skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my view treating college as largely a game or whose metric is sheer survival, is wasting money, or more likely, paying to support the students who are getting something else out of it. This is not necessarily a personal judgment, because there may be people who are predisposed to see everything as a game, but who deserve to get the best education possible anyway.

Here's my stupid parable. Give two people shovels and send them into a mine. One of them comes back with a bag of gold. The other comes back with an intense hangover. What's broken, the shovel or the mine?

Colleges, despite the image of paternalism, are actually designed to let you fail. People will leak clues on how to survive, but are less likely to tell you explicitly how to succeed. But everybody has the same chance of getting a degree in something. As a result, the people who benefit from the signaling and branding of the college outnumber the people who got a good education out of it, creating the impression that college is largely about signaling and branding. But college is really about deciding what you want to get out of it.

There are doubtlessly many things wrong with college education today, but in spite of that, taking college at face value and pursuing it in a relatively straightforward way may still be a better strategy than trying to figure out what game to play in order to survive.
Are you arguing that poor people would live longer if they had less money for food?
Commit your node modules
In the realm of video games, the Sega VMU screen was 48x32, and it was fairly usable, although limited.

A ti-85 graphic calculator had 128x64 and was very usable (with training/practice, given the domain of application)
what process do you use for identifying fake apple chargers non-destructively?
I wish companies developing these kind of devices would either post a timeline or straight announce the phone once it's done and available.
You just equate establishing a monopoly on violence with using violence, and you say "monopoly on violence" as if that was even more violent than everybody being violent against anybody whenever they feel like it. Like there's always someone subjugating else, never groups giving themselves rules they follow for the protection of both the group and the individuals. You know, the root of our ability to write things on the internet, instead of just screaming gutturally in the mud with rats in our hair, and other things.

And Mao didn't know shit. Violence is for those who do not have power.

> All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.

-- Hannah Arendt
Hi, for some reason you're shadowbanned? As a new account I find this really unusual. It's likely you might need to verify your email or something. I've vouched for this comment, which is why it appears.

On Topic: there was a discussion a year ago about what the progress block is: https://github.com/WardCunningham/remodeling/issues/24

It seems that he's stuck with some files that are mixed-encoding and can't repair them, it's likely the wiki will be read-only until that problem is solved, unfortunately.
I saw that study and it matched what I observe anecdotally around me. Millenials mostly have divorced parents and mostly feel that was a terrible way to grow up. So they’re waiting until they’re ready to have kids to get married to their long-term partner, and they’re approaching it with more of a sober commitment to stay together for the kids.

At the end of the day, marriage is a choice you make every day. Different cultures have higher and lower divorce rates largely based on how seriously they take that commitment.
It's like the "class war", except directed at your own parents. I find it quite funny how people fall for this crap.
Inspiring in the way that there are still people willing to do what is unpopular in an effort to advance scientific understanding.
Not to mention articles that use an average instead of median. Millennials can seem rich on average, but poor on median, because of the growing wealth disparity.
Such a search usually works by "please provide us with all relevant documents and copies of data" and only to a small degree by officers opening cabinets and taking whatever they find. If the confiscated documents show that large parts are missing or manipulated the charges for not complying with rules on record keeping and the negative impression on the main case are typically worse for the organization than the harm by those bad documents.

For individuals who might be responsible the interests might be different - they won't like documents referring to them specifically.

And also mind: The authorities are also required to evaluate documents in benefit of the defendant, thus to some degree there is self-interest to share stuff for that reason.
In complex billing systems (that are also often responsible for computing non-trivial taxes), using fixed point math with configurable rounding rules -- is a must.

There are requirement time discussions/rules that indicate if a computation has a rounding rule or not (and it is normally driven by whether a calculation involves division, or if a computation must match an amount in a different currency).

Dividing amounts, as example, always comes about when there are mid-cycle cancelation/onboardings to a service.

Currency translations cause that as well.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Releases 2018–2022 Strategic Plan [pdf]
As with many problems in the U.S., income and wealth inequality are largely to blame: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/9/16860994/lif...
I've taken the middle path: Typically I find I can build my apps using standard OSS tooling and just keep it CI'd into a self-contained container or packaged deployment. If I need to roll it out to GCE? Sure. AWS? Sure. Azure? Sure. All 3 at once? no problem.

The need to shim common things like "make image, deploy VM, set up VNET" is a pain and does marginally limit portability, but perhaps by nature of my only needing a small set of their IaaS style offerings (compute, networking, MAYBE blob storage/cache if I'm feeling fancy) I've found it rather straightforward to maintain portability through very minimal abstraction.

