skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a private research university. Private schools might have more financial aid available, but they cost much more, and they are a research institution, which adds (mostly) pointless prestige to undergraduate degrees.

That said, the growth of college tuitions is why you will find so many Americans skeptical of the value of college. The actual experience is nice, the things you learn might be useful, but the net value varies a lot depending on what you graduate with and when you do it.

I very nearly went into legal studies, but there were a number of lawsuits against schools from former law students claiming the schools vastly overstated the number of graduates getting relevant jobs (the market got flooded, basically).

Nowadays, it is fashionable to poke fun at gender studies and sports news and whatever other "fluff" degrees are out there, but it can happen to any degree really. When you're looking at a quarter of a million dollars or more of debt, you really need to think long and hard about what you plan to do about it.

It's also why free college and federal student debt relief are such hard sells here. Unless the actual problem of the cost of tuition is resolved, it hardly makes sense to throw more money at the problem- it just encourages more of the same bloat caused by federally backed, easy access loans have caused in the first place
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That blue box specifically has "new information" and "analysis and synthesis". If your previous Act step got you new information you can "orient" yourself with respect to it.

OODA is often thought of in a "do or die, moments count" context (given it's origins...) where learning lots of stuff is often impossible hence irrelevant. But with a longer time scope you can learn more. And given 10 minutes a person familiar with the environment can learn a lot about an issue, without having solved it necessarily.

Applied to troubleshooting, so often the Decide and Act bits are about gathering more information! Hence my "logs" or "expt" examples. Maybe it is breaking out a debugger, or gathering stats on A vs B, but each Action gets one step closer.

The main reason I like to think of it this way is to prompt "stepping back". By being able to say "Where am I at in the loop?" it gives permission to yourself to mentally step back from the coalface for a minute while still not giving up on the issue.

And every time I have seen successful leadership in resolving a problem it is effectively someone acting kind of like a "flight controller" making sure the workers OODA loops at least don't mess each other up and better yet are collaborative. IE keep them bubbling until someone says "I've got it!".

For me, OODA is valuable in the post incident review. You can lay out every step and figure out how to get there faster.
Screen watching was so integral we were cool with it, not uncommon for all of us to only strafe move while facing walls (especially in Stack) to make it harder to know where we were.

The real controversy was over spawn rushing. Once you figured out exactly where and how close you could be to the next spawn dying just once put you at a large disadvantage. Ultimately that’s why we stopped playing, it would commonly end up like 10-3-0-0 and that was lousy for the 0’s.
I'm not sure I get this. Chiyoda no doubt refers to the ward Chiyoda in central Tokyo, immediately to the east of Shinjuku, so would be similar to someone who used to live in San Francisco saying "I wish I was back in the Tenderloin."
We live in a post-joke world now.
Basically, the org structure ,communication and culture to run remote teams effectively are very different. This is why most traditional companies fail to outsource successfully. However, once the company has setup a smooth process and culture for running remote teams, outsourcing becomes quite achievable. If they can select and hire 1 in a million talented dev from the global talent pool to replace a slightly above average American dev, while only paying half the salary, I think they will certainly move towards that direction.
The “demonstrated need” is quite suspicious https://www.bu.edu/admissions/tuition-aid/scholarships-finan...

BU is notoriously stingy and you should take their claims of waiving fees with several healthy shakes of salt.
It goes much faster if you’re the banker and embezzle judiciously.
I actually think the real solution is that student loans should be dischargeable in bankruptcy. I think it is a much better, easier and fairer fix than just cancelling some student loans.

Since student loans aren't dischargeable, it means that lenders have no incentive to do any due diligence. On the contrary, their incentive is to load students up with as much debt as possible.

Yes, making student loans dischargeable would mean fewer students would get loans, but that's the point. Lenders shouldn't be giving out hundreds of thousands of dollars to students whose career options would then put them in indentured servitude for decades.
This isn’t a value judgment on database administration, just an anecdote:

I’ve worked at 5 small companies in the last 15 years, and freelanced for a few years. The dev team size was: (15, 5, 5, 4, 8). None of those companies had a DBA. One company we had a full time IT/sysadmin, but otherwise that role was filled by people with a title like “software engineer”.

In truth, I think we often would have benefited from the expertise of a DBA, but we never made the decision to hire someone for that role full time.
Same thing here. I got hit from several pixabay tracks. It seems like bullshit if you're going to get a copyright claim unless you jump through this long list of hoops. Royalty free should be just that, with no strings attached.
Ask HN: Is any plastic being recycled? What's an alternative?
I just read an article that suggested I should wash all plastic before I put it the recycle bin. Otherwise, I risk having the whole bin being throw in to a landfill since it's contaminated.

