skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The increase in price probably comes from a combination of demand for college education and some monopolistic competition in the accredited university market, where government regulation suppresses the supply of accredited universities. I think we're seeing some change with the latter supply (e.g. community college, online degrees, etc) but demand for a U.S. college degree still stands strong on the global market from international students.
It would be nice to get data on yearly university applications and do an empirical analysis on supply and demand.
You shouldn't even need a college degree to proofread mainstream news, which is written at, what, a 5th or 6th grade reading level? K-12 Schools also share the blame for not even remotely educating their students.
eh forget all this coding minutiae, i dabbled with arduino here and there.

in my experience it's not to do with code. your serial/usb runs the bytes back through your debugger (typically IDE On the PC). Your IDE has config settings like baud rate +/- encoding that you have to config. If that IDE config is messed up (IDE Is presumably printing out your printf bytes over usb or whatever), then your output is bytes. Make sure your baud is correct.
Looks like there is a "some" option. For some reason the author quotes one number from one year, a second from the other, and ignores the third option in both. Ignore "not sure" respondents in polls at your own peril.
Multiple Queues vs Prioritized Queues at the Airport
Have an RSS feed. Or Atom.
Am I reading it correctly, customer's account data is exposed to the same customer? The exception is some logs as I see.
From what I can tell, the "Request Ride" intent for Uber is broken (throws error on any request) and has been like this for at least 2 years.

The Ride Request API [1] seems closed off to developers now, too.

[1] https://developer.uber.com/docs/riders/introduction
The some (there were actually 5 options) line is almost flat: 33, 34, 40, 32. It peaked and then settled back to about 1/3rd of respondents.
Why does NASA rely on all of these contractors? Government work is so inefficient.
This short article is one person's take on a recent Gallop poll. Here is a direct link to the poll itself: https://news.gallup.com/poll/646880/confidence-higher-educat...

The primary take-away seems to be that, since 2015, Republican confidence in higher ed has dropped 36%, and Democrat confidence has dropped 12%. This is based on the question "Please tell me how much confidence you, yourself, have in higher education - a great deal, quite a lot, some or very little". The first two options appear to be combined in the data/graphs. 68% now say higher education is "headed in the wrong direction". The primary source doesn't say how many people were asked or how they were asked.[1]

The drop seems to be a combination of concerns about ideological capture and falling economic utility.

1 - It does say "The research includes the trend results reported above from Gallup’s June telephone survey as well as new results from a contemporaneous web survey of more than 2,000 Gallup Panel members." But I don't know what this means.
interesting timing to recall that story. now the same trick is used for h100 vs whatever the throttled-for-embargo-wink-wink Chinese version is called.

but those companies are really adverse to open sourcing because they can't be sure they own all the code. it's decades of copy pasting reference implementations after all
why not do it entirely in the browser? sure it might be resource intensive for mobile, but not uploading the image to a server is far more secure.
not too sure about that. remember when zuckerburg etc met with obama? how much do we know about what was said?
It is like saying people are eating less at restaurants in last few years yet Michelin star restaurants have 3 months waitlist.

Obviously top rated stuff has high demand and low supply. Further if students are finding lower rank universities less worth the money, many of them would try even harder to get in higher ranked ones.
> Pseudoscheme consists primarily of a Scheme to Common Lisp translator that is written in Scheme. To obtain a version of the translator that runs in Common Lisp, it is applied to itself.

Yes!
they did you a favor. if the manager is that clueless, you probably don’t want to work for them.
Show HN: Easycomment.ai – Made Social Media Comments Easy
> a 4-year degree still yields a higher ROI than just a high school diploma in lifetime earnings.

How can that be given that incomes have held stagnant through the rise of post-secondary attainment? In reality, a person in a given place on the spectrum seems to earn the same regardless of whether or not they have a degree.

Perhaps you are mistakenly comparing people situated in different places on the spectrum, noticing that colleges reject/fail those who don't meet a certain "calibre"? Indeed, I think we intuitively understand that the kid with down syndrome, or some such condition, is, statistically, not going to make it in college and is also going to have limited earning potential once joining the working world, but there is little evidence to support that handing them a college degree provides a cure.
It's also a great indicator of a wealthy upbringing, if you're optimizing for that sort of thing.
if it is a strict subset, why is that harder?
This is why teachers told us to read the material the night before, because then you have a skeleton to work with and it’s not completely new to you. It did help, but I didn’t always do it :)
No, of course not, but credentialism.
the pq here is not to maximize efficiency but profit.
disney LL pass is about the same.
both are essentially transferring benefits of normal users and selling such to higher bidders.
Also, the college prep and tutoring industry has been ballooning in the US. Historically, Chinese companies dominated this market in terms of consumer base, but we'll probably see a continuation of this trend in the US too as universities become more selective and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy where the more selective you become more students/parents will consider you as more "elite".
C++ has all the footguns of C, but add in tons of implicit function calls that creates bugs for half of the things you'd think they can be used for, and because you don't see that implicit code it is really hard to debug why an implicit call was made or not made when you thought it would or wouldn't.

