skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Department of Education's College Scorecard for BU[1] suggests relatively few given the reported $30,395 average annual cost figure, which is described as:

> The average annual net price that a student who receives federal financial aid pays to cover expenses (e.g., tuition, living expenses) to attend a school. Net price is the school's cost of attendance minus any grants and scholarships received. For public schools, this is only the average cost for in-state students.

In comparison, Stanford's reported average annual cost[2] is $12,894. This makes sense given its student responsibility[3].

[1] https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?164988-Boston-Univer...

[2] https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?243744-Stanford-Univ...

[3] https://financialaid.stanford.edu/undergrad/how/student.html
Well, equality of opportunity would sure be a nice start, wouldn’t it?

For real though, “equality of outcome vs equality of opportunity” is a classic example of a false dichotomy. Today’s outcome is tomorrow’s opportunity.

And besides, the whole question is premised on a defective understanding of “fairness”. Justice is not about everyone having an equal amount of stuff, it’s about power.
I know someone who attended the public university in Mass for English. They graduated in 2010 with 100k in loans as the first college graduate in their family. Owing to the job market for the last decade, they primarily worked in the service sector and never made a dent in the student loan principal.

How many decades should we punish people for?
Isn't it true for a lot of newish industries ?

For instance we have the EV boom, and visibly a lot of companies are rushing in to try to make as much as they can without planning for what they would do if they become the next Toyota. But surely, some are planning a bit more ahead (or have a more long term viable approach, even if by accident), and time will tell who they are.

My glass half full view would be that we don't need most companies to succeed, as long as the well isn't poisoned.
Nope, I'm not. Amherst college is another tier or two above UMass Amherst, yeah

I went to the best HS in the Northeast in the 90s and no one seriously considered BU, but UMass Amherst was a non-shameful safety. But I am out of the loop - things could have changed in 20+ years
Maybe not as lightweight, but I can't imagine myself using windows without Keypirinha anymore.
How about hard caps on who get's admitted to any school that accepts government aid.

Reserve 1/2 of the spots to kids from low income families if they can get in, and charge 1/8 of what they charge kids from wealthy families.

If the school has the nerve to charge a wealthy kid $100,000/yr. fine.

The poor kid is charged $20,000. (Financial aid is guaranteed, and automatically discharged in upon graduation. If they don't graduate they will have to pay it back.)

The wealthy parents might be questioning the luxury dorms, luxury amenities, at these fancy colleges, along with the high paid teachers whom don't even teach, but do research.

The administrators would have to figure out how to keep costs down, because the wealthy parents will only pay so much for Biff's, or Becky's, education.

The very small percentage of kids whom daddies don't pay for everything up to 30 years of age will be honestly Means Tested to be included with the lower price poor kids pay.
I've been a DBA contractor for both Oracle and IBM DB2 for telcos and insurance companies. In my experience, you need to cope with lots of politics and the bureaucracy of large organizations. I also found that you also need to keep your vendor certifications current in order to secure contracts.
I wonder if the connectedness makes it easier to avoid actual connection. Because of fast & easy texting, I can always check in before showing up or calling. It's much easier to stay in that medium than escalate to a higher throughput medium. I just texted with a friend for 30 minutes. We should have just called!

Once you are coordinating things, it's easy to overthink and make things too complicated or cumbersome. Also, "Oh I am meeting John, maybe if I do that I also should invite Peter. But I haven't talked to Peter in a while and it's awkward to ask to meet in 30 minutes. But we've always all met together... Maybe I just text Peter to see how he is doing and we all meet another time. Maybe it's best if I organize a little spring party in my backyard next month...". If I was on the phone with John and would have to call Peter instead of everyone just texting, I might not even have time to overthink everything.
We had a DBA about 6 years ago, he was one of the smartest guys I've ever worked with, and knew his stuff inside and out. I would recommend a DBA highly to anyone having growth issues. I honestly don't think we would have scaled without him. I learned a ton from him.

