skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I hope you already know, I deeply appreciate it; if you didn't do such a careful job managing this place, it would be easier to care less about stuff like this.
I really wish there were a "lexical space" (spacebar) and "semantic space" (shift-space or some other control). Use something less obtrusive for the semantic space than - or _, like the interpunct ·. It breaks visually/semantically but is lexically part of the same string.

this·is·variable·one

Vs

one two three

Now I just use an ergodox ez (qmk-driven) keyboard with _ in an easy spot and snake_case everything but people says it's "ugly" or some bs (camelCase, especially with initialisms, drives me nuts).
I wouldn't bet on it. First of all, this ruling could be appealed. Second of all, it seems like the bar for whether student loan debt can be discharged may still be much higher than typical debt. Third, since this isn't an appeals court, I don't believe it sets any kind of binding precedent.

It's also not entirely clear that this ruling even represents a divergence from the general pattern. There are circumstances where student loans may be discharged, but it is rare for those circumstances to be satisfied. Perhaps this was just one case where they were.
My take is it's a consequence of their vertical integration. Maybe they saw all along, by not even allowing the option to change, there's no way they could be forced to present a rolodex of possible choices - since there's only one choice that works.

You always had the choice with Android, it just had a default. That didn't smell good to regulators in the EU, and they saw an easy option out of that. Telling Apple to open up their walled garden is a lot harder, compared to Android where the garden's already much more open.

IMO, sad that the better approach is getting hit by the regulation stick. Not that I personally think it's needed in either scenario, but it is frustrating to see Apple skate by.
Or we can't get them past the HR hiring policies that eliminate all candidates. Been through that myself. I even got multiple tech leads to sit the testing and watched them fail. They were already on the team yet would not be able to get on the team. Absurd but true.

Contracting is such a strange world. I've drifted so far into it I've lost the ability to see how salary based people even get work. All I can do is keep the door open for as many people as possible. Sometimes I need to actually assert the door into existence. This was something I didn't know was possible until recently.
Also for folks on metered/slow (eg, 2g) connections, and privacy conscious users who don't wish to enable JS for basic functionality.
That's a recent phenomenon. As recently as the late 1990s, that was not the case. You can track the explosion in university costs directly in line with a chart showing the growth in student loan debt. Student loan debt went from ~$250 billion in 2002 to $1.2 trillion in 2015, approximately.

You won't see very many people asking the obvious questions: what the hell caused that sudden extreme spike in costs and who is responsible? Mostly what you see is complaints about it. The system worked before (pre cost explosion), then they broke it.

The government caused it by incentivizing the ability of universities to perpetually raise tuition prices, even against the extreme economic destruction of the great recession; they did that via loan guarantees that kept inflating (and as they inflated, the schools raised prices right along with it). The outcome of perpetually raising loan guarantees was obvious and they did it anyway.

Being able to discharge student loan debt more easily, will help deflate the government's bubble. It can't happen soon enough.

For decades the US had a cost effective, wildly successful university system nationally. It was the envy of the world, to put it mildly. Every other developed region on the planet spent the post WW2 era trying to copy its extraordinary results in terms of economic and scientific output. The rest of the world still has nothing to compete with the top 100 US universities as a whole.

These days, as far as quality of education goes, public schools in-state still provide tremendous value at a modest cost compared to what it does for your job and income earning prospects for life.
The February 1985 issue of Rainbow Magazine had an program listing for Wefax, which made it possible for owners of the TRS-80 Color Computer to receive weather satellite images using a shortwave radio. This looks like a more advanced version of the same thing. Back then it blew my mind that a home computer could do such a thing. I didn't have a shortwave radio so I never was able to make use of the program. Will have to play with this one, if for no other reason than to fulfill my childhood fantasy of having an at home satellite receiving station. Won't the ladies at my high school reunion be impressed! (Probably not)
What other things should citizens be able to know about their neighbors? Which ones have guns? Which ones have STDs?
Juggalo face paint might throw off an algorithm, but it definitely won't make you go about your day unnoticed...
Hrm. Seed funding gives you a piece of the action, while debt gives you the right to repayment under defined terms. They are pretty distinct economically, to the point that they fall into entirely different asset classes. They are approximately the same thing the way a banana and an apple are approximately the same thing.
I’m sorry but what is the point of this?
Look at Boston SeaPort. 80% of high end condos are empty and sold for a few years now. My guess is high networth foreigners- from Venezuela, China, Russia are “parking” their cash in these assets.
It also occurs after kidney transplants[1].

