skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's going to be a bunch of comments about waste in universities, how people are irresponsible, trade schools, government alone guarantees that make it a crisis, no ability to discharge debt, etc.

The two big things that typically don't get brought up in these discussions is that government funding for college is way down and medical costs. All these state schools, which are pretty much the backbone of higher education in america are chronically underfunded. The last 40 years in america we have been borrowing against our future and higher education funding is just one aspect.

The second aspect is that higher education is fairly labor intensive, a large part of the labor cost is health care. When a pharmaceutical company acquires the rights to a rare drug and jacks up the cost 1000% that cost ultimately is passed on to students.
Good point, hadn't looked at it quite like that. Does the surgeon general still put out scary warnings?

It's fair to say vaping has had huge and surprising impact on smoking in the UK, it's now become really rare to see a smoker. It's now an occasional surprise when you catch a whiff of tobacco in the street.

It helped that cigarettes have been progressively taxed to nearly unaffordable (not sure, but I think a pack of 20 is now comfortably over £10). At the same time tobacco has been hidden in ugly packaging and no visibility is allowed in stores.
They can use a different TLD. One big benefit is that the literal TLD is in the list (not every domain) keeping the size of the list O(1) instead of O(n) as it is for other TLDs.
satire != comedy
I'm not sure I follow - is your claim that you were going to go to NYC because of the Amazon job market, or because you're currently employed by Amazon and your job was going to move?

There's a pretty healthy market for data scientists in NYC. I work at a well-paying (probably better-paying than Amazon, honestly) NYC tech/finance company that hires tons of data science people, and we're certainly not the only one. I don't think that the existence of some Amazon data science jobs in Seattle (or Nashville) instead of in NYC is going to meaningfully hurt the data science job market here.
What year did you pay $8k a year for a "top 10" public school?
They grew all over the place where I lived in Nayarit, Mexico. They just had the boring smell of an unripe banana. Kinda tasted like one, too.

Maybe they're confusing yaka with durian fruit?
Heh, I once got a "watermelon steak" at a vegan restaurant in Seattle. Let me tell you, a slice of grilled watermelon is not even remotely similar to a steak.
Sorry bro gotta smoke a bowl and eat some munchies. I don't have time to source things for ya :-) /s /s
Yeah, it got me too, despite that I moved from Yorkshire to New Zealand when I was 12.
This journalist's voice sounds exactly like Tucker Gott, who runs a pretty interesting channel on paramotoring.

https://youtu.be/e4bovIUYvrY
I dunno. I think it was very easy to read threats into your opinion. I mean the fact that you specifically mentioned 'gun owners have facts, and guns' at the very beginning led me to believe you were insinuating that anyone who disagrees with your 'facts' would be met by said guns.
> David Foster Wallace wrote Everything and More

This is far and away my favorite math book. The way DFW can seamlessly transition from discussing a serious mathematical concept, to the nature of insanity, to the philosophy of abstraction all within a few pages is astounding. He somehow manages to do it while maintaining a conversational, two-folks-at-a-bar tone, teaching me dozens of new word, and being insightful/funny. Like an English professor sneaked into the math dept.

I didn't know it was available on Kindle. Guess I'm buying it again...
It's not feasible to get scientific evidence for the effect of any culture on individual intelligence or laziness. This is true for all cultures including religious and ethnic. There's zero scientific evidence that any such culture is good or bad for you. You can't run a randomized controlled trial, and epidemiological techniques are unable to separate out all the confounding factors.

There's also no scientific evidence that, say, Typescript is better than Javascript. Just anecdotes and opinion. Those are worthwhile, though. You have to choose somehow.

So please don't reject sincere opinions for not having scientific evidence when none is available.
If that's true, then yes, I agree that nothing was accomplished. Is it? I don't know the details of the deal and I'd be pretty unhappy if it's true....

