skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a concrete policy proposal from the right and center: stick with the admissions process TJ has used for decades, based on grades and standardized tests. The same factors used all over the world for this sort of thing.

You can call it part of the “culture war,” but so what? Culture matters. Since the 1920s, we have relied on race-blind, objective metrics like standardized testing. It has worked really well, allowing numerous groups of outsiders (Jews, Italians, Asians) entry into the highest reaches of society. It’s working fine for Hispanics, who are assimilating economically at the same rate as previous generations of immigrants, including in states like California where affirmative action is still illegal. If you want to replace that with a system of racial gerrymandering, you don’t get to dismiss the opposition to that change as “culture war” “nonsense.”
Nuclear power kills people when things go wrong and accidents happen. Coal, oil and gas kills people when things are running perfectly.
They could have reached for Turbo Vision and call it a day.
I think this:

> Maybe the issue is just that hotels don't want to pay enough.

doesn't get at the point of this:

>> Its not a shortage of workers, it's a shortage of underpayable workers.

For centuries, rich people have had servants. Somehow, there have always been enough people in bad enough situations that taking grueling and poorly paid servant jobs has been their best option. Somehow!

In the US, for a long time we "solved" that problem by having a social hierarchy of race. Legally backed in many places first by slavery and later by Jim Crow, or just socially backed through perfectly legal discrimination. That finally changed for the better with the civil rights acts of the 1960s plus 50 years of hard work eroding the discrimination. So yay, partial victory, good for us.

That changed the targets, but it didn't change the structures that create people who expect to have servants and a much larger number of people who are desperate enough that they have to be servants, putting up with the often-terrible working conditions.
> Tax the rich and they leave.

A common claim but never accompanied by actual evidence.
As far as I recall I've never had delivery service spam either in my inbox or my spam folder.

I occasionally get a spam message in my inbox, but it's perhaps once or twice a month. My spam folder collects perhaps fifty messages a month with perhaps one or two falsely identified (usually newsletters or similar where it's understandable that the content might score a bit closer to the line).

I wonder whether there's something about the messages you've approved, or alternatively if your email address is somehow on more delivery-spam oriented wishlists...? Perhaps a legit delivery service with your email had a leak?
Feyerabend may or may not have been right about physics or astronomy, but he sure as hell sounds like he knew what software engineering would be like.

Should programs be written in a procedural, object-oriented, or functional style? Just how much should you care about scalability when you're building your MVP? What's the best way to write tests for a program that makes API calls to servers you don't control? Rails or Next.js? Emacs or vi?

There's no tried and true method for determining the answer to any of the above. Most people will say "it depends." Depends on what? How do you tell if you made the right choice? Very often, you can only tell afterward when your company gets a bazillion users and your servers start crashing left and right. Even then, the answer is fairly subjective and boils down to whether your team, shareholders, and users are happy.
Well more people die from workplace accidents installing solar than from nuclear
The issue is back in 2009, the US government started backing student loans, so they were guaranteed loans. There was also no loan limit on these. This is allowed universities to charge more and more money, in the fed was happy to back these loans.

This is led to bloat within universities. See: https://stanfordreview.org/stanfords-administrative-bloat-is...
The same thing applies to any binaries downloaded from their site, so unless you you've got signed binaries (that use an independently obtained/verified chain of trust), trusting the server is your your only option. Even with signed binaries, you're still trusting the entity that holds the signing key.
> I suspect the schools would just look to adjuncts

Adjuncts are more expensive than PhD students. That's not going to help at all with undergraduate costs.

> or senior u-grad students to be the necessary ta’s. It’s not like a 1st or 2nd year PhD student is particularly good or interested in ta’ing - they might be taking courses and are certainly fulfilling program entry requirements.

If 1st or 2nd year PhD students are not particularly good, then wouldn't senior undergraduate students be even worse? Anyway, in my experience 1st or 2nd year PhD students didn't usually TA. It was the longer tenured students who were the TAs.
> when orange guy took the chair

If politics affect you so deeply, I am wondering what you have done to get involved in politics. Do you go to county Democrat monthly meeting? Did you join a campaign as a volunteer and make phone calls for a candidate?
Oq: Transform XML and YAML data using jq filters
we could even name the tool to query such serialized data, procctl, provided by the systemd-proc package
You can get adjuncts and undergrads to be replacement TAs, but from my 2nd-hand experience via my wife (PhD in psychology) it would be research where things fall apart. The tenured professors rely heavily on PhD students to run grant-funded research and write papers for the lab.

