skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So yes my ire was also at my bank. But this threat was about e-bay. My bank was a small regional bank that not a lot of people know about.

I mean this sounds like it was a while ago so it's probably too late to do much (if you don't owe that bank any money then it's another matter entirely to get money from them - you'd have to sue most likely). But for future reference, if they don't give you satisfaction get the state (AG) and the feds (CFPB or reserve) involved - it's usually a simple online form or two. The smaller bank in this case is actually in one's favor since their failure to play ball with a federal regulator is a bigger problem for them. But I have had to file these complaints a few times for I've never failed to get a response back from the executive level.

I have had chargebacks "denied" because of this exact same stupid shit - tracking number in the same city shit before, but I calmly explain that it doesn't pass muster as evidence. Unfortunately even the big banks often reject on meritless grounds hoping you'll just go away. But it's surprisingly easy to take the next step and that usually makes things go in your favor.

There might not be any reason you can't still file a complaint with https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/.
Even Christianity that is like the most basic principle. God created man in his own image. So that's basically the same as saying to know God look in the mirror.
I saw this in tv. It reminded me City Slickers. It looked fun. When I was burning out in a professional school; I would have jumped at the opportunity to do this program.

(I'm not denigrating it. I've been a landscaper, dishwasher in highschool who was yelled at in Chinese nightly for not doing jobs other than dishwashing--like washing/polishing his car between rushes, General contractor, auto mechanic, and electrician. I know about manual labor, and I never liked it after my 40's. This program looked fun though.)
I agree with capping costs. However, not cancelling loans for a small sum of, say, 5-10k per person wouldn't be so bad. Just as you or I had to work through school and scrimp and save doesn't mean we should make others suffer that same way. The logic seems reminiscent of hazing to me.
I just switched to Umami last week, from Plausible, basically because plausible requires Postgres and Clickhouse db, and I did not want to add any more admin overhead due to Clickhouse, a db I have little experience with. With Umami I only need Postgres.
That’s still a ton more than 8K for the time
DBAs are a subset of sysadmins, and the sysadmin role is being replaced by devops and offloading more and more functionality to cloud as-a-service products.

Even at large companies, you'll often see databases being run by "data engineering" and SRE teams rather than pure DBA teams. This isn't just a naming difference: the background and mindset expected in these roles is engineering, not system administration.

You're going to be most likely to find traditional DBA roles at companies that run a lot of legacy on-premise software: banks, defense contractors, government jobs, older large tech companies like IBM and HP, etc.
> authentic breathing patterns

I'm sorry, what?
I think this is right. I read Neuromancer and first came to Japan in the 1980s. IIRC the term "salaryman" wasn't yet commonly known in English.

However, it was known by English-speaking people who had been to Japan, or were somehow involved with Japan. But not yet mainstream English.
I’m a DBA at a small university. I’ve found that as we move more stuff to “the cloud” on various platforms, my job is much less performance and administration, and much more development. I spend most of my time writing data exchange jobs (between vendor systems) and supporting our reporting/analytics users.

I don’t plan to continue in administration work when I move on from my current role—partly because I’ve found the development to be more fun, and partly because I’m seeing the writing on the wall.
even bonds soon
There is an element of this idea in The Net (1995)[0]. A computer programmer finds her life has been turned upside down by a hacker after she accidentally uncovers a conspiracy.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113957/
Fortran OOP and Python
Dear all,
I'm sincerely sorry for the poor article I submitted. The article was written by a news agency in China and they probably did a machine translation into English hence the poor article. Here is the original Chinese version of the article:

https://www.cnbeta.com/articles/tech/1266309.htm
Interest rates should depend on the market. Why you want to artificially meddle in everything? Solutions for student loans is simple. Stop government guarantees, and get rid of the government law that makes it not dischargeable. Government caused the problem and you ask for another government “solution”
I believe we should move to a world where programmers aren't required a degree and software engineers have very high requirements. Programming is very simple, turning a flow chart into code is as easy as mounting an IKEA furniture once you know the basic features of the language you are using. Architecturing a software on the other hand needs a level of understanding, rigor and effort such that we should seek good CS graduates to do it.
Why would dba help get h1b over other roles?
> courts are designed to adjudicate technical issues like this

Since adjudicate just means to decide something judicially, that is tautological but technically correct. Beyond that narrow definition though, a jury trial is not the mechanism to decide a scientific and probabalistic question like whether spraying weed killer caused a particular case of lymphoma.
It's not outdated in the least. The vast majority of people have an address. Most people don't move that often. Hell, most people don't live outside the country they were born in.

Seem odd to design a whole new system for an edge case?
Sure I'll believe there's an "actual controversy" I don't know any better.

