skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of this changes your point, but to add to it:

- they can leave change professions and apply to law, medical, dental, or nursing school.

- they can save up, quit their job, and travel around the country, try to write a novel, paint, play music, or become a surf bum.

- they can leave the tech industry and open their own flower, hot dog, crepe stand, film production company, or record label.

- I've heard there are other things free people also do (that Silicon Valley employers consider less valuable than writing code in a giant open office at a wage the employers have decided is "fair"), but I forget them all right now.

In short, they can do any of those things that people who are allowed to participate in free labor markets are allowed to do.

Silicon Valley asked the labor market what it would take to get highly competent and intelligent people with freedom to become developers in the valley rather than doing any of those things you or I mentioned above, and the market answered.

Silicon Valley didn't like the answer, so they had the government ask again for them. The government responded by creating a shadow immigration system under which high tech employers control the circumstances under which would-be immigrants are allowed to come to the US and the conditions under which they would be allowed to remain.

That they would defend this as "skilled immigration", or think there is any pro-immigrant or libertarian argument for it, is bewildering to me.

It's hardly the most egregious installment in the US's grim history of allowing employers to control a workers right to be in the US, but it's still a shame we haven't learned that workers (who we might want to refer to as "people") should have the freedom to chose who they will marry, where they will work, and what they will do, in response to their own interests and market signals.
Not very equitable of them. You get in line in order of wealth.
Each filter comes from its own central location curated as seen fit by its owner, but there can be any number of filters
distributed across the net. Each will win subscribers based on their reputation.

Again, this has all been tested in the wild. It works just fine for ad filtering today.
In what world would vaping devices not be sold, but cigarettes?
> The private market does a great job of evaluating risk

Like it did in 2007? One in a million voices might have even thought to bring up how spoiled the housing loan market was, but the markets kept singing the tune of growth until hundred year old banks were out of business from loan defaults. That was the government pushing bad loan policy on private banks who lopped them up like candy from a free money fountain until everyone involved got a taste of reality.

Private industry easily gets caught in its own deliriums in pursuit of endless profit.
How am I going to get my grandma to use gopher? Solve that, then you'll have my support.
For some reason, when the topic of veganism comes up, people act like everyone is otherwise incidentally healthy due to their omnivore diet when that's obviously not the case. And that somehow making a conscious decision about what you eat for once puts you at risk for being less healthy.

Meanwhile, our foods are fortified with things like calcium and vitamin D because people otherwise don't get enough. In a nation where we all certainly eat enough. Maybe it's indeed time to drop the idea that we don't have to think about what we eat.
Have you ever made a for loop using var only to have the variable point to the last value in the iteration ? And had to make a closure using forEach, function or self calling function ? With let you do not have to do that as a new variable is created for each iteration. Instead or reassigned when you use var.
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Yep, we are pretty hosed.
Nevertheless there are other options, such as calling a friend, taking the bus, walking, etc. It's not clear that Uber resulted in people who would otherwise have been drunk drivers instead calling a cab. People who drunk drive presumably don't arrive at that choice because of a minor inconvenience.
Student debt a harsh math lesson for US graduates as wages lag
Ohh man, that is so helpful. Thanks a lot.
Retrieving function arguments while unwinding the stack
Ask HN: Non tech companies that are transparent?
In tech we have several active companies (eg Buffer) that are quite transparent when it comes to revenues, costs, underlying processes etc

Does that exist in other industries, eg food etc? Or is it a peculiarity to software / tech
Was the code released?
Hmm, I didn't realize that federal loans were the overwhelming majority of the student loans (I guess the pseudo-governmental status of Sallie Mae and getting federal loans serviced by banks was a bit confusing). That does complicate matters, and suggests that universities are enjoying the government guarantee of funding to increase costs. Making them dischargeable in bankruptcy would mean the programs would have to change.
I think that the difficulty is future adverse selection. Four years after loan is made, we know whether or not the student graduated and got a good job. There is now a student loan refi market, and the risk of someone who now has a degree and a job is much lower. Almost everyone who graduates and finds a job will refi. The loan therefore has to be priced for college dropouts, because those are the only people who won't refi.
Don’t mean to sound defensive (I’m not American), and I mostly agree with you.

But, from a non-European perspective, Europe doesn’t seem to be doing well? It seems the EU is slowly disintegrating, and the monetary union isn’t working. Also the political landscape seems to be in turmoil as well.
Adventures in North Korean Capitalism
>I yearn for a future where knowledge is distributed in a practical, organizied way such as via Gopher or similar, along with tapping the full potential of email as a one-to-many, many-to-many, and many-to-one communications medium where data is distributed and address ownership is maintained.

We already have that, it's called the World Wide Web.

