skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wait ... if only we had a university system for a few thousand years before student debt, that might provide insight into an alternative ! Oh wait ! We do !

Problems student debt tried to solve:

1) these systems do not let many people learn at all. Maybe 1-2% of the population gets higher education.

2) there is a large difference between institutions. And society's classes arrange around specific institutions one way or the other (price, geography, ...) (by which I mean the rich go to one school, the poor to another, with of course vastly different prospects). The institutions attended by the wealthy get the best professors, the best reputation, and their alumni get an advantage in the workplace.

(and let's just ignore that this is exactly the part that specific countries saved, and kept separately from whatever funding system they otherwise use for education: the part that worked best for the rich, like France's Ecole Nationale d'Administration, London School of Economics, and Germany's Bundesbank Hochschule. That's just peachy. Most of these schools you can only be referred into, you can't apply (or can't apply successfully), and they lead directly to the government's upper echelons)

3) There were much, much less study directions. Essentially anything you couldn't convince your parents to fund you learning for 2 or 4 years for could not sustainably be a university department. This resulted in much smaller arts, social studies, philosophy, archaeology, language, ... departments. Many people want to study those directions, but few feel like funding them.

4) Universities had perpetual funding problems, because everybody feels like regulating education. So the growth of administrators actually started before student loans were started. Whilst I don't agree with most idiots putting up this argument, there is a grain of truth to the idea that regulation forces universities into many unnecessary costs.

5) even the richest university directions, like economics departments in huge cities, weren't exactly swimming in cash. Therefore they focus on what brings in the bucks (more or less outsourced R&D for huge companies, creating spinoffs and some recruitment) ...

6) unwillingness of these departments to grow to the size people would like, and being pretty selective as a result (famously civil engineering and of course medicine)

Every proposal here essentially boils down to forcing education to be a reasonable investment, which will re-cause much of the above problems. If we're willing to do that, sure, but ... I don't think so.
This way nobody is to initiate the use of force: neither individuals, nor corporations, nor the State. What a revolutionary ideal... securing rights.
I recently bought Windows 10 Pro license from Amazon for $10 (normal price is $80). It had over 600 ratings, tens of positive reviews along the line "if it doesn't work immediately, phone Microsoft and they will fix it for you".

It worked immediately for me.

Apparently they are Windows licenses recovered from broken laptops and such, but anyway.
Its a conundrum - does a Harvard degree bestow riches and success? Or do only folks destined for riches and success, pass Harvard's induction process? Some of both I suspect.
Interfacing with the brain
Unbreakable smart lock devastated to discover screwdrivers exist
I've implemented something like this before, instead of using jsonstore, I'm using goo.gl's api and adding a hash.

https://chhota.ga - it even works on custom domains with just one line of js.
Delete Icloud from any Iphone 2018
How many items would you like to see in it?
I would argue that the notion of infinite growth through technological progress is a fallacy based upon an incomplete set of data and a projection of a limited time sphere into the future. When the industrial "revolution" started the world was a much less exploited place. Now I'm not going to argue that iteration and improvement are bad or that innovation, research and pondering fundamental questions through rigorous scientific analysis are bad but I also don't think that we need a consumer driven society to fuel these things. I suspect that we fell into a certain social pattern as a species (let's call it capitalism) and that many of the ideas we now take as given, that w/o economic growth there is "stagnation" are simply one interpretation of the data through a heavily confirmation biased lens.

Many human and non-human lives have been sacrificed at the altar of the "cult of progress" and I don't think we should be so willing to think because something has happened for the last 100-200 years (rapid technological change and exponential exploitation of natural resources) that it can go on forever.
Peak HN, and it's not even 9:45 PDT
Hard to find something when you are not looking for it, and don't know what it looks like.
In addition to the issues mentioned above, I cancelled Prime when returns of Marketplace items started being handled by the merchants instead of Amazon, meaning the customer handles the return shipping cost, even for faulty or misrepresented products, and the merchant is ground zero for customer service.
What is the best approach to learning about medical image processing?
I’m a physician (neuroradiologist) who interprets medical images on a daily basis. I’m interested in developing my knowledge base about medical imaging software technology. I’m particularly interested in multi-modality image co-registration and quantitative imaging. Please could you advise an approach for someone with a novice level of programming knowledge.
lol like i*o is more rewarding than sports. personally I'd trade imo medals for being cheered by hundreds/thousands at a football game any day.
> not intended to be used with TypeScript

Microsoft maintains the Typescript plugin. Works great.

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter
"Amazon’s official stance, as outlined by these e-mails, counterfeit products will continue to be listed on Amazon’s website in countries where the trademark covering the brand isn’t registered."

