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> a library contains a) librarians that help you find what you need

I wonder how long this will last in Finland, actually. Banking in Finland, for example, has slashed employees drastically and tried to get customers to do as much as possible online instead of visiting a branch and talking to a human being who has to be paid an expensive salary.

So far, at libraries in Helsinki you can easily talk to a librarian who is willing to help you find whatever obscure publications or media you are looking for. But some bureaucrat or political faction obsessed with cost-cutting and automation could see this as a bad thing and believe that library patrons should instead to expected to figure out how to just use Helmet/Helka/Arsca (Helsinki’s library catalogues) on their own, except perhaps for a very limited time slot each day.
Yes, seems to be a big thing on the countryside.

But not in big cities, where I lived most of my life.
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You might need to provide more context here.

Depending on whether it's targeting businesses or consumers, expectations and needs are different.
If the feds didn't have the program, private firms would come in and still offer loans. However these loans wouldn't be offered to students who on average couldn't realistically pay them off due to defaults (Something loans are protected from today).

For example giving 150k of loans to an engineer is a sound investment. Engineers at the low end make 50-60k/year. And most likely pull 100k/year after a few years.
> It's crazy expensive to repair if something breaks.

I've heard that a lot but I don't believe that to be true. It's actually just a fairly simple hydraulics system with a pump, oil lines, and some valves, all conected to the shock absorbers. The pneumatic part consists of these gas filled, self contained orbs, that you easily and affordably can get serviced.

So I think this is probably a rumor maybe stemming from mechanics in generic car shops unfamiliar with these systems and unwilling to try to understand them working on them. Or using this rumor to charge people as much as they can get away with.

Anyhow, it's unfortunate because mechanical engineering wise these are sound systems (not mentioning the software controller issues in some models, that all modern cars seem to be plagued with) and they offer a ride comfort that's unparalleled. And all this using simple, cheap and widely applied and proven techniques (pneumatics/hydraulics).
Someone recently did this for my employer, but instead of targeting just the CEO they targeted every employee working here with a Facebook ad.

I have a lot of mixed feelings about it but at the end of the day I don't think they earned a good reputation with the stunt.
Yes, their process, as in "the process they have implemented and documented", not as in "they've invented the concept". They widely reference prior art and experiences in other fields (e.g. the second sentence of the post the parent linked)
That piece is a disgrace.

He disappeared because he wanted to be left alone.

She tracked him, doxxing anything she could dig along the way, about him and his family.

Please flag this.
Further, interest calculation is actually a differential equation. I wouldn’t expect half the graduating class to understand its wreckless power. What students need is a nice excel sheet they can “play” with. If I paid this I would be done paying with loans here etc.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1499656/compounded-...
Our Government (Australia) just gives us an interest free loan to any domestic student (it is indexed to CPI though, so does increase nominally but not in real terms). You pay it off as part of your tax return, about 4% per year once you're working, but only when you're making over a certain threshold (I think it's around $55K). Works pretty well - it can't really put anybody in financial hardship. Doesn't hurt that our university fees are way less what you'd pay in the US either (except for international students, they gouge them a bit).
Not blasphemy, since these statements are proceeding directly from what God has said about himself in scripture.

I’ll break out the Bible references and reply this evening. Cheers :-)
That's probably a question to ask the moderators using the |Contact| link on this page.
I agree encryption is hard, but phone encryption protocols are intentionally weak for the wrong reasons. In the past the parameters have been picked low enough that domestic intelligence agencies can purposely hack them, while exporting even worse versions so that foreign adversaries are dead simple to hack. The protocols have changed over time, but this hasn't.

Also the examples you cite it's not clear of those standards bodies were infiltrated by the same agencies implicated above. They very much do run private cover operations and "plant" people or acquire companies that allow them to weaken these protocols or standards.
I've actually seen one of these at sea. Not this particular one but a similar autonomous vessel. Large swells aren't a problem. If it floats a swell will pass under it. Breaking swells are a concern and usually occur under gale force winds.

A boat has a displacement that is less than water. Which is how it floats. A small weighted bulb in the keel keeps everything pointing upright. You can mitigate the forces on a sail through 2 ways: heeling is when the entire boat leans to one side, heading up is pointing the wing sail into the wind.

Wingsails are pretty well understood and used extensively in racing. Volvo Ocean Racing (VOR) and America's Cup are 2 examples.
>The Allies "fixed" Germany.

Yep. That's totally what makes modern Germany work...
That is interesting: the Riotinto silver was mixed with lead to a degree that eastern sources weren't?