(If you just mean "Amazon proved it's negotiable," I think Amazon pulling out equally proves that it's a political quagmire to try to negotiate it.)
I’m old enough to have used gopher on vt100 terminals as an undergrad in college to try and do some ‘work’. And when http/www arrived, it didn’t take long to switch to a better mousetrap. And this wasn’t just because you could now render a gif in NCSA Mosaic on indigo workstation. Everything was just better in this new http world.

Let’s fast forward to today, yes, we’ve gone overboard all over, but then again, Gopher [i think] doesn’t come standard with TLS, it hasn’t gone through the evolution that http[s] has that makes it a robust and scalable backbone it is today.

What I’m trying to say is that we should not casually float around pipe dreams about switching to ancient tech that wasn’t that good to begin with. Yes, electric cars were a thing already in early 1900s, and we maybe took a wrong turn with combustion engine, but with Gopher, I think we should let the sleeping dogs lie, and focus on improving next version of QUIC, or even inventing something entirely new that would address many of the concerns in the article without sacrificing years of innovation since we abandoned Gopher. Heck, this new thing might as well run on TCP/70, never mind UDP appears to be the thing now[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/3
I think this was a foreseeable reaction to the wealthiest company in the world owned by the richest man in the world demanding legalized kickbacks while their not-employees piss in bottles and eat off food stamps. It's not a vocal minority treating Amazon unfairly at all, it's Amazon treating everyone unfairly and there's a lot of historical precedence for that backfiring.

There's also precedence for Amazon to convert as much of their workforce into non-employees dependent on 2nd jobs and 3rd jobs so their supposedly high paying jobs probably weren't going to last anyway. They're not in the business of creating high paying jobs, they pay highly while they must.
Trying to follow this, but I’m lost at a few points.

If you say you have a file where +L-R = 0, then L = R? That’s just a mono file?

L/R stereo and M/S stereo conversion works like this. M = L+R, S = L-R (or S = R-L, either one is fine).

If you expand out your expression M=Si+L+R, where Si=-(L-R)=-L+R, you have M=-L+R+L+R, which means you are saying M=+R+R. This doesn’t seem right.

If you just want an actual M, that’s just a mono conversion of L+R. For sure, if the recording is M/S, the two sides cancel out and you will extract the mid channel, which would often contain song - but there’s no reason to do all the repeated inversion and mixing to do it!
The replication crisis may also be a theory crisis
> legitimate government policies

Many 'legitimate governments' in the US don't even have this policy.
> I think they're pretty clear in the article that the problem is that there is no centralized place to ship the waste.

We've been trying to solve this problem for years, but they're being contested and underfunded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
> There is so much waste in universities

I agree, but you can hardly force low-performing students to quit and pursue apprenticeship instead?
The core idea is that every citizen is getting a monthly stipend of some basic amount. If that were to happen, it stands to reason that policy oriented side effects would kick in over time to work alongside such a stipend.

First among those, actually securing student loans against the BI.

I’ve never seen BI as being anything that would be desirable to live on though. Closer to survival level income in the area of $700 / month. You’d partially pay for it by reducing all other types of government service payouts (welfare, social security, disability, unemployment) by that amount. You’d likely see homeless shelters, rehab clinics, etc open that were designed to operate on a per person budget equaling the BI.

At the same time, you can potentially eliminate minimum wage discussions since it would immediately supplement those workers.

I think it’s doable at a low level as long as you partially address the costs with dents in the budgets of many of the other existing services.
States Profit from Forgotten Cash
Good question. Nobody seems to know the answer here.

HN seems to be generally knowledgeable, but in this case nobody seems to be able to provide answers with good references, just guesswork. Google operates the domain. How much regulatory power it has? What is the agreement with ICANN. What is the dispute solution mechanism?

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after looking around, operator agreement with ICANN seems include public interest commitments etc. Operator can't do whatever they want and their policy should be transparent.

