skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my situation. Not only did I have to work during school, but I couldn't attend any of the Ivy League or private schools that accepted me due to not being able to get enough loans on my own (blessing in disguise in retrospect).

For people with that experience it makes sense to just separate the student from the parents but I'm not sure how to fairly account for people with rich parents who contribute. Just make college affordable for everyone!
In the 1960s, the ecological notion that "there is no 'away' to throw things" finally became widespread regards pollution, first stated by Barry Commoner.

In the 2010s, the informational notion that "there is no 'other' informatics ecosystem" on which security, privacy, or surveillance practices and principles apply is slowly dawning.
How did you verify they were stunningly inaccurate?
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Collapse? Change maybe. It means underwriters will want proof of performance, High school GPA, SAT's, and intended college major.

Good grades and signing up for pre-med? Here's a year of cash, you'll get your next payout if you're on the honor roll next year.

Planning on majoring in Homeopathic Nutrition Science? Denied.

Sounds like it'll make people a lot more focused on ROI and studying and that strikes me as a good thing. If it cuts down on a lot of frivolous choices, it'll also reduce the overall regret from those.
More than half of this country wants to have the “easy” entitled way about things
I don't think an indentured servant is even evil.

As an American, it makes me think of people who would charge 7(?) years of labor on a farm in exchange for passage to America in the 18th century. Sounds like a great deal to me!

People generally don't enter into agreements unless it's beneficial for both parties.
I found [1] "The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind" to be an incredible source of inspiration. Oh, what it must have been like to be privately tutored by Aristotle.

What surprised me the most about the article is the fact that it doesn't mention his best friend and most trusted companion -- Ptolemy. It was Ptolemy that would oversee the founding of the Great city of Alexandria. It was Ptolemy that would rewrite the history of the Pharos (or was it Ptolemy II?) and begin the Ptolemaic dynasty that lasted 275 years. Well done Ptolemy.

By the way, both Ptolemy and Alexander were privately tutored by Aristotle. Well, Alexander definitely was, but maybe Ptolemy was just taught at the school of Aristotle [2]. Either way, they were both incredibly educated, which was my main source of inspiration. How I long for the intellectual mastery that they are said to have achieved so early in life.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/400064.The_Rise_and_Fall...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great#Educatio...
You could probably pose the same question about journalists, and come up with a similar disinterested admonishment, if you cherry picked as needed to fit the narrative.
The tired analogy is premised of that this was some "final piece".

It wasn't, the company was going from strength to strength.

And whether "eventually it would flip" is another thing, and is irrelevant to this argument. Sure, every company will go down at some point.

That doesn't validate the idea put forward that this was some kind of "final piece" and the company was ready to flip anyway. There's absolutely no evidence for that. Your argument presupposes what it should prove.
Don't have to worry about a case?

If I ordered an Apple II replica I'd expect an apple II case and keyboard which might present IP and manufacturing issues.
Cocoa’s child laborers
This is a good point. I graduated college $50K in debt, and was in debt from age 18 - 30, but in the end going to the school I went to was worth it, compared to not going to that.

However, this does not make it just. Education should provide you with a huge economic surplus. That's the natural order of things. It's very unnatural to say "I educated you, and now I hope to collect 99% of your economic bonus, but you will still be 1% better off so it's a good deal for you". That's called slavery.
> If I tried to show them this video, they would flip out.

Flip out because the Wiccan CTO is using a pentagram, or because the CTO is Wiccan?

I certainly understand the desire to separate religious iconography from technical slides, but I don't think your example has much to do with that.
Financial Portfolio Rebalancing with Elixir
This is why the only credible way that a company can say it is attempting not to do X fraud, once that fraud comes to light, is to have a process in place to support whistle blowers.

Without such a process, all this stuff comes back in spades. With such a process, you still have a struggle but at least you have a chance.

Also it's why journalists need strong protections when reporting this stuff. etc.
In a true free for all anti competitive system like college and medicine the list price is some extreme number that is discounted based on each individual ability to pay. In both cases individual discounts should not be allowed because otherwise prices cannot be competitive
I think that we are subtly talking past each other, because what you're saying doesn't line up against what I thought I was saying. I'm not looking for additional type safety or security protections from this model. See my sibling comment to your earlier comment for a little more context [1].

As someone who works with Rust often, your assertions don't match my experience. I want to engage honestly and understand where Rust itself falters, versus where we need to invest in educating newcomers about what kinds of models are better represented in Rust than others. I have found the model I'm describing to be valuable in many ways -- more than a "hack" to get around Rust.

> And of course the extra indirection is costly, especially for a systems language.

To my knowledge, base-offset addressing is natively present on at least x86. With a vector-based index space like I was describing, a[b] == * (a + b) is no more costly than * b. If you would need a more complex index space, you were probably doing more than bare pointers already.

