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Before the internet, centralized places of knowledge were needed, and you'd need to attend that place to find said knowledge. Think about how access to music caused the price of albums to drop. Education had not seen a similar dip in cost even though the supply is 100 percent saturated.

There's a dying class of professors who got in while tenure was still a thing that paid probably 1/10 of the cost for education kids are paying now. They have the rosiest glasses possible because they're making around 100k for zero competition in their workspace.

The vast majority of the time now a TA teaches the course or certainly grades the paperwork. Well over half of college degrees obtained will never pay for themselves.

A philosophy, social science or psychology degree are not important enough to pay 50k to get. Free college would be a complete disaster, and a massive waste of money.

The education cartel places liberal , financial shackles on kids who are less than 1000 sunrises away from going to prom. The liberal arts is a complete disaster for young people's financial means. So, you get somebody 100k in debt for something they could learn on the internet and guess what? They'll ALWAYS vote to raise taxes on the rich.

I worked at a state university for five years, doing research. The waste of extravagant, totally unsustainable. I was going to grad school free since I was an employee, dropped out to teach myself software and in four years I make nearly as much as the Phds. in a physical therapy department. All it cost me was time.
As others have said, check out Mikrotik.

I recently bought https://mikrotik.com/product/RB952Ui-5ac2nD-TC. It was much cheaper than my previous stock Netgear router but it's orders of magnitude better.

This live demo of their web UI at http://demo.mt.lv/ and http://demo2.mt.lv/ should give you a good idea of what you get.
Typically a ledger should be immutable. That's what retains its auditability. Any fudging/changing should be done through reverse entries that explain why the reversal occurs.
Hmm... "be a man about it" could be taken either way, but I would tend to think of man vs. boy.
Government regulation can also do the opposite in reality.
Ask HN: What does SF mean to you?
Saw an interesting question posited in a comment thread yesterday, and figured it deserved its own thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910036

> I keep meaning to do an Ask HN about this. "What does living in San Francisco mean to you?" I am curious what other peoples experience with the city is. There's so many lifestyles possible and ways to enjoy the city.

For me: SF was the place that brings the right minds together in the right way for serendipity to take its own course naturally. That's it. Other things are nice (diversity, nature, weather, location), of course… but those are minor concerns. It just so happens that critical mass developed here, and that a San Francisco presence is a now a huge boon, if not a requirement, for optimizing for success.

There are lots of things I hate about SF: politics, litter, homelessness, cost, housing, crime, traffic, lack of transportation, lack of anything done competently by the government. But despite all that, the right people are here, and that's everything that matters.

(FYI—from Switzerland, 10 years in SF, now split 33% SF, 33% NYC, 16.7% Asia, 16.7% Europe)
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Are you talking about Schwab? I don’t see why you need to hide this bank’s identity.
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That's not a breakpoint, it's a smooth transition.

A breakpoint is when you earn $X, and that's low enough to get $Y in welfare. But if you work longer/harder the total amount you get is still $X+$Y because your welfare amount is reduced dollar-for-dollar with your earnings above $X. You don't start to increase your income unless you manage to earn more than $X+$Y entirely on your own. This creates a huge disincentive to earn more than $X, because for most people at that income level the jump to earning $X+$Y seems insurmountable.
We get accurate numbers for income tax, why not for road tax?
Since we already spend more on education, healthcare and social mobility now than ever before, pretty much nothing.

It’s like a mob unhappy with their winter meals seeing a large grain store that a prosperous farmer has stored up to plant next years harvest with, and saying “Let’s eat that until we are full!”.

Yea but you’ll be starving next winter.
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Agreed. With the enourmous cuts in science funds nowadays one can make a big difference by, for instance, fueling cash into research in virtually any area. The achievements can still be watched within a lifetime.
I don’t see how your insult adds any value to the conversation. I can equally argue about you narrow-mindedness while bluntly stating the opposite argument.
Bellevue College might be the biggest, but its far from the best. They tend to hire current UW professors to teach one class a quarter, stuff the rest of the dept with teachers that were able to get canned at the Seattle Colleges and UW satellites, and hope for the best.

Many of my friends who went there have horror stories about their teachers which I'd be hard pressed to encounter at Seattle Central College or North Seattle College.

Nearly every community college in the Puget Sound decided about a decade ago to shed the community branding and add a handful of 4 year degrees. Problem is the material you learn in upper level CS classes at UW and its satellites is quite different than what North Seattle College and Seattle Central College require (eg: a whole class on SQL Server, C# as the Intro CS class at Seattle Central rathr than the state mandated Python, etc).
Another view is that markets are not about gambling but rather investing? For example, index matched funds grow because the economy of the world, as a whole, is growing.
The person who wrote it is clueless. :D
>>If you promise everyone money for life, many people won't bother to create wealth.

