skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nostalgia, huh? Is that worth the environmental damage and severe ethics concerns?

No, I am but a weak and flawed human that likes dairy and meat. Ideally I'd stop eating and drinking all of this today.

> Not to mention, uh, you're drinking a cow's milk that should be for its children. We're the only species that does that. It's so odd.

Life is odd. I will say that I grew up around dairy cows and they don't seem to mind what happens to their milk, so that is emphatically not a concern for me, and I would not have been able to be around cows at all if it weren't for the dairy market. (how's that for an ethical dilemma? the animals that will survive the ongoing extinction event are likely to be exploited by humans.) The environmental and humanitarian concerns (e.g. meat eating, farming conditions) are much, much larger concerns for me.

> Soy milk tastes great, has a nice nutrition profile, and is actually good for you (and the environment, and the animals).

I don't disagree with this at all. I'm not arguing FOR milk, certainly not from an ethical standpoint, I'm just pointing out the ludicrous double standard of people with clear agendas to push plant-based drinks who then talk shit about "big dairy". It's all manipulative and shitty—comparing the actual food is much more interesting.
> Were you referring to my proposal on github?

I was, yes.
The suggested food pyramid suggests mostly grains and carbs, which spike insulin and trigger the satiety response. It's much easier to eat two thousand calories of protein and fat, than two thousand calories if carbs. Also fat is more than twice as dense in calories than carbs.

Combining this with the human body's capacity for adaptation (it becomes gradually easier to eat bigger meals), eating two days worth of calories in even one sitting is not that difficult.
FYI we didn't have an issue open on the topic of reproducible builds until now[0]. While it has been discussed internally, we haven't focused on it. We will have to assess the work involved but will put it on our backlog.

[0] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5830
JSound: A formal yet simple JSON schema language
Microsoft wants to bring exFAT to the Linux kernel
We don't need to force people onto sound money. People will adopt it naturally over time if it's better for them than fiat money.

However, there is no sound money right now. Bitcoin was designed to be sound money in theory, but it has to get a lot more liquidity first. Gold once was sound money, but also would need a lot more liquidity to be sound money once again. So we just have to wait. I'm not suggesting that we force it.

Fiat money seems destined to eventually collapse. There is a long road, but every time fiat money stumbles, it will be a little victory for alternatives. Investors have been fleeing into gold lately. Wealthy Chinese people have been fleeing into bitcoin to at least some small extent.
Correct. It might sound obvious to some, but if you're an organization from the Rails 0.x era (~2011) you have a lot of legacy code and infrastructure that albeit not fancy new tech, it works.
California before Prop 13 was much better. As in zero fees, zero tuition. You paid for books and room and board whether it was community college or UC. But hey, at least the owners of commercial properties don't have to pay much property tax now.
From what I've been reading it seems like it might not work well on US carriers either, which is a bummer.
> disqualified from all financial aid.

What does this mean? The government wouldn't issue them a loan at all? Or that they wouldn't subsidize the interest?
I can send ACH and international wires from my US bank's web interface. Neither is especially hard or expensive, but it is somewhat slow...1-3 business days.
Checks are for what now?

For me this week: Paid for a city license, paid the cat sitter, paid for a small magazine subscription, made a charitable donation, and paid the rent.

The cat sitter and the charity were check only. No other option. The magazine has a PayPal option, but I don't trust PayPal. The city license could have been done with a card online, but I'm not interested in setting up yet another account with yet another third party to mishandle my information. Paying the rent by check is free, but paying with a credit card is a $74 fee. And this is with a very large company that almost everyone knows.

People do abandon checks when possible. But for the most part it's the businesses that put up barriers. Or, in my case, a lack of trust, which has caused me to use checks more. I like the paper trail. I check my bank statement every month and at least once a year there is an error.

I am coming around somewhat on the trust thing. If I can use a virtual credit card number, I will. But not if I have to make yet another account with yet another password and yet more gathering of information that is nobody's business.

Edit: I forgot that I also had to send a check to a county recorder out if state to file some legal documents. But that was a cashier's check, not a bank draft. Still, the only form of payment accepted by that county government is cash if you live there, or a cashier's check if you're out of state.

Also, my accountant only takes cash and checks. I consider it a virtue since it indicates that she watches every penny. But I didn't put that payment in the list because it was a couple of months ago.

