skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In all the studies included in our review, we identified 11 deaths presumed to be completed suicides that can be fairly confidently linked to classic psychedelic use in a non-clinical context (four jumping from a height [of which one of these individuals was also intoxicated on alcohol], one walking into traffic [unclear intent], one drowning [alone on the beach with unclear intent], two self-stabbing with a sharp object or knife, and three with unclear methods). This supports the notion that noncontrolled environments where individuals are by themselves and have access to means for suicide, such as heights with no barriers and objects that can lead to hanging or self-stabbing, are likely unsafe contexts for psychedelic use, especially among individuals presenting with prior suicide risk. There is much evidence suggesting that restricting access to lethal means is a key method for suicide prevention in general, and it stands to reason that for those using psychedelic substances in non-clinical settings, the pre-emptive restriction of lethal means could help reduce the risk of suicide.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8033757/
did they stitch id.me or just renamed it? those pages say nothing if substance
Already exists :)

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.

PRs are always welcome.
Yeah, until it materializes in lower rates of people actually going to college people at minimum folks seem pretty confident that it has a return on investment.

Also I'm honestly not sure I really care/put any weight into the opinions of random adults whose opinions of higher education are basically a reflection of how universities are portrayed to them in their news bubble. The fact that political affiliation not only matters but matters a great deal means it has little to do with the institutions themselves. I bet you could get the same results with "confidence in science" which is just as vague and nonsensical.
This is really lowest common denominator reporting, on top of lowest common denominator sampling, and lowest common denominator question design.

A far better approach would be in trying to test for a specific hypothesis, e.g. "I believe confidence in higher ed is falling due to XYZ" reasons.

But, in the context of Gallup, I think this kind of research is really there not to answer questions, but to provide a sort of pre-signal to aide in hypothesis generation. Now that this result exists, large numbers of companies and organizations will do paid studies to figure out what this means in detail, who thinks it, and identify areas they can course correct in their strategy.

Gallup does good work, but this kind of omnibus question is not really meant to answer any questions.

Source: I work in B2B survey and interview research.
> The primary take-away seems to be that, since 2015, Republican confidence in higher ed has dropped 36%, and Democrat confidence has dropped 12%.

It’s a little hard to tease out how much of this is due to the demographics of Republicans and Democrats changing. There’s been a significant shift in education level between the two parties recently, and this may have offset some of what would otherwise be broad based decreases.

The broader decrease in faith in higher education is still quite clear signal though.
What do you mean by “true” RL?
Or $1099 at Costco + $100 for a 1 TB SSD.
According to the article, the system only pumps waste into the exhaust when the exhaust temperature is 900F and the vehicle is moving at least 35mph. So just dumping sewage onto the streets isn't how they work at all, unlike they're broken I guess. Also, this system apparently wasn't common, since it was just on one model, in one year, right before the oil embargo caused the entire RV industry to mostly die out for a while.

Honestly, this thing doesn't sound like a bad idea at all. It would be interesting to see how it really affects tailpipe emissions with some modern testing (when it's working properly, of course).
"Low level python" is an amusing statement
> In a way, them only accepting in C++ experts probably means they're either doing something actually very complex with regards to C++ itself or their code quality is a shitstorm.

If you aren't doing something complex then you aren't needing C++ today, just use Rust then.
The article talks about a descent stage built by a private space company* that won't be delivered on time. So even if the rover tested out perfectly, they can't land it.

(*which might just mean "contractor")
These are kids, and I'd say in most cases, parents are making the choice to take out excessive loans on their children's backs so they can feel like successful parents without paying the price.
DAE when i read a sentence like this

> Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which leads the development of Clipper, discovered the problem in May after talking with colleagues about a classified satellite at a conference.

...I immediately think "that's what they want us to think"

if classification of projects means anything, the true intent of the passing of dis information is something dat we can only guess at.

fnord.
No it is not! I was appalled years later to learn that government-backed loans were being given at such high rates. It just seems cruel. The government has no obligation to turn a profit on student debt.
Naw. There were a huge number of scam colleges taking advantage of people who didn't know how to evaluate them. That was a consumer protection issue. Scam colleges are a wholly different thing.
I believed the author of the blog was referring to tech roles specifically (not sales or similar).

I can say from personal experience that, at least in Australia, tech workers for mining companies that work in city offices are paid fairly similarly to other non-FAANG tech workers (e.g. banks etc). I also just checked levels.fyi for a few big mining companies and verified that this is the case.

