skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But who pays? The fools who bought the loans, or the public who mostly paid theirs (if they ever took any to begin with)? I suspect that everyone will pay, despite a minority of people benefiting, that hardly seems just.

I don't think it's predatory, I think the lendee is a fool being led by the blind; but does that make it right for it to suddenly be everyone else's burden?

People make dumb decisions that affect only them all the time; when is it suddenly my business to subsidize people's personal mistakes? Are they even mistakes at all, if the debt is forgiven without prejudice? I don't want to live in a world where taking a loan you have no intention of paying is not a mistake.

Also, AFAIK a huge majority of student loans are held directly by the Federal government (which is the other reason I fear "forgiveness" is on the horizon); assuming you don't mean to call the Federal government a "predatory bank".
I do find it a bit bizarre that the otherwise smart people that I work with, with English as their first language, will often resort to writing emails and documentation like a 14-year-old on AIM. I'm obviously much more forgiving of people that had to learn English as adults, but somewhat paradoxically I find that they typically write a lot more comprehensibly than most of the native-speaking engineers.

I'm hardly John Steinbeck or Mark Twain, but I've always felt that if I wanted to be treated like a grown-up, I should write like a grown-up, and as a result I have tried to write well. I try and be understanding of typos, because those are just honest mistakes, but when an adult sends an email to me saying something like "when r u going to do this?", I get a bit annoyed.
The xi rope science blog post series is, I think, the definitive answer to UTF-8 "indexing".
Though I was a "pretty good or better" software engineer, it's almost surely the case that I've made more career gains from English-language writing than code-writing during my career.

(Normally I'd let this pass without comment, but because of the specific topic of this comment chain, you mean "glass-ceiling effect" not "affect" there.)
Writing well may not be undervalued from a managerial standpoint, but I think many individual engineers undervalue developing good writing skills. That assessment is based on personal & anecdotal experience. Writing skills are a subset of communication skills. Communication is largely "getting the idea(s) in my head into your head with as little ambiguity and confusion as possible". Once a team is is reasonably large and diverse, this becomes very valuable and important to the individual engineer.
I love mx-linux, it's debian without so much work, never crashes, stays out of the way.
Overall good article, but I disagree with this point:
>Large systemic issues persist with no ability to tackle them in a large, mobilized, or strategic manner.

Federated systems have existed for a while and are only getting more practical and popular every day. It's a mistake to discount these systems and say that we do not possess the ability to do something like this in a "large, mobilized, strategic manner".
People flock to Medium because of how they distribute your content to other user's interested in similar content.

You can do this on your own, but it requires quite a bit of effort and SEO knowledge.
The reason why I think Bitcoin's success (read increasing in wealth infinitely against fiat, albeit slowing down over time) is more probable than its demise is not that it is some kind of replacement religion for me. It is just that I have so far not heard any good arguments why it would not succeed.

Of course opponents might say: why should it succeed if they see no reason for it to succeed.

That position is completely acceptable to me, but the risk of losing out seems too high for me, so I invest a little bit, just to hedge.

And because many people might do that, it could succeed. As long as there are no good arguments against holding a little bit. Which there aren't.

Except maybe the ecological footprint. As soon as someone finds a solution to that without sacrificing the other qualities, a hardfork will surely succeed.
Exactly, the dose makes the poison.
This isn't accurate, for instance the data structures/algorithms courses at top schools are significantly more attuned to how industry hiring works than mediocre schools like the one I went to, where you need a lot of external practice in order to be able to pass interviews.
Someone made a "fursona generator" GAN that kinda worked (but still had lots of artifacts), generating scenes is a massive leap from that, let alone parameterized scenes, fringe or custom species, narrow kinks etc.

But yeah I would be super fascinated if anyone was working toward that.
To add to the list:

- Instagram

- Pinterest

- most Google products
Why/how did you come to that conclusion? I'm surprised to see that self-reflection and conclusion of following rules is a character flaw.
So the article mentions the average college graduate has $30,000 in debt, which doesn't actually seem that bad. That's the average price of a new car in the U.S. (And, until recently, the average American bought a new car every ~4 years.) The usual rule is that student debt shouldn't exceed your expected first year income, and the median starting salary for a college graduate is considerably over $30,000. So the debt load seems quite in line with recommendations.

The article is also missing key bits of information. For example, Chad graduated in 2011, and started in 2007. So he should be eligible for federal income-based repayment, which should key his student loans to his income level. That's a really important fact. 92% of all student loan debt is currently owed to the federal government. Although there have been various programs over the years, those loans have had some sort of income-based repayment plan since 1994: http://www.ibrinfo.org/existingidr.vp.html. Currently, your payments are 10% of your income above 150% of the federal poverty level. So if Chad is making about $25,000 per year (corresponding to about $1,700 per month take home), his payments would be just $640 per year, or $50 per month under the current PAY-E scheme.

