skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I read literally in the last few days that a survey indicated 'Instagramability' was the #1 issues for Millenials in their choice of destinations. I think it was the Globe and Mail, sorry I don't have the link. That kind of threw me a little, but I think 'it's a thing'.

There are many little tourist spots where 'selfies' are indeed a problem.

That said, we've always been taking photos on vacay. So maybe it's just that we can easily click-and-share ...
Much of this debt was never spent it was created from thin air due to interest. Saying someone does not get profit is very different from saying they don’t get principal.

But more directly these people and institutions made a bet, the fact not all bets win is a basic fact of life.

PS: I have negligible student debt at sub inflation interest rates remaining. But, for people with 8+% interest rate loans that interest should very much should be on the table at a minimum.
> ...simply refusing outright to sort your rubbish is still a jerk thing to do.

Don't really have any other option where I live since there's just a couple of shared dumpsters for the apartment complex and the neighbors across the street would probably get upset if us apartment dwellers filled up their recycling bin on a regular basis.

Though, now that I'm thinking about it, my collection of years worth of fast food bags I have sitting in a cupboard might just end up in one of those bins next garbage day...
Holy Wood has created some pretty far out stories in its time and in some cases bent and twisted history to fit a story or advertising margin.

Back in mid May a lass from CA married a bloke from UK and became a Princess. OK she actually became a Duchess (generally considered a pretty good result as well around here) but around two billion people who watched the ceremony will swear they saw a Prince and Princess get hitched on that day.

I think that reality in this case has trumped any story that Hollywood has managed so far: "The Californian Princess" (RLY? she's from a Republic FFS)

Hollywood is racing to catch up with reality, let alone Netflix (who haven't even learned how to shave yet)
> someone who has played for years and had many small wins

That only makes it more likely that this person is losing money by playing. "Crazy" is too strong, I agree, but it's certainly not the shrewdest investment.
The concept is you update your script.js with the code to check the source and redirect if the source is hackertyper.com and then get the copycatter to copy your New Improved source as his script.js.

Unfortunately, I see the copycat edited your source so he is unlikely to fall for the "update" trick since he would likely see and understand the redirection when he re-edited any changed script.js that you provide. You would also need to have some New Improved features in your script.js to entice him to re-copy your source with the redirect - the copycatter doesn't really have any reason to re-copy your script.js.

:-/
The unused parts of the script of James Cameron’s Avatar are interesting. Everyone is forced to eat algae.
Developed countries have a fertility rate below the replacement rate.

The population growth we are seeing now is caused by mortality decreasing in developing countries. If history is an accurate guide, the birthrate will naturally follow and global population will plateau without the need for any catastrophe.

Of course, we are experiencing this period of population growth, at the same time as an environmental catastrophe, that we know will cause large scale displacement, so it is not obvious if we will make it to the "natural" population plateuo, or hit some less pleasent wall.
The fact he thinks it's worth bringing these things up is very telling.

I would have ignored them for what they are and moved straight to talking about what success is.

The fact it got laughs is also very telling of the community.
i'd really like amazon to get rid of all possible packaging. I wonder if Walmart, Target and Amazon could agree to only sell products without cosmetic packaging, or upcharge for them, if that would make a dent or just a drop in the bucket...
The 'for profit' chart there is the whole story. If your business model is that you can give someone money and then force them to pay it back without any ability to discharge it, you have essentially re-invented indentured servitude. And it attracts scumbags more strongly than a half dead bleeding seal attracts sharks.

We have gone through a couple of very public shutdowns as some of these for profit schools lose their accreditation (and thus their ability to sucker students into student loans). It hurts people who are trying to do the right thing (get an education so that they can improve their job prospects) and it fails to punish the real problem which are people who sell these worthless degrees for over inflated prices.
John McCain, Senator and Former Republican Presidential Nominee, Dies
Don't see much of a market for that. Ubuntu LTS is new enough and the kernel is upgraded frequently enough, that there isn't much point in going with something slightly newer than that and expecting enterprise support.
Professional athletes usually have the extra money sink of massive health care costs relatively early in life, though.
Apparently the medusas will eat whatever is left from the fish. They thrive in high acidity.
I'm on colemak and I am typing this by voice because of carpal tunnel I doubt any relation just poor posture, but I cannot type on qwerty anymore. I forced myself to learn colemak in about three months by having instant message conversations, it was a pain but it worked well I also used the provided application on Windows (typefaster)
Sen. John McCain, independent voice of the GOP establishment, dies at 81
How beautiful design is keeping libraries relevant in the digital era
my 2007 macbook could barely load it.
So they have an actual class dedicated to teaching you about this, and that class fails to enumerate all of your options? That seems like a sub-optimal situation. Sounds like my sex-ed class in Georgia which never even discussed birth control.
Terrapower's reactor uses molten chloride salts, with fuel dissolved in the salt.

