skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The banks manipulate data and interest rates in violation of the law. Once the agreement has been broken by one side, how is it justice to make sure the other side follows the agreement to the letter?
I mean, that's pretty obviously a joke, even with no context. It's a riff on the lyrics to a Beach Boys song.
I think there are a few main issues with the arguments you're presenting here on the numbers.

First off, $22,000 isn't nothing. According to this[1], the rate for subsidized undergraduate Stafford loans climbed from 4.45% to 5.04%. Taking 4.5% over 25 and 10 years[2] gives monthly payments[3] of $122.28 and $228, respectively. That's definitely more than what my spouse and I pay each month for our phone bill (US, two smartphones, mid-tier data, major carrier). The total cost for 25 and 10 years at 4.5% comes to $36,685 and $27,361.

Second, saying that amount is just a "new car or down payment" might be true but those are major events and expenditures. Put another way, if it is equivalent to a nice new car or a down payment, having student loans means they can't do one of those things. That's the cost — not just the money, but something that affects their life for years because they've had to delay some other important purchase. The ripple effect means they build equity later, save less for retirement, etc.

Regardless of value or difficulty, the fact remains that these kids are indeed defaulting. TFA says that one out of every eight public school kids defaults on their loans, and there is no sign that rate it doing anything but increasing. As you say, this is a serious problem.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/05/1...

2: https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/loans/subsidized-unsubsid...

3: https://www.bankrate.com/calculators/mortgages/loan-calculat...
McCain might have beaten Hillary, but when Obama locked up the drawn out Democratic nomination, the race was over for the reasons you described.
As an alternative, dumping out pixel ground truth from something like Unreal Engine isn’t hard to do.
There are still schools out there that are very reasonably priced. However, lots of students go to more expensive schools that cost more BECAUSE they can get loans to do so. The best way to bring the cost down would be to stop using taxes to subsidize loans.
> and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer

Thats serious integrity and loyalty.
Also making the ridiculous decision (which says a lot about his judgement) to run with Sarah Palin as his VP.
This is all very true but you mentioned not working hard in your previous post. It seems that you are working hard to research the best opportunities, hedge your positions, etc. (it's not like you're digging ditches but still). Perhaps I was too quick to judge your post as a "make tons of money without any work" comment. I would agree that being passively invested in the market is better than sitting in cash or trying to time it.

With that said, I am nervous about the current market. I'm still invested but am starting to diversify into buy and hold real estate in established locations. One thing I don't like about the market is the impact that some random geopolitical event can have and I don't see the world moving toward more stability at the moment.
It seems like complaining that Haskell doesn't give you instructed ASM blocks.

Well, Haskell doesn't give them out of the box, but it allows implementing and distributing all sorts of crazy unsafe stuff in libraries, including exactly this sort:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/inline-c-0.6.1.0/docs/Lan...
Sure, the human population is no longer growing exponentially. But mean resource use and pollution per capita is still growing. During the last century or two, when humanity released all that CO2, less than one billion people were responsible for most of it. And now we have maybe 2-3 billion more who demand such a lifestyle.

So anyway, it's not population per se that matters. It's the sum over population times per capita impact. And that is still growing exponentially.
“It has been a common trope that 80% of a data scientist’s valuable time is spent simply finding, cleaning, and organizing data, leaving only 20% to actually perform analysis.”

Is it really trope? For my experience I almost think collecting data is >80%.
I did the same, and found out that oddly enough my brother who went to a U.C. ended up getting a bonus state grant that slashed his loan burden lower than mine. In effect, he was entitled to a college with a higher cost than mine. We only found this out by comparing the paperwork into college; my brother didn't pick the U.C. knowing this beforehand.

I feel it just sends the wrong message to society if we build these gotchas and loopholes left and right like this to let people make financially bad decisions.
> For a (symmetric) rank-2 tensor field like charges attract.

For a spin-2 field all charges attract. There is no such thing as "unlike charges".

> The weak equivalence principle only requires m_i = m_g up to the sign of the latter.

I don't know where you're getting that from. The WEP requires that the trajectory of a body moving solely under gravity depends solely on its initial position and velocity. That means m_i = m_g. It does not allow flipping the sign; that would mean there would be two possible trajectories for a given initial position and velocity, not one.
I dislike this mentality and wish to dissent.

I feel bad about playing video games sometimes and have to remind myself of the photograph called Hubble Deep Field. Look it up if you haven’t seen it before.

Do what you want to and don’t stop yourself from enjoying it by comparing your life to some famous person or some blogger. It’s easy to feel bad when you read a biography of Augustus....why aim low and settle for comparing to McCain?