> Registry Operator will operate the TLD in a transparent manner consistent with general principles of openness and non-discrimination by establishing, publishing and adhering to clear registration policies.

https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/agreements/ag...
Ph.D. Student Breaks Down Electron Physics into a Swinging Musical
we're saying here that less competition is bad and more competition is also bad
So is yaka the Mexican name for jackfruit? (Just started reading the article, in case it mentions that).

Yes, I had the same thought about whether they confused jackfruit with durian (which AFAIK grows mainly in SE Asia). Never had it myself.
Yeah, it really sounds like they're talking about Durian. You can barely say Jackfruit is covered in spikes.
That's innacurate. The US government spends more on healthcare per person than the UK; so the public cost saving would be higher in US, despite the lack of universal healthcare.
They are by de facto rule, the legitimate authority/govt/ruler of certain parts of Somalia (largely due to the fact that every part of Somalia is split up or fighting each other)

I mentioned "more" legitimate as they want to be seen as the de jure govt and not just de facto through doing things normal govts would or might do.

You can check out Somalia's territory map here which includes Al-Shabaab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shabaab_(militant_group)#/m...
That energy breakdown pic doesn't say anything about the cost effectiveness of any of the sources, it's just a breakdown of current use. Nice try, pro-nuclear activist.
Chromecast is a device that receives a URL from my phone, loads that URL content, and plays the video.

Why does it need to depend on Google Cloud at all? Sure, Google connectivity can enhance it, but you don't need Cloud to make a device like this useful.

Same thing with the Title routers, where your local network collapses if the Cloud has a problem.
I don't research this professionally or as a hobby. Your googling would be as good as mine.
The real long term danger here might be to get an entire generation hooked on vaping as a safer alternative, then remove vape devices from the market. That's a whole lot of potential new customers (nicotine addicts) for traditional cigarette companies.
Sort of. These reactors produce too much of the wrong isotopes of plutonium to make a good bomb. It’ll turn out to have about 100th the yield or so.

But that assumes we’d ever want to give out spent fuel to Europe, Russia, Japan for them to process it for that purpose anyway? And if we did why wouldn’t we just outright give them the pure stuff that we made specifically for the purpose.

Reprocessing into fuel for power plants is the only option that could make sense. But my understanding is reprocessing hasn’t ever proved to be economically worthwhile (I may be wrong on that though).

Burying this stuff is the best option unless someone can come up with a reactor design that burns up used fuel without reprocessing. (Wasn’t that company Gates backed proposing to do that?)
I went to University of Washington and graduated in 2010. It's now $11,207/year. I think in my first year it was actually $6500 and rose to around $8k in 2010.
System76 Uses Blockchain to Deliver Firmware Updates
More efficient per mile, sure. But how about per total trip length?
What would they be related to, then? Other chemicals, or degraded respiration?
This depends on the textbooks. It is very, very hard to find a textbook that is (a) well written, (b) suitable for self-study and (c) affordable.
> Here's a shovel, go dig a hole then fill it back in.

That's ... actually how it's done, yes. Besides dam construction the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maschsee is a nice example of literal hole digging.
Which group did better than white Europeans?
Funny how people want to insist that vaping is not good but “less bad than smoking.” You know what’s even better than vaping? Not vaping.

Cutting off your finger is not as bad as cutting off your arm. But I prefer not cutting off my finger.
Most people seem to assume Satoshi is a group from what I've seen.
Fewer people read blogs. Why should more people write them?
If you have a gravity detector that can distinguish where a photon's energy is localized, it also works as a photon detector in the QM measurement sense, and will collapse the wavefunction in the same way.

Also, remember that gravity waves move at the speed of light; you can't detect a photon's gravity from a distance without waiting for the same light speed delay that you would get from the photon itself.
You need the user agent and transpory layer to enforce privacy protections.

The modern web cannot do that.

