skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that colleges charge the same tuition for online students and in person students, but what's preventing the schools from lowering the cost of online, part-time degrees as a way to increase enrollment? They may have hosting costs, or costs associated with platforms like Coursera, but there's no cost for facilities which should make them able to cut the tuition. The cost of healthcare and education is far too high in the US. IMO Universal means Affordable, Accessible and Abundant (In addition hopefully high quality as well). Education and Healthcare should meet all of those points.
And the majority of these have so little presence in places like this, that its easy to forget that they exist at all.

Heck, when I joined my first large-team software development project at work, I was flabbergasted at how many "numb-nuts" there were. This is because the online world of armchair authorities pretended those people didn't even exist, and thus raised the bar so high that it made me believe I wasn't even worthy of owning a keyboard.
Google under fire for squeezing travel startups hit by coronavirus refunds
Siacoin seems much farther along if you just want a decentralized file store solution where you can pay others to provide the storage/bandwidth.
Searching for a Black Hole in the Outer Solar System
Hasn't the Tesla argument always been that EVs are going to take over the entire auto industry? I don't see any version of Tesla's success without EV success.
I know several career minded engineers that jumped ship 10 years ago.
I couldn't find the pricing anywhere in the site.
“Open forum”? How is it an open forum if you lock down all the privacy settings to only your most trusted friends and family? FB has those options.

I’ve always thought there should be a social network that is private by default. With no concept of public anything. And you pay for it, so there are no ads.
You did pick a worse case example. When someone's livelihood depends on something it is hard for them to say anything else. My company was already making plans. But we were essential and expected to be essential from the start so our incentives were to keep as many employees as possible safe so they can come to work. In late February all traveled needed extra approval by mid March I was not allowed to eat in the lunch room (I could use a microwave and get back to my desk, factory workers in the building don't have a desk) those who didn't have a safe place to eat other than the lunchroom thus didn't have to be close to those who had one.
Intel started getting serious about system battery life with Centrino and AMD is still catching up a bit, though they're doing that very rapidly.

EDIT: Celeron -> Centrino
The meat of the below quote: you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin’ education you coulda got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library.

Quoting the whole thing:

"""
CLARK: There's no problem. I was just hoping you could give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the southern colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities—especially in the southern colonies—could most aptly be characterized as agrarian pre-capital—

WILL: [interrupting] Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad student. You just got finished reading some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison probably, you’re gonna be convinced of that until next month when you get to James Lemon, then you’re gonna be talking about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gonna last until next year, you’re gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin’ about, you know, the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.

CLARK: [taken aback] Well as a matter of fact I won't, because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of —

WILL: "Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth..." You got that from Vickers, Work in Essex County, Page 98, right? Yeah I read that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us—you have any thoughts of—of your own on this matter? Or do—is that your thing, you come into a bar, you read some obscure passage and then you pretend, you pawn it off as your own—your own idea just to impress some girls, embarrass my friend?

[Clark is stunned]

WILL: See the sad thing about a guy like you is in about 50 years you’re gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you’re gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One, don't do that. And two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin’ education you coulda got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library.
"""

https://genius.com/Good-will-hunting-good-will-hunting-bar-s...
I entirely forgot to mention that TODAY is Q.js’ first birthday. And here’s a write-up of how I got started with it:

https://medium.com/@stew_rtsmith/quantum-javascript-d1effb84...
This is really cool, but the distortion and noise makes it hard to enjoy the music.
This is probably premature optimization, but what's the performance cost of updating a deeply nested field inside a jsonb? What about indexing it?

(compared to storing in some normalized form or in other popular document stores)
Does this camera have IR support? Most home cameras need IR (baby monitors / home security). How would that work I wonder? I guess you'd need an IR LED array to go with it.
"Rule 5: When to use Python or Ruby
Python and Ruby seem to me to be pretty similar in that they’re scripting languages and dynamically typed and seemed like the greatest thing in the 00’s. You use them when speed is more important than legibility or debugging. And then Python for ML/AI applications."

Eh? Speed? What kind of speed? Developer speed? Code speed?

Why is legibility in Python/Ruby bad? Bad compared to what?

Why is debugging in Python/Ruby bad? Bad compared to what?

Frankly...this feels like a 0.5x article to me
N95 is the US standard, so it makes sense the US makes more of these than other countries.

Compare production capacity of N95s in the US with FFP2/3 in the EU, or KN95 in China. Then we'll really see how US production capacity stacks up.