Engineers (mining, geo, tech, whatever) that work out in the field do make quite a bit more. MAYBE around what FAANG would pay, but FAANG still pays more after a few years of refreshers and/if one manages to climb the ladder.

I think the author is quite off with their estimates of what people make in "heavy industries". At least as far as my experience goes for AU. FAANG/HFT still beats everything, and by a vast margin.
Accountants don't have to have a CPA. Half the accountants working under my partner (Accounting Manager at a large private university) don't even have a Bachelor's in Accounting.

> EMTs need to get an EMS license/certification

I love EMTs. I was one. I'm a paramedic. I train new EMTs. But the EMT course is 160 hours, and is designed and tested to be passable as a high school junior. Let's not use that as a comparison.

Most of these positions also have zero to minimal continuing education requirements which often, let's be real, are trivial. Quick online courses that can be busted out in a couple of hours, or "go to this hotel in a nice location, spend a couple of days, and go to the conference room off the lobby for a couple of hours in the morning".

Software engineering? You have people saying here - with a straight face - "Yeah, a 3-4 hour take home exam at every company you interview at is entirely reasonable" for the rest of your professional life.
Long ago, I was told that it was only worth paying for College if you were going to be an Professional Engineer or a Nurse. It seems that advice has held true.

I've never pushed my child towards College.
Was it for a company starting with D?
Maybe it's running at high rate to compensate for some issue? An issue that could be found and resolved?
Oh, nice; thanks:)
Maybe ed industry has become too regulated to have a chance to be useful? There are a lot of things even a private school can't teach children, for example: government's taxes is just an aggression, proprietary software is evil even if this is "required" by some teacher or institution, history lessons is just propaganda, god is an undefined value etc.
I couldn't imagine being homeless and sane. Not because of the crime and the elements, but because of the sheer boredom of life without money.

Trading 8 hours a day for twenty years to permanently avoid that boredom really isn't that bad.
You can request the coffee roast to be “blonde” (including espresso shots!) which basically means “not burnt”.

It’s still a pretty dark roast, but way more tolerable.

Still expensive for what it is.
The "killer feature" of alists is that they are persistent data structures; when we extend a shorter alist to make a longer one, the shorter one is unaffected. Moreover, if the program has only a reference to the tail portion of a longer alist, the head portion can be garbage-collected.

With this, we can correctly implement lexical closures: we simply take the current environment (head of the alist) ssociate it with the lambda body and arguments, and we are done.
How about an actual rebuttal instead of smug dismissal? Let us in on the joke, genius.
Ask HN: How to speed up my MacBook Pro?
I've got a 3 year old machine, that feels like it's about 70.

The Finder is sluggish, screenshots take 3-4 seconds to arrive in their folder, and switching User accounts takes ages.

Are there any quick wins in terms of cleanup or maintenance I could run to restore to it's former glory?

If there's no other option, I'll wipe the drive and reinstall the OS.
"Urban centers" are far from the only place Starbucks are at. Suburban areas are quite abundant relative to large cities, and there are thousands upon thousands of Starbucks locations outside of said centers.
Starbucks is common in US suburbs.
It has been materializing in fewer people going to college in fact.
After watching this video i have serious doubts about the whole moon program https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU

Reminds me a little of the SLS which makes no sense at all other than preserving some jobs. The Space Shuttle was also ruined by military requirements that never materialized.
An 11 year old Mac can also run Linux fine.
> walk up to any DECstation on campus, log in, and immediately get your desktop setup exactly the way you like it, without having to carry anything around with you all day.

Just X over the network, or something fancier?
> we've all collectively decided desktop software is impossible

the customers are the ones who did.

Suppose there was a desktop app, but a competitor has a web version. It's much easier, faster to use the web version, because you dont need to download the desktop app, install it (which might require admin perms). Then your files are local, so if you have a second computer, there needs to be some way to share those files between.
or maybe you are not USA citizen.
of course not, but that's not actually a thing.

and you don't have the final say on what NVIDIA is allowed to do with their software either
Carbon capture hasn't been shown to scale. "Carbon credits" and such schemes are blatant greenwashing. We already use an inordinate amount of energy on bullshit, with a hard enough time convincing people that there will be consequences for it. I don't want to move fast and break things when the thing in question is the biosphere that keeps me alive.
Loan rates just depend on the terms you accept (fixed vs variable) and the base rate when you take out the loan.

20 years ago the base rate for any debt was cheaper than it is right now.

What anyone has to decide is whether they are willing to take on debt at today's rates. You weigh the pros and cons and decide for yourself.

