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"smart" in terms of navigating society and understanding where value is. What things are worth learning vs not learning, what kinds of skills are worth taking risks for etc. "smart" in terms of just having a degree and believing that being credentialed = intelligence is completely orthogonal to the point I intended.

A stupid person will fall for get rich quick schemes. A stupid person will believe grinding it out at a job they hate will eventually lead to something better. A stupid person will lack the will to try hard enough to better themselves.

Regulate universities to reduce what they can charge for education. Federally kill teachers unions that have caused rot in public education. Do NOT forgive student loan debt as more than 50% of the debt is held by "high net worth" [0] individuals and graduate degree seekers [1]. Bailing out student loan debt without regulating what colleges can charge will only make current issues in education worse.

Smart people command more value than dumb people - it's a sad but true reality. Educate your kids!

[0] https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/which-households-hold-most-...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/graduate-student-loan-debt-n...

My biggest hurdle as a mostly back end engineer with a shaky but workable knowledge of react is creating a page that doesn't entirely break moving from desktop to mobile. Like most things today, there are hundreds of "valid" ways to do this with each JS tutorial / dev seeming to have their own preferences that are seemingly completely arbitrary to me.

Excited to learn more about this! Dig the design for his page as well - wish I could hire a designer / dev hybrid for $300-400 to make a single page site like this! (inquiries welcome)

If Biden follows the playbook he had with Barack goodness knows he'll give the boys in blue and black whatever they want when it comes to surveillance of private citizens.

Interesting! Thanks for the info!

I never had a drinking problem, but quitting alcohol altogether has resulted in nothing but positive outcomes.

It's curious how my friends from college are largely in two groups now (not correlated to intelligence or motivation);

A) not really that interested in alcohol and focussed on work

B) focused on work but drink every night and still "party" all the time

This is seemingly an American phenomenon that's incredibly regressive and also seems to negatively affect women more than men. For whatever reason, women also seem more susceptible to the trap of drinking and partying excessively.

Very interesting to see how they bailed on using an IHS over the two dram modules ON the processor die! I love how you can see "reach" engineering solutions in apple products, it's clear that they realized the ram would be too large to fit under an IHS and just decided to go with what ended up in the M1 Mac Mini. Very much hoping apple starts allowing even third party nvidia drivers again for latest gen GPU's...

Does anyone have advice for taking a simple project like this and hiring a designer to make it look a bit more polished?

Wow, OneItemStore is awesome. Any chance there's a way to peak at the source? I'm just starting to dip my toes in front-end anything and simple projects like OneItemStore still seem quite daunting.

It's not hard - work in the office will always be paid more than remote work because communication in the office requires less inertia and is more efficient.

I've also been curious about this, specifically how to apply a set of labels to what is essentially a time series of frames.

I wouldn't be surprised if JaneStreet open sources an internal tool soon-ish. They've actually been writing a number of custom plugins and modules for WireShark to support internal custom protocols and seem to have a lot of features they'd like that aren't currently present in WireShark.

Articles like this are almost infuriating, in most cases it's lazy journalism highlighting a problem or grievance from an angle or statistic some journalist finds "interesting" without giving any thought to a reasonable solution.

The only solutions I've seen are "everyone should travel less" basically making the proposition that poor people don't deserve air travel or making grandiose claims about building huge high speed rail networks. The rail networks bit is ironic since building them wouldn't solve any energy production or distribution carbon emissions and would likely just take money that should be spent on research into promising renewable sources.

I do however love dogs owned by responsible dog owners (since I don't live with them) and think dogs / pets in many cases are amazingly loving companions!

Much like human children, dogs who have responsible and mindful owners are amazing. I'm honestly kind of sad I'm allergic because it seems like it would be incredibly fulfilling to have a well trained and obedient furry companion.

Probably. Doing mushrooms has helped loads - granted aside from slacking off at my job there isn't really much else to do during quarantine ;)

I dislike pets because I'm incredibly allergic to both cats and dogs. My current roommate got a "therapy dog" for her narcolepsy against my will (after I explicitly told her I'm incredibly allergic) and to be frank I now have no clue why you'd want a pet. It's hair is everywhere, the apartment smells like a dirty sock now and well this morning hair even ended up in my breakfast.

