skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Unix this seems to map to GTK+, so I guess it's a bit like wxWidgets then?

Interesting but since GTK+ itself is cross-platforms it feels a bit heavy to wrap it.
Individual contributor can still be management, but in this case the position often means others matrix and not directly report ib to you. Influence, threat, or use magic wands to get things done.
Ask your friends if they ever heard the phrase "man up" being said, and then in what context. You will get some funny looks because its a common phrase but it also extremely sexists.

Do I know a specific case where that happened. Yes. Is it documented, yes. Was there a police report, no.

> "That's pretty much the definition of toxic masculinity."

So sexism towards women is "toxic masculinity" and sexism towards men is also "toxic masculinity". That is a nice loop.

One could easily make the same argument that the expectation that women needs to act like the idealized "woman" is toxic femininity, or can we only blame the victim if its men and not women?
For a normal loan, the game theory pits the lender against a future bankruptcy court, and they have to decide if they'll get more money by reducing the debt, or if going to court is the best solution.

Not so for student loans; in the U.S. they typically cannot be reduced in bankruptcy court. So the choice becomes a simple one of cooperate=1, defect=2. Well, okay, it's not that simple. We don't yet have hereditary debt, so the debtor can still choose defect by killing themselves, reducing the amount the lender can collect. Debtors usually consider the cooperation strategy the better one.
Mostly by email. Hopefully it won’t have to scale :)
This is giving me D flashbacks.
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> She was paying ~$70k for a degree whose first job paid less than $20k/yr.

I'd say that is the problem in the US education system as well. US colleges and universities are ridiculously expensive and getting more and more expensive every year. And there's no reasonable explanation, why.
Okay but I mean in reality everybody has an opinion. In fact the people doing actual edits tend to have stronger opinions than others. My active Wikipedia time is already 10 years ago but the linked page looks like a complete out of hand discussion on Wikipedia discussions page. except that it isn't, it's a lot of stitched together samples from the depths of Wikipedia. Double-checking whether the assertions on the page are correct would take ages.

I still gonna make a small attempt:

- "has written for the Guardian" removed but "broadcasts regularly" kept. I google and: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/piers-robinson 2 articles? Are there more he wrote? Is this considered encyclopaedic knowledge that he wrote 2 articles in the Guardian?

- okay, next point: Eva Bartless. I google and one of the top 3 links goes to Quora: https://www.quora.com/Is-Eva-Bartlett-credible "Bartlett talks figures and proportions, and expands your desk research with facts that she documented as a witness on site. Her stark observations have upset an entire media industry." Answer number 2 is not so negative but at the same way basically stating that there are no super reliable sources for things happening in Syria. Also please check out her Twitter.

- added piece about Vanessa Beeley: please just google: Vanessa Beeley White helmets Twitter . I'm not gonna copy&paste all that stuff into here

I know it sucks to be in such kinds of discussions. But also don't forget what Wikipedia is and what it not is. It is an encyclopaedia, people visiting the website assume they are confronted with peer-reviewed and relevant facts. It's tough but if you can only find a single reliable source for some information, then IMHO it's better to remove that piece from the page.

If you want news, then go to Wiki News. If you want to read about research theories, then go to Wikiversity. Also don't forget that eventhough there are obviously controversial users on the platform, there are mechanisms to protect articles, review them etc.
I'm pretty surprised to learn student loans accrue compound interests. I genuinely thought they're illegal in consumer lending.
>For example, Wolfenstein, a game about a Jewish commando fighting against the Nazis, was censored in Germany to comply with the law.

Art, sciences and education are obviously exempt from these rules and while many pretty much assumed games to be art a recent court confirmed that games would be ruled as art.

The reason why Wolfenstein was censored is because of the USK, the board behind age ratings in germany, which has in the past been rather strict with nazi symbolism, regardless of context. They've softened up a lot and would wave through games with nazi symbolism like the newer Wolfenstein titles, however publishers don't want to take the chances of having to reapply for rating and simply already submit a censored version before it even hits their desks.
> We don't yet have hereditary debt, so the debtor can still choose defect by killing themselves

Well that escalated quickly...!
> you’d get no sympathy if you buried yourself in debt to buy a Tesla and then didn’t pay off the principle for years.

