skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "We should also understand that just as some kids at 16 are ready for a college education, just as many kids at that age are ready to take their places in the working world. Most of us today would have a hard time articulately justifying why people must spend four years taking about 40 courses in this and that before becoming executives, administrators or fund-raisers."

I was someone who went right into the manufacturing workforce at the age of 17 instead of going to college, in California. I worked for a injection plastic mold shop for a year, then worked for a computer cable manufacturer for a year, and then in a Silicon Valley laser welding/cutting shop (by far the best paid and most interesting job). I certainly needed no college education for that work, but let's be honest, that kind of work gets boring fast and I couldn't imagine spending decades at it (like some of my co-workers had). However, I was pretty well-off at the time relative to other people my age and was entirely independent of my family. So, yes, it could be an option... although many of those manufacturing jobs have since been sent overseas.

What I did notice at those jobs, particularly the last one, was that the people up in the R&D labs had far more interesting jobs. So I thought, how do I get that kind of job? It turns out, you do absolutely need a four-year college education, heavy on the math and science, and some graduate school work as well, MS or PhD. I saved a ton of money by finishing up general ed requirements at a community college then transferred to a research-centered four-year school to get a BS, then spent about four years in various graduate programs (which soured me entirely on academic research and the associated departmental politics, incidentally). What I did get was a lot of experience in cutting edge research technology - but not because of the coursework, really, but because I spent about half the time working in various labs (and my assembly line experience was actually very valuable there).

What I also realized at the time was that a huge number of my fellow students had no idea why they were in college, and no idea what they wanted. For many it was a four-year social networking party, which seems to be the norm at a lot of elite liberal arts colleges - and to answer the question posed by the author, that was their route into 'executive, administrator and fund-raiser' jobs. Like some posh British Empire school of a century before, they were there simply to get connected with the wealthy and influential, while doing as little work as possible.

Point being if we don't want the USA to turn into some kind of technological backwater while China runs ahead in every sector, yes, we better encourage more students to dive into science and math. If we want to be competitive with Germany, Japan and others, that's going to require supporting four years plus of intense work post high school for a lot of students.
I think the title might be similarly impactful if it were to read

"College debt became the default - Let's rethink that".
It's literally a Newspeak checker. Wow.
I don't know much about Canada, but I'd be very interested in looking at census data for primary and secondary education in Canada for the whole of the 19th century. Do you have a source? Remember, the argument goes that the U.S. maintained a large educational gap for over 100 years which allowed it to overcome the productivity leads that the advanced European nations had built up.

I also question whether "making money" is the best way to judge education. Without opening up the philosophical Pandora's Box or determining a correct answer, the US is also far more unequal than Canada, a much worse place to be poor, etc.
That’s a fair question. No individual has ever personally communicated to me that they care. And to be quite honest, I never considered the term “master” to be problematic in the scientific or mechanical context in which I’ve used it before.

However, there are groups of people at my work who say that “main” is a less controversial term and in fact a better term for a “trunk” of code development (“mainline”). Since I see no harm in using it, I figure, why not?

The rewards for me are having better relationships with my colleagues and less friction, which in turn leads to a more promising long-term career outlook.
They’re not enforcing shit, they’re just letting people know that the word can have a negative connotation. This could be extremely helpful for a newer English speaker, someone from another culture, or god forbid someone who just wants to use language that won’t make someone upset.
> It is not the case that the words "free software" are defined by the FSF or GNU.

If the FSF changed their definition to something that made absolutely no sense, then sure, the software community would rightly reject it. Until then, it's useful to have a clear definition for a term-of-art.

> Much of my software costs $0. That makes it free.

A car is heavy. A car is a machine. A car is not heavy machinery.

If you wish to refer to software that is made available at no charge but is not Free Software, you can use the term freeware.

Yes, the terminology is quite annoying on account of the two meanings of free, but we're stuck with it. This happens in many different fields.

> I do not follow the FSF's demands. It is still free software, even though you found a link with a bullet list that says things.

It is unhelpful to deliberately make non-standard (i.e. incorrect) use of accepted terms. It isn't about demands and agendas, it's about clear communication. To copy from an old comment of mine: [0]

In aviation, flap is a precise term-of-art, and is never used interchangeably with aileron, despite that an aileron is plainly a kind of flap (in the colloquial sense). If you adopt your own definition of flap, to refer to both flaps and ailerons, no-one is going to sue you, but no-one is going to know what you're talking about. Your use of the term will be considered not merely different, but wrong.

On the other hand, you could try telling a physicist that you consider the words power and force to be interchangeable. They're not going to sue you, but they're also not likely to entertain your deliberate misuse of standard terms.