Not really arguing this is practical for anonymoisation - it's more an interesting fact.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18290564
Maybe building more houses would also be an option?
Sorry for any confusion but I didn’t mean it WAS based off cloud run, but was fundamentally the same type of product with a better dev experience built around it.
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> If company A approaches you, wanting to acquire you, you want to really quickly figure out if company B, company C, and company D are interested before you commit to a period of exclusivity with A.

Let's say that company A, B and C are interested (with A being interested the most), what would be the next step? Can you get an offer without a LOI?
Ask HN: Flatiron or General Assembly?
Has anyone completed these bootcamps and got a job and if so how was the experience.

I want to join one of these bootcamps but codefellows is expensive I don't have money right now but my dream is to become a web developer. I just don't have a good enough network or opportunities to land a job or start my career

maybe one of these bootcamps can help any advice would help me.

I'm 29 living in Seattle, WA
Does that mean an authoritarian government can read the location and sms of a number from foreign country without any cooperation from the carrier?

Scary thought
Yes anonymous ownership and Georgism aren't strictly mutually exclusive, but the path that led us here is a decidedly incompatible ideology of land just being another asset.
They have in California.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article23164...
There’s a great scene in the end of the book “Contact” by Carl Sagan where the main character uses super powerful computers to find a raster image of a circle hidden deep in the digits of pi. This is supposed to be a moment of deep spiritual significance.

But in fact, it’s basically an expected outcome given what we think we know about pi.

At first glance these images were startling to me; that such recognizable images could be “hidden” in the primes... in the very structure of mathematics! But then I realized that with an infinite numbers of primes available to us, nothing is hidden. It’s more like the primes are simply building blocks for us to use in constructing images of whatever we want.
My guess it'll cause the lenders to tighten up a bit, but won't be earth shattering.
They (on aggregate) freely give away much less than they would've been forced to under higher taxation, however. Which is an extremely significant difference for the economy as a whole.

And then there's the question of what they give to. Hospitals, schools and charities are great, but what about less glamorous targets like public works maintenance, which often is the first thing to be cut when government coffers run dry?
Sure, but many of us have know idea who they are, and an informative title really helps, even if you're familiar with the source.
> I don't think the U.S. economy is intrinsically more requiring of college degrees than it was in the 1960's, and it's possibly less necessary today.

That's as bold a claim as my opposite claim is, and your anecdotes offer about as much evidence for it as I did, i.e. none. I'll offer a counter-anecdote: I'm a better programmer for having gone to college, I've used the knowledge gained there, my value to the labour market is higher because of my education. I'm sure there are more people like me.

I would love to know what the truth really is though. I'm not disagreeing with you that there is a massive problem with credential inflation, it's absolutely huge, but I still think there's been a net gain in real demand for college education since the 60's, and that the US as a nation has benefited from it. Digging out the truth seems like an incredibly complex task though, and you have to use the educational system to do it, a system which would be incredibly biased against any findings that it itself is useless... So yeah.
That article talks about specious attempt to hack the legal system, by claiming information can never be legally restricted because it can encode numbers, but doesn't say the result of the attempt.
Their reputation has turned dramatically. Back in the day Penn and Teller's episode of BS about the death penalty said they might not mind the death penalty if Google were in charge of it. Maybe they were somehow being presciently ironic?
No. What happened in 1776 was a Constitutional Republic whose amendment process led to the 13th amendment. Liberty is a good thing.
I had one of those PowerComputing clones back in the day and loved it. I still have some of those marketing posters, and recall that season of Mac history with fondness. It’s a shame the Mac clone market got killed off.
Seed funding isn't a loan, it's equity. Nobody is suggesting that students give up 20% of all future income to the entity funding their education, which would roughly correspond to seed funding.

That being said, there are some efforts towards equity-financing humans that are in their infancy.
IANAL but I sounds like it would depend on what "use that degree" means. Applying to a position that requires that degree? That seems a clear violation. Mentioning on your CV that your degree was revoked due to bankruptcy? That's not exactly claiming you have a degree, and it's definitely not a lie in any form. Can the government really prevent you from telling the truth about your education?

