skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the story "Understand" by Ted Chiang. The protagonist gains super intelligence, and subsequently becomes a person of interest for the feds. One of his tactics to hide his identity was to change his gait and overall demeanor.
I would consider a distinction between financial ruin and death to be fairly significant. That doesn't mean I think a system that so frequently results in financial ruin is acceptable.

My intention is not to say "you're just broke, you're not dead". Quite the opposite. My intention is to say that health care access is not limited by whether you have a job - it's whether you have money. Plenty of people have money but no job and even more have jobs but no money.
Seems like you are mixing two different concepts in to "required".

If it is credential inflation, then is it providing value? Or as the grandparent said, is it just moving value around?

Are more jobs requiring college degrees because they are the most efficient way to increase productivity? Or is it because they are an easy filter, and more people have college degrees?
Missing link to article.
It isn't maintained, see "population bottleneck"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Other_an...
Even if you want to buy into the mysticism that indigenous people somehow have a magically quality to them that mean they can beat modern science with it's satellites, thermal imaging, high speed computers and databases and simulations.

You still get stuck with their magic is from 200 years ago, which if you want to believe either climate change or the induced foreign species has fundamentally changed the under growth and as such the magic no longer applies.

But I guess if you're into the quite racist idea they have magic this wouldn't matter because once you have magic you can do anything. Except perhaps think indigenous people are like us and can become lawyers and IT nerds and even have science based climate jobs.
As a general comment and talking about myself exclusively, it's a new kind of fatigue that I would call "oh look, another programming language".

There are quite a few very interesting and solid languages out there. One example for something that's not nearly well enough utilised or used widely is OCaml -- although in its case the lack of true multicore CPU support definitely cripples interest. But the language has an amazing type system that catches a _TON_ of errors (maybe even more than Rust's compiler, not entirely sure). And its compiler is just lightning-fast, fastest I've ever seen in fact. And it is multi-paradigm language (OOP and functional, and a lot of interesting typing constructs on top, half of which I don't even understand). Etc.

Not advocating for OCaml by the way (I work with Elixir and am looking to get better at Rust lately). It's just an example demonstrating that, again, there are a good amount of very solid languages and runtimes out there but we the programmers are so busy either (a) belonging to tribes or (b) being so damn busy we can't look beyond the tech we do our daily job with -- and then a lot of excellent tech gets left in the dust. :(

Mercury might be one of these tech pieces. And it's definitely not the only one.
Let the kafkatrapping begin.
Is that the average amount borrowed or the average amount still owed? If the latter I am not sure how useful it is. It would be more useful to know how much students need to borrow today (or in 4 years time).

In NZ the median student debt at end of study is just $17,000 NZD but that includes people dropping out after one year, non-university diploma courses and students whose parents paid for most of it or students who worked while studying and paid as they went.

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/impact-student-loan-debt
How to Get Vaccinated Without Parental Consent
^ This. These links/directories are best used as a 'set and forget for a while' tool so help drive organic traffic over time, definitely not a silver bullet.
Only the very best Division I programs generate positive revenue: https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/growt...
But you went to Georgia Tech. Most schools with athletics programs are not Georgia Tech. The last time I saw Howard memorabilia was in US.
Just because it's in /r/opendirectories doesn't mean it's in google or on the first pages.
Most football programs are not self sustaining: https://college.lovetoknow.com/campus-life/does-college-foot...
> I know these are often big bombs but 900 tonnes a year‽

Remember the Allies alone dropped _millions_ of tons of bombs, yet alone the tens (hundreds?) of millions of tons of shells fired across battlefields, and we've not even started counting grenades and other similar smaller ordinance.

900 tons is _nothing_ compared with the sheer amount fired in the European theatre, especially across both World Wars.

Also remember many of the prolonged battles were essentially fields of potted mud: along with period fuses, many of the shells simply landed in soft mud to slowly sink in.

I think it's definitely the case that many of those less involved in the European theatre (v. the near universal conscription of men in Europe) don't realise how intensive much of the fighting here was. These are wars that went on for years, often with the front lines scarcely moving for months, with continuous bombardment for the entire time.
I'm not sure that's terribly useful without the story of how they got that much debt.
I've used this one for years http://jodies.de/ipcalc this doesn't seem to offer anything further unless I'm missing something?
>>do you have any data on that?

No one does as it is not tracked or gathered. The loans are made and no one gives a shit how it spent

All I have is anecdotal evidence of people that I personally know that spent money in this way

>That said, housing, car payments, and paying down credit are all normal things that happen while you’re in school.

This is true however I do not believe they should be paid for with Educational Loans, Education loans should only cover the cost of the actual education.

> Though, it’s a loan with interest, so there’s no clear reason why there should be any restrictions on how someone spends it.

