skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MFA is a high degree that needs a lot of education. It may not pay well, but it still has quite an impact for general education. Even if knowledge is just replicated.
I agree. But I also think that they should be able to bankrupt out of them like Trump and many other rich people have done numerous times.

Trapping students into non-bankruptable student loans is pure debt slavery.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2022/6988...

Probably preempting this to avoid stricter regulations that would force them to do it regardless, along with other things they don't want. "See, we're already giving our customers the right to repair!"
Apple could help by documenting this stuff. I remember the good old days when every Mac OS X came with an extra CD with Xcode, and Apple was regularly publishing Technical Notes detailing implementation details. Today the same level of detail is treated as top secret, and it seems that Apple doesn't want developers to even think beyond the surface of the tiny App Store sandbox.
Bird collecting evolved into bird-watching
If you look at the amount of cars driving around in the UK (similarly priced as all the upgrades combined), probably most homeowners. Also, if someone does not have sufficient capital, there are subsidised lease options for all upgrades.
It's like the US: young people move from poor states to rich ones. Nobody in America ever talks about the basket case that is Alabama. People have been moving into New York and California for a hundred years.

Anecdotal: My dentist was from Rumenia. I'm sure they need dentists too but he can make more money in the Netherlands.
There are whales full of plastic and the rain isn't safe to drink. How can adding more humans help??
> Also something like 2/3rd of all europeans live in suburbs or rural

European Suburb != American suburb. I live in the suburbs of Paris, and i have two regular train lines (as in 15 minutes cadence in off peak times) within walking distance. The vast majority of commuters in and around Paris use public transit, even when they live in small towns of a few hundred/thousand inhabitants (because even those tend to have train stations). Car trips still exist, but there are massive new projects to improve public transit even more (multiple hundreds of km of new metro lines in the suburbs, multiple new tram lines in the suburbs, etc.).
Is there societal value in art and the humanities at all? If not, why do we produce anything except engineers and financiers? That seems like a bigger cultural question that society needs to answer over decades, rather than saying to an individual student, "Haha! You picked the wrong major. Now you're fucked for life. Too bad."

Most college kids going into school have no idea what they're going to be doing in the future. There aren't really standard systems in place to help guide them. Even a basic lifetime ROI analysis by major isn't something you encounter organically through the school system, and whether you're lucky enough to have done that sort of evaluation before choosing a path just totally depends on the circumstances of your upbringing or internet browsing.

Our higher-ed system was inherited from Old World elites, and there's probably a case to be made that it's not as relevant to the modern workforce or society anymore, but that's not a very fair thing to pin on any individual degree or student.

Morally, if we've decided that the humanities have any intrinsic worth at all, it stands to reason that we should be feeding the people who practice the humanities. And unless we want them all to be slave-artists, maybe even pay them a livable wage. Maybe the moral failing here is our lack of funding for the arts, or our lack of appropriate valuation at least. Especially in a create-one, share-unlimited-times digital economy of production.

Economically, what societal value is there in an indentured class of artists not making art? Does society really get more value out of painters flipping burgers while their loan sharks muck around in spreadsheets making more money?

Personally... as a tax-paying dev, I would be happy to pay a little more tax if it means people who chose a different path in life got to eat, sleep under a solid roof, and create beautiful things. I don't want to live in a ruthless, hypercapitalist society where human worth is reduced to dollars and bankers determine our destinies.
java.exe was probably excluded.
It's still a hell of a lot more powerful than an attiny85 though which is only an 8 pin micro for the smallest stuff. I love those little things and I used them all the time until most stuff became connected and the esp8266 was more useful because of its wi-fi.
…and nobody stops to ask:

How much energy is required to collect and deliver a million tons of car iron?

How much energy will it take to strip down cars so you don’t dump massive amounts of contaminants into the ocean?

Do paint and coatings have to be stripped off? How much energy, chemicals, water will that take?

Do we have to build processing, staging and distribution plants? How much energy and resources will that take?

Do we have to build specialized ships? Same questions.

How much petroleum will all of the above require and burn in the form of derivatives, lubricants, gasoline and diesel for transportation and related construction projects?

How many million tons of super-dirty bunker fuel will the thousands of ships used for this have to burn?

How much fuel, energy, materials and resources will have to be expended for decades in order to just monitor and manage this?

Oh, wait, we want to powder the iron? How much energy and resources are required to powder a few million tons of metal?

And then, once that accounting is done: How much CO2 and other pollutants will all of the above produce.

This is what I sometimes refer to the self-righteousness of hand-wavy “solutions”. In quotes, because they never are. Yet, they sound great. Politicians and those making money through the insanity climate change has become can use this hand-wavy stuff to great benefit and appear righteous when, in reality, they are in a range between ignorant and scam artists.