So they try to do what the law requires them to. The flaw in this approach is that consumers could end up with fake stuff in countries where trademarks aren't registered. Whilst that might be within the law, it's still a shitty experience for consumers.
Which advanced audio tech do singers use?
Has deep learning made its way into singing?
Don't know. It was a while back, and in Python 2 (if you mean the Python version I wrote). I didn't take any special steps to support Unicode, so likely not. Same for the shell version I wrote.
No, converting hotels into apartments doesn't solve the problem. The total amount of spaced used by Airbnb and hotels combined is too small compared to the need for housing; the only thing that solves the problem is removing the height limits, and letting people put up taller buildings.
One major issue in this scenario: you don’t know who wants/can/will have kids. Discriminating against women because they have a uterus and might get pregnant and might have a problematic pregnancy and might carry to term and might give birth and might take parental leave is incredibly short-sighted - even in your scenario you’ve just missed out on 4+ years of work because you’re worried about a few (potential) months.

Beyond that, while (cis) women have the necessary equipment to have kids, we’re not the only ones with bodies that can get sick. Penalizing all women for one particular way of (potentially) disrupting work is incredibly unfair, and ignores that men also can need leaves of absence.
- I own property and I want to rent it.

- "Hang the criminal!", says the crowd... Capitalist pig wants to own and profit from something! How dare she/he?!
> Nintendo/Sega controlled how many games a developer could get published; the genre etc.

Konami got around this another way, by creating a shell company (Ultra Games in the US, Palcom Software in Europe/UK) that obtained its own license.
Am I wrong in thinking that the fact that there are so many starter kits (which all contain a _lot_ of boilerplate code) indicates some sort of fundamental problem in the ecosystem?

With so much fragmentation in tooling and constant churn, it's often discouraging to start any new project.

I've been using Parcel because of its zero-config functionality, and it always amazes me how much boilerplate it actually takes care of for you behind the scenes. It's a lot.
Enacting sane regulation that does what it is intended to do and has no or few side effects is more difficult when you try to regulate each individual action some one could take that may have negative externalities, rather than regulating the production of the negative externalities.

Edit to add:

And by regulating local externalities at the local building level rather than the city level, you are more likely to have better regulations in regards to residents and owners wishes.
> If the loss of a finger would endanger your livelihood, you probably shouldn't be in that profession in the first place.

If losing that finger is a common and reasonable expectation in your society, yes.
Because it would be in such small and diffuse quantities that unless we were specifically looking for it, we likely wouldn't find it.

As for stumbling upon it, all our measurement techniques are calibrated to hadronic matter, so...
I'm curious why a superhost renting a bunch of properties is "sketchy" while a corporate hotel brand with many properties is to be trusted.

Not sure that "sketchy" is the adjective I'd use. The thing is that a city is not a petri dish for competing business to squeeze as much nutrients from the environment as possible. First and foremost it's a place for humans to live and thrive. That "Residents can only rent out their property for a maximum of 90 nights a year when they are not living there" is an attempt to keep them this way.
How many of your partners are shared with other men? Alternately, if you're female, how many male partners do you have?

There is one unique alternative here and that's the landscape of emotional needs is somehow much more diverse than the landscape of physical needs. Then it would make sense to maximize among many partners as it's unlikely that a single individual can have all the skills necessary to satisfy a long list of independent needs.

Although even then I'm skeptical, the polyamorous couples I've seen don't seem to last long (~5 years) and eventually the male chooses or vice versa.
What if they did not want to make it "unnecessary" because they enjoyed having this kind of club and such connections? The power to improve the lives of other men if they so chose, for example.

Not arguing with you, fwiw, just pointing out that more reasons could be in ay besides "personal liberation".
Rents in Budapest increased ~50% or so in the past couple of years.
Harvard sets itself up to always increase it's influence with business and national leaders. Every decision they make should be seen through that lens. That means that they'll attempt to induct meritorious freshmen, but will also gladly accept the failsons and daughters of the hereditarily powerful.
Use the `pr' utility to paginate your output.
100% this. Starting your own business means you are now responsible for generating sales, keeping your team engaged and happy, and cultivating a culture that is productive and innovative. Running a business is not a technical role, it's a people role.
The USA is a food exporting powerhouse. We are not #1 in every market but we are in the top 5 of every major grain I can think of.

some examples

Wheat-http://www.worldstopexports.com/wheat-exports-country/

Corn-http://www.worldstopexports.com/corn-exports-country/

Rice-http://www.worldstopexports.com/rice-exports-country/
As far as UI/UX design is concerned, I'm kind of surprised Amazon doesn't favor themselves more. Though I guess in their mind any customer going through them is still a sale.