On the third hand, you could try insisting to a soldier that machine gun refers to all automatic weapons, rather than to a specific subcategory. They will inform you that they are aware of this colloquial use of the term, and that their more precise use of the term remains a standard, and reasonably clear, term-of-art.

In no instance is there any question of Orwellian control.

See also similar discussion of the term Open Source [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25835994

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372630
I have resorted to deliberately ignoring these "hello" messages when they come in, then replying at 6pm on a Friday with "hey what's up?"
Now this is something close enough to what studios would pay for
Set site read only.
Snapshot master.
Create new db from snapshot.
Point site to new db?
I feel that says more about plumbers and their reputation (which I agree, is unfair. Plumbers make bank) then degrees directly. Not saying all successful jobs are treated equally, but you have more power over how you frame yourself and what atmosphere you exude. Wallowing in that sentiment that your job "isn't sexy" doesn't help matters.

In your example here: do you think a 4 year degree in Art would affect a potential date's perception if they find out you are a plumber? Even if you explain that plumbing made you over 3 times your salary compared to the year of commissions you did to stay afloat?
Don't forget Beta to go with that VHS. Also Video Disk to go with CD-Rom and DVD. The video disk was like a DVD, but had a bigger radius than even a record album.
Sadly, you are right. Fixed it here: https://git.sr.ht/~pkal/ecg/commit/c3522dfe01e0479d01869bf4e...
Yes, IQ correlates really strongly with work performance and generally all positive life outcomes.
Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is broken
Even grinding the questions is pointless imo. Look at the solutions and determine the patterns that are present. Once you've seen the answer to a category it's trivial to ID and reproduce the solution.

This approach will save you hours if not days and you can still do more practice problems later if you really feel like that's important.
> First off, please stop using "orthogonal" like that.

Sorry, I will not.

> And I disagree with "it's not cold in Seattle." It may not be freezing most of the time, but weeks of consistent 35-45 degrees Fahrenheit weather with little sun certain feel "cold."

It's fair to disagree - there is a variation in people's perceptions of temperature. Having lived in colder places, it's extremely pleasant not to have to cover head, ears, and neck, and walk around without zipping up my jacket. It's extremely nice to walk 30 minutes in Seattle weather and not have my nose run from the cold. These are luxuries you don't get in colder climates - including Boston, NYC, Chicago, etc.
It's a tool for...atomically loaning and repaying large amounts of money. You can use that however you want, most typically for arbitrage to bring markets into equilibrium while earning a profit. The arbitrage isn't fundamentally different from what happens in traditional markets and flash-loan-like primitives are being developed outside of crypto.

(I don't know what the second question means or what your mental model of a "real" currency is)
That's something like $50 per student.

Michigan has a program where students can earn an associates degree (or something equivalent) by doing a 5th year after high school. I expect many of the participants could do it in 4, and I bet that the reason they can't is because of squabbling over funding.

We need to make a commitment to considerably expanding the opportunities available to 14-15 year olds in the public school system, not slightly expand their options after graduation.

3 tracks would be great (roughly, wants to finish high school, wants to finish high school with some skills and wants to finish high school on a trajectory for a 4 year degree).
Counteranecdata from someone who did go to college in Europe and didn't graduate:

> 1. /../ they have recruiters beating down their doors while I barely get emails back.

I have recruiters beating down my doors. Because of job experience. Unless they assume I finished college just because linkedin says I went for N years.

> 2. If you want to move to another country, a degree will more than likely be part of your visa requirements. Even if it isn't, it would absolutely help in a points based system.

I was able to get multiple O-1 (special ability) visas in USA without a college degree.

> 3. I still get imposter syndrome

Me too. But if you were hired then the company thinks you can do the thing. Just do the thing.

edit: It is very likely the things that enabled me to do #2 also unlock #1. To this I can't offer much more than "Do interesting things and make sure people know about them"
It's not virtue signaling. Virtue signaling would be putting a decal on your car which says "I support the police". You're signaling to the police officer who pulls you over that you're a good police-supporting person, and they should let you off with a warning.

No, it's simply a hint that your message might be better received if you change your word usage to something which is more current, more inclusive, or less triggering. For example, in the U.S. the word "master" might be triggering, given that black people were enslaved, tortured, and murdered for hundreds of years in this country. I'm OK to avoid it. If you want to use it, you can ignore the squiggle, but none of this has anything to do with "virtue signaling".
The majority of Canadians are in this situation - you can be extremely unsympathetic towards them and tell them that their investment was unwise - that's perfectly fair... but do realize that the vast majority of Canadians will suddenly find themselves either worth a lot less than they thought they would be or underwater in debt and homeless.

