skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in the US it wasn't? Costs for higher education have tripled in the past couple decades, to say NOTHING of costs in the 80s or 90s.

Note that I already knew this, having a free ride thanks to the U.S. Pell Grants, however I DID to a basic google search. Among many other sources, this one is eye opening. Curious as to what your thoughts are:

https://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-ongoi...

In case you think I'm shilling a link (I'm not, first i've seen of this), here is another:

https://res.cloudinary.com/value-penguin/image/upload/c_limi...

and one more: https://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-education/

Even being at the edge of a boomer and a millennial, I particularly love that last link.
From what I understand, a tenured faculty in TX can be fired for "a good reason" (which is very broad and undefined in TX), which is contradictory to what we understand when we utter the word a tenured faculty (In Europe or US in general). Here are the details: https://www.utsystem.edu/board-of-regents/rules/31008-termin... - I did not know about Wisconsin. Thanks for that information!
But are there Costcos in China?

Also, do people in China get out of the city to go camping for the weekend?

These are honest questions I'd like to have answers for.
Pity it seems like they haven't researched what makes customers happy...
Everything you said is an attempt to find a rare case to make your point. I do live in a bad part of town where insurance companies cancel on me because of risky neighborhood and I use uber many times a week. Majority of my drivers are african americans or a minority who would not be able to drive a Taxi without fronting a lot of money or have a connection with a someone who will rent a medallion and then of course do it full time to break even. I even had family members who drove Taxi and it was so miserable for them because on off seasons they barely made enough to cover gas and medallion rental. Minorities that have a hard time getting work or living in areas with economic drought (chain stores moved out due to white flight or crime so jobs are far away) can just drive uber at least as supplement which is what they tell me they do when I ask them.

As for trans folks, their face should match what is on their ID. This is a safety issue. Even if your stare or country won't let you set preferred gender they won't stop you from updating your picture. Bad guys can game the system otherwise.
From my own experience in academia I was surprised by how many of my peers went into academia because they were expected to do so by their parents, who were also academics. It's a smallish sample, but ~90% of the people I talked to never considered other careers paths. Their parents were academics, so it's just natural that they become one too. They already knew this ever since high school.

As someone who got into academia "by chance" this was quite a shock to me.
>>> People have been swearing up and down for over a decade that the US graduates far more people with bachelors degrees than we "need", and that more parents[0] should be encouraging their kids to learn a trade.

The trades are not without their issues, however. Many of them are physical jobs. The trades people who have come to work at my house, if they're my age (58) are hobbling and broken. Their hands look like hell. Many are sunburned. Many if not most of them work for tiny businesses that receive virtually no oversight.

Encouraging the trades might make sense in a country with a strong safety net, free health care, better labor laws, stronger unions. The American public figures who are promoting the trades also tend to be doing nothing about those things, or are even opposed to them. I've heard that the trades are a good option in Europe.
Cryptocurrency is a huge non-sequitur here.
Experian, you have some explaining to do
HN occasionally discusses issues pre-dating itself.
Sounds like a big "if" unless you're taking about that time you jumped off the third floor.

Back here in the real-world, you're a deskjockey.
You could go further and observe that all of the article's pictured students are graduating from Oxford, whereas the article discusses students at US universities.

But that's grasping at straws — it really has no bearing on the article itself.
>It was some years ago in the Seattle Times. Sorry I didn't keep a clipping.

The Seattle Times has a searchable archive of all their articles going back 30 years.

Searches for "Ballmer lawsuit", "Ballmer painter", "Ballmer ladder" all turn up nothing. It looks like you made this story up; not in an intentionally deceptive manner mind you, but the same way old wives make up stories by mixing together pieces of different stories taken out of context together to fit a narrative.

Your anecdote about getting into an accident is tragic, but has nothing to do to support your claim that, and I quote:

"it's never the injured person who is at fault, it's always somebody nearby who has money."

Finally your point about wussification of school playgrounds is precisely what I wish to avoid. There was basically a conversation on HN where people parroted opinions about how playgrounds are wussified, and just like with this discussion it probably had no facts or evidence to substantiate the claim but you accepted the claims made in that discussion simply on the basis that it appeals to your belief system.

