skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few people actually pay that amount. It's meant to be a high ceiling for the most wealthy people.

The average price is still very high at around $30K/year, which is 50% higher than the national average of $20K/year ( https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?164988-Boston-Univer... )

But the average student definitely isn't paying $80K/year to go to Boston University.
> Similarly, I didn't attend some schools I was accepted to because the debt would have crushed me.

Same here. However, I don't think other people should have to suffer through what I suffered just because I had to go through it myself. I want society to improve and for others to receive the benefits of those improvements, even if I myself will never get to enjoy them.

It's like getting upset at the development of a cheap cure for cancer, because it would seem like a slap in the face to all of the people who suffered and beat cancer themselves, were bankrupted by it or died because of it. I never smoked cigarettes, for example, am religious about sunscreen, and I take care of my body and health to avoid threats like cancer, and I've lost loved ones to the disease. Just because I "did everything right" and still suffered through the loss of loved ones to cancer, doesn't mean that I'd be upset if there were suddenly a cheap cure for it, and I wouldn't be upset if it benefited everyone who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for the last 3 decades, either.
Every job is evolved over time from tools to missions. For example, I was using Visual Basic 6.0 to develop a single-server software on Windows XP about 20 years ago, but now I'm using Golang and many other tools to develop web-based and Serverless services in the Cloud. I'm sure the job description of DBA is being redefined too. As a contributor to https://bytebase.com/, we are hoping to provide a tool to DBAs by offering a web-based collaboration workspace to help DBAs and Developers manage the lifecycle of application database schemas (DDL) and data (DML).
Over Supply in the West?
86 microseconds is an order of magnitude better than what was benchmaked here but maybe other bechmarks aren't as good.

Said that, I do not want to sunk time into trying to improve something, only to find out tha it will perform worst.

Maybe the compromise is to try to do a minimal proof of concept only manually transpilig a couple of objects from Smaltalk to Go and measure that?
I recall being in an 8 v 8 LAN game, team living room had 2 TVs and team dining room had 2 TVs.
I distinctly remember back in school one of my friends got a loan check and said “oh wow this is 2.5k more than I need, I’m gonna buy a new (second and unneeded) laptop!”

I was so stunned I couldn’t come up with the words to say. Maybe the real issue is teaching kids the value of money.
So from a hardware perspective I've known the Tidbyt was a stretch (ie: I know I could build it myself for cheaper).. from the software side they've done a great job.

I've sold at least 5 of them with people just going "WHAT IS THAT BEHIND YOU" in meetings.

Its a great little device and I highly recommend it.
That's not how and of the "100% financial need meet" institutions work. It's all based on what they calculate your family can pay based off of current income and assets.
I'm not the parent, but I can't do that, because, I get shot if I do better than my "friends" so yes, we want you, but you can't be better than me. I try to find other people. But yeah...
Yes, done.

Our software changed it because https://getsession.org/blog was listed as the canonical URL.
So many people are screwed by cutoffs and rules. My parents had assets on paper but were going through a messy divorce and bleeding cash; they refused to give me anything at the time I was in need of tuition money. I got two jobs, but that didn't cover it. Many, many visits were made to the financial aid and advising offices -- every time the answer was the same. The only way out of the requirements is to prove you're fully alienated from your parents, and that's really hard to prove.

But if you turn 24, poof, you magically no longer have parents and can get any loans / aid / whatever based on your own income.

I get why the rules exist but still kind of feel like I got scammed, just due to the endless brainwashing kids get that you must graduate from college at any cost. (I ended up taking some 20%+ interest rate loans.)
That’s just the issue. You can’t get all of the “innovations” in one phone and they are all hampered by janky software by hardware manufacturers who can’t do good software.

If you want an Android phone with decent software and hardware, you’re stuck with only being able to choose a Google produced phone.
There are lots of European universities with great English bachelor programs.

My university, Eindhoven University of Technology, has a bachelor program for €11,600 a year. You have to be on time with signup and be lucky with the lottery (also check out Delft and other EU universities). A room would be around 500 to 700 euro's per month.
Someone who's only exposure to education included 4 years of English, 3 years of math, and 2 years of science could rationally conclude that English is a valuable skill. Particularly when they don't have familial connections with degrees.
Both authors appear squeaky clean though from prestigious institutions. They've published about several other carcinogens throughout their careers and have appear to have no trouble with funding. I'm not sure why they'd be incentivized to ruin their careers over a single publication.
no one is saying to take it back to assembly, but at least maybe try to understand how asynchronous code works if you're going to try to program professional applications in Javascript.
https://www.cochrane.org/about-us

"Cochrane is an international network with headquarters in the UK, a registered not-for-profit organization, and a member of the UK National Council for Voluntary Organizations."