He got let go for basically having a really bad temper, and we decided not to look for a new DBA. I was sad he was gone but also glad to not be getting screamed at. It feels silly, but I've got really unresolved and mixed feelings about the whole thing. I genuinely really liked the guy, loved talking music and movies with him, but he would heel turn in an instant and just ruin your day.

Honestly wish we had a DBA, I ended up picking up a lot of his responsibilities. I'd love to have someone I could learn from. Basically, I'm getting real sick of optimizing reports.
Looks great, though wasn't sure about which regex flavor it supports. Seems JS since variable lookbehind is supported and GitHub repo mentions Typescript.

https://www.debuggex.com/ is another such resource which supports JS/Python/PCRE.
In response to an article about how Monsanto has undue influence on scientific studies, you posted a review paid for by Monsanto...

> This work was supported by Monsanto Company, the original producer and marketer of glyphosate formulations.
They make up for it with financial aid. If you can only afford Radford, chances are BU offers an aid package to you that makes it comparable.
This is laughably incorrect. USA prison population peaked in 2008. Dogma sucks.
Fair warning to everyone reading this. Listary is now effectively abandonware.
Recycling is more of a dream than reality. Lets never forget that recycling economics usually never add up.
100% the same for me as well. When I sit in the sun I feel invigorated, I Feel a rush of pleasant feelings throughout my body.

I take vitamin D regularly, 4000iu+, and I don’t feel anything remarkable. With the sun it’s almost an instant jolt of joy.
Courts are not designed to adjudicate technical issues like this; the conventional wisdom in our separation of powers is that they're uniquely bad at it, which is part of why controversies in upper courts so often devolve to the question of whether fact-finding should be deferred to legislatures instead of court cases.
> It feels like rewarding people for irresponsible behavior, and ultimately punishing those who acted responsibly.

Keep in mind that most (nearly all) of the people you're talking about were minors less than a year prior to getting these loans pushed on them by people with a lot of experience convincing very young people to take loans. It's disingenuous to act like they aren't easily preyed on due to their inexperience.
I agree with capping loan amounts on future undergrad loans, but there's a whole generation of people who were encouraged into predatory tuition & loan combos under the promise the degree would get them a job which would make it easy to pay off the loan. This was (and still is, though Gen Z seems to be catching on to the scam) a systemic issue with predatory lending, and since the federal government has control over many of these predatory loans I think the political push to cancel them is entirely understandable. It may be a largely political play, but then again nearly everything the government does seems to be due to largely political reasons.

I understand the idea that these loans are predatory might be controversial, but this idea comes from the fact that going to expensive universities and paying for it with loans is pushed by high schools, parents, universities, and society alike as the sure-fire path to success. To an 18-year-old with no way to really comprehend the amount of money they're spending on education or what life looks like after university, they likely will take much of this at face value.
Funny thing about the Monsanto cancer case is that they know that the problem is in the Roundup formulation (including surfactants that are required to get the glyphosate across the waxy plant cell wall barrier) yet Monsanto financed studies on purified isolated glyphosate to demonstrate it didn't cause cancer. Sneaky and dishonest, isn't that? Why not just do the study with the Roundup formulation?

> Mike DeVito, acting chief of the National Toxicology Program Laboratory: “We see the formulations are much more toxic. The formulations were killing the cells. The glyphosate really didn’t do it".

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/08/weedkiller-t...

https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/about_ntp/bsc/2017/december/pr...

As far as Monsanto and GMO, modifying certain crops to make them resistant to weedkiller just so you can dump more weedkiller on the field... might be good for weedkiller sales, but I don't think 'feeding the world' is the goal here, more like 'maximizing product sales'. Dumping all that weedkiller into lakes and rivers also destroys the base of ecosystems, which is unwise.

https://toxics.usgs.gov/highlights/glyphosate02.html
Total cost not that long ago (aid or not) was lower than the after-aid cost in your last sentence.

