jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"So I take it you disagree with the central thesis that tuition is absurdly high for the value that students get?"

If that was your thesis (it was well-buried), then yes, I disagree with it. And I can fairly conclusively prove my point with your own words: professors spend most of their time raising money to do their research. They don't do that because the school is showering them with cash (in point of fact, the school takes a substantial percentage cut from every grant dollar, too). So where is the tuition going? It sure isn't going to the research programs.

If you're going to make the claim that universities are squandering student tuition/fees (and that IS what you're doing here, even if you're doing it obliquely), you're going to have to defend that claim with more than just hand-waving assertions that students would gain just as much from private tutors. Because that's not a claim that stands up to casual scrutiny.

Honestly, I think you're succumbing to the fallacy of the university as a provider of first-year coursework. Yes, some students could probably learn calculus 101 from private tutors. But most of the people qualified to "tutor" students in anything more complex than first-year coursework are already doing so -- at universities.

I'm open to a frank discussion of inefficiencies in the university system (and I think there are tons -- what's the average student-contact-hour rating of a professor in comparative lit, versus a first-year professor in chemistry or math? How much does that new dorm cost? What about the Taj Mahal gym with the fancy climbing walls?), but it's wrong to suggest that the whole institution is "absurdly" overpriced from the teaching perspective. The numbers just don't bear out that hypothesis.
> “Our product is almost five to seven times stronger than concrete,”

It bugs me when people combine ranges with "fuzzy" wording. Is it 5-7 times or is it almost 5 or almost 7?

Maybe it was partially a language barrier but in that case maybe we don't need to quote this line and can replace it with the actual numbers.

Although "stronger than concrete" is very ambiguous anyways.
I think its the issues they are seeing here
https://forums.swift.org/t/differentiable-programming-for-gr...

Until the video of the last meeting is posted im guessing maybe its bc the execs set a deadline and it got passed
That's true... but I haven't had to do real work on a system that didn't already have Python installed on it in a long time.
I looked at your source, and it includes hydropower as a renewable source of energy. I'm not going to argue that we'll run out of gravity to pull water through turbines, but the gigantic dams that come with hydropower are hardly something that the Sierra Club and their kind get excited about.

So if we present your numbers honestly without inflating the "green" sounding category, we find that 4.4% of power comes from wind, and 0.3% of energy comes from solar. If turnabout is fair play, it's only 4.7% correct to call the Tesla solar & wind powered (rounding up).
I don't think they're telling Mossberg what to write in a review. Most reviews of Google TV have had similar sentiments.
I'll take a look; thanks!
Agreed. My FB & TW timelines are 95% non-toxic b/c I muted those people out of my life. The same with news feeds.

It's sufficiently tranquil that my wife now asks to read my feeds. It just took some filter cycles to get there.
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but how exactly is that the case?

It's been damaging to their claims of transparency for almost a year now, if anything this should be the first step in repairing that slight. How is dumping a year's worth of private work into your public repo somehow doing damage to their trustworthiness?
I'm curious if you even understand what the Dept. of Ed does. Is it the money, because that is mostly due to Pell and other grant distributions. Is it Title IX and other enforcements? Is it enforcement of the ADA within the education system?

Like what specific functions do you think the Dept. shouldn't be doing or could be scaled back? Because, like the Dept. of Energy (which is really the Dept. of Nuclear Material Management), I think a lot of people don't understand the purpose of the Dept.
True, good point. Although if there are no spaces around it, it’s probably not acting as an operator. But at that point any heuristics to determine what it’s doing are well beyond the scope of the browser highlighting feature.
I'm pretty confident it's correlated.

One issue I have personal experience with is what's called "cooperative overlapping". In most corporate cultures, you're expected to nod along to what people say and reply only when they're finished talking. But in many people-group cultures, including my native one, talking over people is a neutral to positive thing showing your engagement with a conversation. (In fact, failing to interject can be negative in some contexts, signaling that you don't care at all what they have to say and you're just waiting for the babbling to stop.) I've learned to adapt to the degree that I'm seen as impatient rather than simply rude, but it requires substantial effort, and I'll probably never be able to do it as well as people who grew up with this style of conversation.
Either dump her ass or go 100% OfficeSpace on her and stop caring about being responsible and focus on enjoying life.
Isn't this basically Synology?
Use borg or other encrypted backup tool (Restic is also recommended by others in this thread). rsync.net is my offsite backup. Doesn't matter what anyone demands of them, all they ever see is an encrypted blob.
> Not hiring because somebody because they're not a cultural fit is fine (if for some reason you like monoculture).

No, it is absolutely not fine.

One's livelihood should not be determined by an ability to fit into some monocultural clique based on one hiring manager's subjective view of a culture they are not familiar with. I thought companies were trying to accomplish certain business goals, and not build cultural/ideological echo chambers (unless they build that as a product, which I guess Facebook does).