(If that's the explanation, another interesting thing about this graph is the uptick in the early 700s, presumably due to the Moorish invasion. By 750 they seem to have been mining on a greater scale than the Romans, which is not what I'd have expected.)
"When I was 18, I fully believed that taking out student loans was the only way to achieve my dream and my parents’ dream for me — to transcend my working class upbringing."

This is not living in the moment, not at all.
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So uh, why doesn't she move out of the country? She already got her masters abroad.

An US citizen with a masters degree could basically immediately get a 5 year Schengen visa. She’s obviously an extremely privileged person who could go anywhere she wants.

It just seems stupid to stick around and keep paying.

Edit: Almost feels like it’s somehow offensive to suggest that there’s life outside of the US.
>I mean, there are straight forward ways to pay very little money for a degree in a high earning field

Can you give some examples?
India now has a railway station that’s fully powered by solar energy
Let me guess, because people who are not lovers of liberies are paying for it?
This is -ahem- exotic, seen from Scandinavia.

In Norway, student loans are granted by the state; roughly speaking, the terms are as follows -

-They're personal; noone acts as collateral. Neither do you need to provide any - however, if you default, they _may_ go for your assets, within reason.

-No interest while you're under education (within reason; if you're delayed significantly, interest may start to accrue.)

-You get approx. $14,000/year, intended to cover living expenses, study materials, beer &c.

-Once you graduate, interest starts to accrue (at the time being: 2.08% per annum; after a few months, you have to make monthly payments.

-If you're unemployed, you can apply for postponement of payments; interest keeps running.

-If you're ill for any significant duration of time, you can apply to have interest stopped, as well.

-If you default on your loan, the lender may go after assets - bank accounts, vehicles, homes &c - but only after a long and involved due process, and they need to try to work with you to find a solution which isn't as drastic..

Edit: Also, the terms, including the caveat that interest rates may rise &c are being spelled out - more or less literally, they go through great pains to ensure you know what you're getting yourself into - and you get an estimate based on the expected length of your studies as to how much your monthly payment will be+when you will have repaid the loan in full.
18 year olds have no experience of financial decision making and are asked to make one of the most major financial decisions of their life immediately upon being eligible to do so, with limited opportunity to delay this decision.
I'm baffled why so many on HN seem to actively dislike cryptocurrencies. Is it fear? Spite? Envy?
Outside of the information angle that many already responded, libraries are also do other things than just store information. For many, libraries are the primary way that they can get on the internet, use a computer, print resumes, become digitally literate, etc... Forward thinking libraries have embraced their role in the community as a place for emerging authors to engage and/or places to capture the information that only exists locally.

My vision for libraries even goes farther, and that in addition to the above they should be default meeting places. Instead of meeting at a coffee shop, people should be meeting at libraries and it should be embraced. Libraries should have sections where discussions can happen, and the local community comes together.
I made use of Proxies in a new project where you can seamlessly call functions on other node services as if they were located at the local machine.

https://github.com/lindell/remote-function
Why? google search of student loans problems turns up literally a ton of results on very reputable sites discussing these issues. If a person can not be bothered to make a simple google search before making a 100K decision I don't think the problem is the bank.
Perfect fit. Did you write this yourself? If no, may I know where it's from?
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Yes, I'm well aware of tabling, which is why I said "naïve Prolog implementation". I'm also aware of using magic sets and demand transformations to allow writing Prolog-like relations in Datalog.

I also work on an industrial strength Datalog implementation and I can tell you unequivocally there is very little relationship with how a real Datalog engine is implemented and a Prolog implementation.

And no, learning Prolog will not help you learn Datalog. Unless you're going to always us tabling or demand transformations, the difference in evaluation model requires writing in a very different style.
US cities are amazing for libraries as well. I don't know much about the history of libraries, but it feels as if having a nice library was a prerequisite to being called a town. I'd say even now, having a nice library is a source of pride for towns.
Meanwhile we criticize websites that don't honor the "Do Not Track" flag and question motives of companies that are against the GDPR.
I view it a lot less like a battle between the establishment and the barbarians at the gate, and much more a struggle to take away the megaphone from the village idiot.

We’ve always had people who called vaccines dangerous against better evidence, but platforms like facebook, allowed these people to construct their own realities, and as a result people are now dying from diseases that have been extinct for more than 50 years.

