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I don’t understand how universities think they can get away with charging full tuition to students while offering online only classes. I would be so furious if I was stuck in this situation of trying to graduate on time but being scammed out of the whole experience I worked so hard to get in to.

If the schools feel so strongly against reopening they should waive their tuition for anyone already enrolled to attend online and close enrollment to new students, and give anyone the option to defer if desired.

I don’t blame ICE for not extending their exemption past the summer for online classes. The visa does not allow for online courses. Schools are not making an evidence based decision here, and should not expect special treatment if they aren’t willing to offer actual classes. I hope the students who are suing will prevail in court for unjust enrichment.
> Rather, we invented the distraction devices because modern life is so devoid of meaning and purpose that distraction is a survival adaptation.

I'd argue it is the other way around. What we call "distraction" is simply super-salient stimulus that we don't benefit in the long run but can't help being drawn to. It is like addiction. And addiction sells very well. Addictions can be designed to serve the market.

We don't ever get distracted with long pleasant walks, watching the sunset, home-cooked whole-food meals, deep reciprocal conversations, rich thoughtful books, sensual bonding love-making. But all have their marketable, superficial versions we can get addicted to like fast food, porn, hookups, twitter, youtube etc. I think the sense of meaninglessness and purposelessness is created because we get stuck in consuming these surface forms without getting anything that can genuinely nourish and grow us as people.
This is an example of, as they say, "liberal bullshit". Knowing enough not to be ignorant, but behaving exactly as if they were.
> Even at 0.3% IFR you're still talking about ~700k total fatalities in the US alone

Yes, there are a lot of people in the US, so even things with a very tiny chance of killing you will cause large numbers of deaths in absolute terms.

On the other hand, to be fair, if you’re considering absolute numbers of deaths, you _also_ have to consider absolute quantities of suffering from the lockdown. Take the probability of a person being thrust into poverty, or developing serious mental health problems, or just spending some of their precious time on earth unable to socialize normally... and multiply that by 300,000,000.

There would be many ways of saving 700,000 or more lives that are much less invasive than the current lockdowns, like heavily restricting meat consumption or driving. However, we don’t implement them because the per-capita increase in life expectancy is judged not to be worth the decrease in life quality.
Actually :) :). The folder icon looks like a manilla folder :) :) :). Also, the main view where the wallpaper goes is called a desktop according to the same metaphor of a computer being a desk with a desktop where you store and view files.
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I read a few paragraphs and this seems to be a good source for what I'm describing. As usual, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

https://fee.org/articles/how-the-federal-government-created-...
It just doesn’t feel the same when you don’t have to throw grandma and her wheelchair down the steps yourself. All those artists living in Ghost Ship, just what were they thinking?! Nothing to do with me...

The difference between an artist and a techie is that the artist does not feel they’re entitled.
So... what should we do? Kick these "single families" out of their homes, because they take too much space in such a sought-after area?
the clown single handedly destroyed this country
In that case this report is figure out. From the report, "Do Opportunity Zones benefit or gentrify low-income neighborhoods?" If one is looking just at socioeconomic indicators, and after an investment they go up, and that's defined as bad ... I have trouble following the logic from the report. Don't we want investment to improve the numbers?
I don't have a rigorous definition, but I mean it as the difference between caring about something like median income and something like "my kids had to move away because they can't afford to live here."
Might be a chance for diners or other restaurants to offer meeting rooms. They could charge less than coworking spaces and make up the difference in food and drink sales.
Any prospective international student reading this should REALLY reconsider education in the US. The administration is using everyone as pawns in a massive game of vote pandering.

It's hard enough to study hard and achieve goals. Why come here where you will be treated like unwanted foreigners at best and asylees who should be arrested at worst?
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One of my favorites from his Edna character.

"Edna: Which of the following would you most prefer? A puppy, a pretty flower from your sweetie, or a large, properly formatted datafile?

Scammer: I would choose the datafile"
If no one understands what it does, it's not perfectly good code is it? Of course there are rare cases where code cannot be simplified, made more readable or self explanatory and in those cases comments are vital. But the aim should be for the vast majority of code to be easily readable by humans.
Honestly surprised HN wasn’t mentioned by name in this article.
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I think the complexity in Blazor might be a documentation issue. Every tutorial and quick start I can find assume you're knee deep in the ecosystem.
H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of visa population in U.S.
Post quals grad students are going to be hard pressed to get a PCR machine, vivarium, or fluoroscope up and running in their parent's house. You know, machines vital to figuring out covid vaccines.

I've no idea how most of them will get any quality lab-bench research done. It pretty much nukes them.
> but I don't have time to go through every line item. (Position-Summary ETF tab in the xls file).