At the same time, those who dare question the validity of such claims are vilified. “You don’t want to save the planet? You evil bastard!”

How about: No! I want you to stop and fully support the nonsense you are trying to float with the aid of a little thing called science. The problem is, you can’t. These do-called solutions are far more likely to kill all life on earth than to save it.
Fauci Says He Will Step Down in December to Pursue His ‘Next Chapter’
A common short sited assumption to make. In no way did the parent suggest he supported it, just an example that the average person cares mostly about things that directly affect their lives regardless of the bigger causes at play.
Cool. Any insight to how Surreal DB compares to Cockroach DB?
If only there was the possibility to link the first occurrence of a word to an external URL on a website.
He was impeached for withholding military aid to Ukraine. Which Russia is now invading. Does it matter if he was literally an asset or not, given he pretty much played the part anyway?
Just seeing the data also might be an eye roll for people that just like the free stuff. It is very difficult to get someone not already converted to the religion of 'tracking === bad'. Even showing how it can legitimately be used seems so tinfoil hat level of crazy, that normal people want to get away from you as quickly as possible.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled used to be convincing the world the devil doesn't exists. Now, his greatest trick is to convince the world that it's okay that he exists and all of his schemeing done by his minions are perfectly fine
> We're now seeing senior citizens get their Social Security garnished for student loan payments!

You can find a person for every situation. How many people on this earth have a nickle up their ass this very instant? Also, incentives matter.
I see where you're coming from but I think it's more accurate to call them manipulative. Violence has a different connotation and we should keep them separate. Trying to force one thing into another is also manipulative.
I also use standard solder at home but we used lead-free solder at work when I had was in a hardware engineering org and it really didn't seem to cause trouble. I think people who don't have good success at first with lead-free are probably using the wrong tip size, have set their iron to the wrong temperature, or have an iron with poor tip temperature control. You see the same troubles when beginners use leaded solder, but people forget about those early experiences.
> your post is chock full of simply ridiculous claims

State exactly which claims are ridiculous and why they're ridiculous.

> please supply any actual documentation for any of these made up ideas

Here's a study by the Shorenstein Center on Media/Politics/Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

"The report shows that during the year 2015, major news outlets covered Donald Trump in a way that was unusual given his low initial polling numbers—a high volume of media coverage preceded Trump’s rise in the polls."

"Neither of these indicators, however, explains Trump’s coverage. When his news coverage began to shoot up, he was not high in the trial-heat polls and had raised almost no money. Upon entering the race, he stood much taller in the news than he stood in the polls.[8] By the end of the invisible primary, he was high enough in the polls to get the coverage expected of a frontrunner. But he was lifted to that height by an unprecedented amount of free media."

"The Democratic race in 2015 received less than half the coverage of the Republican race. Bernie Sanders’ campaign was largely ignored in the early months but, as it began to get coverage, it was overwhelmingly positive in tone."

"The Shorenstein Center study is based on an analysis of thousands of news statements by CBS, Fox, the Los Angeles Times, NBC, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. The study’s data were provided by Media Tenor, a firm that specializes in the content analysis of news coverage."

https://shorensteincenter.org/pre-primary-news-coverage-2016...

Of course, you provide 0 "documentation" for any of your own claims and are just dismissing whatever I said as "made up".

> As he continued beating everyone by crazy numbers, the media appropriately noticed and reported on it, and he became the center of attention as is actually appropriate

Completely false. You provide 0 evidence whatsoever. I gave you a study conducted by the Harvard Kennedy School that shows the exact opposite.

The media gave Trump disproportionate airtime at the start of the primary when he was polling far behind other republican candidates.
This is really cool. So do you have your own storage engine for the single node case, and you're using TiKV for the distributed one? Or is the local storage case also built on an existing engine like RocksDB?
As a longtime user of MPT, I always describe it as making music on a spreadsheet
> What if I installed some dependency outside of my project?

> What if I made a change to the way the tests are run in the Makefile or a different file not in ./src? Like running `npm install`?

> What if I want to set an environment variable or pass an argument to the test runner?

Those are all inputs. Unfortunately, Make isn't very good at tracking inputs (or outputs, for that matter: e.g. if we change an input back to some previous value, make will still rebuild rather than using the old result).

These days I find Nix to be a much more sane alternative to Make.
the basic trade-off which is not mentioned:

- programmable; which means the gov can decide what you can and can't spend your money on

- no privacy; every transaction is recorded (physical money is anonymous)

- gov can freeze your money/address/account so that you can't spend money for various reasons; it is the ultimate Orwellian control over your life if you have been a bad citizen (see china and it's implementation of the social credit system)
Looks like inflation's was as high as it was today in 2008.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/07/06/...
It sucks having intellectual freedom forever being one bad bill away from ruin.