WTF, what's the point of plastic, If I have to wash it before I put it in the recycle bin? If I have to do that then I might as well have containers that I can wash and return to the store. Are plastic producers so greedy that making a buck supersedes the environment?

At this point, If I want to eat then I have to purchase food that's packaged in plastic. I don't think I have a choice.

I know I'm not likely to wash plastics before I put it in the recycle bin. I bet VERY few people ever do or will do.

So, is any plastic being recycled? What's an alternative?
> Unbankruptable student loans

Ought not to exist. Full stop.
Just like his first tweet about buying Twitter?
I've had the same experience, but using the sauna regularly has helped spark resistance to the mundane.
This annual tuition cost isn't real. It almost never is. It's the same thing as listing the total cost for medical bills: It goes to health insurance, not you.
Many of us would argue that providing privacy-invasion-as-a-service, at scale, to people who want to sell us shit is harmful and villainous. Even if you set aside the dangerous aspects of some of the "free online services", like YouTube serving as a massive engagement-driven platform for propaganda and radicalization, you're still left with web services designed to hoover up all your data and sell your eyeballs to businesses. That is the behavior of a hostile actor, and vast swaths of people accepting this tradeoff doesn't make its existence any less objectionable to some of us.
It should also be possible to manually grant broader permissions. I'm just hoping to avoid how automatic grants tend to be missing from mobile OSes.
The role is called data engineer now. It's just one of many data engineering roles. Data engineers at a non-tech company could be 1 person holding up the entire system doing administrative tasks on it so to speak. It could also be one of many persons that work towards holding up Youtube's ML recommender systems.

I think just in general data engineer is a better term to find the same role across a lot of companies today.
>but your parent is saying why they chose it, not why you did:

And I am saying why I chose it. You don't need to read too much into the "no", nor have to find some perfect formal consistency in a quick response. It's just "no" as in, "no, that's not my case".
People have been falling for these scams forever. Naturally a generation which lives online will be more vulnerable to attacks coming through platforms they pay more attention to. Is there anything fundamentally new, though?
Is this another hedge fund masquerading as a university?
The problem is, everybody hates all the ways in which spotify doesn't act sensibly and predictably. Just google for "spotify random broken" to spiral down a depressing rabbithole of a decade of forum posts about a feature so simple and still not implemented, that it's clearly being done on purpose; either to drive engagement or save on money paid out to labels and artists, your guess is as good as mine.
Can someone explain to me how any schools are in danger of going out of business? Their expenses aren't going up, they're not paying professors more, they're not leveraging themselves into debt. What are the huge cost increases they're bearing that force them to raise tuition?
The one institute I'm familiar with appears to have hired an absolute shitload of useless administrators, but that is an expense of choice that could be trimmed at any time.
I've noticed this as well. There's a really great, growing trend of people understanding abusive behaviors and setting boundaries, which I think is fantastic. People should always stand up for themselves! But too far and you become like you've described.
As I recall the Xbox had an Ethernet port and Halo supported up to four consoles. I think there were some limitations. Not sure if two teams of 8 were possible but I think 4x4 was. At a minimum I believe dedicated screens were possible in a four player game.

The PS2 had something similar (only two consoles) but it used Firewire because Sony is the Apple of Japan.
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I had an experience last year that hit me really hard and drove that point home: Due to an emergency I had to travel to the area I grew up in. I arrived at a hotel where I was expecting to wait for my family to arrive. A friend I went to highschool with and have zoom call with about twice a year texted me that he and his girlfriend are having dinner at a nearby restaurant. I just walked over in ten minutes and now was having dinner with my friends. No car, no planning, nothing! Unfathomable! It usually would take a week's heads up and a drive for me to do anything like this with any of my friends. It hit me so hard how much I miss this kind of thing. If I don't make plans in my everyday life it means my wife and I will likely be sitting around at home or maybe go out for dinner. Makes new think about moving, but all my friends are really spread out. Everytime there is a little bit of a group someone moves. It's also never walkable
No, fraud prevention is one of the widely accepted reasons for data storage under GDPR.
It happened, except for the saw.

“[The data centers are] hard to get into… [T]he hardware and routers are designed to be difficult to modify even when you have physical access to them. So it took extra time…”

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/out...
That also sounds exactly the kind of action that a normal person would take to sell a GPU he no longer needed.
From Shadow Forks to Mainnet
"THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General."

See http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
This is beholden to BU's definition of need. Barring any transparency on what these definitions actually mean for the school, I'd assume it means the following.

