skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, thank you. How about lead-acid battery charging or discharging?
When I was 17, I crashed and totaled my '77 Ford pickup because I slid out on wet pavement. Everyone said I needed sand bags but I loved being able to peel out so easily. Live and learn.
>Why is the assumption "universities are private endeavours that should make a profit" something that goes unchallenged...

Hmmm:

>Robert J. ZimmerUniversity of Chicago

>Total Compensation: $1,625,136Base Pay: $1,090,844Bonus Pay: $100,000Other Pay: $286,484

https://i.imgur.com/b7omZa4.png

https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/executive-compensatio...

https://i.imgur.com/RZRqtQu.png

https://i.imgur.com/k2TIG8d.png
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The main reason that resources are concentrated in those places is because they're nicer places to live.

You would have to pay me an absurd amount of money to move back to the midwest.

Not everyone has the same priorities as me, but I think it's a mistake to think people are only moving to those places because of jobs.
I think it's likely that basic electric vehicles will soon be cheaper than basic gas vehicles. Right now, batteries are the biggest part of the cost (if you want long range), but they're getting cheaper all the time. If you're optimizing for low cost and mass production, you don't need rare-earth permanent magnets in the motor or battery chemistries that require cobalt.

Power grids may be a problem, but it's possible to solve in a decentralized fashion by installing solar panels and/or wind generators near the place where the car is being used. Right now, solar is more available to wealthy people, but there again costs are coming down and in many cases solar is cheaper than buying power from a utility.
I feel like this "pig" example may not be a very good one. It's clear the farmers were paid not to breed pigs for a good reason - overly low prices due to oversupply. The United States has passed similar subsidies to address our agricultural oversupply. Canada's done the same thing, quite infamously with their dairy industry.
What is unique to California is not the success or wealth of the ascendant industry, but the incredibly poor policy response. There are many cities in the world in a similar or even more severe situation than California cities, with regards to successful industries that pay high salaries. Bankers and traders still make more money than software engineers.
Sounds like you have some real problems in your society for that bad experience at school. Surely if you're the gifted individual you claim you are, you'll want to change society rather than seclude yourself from it as much as you can get away with. The non-gifted kids, whatever the fuck that means, don't deserve to bullied/abused either.
Agile shares a lot in common with practices mentioned in „Mythical man-month”, which in turn was based on the good practices from the Voyager era.

Also, extreme programming was based in part on the TDD from Mercury program, iirc.

Having said that - yes, cargo cult agile sucks, we all know that.
I have exactly the same experience as the previous commenters, I was also basically rescued into a (learning-)conducive environment and I'm seriously thankful for that. The alternative would've very likely been awful because I've seen on a good friend of mine what happens when there isn't an opportunity to get into a "magnet school". It basically caused clinical depression and such a strong distaste for school that it made completing even high school basically impossible.
Population decline in and of itself is not a bad thing. The societies and structures we've created, such as public pensions, do rely on continual growth though and without it will face a crisis.
> The government should not back private loans, period.

It's a good thing they don't, then.
You're encountering basically what I've seen myself when trying to use any of these P2P services. Most of them don't work at all, and those that do seem to work too slowly to transfer a file of any reasonable size, even on the same WiFi. I have no problems with any other transfers, including torrents, which all run at full speed. But WebRTC stuff just never works for whatever reason.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21341158
How about the people who have entered retirement failed to save and have all their money tied up in their homes according to multiple studies.
Oh of course, I need this to dry my clothes I will not wear for days right now!! How silly to have to wait 2 hours instead of 1 hour
More people need to talk about what Purdue is doing. They’ve held tuition constant for 8 years since Mitch Daniels took over.

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2019/Q1/purdue-anno...
As I read the article, the claim is not that the alleged fraud occurred exclusively through the Bitfinex exchange.

Rather, as is stated fairly early on:

> Working with partners, flood those Tethers onto crypto exchanges all around the world
So we shouldn't care about improving how the lower performing kids do, since they aren't going to win Fields Medals or develop new medical procedures?

This is a super tricky question to answer... how much extra achievement by the top of the class is worth how much extra achievement by the bottom of the class? There isn't a simple answer.
Plus, what do you do if you have 4 kids? $200ish might be ok, but you don’t want to give only your eldest a university degree.

