skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they all want it back.
About Apple. I guess most insecurity is from possibility of war in Taiwan. Inability to produce iPhones would struck hard. But beyond that, they have most loyal customers, who doesn't care abou their freedom to own device.
Doesn’t matter. Either way you can only write as fast as you can spell…which has always been my primary limiter.
> All the government needs to do is literally nothing. Just get out of the way!

If the government gets out of the way everywhere, the class system and caste system will be back withing 3 months

People think free market capitalism is the natural - thats just propaganda. Feudalism is natural, thats why it existed for 10 thousand years.
Was just talking about how Uber had a golden age where is was better than taxis and had now reverted to sucking.

I wouldn't be surprised to see the same here. These companies can locally "disrupt" by losing money, buying revenue, and moving ahead of regulation, not to mention taking advantage of novelty to bring in gig workers or property owners or whoever looking to try something new. But once reality catches up with them, their business model is not actually better, and quite possibly less efficient than past models, so they make changes to try and be profitable and end up sucking.

Not that it's bad to try stuff, I think we're just seeing reversion to the mean
A ‘Vibe Shift’ on Reddit–People Sharing Stories of Loneliness and Isolation
Policy knobs can be used to determine how resources are allocated and, perhaps most importantly, the kind of resources.

There's a lot of elder-care that is fundamentally non-scalable and non-automatable. But there's also a lot that is. Policy can both incentivize development of / investment in the latter and paying people competitive wage and benefits to step up and work the former.

Meanwhile, with productivity per person higher than it's ever been thanks to general industrial and service automation, there should be more GDP than ever free to invest in such social programs.
Am I the only one confused by 'interesting' and 'touchy issues'? Is it some kind of code phrase? The author seems to be fishing for places to discuss particular unnamed issues. Do tell!
Who suggested that? Even if you think that humanities education should be publicly subsidized, giving out student loans to anyone who applies (ie. without regard to academic performance or career prospects) is a terrible way of funding it. The lack of selectively ensures that the people who do the best (ie. can get a good paying job afterwards) receive the least aid because they have to pay back the loan, whereas people who do the worst get the most.

Merit based scholarships and/or government grants for university humanities departments is a far better way of ensuring we get the most bang per dollar subsidized.
https://archive.ph/0moHI
How long have you been working in tech? My degree (French literature) was also a hindrance for my first few jobs, but nowadays the responses are heavily weighted toward the "cool, they’re going to thrive with us because of their unique background" side of the spectrum.
>Can't be larger than 3840

why
unfortunately demand isnt driven by the crisis, its driven by the states' willingness to pay
I lay a fair bit of fault also at an almost visual/UI level of how we write laws.

If you look at our law books, they are almost all words/text. Paragraphs and paragraphs of it. Yet in a lot of areas of law or regulation, graphical explanations are rarely used when they could help clarify immensely. To use a simple example, just think of when a map is needed -- and whether you would try to describe that by text.

I also have an analogy in my mind that when you ask a typical programmer to explain something, they start showing you the code. Only a skilled rare few have a picture in their mind that they can draw you the relationship between the things they have written (and start a chat based on that).

Lawyers / politicians are by default writing in long, wordy, text to try to lay out complicated systems. This is often not ideal, when a diagram or schematic of what you are legislating to have happen would be more clear.

It also produces an effect where laws tend to just bolt on more text, and have little contextualization of what already exists or what is being modified. And I also have a feeling it tends to miss the problem cases. I seriously believe our hundred books of CFR/laws are a significant result of this.

If people were forced to summarize how a proposed law interacts with current laws, etc. I think there would be more hesitation and better thought about what is being enacted.
39-Year Old Black Entrepreneur Makes History, Awarded $13.4B Defense Contract
> Look at any modern business. A lot of employees will have studied something in humanities.

And if businesses didn't require 4 year degrees for jobs that don't need them, they wouldn't.

We literally gatekeep careers based on your ability to finish a 4+ year $10k+ degree program, and then you actually get the job and essentially nothing you learned was useful.

The number of coworkers i've met with degrees outside their career is basically the majority (as i work outside of STEM), and their skills mostly correlate to how well they were trained on the job. There's PLENTY that never needed college, or that college didnt change jack about their poor skill set (in fact reinforced it).

The people I know who are making the most are doctors/lawyers (and thats a whole OTHER story), and then right after that are the trades (mostly union workers) who never went to college.

I'd much rather see a proper focus on the public education we already have (and varies WILDLY in quality depending on where you are) than basically saying "well we're going to require you to go to school until you're 18, and then we're going to say that no matter how well you excelled there you're only worth minimum wage unless you force yourself through college, and then get a job where you're useless until they finish the on the job training."