(Disclaimer since I'm talking about cloud stuff, MSFtie, opinions are my own etc)
> IR-missile targeting on the MIG-29 (it took a while for the US AIM-9 to catch up)

AIM-9L (first type with IR/Laser) started producing in 1977.
First MiG-29 flight was in 1977 (and I highly doubt that they had IR-missile targeting at that time).

Where's 'took a while' actually?
I got a bit too invested in this last year. I even did a write up of one of the tasks. That year I did it all using JS since it's easy to write input parsers with it. This year I'll be doing it in Rust to stretch myself a little.

https://qubyte.codes/blog/advent-of-code-2017-day-20-task-2
Has a declining suicide rate. The rate is higher than that of the US, but improving, while the rate in the US is getting worse.
Yeah, I tried --gc:none. After some playing around, I ended up with:

--gc:stack
--header:"nim.h"
--os:standalone
--noMain
--genDeps

In the end I got Nim code to run and was able to do a "hello world". As a hack I also used -d:android to trigger some conditionals that reduced the reliance on various dependencies. But it wasn't enough to be usable, and it was a bit unfortunate to have to do that.

Looking at those projects you linked though, clearly I didn't try hard enough! Great to see that people have had success.
The "middle class" you're referring to is literally everyone who has insurance. This has nothing to do with income. Non-payment is not the cause of the high prices. The system is broken in a number of ways. Premiums are a crazy percent of income, putting them out of reach for people who don't have employer subsidized plans. Even then, those employer subsidized plans get more expensive and provide less with each re-enrollment. Here is a small personal example of someone who works in tech for a very large enterprise and is lucky to have the means to handle it: I went to the ER for an issue, admitted for 6 days with a myriad of tests to diagnose. The total bill for that was over $100k. Even though I went to one hospital nearly, $40k of those billings were "out of network" and I had no choice in the matter. I easily met my high deductible but, there were still random bills "not covered". That made my part nearly 10k. This open enrollment period, my employer has decided to drop all "out of network" support because only 10% of the workforce used it in the past. So, if I were to have an issue like this again, my part would be in the neighborhood of $50k for a few test and few days in a bed. That's a scary prospect for a lot of people. For some, letting a bill like that go to collections may be their only option.
I think that as girls in US culture approach puberty they suddenly realize that being a more-or-less generic young person will no longer allow them to maintain an acceptable status. They feel the pressure to dress and do their hair and own nice outfits, etc. Some don't want to do that, period. Others sense that they will not be deemed attractive no matter how hard they try. They want to exit from the "game".
Yes, but you couldn't spend it like water until the credit card. And that started with the Diner's Club card in 1950: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diners_Club_International
I quite like the butterfly keyboards. I find that, after I spent a few weeks getting used to it, I can type much faster and cleaner.

The removal of the escape key makes vim practically unusable, though. I know a few people who have remapped it to a different key, but still..
Credit card debt is a small percentage of overall household debt.
I picked up a Surface Laptop 2 a week ago, as a replacement for my older MacBook Air, and so far I’ve been pleased with it. The hardware may not have the fit and finish of a MacBook, but it’s still slim, lightweight and attractive in its own way. The screen is great.
And that keyboard...just works.

The article doesn’t mention the Surface product line, it doesn’t contribute much to Microsoft’s revenue, but it allows the company to present itself as a new Microsoft and demonstrate what’s possible with Windows.
A stayed in at least two different hotels in UK and there were no 24h receptionists there. There was self check-in/out machine in the lobby. Hotels were about 50-80 rooms in size.
Sure.

In the UK it's not about saving, it's about income multipliers, which don't really involve financial discipline beyond the basic level of "have an emergency fund so you can interview properly".

In a silly limiting example, imagine you earn 40K.
It's not intractable to save enough to hit a 5%, 10%, or whatever deposit on a 1 million property.

What is intractable is ever earning enough that 4x your income is equal to the remaining ~800-900K mortgage.
limes have slightly less vitamin c?
The thing is, laws and regulations around finance and things like gas/petroleum delivery scheduling predate electronic 32 bit computers with floating point math.

This used to cause problems at a former workplace, because the "math" in the regulations around scheduling used tables, so the functions were highly non-linear, and less math savvy customers would complain that reversals of calculations wouldn't work as expected. If we had used continuous functions, it would have worked out, but then we would have been going against regulations.
It'd be nice to have a no-login localstorage-based option. I guess you wouldn't get on the leaderboard, but does anything else need an identity?
>his too is much less of a thing outside of the US where pain medication tends to be very strictly regulated and not advertised every 10 minutes on TV.

I've never seen a commercial for a pain medication or opioid, they're usually for some heart/skin condition, ED, STD treatment, or something related to aging.
In the Netherlands, this effect is even stronger. We also speak of the baby boomer generation. Can't speak for the rest of Europe though.
This is not good for customers.
This is exactly the kind of call for violent measures that gets people in trouble in social media. This is a public forum, after all.

