skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Student loans are not large enough to matter in the regard you're referring to. The housing market mess was at least 30 times larger than the student loan mess.

Most student loans are in the government's hands, most of the interest goes to the Federal Government, not to eg JP Morgan or Bank of America. The US financial system has minimal exposure to student loans and the default problems.

You're talking about $400 billion of present high risk default potential. The housing market crash wiped out ~$25 trillion in paper wealth just in the US, including in the stock market. American wealth dropped by 40%.

That drop would be equal to $40 trillion today. The entire student loan market is $1.4 trillion, a fraction of that is a default problem.

The Fed was running $85 billion per month QE programs just to stabilize the housing market.

If it were necessary, the Fed could fix the student loan mess in six months of casual QE.

The 2008-2010 great recession took down dozens of global banks, including making two of the big four in the US insolvent. Dozens of large corporations from around the globe required short-term Federal Reserve loans to remain operational as the global monetary & banking system froze.

Student loan defaults are a $50 billion per year problem. The loaned out money was conjured out of thin air by the Fed and US Government (which does not have a surplus to lend); the interest being paid is paid on that same magic money. The Fed shovels large piles of cash back to the US Government every year. If they need $300 billion to fix it, they've got more magic money (ie the Fed will debase the dollar and 0.2% of the value of all dollar assets globally and they'll do a program with the US Treasury).
As someone who reads and listen these people who are called "the intellectual dark web" I would not call them a group of intellectuals. Haidt and Pinker being exceptions.

I like to listen Sam Harris and have read a little Mr. Peterson and even listen Joe Rogan who gets into the list somehow. If I criticize these guys it does not mean that I think their net contribution is net negative.

Sam Harris is smart and nice to listen and read, but he identifies with his opinions very strongly. He has very clear tendency to "shut down intellectually" when challenged. His inability to see the other point of view cripples him. I have listened enough of his podcasts to realize the moment when he turns defensive. The rest of the podcast is just him repeating his point of view in different ways until the quest leaves it to be. He goes from rational to rationalizing (as in psychological defense) very fast and loses the ability
to listen. Harris was always the weakest link among the "Four Horsemen". Dennet & Dawkins were the intellectuals, Hitchens was incredible writer and attack dog. Harris was just edgelord even then.

I really appreciate what Jordan Peterson is doing. He actually concentrates on the positive for a group of people who are fed confrontation and anger. But his approach is motivational/charismatic, not scientific or highly intellectual even if he has the credentials. That's not a bad thing if he can reach people.

Joe Rogan is the purest case of "manly bullshit". Why he gets mentions is a mystery. It's entertaining if you like the entertainment value. He is smart version of Alex Jones without negativity or ill intent. I think his net positive effect comes from attracting people who fall into every conspiracy theory away from the negative emotions.

Conclusion: Opinionated or charismatic is not intellectual and critical thinking involves emotional control and checking your attitude. Intellectually these guys are punching below their weight class. As a group they are not challenging intellectually. They provide identification service.
I would imagine that what the five year old who asked wanted was an intuitive sense of how far away the moon is. My answer would have been far less interesting. I would assume a reasonable rate at which a child slides down a pole, say 1 meter per second, multiplied by roughly 384,000km from the moon to Earth, and it would take a little over 12 years.
I've been using rss again for a few months, and it's been really nice. It's like twitter without the noise.

The "wow" moment for me was when I discovered google alerts allows to get alerts as a rss feed (individually for each alert). So this means content discovery through RSS is now possible (the main reason why I started to replace RSS with twitter). Alerts have two modes, one "main articles only" where google applies some blackbox magic to limit the amount of items talking about the same thing, and "all articles".

I'm seriously thinking about using this to build my own privacy oriented clone of google feed. I could have a browser extension performing keyword extraction from my web history to detect my interests, then have google alerts set up on those keywords and a local app chewing all similar content from items through textrank to produce a "news", with a list of sources, maybe sorted through alexa rank. Sounds like quite a job, but worth it.
8-10 people and only two pizzas??? Madness
Agree, one can even throw the routine, distracting definitions to the bottom in a "where" clause, which I always thought is a beautiful feature.
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I initially assumed this was Randall's suggestion for a new password.
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Javascript will open some doors for finding more dev jobs (probably not for data engineering)

Java was my first language, and i really only knew about object oriented programming. Learning to write functional code has really broadened my skillset
That's the actual (but not an official one, just everyone knows what response to expect from the law enforcement services) case in Russia.
Because not everyone wants to outsource their software needs to computers they don't control?
Can someone summarize these findings? So is eating one egg a day “better” than not eating them at all?
Looks like 156 and 155 were both in March 2017, so about one year.
The Brainwashing Begins
THE BRAINWASHING BEGINS