If you want to attempt great things, go for it, but don’t start thinking a comfortable and peaceful life (which is the only thing so many people throughout history yearned for and were denied) is “not enough.”
Midterm elections are near. The astroturfing is strong. You should believe less than 1/3 of the comments you read are actually genuine.
> Our semi-anonymous respects for the passing of a prominent figure must be disclaimer-ed with political editorials.

I mean, he was a politician.

And I don't think people are saying that to disclaim their appreciation at all, they're saying it to underline the fact that their appreciation exists despite a deep disagreement with his politics.
If you look at the debt people are willing to acquire in pursuit of something like a degree in theater, it is hard to say it is rational behavior. They are taking a chance on something unknown rather than facing likely success with a career path that is in demand.
Because admitting political sympathies other than progressive around here draws harsh responses from the HN hivemind.
The real question is: How long does it take to UNLEARN an old keyboard layout?

I tried that switch to DVORAK before. After a few weeks, I could blind-type slowly in DVORAK, but whenever I went a bit faster, my QWERTY routines would kick in.

Interestingly, I also forgot how to spell many English words. It turns out I only remembered how to type those words on a QWERTY keyboard.
John McCain, a hero of a lost war, a senator whose signature law was overturned, a contender in a lost presidential race. For all of his integrity, accomplishment and hard work his life's efforts were largely futile.

Except for his family. A more fitting epitaph may be: John McCain, Father, Husband, Son. And that's not bad at all.
Operation Crosscut: Converting a Jenkins-Based CI/CD Platform to Concourse CI
The platforms don't make any difference. What matters is whether the political leaders follow them, and for Dems at least they mostly just act like Republicans but are really sorry about it.
Philosophy and theory of artificial intelligence 2017
Wish I wasn't so young when he ran against Obama in '08. Paid no attention and missed my opportunity to vote for him. Ran a really respectful campaign. HBO doc on him was really good too. Nasty stuff about his adopted (Bangledeshi) daughter when he ran against Bush. Just an amazing guy.
My parents did not even bring a camera on vacation; they considered it an annoying habit of tourists and that is 30+ years ago. It had the sideeffect that we did not get flagged as tourists but as locals/expaths which is better usually. With smartphones all of that changed ofcourse.
> For charge product

q1q2 > 0 : even integer spin attractive

q1q2 > 0 : odd integer spin repulsive

Yes, I see I misread your previous post; for spin-1 unlike charges attract and like charges repel. That I agree with.
Agree. I paid back my loans with money that could've really done better invested in stocks.

Imagine if someone could've paid his loans, but was irresponsible and just risked /lost it all in stocks. Not only can he file a capital loss in his tax form to pay less taxes like Trump has done, and now he gets his loans and debt cleared (also like Trump has done).

If the system aids people like that, why should there be anyone who responsibly avoids debt?
Interestingly, when you look at the last election, maybe he was just ahead of his time
> Also making the ridiculous decision

Movies are movies, but check out Game Change.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt01848902/

(Also laugh how when it was made Palin was a crazy idea, but now it's not as cut and dry)
Can I try to change your opinion?

Thousands of people are filing for bankruptcy every day which – by implication – are getting a break on loans that you would otherwise pay.

The issue is where debtors, who cannot presumably discharge their defaulted student loans in bankruptcy, begin to lose their savings, investments, and ability to stave off financial dependency on the government and become financially dependent on government programs now and into their retirement.

By saying that since you were able to pay your loans in 2018 and therefore most other people should be able to pay is like looking at any bad investment. If you allow people to remain indentured and fall into perpetual dependency on government programs (welfare, SNAP, Medicaid) due to their default or judgment-debtor status, the overall cost of that is projected to be much higher than if they could have been eligible for a partial or full discharge of the debt in 2018.

A bankruptcy prevents a bank from collecting interest. A judgment-debtor on financial assistance from the government is taking far more tax dollars from you than the bank is getting from the tax write-off on the charged-off debt.

Obviously, banks want their money, so they lobby for bankruptcy provisions to keep people indebted. They don't particularly care if the side-effect is the government demanding higher taxes from you to pay for government welfare programs.
Student loans are secure. They cannot be discharged through bankruptcy.
"We came, we saw, he died"

Or

"Two words for you (Jonas brothers): predator drones. You’ll never see it coming"
>Do you think these telcos, who have an almost adversarial towards these "over the top" services are going to build out a parallel network and commit cap ex to accommodate these companies new proprietary non-IP protocol networking devices?

Telcos can (and sometimes are) part of nice profitable conglomerates with those "over the top" services. Inversely, other times those "over the top" services try to be their own telcos (e.g. AOL and TW/Cable, on one hand, and Google and it's Fiber or FB and its "balloon internet").