The general public thinks first and foremost about education, but for lots of academics, teaching is a necessary evil and research is where the prestige (and money) is.
Being on your feet all day and bending over to scrub a toilet is physically demanding relative to a project manager sitting in front of their laptop. Yes it's not as physical as working in a moving company, in a steel mill, or as a home health aide who lifts disabled people. "If you've got time to lean you've got time to clean."

There's not always a spouse with a good job. When the employment market is in favor of employers people just have to accept shitty jobs. In tight labor markets these low wage no benefit jobs are hard to fill and current workers at an establishment don't lose much by quitting for greener pastures. Even with a spouse who has benefits through work, many employers don't subsidize family benefits. Their solution is a "spousal surcharge."
Much of that is simply how conservative GM has been with their testing. Extending geofencing just comes down to cost, but it’s pointless to map most locations when they aren’t looking to start selling any time soon.

The technology can also handle speed and inclement weather at least as well a people do, but they have little reason to push when they have little to gain and a lot to lose.
Makes perfect sense for a computational field such as molecular modeling or engineering.
> Even in cases where people obviously should use controls, such as clinical trials, they frequently don’t.

This is not true in my experience (I have designed and run pharmaceutical clinical trials in humans). Can you give some examples?

Some treatment trials do compare the existing standard of care vs the new one rather than placebo against proposed treatment, but those are certainly controlled studies too.

I do know of cases where a control is impossible, such as some surgical procedures, though even then sometimes sham surgery is performed (this is controversial). Those are singly-blinded controls as the surgeon knows.
Related, I've found stopping episodes of television in the middle makes it much easier to stop bingeing. If I finish an episode there's always* a revelation that I want to go on to the next episode to resolve. But in the nadir of the middle I'm usually more satisfied and I can just turn it off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

Those MBA types have been cutting corners on quality for a while...
The point is that the source you cited to claim they didn't doesn't actually prove that, so what reason do us random HNers have to believe you over the initial claim that the higher tax rate in the past actually addressed this problem?
Uptime Wind Energy Podcast: https://weatherguardwind.com/wind-turbine-podcast/
If I click "images", I see an empty page. Is tat a mistake or you are planning to fix it later?
The thing is about the zipper rule is that it can genuinely be difficult in practice sometimes. If it's a simple example of a busy slow moving two lane road becoming a one lane road, it's absolutely simple and unquestionably the best practice to merge late. But in other situations, especially ones involving exits and junctions, it can be down to judgement.

In very low density traffic on high speed roads, waiting until the lane is actually closed to move over can create slow downs, but moving left earlier doesn't. The point where the optimum behaviour changes isn't always clear and can change rapidly.

In the UK, the rule is that in slow moving congestion you should late merge but in other cases you should stick in the left lane unless overtaking. There isn't a specifically defined point where one behaviour should take precedence over the other.
>Apple has (had?) a deal with Major League Baseball and has a deal with Major League Soccer. I'm not sure that I would consider them to be rubes that don't understand what they are doing

Neither of those leagues are the NFL, which has the audience to command a lot more than MLB or MLS. Also, the three leagues in question all have very different strategies when it comes to media rights. MLB has sliced up different packages of games for a very long time, and their deal with Apple is more akin to ESPN Sunday Night Baseball than it is anything resembling NFL Sunday Ticket

>That is believable, to the long-term detriment of the NFL. Sometimes, when you are the top dog, you don't realize that things are changing until you suddenly aren't on top anymore.

They would have to give up billions (in the range of $4-5b a year) to regain the flexibility to offer Apple the terms Apple wanted. I don't think Apple would've been interested in replacing that revenue
Are they really that much more expensive? Also, wouldn’t that provide more actual jobs for PHd’s instead of competing for a scant number of jobs? Furthermore, I do not believe that the costs of undergraduate education are driven by professor salaries; I suspect there are other drivers like administrative overhead and overbuilt facilities.
This isn't just for notifications to clients themselves, this would handle the federation of notification's.

Similar to how Apples push notification service works already (APN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Push_Notification_servic...)
Not a direct answer to your question but related.

In your career there are periods of reaping and sowing, in various ways. In terms of mentorship, you are reaping when you are surrounded by people more senior than you, and you are sowing when you are the most senior one.

