skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Buy now, pay later" isn't a scam.

Prime example of the 'I'm not a rent-seeker, I'm a disruptor' if anyone wants to know what it looks like.

It is a scam if you know you've been bombarding them with algo-targeted ads and have been subjecting them to the endless amount of influencer-porn these kids seemingly cannot do without anymore due to a horrible data driven diet that people who work for FAANG work on almost exclusively.

It's a scam, just admit it, we all know what it is: you're targeting people who cannot and will not be able to afford much, and make them think this is what is missing in their life so you can lock them in debt and keep the consumerist cycle going.

You're the 21st century perversion of a Marketing con-man, but unlike the 20th century version with all the glamour, sex and booze you guys play fortnite, watch furry porn and get doordash sent to you while you suck on a vape in your empty apartment.

The real question is: why do so many think you guys are anything remotely close to being successful? And why does tech seem to set such low standards for what can be construed as success?

Next we're going to hear about how Robinhood was the great emancipator of the Millennial and Gen Z, and not really just a front-running racket for hedgefunds, too.
The intent you're claiming isn't anywhere in the person's posts. All they said was that they didn't want to get into the morality argument in this forum, which is a reasonable position to have given there are people like you chomping at the bit to "prove him wrong" or whatever. Chill out, guy.
Isolation can also cause some of these symptoms.
I've a much simpler solution. I nest tmux sessions. In the top-level session every window is named the same as the session that is attached in it. I've two different prefix keys: ^T for the top-level, and ^A for the level below. Plus I've a one-liner (well, shell function) for mapping PIDs to session & window. Plus a script to create new nested sessions, and a script start $EDITOR in a window of the current session (with the window named after the file being edited). Plus I've a half-baked script to set up this environment, with one nested tmux per-project.

This allows me to have a very well-organized way of working over ssh.
I don’t think majority of people open source software because of ethics.

A lot of it is just social pressure and societal norms.

It always looked to me strange that excellent software requiring years of work is made available free, also maintained over years, also with service provided by answering questions in GitHub and forums.
Luca Parmitano: The Astronaut Who Nearly Drowned in Space
I'd also like to eliminate "charitable" tax deductions (handouts to the wealthy) and tax-sheltered retirement accounts with millions in them (like Mitt Romney's Roth IRA), and would support UBI and basic free healthcare (if it came with eliminating a lot of bureaucracy), in case you just think I "hate the little guy".
> consider whether the company gains value from workers sharing a time zone, language, cultural context, etc

Hire people from Argentina ;)
It isn't that difficult to do responsive design in Delphi. This is an older video (2013) which explains the basic concepts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmbV4rAuZL4

But yes, you can't add comments and yes, the .dfm file which is generated is difficult to diff.
Looks like a mod changed the URL to that from https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/06/apples-secrecy-created-engine....
Does God Use CI/CD?
There are people dying of malnutrition and preventable diseases, right now.

If you are compassionate, surely your time is better spent trying to solve that problem, rather than posting on HackerNews?
Other countries make government funding of universities and government funding of student loans for those same institutions conditional on price controls.

What’s wrong with saying the US government gives no research money, no funding dollars and no student loans to students attending Harvard unless Harvard agrees to keep tuitions below a certain number?
> For example gender targeting at 42%? That means they somehow did 8% worse than random chance.

This is a lot more plausible than you might think. Simply build a machine-learning model that is accurate 58% of the time (maybe because it takes the "gender" field people manually entered on their online profiles and adds noise) and accidentally invert its output.
Well, the basis for the AHA recommendation is probably bogus. So there's that issue as well.
I work for a very large company and it seems like... 'eventually', not particularly soon.

It seems to come down to money math. This much '$local_currency' gets X heads here or Y there.

There's additional benefit/incentive for teams that need around-the-clock coverage. eg: incident response

I think WFH being more accepted/commonplace will make the distance easier to account for - making it more favorable.

I don't think this necessarily means they'll be hurried to replace you, me, or anyone with outsourced help. Mainly back-filling when we eventually move on.

Complete outsourcing seems unlikely, I would expect positions remain available if for nothing else, coverage. Availability but also compliance.
> quickly disappearing in favor of SaaS/PaaS solutions.