Intellectual Property has problems, feels like it barely serves the public. Yet congress keeps extending & backing proprietors, leaving ever less to the public. Just once I'd lile to see congress try to go the other way.
> I tagged every one of our ministers (remember: 6 governments) that could have made a difference in solving this question. 1600 people saw the post, no one got back to me.

> This might seem trivial, however to me this is part of a larger problem. The political class does not really care about improving the system as it is too busy with infighting.

He left Belgium because some politicians he tagged on LinkedIn didn't reply to his post? Lol
Snowflake is a bit generic to easily find - and the article has no hyperlinks - anybody have a one sentence summary?

EDIT: There it is: https://www.snowflake.com/

Data warehousing, basically.
"Hey neighbour, you left your front-door open".

"Can you notify my lawyer by FAX, please? And can you get the document notarized first? Kthxbai".
I am from India. My 10 day old Macbook M1 Pro suddenly died with no signs of life. As sad that may sound its nothing compared to what happened next at the Apple Authorized service center. The lady at the counter put a giant scratch across the Apple logo going further ahead on the case.

Now these service centers are so much afraid of Apple and its policy that she started parroting that its a cosmetic damage and Apple policy doesn't allow to replace it for that. I asked her I am not invoking my warranty, the scratch is done by you and you have to fix it.

Days pass and they divert me to the seller, who refused to replace the laptop due to the scratch.

The Apple Support in India is equally pathetic with no authority at all. Had it been the U.S. and someone at Genius store would have done that, it would have been much easier to get a new machine (it was just 10 day old) or atleast the display case replaced but welcome to India where consumer laws take the second seat and Apple's policy take the first.

After all this, I had to call the police and when the police came the service center gave me in writing that they would replace the display.

Filing consumer case now against Apple for the harassment, preparing the docs. If you are from India and want to join in - drop me a mail.

Edit: forgot to mention the popping sound on my older macbook from 2017 with touchbar. Will apple do anything about that? Seems it is also clueless.
SUSE and Microsoft work together High availability solutions on Azure
I wonder if they're afraid of losing the market to platforms like Frame.work.
One of the interesting things I wish they mapped are where some of the corporate offices / residences are - Based on personal anecdote (could be wrong) for Houston I'd speculate much of it is further west in the residential areas of Katy, Sugarland, and The Woodlands, and downtown (westheimer/loop)
You should document this carefully and publish, since scientists have failed to document the effect.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_synchrony

> my wife and daughter have their menstruation in sync nowadays.

How closely in sync? For how many cycles?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics)
This person has an awesome set of blog posts. One of the few rss feeds I keep track of.
Hi Diggsey, great question. We are currently focussed on functionality and stability, and then will draw our attention to performance. Coming this week we have a RocksDB storage implementation. We've only just launched our initial beta version, and we know there is a lot of improvement and work to be done (some of these performance issues we know about already and are on our Github issues list).

With regards to the consistency/isolation model, SurrealDB sits on top of a number of key-value stores. By using the distributed highly-available TiKV storage backend, https://tikv.org, (and we have a FoundationDB integration in the works), the database is designed to be highly-scalable and highly-available. The same guarantees (albeit just single-node, so no high-availability or scalability) will be available with the RocksDB implementation coming this week. By sitting on top of these key-value stores, SurrealDB ensures that all transactions are ACID compliant. We don't want to go for speed (for instance by writing to /dev/null) over anything, but want SurrealDB to be a reliable and performant backend for any application. Obviously we have a way to go to catch up with PostgreSQL (launched in 1996), but we will strive to get there!
The Russophobe Eastern Europeans will absolutely stand by the sanctions. Everything is Russia's fault, they should be made to pay instead of us buckling under their blackmail. Pro-Russian elements in those countries will be loud but are IMHO unlikely to win except maybe in Bulgaria and Hungary (where they are already in power).

Western Europe, we'll see. Germany seems the most likely to crack with their appeasement bullshit and shameless ex-politicians. Fingers crossed they don't.
The cost of raising a child in India: School costs ₹30 lakh, college a crore
It's a data warehouse, like Google BigQuery or AWS Redshift / Athena
Denmark's highest income tax rate is 55.90% [1].

Britain had a 95% tax rate in the 1960s, as heard in "Taxman" by the Beatles "There's one for you, nineteen for me" [2].

