skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By my understanding of the theory, yes (according to some unproven theories). The information can be imprinted on the surface of a black hole (and, later are dissipated by imprinting on Hawking Radiation).

This is also the principle that led to our theoretical understanding that the maximum amount of information that can be contained in a volume is bounded by the _surface area_ of the volume. This is the Holopgraphic Principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle.

There's a great PBS Space Time youtube video on this concept, which explains it far better and more accurately that I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XkHBmE-N34
This is wildly dependent on where you grow up and in what group.

In my upper-middle-income family and peer group, not going to college was unthinkable. Debt wasn't really a consideration since few of our parents were struggling with debt and we based our future expectations on their past. Then it turned out the game had changed dramatically in 25 years.

I had a couple lower-middle/upper-lower income friends, for them college was much more of a goal than a given, but also one that they were very aware of costs/risks around. But not one that didn't seem worth the upside.

From what I've read of people growing up in poverty, it's very different there. Many people check out well before the end of high school, and college is seen as something for other people that's not a realistic option for most.
Here you go: http://jsfiddle.net

An editor and an interpreter. Works in anything that can get a web browser going, which includes phones, game consoles, smart TVs, refrigerators, and amazingly even computers.
Hell, I only did a BSEE in 4 years by going 2 summers, and > 18 credits/semester. Tacking on a minor, or another major, was out of the question.
Most of the trouble I had with college was me being a stupid 18/19 year old, and I wish I’d done in a place that wasn’t so expensive.

This is a large part of the problem: it's typically quite difficult or impossible to take on that level of debt without some kind of asset to secure it. And if someone lends that kind of money to someone who cannot make payments, bankruptcy is an alternative.

Student loans can't be discharged through bankruptcy; universities and banks have no skin in the game; students, especially young people, are left holding the bag.

On the other hand, young people don't vote: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/millennial-voters-201... so this basic dynamic may continue indefinitely.
Is Uber not a YC company?
It would also seem appropriate for Bloomberg to link Google and Facebooks export features - I'm not sure why this is a story about Apple with no reference to others who have offered this for a long time. Otherwise it seems more like a paid article to promote a feature.
Well put.. strong words. I sometimes wonder if this happens only in the tech industry or has this virus spread from tech to other industries as well.
I'd wager that a complete 8-bit system with printer and cassette storage is a better tool for learning.
There's a crisis of opinion like this in every generation. It happened with radio too.

I personally feel like the best approach is moderation for everything, but hey, people who don't watch media probably have more interesting hobbies than I do.
Some basic scripting is probably still a good starting place for younger kids to wrap their minds around syntax, basic constructs, etc. Dropping them in the DOM right away is probably in the deep end, too much, although I'd agree getting them there quickly opens a lot of fun and practical doors faster than almost anything else.

edit: Second the suggestion of Python below, even if it's just for a few months to learn the basics of coding in general. Pivoting a few months in to a new environment is also hard in and of itself, but that's the path I'd go. As a little bonus, then you don't get too stuck in one way of thinking :)
If what LIGO achieved is not loud enough for the 21st century, then we are probably doomed. It is a NEW kind of telescope that has not even been utilized for 1% of its potential.

PS: I'm not arguing with your statement, you have all the right to think that way. Maybe even people who lived during Einstein's earlier times thought the same for their previous century.
>no racism/unethical behavior

That seems to have potential for abuse.
From the article:

> In Connecticut, Mr. Dimyan, who says he feels his $3 coffee is pricey enough as it is, vented about the electronic tip prompts in a Twitter post earlier this month.

> Square replied from its official Twitter account: “Tap `No Tip.’”

Or.... Pay cash for a $3.00 item?
Except animal agriculture is not that simple.

There isn't enough arable farmland in the world to just let cattle and animals graze free range. They're not just eating grass.

Instead they are eating soy beans, corn, hay that is grown with huge inputs of fossil fuels and fertilizer - made worse by effectively converting that fossil fuel into atmospheric methane.

This results in animal products having the highest CO2 equivalent of any food, especially beef and dairy.

http://css.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Carbon_Footprint_Fa...

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/how-fossil-fuels-a...

One calorie of animal produced requires at least 10 times the plant calorie input.

Some quotes from the above article:

"Feed production accounts for around 75 percent of fossil fuel use in livestock production, so this one is the big kahuna."

"An article from the Food Revolution Network, called on David Pimentel, a Cornell ecologist who specializes in agriculture and energy to break down the number of fossil fuels needed to produce the food that livestock consume. According to Pimentel, the process of growing the 35 million hectares of corn, 31.1 million hectares of soybeans allotted for livestock feed in the U.S. (these numbers do not include the soy harvested in South America that feed U.S. livestock), requires an enormous amount of fossil fuel energy in the form of agrochemicals."

