skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s based on laws that can change at any time. IMO, people should be able to discharge them in bankruptcy around 15 to 20 years after graduation.

This is in line with the “total and permanent disability” escape method which has minimal impact on the larger student loan market. https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancell...
The iPhone 11 Goes to Disneyland
No company in its right mind is going to trust its brand to this.

Megacorps want an administrative solution--a clear target they can throw money and lawyers at if something goes south--rather than blockchain, where a disgruntled employee can run off with the private key and hose the domains for perpetuity.
Not unlike the way floating point rounding errors accumulate, in fact. The only difference is you can mitigate those to a degree by increasing the digits of precision, whereas that can't really be done on a mechanical computer.
This is awesome. Good luck! The (tentative?) mission patch is absolutely hilarious [1], I never thought I'd want this to happen so much until now.

I'll echo what someone said on Reddit, "No memes are beyond our reach" ;). I'd love to buy merchandise for this when it becomes available!

EDIT: for those interested here is the website for the mission: https://memesat-1.github.io/website/

[1] https://i.redd.it/tdopdp7m2tl31.png
An interesting hypothesis is that this is caused by everything else becoming much cheaper (because e.g. automatization), while teaching remains similarly hard as it was 100 years ago.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/10/book-review-the-prices...
Revolution will only come when China eats shit. Stop buying China shit for 1 year and you'll actually make a difference.
Because we can biohack that hypothetical problem by burning fossil fuels.
Why can't the person from Amazon reporting the bug just submit a pull request?
The trap with income based repayment is that after 20 or 25 years worth of payments less than the accruing interest the original principal plus all the capitalized interest is forgiven, but that forgiven debt is taxable income to the borrower. So the borrower has replaced a debt to the department of education to one to the IRS.
Usually, a government's diplomatic arm (e.g. US Department of State) serves as their "international PR" function. So yes, governments do "pay" for PR, it's just done by their own employees most of the time.

Hong Kong is a special case as they're not a separate country, so China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs handles all their diplomacy for them (for better and for worse).
Why education and healthcare cost so much?
Agree 100%:

- Announce price increase for new users to existing customers. Allow them to expand or sign longer term contracts to lock in the current price for X days.

- Apply new pricing to new customers & expansions.

- Migrate existing customers closer to new pricing on a timeline. I'm a sucker for heirloom pricing for your oldest customers :)

Understand where you are in the growth curve though; if you're growing 200% YoY and your early customers are thought leaders, then focus on new customer pricing and don't worry about raising prices. Oh, and whenever possible sell differentiated, mission critical products to businesses whenever possible.
iOS apps cant make iOS understand it's allowed to switch between Sprint and T-Mobile - Fi is an MVNO and rents access to their networks. Fi in iOS is locked to T-Mobile.
Copyrights and patents should be reduced to a maximum of 7 years and then opened up for anyone to use it. Society will advance far more quickly and good business owners will be able to bring competition and lower prices to everyone.
>the whole reason they exist is to manage the money supply.

That's a lot like saying the whole reason google exists is to help people find information. There are greedier reasons for these organizations to exist.
We're creating an S&P 500 index fund that aggressively uses shareholder engagement to get companies to reduce emissions through their supply chains.
Why didn't the problem reappear after the war?
> The relics may have been destroyed, but (most of) the people lived, some still living. Culture doesn't die with the relics, it lives with the people.

I would have to disagree with this. Those people are in their 70s now. And without relics, there is no anchor for cultural values.

Cambodia did the same thing and it has been a disaster to their culture.

The destruction of the relics was on purpose. Hence “cultural” revolution.

> its stated goal was to preserve 'true' Communist ideology in the country by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought as the dominant ideology within the Party

It was a deliberate attack on Chinese culture to solidify Maos power.

Your statement sounds too much like marketing speak without any substance. I think I heard it before. Oh yeah: Thor Ragnorak. It is low effort.
There isn't much of a student loan market. The overwhelming majority of student loans are made by the government with no underwriting and the rates set arbitrarily.
Router solutions tend to work only for static/controlled lans. Nearly 100% of my time connected to a network is not under my control (someone else's wifi or telco). Another problem with router and other solutions such as pi hole / hosts is that they apply rules in a generic manner without regard to context. eg. On my Mac I use Little Snitch to disallow any comms with apple, except when it's App Store. Appalled at the telemetry that vscode allows, I've gone back to sublime text 2.

On my Android, (sadly without root) I use NetGuard for similar purposes. I blanket disallow google for many apps. I allow carte blanch to my personal servers for apps that I use, but any telemetry of theirs is stonewalled.

In Firefox I use containers to separate FB/Twitter to their own hole, while I blacklist them in uMatrix for every other circumstance.

