skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actual data showing that nothing significant happened to the tuition trendline on/around 1993:
https://usafacts.org/articles/college-tuition-has-increased-...

Usafacts.org is a trove of data that is useful to have discussion around - op (and folks in this thread ;) ) don't need to rely on their gut feelings.

In addition to 1993 being boring, the majority of expenses are far and away instruction related versus student services (the luxury college memes folks are taking about isn't strictly true).

I think the most interesting point is that over the past 40 years, all types of expenses continue to grow at the same rate. (Inflation adjusted of course) There doesn't seem to be any ceiling in sight or any meaningful changes in what colleges will spend money on. Naturally tuition costs are on similar upward trend to balance this - and folks still somehow find the finances to pay for it.

This doesn't seem sustainable but it also doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon. Too many students trying to do 'the right thing' are being sucked into this meat grinder.
I ran into a very annoying case of this in the wild: a USB hard drive "pre-formatted for Windows and Mac".

Specifically, the entire disk was pre-formatted as both NTFS and HFS+.

The trick: as shipped, LBA 0 contained an MBR pointing to an NTFS-formatted partition spanning the free space of an empty HFS+ volume whose (slightly larger) partition was defined by an Apple Partition Map in LBA 1.

So Windows would read the MBR and find the NTFS volume, Mac OS would read the APM and find the HFS+ volume, and all was right with the world.

Right, that is, until you plugged the disk into a Mac after writing to it in Windows, because the simple act of auto-mounting the "empty" HFS+ volume caused OS X to fill enough of the volume's "free" space to corrupt the colocated NTFS filesystem beyond repair.
But you have to have a helicopter pilot around who don’t know it’s not okay you do it, which basically has zero chance.
The shift to working from home may be a net positive for society and at the same time a net negative for the businesses in the “office economy”.

As a society, it is probably worthwhile to support the most vulnerable people in the latter sector, with the objective of expediting the transition.
OK - then we have two cases, as nearly the same also happened in Germany[1]. In Germany the owner was sent to prison. As far as I am aware in Scotland the owner had to pay a fine [2].

I was initially wrong in assuming there would have been only one knucklehead on this planet doing something so obviously stupid.

Sorry for that.

[1]: https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article266388/Angeklagt-Herrc...

[2]: https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.gerichtsurteil-in-...

Sorry for the sources being in German only.
Regardless of the back and forth accusations with Vice, a no doxing rule seems reasonable. Online mobs can be dangerous and are one of the thornier complexities of managing social networks.
Jack Conte has been doing patreon full-time for years now, it’s unlikely he’ll have more work than when he was actually trying to get the thing off the ground.

The current pomplamoose setup is probably not going to change. You can find old vlogs where they explain the setup they were intending, and Jack posted a video somewhat recently where he explains the thing, but basically they arrange and record a month worth of songs in a day.
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Very interesting read, thanks.
Extremely biased article. The author clearly hates Libertarians and does his best to just laugh at them and misrepresent their beliefs and makes not a single coherent argument of any kind. He is clearly used to being in a bubble and preaching to the converted. Libertarians are not the same as Trump supporters.
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> Bottlerocket is optimized for running containers with high security isolation. The host OS is extremely minimal, it does not come with bash, an interpreter, ssh, or anything beyond the system basics needed to run containers. In fact it uses an immutable root filesystem. You aren't intended to run or install things directly on the host at all.Bottlerocket is optimized for running containers with high security isolation. The host OS is extremely minimal, it does not come with bash, an interpreter, ssh, or anything beyond the system basics needed to run containers. In fact it uses an immutable root filesystem. You aren't intended to run or install things directly on the host at all.

Sounds exactly like Qubes OS [0], but the latter is probably much more secure (based on Xen and VT-d). So in comparison Bottlerocket seems like trading some of security for performance.

[0] https://qubes-os.org
I can see this being sufficient as far as performance and development-ergonomics. But.

I would miss the safety and durability of a (preferably relational) database.

In the end, what I would gain in convenience and development speed I would lose in having to build my own guardrails.
And the award for "clickbait title of the month" goes to...

