skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are they right?

Maybe

> Is it really important for their kids future to go to a top 70 instead of 130?

There are definitely rough cutoffs. Using your ballpark thresholds, yes, there can be a big difference in 70ish and 130ish in terms of opportunities. The big issue is whether the student will avail themselves of these opportunities.

> (I believe top 5 is worth almost any amount of money)

Oh, definitely not true unless the student avails themselves of the available opportunities.

At top 5, it’s only worth the money (assuming that you’re price sensitive) if the student does one or more things like uses the school alumni network, develops a robust network in school, works with top tier researchers, accesses unique learning opportunities, goes into fields that only pull from these schools (e.g., investment banking, consulting, etc.), tapping into the varsity athlete network, and other things like that.

If they just go and get a degree and then do whatever they were going to do if they had gone to State U, then it’s wasted money.

The classroom education at the top 5 universities is largely not that good. Smaller liberal arts colleges do a better job of classroom education, imho, if thats what someone is looking for.

> Is this based on college being a good time in their life and they are projecting that experience?

Maybe.

There’s probably a lot of intuitively knowing that it’s better to go to a good school without necessarily knowing what about going to a good school makes it matter.

> The attitude of my parents is to make sure the degree will lead to a job, and then find a local and cheap school to get that credential.

Smart, but very limiting if you have ambitions beyond being a middle manager.

> I believe there may be taboo class issues around this topic that are not vocalized.

Class issues, yes. Taboo… I’m not so sure.
Aside from AI what else can I utilize an NPU for? I should rephrase, what can software developers improve with NPU's on day-to-day applications? Could it potentially improve ffmpeg performance? Could it theoretically real time improve error correction on high-loss networks somewhat like FEC but without the overhead? Could it real time remove body hair off 1970's adult entertainment?
That seems a rather unreasonable characterization.

While I didn't raise a comment over it (since I felt it likely that it might sour the discussion) I too found myself wondering about the motivations behind that remark when I came across it. As it happens I had the exact same thought that GP had - to wonder if there was an ulterior motive at play. However based on the rest of the content I came to the conclusion that the site didn't seem to be particularly biased. Highly technically opinionated, a bit colorful, but not a malicious hit piece.

And for what it's worth I thought the HoA analogy you're responding to here was on point. Those also tend to be incredibly polarizing to a bewildering degree. Apparently a large portion of Americans get remarkably bent out of shape if you try to regulate their behavior, while a different set is similarly incensed by attempts to prevent said regulation.
Yeah but he shined it up pretty nice, that’s a real talent. I guess Facebook was shinier than MySpace in a corporate kind of way, but it was a pretty low bar
Colleges have the same screwed up incentives problem as the federal government. People in administration do not really advance based on performance, so once someone is in the administration long enough, they quit working. Then more administrators have to be hired. Hence the continual growth of administration vs students. It's a cancer.

The same root cause too: government funding via student loans and grants... cut the funding and kill the cancer.
One of the biggest problems of startups blindly using k8s is attempting to 'scale up' and having this foolish belief that they are Google or any other FAANG company and must burn hundreds of thousands of dollars a month on K8s to achieve scalability. A few points:

1. You are not Google. (Google and other FAANG companies spend much more than that are can as their operating costs are in the hundreds of millions whilst still being profitable.)

2. You do not face the same challenges as those companies.

3. Failure to understand why sometimes you may not need K8s and not addressing its hidden cost management will lead your startup to a massive bill and ultimately shutting down.
Don't worry, the GOP will next solve the whole 'voting' problem.
For some of the 'undated' book covers it is possible to at least assert the year of print because they seem to be limited prints certified with a handwritten note in French.

Fore example on the Khôn Sống Dại Chết book cover it is handwritten "tirage 1000 Saigon le 27/1/34". So it is a 1,000 copy print certified as such on the 27th January 1934.
Since when is it required that all the money in a budget be spent? Amounts are budgeted for a division and then it’s up to that division to operate within that budget. It doesn’t mean they have to spend every single dollar in the budget. In fact, it should be a goal to spend less than the money that’s allocated in the budget so that it can be applied to the next year. The idea that all the money has to be spent, regardless is part of the problem.
I also agree with most of your comments and conclusions.

In our setup, we use app ingestion to send all the denormalised data into Clickhouse using async inserts and Debezium/Kafka/Kafka engine and materialized views to sync a few Postgres tables into Clickhouse. 2 of the replicated tables are in the order of billions of rows, and are used in 20% of the queries (usually directly and less frequently with no more than 1-2 joins). Everything else queries the denormalised tables (usually no joins there, only some dictionary usage). Overall query performance is great, although it would have been even better since we use replacing merge trees and final.

The 2 main issues that we are facing are:

- we need to periodically cleanup the deleted rows from the replacing merge trees, since the application does lots of upserts and deleted rows just stay there.

