skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No student loan should be issued without the university being equally liable to pay it back.
They broke it first, so most articles are similar, but here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/business/payless-shoes-st...
It's a worldwide phenomenon. Bain Capital brought a huge, thriving retail business (Edcon) to its knees in South Africa, after a botched leveraged buy-out:

https://www.biznews.com/sa-investing/2015/07/15/bains-strate...
Huh. The name "Hugging Face" first brought to mind the facehuggers from Alien.
And, since 2013, starting to disproportionately affect the poorest too.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/16/counci...
Sorry I hate to be the kind of person that is just philosophising publicly like this. It's just something that I think about a lot.

I guess the rambling and wandering nature of my thoughts are visible in the writing itself given I was writing without thinking (ironically)
Definitely in the order that they were written.

Afterthought sequels and prequels never fit properly into the original sequences.
If you take a look at the xyY diagram:

> https://ciechanow.ski/images/color_gamut_srgb.svg

the gamut is defined by the triangle connecting the RGB primaries. If you could add a primary at a more pure green, you'd get a bigger triangle and a wider gamut, but still not the entirety of the chromaticity space. If you start adding other components that lie outside that triangle, you start expanding the polygon, but there will always be parts of the diagram it doesn't cover.

In order to encompass the entire chromaticity space, you'd have to have a large (technically infinite) number of components. You can never have a component outside the diagram, because the curved hull is the pure chromaticity of light at each wavelength; light outside the curve doesn't exist, and light below the straight "line of purples" is invisible (UV/IR).

Theoretically you could get much more coverage by adding more components as new types of emitters are developed. This is happening in high-end theatrical lighting, where you can cram a ton of different LEDs into a fixture, but it's not (yet) practical to cram them all into an on-screen pixel.

Things get even more mind-bending when you start illuminating objects with light instead of looking at the light directly, because then there's a benefit to adding components even if they don't expand the gamut. Once you have four or more components, you can make many colors an infinite number of ways (metamers), and they might look absolutely indistinguishable when lighting a white wall, but they'll make skin tones look completely different if you made them by combining just RGB versus, say, amber and blue. That's not really related to your question, but I've just started delving into this area in my day job, and it's exciting and trippy. :)
VE.A2 is probably $500 or $400 at least now
Amazon treats even highly-paid workers poorly. It’s a grinder from the warehouse to the boardroom. As for local businesses, do you think Amazon will hire some local catering company? They own Whole Foods. Go visit the campus in Seattle. Amazon has its own bars, restaurants, stores, etc. Their entire business model is undercutting and assimilating small business owners on terms that only get worse.
That kind of program, with us being in charge of deciding who gets each domain name, would be received extremely poorly. You can just imagine.

Domains would also be much more expensive, as there would need to be human evaluators in the loop for each domain name. The base price would likely need to be at least 10X higher to fund all this.
"My lawyers advise me that I am technically correct, which, legally speaking, is the best kind of correct."
There's what the company reserves the right to do (so you can't win civil tort damages in a suit), and then there's what is acceptable behavior by individual employees. Not the same. The company has the right to peek at data they hold, but most individual employees don't.
There are not enough 'professional jobs' in the United States to pay the total debt service created by the cost structure.

If everyone switched to business and engineering, there would still not be enough jobs to support the educational cost structure.
Boletus erythropus, but eating Boletus with red pores is a bad idea. The venomous species share this feature.

In theory, Is said that venomous boletus boiled are less toxic, but they still have unpleasant effects.
My mentality is to make the website usable without JS for most people (with the reasonable effort of installing FF or Chrome at most), then use as simple and compatible JS as possible if needed. Thus, old-style DOM fiddling isn't the first choice - and if we're talking very old browsers, it was also tricky to get right due to all the incompatibilities.