(I’m not convinced gopher can either — I think NNTP was actually better at that — but like the thought experiment.)
At least some of those support MITM using a local CA.
Having a vegetarian diet, this is the most difficult thing when eating out. More often than not it's extremely carb-heavy and barely any protein. Few places make balanced vegetarian meals - mostly Indian and specifically vegan restaurants.
I don't want this to become a flame war between SQL and Graph. But, we see a lot of developers come from SQL to Dgraph, because the join performance of SQL gets worse as the data size grows, and so devs have to resort to doing aggressive data normalizations. Even more of a problem when your entire dataset is on a single machine.

For e.g., Stack Overflow normalizes their data to avoid doing joins: https://archive.org/download/stackexchange
The local leg via truck is likely to be much more energy intensive unless you live right next to a seaport.
That gummy substance the article mentions is definitely a bit of a problem, though, even when eating the ripe jackfruit. It gets onto your hands and takes some time and work to wash off.

BTW, the seeds of the jackfruit are also eaten, and are supposed to be nutritious, IIRC (part of that wonder plant stuff). Got a nutty taste. It's added to some curries in Indian cuisine, both North and South, I think. Had it a few times.
I'm the opposite of a vegetarian and I love jackfruit. I'll admit it's something of an acquired taste and lots of people hate its smell. I love it. Grew up eating it and I'm very happy to see it more easily in my local grocery stores.
Do you have an alternate streaming system ?
It is capped, at $30k.
They got it bang on for me.

I'm actually quite impressed because I don't have a particularly strong regional accent, people find it hard to place me other than "Northern".
Predicting a pregnancy sounds so creepy and personal, but it actually seems like it should be one of the easiest life events for a retailer to predict.

The story plays up changes in consumption (scented->unscented lotion) but there are also whole categories of products that are used only by pregnant women (e.g., maternity clothes, pre/perinatal vitamins). Another huge swath of the store is devoted to infants (clothes, diapers, toys, formula). There are also really strong demographic priors (women only, 18-40 or so, though you could fine-tune that age bracket much more precisely with socioeconomic status (credit score?) or zip code.
The highest risk of death from smoking is due to coronary artery disease. The chemicals irritate the vessels, causing atherosclerosis.
'Zombie' deer disease is in 24 states and could spread to humans
Eating foods that are actually endemic in your region is important. However I will admit the equation probably gets flipped if you live in a region with poor environmental regulation and have the opportunity to eat imported food from a region with better environmental regulation.

As for the matter of emissions, that's a complex issue. In the specific case of heated greenhouses, one must consider the source of the power being used to heat the greenhouse. Not all power is made equal when it comes to emissions. Some places burn coal, others use hydro (clean, but damming rivers causes habitat loss), others use renewables (great) or nuclear (clean and controversial.)

Frankly though food related emissions are going to be a small portion of all global emissions. What concerns me more is habitat loss caused by agriculture, and whether or not the region I'm getting food from has effective regulation in place concerning that (and if not, whether I have any chance of influencing the government in that region.)
Actually, the simplest way to put downward pressure on tuition in the US is to allow the loans to be dischargeable in bankruptcy.
So your org stole carts from the university, then when you got caught, you proceeded to complain about how expensive they are?
Neither the OR nor the AND descriptions are great as they give you just a partial (wrong) intuition of what the mathematical model says. Moreover, the mathematical model can always be wrong (although improbable in this case).

But to address your comment: the OR description is a bit better than the AND one because the possiblities described by the wave function are excluding one another (when a good basis is chosen). However neither the OR nor the AND description actually mention the fact that the "probabilities" interfere (which is what the double slit experiment tests). That experiment disproves both of these simplified descriptions.

Another reason I like the OR intuition better if I have to chose between these two wrong simplifications: if you do the double slit experiment with one photon at a time and repeat it multiple time then you do see only one photon at a time hit the screen (the OR intuition). But the image you get if you wait and average over many photons is indeed the interference pattern.

