skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Give a man an industrial-grade hydroponic fish farm, he will eat in perpetuity until the machine fails and someone has to pay an engineer to go fix the fish machine on a Saturday morning.

With my luck I'm the engineer.
> One point of view arguing for a non-stem degree is that it teaches you to read, write and think. And there is some logic to that thought. Even if you spend 4 years just learning about, say, Sociology, you have to read up on a debate, summarize the background, have an opinion, be challenged and so forth. And you are on your way to 10k hours.

true in principle, and I don't totally disagree. but I have two counter-counter arguments.

first, at least in my experience, is that humanities focus a lot on the procedural elements of writing Scholarly Papers. you do learn about constructing good arguments and writing style to an extent. but a lot of time is spent on those highly specialized bits that don't really matter outside of academia.

second, writing is often required in stem majors too! the volume of writing was definitely less than in humanities courses, but I wrote lots of reports and documentation for my CS major. some of that was very contrived, but I don't feel it was less helpful than writing a million english or history papers.
Again, it's not that way in general or I would have heard about it. Frankly, I'm appalled that an officer would tolerate and engage in this kind of behavior. Maybe it's a fast attack thing. In that case, I'm very glad I was on a Boomer.
Reporters often rely on social input to decide what to cover—when someone they trust tells them, “you should check this out.” Then there is an exploratory phase where they gather some basic facts and reach out to contacts to see if it is in fact newsworthy, and maybe to start gathering quotes to add context and fill out the story. At some point they say “this is real” and start working with a editor on a schedule to publish it.

Whether a paper is on a preprint serve is not a big deal. If a lot of experts are excited about it, that’s a story anyway.

And if it falls apart later due to some surprise flaw… well that is also a story!
This is simply a pointless transfer of a huge sum of taxpayer money from the US government to Microsoft.
> Graal was included in HotSpot-based Java VM releases like OpenJDK from Java 9 through 15, but was removed in Java 16 for lack of use.

From wikipedia [0].

What's the deal with GraalVM today? I guess Oracle is still keeping it alive since this is a post by an Oracle team.

Does it have a future or is it going to be abandoned or what is the plan?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraalVM#:~:text=The%20GraalVM%....
But those things won't be profitable for Musk or give him access to unbridled attention.

Hell, if he really wanted to save the world, he could buy twitter and then just turn it off. Problem solved!
It has to some extend in Germany so it is safe to assume that it's much worse in the US.
I graduated high school in the mid 2000's. At the time I was really into audio tech and music and wanted to become an audio engineer. I had been playing music since second grade and I also clearly had a technical mind as I had a computer and web page building hobby/hustle as well. I ran the sound for my high school's theater department and for the large-ish church my family went to. I attended a college prep charter school and they had dedicated class time for researching and applying for scholarships or applying to colleges. When it was time to start looking at college I found several programs that interested me and I was really excited. Then I started looking at the prices.

My family was lower middle class. My parents made ends meet and worked their asses off to do that. There was no way they could have saved for my college. I filled out FASFA and they had nothing to offer me because my parents made too much money (~40k at the time) and also probably because I only had a B+ GPA and I biffed the ACT and received a mediocre score.

I had a choice to take out loans and if I was lucky end up in an entry-level position making a quarter of my loan totals a year. I chose to make my computer hobby a career and my music/audio career a hobby. I taught myself web development and eventually back end development. I never went to college and I didn't spend my twenties paying off debts. I am eternally grateful for the choice 17 year old me made.

Since then, when something is purported to be a silver bullet or something _everyone_ must do I tend to look for a different direction.
There are unofficial Lineage 18 and 19 builds available:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-unofficial-11-0-i9305...

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-unofficial-12-0l-i930...

However, "random reboots" doesn't sound great for a daily driver...