An issue with this sort of reactor is the entire primary loop becomes loaded with fission products, and becomes intensely radioactive.

I prefer the MSR (molten salt reactor) design by Moltex. http://www.moltexenergy.com/

Their design also uses molten salt, but contains the fuel-bearing chloride salt inside tubes. A separate, non-fueled salt circulates around the tubes.

For reasons of chemistry, this enables them to use a fluoride salt outside the tubes, and unlike homogenous fluoride-based MSRs the reactor structure can be made of stainless steel rather than more exotic (and expensive) nickel-based alloys. It also reduces the volume of chloride needed, which is an important cost savings if the chlorine has to be isotopically separated to reduce production of 36Cl (which has a halflife of 3x10^5 years.) The high cross section of chlorine for thermal neutrons is also why chloride MSRs are necessarily fast reactors.

Moltex's design retains the major advantage of MSRs, which is the absence of volatile materials in the containment building. It is the vaporization and pressurization of these materials in an accident which forces the containment to be large and strong.
We did GoldenEye and Mario Kart 64. And when things got wild, Super Mario Kart would come out.
I think you're applying an imaginary capacity factor to a number that already accounts for solar's intermittent yield. Solar is simply way cheaper than nuclear.
In societies with large surpluses, young people can afford to waste years of their life on unproductive endeavours. That’s correlation not causation. It’s like lifestyle diseases. Nobody would encourage you to be sedentary, even though that’s correlated with higher living standards too.
That's unfortunate. For those with enough karma it's however possible to _vouch_ for flagged posts. But maybe it's too late for that now.
Money gets you plenty of experiences. My happy memories from last time I went snowboarding were certainly acquired with money.
I meant go's compatibility promise https://golang.org/doc/go1compat which is totally different, and no they are not ignoring the "community" they are just keeping that promise which I and many Go users appreciate.
Skim reader since 1968 grew up in a house of books. Can somebody give me the tl;dr? I've got about three on the go right now, too busy to skim /s
They can and do update minor versions, but not as quickly as arch. They said to expect 4.18 for F28 in two weeks time.
It is certainly not the whole story. For profit is a problem, but its a very small problem vs public school debt. You need to multiply the avg by the number of debtors.
The population of humans is booming.

What a shame you had to spoil your otherwise reasonable argument with this canard. In most areas of the global (the Americas, Europe, Asia above India), population is not booming but shrinking.

Moreover, the destruction of various sorts we see hardly the result of booming population by itself but massive resource wastage of variety of sorts combined overall short-sightedness. Climate change is 97 billion pound set to destroy our world and it's relation to population growth is quite tenuous.
Could you expand on this a little? Which reasoning do you find to be circular and which implications to you find to be absurd? If you explain what you an issue with others may be able to help you understand it more clearly.
> no actionable way worldwide to reduce CO2 production fast enough.

People disagree about that one, but OK, your view is certainly one that a fair number of people agree with.
I must say as someone who has spent quite a lot of money on healthcare, I'll be pretty miffed if heathier people from my same generation get a break if they have a health crisis.
I’ve never heard this story either, and given the love for Rare products of this era and Perfect Dark itself I can’t imagine a juicy fact like this being hard to find online, I couldn’t find any references either. Prototypes of this would be fetching a fortune as well should they exist.

I’d love a source too, if anyone has one...
Lottery is what they do for hajj in mecca.
UN world population projection for 2100 is 11.2B. Stop with the Malthusianism.

https://www.un.org/development/desa/publications/world-popul...
I just have a standing desk with an extra high drafter-style chair, and everything carefully adjusted so that the keyboard and monitor work for both sitting and standing.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

The highest level of government is the worst place I can think of to have a cadre of amateurs running the show.
> Experience only results in being able to lie to the public, to further the establishment.

This is not the case in other fields such as Engineering, Medicine, Education, or Law. More experienced engineers, doctors, lawyers, and educators tend to be better at their craft. Failing to keep up with new methodology/technology is also a problem.

It's almost like the quality of the person is more important than their age or seniority.

Now, I don't have any first-hand experience with legislatures. However, based on analogies in fields I'm more familiar with, I am a bit suspicious of the claim that there aren't any advantages to seniority and experience.