Do not believe everything you read on this site. You can be mindful that people on this site have opinions on certain topics, but do not take those opinions and then reassert them as if they are facts. This site is just as full of misinformation and biases as any other, where people pretend to be experts and assert categorical statements on subjects they have no expertise in because it appeals to their beliefs. Yes this place is more civil about spreading misinformation, but misinformation is no more factual just because the people spreading it do so politely.
I just had my bike stolen from me in broad daylight. I said to myself "this is the kind of thing that happens in Brazil, not here".
Nobody cares where you graduate from school in engineering. It's all about what you can do, and in larger corporations, also how politically savvy you are. Most of middle and upper management (VP / SVP) also has degrees from no-name schools. If anything, they'll have degrees from worker bee / nerd schools like CMU, Caltech, and UC Berkeley, not Ivy degrees (except for Cornell, which is basically a public school). Upwardly mobile engineers are usually immigrants with high IQs who don't have connections and so have to work 60-80 hour weeks to make up for what they normally could have gotten "for free" with a more privileged upbringing.

The C-suite is a different story: The Ivy Grads are either joining their parents' companies, going into VC, or starting their own companies (YC), not working as lowly "senior" ICs at say Amazon. Chances are the company you work for was founded by a Harvard or Stanford grad who spent their school years partying and networking in social clubs instead of studying...

You might further split Ivy into HYPS and others (Stanford is much more like the other Ivies than Cornell). The others like Brown and Dartmouth are more like a Northwestern / U-Chicago, for people who didn't quite make the cut or for good test takers from upper middle class rather than upper class backgrounds.

UPenn and Columbia lean in the middle. Sure, Elon Musk and Donald Trump went to UPenn, but the school itself still mainly graduates "just" worker bees in finance / investment banking. Your coworkers at Google didn't go there, though.

There are always outliers at all of these schools, but by definition, they are the exception rather than the rule...
They had strong governments long before they discovered their natural resource (oil).
Actually, they have a lot to do with each other, as the violence that the United States did to Central and South America was always justified with anticommunist rhetoric, like this. A Peter Kingsley quote, more about spiritual perception, also applies to the political:

"The only possible way to understand is by standing back in the stillness that lies underneath thinking and sees things as they really are. It's like watching hundreds of colors, each of them trying to persuade you it happens to be the most important one-then stepping back and seeing they all form a single rainbow. Thoughts in themselves are always leading to division and separation. But all thoughts, together, are a single whole." (from "Reality")
1. https://pgtap.org/
2. As opposed to Python 2.7?
3. Different level of computing, SQL being a 4GL. (Also, EXPLAIN ANALYZE)
4. https://sqitch.org/
Higher education is the most socially acceptable form of capitalism. You invest in large upfront costs with the hopes that the multipliers of your capital will make it all worth it. Here, capital includes skills, knowledge, relationships, and human networks.
> While this has zero bearing on the reality of human evolution

It does have bearing. It is proof by example that biology and evolution does not rule out such a possibility. For the actual paper in question, it is proof that such an outcome is not (yet) ruled out even in the specific case of humans.
Word 97 had grammar checking and wouldn't have used an online service for that.
Of course it is. Right now. But what about the last thirty years?
This is very true. Whereas the USSR was run by one man who controlled the state security apparatus, and so controlled the country as an autocrat, Russia is run by a man who controls the country as an autocrat, having controlled the state security apparatus.
> Chances are the company you work for was founded by a Harvard or Stanford grad...

Thankfully not at the moment, but I get your point.

My original point stands- looking at the social network connections, nothing these days is a surprise with regard to general composition.

Is it the best? No, I think it is elitist and pointlessly or harmfully exclusionary. These are fundamental divisions in society, a glass ceiling that is hard to break through.
For me, it’s a modern equivalent of the soviet stores. There is no 10 kinds of everything, but the ones available are guaranteed to be fairly good quality and at an affordable price.

Speaking more modern, it saves the mental effort of researching choices. Need something? Check Costco, buy if there, done.

Of course there are negatives associated with them, too.
Kids do have a lot fewer pounds though. Also humans live around seventy to eighty years. So stopping procreation right now would bring us to carbon neutrality in about that time. That means that in about twenty years stopping procreation would have reduced carbon emissions by about thirty percent or so. That's a lot, but far from what's needed to prevent catastrophic warming.
How to determine if this is attributable to economic inequality and not just overproduction of degrees ?
Criteria for becoming an academic:

- Above-average IQ

- Intellectual upbringing

- PhD, i.e. spending five years of your life in your mid to late 20s getting your union card

- During those five years, at least one of: no other mouths to feed, a working spouse, independent wealth, or well-off parents willing to support you

- Willingness to get a PhD for a less than <30% chance of ever getting a tenure-track job (though much higher if you are black or hispanic)

- Left-wing cosmopolitan social and political views
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The ground truth is simple.

In the US, you can intimidate Facebook and Google.

You can't do that to TikTok.
STEM PhDs in industry are not really in 'academia', as their research is typically not arbitrary.
This is a fairly new role in our company. Officially it's described as 50% data scientist and 50% developer, but the loop composition is the same as developer but replacing one of the coding rounds for an ML round.