A large majority of the economy is based on jobs that just do not require a 4 year degree (MAYBE 2, but even then it should just be a credit requirement). I'm all for better educating the populace, but accomplishing this by just kneecapping those with life circumstances that make a 4 year degree difficult isn't helping.
Nobody learns professional level writing and communication in grade school. There is a huge margin between "can convey information in writing" and "is skilled at conveying information efficiently in writing".
Student Loans in the US are but another generational wealth transfer where the Baby Boomers spent more than they had, mortgaged their present and future, then decided to make the next generations financially indentured servants.

Nobody under 40 came up with this godforsaken system.
With X11, I can change scroll speed using the `imwheel` tool.

Years ago with Ubuntu and ElementaryOS, I could change it in the system settings GUI.

Today, with Wayland now default, I can't change it at all when running Ubuntu or ElementaryOS.

You can say this is a GNOME problem, or a distro problem, or whatever. But at the end of the day, I installed two of the most popular Linux distro's out there and my scrolling is literally unusable - and I can't fix it without apparently installing an entirely different desktop environment or a patched version of libinput.
Legislation and a companies terms of service are very different things.
It's a good thing I didn't propose they get out of the way everywhere. I also suggested the government could simply pay for college directly. The loan model is the worst of both worlds.
I think you're strongly misunderstanding the criticism. It's not "utilitarianism is wrong". It's more like "the specific claim that sub-standard working conditions are better than nothing is a very old and weak argument that has a tradition of being used to justify subjugation".

And frankly I don't see how OP's argument is particularly utilitarian. Is the counterargument of "allowing companies to do this hurts workers in aggregate" not equally utilitarian? Worrying about free will and free association is more the realm of liberalism, isn't it?
You still haven't substantiated that number.

With regards to value: do you actually want to live in a society where the sole metric for human worth is one's predicted salary? That sounds miserable.
A mortgage with a fixed interest rate and no prepayment penalty is no subsidized since the borrower pays for the option to prepay the mortgage with a higher interest rates than they would be able to get if they were not able to prepay the loan. The market prices in the value of the call option.
OSSC is reasonably inexpensive, and with the exception of the NES and N64 nearly all retro consoles output RGB without modification (but may require the appropriate cable).

There are better scalers and mods for possibly cleaner audio and video for nearly all consoles, but with few exceptions an OSSC or RetroTink will get you 99% of the way there. The last 1% is chasing audiophile levels of quality improvement for audiophile levels of money, imho.

RetroRGB and My Life in Gaming are fantastic resources for nearly all retro gamers of any budget. You don’t have to spend a lot to get old hardware looking really great and low latency on modern displays.
I can imagine many, which are not only useless, but also malicious and generally negative for society. I won't name them here so as not to 'offend' people, but it's easy to tell which ones I mean.
> The defaulted loans are not for STEM careers, that have little trouble paying back [..]

Right, if you are going to take on tonnes of debt, it should probably before for a degree that has a reasonable chance of repaying the debt.

> colleges offered useless degrees to people that do not need them except for vanity [..]

Not useless, but it is difficult to get a profitable career in this subject areas.

> This is one of the biggest scams in history.

Not even remotely close, unfortunately. Tax is way worse. Your employer gets tax, you then get tax, anything your buy is taxed, if you don't spend it before you die you get taxed, if you try to leave it to somebody you get taxed, if you try to save money the government uses inflation to slowly tax it away from you.

The next biggest scams are likely debt traps (checkout who owns the largest amount of debt of poorer nations right now and how they got there), followed by crypto (which is a glorified pyramid scheme - prove me wrong).
The deception is the government guaranteeing these loans and then the students defaulting on them, which results in the taxpayers paying. Furthermore, the colleges continuously raise prices because they know they will get the money, regardless, if the student defaults. This is why college is so expensive in America.
Unfortunately yes. Lots of embedded software development is done by folks without a software background. EE's and electronics technicians dabbling in firmware.
believe it or not, BART is actually competent and does what they can with the cards they have been dealt. name another US transit agency implementing a takt
The rudimentary knowledge in question (and the cognitive tools to work through the implications) are supposed to be provided by the very institutions deceiving students.

The educational system utterly fails at equipping every graduate with the knowledge and skills to succeed in the modern economy in the 14 years they have already. Why are we giving them four more years of everyone’s life and hundreds of billions of dollars more money?
Excellent advice across the board.

The only thing I am suspicious of is how is the advice so good from a random blog? Why did the author put in so much effort? Perhaps they are a saint, perhaps they are a empath.

It is impossible to know for certain either way.
The comments below the article kinda give the lie to the article.
I believe the U.S. needs more nuclear power, even if the two recent Vogtle units have had giant cost overruns. Renewables like wind and solar are great, but it seems like the amount of batteries and transmission needed to firm the variable nature of wind/solar will also be massive and I'm not entirely convinced enough lithium exists.
Ya use what you like, the more of these tools the better, just setting record straight on notmuch as I use the cli every day via scripts
(this sounds like undergraduate university programs in australia…)
I have heard of six figure student debt, but only in the context of recent graduates of MD, JD, and MBA programs (all of which are very expensive and generally lead to lucrative careers).