“REAL TALK : In all honesty, I would'nt mind a yellow in position if he/she is a true public servant, kesa naman "DDS" kuno pero kurakot naman at walang tapang at malasakit para sa mga mamamayan at sa bayan. [sic]”

— Imee Callao

→ https://archive.is/oldest/https://www.facebook.com/IndraGabriel888/posts/1343141362498151

In this post of Imee Callao Barson / Petines, she just made it clear that her true allegiance is with the yellows / Dilawans, and that her goal all along is to push the LP's agenda of getting back in power by

(1) infiltrating the DDS community (Callao admitted she's a master in infiltrating and even called it “matador”)

(2) throw intrigues and issues at the allies of the President Rodrigo Duterte

(3) promote yellow candidates when she's done painting black the allies of the President.

It's simple, really. CHECKMATE.

#DigitalCaseFiles #DilawanCaseFiles #CyberCaseFiles #imeecallao #ImeeBarson #ImeePetines #Dilawan #FakeDDS #AnonPH #AnonymousPH
This case (OP's) is an example of when a device reset could be required despite not having been stolen. What we're left with is the balancing act of deciding whether this example is an acceptable price to pay to achieve the deterrent effect you're describing.

And I'd also be interested to know if it really does have a deterrent effect. Does anyone know if criminals really do avoid stealing iPads?
I totally understand your pain with licensing music (as a filmmaker myself). That's why we've worked hard on removing those issues for content creators. Filmstro music is worldwide and in perpetuity (so you don't have to keep re-licensing any music you purchase/export). Also, we make it very clear what you can use the music for - as a matter of fact, we wanted to make music more accessible for content creators hence why we (1) released royalty free 100% youtube cleared static tracks and (2) subscriptions that allow users to access loads of music for one annual price.
Is the GDPR applicable to data stored in human memory?
Then you don't understand that when the user is unaware of such feature and can't easily opt in/out, then it's an anti-feature, because sometimes not getting locked out from your own device is way more important than data being safe.
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Ask HN: How Lisp way of programming is better than that of other languages?
The requirement is just that you have to have worked there for a certain period of time - no need to be a parent [0]. Employers are allowed to reject a request on the grounds of a sound business reason [1] which is pretty broad.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/flexible-working

[1] http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1616
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THE BRAINWASHING BEGINS

“REAL TALK : In all honesty, I would'nt mind a yellow in position if he/she is a true public servant, kesa naman "DDS" kuno pero kurakot naman at walang tapang at malasakit para sa mga mamamayan at sa bayan. [sic]”

— Imee Callao

→ https://archive.is/oldest/https://www.facebook.com/IndraGabr...

In this post of Imee Callao Barson / Petines, she just made it clear that her true allegiance is with the yellows / Dilawans, and that her goal all along is to push the LP's agenda of getting back in power by

(1) infiltrating the DDS community (Callao admitted she's a master in infiltrating and even called it “matador”)

(2) throw intrigues and issues at the allies of the President Rodrigo Duterte

(3) promote yellow candidates when she's done painting black the allies of the President.

It's simple, really. CHECKMATE.

#DigitalCaseFiles #DilawanCaseFiles #CyberCaseFiles #imeecallao #ImeeBarson #ImeePetines #Dilawan #FakeDDS #AnonPH #AnonymousPH
> I've realized the first reaction to a paper should be doubt

appreciating the reminder
This is the most common way for people to get part-time work. Don't even need legal right to do so, though it helps, e.g. I know people who have done this in US where your rights as an employee are... not as good.

Here's why: you've been at company for a while. You know the code, you know the dependencies, you know the business logic, you know who to talk to, you know the mindset, you know the priorities. Replacing you is expensive. Even if they can hire someone with same skills on paper, there's a long and costly organization-specific ramp-up for most companies.

Thus, a good rational manager (not all of them are, obviously) will prefer to have you part-time than to have you leave. Which gives you negotiating leverage.

The longer you've been at a job, the more valuable you are, the better this goes. Even better if it's a tight hiring market, like now.

(I write about this at length in my book, Programmer's Guide to a Sane Workweek: https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/.)
HN, slashdot, r/programming, and techcrunch.
If the printing press decided what gets printed in what order and who sees it.
To abuse the phrase, anecdotes are not data, unless they're your own.
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It seems likely that the average user (that has no interest in figuring out web hosting) will still want to use software/service that works across devices (just like everything else works these days). For those users there's https://newsblur.com/ and similar services.
Go "T-shaped".
In other words, be a "jack of [some] trades, master of [a few]".

Specifically, you almost have to choose modern JavaScript -- because you will need it on virtually any real project (it's everywhere), and you've already got the enterprise-y server-side covered. Don't get pigeonholed into backend-only, non-JS roles. Despite all the haters, es6+ is powerful and expressive.