Banks get to create the principal that they loan out of thin air[1], lend it at ridiculous interest rates to students and have it guaranteed by tax money...they do not have my sympathy!

Risk usually dictates interest rates. Meaning that there must be a chance for you to lose the money, but that is not the case with most student loans. Yet they still charge high interest rates.

It is criminal that zero-interest (or near zero) loans are not available for students from the government. I am fine with hounding them for life the principal and even not letting them discharge it with bankruptcy, but the interest is practically evil considering the banks take no risk at all.

There is literally nothing we can invest our tax money in that will return bigger gains than education and healthcare.

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
Your framing of the core issue is all wrong. "the industry" is monetizing on an opportunity it helped to engineer, there is no point in pointing fingers as this by itself will happen naturally.
The real takeaway you should be left with here is the result of this social-economic engineering - people left with crippling debt and other economic or otherwise repercussions.
People have "bugs" - you can engineer a way to make them act irrationally (against their own eventual good), this is actually a science, you can call it mass-psychology, propaganda, marketing and so on.
Consider yourself lucky, for one reason or another you did not end up in this "trap" but probably not in the account of your "intuition" or "all comprehending knowledge"..
I know socialism isn't particular popular in the US but in outher countries student loans are issued by a non-profit / government supported body. Repaying the loan is conditional on earning a reasonable wage.
Bang on brother! You speak directly from the bottom of my heart. She messed things up big time and now is whining around because of the bad, bad world. Ridiculous!

And why the heck did she not talk with her parents who might have been more capable of doing some basic math!?
> I am fine with hounding them for life the principal and even not letting them discharge it with bankruptcy

Why?
Because students can get the loans and they don't look at the price "because all education is good". It honestly is that simple.
> the magic money factory (for the lenders, that is)

And for the universities.
My experience ist that everytime a designer touches a website things get worse :)

Current example: The Reddit redesign. It's a nightmare.

Changes to HN that would help me are:

Get rid of the CSP headers

Change the output so that the browsers reader mode can understand it.
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"And in Germany, you would have gotten jail time (§ 86a StGB), have your car confiscated and likely destroyed, and probably would have lost your driving license because you have demonstrated that you lack the adequate character to safely operate a vehicle.

And I would have been ok with that."

And no german would see the irony in this...
There is one catch, if you have written (or have access to the internals of) a simulator that is faithful to what you want to simulate you already have the cause effect things worked out.
Completely. Nobody sat me down to explain debt, they just explained that it was an option to go to the school I wanted to go to. I'm pretty much an idiot now, I can barely comprehend how stupid I was at 18. So to think that I somehow could fully realize the repercussions of student loans is less than unrealistic.

It's a many many billion dollar industry versus some (mostly) naive kids. I'm on the side of the idiot kids on saying that the moment in time we are living through is brutal. I hope we find a fix for future kids.
> For mobile, it helps if you manually truncate lines, like so

Mobile user here, your manual truncation was not enough unfortunately; it still gets cut off.

Leading white space is for code.

I wish everyone stopped making “blockquotes” with leading whitespace. It makes the text hard to read on mobile and it looks strange to have it in monospace font anyway.

Instead, prefix each paragraph of quoted text with the “>” but no leading whitespace and it’s clearly visible that you are quoting.

> One puzzling feature of the shift register is that there is no wiring between the stages! How do bits get from one stage to the next? Did the chip have another layer of wiring that wasn't in the photos? Was there some sort of hidden connection?

> Eventually I noticed that there wasn't an isolation ring between the stages—a silicon barrier that separated most I2L circuits.

> Without this isolation ring, an "invisible" PNP transistor exists between the stages, apparently allowing one stage to flip the next stage to the right value.

> Each shift-register stage is constructed from two NAND-gate latches. When the clock is low, the first latch is forced into an indeterminate state. When the clock goes high, the latch ends up as 0 or 1 based on the bias it receives from the previous stage through the "invisible" PNP transistors.

> Thus, the latch becomes edge-sensitive since it will change right on the clock's rising edge. I found a paper ("Injection-Coupled Synchronous Logic", 1978) that describes a similar technique for an I2L shift register9, so I think this is the right explanation, even though the circuit seems a bit sketchy.
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In my city at least chess is not an upper-class thing. Most of the dedicated chess players (I'm talking international masters) make a modest living teaching the game. Very easy to be a grandmasters in chess and be relatively low income, if you don't publish books or find some other source of revenue.
Game dev here. Indeed we do not however it shouldn't be hard to generate a diff from your branch :)
> Speech to text is mostly solved at this point.