When your life is simple, banking is simple. As you get older and your life becomes more complicated, banking gets more complacated.
You forgot step 2 where they graciously negotiate it down to everything you're ever going to earn.
Good intel is no substitute for good judgement. But no or bad intel seriously impairs the ability to exercise good judgement. Pointing out stories (the same handful that have been repeated over and over before -- MK Ultra, Cambridge 5, Ames, etc.) of leaders with poor judgement failing to exploit good intel does not change the value of good intel in the hands of more capable leaders.
Yeah, both are shady AF.
Not surprising when education is so ridiculously expensive, next only to healthcare. Who wouldn't evade prices so high when possible? I'm amazed about how the US insist on regulating everything and fail to leverage free market in these areas letting fair competition to drive the prices down.
In California, there is no out of district penalty for community college. Out of state tuition is expensive, but I think on par with out of state tuition for other states' community colleges.
Here's a tip from Illinois: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/654201077/illinois-gov-candid...
I actually had a job where part of my responsibility was processing this file. It was literally me opening WS_FTP Pro and manually downloading and uploading that file. It blew my mind that this was how we were doing it.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821064
Power. It is called power. They have power. They use power to consolidate and bequest power.
File the permanent residence exception, learn the Mathieu Gast rules for normal maintenance and repairs, and always fight the tax assessor on the first year you own a property, up through Board of Review and Tax Tribunal if you have to.
The CEO of Whole Foods says eating plant-based 'meats' is unhealthy
Yes, C++. Although I'm not convinced that Intel's ready to move away from C to be honest.
I work with several people who suffer from a range of mental health problems, and most of my closest friends can be described the same way. So you could even argue that it's my preference.

As for whether it's the same question as the chronic fatigue thing, i'm not sure. I think largely it comes down to how negative their perceived impact on their colleagues is?
The value of the well-told story applies equally well to products that do have intrinsic utility. Look at how we developers choose the software we use.

People making these decisions often claim their choices are made on purely rational grounds. But why then do large companies choose to spend so much money marketing things like Kubernetes, React, MongoDB, Red Hat Linux, etc? Surely these high-quality projects would stand their own in a marketplace of open code even without the money...

Some software companies like Oracle tell their stories primarily to corporate buyers, and developers sneer at them, thinking they're too smart to fall for that. Other companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft have learned to tell their stories in ways that leave developers oblivious that they're being marketed to.
Oooh I got this one...

>* An article about a null-pointer bug in GCC that doesn't explain what pointers are

That's obviously the finger you point at people with, a null pointer is when you don't point at someone but just angrily stare at them.

>* An article about Stripe that doesn't explain what Stripe is or does

Obviously a stripe is those lines on zebras that make them zebras

>* An article about the programming language Julia that doesn't explain what Julia is.

Clearly the one and only Julie Roberts...

Obviously I'm being stupid but that's genuinely how I feel sometimes when I open HN

- "RUST does..." erm, why are they screaming rust, I know rust is annoying if you don't sand it down and deal with it quickly but why are we yelling about oxidation

- "ExFAT..." why are they talking about their weight loss on HN

- "Wave-based non-line-of-sight computational imaging in Julia" some woman named Julia used a computer to figure out how to best appear in photographs of them waving? Must be one of the royals.

- "A+, the Programming Language of Morgan Stanley" why do I care about Morgan's grades?

- "YouTube should stop recommending garbage videos to users" I dunno, I watched a really good one on landfills one time, I think it also recommended me one on how fuel trucks refill gas stations after that.

- "Curl exercises" yeah, I hammer curl on Tuesdays as some of my accessory work, not a real fan of bicep curls though.

- "Is Ringo Starr a Good Drummer?" I assume this is about the Beatle but it's probably about some computer programming language in some network security application.

- "Perils of Constructors " must be English as a second language, clearly they mean Perils of Construction, certainly a mod will fix that title soon. I'm guessing death and hemorrhoids.
The cost comes from running the facilities, paying the likely bloated administration, and expanding campus programs and offerings to attract smarter/wealthier student tuition dollars. All of this is perpetuated by the endless mountain of cash that are Federally-backed, impossible-to-bankrupt student loans.
That’s not what I was asking though. If you grew just the organ, how is that an animal? I’m vegetarian for environmental and ethical reasons, if we have a way to create a chicken breast in a lab by assembling proteins, I would definitely eat it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20790681
I think it’s worth pointing out that universities only care so much as it’s a PR matter and preserving the view of “fairness”. They don’t care in the sense they are getting paid.

Overall, the increase in government funding and the effective use of university as the expected next level of education, along with the very mixed financial incentives schools have are the primary causes of the ballooning of cost of education. Wouldn’t this just play more into this problem?

I’m in favor of more professional schooling, trade schools and apprenticeships. There are very few reasons why everyone needs full liberal arts degree—especially at the quality it is now.

Oddly, I think Europe is more effective in some regards. I don’t agree with free educations—psychologically I think it devalues education. But there is a lot more emphasis on trades, professional and other sorts of schooling, overall a lot more variety in tracks of education. And while I don’t agree with free education, I think the education system is much more aligned with the public benefit.
> This is really applicable to any products that are valued based on their marketing efforts instead of intrinsic value or utility

Care to elaborate what your distinction here is? I don't see it.
> bit not enough to have $60k/yr disposable income.