But just look around in the forum, sometimes there's a good alternative, it doesn't have to be Lineage.
HN tends to discourage silly comments. It's a preference. Jokey comments tend to get the most upvotes and that tends to just become most of the discussion ... and that's not really discussion.
Thanks, sounds very interesting - where can I find your email?
CAD Sketcher – A constraint-based sketcher addon for Blender
Depending on the program, college is a filter for higher IQ and attention to detail. There's a cheaper filter called an IQ test, but they are illegal in the US. There is no compelling reason why s/w engineering couldn't be taught on an apprenticeship model after passing some cheap psychology tests. Can you hold 11 variables in your head vs the standard 3 of normal humans? You may be good at s/w. Do you have a high G score? You may be good at software. Too bad we have to encumber kids with crushing debt instead.
My first roommate was a TV/Film major, so I often hung out with people in that major. Many went into the field because they liked movies, a lot. They had some cool classes about camera angles, editing, etc. One or two got jobs at TV stations, but most of them didn't end up in the field.
Ethereum gas is just a measurement of blockspace demand on a specific difficulty epoch, has nothing to do with real gas or energy
Yes the enlarge is a thing which unnerves me as well because some apps insist on keeping a specific aspect ratio and so on. I still use Better touch tool which has support for screen zone snapping. And I have a custom key binding to maximize windows setup via better touch tool.
My friend had one of those gameboy attachments that would shine a little LED lamp on the screen.
I did similar. Except worked FT and did classes just barely FT. Took summer's off and changed majors a couple times all said took me 6 years to get my undergrad.

It was mid-2000s, I lucked out and graduated and got a job just prior to the great recession and for a few reasons this was a huge boost for me as I had a limited number of inbound new hires to compete with for the first ~5 years. People would pay a premium for my "2 years experience" instead of hire new grads.

Tuition has risen about the same as the pay for the job I worked in college. I will admit it was a decent job as "un-degreed college job" goes. It was a job that several folks were making a career of (~$15-20/hour in mid-2000s). This job was in a 24/7 hospital environment so I was able to work whenever I wanted and usually worked 12 hour shifts on TTS and stacked my classes on MWF. I'd do homework afterwards and on Sundays I had no class or school. The biggest "regret" of doing it this way is the social experience I had is not as fun as most. Although, I was very self aware of that and the regimen actually helped me stay focused. I partied a lot in high school and nearly dropped out and in the end had to cram 4 years of classes in 1 semester + a summer. I did the self paced "alternative school" thing where you read the textbook and take proctored tests to pass the course. I loved that method as I always felt taking 1 or 2 semester to cover a single text book in 1 hour a day was a horrible approach to [my style of] learning. [I also taught myself to code around this time, built a lot of side projects, and realized my learning style is well suited for that, I can just read the docs - I don't need to take a class.]

If I was doing the same now, I think the biggest challenge would be affording housing. I paid about $400-500/month for a 1/1 in Austin back then. One year I had a roommate but even split the rent still worked out about the same, and we got a newer nicer 2/2 apartment. COL in Texas was much lower then, especially the major cities.
Increased military R&D spending due to extreme events (great wars) certainly has jumped some technology segments forward, faster than those jumps otherwise would have likely occurred. In exchange for an acceleration the cost comes in the form of greater spending in a shorter amount of time and, typically, inefficiency of spend (government oversight on spending will tend to be particularly lacking at such times).
Just because it didn’t work out for you, doesn’t mean it won’t for someone else.

Not many 18 year olds would have the ability to jump right into an industry, film in your example. So for them, I can imagine the benefits to going to college being learning/refining their skills, creating a portfolio, and building a network. That’s not mentioning extra things like making friends, learning about other subjects, and other social aspects.

Of course if you think you already have all that, then maybe college isn’t for you.
From the webpage

Note added January, 2022: This document was written for Go's release in 2009, and has not been updated significantly since. Although it is a good guide to understand how to use the language itself, thanks to the stability of the language, it says little about the libraries and nothing about significant changes to the Go ecosystem since it was written, such as the build system, testing, modules, and polymorphism. There are no plans to update it, as so much has happened and a large and growing set of documents, blogs, and books do a fine job of describing modern Go usage. Effective Go continues to be useful, but the reader should understand it is far from a complete guide.
Is $1,500 /month rent with roommates common? I'd think that can be reduced somewhat, if needed?