The article makes some good points despite being written from the perspective of someone too young to remember the time without significant link rot when most websites were someone's home (and equally permanent), links came from people, and search engines were an immature competitor to curated directories.
> I'd just like to take a moment to underscore the accuracy of the NHC forecast track

I am very curious how detrimental 5G rollout will be to this accuracy.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/forecasters-fear-5g-...
-As did I, chuckling at the 'built with foreign documentation' label affixed to many of the exhibits, in particular in the consumer electronics exhibition.

Chuckle turned to laugh when I looked at the replica H-bomb in the lobby before leaving - first, a label stating 'Replica. Does not contain explosives.'

Beneath this label? Another, stating 'built with foreign documentation.'
I much prefer Google Play's UI & did not experience the "riddled with bugs" you speak of.
Just because it has the same content does not mean it's the same App or offers the same UX, it going away does not make me happy. I've been with Google Play from the start and am more likely to switch now, if it weren't for ad-free YouTube I would have quit because of this.
> I think the most interesting point is that over the past 40 years, all types of expenses continue to grow at the same rate. (Inflation adjusted of course) There doesn't seem to be any ceiling in sight or any meaningful changes in what colleges will spend money on. Naturally tuition costs are on similar upward trend to balance this - and folks still somehow find the finances to pay for it.

I think you have it backwards: the increasing ability to extract tuition is driving total spending up, because once you have the money, you are going to spend it, not expenses going up an dragging tuition with it.
Unions are extortion rackets and price fixing cartels. As such, they are not only unethical in themselves and should be illegal, they constitute an attempt to obstruct capitalism.

Amusingly, this hypocrisy is literally embedded in US antitrust law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/17
Literally "price fixing cartels are bad, except when they aren't".
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This is probably just the US Navy making an indirect play for a bigger budget. The Chinese navy and US navy are not comparable.

But there is a real change afoot, it seems likely that the Chinese will master making battleships if they put their mind to it. It seems likely they have the industrial supply chains to sustain a real military build-up if they want to. Their manufacturing capacity is a very real thing and they're are no shortage of brilliant, well educated and respectable Chinese engineers, scientists and workers.

It is notable that they probably have cutting edge capabilities in nuclear engineering, software engineering and manufacturing engineering. They definitely know how to build drones better than everyone else. Hopefully the future of warfare doesn't involve drones.
Those two are inseparable. China's policy towards foreign media is a domestic policy. Diplomacy and trade relations are subservient to that. They are worried about foreign influence on chinese political culture. That is what is being mirrored in the US by the tiktok case.

In any case, the has never been symmetry... or any intention to have symmetry. Each country has its goals. That's how trade deals always work.

China's primary goals were/are exports and the abovementioned protection against foreign and/or free media. The US' goals are US investment into china, an american-like legal framework for protecting these investments and adoption of US-compatible IP protections. That's what each side wanted. It reflects values. That's what they got. Both complain they didn't get enough of what they wanted.

It's not like the US is going to adopt elements of chinese patent law for the sake of symmetry.
I am not really aware about that case, but isn't that Apple rather than the US government? Sure maybe the government sent the actual police officers but surely it must've been apple that pressured them to do it? Regarding being worse I can think of a few:

- Mass surveillance with immediate punishment if you break a rule, decided by bots.

- Concentration camps

- Giving people years of imprisonment for peacefully demonstrating in HK (which was legal afaik)

- Sending people out in different countries buying up masks in the covid-19 crisis and then re-selling them at a higher price.

- Giving citizen points/score to people and if you have a low enough score you can't ride specific trains / leave the country etc.

Just some examples at the top of my head, didn't mention organ harvesting since another person already did that.
It's a reference to PG's old essay about PR pieces placed as media stories.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> There are tons of things people are willing to pay for that would also be unethical to facilitate

such as?

If you exclude illegal acts, i cannot think of what unethical, but high demand goods/services there are that are currently under-served. Gambling, prostitution and other such vices? All highly competitive.
Retaliating is a legitimate form of protection. Of course, it doesn't help retroactively, but a realistic risk of retaliation keeps people honest. It's a key part of game theory in the tit-for-tat strategy to the prisoner's dilemma: https://ncase.me/trust/
This hopefully taught her an important lesson: NEVER, NEVER trust journalists.
However, her reaction was pretty inmature and is not acceptable IMO.
Certainly don't want to talk the merits, but on top of the other comments in this thread -

It's 30 mins but you can flick through or 2x it if you are genuinely interested why some people are anti-Patreon

Goodbye to Patreon - Dave Rubin and Jordan B Peterson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8_OrrvaVVw
The US army doesn't need more funding, it needs less waste, and so do the European armies.