To be clear, I have no idea how these production capacities stack up. But if we want to evaluate medical mask production, this is the comparison that needs to be made.
> Lyrics from “Mitosis”

> Co-written by a language model and OpenAI researchers

Researchers co-wrote all the lyrics. This is one place where reading the fine print matters. Super impressive stuff, but I also wonder what had to be tweaked.
> And then we try to make up for the skill points gap by throwing money at the unlucky and tell them to just buy some better items to make up for it.

I didn't assert anything about how we allocate dollars to level the playing field for parents. Identifying a wealth gap doesn't mean the solution is to simply throw cash at the problem (though solutions _do_ require money). Pretty hard to fix family culture if parents can't afford to spend time with their kids.

> But that’s the beauty - you don’t need everyone to be able to in order to build a better culture and a better future.

You certainly have a way of responding to things that weren't asserted in the first place. The statement you were responding to was intended to illustrate why we should have empathy for those lower on the wealth ladder. "Culture" is loaded because it's easier to build education-centric culture the higher on the wealth ladder you are. Because time, emotional bandwidth, and money are deeply connected in reality.

Your statement that in your culture you blame parents for not instilling education-centric culture is the thing I totally disagree with. I don't think shaming parents is producing results the way you think it is, or producing a "better culture and a better future," as you would say. Nobody wants to live in a culture where you get blamed for things outside of your control. And you should probably recognize that there are limits to how parents affect their children even under "perfect" conditions. These aren't nice little math functions where input -> output, these are complex human beings we're talking about.
Congrats on shipping the beta.

One thing that strikes me is that while you present your product as alternative to Jira, both the name and the logo (bluish form looking like an A) hint at Atlassian and Jira.
Battery and Solar Panels
It's a nice feature. I enjoy that I, as a customer, can use Wifi most anywhere. I also have the option of turning off the functionality on the device in my house using the web portal.
You need to at least try several failed viral campaigns or B2B sales cycles. Three weeks is nowhere enough for both.
The author is truly hyperbolic, talking about mass death happening in Sweden and comparing it to not standing up to the Nazis.

2500 deaths is not mass death in a country where 90000 people die every year. So far it seems to be a tradeoff that the people of Sweden have accepted.
Kotlin Flow Primer
Power increases linearly with frequency and squarely with voltage.

Going by the common use of "squarely," the power usage might also be interpreted as being linearly with voltage. Rather, I understood you meant that power increases proportional to the voltage squared.

(For the lurkers: Friction increases proportional to velocity squared, as does kinetic energy. These are all quite useful things to know, and should be part of the takeaways from your basic science education.)
Not really, Borg is itself only at the scale it operates at. It's like Michael Jordan is not the baseball god, if it's only allowed to playing with 5 year old kiddos.
Hundreds of Georgia poultry workers have tested positive for Covid-19
Once my phone learns that I never intentionally write the word "ducking" I will be happy.
The Virus That Changed the World
It seems pretty impossible to go completely carless in Los Angeles. In somewhere like New York/Chicago/DC you could do it, but LA seems way to spread out to not have a car.
So a lot of this sounds muffled and compressed... I wonder if something like the equivalent of a super-resolution or denoising autoencoder for music would work here as a post-processing step.

Like, just pass through the network w/o style transfer, use the input and output as a training dataset.
Mayor London Breed seals deal for 1,100 new homes near Balboa Park BART
>after it is no longer under load

This is irrelevant entirely, as long as it stays in the desired/designed range.

More importantly the higher thermal capacity allows for easier short turbo boosts which most of the load is. For sustained load, it matters only the hottest part (cores) of the cpu and water cooling is a lot better to transfer heat away.
Just know that: much of the stuff OpenAI and other research orgs put out (including mine) are heavily cherry-picked. Most of the time its pumps out gibberish, but in the off chance it doesn't it gets used as marketing material.
Actually, some schools do have versions in place already (I believe Purdue's engineering is one example).

My opinion - not my area of research - is that the days of hiking tuition like they did year after year are over. Note that there's no reason this won't bring in money immediately. Students would essentially be doing an IPO and giving shares to the university. Those shares would have value to someone, and they could serve as collateral for a loan. And beyond that, there's no reason it has to be all or nothing. You could pay half tuition now and sign over a percentage of future earnings.

There's no way colleges want to do this. It's unclear to me how long they continue to operate under the current system. They're going to have to innovate.
Having worked a bit in tech support and heard some horror stories from others; it seems like the average consumer doesn't know how to restart a router, nor would they like to do it themselves.
You hit the nail on the head. The only problem is that it is all about the memes. I have never posted more than 10 photos in my entire 10 years of using FB. I only use it to tag my friends in memes and have a laugh or two. The rest of the stuff is mind numbingly useless.
Is Borg essentially Google's version of Condor?
Everyone is so angry at Michael Moore because they are terminally anthropocentric. The point of the film is that we need to achieve fewer humans, and this makes the anthropocentrists rabidly angry.