You'll want to suppress your OO habits though, and embrace FP as much as possible.

Maybe get there by way of ClojureScript if you're up for it. Good luck! Have fun!
I find accusations of "whataboutism" even lazier. They're just thought-stoppers.

"Whatabout" is about putting things in perspective.

Accusations of whataboutism is about putting on blinders -- and examining only one thing at a time (the other side instead of yours usually), outside of any context.

In other works, avoiding "whataboutism" is the worst way to go about understanding anything.

Which makes sense, of course, as "accusations of whataboutism" were invented as a Cold War tactic, to dismiss any attempt of the "commies" to criticize back.
I've done it on site, as have other people I know, with no resentment by anyone. Depends on organization, maybe.
A side note -

in addition to using Project Euler (which is maths-centric) to help learn language, you might enjoy Project Rosalind (http://rosalind.info/about/) which is bioinformatics focused.
Some observations from somebody who both writes internet software and has been a member of HN since almost the beginning.

1. With a large enough audience, somebody will get upset about something. Sometimes I am wrong. Sometimes I made my point poorly. Sometimes they just don't get it. Sometimes they've just had a bad day and whatever my point, they're not going to like it. Sometimes? Sometimes they feign having their feelings hurt as a way to control conversation. With a large enough audience, you get all of that. Tons of it. You can't say anything to a large enough crowd without in some way it being wrong for some consumers.

2. Every minority group will tell you how oppressed they are. Whether it's greybeard COBOL programmers or hipsters grooving on whatever the other cool kids are, they are all misunderstood, put down, and oppressed. It's a mantra. (That doesn't mean that it's not true. It means that you're going to hear it whether it's true or not)

3. The interests of providing a public forum and the interests of society to hear minority opinions and evolve are in conflict. They always have been. The minute the first city built the first city park there was some kind of Nazi-like group wanting to demonstrate there. Such is the nature of public spaces. (Long discussion here about bullshit internet sites pretending to be bulletin-boards when in fact they're publishers and seek to shape and control what appears on their sites)

4. Sharp contrast, conflict, and passion is what drives clicks. PG once said that he wished more folks would publish stuff about Erlang innards and less political/emotional stuff. It was a great sentiment. The problem is that nobody clicks on those stories or upvotes them. But if I run a school for earthworm jugglers, and a link comes up titled "Earthworm schools under attack again!" I'm going to vote that up before I even click on the link.

What does that mean? For internet sites with any volume at all, owners focus on making the fewest people possible upset. Over time this always ends up with a site full of people who look, feel, and act just like the owners do. Good for the site, good for the readers (perhaps), terrible for society. No bad guys, evil plots, bigotry, or malice required. It's just a natural result of the system.

So yes, you can be both popular and silenced. The mob always find a way to shut out what it doesn't want to hear. That's why open access and free speech for everybody to everybody is so important.
I'm an experienced developer with a wide range of skills from web development to AWS architecture. When I looked at doing side work and thought about the rates people were willing to pay me and thought about the 49% marginal tax rate on every dollar I would have earned (Federal, state, social security, Medicare including the self employment tax - pre 2018), I thought "why bother?" My skillset isn't easily replaced.

On the other hand now that my marginal tax rate would be 33.6% (2018 Tax rates) since I'm already over the social security maximum from my primary job, it's much more attractive.

My wife would have jumped at the chance to make an extra work at $15 - $20 an hour (W2) when she was single, now at our combined tax rate, it's not even worth it. We are thinking about her working part time. The main reason she is working at all is for the health benefits that give me the opportunity to aggressively jump between contract, full time, unstable startups, and stable corporate jobs.

Taxes make a difference on how much someone is willing to work, especially if they make enough to be comfortable.
Did you actually read the regulation you linked to?

It defines a standard for the quality classification of cucumbers. It doesn't require cucumbers to be straight, it just requires them to meet certain criteria to be declared a certain class of cucumber. It didn't prevent anyone from selling bent cucumbers as long as they were classified accordingly.

In fact, what I just said is exactly what the blog post linked in the comment you're responding to is said and which you're completely ignoring.

The EU didn't pass a law requiring cucumbers to be straight. The EU passed a standard for classifying cucumbers. Exactly the kind of standard that would have been passed by each country individually if the EU didn't exist (as evidenced by non-EU countries having such standards).
> America invades Iraq, slaughters a million people

No they didn't. They were incredibly naive and thought that the Iraqis would jump for joy and become just like America when Saddam was taken out. Instead they decided to kill each other.

> In the author's mind all of the fundamental, "Orthodox" institutions are controlled by liberals who control the "airwaves and pulpits and universities."

Are you suggesting the media, hollywood, and universities aren't left-leaning?
I just mean with Brexit and all ... if the English leave, English will be deprecated as an official language, yet it will still be the lingua franca of European Business. It's just a kind of a funny, and slightly ironic situation I think.