And also don't forget that whenever "everybody loses some money" the people at the top are in a great position to grab an even bigger slice of the pie.

Whether or not you feel for the pain these people would go through, you're going to feel pain when it ripples out the rest of the economy.
> The x86 has a strict memory model

x86 doesn't really impose sequential consistency between cores/threads. It imposes a Total Store Order (TSO) in which stores are always in order to each other but a store can be reordered after a load.

SPARC had TSO on later chips whereas earlier chips had weaker models.
MIPS developed the other way: with older versions having stronger memory ordering and later getting relaxed memory ordering.

RISC-V chips can optionally support TSO but it seems that the motivation is programs ported from x86.
IBM's z/Architecture (with lineage back to IBM/360) is still alive and also has TSO.
BTW. The Mill is supposed to offer sequential consistency, but it remains to be seen if that will be a performance bottleneck.
I handwrite all my CSS directly in the browser and the only "dependency" I use is a reset.css. The zooming issues some of those old themes have can all be solved with a modern css grid template (one for smartphone, one for desktop). Needless to say sites like these can be blazing fast.

I only use js for small things like maybe hiding some header when scrolling down (no jquery, handwritten vanilla js with maybe 20 linws of code), but even that would not be strictly needed.
I pay for Nintendo Switch Online, which includes access to a handful of games from the NES and SNES consoles. If I want to pay more I could also get access to games for N64 and SEGA Genesis (SEGA Mega Drive outside of North America if I'm not mistaken).

I would have to assume (may not be correct) that Nintendo Switch Online will roll over to their new console(s), albeit under some other name, including the emulation software and game access.
I have heard good things about FastMail [1].

[1]: https://www.fastmail.com/
I don't know about legally, but if you actually bought something for business and actually lost the receipt or they weren't willing to give you a receipt, I'd consider it ethically okay to write up a receipt.

Presenting a self-written receipt as a fake of a real receipt, not so much.

But if they aren't willing to take a self-written receipt, what do you do ...
game licensing seems like it would be a massive issue
I think what is most difficult is the inability to attribute this change to a clear intent, which can be then be clearly opposed.

What's likely happening under the hood is a Google PM thinks this a good idea bc they have an MBA from a good school, see the market research on grammarly (sp?), knows it nods to helpful social movements sometimes, and decides to roll it out as an OKR from a team of a sub-team of a product of Google of Alphabet.

Who do you push back on against this? Putting aside the massive network effects GOOG can wrangle to roll this out and have it standardize.

The same thing happens with an Amazon warehouse in Rural PA that is doing shady things with workers and data tracking, a Walmart in Montana. The city council decides to do something about it. Who exactly do they complain to with actual impact? There is no one really.
Or population of computer science / math graduates.
throw all that complicated stuff away & use htmx

generate html the same ol’ way you always have

safe & effective modern hypermedia
I appreciate your insight. In general I agree, I’m just skeptical at the massive growth (which I felt the article downplayed). Especially when combined with what you said about universities acting like corporations: I believe corps also have a trend of managers hiring people to expand their team and increase their perceived importance.
I learned about this when I read the book "Console Wars"

Nintendo has always been all about artificial scarcity and increasing their products' value that way, ever since the early 80s

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.
I'd only suggest being able to rematch without leaving the room.
I have a couple colleagues who used to do this: send a "hi" first, and then when I responded, only then would start typing out whatever they had to say.

It was infuriating: now I was distracted away from whatever I was doing, on hold waiting for them to do what they could have done in the first place.

Luckily, they responded well when I asked them to just ask their questions directly in the future.
You attach to the pog the same meaning in the same way. Non-fungible tokens by design solve the problem around "how do I trust that this is the correct token", but thats only a problem you need to solve in low trust environments.
Regulations didn't cause universities to replace educators with underpaid adjuncts, though. The issue is that resources are flowing to ever increasing full-time administrative staff, while teaching staff are cut and reduced to adjuncts making $28k a year.
I feel like this is not the whole story.
Eh, yes. PowerPoint was about how to do interviewing in ways that eliminated bias. A week later I'm having a conversation with my boss, who's telling me that I was reported to HR for misogyny and sexism because the presentation was about how to ensure that people don't hand out jobs based on sex or race. The logic seemed to be that if people are trained to eliminate bias in hiring, the the results will be sexist because not enough token women would be hired.

I told said boss exactly how many times the complainant should be fired but needless to say, their identity was protected and nothing happened. If you believe that can't happen you're not really aware of how these people think. The next step is an admin/site-level setting that allows "uninclusive" language to force-disable sharing. You wait and see.
A world where a corporate entity (or any entity for that matter) tries to interfere with the way we communicate is not "better". As someone wrote in this thread already, tools we use are an extension of ourselves, and we should be able to form whatever thoughts and opinions we want, without any sort of "influence", no matter how minor, even if it's optional. People go for defaults and this seems like a giant slippery slope.
There's a simple way Netflix can stop the bleeding.