I'm still experimenting with the format, but I do a mix of asking theoretical ML questions, prior experience with ML, and designing a system to solve a business problem using ML.
>There is a reason China is celebrating his assassination

By edgy Internet users. The state had already sent condolences through official diplomatic channels. Do you believe trending Twitter hashtags as official statements from entire countries as well?

>Abe was single-handedly responsible for establishing, driving and bankrolling the Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue between USA, Japan, India and Australia) which is a direct and serious threat to China.

You think one person did it single-handedly? Let me repeat your own question: do you believe everything you see and hear? Are you aware there is a major player in Asia-Pacific that isn't geographically located there?

>And no he didn't disappear after retirement as you seem to think; men of his stature and influence always have the ear of policy makers until the end.

Where did I say he disappeared? Read my comments again. He's not the first senior party member in the LDP. Previous ones don't directly meddle with current government policy or it would be a constitutional crisis.

The only ones who need to explore all possibilities are the investigators indeed, not some random person boasting flimsy conspiracy theories on an Internet forum that usually doesn't even have anything to do with this sort of topic anyways. There's a special sort of irony in the mentions of "clueless and childish naïveté", and you seem to lack the awareness for that.
A search for "uk phd graduate" or "uk university students" likewise yields exceedingly diverse results.
come on you can't make blanket statements like that. Plenty of my Ivy friends who took the tech path are senior ICs at big tech, startups (not founders), etc. Same as the stanford, caltech, MIT kids.. some are managers now of course.

they're just normal people who happens to be extremely smart and also from wealthy backgrounds. maybe some day they'll be C-suite but they're only mid 30s right now. I would say only a handful have the personality traits for C-suite or founding a company anyway. they're mostly just nerds who went to a top private HS and got perfect SAT scores.
Sounds like the beginning of a true love story.
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> accreditation agencies are neutral, or if they're going to say "well, you're not a real school, so we're not going to accredit you."

Saying "you're not a real school, so we're not going to accredit you" is literally the sole job of an accreditation agency. Well, that and figuring out how to define a "real school".
Costco gas is also Top Tier branded, and I trust Costco to maintain their equipment and tanks and source better quality gas than other independently owned stations.
A short immediate risk is called "danger".

A long sustained risk is called "life".
Isn't it more cost than efficiency that matters?
good lord. do they refer to themselves as a “headhunting” company, or is that your wording? it’s sort of terrifying, to be completely honest.
JFC. Masks stop your spit from flying. It's about protecting others, not you.
Paradoxes aren't necessarily a deal-breaker. It's possible that reality accepts paradoxes and has some reconciliation method where e.g. new changes overwrite older ones. The best deep dive I've read on how this would work is the twist ending of Isaac Asimov's excellent story The End of Eternity. https://www.amazon.com/The-End-of-Eternity/dp/B08CFWPQW9/
The rise and demise of American Airlines' $250k lifetime pass
Coke and Pepsi and RC Cola are equivalent but they are not the same. People can react differently to equivalent medication.
"Prior" was before 1920 or 1945 or so. Costs for higher education placed it well into the realm of the super-elite.
Can you elaborate slightly? I don't want to misinterpret you.
Biden's Education Department Will Limit Loan Interest Capitalization
I’m pretty sure this just means it’s rated as appropriate for ages 9 and up. Had never noticed the ambiguity though...
Misconceptions: not knowing regression vs classification, supervised vs unsupervised, or thinking that ML is just neural networks.
i think what he meant was, pursuing a PhD opens the possibility of entering academia, and if not, the time and attainment is not wasted financially.

also, he might include that STEM professors earn higher than other academics and have many opportunities to earn high rates of consulting pay, and or spin off to found companies, etc.
> It’s because Medicare gets an automatic discount (I think 20% these days but I’m no longer in the biz) from the manufacturer’s official price. So they simply set the official price at some huge figure and rake in huge bucks from the largest buyer, Medicare. Then they negotiate with the for profit insurance companies and subsidize the copays so that nobody complains to their congress person.

This is all completely wrong, to a point where I don't even know where to begin to correct it, because there are three separate misconceptions here layered on top of each other.

Not only does Medicare get most-favored-nation pricing (ensuring that they pay less than private insurers do), but pharmaceutical benefits for Medicare are provided under Part D, through for-profit insurance companies.

Furthermore, it is illegal to use copay assistance from manufacturers for brand-name drugs if you are using Medicare or Medicaid.
Pretty easy, they control the ability to cancel and the ability to get work. If they cared about these problems, they’d reward the drivers who don’t fuck around.

The cancellation one is the easiest, you just purge the top cancellers.
Both juniors and mid levels.
None of the complexity is needless - it all follows from its core principles.

