skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No they went and rolled their own in true Google fashion
I think I remember hearing at one point that a degree in forestry was a very sought out degree at University of Montana. Enough so that they alone graduated more students with forestry degrees than there are annual opennings in US Gov or private industry.

I dont have a reference for this, just anecdotal from when I grew up near University of Montana.
> Why was it necessary to change student loans to being non-dischargeable in bankruptcy? That is a recent change

It was in 1976, not very recent.
My understanding of the main issues are:

1. Private colleges that spend a lot on marketing, cost a lot, and don't provide a worthwhile degree, nor transferrable credits. Think about all the unaccredited "tech" school advertisements all over the TV a few years ago.

2. Getting degrees that aren't marketable outside academia, such as Mideval Literature, etc. As an incoming college student, I had no idea what was a marketable career and what wasn't. Universities probably don't undermine their own departments either, so it can be a crap shoot.

3. Very expensive private liberal arts colleges, like the one Steve Jobs dropped out of.

I'm sure there are other pain points, but a kid that gets an in-state, public college degree in something he can earn a living doing isn't much of an issue. Typically, it's the vultures that pray on government programs intended to help the citizens.
1.4 billion divided by 175 million is eight.

So a cheeseburger each, basically.
and fibrechannel, and various other protocols too. The point being that ethernet+IP/TCP is uniquely poor/difficult at offload and the minimum packet sizes are tiny.

TCP is genius for a WAN, but unlike most things designed in the past 25 or so years, robustness precedes performance.
I'm guessing long-term unsecured debt in five to six figure amounts is ordinarily really hard for an 18- to 22-year-old to get, no matter what they're spending it on, and if they somehow manage it the interest rate would be very high. Making it non-dischargeable was likely intended to fix those problems. (not saying it's a good idea, but I'd imagine that was the plan)
>Why was it necessary to change student loans to being non-dischargeable in bankruptcy?

To keep interest rates on student loans low and to make sure the loans are available to 18 year olds with no credit history.

There was a real problem with medical students racking up huge sums, declaring bankruptcy when they were making low money during residency, but then making 6 figure salaries a few years later.

>It seems like student loans should be treated like any other unsecured loan.

Nobody loans 18-22 tens of thousands (and 22-26 years olds hundreds of thousands of dollars) in unsecured loans.

And look at the interest rates for other unsecured loans. My credit card rate is 19%. Earnest gave me LIBOR + 3% on 200,000 dollars of student loans.
NEVER EVER EVER SIGN A CONTRACT WITHOUT READING IT FIRST.

EVER.

From anyone.

Seriously, anyone. If your best friend in the entire world hands you a contract, read every word. If your mother gives you a contract, READ EVERY WORD.
Also, JSON and its ilk.
What would happen if we forced universities cosign the loans that their students take on?
> ... as acceptance of this kind of tech becomes mainstream.

It's not a foregone conclusion that will happen.

Recent weeks has shown increased mainstream media covering privacy aspects - often through the lens of creepy Facebook/Google/Amazon.

So it's definitely possible there will be sufficient push back to stop this crap becoming too ubiquitous.
I pay YouTube not so I don't see ads, but so my kids don't see ads.
Many things deserve denunciation—so many that if HN is to host denunciatory rhetoric about all of them, that will soon become the theme of the site. We don't want that, because this site already has a theme: intellectual curiosity, which can't coexist with denunciation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No agenda here, but I saw this exchange as a chance to mess with the Hackernews API, "what is the percentage breakdown of dirtyid comment subjects?" (Just based on simplistic keyword search)

Total Comments: 201
china: 139 (0.69)
lifting: 16 (0.08)
podcast: 9 (0.04)
unknown: 37 (0.18)
Well, but you can't take that much money out of an ATM, in my experience. And if they stab you anyway, after you give them what you have, what do you say? "We had a contract!"
Hypothetically Speaking, would an updated Mac Pro Trash Can fit your needs.