That said, things like doubleclick and crashlytics are fine to be black listed throughout a network.

My thoughts were more targeted toward a properly sandboxed os that gives users the chance to control on a port/ hostname level what is being connected to.
From the previous discussion, I discovered that the author used Monodraw to create the diagrams. I'm excited to check it out - https://monodraw.helftone.com/
Can you give concrete examples? For the software I use that is on a rapid release schedule, (Firefox, Chrome, Dropobox, probably others I'm not even aware of) I don't notice any sort of quality issue. The only "pain in the butt" is having to restart my browser.
> Sort of like jury duty, but with guns.

Jurors often report how serving on a jury changes their views on criminal justice.

I suspect that a similar mandatory, limited-time requirement to serve in law enforcement would do the same. And it might not be the worst thing to happen to the country.
I'm less sure. Juul would say that redirecting nicotine addicts to vaping over smoking has probably altered rates of uptake of smoking, and the market backs Juul and vaping which has led big tobacco to diversify and invest.

Oil and Coal ventures who own the underground asset have the choice of converting from gasoline production to feedstock for plastics and pharma and fertilizer, or just leaving it in the ground for future valuation. If they don't get capital raising its more expensive for them to develop new fields. I guess in some sense the de-carbonisation probably doesn't sheet home solely to investment decisions in coal and oil but I doubt its un-connected.
It’s unlike that add blockers are exclusively used by people who are completely unaffected by advertising.
In what situation would you want this enabled?
I'm sure Linux will be fine. Greg Kroah-Hartman seems quite capable of stepping up and is quite public as a figure in the Linux community. I can't think of anyone like that in the FSF. Hopefully they get someone good to represent the FSF with Stallman stepping down.
Waiting for their 2 billion dollar valuation.
I hope Backblaze lets me pay them to back up everything including /Applications, my home directory, and /Library one day.
I cannot believe that he has not faced criticism for those comments before now. In fact, I know he has.

So either he has very belatedly received enlightenment, or thought "uh oh, this one is about to bite me very thoroughly in the ass".
Wow, worse than markov chains.
The problem though is that you likely /cant/ pay for the privilege of living your rural life.

It cost $2 to $3 million to build the undivided 2 lane road for each mile out to your house. Assuming an acre per house on that road (both sides) (208 ft of frontage per house gives you 25 per side and 50 on both sides of the road) Then you personally would have had to shell out ~$50,000 to build the road...as would all 50 of your neighbors. More if the average property is larger than an acre.

https://blog.midwestind.com/cost-of-building-road/

Yearly maintenance of that road is also not cheap. Figures vary a lot based on location, but lets go with NY’s lower bound...$4500 per year per mile. You and your $50 neighbors would be paying about $90 a year each. Not bad.

https://blog.midwestind.com/much-cost-maintain-mile-road/

But, every 10 to 15 years your road will have to be completely resurfaced, which is about $625,000 per mile or $12,500 for you and your 50 neighbors (~$1000 per year)

https://www.alphapavingtexas.com/faq/asphalt-paving-life-exp...

And thats just the roads. You have to have a water/sewer system. You need power, telephone, cable, landscaping for the roads, snow removal (possibly), and a myriad of other services provided by your municipality.

You and your 50 neighbors are certainly NOT paying for all those yourselves.

In a city, that same mile of road likely costs $4-$6 million per mile. but instead of sharing that cost with 50 neighbors you are sharing it with 5,000 or more.

Anyway, I love the idea of a rural property. But let’s not kid ourselves into thinking that you and your rural neighbors are actually paying the true costs to live out there.

I’m struggling to find a blog series that talked about this in depth right now, but it’s just not financially sustainable to build/maintain rural and even suburban infrastructure given the economic base in those areas. We’ve really backed ourselves into a corner.
Right. Desktop software is also much more difficult to QA than server software because of the lack of control over the environment and the difficulty of rollback.
I think they must block catching Ctrl+C/V/X, because those key combos work for me with that flag.
> real meatspace!

I'm doing something like this as a hobby but only single agent. The input is camera images and reward is based on a stopped/moving flag determined by changes between successive images as well as favoring going forward over turning. So far, it can learn to avoid crashing into walls, which is about all I'd expect. Trying to find good automated rewards without building too much special hardware is difficult. It's a vanilla DQN.
It's not a cobra problem. If bugs get added "on purpose," which is a ridiculously cynical opinion of Stenberg's ethics, people can fork it and maintain it themselves.

$10K is way too cheap. I recommend putting some thought into the idea of business value.
> That venture has some ROI. The temporarily higher repo rates have to be compared to that. That venture's costs are temporarily going from .002 percent to .02 percent of capital invested. Either way, a small portion. I don't see the emergency beyond "I wish this made the higher profit I am accustomed to".

