skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what ignoring evidence looks like. The study is very clear on how they gathered their data and how it was analyzed.
Compare also to OpenAI’s recent post on their own NLP work.

https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/
I lived in Cambridge for 5 years in the 1980s. My English must be skewed to the American variety by now, but the result was quite accurate.
This would be beautiful to see. Considering the scope of the population affected, there would be little to no recourse if everybody collectively decided to stop paying at the same time.

If you trash every millennials credit score, the scores would become worthless.
"ICANN requires all registrars and gTLD registries to contract with a data escrow provider in order to safeguard registrants ... in case of registry or registrar failure, accreditation termination, or accreditation relapse without renewal." Basically if Google screws up then ICANN will give the data to someone competent who will take over the domain. https://icannwiki.org/Data_Escrow
I did a hackday project where I wrote a script that converted our intranet at work into a gopher site. Before I started, I was really enthused about it, but once I started, it just became evident how much a kludge these early protocols were.

Its the COBOL of page description languages. Its truly horrible, its not like HTML was just this minor improvement, its a complete conceptual shift. GOPHER is just a tab delimitated file, so excel is the best editor for it.

The first character is the type of thing, it can be a submenu (1), a text doc(0), a gif (g), an image (I), a binary file (b), a bin-hex file (4) or it can tell you the name of a mirror server so you can load balance?? (+).

How do you take form input like a a street address? You can't, its one way data transfer.
Compare and contrast whitehouse.gov and whitehouse.com
Actually, I don't have a degree. That's sort of my point. It's very possible to just enter the labor market and make money if you work hard and smart. I'm a developer but I know plenty of people I grew up with who went on to be: military people, plumbers, cops...

> 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.

I don't think it's ever the right decision to take out a massive amount of debt. Even to study something you love. You can't fight against the real world economics of that decision. I saw the option to get what I considered to be a lifetime's worth of debt and looked for alternatives. Lots of people who come from lower class backgrounds do the same.

I think it's going to be very hard to get those people on board with paying off other people's student debt.
The nature of this problem (that companies are able to track you) is not so much a technological problem, but an economical one. Even if gopher were the only alternative back then, it would have evolved just as HTML/HTTP did to support ads and tracking.

All a content provider that doesn't want to serve ads and tracking has to do is not implement it. While content creators are still bound to whatever their publishing platform chooses to do (e.g. any content on Medium is subject to Medium's tracking practices), using an inferior technology is simply not a realistic solution. This is essentially a human issue, technology has little to do with it.

You want to enable ad-free, tracking-free mass publishing? Provide a free publishing platform. The catch? Someone has to pay for it.

You don't want to be tracked? Disable javascript. Some sites stopped working? Oh yeah, tracking you is how they pay the cost (nominal or economical) for serving you content.

I would see merit however, in a search engine that allowed filtering for non-javascript friendly content.
Paywall bypass: http://archive.is/BiSPt
"Is the KKK going to search through a marketing database to find out where black people live, or are they going to just drive around the neighborhood and see which houses black people go into?"

You're assuming that every "black" person can be identified by what they look like. To many racists, however, one's ancestry matters a lot, so if one happened to have too many (or maybe any) black ancestors, then they would consider you black (or at least "non-white"), no matter what you look like.

Take a look at the elaborate Nuremberg Laws[1], which decreed who was or was not legally considered a Jew. This was done based on ancestry as well as religious affiliation. It was done with 1930's and 40's paper records and technology, but could be done much more efficiently with the computers and digital records of today.

Incidentally, the Nazis' views on race were greatly influenced by Eugenics movement in America and groups like the KKK.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws
I answered questions and regularly got a heatmap that put me in the south/southwest(of London) which was reasonably accurate, but the final result had a heatmap for Devon and Cornwall - and Lincoln? Bizzare.

I spent the first 10 years of my life in Swindon, then moved to Hampshire until late teens - I have a strong Home Counties accent but for some reason the test goes haywire for Cornish inflections.
> So, just having the detector, maybe a second away, collapses the wave function? My guess is that (...)

This gets to to crux of the issue the author (and others in contemporary physics, Hawking included for that matter) was raising. We can conjecture, via theoretical physics, a whole slew of possible models of the universe that combine general relativity and quantum mechanics. But, there is a lack of experimental evidence (or interpretation of existing results) to resolve the ongoing "debates". And there hasn't been any real progress, in that respect, in the past 80 years.

We need to test the edge cases of both theories as best we know how. For example, tunnel to the center of the earth (or another planet?) and verify our existing models in the gravity well, maybe repeat the double-slit experiment remotely while we're there. I'd say a task much more difficult, engineering-wise, then flying a human being to another planet and back.
I not sure I get the point other than very cool footage.