I'll admit, I don't watch the college town apartment cost trends.
Another nonsensical environmentalist take on bitcoin.
I had a similar experience, and this was way into the era of "OMG college is unaffordable".

College can still be affordable. The specific college you want, the one that other people have heard of outside an eight-county radius, dorm living the whole time, out-of-state tuition, famous professors, guest lecturers whose names are well-known... well, probably not.

Just checked, the one I went to is about $18k/yr now, in-state tuition & fees. That's roughly an inflation-rate increase since when I went. You'll likely have some debt without scholarships or parental help, but a college job can keep that under control. CLEP out of a couple early classes, take advantage of that tuition being flat-rate rather than per-hour(!), and it's very manageable. Start at a community college and transfer, and the numbers look even better.
> I will say that in the STEM degrees people were far more curious than in the humanities.

I suspect this is a bias on your part. It's certainly been my experience that people into the humanities are curious about different things than STEM types; some people have no inclination towards building things, or learning about quantum mechanics, or solving problems in complex analysis. But they might be able to talk your ear off about Edith Wharton or Nazi themes to be found in Heidegger's Being and Time.

At least where I went to school people studying the humanities were not appreciably less curious or more "here because I have to be" than engineers.
- The Little Schemer

- The Algorithm Design Manual

- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

- Elements of Computing Systems (nand2tetris book)
PSA: LineageOS 17.1 is no longer getting official builds, even though it has some of the recent security updates committed. So if can't upgrade immediately to 18.1, you can do a build yourselves to get the security patches.

https://endoflife.date/lineageos
Lock Picking Lawyer (on youtube) destroys these locks "security" features and picks them usually in under 3 minutes.

Secure locks generally do not exist.
>Prestigious schools are worth the connections/friends you will make. Always take it if you are offered to go to Harvard, Princeton, MIT etc;

Are they?

One of my good friends went to Harvard. He was of a rural blue collar background (he got his admissions file and it had some real gems in it). The only lasting connections he made there were the handful of other people of blue collar backgrounds he crossed paths with in his degree and he has stated he doesn't really think the network was worth the suffering of living in the Boston area for 4yr. It's not like he met a bunch of people who were going to go on to have rocket ship careers in high finance. He met a bunch of people who were going to parlay that Harvard piece of paper into a stable white collar existence.
> The only thing I don't like is the color theme.

I'm also a new user of Pop_OS, and loving it. Nordic theme is my favorite.

https://github.com/EliverLara/Nordic

For the background, I like macOS Mojave's default wallpaper, which blends well with the above theme.

http://www.hdwallpaperslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/m...
It's not just wages. Everything that costs money goes up "because inflation". Thus more inflation next month. This is exactly what we're going through with every month the new YoY becoming higher and higher

Higher YoY inflation announced -> Companies raise prices on everything -> employees demand an inflation raise -> Higher YoY inflation announced -> ...
Thanks! I went to shuffle.dev and saw "Start a new project with one million layouts!" That's a big number, but hoo boy, I gotta search through all these? Well, I've got a project for lunch it seems!
Just before opening HN to check for your answer, I saw a headline saying "US won’t rule out military action if China establishes base in Solomon Islands". The US for sure respects their sovereignity, BUT. I guess there is going to be another entry on that wikipage soon - this is not about shipping lanes, it's a power flex and we all know that

>Anyway, my point was more that you don't see Russia accepting refugees from the Middle East or anywhere similar: the country exists entirely on the supply side of the migrant crisis.

While it's mostly true that Russia isn't very eager to accept refugees, I disagree that Russia is supplying them, with the obvious exception of the current situation - right now here is more than a million of refugees from Ukraine. Speaking of Middle East, at least we are trying to stabilize it and talking to and supporting governments instead of "shocking and awing".