> And you're also doing much more memory management.

> because such hacks turn a simple logical operation into a series of multiple memory allocations

No, no more than you would have needed with pointer-based naming. The top-level arena (a vector in the graph example) owns everything and can be deallocated all at once when you're done with it. Arenas were already a well-known pattern before Rust, and they can reduce the amount of manual memory management over tracking a bunch of small, separate heap allocations.

Relatedly, Catherine West gave an excellent talk at RustConf 2018 on how the Entity-Component-System architecture maps nicely into Rust [2]. The address/name distinction comes from ECS, but it becomes even more useful in Rust.

> The analog in the land of pointers is simply to NULL node member pointers and fail if a member is non-NULL at destruction or insertion

I don't see how this is hindered by Rust. We use an Option type -- with Some(T) and None variants -- to model something that might not be present, so the logic can be exactly the same. Rust can even optimize away the "extra" space you would need for the Some/None variant flag in common situations [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822003

[2] https://kyren.github.io/2018/09/14/rustconf-talk.html

[3] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/45225
Pigin: Private Interest Groups, Including Noise
Poe of course also has a big influence on modern horror such as H.P. Lovecraft. But I always found Poe's stories a bit more disturbing than modern ones: they are told from the point of view of the murderer.
> Then the difference in price must be the small markup that branded stamped gold bars get.

The bid/ask spread on the gold bars at the same dealer is close to 30%. The other markup is peanuts.

That's why it gold as the "investment" is mostly sold via day time infomercial on second rate TV networks ( the ones that currently broadcast in 480i ) and second rate cable channels as well as promoted by the likes of Glenn Beck right next to "have your own seed bank so you can plant your own garden for food when the economy collapses".

JPM made a lot of money serving those outfits but for it gold bar is just a blob of a certain weight and certain purity.
DoltHub. Public Launch
On August 6, we launched Dolt - Git for data open source (https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt). Today we publicly launched DoltHub (https://www.dolthub.com), a place on the internet to share Dolt repositories.

Dolt is a SQL database that natively supports Git semantics like commits, branches, and merges. It uses a custom engine that versions table rows not files so diffs and merges are fast. The structural sharing of rows across versions allows Dolt to scale to large table sizes.

DoltHub is to Dolt as GitHub is to Git. The data community can post and collaborate on open databases much as the open source community collaborates on open source.

Over the next few months we're going to work really hard to publish open, maintained, and updated data on DoltHub that you can't easily get anywhere else on the internet. Think every LinkedIn resume on CommonCrawl. Between now and then, we'd love it if people signed up for DoltHub and helped us seed the open data ground.

We're hoping the HackerNews community enjoys what we've built :-)
You can integrate with COM already through winapi [1] (and author your own COM objects too with com-impl[2]). GUI stuff is still a long way from being useful, but a huge chunk of code has nothing to do with UIs. And Rust can integrate with anything that can call C.

w.r.t debugging, I haven't had much trouble mixing with C++ but I haven't tried to do anything through C#.

[1] https://github.com/retep998/winapi-rs

[2] https://github.com/Connicpu/com-impl
Most of the time "Get out of the blast radius and cover your ass" is about as far as you want to go.

Actually blowing the whistle is generally not in your best interest. Most people only do that when there really is no other option to protect themselves.

The worst part is that if you have genuine evidence on someone with actual power, you're better off keeping that in your pocket rather than reporting them. As in chess, "The threat is often more effective than its actually execution."
Because of the lower frequency that would result from the much larger mass collision of the supermassive black holes.

Ideally we would have much longer travel distances for the gravity wave detection experiment. They work by building a giant interferometer with lasers pointed at mirrors that try to estimate how spacetime gets bent by the gravity wave. This should be easier to do with larger distances and less sources of noise in space. LISA is one such project. So hopefully in a couple of decades will know a lot more about supermassive black holes and other huge phenomena after detecting their gravity waves!
> Otherwise there is no incentive for banks ... to not charge infinity for college.

The vast majority of student loans are not made by banks, so I'm not sure what they have to do with this.
A sordid tale of age discrimination
Paw has excellent features and native support. Totally loved it. I regularly use it and never ever thought for any alternative. The best feature I love is sharing request with private url .
The bottom photo shows an ATmega328P. So this is just a software emulation of an Apple I? What’s the point?
Such cheap flights are possible because the airlines aren’t paying the externalities they cause.