What you're suggesting is to go the way of medical billing, total lack of billing transparency and fake chargemaster numbers disconnected from supply and demand just so that it can be negotiated down (if you have enough leverage).
>Why do people these days not know how to act in their self interest compared to the past?

Who said people knew how to act in their self interest in the past? People just have more options now, whereas in the past it was much more taboo to openly reject religion. There's a lot more freedom to do a lot of things

>The whole country constantly talks about god.

Hard disagree. I don't know what tv shows you're watching but I can't remember the last time a popular piece of media had religion as an important feature. Most shows are pretty secular, as is other media
If I couldn't swim and had never rowed a boat in my life, I would be a little suspicious of the competence of an organization that would accept me as a crew member on a trans-Atlantic row.
Let’s say that everyone in the country rolls 11 dice, and whoever rolls all sixes becomes dictator for life. That would be fair, wouldn’t it? In the sense that everyone has an equal chance, it is fair. In fact it’s precisely, purely fair. Everyone in the country had exactly the same chance. You don’t get much more fair than that!

However, you are still left with a nation ruled by a dictator.. Let that cook in your head for a minute.

I’ll solve the riddle for you: Fairness has never been the issue here. Power imbalance is. We’re asking the wrong question. The correct question is, how can we make it so nobody has unwarranted power over anyone else? That’s true equality.
Either you or I are misunderstanding, I’m not really sure.

I stated I am up to make a wager.

Let’s say, $10,000.

If the public consensus in our determined timeframe is that SC is a total flop, then I am giving you $10,000.

If the public consensus is that the game turned out to be mind blowingly amazing, you are giving me $10,000.

I am too dumb to understand what you’re saying about cash out being $0 & infinite upsides/something downsides.
I'd rather just make student debt "regular" debt, i.e. dischargeable through bankruptcy. Maybe secured by the actual diploma, so you can't claim to be a graduate if you default on the debt, but you'd obviously have the education.

This changed in 2005, under GWB, and was not the worst thing he did (screwing up Afghanistan, invading Iraq, PATRIOT, TSA, ...) but was still a bad thing he did.
It's a really tricky problem to solve, granted.

I feel like student loans should be treated more like FHA loans, who generally do more to make sure the loan is worth it.

If loan givers had a vested interest in the success of the grantee, they'd do far more due diligence than they do today. They'd not give someone 100k for an English degree, for example.

That said, some of the diligence is expected from the borrower as well, IMO.
Am I understanding your argument here to be that Cochrane Reviews are untrustworthy?
What About Copying/Cheating?
* Reduce salience of project grades?
– Exams can test whether student mastered the material

Most of my CS classes didn't give exams and were graded entirely on projects.
I found this to be one of the best features of my CS education.
Projects are vastly more interesting, impactful,
and representative of meaningful learning.
natgas is not carbon free so not sure where you get to carbon negative in 2 years
One of the best things about Keypirinha is plugin support and PackageControl that let's you install new plugging from within Keypirinha itself.
Choiceless Awareness – J. Krishnamurti [video]
I'm glad an insider is thinking about this.

But why do I have a feeling that it's written with an idea to make faculty life easy, not necessarily for a great student learning outcome, although that's what they say.

Alan Kay (Turing Prize 2004) argues against current standard CS curriculum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFc379hu--8

Anyway few unrelated thoughts.

---

The undergrad CS courses mostly do not deviate in content.The variance is in quality.

"pick good professor over interesting course" paid off for me in university.

Factors such as these matter: course pace, instructor and TA accessibility, course slides and other material quality, lecture interesting or boring etc.

---

Isn't it surprising that one of the most watched courses is by an YouTube tutor with a credential no american university will ever take seriously for hiring even an adjunct teaching faculty?