Regardless, would a business want to sell on Amazon if they were treated second?

> The fact that you even have to be that careful is a bad customer experience.

This we can agree on, ideally Amazon would go through some evaluation process to determine that a seller is legitimate. Instead as far as I know they just let user reviews decide.

Side note though, Amazon really needs some competition. I can't recall the last time I bought anything online (that needed to be shipped) that wasn't through Amazon. For example, I used to buy computer parts from sites like Newegg, but unless there's a particularly good deal I'm probably going to Amazon. Clothing? Amazon. I don't want to have Levis and Hanes shipped separately.

Amazon is the Walmart of online retailers.
I bought a pair of expensive Sony Bluetooth headphones from amazon. They shipped a pair that was refurbished, as in they had a crack and then had been glued together. Sent it back as for a replacement. A few months later that pair cracked in the exact same spot- and they were out of warranty at that time :/
Before buying I did not come across any reviews mentioning that issue. When mine cracked I did another search for reviews and came a ton of individuals on different forums complaining about the same problem, but did not find any reviews on Amazon mentioning that- by then- know issue. Bought directly from amazon...
I grew around this crap, so just fun experience in a sh_tty area. I will say the law enforcement tactic of cutting all internet and cell when they did one of their roundups (strangely missing the biggest drug dealer) was pretty impressive. The helicopters were a nice touch.
How to prepare for the Microsoft Azure 70-532 certification
Thought experiment: if you made all admission decisions by lottery, by randomly admitting a previously decided, fixed number of n applicants out of all valid applications received, and the resulting cohort of admitted individuals was later found to significantly differ in demographic composition from both the local and nationwide composition of population, would that be discriminatory? If not, would it at least be problematic? What if it differed significantly from the demographic composition of the pool of all valid applications received?

This case is very unfortunate, because it literally pits racial categories against one another, and claims that Asian-Americans are being unfairly disadvantaged by affirmative action applied to Hispanic and Black applicants, whose likelihood of successful admittance is proportionally much higher, in part due to their race. What's unusual is Asian-Americans apply to Harvard at much higher rates that they occur in the population, which complicates the math, and encourages some reflection about the roles of affirmative action, e.g. whether it intends to counterbalance a pipeline shortfall, or improve absolute outcomes among groups whose society-wide outcomes have lagged behind, or to right past wrongs. These are questions worth asking among ourselves when we see that in some cases, and when faced with the allocation of a limited number of a resource (a chance for a Harvard education) to a large group of people.

It's hard to avoid thinking that this may be an edge case of affirmative action that was purpose-selected by this group to force the courts to consider a larger issue.
I don’t think that most people would take issue with the idea that diversity with no basis for common experience/understanding is a bad thing. The point of diversity as a social value in the West is the belief that by explicitly incentivizing more interaction between people of different backgrounds, barriers to communication erode and eventually disappear, or at least are minimal enough that everyone can participate in a society as equals.

Edit: more succinctly, the emphasis on diversity in the West is intended to eventually solve the very real problem that you identify.
What examples of ‘dangerous items’ come to mind? (Not to suggest the list is short by any means. I’m just curious.)

As an American company, and with so much power, and with the issue being so dispersed and untraceable, I imagine safety is not sufficient cause for regulation.
It seems like the only metric Amazon is optimizing for is number of items sold, and this seems to be the natural progression of a system where that is the primary goal.

Making a change that decreases the sale of counterfeit products is a change that reduces the sale of products, and in Amazon's case, also leased warehouse space (FBA), and who knows what else - all of which are likely negative metrics.

It's telling, that in the update to the Elevation Lab blog post, it's noted that Amazon doesn't allow 3rd party sellers to sell Amazon Basics products.

https://www.elevationlab.com/blogs/news/amazon-is-complicit-...
> When someone says "left libertarian" they are usually referring to anarcho-socialism

God no. Anarcho-socialism would be far left. Part of liberty is the freedom able to do your business without someone destroying it because they want to (anarchism, as implemented by it's followers), or 'siezing' it because they believe it is just to do so (socialism).
Here’s how Elon Musk might use rocket thrusters on the new Tesla Roadster
Only one I know is w. Are to there others? Sometimes e is editor but I think that's alias
> Nah, the whole “first hit free” thing is mostly bullshit.

Nope, gotta say that's just a lie in my experience.

> And dealers don’t want customers dropping dead

plenty more saps out there and less witnesses

sincerely, a person who grew up around this stuff on one of those places that gets talked about but ignored
You'd still have the costs of training or reallocating another employee to fill the persons role, and that risk would be higher in women if our society doesn't change its norms about whose the caregiver and whose the provider.
To the downvoters: the comparison isn't without merit imho.