Might be expecting too much from our market economy, but I wouldn't call it solved until it can be done locally, without engaging third party machines in the cloud.

(Ironically, voice recognition was working locally in the past, with quite decent accuracy. Then it got superseded with cloud solutions.)
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Please don't comment about the voting on comments.
Qt is the most portable GUI library. It can run on bare metal.
Interest rates are basically zero all over the world. Its not a banking issue thats an economic issue.

As others point out, checks don't really exist outside the US, but electronic money transfers are usually mandated to be free. Most countries are starting to have some sort of mandated "basic banking" to allow anyone to have and use a bank account as a replacement for cash.
So is Tums safe since it isn't bicarbonate? I take it every day to counteract acidic foods.
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I didn’t understand a single thing you just said.
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Maybe it's different in New York, but interest calculations were a part of the Grade 11 math curriculum when I was in school. Grade 12 math is a hard requirement for most undergraduate degrees.
Why would you assume so?
Jup. I mean for 100k you could live in an European country for a few years with some good groundwork and get a degree with 10k some left.

I'd say you'd even get a better job/deal, because surely if these degrees made u 200k a year this thread wouldn't exist.

An investment should yield a profit in return... going all in and return with less, are we talking schools or casinos here? It doesn't make moral sense, and in the long run surely is not beneficial for general education.
You generally do on Biographies of Living Persons, particularly when it's controversial political figures and particularly when the material has a source which just happens to be RT
Yep. The same thing happened in the UK - the cost is capped by the government, but the limit was increased from about 3k to 11k/year, with the government arguing that there will be competition between universities and only the best ones will charge maximum.

But it never worked like this - there are literally zero downsides to charging maximum amount, so every university does it - and the students don't care because they are guaranteed a loan by the Student Loan Company anyway, and none of the students I've interacted with ever asked themselves "is this degree worth about £50k once I'm done" - they just want to go to uni, the cost is just a magical number no one looks at. The only good thing about the UK system is that the loan repayment is means based and if you don't make more than ~£22k/year you don't pay anything, and if you do you only pay 10% of your salary above 22k towards your student loan(so the more money you make the faster it will be paid off). If the loan is not paid off in 40 years it's automatically forgiven.

But from my point of view - it's completely nuts either way. Higher education should be completely free to the student, no matter where or what they study.
I believe that the US established sanctuary cities precisely so that those who go to another country don’t have to follow its laws
Then where is the real power in the government?
She went to private schools. No sypmathy.

Though I do think variable rate loans are kind of outrageous in a general sense. And I find it curious that one was the only option.
The idea is that you can’t “give back” the education so if you could discharge student loan debt the whole system would probably collapse as students would just finish their education and declare bankruptcy.
They're kids mate. We're telling kids education is key, then telling them to sign a document.

They should be protected against this stuff, not put into debt because the baby boomers want to spend tax dollar on pensions instead of education.
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I've interacted with Philip Cross many times (UK politics Wikipedia is a very small place) and found him perfectly reasonable and his edits usually well justified.

Needless to say, an anonymous critic launching a campaign complete with website and Twitter account against him for allegedly being unfair to conspiracy-mongering figures like Craig Murray and George Galloway and genocide denial specialist Neil Clark and too nice to two Jewish journalists (one considerably more outspokenly pro-Israel than the other) isn't about to change my mind...
No because conditioning is fundamentally a 'selection' operation. It selects/filters the full data on, say, a predicate (say gender==male) and analyses that subset. This is fundamentally different from an intervention where you turn someone into 'male' who wasn't male to begin with. Those who were turned male might behave differently from those who were male without any intervention -- the sub-population you selected for defining conditional probabilities.

These two scenarios have the potential to exhibit different behavior -- probabilistic models without a notion of intervention or counterfactuals will only capture the former. But just like this 'selection' operator you c an define an analogous operator for -- selecting on those that you interved on -- then you are in the realms of causality.
And firetrucks, ambulances, and mobility scooters for the elderly. The solution? drive a large enough 4x4 truck so they don't matter.
It's a bit sickening to see many the replies here crapping all over this woman. I suspect that most (all?) of us are quite a bit older than 17, and have taught ourselves a decent amount about finance in the meantime. And yes, I'll admit that my knee-jerk reaction is often similar to the negative ones here.