See Intro to Algorithms by Abdul Bari on YouTube
I am self-taught and cringe when i think back to my early days because I knew so little and didn't realize it. I've never attended any CS courses and learned everything I know from putting in almost constant work on the side (I mean this literally, I almost only work on creative projects with all of my spare time) -- but I can't overstate how much I learned from people on the job as well, they propelled me to new heights.
All this is to say: I don't begrudge newcomers and have always tried to give back more than what I got from others when I was Jr...

But good lord bootcamps do not produce much in the way of talent in my experience. I'm sure there are some shining stars that benefited, but I have yet to meet one of them. One guy I worked with fully admitted to me in private that he plagiarized his "final" for bootcamp which was a rather difficult algorithm. He just used some open source code he found on github and only slightly modified it. The code he wrote that I had to support was some of the worst spaghetti I've had to pick apart and fix and he was the lead engineer for the company.

These companies would make more money with proper talent. Code camps need to go away.
China’s robot-built 3D-printed dam ready in 2 years: scientists
this is not a "true" Cochrane Review

https://www.cochrane.org/search/site/glyphosate

your link just used the method ( ~ aggregation of Ghostwriting researches)

EDIT: check the https://www.cochrane.org/search/site/vaccine
You are not allowed to comment this way on HN. This is spelled out in the guidelines, and is probably the single most common mod correction Dan gives.
Maybe salaryman hadn’t entered the English vocabulary by the 80s.

Salaryman almost always refers to Japanese white collar.
i'm having trouble coming up with ethical reasons to want .csv and .xlsx files from users that aren't "proficient at configuring software". A good backup solution will use deltas and do exactly this, and be preconfigured or configured-at-runtime.

If you really must, you can always write the program yourself, it sounds very easy. Deploy it with an installer that copies a link into Startup, the whole bit.
The confusion is a byproduct of using the same syntax in multiple places. It's even easy to fall into the trap of reasoning through the logic of what's happening as spreading, e.g.: "If I put the spread syntax right before the argument in my function, I'm telling the engine to essentially spread [ arguments[n] ... arguments[arguments.length] ] into this single argument value, where 'n' is the position of my spread syntax."

It's not truly correct but if you think about it in this manner it actually fits reasonably well into what the result is.
100k in loans for an English degree

Demand a refund not a handout
But who would cut it unless there is financial discipline from the lack of funds? You need to turn off the spigot first.
Awesome job if you're into data. I personally think data engineering is highly underrated in popularity. I mean not like sitting all day writing ETLs but stuff like building warehouses, ingestion, modeling, etc.
I highly recommend the visit of this computing museum in Cambridge. It's an awesome place. You can use and play with almost any machine that they have and they do a great work of restoration!
Why did you spell Monsanto as Mons.anto and Glyphosate as Gl..ypho-sate ?
Any specific thing you are trying to stay out of ?
At the very least we need to limit interest rates on loans. Folks shouldn't be debt slaves for the rest of their lives.
This is an interesting point. Can you say more? How do we determine whether this is a "true" Cochrane Review? Thanks!
True, but that is a lot more work so it's that much less likely. But sure if they want it enough they can do that.
Great article, thanks. Can't fault a man for having a passion for mechanical watches, especially when as the article states he has disassembled / assembled some of them. I can only begin to imagine the fine motor and mental control required.
Why would you take out 100k in loans for a degree that can’t pay for itself?

The real crime here is charging 100k for an English degree. People should be allowed to pursue whatever interests they want, no question. Why would someone spend 100k on an English degree they can’t possibly hope to have bear financial fruit? The scene from good will hunting comes to mind…
I'll throw $100 towards your travel costs for you to come fly in and tell this to my employer.

Not necessarily the difference between DBA and DE, just what a flipping DBA even is.
There's people that argue they shouldn't have to pay income tax because wages from labor is an exchange of life duration for money, so it should be a sale of assets and not pure income.