Personally I wouldn't have gone to college if I had to take on debt to do it. That was my choice though, and it was only right for me in my situation.
> When someone decides to do it, they will try, and there are things worse than dying.

Science disagrees. Many attempts are impulsive and a minor hurdle can be enough to stop them.
Eliminate payroll tax and watch the job market explode
How else would they be able to tell you how busy a location is when you pull it up in Google Maps?
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback, lots to think about. I reread the whole post and feel less strongly about my previous comments. Overall the original post gives me a lot to think about and I’m grateful for that.
They do software?
on one of the first horizontal iron beams of a new suppermarkt, 3 meter up, sits a cup from a construction worker. I see him put it there. 8 years later it still sits there, in front of the window. The cleaners don't bother with it. Where would they put it? Bring it to the kitchen 40 meters away? Why bother?
I personally lack confidence in higher education because I'm neurodivergent, and high school pushed a method of learning that is not compatible with the way in which my brain works. They demanded I learn things in advance rather than as-needed, which is not how I operate - it is the source of the "how will this ever be useful later in life?" that is oft-cited of students.

I am extremely resourceful when given access to a search engine, but I cannot read an entire textbook and then recall specific information from it. I only retain information that is actually relevant to my task and I can't decide relevance after the fact. They don't understand this and don't accommodate for this, so I had to drop out.

I have no reason to believe that college is different. Even if it were, I don't feel that I need it! To graduate high school would've been nice, but it's not really worth it for me now. Real high-paying jobs do not care about the presence or absence of a high-school diploma if you can prove it doesn't matter. At least in software development, programming/engineering skill usually speaks for itself.

I have to wonder if others are realizing this about themselves, too, or at the very least feeling it. Certain people, I'm sure, would be able to tell if, in general, learning and information-gathering is quite easy for them, while school is hard for no good reason. The internet is a wonderful thing; sure social media is terrible, but just in general we're all now quite spoiled and it's obvious that we could have it much better than school.
Interestingly enough, the AARM actually increases friction instead of reducing it. In most states, anyone can buy ammo without any oversight, and we're not even talking about online sales. The AARM requires matching ID with Facial recognition and appropriate age for purchase. This is a case of capitalism doing exactly the opposite of what you were saying.
> This is really lowest common denominator reporting, on top of lowest common denominator sampling, and lowest common denominator question design.

...so it sounds like it's a product of our current higher education then.
Ruby Methods Are Colorless
If you're in the US, the government isn't really profiting on school debt. The government guarantees the debt, but that is a play to protect the banks rather than to drum up profits. Profits really don't matter to a government that can print any money it needs but doesn't currently have.
ooh! i should see if i can answer this
EU NGI Impact Study: Unveiling the NGI impact in shaping Europe's digital future
I started an open list (on github) of awesome open source repos for AI Engineers. It covers repos that help with building RAG apps, Agents, Dataset preparation, Fine tuning, Evaluation, Observability etc. Good to crowdsource these repos and products. https://github.com/sydverma123/awesome-ai-repositories
The HTMX hype vastly underestimates what a good SPA can do. Instead, HTMX re-allocates most responsibilities from the front end to the backend.

Its a good tool for teams/individuals with a high proficiency in backend tooling, and doesn't want to learn another entire ecosystem for a project. Its not equivalent to a good frontend with modern tooling.
true. UBI is there, but it is not evenly distributed. political gatekeeping access to UBI becomes ever bigger focus for everyone
OCR Those Buffers
I expect to send all of my children to university but they're going to receive much more financial scrutiny than I did regarding the possible future jobs/incomes provided by the degree.

I think frankly it's immoral to the student and the taxpayer that an 18-year-old can go through school and graduate with hundreds of thousands in debt and no realistic way of paying it off.

It's cruel and immoral and must change.
I wrote some instant reaction comment when I read this earlier today but then I went back and re read the whole thing and now I think the post is one of the best blogs I’ve read this year.

This was a proper rant and I’m glad it stirred up so many great discussions. Thanks to Matt.
I would have loved a control question like, "How much confidence do you have in confidence?"
You are right! I missed that all NFS folders on the screenshot have rwxr-xr-x permissions.
the first paragraph of your comment is in contradiction to the third.

so, i am not interested in discussing things further.
Assuming this is the case, is there some kind of meaningful penalty for a contractor blowing up an entire mission like that?

I mean... beyond just not getting another contract?
rcs is much worse than sms or email. because it open extra holes where those were crudely patched.

but google PMs saw it as a way for promotion because at the time there was the whole blue vs green bubble fad going on.

