skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a non-sequitur response to the point 'harryh made. Regardless of the underlying moral dimension of college financing, you can't rationally extend dischargeable loans to students, because they can default and discharge the loan with minimal impact on their life. If dischargeability became the norm, most students would simply not be able to obtain loans at all.

That may be a good thing, as 'harryh said. But that's not the point: the point is, at the point where you make student loans dischargeable, you might as well just concede that you're eliminating them altogether.
Fandom under fire: how fanzines helped sci-fi survive the Blitz and beyond
Since a few years ago, you were also able to use the BLIK system to transfer money instantly for free between most banks, by only knowing the recipient's phone number. To be fair I can't imagine anything more convenient.
My tuition pays for g suite.
This situation sounds like more of an indictment of the media and sensationalist journalism more than the entrepreneur himself. People make mistakes and say stupid things sometimes, after all, they’re human.

Expecting leaders to be perfect 100% of the time will only result in leaders that are good at appearing perfect.
> Engineers would spend at least 30 minutes building, deploying, and monitoring their changes through multiple staging and production environments, which consumed a lot of valuable engineering time

Man, startups have no idea how good they have it. It took a solid week to deploy a change at AWS.
Almost every months Microsoft make a more or less major gift to the open source community, this is beautiful.
They are the new "benevolent" Google and it's no surprise they're now the number one open source contributor of the world.
Yes, I pay all my bills by bank transfer (house, electric, internet, settlements with friends etc). It's the most common payment method here (I'm in Europe).

PayPal et al are barely used here because the bank transfer system is free and frictionless.
> Where would you even start to be able to get value out of this data?

It's an interesting question, but I think there are a few obvious easy places to get value (UX on common operations, most common error modes/corrections, etc.)

In my experience the problem is more that devs apply logging or telemetry where it is easy rather than where it is insightful. So if you didn't design the system up front to capture user behavior with some granularity you end up with a bunch of questionable proxies for it, which are hard/impossible to interpret.
So you are calling the Department of Education a mafia? The Department of Education is the "student loan industry".
Yes. There was no issue. Then people raised an issue. They responded as requested to the issue.
The bankruptcy exception is the root of the problem.

"the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978". https://info.legalzoom.com/did-laws-effect-preventing-bankru....

Price of college since then: http://blog.unibulmerchantservices.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
Yes, they had.
This is a big part of my problem with git.

The existence of a feature is not the same as a solution to the problem. All of these little tools that exist in the git toolspace are not automatic. Every developer has to add it to their already pretty long set of git rituals.

That's bullshit. We can do better than this.

Point me to a git feature that works when I do 'git push' or 'git pull' otherwise I'm not interested.

I'm also not interested in hearing people imply that people aren't smart enough if the tool doesn't suffice, and there's a very, very large concentration of that sort of asshole in the Git community. I don't make my tool decisions based on what I am smart enough or not smart enough to get. I make them based on what I'm willing to teach, my anticipation of how often I will have to be preempted to support others who don't get it, and what I'm willing to juggle when a production issue has the entire management team hand-wringing on a day when I'm already having a bad day.

Give me stupid-simple and dead reliable or it's not helpful.
Similar story here. I received no financial aid. Worked full 40 hours including weekends and it really impacted my ability to learn and explore new ideas with peers. Still graduated with about 15K student loans too.

The people really getting the short stick are middle class kids who don't qualify for aid and cannot afford it out of pocket.
Not the OP but afaik the Soviet sudden collapse at the end of the '80s took almost all Western spy agencies and their governments by surprise.

On the other hand I have read a declassified early '80s CIA report (too lazy to search for the link right now) that nominated two relatively young communist apparatchiks as potentially having the chance to replace Romanian dictator Ceausescu. One of them was Ion Iliescu, who in fact did just that in December 1989, after the Romanian "Revolution" (the other one was Virgil Trofin[1], who had been demoted to running a State agriculture farm where he suffered a sudden and mysterious death in 1984). As a matter of fact just as they were about to get shot Elena Ceausescu reproached to her husband: "I told you that we should have killed Iliescu". Not sure if the powers that be in the States acted or not on this piece of good and accurate CIA intel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Trofin
This is what happens when you start to overpay your HRs
That could be it, although I guess they also have some earlier kit that seems to be capable of more. But maybe this can too - the 'screenshots' on that page show things an Apple I doesn't do as it is, like display lower case letters. I just have a hard time seeing how the end result can hold a kid's interest. An Apple II can be made to fill the screen with rude words in a line of code!
A partial answer is also the US's approach to banking regulation. First off, the US prioritizes having many small community banks. The US has 4,909 banks, while Japan has 198. This necessarily makes setting up inter-operation between banks more complicated.

