skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just hear out what they are thinking first. My guess is if Mom has been quite successful prior she may not be thinking a 3 way split to begin with, especially if she is kicking in funds. If you are all contributing funds in equal amounts that'd be different. It wouldn't shock me if she said 51, 24.5, 24.5. So that's why I'd say hear out what they are thinking first then give it a think.

I grew up in family businesses, where the primary business was a software business, and so I went through all the fun family work dynamics. I have also consulted for a number of family business both big and small, usually they have some interesting dynamics to work through and you have to navigate waters that have history far beyond what you have any right to know. lol. FWIW, I am not someone who warns people away from a family business, but just like any business partner you need to feel things out to see how conflict resolution will work, how communication feels, are the goals aligned etc and you need to understand the dynamic between mom & daughter too.

How do you get to these conversations without sounding like you care about the wrong things is by being honest. "Hey friend, we work really well together and I thoroughly enjoy that time, I am super interested in this project but obviously there are logistics about how it all gets setup that I'd like to hear your and your mom's thoughts on. Can we just have a chat?" I'd even suggest saying you are open to different ideas and don't have any fixed notions yet, so wanted to hear their thoughts etc. This way it is letting them tell you their thoughts, see how they do it together, does one override the other all the time? Are they even on the same page? etc. Also, by saying you don't have any fixed notions yet (or something like that), you are leaving the door open to you changing your mind or needing to think to solidify your own ideas without them feeling like you are being douche.
Probably because they didn't consider the downside to their decision. They don't empathize with the students who can't possibly learn the material without a classroom environment, or for those who worked and dreamed of attending that University for years only to be sent the bill without most of the benefit. To say nothing of those students who literally don't have a (safe) place to live lined up besides being on-campus.

The people making the decision are Administrators who get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to cash the tuition checks and did the calculus that they could shut down "for the safety of their students and faculty" and still cash those checks.

> And US college is about a lot more than classes.

Absolutely true. I'd say classes are no more than half of what you're paying for. Harvard and Princeton just announced today that many students will be returning in the fall, but still taking classes online. They want freshman and juniors to return in the fall, and sophomores and seniors to return in the spring.

If the decision was simply based on the actual data, the reality is that the student body is much more at risk from the drugs and alcohol on campus than they are at risk from SARS-CoV-2. More to the point; if you take a holistic view, the social, economic, physical and mental welfare of their student body is massively degraded overall by canceling on-campus housing and classes versus by holding them.
>How else do you explain public opposition to the national security law?

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Hong Kong benefits immensely from its autonomous position in regards to the Chinese government, so they don't want to disrupt the status quo. The protests have revealed HK to be a national security issue for the Chinese government, so they want to create laws to make sure HK isn't used as a center of political dissent. These two ideas are contradictory with each other, so a law like this was inevitable.

>And I'm not sure how Hong Kong's previous autonomy (or any other freedoms) would come at the cost of the PRC's sovereignty?

I'm not sure if you understand the original impetus of the extradition bill. Here's a good Twitter thread that details the provisions: https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/117502034599824588...

To answer your question, if criminals are able to easily escape China into Hong Kong, that fundamentally weakens the justice system. HKers and mainland Chinese move between HK and the mainland constantly. It would obviously be a failure of justice if you could go to a city within your country and encounter the man who killed your daughter. A similar law exists within Puerto Rico, a US territory. This is the bill that originally sparked the protests.

Recently Beijing passed the bill we are talking about that also gives them much more power in terms of being able to imprison HKers that try to subvert the government. This can be seen as a response to the protests, whose leaders have been revealed to be funded and supported by foreigners. China's sovereignty is absolutely threatened by protests and riots that seek to destabilize Chinese places of power, like Hong Kong.

>As long as it's happening openly, I can't get too upset either way

If you can't get upset about the US meddling in Chinese affairs, then you can't get upset about China trying to stop internal subversion. Not to mention, it absolutely doesn't just happen openly. The US has a long history of covert regime change operations. This happens completely undemocratically. Here's a short list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

I mean, just look at the hysteria surrounding Russian involvement in US elections. Rumors of Trump officials meeting with Russian officials has set public discourse on fire for years. And yet, it's unreasonable for China to oppose Demosisto party leaders who have openly met with US officials. I'm not trying to use whataboutism to deflect, I'm trying to paint an equivalency between the situations of these two countries.

>where did you develop these beliefs?