> Determining they're not a cultural fit because they're black, is most definitely not.

Yes, and culture is most certainly intertwined with ethnicity, or at the very least - by location. Should companies be allowed to screen candidates from, say...Vermont, or Louisiana just because it's not a protected discriminatory attribute. Sorry, people of Vermont. You're just not a great culture fit for us.

I'm honestly struggling with trying to come up for any good reason to hold this opinion in the first place.

> Yes, cultural fit is subjective - but so are interviews.

This isn't a reason to throw out one with the other. Just because interviews are flawed is no excuse to discriminate based on culture. Not to mention there at least exist frameworks for testing skills and ability (no matter how flawed they are). There are no frameworks for testing "cultural fit", and, at least as of now, 99% of hiring managers would not be equipped to be a good judge of culture.
So, what happens if Vultr locks him out? Sounds like an even worse situation.
"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." - Frank Zappa

Uber, Groupon, and the other spoilage / sharing successes are amazing, world changing businesses.

But we're not going to live in a binary future.

Some downsides that are immediately apparent in the drill analogy:

(a) Convenience - You wait for the drill
(b) Exclusivity - Everybody can own the drill (you're not special)
(c) Privacy - Using the drill winds up in somebody's database.

Consumerism will chug along and the sharing-economy will grow along side it, because people will want a choice, and many will continue to want to OWN.
But methane isn't harmful. Also the article doesn't mention the quantities, but another does. [1] It seems that the most that's been found is about 70mg/L, which is not a lot.

[1] http://realclearscience.com/blog/2013/06/theres-methane-in-y...
Right. And I don’t want to continue to engage in the ludicrous bad faith argument that I’m not hiring Uber when I used the app to hire an Uber.
> In some cases colony counts in the filtered water were 10,000 times those in tap water.

like I said, hard for me to do a good comparison of the relative risk, but that sounds pretty bad too. some bacteria is normal, but this is like drinking from a stream vs drinking from standing water.
You make great points.

However, I still have learned how to pump brakes in rain, and I taught it to my wife. The reason is that the better mechanism, anti-lock braking systems in this case, can always fail.

Joel Spolsky had a whole post about this: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a... .

If we only teach the happy path, we are setting ourselves and everyone else up for failure when the happy path fails, which it will.

As another counterpoint, there is so much automation in modern airplanes that pilots are relying too much on the automation and losing their basic airmanship skills. (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/airline-pilots-depend-t...)

I think the same problem is starting to show in all of the assist technologies in cars. People are starting to rely more on those technologies than they should.

Basically, at some point, putting more concerns across the line is a bad idea because we will eventually lose the ability to handle things when they go wrong. We also lose institutional knowledge. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko)
project page: https://github.com/matkoniecz/lunar_assembler

Please, let me know if something is confusing/broken!
There's a certain category of people who cope with stress by becoming absorbed in work so that they can shut everything else out. Those people likely do their best work because of the tragedies surrounding them.
I'm not sure that is the same use of the word "beauty" as used in copyrighted materials like books and art, since APIs are machine blueprints, whose primary and fundamental purpose is functional, not aesthetic.

Similarly, though a mechanical engineer might describe a particular gearbox design as beautiful doesn't make it copyrightable, since it's fundamental purpose is also not aesthetic.
thanks, you could do it. The code is open sourced (https://github.com/aavshr/aava.sh).
This is an aspect of liberalism not democracy. It seems paradoxical until you realize liberalism is anti-democratic. The original intent of liberalism was to protect the private interests of the land-owning class, who were and are a small minority, although now any minority can buy into the franchise. The majority is openly hated, and the resentments of the minority against the majority is cloaked in language about love and democracy.
> Wait, why is Ubuntu's package manager "not freedom respecting" but dpkg is? I thought snap was licensed under GPLv3.

The Snap server is what's closed-source.

> I must point out that much of the people asking for sideloading are proprietary software vendors and not users.

I know I'm just one data point, but I'm a user who wants sideloading.

> Being as vehemently opposed to proprietary software as RMS is means that he's actually on Apple's side of that debate, even though Apple is "the enemy" so to speak.

No he isn't. He's always in favor of users being in full control of their own devices, even if that control allows them to install proprietary software onto them.

> The comments about Macs being more locked down I don't entirely understand. Apple's bent over backwards to keep a working owner override on Macs

They're slowly boiling the frog, like with removal of kexts. I'd bet money that within 10 years, you won't be able to disable SIP on the newest Macs anymore.