The $76k figure is median across all US households, I’d be more interested in the median amongst those aged 25-45, which is basically the ages you’d be saving for university (and even then you have to take into account that your income at the start of that range is not going to be what it is at the end).
> gold is exactly the same

Gold is similar. It's got more history. But it's more difficult to transact with. Bitcoin appears to be this generation's (late-boomer to early-millennial) gold or trading cards or what-have-you.
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> OPINION: Separating ‘gifted’ children hasn’t led to better achievement

This is an opinion piece, it is not evidence based. Why was "OPINION", which is part of the original title, removed?
Any benefit that's passed out will go through nine hoops of doubt and support an entire agency of people before actually distributed.

Any fines however, is administered quickly and efficiently.
The thing is, coal has been used for baseload, which is horrible. Coal produces around twice as much carbon per unit heat as natural gas, and baseload generation runs 24/7.

Use nuclear for baseload and solar for daytime demand and even without any storage technology, you limit the need for generation from fossil fuels to the high demand period in the evening after the sun goes down. Then add in demand-based pricing to load shift anything that can be (like charging electric vehicles) into the solar generation period.

Going from burning coal 24/7 to a couple hours of burning natural gas in the evening is a huge reduction in carbon emissions.

At that point it's a question of economics. Alternatives exist -- synthetic fuels produced in the daytime with energy from solar generation and then burned at night, biofuels, etc. They're not used because they're more expensive; impose a carbon tax and maybe they're not.

And that's assuming no one comes up with anything creative. Here's an idea -- run a nuclear reactor 24/7 equipped with thermal storage. Then you can store the heat from the reactor during the day when you can get cheap electricity from solar, then use the stored heat to satisfy the few hours of peak demand in the evening after the sun goes down, then generate electricity directly from the reactor for the rest of the night until the sun comes up.
Anyone has a non-paywall link to this article?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

I don't know much about finance but isn't the argument that "USDT isn't really backed by 1usd = 1usdt" therefore whenever you are using USDT is like buying bitcoin with nothing (or close to it)?
That seems a pretty straightforward way to prop up the price if there are not enough checks in place to make sure that every order has a balance to back it up and every balance has whatever asset deposited somewhere to back it up.

Bitfinex would be losing relative to other exchanges but would make a killing anyways.

I'd like to believe they are regulated somehow so that they couldn't get away with something like this. Is there any info available regarding this?
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But this is what almost every other economy around the world dreams about -- a large amount of new highly-paid workers increasing the tax base and dumping buckets of money into the economy. Municipality after municipality has tried to create such an environment (Amazon HQ2 being a great example), and in almost all other municipalities, developers would absolutely jump at the opportunity to build housing and other infrastructure to accommodate this new industry (and profit).

And in most other locations with land and/or lax building policies, this isn't a problem. This is a feature. But in California (and NYC to some extent too, back to the HQ2 example), developers can't soak up the demand. There's no land left, and upzoning isn't an option.

So yes, it IS California's fault. The money is there -- the article being the most absurd example of it, but the land use policies aren't. Free up the land, let people build up, and you'll have 5x the housing in a matter of years.

California can't even build an In-N-Out, let alone multi-story dense housing.

https://reason.com/2019/11/01/california-nimbys-sue-to-stop-...
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I mean, think about it, what's the most minimal, lightest, cheapest form a motor vehicle could possibly take? It would have wheels, of course, some sort of frame to attach everything to, somewhere to put the engine, and somewhere to put the driver. That's it!

You appear to be describing a motorbike.
> compared to the bullshit made up about Trump (paying hookers to pee in a bed Obama slept in, which got REAL mainstream media coverage thousands of times).

This is so absurd. Given the quantity of bullshit, self-incrimination and self-contradiction coming out of his mouth, it's really hard to imagine feeling a need to make up more...
Is there any data on what % of student loans are spent on things other than tuition? You have things that could be school-related like laptops but then you have kids paying credit cards with student loan money.
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The sage-on-a-stage also comes with socializing both during and after lessons, that can't be replaced with computers. If anything, I think it'd cause a lot more sadness than the current system.
I’m sure it’s intentional (this is a well-thought and well-executed feature). I also understand the logic.

I feel uncomfortable with it.