Ryanair don’t fly to London btw. Or Brussels.
First of all, it's important to note that Tacotron and WaveNet are responsible for different parts of the speech synthesis pipeline, so the comparison here isn't quite accurate. Specifically, Tacotron takes a representation of the text (characters, phonemes, etc) and converts it into a frame-level acoustic representation (spectrograms, log mel spectrograms, etc, spaced every 5-25ms). WaveNet takes a frame-level representation of the audio (for example, the output of Tacotron, or phonemes with frame-level timing information) and converts it to a waveform.

Second, I don't see any reason why there shouldn't be an open-source Tacotron or WaveNet implementation that's as good as Google's model implementations. Implementing and training these models is expensive but not prohibitively so (nowadays, you could probably do it with $5,000 - $10,000, including experimentation costs).

That said, quality of text-to-speech systems is determined only partially by the quality of these models -- much if not most of the work of building high quality text to speech systems goes into things like high quality data collection systems, good data annotations, good normalization and NLP tailored towards the domain of the TTS system, multilanguage support, optimized inference implementations for server or mobile platforms, etc.
Or perhaps it comes across as more genuine because they have better marketing while they follow the others as soon as it suits them to make a buck? They lied to their customers faces with building sized ads.
Yes, and home and car loans still exist because if people don't pay it back there is an asset to repossess.

That's not the case with college loans.

Which is why they are fundamentally different.
Mid-2000s: the term "cloud" was highly popularized by Amazon, and went on to have this particular connotation for a while.

In the last decade, it has turned to simply mean "on the internet", which, to me, is unnecessary since you can just say "on the internet" instead. Eg. how is an internet file storage service different from cloud storage service?
I prefer straight honesty in social dealings, but it is vital in business, even when that is my bossing telling me I did crap, or me telling the boss I think he's wrong. Arsing around gently in business contexts, not giving info that would help even if unwelcome, is plain damaging.
That's not the case : people like to say that it is the case but "conflict diamonds" are used all the time, all over. It is the open secret in diamond district in NYC and among the dealers to the stars in LA and European capitals.
Tesla Insurance
FAFSA is a terrible price discriminator, and unsurprisingly primarily screws the middle class and kids with special circumstances. You have:

1. Kids with legit wealthy parents from whom they are estranged and get no support.

2. Kids with moderately high income parents but also a lot of mandatory expenses like medical bills, other kids to support, etc.

3. Kids with middle class parents who are too poor to pay for College, but too rich for financial aid [1] [2].

These are the people who either end up not going to college or graduating with crippling debt. The poor who qualify for sufficient student aid end up fine, and the rich, well, always end up fine.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertfarrington/2014/06/17/too...

2: https://money.cnn.com/2016/04/28/pf/college/college-financia...
What does "buying a policeman with a $10 bill" says about a society's corruption levels?
It reinforces the point that I was making regarding corruption perception.
Maybe you are unaware that REAL and impactful corruption doesn't happen at street level.
Show HN: RentMyCPU – Rent your CPU power and get rewarded
The same is true if you don’t run your own local email server and use gmail.
was wondering the same. Just run an emulator on your raspberry pi, no need for a single use kit
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db121.pdf

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46302780

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4254585/
At first, I thought this was going to be about words that are autoantonyms. Here are 25 examples: https://mentalfloss.com/article/57032/25-words-are-their-own...
A business that loans money to people and charges them interest is a bank.
Always have an exit plan. There's a lot less reason to be stressed about your job if there are no meaningful consequences to being let go. Having an alternate job lined up and in your hip-pocket (or at least knowing that you can easily get an alternate) helps immensely.
I think the point here is that the various bills I have to pay don't give me their bank account number, but they ask for me to give them our account information so they can automatically subtract whatever amount. If they would give me their account numbers, I would gladly send them funds. Instead, I use my bank's online bill pay to generate a check for them.
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> Richard Sorge, a Russian spy in Germany’s Embassy in Japan, gained detailed knowledge about the approaching German invasion of Russia in 1941, and passed it on. Stalin not only ignored information about the coming invasion but threatened anyone who took it seriously, since he knew that his ally Hitler wouldn’t betray him

I know there's an entire controversy around this subject that merits even its own wikipedia entry [1], but the fact is that Germany's intention to do something against the Soviets was clear for anyone who wanted to see it.

I live in Bucharest, Romania, and I frequently visit an antique bookstore close to me which right at this moment sells some photos of Hitler's German troops who are shown as preparing/training with the Romanian troops on Romanian ground in the spring of 1941 (in April, to be more precise), at least according to the date written on the back of those photos. Presumably these were not secret military maneuvers, presumably the German soldiers who had entered Romania as allies were there for everybody to see, even to people sympathetic to the Soviets who might have let the Soviets know about said German troops, so not everything depended on a Russian spy's message being ignored or not, the Germans were right at the Soviets' door and preparing to break it.

