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> Just 1.5 generations ago, University was for those who could afford it.

Not the UC/CSU systems, which is what this topic is about; they were primarily little to no cost universities 1.5 generation ago--depending on your residence. It wasn't until the administration bloat and race to capture as much foreign students/funding became the name of the game that it has become this cesspool.

Hell, in my freshman and sophomore year as an in-state student costs were sub 10k a year, it wasn't until the bubble got so big in 2007 (just before the financial crisis) that it became the sordid bacchanal, cash grab you see now. It mirrored the Banking Industry so well in my opinion, and just like banking it never corrected and just doubled down and it too has created a Trillion+ bubble and perpetual servitude and permanent underclass(es) ripe for exploitation.

And just so its clear, the CSU/UC system is only the most affordable in the US if you are not from CA; if you are, especially if you are multi-generational, because of the high tax levels in CA its probably on-par with some Ivy leagues and upper level tech schools.

I won't dispute your analysis on University as whole, as I have much more to say on the matter, but I agree with your conclusion. For most University (on ROI at least), especially if not in a lucartive field of STEM, it's just not worth it if you're technically inclined and have an disciplined autodidactic streak. But many seem to be looking for an 'experience' more than they are an actual useful education in a chosen discipline, which is why these predatory practices not only proceed to this day, but excel as they do, hence why so many are willing to accept such awful loans to do so--I can't help but think of the way many hapless souls got suckered into sub-prime mortgages.
A major physics conference (APS March meeting 2-6 Mar in Denver) has been cancelled with very short (36 hours?) notice - https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1233950396093214720 , https://march.aps.org/
You have a very nuanced and insightful perspective, thank you for educating and sharing!
They are literally selling the body parts of their prisoners.

https://chinatribunal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/China-T...

https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgment-report/

https://chinatribunal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ChinaTr...

EDIT: not sure why this is being downvoted, as this tribunal is well respected and contains members with experience looking at other atrocities.

https://chinatribunal.com/who-we-are/
a preliminary submission has not passed a peer review with the rigor of scientific defense.

these sorts of things may be passed among researchers for extended periods of time [years] until all the kinks are worked out of the thesis and a working theory with no known exceptions and independently confirmed agreement of results occurs.

jan 26 2020 is the submission date.
So can you name a language that does symbolic representation? It sounds like one of those things which are great in theory but hellish in implementation.
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I don’t want to live in whatever society you’re projecting here. I think that statement is incredibly narrow-minded. We need both.
I also tried a 55" UHD and found it too big. I scaled down to a 49" on a rolling tv stand and it's perfect for me. I have some distance between myself and the screen though. ~6"

I really wish there was a way for me to travel with this setup :/
Animals don’t have RAM either. An understanding of organic memory systems has never been established.
It is not "qualified" because the process using a heap is paused while the heap is collected. In a concurrent GC, nothing is paused.
US users as a whole haven't decided the same thing as EU users.
If a scheme had something like that property and satisfied some simpler conditions, I would wager that it necessarily is a good compression scheme. However, this is very much not required of a good compression scheme:

Imagine that a compression scheme used the first bit to indicate if the encoded image is an image of a cat or not. Changing that bit would then have very obvious and significant implications on the encoded image.

If that example seems too unrealistic, imagine a modification of a compression scheme that, before decoding, xors every non-first bit with the first bit. Then flipping the first bit in the modified scheme is equivalent to flipping a lot of bits in the unmodified scheme, but they are equivalently good at encoding images.

Edit: To put it short, the important property is that equally-long encoded images are "equally plausible": it's not important how many bits differ between them, and it doesn't matter if they are similar to each other.
> 3. In the RGB components of each individual pixels, there was one of them that dominated too much. I think it was the red component but I don't quite remember. To combat this I adjusted the settings quite a bit, and even reduced the saturation heavily. Still it felt sort of strange.

You wear glasses, don’t you? Changing the settings won’t help that much. An LCD can’t block all the light coming through, and wide gamut backlights are typically much wider on red vs sRGB. Glasses will cause chromatic aberration and exaggerate the difference.
It is getting easier again.

Google Flights gives indications on each leg whether it is roomy, average, or tight. For premium classes, it reports recliner, angle-flat, or lie-flat.

You still can't search by it, though.

This isn't much, but it is integrated into a flight search engine.