And? So what? Seriously, so what?

Most people agree today that not everyone is meant to go to college. So why should everyone be creating wealth? Why can't some people just be consumers?
well, safari, chrome, osx, iphone, iPad, amazon, android, appletv, and a large number of routers and car systems all use gpl under that license singly. the fact that it's mostly due to linux and khtml seem unimportant when you say so much gpl is dual licensed ( all of those contain software that is gpl only) but, yes, dual licensing is popular too, ie the immense popularity of qt
good point. some debts follow you around for life. And after: my dad always said tax was a gamble, and he decided to ignore the final-demand letters which we found in his office after he died. In one sense, he "won" the bet. In another, viewing him as the tuple {himself, his estate} he didn't...
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Sure they can. They moved the bulk of the engine over to Lumberyard and publicly announced that, but under the hood are probably using the more mature CryEngine where Lumberyard is lacking.

EDIT: It gets more confusing, Lumberyard is apparently a hard fork of CryEngine that Amazon paid for. My guess is they switched to Lumberyard for better licensing terms, but kept all the enhancements made to CryEngine post-fork.
Your personal preferences are yours, me I’d rather spend time being productive than building/nursing a home brew machine.

But either way, if you need a fast xenon 8+ core system driving 5K video, it’s hard to build one much cheaper than what Apples iMac Pro sells for.
If you can’t tell the difference you aren’t a customer. I’m guessing you aren’t Jim Cameron.
Assuming you don't deliberately hide income I guess. Some people have said that for those who get on the low interest, or non-accumulating interest loan schedules, its the best kind of debt you can have. The lein on income is a royal pain and for student debt, it often hits just at the point you want to use increased disposible income to do things like have kids, restart the cycle. I was lucky enough to go to university in the UK in the time of free study with grant so to me, this is all hypothetical not actual and to any current student facing a lifetime of debt, I apologize for the circumstances you have been put in, by people like me
I've been told the administration at my university plans to move the compsci department out of the engineering department and in to the business school. I really haven't heard any pro to that yet other than "it makes the business people happy and there are more of them."
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It's worth noting that it is likely many private blockchains will still use and interact with public blockchains, such as to embed the hashes of private blockchain blocks, to ensure integrity of a chain with undoubtably fewer, and therefor more compromisable, nodes.
It'd be fine if this were actually a territorial system.

Dropbox develops its software in the US, markets from the US, does basically everything in the US. Yet for some reason service payments goes to Dropbox Ireland.

It's not representative of reality, and neither is Apple profits not going back to the US headquarters. The work was done in the US, the profit is going to be handed back to the shareholders. The R&D is in the US. The only thing Apple Japan (for example) is doing is reselling Apple US stuff. There's no real reason for the local subsidiary to book the entire profit.

There's a reason people find this problematic. It's because it's a tax game not representative of what's happening in the real world.
Tax isn't a self serving sociopathic "gamble" it's what allows you to go to school and drive on roads and use the internet. Don't dodge it as part of some insane game you were taught.
> The sad fact is the terminals are painfully slow because US banks don't think US customers want or are capable of using PINs.

Is this conjecture, or do you have actual citations to back this up? Those same banks have been issuing debit cards with PINs for a couple decades.
Welcome to having America's latest STD! Its bigger than Hepatitis (at 3 million), and costs about the same to cure ($80k to $90k a person).

Relationships are delayed, careers are set back and our economy is slowly bled. Much like healthcare!
> RLY? How on earth can a read from /dev/random be non blocking if it does not have sufficient entropy?

In short, to answer your question, I am not aware of any /dev/random that will not block if not sufficiently seeded with enough entropy. Linux is the only kernel where /dev/random always blocks when the input pool entropy estimate is low. This is highly criticized in most security communities.

Mac OS X and iOS have implemented the FreeBSD CSPRNG, of which /dev/random is a symlink to /dev/urandom. The CSPRNG blocks on boot until it's sufficiently seeded with hardware timing events. Once seeded, it never blocks again.

On NetBSD, /dev/random sometimes blocks, although not as notoriously as Linux. However, it will fully block on boot until sufficiently seeded, after which it no longer blocks.

OpenBSD also provides no functional difference between /dev/random and /dev/urandom. Both will block until sufficiently seeded.

As far as I know, on every Unix-like operating system, data is saved from the generator to disk on shutdown, and on boot, that data is read into the CSPRNG as an unpredictable seed. With every GNU/Linux operating system I can think of, this happens as part of the install, so on first boot, the kernel is already sufficiently seeded with random data.