Ok, I just did that. I got $35 MM in indirect holdings via bond ETFs. Thanks for pointing this up.
On Android if you have Digital Wellbeing you can set a timer for each app. Just set it at 1min for Chrome
How many of these programs are dependent on foreign tuition?

At least some are. And this is nothing new.

When I went to college decades ago, I and a bunch of my friends got kicked out of our university at the end of the semester because it was over its legislatively-mandated limit for out-of-state students. The university had loaded up on lucrative international students in previous years, and when the ratio was changed, people like me got the heave-ho.

The problem is that we have to remove the greed from the university administrators. But good luck with that.
> I think this has led to the US educating many persons who later leave the country for visa issues

I’ve never been to the US but, if this is the problem then wouldn’t it be better to make it easier for people to stay also after they have finished their degrees? If the goal is to have a lot of highly educated people in the US I mean.
Really enjoyed reading the in depth blog post: https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/07/replacing_google_anal...

Learned about running webserver on android and goAccess
A Covid-19 Vaccine Could Cost Americans Dearly
> increase supply but that still leads to more costs

More absolute costs but with a tendency to amortize to a lower cost per person or per dwelling. If you have to dig up the street to run a water pipe to a place, it costs exactly the same whether there's one house or two houses or a 4-plex at that place.
I'm looking at exactly this, as far as I can tell the cpu should be at least 10x but idk what that means for real world.

A nicer screen and nicer graphics card is going to be a boost for the odd game and just generally easier on the eyes.

I suspect better support for the latest macOS.

What else have you noticed?
One simple change is to upzone areas that aren't poor too. That will lower the price of housing everywhere, which is good. In most US cities, rich neighborhoods buy their way out of upzoning. For example the area around Dewey Blvd and the Forest Hill MUNI station has excellent transit access (subway in walking distance!) and there are a few km of street frontage without too much pitch for walkability but it's all SFH on relatively large lots by SF standards with commercial confined to a tiny strip mall. Why? Owners are rich! See also: Peskin ratfucking the North Beach central subway station.

However, this isn't a complete solution because it's not just a side-effect to have mid-to-high income people moving in to a lower-income area; it's intended. Concentrated poverty leads to weaker education and healthcare systems and other social disorders that perpetuate the cycle of poverty. Making those areas mixed-income is something social planners dreamed up as a way to increase access to jobs and improve schools etc. Mixed-income environments have a good track record where they occur naturally, so we've tried to replicate that success.

You've got to deal with the business sector. Analyses that look at housing prices and incomes alone inevitably find that housing price increases don't exceed the benefits of new job availability. But what also happens is that everything else in the community becomes more expensive. Cheap restaurants close, expensive ones open, survivors raise their prices; the same thing happens to grocers, bars, theatres, hairdressers etc. This is the big unsolved problem in "investing in poor communities": even in places with rent control (like SF), this kind of gentrification can price people out.

But do note, however, that the problem described in the first paragraph exacerbates the one in the third paragraph by increasing the mean income of people who move into poor communities and thus increasing the disparity in the price point of services in demand in those areas.
When you allow higher density, the land values increase, and people 'volunteer' their homes for development.
I would say the Long Now Foundation [0] is influenced by Fuller and his ideas, carrying forward the values of planetary systems engineering and long-term thinking. It's a little farther afield (or crackpot depending who you ask), but The Venus Project [1] covers similar ground. And of course, while Fuller never explicitly advocated UBI, Yang and COVID have recently conspired to move the idea into the Overton Window.

[0] http://longnow.org/

[1] https://www.thevenusproject.com/
Yeah - Mailchimp is great!
But I'm not sure it's possible to enforce just one email marketing system? Feels like there's always forces to add yet another system. Intercom, for example, brings a nice little chat widget & an integrated email system. This will inevitably result in email subscribe/unsubscribe dynamics - or are we doing something wrong?
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True but also not true.

In normal times with well-functioning markets and non-distressed players, that's so.

But with distressed (or small or less creditworthy) players or at distressed times, it's extremely common for lenders to demand equity as a concession for making a loan. See PIKs, warrant coverage, convertible notes, etc.
What do you find makes a portfolio better or worse for these purposes?

Not so much "more likely to get them the job", more... I felt like my projects weren't actually suitable to take the place of coding interviews, largely because I couldn't actually drop in and work on them in the way that coding interviews show me actually doing work.
I avoid all solicitation in general. If I want something I research it and buy it. I never make a purchcase based on an incoming offer of any sort even if I want the item or service and it’s a good deal.
It avoids 90% of scams before I even enter the funnel.
Yeah slightly tangential but I wonder if some of the alternative OSes (looking at you Haiku) could just use Linux as the kernel for portability.
No because Youtube Premium is a subscription model and I don't want to pay for anything I don't care for which is what would happen if I pay into a big pot.