- there is not much flexibility in the ordering keys of the replicated Postgres tables, unless you enable full replica identity. We took that performance hit (although nothing really noticeable in Postgres side) in order to have some flexibility and better query performance in the replicated tables in Clickhouse.
Isn't that exactly why we're in the position we're in? Near universal financial aid driving up prices?
I mean, put some live shrimp on a plate and I'm sure people will not feel great about it either.

People have eaten bugs around the world forever, from prehistory to modern times.

Scorpions, snails, ants, silkworms, grasshoppers, bees, and yes, mealworms, all have long long long histories of being a part of human diets. See also Carmine and shellac.

You live a sheltered life that hasn't been exposed to this extremely normal phenomena.
> some of the "squelching" sounds are recorded by slapping someone's arse O_o

Quite reminiscent of deadmau5' famous trick: https://youtu.be/4mx_P_gPyiE
> I have no idea why someone would name their server "Wolfsschanze"

Maybe because they are a nazi and/or an edgelord? Are we looking for the most charitable interpretation or the most likely?

> but this may simply be an error on the part of the writer, rather than part of a cohesive and harmful worldview.

Have you read the whole message? The worldview seems pretty cohesive to me. As a German you simply don't make such "errors" about WW2.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for giving people the benefit of the doubt, but sometimes you just need to call a spade a spade.
Yeah, hence why I asked… otherwise anyone on HN, including me, could say their opinions are hypotheses too, to be taken just as seriously as the parent’s.
I wonder how many of those peers that can evaluate the quality of the teaching itself.

I'm guessing a lot of people (especially those without an university education) look at how impressive the buildings and facilities are because those are the status signals they understand. I don't think many check how large percentage of lessons are run by assistants.

So too many US colleges end up being 80% overly expensive hotel and 20% education.
https://www.apkmirror.com/faq/#Security_What_measures_do_you...
it’s easy to be a trillionaire with four years of bad inflation when you start with 50B.
I disagree. Range anxiety is one of the top concerns for EV car buyers and telling them they can just charge more frequently won't assuage their fears, for many reasons. No matter how many stations we build (at enormous cost) there will inevitably be issues related to access from time to time. Today this presents as chargers offline, slow, or full with queues. Worst of all is that no matter how ubiquitous, one still needs to exit the freeway and navigate to one of these chargers. Today my Model Y gets about two hours on the Autobahn before I need to charge it. That's just not enough, and it has what is considered good range for an EV.

There are undoubtedly people who like to take frequent breaks. Many people are not like that. The future is both ubiquitous chargers and much larger battery capacity.
There are fewer rust jobs, but those that are there are reallly pretty desperate. Most have stopped agreeing to train people because of the time involved, and the risk someone won’t really take to it. Learn rust in your own to a basic fluency and you’ll be able to find a job
Probably won't see it for much longer. Once it expires it's impossible to renew now even if paid: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/sued-by-meta-freenom-hal...
So you don’t think that some of the money that gets sent to athletic directors to build fancy stadiums and pay for multimillion dollar coaches would’ve gone possibly to research facilities if those athletic departments didn’t exist?
The word "loan" doesn't appear even once in the article, which I find bizarre and confusing. It talks about "financial aid" multiple times but doesn't mention how much of that aid is in grants and how much in loans. If the loans have to be paid back later, that doesn't truly lower the cost of college attendance.
I need smaller fingers
Everything can be considered confrontational if receiving party is unreasonable.

Maybe receiving party should also take active part in understanding the communication so we don’t put whole burden on sender.

Because that’s causing people to stop communicating which is the worst outcome.

I already had couple team mates - that people didn’t want to communicate with.
Well, resident programs (actual Pure residents in AmigaOS) would be like PIE, though that came a bit later, and gave the same effect, several programs could run the same code with different set of registers, and all data was pointed to by registers and no globals.
> I believe top 5 is worth almost any amount of money

Is it, though? Of course people who go to Harvard et al. do well afterwards, but many of them came from wealthy families and were bound to do well no matter what. If you’re poor, Harvard [1] is less likely to make you rich than UC Riverside [2].

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...
It's still tons of fun but definitely different now, and since they came out with counter-strike 2 a while ago, it's me being specced out on my old gaming computer all over again - as with you I'm way too busy as a working adult to get too deep into it, was fun to play a lot during the pandemic though.

The craziest innovation I seen is counter strike 1.6 in the browser, fully playable multiplayer. Not sure how safe letting that much execution happen in wasm environment truly is but was still pretty funny to see how far the game has come in terms of graphics. Basically a bunch of the same maps still even though a couple have always been way skewed to one side or the other.
I think that `inverting` also subsumes async functions/values, which is pretty neat!