My experience has mainly been in top companies where there were always more senior people to learn from. Then I did a 2 year startup stint and had nobody to learn from (but had plenty to teach)

I think you are seeing this dynamic. Your best opportunity for mentorship is at work and you are recognizing that startup life doesn't give you that. If you are craving growth / mentorship, it may be a signal to look for a situation (big company) that can readily give you that to reap. After a few years, you can go back to sowing in startups at a higher level.
In the current system 95% of families can't build generational wealth so the point seems moot

It's the temporarily embarrassed millionaire syndrome. Sorry but it just doesn't happen for most people due to the way the system works
For an example https://www.mossy.earth/projects/restoring-aspen
2021 or Q1 this year isn't "hodling til the end of time" in my mind. Think on the order of decades. If you sold right after vest in 2012, you'd be in pain.
That’s not a new problem though? The classic way to solve this in database is to expose the data API as stored procedures/views and restrict query access on the actual tables to just the DBAs - I think even MySQL which was late to the party here has had this ability for some time now.
>but there are roads in my town where unless someone waits and yields

Making a left hand turn into my driveway at certain times of day can take forever to do safely with cars either piling up behind me or somewhat dangerously passing on the shoulder. Even worse it's at the bottom of a hill so traffic tends to speed up. Sometimes there's a break but often someone will flash their lights and let me go.
There is a take that consistently comes up in discussions like this (and indeed is prominent several times on this post), which says "the problem isn't a shortage of workers, it's that employers don't want to pay workers enough." This seems somewhat limited to me, and there is an alternate explanation I would like to explore.

It seems to me rising cost of labor, while good for the people being paid that rising cost, can actually be bad for society overall, because you some businesses and industries will just disappear when the cost of labor goes high enough. And sure, you can respond that those businesses shouldn't exist if they can't pay workers enough, and yeah, fine. But the result is that we just then don't have those businesses (making society worse off?).

For this hotel example -- maybe cost of labor continues to go up, and it's much harder to automate making a bed than vacuuming a floor, and in 10 years, we all generally stay at hotels where robots vacuum our floors every day, but no one ever makes your bed for you -- that becomes a relic of the past.

I live in NYC, so a more prominent example I think about frequently is how we can no longer afford beautiful stone masonry on all our buildings. When labor was cheaper 100 years ago, it was easier to pay someone to carve stone -- now, not so much.

I want workers to be paid a lot so they can live good lives, but it's worth thinking about what happens to society as cost of labor continues to go up, and why the cost of labor is going up in the first place (Baumol's Cost Disease? Land rent?).
For example, if you want to use modern tools (aka code) in a department where nobody is hired for their coding skill, you need some staff. And you need to pay them well, because... you know. Startups, SF, FAANGs.
> If people think people like them don't do certain jobs, they may be reluctant to take such jobs.

Ah, "people like them". You might try thinking through the who and the why here. Then you'll get to the "useful" part.
I guess he agreed to go without a fight
of course. Typically in STEM PhDs are paid from the research grants of their advisors.
Is USA government policy actively antagonistic towards this specific technology? Or just doesn't have specific support/incentives for this specific kind of technology?

Is there any reason the market doesn't/can't support buying these panels here? Or are there weird tariffs against it?

IS there not already a boom in solar PV installation in the USA?

It looks like we're far from a watts-per-capita leader (15th in the world?), although we are ahead of China, for now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country
The system level fix is to create a structured record format. That could mean quoting all the records or maybe Linux should finally adopt a standardized format like JSON.
GraalVM in 2022: A Year in Review
> Is your argument that no one should create TUI applications except within Emacs?

Not at all. I said in my original comment that I am all for creating TUI applications. And also that the work done by Textual is nothing short of impressive.

What I ask here is why new users are averse to using Emacs+packages when they are ready to put similar time investment in learning TUI applications which also come with their own commands, keybindings, workflows and learning curve?
> Coal and nuclear are uncompetitive simply from the cost of the steam side

Do you have any reference regarding this claim?

Like the ROI for each kind of energy source, or the payback time for the investment to build the energy plant.
No, if you’re an RA your prof brings in the money. Might also be the fund draw for post docs but I can imagine some with their own funding (awards or governmental). Based on my experience I would think PhD candidates are smart technicians for much of their residency.
New buildings are funded by donors who might not have donated without the building.
> The prestige of the NFL is going to keep it out of a purely streaming product as long as there are TV stations broadcasting free over the air

This is a good point and I suspect that was why Apple left the table. There’s no way they’d spend $2B/year (their entire original content spend in 2022 is estimated at 6.5B) to not have it Apple exclusive. Especially when TV+ is a loss leader already.
RISC-V Is Inevitable – A Tale of Two RISC-V Summit Keynotes
I also would like to know what hand grinder you have!
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baloney - what is the cost to the environment of producing, transporting and then throwing away a refrigerator every 7-10 years? How about the gas used for the service calls?

