skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things have happend recently:

1. Covid was hard on education from kindergarten through college. Systems and processes that were already stressed to the max became overloaded and everyone was asked to do more and sometimes take a pay cut or have reduced benefits while doing so.

2. Society stopped valuing education as much. While once educators traded lower pay for the prestige of being a professor they can’t really say it is a worthy trade anymore as a vocal minority do not value education at all.

3. Faculty no longer run colleges/ universities. Once faculty ran everything, but as regulations have tightened and colleges started getting sued for any number of things professional administrators started being required because the jobs got bigger. In theory this has created less work for faculty, but they now feel disconnected and impotent.
>I've read some fun research in the past about infrared communications, magnetic strips, etc. Things that are all around us but we don't really think of as attack vectors.

Any particular source that you would recommend to start learning about these vectors?
You see, that’s the thing with the far-right grift. It’s always like dealing with Schrödinger’s cat but for beliefs. But the answer to “Are they a deeply unpleasant person or are they just in it for the attention/money?” is always both. This isn’t new. Goebbels was quite open about the fact a lot of what he did was fundamentally in bad faith.
Or as Henry George put forward over a century ago, we should tax only the unimproved value of land, as everything else is the product of humanity, while land is finite and required for everything else.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...
Carpenter's 800-year-old x-rated carving hack high up in church ceiling
The economy is supposed to be a pure meritocracy, where decision making authority is allocated to each person in proportion to the value they produce. Every deviation from this is parasitic to the system.
Yeah, I do agree that it's not a smart thing to say. But nearly all the times I saw somebody picking a platform to standardize on, they have a similar rationale.

I guess there are just no good reasons for choosing one platform over another to standardize a team. Or people that insist on standardizing tend not to act on good reasons.
Kids aren't the only system of elder care capable of avoiding the "side effect" of generating bonker rents for billionares.
Great article Jeremy! I have some minor quibbles about details but you got all the important stuff right. :) Thanks for such a nice commemoration.
To be honest though - even rather senior teachers in the states can expect a large pay bump if they emigrate to Canada. There is pretty decent competition to get into the teacher's union up here but due to the much more reasonable salaries for a career that most people enter due to their love of the field folks are happy to stay in the public side of education.
Sound Transit contractor switched to plant-based diesel
Or offer a web app, or a desktop app, or a custom device.

I'm not saying I like Apple's game, but I don't think it's as obviously illegal as some do. Should it be? Probably. But it's not obvious to me that courts should rule against them with current laws.
The EU has an open banking API regulation that requires banks to make such an API available, without having to do password sharing.

https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/europes-new-api-...

There's no reason (beyond the general dysfunction of our legislature) that the US couldn't pass a similar law. Failing to do so is holding back out banking industry and making us all dramatically less secure.

We desperately need to mandate banks provide this kind of access. It's absolutely ludicrous that I don't have a way to give various services READ-ONLY access to my bank account information. It seems intolerable to me that I would have to give WRITE access to Plaid for them to enable someone to categorize my transactions.
You can handwave equality, but you need to specify which equality. same with "isomorphism". same form or equal form? how is the equality specified there? canonical has a precise definition, but the paper doesn't come close.

eg array-equal as in lisp, vs eqc vs equal vs eq.
list of atoms with the same order and same values. or list of equal atoms. (ie same pointers). or if the values are same, or all the other atom properties need to be the same.

without a precise definition of equality everything is just handwaving.

in perl "" equals 0 equals !!0. so are they equal, and if so which equality?
same with JavaScript, python and PHP with completely handwave equality definitions. in the end it all comes to Greenspun, all the lisp equalities.

Grothendiek is lucky to ignore pointers. for him all natural numbers can be equal. 1 === 1. for us eg with python higher numbers with the same value are sometimes not eq. This would have driven Grothendiek even more nuts.
Microsoft is dropping its Money in Excel personal finance service
I wondered why Signal notifications just say "you have a message".
Any soulsborne game for that matter. They are all a long enjoyable slog. Recommended for sure.
He also scammed people with his own cryptocurrency, dragging critics through the mud and constantly lying about the situation.
> Like what am I even supposed to do here ?

Not meaning to diminish your (quite reasonable) frustration, but is Cloudflare preventing you from transferring your domain somewhere else?
Wonderful to see SomaFM getting some visibility here. Groove Salad and XMas in Frisco have always been great for me. Rusty has been a constant honestly since the end of the 90s and always been the go-to for me. Great Roku app too btw.
The public room list is generally considered a bad idea, and we're seriously considering deprecating it in favour of space hierarchies - i.e. curated hierarchies of groups of rooms, so that folks who like curating lists of interesting rooms can go and do so - rather than them all being dumped in a huge mess in a linear list. There'd then be social pressure to curate the best space index, rather than it being a tragedy of the commons of random lost forgotten rooms.