Of course, if you really want to know, there are sites like seatguru with all the details (but average travelers are never going to look for that)
But they clearly are important to this Portland newspaper. If they weren't, they wouldn't have blocked the content in the first place.
American Physical Society Plans to Cancel its Biggest Meeting of the Year
If we can get the speed to 35 mph I could see myself buying one and parking it behind the car I have now. I could see myself parting with 7500 to get it. Or is something like that already in the us (new I mean)?
But why a Slack app instead of a PG module of some sort...?
It seems overly confident. They know the majority of business depend on their OS, AD and office suite so they can f them real hard and get away with it. So either they know really where the boundary is and calculated this well, or they already know that all this stuff will go away and accepted their fate. Or they are being really stupid here and rapidly turn themselves into just another cloud provider.
New York: plastic bag ban takes effect to address ‘environmental blights’
> You’re operating under the “energy in-energy out” theory of weight loss, but human regulation of body fat is more complicated than that.

I hear the "energy in-energy out" being dismissed like this often, and while I do agree with you that our bodies are more complex than that, I want to say that in practice this adage more or less just works, indeed to the degree that it's valuable to have in common knowledge to inspire folks to lose fat.

Particularly, if you want to lose fat, you reduce your caloric intake (and what you are consuming, shoot for higher protein intake and lower carb intake). In addition to this, do some aerobic exercises. This is really it. If you do this you're nearly guaranteed to lose fat. I did this, my peers did this, it's really simple, the only hard part is finding the motivation to start and having faithful long-term committal to a routine.
that's a silly distinction, because if you are running multiple threads on a single CPU, or even multiple threads on multiple CPUs, in most situations, then you're simply pushing the 'pausing' down to the hardware/os which is doing the preemption.
Does the sdc make little sdc's, based just on nature?

The reproductive organs of technology are us, people.
I’m the opposite. I used Chromecast for years and it always put me in a foul mood to fiddle with broken and slow apps on my phone.

Ended up getting a Roku and couldn’t be happier. Only issue I ever have is misplacing the remote.
> If it is prospering from tourism by rail then why is the rail line not profitable enough to warrant electrification?

Sometimes the line is profitable as it is, but not profitable enough for electrification. It's a big investment with high maintenance costs. There are a bunch of lines like these in the Netherlands (Harlingen Haven — Leeuwarden is one I am quite familiar with).

Tourism is often seasonal, so while it does add up in terms of profit (or breaking even), for electrification to be a sensible investment you are talking double or triple the amount of passengers.

> buses have powered lifts and dedicated spaces for both.

But no accessible toilets (big issue for many disabled people, and anyone travelling with kids), and travelling with an infant in a pram really limits your bus-range (I have an infant son and avoid buses if at all possible). Also, the dedicated spaces are great, but if there is a wheelchair there already you have to take the next bus instead (unless you have a collapsible stroller, but then the kid is older already). This is fine for incidental travelling, but not for a frequent commute. In trains you can almost always make do; in a bus you're not even allowed on when the dedicated spaces are taken, because of (valid) safety concerns.

Buses are great if that's all that's available and all that ever has been available, but shutting down a train line impacts the lives of many people — some of whom wouldn't have chosen to live in town without a train link in the first place.
NY Times now reports estimates of up to 1500 undetected cases in Washington state alone (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/coronavirus-news.ht...). Though that is a a rough order-of-magnitude guesstimate based on virus analysis in Institute for Disease Modeling in Bellevue, Wash; however, it's reasonable to say that while there are some 70 confirmed individuals, we have evidence to say that there are much more cases in USA than that, we just haven't found them, and haven't isolated them, so they'll continue spreading the disease.

My suggestion would be to prepare for the possibility of a major disruption in 2 to 6 weeks, not 2 to 6 months, given what we've seen of how fast the number of cases have grown in other countries.
Science says you're wrong:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28765272

"risk for obesity is primarily determined by total calorie intake"

The macro nutrients certainly matter in the details, but not so much in the overall picture. It does mostly work like a gas tank, and the energy content in good is literally measured in [kJ].

Fat has a lot of stored energy, why on the planet, do people believe the body is able to create and store energy out of thin air?

And it exactly works the opposite way, the body will use the stored energy in the fat if there's not alternative.
The LaserWriter was also, at least in principle, faster than our super-minis at the time, as we only mused.
Gunnison, Colorado: the town that dodged the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic
Show HN: Native Programmable Tooltip that can be used with any Mac OS app
Kweb, a web framework for the server-side, inspired by Vaadin but much simpler
That’s a single use case and you can just reverse it and have a ‘remote control’ mode on the portable device.

In practice people are now buying Telescreens (not like there’s option tbh) and they have Android or at least Netflix already built in.
> Also, this post conflates the unary negation operator with negative numbers.

-a is a standard way to represent additive inverse of an element in field.

The point about "unary negation operator" seems irrelevant.

In the real number field, additive inverse of a positive real number is indeed the negative of that number. The negative of that number is also obtained by the application of unary negation operator on the positive number.