My old fridge is running perfectly, and costs me less than $10-$15/month.

A typical modestly price refrigerator these days cost $1000 at home depot (and easily more) - even if I could cut electricity by 50%, saving 7.50 a month in electric, a typical new fridge won't even last long enough to justify the savings..
Universities have many needs besides TAs. the key to figuring out what a fair price for satisfying those needs is to have a market where supply can match demand. The same process can be used to set a fair price for grad student TA labor.
I sincerely hope you have a source of meaning in your life that you can tap into instead of making fun of people with different lifestyles on the Internet. Cheers.
Note that man page says that the name is truncated to 16 chars, so if for whatever reason you don't want to do unbounded length read then you can use that
Every time people reminisce about “the old web”, they’re forgetting about how pages like this used to put all the (non responsive) content in a <center> tag which made it much harder to actually read with human eyes.
Thanks for explaining some of the subtleties of these kinds of agreements.

I hope (and assume) these details will have no practical value to my life! But it's good to know how the world works.
Part of the problem is that in some states, state funding can only be used for buildings and nothing else. So universities get funding and are forced to spend it on nonsense
Transforming lotteries to fund climate projects
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It is actually quite easy to find food and be alive without money.

This “rent” thing sounds suspicious, you do you I guess.
The applicability of this advice definitely depends on the database, drivers, and query.

For example with PostgreSQL you need to create a cursor, then FETCH NEXT 1000 over and over again in a loop. This is a bit of a pain, but is the difference between processing as data arrives, with only small buffers everywhere, versus waiting for all data to arrive before doing anything.

What exactly you need to do and how to make it work is very much database specific.
Yes, social signals are location dependent. But driving in traffic is a social activity. And ignoring that strikes me as a big issue indeed.
I switched from jeans to cargo pants for this exact reason a few years ago.
Also related to marine industry:

https://gcaptain.com/

https://container-news.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitesimal
It’s important to note that it’s highly discretionary and you have to make a case for it. It’s not clear if USCIS updated their guidelines on what counts as a compelling circumstance to give you an EAD. So far, they’ve only approved for very few cases.
>What do you mean by "bottling it"?

Aluminum production, for one example.

Bauxite is so cheap and abundant that the cost of aluminum is almost entirely in the electricity required for smelting. And because aluminum is such a critical material for industry, it is effectively equivalent to energy exportation. This is why tiny Iceland is a top 10 global exporter of it: abundant free geothermal energy with nowhere else to go.
Why do these popups exist? Can google not track me without them since i normally am logged in to Google anyways?
Please help me understand. Who currently believes this and more meta, which people believe that people believe this and who in reality are those groups?
> releases so much of the gas that it partially offsets the increased uptake by the ocean

Even that is a rather optimistic take... My Chemistry knowledge suggests it more than offsets what is taken up by the ocean...
my led bulbs in the house are burning out every 18 months or so - no way they last 10 years - not even close.
Yes, the WebPush standard provides protocols for both. This is necessary because otherwise there wouldn't be an intercompatible way for backends to send notifications to different browsers. The protocol for the federation of notifications would be the most useful for other non-JS projects to reuse, so that backend developers can plug any native app in their existing webpush support without coding yet another system.
In related news, I'd like to announce that I am ending my training for the 2024 Olympics. That car companies are giving up on this doesn't change the story at all because they were never real competitors.

It never made any sense that manufactures of cars thought they could make self driving systems. Experience with supply chains, manufacturing, and marketing have zero translation to the problem space of self driving: sensing, interpreting, and decision making.
The entire academic institution is a scheme to extract money from undergrads to pay for research and administrators. Easy to see when you realize how much contempt professors have for undergrads.
If the game doesn't let you do 3 & 10, it's because you've already moved in two or three other columns this turn. (Or somebody's completed those columns.)

- You can only progress in 3 different columns on your turn. The columns you've already progressed in this turn are highlighted.

- You can't make progress in a column that's already been completed by you or an opponent.
Do you have a roadmap? Or a ko.fi?

I'd love to be able to support this. I'd also love to be able to export my text.