If you truly believe what you wrote, perhaps you should also consider that "wealth" is a very subjective measure, and there are those who would certainly consider you unworthy of owning your property since they have so little. Would you appreciate someone telling them to burn down your place while you're at work?
My Great Uncle Joe served in World War II. 4 years tromping around Europe. In his 80's, he still woke up at night, screaming. So his wife would tell us; he never spoke much about that. She lost her first husband, Fred, to the war. Society calls them "The Greatest Generation".

They couldn't have kids. But they ended up running a drive in, where the kids who worked for them became like family. They put more than one through college, and took one in when he needed a home. Decades later, those kids would call and visit them.

Well, those kids may have turned out pretty well. But, generally, I've come to think of those who came after this "Greatest Generation" as "The Selfish Generation".

Really, we're speaking of more than one generation, here. The symbolic touch phrase might come from the 1980's, written in the movie "Wall Street":

Greed is good!

To which I might respond, "Divided we fall."
Is there a resource with the best snippets of the code sources listed here? Can't be bothered to trawl through for the good stuff.
I'm not sure that it's Airbnb. if properties can appreciated at 10% per year. Then they are a much better investment and safer investment vehicle than most of what is out there. If I truly believe I can buy a house somewhere and get 10% year in and year out. I'm going to buy one. I might keep it vacant since I don't feel like being a landlord or dealing with rent control laws. When it's time to get my money out, I'll sell and move on.

While some of us might not believe this, there are enough people who see real estate as such a safe investment. Some of them are from other countries and they're looking for a place to park their money that's not a bank or volatile like the stock market.
> My first thought on the title of the article was "if it ain't broken, don't fix it"

Problem is - it's broke already. In all means - sloppy quality, price hikes, political bullshit with 'russkiy mir'...
Upping the contribution limit without upping the benefit would just be a hidden tax on the upper middle class, but not the rich, who do not work for salary. If you want to tax the rich, you need to raise the upper tax rates.
What the law giveth, contract may take away. Unless the law says that contracts cannot.

For instance, in the common commercial code passed in nearly identical form by all 50 US states, a promissory note comes with the rights of presentment and notice of dishonor baked in. The right of presentment means that the owner of the note has to show it to you when demanding payment; this ensures that you are paying the correct person, so that if the original owner of the note sells it to someone else (as it is a negotiable instrument), you won't get demands for payment from the new owner as well as the old. You can look at the note at the time of presentment and demand, to check the endorsements, paying only the last owner recorded on the note (or the bearer, if it has been converted). The right of notice of dishonor means you must be informed in a legally-conformant way if someone to whom you are legally indebted is not satisfied with a payment you have rendered.

These are commonly waived on the notes backing home mortgages. Without them, the bank can put the note in a filing cabinet somewhere, and just send you a letter when they sell it to a new owner. You never see the note again, which means the finance industry can get up to all kinds of shenanigans with MERS, obfuscated ownership, and separating the beneficial ownership of the note from enforcement of the security instrument. And waiving right to notice of dishonor means that the owner can start foreclosure as soon as you miss a payment, rather than first informing you that you missed a payment.

While the rights are reasonable, hiring people to carry notes around to show them and demand payment all the time would make servicing of loans much more expensive, and therefore puts an uncompetitive floor on the interest rate for notes that do not waive those rights. Waiving the rights works, but only as long as you can trust the owners to honor the system....

In the case of the confessions of judgment, the loans cannot be made profitable without them, because the default risk and average cost of litigation is too high. One might argue that we should prefer that such loans not be made at all, rather than made only with waivers of critical consumer rights, but the state of New York has decided to allow the predatory loans to exist, and to profit from them and their lenders. The borrowers bear the burden of assessing their own risks; the state will not protect them.

The remedy in a representative democracy would be to vote out of office those officials that support the practice.
Community Groups Stop Boring Tunnel Under West LA
U.S.–Soviet Space Bridge
As somebody who rents in the same block, I don't want this.
We built hotels for people on holidays, not residential apartment blocks.
My life shouldn't be upended by constant/"badly" behaved AirBnB guests just so you can make a buck.

These apartment blocks are _homes_ for most people.
Will the generation that comes after millennials be even poorer?
Drug and suicide deaths rise as US life expectancy drop
The difference between ants and humans being that humans can invent ways to understand what is going on in the river. If there's something out there and it is discoverable in principle, there's a good chance we'll discover it someday.
immigration has become a nice scam:
1) become a politician
2) buy property
3) vote in mass immigration and call anyone who disagrees -ist
4) give the new immigrants heavy housing subsidies.
5) the money comes right to the politicians back in the form of rents
6) profit
The main driver of "generations" is mass culture. In most of the world, culture is local, transmitted from parent -> child and from village -> child, based on a relatively stable set of people that the child comes in contact with. As a result, culture doesn't change significantly between children born at different times, though it may differ significantly between children born in different places.