Flattr also follows the subscription model. I want the busking model. I provide my payment details but not a penny is spent until I click the button for a specific video/channel/piece. The key is low friction. It can't be some third party thing where you need to click away. It needs to be right there where you choose what to watch/listen to.
The fact that only seven strains are known to currently infect humans is pretty decent evidence we've fought off some in the past.

If we couldn't acquire herd immunity against coronaviruses, there should be a lot more of them endemic in our population.
Why not? Psychoactive drugs are small molecules that can completely change your behavior by doing what your natural neurotransmitters do. You can call them the global variables of your brain, on which the billions of neurons rely.

Our brain "code" is messier than anything mad programmers could have produced. Global variables are generally not a good practice, so of course our brain has global variables. And of course they are reused for completely unrelated things, for example lactation and the immune system, because life is like that. Life never read about pure functions and design patterns and will happily use floating point numbers as pointers and jump between two instructions.

Back to the subject, I think it is just a case of circular reasoning. Dopamine is part of the reward system, and addictive stuff cause dopamine to be released. To limit addiction, limit things that cause dopamine to be released. So, to limit addiction, you have to limit things that are addictive.
But not nearly as malleable as it could be. Hopefully, true 80386 support can be reintroduced to the kernel in a way that keeps it properly self-contained and easy to support. There are also a few kernel-tinification approaches floating around that could make the kernel smaller and easy to fit in a floppy-using scenario.
I saw that chart on Twitter and thought it was a joke :-/

You don’t need to know anything about maths to see that that is farcical.
It's also very interesting that this is where the whole mobile gaming gatcha market comes from. Your user base has no free time and tons of expendable income, so they'll gladly spend thousands of dollars a month on the games they play on their daily 2 hour commute.
> I'll have to chew on it for a while. I would imagine, not being a scholar in it, that the UDHR applies more stringently to government action and use of force, rather than to a group of people without use of force or detainment.

I want to be very clear that formal consideration of the UDHR by established authorities is not my contention. If you wanted solely an affirmative vision of an ideal society, then the UDHR is it.

> Your definition of "mob", "attack" both would need examples. In a real world analogy: If someone on my street waves a Nazi flag and says God hates Fags, and our entire community were to shun him, refuse to interact with him, or at times, warn others of his beliefs - do you believe that is a violation of his fundamental human rights? That no person can be shunned or disliked for their beliefs?

I'm going to elide some details from your hypothetical.

"If someone on my street [...] and [...], and our entire community were to shun him, refuse to interact with him, or at times, warn others of [...] - do you believe that is a violation of his fundamental human rights? That no person can be shunned or disliked for [...]?"

If the elided details merely included his race for example, would you consider that a violation of his fundamental human rights? If the elided details included his colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, at what point does that become a violation of fundamental human rights? To me, the question boils down to this: is redlining a desirable and/or legal practice if the target is a law-abiding citizen in good standing, despite all other possible non-essential attributes?

From my perspective, the homophobic Nazi has done nothing unlawful or contrary to the UDHR, if we can agree that imminent harm is the baseline for where speech can infringe upon others' liberty. If we disagree that imminent harm is the baseline for acceptable speech, then we need to figure out the exact location of that disjuncture to continue.

As a further point, censorship, shunning, or suppression do not resolve the underlying processes that led to the emergence of the supposed undesirable element in the first place. If this element is a Nazi, it does not address why this person identifies as a Nazi, how he came to be radicalized as a Nazi, and what cultural or societal forces led to him falling through the cracks of the social contract to begin with. Similarly with racists, homophobes, antisemites, misogynists, and all other self-righteous authoritarians of whatever political identity.

Censorship, shunning, and suppression in fact lead to the opposite--it ignores their provenance, lets them grow in the dark, and tempers their own narratives of persecution and conspiracy. If the goal is a harmonious society predicated upon love, or at the very least brotherhood, this is not reached by excommunicating people from the very possibility of de-radicalization, de-militarization, and rapprochement.

To quote the Buddha:

"Hostilities aren’t stilled through hostility, regardless.
Hostilities are stilled through non-hostility: this, an unending truth."
Out of curiosity, what's your host's name? :)
One has to love how "truth" has become a dismissive label. I think Orwell had something to say about that.

