow!

1. https://www.forerunnerinsurance.com/what-does-average-semi-t...
How many of us could replicate this, even with todays resources?
Atlassian Jira, Confluence outage persists two days on
https://www.dictionary.com/e/hoard-vs-horde/
Sometimes I do that if it makes sense, but usually in that case those would be new wip branches with my workflow. If I'm at the point where my changes make for a good single atomic commit, they're ready to be committed to the main branch and the existing wip branch deleted.

If I'm working on really small tasks where I know I'll be done quickly and won't need to look back at my earlier changes, I don't bother making a wip branch.
It is unclear to me what a default is supposed to indicate when the the collectors are the ones holding and freezing the assets that easily could be used to pay it.

Traditionally, the damage of default is that it demonstrates that your fundamental economics are so poor you can't make your payments.

In this case it means that the creditors refuse to allow payment.
There is a documented way to create a first user.

For all other kind of early sys admin tasks for a headless system you can mount the image to your Linux workstation and chroot into it using binfmt_misc and qemu-static. https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi/qemu-user-static seems to describe it. (I haven't used those instructions, but my own 10 year old cheatsheet.)
>Early on, the math heavily favors worrying less about infra spend and more about product enhancements that can build revenue.

YES! This is VERY true
The music stops when the Fed tells it to. When interest rates rise appreciably.
> None of these things will matter one whit to housing affordability.

> "Helps in some way" is alright except that "helps in some way" has been sold for the last 6 years, politically, as, "this is the reason you can't buy a home! Surely it has nothing to do with NIMBYism and our suburbs! Please don't ask me, as your elected representative, to take on suburban voters and start talking about housing equity as it relates to affordability!"

That isn't what the commenter you originally replied to was stating, nor was it my position. While your argument may have merit, it's a non-sequitur when used as a rebuttal to either that commenter or myself.

> Just quit the bullsh*t about this being about addressing housing affordability.

I get it, you have a point you want to make. There are more constructive ways to do so than to misconstrue the arguments of the people you are replying to.
I absolute care about "speed of maintainence". There is no reason "speed of development" need be construed to mean banging out the initial garbage prototype, and only that. We can be tortoises rather than hares and still care about average speed long term.
Obviously I don't know you at all, and have no animosity whatsoever against you. Everything I said was offered as advice, and written from my perspective to explain what helped for me, in the hope that there is maybe enough overlap that it can also help you.

As for being patronizing and criticizing, you are probably mostly referring to my last part. I stand by what I've written: "You have to be productive in your free time" is a mindset that I find irritating, contra-productive, and harmful to perpetrate. I am allowed to criticize this in a public forum as long as I don't get personal. I aimed at attacking this particular statement, not your character (and absolutely nothing in what you've written gave me any reason to do so).
Why would there be distress? If you went through a microplastic influenced childhood and puberty you would never know if your masculine traits were as pronounced as they could have been, as you only have your self to compare to.

Also, these sorts of studies generally look at changes at the population level - an individual won't suddenly wake up with a gender crisis from plastic exposure.
This reality is coming sooner than people think IMO
Those things are very important for getting a product off the ground. You may have a jaded view from fixing what someone else wrote, but there's a non-trivial chance that in many of those instances no such app would exist to fix had it not been for the ability to rapidly develop and launch said app.

You also speak as if speed of development/expressivity are in direct opposition of maintainability and structure, which just isn't true.
I like to call it user hostility.

You would not believe the amount of disdain Twitter, Inc, has for its users.

What's cute is that Twitter has always been a walled-garden, since its founding. We have better alternatives now. Don't matter though, because there's a centralization/decentralization pendulum in big picture computing trends. If you skate to where the puck is going to be (not where it's been), we're in the middle of a swing to the decentralization side.

Look at W3C recommendation ActivityPub (a specification for the federated social web with a vibrant and fun ecosystem of communities). You may know of Mastodon, its biggest implementation.

Or, for the free speech* types out there, just host a WordPress site where you agree with the terms of the AUP.
Man what a funny prank that was. Truly hilarious.