skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For churches, that exemption is automatic.

And that was the point. Other organizations have to be based around some particular beneficial purpose such as charity or education in order to qualify, and that classification can be challenged if, for example, a "charitable" organization doesn't actually redistribute most of the money it receives to charitable causes, but you can start a religious-themed amusement park (charging admission!) and call it a "church" and it's automatically tax-exempt.[0]

> exempt from withholding but they still have to pay it

Which means they're getting several months' worth of extra growth out of that portion of their income than everyone else by paying it at the end of the tax year rather than having it withheld from their paycheck. It's clearly a religious privilege; other W-2 employees would opt out of withholding if they could, but they can't since they aren't ministers.

> and they pay FICA taxes like self employed workers

Despite not being self-employed, and only if they don't use Form 4361 to opt out of Social Security, as I said before. Which is something which can only be done on religious grounds, or a lot more people would be doing the same, as SS is a poor retirement strategy compared to investing the same amount of money privately. (The average rate of return for SS contributions is lower than T-bills, much less mutual funds or stocks.)

[0] https://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/os-holy-land-experi...
> I don't use any other Facebook product besides Whatsapp.

You are still being tracked, your data is still being available to every site you visit and has tracking codes from Facebook and your data can still end up on some shady exchange.

> what device and operating system not from Big Tech you use to run these "alternatives"

I am running /e/OS, an Android base without Google bits, on a Fairphone 3. It has its own app store that proxies to Google's, so you can use any app that works with microg. You can also use F-Droid, which gives you a huge catalog of FOSS alternatives.
> relatively safe and effective medicines (i.e. Sars-CoV2 vaccines)

By your own logic, we don't know this, because these vaccines haven't been in use long enough.
(1) It depends, as ever, on one's needs. iOS is limited by design in order to deliver the things it's intended to do more smoothly. There's a lesson there.

(2) Many people really only use any computer as a consumption device, but the general ding of iOS as "read only" has always rung hollow to me. A large number of people work primarily with text -- emails, posts, documents, spreadsheets, presentations. An iPad with a keyboard is a GREAT tool for them, and that's not a "read only" use case.

As an aside, when I last updated my camera kit I added an iPad Pro to use for photo processing and culling when traveling instead of a laptop. It's actually GREAT for that, too, but this level of power is relatively new to the platform.
I can't believe they were projecting ~30 million subscribers in 8 years.
I went to a no-name community college. I have zero debt, I make a livable wage. I work in IT. It can be done, you don't need to go the traditional route anymore unless you can get into a prestigious school.

Prestigious schools are worth the connections/friends you will make. Always take it if you are offered to go to Harvard, Princeton, MIT etc;

If you get into your regular state college etc then just do 2 years community first and save money. You won't make friends with wealthy/connected people in the same way you would at a prestigious university.
State schools are where it's at.

I also attended a local state school, graduated in 5 years, but doing a co-op program every other semester the last 3, making decent money at the time ($17 an hour) and getting real work experience.

I left with no debt, 2 years of real work experience, and a solid degree from a respected university (GA Tech).

The college debate is so messy because the outcome is highly dependent on what you want out of it.

I think for most of the arts - if you want to practice that art, you're far better off skipping college. The folks teaching there are not practitioners, they're professors in the subject. They will help you become an academic in the space, and that's likely not what you're after.
Given what the product is. Not particularly.
It's easy or fun to hate on college these days, and the critics have a lot of good points, but in spite of debt and indoctrination college is still the best path for the median talented person to attain a good standard of living. Yeah, if you have the necessary luck or connections or domain knowledge or rich parents, then maybe you can skip college or delay it to do something else, but most people do not have these luxuries.
This is what I tell my younger cousins about college. Getting an education is obviously the goal, but networking with potential employers so that you have a job/internship lined up after graduation is what's most important.
People learn to do those things by grade 2.
> Most people learn that by grade 10.

We wish! Most of the students I've known outside of stem will make sure they prove you wrong ;)
What's the ballpark figure for the amount of money it takes to buy one of these factories in a box?
CAD in Blender
Poco F1, I'm sure newer ones have it too.
I just checked and its gone. But when it did exist it was just an empty repo no README even.
Congrats on the launch! There is a definite need for a tool like this in the IoT space. As a homeowner with well over 80 connected devices, I'm hoping more manufacturers adopt your tool and improve their software!
People should treat undergrad more like grad school: don't go if you have to take out loans for most of it. Go and learn as much as you can as soon as you've got the big scholarship or someone (family, employer, etc…) to sponsor you.
Same experience in Georgia, state school and graduated in 2013 after a few years off in between. I wasn't exposed to programming until college. Worked in the restaurant industry throughout college and was only able to find a good job with my degree. Found a company through a college fair and classmates that started my IT/SE career. I was able to graduate debt free through a small grant and partial help from parents.
I have a question.

