skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just that the way things worked made them feel like they were being punished for trying to be financially responsible

100% feel you, as I my son just started UCSD. He was looking at a bunch of private colleges and I did the financial aid (for early decision) and it was really shitty. I felt that because I had so much equity in my house and no debt, I was screwed. And, when the numbers came back, it was true. Very little help.

I have a work friend who has a very close friend. They're both Dr's pulling down > $500k/yr, but with huge debt. Their kid got into Princeton and they paid $15k/yr. I was more than double that for some equivalent schools, but I make far, far less than $500k/yr.

Very glad he decided on UCSD.
What, that psycopg2 is busted?
The second one is important, thanks. I don't think that government money have any more sanctity than any other, but yes, transparency and well-defined RoE and accountability are important.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU-8Uz_nMaQ

Oh, look! Yet another conservative think-tank with “liberty” in its name…
Yes I paid $2500/semester (CAD) for my engineering degree in Canada. Living in the Bay Area has made me appreciate my people all the more.
Well I am. If you need to paywall your content, paywall it properly, don't just slap a semi-opaque div over the top of it and beg for my email address.
On the other hand, the discussion threads actually show that they have no idea what they are doing.

It's a good question what one could prosecute out of that and what to gain. There are so many open angles and I don't think there is any precedent with a fully opened company.
How it it quarantined? /r/OurPresident/ routinely shows up on /r/all and I never signed up for it or anything.
It's not that running fiber wasn't economical.

It's that overbuilding a fiber network when there's already a telco and a cable network isn't very economical. It is a pretty good way to convince the incumbents to upgrade to gigabit available speeds though, which makes overbuilding even less economical, but does solve the original problem of slow last mile connections.
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Patience, my friend. We're not quite there yet with this tutorial. We don't need sfence.vma for what I've covered here. Plus, there are about four ways to use the sfence.vma instruction (whether or not rs1 is zero or not and if rs2 is zero or not). I'd like to have some context behind each one of these four cases, but I can't do that in the OS's current state.
tl;dr: "Generally, whenever you need the derived class information in the base class, you are probably looking for CRTP."
This is firmly in the category of "not sure if it's satire or real".
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I’ll gladly give my house to the bank and rent again if it means everyone can afford a place to stay.
I've been thinking lately that half the US could opt out of public healthcare, the rest would subsidize them, and the per-capita cost on the payers would still be less than it is today through private insurance.
OK. That's confusing, and some brief DDGing finds a bit of a mess.

Got any recommended references?
> it appears all recent Roomba models require Wifi

Yeah, I ran into this problem when I bought a second Roomba. Fortunately, I found a retailer who was selling older models (at a discount, too). If that had not been an option, and if I couldn't find any reasonable used units, then I would have just not purchased one at all.
How much did this law professor pay to have the opinion piece published in the opinion section of the New York Times? Do you think a hyperbole about Mark Zuckerberg is comparable to a political ad full of lies?
Grade advancement and radical acceleration of the profoundly gifted in a 20 year study:

https://www.davidsongifted.org/search-database/entry/a10489
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But is it really worth it if you have to live in Alabama?
Pivot tables are quite useful for quick ad-hoc exploration of various different group-by structures with immediate feedback, empowering end-users who wouldn't be able to make the queries themselves, and waiting for someone else to do it would make it not worth it for exploration.

If the data allows that, then a data export (usually requiring a bunch of aggregation and preprocessing) to a format suitable for excel pivot tables or some of the many business analytics tools often is quite useful to users who want to analyze the data.

However, it should be expected that a side-effect of such ad-hoc data analysis often is specific reports that become understood to be useful, and which can then be re-implemented "properly" i.e. as a sql query/report that gets run in an automated, tested, reliable way and delivered where needed without that manual analysis step.
I hope all is well now, thanks for sharing.
SSN as proof of identity is stupid. Any time proof of identity requires you to share all information needed for the party to impersonate you to other parties you know that you have fucked up and undermined the purpose of such proof.

It a sane universe you simply share proof of your secret and we move on to discussing policies regarding data about you instead of data you have a direct interest in controlling.
I was thinking a laser rather than radio. In radio terms: very very high gain.

The receiver can be a mylar reflecting dish, which would be lightweight.

Use a gyroscope to steer the entire probe (both for transmitting and receiving).

They only need to communicate very very sporadically, and you only need a single bit of data transmitted (amongst each other).

Make some kind of schedule where the probes face each other, measure distance (i.e. time between send and reply), then steer toward the next probe.