It's not unfathomable than one or the other will succeed at some point. Here's some food for thought:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-project-loon-balloon-...

>"Special contracts"? What does that even mean?

Carriers have had special deals with companies like Facebook, (and of course with their own owned content delivery subsidiaries), since forever...

>There's a good reason the world converged on TCP/IP.

Yeah, and there's a even better reason why the first that can create a proprietary pipe and lock its users in even more will get off of it pronto. You don't want to be tied to commodity resources and technology if you can avoid it.

We already have companies like Google who control both the half mobile OS space and half of the web's traffic (search, mail, video) and who venture into pushing their own protocols (AMP, SPDY, the "Google Wave Federation Protocol") and connectivity.

In fact, if you had paid attention, you'd seen that Google already has not just plans, but it's own implementation, to replace TCP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC

Probably they didn't get the memo about how "completely absurd" my assertion is...
duplicate. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17843432
But who sets the price of tuition? The Boards of Regents/Governors/Trustees. Tuition used to be cheap _even at brand-name schools_.
The Illegal Ramen Vendors of Postwar Tokyo
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Does anyone know how big this thing is, physically?

If you can put the reactor vessel, and associated 'hot' parts into a 40ft Iso container, and ship it cross country for installation/recycling, that might improve on the economics of existing reactors. If you can't do that, I'm not sure how it's going to be cheaper than other options.
I'm using 1.5 tons/ticket.

Source: https://co2.myclimate.org/en/flight_calculators/new
So who was losing 20 years ago when you could pay for school with a summer job?
Revolting cheers at Scalia’s death were similar. Any hint at possibly gaining control of The Precious brings out the very worst in people.

Hivemind N.B.: I had strong disagreements with both Scalia and McCain. Don’t taze me, bro!
This is amazing thank you.
It really feels like I need to skim read at times. I'm in engineering school, and the textbooks don't have very much depth, but god help you if you try and understand it all instead of jumping ahead to find the information you desperately need for your homework.
This is complete conjecture, so grain of salt and all that, but I'm not so sure it says what you think it does about his judgement. He had run before. Honest campaigns, little to no mud slinging, not what you typically see from politicians. He lost.

He gave in to the RNC advisors and others around him that time around. Palin obviously turned out to be awful (maybe not strong enough a word) and he didn't care for her very much either, but I imagine he just wanted to get into office so that he could institute what he felt were good policies.

I think he was fundamentally a good person and would have been a good leader, though of course we can debate the merits of his policies. Everything being equal, I'll vote for the person I believe has the interests of the populace at heart.
The problem with most texts is that they're linear and structure-less, which means it is hard to efficiently extract information from. I should be able to decide exactly how much of a text I want to read, depending on how interested I am.

If text would be hierarchical, with top level items being summaries, and each successive (indented) level going into more detail, I could tailor the reading of the text to my needs, interest level, and prior knowledge of the subject.

Why do we not write like this?
David Foster Wallace had a similar reaction to McCain when he covered him in the 2000 election [1].

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/davi...
> While it varies from location to location, the capacity factor of solar seems to be about 20%.

Another case for the importance of specifying solar variant.

Solar thermal plants with storage (molten salt, not battery) are above 70% CF already. eg the Torresol in Spain.
This is fairly accurate in my experience: https://twitter.com/thesmartjokes/status/684286479401652224

Day to day, it's mostly SQL, or worse Hive queries which makes most things much slower than they should be.
I always wondered why there are no serial killer type of games or with realistic gore simulation. It's bad PR for giants like EA yet they've repeatedly opted for pay to play models which resulted in huge backlash.
From that article: "Why am I (a tenured professor of physics) trying to discourage you from following a career path which was successful for me? Because times have changed (I received my Ph.D. in 1973, and tenure in 1976). American science no longer offers a reasonable career path. If you go to graduate school in science it is in the expectation of spending your working life doing scientific research, using your ingenuity and curiosity to solve important and interesting problems. You will almost certainly be disappointed, probably when it is too late to choose another career."

People saying related things:

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

http://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/

https://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20130115173649/http://www.villag...

A previous comment I made with quotes from those links four months ago with various replies (then the topics was "Time to talk about why so many postgrads have poor mental health"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16725676

For all that, there are many good STEM-related jobs which seem to require a PhD these days, so obviously there are nuances to the topic and whether a PhD is worth it. If you are getting a PhD and someone else is paying for it (current job or a fellowship) and you already know and like the professor who you will be working for, and you already know of a good industry job prospect (in five to seven years, so hard to predict), and you like academic work, then it may not be quite as financially risky as otherwise (although it still may be emotionally draining). Also, if you are independently wealthy and do a PhD for fun, then again a PhD can make sense.