When you say that you are going to write a book titled "When Machine Learning Fails", is your book going to based on the boundary, the limits of machine learning or is it going to talk about obvious limitations and examples? Will it have interesting, insightful case studies, or the regular toxic, baseless anti-ML stuff?

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ML Applies ML Fails

Are we going to get stuff about points in A or trivial stuff like B?

Will this be a lesson for MBAs so they can steer away from use of ML in projects, or the limitations of ML in an ML 101 course?

OR

Will this be on ML theory and practice deep enough to teach ML/DL practitioners new lessons and insights?
People have talked about Bitcoin as a "battery", where you can use it to absorb excess electricity and then use the Bitcoin you earn to pay for the electricity elsewhere, but that's super dumb because then the energy is being used twice.
I agree for the most part, but I don’t think many of these creative endeavors are helped by college (and the costs/debt it brings). In fact, there is a counter argument that perhaps there would be more successful creatives if we did not push everyone to go to college and take on lots of debt; they would have more time, energy, and money that they could more directly apply towards the pursuit of those creative dreams
> That's a ridiculous take

Then it befits a ridiculous state of affairs. It would be great to have the standards you suggest, and it's a shame that we don't. But that doesn't change the fact that we don't, and because we don't, we need to do due diligence on the tools we install.
> Interesting to note the lack of 'accountability' forced on him in this case however.

He got banned from all Academy events for 10 years
Yeah, that's not so much "college was a mistake" as "I made huge mistakes with how I went about college."
Dealing with median instead of average doesn't solve the problem though. I'm writing an article about real estate prices in areas where real estate prices are growing rapidly and are quite high. I've said that the good times can't continue forever and have found some metrics that indicate why. You've said these markets aren't reflective of all of America and if we look at the 50th percentile of house the situation looks rather different. I agree the situation looks different but I don't see how that in any way refutes my point about the specific market.
I have a STEM degree from a liberal arts university. Half of my courses were not part of my major requirements and many if not most were humanities type courses. I've always felt that combination has given me a big advantage over others who went got the same degree from traditional universities. STEM curriculum does not have to exclude "reading, writing, and thinking".
Vehicle Routing Simulation for Prediction of Commuter’s Behaviour
A bit different, but your experience mirrors somewhat my experience

- Chose affordable option to my situation (private but religious school that I was then an adherent of)

- Graduate school after a few years working in industry; PhD so route was "paid for" with starvation wages. Had two kids during the process. Worked to supplement. Took loans but paid off w/in two years (interest rate stacking put that at the highest return).

- Success in industry came by hard work and by being genuine with colleagues and coworkers as to my capabilities, desires, etc.

I came from a poorer/low middle class background. College was a real improvement for my situation, and for others I've kept in touch with over the years from my hometown or similar situations.

Not all of us went into the highest middle class type roles, and some of us married into families with high assets or got lucky with astute business acumen. But those dice rolls aside, college was a qualitative net positive.

Graduation years were late 2000s undergrad, mid 2010s grad. So, not too far removed from the current experience.
Yes, I think that's the real problem. There is definitely value in college education, but the cost is way too high.
if you spend money on a good lock, make sure you buy an equally high-end door and frame.
There are different brains out there, and they think differently, and understanding that is half way to developing empathy, but also extremely important when developing accessible applications.

Maybe I don't want to see the clock whenever I look at notifications, or vice versa, because that's extremely distracting. Lack of customisability gives us less accessible software. Apple is really good at accessibility, but at the same time really bad.

> And he wants his windows to wobble?

Some people are fun at parties, some are not.
My point isn't that war won't happen, but that the actual work of preventing war is valuable (and hard), and often quite successful. It's just, we don't necessarily even notice it, because it does work. The work required to prevent war is often extremely difficult, which should be acknowledged. People tend to give credit just to the warriors, and not to the diplomats, politicians, community leaders, and organizers who work extremely hard to build a stable society. Credit goes to everyone, not just those who fight wars.
It is indeed trivial to find older examples of irony.
Alas, the modern CS curriculum is still pretty dated. It's not that the courses are bad, they're just not that helpful. For instance, I like understanding how compilers work, but I'm never going to be on a compiler-building team. Nor will many of us because everyone just uses LLVM. But it's a big part of the curriculum. And the theory stuff is intriguing, but the modern machine doesn't behave like a Turing Machine and so the lessons are limited.