I have been wondering why they dont just keep making the Trash Can Mac Pro and call it Mac. Sort of like a Cut down version of Mac Pro and reusing as many component as possible, except swapping the Xeon Processor for an normal Intel Core X or i10.

I mean they invested the whole production lineup for Mac Pro Trash Can, might as well continue doing it.
Sure, but I'm not surprised when people don't want to polish things the way I do. I'm surprised when they let things go to waste or spend their time doing boring and pointless things. Like, even Genghis Khan probably spent some time thinking about ways to take cities without having to fight so much, right?
Mine ended up getting shuffled around until it became Mohela. Once there it's stayed there.

Wikipedia: "The Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri, aka the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority or MOHELA, is one of the largest holders and servicers of student loans nationwide."
> This isn't strictly true; you can buy notes from people.

Haha, sure.

> It sounds like the basic idea is that you "preorder" Kong with Ethereum, and then you visit a physical location (the "contract instance") to receive your cash ("Kong token"). If my understanding is correct, then this isn't outside of your control at all — you (or the "contract instance") can simply refuse to issue the cash.

Nope, it's in a smart contract that can be deployed into perpetuity.

> What if someone counterfeits Kong not by wholesale faking currency, but by duplicating valid notes in circulation? The public key would be the same, so they would both pass offline verification.

Section 2 in the paper explains how difficult this would be do. You need to duplicate the private key from a secure chip designed not to reveal the private key.
It sends a signal that the Chinese government will defend businesses based on China, which is valuable in itself. It could inspire more Chinese people to setup businesses in China and not migrate to the west, it could encourage businesses in other countries to compete with Chinese businesses on merit and not with threats by their governments etc.
Focals 2.0 – Arriving in 2020
You also tend to end up dedicating cores. That is a side effect of spinning in a loop checking for the next packet/queue processing rather than waiting for an interrupt.

There is also the additional overhead of VFIO/IOMMU's which can easily eat double digit perf vs doing the processing in a trusted kernel context.

So with a normal machine the cores/etc are balanced between processes, with DPDK/etc thats hard as some of the cores will be 100% consumed in those spinloops even if your experiencing 5% line rate.
I think being able to charge at home or work is probably a more accurate statement.

that said, there have beens steps to help renters:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
Case in point: In the UK I can buy 20kg bags of sand from Amazon for ~10-20GBP, or a 1000kg for ~50 GBP. Both including delivery. I still ended up buying a bunch of 20kg bags last summer, exactly for the reasons you point out - 1 ton was too much and impossible for me to move other than by bagging it up myself...
This just means sleeping areas require a window
1% of 1% (so .01%). Is refusing large bills an effective countermeasure? If so, then yeah — not really an issue. Our economy somehow grinds along just fine.

> Sure, the physical objects are made by someone. But the digital tokens to which they refer are produced algorithmically, and the digital tokens are the source of truth here.

In what sense? The whole idea here is that I can exchange a physical note to transact with someone.
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> ... the intent is there to not do that.

For now. Or so we're told.

Unless a court order (or bribed employee) decides otherwise. ;)
I'm curious on the timeframe here.

Depending on when you graduated, a couple of things changed:

- college pricing increased (duh), so a loan balance for a comparably situated student will just be higher for recent grads

- median incomes for college graduates have risen a lot slower than the increase in college costs, so repayment will be more difficult at the median. (Even in engineering, this is true. Starting software engineering salaries ca. 1996 were in the range of 1.5x all-in fees for a year at a top private college. This ratio has moved decisively against students. Carnegie Mellon is quoting $74k for a year of education now, so the ratio is closer to 1.1x. Obviously it's easier to pay back loans if you earn more relative to the cost of the education. The numbers will be worse for people not pursuing a select few STEM degrees.)

- employee health insurance premiums are frequently on top of these numbers, making the arithmetic worse for payback.