For people in the USA thinking about getting a PhD, consider schools in Western Europe as they tend to be more research-oriented with less-to-no classroom busywork.

It's sad things have come to this in a country with as much wealth as the USA -- especially given how much advanced research can (in theory) potentially improve people's lives if you are allowed to research such things.

Bottom line: as people have said here, a PhD represents a tremendous opportunity cost with a significant risk of having nothing to show for it.
I agree largely. On the other hand, such contemplation could be the motivation to be the next "Augustus".
Roughly a week when I did it. Learning it and getting comfort wasn't hard at all.

Switching between the two was a little difficult if I went into autopilot, but was manageable.

The worst part of the experience was if anyone else touch my keyboard I would have to explain to them that it isn't qwerty, and wish them best of luck. Most of the people didn't understand why I would do such a evil thing to my keyboard. After a while it became such a thing that I actually went back to qwerty just so I wouldn't have to listen to people talk about it.
Perhaps the strangest aspect of American politics is the total lack of accountability. You really don't see this sort of blind loyalty outside of third world banana regimes. Here you have a guy who is self-admittedly responsible for the destruction of half a million mostly innocent human beings [1], a key architect of the greatest crime of the 21st century that led directly to the scourge of ISIS and the destruction of Syria, and it's like -- "He was an American hero! Don't dare criticize him!"

The only actual anger towards McCain comes from Trump extremists. And this is the interesting bit: accountability is supposed to be a key aspect of democracy but you can literally push your country into a totally unnecessary and that's A-OK. You'll only be criticized if you deviate from the party's leader.

And while McCain may have eventually admitted Iraq was a mistake it did nothing to lessen his efforts to bomb brown people. He was a key supporter of Saudi Arabia's carpet bombing of Yemen [2] which is now literally blowing up school buses of children. I guess you don't even have to learn from your mistakes.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2018/5/25/17394466/john-mccain-memoir-ir...

[2] http://observer.com/2017/06/democrats-trump-administration-a...
May he rest in peace.

Glioblastoma is particularly awful, even in the realm of cancer. Two books I found quite interesting on neurosurgery and cancer as a whole.

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

by Henry Marsh

and

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Most projections are for about 10 billion people by 2050.

Even if the population stopped growing today developing countries are rapidly modernising. A few billion people soon to be middle class consumers.

The world can't cope with every Chinese person consuming as much as the average American, and they are quickly moving down that path, meat and dairy consumption is a good example of this.
> Shahsavari and his colleagues built molecular models of carbon and boron nitride nanotubes with adjustable widths. They discovered boron nitride is best at constraining the shape of water when the nanotubes are 10.5 angstroms wide.

...

Shahsavari's team modeled water molecules, which are about 3 angstroms wide, inside carbon and boron nitride nanotubes of various chiralities (the angles of their atomic lattices) and between 8 and 12 angstroms in diameter. They discovered that nanotubes in the middle diameters had the most impact on the balance between molecular interactions and van der Waals pressure that prompted the transition from a square water tube to ice.

From the images, they have 4 chains of water molecules within each nanotube, arranged hydrogen-to-oxygen, creating a rectangle from the 4 chains. The ideal nanotube is 3.5x wider than a water molecule.

Do boron nitride nanotubes work better because the alternating atoms create a slightly more polar nanotube molecule than an all-carbon nanotube?
> If X% of people default then you have to increase interest rates to cover the people that default.

Your borrowers can always default, even without bankruptcy protections. It's a good policy, I assume, but I'm not sure it's strictly speaking, part of the free market dogma.
If this becomes an app, I'll buy it
> I don’t know of any nuclear plants that get built faster than 10 years.

And the Brits are demonstrating just how woefully optimistic costs, build quality, and schedules can be even with that kind of protracted delivery expectation :

https://jeremyleggett.net/2018/08/22/why-the-uk-nuclear-rena...
My estimation was more optimistic (50k/mo = 600k/yr), but yeah, the less you spend the better.
Get Lamp (Interactive Fiction Documentary by Jason Scott)
> Have we become this partisan as a people.

It's a human thing. econtalk had an interesting interview this week with someone who wrote a book on this topic.

http://www.econtalk.org/lilliana-mason-on-uncivil-agreement/...

Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity.
We, the world, need to move off fossils fuels and begin cleaning up our greenhouse gas contributions. We have something like 150 years of emissions to clean up. And we all still want to drive cars and do all the other modern, energy intensive things we do. Preferably, we would have started this before irreversible changes occurred, but we’re probably beyond that point already. So yes, we need more nuclear plans and the sooner the better.

As for the waste, that is a problem, and it’s entirely solvable. Much easier to solve than raging forest fires and the growing inhospitablity of climate change.