Moore makes an excellent point: creating solar panels and wind farms requires fossil fuels. Doing so in such a way as to accommodate perpetual growth is unsustainable.

We need to prune the human species to a sustainable level and keep it there.

We need forced sterilization, now. We need to limit waste and useless economic activity, now. Or else we will become extinct.

COVID-19 is clear and unequivocal evidence that population density has reached unsustainable levels. We are looking at The Great Filter.

We can have innovation, technical progress, and a good life. But we can only do that on a smaller scale.
That part of the lyrics was actually the prompt from Heewoo :)
I see and use "B" as a correction instead of "B". It's very annoying when I'm correcting autocorrect, ie B automatically changed to A, because then in the follow up message it usually changes it again, so I end up with A*.
You gave up after 3 weeks dude? You will never succeed at founding a startup with that attitude. I've been bootstrapping my startup for 2+ years and after several pivots we are just now finding our stride with ~$10k MRR.

I also completely disagree on the assumption that pricing had anything to do with your failure. Your startup didn't fail because of the economics, it failed because your product didn't provide enough value to customers.
Re: big company vs small -- Small companies fail all the time; projects like this pare more prevalent at big companies because it doesn't (always at least) kill them.
> some new technology making my equipment obsolete or unable to achieve the highest possible bandwidth available

Let me introduce you to the United States ISP cartel. A technology leap might happen once every 20 years. In the vast vast majority of this country you can't even get a 100Mbps+ connection so I'm definitely not worried about what - 1Gbps+ compatibility in the future?
Thanks for the tip. I supplemented with many things after ending the fast, to be safe, including glycine which looks like a component of glutathione. I have not been sick or ill since mid-2019. I am still fasting often and believe it to help my immune system.
Plus there CapEx hasn't even met depreciation for years, indicating that they have been underinvesting in repairs and retooling.
> 6. RDB files are now faster to load. You can expect a 20/30% improvement, depending on the file actual composition (larger or smaller values). INFO is also faster now when there are many clients connected, this was a long time problem that now is finally gone.

Talk about humble bragging.
You made the point I wanted to make without sarcasm. Thanks :-)
That's only 64.7 per acre: a really low number for a city suffering from an acute housing shortage.

Mayors should not need to be tied into every housing deal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-housing-crisis-in-japan-ho...
relevant:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...

>Securities fraud is a universal regulatory regime; anything bad that is done by or happens to a public company is also securities fraud, and it is often easier to punish the bad thing as securities fraud than it is to regulate it directly.

parent commenter is right, securities fraud is probably the best ways we have to prosecute "bad" behavior.
As he said: He's a 1x developer.
The stakes feel higher but, with good practice, it need not be scary
What is condor?
Yuan literally presides over a company that was funneling corporate, govt., private citizen, etc. data through China... and is known to receive massive investment from China. Entertain the idea that he may be a Chinese state actor based on his having been born, raised, and educated there, in combination with the shady stuff that Zoom is doing, and the whole Chinese money thing... Throwing the race/xenophobia card doesn't lend much to your argument.
The higher education bubble has been building for a long time. It follows a similar trend to the housing bubble: high prices fueled by loans that are too easy to get and too hard to repay.

The current situation is likely going to force a hard reset for the industry. Administrative bloat and other expenses will need to be addressed as colleges get back to basics and focus on delivering education under a more sustainable economic model.

A 10% decline in enrollment (much higher is realistic for many colleges) would devastate the finances of most institutions. These will be an interesting next few years.
Wherever he is the wind blows. That's all we can say.
> So I'm not saying that the writing style hasn't changed in 2 millennia, rather that the people themselves are the same once you drill beneath the thin layer of change from education and society.

We've been debating the nature versus nurture question since philosophy was a concrete concept with no visible light at the end of the tunnel. Many people, myself included, would strongly disagree with the latter half of that statement.
I mean I listened to the metal track, and I usually like metal, and I couldn't stand it. The guitar was just ... wrong. The lyrics were unintelligible, even though I had them right in front of me.

The pop song in the Katy Perry style was sort of intelligible but quite repetitive (moreso than most pop songs).

The other songs had similar issues.

I agree that it's quite an achievement, but it clearly suffers from the uncanny valley.
This had the only details I could find anywhere on the Internet about the actual encoding of the images (4-sec video still -> audio signal). Plenty of stuff on decoding, but nothing except this that has primary sources that I could find.

