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College "for the masses" today seems to be less about getting an enriching (in any sense but financially) education and more about purchasing a competitive edge in the job market. It's half grift, half class filter. However, as you say, I can't really argue that the ticket isn't worth the price.

The solution seems to require reducing demand for livable jobs and increasing the liquidity of the labor pool, i.e. giving workers more freedom to develop themselves and allocate their labor efficiently. Universal healthcare is an absolute must for this, and today's increased productivity also ought to pay for some version of UBI. The corporate capture of America's government is not only increasing wealth inequality---it's also gutting America's economic future, and causing all these other symptoms that people tend to analyze in a vacuum.

It's probably too late.
> sounds like this would only apply to hourly employees, considering the mention of 1.5x pay in excess of 32h.

As with the existing 40-hour overtime rule, it would apply to non-exempt non-union-contract workers regardless of hourly or salary pay basis; unlike the 40-hour rule it would apply only to large employers.
Taking your question at face value, it's a "Book Report" on the book entitled "Practical Doomsday".

So there's a book called "Practical Doomsday" which Larry Hosken has read, and this is a brief report on what the thinks people might be interested in knowing about the book before they make a decision whether or not to acquire it.

I'm guessing from the tone of your question that you don't care about the subject, but others might.
Looking forward to trying this. Last time I searched around for a tool like this, all I found was OnTrajectory (which seems right up your alley). Do you have a comparison with that or other similar tools?
So I did a little digging into the citations, and the most authoritative paper on the subject is J.-W. Lee and H. Lee, Human capital in the long run [1]. While there isn't a time-series for Canada, Fig. 9A shows the U.S. had a significant advantage over Canada in 1870 (in terms of average years of schooling per capita) and both countries had been increasing this number at approximately the same rate. Fig. 10 shows that this advantage remained in 1910. One other note is that the U.S. had a significant slave population until the Civil War (and Black Americans faced significant educational barriers thereafter) which has a significant effect on the U.S. numbers.

Another thing that this analysis doesn't take into account is the base level of GDP per capita per job. One of the reasons the U.S. took a long time to catch up was that Europe was much more productive to begin with. I don't know enough about the Canadian economy of the early-mid 19th century to speculate there.

[1] http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/LeeLee2016.pdf
(Disclaimer: I skimmed the article, and have it on my to-be-read)

When I first encountered the notion of adversarial examples, I thought it was a niche concern. As this paper outlined, however, the growth of "machine-learning-as-a-service" companies (Amazon, Open AI, Microsoft, etc.) has actually rendered this a legitimate concern. From my skimming, I wanted to highlight their interesting point that "gradient-based post-processing may be limited" in mitigating a compromised model. These points really bring these concerns from an academic to business realm.

Lastly, I'm delighted that they acknowledge their influences from the cryptographic community with respect to rigorously quantifying notions of "hardness" and "indistinguishable." Of note, they seem to base their undetectable backdoors on the assumption that the shortest vector problem is not in BQP. As I recently learned looking at the NIST post-quantum debacle, this has been a point of great contention.

I've in all likelihood mischaracterized the paper, but I look forward to reading it!
How would you market our startup?
Hi, we are launching our app soon. And we have a landing page where we are capturing emails for people who would be interested.

Basically a Pre Launch

Anyone here could give me some advice on how I can promote my app page so that I could get in front of more interested people.

![SneekPeek](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQtabfzWYAUYRDx?format=jpg)

We worked hard to make it as intuitive as possible so that a non-technical SaaS owner can easily onboard their users. We’re working on a few distribution channels, but I’d love to hear your opinion.
For sure. U.S. Comp Sci grads are around 1/5 female right now. And you need look no further than the hostility of the tech industry for why they might want to go elsewhere. (Cue the usual "women aren't interested in computer science", which is exactly what I'm talking about.)
Yes I did intentionally mix the units up. I know it's not best practice but I also know that most people that frequent this site are aware enough of the differences to not get fooled/confused. To be honest it was just lazy writing on my part.
> If Nintendo put out a subscription service with 3500 games, it would de-value all those games in the long run even though it might earn more revenue for the next few years.

It also might expand the fan base loyalty to their valuable IP franchises.
How there it fix my writing. Their should be absolutely no red underline anywhere because I wrote it.
Still write it out before hand in some note app, then do your brief introduction and warn there's a wall of text coming.

