skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if person A got a degree that they can use to get a job with $40k of debt and has worked hard to pay it off, but person B has incurred $40k to get a degree that isn't going to lead to a job, you seem to think we can just forgive the debt of B without having any impact on A. Where do you think the money to pay for that debt will come from....well people who have jobs and are working. So basically person A has to pay for their degree in something that led to employment as well as the degree person B got that didn't lead to employment.

Is that worth doing? Maybe, but don't pretend it has no impact on the people who did pay off their loans.
I've never heard anyone use "Keeping up with the Joneses" in any sense other than the perceptions of others.
Pretty sure they already have that, when I was in the reserves they would have paid down my student loans if I had ever bothered to fill out the paperwork.

And a lot of (all?) places have programs where they'll forgive student loans if one stays a teacher for 10 years -- which, as an aside, always boggled my mind that you have to go into major debt to get a public teaching job that pays peanuts but people happily do it.
I think you are right, but the way decisions are communicated in Elm are frustrating. There are lots of decisions like this, which in the end are just decisions, but can be frustrating if you are expecting a more complex language.

Even without talking about type classes, the lack of applicative is weird. I know: nobody understands what applicative is for, but if you have map and you are currying parameters, you're going to run into the issue ;-) Instead, you've got map, map2, map3, map4, map5 (which also, frustratingly, don't implement applicative). There are lots of validation scenarios that are just way more complex to do in Elm than they need to be.

But to be honest, it's fine because the language is not supposed to give you everything that you might want. It's geared for people who want a subset that's easy to learn. If I'm going to write code for myself in this space (functional language that compiles down to JS), I'm going to pick Purescript because it has everything that you're ever going to want. But if I'm choosing a language for my team that doesn't know functional programming and (to be blunt) doesn't really care to learn: Elm is a much better fit. They can learn just enough to get their work done.

But I just wish it was stated in those terms clearly. The premise of the article has been played out time and time again in the Elm community: "I thought this was a fully featured functional language, but when I tried to do this completely reasonable thing I got my hand slapped".

At every turn the response to, "Why can't I do X" is "Because you don't need to do X. It's much simpler to do without X" -- which usually isn't true. It's much simpler to learn something without X, but X is there to make your life much easier as long as you can deal with the complexity of learning it. It's the old "ease of use" vs "ease of learning" issue.
Cable bundles range from $50-$150. So there's definitely room for 4-10 profitable Netflix competitors that compete for around $100 of disposable income beyond the base cost of Internet.

People prefer free but they're clearly willing to pay. And expecting a single all-inclusive bundle for $15/month is not realistic or even desirable IMO.
It is still possible today. There are schools that are an extremely good value. I've even seen some state schools where you can graduate pretty much debt free working a part time minimum wage job during the school year and full time during the summer. If people were acting rationally they would be flocking to these schools. Instead they are taking on massive debt to go to expensive schools. So basically to answer your question, the reason education is so expensive is largely because of the way we loan money to people to go to school.
That doesn't necessarily have any bearing on cause and effect. It seems trivially obvious that, as living standards improve and people have higher levels of disposable income, we would invest it in educating our children, possibly at extremely poor rates of return.
I am not sure what you mean.

Referring to an event where nothing happened does not support a ‘very dangerous’ argument. If you simply mean it’s possible and after that it’s then possible that something bad would then happen then I agree.

I am simply saying it’s vastly lower risk than a car that’s impossible to steer or slow down without causing massive mechanical failure.
His concession speech:

> I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together to find the necessary compromises to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited.

> It's natural, tonight, to feel some disappointment. But tomorrow, we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again.

If I might add, ten years later: it seems "the necessary compromises to bridge our differences" were not found.
I'm about to launch a startup which if it works well will distribute experiences, moving people away from all getting the same recommendations for the same places because some algorithm created the recommendation. The problem with crowd sourced averages is that the curve is exponential. If there are 2 places with 4 reviews and one has a 3.5 rating and the other a 4.5 rating more people will go to the 4.5 rated place.The increase in traffic becomes a self-fulfilling cycle of validation. Bibimapp is a social place recommendation engine using the follower / following model. You can signup for early beta access here: bibimapp.com
In order to invoke the "not a zero sum" defense you have to also give a rational argument as to who specifically should hand over their money to pay for this and why their interests have less societal benefit, so that the sum of the transaction does indeed end up positive. Additionally, you have to explain why debt forgiveness does not lead to a "negative sum" scenario due to moral hazard.
Couldn’t agree more. Why should we help anyone by such destructive logic?
For me the fact there are 1 million pictures of that clock online is irrelevant. People follow others on Instagram either because they are interested in what the person does or they find the other places and pictures interesting which have been posted in the past and would like to see more.

