skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, lawmakers put them in that position as it has been effectively illegal to filter by anything else. If you have 1,000 people lined up down the street vying for your open position, you have to apply some kind of filter to whittle them down to manageable numbers for deeper consideration.

Us being increasingly more accepting of diversity hiring has helped somewhat. Now employers can say "To everyone not a gay black woman, thanks for applying, but no thanks." without much legal scrutiny, but that has only come on somewhat recently. 30 years ago when we were at peak "degree required" that would have been as unacceptable as saying the same about straight white men.

Employers have flirted with other filtering mechanisms, like credit score, but when that was gaining traction there was immediately calls to make that illegal[1] too. A degree is the only filter that has been consistently upheld and accepted. Nonsensically, but that's the power of marketing, I suppose.

[1] https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/employer-credit-c...
That's a naive view of how taxes work. It's a big pool that they divide up to fund a zillion different things. Deciding to fund college educations via student loan forgiveness doesn't necessarily mean a raise in tax rates, they can also accomplish it by shifting funding around. Taxes have been either stable or decreasing for decades[1].

It's also worth recognizing that education benefits _everyone_ in society, not only the person being educated.

[1] "Taxes" are hard to quantify, but here's a look at federal income taxes specifically through 2018. Notice that most columns trend to a decrease. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-averag...
Not sure we are talking about the same thing. I'm specifically talking about 1:07-1:10. What is the reason why the left arm could not take the hanger off directly, without involvement of the right arm?
I used it to make an NFC login system for a web interface. I would like to explore webUSB more.
Or at least, the more public resources you manage the less privacy you should have.
Perhaps I should have been clearer and said "if you want more memory than the 16GB model you need a wider bus" but this confirms what I described above.

- cheap gfx die with a 128-bit memory interface.
- vastly more expensive gfx die with a 384-bit memory interface.

Essentially there's a cheap upgrade option available for each die, swapping the 1GB memory chips for 2GB memory chips (GDDR doesn't support a mix). If you have the 16GB model and you want more memory, there are no bigger memory chips available, and so you need a wider bus and that's going to cost significantly more to produce and hence they charge more.

As a side note, I would expect the the GDDR chips to be x32, rather than 16.
Whaaaa? I will definitely check it out next time I have a use case. Thanks. How compatible is it?
Ongoing student debt accumulation is a far more serious issue than existing debt. Throwing money at existing debt wins easy political points but it really makes the situation worse. Now prospective students are going to start expecting relief and there is no incentive to actually address the issue.
ah yes, like they exempt themselves from pesky things like income tax
It depends. If everyone leaves whenever there's a problem, then problems will never get fixed. Or if Google is a good employer except for this, leaving over this one thing instead of trying to fix it is like leaving a house instead of fixing that broken window.
After 8 years of being satisfied with Dvorak, I recently began wondering if I should take a deeper dive into Neo. Initially I was intrigued, but then I learned there are so many variants. For many years Neo has been succeeded by Neo 2[0]. On top of that, there's also Bone, and Bone 2, Bone 3, and Flux[1] successors. Also, Noted[2] appears to be the most recent iteration, but it is not official like the others are.

[0] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neo2_keyboard_layo...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140906202835/http://wiki.neo-l...

[2] https://github.com/dariogoetz/noted-layout

[3] https://github.com/dariogoetz/noted-layout
This is similar to the Soviet Union. A lot of factories and utilities got asked to send their best employees to be council representatives. The factory managers naturally sent the most useless workers to become politicians. The rest is history.
The Hyperspace theme from SC2 is one I still regularly find myself humming.

Whoever does music has their work cut out for them.
Blocking pasting is intentional 100% of the time.
They found the bottom of the uncanny valley and started digging.
sure agree - but it is a "march to compliance" .. to creative and free-thinking people, this is like Death.. but not the same. The leadership at Anthropic have made it very clear that they intend to partner with Amazon and other ultra-legal corporate aggressors.. to take and run the corporate AI services space.. and comply with every legal ruling.. (no mention in the public about Defense work?.. Mr Schmidt with Schmidt Futures has shown the way there)

Anthropic has the playing field to build an empire in the classical sense
My feeling is that dumbo-octopus wants to fight somebody who believes that we have no agency and that socioeconomic conditions entirely determine our future, but it's not working because there's nobody like that nearby.
I'm 32, and while I was fortunate enough to not have any debt of my own, I think that the economic and demographic consequences of loading up a generation with this much debt this early have already taken hold.

There is a sizable plurality of Millennials who just see themselves as financially screwed. Kids? Nah. House? Possibly attainable before 2022, but not anymore. Retirement? Get real.