This works just fine for PM/DM communication, as you prepare your scenario ahead of time, but still have a shorter, easier to digest introduction the gives the person a chance to either prepare for it or say "sorry, right now is not a good time for a wall of text, go to [person,place,thing]"

I appreciate a good WOT as much as anyone, but I would also advise take the time to think "can I explain this more concisely without losing information in the process?" Communication is hard, chat especially so, and it's something that takes practice. Social media is pretty bad for this as different platforms value different aspects of conversation and benefit different types of discussion. (I must admit it amazes me people have technical conversations on Twitter, as I cannot see the platform is suited for it by any means, but it's a personal preference of course)

Basically though, it's the same strategy; just prepare in advance, and if it's _really_ long, shoot a short message before you write to prepare your partner.
I really feel your usage of "enslaved" and "tortured" are not very inclusive. There are people whose ancestors experienced such things, and words like that might be triggering and make them uncomfortable.

Maybe you could use friendlier words like "not free" or "hurt"?
Testing consistency of rqlite
> so maybe I'll just ask what they think about how to avoid these kinds of mistakes

This, 100%.

Don't tell anyone at work you asked on HackerNews and got feedback - they don't want to debate the merits of various approaches. They want it done their way, because it is obviously the right way, or else they would've modified it, right? :)

Most jobs are repetitive, so you eliminate mistakes just by doing it for a while. Hence nothing extra needs to be done, which is exactly how most people like it and why your company has no peer review or much of anything - because it just works, with the least amount of effort, somehow, someway :)
I think we will see a lot of bundling by media sellers to engage in price discrimination and price obfuscation. ATT unlimited mobile network plans can get you HBO Max thrown in, Amazon Prime includes Prime Video, Apple One bundles include Apple TV+.

Different people have different amounts they are willing to pay for content, and there is zero marginal cost to serve it to them for the content's owner. The question is how can the content owner get the most each individual is willing to pay for the same content. Bundling it with infrastructure like mobile network is a good way, as well as subsidizing it with credit card offers, etc.
> They need charismatic movies and set free artists with risky content. Not 20 episodes of Ozark.

Ozark seems like a directly bad comparison because it appears to be one of their last big content swings/risks (and is ending soon) from the first few years where they seemed to heavily curate their projects and who the creators were and who the talent were and give them enough seasons to tell the full story they were hoping to tell. (Ozark is one of the very few and seems one of the last to get its full number of seasons expectation and will get to tell a "complete story".) Ozark is not quite as successful as benchmarks like Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, but it fills a niche and gambles on good talent pulling off a tough tightrope of "bad people doing bad things but you root for them in spite of themselves", which is still a very risky niche even with big "Prestige TV" breakouts such as the aforementioned benchmarks. (I've only finished the first season of Ozark because I have a hard time watching this "cringe" genre, but I recall it was very well made and I enjoyed it for what it was.)

Since Netflix ordered Ozark they have indeed seemed to move their Originals content much more to a algorithm-generated "shotgun" approach: building lots of single season shows (or maybe if first weekend and only first weekend views are high enough, or so it seems, they will get two seasons) and seemingly designed overall to take fewer risks (on creators, on talent, on genres). There's definitely a lot extremely generic or at least extremely low risk programming coming out of Netflix's shotgun at this point. Some of it has still been entertaining.

But calling Ozark out for being a product of the shotgun and "low risk" seems backwards when it seems so much more emblematic of riskier Netflix Originals projects than current ones.
Ask HN: Best Width for Website?
I see a lot of people recommending something like 80 char width max. Or even lower. However, since each person is able to set the width of the browser, does this really apply to the browser? I mean, I have an 1080p 27" monitor, and I am fairly happy reading something like 90% width of that. No need to go all the way down to max. of 80 chars. Also, I think it looks horrible when the browser is full width on the monitor, yet a website forces the max-width to something like 940px. What is your personal preference on this?
Did you have to manually setup spf/dmarc/dkim?
Not sure how that incentivizes them to produce higher quality content? The existing loop today is still for users to resume their billed subscription when something of interest is released.
US/NATO surveillance aircraft have been airborne practically 24/7 in Poland since this all kicked off, gathering untold quantities of signal intelligence. There is no telling what they know and aren't saying.
> There is no issues of inclusivity in our country.

Your country has a literal caste system, go ahead and pull the other one.
There is no reason to put this feature. This is political feature and can be used in many ways and affects other countries and cultres you cant imagine

There are second order and third order consequences of having this kind of features.

Google should not push their politics and agenda on other countries and cultures. It affects every other country in different ways.

In future this kind of feature can be used in many ways we dont know.
This is a new trend in requirements…
i was called out (in private, , by a coworker, not in my current company) for using "he" to reference an user instead of singular "they".
And usually leads to a BBOM architecture
I use a regret minimization framework: which choice will I regret most if I don't do it? Some choices I've made are definitely life altering: getting married in my early 20s, moving far away from family. Some choices that seemed life altering at the time didn't turn out to be so : going to school at X, starting a company, etc.