On FreeBSD, this seed is saved to "/var/db/entropy-file". On GNU/Linux, either "/var/lib/systemd/random-seed" or "/var/lib/urandom/random-seed" depending on whether or not you're using systemd. I'm not sure of NetBSD saves a seed to disk or not, as it's been many years since I've last run NetBSD seriously.
The usual joke/factoid is the US Navy is the #1 air force in the entire world, with the US Army and the US Air Force running a close second and third with orders changing depending upon how one counts.
"The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating." -Thomas Jefferson

I know I mention this book a lot on here, but _Debt: The First 5,000 Years_ is the most amazing book I've ever read on the history of debt, money and slavery.

Debt relief has to come. Every great civilization throughout history has had to forgive debts. Current student debt is not even remotely payable. Millennials are the most in debt out of any generation, the lowest paid and most likely to take unpaid internships[1]. They put up with so much more that no previous generation would have even stood for.

"A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. If freedom (real freedom) is the ability to make friends, then it is also, necessarily, the ability to make real promises. What sorts of promises might genuinely free men and women make to one another? At this point we can’t even say. It's more a question of how we can get to a place that will allow us to find out. And the first step in that journey, in turn, is to accept that in the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe." Graber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFwok9SlQQ
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Here in Australia if you have outstanding debt that is owed to creditors it is paid first before any-one on the persons will would see the money. So in essence most outstanding debt can be collected on a person death.
What does this have to do with gambling? Sure a casino is using it now, but who will use it next? A hotel, restaurant, bank...
Have guns in a hotel been a common problem for you? Can't you just stay somewhere else?
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It sounds absurd to me. Am I narrow minded?
This is backwards. Decision theory, which is the foundation of inference in statistics today (Bayesian, minimax, etc. are all special cases of it) is formulated as a one player game. Certain things mesh nicely when you realize this. For example, we know that there is a Nash equilibrium for large classes of games if we allow random strategies. Likewise, for decision theory with nonconvex loss functions, optimal procedures are almost always random.

But: game theory of two or more players is qualitatively different. For a one player game, we speak of optimal strategies. For multiplayer, noncooperative games, Nash equilibria take what would seem to be the obvious generalization of that and twist it in a whole new direction.
Registration, licenses, and tolls combined make up for less than 3% of the marginal cost per mile of the trucking industry. Registration, licenses, and tolls combined cost roughly the same amount as tire wear.

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The relief of bankruptcy: only for entrepreneurs, not for students.

Another instance of utterly corrupt selective application of theoretically sound conservative principles. Just like "deregulation" and Net Neutrality.
I really enjoyed Gintis's 'Game Theory Evolving', which focuses on evolutionary game theory. Mind you, I was a biologist when I was working with it, so that was much more relevant to what I was thinking about.
it's amazing to me that Google is able to get the whole world to do unpaid menial work for them by offering a free product to website owners.

I'm surprised, since google bought youtube in 2006, that google doesn't let people add translation subtitles to videos on youtube, which is something people have historically been actively willing to do for free, compare multiple submissions against each other to gauge accuracy, then map that to the audio of the video to train and machine based language translation datasets. Always seemed like a killer way to leverage what people would do for free to advance the state of the art.
Payment processor, so “buy button on site/app/etc”
I think he needs charities that are willing to take BTC.
Approximate solutions have to do with solving problems with limited resources and scaling up. Quantum computers will be fast at solving certain types of problems, while approximate solutions are fast at solving practical problems.
"It’s absurdly expensive to mine blocks to store data indefinitely."

Is this true of all block chains or specific to bitcoin?
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Agreed. I keep seeing people say bitcoin “needs” regulation and to me the notion of Washington having any say over bitcoin sounds absurd. Sadly I think we may one day find that a majority may think it makes sense, and I worry for the consequences.
Curious, what are the reasons to prefer one-space-after-period over two? Regardless of old or new medium, proportional or monospaced font, I find it more legible when there's more space between sentences. Sometimes periods find themselves within a sentence (especially in technical writing), so ideally that would have a different markup I guess.

HTML frustrates me; I don't know why it defaults to collapsing spaces, when so often my spaces are intentionally semantic.
Oh god yes, thank you! I've wanted this for so long. I'm building a SaaS and I seriously considered paying $500 for Stripe Atlas to incorporate in the US just for Stripe. (I don't expect my crowd to be from any particular country, so a global payments vendor is the best option.)