So no, C isn't even close to the danger of C++, in C every copy, every destructor, every alloc, is explicitly declared everywhere. Explicit is much safer than implicit, unless the implicit behavior is rock solid like in garbage collected languages, or very strict languages like Rust.
avoiding sunk cost is the idea of not attaching value to the money already spent.
if you expect to get $10 for spending $2 more dollars, that would not be a sunk cost fallacy.
if you expect to get $10 and you need to spend $11 more dollars, that could be a sunk cost fallacy.

where it gets difficult is if you previously spent $10,000 and you need to spend $10 more to get $11. at that point it can feel like a good bargain compared to the total losses. that's the sunk cost fallacy.
NASA is saving billions with Commercial Cargo, Commercial Crew, HLS, etc. The inefficiency seems to come from NASA-run programs.
When former students need the federal government to bail them out of their debt, it's clear the value of higher ed has plummeted.
just use instructor: https://medium.com/thoughts-on-machine-learning/drop-langcha...
Making America Great Again also includes Making NASA Great Again.
lol ok, you and these other folks are amazing.
It is confusing because the author was really messy with her use of the figures to where that sentence reads nonsensically. The actual Gallup news article that is cited by the article posted is much clearer. The posted article reads as if it was just a re-arranged/scrambled word salad of the original article to the point where some parts no longer make sense.

The original article makes it clear that while the current figure is 36% for those who have quite a lot of confidence or more in higher education, in 2015, that figure was much higher at 57%. The little to no confidence now is 32%, while in 2015 it was only 10%.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/646880/confidence-higher-educat...
That explains why all those motorhomes illegally parked in Seattle neighborhoods are dumping raw sewage into the streets. I always assumed it was a bug, not a feature.
Ironically, privatizing NASA through SpaceX would save tons of money.
should increasing demand increase prices?
Vaccines Significantly Reduce the Risk of Long Covid, Study Finds
Oh man I loved my iPod nano! I had the square one, and used to fill it with music and podcasts through a cable. I wish I had known there were cases to turn it into a watch
'Lost' ball located 91 years on (2005)
The President doesn't decide the budget, Congress does. The President can put forward a proposed budget, but the decision isn't theirs.
The thing is we probably can't build AGI: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-no-agi-openai
Unusually, I don't think "all economics" is the right take. The political aspect of this seems to be significant. Education isn't being seen as a neutral path for people who are bettering themselves, these poll figures suggest it is a politically active institution.
> "In its place, Republicans support AI Development rooted in Free Speech and Human Flourishing."

This tidbit pretty much reads like Elon himself wrote it in a pitch for xAI, so I'd say Elon would 100% on board here.
Note these skins aren't just images, but a fully interactive and functional web version of winamp. You can even open and play files off your computer. I didn't realize that until I clicked a button by accident, although in retrospect the domain name should have been a clue.
> Netflix famously did a lot of experiments on this that have been written about in public.

Did Netflix really succeed with their strategy though? I don't see them branching out and making new things, so they seem to lack the people to to branch out into more domains like the top giants do.
Some really nice things:

+ GPLv3

+ Defaults to listing commands and asking for confirmation

+ Install is just "pip install"

+ Good docs with examples

Is there a way to point at an arbitrary API endpoint? IIRC llama.cpp can do an OpenAPI compatible API so it should be drop in?
> A person in a given place on the spectrum seems to earn the same regardless of whether or not they have a degree.

Real income to GDP ratio has been stagnant by some degrees but in this case, we're only looking at average IQ on a normal distribution, average as in 85-115 (or whatever the official range is), assuming that's what you mean by 'spectrum'.
e.g. for the average {IQ} or whatever metric you meant in a person, he/she will earn more compared to the same person ceteris paribus, but without a university education.
In my case, my wife has an iPhone, so I was able to setup an Apple Watch as my primary phone, while I do not have any phone other than my watch. So if you're on a family plan, maybe that's an option
I wondered that myself, when I had my 12th interview for a position in Nvidia's DevTech team.

(Didn't get an offer, in case you're curious:)
I wouldn't even know how to answer the question as presented in the poll.

Confidence in higher education to do what?
A lot of people in America were tricked to go into college and take out huge loans that they may never be able to pay back.

The common push from the majority of generation x to millennials was to finish college. What they don’t understand is that world has changed and even now a college is more of a business as opposed to a learning center. You have for profit scam college everywhere and useless degree mills.