The front of the luxury building in NYC I live in is also basically always covered in urine from the pets of lazy dog owners.

Low key, I prefer to be the only class of animal in my home. Pets are unsanitary (I'm not a clean freak, but a dirty animal living in the same space as me is disgusting).

Obviously this information isn't directly relevant to the article, however I think it's interesting to see how much ecological damage domesticated pets have. Cats in terms of decimating bird and rodent populations and dogs, well they kill whatever they want and in the worst cases will attack toddlers etc. Pit Bulls should be banned, they aren't "loving" or "just friendly". Candidly, if I were back in a state with legal carry and saw a large dog running at me I wouldn't hesitate to shoot it on the spot.

Thanks for adding some more civil discourse to this discussion :) .

You are correct in your assertion that I am in a relationship (we share the same apt) in regards to "dating" a sex worker. I added this context to indicate that I have more first hand knowledge of what it means to be a sex worker than someone who well... doesn't date an online sex worker.

My girlfriend has mentioned that some women do not handle the money well or make emotional compromises with work hours etc that can at times lead to very sad outcomes. It would be a sad day if it was socially "okay" to ask any random woman if they "have an onlyfans" so you can see them naked for $8. That is a sad state of affairs, granted we're already half way there since asking if a woman has an Instagram in many cases could be perceived as asking "do you have an instagram filled with soft-core pornography of yourself?".

I'm open to objection by any of the members of HN who likely (ironically) identify as male feminists. For the record, my gf finds your cause hilarious and pandering at best ;)

This is incredibly concerning as only twitter or inherently biased "fact checking" services will likely control the definition of what is or is not "misinformation".

This is the big-tech equivalent of saying "we might be joking or being cheeky when we ban someone" just to add more legal ambiguity and grey areas when it comes to explaining why they banned / flagged something or let something be allowed.

OnlyFans is a curious phenomena, it will be curious to see if OnlyFans results in a dilution of the general value of dating women. I support the right for someone to sell images of their body, however it seems idiotic to think that this kind of social acceptance of "being an e-hoe" (in my girlfriends words) won't come with any negative societal effects. And to be clear, I say this as someone who dates an online sex worker.

Edit - to be clear, yes, I am currently in a "real" relationship (we share a domicile) with a woman who works a professional job during the day and does part time sex work to supplement her income.

Maybe if the team who built healthcare.gov wasn't shit all of this could have been avoided?

Those who cannot work for real tech companies... build poorly performing webpages for Uncle Sam?

As an autist myself I will definitely check this out!

Thank you!

So he was smart enough to write this but not smart enough to sock away $15k in emergency funds?

This freaks me out as someone who briefly thought about getting married but largely talked myself out of it after a close relative (who's much more social and better at relationships) ended up in a horrible divorce with a kid involved.

To date, I don't really see the advantages of being married - seems like a whole lot of risk to take on someone who will likely change in 3-5 years.

Most people who intend to really use their iPhone purchase a model that's at least $1k. Budget minded folks don't buy Apple products - Apple care isn't intended for the budget minded individual.

Yeah, no thanks.

As someone who attended a private engineering school in Boston (although not MIT) I see a move from scheme to python as regressive in almost every way.

Scheme levels the playing field among incoming students, both those who've barely programmed and who've been programming since they were 14. It also provides a special kind of mind bender that challenged me in ways I still use today. Granted I work at a company that employs multiple functional programming languages.

Good engineers in time don't use python because they realize it attracts tech debt and cruft. I love python, and still use it for quick hacks and machine learning things. However, I'll defer to the one and only Bunnie Huang regarding python v other languages [0]"fwiw, Python is a great glue, but a terrible structural material. Do not build skyscrapers out of Python"

[0] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5863

How'd you go about finding effective yet affordable content writers / SEO specialists? I have a side hustle that currently generates about $1.5k per month but I'm running into barriers bound to content and marketing.

Fiver hasn't provided any real skilled candidates :(

Yeah, just use a real broker like Schwab.

I could honestly care less... Apple Care is a measly fee in comparison to the cost of the phone. The one time I had a third party repair shop fix my phone, the battery was permanently damaged and I had to get a new phone.

Arguably, covid 19 provides all the more reason for suckers to pay more taxes than they have to.