Search

1. https://www.cochranelibrary.com/search

2. type "glyphosate"

3. see the results.

Cochrane Reviews : 0 <------ ZERO

Cochrane Protocols : 0

Trials : 14

Editorials : 0

Special Collections :0

Clinical Answers : 0
You are so right. People now in the industry know the mechanism of money and capital much better than software.
But as a software engineer who loves the technology and products that we can build from it, I would really appreciate real DBAs with in-depth skills. After all, databases are essential, and we need experts.
How were they not millionaires if their net worth was over $1M?
Could you maybe summarize it further, for those of us who don't know what you mean by this?
> It's like getting upset at the development of a cheap cure for cancer

No, it's like taking my taxes and giving them to someone else instead of services which benefit many people.
For what it's worth, the FAANG companies generally don't have DBA roles as far as I'm aware. It's generally expected to be part of the software engineering role.

I'm not saying this is correct or better, just saying that's the way it is and it does set a precedent and model for other companies.
I'm just saying in general if it were to happen. Should they just let everyone dog pile onto their company and do nothing?
Compared to what? Android? windows? Linux?
Supported or not, I don’t think you understand the weight and quality of Cochrane reviews.
This can be done for free using bash and ghostscript, or even using the free tools from ImageMagick (like convert). But there are decent third-party proprietary solutions, such as the Enfocus PitStop Pro suite of softwares. Don't use Adobe products, please.
> 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.

If someone's parents make $100K/year then they aren't going to pay anywhere near that $80K/year figure.

The average annual expenses (tuition + living expenses) at Boston University is closer to $30K ( https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?164988-Boston-Univer... ).

US college tuition pricing is extremely weird because very few people actually pay full price. They put a big number on it so they can justify charging high amounts to wealthy parents (hence the millionaires and billionaires comment above) but then give everyone else "discounts" to bring it back toward lower numbers.

Note that their $30K/year is still a whopping 50% higher than the national average.
Is that $80k per year!? What. The. Fuck. Batman.
Why would you assume a 17 year old, first generation college student would know that degree wouldn't pay for itself?
Yeah you can sell like that on eBay. Most things aren't auctions.
Another is Deep Springs College, about 30 miles from Big Pine, CA.

This is a two-year school, in the remote desert. Enrollment is about 30 students, coeducational since 2018. There is no tuition, but students work ~20 hours/week at jobs including cook, irrigator, butcher, groundskeeper, cowboy, "office cowboy", dairy, and feedman.

The college was created to both train and accustom technical staff for powerplant engineering positions in the highly-rural western and mountain states.

Most students transfer to a 4 year institution to complete their degrees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Springs_College

There've been a small handful of HN submissions, though no discussion.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22deep%20springs%22

Several comments as well:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Am I the only person that played goldeneye in southpaw? I don't know why I did it but must have been due to the extra control with the aim you got. Always thought the n64 layout was bad for fps so ended up trained to use it the other way around.

When I played an n64 decades later I could not use southpaw anymore because years of playstation had got me accustomed to the regular layout.
Ah, duh, I should have looked at the link posted upthread, too. Thanks!
... can you find one covering Glyphosate? A sibling comment notes that what's linked upthread isn't one.
Anecdotally, I’ve seen less DBA positions advertised over the past 5 to 10 years. I think they disappeared as part of the devops / cloud movement. The lower level aspects of DBA work is handled with cloud managed services (Amazon RDS, etc.). The higher level aspects, DB design, optimization, performance, etc. are done by “regular” senior+ engineers.
As others have pointed out, and as a few media outlets have increasingly covered, there's a big difference between sticker price and net price. A minority of students at private universities pay full sticker price, and if I had to guess, I'd say most are wealthy foreign students (who are effectively subsidizing domestic students' education).

Colleges—as well as sites like US News—should figure out a way to more effectively communicate average cost, or a typical cost range, after non-loan student aid.

Student loans are another issue entirely. I agree with other commenters that universal student loan forgiveness isn't a long term solution to the student debt problem, and I think we should focus on expanding and simplifying programs like PSLF (Public Service Loan Forgiveness). That said, I don't find the rational-choice argument ("I ran the numbers and determined X, and did Y") persuasive. Few 18-year-olds have an expansive enough understanding of the world to accurately assess student loan burden against potential future earnings.

Finally, we forgive and renegotiate all kinds of debt all the time. Why can't we do the same for student loans? Why are student loan interest rates set a decade in advance by Congress? The system makes no sense.
A college graduate can get a better job than service sector: HR, teaching, etc. That person isn't trying.
Generally there is an onboarding period for engineers regardless of seniority. I think this tends to be a lot longer than the time needed to pick up a new language.