The inefficiencies in how armaments are produced and procured are a large part of that: due to political pressure (every state wants a slice of the pie) the manufacture of the Eurofighter (and all other Airbus/EADS products) is spread across the continent instead of one place.
So how do you cater to thirsty dudes? If you can harness women, then you are rich. Simple as that. Notice how anything like this will always be male owned. It might seem like women are profiting in the short run, but ultimately they have nothing unique to offer and as supply increases they'll see diminished returns. Meanwhile the male owned business will only grow as demand won't shrink and they're creaming off all of it.
I don't think so. I haven't heard of onlyfans until today, but it made into news because of a celebrity. Now more people have heard of them.

Now I hadn't heard of Bella Thorne either, but that's a different story.
I am actually working on a follow-up about Ted Nelson and Project Xanadu. I know it never really came to anything, but it's really fascinating the way this brilliant, Memex-like system was what all the visionaries were talking about, and what we got was a giant directory of pseudo-printed pages.
It means that your comment means "I know you are stupid, but..." and it ends reasonable discussion.
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"Far less power projection capability"

That is an important point. It is a strategic objective of the US to be able project massive military power any place in the world. However that is not the case for China (as it is now). China's main strategic goal is secure access to the pacific ocean (even if it is met with an American naval blockade).

It is obvious to me that that goal is much cheaper than the American goal.
People write about what they know so I don't really expect US media to really come up with something like that.

That said, maybe we're due for an Escape from Honk Kong.
This is what happens when the language is unclear - the word "value" has different meaning in each context.

"Value" as in "utility", and "value" as in "currency" or unit of account.

When trading some currency for utility, each side of the transaction gains something more than what they gave up. The buyer of food got food they needed to eat. The seller of food (presumably has so much food they cannot eat it all) gains extra currency that they can use elsewhere.
China also has a higher average IQ than much of the rest of the world: 104, vs 98 for the USA:

https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php

China is also pursuing eugenic strategies with the one-child policy, and controlled migration into cities (which encourages assortative mating). The Fertility Rate of 1.6 is reasonable.

By contrast many Western countries are pursuing dysgenic strategies through the provision of mass-welfare, and the intake of migrants from lower-IQ countries.

China just needs to sit back for 30-50 years and wait for these trends to play out, if it has the patience. We're already seeing the first reports of IQ declines:

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/iq-rates-are-dropping-...
I wish my country put their weight behind a strategy. A 30 year plan or something like that.
She was interrogated by the police not so long after. She posted that she was going with them when event happened, I recall. But afterwards the Twitter history was scrubbed... Unknown if it had any relation to the Vice case.
This is one I’ve zoned out to several times,

Space Trip: https://youtu.be/wOMwO5T3yT4
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If anyone's curious how the tool is obtaining this information:

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Excellent work I have actually used another GraphQL to GraphViz program before, but I don’t believe it allowed me to manipulate and output manipulated data. This is really awesome though. I’ll have to give it a try next time I need to graphviz my schema for my designers. By the way it also made me think it would be awesome to have some sort of jq [1] like syntax to query GraphQL Schemas with.

[1]: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
This is the only solution I've tried that works with the two identical monitors I use. Thanks for making it!
I think this nails it. People are going with less risky investments and Apple just fits that.

It could also be that they have less faith in their financial system - not just US, but consider places like the middle east or Japan too. The good stores of wealth are gold, bitcoin, and some blue chip stocks.
Right, the one million seems like the lowball esitmate from the UN Human Rights Council and the US Congressional Committee.

Local sources like the NCHRD had the number of concentration camp inmates at 2 to 3 million already back in 2018. Of course it is possible that most have starved since or have become organ donors, so numbers are hard to pin down.
How do you "grab the private RSS feed"?
That literally wasn't the contest to be won. The rules have been set in our Constitution for ages, long before 2016, so nobody should be surprised.

Nevertheless, many people do suspect that he actually got the most votes. One of the actual troubles in the USA is that we do see ballot stuffing. Witnesses saw people filling out ballots after the election in Broward County, FL. It will likely be far worse for 2020. Here are some of the clever ways that it happens: https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-vot...