- I'm sure there are other factors, especially when you add that some students go on to pursue fields (e.g. law) where similar dynamics are at play as well.

So yeah, it's worse now than it was even a couple decades back.
It's simultaneously true that people believe or at least repeat any story that triggers their prejudices and that people discount anything that violates them, particularly when they haven't seen it firsthand.

So just because those impulses are opposed, doesn't mean that one is more right than the other in general.
Most active newsgroups 1987 – Guess the top three
I thought this was amusing/surprising. From Life with Unix (1989), p224-5 :

Statistics indicate that the ten most active newsgroups (in order of activity) at the
beginning of 1987 were:

soc.singles discussions related to being single

soc.women discussions of women’s issues

rec.humor jokes, limericks, and other humor

comp.sys.ibm.pc discussions related to IBM micros and clones

comp.unix.questions questions related to UNIX

comp.sources program sources

rec.autos discussions about automobiles

misc.consumers discussions of consumer interests

comp.unix.wizards discussion of experienced UNIX users

comp.lang.c discussion of the C programming language

Yes, that’s right. The topic of interest to most Usenet readers is single’s issues. From
our research, we conclude that a UNIX programmer is three times more likely to use
Usenet to discuss what to do on a date than how to implement shareable libraries.

Just remember to delete the first three newsgroups from the top of this list before
trying to use it to justify Usenet to your local management.
How does that work for people who receive a large portion of their compensation in things like equity in a private company that is extremely hard to value?

Would these plans result in the proliferation of odd compensation schemes to get around these repayment plans?
That would count as a requirement in my book - reclaiming as much time as possible from my local development process so that I can spend it doing other things.

I bought an entry-level trash can Mac Pro on launch and it's my daily driver to this day. It's still great but is outclassed by the new MacBook Pros in every way except noise levels. I'm sad that there is no $3000 base model like there was previously, because I really enjoy having development workstations.
Another possibility is that the changeover from incandescent to LED bulbs in streetlights has led to excess circuit capacity that is usable for curbside car chargers at the light pole.
Physics in idealized situations is incredibly useful, and more importantly, absolutely necessary for understanding non-idealized real situations, so I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
It is based on a global population of browser usage, which is effectively a (dynamic) hardcoded list, that is also specifically filtered for a certain level of popularity and above.

Your interactions influence the default list, minutely, but also only if it’s a popular site. The distortions remain.

Apologies if we have different definitions of hardcoding. I’m not suggesting this list is a compiler argument. Just saying that a Google list decides whether a domain can autopsy video, instead of a more open web approach like “HTTPS can do this”, which is used for many features like WebRTC.
Only the top X sites are included in the preloaded list. Google designed an explicit popularity filter.

If it was interaction only (so my site with 50 users that all interact with video make the list), that’s fine.
Those restrictions are enforced quite healthily in hostels across the US at least.
Patch Tuesday, December 2019 Edition
I agree wholeheartedly; my time is my only truly nonrenewable resource. I trade money for more time whenever and wherever possible.
I've ignored every single drop so far but the idea of a crypto economy through a chat app is a really good idea.
CNN – More big honkin' hard drives in 1999 – January 21, 1999
I see that too. Most of the young engineers at my workplace never had a cheap car in their life. Their expectations are definitely much higher. I make quite a bit more and drive a Kia Rio. The young people almost all have cars that cost at least $10000 more.
I will be launching the program sometime tomorrow for sure.
"I know of more than one junk car that's been dragged out of a particular swamp"

Could you provide more information about how this...is a thing? Where it's reasonably plausible to find the owner? And a felony?
Yo snow the five-o came around looking for you the other day...
Is there a widely supported alternative not already based on Blink or Webkit?
At Google’s scale, I HOPE they have an internal team dedicated to building out their own HIBP, and at the very least scanning employee credentials on a near real-time basis.
A lot of people just don’t pay for insurance given the facts.