“Growing the corn used to feed livestock takes vast quantities of chemical fertilizer, which in turn takes vast quantities of oil. Because of this dependence on petroleum,” Pimentel tells Food Revolution Network, “a typical steer will in effect consume 284 gallons of oil in his lifetime.”

"Worldwide, we currently use an average of 180 millions of tons of fertilizer to grow livestock feed and as the population grows and the demand for meat increases, it is projected we’ll need 230 million tons or 7.3 BILLIONS of gallons by 2050."
Given the recent microchip hack, do folks feel more or less safe having this in their house?
Do you have any real-world examples where wavelet trees are used? They look really interesting, I'm just not sure where I'd ever use them!
> BYU. Current tuition is $5,620 for full-time semesters - it was about half that when I started 10 years ago.

Which indicates a huge part of the problem for a lot of people these days. It's a safe bet that the wages at the jobs you worked then haven't doubled in the last ten years, so someone merely wanting to replicate your path would need to work considerably more hours just to make their tuition payments.

Reliable, accredited colleges cheap enough that you can realistically work your way through them at the wages paid at the kinds of jobs typically open to inexperienced students are increasingly thin on the ground.
Grand Theft Auto publisher given right to search cheat developers’ homes
We don’t have a single test covering our front-end/UI for egghead.io
U.S. regains crown as most competitive economy for first time since 2008
"Many" but not nearly all. In Canada prisoners can and do vote.
I just read "Why We Sleep" which covers a lot of the same territory. Vital information, should be in the Human Brain Owner's Manual.
I’m hosting these on Majagual.org

(the island we acquired for the purposes of inspiring and connecting great souls).

Off grid adventures and transformational relationships.
Also in the LIGO project, it's a branch of astrophysics called numeric relativity. The gravity wave signatures predicted by the simulations was what helped confirm the LIGO detections of black hole and neutron star mergers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_relativity
Product and design should own products most of the time. I think most startups would be better off outsourcing their builds.
I had similar concerns and had reached out to the HN community quite a while ago. Seems like this issue is felt across the industry!
I hear that, my daughter can't even read but can play some really complex games with almost no direct intervention. Kids are incredible learning machines.

The restrictions on the iPad are rather mature at this point. I've blocked all unrestricted internet holes and just keep her within apps i've vetted.
But then how else would Bloomberg keep you on their page needlessly long while you hunt for a relevant link? ;)
Build your own Octocat
Agreed about maintenance, but yeah, CA registration is that much more.
They’re actually one of the biggest contributors to CO2 emissions. I must confess my country, South Africa is one too.
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This was written by someone who either failed to fully read Google's statement or who is being paid to make the EU look bad, as it's very misrepresentative of what just took place.

I've emailed the senior editor to ask who wrote it, as it appears Bloomberg is hiding their identity behind the "Editorial Board" account.
Constant worry about ageism, discrimination, and making a living once you to get to late 30s/early 40s. In particular SV but this is a concern everywhere.

What can you do then if you love programming and don't want to be a manager? It's just terrifying.
Check it out, it does an OK job at filtering out adult content... but it's 99% garbage.
One of the issues is that, as soon as you get into any collaboration or editing, you have to move the document into some common format anyway. In which case, I usually find that I might as well have started there in the first place.

I actually like Scrivener on the Mac for bigger projects. But given that, at some point, I'm going to have to switch to another tool, it's usually not worth using for the first draft.
This is a great lesson in how we tend not to notice the effect of these services paid for with our tax dollars... until they're missing.
I purchased both an OpenPandora (https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/) and a Novena (https://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page).

The OpenPandora came out with a fairly good OS to start out with, and they have continually supported it, so it has still been useful even 7 years after it was released. If it wasn't for the fact that I can no longer find it, I have no doubt that I would still be using it. I am a supporter for the Dragonbox Pyra, and I am hoping it will have the same support.

I cannot say that I regret buying my Novena (as I learned a lot from it), but I rarely use it. I have to manually update the kernel and bootloader myself, and it is stuck on Linux 4.4, as the support and community just aren't there to help. I was able to figure out how to update it to the newest Debian, but there is no official support for it, so I imagine most folks are still on the previous version. As it stands, it marginally functions, but if I need to use a laptop again heavily, I will simply just buy a new laptop.

I relate these two stories because I think the Librem 5 will need to show that it has a polished software stack day one to gain traction and grow a community. The Open Pandora was successful in that, and that allowed the creator to make two iterations of the Open Pandora and create the Pyra.