You seem to be under the impression that the popularity of the web is due to centralization by and commercialization by corporate interests, but that isn't the case. It's still entirely feasible to distribute knowledge in a "practical, organized way" using HTML and HTTP, and people do use it for things besides the three social media sites people now mistakenly believe comprise the entire web.
I guess even in November, this was probably a stretchy decision for Amazon to have 2 HQ2s and one in NYC to begin with, hence not a surprise it changes decision once it sensed more friction politically and the overall economy trend is great since Nov anyway.
Maybe make them dischargeable 10 years after graduation/disbursement? This might help avoid people from planning to declare bankruptcy immediately out of college to get rid of the debt, and 10 years later most people would have some assets to go after during bankruptcy proceedings

The upside is that lenders would still have to consider whether the borrower is actually likely to be able to pay back their loan
google.com isn't a public place, it also isn't a particularly valuable plot of "land" aside the private goliath built upon it.

The fact people go to Google gives them their power to extort business for ranking. But thats because Google remains valuable - people use it because it works, or at least because of inertia that nothing is remotely better yet, and so long as people still value the search companies can do the cost benefit analysis to know if paying the rent is worth it.

And its fortunate the only people who really care about search ranking are those trying to make money off it. There are a lot more egregious crimes being committed in the privacy space by Alphabet or by rent seekers across the economy than a business making money as a parasite off other businesses trying to make money.
Let it burn down. No one should pay back their student loan debt. Seriously, just stop. This is a scheme in which they've fucked over a large portion of the population with the skyrocketing prices of education. Further, this education is the regularly accepted means of increasing your production. Society says you have to do this, and then continuously increases the price, without reason.

The gist of this is; some shithead, many years ago decided to increase his bottom lines by fucking with future generations and our ability to output... when they started this whole fucking problem, and you know what? Let it burn to the ground.

You know who's not gonna lose a bunch of money? The people in student debt, we already fucking have.
Something you should keep in mind is that companies like Amazon are all well aware of the anecdote about Target and teenage pregnancies. And the lesson they learned from that story is they should conceal from the user the full extent of what they know about that user, to avoid creeping people out.

If you receive 10 product recommendations, perhaps only one of them is actually targeted with a very high degree of confidence and the other 9 are basically noise added to deliberately deceive you, to lead you to believe Amazon knows less about you than they really do.
You made a fully general argument against anything that Google touches.

This isn't useful, because everyone knows that argument already. I'd rather know what Google's track record is specifically having to do with DNS (or fundamental Internet infrastructure).
They do have power here, all they need to do is not secretly partner with an oppressive regime to assist them with censoring the Internet. That's quite easy to do, hell, I'm doing it right now...

All you've done is framed the situation in a way that makes it seem like Google isn't responsible for it's own actions.
Having lots of people take up e-cigarettes is not a bad thing if they are moving away from smoking tobacco. On the other hand, if lots of teenagers take up e-cigarettes (with nicotine) then that is a public health disaster; and will cost millions of lives.
So there could be an actual difference in health effects in different countries, which would be a reasonable basis for the difference in perception.

Note that the UK has active public health campaigns to quit smoking [0] and tougher laws on advertising than some parts of the world [1]. Having said that, an awful lot of UK teenagers have smoked e-cigarettes[2], so perhaps we're just complacent.

[0] https://www.nhs.uk/smokefree/help-and-advice/e-cigarettes

[1] https://www.asa.org.uk/advice-online/electronic-cigarettes.h...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38978119/santa-claus-v...

[2] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
2017: 16 to 24 year olds: 32% had experimented, 17% had previously smoked e-cigs, 5% were current users.

Edit: I forgot to add that there are different limits on nicotine content.
I don't see how that relates. Maybe you see something I don't?
I don't think the video mentioned anything about an electron microscope.

Jon Larsen is basically an amateur scientist that figured out what micrometeorites would look like by a process of elimination. Clearly a regular microscope is sufficient for this.

The nice images from Jan Kihle are due to a camera/microscope system that takes a snap shot at different focuses to make a composite picture. It wouldn't be an electron microscope.

This is clearly within the range of amateurs if you have a microscope & the book and just get good at eliminating unlikely samples.
Yeah it's super easy to move your family to the other side of the country and lose all your friends and what not. Not a hard decision at all
Then how did you get an Rx?
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Representation of Events in Nerve Nets and Finite Automata (1951) [pdf]
> The only people who are against unions are those who are trained to be.