As I’ve said, there have always been village idiots, but social media marks the first time in human history, that we’ve actually had to take them seriously.
It is easy there are many good online options in many cases with very reasonable cost.
I couldn't figure out whether these things follow the rules of the road. Do they at least have AIS receivers?
Minus a couple of years, that is already a thing. Not sail drones though, as far as I know.
The most prolific offshoot of some of _why's work that I see is the vast increase of comics and "sketchnotes" about technical topics and from conference talks. Having such visual resources I think has been really great for beginners and for outreach in general.
I live in a country with free healthcare and education (well, nationalized) and we have much stronger protections against predatory lending. The problem with US student loans is that they can't be defaulted on.
I find this kind of lists quite amusing. Since I too am guilty of blogging such things, when I used to blog, whenever I read such lists I assume the writer is talking about the traits they have that they regard as whatever adjective they are using, and signalling, subtly, either to potential recruiters or existing bosses, that they themselves are indeed so.

The points mentioned in the article are a bit misplaced. Aspects such as taking ownership, taking initiatives, going out of their way to help their peers etc are product of the environment. They also bleed into leadership territory. That is another thing about this article, is it talking about a team member or a lead engineer? The point about commitment to deadline is dubious. It says

> They are not hesitant in going extra miles in order to meet the committed deadline and to fulfil the agreement.

This sort of going extra mile has always baffled me. What does it mean? Working overtime? Working after office hours from home voluntarily? Unless there is a bonus for completing a task before the promised deadline, what's the need to do this? Is it because there were last minute feature additions? Then it is really the incompetence of the manager and has nothing to do with the exceptionalness of an engineer. If anything it shows that the engineer is weak and spineless. I would argue that a good engineer would fight against this, or request appropriate amount of time by citing the project management triangle. Anyway, this point smacks of a job in software service rather than product, and since I have always worked in product, that didn't do this, I can't comment anymore.

For me, an exceptional engineer is someone who keeps churning out ideas and POC for them, and keeps the product evolving constantly. He often finds himself in a position where he needs to learn something new, or ask questions about something he doesn't understand, and does it. He leaves no stone unturned to accomplish the task. He perseveres. He is humble enough to learn from someone half his age. He doesn't hack things, he builds them carefully.
As a data point I'm from Sweden and I have loans of around 300k SEK (34k USD) and my interest rate is 0.13%. Yes the rent is so low you shouldn't ever repay it faster as it's even better to just stick it in a savings account despite the poor interest of 0.7%.
I didn't know that anyone had done that for answersets, could you share the reference? But on the other hand Stephen Muggleton has been developing systems to learn parts of logic programs for a long time, also I wrote a genetic programming system to learn prolog clauses but that was vs a hand coded objective function rather than vs. data.
I still fail to understand why people shop at Whole Foods. Whole foods store are smaller, have lesser choices and are significantly more expensive. Every grocery store sells organic food. Even with 10% discount, their prices will be higher than Trader Joe's / Star / Kroger.
Nice, thank you for taking the time to explain this!
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Here's some unfounded alarmist nonsense for you:

"Limited airborne transmission of Ebola is ‘very likely,’ new analysis says"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/0...

Quote from the article: "As evidence, the research notes that Ebola virus has been found on the outside of face masks worn by health workers caring for victims of the disease. It also points out that the virus has been passed between animals via respiration. And the authors say that Ebola can infect certain cells of the respiratory tract, including epithelial cells, which line body cavities, and macrophages, a type of white blood cell that consumes pathogens.

The paper notes that breathing, sneezing, coughing and talking can release droplets of fluid from the respiratory tract that travel short distances and most likely cause infection by settling on a mucous membrane. Those actions also release smaller airborne particles capable of suspension in mid-air that can be inhaled by others. Technically, both qualify as aerosols, the paper says."
Tax, "a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.".

Nothing about the lotto is compulsory or based on income. I don't think its fair to say that its a "tax on the poor".

This scholarship has been great for the state overall and was a smart move. Georgia Tech is now a top 5 engineering school in the us, and top 10 worldwide. UGA became a highly ranked University. The tier 3 schools became tier 2, and tier 2 schools tier 1.

If it wasn't for this scholarship you'd have overall worse schools, and a brain drain on your hands.
Sounds very similar to Sweden apart from the fact that interest accumulates during your studies here. Still with the low interest rates of the last 10 or so years they've been in the <1% range for a long time now. And since calculations are based on the average interest rate of new government bonds over the last 3 years it's likely to stay low for a while.
I'm from Australia, my 5-year Software Engineering degree netted me a loan of about $20,000. The loan has no interest, though it is indexed with inflation.

If I earn over $54,000 AUD in any year, I will pay a few extra percent in income tax per year until it's paid off.

If I never earn over $54,000, or pay it off so slowly it will never actually get finished, then so be it, and that's fine.