If they were private loans not backed by the government I would agree and no longer care.

> these seem like good reasons to do away with student loans and subsidize higher education 100%.

No, just no. I pay enough taxes thank you.

> Other countries are doing it

Good, if everyone was jumping off a bridge would you do that was well

That has never been a good reason to do anything.

I would rather reform K-12 Education to make it where most jobs can be preformed with that level of education, this idea that ever person needs a degree is moronic to me.

Our basic education should be enough for 80% of the population to enter the workforce and be successful, Higher Education should be limited not normalized
Compare that to UMBC right up the road. Full-time tuition for a year is under $12k, plus a few thousand in books and fees leaves you at less than half of your private schools number less financial aid. And everyone gets aid if you're instate in MD.

Go to public schools, live at home, get out with little debt. It's really not a difficult choice, and it gets even easier if you know about the existence of community colleges.

Stop anchoring impressionable kids to ridiculous tuition numbers.

Edit: the highest average in-state tuition is Vermont with just over $17k. If you're willing to go to a state school, you can do it for under $80k for 4 years.

https://research.collegeboard.org/trends/college-pricing/fig...
Bits != digits
Oh, you're right.

I neglected to say that I was doing that with the expectation of ~anonymity. Using those gift cards to lease VPN services and VPS. Mailing cash to people selling Liberty Reserve and Pecunix. And later, Bitcoin.
Artifical Intelligence - AI Podcast with Lex Fridman has been great. In particular the Donald Knuth, Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig episodes were great.

There is a podcast called Physical Attraction that has done a series on nuclear fusion that have also been terrific.

The Omega Tau podcast where the host Marcus got to live his childhood dream and fly an F-16 was also wonderful.

Podcasts were terrific last year. So many great conversations with experts in various fields.

People often bang on about how internet bubbles deleteriously impact political conversation with bubbles but don't remark often enough on how experts in various fields are able to have a direct conversation with thousands of people for a trivial cost.
jsfuck is hardly obfuscation: remove the first 828 bytes (for "eval(") and the last 3 bytes (for ")()"), and then execute the remaining string, and that gives you the original source code.
The real question is what percentage goes to pay administrative staff, and how that's increased to other parts of college costs.
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A stark difference. Is Google on the record about what their view is on this sort of thing?

I suppose the two scenarios that leap to mind are (1) Google is social engineering or (2) they have good reason to believe that nobody searching for the Daily Stormer actually wants to see the website. It'd be interesting to know if there is a 3rd.
> Let's be clear, government should control the market, not the other way around.

Missed this one in my earlier comment

Wow
That's been my experience doing embedded stuff. Customers will tell you they want a feature. You'll implement it then find out they don't need it enough to devote resources to utilize it on their end. So then it just lingers in the code base. And never gets real world testing. Lately I've been pulling unused features and consigning the code to the land of misfit toys. Just so I don't have to maintain them.
>Free Public Education anyone?

We have that, it is called K-12 Education. Which should be more than enough schooling for people to be successful in the workforce.

We has a society devote about $300,000 to $500,000 per child to educate them through high school, if this education is so poor that we then have to devote another $200-$300K to send them on to 4 years of additional schooling before they can function in society. Well something is seriously wrong with K-12 Education and we need to reform that, not further burden the tax payer with free university for all
I thought this was going to be an incredibly cliché manifesto against Apple's closed-ecosystem, and while in some ways it was, it was surprisingly good, and this is an exciting move.

However, there was an error (or omission, to be generous) that I found somewhat strange:

The development of the Macintosh computer, released in 1984, is a revealing origin story for Apple. Jobs had assembled a crew of “pirates” to build a computer as he wanted it, which meant attractive design, a symbiosis between hardware and software, and, most of all, control – of the consumer, by him.

In a hundred small ways, he made the Mac immutable and inescapable. Its elegant contours were actually hard borders, held together by special screws so that bedroom hobbyists couldn’t get inside with their regular screwdrivers. Requests to license out the operating system (so that it could be used on other computers) were refused or ignored. The Mac would be an ecosystem unto itself. People would have to buy into it entirely, or not at all.

Jobs was forced out of Apple for his hubris; then reinstalled in 1997, when the company was on the verge of bankruptcy. With Jony Ive at his side, and until his death from pancreatic cancer in 2011, he introduced a series of products that were like the original Mac in spirit yet incomparably more successful: the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad.

This doesn't note that right after he was brought back from NeXT, he was pushing the idea of licensing the operating systems to everyone (there were a few being developed at the same time, but I believe the one he was focused on was Rhapsody, which later became Mac OS X) very hard. So hard, in fact, that he dedicated like fifteen minutes replying to an audience question on it at WWDC.
I’ve seen the same thing happen with any language. Generally tends to happen when a dev hasn’t thought through the scope of what they are doing beforehand. I’ve written some ugly python in my earlier days due to this as well.