It shot itself in the foot, but in space, not hard is it once you get to space? I guess the extendable test arm is hard tech, but not relevant to the actual mission.

The hard bit is getting aligned with a different object and paying the money(fuel) to do that?
Who do you think decided that students need debt? And that some of the richest economies in the world "can't afford" to educate their citizens without it?
I guess I just don't like multi-billion dollar companies coming in and dictating that I change my workflow for their cash grabs.
>No one should pay back their student loan debt. Seriously, just stop.

Sorry. But you took a debt, you pay it back. Integrity isn’t outdated.

I agree that the idea and industry behind “13th grade” is dumb. Obviously not every kid should be encouraged to take on debt to go to college. But “stop paying your debts” is a bad message imo.
Also non-American and non-European here. My impression is that the EU is getting itself into a huge mess mainly due to abused good intentions taking in immigrants and as a byproduct of the GFC and Middle East’s proxy American x Russian war.

While the Americans seem to not be operating as a democracy for a while and are instead a Corporocracy. It became fairly obvious after the GFC. The three “super powers” in the world are not democracies.
> Finally, seems like I remember tech. on the East Coast was always a losing deal because of unions, taxes, and red tape. Isn't that why silicon valley started in the first place?

There's a strain of thought that says that part of the reason tech is able to grow so wildly and create so much value is that it's too new to have been fully integrated into the wider, corrupt system of having profits from innovation regulated away and profits from regulatory capture built up. As you point out, California has historically been a refuge from things like this:
Its distance from the historical seats of institutional power on the east coast (and the cultures of corruption that grew out of them) has provided an alternative for industries like Hollywood, Silicon Valley, etc. I don't entirely know how I feel about this theory, but it's certainly self-consistent.

Obviously, California isn't magically immune to the rent-seeking BS that sunk its hooks into other regions of the country a century ago, and as it becomes a more clearly dominant part of the economy, this is probably a temporary state of affair (anyone who's been in tech for longer than a decade has noticed how the rest of society suddenly woke up and went "oh shit, there's a lot of money over there, better start paying attention"; you can still find people throughout the industry with oldschool tech culture and values, but at least IME they're drowned out by the recent entrants chasing the money)
"We have removed this article as it has been understood in a way that doesn’t reflect the Commission’s position."

Interesting development, especially because the article was most likely NOT misunderstood. Also, gaslighting is a pretty common technique to confuse ordinary citizens these days (gaslighting as in "you people completely misunderstood what we are trying to say!").
The web of the 90s is alive on tor. On tor the idea of running third party executable code in the age of spectre is (properly) seen as absurd. We just need to bring back webrings and we'll be set.

Since it's on tor there's no need for evil centralization for DoS protection since it's baked into the protocol. Additionally your onion vanity name you brute forced cannot simply be taken away from you if there's political or social pressure on your registrar or above.

No, we don't need gopher. We need people to stop running third party code like it's some normal thing. We need devs to stop making websites that don't render unless you run their code.

It's really not that hard to run a hidden service. No harder than running a webserver. And everyone's home connections are fast enough now.
Yes, or, if you want to go even further, introduce a special bankruptcy after X years, just for tuition debts. Which is effectively the idea of the IBR (income-based repayment) scheme, as I understand it (I'm not US-American).
Is it weird I can't find anything on a Microsoft domain about this? Why does only Synced Review have this news?
It loads right away on Firefox! Unfortunately it also immediately loads a full-page ad that obscures all of the page's content to beg for money before I have even had a full second to look at the page.
I really enjoyed this video (and the null result is honest). Welcomes good amateur science video!
Does that have a sensibly working resolver?

In my haphazard experience, the networks that block access to UDP port 53 are more than likely to have gelded broken name servers that e.g. serve empty NXERROR results for anything but A/TXT, and receptionists that say, "uh, let me check" and then check that their browser can open the google home page. (Insert invectives here.)

I've seen be fixed. Once. One meeting I attended started with a quite broken network, but it was an IETF meeting, and the IETF tools team reconfigured the AP channel layout, the DHCP server and the caching name server at that hotel and after that it was fine.
Unless this is literally your first time talking about something in the abstract, you should know that comments like the above are referring to stochastic shifts in behavior across an entire population. Unless you have an argument that labor never moves for some reason, this is an exceedingly stupid response.
You're missing two:

https://bestmotherfucking.website

https://evenbettermotherfucking.website
Polyaniline
Yep you're right! The article I read confused the total funding for Earth science last year ($6.2B) for the total increase this year. Edited my comment to reflect the change.
No relief in sight for taxpayers denied deductions for state and local taxes
> I feel like my whole life is centered around work. Even though I work a (what is considered) reasonable 40-hour work-week, I feel like too much of time is taken away from me. Not only is it actually being in the office but commuting too. My morning are devoted to getting ready for work: dressing up, packing up a lunch and so on.