I'm fairly left leaning. China is a leftist country. I know China isn't perfect, but you can easily rationalize their decisions as being made by a government that cares about its people, not power-mad evil dictators as most people would have you believe. If you're interested in learning more, I would recommend reading Blackshirts & Reds by Michael Parenti. https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/michael-parenti...
The virtue of reusing an old system is somewhat eroded by the fact that its noise and power consumption exceed that of a more powerful Pi 3 B+, which can be had for $50-60 with case and power supply (circa 2020).

I see little advantage in keeping the old hardware around anymore. I think I still have some old ISA cables downstairs in a box - high time to acknowledge to myself that I will NEVER use those again.
DC is a tragic story. During Reconstruction, DC was home to a thriving black elite: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/books/review/original-bla.... Dunbar High School (where today, 100% of students are classified as “economically disadvantaged”) was an elite secondary school for black people where at the turn of the 20th century, the majority of students went to college, including many to Ivy League universities. The Shaw neighborhood had hundreds of black-owned businesses.

The end of Reconstruction and the return of southern white people to political power ended that. Woodrow Wilson, a progressive southern Democrat and vicious racist, kicked things off by segregating the federal workforce, which up to that point had employed many black professionals. Segregation eventually took over the whole city, decimating the formerly thriving black elite. During the latter half of the century, Shaw was a typical disadvantaged black neighborhood. It remained that way until the 21st century, when the neighborhood was gentrified by progressive white millennials: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/black-branding--how-a-d...
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Many Universities have a conflict of interest policy for faculty involved as cofounders in startups. How to best navigate that coi?
yes, comments should be considered code too, but for humans, so later coders (including your later self) can effectively simulate (not but necessarily replicate) the prior code-writing process(es). it's as critical as the code for machines.

which is to say, the comments should be kept concise and current too.
> that would really only be a big competitive advantage if great people who don't interview well were more numerous than those who interview at least adequately, or if those great people were greater than the great people who do interview adequately.

It sounds like you're making it a zero sum game. Isn't it reasonable to assume that you could create an interview process that does well for both parties rather than one that is exclusionary? Isn't the issue with the current interviewing practices is that it is exclusionary and doesn't assess people correctly?
Your original graph is heartily contradicted by the IRNEA numbers. I used glass as a baseline because the bad QBER numbers had it as a small component, but it has become the dominant component in these builds. The original table (vs. IRENA):

2.9x (vs. 0.8x) as much steel as glass

1.4x (vs. 0.67x) as much concrete as glass

0.62x (vs. 0.55x) as much "other" as glass

Panels have 25 year warranties, assuming they will be replaced before the warranty ends doesn't seem very realistic. Choosing the worst-case-for-solar deployment of Boston isn't a good comparison metric either.

So all in all, the numbers that you have linked here show that solar, in its heaviest form deployed in an open field, is within a factor of 5 compared to nuclear on the weight per amount of energy over a lifetime. And various nuclear designs easily vary by a factor of 5.

SMRs, the only hope for nuclear going forward, have been avoided for a long time because it was thought they would be less efficient on a W/kg scale. So nuclear's future designs will take more mass per kilogram.

In contrast, solar is decreasing its weight and efficiency all the time, and there is no shortage of sites for solar, so we will see solar's Wh/kg decrease as the technology develops.

This is all a meaningless metric, but even if it did have some sort of meaning, it's not much of a win for nuclear.
> That^ system-structure is what also rewards[1] people for their efforts for their work and suffering, etc.

No, especially jobs at the low end are not rewarding people for their hard work. At best most of these jobs just allow people to subsist.

And even at higher levels of income there is lots of work that's just meaningless. Yeah, they might be getting some financial rewards, but it might not be far off from just giving people financial rewards for playing some video game - I'm not necessarily saying we should do that, but that it would essentially have the same societal effect.
> Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status. If not, they may face immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings.

Seems like someone didn't read the OP.
They also don't speculate on real estate and tie wealth to it like we in the west do. My understanding is that housing is considered a sunken asset similar to a car when you account for the frequency of seismic activity and changing building standards to account for it.
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I suspect such journalists have always existed and there's always been an appetite for bad journalism. Bad journalism certainly isn't new; for instance in the 19th century shitty newspapers started the Spanish-American War basically for shits and giggles. They were able to do that because much of the American public enthusiastically gobbled up the nonsense yellow journalists were publishing.