No one can see everything in the world so it is more like curating it, you follow a bunch of curators, see a bunch of stuff, for some stuff a photo is enough, for others it makes you want to see it yourself.

I have had loads of travel ideas from Instagram and have visited lots of places after seeing posts on Instagram.
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Just a reminder that Republican vs Democrat doesn't ultimately matter. I think McCain embodied that belief through his long years of service to the USA, his willingness to reach across the aisle and through his values and ideals (integrity, respect, honesty) from which he did not waver.
If you dont wont to be in debt, dont take the loan. Saying that you not getting your secondary education paid for by somebody else dooms you to a life of serfdom just sounds like you whining
This is a very easy statement to make in the middle of an unprecedented bull market. But you know what they say about things that go up . . .
yes, a ton! I think the latest exciting work is pixel2mesh: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01654 ; can follow citations in their for other relevant recent work.
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Cherry Garrard "worst journey" is well worth reading. He carried a life long PTSD burden I think (my mum remembered him visiting her boarding school in Salisbury, ghoulishly entertaining them with his false teeth, the real ones shattered in the polar frost)

Roland Huntford's writing is very good too.

Don't forget the north races, or the Soviets and polar flights, or of course Shackleton and South Georgia.

Once you start down the polar explorer rabbit hole it's a long way back.
In Sweden there's a "standard glass bottle" for 33cl soft drinks, and they get washed and reused when you return them for your deposit. Typically a single bottle gets reused around 20 times.

They've almost completely disappeared from the market in favor of aluminum cans and 50cl PET bottles due to consumer preference (lighter weight, less fragile)
I think the problem there is that far too many projects live in that world for years and years and years despite being obviously used in production.

At this point if a project has been around for a long time and has version numbers like that I just assume it’s not real semantic versioning.
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I tend to integrate under the curve[1]. Sub prime mortgages didn't tell the whole story either, but what they did was take an at risk population (people who wanted to own a house but didn't have the credit to get a loan) and fix them up with loans they couldn't repay.

That doesn't have anything to say about the folks who could qualify for home loans on their own under the stricter rules and could pay them off. That business was fine as well.

There are large numbers of for-profit schools who have taken that playbook and replicated it exactly, find people who "want college" but have either not been able to qualify for a state school, and provide a "college product" bundled with a "loan product" knowing that many of those students will never be able to repay the loans. But everyone in the pipeline gets a bit richer in the churn, and the people who take it in the shorts are tax payers and these poor kids who have a bunch of debt and still no way to pay it off.

[1] 88 percent of graduates from for-profit colleges had loans (average debt of $39,950) -- https://studentloanhero.com/student-loan-debt-statistics/
The world lost a true statesman. What a sad day.
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RIP McCain
I've heard this a lot but don't see much in terms of numbers about this. For private universities, the sticker price is high, but the effective tuition that students are paying has actually stayed the same or decreased [e.g. http://time.com/money/4777909/private-college-scholarships-2...]

For public universities, they were substantially cheaper than private universities due to state subsidies. The tuition has almost doubled over the past 15 years for the few places I checked, but that's only a bit over inflation. Public state universities are still a great deal.

So I think the stats are using a lot of for-profit colleges which skew the numbers up. They are expensive and don't offer a lot. Anyways, I would love to see some actual data and the breakdown of what schools are increasing tuition.
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He never missed a chance to shill for war.
> Republican vs Democrat doesn't ultimately matter

It shouldn't matter. But unfortunately, all too often, it does.
OT, but does using DVORAK prevent someone from using vim? I mean, do you have to remap hjkl or what? Use arrow key?
(130 * 12 - 70) / 16,000 = 9.375%

That's a bit high but doesn't seem totally out of line for an unsecured loan.
Unfortunately his party did not follow his example and instead went all in on the nutjobs.
I mainly use left hand port for charging and also noticed that the laptop would get hot to the touch when charging. This, in addition to heating due to workload makes the computer a bit unpleasant to the touch.
> Except perhaps in communist countries, the expressed antithesis of Popper's "open society".

I see your point, and I agree, but lest we address the wrong concept, the term you're looking for is 'dictatorial'. Capitalism, just like Communism, produced bloody repressive regimes that were no ground to 'open societies' (e.g. almost every South American country from the 60's to 80's). History teaches us that we should keep our eyes open, for living in capitalist and oh-so-free countries today is simply no guarantee of 'open societies' tomorrow.
I have, I thought it’s philosophy was pretty neat and I love the idea of being able to use something like Haskell in JavaScript land. I’ve seen complaints about how slow it moves and the fact that there is effectively one developer has certainly worried me.