Economies need workers and un-concentrated capital to grow. We're not making enough babies, and we're sending more of the capital up the ladder to people who already have it and just don't want to spend it.

We're transferring value from the future to pay for the costs of now, because the people of wealth (who are almost always older) now don't want to pay for it.
You don’t need a high school degree for those jobs either. Hamlet and biology isn’t needed day to day at most workplaces
Where I live the superintendent and local groups formed a task-force style intervention and looped in local volunteers.

The scale of the problem is most visible through 'special ed' allocation. Once a program for kids with learning challenges, it now also encompasses what are essentially behavioral problems.

Kids don't get kicked out of school for throwing raging tantrums or hitting teachers - they get placed into programs designed to keep them in school. (If that's what life is like at school, imagine what life is like at home.)
I’m a bit confused with the analysis here. How do you confirm a downward trend in the data that is not visible on the graph. It looks like the median drops a little in the first few versions, but then rises in the last few. The R2 is really low, so I’m not sold on the correlation here. Basically, it looks like tail latency has improved and YMMV for everything else.
Medical school debt seems like the least compelling example given how much doctors get paid.

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/alternate/radiologist... The median radiologist is making $459k. The bottom 10% is still making $344k. So you could finish med school, be the lowest-paid radiologist in your class, and pay off your debt in like 2 years if you wanted.

A less lucrative specialty still makes the debt no big deal. If you're making $250k as a family doctor, you're still living comfortably after making your debt payments.
OK, that looks pretty dire, especially the corporate bullying.

Recently I tried running some .NET-stuff under Linux but it was a mess, Wine choked on stuff and even figuring out .NET versions seemed like it would have taken so much of my time that it could easily have bought a MICROS~1 machine. So we just dug out an old one for running that software instead.

I've also tried to build some applications under Linux that were supposedly supported, a year or so back, it was also messy. In my dayjob I've built stuff in Java and Racket and when I've built it on the target platform it just runs, it seems like a much nicer experience.

I'm sure the Mono folks are doing a great thing and some people say that the Steam compatibility layer is something of a miracle, but it's not like I can shove in the enterprise tools I had to use in a gaming framework. For one GDPR doesn't allow me to load the data if I did.
Also, the "they're wearing a black t-shirt, therefore they're scammers!" line of reasoning utterly fails to be convincing.
> I'd have a lot more compassion about the debt forgiveness if they were enacting some plan to FIX the problem at the same time.

The problem is that typically the very same people who are opposed to debt forgiveness are also opposed government-sponsored higher education that's free for students, like higher school and earlier; likewise, the very same people who are in favor of debt forgiveness also advocate government-sponsored higher education.

I don't think there is a fix as long as higher education is treated like a luxury good. And if that's society's choice, so be it, but then I don't want to hear another word about so-called "meritocracy" when it's pay-to-play.
Maybe "Higgs soup" is a particularly bad "phib", or mental model, but OTOH I'm sure there are approximately zero non-physicists even aware that the "Higgs Field" is a thing, or at least a thing in the minds of Physicists.

I think phibs, or more generally science-fibs, are mostly harmless and useful. These are mostly introduced at high school level where a simplified (even if flawed) explanation of something can at least give a rough understanding, and introduction to scientific thought process. Better to go through life thinking that color perception is based on light frequencies, and evolution selecting more-fit individuals, than to have no appreciation of how the world works.

I suppose "Higgs soup" is particularly bad in not being a simplified version of the truth, just a poor mental model, but the topic is so esoteric that it seems harmless.
OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories
That "track record" was a direct response to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by the Zionist colonizers. If one studies history in detail and nuance I'd say the Arabs have a much better track record than anyone else esp. Europe.

"Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth." - David Wasserstein
https://jewishstudies.stanford.edu/events/david-wasserstein-...
It only means that underrepresented should do better in convincing people to vote.
How about a pm last less than 60 days? Any totalitarian country like that. We are talking about a country my exam question is “all Brits are slaves, discuss”. Still.

Anyway may be you are the bots we talked about. And if not even more sad.
I installed Linux in fall 1994. I looked at Free/NetBSD but when I went on some of the Usenet BSD forums they basically insulted me saying that my brand new $3,500 PC wasn't good enough.

The main thing was this IDE interface that had a bug. Linux got a workaround within days or weeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMD640

The BSD people told me that I should buy a SCSI card, SCSI hard drive, SCSI CD-ROM. I was a sophomore in college and I saved every penny to spend $2K on that PC and my parents paid the rest. I didn't have any money for that.

The sound card as you mentioned was another issue.