I also don't believe for one second that Stalin would think of other people as having the chance to "betray" him or not, as far as I've read about the guy he didn't give anyone the chance to betray him, especially not to the head of State of a foreign power and potential enemy. You could say that Hitler was naive enough to let July 20th 1944 happen, but during all of Stalin's bloody reign nothing of the sorts happened because he was ruthless, and being ruthless first of all means not trusting other people, especially not a guy like Hitler.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_offensive_plans_controv...
Not related to the article, but on mobile I can't scroll right to see the full table. Rather annoying.
The Smarter Pattern UI Library for AI
You do realize that most of "fake Gucci bags" are made on the same factories as the "real Gucci bags" typically on the same line except that they are FOB <location of the factory in China or Vietnam> rather than FOB a distribution facility?
> Now, we add Rust to the list. You can write that library in Rust and it can be used by anyone, too. That's because there is no GC or other extraneous code, and because you can make structures with specifically-defined layout in memory.

Genuine question: Can you link a Rust binary with a C/C++ binary?
>I don’t agree with free educations—psychologically I think it devalues education.

There are good reasons to be against free college, but this is not one of them.
Community colleges tend to make classes more available after normal work hours specifically because their customers have lives.
I feel like this was a clear yes 50, even 60 years ago, but no government doesn't want to have spies if others do.
Some % of Google's $30 billion quarterly revenue comes from Ads in Gmail. This does not include revenue generated from enterprise G Suite licenses.
I'm currently using Julia for a robot motion planning software , as well as a for a data science project. Julia is the preferred language of our company Laurium Labs https://www.lauriumlabs.com
You can get an oscillation without long boot or ramp-up time but they sure don't improve the situation.

Lazy loading of modules is a common cause, but any other resources that are loaded on demand or in the background.
But that's more of a situation of thinking you need two additional nodes, getting three, settling back to two after warmup, and then killing them all off again when the spike ends.

I may have said elsewhere that I'm more comfortable with scaling load based on daily and weekly cycle patterns, with perhaps a few exceptions for special events (sales, new initiatives, article publications) and making it easy for someone to dial up or down.

To use a car analogy, get really good at power steering and power brakes before you attempt cruise control, get really good at cruise control before you attempt adaptive cruise control. And don't even talk about self-driving unless you're FAANG.
Can you pay your electric bill with those?
>A Toyota Camry and a Porsche will both get you to work.

That's not the practical utility people want out of a Porsche. They want the practical utility of impressing people (including the other sex), appearing well off and sporty, etc.

Those are also practical considerations - just not the first that come to mind when one thinks of cars (although not very far).

(Practical as in: not aesthetic but with real life impact on real life goals).

>Apple products are relatively cheap to produce

So they say, but e.g. other manufacturers tried for the first 2-3 years years to get a tablet with the specs of the iPad, and still couldn't get theirs at a lower price...

Or how if you add the same SSD/video/memory/CPU/etc options to a PC laptop, you get close to the same prices. I know cause I've tried to build an equivalent Lenovo (and a few other brands) and it gets so close I might as well just get the MBP.
Sorry but what's your alternative?
I understand that it does not please you (I actually think that mozilla merging with chromium would be a good thing and we disagree on that)

But you can't disagree with my plan? It would mean you have an alternative (you probably don't), or that you wish that the trend continue and that mozilla die (you don't actually wish that)
Even if it's an emulated Apple I, the kit looks like fun :)
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"then the amount of nuclear waste each person would generate per year would be 39.5 grams"

times 300 million people adds up to quite a bit, no?
Can someone explain me why Skype needs a plugin to be installed to use it over the web? WebRTC/Sip.js works pretty well these times across all (major) browsers I think?
Every addon has a max-version field, hopefully just that (given the leap from 60.x to 68.x) but also possibly the same thing with Firefox where a bunch of addons just died.
Musk will say some stupid garbage, but he'd never call his own products crap. He really believes in them.
There's a big difference between your ISP knowing stuff and the river of scum that is advertising.

> But I wish I didn't have to.

One way or other you will always have to. Perhaps the most important way of destroying the ad industry online is to have an alternative means of funding sites. Maybe that would work.
How to install an old version of a game in Steam
Maybe they bought the house yesterday, adopted 17-year-old septuplets, and were heavily long MySpace, Enron, and Borders.
It would close this particular loophole, by treating legally disowned and merely estranged identically.

I'm not saying they would accept letters stating that you are estranged (which they certainly don't do now). I'm saying they could refuse to believe recent legal changes to parenthood, and just demand the whole list since birth. Just as lots of documents need every name you've ever had, not just your current legal name.

(Whether the actually estranged should be treated differently is another question. Judging by how they've run the system so far, the colleges don't seem inclined to do so. I don't mean to defend their behavior, only to ask what moves they may make.)