The difference between rates markets and, say, equities markets is that you think of your risk in basis points and not percentage points. A 10bp change in equities prices on a $1 billion book will cause $1mm change in pnl. However the $1mm dv01 treasury book (with notional $1 billion) will make or lose $10mm with a 10bp change in interest rates. You can see why basis point moves can be much more meaningful in the rates space.

Let's consider market makers now. They are mandated to make money by provisioning liquidity, not by taking views. This means that their return is supposed to come from earning spread and not from being positioned the right way on market moves. This often requires holding and financing hedged positions overnight. If your financing costs are >2bp, there's a pretty solid chance you're going to lose money on the positions you're holding, considering that you hedged them specifically to try to minimize fluctuations. It's not just a matter of making less profit as much as it is one of losing money entirely. Were such increases in financing costs to become prolonged or more frequent, there would be a deleterious effect on rates markets in general.
There are not 15 shows with that kind of residuals 20+ years our.
Author of the post here. I agree with you on this, at least in the early days. I don't expect any major company to switch to Handshake or even adopt Handshake. Realistically, adoption will happy in a bottoms-up fashion, starting with people in the jurisdictions that need it most. For instance, Spain shut down IPFS gateways when Catalonians used it to advertise the Catalan independence referendum. If the IPFS gateway was on Handshake, it would have been much more difficult to take down the gateways.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ipfs/comments/728tt4/note_ipfs_gate...
In most states, no, it is not a crime unless intent to burglarize can also be demonstrated. Simply having them or using them where you have permission is fine.
I recently started a blog to write about my experience learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. One of the best choices I made was using the bundled WordPress theme, twentynineteen, and not worrying about design. It's been pretty liberating and for now I'm just focused on content. I'll revisit the design at some point but worrying about the design in the beginning is almost like not learning to play guitar because you don't have a band name yet. Just start putting content up, the design will or won't come. Good luck!!
I think that arbitrage disappeared pretty quickly. Domainers have been around for a long time...
"Fix it yourself" is not a full solution to this problem. It takes time to review and merge pull requests. Especially if some well staffed team is dropping a large chunk of code for a relatively esoteric use case. It will inevitably take a lot of back and forth to work it into the right form for the project's primary goals, and it may never fit. If a company really depends on a project, it behooves them to contribute financially through a license or employment, or to maintain a fork.
Choosing not to profit off of fossil fuels may be a 'poor decision' from a financial perspective, but it's a good moral decision. The fact that our financial systems incentivize poor moral behavior makes them poor systems.
Hi all, author here. Wanted to give some more background on why I made this sheet, and why I think it would be cool if other people used and added to this sheet. I've been working to teach myself machine learning, software engineering, and stats for years now. The internet is full of helpful articles, curated book collections, and well-answered Stack Overflow questions, as well as gobs of less useful junk. My two biggest problems have been: 1.) Separating the good stuff from the bad stuff and 2.) Finding the right type of material for different stages in the learning process.
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Also if you enable “read dead” in your prefs on hn you will still see flagged and dead posts:

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Snowden is a national hero. Period. I don’t care what any one thinks otherwise, but we would be a more authoritarian and fascist place without Snowden, Schwartz, (whom YC funded and he was suicided), Manning etc
So fuck the #pedopaths and fuck anyone who is against any of the above and fuck you YC for being against truth.
This is what killed Aaron Schwartz
https://drop.space/watch/amazing-polly-epstein-stories-you-w....
He wasn’t stealing JSTOR docs - he was going after pedopaths and he went to the MIT media lab to get docs on the pedopaths and was then suicided because he knew the truth
And I’ll be downvoted by idiots who think they are smart and don’t know the real world we live in.
As an aside - where are all you jerks who work for palantir? Your company was just on NPR today talking about how you have been ghosting. If you work for palantir, you are a criminal, period.
I love the downvotes by the willfully ignorants. Keep them coming.
So, this kind of articles are news (wholesome truth) and has nothing to do with PR and tainting the image of HK govt. LOL.
Cutting Health Benefits of 1,900 Workers Saved Bezos What He Makes in Six Hours
50k as a percentage of Musk's net worth (20b) is the same as 25 cents for the avg. American (net worth 100k).

Few people would have qualms paying 25 cents to potentially get back at someone who annoyed them.
It's a crime if you're found in possession with intent to commit a crime: https://aizmanlaw.com/possession-of-burglary-tools/

Depending on the state, owning lock picking equipment without a licence is also illegal.
Helping first responders achieve more with autonomous systems and AirSim
Nope. But if I were, I still wouldn't develop exclusively for a proprietary monopoly.