In terms of where to hang out and where to use it, here are some handy spaces picked from my personal space bar...

* https://matrix.to/#/#community:matrix.org <-- rooms about Matrix itself

* https://matrix.to/#/#space:ansible.com <-- rooms about Ansible

* https://matrix.to/#/#activitypub-community:codelutin.com <-- rooms about Activity Pub

* https://matrix.to/#/#wikimedia-space:matrix.org <-- rooms about the Wikimedia community

* https://matrix.to/#/#solarpunks:solarpunk.cloud <-- a random solarpunk community i lurk in...

* https://matrix.to/#/#rlang:matrix.org <-- rooms about the R language

* https://matrix.to/#/#buddies-of-budgie:matrix.org <-- rooms about the Budgie desktop environment

etc etc. This ends up being way higher signal-to-noise than the room list (although there's always the risk that a space will get forgotten and neglected).

Obviously this selection is biased a bit towards open source software, given that's what I'm into, but there are loads of other communities too. Nobody's yet started a big global space tree to help find them (probably because subspace performance needs some work), so the best bet for discovering them otherwise is probably simply through DDG or Google or whatever, looking for folks advertising them on their websites.

Alternatively, you can head off into IRC or some other Matrix server (e.g. mozilla.org) from the room directory selector in your matrix client of choice. Many of my rooms are actually bridged into IRC, XMPP, Slack, Discord etc rather than entirely native Matrix.
France doesn't use feedlots? In the US, half of the meat weight is added to cattle in feedlots, using 1/2 of US corn production.
Small-scale possession of illicit drugs will be decriminalized in B.C. (Canada)
The article contains multiple tweets where he doubles down and says even weirder stuff:

> "No one asked for women programmers. We asked for women influencers and instead got 'independent women' in pants suits. Independence does not exist if you want a family. A woman should prioritize being a good mother and wife, not a coding machine. 'Mother/Wife' is a great job,"

How do literally multiple paragraphs of misogynistic bullshit pass as a "joke" for you?
FWIW on your (5) there's nothing unsustainable about the most recent iteration of the pension scheme. The problems are an interesting (if infuriating) combination of the employers wanting to kill the defined benefit scheme to save money, the government's regulatory framework being designed to protect pensionholders in closed defined benefit schemes and not to run functional private DB schemes (which are nearly all gone), the Trustee company being untrustworthy, and the governance arrangements being poor. The only people really committed to the scheme continuing are its members, for whom it's theoretically run but in practice have very little control over it.

If you want an illustration of the magnitude of the problem the might resonate with HNers: the USS Trustee is aiming to achieve CPI+0% investment returns for the next 40 years. With long-run equity returns being what they are, that's borderline criminal. (It's certainly not the investment strategy that universities will be adopting for their own endowments).

The honest truth is that the USS was highly solvent on a going concern basis before the recent changes (which already involved prospective cuts of 30% to accruals only a few years ago). It only generates a deficit if you model closing the scheme tomorrow and shunting the entire fund into gilts in order to eliminate all investment risk. But even if you do that, the scheme can still pay: it's explicitly backed by the combined assets of every scheme member, which includes all the richest universities and (hilariously) the government.

Oh, and the present cuts will take it down to less than half the pension of our colleagues in the newer post-92 universities who are in the Teachers' Pension Scheme. What price a formal government guarantee?
Transportation and refrigeration allow us to grow food where it it grows most efficiently and move it to where it is needed.

The alternative is to use more land to inefficiently grow food locally and eat canned, pickled, and dried food off season.
So why is this happening?

Some people are pointing at the error I mentioned above, but I think the problem is actually much deeper than that. Identifying this error is basically identifying the superficial reason for why they went wrong. It doesn't dig deep enough to systematically eliminate the error.

I want to point out something. Notice their logic when they call out why it is a paradox. You can switch multiple times and it would never terminate.

Mathematical formalism like markov decision processes and the bellman equations actually have the ability to capture this type of reasoning. They can even deal with infinite loops as happens here by including multiplication by a horizon term which makes the limit of the recursion equal to zero.

So the root problem is that, actually, the entire problem wasn't even using the right theoretical grounding.

To get really explicit on how it was not using the right grounding I want to point out the key error again, but stated a bit differently.

The author neglects information sets. He creates two game trees, discriminating on the basis of knowledge of which subgame he is in. This is a huge red flag. You can do that in perfect information games, but you can't in imperfect information games! You aren't playing over states in imperfect information games. You're playing over information sets.