If you are concerned a lot about the road not traveled, ask yourself what you will do if Plan X does not work out. Having a good backup plan can make life altering decisions a little less scary : relationships don't work out, your startup flames out, the things you actually want at 30 aren't what you thought you would want at 30.
As if college doesn't also require a lot of certification and training which is time consuming and costs money.
Time to first paint
Is there a good way to reduce SAT or other decision problems to Tetris? Do we need to enlarge the grid to reduce larger problem instances, or can the duration of the play / length of the sequence be used for that?

I would hope for something like "This list of clauses is satisfiable iff there is a winning strategy to clear at least N lines when given the following sequence of tetrominoes". (Where the article here says that there is no hope for anything like this with N=1, but )

Or does knowing the whole sequence in advance make any sequence easy to play / clear any number of lines?
The html version looks pretty good even on my iPhone. The words are small but legible. The text version is zoomed in, but wraps unnaturally, and is hard to read. The pdf is hard to read, too zoomed out.

I think they did a pretty good job making a document that can be navigated as people are accustomed to, while adapting to the medium. The aesthetic is not without function.
> The main reason that the United States became the dominant superpower of the early-mid 20th century and eclipsed its European peers was that many more kids in the United States had been going to high school for a long time.

It definitely depends on how you are determining the dominate superpower, GDP is certainly important but it’s not determinative.

If there were a single factor determining a single dominate superpower I think throughout history it is more closely related to the World’s Reserve Currency, and the US Dollar didn’t succeed the British Pound as the Reserve Currency. Though not official until Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944 with 44 nations, it is generally understood this was a concession made in a backroom deal to get the US to enter the War in 1941 while Hitler was actively bombing London.

There are a lot of people that believe, I’ll call them speculators but maybe fair to call them conspiracy theorists, that the economic impact of Covid is leading to a change in the Reserve Currency because the IMF called for "A New Bretton Woods Moment". I’m not sure that will happen, but if it does, I’m certain what that would mean is a passing of the torch of the dominate superpower.
That poll says most prefer Hispanic, it also says most do not find Latinx offensive. It also seems like a bit of a push poll since it doesn't ask any questions about whether or not they find "Latino" offensive.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/hispanic-voters-lat...
And also de-value the newer games and/or remakes, I for one tend to buy "The newest zelda" if I'm itching for any zelda game, but if I had easy access to 10 older zelda titles that'd be it
Almost lost 50% in the last 6 months. And because its lost value, they will probably downgrade the stock now... they are never pro-active.
Can Netflix improve their app:
- their chrome cast connecting implementation is worse then all the others, it never auto connects and the UI is confusing around the state its in.
- the “are you still watching dialog” is way too aggressive and generally buggy. If i resume a show from a day ago it doesnt reset the episode counter. So annoying.
The critically important question is where these rewards are coming from. Do you have better relationships with your colleagues because your new language choices have resolved real problems they were facing? Or do you have better relationships simply because you've joined their subculture, learning to speak how they speak and write how they write? The latter would be a pretty substantial inclusion problem for anyone who's unwilling or unable to join that subculture.
I blame it on people blaming it on culture, biology, interest — which says "you aren't here because you don't belong here". And then people nope the hell out out of tech and go into other industries.
Show HN: Ough-Hugo – a simple clean hugo blog theme
> They cancel stuff so fast it’s not worth getting into.

This is honestly the key for me. From Vulture's piece on the cancellation of Babysitters' Club (a good series, by the way):

"As far as I can tell, everything Netflix does is based on how it’s driving subscriber growth.

The truth is that when your show does very well in North America, as ours does, as far as Netflix is concerned, pretty much everybody who’s going to have Netflix [in North America] has it. They’re looking to drive subscriber growth in other parts of the world where this IP doesn’t have much recognition."

https://www.vulture.com/article/why-the-baby-sitters-club-wa...

If you're a subscriber, fuck you. Give us your money, shut the fuck up, you aren't getting any series you care about. You don't count for anything.

Hence most series get one or two seasons, get cut of with no warning - a shitty way to treat the people working on them - leaving unfinished stories for viewers, because being a subscriber makes your opinion and interests worthless.
> "They are probably not called ADD and SUBTRACT for a reason."

You'll be pleased to know they aren't called that in the protocol, but they actually are that. They take a delta value so you can do "incr 5" to add 5 and internally the function is named "add_delta" not "incr"[1]. (Beware because it's not quite subtraction, going negative is forbidden. (3 + 5 - 5 == 3) but (3 - 5 + 5 == 5)).