In the case where asynchrony was actually necessary, it seems like a great alternative to function coloring.

But whether you should actually use it for something like their `sub_min` example is highly dependent on how good the performance of their implementation is. Creating a graph of references rather than making two passes over an array of integers is not clearly faster ... or clearer, for that matter.
By outside forces, of course. Women entered the legal profession in the 1920's, but wages did not catch up until the Equal Pay Act was enacted under the Kennedy administration. There were plenty of labour market arbitrageurs profiting from the game, but the Civil Rights movement proved stronger.
Directus – real-time REST and GraphQL API of any SQL database
That is the BEST explanation of superconductivity I have ever heard.
Author states its lower "Once tax incentives are factored in". As she is not my CPA, I must call BS.
you've had twenty years to build an EU-native alternative...what do you have to show us?

the EU has settled for using US tech but just taxing the success with fines
Should We Decouple Technology from Everyday Life?
This involves two questions. They're sort of tedious questions to discuss, because they don't have definitive answers.

1) in a team, how does one determine who deserves credit for an accomplishment?

2) what makes a product truly innovative?
Wow I remember when this came out. Finding the different clues on the ground was pretty amazing back then. I played that PC Gamer demo over and over and over.
If we're going to be bad faith discussing: as you seem to be should I remind you that your definition of "being a desktop OS" means running a stack that is primarily useful for phones and laptops- definitively not "Desktop" devices?
I thought LineageOS stopped it's development
This seems like a big achievement but I’m not too familiar with this programming niche. I have existential questions about its purpose.

On the surface it appears to be on the way to becoming a cross-platform game engine that in theory could be general purpose, but focuses on one game and still requires you to purchase a copy of the game for its image and sound assets if you want to play the game itself.

Is the ultimate outcome meant to be a clone of the game with open source assets provided by artists or what?
Bragging about where your kid goes to school is extremely common. It signals not only what can you afford (like a car), but also lets you buy and display a bunch of gear. (University name) Dad is like a super common apparel and bumper sticker item. And having, e.g., Stanford Dad is more prestigious than eg New Mexico State Dad apparel.
I know someone who is a guidance counselor at an ultra elite high school. He globetrots every year to a plethora of institutions that are desperate to attract those students. All presumably because they want the alumni bucks when they have their own children. For a certain class, higher education serves an entirely different purpose.
And Toyota: https://electrek.co/2024/01/11/toyota-solid-state-ev-battery...

I'm hopeful that in the next few years we will see some serious range improvements across the board with EVs. Then mass adoption really takes off.
Yes, they can take and UberXL and UberXXL rides as well Black and Black SUV rides.

There is also a rate that Uber charges for more reliable drivers.

Also, I’ve known many that make deals off platform especially for long drives. There was one older driver we got to know when we go back home to ATL that we call specifically.

This is just like developers use platforms at first that pay less and then move off platform.
Haha LLMs are trained to be obedient, secure, and trustworthy, until you ask nicely :P
Pi4J: Java library to control the GPIOs of the Raspberry Pi
Still seems closer to noise/LLM ravings than substance.

Are you ever going to directly answer the previous few questions?
You're correct, I don't use SIMD instructions much, but I can, and with a C compiler. So still, not sure the advantage of ASM.
1) I conflated debt vs GDP with spending vs GDP. Debt levels are at WWII levels. I was wrong here, but directionally accurate. We've been spending way too much.

2) USAID has nothing to do with humanitarian efforts. It is not "aid", it is Agency for International Development. Specifically developing "capabilities" in those foreign countries, with "capabilities" being defined as things our intelligence and defense departments can use for their missions. It's not humanitarian. It's international manipulation, with a heaping side of money laundering. Seriously, it's horrible.

4) Employer end of payroll taxes is a thing. Tax on profit is a tax on the customer. Companies would not exist if they are not profitable; they protect profits harder than they protect anything else. Therefore additional costs, including taxes, are passed on to the customer, even if it's indirectly.
Yes, not just creativity but actual humour and experimentation! Not to mention taste.
Yeah, we gotta make sure that the Pharmaceutical companies have a great source of cheap PhD labor. /s

I wonder how all the PhD’s that spent 10 years of their life and can’t find a job feel about that?
Pono (Digital Music Service)
Sounds easy to buy one of those bluetooth dongle things that can talk to your external mouse/keyboard and pretend to be a set of wired usb-hid devices to solve that small issue.
Interaction nets: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/96709.96718
There’s a fork of this by one LadyEebs that adds a whole bunch of modern touches like ragdoll physics, advanced lighting, fog, and she’s even been tastefully modding the single player maps with more detail. I don’t have the repo handy because I am on my phone, but a lot of the dev discussion takes place on the Discord of The Massassi Temple (https://www.massassi.net/). I do run that site but am not involved in openjkdf2 or Eeb’s fork. There is also another JK reimplementation project by BAH_Strike that is also impressive.
I don't get it. With ICE vehicles you can't park your car on the roof. You still need a parking spot. Adding charging to parking spots, garages, multi-levels, underground or whatever costs money but is possible.
Var-width SIMD can mostly be written using the exact same Highway code, we just have to be careful to avoid things like arrays of vectors and sizeof(vector).