Second, US banks are regulated on both a Federal and State level. A system that works for a bunch of banks in California may not be viable for interoperation with banks in, say, Georgia.

In short, US banks cannot easily set up a way cheaper system with the vast number of banking partners they'd need to coordinate with and the large amount of regulatory systems to navigate.
The Apple II is significantly more complex. In particular, its video output architecture is constructed around the DRAM refresh cycle, making it difficult to replicate without duplicating most of the original system.
16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes
> I was describing the erroneous reasoning it was making prior to the fix. I should have written: non-nullness of 'node'.

I think you're misinterpreting the error in the compiler's reasoning: unless I am misunderstanding you, it doesn't seem to match the comment I linked earlier. The reason -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks did not help is because it only kicks in when you use a NULL pointer in a way that is undefined, but that's not what's occurring here.
It’s my understanding that Obama had a specially locked down device, not just the off the shelf blackberry/iPhone.
How is Tranposit different than IFTTT?
There are few brilliant female developers. Even fewer good presenters. If the talk given by female is strong and interesting, it is really enjoyable.
But if the talk is weak comparing to the other talks given by males, it is not helping with diversity, but only makes argument what women not good in science stronger.
If I’m attending conference and instead of attending interesting talk you have to listen very weak presentation from female because of diversity,
I’d feel really bad about the organization of conference.
I think you can expect a CEO of a company not to call their own products "crap".
>Lots of people look at a Macbook and see an overpriced computer that costs a few hundred dollars more than a similarly equipped PC, albeit in a pretty case.

I was shopping for a dev laptop about a year or two ago, and it was more like double the price rather than just a few hundred dollars more.
If I wanted to use RTP for my business- do any third-party processors offer it already?
I feel the argument but I think I would need different examples to better understand.

There are reasons for owning a watch other than "tell the time," which could include "tell the time accurately without ever needing to change batteries," or "tell the time and date," or "tell the time while scuba diving."

Rolex may be overkill but different watches serve different roles, and it's not just brand name alone that makes Rolex cost orders of magnitude more - in many ways, it really is just that much better of a product. Same for Camry vs Porsche.

An Apple product, particularly a Macbook, on the other hand, not so much. It's a nice aluminum chassis over crappy, cheap internals that break so often people throw around words like "class action" to describe the keyboards. It's like cramming a knock-off Timex movement into a Rolex case.
Ethiopian fossil reveals face for ancestor of famed ‘Lucy’
Just to extend the discussion.

What does a murdered family member entitle you to? Should all homes be able to be searched in America because someone was murdered and the crime not solved? Should all other rights disappear in the hunt for your family member.

There has to be limits to the extremes.
Well, isn't it a similar process to ring prices? Everybody thinks spending few month of your life to finance some brown people exploitation is a way to show commitment and other desirable qualities for a mate, so doing so is advantageous.
Bet they don’t tell you that if your footage turns out to be useful you might end up tied up in the legal system for weeks and missing work and income
Those companies are not able to transmit money with the same scale and security as wires.
What are the downsides of this:

Mandate that all (accredited, therefore regulated) schools charge a percentage of future earnings, rather than tuition. The market between employers and colleges will sort itself out. Every prospective student would know ahead of time what percentage of future earnings (up to some cap) they'd be giving up, per school, and would weigh the perceived value of the schools against the percentages they take.
The photo is low res, so can't say for sure, but I expect it uses a microcontroller of some sorts to generate a composite video output.
Thanks very much for your reply, super helpful!! Sorry if that was difficult to answer. I guess I'm interested in how far we've gone from TTS engines like the LPC [1] engines we had in the 80s, or what you get from festival [2]. Maybe there isn't as clear a separation between their methods and the modern Google-scale deep-learning approaches as I thought.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_predictive_coding

(e.g. as seen in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A)

[2] http://www.festvox.org/festival/
Double edged sword IMO. If you use Zelle and off a digit in a phone number or email you are out of luck. No way to recover funds once sent.
They are terrible in motion. My opinion, though, mind it.
How does Thunderbird and Evolution compare these days?
> The whole point of an HSM is that those keys cannot get out.

On paper, sure. In practice, not so much.
In reply to tptacek:

"at the point where you make student loans dischargeable, you might as well just concede that you're eliminating them altogether."

Have you ever gone through bankruptcy? Luckily I have not, but from what I've read it's a horrible thing to go through with serious consequences to your finances that takes a minimum of 7 years to overcome.