The Novena did not have that nearly has much, and as a result, I am very doubtful that there will be a Novena + 1, and frankly after seeing the support it got, I am hesitant to purchase any other products made by Bunnie.
I don't like the idea that tech comes first and people last. That is often the case when the automation is simply meant to replace inefficient humans, without really thinking to the consequences. I'm of course pro-automation as I think it's an improvement for humanity, but I'm always worried about the end result.

Also I don't like that most companies have this kind of double-speak when they say that they are working to improve everyone lives while they simply want to automate work away, avoid rules (simply because Internet is not regulated as the rest of the economy) to make more money than in other ways.
Thanks for the great reply.
Funny, no one has ever asked me whether or not I own a brand new car or own my own house in a job interview. However, every interview has asked me about my college education.

Maybe you are the one who needs to reevaluate their priorities.
There's an under-appreciation of the psychological toll that content moderators face.
> Any older dev has had to transition at least 1-2 languages and it's not an easy step

Most devs I know have been through a whole bunch more than 2. I've had to use at least 8 over the last 10 years of dev. I didn't have to learn all of them well, but I did have to learn them.
More accurate to say that border control agents will not respect your rights at their border.
You both have a point. When I showed a text-mode adventure to a kid, their reaction was "Really? Why would anyone play such a thing these days?"

On the other hand, getting started with toy twoliners involving a question and a simple arithmetic answer can spark some interest. The effect is augmented if what you type can have an immediate effect on hardware like in the case of Duinomite where the inerpreter is running on the MCU itself and doesn't need uploading like on the Arduinos or Mindstorms.
They are all more justified than the person who claims Swift playground on an iPad is the pinnacle of CS for Primary School.
Micro:bit has a lot going for it.

Comes with a 5x5 LED array, an accelerometer, two physical push-buttons, three capacitive sensors, and a bluetooth antenna, already on-board. It means you can start programming without having to plug in to a breadboard and wire up your inputs. You can also hang external sensors and actuators off of it, but the point is you don't need to in order to move beyond toy demonstrations.

It was designed specifically for education, so there are lots of beginner-oriented tutorials available, as well as educator-oriented lesson plans.

As fusiongyro points out, you can program it using three high-level languages. The graphical language lets you toggle to the Javascript version, so there's a clear learning path built-in. These provide high-level commands, such as "get the orientation", or "get the number of button presses since the last query", which makes programming it very straightforward.

It removes a lot of toolchain fussiness. Just run an online editor, or a desktop editor (Mu). These produce binaries that you drag onto the Micro:bit, which mounts to your desktop like an external drive. You can also program it from a smart phone or iPad.
Do they, though? I've never heard anyone in the EU complain about border control.
In Ubuntu you'd just use console 1-6 instead of console 7. Console 1 is typically a terminal, while console 7 is typically a GUI. You could configure getty to start a REPL as a shell instead of the normal login shell.
If it’s the same they do in the EU: 2FA, notification by email, 7 day cooloff period and download link via mail.
vegans will be the only people allowed to travel :D
Then they wouldn't degrade user security to the single point of failure - PIN code, in recent iOS versions.
Copy and paste blog spam, word for word from https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/10/17/annou...
This is the kind of post the NPC meme is parodying. Instead of parroting mindless talking points, why don't you learn about the history of the quote "shouting fire in a movie theater"? Learn about Schenck decision and how "shouting fire in a movie theater" was used to justify a criminal offense against individuals distributing anti-draft flyers to military-aged men. YES. Common anti-draft speech practiced wherever today was once as dangerous as what you're implying. This decision's first amendment implication was finally overturned in Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969.

Make up your own mind, and form your own opinions. This meme is not dangerous, it's exposing a dangerous pattern. A pattern of people parroting simplistic ideas with no knowledge of the context involved. A pattern which effects most sides of the political aisle. Don't be an NPC, learn and grow, become a player.
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if you want to get educated, read a book or take some initiative and learn something for yourself: join a book club or take continuing education classes.

The purpose of a degree is just to make it easier for highering managers and HR to sort through the thousands of applicants. For the person getting a degree, the purpose is to get a good job and earn more money, so yes, it should be evaluated just like a business decision.
Is there an app to cure that urge?
From my limited understanding information is meant to mean the characteristics of a given particle; the waveform, spin, etc.
You are misleading us by editing out the rest of the sentence. What you stated is for dial-up service.

AT&T terms:
>• with respect to dial-up accounts, using any software or device designed to defeat system time-out limits or to allow Customer's account to stay logged on while Customer is not actively using the IP Services or using such account for the purpose of operating a server of any type;

I have many servers on att internet, including email.
IT repairman seeks home for Apple collection, possibly world's largest
In-state tuition at public universities is not very expensive. Student loans are being used to pay for other stuff (room and board, probably, or out of state tuition).
Have you seen Silicon Valley (the HBO show)?
How do you feel about getting your credit report? Are there errors on your credit report? How would you know if you had errors on your credit report if you didn’t have access to your credit report?