Was doing research for the latest issue of Orbital Index (orbitalindex.com).
Where are the companies from Fund I? Didn't they invested in Telegram. How did that go?
Can you share something on this reliability? Is it more reliable than the JVM? Or is it more predictable in terms of performance? I’ve found the jvm itself to be rock solid as well.
Lockdown Productivity: Spaceship You
> It's incredibly risky to rely on the specialized abilities or knowledge of any single employee.

That's just true. And the risk goes both ways. There's an ideology in administration, let's call it "anti-Deming" since I guess it's the most descriptive, that believes that risks only go one way.

The funny thing is that for minimizing their bets on individual contributors that are plentyful enough to hedge each other they automatically go and maximize their bets on management, focusing on a single person's skill to solve anything.
I got cut from an Amazon phone screen by not being able to cough up various Minesweeper algorithms off the top of my head. (Also something I've never used before or since.)

Thankfully, at the same time (this was in 2011), I was also in the process of interviewing for a startup that treated me like a real person with individual skills and experiences of value. That interview process went a lot better, and did result in me getting hired.

(And Amazon recruiters still pester me to this day, despite me having little interest in working for them.)
They idea that you can't have an aggressive CEO who doesn't tweet dangerously irresponsible things about a pandemic, call an international hero a pedophile, or fake the largest corporate buyout in history doesn't seem to hold water with me.
Google needs good PR fare more than Azure though. Azure is doing very well, much better than GCP.
I'm a developer at a university. We're horrified.
Not to snap at you but the neurologically atypical suggestion brings to mind the one offensive dehumanizing trope of autistic people of thinking of them as something inhuman to be forced to act "normal" instead of taking the step one of actually trying to understand them. I have such a sense of deja-vu that it certainly doesn't sound like the first daft attempts to try to use robots to "fix" them with no real thought how the hell that would work.
Sorry for that, already get it clean.
If tried an intense exercise, regardless of how long, without warming up I would hurt myself really fast.
In my view, attempts like this misunderstand much of the point of music. That is, to communicate aspects of human life that are deeply interwoven with facts and experiences outside of the music itself.

I don't see how any of that will be possible before we have some kind of general AI, and in the meantime I think these attempts will continue to be semantically empty, even unsettling in their emptiness.
And aggressive is not equivalent to irresponsible.
Salary isn't a function of time- it's a function of perceived value and leverage.
I'm disappointed to see that none of the Crypto Fund II is slated for Cryptography, but instead only to Cryptocurrency.

Obligatory: http://www.cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com

There's a lot of important problems in (and around) cryptography that need solving.

To be charitable: Maybe some of them can be solved by cryptocurrency projects? There is some precedent here. (Zcash advanced the state of the art for non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs and pairing-based cryptography, Monero demonstrated real-world ring signatures, etc.)

But more importantly: There are a lot of possible solutions that need an incentive to be developed, and could potentially become profitable start-ups.

But it's sad to see that cryptography (a.k.a. the real "crypto") isn't even a seat at the table calling itself "Crypto".
Right, it's a weird situation, where lenders don't want someone going into bankruptcy right out of college when they have nothing to lose. But preventing loans from being discharged in bankruptchy has created the perverse dynamic where it's made the cost of college very inelastic and almost predatory.
Last time I rented I was renting a Cessna Wet at about $85/ hour as part of a club. Fuel costs were about half of that.

Engine overhauls every X,XXX hours was another, but I'm not sure if you need an engine overhaul on an electric plane. How does battery replacement stack up against fuel tank replacement/ leaks? This is all up in the air, but based on the difference in ICE car maintenance versus electric, I'm pretty optimistic that there will be more savings than just the actual fuel costs.

But even you ignore other potential savings, just fuel savings alone drops prices by 35% using your numbers which is a pretty big savings.
Dr. Ioannidis on Results of Coronavirus Studies
I'm asking more about whether that is the future direction, not how far along we are.
People aka the New Oil must have skills, not knowledge. This narrative has been coming out of the woodwork recently. Like, lumberjacks over dendrologists all the way.

If we translate this motto from the newspeak, it would be this: the New Oil must flow smoothly without asking uncomfortable questions about the piping.
> ... using gzip compression over the wire seems pretty stone-age.

Really? Probably half of all web servers on the Internet (using HTTP/1.1) use it.

> The proper solution is surely to use a modern lossy video-compression algorithm.

The X11 protocol doesn't send bitmaps so I'm not certain that a "lossy video-compression algorithm" is gonna have the effect you think it will.
Most STEM PhDs (and especially in the hard sciences) are funded from mostly government sources. It’s seen as the country making an investment in top talent.

Nobody (who is any good) in the USA pays money for a STEM PhD. You get paid to do these degrees, albeit not a lot but a lot better than paying yourself!