skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I get much more honest and genuinely curious discussion on HackerNews than from University graduates.

Are HN commenters not mainly university graduates? My impression is that HN commenters are disproportionately university graduates compared to other social networks.
This could go the other way though. It's not just that you spent $Y on the degree, you also spent X years on the degree, which are years you could've spent finding that enjoyable career.
Or on this same point but from another angle, consider the ways you get into the higher end of the income distribution without a college degree. You either have family connections that let you take over a business, or you do something that comes with a big premium (walk on roofs, go up on ladders, move furniture, work construction).

If you didn't win the birth lottery that allows you to open door #1, you're stuck with the second option. Moving furniture or going up on a ladder aren't terrible when you're fresh out of high school. They are when you're 50, and you're going to be one of those that takes Social Security at 62, possibly after multiple spells of unemployment as you approached retirement.
Ah exactly what I need, I knew someone made a product, thanks.
Interest rates not reflecting the creditworthiness of the borrower is a design feature of federal loans. The idea being the government should at least subsidize loaning money to people for education.

In practice it just allows universities to raise tuition to the moon.
CHIP-8 was what caused me to stop using github and host my projects privately. I had no license set and had everything marked as copyright and it still ended up on being ported to the Nintendo Switch without my permission. I deleted the repo thinking that would be the end of it but it gets worse. When I type my uniquely spelled name with co-pilot enabled it starts auto completing my full name and code. :(
You can search for blasphemy laws here [0]. I just looked for countries that are predominantly Catholic.

Only obvious one where this may be currently enforced is El Salvador? Though I can't quickly find any recent examples, so maybe that's not true. And places like Monaco still haven't repealed those laws. Edit: also Poland – from a sibling comment.

[0] https://end-blasphemy-laws.org/countries/
Thank you for giving the rest of us an opportunity to have that concept deeply embedded as well…
The Three Pillars of Programmable Trust: The EigenLayer End Game
The latest major open LLM releases: Mixtral, Llama 3, Phi-3, and OpenELM
Tesla FSD head to head against Mercedes Driver Assist on the same road [video]
You're not actually arguing against weather modification and cloud seeding being real, are you? Cloud seeding has been done since the 50s and it's been suspected of being able to cause floods for quite some time: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1219-rain-making-link...

I mean, sure, maybe HAARP is bs, what do I know, but ruling out cloud seeding and weather modification techniques such as stratospheric aerosol injection is borderline ignorant and ignoring science.
20000km is a joke, I've put that distance on a bike without even replacing the chain (although I should have). I have new bikes and old, my average frame age is probably 40 years old, and I seek out old steel frames with particular tube sets and construction methods because they're often just as good as today's steel frames.
Not for the universities getting the sweet tuition money though
The actual data [1] doesn't seem to agree with the article. There's also usually a huge range of ROI for the same subject from different universities, and it doesn't give numbers of students, so (1) I suspect small sample sizes are skewing the data, and (2) it's impossible to find the percentage of students in negative-ROI fields of study or institutions.

> For bachelor's degrees, fine arts, education, and biology programs had the lowest median ROI, while engineering, computer science, and nursing degrees gave students the highest long-term rewards.

That doesn't seem to match the data. Based on average (over institutions, not students) ROI from the completed-on-time column, the worst are: Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft,
Library and Archives Assisting,
Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Medical Systems,
Theological and Ministerial Studies,
Movement and Mind-Body Therapies and Education,
Dance,
Personal and Culinary Services, Other,
Pastoral Counseling and Specialized Ministries,
Mason/Masonry,
Zoology/Animal Biology. Not too surprising except maybe the last one.

The top ROI are Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology,
Operations Research,
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences,
Mathematics and Computer Science,
Systems Engineering,
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering,
Computer Engineering,
Nuclear Engineering Technologies/Technicians,
Marine Transportation,
Petroleum Engineering. Again not too surprising.

