skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several ways to look at that. My take is that it is not at all the problem of financing Internet, it is about how some businesses can access their piece of the cake. They are fleas on the back of mega companies.

People already pays a lot to access the internet to their telecom and devices providers.

Internet access is actually quite costly, otherwise the companies like ATT/Apple and so on, would not be among the richest companies on the world. AT&T revenues in 2017 were 160 billion. And AT&T is only one of those Telecom companies. Apple's revenues in 2016 were 215 billions Dollars.
My theory is that classical music is so much complex so you literally have to level up your musical listening skills to make any sense of it.

Also they dynamics is different, typically a piece is building up some sort of context that adds to the experience - even more so than modern music - if you get home and someone blasts the final parts of a symphony on the stereo, it's easily perceived as just a cacophony of irritating tunes. It might have been enjoyable if you had been listening from the beginning.

It seems to me that a lot of recent songs reduce complexity even further - It seems common now with songs that are basically just a repeating theme with minor variations. I'm not saying it's bad, but it doesn't really require much effort to understand the structure, and it probably makes classical music seem even more alien.
Ten years ago (pre-AirBnB), a renter used my house as a porn studio. We found out when a friend sent us a link to a dvd's trailer, saying "this may look familiar". Opening scene was in our shower, then bed, then couch, then a group scene on the kitchen worktop, of all places.

While this was disturbing at first, the 'ick' feeling quickly went away and we could see the funny side of it.

What really hurt was the renter skipped out leaving two months' unpaid rent, plus sky high heating bills (needed to keep the apartment warm enough for naked actors, apparently...)
So what I can understand this is "just" a wrapper for existing GUI frameworks? Why is this better than just using GTK that already is portable?
I think how math is taught at the early stages (rote, focus on finding a simple answer which is already clearly known, focus on mechanical arithmetic and calculation) filters out many of those who would enjoy the more advanced stuff. There are some clear filters (basic arithmetic probably is 80-90 IQ, algebra 95, probability and statistics 100, calculus 100-105, differential equations, analysis, and linear algebra maybe 110, algebraic topology a bit higher), but those are really lower bounds for raw intelligence required.

I’d rather have basic arithmetic treated as a separate subject, and then some form of “problem solving math” which can incorporate concepts from calculus, algebra, and especially probability and statistics. The best three math classes I’ve ever taken were a combination of physics and calculus in a small group taught by two teachers who worked closely together, a weird MIT ESG seminar with a postdoc and 3 students covering the broad expanse of everything post 18.03, and number theory and crypto at the same time (a grad class I snuck into without prereqs and spent the first month essentially 30h/wk catching up on those.). What was consistent with two of these was having a clear problem to solve; with the third it was just high interactivity with an expert for an extended period.

Providing students with exposure to the problem space addressed by a certain form of math, then letting them discover some of the truths and techniques on their own in the same way they were originally discovered, is going to take more time and far more skilled instructors than just repeating facts, but will be more engaging and produce better understanding.
Do you use Feature Flags?
An interesting article about a person who got every warning, knew all the details of her own undoing but is trying to claim ignorance after the fact to put the blame on the “big bad industry” who really did nothing wrong here.

She’s a fool who complain that her principle hasn’t gone down when she never actually paid anything towards it. And yes she knows that and yes they and her parents, old teachers, friends and any advicers she has ever talked to explained that the basics of a loan are that you pay it down and pay interests on it.

She’s mortified that a variable rate interest loan has a rate that varies.... and sure as hell she remembers them telling her that, she’s just playing dumb to sound the victim.

Oh and ofcause they make the details of the loan “almost impossible to find!....” in a tab called details on their website....... or if in doubt you know, you could call them. What sort of black hole level of entitlement is she living in?

Education is costly in the USA, this is horrible and wrong. But hell Tesla’s are costly too, 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.

In the ideal world she could have been denied the loans on the basis of her lack of ability to manage her own financiancials. But then it would not be the land of the free, and she would just have been complaining about that instead.
Annoyingly the tech specs part of that page says it requires Android 7.0, then the requirements page says something different.
> But it seems the smart way is to default on this

And then what?
Exercise 'doesn't slow' progression of dementia if you already have dementia
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The reason language is infinite is that it's structured recursively. It's the same reason mathematical expression are infinite, because you can replace a number with a bracketed expression. But computers can understand arbitrarily nested and large mathematical expressions given enough memory. So I think that it's misguided to argue that infinitude and recursiveness are the main obstacle to understanding natural language. The real issue most of the time is ambiguity and a lack of contextual knowledge, and in the general case, contextual knowledge requires general intelligence.
Writing a GTK UI for macOS, for example, will make the interface look very different to the look and feel that the operation system is offering. If you use a library like libui, the ABI is the same for every major operating system, but the result matches what the OS is using. If you don't care about the look and feel of the interface then I guess this library is not for you. As someone who is responsible for maintaining the UI of a big application for three major systems (macOS, Windows and Linux) a library like this would have been a blessing years ago before the project started.
it's clear there is no enemy
but misunderstanding

Has a lot of resonance. Is it a reference to something?
> "Just until I could raise the funds to pay back my investors."