The additive inverse of 3.14 is -3.14. Unary negation operator applied to 3.14 gives us -3.14. I don't see how conflating unary negation operator with negative numbers here is any issue here.
It's important to ask "Compared to what?" The Fortran prominent in that era was a mess of unmaintainable spaghetti code. Structured programming is generally a much better programming paradigm compared to spaghetti Fortran and that was Dijkstra's point.

Just because Hindley-Milner cannot catch all possible type-related problems, that doesn't make it a bad idea. Likewise structured programming cannot replace all uses of goto, but it would be ridiculous to go back to spaghetti code as the default setting.
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I'd assess the p-value for this coincidence at 2/59=0.03 and so is statistically significant. Additionally, these two cases are geographically proximal, both residing in Snohomish County. 5/9

That's... really not how p values work. Does everyone have to mention p values now just to try sound like they're authoritative?
It’s literally just the comtemporary version of As Seen On TV
Second recommendation to avoid BlueStacks and use NOX. Beyond the adware, BlueStacks is bloated, slow, and unstable.
Hold on, what? These people, who get paid millions in management fees by schoolteachers and police officers’ retirement funds, among others, are BLOCKING people over a bit of light-hearted rubbing?

I would LOVE to see the block list on this account. That’s actually worth printing on its own, and has a lot of utility for both entrepreneurs and LPs to understand VCs who lack the basic capability to handle public criticism. This isn’t even commentary that’s actually negative!

I always imagine how much it must suck to be a kid of one of these sorts of people. Mom/Dad goes on and on about how great they are, but will go nuclear when you point out what’s wrong... I knew a lot of kids growing up who ended up in therapy/rehab because of these sorts of parents.
Citrix also called (calls?) their first tier cert "associates". Citrix Certified Associate, going up to Profesional, and Expert.
Yes, specially because we aren't speaking about Hotspot here, rather ART, Kotlin/Native.
Lisinopril and losartan are usually stopped in patients admitted to the hospital for an infection.
Historian investigates the Cold War competition to create an invisible aircraft
One other practical aspect of this: it is largely unpalatable to eat exclusively protein and fats in large quantities. It is easy to load up on carbs.
Eh, I think a lot of people have internalized a toxic strain of thought in our current culture that says that it's a bad thing to be proud of your achievements. There's a theoretical version of this account that skewers an overinflated sense of self-importance[1], but from scrolling through this account, it just seems to be coming from a place of self-hatred that sees anyone enjoying their achievement as doing something wrong. Most of these tweets are just "congrats to XYZ! So proud to be part of this success as one of the early funders!". What exactly is the issue with celebrating a victory you had a part in, and congratulating those who were more central to the victory?

I can actually relate to this on a personal level: After a medical issue wreaked havoc on pretty much every facet of my life over the course of a couple years, I got better and started putting the pieces of my life back together. One of the first things I did was start working again, and for the first time in years, had a job where I felt like I was being challenged and succeeding (my work performance was one of the things that suffered pretty terribly while sick, including having to take a ~year off). As you can imagine, I was really excited about this one thing going well in my life after years of being sick enough to be bad at everything, and I'd be straightforward when talking to friends about how well I was doing. Apparently, I have a few friends that have internalized the toxicity I'm describing: they're insecure enough about their careers that they couldn't even stand hearing someone speak positively about doing well at work, regardless of the context.

The VC case may be seen as okay because it's "punching up" in a way that wasn't true in my case. But "punching upwards" often just means defining your desired targets as "upwards", and using the phrase as an excuse to wallow in envy and toxicity, as if this is somehow salutary for either your mental health or for society.

This Twitter account isn't quite a big deal, and it's a very mild expression of this tendency. But seeing it as "calling out" something bad is entirely missing the point IMO.

[1] Here's the only example I found in the first dozen tweets which is actually mockable: https://twitter.com/VCBrags/status/1232396401763667970
And there's no clear solution. Full stop.
To be fair, that AI seems to have essentially solved a complex spreadsheet-type optimisation challenge rather than anything with an open-ended narrative. Nonetheless, it is a very interesting story
Revealed: fake 'traders' allegedly prey on victims in global investment scam
Yes I'm referring specifically to tagged unions in a typed (type safe) language. That's what I thought you we're referencing when you said "var input: string | number". Excuse my pedantry if I misunderstood.
Here in NYC, a parking spot in a garage can cost more than a car payment AND it won't have an outlet in most cases.

There is a small electric car charging pilot starting soon, but the rates are so ridiculously high (2x retail electric prices) that gas cars would be much more economical.