Have you ever actually heard of someone who amassed $500K in student debt to get an undergraduate degree?
> We should always remember where we came from.

Especially before we get there.
> the problem is in humanities, arts, etc.

Not even, really. Average student loan debt for new graduates (Bachelors) with loans last year was $28K. Even for someone with a humanities degree, that's far from an insurmountable debt to pay over 10 years. It's obviously higher for people getting graduate degrees, law degrees, medical school, etc., but so is their compensation. The stories you hear about people racking up $200K in debt to get a Bachelors in Art History range from extreme outliers to basically memes. I support reform, but there's so much misinformation in this space it's ridiculous. A one time debt forgiveness isn't even "reform" IMO, as we're going to be right back where we started in a few years.
Are you talking about Disney casting a Black woman as Ariel, or Alex Jones saying the murders at Sandy Hook were faked? I think they're different categories.
Agreed, and thank you for registering just to share this perspective. Cheers!
The word billion used to mean million million in the UK until the 70’s. The American meaning has become more common in the last half century.
> "How does a fingerprint remain stable over any reasonable period of time?"

Depends on how stable the signals being used are. Some can be very durable.

> "How do you distinguish between different user accounts on the same device?"

Fingerprints usually identify a device or specific user-agent. I'm not sure about the context for this but you can augment it with cookies to specify "user accounts".

> "How do you tie a fingerprint to your database of existing customers?"

How do you tie any random alphanumeric ID - whether stored as a cookie on device or recognized as a fingerprint - to a customer? Mappings still exist and work the same way.

> "How do you keep cookie data from conflicting with fingerprint data?"

What would be the conflict? Ideally only one is used as the primary identifier and takes precedence.
Your observation in your edit is indeed a phenomenon. I have noticed this as well. Cloudflare seems to use HN as their exclusive marketing channel. Their CTO seems to submit almost every one of their blog posts or product updates here. Then many of the company's employees will join in on the thread and it becomes almost like a customer forum. I don't think this mixed with the knee jerk reactions to anyone with a critical voice is healthy.
> * Let’s not pretend all conceivable applications are, or should be, written in C++.*

This is a discussion on C++.

> People mostly stopped using C++ to develop web servers which handle web requests, because they moved to Java, C#, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.

I'm not sure you understood what I said, or thought things through.

By the way, the top performing web framework in the Tech Empower benchmark is a C++ framework which uses C++'s standard smart pointers.

https://github.com/drogonframework/drogon

Also, one of the most popular web frameworks for Python started off as an April Fools joke. I'm not sure what's your point.

Lastly, the main reason why C++ ceased to be the most popular choice in some domains was because it was during a very long time the most popular choice in some domains, and still remains one of the most popular choices. Some of the reasons why C++ dropped in popularity is the fact that some vendors decided to roll their own alternatives while removing support for C++. Take for instance Microsoft, which was once responsible for making C++ the only tool in town for professional software development. Since it started pushing C# for all sorts of web applications, multi-platform applications, and even desktop applications, and also pushing the adoption of those technologies as a basic requirement to distribute apps in its app store, developers can only use technologies that exist. But does that say anything about the merits of C++?
Ask HN: Any educational retreats for developers that are cheaper than Recurse?
I find Recurse to be expensive.
Caltrain also has limited ability to route around accidents, and in some cases has to run trains the "wrong way" on the other side of the tracks to get past certain areas.

They also have no communication at all. Back when I had a Caltrain commute I would use Twitter to find out if there were accidents or delays, because the station signs were alway wrong and almost all of the stations are unstaffed. I would see posts on Twitter from people who were on a train that crashed into a car and the station signs would still say everything was on schedule.
Archive links (ranked by VPN friendliness):

1.) https://web.archive.org/web/20220917191344/https://www.mercu...

2.) https://archive.ph/4JsZo
> followed by crypto (which is a glorified pyramid scheme - prove me wrong).

It is not wrong, but as long as it replaces the far, far worse pyramid scheme that is Fiat, I'm fine with it. But we digress :)
This is always so disappointing:

https://www.digitalcitizen.life/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/w...

The graphic says a thousand words.

They casually want your credit card info, documents, schedule, calendar, conversations, what other people know about you, and what you search for.

And that's just for Cortana.
Used Xfce for a decade. I have never had trouble using the mouse to resize windows. I use 1080p screen, maybe you use a higher resolution and 1px is too small on that.

If you right click the title bar of any window, to open a menu, from which you can select resize.
Volkswagen confuses me.