To earth you would basically use Hubble to read the data (and let each probe send duplicate data back to earth).
Chromium actually does use DirectWrite on Windows. It's been active since Chrome 38.

https://blog.chromium.org/2014/07/chrome-37-beta-directwrite...
100% of problems one encounters while programming can be solved with C with goto. What's your point?
> Any move would be a 5x or 10x change in property tax bill.

Nope. Prop 13 allows moves in the same county with no change as long as the new places is of equal or lesser value.
I personally think Apple's designs are still considerably better than their competitors.

Tiny subconscious nuance is one of those reasons. Did you know that their app icons (and phones themselves) don't have perfectly rounded corners?

https://hackernoon.com/apples-icons-have-that-shape-for-a-ve...
Those are the Santa Cruz mountains. They already house many parks, and small residential enclaves.

However, In today's wildfire-prone climate, it is extremely unlikely insurers would ever offer policies for residences built there as the mountains are heavily forested and quite rugged.
It seems like Crossover is just a name for "I can't tell if that's a bulky sedan, a minivan with slightly bigger tires, a small SUV, or a short station wagon." I think statistics that classify them as SUVs are a little misleading because the distinctions are blurring.
Apple paid $10B in income taxes on $65B of income in FY 2019. In addition they paid billions in sales/vat/gst tax and various taxes associated with employees. Apple's tax structure in Ireland was not "deemed illegal". The EU retroactively declared that an Irish tax law was invalid. Apple complied with the laws at the time they were operating.

As far as I'm aware, Apple (as do most large corporations) follows various tax laws in the various jurisdictions they operate in. If you feel those laws are unfair then you should lobby your government to change the laws. IMO, blaming companies for the laws they follow is not a good way to fix the problem you see.
>Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy

And watch default rates rise, and interest rates on these unsecured loans skyrocket, so that very few can go to college, and even more people get screwed by them due to higher rates.

Or people will simply not get loans, since they'd become too risky, and less people will get college skills, likely hurting the entire economy over time.

Educating people is a good national goal. Balancing the various pieces is much harder than simplistic changes to the current system.
The idea that there's zero-cost to looking for jobs or switching jobs is incredibly naive, doubly so if you're American.
Independent editorials are independent.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21447815
MSI are the only laptops I have had serious "I give up" issues with trying to install Linux.

Bought one, found official company line is not supported at all, seems deliberately, gave it to my 15 year old.

It was so flimsy that six months of school bag transport, in special bag with laptop section, it is totally trashed. Flimsiest laptop I ever saw, by a long, long way. Plus for the specs, it was slow.

Luckily I was shelling out for the expensive but comprehensive insurance.

Steer clear of MSI.
$400k sounds a bit high, though it's not unheard of.

In NYC, there are thousands of public employees at MTA and NYPD collecting over $150K annually just a few years in service and I'm not talking managerial or chief positions. Some corrupt safety inspectors were reportedly collecting over $400K at the Long Island Railway years back and the governor promised to fix that (didn't), but those are still outliers.
Every LN app I’ve used—DropBit, Zap, Bottle Pay, BlueWallet—has totally nailed user experience.

LN will be the standard for micropayments in a year or two.
There's no reason to sigh, it is a pretty goofy thing to both specify the bits as separate from the permissions, and check them, but not fill them out.

Going through RISCS I've implemented MMU code for:

MIPS - Has what they call a Dirty bit, but no separate RO bit, the dirty bit is really the ~RO bit.

SH* - See MIPS (lol, that could be their tagline)

Sparc - Doesn't really specify an MMU, but the "Reference MMU" does specify that the Modified bit (AKA the Dirty bit) is filled in by the MMU

PowerPC - Referenced and Changed bits in the PTEs are updated by the MMU.

ARM - Doesn't specify any A&D like construct.

Am I missing any? I can't think of an arch off the top of my head that has separate A&D from RWX, and doesn't have the MMU fill them in for you. Well other than RISC-V, lol.
Surely it isn't "necessary" to take more than Calc II. But that doesn't mean that it wouldn't be good for some students to go further than that. The point is that in the setup described, no kids can take very advanced classes.

As far as privilege is concerned, it was a public IB school in Sacramento, and we had kids from all types of backgrounds. The average income (even in the IB program) was definitely lower than in other area high schools.
Usury was prohibited in Christianity until not that long ago.

"At the time, usury was interest of any kind, and the canon forbade the clergy to lend money at interest rates even as low as 1 percent per year. Later ecumenical councils applied this regulation to the laity." - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3161033?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...
Funny how little things change. In their 1999 book "First, Break All the Rules", Gallup laid out their findings from over 1M interviews that:

- People join companies for the vision, brand, comp etc...but they leave because of their direct manager

- The direct manager determines how long an employee stays and how productive he/she is during their tenure

The 2 main parts of the book look at:

a) how you attract and retain the most talented employees, what things matter to them the most (compensation didn't make the cut)

b) traits of great managers

Book still holds up, worth a read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50937.First_Break_All_th...
Can confirm. I live in such a place where this is happening.
But you have to be extremely naive to not believe it. Work somewhere near marketing and you realize everything is shilled upon you. The politicians have used these tricks hundreds of years ago, things are just different with a new platform.