EDIT: I think actually it speaks very much to how european unity is about so much more than just the EU. By extension how culture and national identity is about so much more than what the Westphalian paradigm provides.
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Only by not setting a passcode.
Facebook was used as a political propaganda device years before this kerfuffle, with FB's approval, but they and the press didn't mind until it had an outcome they didn't like.

Really, there is a supreme irony in whipping the upper echelons into a frenzy about a propaganda crisis itself manufactured into social consensus.
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> The file I have open right now is 1500 lines with probably 400 revisions across numerous branches.

I have a 1500LOC files with 1100 revisions right here, "git annotate" processes it in 2.356 seconds on a 2010 MBP, and PyCharm barely takes any longer (maybe 3s).

> How is my IDE supposed to know which of those revisions are the ones that I care about?

It does not care, it gives you a baseline annotation and if that's too recent you drill down into previous annotations.
> […] you would have avoided all this administrative burden.

This is the big reason I chose FreshRSS. PHP and SQLite works great on cheap/shared hosting and is portable.
It doesn't to me tbf; UBI and no minimum wage means that employers are allowed to hire people for no wage. Then again, there's already loads of ways to get around minimum wage laws, see the gig industry, hospitality (e.g. anyone that depends on tips) industry, and prison labor (modern slavery).
Lede totally buried on this one.

Filmstro (https://filmstro.com/music) is the company it's talking about with some seriously cool tech - for every music track, you can control three sliders (momentum, depth, and power) to change the mood of the song in real time - or in Premiere with a plugin.

Of course, this costs money, but it's one of the coolest things I've seen in this field in the last quite a while.
Good pay and cheap housing is a pretty strong drawing force.
"The Lisp community likes to solve lots of problems with macros" sounds like "Mozart likes to use a lot of notes". I do not like to use macros, I like to hide boilerplate so the semantics stand out. And so I can type less. I do not like typing. But Siri can stuff it. I digress.
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Doing so would have consequences.

Probably bad ones.
>But it wasn’t until ~220BC that the area was any sort of unified civilization (under the Qin dynasty).

We have excellent arts and artifacts and poetry and philosophy of great sophistication from China centuries before that. Whether that was a single state or different kingdoms is as beside the point, as whether e.g. some British poets are English, others Scottish, etc.
Kubernetes is not an orchestrator – it’s a game changer in the Cloud
Please, no. RSS works pretty well as is. Few users would care about the data format. https://xkcd.com/927/
That’s the thing -what the app tier was doing wasn’t to complex for an ORM. Not by a long ahot.

The triggers that caused us problems generally came about to cover unrelated dba laziness and needed removed for sanity reasons anyway.

I am not arguing there cannot be a good case for triggers, just that when abused they cause a certain level of hell that is not worth it.
It works as a normal functional VPN (via our private servers) but the main idea is traffic classification and reports. It's impossible to get this data on iOS without VPN.
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> It's because stories need sympathetic characters, and current Republican values aren't sympathetic.

What makes you think that?
Correct, it's guilty until proven innocent, and bad actors can initiate the content strike seemingly without much effort (at least it was this way a few months ago; not sure if YT fixed this).
T-shaped is excellent advice but there is something to be said for “paint drip shaped” skills too: imagine a thick line of white paint on a wall and how it drips down unevenly. Some of the drips/skills are very long, some are short, and most of the paint is that wide beam.

In relation to the OP then, being a master of an area is valuable, but so is knowledge of a few others in some depth and a lot of other areas at a much shallower depth.
This is a story because Oracle needs to change their practices. Yesterday.

I for one am glad someone brought it up and that it's being discussed. It's overdue by about two decades.
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RSS works pretty well as is. Few users would care the data format. https://xkcd.com/927/
Next level of irony: You just distributed advice for circumventing a technical content protection mechanism, which is illegal in many countries today.
Ye, that's true... They started doing it so that you didn't just keep your IP for ages as a quasi static IP and then host things from there... because the "dedicated" lines with a static IP were/are different offers with a lot bigger price tag.

Yes, it's ridiculous, but has nothing to do with privacy laws.
I think that bicycles and other human powered (also
with electric assist) vehicles or small electric vehicles like scooters are the best short term future we can ask for. And working public transport - who cares if it's autonomous out not. There are already places that work with these.

I find it strange that you mention Smart Fortwo, which is not particularly small when one compares it to VW Golf for example. Toyota IQ would be better example, it's not much bigger than Fortwo, but has four seats.
I assume this is just because it's something you have to manually intervene on - as soon as you have that feature, tons of intentional violators will submit faked documents claiming they do have rights, and those have to be verified somehow.

I'm not saying that's a valid justification, but I imagine it's the thought process.