I suspect most companies wouldn't really care if your degree was revoked or not (unless it was revoked for cheating or other non financial reasons)
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Anecdote: for me the actor model has been the most understandable and useful concurrency primitive I've used. Pi-calculus, which was inspired by the actor model, is similarly elegant.
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Reminds me of a thought I had a while back that given sufficient computational power you could describe any dataset using only two place values in an irrational number and an interpretation rule. For example, the complete data for an h265 copy of Avengers Endgame exists somewhere in the digital expression of the value of Pi. It might be googleplexes of digits deep, but it's there somewhere.
Trying to teach the science behind vaccines, climate change, HIV/AIDS, or any other common denial topic is a losing battle. There will always be a new conspiracy theory to believe in. Knock one common denial argument down and 10 spring up to take its place.

We actually need to focus on teaching trust in scientists and the scientific method. You can't reasonably expect people to understand all these complex modern innovations and concepts to the level where they can easily identify hoaxes. You can expect people to realize who the experts in each field are and find the consensus among their opinions.
They don't need to reroute through a url to do tracking, they could do that in JS. The rerouting probably is used for tracking but it also serves the purpose of flushing your search terms out of the referer header.
> a company he seemed pretty happy to jettison once it was convenient to do so.

He was forced out. This is not what the word "jettison" means
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> But decoding any meaningful information has to be at least in two dimensions....

What does this mean?
Usually, it means graduating from a top school.
Written in 2017 but certainly still relevant today, especially with his blog post from last month about almost selling for $5M:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22013700
I, too, just read this, but while I found it quite gripping, it repeated bits of info over and over, making it quite annoying when reading it in a short space of time. Would have worked well as a weekly serial in a newspaper, but needed a solid edit before going into novel form. Good story though.
While I completely agree, for some teams a successful Product Hunt launch can many positive follow on effects, and as unfortunate as it is the PH system works on upvotes at its core. There's nothing better than engaging with the communities that your future users are a part of, but this list is not for product development and UX, purely for helping make a splash on launch day.
> I just took kids in Africa as an example of humans who are very far away and struggling. I find it unacceptable when people say that they respect human life, but what they actually respect is a life of their neighbor. If we say that human life has no cost we should be investing in saving more lives over lives of someone who lives close by.

> And yes, the structure has everything to do with it.

So, why are those humans over there struggling while the humans over here are not? What lead to this? The humans in the U.S. used to be very poor. How did they grow so rich?
I'd rather have automated integration or system test and no unit test than the other way around. I find unit tests uncover the fewest problems of the three.
How does one leave the large corps for things like movies and tv shows? I used google for the longest time and recently switched to apple but i’d love to self host and buy drm free media. i’m guessing people doing this are using p2p or something?
Often it's what people plow up ... so it's somewhat descriptive.

I believe most of the stuff dug up that's called "Iron Harvest" in Northern France is WW1 artillery rather than WW2 bombs
Not encoded as, but can
be interpreted as.
Any precisely specified object can be interpreted as a number.
Neuter a duck and it's a robot, got it.

Human level AI just got a lot easier to create.
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I want to. I really do. I've been using python for a decade and I still have to always look up how to call subprocesses correctly and communicate with multiple processes.

Plumbum is cool, but now I have an extra [""] for every command, and I need python and a lib (which usually means an env as well) to bring an app up.

On the other hand, I try to migrate as much business logic into the app as possible, and increasingly kv as well, so bash is pretty much pointing at config files and commands.
Why would they? Its still up to the user to pick one. Just like how right to repair laws allow you to perform a shit repair that breaks something.
There is also a tradeoff between anonymity and target of interest.

All these suggestions only work when a lot of people apply them. Otherwise you end up just like with using privacy operating systems, like Qubes OS. Yeah, you will be safer, but everyone also immediately thinks that you have something to hide, which causes systems to double down on tracking you. You might even get some human "attention", if you actually have something to hide.
A couple of users using Tor, are not anonymous. A couple of people wearing IR glasses, are not anonymous. Millions of people using AdBlocker, that's already doing something. Think of masses.

If you try to be anonymous just by yourself, you are running into the trap of making your trails so uncommon, that people will still be able to track you. An example: Qubes OS causes so unique browser fingerprinting, that even under TOR, I will still be uniquely identified. That's why OS like Tails, spend so much effort avoiding different fingerprints for different users.
Assuming performance isn't a problem (which it may well not be), this does a good job of laying out all the other arguments against Lisp: http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

Basically: Lisp projects have trouble scaling to larger teams (and communities) because of how fluid it is. That said, for a solo project or a small team, no language has more expressive power.