Remember that HN is a bubble and world is a much larger place :) No, it is not disappearing "quickly".
As a former DBA I agree. And this was the fun part of the job. The provisioning databases, installing updates, configuring, doing backups, etc., that’s all automated by any decent cloud provider. And that part is no longer necessary unless the place you work at insists on rolling their own DB instances instead of a managed provider.
Since rediscovering DXM ~2009, I have said many times, one 900mg dose of dextromethorphan will cure clinical Major Depression like an aspirin cures a headache; stops it in it's tracks and effects can last up to 9 months. Good to know they're doing serious research on this, and this even though it can't be patented.
Also, you could find the whole project in https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/
> 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.

That is a terrible metric. There are plenty of objectively important professions that require advanced degrees and don't pay well. Teachers, nurses, and yeah doctors. Take a look at how much residents or general practitioners get paid. Sure you could make millions hawking voodoo to Peter Thiel but we've also got a shortage of GPs in the United States.

Profit is the wrong motive for (public) education. I'm sure you were aiming more at the underwater basketweaving crowd but even art plays an important role in society.
My guess as to the root cause of this is self chosen / non random passwords that appear in hibp password lists. ‘Password1234%’ etc
The iron law of bureaucracy in action.

> Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people":

> First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

> Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

> The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
You have got to make some finer distinctions for what is or isn't evil than "the cloud." All you will accomplish with overbroad strokes is convincing people that ethical distinctions do not actually exist. As for what the distinctions actually are, for a start, how about products that harm parties which have not agreed to anything?
> So the issue here is if Monsanto's products were safe, they wouldn't have to pay people to attach their name to company-written articles claiming they are.

That isn't how scientific evidence has been received by the public and that's blatantly obvious of the last few years.

There are plenty of "independent" roundup-is-safe whitepapers, which unsurprisingly, either use large amounts of Monsanto data or Monsanto facilities. Sifting through the details to discount them is quite laborious.

There are a scant few "roundup-causes-cancer", which is a consequence of Monsanto monopolizing, sabotaging, or restricting traceable data.
I always disliked these comparisons to "shell" scripting that invariably end up comparing a collection of C (or whatever) tools and claiming to have solved the problem in steel script.

It's nonsense - the various shell scripting languages are more than capable of implementing those various tasks without simply shelling out to C, and so should be required to. Otherwise a C programmer has access to system() and start() and those support pipes even.
The "tolerable upper limit" for vitamin D is set absurdly low.

I have perused the literature on D toxicity and each case involved someone taking at least 100k IU per day, and usually way more than that. I take 50k IU per day every winter and have never had an issue. Blood calcium levels normal, etc

5k IU is an average dose and will absolutely not cause harm.
This is all spot on from my experience, and possibly summarized by Will Huntings quote “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”

Also many of the top companies (Tesla, Google, etc.) no longer require degrees to apply and get hired
I see no demo, I skip.
It’s so much easier with a smartphone and data. Luckily it’s even easier to get a SIM card now. In most countries you can get an esim online.
I was surprised to see they're need blind in the first place.
Data Engineering is a very different role to traditional that performed by traditional DBAs.
> 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.

That was all part of California's master plan for higher education at the end of the 60s. Unfortunately the anti-government folks got Prop 13 passed and put an end to tuition free college and university.
At 320k a pop? Talk about being a debt slave.

But my main point was, if the millionaires can't reasonably afford it, something is wrong.
Maybe not tied to just one of those, but it seems that 'password changed + email changed + sudden increase in posting' is a pretty strong signal that the verified status should be questioned again.
What is IM formula? I am using BUs own calculator.
> But their ability to handle the long tail of accounts is the biggest reason it’s often not considered.

According to a few google searches, this is simply not true:

Yodlee supports 14k banks and Plaid supports 11k banks

I personally have used Kubera as a consumer who use both Plaid and Yodlee to connect to banks. I have ~3 bank accounts (that represent great candidates for long tail) that simply do not work with EITHER service provider. Having spoken to the support staff from Kubera (who are great btw) they prefer to use Plaid for some of the reasons you mention, but not because its all encompassing.