At my local top-50 CS school, the one useful course on things like React, Angular and Vue, was pretty much cancelled because the Chairman apparently didn't want to "turn the place into a trade school." They refused to even give the adjunct an office.
I just picked the first thing that came up when I google Dat protocol that seemed to match. Thank you for pointing out the mistake.
One thing I didn't see him explicitly mention, but if you can get your hands on blanks you can replicate any key bitting (even Medeco biaxial and angled) with a file and enough dedication (with the exception of moving/magnetic/electronic elements, which he does bring up).

So then it's a game of getting blanks or a subset-blank that will fit in the keyway. I don't see anyone in here that has linked to the relevant Defcon video on Medeco duplication here:
https://youtu.be/ij0c-236O0k

Also relevant (KeyMark tends to be the one used on exterior apartment doors):
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5249568
In fact your morals can be whatever you make of them.
Right, I was getting it confused with Go, which also has generics now. Its generics are implemented with the comptime feature, right?
attacking the problem of improving shell scripting while attempting to keep the syntax

(Oil author here) Slight correction, The project has two parts

(1) OSH (bin/osh) will run your existing scripts, so in that sense it does keep the syntax

(2) The Oil language (bin/oil) is an upgrade from OSH, but it can also be thought of as a clean slate language:

https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/oil-language-tou...

It's really the same interpreter with a few parse time and runtime options. There were surprisingly few compromises (probably the biggest one is the shell-like string literal syntax, which I mention.)

The biggest changes are that we take over ( ) and { } , so you can write stuff like:

if (x > 0) {
echo 'positive' | tac
}

Rather than

if test "$x" -gt 0; then
echo 'positive' | tac
fi

We add a Python-like expression language between () and surprisingly few things need to change to make it feel like a "new language".

Thanks for mentioning Oil :)
Any place where the poems are publicly published?
> apple is likely to forbid completely any day.

You can always disable SIP and load unsigned kernel extensions, if they refuse to sign.

If you’re a power user, you’ve probably already disabled SIP.

A couple of releases ago files like /etc/hosts and /etc/sudoers were protected by SIP. That’s not the case anymore, though.
Your attempt to guess my motives is a total failure. You are also violating the site guidelines, specifically the part about "charitable interpretation".

No, I want free speech because I actually believe in free speech.
The yq tool also provides 'xq', which works on XML :)
> nuke student loan debt

Do people who paid theirs off, get their money back?
same. Not saying you cannot do both.
Question about Lyft / Uber - Are they inflating costs on return trips?
Has anyone else noticed this? I'm in Austin, and I help my 2 elderly parents. Dad gave up driving due to age-related macular degeneration -- and I'm really happy he did. We've been using Lyft (and to a lesser degree Uber) for 2+ years and it's been great for giving him mobility and reducing his risk.

But... one thing I've noticed is that if you book a trip, and then book a return trip... the return trip is ALWAYS more expensive than it should be. I think Lyft is deflating "leaving home" and inflating "going home" costs. I assume they are thinking, "Let's make it easy to take the trip, and then once we have you... we'll make up the difference."

Anyway our hack is just to take Uber one way, and Lyft the other. Seems to save a ton of money. Or book from one account one-way, and another for the return.

For example, this morning... Dad had a dental appointment, and the "to the dentist" cost at 7:30 AM was $35. The "return home" cost at 9:45 AM was $105! Crazy since traffic had died own a bit by then.

When I plotted the same course from my app at the same time, it was $32. So I just booked a trip for Dad on my Lyft account. The cost would have been over $70 more if he just "defaulted" to taking a Lyft home from the same account that he used to get to the dentist.

Don't get me wrong, these services are a godsend. But... can't help but feel like some of the shady from Taxi company history remains.

I've only got cursory evidence, but seems to be a trend. When Dad goes somewhere, the return cost is higher. I just have him call me and I book the return on my account. Almost always saves money.
The key difference here is that he went to film school while you did computer science.

The author says that for STEM college often seems of value, but for students without the skill or aptitude to pursue high-skill degrees that exit into a pool of job opportunities it is awash.

If you are not already wealthy spending large sums of debt on a degree that won’t get you paid more is objectively luxury spending at the negative cost of your future self. How many degrees increase income earning potential?
> In fairness they obviously cannot benchmark against unreleased versions of ZGC, but equally, I was expecting/hoping to see benchmarks run at allocation rates that ZGC/Shenandoah are actually rated for today. What they're mostly proving here is that you need generational collection to handle high throughputs on allocation heavy benchmarks like lusearch, rather than anything special about LXR specifically.

They evaluate over a diverse range of 17 benchmarks, though only 4 latency benchmarks. Would have been nice to have more latency benchmarks, I agree.

> It mentions LXR will provide "sufficient responsiveness" without concurrent evacuation, but the whole reason ZGC/Shenandoah were developed was because for some use cases G1 level pause times - even though they're usually quite low - were not considered sufficient.