I remember software based "WinModems" but Linux had drivers for some of these. Same for software based "Win Printers"

When I finally did graduate and had money for SCSI stuff I tried FreeBSD around 1998 and it just seemed like another Unix. I used Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Ultrix, IRIX. FreeBSD was perfectly fine but it didn't do anything I needed that Linux didn't already do.
Great idea ... I would love to see a couple things

1) Another section "Dashboard" including components for responsive tables, date pickers, lists, maybe charts
2) A really pure, semantic and therefore light HTML/CSS3 version; no bloated code; I do love the approach of PicoCSS 2
It's wild watching the Democratic party engage in brazen class warfare. "Did you go to work in a factory instead of going to college? Good news, you're paying for college anyway!"

Obviously, a levy on college endowments would be a better path, though still bad.
Now now. No need for that.
> So perhaps you need not only look at the children and instead try to improve the lives of the parents as well.

Clearly. It was other people who started suggesting that the children of poor parents should be forcibly put up for adoption. I can't fathom why anyone would think this is a good idea or even worth talking about.
First past the post is fine. It's the people who don't vote the way I do that are the problem!
Java does have pattern matching, but while some programmers certainly like having more features and a stronger type system to be, there's clearly nothing objective about that preference, considering that the only languages that are as popular as Java or more these days are JavaScript and Python. Of course, no one argues that more popular necessarily means better, but since software has huge economic value (and the vast majority of software is done to further economic activity) you'd expect some correlation between "better" and "more value". Given that for decades now the market consistently prefers the languages that you consider "worse", then one of two things: either there's a huge market inefficiency that somehow no one manages to exploit, or that what you consider better is not, in fact, objective.

In short, there's no doubt different programmers have different preferences on what they consider better (though those preferences are clearly not distributed evenly), but if you want to claim that something is objectively better, it has to be better by some objective measure that is related to the actual value that people expect to gain from software. The bigger the gap between your characterisation and market behaviour, the harder it would be to support claims of objectivity.
I agree with you, but also think corporate hiring and HR practices also deserve a lot of blame as well. I think this is a big part of the antimeritocracy sentiment that's started rising in the US. It's not so much antimeritocracy as much as it is anticredentialing, and I'd go so far as to say debates about standardized testing fall under the same umbrella. It's a general pattern: take some thing — a degree, a test score, whatever — that bears some legitimate but also weak signal of skill, ability, or aptitude, and then mindlessly apply it as a criterion as if it were the underlying thing you're interested in.

If corporations and HR wouldn't use these kinds of credentials mindlessly, there wouldn't be quite the unchecked demand that allows universities and colleges to feed off of it, and we wouldn't have all these debates about student debt. I've seen it in practice in administration at large companies, making certain kinds of degrees required for positions that absolutely do not require them, even of people currently working very successfully in those positions (i.e., they have to go get a degree to maintain a position they already have), because HR basically decides it will make the company look good, and the management gets a monetary bonus for implementing it successfully as policy.

Debtholders get a lot of criticism on HN, but I usually feel very differently in these discussions. I have no debt, but it's hard for me to blame people getting masters in religious studies when they see people will other bullshit masters degrees in administrative positions basically because HR has decided a masters degree in something, anything, is required for administration. It's also absurd that we can see the value in a manifest self-taught computer science or math skillset but then somehow imagine that someone getting a degree in philosophy means they can't also have those skills.

There's probably a lot more that could be said about a general problem in our society, of using weak metrics and algorithms as if they were precise, substituting poor measures for the thing itself. We have these neverending debates about whether the test score, or degree, or whatever, is a valid indicator of skill or not, as if that's the actual problem; it's never that these things aren't valid indicators of something, it's how much of an indicator they are and whether we should rely on them so heavily. It feels like it comes up everywhere: educational debt, medical regulation, everything.

Reading stories of earlier times are really sobering to me. I'm sure there's a certain amount of survivorship bias in the stories themselves, but it never ceases to amaze me how often people would actually apprentice in positions, or actually work themselves up the ladder, or just show up at places and get jobs. That still happens today but it's like we can't function without a rubber stamp that has the flimsiest of basis to it. It feels like admittance and hiring decisions are basically nonsense in a lot of places, so rather than fix it we just play pretend with these proxies.
There's one in Rokkasho-mura in Aomori, ~20mi from USFJ/JSDF Misawa AB. Not officially complete, whatever that's supposed to mean.
EVs have much more torque than comparable ICE cars. Even the cheapest EVs out there have very high torque when compared to almost any ICE cars.
There's consequences to frugal living, particularly in the form of people moving past the ideal window for starting a family.
I don't think making a profit has to do with being a "big name" though.

I agree that I really want NPR to thrive!
Interesting, some say that the US is the only real democracy in the world. The UK is not, nor any other countries in the world.