I never made a serious try to get it into production.

It’s now very clear to me there’s no point in EVER trying unless there’s a massive shift in the project.

The community/leadership sounds very broken.

This seems more like what I would expect from someone’s hobby project that got out of hand and accidentally got a bunch of people who follow along no questions asked.
I use Vim with Dvorak. No remapping required. The keys are just in different places than on Qwerty.
What's the pejorative term for when you brag that you just don't give a fuck?
I just wanted to let you know that a possible alternative functional MVU is Mithril/Meiosis

http://mithril.js.org - vdom lib - for the V
http://meiosis.js.org - state pattern in conjunction with streams to give you the M/U

Check out the gitter chatrooms, the communities for both are very FP oriented, and working on making it easier to do FP all the time.

this guy came from elm: https://github.com/pakx/the-mithril-diaries/wiki/Coming-From...
I didn't understand the references to TLS (with GMail, for example) and why the goverment likes that better. Is there previous legal precedent which makes TLS more vulnerable or does the protocol itself make snooping on it easier?
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$10 per ticket, not per plane.
> they have people who's job it is to go through those bags and find out who dumped it.

How do they ensure GDPR compliance? What about privacy?
That trash smells like opportunity
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/06/an-uber-for-garbage-picks-...
Of course he also said if Hillary won that he would refuse to confirm Garland for the entirety of her presidency...
...they go into orbit?

While I'm a big believer that we're going to see a big correction in the next couple of years (the kind that will make 2008 look like a foreshock), nobody knows how much higher the market can go and for how long. Maybe it will still be going up before I die.

The conventional wisdom is to never try to time the market. Buy and hold, and in the long run you'll make money.
*1 GW each.

A small reactor is under a few hundred megawatts. A micro reactor is on the order of tens of megawatts. It's quite hard to make economic reactors below that.
John McCain was a true American hero, dedicating his life to the United States. I did not always agree with him, but he will truly be missed, especially during the current political climate. May he rest in peace.
Hm...housing, healthcare, college, pharma are all heavily regulated and are subsidized by the government in one way or another. All are outpacing inflation by a very significant margin, for dubious gains in utility.

Anyone else seeing a trend here?
So I dated a 41-year-old. He went to school about 15 years before I did. Know how much student loan debt he has? Zero. Zilch. Nada. In the amount of time it takes to reach the age necessary to acquire a learner’s permit, we inflated the cost of education into the stratosphere.

Education used to be affordable. It is absolutely not impossible to go back. I’m curious to know how long you think education has been this unaffordable, because it’s a pretty new phenomenon. I’m therefore confused why it’s so hard to imagine a world where education is reasonably-priced.
Even true over the entire historical performance of the S&P 500. You just have to look at a longer time horizon. Busts are temporary.
> the oatmeal cubes I buy at Trader Joe’s could be charged to me one at a time and at the time they leave their container.

The Internet of Things can help this to become a reality, with sensors on the box lid and an internet connection. Why charge a customer only once when you can charge them twice?
I don’t think other companies are doing 40. In fact, I don’t know anyone making six figures that does 40. (I’m not saying no such jobs exist, just that no one I know works in one of them.

If other high end software jobs are paying the same for 45-50 that Tesla is paying for 60, that’s on the low side hourly, but the low side of the high end.

75% (45/60) of 150k is still $112.5k plus presumably good benefits and some sort of equity component. That’s damn fine compensation for someone fresh out of undergrad even in 2018.

I wouldn’t want to work 60 indefinitely even for great pay, but that’s a separate issue.
That's the traveling wave reactor which is just a breeder that doesn't need reprocessing. The first will be sodium metal cooled (not salt). This is a fluid fuel reactor that has similar reprocessing reducing goals.
Lisp written in Haskell, sounds like a idealist's dream!
It does not surprise me to see HN treating McCain as a hero, when he was pretty much the definition of "cuckservative" (a word I deeply hate, but fits here)
I got to live in Iowa in the summer of 2007 for an engineering internship at Rockwell Collins. One bonus of that was getting to go to all the rallies. I went to a McCain rally and an Obama rally.

I remember the energy of the room when Obama came in. The crowd was young and loud. Obama got up and gave his usual stump speech and then went around to shake hands. I shook his hand and got a word or two in but I could tell he wasn't really interested in talking to me and moved on.

I went to a McCain rally a couple weeks later. A much older crowd and a little more subdued. This was around the time MoveOn was criticizing General Petraeus over his surge in Iraq policy. McCain was upset about this so the mood at the venue, which was a VFW, was a little more bitter. McCain gave a speech which was different than Obama's, a little more off-the-cuff and a little more angry. I remember him talking with the audience rather than to the audience like Obama.