Only 45/338 = 13% of fields of study have a negative average ROI graduated-on-time (17% including not-graduated-on-time).

[1] https://freopp.wpengine.com/roi-undergraduate/
Reminds me of Max Shulman's advice to aspiring authors: "Marry money"
Or, what's the provision that allows these companies and actors to be exempted from CFAA?

If this was used on any US citizen who has been killed and the Fed doesn't prosecute because it's been tacitly approved as an armament in war, isn't that akin to another "collateral murder" situation?
I know several people who are smart, happy with their jobs, and are massive conspiracy theorists. I think they have a kind of Dunning-Kruger syndrome: they are very successful in their fields, which leads them to believe that any explanation that makes sense to them must be true. It is the case some of the time, but occasionally it tricks them into believing in stupid theories that do not really make sense. Some Nobel prize winners famously went down that hole, who were very successful and admired before turning bad.
I forgot which interview that was, but Jim mentioned that some folks are genetically less affected by smoking - and the he did such a test and he seems not to be affected by it and that this was the reason why he didn't stop.
There's one thing you're missing here, and that is as women make up a larger percentage of an occupations' workforce, the wages start to go down with it, which is what happened or is happening with e.g. doctors and teachers.
Some thoughts about music and meaning
correlation != causation, I would be surprised if it wasn't a large mix of autodidacts, university graduates, bootcampers and people who fell in (helping out on some tech stuff at work or had to learn something to get a business bootstrapped) but became more and more curious over time.

One of the virtues of the industry being extremely immature is that the gates are not fully established, so you are more likely to have a strong mix of paths to reach senior. Especially amongst devops/infra, "full stack" developers or founders. Which seems to be the usual haunt on here.
In my case, it wpuld be to execute business logic, like complex calculations, validations, or workflows that go beyond simple database operations.

Another case is integrating external services through API calls, interact with other systems or services to fetch or send data.

Format and transform data to prepare data for presentation in JSON before sending it back to the client.
Hey, we're building Ente[1] as an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos.

If it helps, Ente has been previously discussed on HN[2][3].

To answer your questions, we support imports from Google Takeout[4], and we stitch together metadata from their sidecar files to make your library whole.

We also support Family Plans[5] and have open source apps[6] for every platform.

Let me know if you have more questions, would be happy to help!

[1]: https://ente.io

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570692

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28347439

[4]: https://help.ente.io/photos/migration/from-google-photos/

[5]: https://help.ente.io/photos/features/family-plans

[6]: https://github.com/ente-io/ente
I doubt he disputes that men can love their work. It is just they have fewer options if they do not.
Personally I store everything personal offline.

Much Safer.

I have 2 x 2TB drives.

Formatted to Exfat (I am a linux user, they are not.) so my family can get access when I die.

If you are in Europe:

Kdrive

https://www.infomaniak.com/en/kdrive

15GB free storage for photos, etc

2Tb storage = monthly CHF5.54 or $5.52 or £4.40

The swiss know how to do it properly.
I mean, the stat, particularly for bachelor’s degrees, is pretty good. 77% net out positively. And if the degree is the price of entry to a field, then it can be “worth it” if you want to be in that field, even if the ROI isn’t worth it.

Thankfully most people don’t go around making every decision in their life based on ROI.
Widen your social circle
Mechanical load bearing solder (Sansa Clip Plus)
I'm no engineer but please, hardware designers, stop using load bearing solder.

I saw a Sansa Clip Plus going on eBay for cheap so I decided to snag it, as this mp3 player is known for having one of the best DACs (even compared to iPod Classic) as well as community software support (Works remarkably well with Rockbox, which is Linux for mp3 players, providing useful features such as FLAC playback).