The new e-Van shows the strength of brand nostalgia and a pretty great engineering core for building solid cars with a perfect match for the target market.

At the same time, I haven't seen 1 positive take of Volkswagen's terrible new touch UX. They seem truly clueless about how to make physical systems coexist with smart-intefaces. How does something like that get past so many executives ?

Porsche is in a wierd predicament right now. They reached perfection. The cars handle perfectly, they are faster than any human can handle and the classic look practically defines the brand. The sports cars sell themselves faster than they can manufacture. The other big way to make money is SUVs, but Audi is already in that market..... they'd cannibalize each other.

The future for the cornering sports car is bleak. You can't build light cars anymore because electric vehicles are all dead weight. Pure-unassisted-ish steering feels terrible in electric cars and leaning into the weight for handling will make you into a Tesla, and you absolutely don't want to compete with Tesla on their own turf.
Aim high, but have compassion for yourself as you push forward.

This is not embracing mediocrity, it is not disengagement, slacking, or merely rejecting perfectionism. It is understanding that the process of growth and improvement exacts a toll, and that growth is not always a pure function of time invested.
The premise here doesn't match reality: nobody wants to (much less is, to a rounding error) paying $500k for a degree.

Nobody should pay for it directly. It should be virtually free to go to college, the way it is everywhere else in the developed world. It should be that way because it's single most obvious investment and high-returning investment any country can make in its future.
I can't find a proper citation, but rounding is undefined.

The recommended guideline[0] is to round to the nearest 5¢.

This article from 2013 is my closest citation to "undefined behaviour"[1]

> These guidelines are only a suggestion though and there is currently no law that specifies how retailers must round.

I don't know since ~2013 if anything has been decided to make those guidelines "law". I couldn't find anything quickly in the SEO cesspool that is modern web search.

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/programs/about-canad...
[1] https://cba.ca/phasing-out-the-penny-in-canada
I've used it in the past month to impromptu demonstrate something that I had set up on a GUI app at home (with a lot of dependencies) from my laptop.

Yes, it's laggy, but it's nice to have the option, and it's really nice that it's already integrated with ssh and doesn't need extra setup (past passing `-Y` to ssh). If this was the only thing I'd lose by switching window managers it wouldn't be a dealbreaker.
Lithium Smashes New Record as Supply Struggles to Feed EV Growth
Which alleged viewpoints of mine conflict? And is that what we're calling drawing attention to relevant but ignored facts? Trolling? And to not troll, I would have to accept journalist's framing and cherry-picking of stories without complaint?
> However, for Java or modern C#, in my experience the performance is often fairly close.

Aren't you contradicting yourself? You started off complaining malloc of not being good enough, but now it's suddenly ok to tolerate Java and C#'s performance drop when compared to C++?

Which one is it?
Google is also a competitor in mobile which is a much bigger deal. Apple and Microsoft have been competitors and at the same time worked together since Microsoft wrote AppleSoft Basic in 1980. Microsoft was on stage with Jobs at the introduction of the Mac in 1984 and has consistently developed Office for the Mac since 1986 through all of the Macs transitions.

If Google didn’t need to pay, why are they paying $18 Billion a year?

I added the part “are forced to” because as much as I rail against the government getting involved in the free market when it comes to tech, it even makes me feel uneasy that the two major mobile platforms are unabashedly colluding and one is outright paying the other to funnel customers.
Reminds me of a quote from Bojack Horseman I think about quite often (in the show it's in reference to running): "It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day. That's the hard part".
As someone who never did lab work before lab, and now maintains a healthy work-life balance where I do work during work hours, I got a different message.
For his new memoir, Predator, Ander Monson watched the 1987 movie 146 times
> There's been times when I've simply given up on buying something because I got sick of wading through ads looking for any actual information.

It's happening more and more often to me. I've been caught on this spiral of mistrust ever more often, even when wading through what once was a good place for human reviews: reddit.

I can't tell anymore what's an honest review to a paid one, be it affiliate links bullshit all the way to astroturfing on social media, it's exhausting.
Coming up with a credit card skimmer is probably partially a labor of love and partially motivated by the desire to make some stacks haha, but interesting is indeed in the eye of the beholder.
Exactly. We are in a trillion dollar signaling arms race funded by the federal taxpayer.
Got: Game of Trees version control system for OpenBSD developers (2019) [pdf]
its a simple question answered by sociologists not economists.

advertising creates a barrier to enter a market, not the market.

when you spend on ads, you are not creating new market for you, you are just unlocking some of the reserve market the established leaders secure via misinformation and brand brainwashing.
If it is floating (denominated in dollars) then it isn't backed by liquor.

You gotta be able to exchange it for a fixed amount of the booze.

I wonder if a particular distillation would be considered more valuable.
Running an IETF Hackathon
Yeah I made huge assumptions!