As someone who also works a reasonable 40-hour a week job, I cannot emphasize enough how much of a difference working remote has made.

I used to commute an hour each direction in the DC area, and (like the author) spent time preparing meals, getting dressed, etc. I have since moved to the NC area to work remote, and quality of life improvement is incredible:

- I can get to work immediately with no commute, and when I'm done, I don't have to get in a car to get home.

- Lunch break involves making a healthy lunch in my own kitchen, then reading a book while I eat in the comfort of my own home.

- I am a coffee enthusiast, and I love being able to make a french press, pour-over, or cold brew right in my kitchen.

- Crappy weather and accidents on the roads no longer have any effect on my workday.

- I get the exact office setup I want.

- I can go work at a coffee shop, an outdoor park, or even at the beach (all of which I have done), if I want a change of scenery.

WRT to the central point: I hate the _concept_ of living for the weekend, and have taken intentional and proactive steps to ensure that I don't fall into that trap.

Just a few examples:

- Get up early, and make time for what matters. I like to work out in the mornings, and also make sure to do any hobbies or side projects during this time, as my brain is fresh.

- Make yourself stop working at the appropriate time. This will differ depending on your job and your personal preference, but I draw a line in the sand and do not let myself work any later than 6 PM. My personal time is very important to me, and even though I love my job, I will never choose it over my personal time.

- Make sure to do things you like during the week, too. This really just involves not allowing yourself to believe that you can only make time for yourself on the weekends. Sometimes I'll get up early and meet someone for breakfast at a restaurant, sometimes I'll do a fun hobby in the evening, like rock climbing. If your job is flexible enough you could even step away for a quick break during the day to do something outside, like bicycling or kayaking, if that's your thing.

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Your Hollywood origin story is a myth. Many of the first companies out there were Edison's. https://np.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5ssgzn/did_fi...
The “smart shirt” controlled by the NBA application
I didn't propose taking anything away. I said that in my preferred possible world no one would be rich enough that they can individually afford such extravagances. I made no claim about this world, not did I outline how that state of affairs would have come about.

Did I touch a nerve or something?
Did a reasonably good job of locating this Scot - didn't ask about loons and quines (just bairns) so not hugely specific ;-)
Yo! The author is an idiot! Jackfruit is not Durion! It's like confusing Java and JavaScript!
If you're interested in challenges, could you consider temporal graphs? Both from the perspective of tracking graph evolution (audit trail), and using a graph to model historical events, where relations occur for periods of time - it always sounds doable and then I sit down to do it :)

Throw in probability and vagueness (history examples: this happened sometime in the 1950s / we're only 50% certain that Henry VII was the father of this child) and it becomes a whole lot more complicated; yet what can be inferred increases in usefulness.

My inspiration is http://commons.pelagios.org/ and the digital humanities field.
Basically everybody actively pushes their child in some direction. Assuming you have some wisdom to offer, that's basically what parenting is about. If the OP truly believes trade schools are a better choice, then I don't see why he shouldn't push them.

Besides in the circles I grew in this attitude would have brought some balance to things considering I was surrounded by people pushing deeply academic subjects beyond all else.
In Australia, a pack is around $25!

Taxation helps, but states are loathe to tax so much that they actually decrease demand more, they are addicted to the extra revenue and don’t want to see that go down. But society still loses out in the long run, whereas in the UK and Australia, the costs of smoking are all socialized, so sin revenue isn’t as appealing.
yeah,,, there's something about some comments on here that seems... emotionally unhealthy....
A Security Company Cashed in on America’s Wars–And Then Disappeared
I don't think there is any one solution to "all" space debris (perhaps there is but it seems intractable with a single solution to me). However there is always benefit in removing space debris. If this technique was only successful on pieces 5" (10 cm) in size or greater it could still get a lot of stuff out of the way. Especially things that are prone to creating Kessler cascades.
Hi. I'm the Tech Lead of Google Registry, the team that is launching .dev (not to be confused with the linked Google Domains, which is one of many registrars selling .dev domains to end users).

You'll be glad to know that TLDs can't simply be discontinued like other products might be. ICANN doesn't allow it. The procedures in place preventing a live TLD from shutting down are called EBERO; more details here: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/ebero-2013-04-02-en

The way it works is that all registries must send daily full backups to a third-party escrow provider, which are then used to restore the TLD under a different operator if the original operator shuts down unexpectedly. This is not some theoretical backup/restore procedure that goes untested; it's been used in the past, e.g. with .wed: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2017-12-08-en

But this typically only happens when the registry operator goes abruptly bankrupt, and is thus quite rare. Many, many widely used TLDs have been seamlessly sold/transferred across registry operators without you ever realizing it, including .io last year. That would be the "worst" you would expect from TLDs launched by large established players like Google. You actually get a lot more protections with gTLDs than you do with ccTLDs (such as .io), as ccTLDs aren't bound by contract with ICANN and thus aren't forced to do EBERO, or anything else for that matter.
Honest question: what are the best two or three studies showing where all the extra money has gone over the last few decades?