What conclusion can be drawn from a company ghostwriting studies and pretending they are not the source of them that support propositions that are convenient to them? Is doing such a thing going to "add to the controversy?" Does the increase in controversy help them in any way? "There are other studies so it is unclear if on balance..."

When they are caught out doing so, should we update whatever prior we have about the truth of the proposition that is controversial? Does it make you trust what they say more, or less? Are there any similarities at all to the "smoking causes cancer, heart disease, strokes etc" controversies of the past you can see? Like for example tobacco companies hiring Berkeley's best statisticians to cast doubt on all the studies showing tobacco smoking is quite unhealthy. New statistical techniques were developed to do so and they're good ones still in use! Of course smoking is no longer controversial at all anymore, is it? They did get decades more sales out of "the controversy" and it really was one!

Once you catch an organization of any kind with a very, very large ulterior motive in influencing "the controversy" doing so dishonestly, where do you think your prior should be before you see solid evidence to update it for claims that such an organization is making?
No. eBay is very friendly and integrated with the US feds. Any market competitor that did not provide such a friendly and long established relationship would be regulated out of existence when it started to become a viable alternative.

It's not a technical problem, it's a legal one.
The point of a secured loan is that if you don't pay, the creditor can sell whatever is securing it and recover some or all of what is owed to them.

Taking away someone's diploma because they defaulted on their loan would just be destroying value. It's the equivalent of a bank foreclosing on your house and then burning it to the ground.
> small teams trying to support the whole stack with their javascript bootcamp training are the biggest reason so much tech is absolute garbage these days

The lazy stereotyping is inaccurate, caustic, and uncalled-for. I've worked with several bootcampers, and nearly all of them have been entirely capable.
Which is working-as-intended, because the market needs to remain in disequilibrium long enough for entrepreneurs to reap the windfall profits to finance the large capital investment. If the market responded instantly, the price would drop quickly, no profits would be generated, and the capital would've been misallocated into an industry with no payoff.

This is the market saying "It's going to take a significant amount of effort to fix this problem. Is it really such a big problem that it's worth sacrificing all the other things that capital could've been invested into?"
Well, I couched it saying it was an overestimate. Besides, having $1,000,001 technically makes you a millionaire but I don’t think that’s what people are referring to when they’re talking about “millionaires and billionaires”. 4 years of $80,000 tuition is $320,000 - are we trying to say that 32% of a “millionaire’s” total assets is a cost of college we’re ok with as it only affects millionaires and billionaires?

In addition, given an Expected Family Contribution (EFC) of $91k a year for assets == 1 million (plus other variables of course), there seems to be a decent amount of room to reduce the total assets <1 million and still pay the full price of $80k a year. Then even by strict definition, not only millionaires and billionaires are going to be paying full price.
CTO of TiDB here.
TLDR, yes, DBA is still a good job, but to embrace new technologies.

From a database developer's point of view, I have always admired the work of DBA, although I can develop the kernel of the database, I can also write a SQL engine, never been good at writing complex and efficient SQL, totally different skills.

I have noticed a trend in the database field in recent years: Everything goes to the cloud.

Because of cloud is more and more popular, and the cloud is providing fully managed database service, it is hard to say the trend of traditional DBA job is getting less and less, the DBA expert is still extremely popular, However DBA will alive and can be more welcome, because there are more and more new technologies are evolving fast, just like what we're proudly building: TiDB, an HTAP database provides SQL interface, support complex analytic workloads, as well as the OLTP load. DBA could reuse their skills, and even better, they are not just DBA, they can also act as a data expert, help application developers to optimize SQL queries, and schema design, and help them to design and optimize systems.

A good example is my recent little side project: https://ossinsight.io/, although the architecture is simple, it contains some complex SQL in there, I turned to my DBA friends to get this application done correctly and efficiently.
Well first of all I don’t think it was just because the account was green, but because they use in their moniker “throwaway,” which indicates someone who doesn’t want their identity known.

Second, as a self proclaimed “glyphosate defender” it’s very convenient for you to advocate for disallowing the rampant spread of information against your position while advocating for a very slow resolution to the claims, one whose result wouldn’t manifest until long after this thread was forgotten.
The last time I tried selling anything on eBay I was overwhelmed with bids and messages from scammers. You are probably better off.
Genuinely curious, how big is the long tail of legacy enterprise software? my understanding is that many "legacy" systems have barebones R&D teams to go along with them. More software has been written in the last 10 years than in the 20 years prior as the field has grown.
Before federal student loans, corporations and the universities themselves would lend the money. They very often wouldn’t do so until the second year, when the student had demonstrated that they were capable.

Something like that could happen again, even with federal dollars - universities would make the first year cheap, and based upon high school transcripts + SAT / ACT + first year grades, then make a real loan.
Why bother? The burden of proof is ok the UFO enthusiasts, and there just isn't any proof. A personal friend of mine has decided aliens are real. But he has had his thought processes hijacked. His main arguement is that everyone can't be lying. Lol. And that eyewitness testimony is evidence.