Judging by the constant stream of downvotes and upvotes, my conclusion is that people are living in two very different economic worlds. Likely defined by their access to the outlets of newly created money.
I work as an external examiner for CS students, and one year I was assigned first semester exams. To brush up my knowledge on freshmen CS stuff I completed the CS50x course from Harvard on EDX.org and I can easily say that it was taught so much better than my own freshman year in a Danish university.

I wonder how much that plays into universities wanting to keep physical attendance. Once you go digital, you don’t really need a lot of lecturers. You still need someone to answer questions and mentor of course, but you could frankly have a handful of professors teaching the entire world.
This is great -- it would be helpful if the distinction between "free" and "really free" was made more often.
The fact that python has a lazy and non-lazy range is pretty much the point. Yes there are (common) trivial cases where you don't care if the range is lazy or not, but in general it is something you need to be aware of.
I mean money is a synthetic concept and can function however we define and people will continue to chase large amounts of it. Bitcoin was an interesting thought experiment but seemed on a trajectory to convert the planet's crust into mining hardware. Money should probably have some kind of variable decay factor similar to inflation or maybe some kind of antipolarity to prevent it from clumping into large, passive collections. Maybe it should decay faster in large accounts than small accounts or decay faster if it hasn't passed through a tax system recently. Maybe small amounts should automatically earn interest to encourage individuals to save emergency funds and very small amounts could grow rapidly to provide basic income. I see no reason that the rich should be able have generational wealth without much incentive to take risks.
I'm not sure that's right. If this virus is in fact a crossover from bats, then it might be evidence that crossing from bats to humans is not easy to do.
Planimeter's Grid Engine[1] was posted to HN recently, which is entirely built in Lua and the largest pure-Lua game engine![2]

[1]: https://www.planimeter.org/grid-sdk/
[2]: https://github.com/topics/love2d

Additionally, adnzzzzZ and I are both from the Facepunch/Knockout community, where a lot of Lua developers have come from due to its popularity in Garry's Mod. It also had a wonderful web dev community.

There are a lot of cool developers from that community, like Gran PC who works at itch.io and worked on The Stanley Parable, and TheBerkin who designed rant, among many other highly skilled individuals, though most people at HN are probably more familiar with developers like sebmck who wrote 6to5, which later became Babel, and Gabriele Cirulli who wrote 2048.
We are talking about seniors who get scammed here, it looks like it's not as obvious to them
I'm going through this exactly with my employer right now, they will never mention a raise until I ask. I'm disappointed, but it doesn't surprise me anymore.
Which just shows that learning about GC algorithms is a must.

http://gchandbook.org/

And the differences between value types, AOT compiled code execution, bytecode interpreters and FFI marshalling costs between bytecode interpreters and native libraries.
Doesn't that depend a great deal on testing capability? If testing is quick and widely available, then I'd expect the lag to be larger as people get diagnosed earlier.
Amazing show. I need to rewatch it ASAP
SARS, MERS, and COVID-19 all crossed over to humans in the last few decades.

We've coexisted with bats and other animal reservoirs for millions of years.
This reads like "open your campuses or go fuck yourself". International students make up 6% of all the students in the US with certain institutions probably averaging very large numbers of international students.

This is the sad current state of affairs in this country. A pandemic became a political weapon.
One thing does not exclude the other. The sites are stateless like Lorddragonfang already said. This doesn't mean you can't make nice client side apps and you surely don't need to use javascript to do it.

What js does is that it allows you to dynamically update the contents of your website like changing an image when you hover over it for example. This is something you can actually do with ALFI by itself without having to depend on a second language like js. I'm glad you asked this question.
who financed, helped Mao into power?
look up Skull and Bones, Yale. Rothschilds, Israel Epstein,Sol Adler Jacob Schiff
http://www.darknessisfalling.com/darknessisfallingblogblog/m...
It's not leadership.
is there at least a countdown clock somewhere that marks the remaining time until this is challenged in federal district court?
Unreal. What is the thought process through which one thinks it is perfectly fine and reasonable to buy 6 figures in gift cards from a department store.
> you've created a blackhole of accountability for authoritarian harassment

Please don't use racially charged metaphors. Instead of "blackhole" prefer neutral terminology such as "denyhole."
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Yeahhh outside of Cornell you're not going to transfer into an Ivy from a CC.
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdgzsF_O7oI&t=47 ?
Funny you should bring up this example.

I have two Crucial BX500 SSDs here.

One made in Thailand - The 960GB version.

One made in Mexico - The 1TB version.
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?msg=Time%20left%20u...
I think it was a mistake of Apple to allow non-os photo pickers. I've got a big photo library (~100k photos) and custom photo pickers a) take forever to start up, and more importantly, b) mess up the ordering of albums and/or photos which makes it a nightmare to find anything.