They base this assertion in two principles that any democracy should fulfill:

1) Power separation.
2) Representativity.

I can see that you don't agree with this, but what country has a better system then?
tar and rsync
Youtubepick the Enshittification of Internet Is Here – Why and How?
I will be yes but, in my estimation, the value of those state schools is well above the $30K/yr in GP's post, regardless of who is paying.

Side note: If a student chooses to saddle themself with that level of debt to attend Berkeley, I think that's still a good decision for the vast majority of students who will make that choice.
> Some years ago, I found a way to explain how the Higgs field works that is non-technical and yet correct

> But it did fit quite well in a course for non-experts, in which I had several hours to lay out the basics of particle physics before addressing the Higgs field’s role.

So, no known better concise explanation then. Maybe it's worth workshopping a _less_ incorrect explanation which resolves some but not all of the primary criticisms, so there's something useful to say to people who aren't prepared to sit through a book or several hours of a course?
That was my first thought.

Shock value PR stunt? Moving the Overton window for the general public’s aversion to what comes next?
It is your right and I think courts in most countries agree.

The legality of publishing (and profiting from) ad-blocking software and what companies are allowed to do in order to interfere with ad-blocking is less clear.

But one thing for sure, while ad-blocking is your right, companies certainly don't have to make it easy.
This sort of complexity is a major reason I've been moving in the direction of dropping Javascript on sites I build. My last web app only used 4 lines of JS for dismissing messages. Django SSR, templates, forms, and plain HTML work in extremely predictable ways. It's much easier to reason about and test plain HTML.
I dunno, I think people should do what makes them happy. Don't know why the author is so crabby about it.

The artists and innovators I respect the most are people who have gone way out a limb to put effort into a expression or endeavor, knowing full well that it might not appeal to anyone else. It takes a lot of effort, self belief, and perseverance to do this, and there's no guarantee of success. In fact, success is unlikely.

But a world where everyone follows the author's advice feels mediocre to me.
In implementing this, the metric should reflect the frequency of the changes in that repo, coz trending repos are sometimes already dead but are still there because of recent stars they got.
People who downvoted or flagged the above post are themselves examples of what’s killing HN. Bunch of snowflakes who don’t want to hear the truth: Political engagement works and matters even at the small scale - we are just lazy as hell.

Look to how unpopular CSPAN is. Everyone says they want the “truth” of politics. The truth is on CSPAN, and no one watches it.
She was 17 or maybe 18.

I would make my own college decisions slightly differently in retrospect, so I can't put all the blame on a 17 year old. She probably had lots of different advice, some of it contradictory, incomplete or optimistic.
In general, the lifetime earnings for a college graduate exceed those of a non-graduate by in excess of $1,000,000. There is nothing "ignorant" about choosing college.

The debt situation isn't sustainable. But "go to college to earn more money" continues to be largely true.

edit - fixed a typo
I briefly worked for a very large consulting company after an acquisition. As a part of the acquisition we were flown to a large city for 3 days of meetings. My next pay stub showed hours for my home state, hours for the state where we had meetings and a remittance for city income tax also. I left right after, but I still had to file:

Federal

State (mine)

State (meeting state for 2 days)

City (meeting city for 2 days)

No other company has ever done that to me, I assume it provided some benefit to my company to do it that way.
Spot on.

The silver lining about them clearly trying to exempt themselves is that they at least seem to be aware of the negative consequences of their proposal. So: not the right solution, but at least something that looks like a transition from blissfully ignorant -> aware of problems. Cogs are in motion, learning is happening.
This will be an unpopular opinion but part of your job as a good developer is being able to explain to your boss why this is an asinine thing to do, and convince them otherwise. If you're both powerless to make a decision as small as this and unable to convince even a single person above you to back you up on it you're not a very effective engineer.
Reminder that the average student loan debt is somewhere in the ballpark of $40k with the median being a little lower. I've found that most of the coverage on student loans misleadingly focuses on outliers.

Edit: downvoted for factual information :-/.
You'd think if you were contemplating a $10m investment in a promise-the-world startup, you'd spend the $20k to get an expert analysis of the project.
Yep. But I think it's like going to a casino "just for the free drinks". I'm sure some people pull it off, but everything in there is set up to get you to, ya know, play the games.
LOL. I was quite familiar with Mozilla internally back then.

Mozilla engineering up until b2g was like herding cats.

These whiners crack me up.

The donors mentioned don’t come close to the google money spigot that paid for everything

Eich was kicked to the curb for not passing a woke test

Mozilla was doomed once they started throwing everything at FxOS

Laughable that they thought they could compete based on feelings and fairy dust