Is it possible that seeing the information on your credit report would give you more information, and you would change your behavior when you saw what data was recorded there?
Are you a veteran who has experienced this? Because this sounds completely wrong to me.

An experienced developer typically has no problem picking up new languages/frameworks/tools/etc. There isn't much value in familiarising oneself with arbitrary and invented things, of which there are many in our industry, and they are ephemeral.

No, the real value is in knowing and understanding the discovered things. And since they are discovered and not invented, they do not change.

There's still plenty to learn, but you have more than a lifetime's worth of learning ahead of you even if you steer clear of the shiny baubles that are React/Angular(v[1..n])/Vue/Whatever.
What happened to innocent until proven guilty?!
This seems extremely heavy handed. These people are allegedly selling software that lets someone break the TOS for a video game; let’s keep this in perspective. On the basis of that complaint, they froze their assets and allowed Take 2 Interactive to search their homes. The level of involvement from the corporation that makes video games reads like a trashy cyberpunk-dystopia novel.
Sure but if a malicious user is going to request access to someone's iCloud, they can probably also access their emails and delete this one.

Reminds me of how when I sign into my Gmail from another computer, it sends me an email saying "alert! someone signed in from this computer!" which I could immediately delete if I was a hacker. Seems useless to me.
Right. I’m not saying climate change isn’t happening. But it’s clear that most celebrities don’t act as if they believe it is themselves. No compromises in their own lifestyles. My own carbon footprint probably isn’t 1% of 1% of 1% of the average super rich jetsetter like Gates or Bono or Al Gore. Leaders lead by example.
Srsly. Is this actually a problem for anyone?
I am curious (seriously, not sarcastic), which of these 4 companies has rolled this out worldwide? Surely Apple will never be able to roll this out in China?
Former ops engineer here. Get out of ops. In the current climate, it is rare you'll find a role that compensates you for being on call frequently and the toll it takes on you.
I'd like to know how they came to that estimate. Are they just taking the sum of all tuition currently being paid by eligible families? Or are they taking into account all the people who never bothered applying for college because they knew they'd never be able to afford it?

Furthermore, the easier they make it to get into college financially, the harder it'll be academically. That shift in burden will lead to more stringent admissions requirements, which means people will have to pay more for SAT prep, tutoring, etc.
Came here to say this. Aside from some customer support issues, I've had a very great experience with CenturyLink fiber. I have multiple static IPs and run a plethora of externally available services. I actually moved everything from Linode and digital ocean to my house and bought a APC battery backup and outside me unplugging my stuff to move it around, I've had no downtime at all.
If you want to get kids engaged, Minecraft is the best learning environment out there.

You can get a computer that runs Lua in the game, and that thing can interact with devices and the environment.

You can write a couple of lines of code that spawns pigs. From there anything's possible.

Subjecting someone to the ridiculously spartan environment that is the READY prompt is the polar opposite of encouraging.
Thanks for teaching!
As Canadians, my wife and I refuse to travel to the US or take any flights that stopover in the US. We would love to go road tripping or get cheap flights to visit various places, but it's just off limits for us, possibly for many years, due to the ridiculousness of what is going on at the border and in the white house.

We watch cheap flight deals pretty regularly and have noticed we are seeing a lot more cheap flights to the US than normal, so it makes us think that perhaps the US is starting to suffer on tourism, but it could just be our biases.

As more people get fed up like us, tourism will wane, but I doubt it'll make a big enough dent anytime soon for any action to be taken, especially when it's spread across the entire US, so harder to see at once.
I'm not sure the author is taking into account observation time and the orbit diameter of planets.

In other words, it could just be that planets in similar orbits have similar sizes, which would be roughly consistent with our own Solar System.

Jupiter alone takes almost 12 Earth years to get around the Sun. It seems to me that an observer on a remote planet on the same plane as our own Solar System, observing us, would likely only see the inner 4 planets (if anything at all) during a 4 year observation window similar to Kepler.
>You seem to imagine that a generation of kids should be happy going to trade school and working as plumbers.

We tell every kid to go to college, but the reality is that many of them simply aren't cut out for it. They _should_ be developing a trade skill, but they don't, so they end up with a near useless degree (or not even that), a mountain of debt, and no real skills to speak of.

What's wrong with being a plumber, or an electrician, or a carpenter? They are absolutely required functions and I imagine many degree holders aren't entirely happy with their shitty office jobs paying less than they would make on a job site.