There are also a lot of valuable skills that transcend writing code. I'd argue these are probably more useful in achieving business objectives quickly instead of just having another warm body to write code.

Given the above reasons, it seems odd to me that you would discount an engineer solely because they don't have experience with the stack. I guess it depends what you're looking for though. If you specifically want a JS expert who will bring best practices and new approaches to the team then it makes sense, but otherwise I don't see it.
So if you, say, grab someone's phone and smash it they're totally screwed? They can't buy food, can't get a taxi, can't do most things. Interesting
> However, I don't think other people should have to suffer through what I suffered just because I had to go through it myself. I want society to improve and for others to receive the benefits of those improvements, even if I myself will never get to enjoy them.

The right way to do this is giving everyone the same amount of cash and increasing marginal income tax rates.

It would be politically stupid to reward a small amount of people who have low voter participation rates and instead earn the ire of many who have high voter participation rates.

Simply stopping government funded higher education loans would be a better move that actually addressed the root problem with higher education costs.

If the goal is to help poor people, then help all poor people. Not just a subsection of the poor that happened to borrow money for overpriced signaling mechanisms.
Would be better to make the debt dischargeable - it's a form of debt forgiveness that has skin in the game for college graduates, particularly those that didnt do well at all.
Hmmm. I'm sure there will be an impact, but don't think it would be that significiant. A global talent pool of top engineers who can join the competition is already quite limited, and a fair share of them is already in the US, whether born there, on visa, or have immigrated. It shouldn't be ignored that major companies like Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, or even Duolingo has already been operating in multiple global offices for years, that includes all those consulting agencies who's done that for god knows how long.

Some founders, and engineers, have those sort of fantasy that they can hire with way lower wages or something like 1/3 of the cost for equally qualified engineers. Wrong, immigration isn't that hard, even easier for Canada, it will take time, but people might be willing to gave up 25% or even 30% of their salary to live in a place that's of lower cost, where their family reside, but they are not going to gave up 2/3 of their salary, when they could have immigrated fairly easily. The cheapest and easiest way is probably to attend a shitty school and graduate, the only cost is time.

The only impact I see is it's now way easier for smaller companies to hire and operate a team globally, even for 3-5 people, previously it was reserved for major corps and giant consultancies.

People sometimes tend to ignore that people create value for the company, not the other way around.

Also just as a side note, many countries in this world have company-paid salary tax (somewhat similar to FICA, but are paid at a much higher percentage in some places). This often gets ignored in salary comparison.
And why not? They can borrow money for it and the government will forgive it.

I'd bet if the Government stopped backing student loans, tuitions will drop like a rock.
Well, in common law countries, it is the literal job of a first instance court or judge to play the role of “trier of fact”. These are however “legal facts”, and not necessarily “scientific facts” (I absolutely hate to call something a fact that is not a fact, but it is what it is: the law treats “facts” differently than science).

Due to courts being very poorly equipped to deal with science, and due to rules of evidence making it very difficult to introduce science into the courtroom, court decisions are very often wrong on the science, and sometimes ignore relevant science entirely. Science in the courtroom is a pretty important and difficult problem to solve.

Edit/addendum: counter-intuitively, there are also good reasons why courts will deliberately avoid getting into the weeds with science. Basically it all comes down to the fact that the court system recognizes that it is poorly equipped to deal with scientific evidence. Barriers exist to make the courts more time-efficient and also in an effort to make it harder for the court to be misled by legal advocates on either side. It’s very easy to find someone with a PhD to support either side, or to find seemingly contradictory papers to support either side, and it basically takes an expert in science to recognize a real subject matter expert… Anyway, it’s a mess of a problem.
Haha, I worked for a wholly owned Auspost subsidiary during the inception of the digital mailbox project, we did some work for it in the periphery.
The execs would talk in breathless terms about how innovative it was, and how agile the delivery is, and how we should try to emulate their success.

AP is a big place, and so are the banks, I guess my views are informed by my personal experience, but at least personally, I've found the banks to be more dysfunctional internally.

I guess everyone's experience will be different though.
in the "Cochrane Trials"

1.)
"Measurement of Agricultural and Dietary Glyphosate Exposure Among Pregnant Women" January 2022

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00139...

"Human exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides (GBH) is increasing rapidly worldwide. Most existing studies on health effects of glyphosate have focused on occupational settings and cancer outcomes and few have examined this common exposure in relation to the health of pregnant women and newborns in the general population. We investigated associations between prenatal glyphosate exposure and length of gestation in The Infant Development and the Environment Study (TIDES), a multi-center US pregnancy cohort...........Our results indicate widespread exposure to glyphosate in the general population which may impact reproductive health by shortening length of gestation. Given the increasing exposure to GBHs and the public health burden of preterm delivery, larger confirmatory studies are needed, especially in vulnerable populations such as pregnant women and newborns."