I think many of the tools the tech industry has created in past years, social media and link aggregators using content recommendation systems, have thrown fuel into the dumpster fire. These tools and systems of incentives have facilitated and encouraged shitty journalism. When the tech industry itself is then the victim of this, it's sort of karmic justice. Hoisted by their own petard, as it were. But all to often the victims have nothing to do with the tech industry. Most victims are, as you say, private people; technology has made private people vulnerable to unscrupulous journalists in a way that seems historically unprecedented.
Mint Linux is my favorite now.
It seems so. If they want to have international students attending (from the US), it cannot be 100% online.
I know Morricone's name due to the beginning of Metallica's S&M album with the San Francisco Symphony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKypYslGEA8

Although it was enough to get me to pick up "Yo-yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone" that I also recommend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQCGvfBc-oI&list=PL2D68C2EE4...

Despite the huge list of movies he has composed for, the only one I might have seen is "Lorenzo's Oil", and I'm not sure if I actually saw it or just heard the name quite a bit due to living in Pittsburgh at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Ennio_...
I went to a state school, albeit R1 which has a lot more funding and therefore opportunities, but I believe every state flagship is R1 anyway. Actually this in state school was cheaper than some other in state schools that were considered party schools/easier academically. Were you recruited at a career fair? fangs always had a big presence at our biannual fairs and people I knew seemed to have no issues finding internships coast to coast.
There’s a successor to Lua in the works called Mun: https://mun-lang.org/

It is written in Rust and aims to be 100% hot-reloadable.
Sure, they’re managed investment funds. You couldn’t run a university just on the income from bank interest. Also, most endowment funds are not unrestricted. Donors often attach strings to what can be done with the money; it’s donated for specific purposes. Harvard is even more restricted in a way because each school has its own endowment. FAS (most undergraduates) has the biggest, but they can only spend their own money.

Also, income from the endowment doesn’t cover the whole cost of operating the university.

Harvard is actually managing a little better than they did in 2008. When Larry Summers was president, he made some skeezy deals to finance the Allston campus expansion, and it went way bad when the market collapsed. Now they do have some emergency cash set aside.
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I switched my Dad to a Chromebook, been several years now with limited issues, though he still does seem to end up with some very strange ChromeApps that end up screwing up his default search and other settings

Maybe I should transition to him to Linux and FF at this point...
> Though the admin says the labs are off limits

so the labs are closed then, despite your anecdotal evidence to the contrary.
Ah, I think I understand but the logic still seems a little twisted. Gentrification is an economic process, so the passport of the gentrifier doesn't really matter here.

Part of the reason I was confused is because -- at least where I live -- communities with a high number of foreign born residents are actually the ones most at risk of gentrification.
You have no clue what you’re talking about. Research more before claiming that they count for course credit
I think this is illegal in (some states) so it's happening less and less.
I can't believe this silly thing is in the frontpage.
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I totally agree that anyone who wants to learn the contents of most courses can do so for free, including the 1:1 interactions, networking, and library access (many universities not only don't check ID but actively encourage the broader community to visit and research).

My argument was a mild push-back, pointing out that it's more difficult in some respects (e.g., you might not have access to some of your preferred professors), and that it _does_ actually happen occasionally.

Do you have any insight into why more people don't take advantage of that opportunity? Anecdotally, before I attended university I didn't value a college education beyond the slip of paper at the end, and even if I had wanted just the education without the degree I wouldn't have known that I could just sit in on my classes.
Is it that far-fetched to you that with the number of black-owned businesses there are and the number of businesses that were destroyed, that at least one of them would have been destroyed in the riots? I personally know of a black-owned business in Cleveland that had to shut down after being looted. Either you're underestimating the number of black-owned businesses, the number of destroyed businesses, both, or are simply being disingenuous
The top tier "chipshooter" style pick and place machines are going our of favour these days.

Their golden days were during the first cellphone boom. Back then, the level of integration was lesser, and you had more discrete components on more smaller boards, and volumes were of course very high during the boom time.

Now, you can have a "dumphone" made with just 30 parts on the pcb, and very few passives.

From my experience over the decade, people running factories came to love having multiple, cheaper mounters, and more lines.

The "superboard" concept is also seem to be waning, as you see more, and more individual boards in products like smartphones. It makes for less manufacturable designs, but additional labour expense is not dramatic.
I found it uncomfortable when drawing on screen:

y = margin + (i - 1) * lineheight
Never give any satisfaction to the listener, no matter what, pretty much the most important rule of high brow jazz.
Your household income would be more than 96% of all Americans today and likely more than that when you were applying for college.

I'm not arguing that Harvard isn't expensive for affluent families, but even with an income like that you would still probably get financial aid. Harvard doesn't charge anything like full tuition to families under $200k a year, the point is just that they charge nothing at all if you make under $65k.