That said, Jonathan Blow has the occasional good opinion and a lot of really bad ones. His anti-abstraction zealotry is the basis of most of the bad ones. As another commenter here said, there are no universal truths when choosing a technology; it's always about using the right tool for the job.
I imagine the scale of the plasma's movement is enormous but do you have an idea of how "fast" the plasma is displaced? I am trying to wrap my head around the scales of the structures involved and the effects they're having on each other but it all seems so incredibly immense.
A place inhospitable to life? Yeah, this sounds a great plan to waste all their resources...
Show HN: Fish-shell-style path abbreviation in Bash
This is designed for microcontrollers. If you're running untrusted code on microcontrollers, you've got bigger problems.
I really hope they invite plenty of industry leaders to speak. Especially relevant ones like Guido who made Python and his languages API is reused. Theres gotta be others where the API was copied verbatum and the original devs dont mind. Hell OpenJDK was made cause Sun didnt care about API copyright when the GNU peeps made their own libre JDK.
I feel like case insensitivity is a great UX choice, really everything should be case insensitive. It just falls so badly apart when you get into the guts of things that case sensitivity is the only practical choice.
>>Limited supply (real estate)

This is just artificially limited, because existing home owners don't like to see their property prices fall due to increased supply.
Found https://github.com/cameronleger/goes16-background, works well.
I understand the GAFAM, but is Netflix even in the same ballpark? (It's also extremely dependent on Hollywood, isn't it?)
And Microsoft isn't in the Silicon Valley...
> Nobody is suggesting

Actually, people are. Income based repayment of student loan debt is already one such mechanism. But there are also universities that are piloting post-payment of college tuition via income sharing agreements.
Even "partner track at a good firm" isn't what it used to be. I think this article was on the HN front page at some point.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/being-a-law-firm-partner-was-on...

(Yes, yes, I know, that article begins with talking about 'second-class' partners who "can expect to make $800,000 at most" [at the top of their careers], I know, $800K is HUGE MONEY, that's still a top tier law firm and NOT anything like median lawyer salaries,that's not the reason I suggest the article. Check it out though, it'll surprise you if you still have a model of legal careers that's an idealized version of a couple decades ago)
It's a perfectly fine protocol for 25 years ago; juust before mobile devices with cellular data connections, on-the-fly connection switching, IoT, wifi, roaming, extenders, mesh networking. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167686
This is yet another case where "prime" is bolted onto something for no particular reason to make it superficially more interesting. IMO this confused mathematical understanding.

Approximately 1/n of all n-bit pieces of data (including bimaps) are prime.
> I do not believe that the "political route" of taxation and violence is the best way to "avoid the mess"

The reason I have clean water in my tap is that the eco-fascist goons of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority guard the Quabbin Reservoir with all the zealotry you'd expect of the Commonwealth. So, taxation and violence. And it's cheaper than forcing every resident of Massachusetts to buy a home water filter.
Always choose Oreilly books.
I think people are really starting to see the cracks in the system. The government, the media, the emperor has no clothes. But people don't really know what to do, so it pops out in weird ways like telling the people who want to force you to get a vaccine to shove it.
https://cdn.mapmania.org/original/how_americans_address_a_gr...

Take the map for what its worth, I guess. It doesn’t comment on what people think about the word itself, just how they don’t use it very much.
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How do they determine who the experts are? The conspiracy theorists always claim to be scientists that use the scientific method to come to their conclusions.
this was a political fail. had to be patched by the courts. :(
> 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?

I think it's both. And as long as a college education is a net gain for the national labour market, it's in the national interest to support more of its population getting a college education. I mean, there are plenty of countries who has this as the entire rationale for their tuition-free universities where every single student gets a stipend regardless of what they study.

These countries usually rank pretty high in global competitiveness, which is some sort of measure of how far up the global value chain a country has moved, so there's at least a bunch of indicators that it's a pretty good rationale, that it's a pretty good idea to have an educated workforce.
Ever taken a Suggestion by amazon, netflix, etc? That originated in Pattie Maes’s group at the media lab and was first commercialized as Firefly.
I hope the supreme court understands the significance of this. This decision will change the direct history of the world.