First issue was volume down didn't work. Volume up was clicky and functional but volume down had no click. So I pop it open and notice the button is entirely missing. I prod around the device and the button module falls out, apparently stuck to the adhesive on the battery. Solder it back into place and the problem becomes clear; the button has no backstop, when you press the volume keys, all the tension is exerted directly onto the button's solder joints at a 90° angle. Oh well, at least it's fixed, for now. Testing other features and notice the headphone jack drops out when the port is jostled. Further inspection reveals that the tensioner pin that locks the 3.5mm jack into place at the tip is also soldered directly onto the board at 90°, meaning any time headphones are plugged in, it is putting constant tension on the solder joint. After cleaning and applying some fresh solder to all the connections, the device is working well.
I know of one or two supported by a high earning wife. But it seems rare.
These are one of those things that make you wonder 'why does anyone (real) Engineer when you can be a Programmer?'

Its more economical to automate the engineering work with software/programming.

(Or if its not more economical, you wouldn't automate it)

Its not like there is a lack of engineering work to automate. Until we reach some sort of assembly-line-steady-state like we have today, I don't really know why someone would be a (real) engineer when you can make more money as a programmer. Real engineering is significantly harder physically, mentally, timing-wise, etc... I don't see any advantage. I will never be going back. I just automate now.
Show HN: NanoXLSTM: minimal codebase for playing with xLSTM language models
nanoXLSTM is a minimal codebase for playing around with language models based on the xLSTM (extended Long Short-Term Memory) architecture from the awesome research paper: xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory and heavily inspired by Andrej Karpathy's nanoGPT.

*Note: Work in progress!!! I am working on improving the generated text.

No lofty goals here - just a simple codebase for tinkering with this innovative xLSTM technology!
Link between depression and cardiovascular disease explained
I recently switched from a 15 year programming career to becoming an apprentice woodworker at an architectural millwork shop, and I could do it because I have a partner with income that can support us both. Might not be often, but it certainly happens
I think we're playing a game of trade-offs and the article was speaking more in absolutes. If electric cargo bikes replace cars for a substantial number of trips that's unequivocally a win. The article is asking "how can we make this better".
Show HN: Add Chat to Anything
Hey everyone, I've been working on small side projects (like most of you?!?) since last summer and came across a thought:
A. In US people use iMessage and Messenger, in Europe people use WA, Telegram, Signal etc.
B. Most chat apps require installs and accounts to use

So, I challenged myself to build a mini app that lets you create chat rooms in seconds without installs or signups. This could be for occasions like events, workshops and other gatherings that happen only once with a group of people that come from different countries, or if anonymity is preferred.

Some tid bits:

- Website: https://www.babbble.chat/

- Chats are created with UUIDs, easy to share as a link or QR

- Random names and colors are assigned to each person in room

- User details are stored in local storage, browser remembers you if you come back

- Works on mobile and desktop

- No idea about the performance, I guess I'll find out :P

This is my first project with Node.js and ChatGPT helped a ton with the backend, so thanks Open AI.

Comments and feedback are greatly appreciated!
How is that possible? Which language was this in?
>Meanwhile, a computer science major will earn on the order of double what a psychology major might earn, both as a starting salary, and that will compound over their careers.

So? Assuming a fair charge (not the US kind of exorbitant tuition), the costs are similar (salaries from professors, administrative stuff, buildings, libraries, labs, and so on).

You're not paying to buy a career, you're paying to buy an education.

>There would be no kids with low-value degrees in $250k of debt graduating with a job paying $30k/yr. That simply shouldn’t happen.

Yes. Or we could forbid poor people from getting their desired degrees altogether, what you describe is the same thing but with more steps.
Writing a good concurrent garbage collector is harder than writing a compiler.
Ideograms are "too far gone" to be recognisable to Western readers now - too evolved away from their roots, when different writing instruments were used. So FWIW I would expect that your hypothetical future emoji conlang will not resemble them. Maybe it will look like an AI has redesigned airport symbology ?
AAA game is likely C++
Show HN: (Wiki,stackoverflow,jina...) x (Gemini,GPT,kimi...)
Implemented in posix shell/awk
With the war powers authorized in the 2000s, there's more than impeachment.