Also, consider this concrete question: would term limits fix the student debt problem? I don't see any arguments in this thread that it would.
May he rest in peace. Being tortured and refusing to leave before other americans from prison camp alone makes him a hero.
speaking as an automotive mechanic for a small chain of truck repair/wash stations across the midwest, I get how people could mistake it as a self driving truck but the fact that it made it across the US unescorted is a bigger deal than you think.

this means a driver managed pass every pre-flight check after stops, passed inspection stations in roughly a dozen states, weigh station checks despite also carrying a massive battery pack, and safety inspections from state troopers that likely had no clue what the hell it was. The truck was capable of hauling a commercial load. meaning the axle weight adjustments were properly executed and most importantly, Teslas answer to jake braking (engine braking) is a success. No truck, not even teslas, carries a braking system or air system with enough power to stop a downhill tractor trailer without shifting to a lower gear and employing the engine to help some. In my opinion, however tesla achieves this, is the real breakthrough.
We need a mechanism to control costs. The loans are just one side of the story. The majority of public universities are rapidly increasing their cost structures.

That doesn't work longterm.
John McCain did somethings that I disagree with but the one thing I will always remember is when during the 2008 election there were multiple times during town halls and rallies that people would verbally attack Obama and McCain always shut them down without fail.
One of these criminals who destroyed the middle East and many other countries.. he took nothing with him. No one is going to take anything with.. so better we do good.
My thinking: It depends on how much you can do on your own. If you can make viable stuff on your own, say if you're in web development and you can work on something you can deploy and test independently.... you have some wiggle room.

But if you do things that aren't as easy to do on your own (I once did networking, you can only do so much there with a home network) .... time to change jobs.

Granted personal projects eat personal time and aren't always a substitute for experience.
One of the services AAA used to offer was trip planning where they would identify gas stations and motels along your route so that you could get to where you were going without running out of gas. Once the interstate system was built, and at the same time a lot of gas stations got built at various off ramps, the number of gaps decreased to the point where few people today think about where they will get gas as they drive long distances, they just assume there will be one or more stations around.

One of the weirder possible futures is that enough progress is made on flow batteries such that you drive into what used to be a gas station and simultaneously dump your expended electrolyte while taking on charged electrolyte to continue your journey. Such a system would work well by having both a very quick charge mode (electrolyte substitution) and a more traditional (but slower) charge mode where you plugged into the grid.
The runtime is not that big with 0.19 in my experience. I rewrote a (P)react component that was 5kb and Elm came out to be 6.8kb.

If you're comparing it to ReasonReact, you still have the React/ReactDOM Javascript dependency which is still ~30kb gzipped
"McCain graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1958 and followed his father and grandfather—both four-star admirals—into the U.S. Navy. He became a naval aviator and flew ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. While McCain was on a bombing mission over Hanoi in October 1967, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. McCain experienced episodes of torture and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. The wounds that he sustained during war have left him with lifelong physical disabilities. He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona, where he entered politics. In 1982, McCain was elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served two terms. He entered the U.S. Senate in 1987 and easily won reelection five times, most recently in 2016. "

Well, I just finished a cool CRUD app.
It isn't just a matter of irresponsible people getting something for free that you had to work hard for. You'll basically be paying for their loans in taxes.
not a big fan of mccain's, appreciated his service to the us during the vietnam war and senate, and pity to see him go out that way lately.
Here goes sadly one of the last remaining examples of a respectful and dignified politician, no matter the political party of the other.
US is ~3.1 million square miles. If driving 15 miles to the nearest gas station is considered reasonable that puts the minimum around 4,400 stations which is less than I expected.

Math is off as your driving along roads and you don’t need even distribution etc. But, this does suggest Gas is going to be viable down to ~5% of cars.
What drives your desire to switch?

I ask because if it's ergonomics, you may want to explore an ergo board, e.g. the Kinesis Advantage: https://jakeseliger.com/2011/07/17/further-thoughts-on-the-k.... There are others as well, like Ergodox-EZ.
Oh, geez. If they played video games for fun, would you be explaining to me how unwise an investment that is?

Some people enjoy gambling. If it pays off, yay! If it doesn't, it was only a couple of bucks that they felt they could spare.

I'm aware there are very poor people who play the lottery in hopes of it fixing their lives, even homeless people. And I don't think that's a great idea. But there are people who can spare a few bucks who just like playing.

One person I know used to call it "Contributing to my nephew's scholarship fund" because the lottery covers education expenses in that state.

I have only rarely played the lottery. It's not really my thing. But not everything in life needs to be decided with a slide rule for someone to be fundamentally healthy. In fact, I have seen studies that suggest that people who do a little gambling are typically healthier than average.
I switched from QWERTY to Dvorak 16 years ago. At my best I could do 110wpm with QWERTY. I've rarely attained more than 90wpm on Dvorak, maybe, andI'd expect a bit less day to day.