I guess you talking specifically about black people feeling uncomfortably in Moscow, and you might be right becase they are a rare sight even in the capital, let alone all other place, of course they attract stares and curiousity

Props to you for going as far as watching russian TV and you are right about them lying a lot, but you are a tiny minority. If you are still interested at checking pro-russian points of view, I can recommend RWAPodcast on Twitter. Ironically, I discovered them from american journalist Glenn Greenwald whose writing I enjoy a lot
Sigh.

Things I can do on macOS that I can't do on Ubuntu:

- Buy a laptop, plug it in to my corporate network, and get to work in fifteen minutes.

- Buy a laptop, hand it to a non-programmer, and rest easy knowing they will never ever ever need to open the terminal

- use a CAC

- get more than eight hours of battery life on a laptop
Yes it’s great! I do go back to it quite a bit.
Please provide evidence, otherwise your statement is opinion. Not everybody believes the lie that Trump caused Jan 6
> One of the most disappointing aspects of American College life is how incurious everybody seemed to be.

Agreed here.

> I will say that in the STEM degrees people were far more curious than in the humanities.

Don't think it's quite so simple to draw the line here. Or, at least, my anecdata doesn't support this. As someone who teaches undergraduate students in STEM at a public ivy, who mostly has friends in comparable positions in the humanities (poetry, creative writing, that kinda thing), when we chat about the goings-on in our respective classes we all come to the same conclusion regardless of academic background: students are just incurious in general. Not all, but most. 80%-90% maybe. They spend a lot of effort optimizing exactly to the requirements of every assignment, treating the work as transactional – I check the boxes, you award the points. This forces teachers to adapt their teaching style to a different set of expectations.

Teaching any material past purely practical knowledge for the exam is usually met with blank stares. While this could certainly say more about my rhetorical abilities as lecturer than it does about "kids these days", it's pretty clear to see that college in the US has become nothing more than a glorified credentialing institution. I wonder if this doesn't have something to do with the way public schools are run, mostly teaching to the test and thus preparing students how to retain only the information necessary for success by that metric.

If our cultural expectation of college is that it provides job training and nothing else, then students' attitudes (consciously or not) are going to reflect that.
Indigenous Myth and Science: From Egypt to New Zealand
by what mechanism can they directly apply towards the pursuit
I tried something similar in Australia in 2012, targeted at hobby to mid scale beef cattle farmers. The key concept was removing the superfluous transport step from seller to cattleyard (physical auction house), and just facilitating logistics between seller directly to buyer by running the auctions ourselves (online). As Australia is very large, transporting even a small percentage of your herd to a central auction yard is a significant expense, and non-sales require return shipping as well. Not to mention additional stress on the animals.

I hope this particular solution increases animal welfare in India, when I have visited I have always been disappointed that "sacred" animals are allowed to eat garbage on the street. Possibly health tracking or similar can be implemented into this service, to allow buyers to check the animal's history. Yes, fraud will be an issue.
Possibly, yes. I have noticed a de-grumpifying effect over the past year or so. Early Hacker News had a strong pedantic voice that bordered on parody, almost painfully so when discussing inoffensive topics.

Maybe it’s been Dang’s gradual moderation work or a natural shift in the community, but people here seem to have relaxed…a bit.
Harvard Creates Fund to Redress Its Ties to Slavery
I don’t agree. There is a great deal of room for improvement in jq performance. I profiled one invocation and it spent the majority of its time asserting that the stack depth was lower than some amount, which is crazy. I rebuilt it with NDEBUG defined and it was seriously ten times faster, but it’s not safe to run it that way because it has asserts with side effects, which is also crazy.

Rewriting all or parts of it in C++ would make it dramatically faster. I would start by ripping out the asserts and using a different strtod which they spend an awful lot of time in.
Why all the hate HN?

I feel the author makes his case clearly, then presents an alternative. Underneath all this is a ton of work, for which I applaud OP.