But then I really think back to when I was just graduating from high school and figuring out how to pay for college. I didn't understand much about finance, or about loans. I had no idea how repayment worked, or how the majority of each payment would go toward interest for a long time. I didn't know how much in total I'd pay, or even how to figure that out. My parents (who co-signed some of my loans) tried to help me, but their understanding certainly wasn't all-encompassing either. There's pretty much no such thing as "financial education" in K-12 schools in the US. They don't even teach you how to balance a checkbook, let alone tackling the concept of debt.

I was lucky. I was lucky that my interest rates were low, and stayed low. I was lucky that I got a stable, well-paying job (with regular raises) after college and was able to exceed my monthly payments. It was all luck. I could have just as easily ended up in a bad situation. If I had ended up in a bad situation, I hope I would have been mature enough to accept at least some of the blame for it.

But that doesn't mean predatory lenders are off the hook. That doesn't mean it's ok to avoid telling a potential customer exactly how repayment works, ahead of time. That doesn't mean it's ok to charge exorbitant fees and penalties that make it harder to repay. That doesn't mean it's ok to make someone jump through hoops to access and understand detailed information about their loan accounts. And the lack of up-front, plain-language transparency is disgusting.

If you're not swayed by that, let's talk about outcomes. We're raising a generation of new adults who will be crushed by debt well into their 30s and often later. These people can't meaningfully participate in the consumer side of the economy while they're forking over half or more of their paycheck to lenders. If there are massive defaults, that will be a huge drain on resources: economic, financial, and educational. And the next generation of students just won't bother being students. They'll see what happened, and forego higher education. In some cases, that will be ok, and they'll be financially better off for it. In most others, though, it will just weaken the level of education in the US, which hurts science, engineering, research, technology, everything. Even if you have no compassion for the students with crushing debt, at least consider the scope of the problem all this causes, and be pragmatic about it.
That is precisely the problem with NetzDG: That a private company effectively becomes judge, jury and executor.

It has been deemed unconstitutional by many experts - and whether it holds up against those claims will have to be decided in the supreme court.

That Arvato, the company running the content-checking centers, is a subsidiary of Bertelsmann isn't helping either: Criticism of the government that gets deleted on Facebook by a pro-government company like Bertelsmann comes with a certain stench.

As comes the fact that the NYT somehow forgets to mention this affiliation and somehow manages it to intertwine this with the "right cause" of post-war Germany's approach to limit free-speech for Nazism.
Your portrayal of NetzDG as "[allowing] for efficient implementation" is IMHO very naive. NetzDG has been highly controversial in the informed part of the populace (for example, it's frequently discussed https://netzpolitik.org, in German). Among the concerns are that providers preemptively take down content outside the regular juristical process without transparency and appeal. Moreover, the law is criticized for cementing the defacto monopolization on the Web, and has yet to stand before court. It is seen as a publicity stunt to "do something about hate speech and fake news" and has had also the smell of an attempt to suppress opposing views when it was signed just during last year's federal election campaign by Heiko Maas, former minister of justice, now minister of foreign affairs.
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hmm did they force her to get one?
Is it easy to get a regular loan of >$25k with no securities though?
I think we have different meaning of plenty.

Commercial entities doesn't really map to one person. I thought WHOIS would have to be amended to be compatible with GDPR anyway.

I mean, you could create a website dedicated to mapping your current IP to yourself if you really wanted to, but that is hardly relevant.
There have been a good few of stories of people trying to get jobs, internships, client meetings with clever hack like this. I don't why this hit the front page.

Related to your story, it's either this person really wants to work for your company or you're part of a huge bigger list of employees whose company the person wants to work for. So the person might have just lumped your company with the others in the ad targeting set up.
But ofcourse it’s less ok to screw people the natural way than the money way...
Whats so great about libraries? Seems like a very inefficient way to store/disseminate information in 2018
Google quietly relegates 'Don't be evil' from its Code of Conduct
Yeah, I don't quite understand it either as it'd be pretty similar to have one process per PID ns at the operating system level.
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I happen to realise all social media apps are kind of malware.