Categorizing Yodlee as "they barely touch plaid" is simply disingenuous. Much of the functionality is comparable, it's just MUCH better on Plaid for both the developer and the consumer in terms of overall experience.
Not necessarily true. FANG has data engineers filling the DBA role. Google also had O ladder folks doing DBA like work in support of Sales Ops, HR, and other (mostly) non-tech organizations.
Not the parent, but I did this out a silly game called MapleStory.
No, it couldn’t, and your argument suffers from the same “sophistic collapse” as the study.
The government of Sri Lanka banned the import of fertilizer and pesticides to deal with a deepening current account deficit. This was because the government listened to people like Vandana Shiva and decided that a switch to organic agriculture will work out.

The result is out there for everyone to see. Rice, the staple food crop and tea the primary cash crop have seen yields plummet and deepened the crisis.

Plenty of countries around the world that have had worse governance than Sri Lanka. Plenty of countries have a higher debt burden. What makes Sri Lanka's government unique is that they decided to listen to the nonsense peddled by the organic activists.
Expanding on that a bit more, the article isn’t advocating that marketers senselessly put up Viagra ads everywhere, but instead to “pivot to more contextually relevant and attentive channels, while working with partners who had permissioned, first-party relationships with [target customers]”.

Which in this case would be something like putting ads up on a website or magazine that’s know to target an older male demographic. Or getting an older men’s health influencer on Instagram/TikTok to make a sponsored post. So still directed marketing, just not personalize on a user by user basis based on data from 3rd party brokers.
Nice

I see the final result here has a left bias, just press and hold to see it stacking towards left before right. So the next fix could be a random choice.
You seem triggered to me. Sorry about that. Not my intention.
I recently visited NYC and I can’t help but feel the city has a wide culture of laissez faire unenforcement. So many grocery and convenience stores in the city have no posted prices for any items, even in the airport. As a foreigner I was pretty shocked but the people I talked to said it was pretty much normal and there’s nothing really that can be done. Mind you we checked and it is actually not legal to have no visible pricing. I’m not sure what it is that’s stopping the city from actually doing anything about it, like the truck issue it seems it would be trivial to enforce.
Yeah, its especially awkward now that people are having kids later in life. Being a millionaire at, say, 45 is way different than being a millionaire at 55 or 60. Heck, I have a friend who had a kid in her 50s - they won't be in college until she's in her 70s!
So we should start accusing all the biggest sellers until somebody does something more useful?
Honestly I think it’s most akin to an abusive relationship. You love the person for their good parts/periods, but the bad in reality outweighs the good.
Yep. Karma NFTs, here we come.
I'm a huge fan of waterloo's model as well for students but I think it's really hard to replicate without the prestige of a University like Waterloo.
Whilst the word quickly is subjective, I haven’t seen anyone roll out Oracle for about 15 years vs literally hundreds of Snowflake, Redshift, RDS, Elastic cloud deployments.

Maybe OLTP is moving to SaaS slower, but the on prem data warehouse market must be dying a death?
Site blocks access from EU, here's a snapshot of the content https://archive.ph/qamYz
AIP diet: autoimmune protocol diet.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/aip-diet-autoimmune-pro...
> In the current study, we detected glyphosate and its breakdown product AMPA in almost all the examined maternal urine samples (>94 %) from a multi-center US birth cohort, suggesting ubiquitous exposure to these chemicals. We also observed associations between maternal urinary glyphosate and AMPA levels in the 2nd trimester and shorter gestational length in time to event analyses amongst women with spontaneous deliveries.
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I suspect every Buddhist teacher will say yes to that question. But I don’t think it necessarily means they agree with the premise.
I assumed the meant the Vic20
From the standpoint of the lender, it's a little complicated. Financially, I'm sure it works out for them under the current rules or they wouldn't do it.

Socially, you could make an argument that they should be more careful. But to the borrower, any denial could be interpreted as taking away an opportunity, and could really backfire if not done very transparently and rigorously following an acceptable process. What if the process unintentionally has a disproportionate impact on one race, for instance?

For something seen as a ticket to the middle class, it's politically better to leave the decision up to the individual.
Yup I have a relative who attended BU, and I remember hearing stories of some insanely rich kids from overseas. Like children of Russian oligarchs and the Saudi royal family levels of wealthy. I have no problem if they want to spend $80k/yr to educate their kids in Boston.
But it has 20k ROM, which back then was useful because it had the BASIC implementation and OS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20
Neat, I have a kid graduating with a biochem undergrad degree right now. Reassure him about his job prospects! :P
I would hire a DBA on the spot if they wanted to be generally useful in other roles too (i.e. did not insist that they only do databases).