It may not scratch your particular itch, but come on!

Being an ass on HN is a choice. It happens far too often, and I wish everyone would just dial it back.
I've been laughed at by mechanical keyboard purists, but I have modern model m's on my desk for this reason.
Basic reading, writing, and thinking are definitely high school skills. College should be teaching _critical thinking_. (I learned how to critically think shortly after starting my Honors Physics I class after mostly skating through high school.)

Sadly, it seems that 80% of college grads somehow never learn critical thinking. In my experience, non-STEM classes are not very good at teaching critical thinking, but perhaps that was just an artifact of the university I attended.
I'm working on a JSONiq based implementation to jointly process JSON data and XML. The compiler uses set-oriented processing (and thus uses hash joins for instance wherever applicable) and is meant to provide a base for JSON based database systems with shared common optimizations (but can also be used as a standalone in-memory query processor):

http://brackit.io

The language itself borrows a lot of concepts from functional languages as higher order functions, closures... you can also develop modules with functions for easy reuse...

A simple join for instance looks like this:

let $stores :=
[
{ "store number" : 1, "state" : "MA" },
{ "store number" : 2, "state" : "MA" },
{ "store number" : 3, "state" : "CA" },
{ "store number" : 4, "state" : "CA" }
]
let $sales := [
{ "product" : "broiler", "store number" : 1, "quantity" : 20 },
{ "product" : "toaster", "store number" : 2, "quantity" : 100 },
{ "product" : "toaster", "store number" : 2, "quantity" : 50 },
{ "product" : "toaster", "store number" : 3, "quantity" : 50 },
{ "product" : "blender", "store number" : 3, "quantity" : 100 },
{ "product" : "blender", "store number" : 3, "quantity" : 150 },
{ "product" : "socks", "store number" : 1, "quantity" : 500 },
{ "product" : "socks", "store number" : 2, "quantity" : 10 },
{ "product" : "shirt", "store number" : 3, "quantity" : 10 }
]
let $join :=
for $store in $stores, $sale in $sales
where $store=>"store number" = $sale=>"store number"
return {
"nb" : $store=>"store number",
"state" : $store=>state,
"sold" : $sale=>product
}
return [$join]

Of course you can also group by, count, order by, nest FLWOR clauses...
Indeed... I want one too! Pocketable rotary dial phone? Just, $400 can cover a lot of other things.

I consider carrying something like this (I carry an AT&T Flip IV at the moment if I remember the thing) to serve as a reminder to other people that not everyone has, nor wants, smartphone-type capabilities. At the local farmer's market last weekend, a number of various political booths (on all sides of the spectrum) had "Sign our petition!" type signs - as QR codes only. My device doesn't decode QR codes easily, nor will the browser handle a standard website very well. I typically carry a laptop, but they don't print the URLs...

Of course, then there's the problem of being on the fringe and the absurdity of "And therefore follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and a bunch of other big tech platforms!" - I point that one out often enough too.

I'm at a position in my life where there's really no downside to carrying "the weird alternative" and showing people that, yes, I do in fact continue to exist, can have phone calls, SMS text, and basic maps, while not feeding into the horribly human-toxic ecosystem that modern smartphones have become. I mean, I can even use Bluetooth to the car for making phone calls, or play music from my SD card to a Bluetooth speaker! But I don't have email on it, I don't have any social medias, the games are crap and I don't bother with them, etc. It's a minimally functional device that I end up leaving home a lot because I just forget about it - and that, coming from the smartphone world, is a huge improvement.

I get a lot of positive reactions, too - most people simply haven't thought about the fact that the smartphone is really only 10-15 years old for most people. We lived before it. We will live after it. And life is objectively better without one now.
You can do an 8 week coding bootcamp and make 6 figures afterwards, or you can spend 100k and 4 years to do the same.

Seems obvious to me that the current college system is hugely antiquated and misaligned with student interests. The main thing perpetuating it is cultural attitudes, which does a huge disservice to the youth IMO