"Declaration of competing interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."
The only macOS app I miss on Linux
U. of Waterloo has an innovative model of alternating 4-month coops and then 4 months of school. By the time students graduate they've made some money and have a good amount of work experience. I really this was a model accessible to more people.
I have schizoaffective disorder which is like having bipolar and schizophrenia cycles.

Some disabilities you can't see. But I can still work a computer.

Just don't end up like Terry Davis who kept getting in trouble and killed himself by driving his van on railroad tracks and get hit by a train.

ADA in the USA should protect your job.
I'm not some sadist who likes watching anyone suffer, but there's no easy way out.

My earnings and earnings potential will likely forever be below someone who graduated from ivy league. My network is also much smaller and less affluent.

Now telling me I have to pay the tuition of folks that went to said schools, via taxes, is a giant slap in the face.
Yep, my XPS does too. I believe it's called "coil whine" and is caused by surface-mount inductors whose windings aren't fully encased in resin or whatever material they use.
Yes sunlight makes me extremely tired, like if I go for a walk or a picnic or something I'll end up far more exhausted than anything else can explain. I wonder if it's some kind of overcompensating effect due to my typical lack of it.
You can try it out yourself, in my case the tuition dropped from $79k to $70k.
Which is still expensive for a family that makes $100k.

https://npc.collegeboard.org/app/bu?sessionId=N5uYUvK7OuteM4...
It is. It’s one reason why the job market for experienced developers may be hot while juior developers are unable to find work. A company has little incentive to train someone who will likely quit.
At Amazon, at least AWS, I as a consultant can ask any service team about features coming down the pike and the expected timeline. We can even share with customers with permission if they sign the appropriate NDA. As far as I know, MS is the same way. Enterprise customers want to be kept in the loop and we need to validate an offering and get customer feedback. AWS often makes changes to products before they are released publicly. That’s why you already have customer testimonials before a product is released.
"We do not accept commercial or conflicted funding. This is vital for us to generate authoritative and reliable information, working freely, unconstrained by commercial and financial interests." If your research is sponsored by Monsanto, the producer of RoundUp, I would argue that is considered conflicted funding.

I went to https://www.cochranelibrary.com/search (redirected from their cochrane.org site) to search for this review and it wasn't there when I searched for "glyphosate". This is starting to look a lot like they're purposefully trying to mislead people into thinking this is an official Cochrane review, I am surprised Cochrane allows this.
A similar (simpler) well known puzzle

> A census taker approaches a woman leaning on her gate and asks about her children. She says, "I have three children and the product of their ages is seventy–two. The sum of their ages is the number on this gate." The census taker does some calculation and claims not to have enough information. The woman enters her house, but before slamming the door tells the census taker, "I have to see to my eldest child who is in bed with measles." The census taker departs, satisfied.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Three_Children_puzzle?...
Computers are closed finite systems, use of resources is a zero-sum game. You cannot optimize aspects of the system design in a vacuum because they are all competing for the same set of resources. Resources applied to the optimization of one thing is the pessimization of something else. You have to apply them where they make the biggest net impact.

A concrete example is cache replacement algorithms for storage. The ideal metric is cache hit rate i.e. the percentage of the time that the storage you were looking for is in the cache -- higher the better. Literature is full of academic algorithms that focus on improving cache hit rates under a variety of workloads.

In many real systems, the cache replacement algorithm is in the hot path. Most "efficient" algorithms in literature either have poor CPU cache locality or thrash the CPU cache, causing significantly worse performance than is offset by the marginal gains in cache hit rates. Knowing this, good cache replacement algorithms are explicitly designed to minimize CPU cache locality/thrashing problems, at the cost of slightly lower cache hit rates because it has higher throughput in real systems. In this case, allowing the CPU cache to work efficiently is more important than a better disk cache hit rate.

In complex systems, the optimal algorithm in isolation is almost never the optimal algorithm in a system. There is a global resource budget. By "second-order effects", I mostly meant understanding how subtle design choices for one part of the system will tacitly interact with the performance of other parts of the system by virtue of how they use global resources. More broadly, this is the discipline of accounting for the hardware resources available to the software at any point in time and identifying conflicts for those resources.

Hopefully that gives you a sense of what I meant.
For some reason even though it's based on Wox, Run has always been much laggier to respond to key presses than Wox. For this reason, I keep going back to Wox.