> with the only downside being that it requires a locked-down boot chain

Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
Oh yes, exactly! That was the note I was referring to obliquely. They're right, in a technical sense, but "wrong" (subjectively in some cases) when it comes to designing tools that work with URI Templates... It's absolutely a smart enough bunch of folks to get the tradeoffs, I just don't envy having to decide them. Even if, on this occasion, I may have argued more.

(Of course, a lot of standards, and this is one, are reflections, and unifications, of existing implicit standards. People had already started using some of these features, so they couldn't really drop them, and still see adoption. Not an easy balance!)
Because VNC is a major clustfucker of bad ideas? Almost every VNC installer I've used has made passwords optional. Who makes these brain dead decisions? Its bad enough that it cannot, typically, integrate with the built-in OS authentication, but the "roll your own" mentality from devs is especially off-putting. Application devs shouldn't be writing authentication mechanisms. They should be tying to the OS's auth using the proper libraries.

If you must run VNC for legacy reasons, please run it in an SSH tunnel without an open port to the world.

With things like RDP, NX/nomachine, xwindows forwarding in an ssh tunnel, etc, there's really no excuse to keep using it. For all the shit Windows gets, at least it doesn't allowed password-free RDP connections. I think the world of cheap Linux VPS have opened up a pandora's box of bad security practices. There's no shortage of forums out there that tell the uninitiated to "just apt-get" VNC and be done with it. Running ssh tunneled nomachine is just as easy to configure, has better performance, and loads better security.

Also this looks like an applet that runs a js vnc client locally and connects you directly various open VNC servers. Its your IP address in those logs and depending on your jurisdiction or policies, may get you in trouble just for visiting the site. Took me a second to realize this. May want a warning here for those at work.
I don't know why you think racism is a 'huge' piece of the puzzle.

You may be surprised to find out there exist countries other than USA that have far worse corruption and abuse at all levels of society that have nothing to do with race.
I think a great strategy would be to allow students who are done with the daily lesson early to have the freedom to be let lose on Khan Academy or other sites which aren't necessarily focusing on getting farther ahead but instead they are given the freedom to explore applications of topics being taught (i.e. mathematics as applied to bird migration patterns or cryptography, etc.).
Ha that is a good one.
Can we boost and upvote Keyoxide for verification of the account on Mastodon to free ourselves from the constraints of the Keybase belonging to Zoom!
For some reason the en-gb page is missing 11.2.2, but it's on the en-us page:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211896#macos1122
Or just tape a print out to a balloon.
You're partially correct. It's been a while since I've used Visual Studio, but I've heard that a "full" installation will occupy close to 30 gigs, and the default install uses less than 2. Still pretty large, but the 100gb mark might be a bit of a stretch. It's definitely a stretch on the Linux side of things though, my dev toolchains and associated libraries barely occupy 2 gigs, much less 20. Maybe I'm not quite "enterprise ready" though ;)
Wouldn't the most impatient customers be more likely to pay for items, rather than earn them in game?
Way too many countries are missing, which would change the results drastically.

From experience I can tell you beer is 1/3 the price in Ecuador as it is in South Africa.

Even nearby Angola, Congo and Cameroon have much cheaper beer than South Africa.

As for consumption, it would probably be a good idea to include Australia :)
Yeah, I've had multiple bikes stolen in the college town I live in. Now it's all cheap bikes until I move on or have a better storage system.

Then again, I'm broke too, so I'm sure that affects my decision.
This article makes it look like bullet trains will transport goods from China to Spain... which is a very stupid idea, as the cost of transport is so much higher than by sea.
That's pretty genius. Would work in any flood prone area I imagine.
Endless war
Already posted multiple times, such as here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6246498

Either way, it's still crap.
The salient point being: if your app relies on a subscription model, then pageviews/eyeballs are not very relevant.
The easy way is to not use a stupid function like md5(?, true) which returns binary data, and include it without escaping in your SQL.

It's really not rocket science.
Causation does. In terms of "giving us a place to look" it might as well swing in the opposite direction: He stands to spend quite a few years in jail. If his motive was getting back at the military for sacking him for his sexuality sounds a lot better (and gives him access to support from a wider range of people) than him just feeling that it's his prerogative to publish the confidential material that was entrusted to him.
2 words: Renaissance Technologies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
Do the tutorial at http://railstutorial.org. It's SO important for the non-technical folks to at least be able to whip up an app on occasion, to be able to hire technical people effectively, to communicate your needs effectively, etc.

Drupal is fine for a prototype, and your partner may want to cut his teeth on it because he just enjoys learning new technologies. What technologies is he familiar with?
When building something for a startup the rule of thumb is to use the tools you know best. Your priority is to build something quickly, that you can show to potential customers or investors, not to learn a new tool. For that you can do a weekend or side project.

Aside from whether it's a good idea to use Drupal or not, why is he using something he doesn't know ?
There's one feature I wish Google would add - the ability to manually blacklist sites from the search results.
Going to University.