1. Judging by the times I've tried TypeRacer, I've never exceeded my old speed. But that's OK; I changed because I was having problems with my wrists, and I was worried about my career. That destroyed any interest I might once have had in typing quickly.

2. Yes - but I switched to Dvorak not long after I started using a split keyboard, and I think that really helped keep the muscle memory for the layouts separate. No problem for me typing Dvorak on spit keyboards, and no problem typing QWERTY on non-split keyboards. I can still type at ~70wpm on a non-split QWERTY keyboard, and people that have seen me do that are typically surprised to later find out it's not what I'm used to.

QWERTY on a split keyboard, I can do, but I have to look at my hands while I do it. Dvorak on a non-split keyboard, I find very difficult. But luckily I basically never have to do it.

(One thing I would also add: it's good to be able to type fast, because that lets you rattle out whatever it is you currently have in mind. Don't let anybody tell you that being able to type quickly isn't at least sometimes useful. But, in general, you can get away with typing a lot slower than you think.)
It doesn't have to be noticeably more expensive than a normal desk arrangement. Just get a static standing-height desk (longer legs, no special motorized stuff), and a drafter's chair with a seat adjustable to barstool height.
I don't read as much biosciences as I used to but neo-lamarckism used to be a term of abuse. He's writing it non ironically as a recognised label!
I admire people who put country ahead of party. Therefore I admired John McCain, even when I disagreed with him, I never questioned his motives.

Good guy, who served with honor. Will be missed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIjenjANqAk
An Implementaiton of the Fourier Transform Using Python
You're setting up a regrettable false dichotomy there
Compounded interest is your friend. Start using the stock market. It's the only way to make money without working "hard." Rule of 72 is something you can read about.
What? This is the opposite of my experience, every business book I've read has mostly consisted of bullet-point platitudes. Short doesn't mean informative.

Do you have recommendations that might be different?
> even tho they probably also qualify as haskell programmers

For what it's worth, Haskell has very little to do with actual category theory. Even though terminology like "monad" is used, Haskell doesn't have much more overlap with higher mathematics than any other programming language. Mathematicians working on category theory and software engineers working on Haskell don't have much overlap at all.

This is kind of frustrating because it's a meme that Haskell is very mathematical. It borrows concepts from category theory, yes. But it's not anymore mathematical than calling a GET request "idempotent" is mathematical.
It isn't that the game is rigged. It is that it assumes rational actors are making wise decisions about their future. Someone who carefully selects a degree that they know will let them pay back their loans is who the system is designed for. There are a lot of people who aren't behaving that way. The numbers are high enough that this isn't just a matter of some people having some hardship. This a large number of people making very poor decisions.
8.5% of private non-profit students default, and 13.5% of public non-profit students default.

Those are both pretty high numbers, and those are just the defaults; i.e., the worst-case scenario. It's not counting the tens of thousands of people who defer housing, defer saving for retirement, defer saving for their own children's education, or end up on a perpetual treadmill of loan payments that will destroy their ability to retire.

We are heading is the worst possible direction wrt regulation of private for-profit institutions; the available data incontrovertibly demonstrates they should be subject to more scrutiny, not less. But that's definitely not the whole story.
Can't speak for The Atlantic, but I think The Economist qualifies as "high-brow" and pretty dang information-dense. Just reading and remembering like 30% of the articles gets me far.

At this point I just read the weekly (print) issue and only go deeper on things that interest me. I am of course missing things, but it's been much less stressful and more informative than skimming the NYT every morning.
It says something about the state of US politics that the sitting president unapologetically denigrated McCain's service and sacrifice. And did it on the campaign trail, just eight years after McCain was the nominee!

Washington Post had something about it yesterday https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bad-blood-between-mc...
Economics not being a zero sum game, it can actually work that way. We can all be better off, and it's only win/lose in the most myopic of viewpoints.
> “We need”, Jure said emphatically, “to step up and come up with the means to evaluate – vet – algorithms in unbiased ways. We need to be able to interpret and explain their decisions. We don’t want an optimal algorithm. We want one simple enough that an expert can look at it and say nothing crazy is happening here.

As someone who works with machine learning, I find this statement rather misleading. The researcher quoted here has a very strong bias about what it means for an algorithm to be "optimal". A system cannot both "be optimal" and also "biased" in a way that the designers don't like: such a system is indeed not optimal. The dialog in the machine learning community has increasingly been about how we might structure these systems in a way that they are unbiased; it's a shame the researcher (and the author of this article) seem to think that "simplicity" is the only option.

(In case anyone is interested, I recent wrote a blog post to this effect: http://www.cachestocaches.com/2018/7/bias-and-ai/ )