Maybe you disagree with those principles. Maybe you disagree with software having hard principles.

That's fine. NixOS isn't for you. It's wonderful for me though!
5x more folks die in shootings per day in the USA than in that border conflict. Please note that neither Chinese soldiers nor Indian soldiers escalated to using firearms - despite carrying them - in order to stick to a mutual agreement!
I mean, he was wrong in many ways.

However, old computing does have a place, as has been mentioned before here on HN, Ben Eater has done an awesome job at getting folks involved with hardware and low-level software design:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/beneater
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/beneater/

Note that I don't know the guy (though I really wish I did, would love to have a couple beers with him.) I stumbled across his stuff just this year and loved it thanks to my background along with my family background.

In the absence of elementary silicon design classes, we find YouTubers stepping up. I am rather critical of such folks, as most tend to be super pushy wish sponsorships, ads, and what not, however, his videos (thus far) do not do that. Note that I did (eventually) buy a couple of his kits.
I think all of that is accurate except for "PhD, i.e. spending five years of your life in your mid to late 20s getting your union card"

A lot of this depends on your advisor, but some programs are a lot more than that.
> It's a bloody shame that I can start any games from the 90s on an emulator and they run just as fine, even content heavy.

Eh, not exactly true. A lot of older Windows 90s games need some tweaks to their binaries to run. See what GOG.com did.

Even a more recent game, relatively, like Fallout 3 had issues with multi-core processors that required a tweak to get past the birth scene or you would hard crash. GOG includes this and plays out of the gate. As it should be for a game that is still sold on Steam, but the publisher/dev does not bother.

Personally I just avoid games like that and stick with indie titles for new games.
> In 1970, just 1 in 5 U.S.-born PhD graduates in economics had a parent with a graduate degree. Now? Two-thirds of them do, according to a new analysis from the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The trends are similar for other fields (and for foreign-born students), but economics is off the charts.

> This partly reflects population trends: Over that same period, the share of parents with graduate degrees and college-age children rose 10 percentage points, to 14 percent, our analysis of Census Bureau data shows. But compared with the typical American, a typical new economist is about five times more likely to have a parent with a graduate degree.

So % of parents with college degree increased by 3.5x (from 4% to 14%) and % of students coming from parents with college degree increased 3.3x (from 1/5 to 2/3). That more than explains it, doesn't it?

Also there should be a high correlation between kids being college-material and parents being college-material. Whether you believe in nature (genetics) or nurture (good parenting, high standards, role model, access to education, etc), or a mix of both, either way, you should not expect the % of college students from graduate families to match the % of graduate families in the country. So not sure what point the article makes.
United States is above China in life expectancy averages.

My impression was that the healthcare here is very expensive, but not bad. Besides, US does not prevent people from demanding better.
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While the points are true for manual CREATE OR REPLACE, same could be said of any ad-hoc editing stuff in production by hand.

1, 4 - can be achieved with tools such as DBT

2, 3 - certain databases come with proper Python environment with various tooling around that
laughs in Gemstone/S

His position is arguably an engineering limitation of the databases used, rather than an actual principle.
That's not how it works at all.

This is Medicare Part D - the plans are administered by private insurance companies - Medicare just pays the premiums, they don't pay directly for the drugs.. Private insurers compete for Medicare patients to sign up for their plans.

Private insurers do negotiate directly with manufacturers. Studies I've seen show they get similar (or better!) price they do with their private insurance plans.

The narrative I'm complaining about is - "there is no negotiation". This comments are typically by people who don't even know how it works.
Most those states are garbage though.
A manual "save" button would help, with autosave reduced to (as you say) "crash-protect" (although depending on context that could include up to a full undo-redo tree); I'd especially like an ability to see all the changes that I'm proposing, to add some notes about why I'm making the changes, and to handle conflicts semi-manually. If you're thinking this sounds a lot like git, yes.

I'm happy to have my opinions considered, but I would caution against overfitting to them - most people don't seem to like the UX that I like.
> From a cursory search it looks like 95% of lawsuits for personal injury never make it to trial, so the judiciary is never involved in the vast majority of cases.

These decisions don't happen in a vacuum, they happen in an environment where the companies (their lawyers) know that settling nearly every unreasonable lawuit is still cheaper than risking going to a trial.
around paywall : https://archive.ph/ivXCE
HaGRID – Hand Gesture Recognition Image Datasets
so you have to move your mouse while you type? When I first looked, there was no cursor for me, the letters just piled up in the same spot. When I look now, I see a moving cursor, and the letters fall under the cursor. I can't see that the mouse does anything at all for me at the moment.
Sorry to hear that. Costco has a nice selection of bikes for you to choose from.