Afterwards, he shook hands with everyone and paused for a conversation. I remember talking to him about STEM programs and the importance of producing more engineers here in the U.S. He looked me in the eyes the whole time, was genuinely curious about my background, and wished me good luck at the end [0].

I ended up voting and working for Obama but I'll never forget that day and how genuine and down-to-earth McCain was with me.

[0] - https://twitter.com/manishsinhaha/status/1033516157343387648
Respectful? He was evil reincarnate, deep in the MIC pockets, with vile hatred towards anyone who dared oppose PaxAmericana. May he burn in hell.
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Absolutely, but if we have to deal with the burden while ensuring future students don’t have to suffer (because let’s face it: short of Jesus Christ coming back and demanding it, I don’t see private loan forgiveness in our future), I’d rather do that. I just want SOMEONE to have a break. It doesn’t have to be me.
Right, but having hjkl sit consecutively is sort of like wasd moves where you don't have to think about the key you pressed, only about the shape. But I guess it's just how you choose to build your muscle memory model.
I know it's oversimplified, but it results from American business' assertion that the 'free market' is the best solution to all problems, and American acquiescence to it. In other words, it comes from try to squeeze profit from every damn thing, from people's health, to education, to privacy, to government services (i.e., 'privatization') to everything else.

I think the free market is a great tool, but like every tool it is good for some problems and not for others, and also it's a means to accomplish our goals, not an end in itself.
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Agreed, what you say reflects my own growth as I've gotten older. I'm hesitant to call it wisdom, but it's served me better than the outlook from my youth.
It's cognitive dissidents. We all know this is happening to every aspect of our enviornment and that we as humans are behind it. But of course we're not going to give up our material world, and we'll continue to disbelieve only because it threatens our very nature of the animal that minipulates materials. The planet isn't doomed, we are. We're creating conditions that are feeding back on us in a negitive way. We will be our own distruction; probably be creating a nice warm enviornment for some disease to mutate and run rampant, where the only humans left will be some isolated populations of humans. To Moburg in Hunter S. Thompson's "Rum Diaries, "The only animals to claim a god, yet behave the least lile they have one."
America lost a publicly principled man today. RIP sir.

As a related meta-analysis of the response to his passing, i am surprised how many comments here include disclaimers to the appreciation offered. "I didn't agree with him but...".

Have we become this partisan as a people? Our semi-anonymous respects for the passing of a prominent figure must be disclaimer-ed with political editorials. A worrying trend.
Which political party was his wife?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/07/report-mccains-pro...
Fair points. The challenge with fluid in tubes is fuel density. Very hard to get it high enough to be economical.

Good old solid nuclear fuel can be upwards of 15 g/cm3.
I mean that's due to a disagreement in politics. He wasn't calling her a demonic satan-worshipping child trafficker like some on that side of the spectrum were.
Yep. There's good and bad in there. When people die, it's usual to recall the good more than the bad.
> You can't buy yourself out of your contribution to CO2 in the air. That $10 doesn't remove anything. It buys piece of mind, and the hope that things in the future may be better. For now, the world keeps warming. There's no capitalistic mechanism invented yet that's going to change that.

What's so complicated about "tax people that produce CO2, pay people that capture CO2"?
Looking at these comments I believe I now believe that the "second civil war" nuts may not be nuts after all.
"Asked how he wanted to be remembered, McCain said: 'He served his country, and not always right—made a lot of mistakes, made a lot of errors—but served his country, and, I hope we could add, honorably.'"

Last part always gets me. It takes a lot of humility to accept mistakes. RIP an honorable man
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I’m of a similar mind having worked hard to pay my way through undergrad over 6 years.

I would be OK with slashing interest rates. A loan which has such special status that it can’t even be cleared through bankruptcy should have a remarkably low interest rate.

Something like, every month you make your payment the interest is credited back to the principal. Or perhaps require 6 months of consecutive on-time payments after which interest goes to zero or 1% as long as you keep making regular payments.
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Yes, but a good number of individual investors will pour money into the markets only when things get super frothy and exciting (i.e. at the peak) and then freak out and pull all their money out of the markets when we see a huge downturn.
Fairly morose even for internet standards. The Earth is plenty capable of plunging into an ice age without human intervention. Also no matter what an asteroid is eventually going to destroy the earth or it will get swallowed up by some exploding star.

Those facts still should paralyze you. We are all plenty capable of improving the lives of ourselves and others today. What’s stopping you?