1 - Students should pay the maximum that they and their family are able to, inclusive of student loans. If their parents have collateral in any form including home equity or retirement accounts, it should be assumed that this collateral can be used to secure loans or pay for the school.

AND/OR

2 - BU gives preferential admissions to students who are able to pay the maximum, while telling everyone else that they don't. This can be done through multiple methods including A) offer admission but don't offer significant aid, B) offer admission preferentially based on signs of high income including expensive club participation, high cost achievements, or Geographic considerations.

Schools have become adept at pretending to do something about the student loan crises, I don't see why we should take any non-quantified statement at face value. My Alma mater UMass Amherst, used to lead every tuition and fee increase with a statement on increased financial aid - Unfortunately a simple multiplication would always show that the magnitude of cost increase vastly outstripped the magnitude of the aid increase.
I didn't attend UMass, but have had friends that went there and they seem fine a decade and some change after graduating. I think UMass education AND networking is on par with private schools that rank in the 50-100 tier (I went to one of those, I don't think I am any better because of it).

College these days is mostly about getting a useful degree and building up a network... as long as the school gives your opportunities and has a decent alumni network it doesn't seem to matter much beyond that.
Google is exactly villainized because of the many billions of dollars of free services they provide and use as a source of the data they funnel to the advertisers, while killing competition as a second order effect.

Philanthropy should be done by entities dedicated to it and ethically responsible, not as a camouflage for private data brokering.
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This has nothing to do with the companies you mentioned, and everything to do with the emergence and acceptance of DevOps/SRE best-practices over the last decade or so, which can hardly be reduced to an occasional `apt update`. There is a saying how "The building codes are written in blood". this translates quite well to modern software development lifecycle. It takes a non-trivial amount of work to maintain an internet-facing system in a secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable fashion, especially when e-commerce comes into play. At least if it's anything more serious than a toy project page or "brochureware". And modern developers don't want to deal with this toil - it's a solved problem at this point - they want to code features and build products, and it's wonderful that platforms exist that enable them to do so without having to lose sleep over the CVE du-jour.
> Less money on nice dorms and endless administrators

This is a fantasy. Whatever feedback mechanisms existed in our society in the past to keep things from getting out of hand, are gone---whether in academia, medicine, or any part of government.
> They are talking about ads, not about which songs are suggested to us.

It has a big list of media and it's trying to pick one that will be effective on you. That part is quite similar.

> Spotify dies not rely exclusively on poor quality third-party data: they also have first-party data about us

Is that why they're saying it doesn't work? Or is it a different reason? Because I see people citing all sorts of possible reasons and intuition can only go so far in knowing which ones are important.

> My guess is that the type of ads they are talking about here are general rotation banner ads

Maybe. But in that case how much is the data the problem and how much is the type of ad the problem?
>No, they are NOT successful for the reasons you state. Apple Music does that.

Which is neither here nor there. Apple music came later, and Spotify already had a headstart, a good UI, a good selection, and a good free plan.

Spotify, Pandora caught on because they were the first good streaming solutions, at the time bandwidth, mobile phones, etc, were in place and ripe for streaming. Not because of their recommendations...
Awesome article. The os above all else is a system for running & managing processes. Long nourney to the end in tbis article but it's showing how to be aware of your system, and that's neat.

> Upstart uses this interface for its own nefarious process tracking purposes.

Thanks, conclusion! Nice to pin this down some. Would love more words talking about how various other folk use these capabilities. Makes me wish I knew a codesearch site that could give me other examples.
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Is that $700 per person or for the whole house? Trying to determine what you mean by cheap.
You should put a warning on each track. When I first started trying Pixabay the only message for any given track was "Crediting isn't required, but linking back is greatly appreciated and allows music authors to gain exposure." There's nothing warning users that they will more than likely be hit with a copyright notice and will have to follow some specific steps to get around it. That's pretty annoying.
Is it safe to characterize those who would pay full price as only the children of millionaires and billionaires? I filled out the FAFSA just to see and my EFC (when I first started college) was 91,000. I doubt my parents were millionaires; even an overestimate of assets (some of which weren’t really liquid as they were preparing to buy a house) would’ve been just barely over 1 million. It’s hard to see paying that as affordable.
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Wall Street Journal is the journal of record for the ruling economic elite who make money in industrial farming.

If less meat was consumed, organic farming could feed everyone. That said, I believe in a hopefully (mostly) fair market, and people should choose with their wallets and perhaps their meat addictions, what they want to buy.

Also, subsidizing things like virtually free water for meat production is arguably bad for society. I like to eat meat several times a month, and I along with everyone else should pay the externalities costs like harm to the environment, much greater energy and water use, etc.