I find it curious that articles on the student debt crisis never mention that information. I feel like these articles always pick out exceptional cases (recent graduates who have private loans, for example, even though almost all new student loans are federal). Then they try to link it to the overall $1.6 trillion student debt issue, failing to mention that almost all of that debt is subject to the federal government's income-sensitive repayment options.
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Because there is an artificial eternal demand for fiat. Fiat is created as debt with interest. This means the total debt can never be payed except with more debt. As soon as the state ceases to use force to collect debt, fiat will be worthless.
Absolutely. And if you ever want to strike out on your own and start your own company (especially if you want funding for it), writing well is critical and can't always be outsourced.
“Writing is nature's way of telling us how lousy our thinking is.”
― Leslie Lamport
It's worth mentioning that the lead Chernobyl investigator committed suicide [0] over his feelings of guilt in not being more forthright about the inherent dangers of the RBMK design.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/may/29/chernob...
This is different, Its not that c++ that people think from the 90's.

- Boden supports native components for iOS and Android and maybe other platforms in the future.
- uses c++17 really clean with powerful abstractions, think all your app in just c++17, no xml or other craps, I want to make my app with just c++17.
- no garbage collectors, slowness, pause the world etc
- single binary
- the fastest programming language in the market.

the list goes on and on.
I guess it's about how you interpret the burden of proof. If you always expect the other guy to present evidence regardless of who made the proposition then OP is perfectly right.

But if you choose the sensitive approach and expect evidence from the party who proposed the theory then starting from the article's premise that there's no reliable evidence (if true) is a perfectly valid argument to support the title.

Consider this: I am the Always-Right-All-Knower-and-All-Seer. Now what is more reasonable, to expect evidence from my side supporting my premise, or for you to provide evidence against it and assume the premise true until you do that?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20058791
Elon Musk spots them a SpaceX rocket. Joe Rogan puts them through basic training.

I'd watch this youtube red series
Can't wait for the theater version, starring Louis Rossman!
Sure but school constraints you too much. There needs to be a time when you can explore things, when should this time be if not during school.
GraphQL is amazing. Building an API and then playing around with it in GraphiQl is really a exciting experience.

I've played with Relay (relay-modern looks great, but when I needed to pick a graphql client it hadn't been released yet). Apollo is frustrating: it's big and complicated and obsessed with stuff that I don't want (link-state and a bunch of product up-sells).

I'm glad urql is getting some more attention and I'll definitely give it a spin.
Chase bank is quietly adding a forced arbitration clause to some credit cards
Note over that time Britain is importing on average something like 1.5-2.0GW from France and ~1GW from the Netherlands. And producing on average about 15GW from gas. (Not sure how much oil is still used.)
bad readability - please use more contrast, better font.
I’m more concerned with the economic realities and the political changes that happen (see: Andrew Yang’s thesis for why our current POTUS was elected) prior to coming up with solutions and that our global power structure is not necessarily good for human progress long term. None of our predictions about technology matters if we hurtle ourselves into another world war that wipes out major areas that concentrate the vast majority of technologists and a second Dark Age occurs as religion and bigotry triumph over reason and tolerance - all because we create technology that must benefit the already-wealthy by design.

Much like the really facile conflict in the movie 2012, will all those 100 million be white and Asian winners of capitalism?

Lastly, human sexuality is super complicated and even with mass-produced customizable porn I’d expect a trend back to imperfect, flawed relationships like we have now eventually. I still see zero answers to what the female equivalent of porn is, so I don’t think every developed country will turn into a mirror of Japan (women may choose to emigrate to find love / purpose similar to how most single men tend to emigrate for economic reasons from developing countries). Most of the West is so culturally obsessed with sex and most Judeochristian religions dogmatically encouraging population growth I don’t see it being possible without a Dark Age of the world happening... which global war could indeed cause.
Does anyone really loathe LinkedIn? My inbox always has some spam, but it's by far the best way to get a quick summary of most peoples professional experience.
The government, which owns 92% of outstanding student loan debt, has income-based repayment. It's 10% of your income after subtracting 150% of the federal poverty level.
Tech Veganism
That, and they haven't rolled out band 41 in most of there service area.
Except that there a numerous examples in the past century where we’ve put the environment ahead of economic concerns: The Clean Water Act, a significant reduction in urban smog, the reversal of the Ozone hole through cap-and-trade.