You end up getting more insights into how this is wrong when you think about the problem in this way. For example, there might not be an error in this particular problem, but the choice to not express the action space as a probability vector is going to bite you in more complicated imperfect information decision problems.
Get stopped.
Nowhere does that say that Google is charging 30% for their billing system. It says Google has started requiring people to use their billing system in order to use their app store.
W.. Why does a landing page have a loading bar?
Stop the government from giving these cronies power, money, and a right to exist.

"Why do my plants keep dying???" said man who waters his plants 24/7/365.
Is there a “better” alternative to an Office 365 subscription that comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, One Drive online storage, hosted email and each user csn use the same set of software between Macs, Windows, Web, Android, iPhones, iPads, etc?

A business can get that at retail for $160/year. A student can buy that for $79.00/4 years.

Those are retail prices. I can guarantee you that large organizations aren’t paying retail.

And don’t overlook the online component and the governance and the SSO. I know plenty of MS shops that use MS’s hosted SSO solution to log in to AWS.

It amazes me how little HN understands about the needs of large enterprises.

Heck I work for one of the Big 5 tech companies (FAANG - Netflix + Microsoft) and it isn’t MS and we all have Microsoft licenses.
Listening to it right now. It's an easy platform to explore a bunch of different music. I'm usually parked on Secret Agent, Boot Liquor and occasionally other channels. Reminds me I should donate (which I do with random regularity).
Shown HN: Read even faster than bionic reading
I wanted to try but those are both Mac specific.
Yes I can see them reaching a wider audience and having more impact
Around 1999 I created thumpradio.com, which was the "streaming" website for the Thump Radio radio show and (mad) parties in San Francisco. The site streamed all the radio shows, DJ sets (in RealAudio) and had artist bios and track downloads. You could stream music interwoven with interviews for days on end.
The site is long gone, with some ghosts of it on the Wayback Machine but I have forever memories from that time.
Yeah, I was never really a serious gamer and, for the most part, I didn't really win--as in get all the way through--most games I played over time. I don't think it's that I couldn't but just wasn't interested enough to put in the time.
>"Redneck" is usually pejorative for a working class, white, Southerner. When rednecks say "redneck" it usually isn't an insult, but when others use the word it usually is. Calling somewhere a "Redneck bar" is fine, but calling someone in that bar a "redneck" is usually not.

Here in NZ, "redneck" seems to be morphing away from the "hick" or working class definitions to more of a "racist bigot" connotation that could be applied more widely.
Just saw this Mac CLI player referenced on Reddit
https://github.com/rockymadden/somafm-cli
Is there even any data or evidence to support the claims that letting farmers repair their tractors with OEM parts is going to result in deaths and injuries?

And wouldn’t there already be company liability protections and user agreements in place anyways?

It just seems like a ridiculously condescending “but think of all the farmers that will die” argument that these people are too stupid to be allowed to work with their own equipment.
C++ is not the language in daily imminent danger of fizzling. Its proven value makes it worth picking up by thousands of people each week, year in and year out. More pick up C++ for professional use in any such week than the total employed coding Rust.

Rust is the language that, if not adopted fast enough, will pass its sell-by date and fizzle, like so many languages before it. Its true fans should be pulling out all the stops to try to make it easier to adopt. Instead, most do their utter best to prevent wider adoption, containing it as much as possible to the ragged few like themselves willing to tolerate any infelicity.

Rust's fate will be chosen by fans' actions, not their beliefs. Those actions are its doom. Judging by those, Rust will end up yet another potentially interesting language that never took off. I will know whose fault that was.
Hey! I got the Z3 Compact as well. Besides the medicore camera, it was a great device! Too bad mine died with some crappy Google app update (constant reboot loop). Happened on my Shield Tablet as well...
United States School Districts
Technically XMODEM-1K lacks the YMODEM block 0 header with file name, size, and other metadata. I had an employer that fastidiously stuck to this and it caused no end of annoyance that you had to deal with files quantized to 128 or 1024 byte multiples because YMODEM was just too complicated to implement 25 years ago. YMODEM is fine if you want something simple. Don't ever do XMODEM.
>I've never had a Windows device tell me it can't play Netflix in 1080p because the browser doesn't have Widevine L1 DRM support.

Afaik, Netflix does not by officially support 1080p on Chrome on Windows.
Regarding that last bit, that's something I'd like to see explored a bit more in apocalypse stories (whether due to a pandemic, natural disaster, civil breakdown, zombies, aliens, etc). If we lose our steady supply of caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol, after the first day or two people will absolutely lose their minds as withdrawal kicks in on a massive scale.
What a misogynistic jerk. I don't know what is sadder; that he has so much of a following, or that his garbage POV resonates with a small number of deplorables in our industry. The rest of us need to do our best to push back and ensure we make our industry hospitable, welcoming, and supportive for women and all other URMs.