Charles Ponzi would be proud
Good question!

The idea is to just have a very quick 1 click way to find scripts that you have, Google Drive is more of a general purpose storage, this is specifically for scripts and optimized for that.

To list a situation where Waterdeep could be easier to use:

When you have a temporary file you might need but is messing up your git flow, you can just store it at Waterdeep and access it later or delete it. If you want to do the same with Google Drive, you'd have to create that file inside a folder which can be hard to find.

For the case of GitHub, you can easily have your own scripts there and it would work fine, Waterdeep is more so focused on extremely fast access to your scripts without having to create a repository and commit/push the files to it, which I understand it pretty straight forward to do for most developers yet that friction might be the reason why most of them don't have a dotfiles repository on their GitHub account.
They are, you soak them before use to 'recharge'.
> libui was originally written as part of my package ui for Go.

> Now that libui is separate, package ui has become a binding to libui.

> As such, package ui is the only official binding.

From the README — https://github.com/andlabs/libui#language-bindings
I'm not sure about the specifics of student loans, so below might be different (Edit: see hextinium comment):

Lenders usually sell non-performing to a collection agency where you can negotiate a discount or they can try to execute it in court (where they need to prove they actually own the loan - for a lot of home loans this was not the case )
I've spent so much money at Starbucks that I feel perfectly entitled to use any of their stores for whatever at any time. I don't think my Starbucks spending has been less than a couple hundred bucks annually for 20 years, and usually it's a lot higher than that. I am a customer, regardless of whether or not I buy anything at a particular store at a particular time.
Even if you go into default because it is a student loan the IRS will garnish any return and send it to the creditor and of course your credit score will drop. Doing so may force a more reasonable interest rate than what you previously. I am interested if anyone on here has taken this route.
Do you mean a C++ bindings for libui?

If yes, then you can check these two [1][2].

[1] https://github.com/billyquith/libui-cpp

[2] https://github.com/aoloe/cpp-libui-qtlike
The detail level on that Mario would have to be insane. And probably rather interesting for municipalities as well.
>The cell, and life by extension/function, is a reverse entropy machine.

I've always thought the same thing myself. Posits some interesting mind experiments on the possibility of the big crunch vs. heat death of the universe.
Trivia: A lot of the student loans that are paid off when Bitcoin etc prices increases are private student loans.
> But hell Tesla’s are costly too, 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.

Legally you _do_ get more sympathy given that you are at least able to discharge those loans in bankruptcy.
> non-partisan news organizations. Generally, their news is relatively unbiased;

One has to be very careful about who their readership are and whom the journalist cater to in their writing. For example we had this study done for reporting on the 2016 election and its only a small selection in green that indicate nonpartisan target audience: http://wilkins.law.harvard.edu/projects/2017-08_mediacloud/G... It should be noted that the map do not show official endorsements which some of the green marked organization (or owners) made.

We also have the classic "Who reads the papers?" from Yes, Prime Minister. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M) Its a joke of course but one that rings quite true for a lot of people. The audience influence the paper which in turn incentives the writers to cater to the existing audience. Online advertisement is exceptional strong in this where the effect can be felt continuously with instant feedback.

Encyclopedias are fun. One on side of the family I have academic ancestors who had two really old sets from around world war 1 and before. Amazing read, especially if you look up political topics. Occasional I read it just for the culture difference. Domain experts can be rather "colored" by their time, and its difficult argument to make that today Encyclopedia Britannica is enlighten and correct but 100 years ago they paid biased and blind experts.

Which leaves doing the work oneself and make original meta research by seeking out studies, academic journals and papers. That is the proper way to do it if one has the time and energy.
p(sun rises|rooster crows)=1 remains valid when “rooster crows” is false.
When you lived in the West, why return to China? ( Except money)
I am also wondering what degree she go where the starting pay is less then $20k / year.
Financing is just all-around bad news that should be strenuously avoided.