Why you think something would be broken when a polyfill is used as fallback, I don't know.
That’s nothing when you venture into the world of Korean custom keyboards. ~$500 for the case (usually milled out of quarter-inch thick aluminum with a solid brass weight) and PCB. Then add switches and custom key caps.
Does Docker allow you to enforce user namespaces for all comtainers? I think that avoids the issue.
Maybe it's a separate database, but cloning the code is a terrible idea.
"One mans greenfield project is in a year, another's old code" - proverb 66
Eve, Light Table, Dynamic Land, Luna, Unison and more ...
I'm curious why you want modular parts rather than just designing a board that has what you want? Keyboards are surprisingly easy to design now (as seen in this article), and you can design things that would be completely unreasonable for any modular system.
Well, it seems like you're making an assumption about the 'opportunity cost' of building/operating the apartment building, that it's grown far less than the wages. If your argument (that rental costs are too high) rests on that assumption, seems like it should be addressed and backed up.

I am curious, though, about the artificial constraint you mentioned. Don't know what you're specifically referring to, would like to know more.
While this is true there are very few reasons why a domain registrar will give you a lifetime ban let alone automatically do it for some perceived TOS crime, let alone refuse to tell you what your alleged misdeed was, let alone automatically reject evidence you submit to the contrary and keep your domains. Imagine the liability!?

Meanwhile someone got their Adsense account banned and in those cases Google refunds the allegedly fraudulent revenue to the advertisers and do not pay you the non-fraudulent revenue. The person who got banned went to court over it because it looked like Google schedules these things to maximize how much they could keep, Google fought for four years to conceal where the non-fraudulent revenue went and then settled for $11 million to keep that shrouded in mystery.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/adsense-lawsuit/248135/

Note the nobody who will say what happens to your domains when your account is banned despite relevant Google personnel participating in this page, but they have time to detail how we're covered by ICANN if Google with $106+ billion in savings goes bankrupt in thousands of years...

They designed this awful system exactly the way they wanted it to work and they choose to keep it this way, everyone else should probably not use them for domains or web hosting in case yourself or someone associated with your account is irreversibly judged to have committed a TOS transgression somewhere within their empire.
There isn’t lots of ways to do it; there’s just the one: firewall rules. There just happens to be lots of different types of filewalls.

If you want to get clever then you can enable port knocking but my personal preference is just good old fashioned whitelist of IPs with fail2ban running ready to auto-blacklist any of those IPs that have too many failed login attempts in a given period of time.
Blackface Was Never Harmless
While we're Churchill-bashing, let's not forget his legacy as First Lord of the Admiralty. He had the bright idea to force the Dardanelles by landing at Gallipoli. Utterly futile, terrible loss of life, particularly among the ANZAC corps, no military gain.
Oh that is fun, I was one of the operators at the USC Image Processing Institute who did scanning, ran the systems (initially a the HP2100, then a PDP 11/40, and later a PDP 11/55t. We did lots of tours and we had a number of graduate students working on various issues. One of the things we did was to provide the 512 x 512 set of reference images on 1600BPI magnetic tape to researchers. Each image was stored as a red image, green image, and blue image (8 bits per pixel for 24 bits total). In addition to Lena there were other standard images that involved repeating texture, lots of lines and edges, and variable frequency details. By using the standard images, two algorithms could be compared using their output on the same standard image. This helped researchers in the field compare their work with other published studies.
Brooklyn+Bedding+Coupon+Presidents+Day+Sale
If you have an NFC YubiKey and an Android phone with NFC then the Yubico Authenticator is pretty awesome. You can store your OTP tokens on your YubiKey. Also open source.

https://github.com/Yubico/yubioath-android
$80 Sale (USA and Canada)...cash Paid Every Friday
Google is reportedly hiding behind shell companies for tax breaks and land
I suspect that the psychology of an activist making money via legit video monetization is different from a black-hat SEO scammer.

Really though, you can't point to logical reasons for a mass attack against strangers. Someone mentally unstable enough to do that could be triggered by anything.
If you like I'll post the code. <grin>

Only 35 years ago.

A few lines from the beginning ....