It isn't that difficult and doesn't involve any technical innovation whatsoever.

Just stop being assholes.

They made record profits during the COVID era, seeing huge subscriber increases during lockdown and work-from-home.

So they increased prices. And nickel-and-dimed customers. And got rid of the best parts of their catalog. And threw a fit about sharing passwords.

Geez. Hey I'm stuck several states away from my family for two years but God forbid we try to connect by sharing our movie and TV watch lists. Meemaw can't watch Peppa Pig with her grandson in person, so we'd better watch out for her wanting to check out his Netflix Kids list and try to connect with what's interesting him.

Netflix used to be great. Now they're just jerks with mediocre content that charge 3-4x what Discovery does.
Some places want it itemized. Also if you use cash you don't have a CC bill. Back when I was a student I had to often buy things for student events with several hundred dollars in cash because the CC company wouldn't give me a higher credit line at the time. I didn't want to use a debit card, that's risky.
Looks like I'm not alone on this. The content is total crap these days. Most studios are moving their content to their own streaming service (see Marvel) and that's hurting Netflix even further. They also focus way too much on "binge" and kill quality shows that are not optimized for binge. I can binge only on shows that either have mastered the cliff-hangers or shows that run in the background. I don't and can't binge quality shows. So the way Netflix is optimizing for they'll end up with 24 style shows. I can't justify paying for it.

(It doesn't help that they drag their customers into their fight with Apple by not integrating with Apple TV. Given their quality now I don't open Netflix by default and now that they don't integrate my global queue I legit forget to resume a show.)
No, this take is incorrect. x86-64 instructions do get lowered into µops, but all the common ones will only execute one, or maybe two. The real win for µops is letting Intel microcode instructions that nobody cares about, but you really shouldn't be using them anyways.
Great straw man.
This is going to affect people who are legitimately studying social problems

We don't need people to fix social problems anymore. We have the tech industry to do that for us.

After all, freedom and independent thought don't scale.
How to Design a Tabletop Game
The slippery slope of optional purple squiggly underlines?
The suggestion from this source[1] is that an autoloader makes the tank much smaller (harder to hit). He also claims being smaller makes them cheaper to produce. The intended use case was going to be somewhere in Europe, only 2-3 days from factory to front line. They were designed in an era before smart weapons. No amount of refactoring/refreshing on the current chassis is going to allow you to refactor out such a fundamental design choice.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/86aeL6xY0PQ
And Online but Online
Ah I think we got to the core thank you.

You believe that when you join an organization you automatically have a say in how it is run.
Throwing another new entrant to this space - rockset. https://rockset.com/blog/rockset-beats-clickhouse-druid-star...
Will be interesting to read actual customer stories instead of these benchmarks.
I wonder why NYC has so few mansions, and so many high-rises.
PIP Item 1: AggroVanGogh's coworkers report that they are often unhelpful and unresponsive.
Albeit with a limited library (Although I'd say nearly every game worth playing is already on there, besides a couple N64 games). For reference, with the Switch Online subscription you get

* NES

* SNES

* N64

* Sega Genesis

I guess you could argue that Gamecube isn't represented yet, but that's the only major out of date system that isn't included (Understanding that almost any game playable on the WiiU is also on the Switch).
>Signalling remains incredibly important.

This is the kind of thing that remains true until it doesn't. Don't get me wrong, it is definitely true right now, and I'd advise my own child to go---but this would a pragmatic knuckling-under, not a fundamental need.

There's significant psychic distress that's created by being a maverick, which I doubly wouldn't wish on my children, so I would still advise them to go. But I would also advise them to not take it too seriously, to be interested in learning things outside of school, and to keep an eye out for off-ramps.
> ... that does not require a significant monetary investment and/or piracy

Unfortunately, we're talking about Nintendo. I'll be hoping with you but I'm not holding my breath.
how is earning per share higher than expected while revenue is lower than expected? Did they do an unplanned buy back?
We have the biggest contiguous piece of farmland in the world the majority of which is relatively close to a navigable river. The USA has had a fundamental geographical advantage stemming from well before WWI.
VCs Fund Ideas, Not Execution
Some of us already deal with issues initiating and carrying social interactions, additional protocols around just saying hello seem unnecessary. This in itself is not rude as such but I have seen people responding to hello in a chat with this URL <- That I think is rude and counterproductive. Remote work is difficult as it is, don't be like this to people who have to spend significant amount of their lives with your pompous ass.
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