Personal freedom, while curtailing government welfare payouts to corporations.
Like a lot of thought models it depends how you apply it as to whether it is any use.

OODA came from an adversarial practices. So often the intent is to be competitive vs the adversary. But if your adversary is inert - a problem to fix - then your time pressure to "get inside their loop" is gone. But of course you have other time pressures - assumedly management or someone screaming for you to fix it. Or maybe it is a memory leak that you know will hit a critical point.

From my reply to a sibling comment:

OODA is often thought of in a "do or die, moments count" context (given it's origins...) where learning lots of stuff is often impossible hence irrelevant. But with a longer time scope you can learn more. And given 10 minutes a person familiar with the environment can learn a lot about an issue, without having solved it necessarily.

Applied to troubleshooting, so often the Decide and Act bits are about gathering more information! Hence my "logs" or "expt" examples. Maybe it is breaking out a debugger, or gathering stats on A vs B, but each Action gets one step closer.

The main reason I like to think of it this way is to prompt "stepping back". By being able to say "Where am I at in the loop?" it gives permission to yourself to mentally step back from the coalface for a minute while still not giving up on the issue.

And every time I have seen successful leadership in resolving a problem it is effectively someone acting kind of like a "flight controller" making sure the workers OODA loops at least don't mess each other up and better yet are collaborative. IE keep them bubbling until someone says "I've got it!".

For me, OODA is valuable in the post incident review. You can lay out every step and figure out how to get there faster.
Are you confusing UMass Amherst with Amherst College (generally considered an A-tier school)? I've never heard anyone say UMass Amherst is _significantly_ more prestigious than BU... they've always been fairly comparable other than BU having the urban Boston campus benefit.
Why throwaway? This is a good take.
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That's not true at all. This article says 45% of students receive need-based aid, meaning 55% don't: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/boston-university-2130/...

Yes, other students may be receiving merit-based aid, but a large percentage of their student body is paying the full cost.
Any large organization with no competition ceases to understand what makes the money eventually. University administrators have been selling life experiences, liberal arts, sports, and research experiences to students for the last 2-3 decades. If you asked them which staff are necessary to keep students joining the school, they would likely have a vastly different answer than the one most people have.
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I have no need to discredit Jonah Bennett--he did a fine job of that himself--and moreover he is not the author of the article. I will concede that my comment skates close to the ad hominem edge, but knowing about the publisher (as with Murdoch, Sulzberger, and Bezos, for Fox, NYT, WaPo respectively) seems useful nonetheless, for while it may be noble to argue about and discuss the ideas in the article in good faith, it's also worth asking whether Palladium is edited and published in good faith.
> Obviously $80k is still an obscene amount of money, but I don't really have an issue with kids of millionaires + billionaires having to pay that much to attend.

There is a huge gap in between, that isn't addressed in your comment. 80k/year is still expensive to someone whose parents make 100k.
Lots of people in the industry are in a race against time to make as much money as possible before they have to understand how things work.
Wasn’t there a school groundskeeper who won a lawsuit whose decision was based on it being carcinogenic? If memory serves, he had a lawyer vs a huge team of high priced attorneys who, after a long lawsuit, failed to convince the court. I’m not an expert but courts are designed to adjudicate technical issues like this:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bayer-glyphosate-lawsuit-...
I’m not sure using a build farm to dynamically relink the kernel at boot might would solve the problem.

I think the core issue is that it needs to keep two complete copies of the kernel in memory at the instant in time where it hands off from one to another.

Adding a ccache dependency to the bootup sequence would be in keeping in tone with the rest of the article though.
I would imagine the same is true for software architecture and interface design; someone should study that!
University of Chicago is projected to be the first $100k/year tuition.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21442807
>"What Is the Cost of Attendance?"

>"Probably less than you think."

No, it was not less than I thought, BU..
Thanks for posting this article. My mind is completely blown. I just have one question for those reading this.

>> so it’s possible that eBay has been scanning customers’ computers for almost seven years without too many people noticing.

Can't one check the archive.org for signup.ebay.com & verify this? Saying ebay has been port-scanning for 7 years and proving so, would be a much stronger point. Surprised the OP did not check.
Do you expect customer service representatives to evaluate your legal claim?
Agreed. The financial aid also fools people into believing 80k per year is not insanely greedy pricing.
No, that's a different thing.

Database administrators keep databases running, managing access and security, doing maintenance tasks, running migrations, etc.

Data engineers are about maximizing the value of existing data by transforming it, aggregating it, etc.