A Family of 4 in their 40s are in for what, $1800 a month for health insurance? If your total income is $5000 a month you just don’t pay it.

You still go to the ER when you get real sick, but you just deal with it then.
That is definitely not why Vancouver has a housing issue. We all know why Vancouver’s housing market is distorted.
Parking minimums force low density and thus car dependency. Much better to build densely enough so that people don't need cars to live, and have many opt out.
I feel like keybase is great as a key-management platform and _that's it_. I found it to be a fairly pain-free way to manage a pgp key, and the ability to associate it with a public social media identity is super cool. I don't really get why all the other features are needed, and if there's a better platform to do key management easily across devices I'll jump ship in a heartbeat.
You had to register your wallet to receive gifts after September. I'm assuming many people just didn't know. I hadn't used Keybase in a while and I just found out about the XLM giveaway.
Wonder how this kid will feel about his parents in 20-30 years?
Selection effects. The job listings everyone sees are the ones going perennially unfilled.
When you’re google size and investing engineering and cryptography resources into building security features, applied at scale to a billion* users, you probably want assurance that this list will he maintained for as long as you want it to be maintained, AND for no third parties like HIBP to enumerate over all google emails.

* random number.
Wow. I contributed on most and lurked on most of the rest.

rec.autos

Or as we called it, "wreck dot autos"

comp.lang.c

Cue Henry Spencer's .sig quote of Ritchie: "NOALIAS must go. This is not negotiable!"

rec.humor

Which degraded in quality long before Eternal September, hence Brad Templeton's moderated rec.humor.funny
OK don't put too much time into it if you have problems. The version on the website is ancient and may be a bit crap. New one coming within a week or two.
Family requires compromise and, like diplomacy, cannot effectively function with unlimited transparency.
I agree that it should be hard to read private communications of individuals without a warrant, but I also appreciate your type of response. I'm also pro second amendment and find it funny that some types who are strict constitutionalists of the fourth amendment are the opposite towards the second amendment.
I'm not exactly sure. These programs are still in there trial phase anyway.

The one program that I looked into had a relatively low cap on it, like $60,000, so they only take a cut of the first 60k. Plus the majority of people (i.e., outside of engineering) don't get equity anyway.
The Growing Challenges of 5G Reliability
Because it is an unsecured loan. It would be too easy for a newly minted graduate to declare bankruptcy, discharge the loan, and move on with their life. The only entity stupid enough to loan money to students in that world would be the government.
Queensland student sues Chinese consul general, alleging he incited death threat
It's not true, but not for this reason. 100% of old enough buildings couldn't be built again in exactly the same way. Codes evolve over time.
There’s a whole bunch of non-games in the Xbox store
None of which are time zone aware. Potsgresql on the other hand...
Ios and Android keep Bluetooth on to support things like air drop and location services. You have to dig deeper in the settings to fully disable it.
There is also the building code related things, you can't build a texas dogtrot, or in many cases middle eastern compound style houses (thick walls, high concrete fence) anymore either. Never-mind outhouses, despite them being all over parks/etc these days under the name "composting toilets".
Mostly: Poor people live in these, or even worse, poor black people.

Most of the zoning laws were not written recently, and they do carry a heavy burden of being both anti-poor and racist.
"ie, fraud shouldn't be protected with the corporate veil."

Isn't this the opposite of the corporate veil? The corporation is not being treated as a person, and the actual person is being held responsible.
https://kinder.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youve-heard-h...

“We do have a lot of land-use regulations,” Festa said. “We still have a lot of stuff that looks and smells like zoning.”