Source: I live in NYC and thought about getting an electric car to save money when visiting family + make a few road trips cheaper
Indeed. Before that happens there is also the supervolcano in Oregon and probably dozens of huge rocks on the scale similar to what happened 65m years ago. But let’s not be pessimistic! Think of the children.
to perceive something you have to
have a representation of it in memory

Why? I cannot think of a definition of "perceive" that would lead to this conclusion.
Your body responds to the intake of carbohydrates by creating insulin which regulates the storage of carbohydrates as “body fat” (see: glycogen). Overall, your body is 70% fat (cell membranes, for example). In other words, dietary fat != body fat and there is no reason that your body would store it as such (in adipose tissue), it actually, mechanistically, as far as I know, cannot.
Fat. Why not consider the third macronutrient?
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"Your privacy is real important to us and we would like your consent to rape it and share its remains with our partners."
I don't think 2-300 is off for a manufacturing cost of 30-50 and relatively expensive shipping. Either way, it's trust. Even if a good mattress is $50, how do I know that you aren't selling me a bad one that cost $15 to make? Ultimately that's a advertising cost that rolls into the purchase price.
I got my MCSE exactly 20 years ago; it had a different meaning at that time, S was for System, not Solution. Today the company I work for has close to 100,000 computers in Active Directory and no plan to change that: most of these computers are personal laptops and desktops, there is no move to cloud for these. I have no idea what training and certification the new hires working in the AD and Personal Computing teams will have to pursue, I will have to check but it is definitely not a change in favor of simplicity.
> which ones have the highest returns

Build good, strong relationships.

As geeks we dont tend to value human relationships.

However, good, strong relationships will pay out dividends and change your life for the better.

They will encourage you to improve yourself, improve your health, improve your knowledge.

On the other hand it's also important to realize bad actors and act accordingly.

Check out my latest ASK HN thread for an idea on handling bad actors.
>So, actually, even with a 5000 calorie diet you might see some weight loss... because your body has literally nothing (no carbs) to store as fat.

I usually just lurk HN but I had to make a throwaway to respond to this unsubstantiated claim.

Show me someone--who isn't a 300lb (136.1kg), 6'11" (2.11m) professional athlete who works out 3hr everyday, a morbidly obese, 600lb person at a normal height, or someone with a genetic/hormonal disorder--that loses weight on a 5000 calorie diet and I will personally send you $100 right now.

I have lost weight on keto, so I understand the appeal of the diet. But that was more because I was in a calorie deficit. This idea that no carbs leads to no fat gain is a bit ridiculous.

The body has multiple biological processes to create carbs, fat, and substitutes for carbs and fat. One of those processes is ketosis itself.

Junk science like your claim leads to situations like a thread a few days ago in /r/fitnesscirclejerk where they found out that one of the mods in /r/keto is 400lbs.
MCSE was good, back in the days, prior to the proliferation of Internet and virtualization technologies. It taught fundamental networking and bare server under the hood. Not sure what new learners learn these days amid all the virtual abstractions, etc.
You could quite reasonably consider an excited electron to be a 1-bit memory of experiencing a photon recently. My understanding of panpsychism is that it doesn't require everything to have an equally sophisticated consciousness/experience as ours, just some. And sure, an excited electron decays, but so do your memory and bits in RAM.
Right on the money!

I also suggested building good, strong relationships.
In the US it's very difficult to get a bank loan for a new small business, unless you have strong collateral to put behind it. Banks gradually became not-so-great sources for small business lending in the post WW2 era; essentially as bank lending fully switched from being personal, with some influence for community relationships and reputation, to being almost strictly based on formula.

As an alternative, the US has many types of government small business loan programs (meant to stimulate industry), along with private sector versions, for just about every business type and scenario. Some are easy to get (typically smaller), most require that you go through annoying and drawn-out processes to get. You have to deal with the bureaucracy basically.

The US has an agency called the Small Business Administration, which works with lenders and provides loan backing. One of their requirements in their loan programs is that you demonstrate an inability to get lending from any other financial lender.

Then there are small business grants that federal and state government provide, again to stimulate industry.

I suspect most developed economies have versions of these types of programs.
If you're an American paying taxes, you're already a hypocrite for funding their international wars. Either accept that you're the baddie and enjoy life, or actually stop being the baddie even if you have to make huge sacrifices far beyond choice of consumer product brands. But you don't get to have it both ways being virtuous while selfishly doing harm.
This wasn’t in a petri dish actually, this was an in vivo study using mice. Other in vivo studies show similar.

There are actually no known trials with ARBs and SARS-CoV-2, which is really weird. There should be. One reason why is because most of the non-crazy (eg Chinese medicine) drugs being trailed were selected by semi-brute force from in vitro type testing. ARBs wouldn’t work in vitro AFAICT, which is a reason they haven’t been tested; the drug won’t stop the virus from entering cells the same way other drugs might, but instead may stop some or all of the major damage the virus does to the body.

There’s lots of discussion and papers collected here on this subject:

https://twitter.com/__philipn__