It can be more complicated to write things which are vector-length dependent, such as sorting networks or transposes, but we have always found a way so far.

On the contrary, there are increasing numbers of ISAs, including the two LoongArch LSX/LASX, AVX-512 which is really really good on Zen5, and three versions of Arm SVE. RISC-V V also has lots of variants and extensions. In such a world, I would not want to have to implement per-platform implementations.
Wait are you me? i shut down my z800 about a year ago (was my mainmachine for about 13 years) i buyd a second cpu for like 10$ after 5 years and upraded the ram to max, i think it was 46gb, also ssd's....and a rx580 which is still in use.
no, no it hasn't.

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/31/elon-musks-x-fidelity-valua...

"Fidelity has again marked down the value of its shares in X Holdings, which the mutual fund giant helped Elon Musk buy for $44 billion when the company was known as Twitter.

By the numbers: Fidelity believes that X is worth 71.5% less than at the time of purchase, according to a new disclosure that runs through the end of November 2023 (Fidelity revalues private shares on a one-month lag).

* This includes a 10.7% cut during November, during which time Musk told boycotting X advertisers to "go f*k yourself" during an on-stage interview with the New York Times.

* In terms of publicly traded comps, Meta stock rose 4.9% in November while Snap shares climbed 38.2%."
Most of the problems you call out here would be addressed by actually enforcing anti-trust laws, which is something we need to get way better at on both sides of the political isle.
and what currency that would be! make some successful shit posts and it gives you the privilege of silencing a political opponent in a debate! great fun
Attitudes around college in the US are really fascinating to me, because I’ve found they vary a lot from region to region and I think really reinforce class divides. I grew up in an area/class where my parents and their friends believed:

- All universities and even community colleges are equally good, except for maybe the Ivey league schools they’ve heard about, but no one actually goes to those.

- All majors are equally good, except whatever makes you a doctor, which is the best.

- Colleges on the east and west coast are very bad because they are purely for liberal indoctrination

- The highest earning career path from college is becoming a doctor, and if you become a doctor you are very upper class.

- what is majoring in finance? Is that like being a bank teller?

- what is studying computer science? Is that like working at Best Buy?

Once I got to college and met what I now think of as “the American urban professional class” I found a completely different set of beliefs, where college rankings were do-or-die, everyone wants their kid to go into finance, consulting, or tech, or get an MBA, and everyone seems to inherit large corporate networks from their parents.

I’m sure this has all sorts of culture war implications. I know the politics of the community I grew up in has more to do with distrusting/disliking the urban professional class than any wholistic political ideology. Probably both groups should learn something from each other.
This is nothing more than an advertisement for the loan organizations. The secret that colleges should stop keeping is that you are taking on indentured servitude by attending.
I'll be sure to tell most pension funds and insurance companies that they should change their investment strategies, thanks!
>Not Meta but at Amazon I always felt like war rooms are a place for some leader to scream at you and not much else.

It is for the some "leader". The vast large tech industry is filled with phony leaders who don't understand how the job is done and what makes the doers tick.

But they occupy the place of "leadership". They must be seen as doing something. So they are doing the something that they can - scream at people in a locked room.

If they could actually solve technical problems or talk to their bosses like a real engineering leader, they would. But they literally are incapable of doing so.

So war rooms and BS performative art it is.
LinkedIn doesn't even recognize Rust as a language you can select.

You can select Perl, Fortran and Cobol, but Rust? Crickets.

I asked them half a year ago if they would add it. I included a few sources, e.g. the StackOvflow survey and a couple of sources that showed LinkedIn's parent Microsoft's investment in Rust, but I only got stock answers.

So, Rust has some way to go.
Waves are getting bigger. Is the world ready?
Don’t know the ultimate goal but this project makes it very easy to install and play the game on modern windows and Linux computers. Getting the original game to work right can be a pain.
Out of curiosity, is this e-mail also going to FAA air traffic controls? If they don't respond, will someone escort them out of control towers and from the radar screens in regional control centres?

How about food inspectors? Will processing plants be unchecked?

Border patrol agents? Will border crossing be left unguarded? Will drug inspections stop?
Corporations protect their profits above all else. They will lie, cheat, steal, and change their revenue models to protect profits. Customers pay the taxes, just indirectly.
Collaborators have actually superoptimized some of the more complicated Highway ops on RISC-V, with interesting gains, but I think the approach would struggle with largish tasks/algorithms?