[1] which means the answer in the followup blog post (and my answer) to overload the same function to handle multiplication as well makes the function name even less accurate.
hi, did you get my email I just sent you?
Depending on your friends situation, they should consider getting office365. It's like $15 a month I think, let's you add a custom address (I think including a simple option to buy a domain inside the office365 environment), and it has all of MS office as well. If your friend really just needs email there are cheaper options, but if they are paying for an office suite, it's not a bad deal imo

(I use it with my domain from Namecheap and it walks you though exactly how to set it up with a domain you already own. It should be possible even for someone nontechnical)
>What's problematic about it is that it's enforceable by private litigation.

I don't see how this is problematic in the slightest.

"They're not following the law make them follow the law (or pay me to go away)" is a really common form that lawsuits against municipal entities take.
> this allows more employees to hit "full time" status and thus be eligible for benefits

Not directly, it doesn't. The full time for mandatory benefits (30 hours) is not changed by the threshold for mandatory overtime dropping from 40 hours to 32 hours.

(Of course, if an employer wants to avoid overtime and has the same number of hours of work, but otherwise minimizes headcount, it will need 25% more 32-hour workers qualifying for benefits than it had 40-hour workers qualified for benefits, so it will mean more total workers getting benefits.)
> Apple TV + is so underrated and under-talked about it's not even funny.

I think it's mostly because they compete with HBO and IMHO aren't really there just yet, but definitely getting there.
I was responding to the statement that a group of women are to be referred to as "girls" colloquially and not "guys" and that this is somehow, rather amazingly, a patriarchal structure.

Equally, I can not say "hey" and just say what I want to say, so what? I can also say "hello" instead of "hey". Your point proves nothing in this context, though I'm sure you like to think it did.

Note that responses are, well, responses, hence there is the handy "parent" feature. But thanks for illuminating the world of possibilities that speech holds!

Furthermore:

"Hey everyone" - Too formal, I want don't want it to sound like an instruction to the group, just who cares to listen in that group of women

"Hey there" - Might be mistaken for a specific person if I happen to glance at them, I want to refer to the whole group (if they want to hear it)

"Hey" - See above.

I'll stick with "Hey guys", thanks!
Or you could you allow the market to price those professions. If enough 60/70 year-old plumbers retire and there's no one to pick up the slack, those costs will rise and people will take those professions. Or someone will innovate in the space and make those professions different and more efficient.

The alternative is a top-down approach that requires policy-makers to pick winner & loser professions. Imagine being given the task of investing tax-payers money into incentive programs for trades/professions? How do you know which ones will be viable in 10 years time and which ones will be obsolete?

I'm not recommending a fully market-ist approach. But market forces can help appropriately price scare resources (professional services, in this case).
This is an absurd argument considering that American zoning has been exceptionally successful at segregating black people into their own separate communities. You have homogenous American neighborhoods and cities. When you are blaming someone else in this way you are not only admitting defeat but you are also an asshole.
The way I see it, a family can only have a handful of subscriptions, and it might not just be streaming that is competing for that budget. Probably less than 5, maybe 3 on average, just based on what I hear from people.

If you have kids, one of those has to be Disney. Somehow they make some great movies, with incredible longevity. Very good songs, and you might not know it but the songs are sung in dozens of languages, and translated well, by local stars. Good, modern storylines too, and nothing awkward. Plus your kids will want to watch the movies over and over, so Disney is a must have.

If you're a sports person, maybe you go for Sky Sports or BT Sport or whatever the old dinosaur is in your country. It's expensive and you aren't going to watch all those games, but a fair few people will go for it.

So what have you got left? One or two slots maybe? Between Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Hulu, HBO, that documentary one that doesn't spend enough on ads targeted at me, and probably some others.

It's hard to see how to capture that last slot, for anyone. Amazon already has a foot in the door of course.

So it's going to be a big dogfight in this space. You'll get occasional winners in terms of content but what could ever last as a permanent advantage?
> (P.S. If the words in this comment offend you, you're missing the point of this thread :D)

Could be the political term 'cancel culture' you brought up. That really only gets used in one direction.
Netflix builds the commercials directly into the content. Not that they are alone in this.
Probing Uranus Is Top Priority This Decade
Yep. I've personally been in the situation where I had to show someone that I could do their analysis in a few seconds using the proverbial awk-on-a-laptop when they were planning on building a hadoop cluster in the cloud because "BIG DATA". (Their Big Data was 50 gigabytes.)
Actually, not bad idea. This one reminds me about Zhegalkin polynomial ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhegalkin_polynomial ), a way to express all boolean functions with minimally sufficient basis: AND and XOR. Such minimal and invariant constructs have some nice properties useful in some class of applications.