I think the cost of college would drop 10x. I went to Duke, and the gardens and pools were lovely, really, but perhaps some tables and books would have been the more appropriate use of my tuition money.

I do agree the IS bit was somehwhat a non sequitor, but there is a common thread here I think when people try to put property and ownership rights on things that nature doesn't make that easy.
I was slow to warm up to John Oliver. Now I'm fascinated by "explainer journalism" and the void it fills.

It blows my mind that comedians now have the moral and factual authority, forfeited by the nominal news and pundit people.

Further, it again shows that anything taken to its logical extreme becomes the opposite. Roger Ailes (and others) had the keen insight of treating news as entertainment. John Oliver (and others) have taken that notion full circle, restoring the "inform the audience" role.
I think it's intended to be a kit for children rather than a strict 'replica'. A no-solder kit that ends up pretending to be some ancient computer can pretend to be more or less any kind of ancient computer.
Does anyone use thunderbird to manage rss feeds? I’m basically looking for a list view apple mail clone but for RSS (bonus points if full articles open in a readability-esk popup window).

Basically everything on the market for mac os is either depreciated or another 3 panel clone. Three panel apps are an ipad layout, I own a macbook. Give me a dense list.
exFAT will also be available on other devices like cameras android phones
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20816774
C doesn't have a flat memory model, other than within objects. ISO C doesn't even define the behavior of comparing two pointers to distinct objects for inequality, as in p0 < p1. Only exact equality: p0 == p1.
The Hours Before “I Have a Dream” (1963)
There are many levels of poverty and wealth.

You're right, very poor families making $20k per year will qualify for need-based financial aid.

However, "middle class" families making $50k may not. They're sharing expenses and the kids are working just to stay in a house and have a car to split among the family members, and it feels like there's not enough to go around for day-to-day, but hypothetically enough to send one kid to college. Maybe they have two kids and the younger is a high school junior, FAFSA will assume that all the available money is available to send the first to their freshman year and not plan for next year.

But if they're making $150k/year, they can have a lawyer and accountant help them structure their funds so that the kids do get financial aid.
Did Facebook choose to erase cryptocurrency competition at the end of 2017?
Morgan Beller started working on cryptocurrency and blockchain at Facebook in 2017, and was initially the only person working on Facebook's blockchain initiative.

Facebook vice president David A. Marcus moved from Facebook Messenger to a new blockchain division in May 2018.

First reports of Facebook planning a cryptocurrency, with Marcus in charge, emerged a few days later.

Confirmation that Facebook intended a cryptocurrency first emerged in May 2019.

But Facebook Inc. was banning ads on its social network that promote cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings and binary options, since January 2018 [0]

Was Facebook decision to create a cryptocurrency, made by the end of 2017?

[0] https://fortune.com/2018/01/30/facebook-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-ad-ban/
See this, too. Happy to share code/implementation details.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1f2k6fsIkDmIS1WyJAT0l...
There was one interesting alternative way to send money through a network of some honest man. For some I believe middle-eastern countries it at least used to be the only way. Does anyone know what that was? I got told by a film crew that found this to be the only way. It all worked out for them.
> the Trump administration in June began to demand that foreigners who apply for U.S. visas disclose their social media handles and profiles. Some 15 million are expected to fall under the new rule.

Can you imagine reading that sentence in 2001 and _not_ imagining the future as a dystopian place?
Maybe from a marketing perspective, sure. But from a truthfulness perspective, I think you’ll find that most people are annoyed by the fake opinions that come from most businesses. Indeed a number of companies have been successful specifically because they talk like real human beings and readily admit the strengths and weaknesses of their products.
As someone who has worked on integrating with BACS (UK version of ACH) they have the have the same code.

https://gocardless.com/direct-debit/receiving-messages/#audd...

"2 Payer deceased You have attempted to set up a DDI on the account of someone who is deceased. Extremely rare."
They do, to Stanstead and Luton.
Alas there are some pretty generous tax breaks on gifts.
Previous threads on this one:

2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1405698

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1110283

Diamonds are Bullshit:

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17184539

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9251952

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403988

Diamonds Suck:

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17186457

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12944464

Another one from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109318

Diamond threads are forever.
I could see something like this being used to pick parameters like the adjusting the size of a hash table based on the data it's holding in order to optimize memory consumption, or adjusting the degree of a B-tree. That might yield some great results.