My point here is it is less to due with the language and more to due with the mindset when solving a problem.

The main issue I see with more inexperienced devs with bash is that they tend to think it’s okay to be lazy with the code because it’s just “bash”. If you would write safety checks and comments in your python you should be doing the same in bash really.
I've seen way too many devs try to recreate gnu coreutils their way because of a silly aversion to bash. As a sysadmin (sorry, thats not popular these days cough Ops guy) you can pry the bash out of my cold dead hands, and most of the "wierd edge cases" are easily avoided just like those of any language.

I know everybody likes to think devops and cattle/pets and "you should never ssh into machines" are how things should be and there thats how they are, but in the real, non-sv software startup world sysadmins around the world who get that 3am call are fixing some devs shit with bash and sysv/systemd scripts.

I feel at this point it's just a bandwagon people jump onto because they want to feel superior. Just mention bash on HN and expect any number of "... don't use bash" comments.

Bash best practice is always double quote variables! Do that and the post becomes rambling about what happens when you dont follow standard bash practices.
Not always.

If students are allowed to declare bankruptcy from student loans than banks can apply a more realistic risk models to such lines of credit. Students will then have to either pay very high rate of interest or will have to go out their way to prove their financial responsibility. Banks will then be able to create sophisticated models to figure out which young people are responsible enough and who are not. This will incentivize responsible behavior from students as well as institutes and not to mention a competition to reduce fees.

Not to mention, this model will also ensure the folks who should not be in college or will not benefit from it will not be able to go to college. I think this is where politicians disagreed and came with the completely wrong policies with perfectly predictable bad outcomes.
regardless of how the buyer feels about the cost, if they buy something that of low utility to them, then they are making irrational economic choices. But since the money is theirs, i cannot interfer 'cept to tell them they are wasting their money on useless items.

But people with a lot of money tend to spend it quite "wisely" (a survivor-ship bias, since a fool and their money is soon parted).
For personal projects and client work I prefer a VPS with fixed pricing. Many have quoted Digital Ocean on this thread but you get much more for your money with a VPS from Hetzner.com. $11.75/month = 8Gb RAM, 2 CPUs, 80Gb SSD and 20Tb of traffic. That's 4 times the RAM, 2 times the CPU and 10 times the traffic compared with a $10 Digital Ocean VPS.
Yes, and the article we discuss about is about oceanic plastics.
Wow. I feel like the fact that you can encoding arbitrary information in long numbers is such a far reaching concept in math/computer science, it's really satisfying to see it demonstrated in such an intuitive way.
> This should not be an area of focus - There are better climate change opportunities to put money towards

People who put money should decide the area of focus. Not others.

> The project is ineffective and introduces a lot of other environmental problems

This achievement matters and useful in itself. May be they can figure it out how to scale or will find more commercially viable products from this sort of technology.
Incendiary titles, written by ignorant writers, looking to impress politicians, and rattling the cage in order to gain eyeballs.

There are many reasons NOT to own a piece of Real Estate under an individual name, under a trust (for estate purpose) comes to mind and it's now very cheap to do and the public in general is more educated on it; so that alone accouts for a large chunch of declining in % of homes owned by individuals.

Then there are the Real Estate investors/entrepreneur landlord and flippers; who for liability purposes use LLCs.

And yes LLC need not to disclose the name of their unitholders (shareholders). So what? That is not a problem.

Yes money laundering is an issue, but picking the fact that LLC (and Corporation) are not required to disclose the name of their shareholder is not an issue. In some part of the world, those are called "Anonymous Society", sounds cool, but it ain't inherently bad or malicious.

Can we have better writing and reporting instead of these emotionaly-driven pieces?
Quite a few programs lose money, and have used student fees to pay for some of the deficit: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2018/06/28/colle...
If you’re working on small sites which are worth ~30x monthly net, a $250/month recurring cost will remove $7,500 from the value of your business... or a month of engineering at $90k/year.

If you’re technical yourself, build it for no cost and save the $7,500. If you’re deciding between buy/build, it’s a wash on this imaginary scenario so do whatever you like better.
The federal student loan programs are actually awful value-wise. If you're in a degree program that typically pays well upon graduation, private student loans usually offer much lower interest rates -- lower than even the subsidized federal loans. I got my loans from SoFi at 4.5%; federal rate was around 7.5%.

The way federal student loans work right now (auto-approved at high interest rates with no cap or restrictions on degree program) basically ensured a generation of Americans were bound to wage-slavery.
> Some might say, however, that X get so enmeshed in Y that they leave no space for true creativity.