At the same time, I'm sure her deal with the devil was very clearly spelled out in 8pt type.

It is very hard to wade through that much whining when it comes from a literate and numerate middle class kid, in a western country, in the age of Google.
> Kids are taking loans out at 17 or 18 that they won’t be able to pay back until they’re 40 or 50.

This is the big problem. Calling 18 year olds, kids, is basically saying that 18 year olds aren't old enough to be considered adults. Either you get the freedom of being an adult along with the responsibility or your leader decides what is best for you and you no longer have freedom. Even more so in her case. Her parents are ok the hook for repaying the debt. That means that they (ages 40 I guess) looked at the contact and thought it was a good deal. Is the author suggesting that 40 year olds shouldn't be allowed to get loans?

If that isn't enough she describes defaulting on a loan as something okay. She decides to fly abroad and just assumes that the loan holders won't require her to start repayment.

But even before that, she realizes in the middle of her undergrad that the tuition is to much. But she decides to get a loan on bad terms because she doesn't want to loose her friends. Come on. She decides to get a terrible loan because she is to shy to make new friends.

For poor people, who know how to handle the freedom of being an adult, student loans could be exactly what they need to succeed in life. But for irresponsible people like the author, I don't think any laws can protect her from herself.
How can you even compare a luxury item to getting an education? Besides students are in a disadvantaged position when they really want to get educated. They have no bargaining power.

Just because it's legally ok, doesn't mean it's morally right.

And as far as I remember, the big bad industry was saved after the crash...
Given the current Bitcoin processing fees and time, a decent centralized middleman could plausibly offer off-chain bulk transactions within their "network" that are faster and cheaper, and only periodically settle the totals on-chain.
Yes, it is very important, yet unless it is a government project, it gets ignored by project delivery acceptance requirements.
We've been over this a thousand times: you would not be able to get loans for education if you could discharge them in bankruptcy. They would become a super-toxic bet. They would have to be conditioned on the ability of the student to make significant earnings, because otherwise the optimal play for many people would be to get the education, and then declare bankruptcy.
True but most people can expect to be paid in fiat. And by most I mean 99.99999%
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Did you read the same article as me?

She had already done 2 years of schooling -- to drop out at that point would leave her with no degree, and a massive mountain for existing debt. She was effectively forced into taking a horrible loan, which she understood was horrible (just not how horrible).
Can't speak for every kind of student loan, but AFAIK at least federal student loans are not like other loans. They are notoriously difficult to wipe away. I recall reading that a judge will only forgive it if there is no chance you can ever pay it back, or something like that. Search online for the specifics. You cannot treat them like other kinds of loans.
They are still very rare for now
That isn’t so much a question of sympathy as much as a question of the type of asset. If you go into bankruptcy they can claim the physical car and use it to reduce their loss.

If you could dischharge student loans you would have to sign over the rights to any future financial gain you would have from your education to let them reduce their loss. This is essentially what happens when they garnish your wage to reduce the loan, but ofcause not in a clean cut bankruptcy like process.
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She was paying ~$70k for a degree whose first job paid less than $20k/yr.

Purely from a financial standpoint, dropping out would be been the better choice or to at least change majors.
I believe parent means that "clamping down on free speech" is the real problem of any regime, even if it's done in the name of "non-violence" and protection of minorities or whatever.

In practice he's right because eventually it will be used to silence valid criticism against the state.
Ask HN: My eyesight is not good enough to read HN. What can I do?
I own an iPad and an Android phone. The text on HN is simply too small for me to read.

Before HN added CSP headers, I used a bookmarklet to change the font size. But since the CSP headers were added, FF and Chrome both refuse to execute the bookmarklet.

Some might suggest to use an app instead. But I don't use apps. As a programmer I know how bad the app security models are.

Is there any solution, or am I effectively cut off from HN?
In making the submission, the submitter faked the title. The title on HN is at the moment: "	Court confirms that IP addresses are personal data only in some cases" whereas there is no "only" word anywhere on the linked page.

So the title on HN is misleading. Especially given the most important part of the article:

"The CJEU decided that a dynamic IP address will be personal data in the hands of a website operator if:

- there is another party (such as an ISP) that can link the dynamic IP address to the identity of an individual; and

- the website operator has a "legal means" of obtaining access to the information held by the ISP in order to identify the individual."