But the suggestion here is to that anyplace we use heuristics we instead use neural nets, including places like schedulers. But using heuristics doesn't mean it's free of guarantees or provable properties. When you start replacing things like a scheduler with neural networks I start getting nervous. Are you telling me that maybe my memory could get into some weird layout that happens to be a false positive in my scheduler algorithm that causes all kinds of mayhem with my system? I don't think I want to sign up for that.
He's never said his planes are unsafe.
Other budget airlines with few customer perks like southwest have survived crashes with a less stellar safety record.

True, but Southwest does not have a CEO that openly flaunts their being cheap either.

They've never had a major crash in almost 35 years.

I once won 15 hands of blackjack in a row, but then I lost a hand. Even the most expensive airlines eventually have fatal incidents, and it would be statistically improbable for Ryanair to not eventually have one as well. They may have an amazing safety record and stellar maintenance program, but the nature of flight is such that it is likely to eventually happen (perhaps through no fault of their own) if they are in business long enough. Whether “cheapness” will actually be a factor in that incident or not, people will take his prior statements and run with them.

All I was saying is that making such statements in a high-risk industry is not a fantastic idea, as those words may come back to bite him.
I was on the team who built this, five years ago. I left Microsoft about that time ago. I don't have information on how and why decisions are being made now.

Having worked at Microsoft though, if your team cannot guarantee that a feature works on a browser that uses some non-standard things, is a decision that product will make on how to proceed. Display a warning or just don't support? Perhaps there might be security issues in the future the company wants to avoid this way, knowing they could not patch it? And so on.

Beyond speculation, I don't have much more to offer.
I thought the administration at the time pushed the WMD angle, while the intel said otherwise?
You know. I get why this is down-modded... but in the end it's actually a beautifully succinct description of exactly why god is compelling to some people.

(Obligatory, "as an atheist" disclaimer)
>"If you look at the ingredients, they are super-highly processed foods," Mackey told CNBC. "I don't think eating highly processed foods is healthy. I think people thrive on eating whole foods."

>He added: "As for health, I will not endorse that, and that is about as big a criticism that I will do in public."

Well, okay. He's not saying eating animal-based meat is healthier, which is what a lot of people are actually substituting plant-based meat for. According to Wikipedia at least, CEO John Mackey is also either vegetarian or vegan so probably doesn't endorse eating any kind of meat.
I don’t know if you can have a planned economy with honesty. The incentives are all messed up. Hell, you can hardly have a natural economy with honesty. Even with the natural balances that don’t exist in a planned economy.
I think mafia is a poor word choice. At least the mafioso didn't pretend to be saints.
How was that sexual harassment. She had sex with Bill because she was attracted to him. It’s not sexual harassment just because a man with power has sex with a younger woman.
You still don't know what sites are doing right now, even with all of your ad-block extensions.
English page, though for the US market it says "not available": https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/rentmycpu/9nr0k759tvqq?sou...

I think there isn't enough information on the page to make an informed decision before buying. No information what software run, how it is kept in check (sandboxing, maximum CPU load limits etc) and what kind of rewards are available.
>> Linux was stuck with 8.3 length filenames for so long.

How so? I never had that problem.
Some don't eat anything "involving animals", nothing pollinated by bees, but others go with "not exploiting animals" and are ok with bees so long as it is natural pollination. Such vegans draw a line between natural pollination and the commercial delivery of bee hives to pollinate fields. Those hive often don't survive.
That is, many academic "scientists" are not actually scientists.
What externalities are they not paying for that other airlines are? Or is this a complain against all airlines?
Craft Beautiful Equations in Word with LaTeX
Almost all companies are governed by dictatorships.
Not to minimize your frustration, but if you put yourself on the other side of the hiring table, I could see "spark" as a coded word for "soft skills." The good news is, it appears that because they spent a significant amount of time with you and they had that many interviewers involved, they were very seriously considering your offer.

An EM role is going to be less about your technical competency and more on things you talked to them about. If you think back to what you were asked and the stories you shared with the hiring folks, maybe try to reflect on your lessons and behaviors in your stories. Were you considering your organization's top line goals when you pushed your team into finishing a project. Were you considering your direct reports' own career goals. Were you displaying empathy and asked the right questions to understand some bigger meaning? It's hard man to see any of that on your own, I know, it sucks, but the recruiter is busy talking to 100s of people and if you aren't going to be a sure bet, they have to cut their ties and move on.
Hiring externally for any role at any company is very normal (e.g., FANG companies hire external EMs all the time).
Ah, bummer, thanks for letting us know. We'll look into the magical CSS incantations necessary to fit those in well on mobile. Cheers
Source should be changed to https://propublica.org/article/university-of-illinois-financ...
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