Of course he also believes in telepathy and that UFOs are communicating with us

I continue to state the obvious, indisputable proof is knowledge brought back from an encounter that is unknown to humans, or technology that is far more advanced than ours.

Of course there are many attempts at this, all of them bad.

The LARPs are just so bad I won't touch this stuff with a ten foot pole.

It only takes one price of evidence to end this, and given that the US government is in possession of lots of this stuff, it would only take a single whistleblower.

My favourite is the Ex-government officials like Chris Mellon who want disclosure, but want to go through the "proper channels"

It's ALL bullshit. and it's all highly highly dishonest.

Of course there is lots of money in eyes and ears. Lex......
Wouldn't one normally just try to convert this to an unambiguous discrete problem, something like:

Given:

(1) the ordered sequence of whole numbers (1, 2, ... , 99, 100) and

(2) an unknown value N that is a member of this sequence,

(3) the following tests (a candidate is a guess at the value of N), and two separate threads to run tests:

(A) if candidate <= N : true & thread continues (another candidate can be checked with that thread)

(B) candidate > N : false & thread terminates (no more candidates can be checked with that thread)

Determine the best strategy for finding N (minimize the number of tests while leaving at least one thread alive)

Determine the worst case for the number of tests needed to find N using this optimal strategy.
> Shodan, a search engine. Shodan (初段) means “first-level ranking in a skill, etc.”

In this context it's more likely a reference to the malevolent AI in the 1994 video game System Shock -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHODAN

> Asahi Linux. Asahi (朝日, 旭) means “morning sun.”

As noted on the Asahi web page, it is also the Japanese name for the apple cultivar known in the US as the McIntosh. :)
That's my understanding.

There was a detailed profile of the school sometime in the past decade or so. I've been past it on CA-168 and recognised the name.

I thought the article had run in the NY Times or WSJ, though I don't find hits for the period I had in mind.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=site%3Anytimes.com+%22deep+...

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=site%3Awsj.com+%22deep+spri...

It's hard to express just how remote it is. You'd have to head out into Montana or Alaska to do better.
I cannot name a website which has no cookie banner. This is not to say that I have not j such websites, it's just that there is no easy way for me to tell the difference between "I have visited the website long time ago and accepted a banner" vs "I was never presented a banner there".

Something browser-based that would show icon in address bar similar to http:// protocl would be far more effective in letting me prefer banner-less websites.
I never really understood this kind of jealousy because other people are given a break. It doesn't make your situation any worse and it makes theirs better.
well, from my googling around it seems Cochrane holds a high position in the health field when discussing research, sort of similar to the ACM or the IEEE, or maybe the CRA. But I think maybe more guarded of their reputation and the reputation of its publications.
I wonder if he had some sort of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorde... type issue.

The impact that you describe very broadly reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome. I'm still learning about the subject, so the only nearby useful axis point I'm aware of is the concept of chronic trauma, which I'm surprisingly unable to find a synopsis on in Wikipedia (the closest I can find is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_post-traumatic_stress_..., which is vaguely in the ballpark but a couple notches too far).

Personality disorders have the potential to have the same sort of impact as water on a rock over time. I wonder how this person impacted other people at the company - and whether the boundary-defying nature of this sort of problem caused the line between "broken individual" and "DBAs are scary" to be blurred.

It could be very interesting for the various decisionmakers to wind up in a conversation with a good psychologist (psychiatrist?) who might be able to make that line a little bit clearer for everyone (and provide closure) and perhaps even outline ways to screen for this sort of thing happening in the future - which may be the speedbump everyone's (very quietly) stuck at.
You need something SLAB-like because otherwise everyone declares bankruptcy between finishing their degree and getting a first job. Congratulations you just cancelled all new student loans.

Something like dischargeable in bankruptcy after 15 years could work though.
Because the dendrite problem has not been solved, and specific weight and efficiency is lower than lithium. (descending order of problems IMO).
"Buy now, pay later" isn't a scam.
Do you use all the rules, especially auctions?
While you won't be flying anywhere,
I think in for some purposes you should be able
to feel comfortable leaving home
even without money or an ID.
I think it's sad that our world is so entirely consumed
by bureaucracy and capital
that we feel uncomfortable existing, for even a brief period,
just as ourselves, rather than numbers in a bank account
or a government database.
I recently did the drive East to West through Kansas. I had always heard it was flat and boring but it was actually incredibly beautiful with really varied terrain.