Needless to say, his statements are garbage and nonsensical, meant only to stir up noise and draw attention. The sad thing is, controversy more or less is beneficial for his bottom line. He doesn't need to convince anyone he's a decent human being, he just needs to convince them to watch his videos, pay for his training, etc.

Kind of depressing.
I suggested no such thing.

What I effectively did say, is that contracts exist in context. That context counts.

See my other reply.
It doesn't even really make sense as a concept. People resign from their jobs and then what? Maybe a small extra portion of the elderly retire early and a small portion become stay at home parents. The rest find new jobs.
> a market or platform owner/operator should not be allowed to also be a competitor within it

This problem is somewhat analogous to regulatory capture, you dominate a market so totally you get to set the rules for everyone else too.

There is no doubt in my mind that these rules should be set by democratically elected persons. As it is now, we are basically letting capitalist corporations get away with greediness on a scale of literal sea piracy. What’s more, we’re not protecting our culture, our children, or our values anymore because of this nonchalant laissez-faire attitude to what people STILL think is an industry in its infancy. WAKE UP, these people are on the brink of upending the very foundations of democratic society with their antivax-spewing clickbait engagement treadmills.

Rant over.
That's still an unfair advantage to Amazon Basics that competitors can't get.
Trading on margin is one thing, but leverage is the only way to make significant money. That’s why people who traded options or even crypto made massive amounts of money. 2% return on 10x leverage is 20% return at 1x risk.
It might be his opinion, but frankly I doubt it. It’s hyperexaggerated bait in any case.

The story about him interviewing people, throwing their resumes in the trash and telling them to “go have kids” is obviously BS, so it stands to reason that the rest isn’t true either.
*cue the Jurassic Park theme*

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should." -- Jeff Goldblum
Literally spent 50 hours mucking around exploring everything I could before realizing that you have to fight Margit to progress the story. I honestly thought it was a game like Shadow of the Colossus where you freely explore and just fight bosses.

Fun game but some very terrible UX decisions that seem spiteful at times.
Whylogs 1.0
Let me run this wild idea by you real quick: What if we, as a society could somehow pool our excess wealth for distribution among the elderly and infirm who are unable to work productively. This would provide everyone with a sense of, you might say, security that benefits society as a whole.

To answer you first question/comment (because you are not as original as you think you are): That is why robust electorate, transparent public governance, and durable anti-corruption institutions are so important.
“Gentlemen, there’s only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling.” - Jim Barksdale
> This is true if the market has it's normal up and down swings. However it's entirely plausible that we no longer live in such an environment.

How is it plausible? I would say given the historical data, it is extremely unlikely. Not impossible, but near negligible probability.

People saying, “it’s different this time,” right before a economic crash is a cliche for a reason. I suspect that you could use the frequency of utterances to predict impending recessions / asset class corrections with extremely high accuracy.
Isn't this exactly the opposite of the current state? That the overwhelming power of Universities in the US is what spreads cultural and political movements? I think you could argue that the entire Woke enterprise is centered on Universities particularly elite ones.
Appel [1] is fairly good for learning compilers. He leaves a lot of the material to the exercises, which are somewhat frustrating,but if you fight through them you'll definitely be rewarded.

[1] https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/
Honestly, what's the difference between a web app on mobile and a native app?

Web browser tech has gotten so advanced that it seems more like just a difference in frameworks between the two.
I guess what I’m trying to get at is, as a practical matter, there are many tasks that are <1day of work, how do you bill for those tasks? Hyperbolic example: have a 1hr client call, charge for day’s worth of work, pursue non-work interests the rest of the day?
Did you have any other domains on the account, or shared access with other accounts?

I hate how legal has forced every trust & safety team to just blanket reply "You were banned. We won't tell you why. We won't overturn. Go away." It's absolutely impossible to contest without public attention or legal action, and is often just a simple mistake.
Hello Liam, sorry to sound judgmental. I was expecting a short list of recommendations or more positive, to go along with the list of things wrong with current distributions. I enjoyed it up to the point when I realized there wouldn’t be any recommendations.

That said, the subtitle “ A reasonable list of the least bad distros” accurately represents what the article is about.

Again, I didn’t intend to be insulting, so I apologize for that.
One thing I've always wanted to see visualized if how the distribution of authorship of code evolve over time. Who wrote most of the code? Does that code remains or does it get rewritten? Who wrote the most foundational and time resistant code?
They're backstopped by the government, in that they're written off after ~30 years if they weren't paid off in that time by the 9% marginal income charge. The scheme was designed as a backdoor graduate tax rather than a conventional finance agreement, and the government has been using them like a credit card to fund the universities off-balance-sheet. Which will be difficult to continue.
Thanks for sharing this page with all HN visitors. I didn't know it until today. I see that all the folks around here have a great teast with all this old stuff from the early days of the Internet, it reminds me that old time too.