America since roughly the 1920s has been different. The invention of radio and television allowed a small set of companies to dictate culture across the whole nation (and later, the whole English-speaking world). Moreover, their incentive is always to seek the latest hot fad rather than broadcast the same messages over and over; stations that do the latter (eg. public radio, classical music) get eclipsed by ones that don't.

As a result, the cultural experience of people born at the same time will be roughly similar. You can talk to most early Millenials about Transformers and My Little Pony and Voltron and G.I. Joe and Punky Brewster and Full House and they'll know what you're talking about. You can talk to most baby boomers about Beatlemania and the Ed Sullivan Show and the JFK assassination and they'll know what you're talking about. You generally cannot talk to the former about the latter.

In other areas where mass-culture has been exported and widely adopted, you see generations arise as well. People have spoken about generations in Japan since the 1980s, and people are starting to talk about generations in China.

There's some evidence that the Internet is actually destroying mass culture and the concept of generations with it. Notice that the generation after Millenials hasn't even been named, and they also seem a lot more diverse in their cultural & musical tastes and a lot more accepting of diversity in general. But it'll take a while (a few generations, at least) before this really takes hold, assuming we don't get a major event that reverses it.
No concurrency is a missing feature, not an upside. OOP is a broken paradigme, so no upside to be found there either.
Yet back in high school my step mom owned a small toy store (two locations), and was basically forced to start selling on amazon to get by... it changed the focus of the store and really ruined it for her.

Who knows maybe attitudes like this will be the (needed) downfall of the giant.
It's not just healthcare, and it's not just the US. Dig deeper, look at the ex-Nazi bank called B.I.S. See how much Tether they printed in 2009.
There is a question that nobody is asking: How can we increase the market to make it attractive for people to build?

People think by increasing regulations on house owners that this will be solved. This is false. Decreasing regulations allow more business men to invest in housing in the city. This increases competition in the long term, thereby bringing costs down.

Instead of increasing regulations on Airbnb letters, why not decrease regulations on renters and provide incentive?
Maybe because only enthusiasts are currently using it?
> Medicare/social security didn’t exist before the boomer generation

Patently false. In the US, Social Security was instituted as part of Roosevelt's New Deal in 1935. From a more global perspective similar systems have been around much longer.
The people I know want America to take the economic hit of renewables, bring electricity prices to $0.25 per kWh so that we can show the world our moral superiority. It would limit our economy, but it's possible.
The problem is that developing countries are adding fossil fuel power plants so fast that it would dwarf our reductions. I don't know if nuclear is the solution. But America needs to be bold enough to try.
> Flying and improving Soyuz (especially through the tough times of 199x and beginning of 200x) is definitely a success

Let's not forget that they survived those 'tough times' with generous US financing.
I really like https://platform.sh, it is popular with Drupal (PHP) projects in Europe, but it also supports python, nodejs and ruby.
It's funny that the single most useful Windows 10 feature for me has been Win + . which open the new emoji keyboard.
Ian Hobson – An introduction to Rust for audio developers [video]
I wish articles had dates on the byline
cloud removes the friction. reserve a license, apply it to an account, they now have instant access to a "Project Server" or a "Dynamics Server" all within an hour.
You can still see the comment if you go to your settings and set "showdead" to yes. I'm guessing it was flag-killed for being inflammatory?

But to take it seriously, what fraction of opioid deaths started from a prescription?
Author needs to redo the demo page in black on white. That will be much more in line with NES styles.. I can't think of any NES UI with black text on white background.
I don't understand why people think price matching is a good experience at all.

Do you really think that 10 mins in a chat trying to prove that you found a better price is a good experience? Same when you're in the store, looking up for the product online in your phone and chasing a floor rep to beg for the price match.

Price matching is the biggest marketing illusion I have seen to hide the fact that you're more expensive and less convenient.

The ideal customer experience should be always going into a BestBuy trusting that I will get the best possible price from any retailer. Not this scavenger hunt of prices that people claim to be great.
Go 2 Considered Harmful:

https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.p...
Logistical issues are national security issues. It's an insurance policy against the possibility of another large-scale war involving immediate full mobilization. Fortunately we haven't really had a war like that since WWII but the risk is still there.

Safety and security issues are handled separately. Some foreign airlines are banned from landing at any US airport because they're not trusted.