It creates patronage relationship between people and a) I personally do not want that kind of relationship and b) maybe I’m wrong (or stretching it a bit) but it feels like that’s not really the kind of relationship the tech industry needs more of.
Old Nokias still do that! I'll be sad when mine dies.
Is Bitcoin getting less volatile?
One of the root sources of US research productivity per dollar is that so much of it is done by graduate research assistants who are much cheaper than comparable employees in industry.
When I was in middle school in the 90s, I think around 7th grade (~12yo), the school district experimented with a new way of organizing the student body where they separated us into six distinct, equally sized cohorts based on some evaluation of each student's performance and capability. From what I could tell it was rougly:

1. Gifted / clearly university-bound

2. Potential college prep

3. Community college

4. Normal underperformers

5. Little hope, likely will drop out

6. No future besides unemployment or prison

You took all your classes with your own cohort, rarely had to interact with anyone outside your cohort, and coursework was tailored to your level. It was glorious. I went from boring, slow classes and having to run and hide from tormentors to appropriately paced coursework and always interacting with friendly, nice, smart kids. My childhood mental health went on a noticeable upswing during this experiment. Too bad it ended around 3 years later and I was thrown back into the prison "general population" full of kids whose talents included arson and filing other kids' teeth down in the metal shop. Not sure why they ended the program, because it really made school bearable.
It’s pretty ugly.
Right, so it raises the question: What is the relative importance of helping the best students verse helping the worst students?

Even if we solve the talent identification problem, SOME kids are going to be the lower achievers.... are we willing to sacrifice helping them do better to help the top achievers do their best? How much are we willing to sacrifice in either direction?
This difference between tracked and untracked math experiences was illuminated recently in a survey we gave to San Francisco ninth-graders and ninth-graders across another large district, where all students are in tracked groups. The San Francisco students were significantly more positive about both mathematics and their own potential. Importantly, the San Francisco students were also significantly more likely than students in tracked groups to say that they enjoyed solving complex math problems, and that work was at the right level for them — neither too easy nor too hard.

So is the topic achievement, or is the topic their feelings?

In a Postmodern twist of language, we've rhetorically connected a statistic around feelings and a statistic around achievement, but those are two separate items.

They eliminated advanced math classes until 10th great? I'm EXTREMELY happy I'm old now, because when I was a kid ANY class I took with the average or the below average, I was bullied.

Some people are better thinkers, some people are better as leaders, fighters or lifters of boxes. I'm sorry, Postmodernists, we're not equal and never will be.

In NYC they're wanting to remove the gifted and talented classes not because they don't work, but because of racial disparities. The idea here is that we should all fail together, since equality is most easily achieved by trimming the top.
Tether claimed to be backed by fiat at 1:1 USD.
Clearly there are bad bosses. But there are also bad employees and a good boss probably seems like a bad boss to a bad employee.
>assuming that a civilization is still on an increasing curve of propulsion system velocity

I think this is the error
More probably you will be waking up to the ads.
> Like saying Jill Stein is a Russian asset because literally 1 post in 10,000 (from troll farms) mentioned her as a "redirection" effort.

That's not why Stein is called a Russian asset; they did the same with Sanders, who acknowledged and rejected what they were doing when it was discovered, and wasn't nearly as often labeled that way. Aside from the difference in each candidates response there's other behavioral differences including, well, things like this:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/guess-who-came-dinner-fly...
They usually use test results to measure achievement, though, and the smart kids can't do that for the other kids (at least assuming they aren't cheating)
I think Americans need to be a little more discriminating about tossing around “non-profit” without qualification. Many public and private universities are essentially hedge funds with schools attached to them. This money is used to do everything from real estate speculation to handing out patronage jobs to well-connected elites (and often not to running the schools well or humanely, e.g. all the labor issues around perpetual adjuncting).