000010* This program is written in NEVADA COBOL .

000020

000030 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000040

000050 PROGRAM-ID. JACKS-DISASSEMBLER.

000080* Version Number 1.0

000100

000110* AUTHOR. simonblack.

000120

000130* INSTALLATION. Giacomo Software, P.O. Box 584,
Hamilton, 3300

000140

000150 DATE-WRITTEN. 29 MARCH 1984.

000160

000170*

000180* THIS PROGRAM PREPARES *

000190* AND DISASSEMBLES INTERMEDIATE PSEUDO-CODE FILES *

000200* INTO 8080 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE. *

000210* *

000220*

000230

000240 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.

000250

000260 CONFIGURATION SECTION.

000270 SOURCE-COMPUTER.

000280 CPZ-48000-SBC.

> wc /a/comp/development-jvs/cobol-150623/crak80.cbl

293 1121 10002 /a/comp/development-jvs/cobol-150623/crak80.cbl

>
A question: is N * $x less than or greater than M * $y, where N is the number of current units for rent, M the proposed number of units (N < M), $x is the current rental price minus the cost of providing those units, and $y is the proposed rental price minus the cost there (presumably, $y < $x).

I'm wondering if the current disfunctional market is economically rational.
> The equilibrium/fair cost of a latte doesn't go up because a few millionaires move into a neighborhood, it might go up because of a barista labor-shortage, a coffee bean-tariff, or other supply-side effect.

In my economics class, I remember drawing a supply curve and a demand curve, and labeling the intersection “equilibrium.” If a millionaire moves into my neighborhood and buys so many lattes on a regular basis that the coffee shops keep running out, it’s a hint that the demand curve has shifted, which has caused the equilibrium price to change.

Since “equilibrium” means “balance,” I can’t see you can find the equilibrium price by looking at only one of supply or demand. What is supply balanced with at equilibrium?
What ABC called "pink slime," USDA now says can be labeled "ground beef"
So let’s legislate a four day work week. The productivity gains to justify it already exist, they’ve existed for decades.
Ask yourself "Do I pay for this Google product?" If the answer is yes, then the product comes with actual support.
Yes, actually it pretty much is.
I didn’t like it, despite waiting a couple of years (I think) for mine to ship.

The lack of Esc is just plain stupid and needlessly “special” for a hackers keyboard, especially with zero space constraints. The keys themselves I’m not a fan of, but that’s because nothing beats the buckling spring keys I’m used to - so not counting that against them. Build quality is great, however.
> Payless is putting more people out work than the entire coal mining industry in the US

Source?
stalin was worse than hitler. caused much more death and misery.
The best part of the deal is usually the cheap dorm room in a great part of town where otherwise you’d have to pay a small fortune as a student. Of course it mostly comes with the obligation to drink heavily... in Germnany most of them have a “Pabst” for relieving purposes during those drinking events
Heh, an old coworker of mine's last name is Secret.
Peterson and Rogan are new kids in the block. Charlene Anderson for example has been on it for 20 years.

There is nothing absurd about this diet if it is enabling people to successfully manage their diseases (meatheals.com). You should respect and appreciate that fact instead of getting mad about it.

Diet is not religion. It is simply a tool and for some can be a lifestyle.
You could pause MySpace audio the same way you can skip a YouTube intro. That didn't both me back then, of course you stop noticing things when you get used to them.
it's a tradeoff between more keypresses vs. more finger/arm movement; also the topic is pretty contentious and nobody will give you an unbiased answer. My biased opinion is that layer-based boards without thumb keys are horrible, something like the Atreus is exclusively better than the Planck.

The Planck was designed to be small, not ergonomic. The popularity of the layout is (imho) due to good market timing, low cost, competent business operation, and good electronics design work.
OP, have you taken a look at alternate day total body workout splits, instead of working out every day ?

Something like this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDWyqnGhmWY

Maybe you want to ask yourself what you are working out for. If working out is actively eating into the reason that you are working out for, then I hope you can see the damage or at least the redundancy caused by extra workouts.