I think everyone in the Developed would outside the USA sees that when you make things for-profit (Health, Education, etc.) the result it always more profit.
Not defending student loans or the entire predatory infrastructure that supports them, but rates on all unsecured loans are nasty.

Home loans can be cheap because they are secured by the value of the house: if you default, the bank thinks it can sell your house and still make a profit.

Unsecured loans yield nothing when they go bad, so they have absurd interest rates whether the loan is for education, business, or whatever. That’s why many people choose to eg take out a second mortgage when starting a business: better interest rates, because it is secured, but you lose your house if your business fails.
To me the interesting bit is the underlying study showed exercise increased the dementia's progression and was actually harmful. What mechansism's behind that result?

Having gone through three parents+in laws including one we actively caretook in home with this terrible disease I'm not surprised. The progression seemed unstoppable and sickened us while not aiding the parents. The allusion to the victim in a train barrelling through a dark increasingly confusing countryside is so apt.
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This was actually a big problem for me because Amazon Fresh was available pre Whole Foods acquisition, and now its gone.
A common argument for vinegar is that the microbiome in your gut needs bacteria to feed on nutrients your body doesn't absorb easily (fiber) and that vinegar (usually apple cider vinegar) helps the bacteria in your gut digest this fiber (via fermentation).

Basically, vinegar makes your stomach bacteria happy, which makes your greater digestive tract happy in turn.

I don't know how true this is, but I do know greater amounts of research are being done on the microbiome as of late, and we're learning just how important it is for our overall health. So it wouldn't surprise me if this explanation is close to correct.
And this is for totally above board purposes?
Does the average career of a graduate with comparative literature degree provide enough income to pay off a debt of this scale? If this were a medical or law degree, the decision to take the loan would be more justified.

I wish the high school kids were taught more about career and finance. Obtaining higher education is not a goal that should be achieved by any means, it is simply an optional tool for building the career.
It's like 100 bucks a year, not all that different price-wise from a Costco membership. Amazon overall has been trying to make Whole Foods less elitist than previously
It seems to be discussing, not the usual variety of quantum computation mentioned in the yellow text, but quantum computation plus a couple of hypothetical enhancements.
I'm not a GDPR expert, so please confirm with your lawyers, but my reading of https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/ is that you only need to remove the personal data, not old messages which still serve a purpose (they're a part of communication channel). Specifically, none of the grounds from point 1 apply:

a) data is still necessary (part of message chain)

b) consent wasn't necessary, the message was required for the messaging component of the service

c) again, necessary processing is excluded

d) it wasn't unlawful

e) I'm assuming you're not in one of the member states and this doesn't apply

f) it's not related to child consent

If anyone disagrees here, I'd be really interested to know why.

(Sethammons is right though that the headers / metadata would be likely covered)
I'm personally more excited about torrent libraries that run inside webbrowsers. E.g.

https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent
It is not a good article for a couple of reasons and disappointing for the Economist. While Intel is being challenged both in the mainstream (by ARM) and by applications like AI, the driver of NVidia profits for the last few years had been crypto coin mining.

While AI is great and all, it doesn't consume the sheer number of chips like the blockchain craze does. If history is any guide, once the block chain thing burns out or blows over, the number of available GPUs on the aftermarket is going to be pretty incredible.
Advice-bearing complexity classes are somewhat artificial. To quote the author in the comments:

"Adding advice always gives you the ability to solve some undecidable problems (since now you can decide an uncountable infinity of languages, rather than only a countable infinity). It’s just that normally, you’re highly constrained in which undecidable problems you can solve (e.g., you could solve the halting problem, but only if the input machine were encoded in unary notation). The surprise about /rpoly and /qpoly is that sometimes—it’s hard to predict where—they boost a complexity class up to solving undecidable problems with no constraints."

It's highly unlikely that we can actually forge a /qpoly class. Worse, the class PDQP is totally theoretical, in that it presumes a feature of quantum computers (non-collapsing measurements) which is totally theoretical and not expected to be realizeable with a physical machine.
Reading this reply is like reading a primitive robot’s personal memoir of what it felt like to bake cookies with mom, and then go fishing on a sunny day.
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Came here to say exactly this! Text Reflow works great and imho must have for every mobile browsers.
> convenience first

This is definitely a huge factor in the equation and just due to proximity. We live in close proximity to 6 grocery stores, 3 are the same brand. The store we choose to shop at comes down to selection because even among the 3 same branded stores the stock varies.
Limited airborne transmission of Ebola is ‘very likely,’ analysis says (2015)
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