Are they American? Where is their birthy certy? (Is there Habeas Corpus for all persons. "You're not even American!")

If the executive is totally immune, they wouldn't need to assist a foreign country illegally in order to get Congress to grant them extra power.
Isn't the US power grid also a problem?
I don't get your point. Negative ROI means you will have to earn extra money to cover the shortfall through some other method. In other words, it is a rich people's game. You either have to be rich already, or become rich afterwards.
I would say he massages his facts until they fit the narrative. Not saying he misrepresents things but he often comes to conclusions that are not based on the data IMO
Your anecdote actually makes sense because she is pursuing a career in her degree. She didn’t get a degree in Sales.
I didn't win the birth lottery on #2 either; I've got some physical disability, though I have still done a bit of that type of work and if you think it comes with a "big premium" then your experience is very different from mine. Roofing is an incredibly simple job to learn for instance, and it pays little better than minimum wage. From my actual experience (admittedly limited to the South Texas market), blue collar jobs still pay like crap. The toll taken on the body actually seems to be pretty individualized; I know some men who seem to have no problem working into their 60's and I think that keeping active within reasonable bounds actually contributed to that.
Eh, it’s not the most sexy language, because across all dimensions, there are more scary languages.

C++ is much more scary than Java in a “shoot yourself in the foot” kind of way.

INTERCAL is much more scary than Java in a “this is impossible to understand code” kind of way.

Haskell is much more scary than Java in a “this language has FP constructs” kind of way.

So why is Java scary?
(disclaimer: haven't been in university for almost a decade now so I don't know whats happening on campus right now)
>Look at universities and you see students with unhinged political beliefs, based on wild emotion tethered to neither evidence nor reason.

Examples of which are? Genuinely curious and don't inherently disagree, but what are they and why are the unhinged?

>It is imperative that schools teach critical thinking and provide a desperately needed grounding in various subjects,

agreed, I think we have to remember that the education establishment is really just composed by people, so you have to be specific by what you mean by "grounding", if it means "they believe what I believe because I'm right and everyone else is uneducated" that doesn't sound like grounding, grounding is introducing ideas and allowing them to go into whichever direction that leads to, it's not called "guiding" it's called "grounding"

EDIT: quick thought, If by "grounding" you mean "normalization" in the statistical sense around a core set of beliefs, I would argue that's missing the point of education, educated people buy into beliefs from first principles, people shouldn't be buying beliefs through education
I hope AI doesn't become a version of Universal Paperclips.
The economic order is breaking down
https://archive.ph/dZVK4
I think this is basically the heart of the matter. Given the large-lot neighborhood they're used to, finding a condo that's going to feel "comfortable" to them is hard enough to begin with. Then, factor in the accessibility issues like finding a one-level, 2-bedroom condo with no steps, no multi-step front stoop, and preferably with a no-step shower and a garage: you've narrowed the market dramatically. You're basically in "retirement community" territory, which is significantly more expensive per square foot than SFH, not less. Having just been through this, it means locating somewhere you swore you'd never live and sticking out like a sore thumb as a senior in a "starter" community.
You can always slam more proccessors together, makes sense compute isnt the bottleneck. You have people who have proven you can run on CPU, even if its not realistic in the real-world.

Memory currently is a concern.

Algorithms are my only concern. Its not like these algorithms can snag some protons and electrons and analyze them, they are at the whim of human progress/data collection.

Energy, above my paygrade.
Seams a bit counter intuitiv. Mass immigration needs more housing. Mind explaining?
Btw. What is zoning restrictions?
There is a climate-changing chemical released by aircraft as they fly overhead — it's called "carbon dioxide".

It's just, (a) CO2 is invisible, and (b) CO2 being this chemical is politically unacceptable to people who make money selling carbon rich fuels and also to people who are currently unable to switch to a different power supply.
Sure, but if your corpus is very large, that's not feasible.
> Rockbox, which is Linux for mp3 players

We wish!