Also, you could take a look at some workout-esque hobbies. Bouldering has become very popular recently. Maybe try playing a sport that is high intensity (like squash or swimming)
Don't forget VAT is double. Property tax is higher. Employment tax (paid by employer, not part of gross pay) is a lot higher.

I always feel like tax should be measured in "if my employer pays 100 extra, how much more can I give another company for a good/service".

I don't know about US but for Germany the answer is between 25 and 40 depending on how low your income is and what your family situation is.
How those weird Animorphs book covers were made
I like Sargent, and have seen a lot of his major works in person. I suppose I’m using a pretty high threshold for “great”, which I’d reserve for the top tier. My point was that the artistic worth of a painting is not tightly correlated to the technical skill of its painter. Good enough is usually all that’s needed.
I agree - I would much rather a startup subsidy being based on a measurable metric rather than a time limit. e.g. A marketing mailing app being based on number of emails being sent, or a hosting provider basing it on the CPU units.

That way, a startup won't get penalised for putting an MVP out there to get kick started, and the overall infrastructure costs to the provider isn't that high.

I think it is also fairer in situations where one startup may skyrocket to profitability in 3 months as opposed to another that takes 3 years to start paying the bills.

I think AWS is sort of on the right track with their free tier pricing, and it would be nice to see others adopt the same strategy.

(Though I think AWS fails in their startup credits rationale - as far as I can see, they only offer that to funded startups.)
He's got a 9V battery-sized altimeter of his own design: https://bps.space/arc/
> Texas A&M for example, makes several hundred million per year from their sports.

A few schools earn direct profits of about $10 million per year from their athletic budgets. Texas A&M's increased revenue is related to stadium renovations.

http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/#
GCP has a regular small startup program that doesn’t require that you have VC funding or specific accelerator backing. It isn’t nearly as much, but I got $1000 on top of the initial $300 for my bootstrap.
I would go a step further and say charity, as a Western institution, is generally misunderstood. There is an economist, Bill Easterly, who has written extensively about what much of Western aid/charity is actually accomplishing, and it's often not charity. You have the Red Cross losing half a billion in charitable donations and this kind of thing never makes front-page news(1).

Now not 100% of charity is bad, but it is my opinion that if someone is aware of such things noted above, this article reads like a manipulative, deliberate hit-piece against these old-money groups, probably for some political reason.

1-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15326335
I’m interested in this space and the technical aspects. However, can someone enlighten me as to specific problems these models solve? Any real world implementations? Eg we had this problem, we used this tool, these are the outcomes?
Corporations are groups of people, policies, and technologies. Of these, people are the hardest to work with.
We hit an eye-watering price point with them and Intercom was very willing to work with us on a much more reasonable fixed price point with an annual commitment.
Ask HN: Is MD5 reliable for anything other than checksum?
Google has a track record of being capricious with bans, whereas other companies do not.
Dan Carlin points out (in his current podcast series "Supernova in the East") that while the US was largely against going to war, it supported the sanctions against Japan (due to their behavior in China). Those sanctions are why Japan went to war.
If the use of gas is so reasonable, one wonders why he only supports using it against "uncivilized tribes".
My daughter will be going to a small private school in a year; the total cost of tuition is around $7K. She'll be living at home since the school is within driving distance, and working summers to help pay for tuition and expenses. $30K for a BA is fine. Paying outrageous amounts to party on a student loan is what's nuts.
Colleges and universities might start charging something more reasonable once they see that their students can't take out such large loans. Why exactly does it cost tens of thousands of dollars to deliver a liberal arts education anyway?

Otherwise, community colleges prepare students to transfer into year 3 of a 4-year college, at a fraction of the cost. This is a viable option for students who can't afford the full 4-year experience.
By your strange logic contractors and freelancers would automatically be lying as well.
> You can eat raw potatoes.