It's not like college is an unforeseeable expense. On $250k per year you should be comfortably able to plan for putting a couple of kids through college. Same holds true for most people on track for $250k/yr when their kids are in college. You may have to forgo a new Mercedes, but that's fine.
My impression of the different quantum mechanics interpretations (copenhagen, many worlds...) is that they are observationally equivalent. Is this not true?
That was helpful.

The original comment that you seemed to be replying to was "Right now it's really convenient for advertisers to run an ad auction right in the user's web browser because all the context is there". I thought you were saying blocking that crap in your browser didn't make a difference.

I can't see your pic because I never allow JS outside of a VM.

If tracking is enabled in a browser it becomes vastly easier for them to assign unique cookies to follow you. OK, now then can do it with etags and browser fingerprinting - mitigating the latter is possible, I don't know about the former.

But this...

> If the tracking all happens server-side I have no idea what sites are tracking me and I can't do anything to prevent it.

...is dubious. Etags and fingerprints aside, tracking non-cooperating (cookie declining) browsers has to be harder. I agree with you about tracking being the problem though.
Apple will no longer keep Siri audio recordings by default, makes feature opt-in
I have a somewhat related question -

I took CS 101 ~ 301 in college, and have worked briefly in C++ here and there during my career. I like to think I have a working understanding of pointers and references.

Despite that, whenever I go into a C++ codebase (recently, the Chromium codebase) I get _completely lost_ trying to figure out what the owner and lifetime of an object is, whether it's appropriate to pass by value, reference, or clone. I have absolutely no clue the impact of these decisions aside from a vague sense that pass-by-reference is more memory efficient and cloning is safest (When do we care? Is it something you can just pick one and forget about until performance matters?).

How do you start to pick up an intuition for manually working with memory this way? Is there a set of references that can take you past the beginner level? I find the C++ reference documentation completely opaque, and most search hits tend to be too domain specific to be useful.

Is this something that Rust would help with? Is their model easier to understand when each case is correct? Is it something that comes with language exposure? Or tooling?
What's the difference between this and Transferwise
Those are Git tags; they have nothing to do with reproducible builds, because you're not providing the executable binaries that are the ones being distributed. It's a huge downgrade in terms of reproducibility of builds compared to Firefox. (It works for Google with Google Chrome because they have an entirely different business model where the whole thing is a walled-garden by design.)
>Yet I've cited the WHO and Dr. T. Colin Cambell, author of the China Study. Where's your evidence?

I'm really tired of this form of argument. The fact that you cited something doesn't necessitate its relevance, truth or your understanding of it.

You've also ignored the specific bit of your post I called out as more importantly inaccurate, so I'm really not interested in engaging any further.
There are a lot of people in the middle though that aren’t poor but can’t play the shenanigans the rich get away with.
Kilopower: NASA’s Offworld Nuclear Reactor
Same with John Pluthero at C&W. I was working there at the time and John was well-known for being brutally honest (his management style was one of the reasons he took over when C&W bought Energis, despite him running the much smaller Energis). It's a while ago now, but he was right at the time and I don't remember anyone disagreeing.
If you are a member of a free and open society; It is your job to curtail behavior, yours and others, that is detrimental to that society.
>The solution is simple: make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy, just like every other kind of loan.

I agree the incentives don't align well right now, but am curious about what corresponding policies you would implement.

Right now we have policies supporting the idea of "you can start from nothing and graduate from any college with any degree". That notion is tough to maintain with a simple switch of policy.

Education loans have no collateral. Even if college was only 10k/year, filing for bankruptcy right after graduation would be a rational choice for many people. If loans were dischargeable, would you include provisions such that "expected costs" must always be available as loans (similar to what we have now)? How would you ensure "adequate" access for people to receive an education and climb to the next socioeconomic level?

I could see far fewer people going to college right after high school, struggling to save money in relatively low paying jobs since the modest loans they want aren't readily available.
A mass of bad intel would drown out the good intel, making it much more difficult to make correct decisions.

It's why trolling on social media and fake news works and why keeping a good signal-to-noise ratio is important.
>The Wall Street Journal was able to reach two parents who were coached by Destination College into transferring guardianship of their kids before they applied for financial aid.

TWO. TWO. Even if we extrapolate that two out beyond our wildest dreams, it's still not symbolic of a pattern. Yes, this is a loophole and yes it should be closed but there does not appear to be any evidence that is being being abused widespread at the current time.
Building Better Pocket
There are always new articles, videos, podcasts, blogs, tweets, websites, books or plaintext thoughts that I'd discover or get recommended by friends. It's impossible to consume all that content as soon as it arrives. But it's also really important that it doesn't get lost and I do get round to going through it at some point.