As far as our overall economic system, the immediate problem is figuring out how to de-carbonize growth, first-and-foremost. And simultaneously reduce the carbon floating around in the atmosphere. I’m all for exploring alternatives and agree we don’t need so much “stuff”. But I don’t necessarily agree that that means we have to turn off economic growth either. We need to de-carbonize it.

An analogy I like to use is this: If you have a popular website and it’s becoming overwhelmed with customers, you have a couple of options. Turn everyone away and start kicking people off — or identify the bottlenecks and solve them. We’re running society on an inefficient algorithm, and that needs to change. We’ve built an amazing server that has drastically reduced conflict, poverty, and starvation, worldwide. Do we close the door to that, or do we find a more efficient algorithm?
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> It's not how many people have been harmed, it's how many people could be harmed.

I don't understand. Why should there be any difference between these, unless you're saying that the safety of solar/wind is improving faster than the safety of nuclear is improving?
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Ah, I understand.

The internet's disconnected nature is nice, and yet at times encourages some odd choices.

It reminds me of the old joke:

>A SEO expert walks into a bar.

>Bars, pub, public house, Irish pub, drinks, beer.
> It seems like it was a class of problems that you have fixed with "good devops process". I'd argue that it probably was a problem at once point, and you improved your devops process to make sure it wasn't.

It certainly was but we fixed it and it's not a problem anymore.

> Sounds like you could use some more of that "good devops process" you had when you set up the deploy machinery.

Yeah, there are people within my group that want to 'modernize' things and put them into containers willy nilly for no real reason.

We have already solved all the difficult problems that containers are supposed to 'save' us from. Many of the proposed containers would just be a single statically linked binary with a config file.

Why?

FYI, our stuff is hosted internally, so security considerations are not such a big deal.

To hear these container advocates, you'd think that till they came around no one ever managed to use linux.

I'm fully expecting linux userland tools to go away, to be replaced by custom 'distributions' with only a kernel and a docker API soon.
I don't recall ever saying it was too complicated. I only indicated extremely complex, which it is. Millions of man hours have been lost to bad units. Rocket scientists are human.
I received one of these E-mails and it was incredibly shady; it was several pages long, and effectively buried in bullet point EIGHT was this change to arbitration. And, of course, the only way to opt out is via snail-mail.
There are alpha particles of different energies, and products of decay of emitters may well not be good for your health either. Polonium besides being acutely toxic itself, decays into lead for example.
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I think that there is a real opportunity here. I just went over all the comments about this idea. It seems like most of the objections relate to issues with the payment medium itself, and not with the actual idea of paying instead of solving a puzzle.

Some examples:

> It seems more likely they are trying to steal cc details by asking for such a small payment.

This relates to being afraid using a credit card online against a non credible seller.

> Payment processing is nontrivial to set up

This one is about the technical difficulty (And possibly also regulation) for setting up payment processing

> regions where it is uncommon to have means to interface with payment processors.

This one is about inaccessibility to payment means, which also relates to a problem with the payment medium.

> You could use JavaScript cryptocurrency mining instead

I assume that bo1024 suggested this because he implicitly believes that setting up a payment processor will be more difficult, and give bad experience to the user.

The only objection I have seen which is more specific to actually recognizing humans is this one (by Freak_NL)

> What would prevent the bots from using the same system?

First, I think that it should make operating bots on a wide scale much more expensive. Second, if you make money out of bots coming into your website, would you really care that they are bots? I assume that the reason someone would block bots from the first place is that bots harm their money making business. If you had a system to collect this money back, shouldn't this considered as a problem solved?

I am working these days on a decentralized payment system that supports micro-payments. (I promise there are no blockchains inside). Solving the captcha thing can be a very useful use case. I will be happy if anyone wants to join forces on this one (My email is real (at) freedomlayer (dot) org).
I _really like_ the implementation with hooks. I experimented with a similar pattern on top of Apollo on a side project. Going to play with urql today! Thank you!
> Innocent people don't run.

What a bootlicker you are! Every jew who fled the Nazis was a criminal according to the law. Should they have stayed to face the charges against them to satisfy you?
Interesting article, yet not a single mention of what area of study and degree each of those 3 examples received? That is a key piece of information, I wonder why it was left out.
I just looked at the FTC government archives from 1919-2009 and there is a gap after 2008 with missing volumes 146-148.

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/commission...

Does anyone know why this is the case?
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And then specify the design doc with TLA+!

I agree with your point and I also think English is imprecise. It's great for socializing and flushing out ideas but it can also give one a false sense of confidence.
That's just talking about the spire. As for the rest of it, the bill includes the language "If the [conservation team] uses materials different from those in place prior to the disaster, it [should] publish a study giving the reasons for these changes."