So just think of the fine as a forced liquidation, so it's back to property again.
Apple Music (well, iTunes at the time) was pretty good. But that was in the era where you bought music, so they had a full profile of what you liked. More importantly, with your iPod, they knew what you actually played, no matter how obscure. Now, with streaming, this is much harder problem because the only signals you get are likes and play time, but this signal is a lot more noisy than music you would spend real money on.
> based on a holistic read of the application: factors like leadership, talent, motivation and personal character are weighed as well as grades and test scores

This is another problem. Instead of primarily looking at things you can quantitatively measure, the arbitrary measures now have more weight, meaning they can now more easily discriminate against “boring” student applicants.

https://priceonomics.com/do-elite-colleges-discriminate-agai...
In the beginning, if you wanted a computer, you had to design and build it yourself. You had to be an expert in electronics and computer science to do it. And back then, there were no computer parts. You had to manufacture everything yourself from vacuum tubes. Once you were done, you would have a tiny amount of memory and processing power to work with, meaning that you had to be an expert programmer to take advantage of that tiny processing power. And, there were no stored programs. Your program was implemented as an arrangement of cables on a plugboard, something that was error prone and time consuming.
There were no compilers or interpreters for your code therefore no compiler errors, no runtime errors, no debugger, no anything. If things didn't work, they just didn't work and some types of mistakes would have disastrous effects on the hardware.

Now, you don't need any of that. Yet, you can call yourself "full stack". No one truly full stack anymore.
The article is pay-walled, but barring a publicly disclosed admissions criteria - I am dubious of this claim. Consider how adding the following leadership/club activities as "desirable" in the admissions process would affect how much need the student body would need.

- "Polo"

- "Cross-Country skiing"

- "Ski team"

- "International volunteer work"

It's pretty easy to skew admissions criteria in favor of affluence without overtly checking financials. The university could just as easily de-select items such as.

- "Shift manager for Dunkin Donuts"

- "Barrista at Starbucks"

- "Valet"
There's a passage by Chesterton where he jokes that many of his contemporaries had simply become bored with Christianity and would happily embrace it again if it came wrapped in the exotic garbs of a far away land.
Iron flow batteries are already in commercial use. For example: https://essinc.com

The 'cells' cost practically nothing to manufacture and utilize a membrane already common in lithium ion battery manufacturing, and there's nothing dangerous or toxic in the battery system. It's iron (in various oxidation states), salt, and water.

It's been a while since I looked at the whitepapers (which they've since pulled) but I think the secret sauce was how they managed the electrolyte's pH level.
I couldn't get past the paywall, but it seems like a broad dismissal of "them damn hippies".

I'm going to guess that they ignore the externalized cost of over-ferritization that goes downstream and destroys those habitats. Also ignoring the cost of supporting the petro-economy to deliver that cheap fertilizer.

It also probably ignores the cost of loss of topsoil and other environmental factors as well...
That's targeting, not personalization. Personalization is that it shows you a different ad based on who they think you are. eg: Show a "Buy Viagra for yourself" ad for men and "Buy Viagra for your spouse" ad for women.

The article is arguing that instead, you should just craft a "Buy Viagra for you or your spouse because of these broad based benefits of Viagra" ad that is for everyone.
My Dell XPS13 does that and it’s super annoying. It’s some kind of cross talk with the speaker amplifier because when I mute the sound or use headphones it goes away.

When I was a kid our BBC Micro used to do the same, you could “hear it thinking”.
I’ve worked with DBAs at well-funded, forwarding thinking startups.

But they wore lots hats. I worried it was a way to get H1B visas for software dev roles.
A court of law is not a court of fact.
You mean there are some sketchy places with rats living with you and addicts next door.
I think the power of literate programming is not so much the ability to explain the code as it is to explain the problem and how it was solved.

In this case the problem is not “how to write wordle”, but “how to use test based development in Python, with wordle as an example”

With that said, I agree that it gets a little tedious to read at times.
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