It hurts your credibility to fail to acknowledge any legitimate critiques.
Consider that it takes anywhere from 6 to 20 pounds of feed to get a pound of beef. That's way more resources used, environmental harm done and creatures killed to produce meat.
Welcome to the Domain Name System?
Most Europeans do not associate themselves with the EU but rather with their nation state. Also - not all Europeans are in the EU to start with.
Thats made up, but ok.
On the other hand, SSH gives you just that if you verify the fingerprint which is not mentioned in the guide. MITM-proof channel is needed if one gains any kind of shell access because then public key substitution can happen in various ways, even without the user him/herself explicitly editing the file. Furthermore, if one allows MITM when accessing shell, substituting the public key is just one of very serious security problems.
I agree that taking out $200k+ for an undergrad degree is crazy. But what I paid at a public edu was completely reasonable and worth it in my opinion.
For public comments, this is correct. For mentoring (in Mentored Mode) you will receive comments about the quality of code.
What would be the point?

Markdown is a textual format intended to result in HTML anyway, and it includes the entirety of HTML already in its spec.
I think part of the reason that the US is hesitant to take approaches that constrain universities' ability to operate based on other countries' actions is that no country has as many universities of as high quality as the US does, to the massive benefit of both the country and the world.

There's undoubtedly tons of waste in universities' functioning, but I don't blame policymakers for treading lightly when it comes to constraining their operations in any significant way for fear of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, as opposed to simply the baseline ideological skew towards less direct regulation of businesses.
DuckDuckGo should implement that, or at least put a privacy indicator.
It's relatively small modification of BERT with multi-task fine-tuning and slightly different output heads. It should be easy for any NLP researcher to replicate.
"Microsoft will release the code and pre-trained models.", though there is no pointer to where the release will happen. Training gargantuan language models is getting quite expensive, so releasing code + pre-trained models is significant.

The architecture is a derivation of PyTorch BERT [0], with an MTL loss function on top.

[0] https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-pretrained-BERT
I agree the title can mislead someone to think it's easy but after watching the video I think it's fair to say the title is accurate. Micro meteorites are in fact everywhere and they indeed describe a way to find them. The fact they didn't succeed in finding one is shadowed by the quality of the overall content.
This is immediately where I jumped to as well. A little too close to missile guidance if you ask me... likely to be illegal.
It works for our president, maybe the government will learn something when not only the wealthy can get away with it.
Pay people to use Gopher? Maybe state funded.
Also a member of the first group and I disagree with the conclusion. I'd be very happy to see all current student debt forgiven and subsidies to university programs improved. Good on you, though, for getting through an education without debt. That's a real accomplishment. There are for sure a good number of people who get an education for a viable career and wind up with loans that spiral out of control, especially in a country with spotty healthcare or perhaps because they exited school during the Great Recession and got stuck in intern-hell. Point being, there's a good number of folks with student loan debt they can't easily manage who made all the right decisions but got a bad break somewhere. Also, this doesn't even consider people who do civically valuable work but having extremely low earning potential.

Are there some people who took out great quantities of loans with no concern for their future? Absolutely. Should such people be hounded by this lack of foresight at the age of 19 into their old age? I'd argue no. Even if you can't find sympathy for the indebted, I'd also argue that very few societies in history have managed to stay cohesive with a large, indebted underclass, let alone prosperous and achieving their potential.
I was wondering if Net News / NNTP / Usenet could address some of the distributed use cases people are trying to throw at blockchain?
Or “Lord of the Flies”?
> <SUPPORT_PERSON>12:54 PM Hi you said that the link https://domains.google/tld/dev/ doesn't work on Safari?

Where exactly do you think that came from? Kindly note the words "you said".

It's almost as if there was a "please tell us what you're asking about" field that you fill in before being connected to a chat agent or something.
The point is anyone can encrypt to your public key, thus, anyone could create a "backup". They won't be able to decrypt it, only you, but still having a backup that you think was created by you but wasn't can be problematic.
As an omnivore I quite like the fake pulled "pork" made from green jackfruit. It reminds me of the texture of artichoke hearts, whereas lots of the new fake meats fall into the uncanny valley.
It's bold of the author to admit that they are carefully tracking and monitoring everyone using this site to create and enhance profiles on them, particularly given the context of the article.
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A hobby grade throttling and gimbaling rocket engine, with free documentation and open source guidance software sounds like an absolute proliferation nightmare scenario.
Yeah...honestly student loans make the future feel bleak and pointless anyway. The amount of interest that gets put on every month makes paying it back fucking pointless as it is. Unless I like starving and not paying rent so I can do more than just stop the loan from getting bigger while paying it.

Meh...I figure maybe society will just collapse at some point and it won't matter anyway. Either that or a bunch of people are going to start going crazy because of this and things will get interesting.
certainly exciting!
That seems like a silly reason to have a restricted subset of HTML. Just show that icon on existing HTML pages which don't include third party content.
I Ran Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi So You Don't Have To
Certainly affection for things you have a personal connection to is different. For most of us this applies to certain foods, and certain paintings, books, too.