I would use several reading lists (or apps) which is a great solution in many ways. But they didn't feel like a problem off your chest. On the contrary, you need to remember where all your reading lists are so you get back to them at some point. I still have several of those buried somewhere on my computer.

Another big problem with reading lists is that it's so difficult to just pick the next item to read. Which list do I go for? Do I start off the top or at the bottom?

And when I've picked up that one article or video, I'm pretty sure there was a specific reason why I'd saved it or perhaps someone recommended it to me but I've forgotten now. Also, I'm pretty sure I've saved something more recent and relevant on the same topic since. At this point, all the context is gone.

That's why we built Itemsy around the exact experience I would've wanted for myself. Here is how it works:

1. Start emailing links to any content you want to save for later to my@itemsy.com (optionally, include a note or email of a person you want to share it with)
2. You get delivered your personalised newsletter that's just the right volume so you can read it as soon as you get it

To me personally, the main thing has been that I can forget all about the reading lists and actively trying to find time to go back to them. Just dump all the links onto Itemsy, they won't get lost and will be delivered to you in bite-sized chunks at a frequency of your choice.

We'd love for you to try it out. Signing up takes 10 seconds: https://itemsy.com/
What year did you graduate college, if you don't mind sharing?
Several years ago, my mom ran low on money, so she decided to sell her old wedding ring. She hadn't worn it for years because she and my dad got divorced long ago, so she figured she'd at least get some liquid cash by selling it.

The first shop she took it to offered a little under 10% of what it cost. She thought the shop was trying to scam her, so she went to a bunch of other shops, and they all offered less. So she went back to the first shop a couple of days later, and there was a different guy there who told her that the first guy was an idiot who overvalued the diamond. It was a piece of junk, and it was worth well under 10% of what it cost. The jeweler also pointed out, in detail, that the diamond itself was really shitty even by the standards of wedding rings. But because they already made that offer, they decided to honor it anyway just to avoid any drama. And so my mom sold a ring that cost her and my dad $30k for about $2600.

And I understand that's normal. Retailers mark new diamond rings up like crazy because that's how much people are willing to pay for a wedding ring, even if it's not what the stone is actually worth.
>It would probably take decades to rebuild a car-centric city for affordable housing and walk-ability. It would be easier to start from scratch, for sure.

China is able to build entire, gigantic, "ghost cities" within a few years. And bulldozers and explosives don't take much time to clear land of existing structures. If there were actual political will to change existing cities to be walkable, it could be done in a very short amount of time.
I'd like to see a list of everything else that they keep by default... are we going to have to wait for the next leak?
According to wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_campaign_of_Alexander_t...

"Alexander's march east put him in confrontation with the Nanda Empire of Magadha and the Gangaridai of Bengal. According to the Greek sources, the Nanda army was supposedly five times larger than the Macedonian army.[5] His army, exhausted, homesick, and anxious by the prospects of having to further face large Indian armies throughout the Indo-Gangetic Plain, mutinied at the Hyphasis (modern Beas River) and refused to march further east. Alexander, after a meeting with his officer, Coenus, and after hearing about the lament of his soldiers,[6] eventually relented,[7] being convinced that it was better to return. This caused Alexander to turn south, advancing through southern Punjab and Sindh, along the way conquering more tribes along the lower Indus River, before finally turning westward.[8]

Alexander died in Babylon on 10 or 11 June 323 BC. In c. 322 BC, one year after Alexander's death, Chandragupta Maurya of Magadha founded the Maurya Empire in India. "
It's not a non sequitur. In the case of tax loopholes, sure. Poor people don't pay a lot of taxes. But in the case of spending real money paying for tutoring to raise SAT scores: yes. SAT scores, in some sense, are a transactional measure of the free resources one has available to obtain a good score: A quiet place to study, tutoring, etc. Money helps provide these things.
> Another place we see it is in the usage of IEPs and other accommodations for learning disabilities by wealthy families

As the father of a child with a learning disability, I was shocked to learn that the process of getting public funding to help him (which in MA at least, is a legal right spelled out in state law) is entirely centered around the local school district attempting to drag everything out as long as possible and make it as hard as possible so that you have to spend quite a bit of money in advocates, experts, medical professionals, lawyers, etc. Their entire game is to wait you out until your bank account runs dry.

I'm fortunate in that I'm wealthy enough to be able to front the money to drag the school district to court and force them to pay (though I'm only a bit more than a year into what is likely a 2-3 year process). But it became immediately obvious that anybody less fortunate is just simply screwed. Poor families with children that have moderate disabilities will never, ever get the funding.