The state of payments here is sub-par; while providers are still coming up, the documentation is just not sufficient (at least not up to Stripe's standards), the APIs are a bit convoluted, and the whole thing feels shaky. Plus, Stripe is trusted by customers, so I bet at least a few of them would be more comfortable if they see the familiar Stripe payment form.
Don’t forget Brian Acton. Rejected by FB, went on to co-found WhatsApp; bought by FB for billions
Don't even get started on health care. I worked in health insurance for three years and lived outside the US for about the same time. I saw a lot of waste in our health insurance industry and a foreign market that was superior in almost every way, even for very serious conditions. I wrote a post about it a while back:

http://fightthefuture.org/article/returning-to-america-and-t...
a) Just because you show a video of an airframe in the air, does not remotely mean that the Jet specified, with all it's gear, is flying and operable.

b) No - stealth for jets is a very, very specific thing with lots of nuance that has no civilian counterpart. What 'tech' does China make that surpasses most of the world? Almost none. The article today about their car factories: all Swedish and Swiss robots. So they're not even at that stage. Same thing with Engines - a very key component that most nations do not seem to be able to do on their own. Apparently the new US F series have surfaces tweaked down to the mm, bigger than that, it's not stealthy. And it requires a lot of specialized maintenance.

c) The Chinese have no experience whatsoever operating in the kinds of systems that the US has. Those things take experience and time to develop. Can the Chinese AF effectively deploy drones 1/2 way around the world now? That's not 'one tech' - that's a whole pile of tech and operational abilities rolled into one. And that's just drones. How many re-fuellers do they have ready? How many Aircraft carriers (really, 0). How many forward stations can they deploy to in an instant?

No, as far as they have come along the last 20 years, this is one area they are going to be quite far behind in, for still some time yet. I roughly say they are about where they are with their aircraft carrier.
> The built-in SSBM AI is very noticeably different from competitive play

And not necessarily that clever. Here are examples of the CPU losing to a player who does nothing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwDngBhmQXY
For sure, usually the algorithms aren't the interesting part, but rather how you frame the problem and most importantly what data you have.

I wish I could say I was passionate about feature engineering. I enjoy where deep learning is heading right now - where that kind of finicky, more-art-than-science approach becomes unnecessary, and the model does a better job detecting features than humans.
We could just forgive the debts. We don't need a compensating tax when inflation is this low.
At least in the Illinois Tollway you do: pay more by stopping at each toll.

That's sort of the same thing here, right? Prefill a wallet and you don't have to pay extra for processing fees (equating to convenience going back to tollways).
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"There isn't much money in street crime. "

Ummm i disagree. There has never been more money in drugs than today. Opioid crisis anyone? Just americans spend over 100billion dollars per year on drugs. Drugs fund a lot of things in this world.
The process of digital audio quantization is inherently lossy - https://books.google.com/books?id=nc-fBwAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...
He's using the "cheap" Xeon Silver chips that clock down all cores immediately and aggressively when any are using AVX-512

Most of the Gold and Platinum series chips don't start frequency scaling down below baseline until around half the cores are using AVX512. The fanciest Platinum chips can use it on all cores with the only limit being that you can't Turbo quite as much: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xeon_platinum/8180m

Without that capability, cloud providers wouldn't be able to offer multitenant VMs with access to the new instructions
YC has funded 2 Indian startups in this space: Razorpay, and Cashfree, and now Stripe has also entered the space. Along with the startups some big banks are also in the fray. I started with HDFC payments for my company's payments but moved away from them; they expect you to work at their pace. That'd have killed us by now. I wrote about my payment experiences here: https://blog.simplyguest.com/payments/simplyguest-payments.h...
Wait, YC would fund a startup that's a competitor to one of its other startups? Huh, this is news for me (and it opens up the possibility of me applying to YC; previously I was apprehensive because YC had funded a direct competitor ~10 years ago).
Speaking of modern jet fighters, here us a scary Fly-by of Su35 beside Su30 in Syria (couple of days ago), at full speed meters apart:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SlNyL9jxRP0
Driving on the road usually requires a car, thats usually an expensive piece of equipment, followed by expensive running costs - fuel (and it's non-gamblable tax), replacing parts, servicing and so on. Use of the internet requires a computer of sorts and a locked in contract to Comcast or another private ISPs (BT in the UK, NBN in AUS etc...). Perhaps I've missed something, am I eligible for a fully-maintained cost-free Tesla, a new computer and free internet?
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A patronage/donation model has no reason to worry about pledges being cancelled early since there no purchase or expectation of goods. Sure some people might have done that but it's already a community willing paying money to support people they liked so it seems that behavior filters itself.

Unless they were trying to become a real commerce and subscription business, it seems rather disingenuous to claim that as a reason, and it looks like that was the core foundation because taking that away leaves little more than saying that the existing system was "confusing", which could've be solved differently. Also I'm not sure how individual payments with even more fees could be less confusing than a single payment and fee per month but this is a rather unfortunate incident for all the patrons who have to suffer from the loss.