<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: zipy124</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zipy124</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:28:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=zipy124" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zipy124 in "Computer science enrollment data suddenly shows a big drop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't personally have an opinion yet on what is the correct way to do things, I can only talk from my own personal experience within Academia in the UK as both a student and teacher with Computer Science.<p>The prime example is that most software roles in the economy are (or where, perhaps AI will change this, I do not know) simple web-dev/CRUD/SQL roles. Specifically Python/JS was a high-demand skill. This pushed universities to get rid of lower level courses such as concurrency/computer architecture, C/C++/assembly, or more maths based modules such as logic, in favour of more web-dev/software/AI/data-science modules.<p>One could (and I do) argue that this is effectively turning computer science degrees into more of a software engineering degrees piece by piece, thus turning univerisities into vocational schools.<p>Now here lies the question. Is this correct? Should universities be vocational schools? Or should they be seperate? Personally my feeling is that universities are not set up well for this method of teaching, and it would be much better for everyone involved if the students were instead taught through apprenticeship or vocational schools, which tend to be significantly cheaper (or even pay) for the student, whilst making sure that the university degree can stay focused within academia and funneling a good research pipeline.<p>Instead my view is that politicans have pushed many young adults into expensive degree programs that they did not need, with the false promise that it would give them emplolyement (which was never the goal of a university in the first place). This isn't good for the students (who are saddled with debt), the employers (who end up having to train the juniors anyway) or the economy (which now has less money in it due to the large drain on disposable income from student loan repayments).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:01:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771474</link><dc:creator>zipy124</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771474</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zipy124 in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm aware of this policy. I cannot re-find the source, but there was an investigative piece somewhere that found they continued to take money from fossil-fuel aligned companies. I cannot find it after trying to look again admittably, though I am unsure if it because of my poor memory and that it didn't exist in the first place or because search engines are poor at this sort of thing. They do however continue to take ads from very high carbon industries like airlines and the such however.<p>They largely share my views, I am not suspicious because they don't align with my views, I am suspicious of all profit-motivated companies equally.</p>
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<p>This is a similar fact in government. For instance in the UK with the NHS and other services, we often look at total spending and assume that spending has to stay at least constant in real terms or grow, when in reality you want some metric of spending per outcome.</p>
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<p>Being a cyber criminal pays many multiplies of working in cyber, as it already is with legal offensive cyber paying far better than defensive cyber. Capitalism going to capitalism. Especially since the risk of cyber crime is so much lower than physical crime, with your ability to commit it cross border, and backed by a nation state it is unsurprising it is a growing problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:23:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758000</link><dc:creator>zipy124</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758000</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zipy124 in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The guardian have previously been found to generate a significant amount of ad revenue from fossil fuel companies. They aren't politically aligned with it, but are financially. Remember that a large portion of the left in the UK are also anti-solar since they are pro-green nature and they have yet to make a choice on this.<p>P.s I am pro renewable and pro-solar/wind/nuclear just to clarify that this is nothing about my personal beliefs.</p>
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<p>Yeh, I've tackled this problem a few times, and just like back-ups you at some point need something external, because if you're down, you don't want your status page to go down too. This means you need to make sure to sandbox it pretty hard if rolling your own, ideally on a separate cloud behind a different CDN etc...</p>
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<p>Likely one large contributor is that for a normal service, if it's down it's as simple as re-routing to another service, and there is basically an unlimited amount of CPU servers around the world to spin up on demand. GPU servers are much harder to spin up on demand, as supply is so constrained.<p>Another factor is just it's a new field and move fast and break things is still the go to as competition is high, and the stakes are incredibly high monetary wise.<p>A pessimistic,  but perhaps true theory is also just vibe-coding/slop is reducing their reliability.<p>A counter point is that regular services like github seem to go down almost as frequently.</p>
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<p>People realised that acamedia is not set up to train people for jobs, but set up to teach people.<p>These two roles are at odds with each other.</p>
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<p>not unheard of, but not typical.</p>
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<p>That's some pretty creative accounting to get to the 25bn mark. You also don't need to subsidise storage projects. They get built by market demand, as you can see by the amount being built and operated by energy trading firms who use them solely to buy power when the price is low and sell when high.<p>The planing issues were mostly due to the conservative party having a complete hate for onshore wind.</p>
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<p>This makes sense because investors in startups just care that they aren't left holding the bag. As long as they aren't the final fool in the buy in chain, they don't care.</p>
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<p>And yet I don't know any software engineers in my personal circle who would be willing to work for palantir, and so they must have a fairly hard time finding people willing, thus it can't be as difficult as places where this is not the case (in the same industry).</p>
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<p>Insurance. No need to write off anything or take a loss, just a slightly increased yearly cost. The cost of said insurance is likely going to be very high for a long time now though.</p>
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<p>I think you mean £20 billion for that latter figure. This is largely because a significant amount of assets are held in ISA's (£20k a year contribution per person allowed) , or via personal property which is capital gains exempt or in a pension which is again, capital gains exempt.<p>Thus only the wealthiest are outside these boundaries, and they often will not liquidate holdings until their death to pay inhertiance tax, or in trusts which will liqudiate over decades as they can pay inheritance tax over a very long period.<p>This is not to mention the large amounts of off-shore holdings.</p>
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<p>I mean if you go by pay in the UK a Microsoft principle is equivalent to an L4 at Google if levels.fyi is too be believed....</p>
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<p>Yes it is that unreliable. Even when given free credits, I would rather pay for the offerings from Amazon/Google.</p>
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<p>Your career URL is a 404, I think it should be careers plural.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:14:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603703</link><dc:creator>zipy124</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zipy124 in "Lime (bikes) is a data company"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm aware, I have lived in London for almost a decade. But the comparison is that you could get 10-30 bikes for the same price.</p>
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<p>I've lived in London for 8 years, I am familiar with the cost. It's still insane to me. You could easily buy 10+ bikes for the price, close to 30 if you're really just looking to commute.</p>
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<p>Spending £3k on bike hire is an insane stat to me.</p>
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