Seems to me like "We're using steel instead of wood for non-visible parts for reason of it not being flammable", that would be a good reason.
I think Switzerland with its long history of democratic participation has developed a pretty mature population that generally makes (relatively) informed decisions. If you introduced this in the US I bet people would vote for abolishing taxes while increasing government spending on their pet issues. It would probably take a while until people have learned that this doesn't work.
The whole article reeks of politicized shaming of those stupid treehuggers falling for the lies of corrupt Hollywood. Sigh.

Meanwhile, out in the real world, the arguments for nuclear power are rapidly fading - on economic grounds, not safety grounds. Even assuming that nuclear is as safe as its most enthusiastic proponents claim, it's not a good investment anymore. Why? Because the cost/energy of storage-backed wind/solar is plummeting, and we don't know yet where the bottom is, due to rapid advances in technology and increasing economies of scale in production and deployment. The cost of nuclear plants is largely up-front - they're cheap to operate over decades, but expensive to build. If someone spends billions on new plants, and by the time they're built a decade later, solar costs half as much as nuclear, there's almost no reason to even fire the plants up.

This isn't a safety risk. This is a capital risk. Businesses care more about risking their money than risking people's lives. Building more nuclear power right now could turn into the kind of boondoggle that bankrupts utilities. Think the public is mad about nuclear disaster risk? Wait til they're being asked to pay more on their bills to bail out a utility that wasted billions on unused nuclear plants.

And the financial risk just begs the question... what's the benefit of nuclear at all, in a world where storage-backed solar/wind is clearly the future? The cost is lower, the risk is lower, it's available to nations that can't afford (or shouldn't be allowed to have) nuclear plants, etc. Barriers to entry in terms of cost and time to market are extremely low, so low that even ordinary citizens can get in on the game.

Demanding nuclear power at this point makes no economic sense. Which means the demands have other motivations, and we should think about why we think nuclear is so darn important in this day and age.
This seems like one of those articles where they cite a handful of cases and then draw a big trend line from it. The article says no one tracks this which means it could easily be only a dozen or two people a year at most.

Interesting idea though.
Absolutely. I am excited by the prospect of hospitals shutting down and doctors being unable to find a job, it's long overdue for them to finally come back down to earth. I can't imagine a quicker way to reform healthcare than that. It's probably our best case scenario right now with a non-functional government.

Student loans are a bit more complicated, but yes absolutely I expect to see massive defaults hurting the federal balance sheet and for schools who failed their students to start shutting down. This isn't a bad thing, it's healthy.
Hmm...let's see. I know absolutely nothing about the quality of US-vs-Chinese steel but, assuming everything you say is true, that means companies buying steel are perfectly fine buying low quality steel. And they will be perfectly fine buying low quality steel, regardless of where the supplier is located. So, what will inevitably follow is that US steel manufacturers will lower the quality of their steel to match Chinese's, while keeping the price high. The result - US consumers paying more for the same shitty quality steel.
Alpha particles cannot penetrate intact human skin. But they're extremely dangerous if they're already inside your skin.
I love that quote, but Lamport actually says in the Specifying Systems book that he got it from Dick Guindon.

I mention this purely in the interest of pedantry.
> eventually dozens of predatory banks

The government completely took over student loans in 2010.
>Jonathan Cook is a writer for the alt-right conspiracy rag

This is the new attack vector of the left: if you associate with, speak to, write about or interview anyone who has ever said anything "bad", you are "bad", forever, and that's it. The definition of ad homimen.

Newsflash for you: the old media models are dead. People publish things in all kinds of fora. This doesn't make you a stereotype or representation of the average bias of said publication. Do you actually rely on a site like MediaBiasFactCheck to determine the value of the content you read, rather than your own judgement?
Buster works great! I use it all the time.
I wonder if we're heading to a world where any company who wants to run internationally needs to keep all US-citizen data on US servers, and EU-citizen data on EU servers?
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This project is using Bitcoin.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Director...

MS has an Azure service that allows people to spin up private Ethereum blockchains, but they don't have any projects that utilize public Ethereum network.
Those numbers are from sources in 2013/4, this latest report was done in 2018.
Why not compliment both so they know it's an important combination and to take advantage of natural gifts? Breaking rocks is hard work but that is not how I'd want my gifted child spending their time. I'm not saying kids should be showered with compliments either but if my kid genuinely surprises me with their wit I'm not going to be such a stiff piece of shit to think I'm doing them a favor by not complimentin them.
Really there's a general point here I think: up front, careful reasoning (which should eventually excogitation in English or math or code) not only helps prevent mistakes but it also produces documentation and reasoning collateral.