> providing useful features such as FLAC playback

Agreed.

> Solder it back into place and the problem becomes clear; the button has no backstop, when you press the volume keys, all the tension is exerted directly onto the button's solder joints at a 90° angle.

Worse I find is when you can't just solder it back because the break is not between solder and copper plate, but between copper plate and substrate.

Well done for the restoration.
Was the ROI reflective of people producing English-degree work or some other industry?

I can imagine an English teacher does not have that kind of ROI.
There is a easy way to measure happiness. Record level of women are on antidepressants. And there is significant correlation with education level.

And please do not argue "she is happy with her choice" and on antidepressant at the same time!
I’m not invalidating opinions from autistic people tho, I said many times autistic voices should be centered.

When I typed what I had said before about not seeing any different opinions here from autistic people it was not because I was ignoring your opinion but because I had not seen it. Your opinion is valid.

However I don’t honk you were only responding in kind in your last reply — the poster was simply asking a question and you replied with sarcasm.

My question and concern for you is: are you not worried that such efforts will further stigmatize autistic people as in need of a cure without ever actually offering one?

For me the worst of both worlds is one in which people earnestly work for a “cure” to a problem that can’t be solved through medicine, all while making the societal problem intractable (as everyone is pushing for that miracle cure).
Which means more people should go into vocational style degrees or engineering if they want to have a positive ROI
> I would be surprised if it wasn't a large mix of autodidacts, university graduates, bootcampers

Speaking of the tech industry, autodidacts and bootcampers are not mutually exclusive with university graduates. For example, I taught myself computer programming, but I also have a Masters degree in philosophy.

In any case, what exactly is your experience in discussion with university graduates exclusively, that you can compare it with Hacker News discussion? By the way, I suspect that my esteem for HN discussion is a lot lower than yours.
Elevated has been on Shadertoy for more than 10 years https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdX3Rr
Men aren't supposed to make more money and the wage gap is in favour of women when you look at recent male vs female graduation rates simply because there are more educated women.
Reminds me of a post I saw sometime ago: https://bendauphinee.com/writing/2023/12/30/to-know-where-yo...
The state of time in Rust: leaps and bounds (March 2024)
My father took a 1 dollar pay cut from 16 CAD/hour to 15 CAD/hour. Working in furniture repair he wanted to transfer from house calls (driving everyday) to in-shop repairs

My mother's a secretary (they call them administrative assistants now to be correct). She could advance her career by becoming a clerk, which mostly does more of the same, only more. Instead she's happy where she's at

I used to work for Microsoft. I left for a startup (peerdb) & while my pay didn't go down, that meant leaving behind >50k USD in unvested stocks & my salary growth at Microsoft was pretty fast (hired as junior in 2019, was one promo away from principal when I left in 2023) which I don't expect a startup environment to match
Can The Lord of the Rings ever be remastered [video]
Vision Pro uses a sneaky trick to hide visual artifacts: Bad lenses
Ask HN: Is there a single website with power law impact on trained LLM?
If the SOTA ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, Mistral, Gemini or Gro, were trained on the exact same data except removing 1 website X, is there any website X that would cause a significant drop in performance across a broad range of benchmarks?

I'm trying to find if someone has done this test on a SOTA model.

Candidates I'm thinking of: Reddit, Wikipedia, Arxiv.
PiS state media absolutely destroyed my grandpa. In the recent years, he went from being someone whom you could talk to to someone that only speaks about how Tusk is devil and so on.
Mercedes? Pick an easier competition?

As much as European cars have a favorable reputation among American consumers: They are awful!

If you do benchmarking, you are going to find European cars have lots of appearance parts that are high quality, but the actual components are poor.

A more realistic comparison would be to compare Tesla vs Ford or GM. These are 3 companies that have similar tech/culture standards. This video is like comparing AMD to Apple.