I don't know if I'd want to live there but it would be a great place to go spend a week in a cabin or something.
More human remains found in Lake Mead, which continues to recede amid drought
I think it depends. I've seen bootcampers who are motivated by being a Software Engineer at FAANG on 500k yet they don't understand why turning off your computer stops programs from running. But I've also met bootcampers who spent several years writing bots for runescape or coding in their spare time and are using the bootcamps as a way in to the industry.
I find the mismatch between the cover and the spine somewhat dissonant. It would be great if an approximation of the background and text colors, and perhaps typeface as well, could be extracted from the cover image (perhaps with something like Tensorflow.js).
I’m not disputing that. They claim to be need-blind, and explicitly acknowledge they have a bunch of other fuzzy criteria.

While they could discriminate against poor people who put crappy jobs in their applications, it goes against their diversity goals. Whether or not you agree with said goals, (liberal arts) colleges and universities want a diverse population (and yes, to the detriment of Asians).
Poor efficiency and limited lifespan, ongoing maintenance costs drive the costs up. Lithium iron phosphate is cheaper unless you don't use the batteries (i.e. emergency standby).
As I look back on ugrad school, I conclude "Don't pay a lot for ugrad school." I can think of maybe three exceptions -- Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford, and not for the education but for who you meet.

For the education, basically DIY -- do it yourself. Blunt truth: For a really good education, 'bout have to DIY anyway.

How to do that? Mostly books. Now supplemented with the Internet. Maybe some help from a few profs.

For the books, etc. find what looks like the best courses in all of the US and use those to build your own reading list. For a good education, need to do that anyway: Blunt truth, ugrad school is a busy time and won't get as much as you want. So, will leave with a diploma but also with a nice collection of materials have not carefully studied yet.

Another blunt fact: Say, 3 courses each semester, two semesters per year, 4 years -- 24 courses. If you have as many as 4 of those really good, you are lucky. Usually the teaching really isn't very good, guys.

Another blunt fact: ASAP, already by 8th grade, via parents, uncles, friends, whatever, try to get into, connected with, know about what is going on outside high school and college and relevant to your career options and, thus, also relevant to what you study in college. If a college can help get you connected with some promising real career directions, great, but don't count on it.

Blunt fact: You have a good shot at getting about the best ugrad education possible by doing a lot of DIY, making your own investigations and connections, and going to a rather cheap state university and living cheap at home.

The Internet has a lot of video clips of lectures in courses from famous universities, profs, etc. These clips expose the truth: There is a lot of poor teaching out there, and really good material is rare.

In short, the person best to manage, direct, design your ugrad education is you. Don't just passively lean back and take what is given -- instead as here, be active, DIY, etc.
They mostly just developed a much higher tolerance for risk. That doesn't mean you should choose a higher level of risk if you have the option.
The stats in this don't pass the smell test and seem made-up. For example gender targeting at 42%? That means they somehow did 8% worse than random chance.

Their data somehow resulted in a statistically significant anti-correlation. This is a pretty unlikely result from a stats POV.
Ah, shit, with Russia’s luck, Putin will try to take out an Elon satellite, miss, and end up starting a Kessler Syndrome collapse of important satellites. Fun.
I wonder if another aspect of both partners working is that it pushes chores into the weekend and after work. When I was a kid my mom would go shopping during weekday mornings. I go shopping during a weekday evening or on the weekend. Same for other house chores. If someone showed up suddenly, chances are we aren't home or furniture is up because the Roomba is running.
‘It’s a head office for tinkering’: Jony Ive and Marc Newson talk tools
I'd like to see a $30 pen tablet, similar to the Boogie board but better designed and with the ability to export documents. Then I could put one every place I have scraps of paper for notes or notebooks and be able to collect everything I write into a digital form (ideally automatically and wirelessly). A $500 pen tablet just does not work for this.
It seems like the "TikTok" generation is lacking financial literacy. I was too at that age. In the US, we don't typically have a class covering money in the US, which is unfortunate and expensive early in life.
Cool trucks, but if one of the concerns is weight, I can’t imagine a BEV truck with any decent range is gonna have appreciably better weight/axle. But perhaps I’m overestimating how much battery they’d need.
The federal government could fix this instantly if they capped the tuition that could be charged as a condition of receiving federal grant money. That is an unbelievable lever for research institutions at least.
> Does anyone wish they were back in the Tenderloin?

Generally not, but that's more because it's the Tenderloin than because it's so small.
The author of this unsourced hit piece explains where the skew comes from: Bjørn Lomborg has engaged in poor science at best, if not whole cloth scientific misconduct[1], suppressed dissent about his works as head of a government institution[2], and works for the right-wing Hoover Institute which has published such... high-quality works as "The Pseudoscience of Global Warming"[3].

Clearly, the author of this op-ed is more than willing to bend their scientific thought to suit their political goals.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150316130136/http://www.cprm.g...

[2]: http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/lomborgstory15.htm

[3]: https://www.hoover.org/research/pseudoscience-global-warming