No true Scotsman would get enmeshed in Y.
I explicity pointed out that in these countries it is a far-right thing.
I wonder if the rank is based on which options are clicked the most... I wouldn't put it past google to keep track of which link is clicked the most for each search and use that to 'improve the links'

OR

It could be a massive conspiracy to keep people from seeing some third rate website.
Amazing to think that the original iPod could have gone from pitch to shipping in under a year. Today, the next iPhone is almost certainly in the late stages of engineering validation in January – and while there are many differences between the iPod and the iPhone, the biggest is definitely scale.

Apple shipped 125,000 iPods in 2001. Today, they ship that many iPhones every six hours, or about 200 million per year. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/263401/global-apple-ipho...)
This whole wrapper nonsense to get with working with NamedTemporaryFile seems really suspect in general.

My gut instinct would be to rewrite the section OP found as a standard NamedTemporaryFile instantiation, then close it manually. The __getattr__ hack feels like a real code smell.
We started using this in Visual Studio for managing the database schema of legacy projects and it works fantastically. You can update the schema files from the database and reverse that to update the database from the schema files. It allows us to put the database schema under version control with all the benefits of branching and merging for a project without traditional migrations.

I haven't found it to be buggy in my usage.
Every single person involved with sending people to the moon in the 60's graduated college

Every single person? They guys manufacturing the rockets? Fueling them? Driving the lift? Manning the gantry?
That was something put into place by the Obama administration. which was years after the status quo had been set by private corporations, when the government began letting them administer federal loans (in the 90s, I believe).
What about my aversion to m4? =P
Obvious Fears of Mind
Yes. Notably stdio typically uses the heap. So I hope this author isn't planning to use printf for New Programs.
Since the Brunner test for deciding whether student loan debt is dischargeable is from a 1985 case[0], I don’t think this can be said to have anything to do with either Bush.

[0] https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-i...
Everything you consume in a non-sustainable society is going to damage environment. The pressure to find a solution is not solely on the consumer. It is on the producers as well.

Fishing does not require that fishing nets be abandonned in the sea. I suspect it would take not a lot of innovation nor a lot of costs to cut this pollution dramatically.
Here's one thing that I find difficult to remember how to do in shell: run a command, have stdout go to a file (or /dev/null or whatever), but pipe stderr to more or grep or some other program to process.

I mean, I would expect the syntax to be something like:

make >/dev/null 2| more

but no ... it's some incomprehensible mess of redirection arcana to get that to work.
Actually this sort of thing has been going on for hundreds of years in most European countries. In my city over half of the old town is owned by the Catholic church. This includes over 30 churches, but there are also many more adjacent buildings that are much larger in area.

Most are derelict or unoccupied, and in very expensive areas if you were to buy. Properties are not owned directly by the Catholic church, but by local parishes or diocese, i.e. subsidiary corporations that are controlled by them. This is no different than the situation in Vancouver, except the church doesn't need to pay any taxes :D
Much like subprime loans, they're often the only ones available to the ones most in need of them. The idea of "risk" based on things like one's race or or location of residence or income actually INCREASING the price of these loans is cynical and deplorable.
I'm not trying to underplay the Libyan situation at all, but do you have any evidence that it's worse than Syria?

They both started in 2011. The Syrian conflict maybe winding down, but has started a new phase (in Syrian Kurdistan).

Syria had slave markets too.

The UNHCR data[1][2] shows a lot more refugees from Syria than Libya (don't forget Libya is often used by refugees from other parts of Africa as their outgoing port to Europe, so news reports on refugees arrivals from Libya don't mean the refugees were Libyan).

One source on the Wikipedia article claimed 1/3 of the Libyan population had fled to Tunisia. This seems non-credible: Neither Tunisia nor any refugee agency makes this claim. [3] claims "there are 2 two million Libyans abroad, mostly in Tunisia", but this is still less than half the number of Syrian refugees (over 5 million) and less than the number of registered in Turkey alone (over 3 million).

I think your "That's because reporters (justifiably) fear to go there" statement is also unfounded - in Syria journalists were targets of both ISIS and the Syrian state, and frequently murdered by either of them.

[1] https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/syria

[2] https://data2.unhcr.org/en/country/lby

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2015/03/17...
It’s not usually legal in many jurisdictions. Soften called “deliberate asset deprivation” or similar.
It does mean that this is a gross misstatement: “It's black and white in law that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy”
Just because it’s never been struck down doesn’t mean it’s been tried. Maybe no one has challenged it?
I can't believe this is even a thing. How did we get here? Is it lack of compassionate care? Lack of statistical and biology education?
I'm still learning, but from what I gather, there's

a) less of a need to deserialize things into specific concrete classes in functional languages

b) it seems to be idiomatic to convert data yourself if you need custom conversions, rather than relying on a library to automagically deduce it. this is helped by how simple doing the manual conversion ends up being in practice.
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