To be more precise, Houston doesn’t exactly have official zoning. But it has what Festa calls “de facto zoning,” which closely resembles the real thing. “We’ve got a lot of regulations that in other cities would be in the zoning code,” Festa said. “When we use it here, we just don’t use the ‘z’ word.”
Huh? Whole bean coffee doesn't cost any more and some grinders are quite cheap? The vast majority of poor people have smartphones, and those are much more expensive.
I think it will once the media declares it more of an emergency. It seems that the magnitude and exponential nature of the growth is forgotten and that soon enough it will reduce the demand on many products and services.
That doesn’t sound like he dropped out. This sounds like his parents pulled him out once they discovered that would not get a Guinness record by proxy. What utter pillocks.
The Day Jeff Bezos Gave an Amazon Employee Extraordinary Advice After Epic Fail
How does Bluetooth leak the device manufacture, make, and model? Is there some sort of Mac?
The person you're replying to was talking about building codes, but then you started talking about zoning laws. These aren't at all the same thing.
The HHGttG game was directly released for CP/M: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...

‘Bureacracy’ seemingly wasn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game)

...but like HHGttG it targets the Z-Machine, and third-party interpreters for Z-Machine files have been written for probably every platform under the sun. It's also possible that executables from HHGttG can be repurposed. This post seems to support the latter approach: https://retrocosm.net/2011/01/03/z-machine-interpreter-for-c...

Both games are maddeningly hard, btw. I don't think I finished either of them.
I moved from a single level apartment to a two level home with a staircase. I'm sure that increases my risk substantially.
Is your project inspired by 0x10c? The graphics look amazing. I ended up using Irrlicht which .. does not look amazing.. but it has support for dynamically loading arbitrary 3D models which was more important to me for now since I am focused on Lua scripting for it.

I added a physics engine and started working on a demo with a jet/ship thing controlled with a C64 assembler program but it had a lot of work left and I will have to go back to it after I get more basic stuff going.
It's pretty good for end-to-end encrypted chat and file sharing. I've used Telegram, Signal and Wire in the past, but I've found Keybase to be the best for my needs.

The cryptocurrency wallet feature is not useful for me, but it hasn't really impact me in any negative way, so I don't mind it.
> On the other hand, the 'nineteenth century technology' of secret ballots is both obvious and simple. It's a shame that people like Vitalik are so dismissive of it.

You can't write smart contracts based on secret ballots. The dream (well, one dream) is to have governance based on an ecosystem of programs that can vote perhaps hundreds of times a second. A lot of democratic procedure is built to work around the limitations of physical voting; this could qualitatively change the way decision-making works.
Linotype operator? Type setter?
I think the originalist supreme court members cut a lot closer to the original truth than your interpretation, at least with regards to Madison, and Jefferson.

Arguing that the 'well regulated militia' clause is a requirement rather than prefatory is something that original documents do not back up. Painting the originalist movement as a bunch of shills doesn't seem to be fair, or helpful.

For Madison's opinions, see Federalist papers 29 and 46
https://constitution.org/fed/federa29.htm
https://constitution.org/fed/federa46.htm

Important takeaway with regards to militias: both papers argue that a generally armed populace is a necessary but not sufficient requirement for the fledgling nation to maintain it's own common defense.

Jefferson's opinion given in a letter to John Cartwright many years after the fact (duty to possess, with no regard to serving as a part of a well formed militia. Duty to serve also referenced separately later in the letter):

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-4...

Keep in mind also that we know for a fact that arms were kept for private use by the Hamiltons, as well as at Mount Vernon and Monticello, they were far from tools of the new federal estate to be taken away upon their existence becoming troublesome.
I went on a guided tour in Australia early this year and the topic of occupations came up. Our tour guide said he used to be a cartographer and then switched to being a tour guide because "Google put him out of business". I honestly didn't know what a cartographer was so I googled it and it's someone who makes maps. I can see why he became a tour guide and why he blames Google. I wonder about all the other cartographers out there; perhaps cartographer should be on this list.
So many people argue against regulations, not realizing how much absolute shit they'd be up against now without them. People being electrocuted by their homes used to be a routine thing, for example.

It's like how we have anti-vaxxers now that the memories of what the vaccines cure are so distant.
$400 for wheels. sigh.