We all have our own trade-offs to make. I don't blame anyone for focusing on where the money is. In the long run though, we'd all be better off with a competitive market than stuck with a single dominant platform.
The problem with allowing people to BK their student loans is that it creates a perverse incentive. If you BK over a car, it gets repossessed. But nobody can take your education back. A BK at 22-23 years of age is not a strong deterrent; you'll still be able to buy a house in your early 30s, which is when a lot of people plan to do that anyways.

You can make loans dischargeable, but doing so will drastically change who loans are made available to in the first place.
+1. Another benefit of rapid releases is being able to release major refactors behind feature gates. This approach was taken when Mozilla shipped an mp4 parser written in Rust [1]. By having rapid release cycles, they could spend a cycle or two verifying that the new component produced identical results "in the wild" before enabling it by default. If they had 1-year release they never would have been able to verify their implementation at such a scale.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/07/shipping-rust-in-firefox/
Like anyone would actually use such a testing service.

Until a few years ago it was fairly commonplace for sites to reject my perfectly valid addresses just because they had more than one period (i.e., a subdomain) or in one case, ended in the .us TLD.
With Stallman, I just assume it's a (bad) joke unless it's about Free Software. I feel like I've been right more often than not, so it's a good rule of thumb.

He's an eccentric character, and I'm sad that he's stepping down, but I also think it's for the best. He's contributed what he can, and I think it'll be good for someone else to carry the torch; sometimes a change of leadership is what an organization needs to refresh the vision and increase reach.
The 1 child policy was abolished in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#Abolition
The market is on the other end. Loans are constantly resold after being issued, which is why people regularly get new student loan processors.
Resolutions like this one are non-binding. The real power held by shareholders is to fire directors, so if a company's board doesn't comply with the shareholder resolution the shareholders can vote against the directors at the next annual meeting.

In practice, companies "mostly meet" or "completely met" their commitments in response to shareholder engagement 89% of the time according to a 2015 report by Ceres [0].

[0] https://www.ceres.org/sites/default/files/reports/2017-03/Ce...
Yea, I wouldn’t trust them. A person could make one small mistake on the application and then they are screwed. The Air Force can then force them to work for them or convict them of a crime. It seems like a way to coerce computer scientists to work on government projects.
Why does the USPTO do this? Is it a technical problem or a political one?

I remembered reading a story from the early industrial era, about an inventor who challenged another inventor's validity of patent and pressured the patent office to hold a demonstration for verification before believing the invention is true.

Software patent is probably a culprit that makes some of the previously impossible patents possible by doing it on a computer. But I don't think it can explain everything. Why has the USPTO became something beyond stupid nowadays? I don't think the patent office verifies anything these days, they only log everything and left all the actual business to courts, I'm not sure it's the best system. Is it because the model of a centralized patent office simply doesn't scale well for the tremendous amounts of patent? Or because of lobbyists? Or both (e.g. patent office doesn't scale well and the lobbyists and patent lawyers exploit it to apply stupid patents)?
I agree with some of the other comments here, this sounds too apologetic.

I'm signing up this weekend for a personal account to backup around 100GB of family photos and videos.

I've been using the HDD reliability data to choose my drives for many years and this looks much cheaper than S3. I was also impressed by being greeted as a linux user and sent to this page when I hit sign up: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001518354-Ho...
Apple uses their data today to create various products.

What the data gets used for later by Apple, the government or organized crime, when it inevitably gets stolen, is anybody's guess.
There should be an NEA for OSS.
Acting Intelligence Chief Refuses to Testify, Prompting Standoff with Congress
Best of luck to you and your game. I hope it's successful.
Can confirm. Early January 2018 I made $10k in a week because the BTC/JPY price was 10% higher than the BTC/USD price. It required a partner in Japan and lots of international money remittances though...
Likewise. I've known the name for a while, just never looked into it much. The prices seem very good!
I have met people involved in the NRA, GOA, and NAAGA just going about my routine - people at the grocery store, lyft drivers, sitting next to me on the plane, etc. If I see someone wearing a baseball cap or t-shirt of a political organization, I always ask about their involvement, and in several cases, people wearing a logo of these three organizations has turned out to be a fairly committed activist.

But of the two people I have seen wearing Everytown apparel, neither were involved in any material way.

I suspect that it is a tiny organization with a large budget.
How Sensor Tower Engineers Scaled to Thousands of Sidekiq Workers
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If you're a Full Stack or DevOps Engineer who's interested in working on these types of challenges, feel free to reach me at jasonyum [at] sensortower [dot] com, and I'd love to talk more.