The fact that the stuff one could source on SR was in most of all cases pure and free from common dangerous stretching agents (e.g. fentanly-laced cocaine) alone probably saved dozens of lives. If there were no SR, then people would have gotten their drugs from the street instead.

Meanwhile Amazon is happily selling Nazi merchandise (which, while legal, is simply disgusting) and stuff like counterfeit car parts, batteries, chargers and other electronics goods that literally can kill people. And, contrary to SR, there is no incentive for either Amazon or the 3rd party sellers to maintain proper business ethics. On SR, you'd deliver a bad charge of drugs and you'd be outta business because people would downvote you. On Amazon literally no one cares and even if you do manage to report stuff to them nothing happens.
There's a ton of hardware and software that uses IEEE754 data formats but the actual arithmetic isn't IEEE754. It would be a disaster for C++ to prohibit this. Also, the IEEE 754 standard does include extended precision formats like Intel's 8087 80-bit format.
pwd - took me forever to figure out this had nothing to do with a password. According to this article, it means "Print Working Directory":

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/399026/etymology-of...

"Historically, program output was printed on paper rather than on screens. So the print part is due to the output technology of the time that the command was developed."
I am apparently gone because I've always wanted that - in fact it's the only intelligent-assistant application concept I've heard which is appealing. What is so wrong about it?
> which this template collection doesn't check anyways.

it does. It checks for iec559 support which implies nan / inf / denormal support.
What I find disappointing is that Apple is leveling the field against independent developers. Was there really a need for an official measurement app, to destroy the market of the ones that are already on the app store? What's the deal with USDZ? It looks like it will be fundamental for developing AR content for apps on iOS, and they give the market away to Adobe and their paid solution, that is not even finished. Sure, it is an open specification so "anybody can compete", but, if Adobe, with all its resources, gets such a head start, how can indies compete? These two things, to me, are signals that Apple intends only the big players to participate, and, as an independent developer, discourage me from investing on AR development on iOS.
Don't think that you could, or that you'd want to. There's multiple groups here with conflicting interests and not everyone is going to get everything they want. Does a subset of men's desire to privacy trump both women's right to equality and the child's right to get care from its parents?
Well, you know what he will say...the same thing everyone says. The same thing Google says about the rampant copyright theft their platform allows. The same thing Facebook says about bullying, fake news, and the like. The same thing Napster and PirateBay say about their services. The same thing Photoshop would say about people counterfeiting stuff using that. The same thing Bitcoin people (or for that matter, the Federal Reserve system) say about people using their coins for illegal purchases. The same thing the National Park Service says about people falling off of cliffs.

These are all just platforms, and cannot reasonably be held responsible for the action of all their users all of the time. And I think any reasonable-minded person, and most judges, have to see it that way too.

This "complicit" is a misuse of the English language, I think. Bezos is not in cahoots with the counterfeiters here. That is nonsense.

People have been accultured to expect some kind of protection everywhere, all the time. Well, guess what? It's a big world and there are a lot of scammers out there, and nobody can protect you all the time. You have to learn how to protect yourself.

Amazon's review system is one way to protect yourself. I think it isn't bad at all. Read what other people have to say about a product and the vendor before giving up your credit card info.
or a lot of people were going to the gulag.

The practical problems that might arise here were eventually elegantly solved by placing entire design bureaus and research institutes directly in the gulag system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka
That acronym isn't broadly known, so less useful. Also, NLP seems like the encompassing term (The "P" for processing can mean reading/parsing, translation, and also generating).
I’m really glad that my sewer system isn’t expected to handle 1000 times the traffic it did 20 years ago.
Baby formula is a classic one. Electronics with flammable batteries.
Oh looks good, didn't know this one. But that's my point: another React boilerplate, this one with TypeScript.

Also why they include Redux? It's not like adding Redux manually is that long or difficult. I guess some guy who doesn't want Redux will just fork this one and publish his own React-TypeScript boilerplate but including MobX, or some other state management library, or none. So another one…
It's particularly odd given that capitalist societies tend to be on the cutting edge as far as LGBT rights are concerned (with, of course, many exceptions).
eBay is every bit as terrible, and they also have worse browsing/searching
Hence the 'mandatory' party of mandatory leave. You have a kid, you have to take 12 weeks off or whatever number would be agreed on
Too creepy.
Then the next step will be that the authors tweak the article until it generates a sufficiently clickbaity headline.
You’re not wrong. Also using Parcel and love the fact that I can get real work done without having to worry about build tool churn and having to configure tens of plugins which are all badly documented.
MIT OpenCourseWare videos are not available globally
Anchors by themselves do not make browsers jump in erratic ways. Try Wikipedia. No glitches when you click on sections.