I fail to see how that is unfair.
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I use tig, which is a terminal UI. The "blame" view has a shortcut to jump to the commit before the one that changed a given line. This makes it easy to quickly dig backwards through the history of a file.
But then you wouldn't show up in HN's frontpage doing something completely meaningless.
What desktop utility do you have in mind? I haven't paid for desktop software in ages and I doubt I ever will. Everything I use is either cloud based or has a cloud component for backup or some other type of processing.

I doubt desktop software is coming back. If you can make it a website and accessible over the web then that will always beat desktop software. The only exception I can imagine is something like multimedia editing which requires access to actual hardware for crunching numbers (coding and decoding audio and video). Everything else can run in the browser these days.
A robust supply of housing is an integral part of building "a functioning economy". It's not just renters and future homeowners that lose out when housing supply dwindles; the surrounding businesses lose out too. People have less disposable income, meanwhile their costs rise due to having to support the housing costs of workers that need to live nearby.
Good point, we didn’t really get into that part of the story.

At Heap, we have a concept of a “virtual event”, in which there’s a raw event data set, and then you (the Heap customer) would “define” events on this raw data through our UI. The resulting data set is what you’d normally get from traditional `analytics.track` code, except it would be retroactive to the point when you installed Heap, you can change/delete/create events (without losing the underlying data), and you wouldn’t have actually written any additional tracking code.

We have some material on virtual events on https://heap.io/product/virtual-events, and the code that extracts the raw events from these interactions can be found at https://github.com/heap/react-native-heap/blob/c2dae7ef2442a... (the function our babel plugin hooks into) and https://github.com/heap/react-native-heap/blob/c2dae7ef2442a... (the function that creates most of the raw event we send to Heap)
http://archive.is/53ykK
Yes - there's unfortunately some notion that as you move lower down the "prestige ladder", the easier / less rigorous the academic content becomes.

I've studied at both good and "poor" schools, and my experience has been that both have their strengths and weaknesses. I've taken classes that were extremely rigorous and in-depth at the low-prestige (or rather, no-prestige) school, pretty much identical to the same classes offered at the big-name school. Only difference was that the first school had a 50% failure rate, whereas the latter school had much better pass-rate, along with grade distribution that was shifted more towards the A.

This is probably due to the caliber of students, the work was the same.
I’m in Australia. Looks like we’re still on the old site.
The positioning is confusing, but could be a potential FYI[1] competitor. Their goal is to provide unified search across Dropbox, Google Docs, Google Drive, etc which businesses would happily pay for.

Or perhaps a vertical search engine for B2B...

If it is truly a general B2C search engine play, I think ignoring DDG as a datapoint is a misstep.

[1] https://usefyi.com/
ICE Says Foreign Students Can’t Attend Online-Only College This Fall, Despite
Do you think the average college town has enough apartments to house the 40,000+ students displaced by the closing of the university domitories?
I agree and disagree (btw, previously 2 days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23732531).

Yes I agree, nine times out of ten you've made a typo, connected the red wire where the black wire should be.

But I diagree with the overall sentiment of the article which fails to highlight that - when all else has failed and you have double checked things your end ..... sometimes there IS a typo, an incorrect equation, a simple error IN THE ORIGINAL research. Sure, blame yourself as a first instinct (which is a good thing to do) BUT - There is indeed a replication crisis currently in all fields of study and research. Forgive the link to a totaly non-tech field but it illustrates my counter-point as well as any other.

"The Role of Replication (The Replication Crisis in Psychology)"[1]

The openness of psychological research – sharing our methodology and data via publication – is a key to the effectiveness of the scientific method. This allows other psychologists to know exactly how data were gathered, and it allows them to potentially use the same methods to test new hypotheses.

In an ideal world, this openness also allows other researchers to check whether a study was valid by replication – essentially, using the same methods to see if they yield the same results. The ability to replicate allows us to hold researchers accountable for their work.

[1] https://courses.lumenlearning.com/ivytech-psychology1/chapte...
> There's this thing called "Dopamine detox"

That's a pseudoscientific narrative. It's not literally based on the science of dopamine. It's based on the pop-science dopamine metaphor.

It's nowhere near scientifically accurate. Don't read too much into it.
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Apparently the list is inaccurate: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/06/heres-a-list-of-tech-compa...

I've taken specific company names out of the title above. It breaks the site guideline against editorializing to cherry-pick specific names to mention anyhow.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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