If millions of people are losing, some set of people must be winning (by an amount roughly inversely proportional to their size). I understand economics is complex, feedback loops, etc., but with so much money flowing it must accumulate somewhere. And I’m sure people have studied it on a deeper than anecdotal level
The connection is that people who have debt out of college tend to need to take whatever job they can find. This worsens their negotiating position vs a situation where they don't have any obligations.

Wealthy people tend to be owners of businesses (directly or indirectly) that buy this labor, and they have a better negotiating position.

Young people with all the time in the world, an education, and no debt are also in a good position to establish new businesses. Having fewer of those reduces competition.
Someone Impersonated NJ’s AG to Demand Cloudflare Takedown 3D Printed Gun Plans
how much water do you get in your lungs from showering?
Only if you replace meat consumption with grains. A quick look at vegan and vegetarian recipes on social media makes it obvious that is not happening. Plants have a 50x range in the amount of calories they provide for $1, which suggests a similar range in their environmental burden.
I don’t think that is true either, as 50% of healthcare spending in the USA is private. Actually, you could be right, but I would want to see some evidence before I was convinced.
Probably - it would change the dynamics between pricing , companies providing the financing and universities.

How I’ve no idea. Right now it’s kinda risk free to give loans out so that would change. Maybe then less cash is made available and universities have extra capacity.
Well, now I have something to point to if anybody asks if there's a tech bubble, I suppose.
To be honest, TLD business is probably not one of them.
Even fi google becomes your competitor, they won't touch the domain.
Indeed. I have not looked into rocketry for a while, but my recollection is that an active guidance system, active control surfaces, an IMU, all place you squarely under ITAR. Building, much less exporting, without a license is likely a Bad Idea unless you are looking for a Club Fed vacation.
The predictable outcome will be a glut of professionals with high-prospect degrees which will actually drive wages down in those fields, while useful-but-low-prospect careers - nursing, the arts, teaching - will continue to be underfunded and underpaid.

There's already more than enough "ideologically neutral disinterested" distortion of social value created by so-called free markets everywhere else in the economy. If free markets were going to solve university education they'd have done it by now - just as they've been promising to for decades now.
Same for me - people are surprised I'm from Liverpool as I don't have a strong accent but this got it absolutely bang on.
FYI, there is no ICANN requirement that any sort of auction be involved in launching a new TLD. We used to use a standard auction (called the landrush phase in TLD parlance), but have since switched over to a descending price Dutch auction because it's significantly less operational burden for us.

It's generally a good idea to have some kind of auction for the reasons the parent comment mentions, as it is a more economically efficient way to allocate the limited namespace to those who want it the most.
A good amount of hiring in these sectors is for people straight out of college, who generally have no family and are expecting to make new friends anyway.

Also, if that's your argument, it makes a lot more sense for Amazon to open several small new offices through the country instead of a single new HQ in one city. (In fact another commenter is trying to argue against me on the grounds that people would be moving to NYC to take these jobs, and the lack of such moves is harming the NYC labor market. Perhaps the two of you should argue with each other.)
Parallel web performance testing on a budget with Lighthouse and AWS Lambda
Where Neptune appears to fall down is write performance. This is what made it non-viable for me. I have colleagues who are struggling / hacking around the write performance issues.

DGraph's write perf seems to be considerably better - I haven't benchmarked formally, just going off of discussions I've had with others.
My understanding is that there was a bidding process wherein the school would publish a request for proposal and companies would win the contract through it. I'm sure such an approach would be valid in other contexts, but in this case it just speaks to the unnecessary bureaucracy surrounding the procurement of something that could realistically be bought off the shelf.
> But “stop paying your debts” is a bad message imo.

Not really.

- Do you own a debt to your parents with a interest rate of 25% because they gave birth to you ?

- Do you own rent to planet earth for living in it ?

Debt can be unreasonable, just like wealth can be unreasonable. Its why governments intervene to destroy large amount of concentrated wealth and Egyptian pharaohs used to periodically clear everybody's debt.

The culture of " Paying your debt " is created by the small number of creditors who historically have controlled information flow, because they understand that society in aggregate has strong bargaining power.
It hurts your credibility to be unable to take position. Don't play the mastermind when in reality you're too scared/dumb to see the truth. Centrists truly are the worst