RCS have even more opt in dark patterns than all advertising products summed.
I think MAME can emulate it (as in running the actual ROM dumped from a DEC VT520), see https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/MIS
But you can already do this with a smart watch without this case, right?
> you would hire me under your process because I can talk your ear off for hours and can outsource the take home

Which is why all of the biggest tech companies does on site technical tests.
Trains used to dump waste, without incinerating it. Which is why there's this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyiMYI4oQTU
It's incredible that they're bailing out loans but not stopping anybody from going down the exact same path. Who exactly wins here?
The real crime was tricking these kids to go to out of state schools for $60k a year that offer the exact same curriculum as their in state school going for $12k a year.
> The Space Shuttle was also ruined by military requirements

I’ll mostly agree there

> that never materialized.

I would not say that. There were classified shuttle missions. I would bet that they used all the throw weight and payload bay space.
Our money supply hasn't increased at the same rate as ourpopulation though. $1 in 1988 would now cost $2.66 8! 2024. The population increased by 37.3% while the dollar devalued by 166%.
I'm not bad at getting jobs, just feel when I am looking I believe people think I am lying about my project experience.

I do these things because I see a place in the company to grow value and do it.

I can write almost all basic coding and my true skill set is in custom complex DS pipelines at scale.
some of us post hn comments containing analyses of source code from early versions of unix, results from tracing the execution of uxn 'left' and other text editors to estimate their power usage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40842397, overviews of the historical development of cpu architecture https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40983675, simple explanations of the role that digital signal processing plays in modern mixed-signal systems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40985558, quantitative analyses of the economic and technological impact of the renewable energy transition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40725765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724305, assembly-language programs to clarify the role of associative arrays in computing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40990055, analyses of mostly forgotten programming languages that python evolved from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40992191, examples of how to use the gnu units program for all kinds of things most people didn't know it could do https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36988917, comparative benchmarks of different compilers and interpreters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40960819, system call traces to elucidate subtle concurrency bugs in unix https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40955923, close readings of federal court rulings placing them in historical context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40950806, gui libraries we wrote ourselves https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40942566, simple workarounds for frustrating unix problems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40911681, appreciation for others https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40950084, recipes for video streaming from the command line https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40911239, admissions of error with reproducible scripts for clearly showing we were wrong https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40912051, helpful tips for everyday command-line usage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40910845, thanks to others for correcting our errors https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40911035, quantitative analyses of cutting-edge hardware https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40903708, admissions of error in our analyses of chinese export-control regulations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40885691, simple explanations of cutting-edge computer security research https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40885329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40841095, simple explanations of cutting-edge software testing tools https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40879952, and implementations in three lines of forth of things people think are impossible in forth https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40868981

and some of us say things like 'thats idiotic because thats 7000 years away'

these are two different kinds of discourse, and this website is only for one of them
Good time to secure another job?
same. first few paragraphs and charts was a nice setup. did not expect to see rambling all the way to the end of it
A retail company offered me a $20 gift card for an interview about a product I bought. First and last time that ever happened. It was Raven, who made document scanners with a built in tablet. I accepted and tried to give them their money's worth.

And then they went bankrupt. I can't help guessing that was related to their largesse.
Your maths is wrong by three orders of magnitude (unless you meant 2.6 billion, not trillion?) - 450M is 0.017% of $2.6T.

Anyway, it's not a scam or a joke - money is an abstract concept (the value is always mostly in what you can buy with it, not really in the thing itself). It always has been that way and always will be. Trying to compare nominal dollar values without any correction for anything (population, size of the economy, wage growth, inflation, whatever) is totally meaningless. You can literally draw no valid conclusions from doing so.
Just download it to your pc. It is better user experience and costs less
More data absolutely helps, many people can fake it for an hour but not for 5. Work doesn't end after the first hour, so if they can't keep it up for less than a full day they wouldn't be able to during the real work either.
We are more populous. Shame we didn’t organize/unionize when time was right.
>Now that this result exists, large numbers of companies and organizations will do paid studies to figure out what this means in detail, who thinks it, and identify areas they can course correct in their strategy.

I would particularly like to see questions about "higher education" binned by field. I hypothesize that sentiment will differ most strongly between STEM and "X studies" fields, with the classic liberal arts subjects (English, history, etc) somewhere in the middle. I'd also be curious to know what the public knows about "the reproducibility crisis" or administrative bloat, if anything. And it would be fascinating to ask those with and without degrees, across 2-3 generations.