Right. At the cost of a significantly larger heap size though. Memory is cheap nowadays, yes, but large datacenters want to reduce their (electricity/power) running costs, and so if we can reach similar (or _slightly_ worse) latency requirements (and the paper demonstrates that low pause times do not necessarily translate to low latency) while using less memory, I think that in-of-itself is quite appealing. Also do note that, as mentioned in the paper, LXR is has not seen the benefit of years of tuning and tweaks that production collectors have.

I am quite excited by this new GC and hope to see further work done to improve its performance.
I installed LineageOS and https://calyxos.org/ several times last year on different Pixel phones. CalyxOS is easier to install and all applications worked. Then again, all applications working is probably a by-product of it being easier so there is less a chance to misconfigure something.

Highly recommend either of these as a way to keep a perfectly good Pixel working.
This is a popular gripe during the current political discussions about college debt but I think it drastically undersells the benefits of college degrees that are non-STEM and drastically overestimates the quality of life for people who get trade certifications.

You'd think with the popularity of 'antiwork' attitudes, people would notice that few people are inherently motivated to snake out clogged toilets. It's not for everyone.

Look though the HR depts. of FAANGs and you'll find a lot of people with humanities degrees who are making good incomes. It's not the dead end field that's often suggested.
> after a certain point MAD comes to play

That's the obsoleted narrative that the proliferation of nuclear weapons would create long-lasting world-wide peace.

Easily disproven by current events.

> assuming rational actors, which Putin is not

Hence the criticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction#Cri...

Unsurprising the Doomsday Clock is showing increased threat level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock#Timeline
Actually IP is the modern invention, away from the default state. Before IP laws it was always the 'rendering' of an idea. Only when copying became easier than making then copyright adn patents took hold. Still for a few countries this idea of IP has not soaked in.
For those using Windows, macOS and Linux regularly with Keyboard/Mouse I recommend for mac:

CursorSense to customise the acceleration graph (or disable).

SensibleSideButtons so you can use mouse4/5 in the browser.

ScrollReverser so scrolling on mouse and touchpad both make sense.

Rectangle for window snapping.
The way 3-way switch wiring is presented in codebooks and electricians' manuals is 'weird' in a way that makes it very hard (for me) to understand. I am a qualified electronics engineer and I would much rather analyze some obscure analog circuit than try to understand someone's 3-way switch diagram.
>education needs to be completely upended

The idea that we should pay out of pocket for our own training before even knowing we'll break into a field is pretty absurd, if one takes a moment to think about it.

Sure, that's the traditional approach for a few highly specialized fields, but by and large it's obviously going to cause a huge misallocation of resources, along with enormous debt.
ARK wants even needs investors. Going on CNBC and telling everyone that the core asset of your fund is going to the moon, dont miss out!!!!!!!! is how you get investors to pay you a fat fee. Going on CNBC and announcing that your research department think your investors are going to lose 50% isnt good for business.

The price targets and investment research is entirely PR - designed to get investors to invest with the fund.
Karabiner Elements[1] should let you remap the Esc key.

And, while I don't have personal experience with it, it does seem like it may allow you to set up locale-based shortcuts, as well[2].

[1] https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/docs/manual/configuratio...

[2] https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#international
or Going to an expensive college for a field that has low job prospects was the biggest mistake of his life..
I do appreciate stuff like that but I wish there were more alternatives, I don’t need a LAN camera! And I can’t think of much else I’d repurpose the hardware for either. I wish it were a lot easier to use phones as phones for a long time.
Reddit is likely your friend on this.

I got many answers to my Lineage questions on reddit. All were already answered in fact.
> When I plug in a device to a Mac or Windows box it just works 95% of the time or more.

I quit using Macs a long time ago because I find I have to spend way too much time configuring them and adapting to the workflow, but between Windows and Linux I find devices work pretty much the same. If anything Linux has a better success rate, things "just work." On Windows it seems like every single time I plug in a mouse Windows starts "installing drivers." Even though it has the drivers. Usually "installing drivers" seems like it's a nothing but sometimes it actually seems to be downloading things and installing them while the PnP mouse already should work.

Definitely, as a rule plugging things into Windows it can take 10-15 seconds to pick up while Linux works much faster on average.
> The truth is, college isn’t for everyone. It’s a virtual requirement for fields like STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), medicine, academia, and law.

I mean, it's a virtual requirement for more than that. If you want to work a white collar job of almost any type it's much harder if you don't have some kind of college degree. It may only barely be possible unless you're particularly skilled at something or good at finding and chasing opportunities. Accountants, social workers, therapists, teachers, middle managers, HR people, supply chain specialists, city planners ... low and high paid positions of all types ostensibly require a college degree in many cases. I'm sure there are people without degrees doing some of these things, but it's more of an uphill battle.