Even though I had a great time, got two great degrees and actually found a really good job in the City I cannot help but feel why I couldn't have gone straight to work skipped all this debt and invested even more money/time in other endeavours like getting solid operational experience in a company. For instance, my head of opts at my firm built the biggest mutual fund in the UK around the age of 20.
> My i5 version continues to get extremely hot near the middle of the device

This non-pro is Atom-based. I like to say while the i3/5/7 are optimized for price/performance, the Atoms are optimized for low thermal dissipation (which can be painful if you spend your day in Eclipse).

But if the Pro is mediocre, that doesn't speak well of the plain 3...
I think this is what I refer to as SODD - or 'Stack Overflow Driven Development'. Somebody is not sure how to do something, so they look for an example on SO and they copy the code without really understanding what they're doing.
(note: this is different to when they get an answer on SO and copy it knowing what they're doing).
Thanks, but her company seems too young right now.
Dogfish Head (the brewery) is right here in little 'ol Delaware. Even if it weren't my hometown microbrewery of choice and there was no bias, I think I'd still be a fan after trying their line of IPAs.
It's still true for Apple's desktops and (to lesser extent) laptops, which don't have resolution independence working yet:

Apple's latest 27" iMac has 108dpi. MacBook has 113dpi. Standard MBP has 110dpi.
The relevant Wikipedia articles are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measur...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measu...
yup -- you pretty much nailed it :)

I do like fun, goofy language but I hard a hard time with it in this context. ..probably because I went into reading the article with a certain attitude that didn't match "awesomer".

oh well.. :)
Unlikely to be worth it, I'd say. His degree will be free in Norway, very expensive in the US.

Also OP if it makes you feel any better about the "hot California sun" thing it's cold and overcast out there today. Stick with your degree, kick all kinds of butt, and get hired by a big company, then you can transition to a startup (not many startups will hire candidates from overseas, it's too much trouble).
Yes, and even compared to ES7, Dart still fares rather well. Most people that doubt this seem to not have actually tried the Dart workflow and core libraries. The productivity gain from those two features alone makes it compelling against all other compile-to-js options, because what it brings to the table isn't just a fancy language with nicer syntax+semantics.
More thought about federation of GitLab here http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions...
I am not familiar with turbine technology. But I do know wind farms is ISO-NE (New England) have shutdown from ice. Just a quick bit of reading describes the challenges - historically the solutions have been expensive and not very good. One article said there is some promising new technology.

Here is that article (or press release - I know nothing of the source)

https://www.windpowerengineering.com/the-cold-hard-truth-abo...
It's the other way around. If you bind their hands (e.g. constitutionally reduce the power of the central government and have the states and cities take over what it currently does) then oligarchs have to fight in every state and town instead of in one place for everyone. Then sometimes they lose, instead of the status quo where a federal government controlled by oligarchs has its hand in everything.
A shame what this has caused.
> I also have to wonder how an everyone-videoconference-from-home society changes electricity usage? Not saying it has a significant impact, just wondering

I work in the industry in TX and we've seen noticeable changes in both usage patterns and amounts. Most notable in the early morning hours as people are waking up and getting ready to work. A whole lot more people are waking up, checking emails, and keeping lights on at home rather then driving to the office.
Weird that she spends her vitriol on how the teachers are treated, without showing any reduction in school quality.
This is true, but also misleading. There would not be more vaccines made if every country were overbidding, Israel is just moving ahead in the queue. It can do this because it is rich and is really tiny.

The Israel strategy would only work for a few select countries in the world.
considering storage is cheap, this seems like a great idea
Honestly they both sound horrific. Any code base that large ...
This is great, also check out http://cssguidelin.es/ on a related note. +1
How could you possibly arrive at that conclusion?
Cool, I just signed up. Looking forward to getting my invite.
It seems like a kind of tragedy of the commons. There are many people involved, and each one can reap some personal reward by cutting corners just a little bit ("I should get a raise because I saved the company X dollars in Q3 by reusing existing assets!"), but if enough people do that, and you get a little bit of bad luck, then you get a failure cascade that threatens far more money than anybody saved.
As somebody who lives in the Netherlands, I've not really found a reason for helmets to be used. Dutch people are generally very competent at cycling (and other non-motorized transport-on-wheels like inline skates).

I've personally also never known anybody who experienced a traffic accident where a helmet would have helped them - it's usually broken legs, scrapes on knees, etc.
So the 50,000 "basket" relates to buying and selling bitcoins with the trust, not for end users buying shares in the ETF?
Have you seen the other petitions on there? Some are so laughably stupid as to make you wonder whether any of them get paid any notice.
Even the Courts are saying the can't oversee this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/court-ability-to-poli...

this needs to be stopped!