TLDR: OR acts more like probabilistic but not interfering particles. AND acts more like waves. Both are wrong, but in different contexts one or the other might be a convenient simplification.
Aye, me too and our accent isn't noticeably Yorkshire, I suspect "bread cake" would be enough on it's own though.
Not all of them, but a good chunk of them are. A lot of student debt is sold to big banks without the students every really knowing. Banks then package them together and sell them again, allowing themselves to make even more loans. The same people that tanked the economy in 2007-2008, and then got bailed out by the taxpayer, are now the primary debt holders of many student loans. The difference is that people with student loans have no way out. We punish those trying to educate themselves and reward those who exploited uninformed borrowers.
Here's an idea for 'slowly popping it':

Innovate in trade schools and start convincing high school students to take that path instead of University.
No coincidence that industries with misaligned incentives create massive debt bubbles. Education, health care, real estate.
How so? The end user is the thief of services. Anyways the user could always just end up removing the plugin on their own.
Warning messages for future humans
I think we are going to have much better evidence on e-cigarettes, and by association, vaping, soon. NIH recently established and started producing a standardized nicotine and placebo e-cigarette for researchers to use. A big barrier to studying health effects was not being able to compare studies.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/funding/supplemental-information-n...
Well that's nice. But that mean you'll have to manually buy, upgrade install and test them. I have better things to do.
Jackfruit is awesome. However, as I discovered, that some people have some level of allergies to the raw fruit (some pollen allergy). You'll know it because your throat will tighten, your eyes will itch, etc. But if it's cooked, it's no problem.

Raw, it is slightly sweet and generally mild in flavor (with a nice texture, imo).

Cooked, it can be torn into strips that is very texturally similar to chicken or pulled pork.
If you like .dev so much instead of .test, why not use something like subdomain.[public-domain].dev.com for all of your dev use?

It seems silly to continue using .dev, especially when this will now be a public and commonly used TLD. So now, if you're modifying .dev records for a local/private network, and then you or someone on that network attempts to go to a public website that is using the .dev TLD, it might not work, or you'll get a completely unexpected result. Doesn't seem worth that hassle.
Do you have to convert it into an image? What is it about classifiers that require image input? I've always found it very cool that audio compression and image compression end up using similar frequency-space techniques sometimes.
Embarrassing art connoisseurs is roughly equivalent with high treason in that world. The last thing they need is for an actual artist to show they're full of it.

Just like the clothiers didn't like the boy in the story of the Emperor.
Hostile architecture
I’m a vegan.

I don’t really like jackfruit, but I can tell you that I don’t look for meat-equivalent nutrition really. I do seek to eat a healthy balanced diet, but removing meat and dairy means changing the rest of your diet to ensure your body gets all that it needs. If you were to go vegan by replacing meat with meat substitutes, you would not be a happy vegan. However the substitutes can be nice. Yesterday I got a beyond burger at Carl’s Jr. The meal had nothing to do with nutrition, but was about a longing for junk food I have missed.

There’s lots of reasons to eat jackfruit and I believe most vegans are clear that jackfruit cannot simply replace pork to make a healthy vegan diet.
This is simply incorrect. As the person who (led? handled?) the shutdown/archiving, the vast majority of the 'developer' web had gone to github. The handful of active projects were given white glove treatment once we decided to shutter the site.
Can I add my mortgage debt to this please? I want in on the free stuff too!
I agree in the cases where I argue "suppose, then..." But there are instances where I argue "either this is the case, or this is not the case." Unless there are multiple laws of the excluded middle, that's an application of it.

In any case, that was merely an example. The central point I was making doesn't depend on this.
Right, good point, I missed that earlier. Not really spikes. Even the photo at the top of the article sort of shows that. They are sharp protrusions on the surface of the skin of the fruit, but since they are not really hard, you can handle the fruit even with them being there. I've picked up heavy jackfruit a few times and not had any problem of being poked by the "spikes". And they get pretty heavy - I think 45 kg is not uncommon for a single fruit.