That a given university is a non-profit tells you almost nothing about whether it functions like a state-funded school in a social democracy. Many are actually quite predatory in terms of saddling students with tuition, fees, unnecessary courses, etc.
Well, no. The mars rovers lasted quite longer than expected but not that long.
There's nothing wrong with getting a refund for voting if you have to travel for it. Not refunding this travel could prohibit fairly poor people from voting. The idea is to encourage voter participation by removing the financial obstacle to voting.
I don't think it's useful to differentiate "functional" programming from "function-level" programming as if they are different paradigms, especially in light of e.g. Conal Elliot's work "Compiling to categories": http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/ where he has built a compiler extension for Haskell that converts it into a point-free form very similar to Backus' "function-level" style of programming.
I always feel like my most valuable lessons from school was about how to live and interact with people of different types. I learned academic stuff outside of school... it was learning to deal with dumb people, bullies, smart jerks, dumb teachers, stupid rules, etc that were the lessons most important to my life.
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> "we're a publishing platform not responsible for the content that's being published"

Can't help but notice that this kind of argument never really worked for torrent platforms.
No, German automakers will kill the German Car.
I’m not criticizing people working on the problem. I’m criticizing the viewpoint that we are right around the bend and the fight is almost over. This is an unrealistic viewpoint.

We aren’t right around the bend. There is no indication that governments will stop subsidizing oil. Personal transportation might be electrified, but it’ll take decades and meanwhile other pollution sources would have grown to eat out the progress gained.

It’s unknown how far we can reasonably advance solar and battery technologies. It’s likely that raising global wealth and raising global population will result in raising global consumption (and pollution). Electric airplanes are decades (centuries?) away from taking over significant portions of air traffic.

This is a hard problem. You’re patting yourself on the back and pretending that we’re almost done.

We don’t have the political or economic structures to solve this problem. We don’t have good enough science or engineering to compete against fossil fuels. We don’t have enough time to build either.
> "Because I'm in tech."

Yeah, there's something about being close to software that makes it more frightening, not less.

As Randall would say: https://xkcd.com/2030/
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Yeah to me this just sounds like another case of trying to force Windows to be Unix. Its ok if you want Unix and are used to it, but to say Windows is no good because it isn't Unix is just wrong.

The author didn't even seem to try to learn the Windows ecosystem or tooling at all. He didn't check out Windows package managers (scoop or choco), he didn't try to learn powershell (which has a ton unix tools built in), and he didn't even try to use git on windows which can check out a repo just as fast as any other system!

Additionally, I dont think its fair to blame Windows for the Docker company's failure at making their product work on Windows.
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Loss leader to get you to trade more. The existence of USDC makes it easier to move in and out of crypto positions, and to send crypto to other exchanges without taking on exchange-rate risks. Coinbase's business model is to take a fee whenever you transact. The more transactions you make, the more money they make.

It's similar to Google's "make the web faster" efforts (Chrome, V8, AMP, mod_pagespeed, hosting JQuery & other AJAX libs, developer education). If the web is faster, you visit more pages. If you visit more pages, you search more. If you search more, you click on more ads, which makes Google more money.
It's only not shocking because we've normalized the absurd in this country. In what world can someone earning around median US yearly income (about $32k) pay $8,834 a year in tuition + housing costs + normal costs of daily life? Now account for the reality where being successful at both a full-time job and in a full-time student role is effectively impossible, where that $32k/year disappears.

Let's assume that the average high school graduate is an outlier, some financial wizard or an uneducated but driven high-earner with the wisdom and ability to save an entire years' base income for a college fund before they're out the high school's door, giving them just around enough to pay for four years of tuition at a cheaper public university.

So let's assume they have some kind of neat free housing deal where they work the dorm cafeteria and get their meals free as well.

They would then also have to be one of the 33% of undergrads who actually complete a degree in 4 years in public universities to wrap this miracle up without debt.

This person doesn't exist. And yet, achieving a debt-free college education at a reasonable age has been possible in previous decades and continues to be possible in other nations.
Your example with agriculture doesn't really support your argument that dependency chain analysis is 'utterly pointless'. Agriculture is more important than physics; we would never prioritize physics research over food. So this example seems like a success for this analytical method.
> Just don't ever connect it via WiFi

Anecdotally, I have heard reports about smart TVs occasionally auto-connecting to random public, unencrypted networks that are in range so they can release whatever 'payload' they have.

I haven't confirmed, because I've never bought a smart TV.
The relevant Wikipedia article to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loans_in_the_United_St...

The relevant paragraph:

> Prior to 2010, Federal loans included both direct loans—originated and funded directly by the United States Department of Education—and guaranteed loans—originated and funded by private investors, but guaranteed by the federal government. Guaranteed loans were eliminated in 2010 through the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act and replaced with direct loans because of a belief that guaranteed loans benefited private student loan companies at taxpayers expense, but did not reduce costs for students.