I suggest going to college but only if you really understand the loans your taking out and have a plan to pay them back. I think college is not for everyone and that’s fine.
Yes, I would love for my PM to do any analysis from our logs.
Very interesting, thanks for the perspective. I suspect all the recent loss of face they experienced with the transition to Wayland happening around the time that this motivation evaporated also probably plays a part too though.

I swore off ever again buying Nvidia, or any laptops that come with Nvidia, after all this. Maybe in 10 years they'll have managed to right the brand perceptions of people like myself.
I'd suggest you learn a bit more about the practice of valid comparisons.
How did you go from the symptom of growth stagnating to the solution of localization?

How did you pick your target language if you already have done so?
> The increase in price probably comes from a combination of demand for college education and some monopolistic competition in the accredited university market

I think you're missing a big factor, rising admin spend [1].

[1] https://www.usnews.com/education/articles/one-culprit-in-ris...
Generally recruitment tools have 3-4 options to pick, all of them carefully worded so that the reply to the candidate cannot be used against the company.

In your case it looks to me you were over-qualified. That's a real thing, since generally it means there will be salary issues later on in the process or you will be too senior compared with the people you work with (and leave)

Its frustrating but they did you a favor. Keep it up, something will turn up.
The only starbucks I've seen were in urban centres nowhere near parking, so I couldn't quite picture it at first.

I wonder what percentage of starbucks this is viable at.
That's fair. After you know more than a few languages, it's easy to know what you want to express in it and the limitations it has, while the particular name they happened to give those concepts is pretty arbitrary and quickly peeked at if you haven't used it in a while.

For my part, I've written enough python that I doubt the literal syntax will ever be far from my fingers.
> some old dude who's been doing this for 30 years will still sit in a meeting and tell me that he's been writing pointer arithmetic in deep nested loops for 20 years and it should work fine

Pointer arithmetics in nested loops is just regular C code though, that is perfectly fine. The problem comes when you start to mix C++ datatypes and templates with pointer arithmetics, that is when the footguns becomes completely unmanageable.

However if your team doesn't have other people with experience writing such code then it is best to avoid it anyway, if you decided to not write C style code in C++ then he should respect that. But he is right that it is perfectly fine thing to do, writing C in C++ is basically just C with namespaces and scoping.
You kick the ass in the ass.
I appreciated a post on here recently that likened AI hallucination to 'bullshitting'. It's coherent, even plausible output without any regard for the truth.
Couldn’t agree more. At this point when hiring developers I don’t even look at the college degree. I could care less.

I know people without degrees that earn much more than those with degrees.

I don’t think development is so difficult where it takes 4 years straight to learn.
> How can that be given that incomes have held stagnant through the rise of post-secondary attainment?

They haven't; real incomes and the spread of real incomes have both increased over time. (That is, both median real income and the ratio between any given higher-than-median percentile and the median has increased over time.)

> A person in a given place on the spectrum seems to earn the same regardless of whether or not they have a degree.

It is tautological that people on the same place on the income spectrum earn the same regardles of other factors, but having a degree has a substantial effect on where you are on that spectrum.

If you are talking about something else, it would probably help to more clearly articulate your meaning.
Probably, but SpaceX makes rockets (launch vehicles), not moon rovers, probes, telescopes, etc., so this doesn't really help for stuff like this. NASA has always had stuff made mostly by contractors, but their job is to manage the funds and the overall mission. I have a hard time believing the Trump administration is going to want to throw a lot of money at a government agency just to do rover/probe missions, when the rhetoric from that side has always been how these agencies cost too much, government can't do anything right, etc.

I'm sure Elon can make lots of money as the prime launch provider for missions the GOP would be happy to pay for: spy satellites and other things with military applications.
Jelly Belly Explains Process of Creating Uniquely-Flavored Jelly Beans (2015)
Humans are way more complicated than IQ. Someone with a high IQ but little ambition is not going to go far in college nor are they going to go far in the economy.

People over time is the only reasonably reliable measure we have. And the data is clear: Statistically, people did not start earning more when they started attaining college degrees.
You disagree that censorship has historically been a stain on free expression? Or do you disagree with some deeper point? Do you really think the big tech platforms' algorithmic blocking of content with nearly zero human intervention in all the absurdities that happen is generally a good thing? Do you also think that the modern tech platform attitude towards nudity and sexuality (visibly, decidedly censorious) is a good thing as well?

I won't even ask about the utter stupidity that is blocking historic works of art because a brainless algorithm can't distinguish one human creation from another in the right way.
Good point. Both Ames and Hansen were passing their polygraphs while giving away secrets and disclosing information to the enemy. That should have given the agencies some pause and made them re-evaluate the usefulness of it all. But, I am sure the paused, re-evaluate, and decided their voodoo magic just needed more effort, so probably increased the effort to polygraph even harder.
i use to play with the idea to provide books, a bed, laundry and food for free. Periodic tests serve only to throw you out. Nothing fancy, a basic meal.