Databases are such an important part of modern systems it makes sense to have an expert on them on board. I think that would pay off many time over.

However, I'm in a small team and I think it's important that everyone can also help out with a little bit of everything depending on what's going on.
It's a bad idea to start pathologizing bad behavior. The vast majority of assholes are just assholes, with no pathological reason for their shitty behavior. It also stigmatizes those with actual medical problems because "being an asshole" isn't a symptom of any disorder you've listed, yet the association is still being reinforced by comments like this.
You can ssh into a system and use tmux. Then you can detach from the session and when you come back a week later your tmux session is still there and you can continue with no friction.
Also i find it interesting that you said you don't see its value and then continued to explain its value. For me it's definitely more common to work with systems/servers without a DE and WM. It's just better to handle this problem at that level instead of at the terminal level because then your shell setup becomes terminal and platform agnostic. With mouse support turned on tmux feels almost like a WM in the shell, which is amazing.
Can confirm, been working with many eBay APIs for a while now and it's completely and totally a massive dumpster fire. Most API versions are in the thousands, and there's so many random gotchas and contradicting docs and daily bugs and breakages you don't want to go anywhere near it. Not to mention their only recourse for contacting them about bugs or developer issues is via prepaid premium support, paid only via paypal, in which the link for it frequently goes down too. If you check their dev forums it's filled with nothing but people complaining about all sorts of random issues and never getting real responses.
Probably with huge latency too. Everything is simple if speed/latency is not a consideration.

Ie, you could use a webcam on a screen, and then cut it up using FFMPEG cropping, send each of them via an RTMP stream to a device... but then you have encoding + cropping + network latency.

Sucks for gaming.
for the HN readers who aren't clued in to everything Elon Musk says over the last two years, i believe parent is referring to this tweet (AFAICT Elon deleted the original, hence screenshot): https://twitter.com/panoparker/status/1318157559266762752

"We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it." (2020/07/25) -- topic being a coup in Bolivia for their lithium.

i have no background in this situation. personally, i think it's a little ridiculous to allude to this sort of thing and just expect that readers know wtf you're talking about.
Not to mention the idea is to reduce inner city pollution and noise pollution levels. Current trucks are despised in cities for this. It’s worth sacrificing on some other aspects to achieve that.
Meditation is like a drug. It puts you in an altered state of mind. So you need to be aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting

Without strong intention, clarity of purpose, things can go downhill.
Yes I forgot airpods, mostly because I don't use headphones, sorry.

Webkit is nice but not groundbreaking. Their GUI work isn't much better than the competition, although I do hope SwiftUI goes somewhere...

So I listed 3 products (should have been 4 products) that changed the world, but the meh is not for those (they were quite good!). The meh is for a return to 1990s Apple. Most of the existing technologies have largely plateaued and are being pushed ever higher in diminishing return increments (battery life being the final frontier). Without a product visionary, this is where we'll be for awhile.
The DBA career did seem to nurture some big egos. They had the keys to the castle, a lot of technical sway and could also have a big impact.

They also earnt good money for a while. When I worked for Oracle, there were lots of stories of Oracle consultants being payed day rates which would still be considered high today.
Your link asks if you want Federal or Institutional Method when calculating expected family contribution (FM vs IM) or to run both methods. I don’t know why a school would choose one or the other, just noting the similar result from IM.

Boston seems to have two calculators going. This is the one I found in Tuition & Aid, that provides institution-specific results. https://app.myintuitionapp.org/institution/2fc48230-f626-4d2...
The "and assets" part of the equation is the bad part. If you have $100k annual income and a $1 million house plus $100k in a college savings plan, they're giving you the full sticker price. Never mind that you're several hundred thousand short, you have assets.
You mean couping Twitter.
>To protect our members, listings or products can't contain links that direct customers to a site other than eBay, even if the link is not clickable.
Sure, with Open JDK

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/18/vm/class-data-shar...

Or how to use it alongside Spring,

https://medium.com/@toparvion/appcds-for-spring-boot-applica...

For OpenJ9,

https://developer.ibm.com/articles/optimize-jvm-startup-with...

On Android, ART does it automatically since Android 7,

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/jit-compiler