Have you thought about the idea that you yourself are a victim of a marketing department if you believe every criticism is related to Russian campaigns?
3. That is not what GDP means.
this is quite a subjective opinion, some people prefer crisp rendering, other prefer smoother edge (even if high dpi screen render this comparison moot).

Then with font hinting, I would agree, but I am mainly working on windows, doing non graphic work and looking at wall of text all day long.
> You have no idea of how much you get screwed in the US

This is true of many issues the US faces that Europe has solved. Healthcare, education, income inequality, housing, transportation, gun violence...

Just go down down the list and it's easy to find "unsolvable American problems" that have solutions, and that we Americans are totally ignorant about or refuse to acknowledge, saying it "won't work for us".
In the final two years of secondary education — UK Sixth Form (college), roughly equivalent to US Junior and Senior years — I was in a selected math(s) class of just 12 students. Certainly the group of kids in the class all excelled academically at that point, and of that dozen many have gone on to be very successful (by a variety of metrics)

One point from TFA jumped out at me

— others shared that they’d learned they shouldn’t ask questions, as “gifted people are meant to know everything.”

I remember being astonished at this attitude at the time, that when the hardest problem sets were being worked through, consistently there was this sense that students were afraid to ask questions or make suggestions for fear of being wrong. The class kept moving because of a combination of no-nonsense teachers and a couple of students with a habit of blurting out the first thing that came to their head. Those students weren't often correct (I was occasionally one of them) but they definitely kept the class from stalling
The entrance exam is a fig leaf. If they admitted based on IQ scores directly then they would be open to direct and severe attack by IQ skeptics and anti-racists.

By using an entrance exam, they get to claim they’re admitting based on academic achievement but in reality they know that the test is highly correlated with IQ. All written exams are, for the most part.
It's frustrating to read these allegations as somebody who has spent the better part of the past year studying various exchange trade execution data feeds, and writing an algorithmic trading bot.

Yes, Bitfinex lead the market a lot of the time in the 2017 Bitcoin bull run.

Yes, Bitfinex "printed" hundreds of millions of dollars worth of tether, which was initially distributed to large players on Bitfinex and Bittrex exchanges, also poloniex I believe was in on the issuance contracts.

But that doesn't mean that Bitfinex fraudulently pumped up the price of Bitcoin.

In fact, that would be impossible, even if they tried to fake the price higher... as they would lose tons of real money to arbitrageurs in the process...

The (nano)second that any one single exchange gets out of line in terms of price, there are trading bots out there that notice that, immediately buy up as much BTC as they can on every other exchange that is below that price, and then immediately dump 100% of what they just bought on the exchange that is out of whack (Bitfinex).

And if they weren't losing real money to the arbitrageurs, (presumably because they restricted USDT withdrawals which has never happened for more than a few days straight at most), then the arbitrageurs wouldn't be buying up Bitcoin on every other exchange that is not Bitfinex and selling it for USDT or USD fiat... they would simply ignore bitfinex as a fake volume exchange.. like 50% of the exchanges listed on coinmarketcap currently are.

There is a reason that Bitfinex was leading the price pumps... they were the main gateway to millionaires the world over buying into the crypto ecosystem.

You had to give iFinex at least $100,000 cash wire in exchange for USDT to get into the game, and there was a waiting list for that "privilege".

Some exchanges shut down their registration page for months because the KYC processing backup was so severe.

There was real demand for Bitcoin back in 2017.

Finance is difficult for most people to understand.

High frequecy traded crypto finance ecosystem with synthetic-USD, USDT, USD, TUSD, USDC, etc. is especially so.
We need a $3/gallon gas tax in the US. And/or completely stop subsidizing oil production.
It is possible to find real WWVB clocks, but note that most of the cheap "auto set" ones just have a lithium battery to remember whatever time was set at the factory.

It'd be cool if WiFi routers could broadcast the time unencrypted, for use by passive receivers, but that would get annoying if one near you is set wrong. Perhaps there could be a trusted source of signed timestamps, and a receiver just takes the maximum.
Of course not.