If you can get them down, presumably.
Work less and get outside more. Whatever it is your job entails, it's simply not important nor urgent enough to deprive yourself of experiencing a greater variety of living.

Death, alone or accompanied, is inherently irrelevant. That you're even thinking about it suggests you're aware on some level that this pattern isn't a good use of your life.

If you're going to the gym that often, you must be in great physical shape. Go climb a mountain, working at computers endlessly is for suckers.
Os-Tutorial: How to Create an OS from Scratch
>I wonder what scale you would need to get the rocket into space/orbit?

There's a great "what if" xkcd about using solid fuel model rocket engines (the same type used in BPS.space's rockets) to get to space and orbit.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/24/

The summary is that you may be able to use a stupendously large number of them to get to space, but orbit is physically impossible. You'll need a different propulsion method.

The smallest rocket that has ever carried a payload to orbit is the SS-520. It's ~30 feet tall, ~2 feet in diameter and weighs ~5,700 pounds. It set the record in February 2018, so it's a pretty recent record.
I believe his original plan was to force the passage using naval firepower; the landings were a compromise with the Navy, who didn't want to lose all their old battleships.
And my point is that trying to start a company as a FAANG-level engineer is very often not worth the opportunity cost unless you're receiving certain signals (YC, hockey-stick trajectory).

Most millionaires aren't entrepreneurs. As a world-class engineer, you can become a millionaire by working for 5 years at Google/finance/big-4 with very little risk. And giving that up to start your own business is really only worth it for founding a breakout trajectory/unicorn startup. People tend to bias themselves and their abilities, but they need to take a realistic look at the profiles of those successful unicorn founders and use that as a yardstick to evaluate their own potential to avoid wasting their time and money.

And I agree with you that tech is necessary but not sufficient for starting a successful unicorn (the line between "tech" and what you describe as "product innovation" is very blurry). This is Hacker News, after all. Tech-focused investments is their thesis.
I guess beating up on Churchill is the latest in the "Let's oversimplify history and find some new villains" game.

Fair enough. Times change.

A related article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/14/winsto...
They are secret in that you could live your life and career without encountering them if you never looked, despite them being around you and running things, should you choose to look.
This is a super intriguing comment. Could you say more about the parties? I'm imagining a bunch of your Twitter followers descending from everywhere on Munich or something into a warehouse that you rent out.
It may be worldwide, but it’s the same handful of players behind it all. I thought there were some bills in the works to outlaw leveraged buyouts in the USA?
Expecting a 17 year old to make life long decisions is nuts, knowing what we do about brain development in young adults. If my daughter wants to study dolphin therapy, you bet I'm going to push her in a direction...
Elder Financial Fraud: What's the Fix?
Hey everyone! Seniors experienced $37B in financial fraud last year alone. Wow, now that is a problem. It is very clear they are an underserved population that is exceptionally vulnerable. I'm trying to figure out how to improve everyone's situation (they experience less fraud, adult child less stressed when helping manage remotely, preventative stops to disallow fraud, etc). I'd be very appreciate if you filled out this survey quickly for some feedback and to help me better form a product idea :)

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Disclosure:I am from Kerala so probably a bit biased in favor.

Jackfruit can be used to make jam, dried chips, curries and a bunch of other things that my limited vocabulary restricts me from mentioning. Ofcourse ripe jack fruit is delicious by itself.

To top this, the seed of jackfruit is also used for preparing varios curries. This fruit has a potential that is yet to be tapped to its fullest.
When people say they don't believe something (despite available facts) it could also mean that those facts run contradictory to what they already believe.
> Scandinavians have died in military operations in Afghanistan, but you never hear about it

"Scandinavians" is in this case seems deliberately vague. It's certainly covered in Norwegian media, can't speak to wherever you're from.
That seems unlikely.

Coal mining: ~50,000 jobs (per BLS, described here: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jun...)

Payless globally: ~18,000 jobs (and international stores are not closing, per https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/15/business/payless-closing-stor...)