If you want to sleep eat and read for 50 years that should be fine. If there is no burning desire to apply yourself, engage the world or even just write a book we are probably better of without it. You can be the helpdesk for other readers in stead.
Hey I was about to write a comment suggesting Euler spirals may be easier to calculate the arc length because they are literally defined as a curve whose curvature changes linearly with its curve length, and then the Euler spiral guy himself shows up. :)

GPU-Friendly Stroke Expansion - 177 points - 11 days ago - 40 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40856431
Some logs… and some other customers’ training data and code… and SAP’s internal docker image repository (with read-write access!)
On a very slow SSD SQLite can query a 20 gigabyte database file in milliseconds.
It depends on the size and terms of the loans. I still pay about $75/mo at 3.8% for my loans (20 year later). Going away to college was far, far, far more valuable to me (in terms of fun, adventure, etc) than the cost of that monthly bill.
I suspect that is one of the reasons they are in power. Shame is what keeps us plebeians in place.
The feeling still exists, but I can observe it and can run a secondary self-introspection loop to unpack that feeling, and often dig deeper and resolve where they feeling is coming from.

Another way of putting is that I'm self aware that the "qualia" of feeling angry is being projected into my conscious experience as a token, rather than simply experiencing "feeling angry" qualia.

I liken it to being able to set a breakpoint on my emotions, and then single step through the root cause of that emotion.

I seriously didn't have that functionality in my brain before that hero dose trip (even after doing many years of meditation).
It's worldwide too, I have never had a coffee that wasn't bitter from any Starbucks. A milk heavy coffee like a latte is a drink that shouldn't need it, but even those are too bitter at Starbucks.

What it actually reminds me of though, is the taste of a shot that was pulled then stored in a fridge. I wouldn't be shocked find out that they store excess shots for later drinks and they end up even more bitter.
Fear is an element of your world, not mine.
If you want to ignore inflation, you might as well ignore the population delta (335.8 million in 2024 vs 244.5 million in 1988) too. If you want to maintain quality of life, more people definitely implies more need for dollars.
This looks great! I would use this if you had a dispatcher for using a custom/local OpenAI-compatible API like eg llama.cpp server. If I can make some time I'll take a stab at writing one and submit a PR :)
In my experience, C++ programmers have the smallest range of programming language knowledge. Basically, their whole world is C++. They have a hammer, and everything looks like a nail. "But performance!" they declare ... when you are writing a single function to reverse a string: "Can I use Python?" In my career and domain, I have never once seen a graph algorithm used, yet 5% of posts of HN are all about them. I guess I am an idiot.

Another thing about C++ interviews: Frequently, their difficultly far exceeds anything they are using in their own code base. That can be hugely embarrassing after you slog through a brutal few rounds of C++ interviews and land that offer. A few weeks later, you are rolling up your sleeves, waiting for the first Git clone to complete. Then you feast your eyes on a puddle of dog doo that they call uber-C++-2027 or whatever they claim. "Oh." Such defeat.
Referral bonuses led to this being gamed too. Tech companies giving ~$5k out for a hired referral - people would bring in literal strangers and claimed they worked with them. There is/was even a market for referrals on blind and suchlike.
Higher-Ed will become like real oak/maple wood flooring (vs. composite/manufactured).

Those who can't afford it won't indulge.

Those who can, will, because IYKYK.
I'll just note that there's a lot of non-tech industry-specific science around behavioral and structured interviews, including large meta-studies, and they pretty universally show that structured interviews, including a mix of behavioral and functional competency questions, have some of the best correlation with positive on the job performance.

https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0021-9010.8...

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1998-10661-006

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/peps.12052

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38092551_What_You_S...

I've got no doubt there are companies doing these things poorly, but the fundamental idea that this class of interview is bad just doesn't align with the research.
I dont know if they are just casually using logos on their homepage but why the heck would Google (and even IBM) be using a product like this? Like… your entire future depends on getting this right and youre using a startup with 2-5 people to do this for you?!!

Make it make sense..
I've experienced the same thing in recent years. Referrals are just another way to put a resume into the ATS. I have no opportunity to actually expend any social or political capital to bring that person in. I get excluded from the hiring loop to avoid bias. I basically become a human "Apply" button.

I don't even get a referral bonus anymore.
I'm glad you like it! The whole point is to have a simple no-frills clean CLI experience.

> Is there a way to point at an arbitrary API endpoint?

Yes. Set the `local_uri` setting in the configuration (`llm2sh --setup`), and either pass `-m local` on the CLI or set `"default_model": "local"` in the config.
Is that a typical rate? Youtube showed me scary cases of 9%.
More mentions of Ultrix exist at the page where the emulator source code came from.
> were tricked

they aren't "tricked". They saw the last generation's results of going to college, without thinking for themselves and making a better decision.