Maybe my point is that it's not just "whatever buildings were most cost effective to make" -- those I agree come in many flavors. But Penn station was nothing like that. It was a grand and very expensive statement of confidence, permanence, and belief in the virtue of public space. Of the idea that the plebs catching the train would notice and appreciate the classical features. There were many many such statements made at that time.
Recent comments about regulation lead me to believe it is possible. The government has already pushed to remove Juul from gas stations while leaving cigarettes. Maybe it is far fetched to say this approach could be expanded but I’m not so sure anymore.
8 hours of lectures? Then more time on computer for homework/project work?
This is an excellent description. Thank you. I’ve been a consumer of these in an audio capacity (CSound digital audio synthesis[0]), but haven’t seen as simple and lucid a description as this.

[0] http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/SigmodStandard.html
>Water in the lungs is never good.

Should I stop showering and going in steam rooms too?
There’s also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_van_Meegeren, who initially wasn’t trialed for forgery, but for aiding and abetting with the nazis, selling the Vermeer’s he ‘found’ to Hermann Göring.

His defense (facing, potentially, a death penalty) that the painting was a forgery was only believed after he had shown how to paint a ‘Vermeer’.
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True, but if you're eating raw spinach you need something like nine cups to get your RDA (assuming RDA of 8mg/day, and about 3 cups per 100g). Females 19-50 are told to eat 2x that; pregnant females 3x (27mg/day(!), source: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iron-HealthProfessional/).

If you cook it, then your 300g spinach reduces to something like one and a half cups, but you have to be careful to not lose water-soluble iron to your cooking method. Also, you have to like the texture of wilted spinach.

If you're used to eating half-cup sides of spinach, making spinach your primary iron source is a fairly major change to how you eat.
I’m curious about the juxtaposition of the indebting of young people and the rich gaining in wealth and power. Is there a causal linkage between student loan debt and the rich getting richer? It’s true that we could levy higher taxes on the rich to pay for college, but as others have pointed out, part of the problem of spiraling costs is the heavy governmental subsidies. Or am I missing the point on how these two things go together?
Internet order from outside the US.
Economics After Neoliberalism
It was my impression (as an American) that the only potato safe to eat raw is nagaimo.
I always like to refer to Ian Hickson's Requirements for Replacing the Web [0] when this topic comes up. They seems to encapsulate well the social, technological and economic dynamics required when discussing replacing the Web. However, few attempts (Crockford's Seif Project [2], MS's Project Atlantis and Project Gazelle [2][3][4][5]) seemed have to heed this wisdom.

[0] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8zGGJQ...

[1] http://seif.place/

[2] https://youtu.be/1uflg7LDmzI

[3] https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/publications/atlantis-robus...

[4] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

[5] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/browser-not-br...
This is a conversation about education. The EU, with all its faults, is leaps and bounds ahead of the US in the democratization of education, even though the US was the nation that pioneered the field in the first place. Goes to show how extreme the whole political spectrum of the US has gotten.
Go to a public bulletin board at a university sidewalk and it’s all ads. Why would twitter not become the same?
If you dig up archives of Armadillo Aerospace - John Carmack's rocket company - you'll see videos of smallish rockets doing just that. "Smallish" as in "you can lift one from the ground, fueled, with your hands... perhaps".
The problem is that for _many_ of jobs that 'require' a degree is they're not necessary at ALL! A good high school education is good enough for the vast majority of the jobs outside of STEM. Now we have diploma inflation because it makes them 'more productive'.

In an ideal world you world put them in a short boot camp to make sure they up to snuff for the job but atlas you have the gatekeeping going on with universities. I personally can't wait for the education bubble to pop.
Yes, it's extremely creepy. The only information I want from a company is an order confirmation and invoice, follow-up information on a specific purchase, in case of product recalls, or direct replies to specific requests I have sent them.

Every other initiation of information from a company is invasive, creepy and unacceptable.
To summarize the join-depth problem as you describe, it is because other solutions use hash partitioning instead of range partitioning to distribute data?

i.e. if all S/P/O were stored in sorted order such that a given S/P/O were on one machine, you no longer have to do broadcasts and can instead issue queries to just the machines holding that range of the keyspace. Since most "scalable" systems use hash partitioning, they have to broadcast, whereas dgraph uses something more like range partitioning.

Or is this too simplistic of an explanation?
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You're still punting the ethical question to a question of law. If someone is on your property and a car off the street swerves into your property and kills them surely you wouldn't be liable... or let's say a meteor hits your guest. Surely there is a limit to where liability kicks in. Where should that limit be and why