And it's known that the "legal means of obtaining access to that information" is very often present.
That situation is US specific. Many other countries allow you to go bankrupt from student loans in various ways. (Or have an alternative way of supporting the debt, for example family co-signing) The fact the current system wouldn't work it doesn't mean the idea is impossible.
The problem with magnetorheological fluid dampers is that they wear out very quickly compared to conventional dampers. The magnetic particles are basically very fine grit, which abrades away at the valving inside the dampers.
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I don't disregard it, but philosophy is strictly irrelevant to science. Science is not about describing "reality": it's about guessing measurements' outcome.
Whether an electron "exists", is a (fully respectable) philosophic question.
Whether we can foresee the full state a CPU will be in every other nanosecond, that's a scientific question.
Dijkstra: Reasoning About Programs (1990) [video]
In D.C., I wouldn't be surprised if there also are foreign agents targeting US elected officials, in addition to the normal FBI nonsense.
That seems like a bit of an unfair reading to me.

Yes, ultimately everyone is responsible for managing their own finances, and it seems like the author acknowledges that and her own part in their mismanagement.

But expecting young people to make rational, fully-considered choices about taking loans in order to receive education is a tough sell. Higher education is often - sometimes unfairly - seen as an essential requirement for making progress in many careers. And in a situation where so many people are struggling with unmanageable debt, it seems that “every individual is responsible for their own choices” is a less useful position than “what is wrong with this system nationally and how can we fix it”. It’s kind of like US healthcare: participants are almost obliged to participate in the system, and for various reasons can’t be considered fully rational consumers.

There are lots of things that can be done, though. A change in culture making college education less essential; better loan programs; excision of bureaucracy; single-payer education systems; the list goes on.

The answer is a lot more complex than “college students need to make better decisions”.
[3Blue1Brown] What they won't teach you in calculus
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When you go to another country, you follow the law there. If you break it, expect punishment.

That doesn't mean the law is okay but the country is fully free to punish you as they see fit.

> Nazi symbols were completely normal and everywhere.

Not here. Outside of certain exceptions, don't go waving around Nazi symbols in the country that to this day regrets this part of history.
> For example in health/safety, we have always believed many things to be safe...

Please, do not mix science and pseudo-scientific journalism.

Fat or sugar? Pseudo-scientific journalism will only accept a "yes" or a "no" for an answer. Science is instead made of "yes", "no", and "we don't know yet".
In some countries this kind of loan scheme would be deemed profiteering and thus illegal.
Just wanted to comment to raise awareness for those of us without 20/20 eyesight.

HN staff: please consider having a typographer/UI designer make a few improvements to the base stylesheet. I realize the codebase may be old, but it's a paragon of Lisp purity so it should be easy to change, no? ;)
It's toasted.
It's particularly interesting to me that she spent most of her undergrad at a private institution.

> Education is costly in the USA, this is horrible and wrong.

I mean, there are straight forward ways to pay very little money for a degree in a high earning field. That people people decide not to take this path tells me a lot.

A decision is only bad in so far as the consequences are (expected to be) unpleasant.

> In the ideal world she could have been denied the loans on the basis of her lack of ability to manage her own financiancials.

This is where her parents failed her (and I suppose, themselves, since they are on the hook as well).
In most other countries, student loans aren't even a thing, because university is subsidized to the extent that it is free or relatively inexpensive. The size of the bet is absolutely integral to whether giving the loan makes sense, because it affects the benefit of discharging the loan. If you're saying, "We should make uni cheap or free, and also make loans dischargable," well, sure, but now you're talking about changing a lot of variables rather than just one, and correspondingly increasing the difficulty of reform.
The take-away here is probably teaching kids from like grade 5 on and up on how to amortize loans and debt repayment. The math is useful and it'd be good to drill in to every kid out there.
It's not really a thought crime when you are calling for abuse of someone else.
Can't she refinance that floating rate debt? 11% is horrendous.
Yes, it can have pretty explosive side effects...

But it's not on the WADA banned list so you are free to try it.

Caffeine is also an ergogenic and is not banned by WADA, either in or out of competition.
> (Some articles also just have possessive editors; there is dysfunction everywhere, and WP is no exception).

That's exactly what made me not waste a second thought on Wikipedia after my first attempt to contribute.

A small change, clearly correct, well-sourced with first-rate sources, but unfortunately the guy who made most of tzhe changes to the article over its history cannot stand if someone fixes something in "his" article.

Unless Wikipedia finds a way to "appeal" those decisions in a low-barrier way (maybe introduce "Wiki-lawyers" who know the gigabytes of procedures, rules and obscure Wiki pages where those procedures happen?), Wikipedia will lose both concrete work and also good-will.

I won't ever try again.
That practice is as old as engineering itself, but computer programmers are just starting to learn it.