[1] https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/denmark/individual/taxes-on-per...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxman
>I think this is a key failure of understanding for the "tech is neither good nor bad!" camp:

I like the addendum, "...but nor is it neutral"
The Great Long Opening Sentences of World Literature
There used to be a joke that the model was raise interest rates -> construction projects become unprofitable and get cancelled -> construction workers cannot afford food, reducing demand -> lower prices
Music (discovery) on the Web, i.e off-device, and not integrated seems DOA to me for various reasons.
I am like 95% sure that the MAX issue he mentions is wrong - I just modified some windowing function based approaches to the one he mentions and its several OOM faster because of partition elimination.

Nonetheless I agree with the basic points of the article.
I think the real crux of the issue is : why does education cost so much in the first place? Because it's excessively bloated.

I thought European universities were bloated, but they look like lean running operations compared to American ones: high quality food, parks, gardens, recreational facilities, sports facilities including personal trainers, courts, etc. It's more like a vacation resort and I think students often end up treating it like one.

Back in my day, the food at the university cafeteria was pig slop and we liked it!
Also seems like there are more strikes or strike ballots happening every week.
Beyblock20: Magnetic, modular, 20-key macropad/ortholinear keyboard
Singapore Plan for Public Housing
So we're still getting the fb excuse/apologism.
Anyone could have used - and many of us used - plain old email, then irc, various messengers et al before zuck came. Back then, at that time, there were other ways to keep in touch and still is, just much more. All of them are better in terms of privacy.
if a door lock is difficult, think about going through the wall next to the door

Under what circumstances would the wall be the preferred way to penetrate a building? Just thinking of the homes in which I've lived (all typical US suburban builds), exterior windows or glass sliding doors would likely be the fastest access. Apartments were a mix of cinderblock wall skinned with drywall or wood/metal framing skinned with drywall - if you knew it was wood under drywall, that might be faster (but that's also ignoring utilities that might be contained in the wall)? But would you know that in advance?
Because the humans that are currently existing aren't helping doesn't mean that one that might come along later doesn't have that "Eureka!" moment.
lots of people got enormous value from the labor of enslaved people

start considering the lives of people beyond yourself
How do you mean? Euro transfers within the EU work like domestic ones, it's a rule. I've moved a few EU countries in recent years and I've been able to use the same bank (Revolut) for everything everywhere I moved.
It's all an overresponse to the problem that a handful of people would spend half their days in the bathroom if there were no rules.

The right answer is always to deal with the individuals who are the problem, but somehow it always becomes rules that make life worse for everyone.
"Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I poop on company time"
Reminds me of the George Carlin bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSi9NW5u3E

Humor aside, it's a depressing worldview to me that each marginal human is a net negative. I take the opposite view, that each human is a net positive - and we need all the brainpower we can get to solve all of our problems.
A skeleton being strapped to the camel is wild!
You just can’t attribute a behavior that require coordination by a group of people. It’s common for 2 people to make a deal to execute an illegal scheme ex: 2 CEO of 2 different company. But it.s impossible for all employee to knowingly participate in the illegal scheme and no whistleblower leaking the whole operation.
More details that I found about what Murfie is, and the rescue operation: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21121594/crossies-murfie-m...

What a fascinating concept.
That's text-book financial engineering. I understand the creators' concerns, especially the ones that signed contracts before Disney decided to create Disney+, but on the Disney side I really don't care. It's more, I'm explicitly hostile to it due to the balkanization of streaming platforms now that every big producers start to have their own end-user distribution, subscription-based service.
These kinds of apples to oranges comparisons are a little ridiculous. Estonia is a tiny country compared to Belgium, which is also small, but is obviously going to have a much different set of trade-offs. There are so many other factors to consider besides those listed in this article. And ultimately, being an entrepreneur is not really about where you live, it’s what you choose to do. People who think that if they move somewhere it’ll suddenly make them into the person they want to be are usually in for a disappointment. The example of a place to find standard contracts is also frankly trivial. Anyone who wants to start a company quickly figures out what they need to do in the environment in which they live, and ideally they will involve locals who understand the system very well. Just hiring a good local accountant who understands the laws is going to be of benefit regardless of any websites that make your research easy.

Far more important is living in a place that inspires you to do your best work, that’s ultimately the most important ingredient.
Hi phailhaus, good point. We don't want to go for speed (for instance by writing to /dev/null) at any cost, but want SurrealDB to be a reliable and performant backend for any application in the long run. Obviously in our opinion, writing to /dev/null wouldn't make SurrealDB a proper database :) . We have a way to go to catch up with databases like PostgreSQL and other databases in terms of stability and performance, but we will strive to get there!
It seems to be conflating a communications protocol, an application level list management protocol, and parts of a message format.

It'd be far more likely to gain support if they unbundled this and made it work as an upgrade over e-mail, which would seem to make a lot of the spec redundant.