That's a loaded question. "the question attempts to limit direct replies to be those that serve the questioner's agenda." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question)
Is it a long-acting medication? Doctors seem to diagnose me with anxiety/depression or ADD/ADHD. The antidepressants don't help. Does the ritalin "work" all day, or do you have to redose it?
Big tech companies are prone to making mistakes as well, but the difference is that as a general voter the disaster of the Amazon Fire phone or forcing a U2 album download to every iTunes account doesn't generally have impacts on my everyday life if I choose to not participate.

This sounds like a great way of only diverting resources to those who already have it, and also of creating company towns that have historically been bad for workers.
> Wouldn’t this be an unconstitutional basis for breaking up a company?

Smells like to me that everyone knows Zuckerburg knowingly took money to run targeted campaign ads from foreigners. Which is both criminal and pierces the corporate veil. If the next government can prove it in court they can kill Facebook. And the stockholders can claw back all of Zuckerburgs wealth.
Firefox manages to do decent but the point is that just because a browser is standards compliant doesn't mean websites will look good in it if everyone is only developing for Chrome. It's not that Edge or Firefox are bad.
Like I said, there are more but I dont want to mention them publicly.
can WSL mount a volume ( like a xfs formatted file ) ? which could offset the ntfs performance issue ?
Weird, why are there other dense urban centres in the world without the problems the bay area has?

Why don't apartment buildings get built here?

I've heard a lot of people claim earthquakes are the reason.

What does Japan know that California doesn't?
I've heard a lot of people in my own circles use the word publish to refer to posts on private platforms like Facebook that aren't publicly accessible.

It is a bit redundant, but I wanted to be certain I got across, "you have the right to put information on the Internet where everyone can see it, not just to post in someone else's walled garden."
I’d consider that a good thing. How many basket weavers are really needed in the world? My biggest concern is that politicians will make basket weaving degrees free, forcing me to pay (through taxation) for these over supplied degrees, and then being forced to support unpaid basket weavers on UBI.
I am a believer in your overall point that people don't change easily, but the criticism against the Gates Foundation is pretty thin considering how long it's been around and how much money they've spent.

> Honest curiosity will lead you to understanding how the megalomaniac in Bill is still alive and well.

I'll bite. Where is your evidence of Bill Gates being an egomaniac in recent history? The 3 points made in your link are underwhelming.
Many of the problems that the median software developer is working on can be acceptably solved with o(n^2) ideas which are the types of implementations that the median developer can reasonably think of "on the spot" with little prior training. Or the job is HTML CSS and basic js.

However many interviews demand many rounds of demonstrating o(logn) ideas quickly, which I would argue takes x months of preparation, not x weeks or x days.

I think its still very important to learn these structures, but the way they are applied in brain teaser format is not effective at finding the best all around candidate in terms of salary, general skills, sociability, iterative ability, etc.

And that's just taking the process at face value. Some interviewers will take this exercise to its extreme as a reason to deny you and make themselves feel good by giving you genuinely obscure and difficult problems that even Linus Torvalds and Guido admit they can't solve today in a reasonable time frame.
They did this because their employees are feeling the pain of the housing crisis. I'm almost sure of it.
Seems like the gifted kids are teaching the rest of the students. Maybe the school should be paying them a salary for doing their job.
Amen to this. I was separated (went to Stuyvesant HS in NYC) and it made a world of difference for me, as compared to JHS or elementary school. Prior to Stuy, I was bullied like crazy, beaten, and it was very difficult to try and fit in with many of the others around me who, frankly, just didn't give a fuck. It really sucked.

Stuy was a different world, and the first time in my life I felt the opportunity to actually just learn, and not have to hide my report card or test scores as soon as I got them, because doing "too well" meant a beatdown after school.

2/3 of my MIT admission essays were about this experience, incidentally.

[edit 1] Aside: one additional anecdote is that I was constantly getting in trouble before Stuy; I was always bored, because the work was easy, and nobody ever gave me additional work to do, so I would talk to the other kids. I was always an extrovert, and very bad at being bored; I could not sit in one place and just stare at the wall, or pretend to listen to a teacher drone on about some geometry thing I already knew. So I got in trouble constantly for distracting the other kids. That stopped in Stuy, because I wasn't bored; I was challenged.

[edit 2] The other corollary to this, of course, is that on the last day of JHS, after having held my reactions entirely for nearly a decade, and just taking the beatings...I finally lost it. It was really bad, and on the last day of JHS I went absolutely apeshit on this kid for pushing me around and punching me, after I gave him three warnings. Easily one of the top 3 least proud moments of my life. That could have been avoided, too, though you could make an argument a large part of that was also due to it being taboo to actually talk to someone about your feelings in the 90s. I never wanted to fight back because I was afraid of hurting them (I had been training in martial arts for like 7-8 years) and because I didn't want to get in trouble. It was dumb.
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