So, not saying the USA is perfect... but the visualization is still clearly biased for political reasons.
Isn't this just a matter of medicine having chosen Latin as the international language? By that same logic we should complain that programming is done in English as well.

Yes, you have to learn a new language, no you don't have to learn all of them (which would be the case if we did not standardize on languages for specific fields).
Andy Grove was right in 2010 [1], as he often was.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-07-01/andy-grov...
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Yes that is actually what I meant, I guess I was not being clear. The function calling "display" could have "display" passed as an argument rather than calling it as a globally defined function.

Relying on dynamic variables would probably not be considered dependency injection. A major purpose of DI is that dependencies should be declared in the signature, making it explicit which dependencies a unction or object depends on.
What does not cut it in Fedora CoreOS ? (Just Curious as a Fedora contributor) Also what could be improved ?
Another example from South Africa is Afrikaans. It uses words that are clearly Dutch, but the underlying structure has more in common with the Bantu languages that surround it.

This example also shows, however, that the category of contact languages is rather fluid. Afrikaans is not an outrightly obvious example of one. While the grammar is fairly simple - and very little like that of Dutch - the vocabulary us almost exclusively Dutch.

So it could be a creole - albeit one with the vocabulary almost exclusively from one of the contributing languages, which is extremely rare. But it could also be an offshoot of Dutch that had its grammar simplified and adapted to surrounding languages without picking up more than a handful of words from those same languages - which is also unusual.

All this to say contact languages come in many forms - and, like the article says, should be studied because they teach us how language works.
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The Chinese military has not leapfrogged the US military. China has the largest military in the world, but that hasn't meant much in a long-time.

The US has by far the most advanced and sophisticated weaponry of any military and that level of sophistication can hardly be captured by pure statistics alone.

And while as a non-expert I can't confidently comment on the advantages and drawbacks of sophistication vs pure manpower/number of units, I wouldn't be surprised if in today's geopolitical environment the former is more important than the later.

Though I think it's likely that the US approach is more about reducing casualties in order to lower the political barrier to war than anything else. After all, in a democracy you lose a war when the people are no longer willing to support it anymore. China doesn't have this problem and continue fighting regardless of the number of deaths sustained.
I doubt they'll get to state of the art in aerospace, at least not in a plane that is actually capable of flying in every country.

Aircraft development is hard. Many states have tried sponsoring programs and they have mostly been duds, like Japan and Russia; even successful ones, like Canada's Bombardier and Brazil's Embraer, have or were about to sell to the Boeing-Airbus duopoly because the costs of additional aircraft development are far too high now. Pretty much every commercial aircraft program has come in late and over budget in recent years. And the MAX8 situation has made things worse for everybody involved because rather than take peer agencies' word for it, everyone is going to want to run their own stringent tests now.
Regretted the title about 20 minutes after "publishing". Mistakes were made. I do remember directories and personal pages though. I still stumble across them from time to time and it's such a pleasure. This was my latest discovery: http://www.macdougallelect.com
But the lost causes seem to have a lot of cash if you look into the amount that is spend. Why learn anything or put effort in anything if you just can show your tits for a time and rake in millions?

Should we be surprised people spend that much on porn? I certainly am, especially with its presence almost everywhere today. So there has to be another factor that draws people in. Maybe they have just fun and this is over-analyzing things.
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China does not have secure access to the Pacific Ocean; U.S. attack submarines and air-launched anti-ship missiles mean that Chinese ships are at risk as soon as they leave the South China Sea, or possibly even port.

I think the Chinese objective is to have enough power to deny U.S. access to the South China Sea, and perhaps the sea of Japan. They also want to be able to project power in the case of more limited conflicts, such as civil wars in Africa or the Middle East.
They already have a sufficient mastery in making surface fleet, mainly because they also have a robust and massive civilian shipbuilding industry (neck-to-neck with South Korea). Their next target probably is to master making submarine and nuclear propulsion.

What I am looking forward is that assuming Chinese battery maker managed to lead the world both in research and manufacturing because massive Chinese Electric Vehicle growth, will it helps Chinese's submarine and drone development?
In a system of loans directly from the government, there is still some mild disincentive against lending to people that won't pay it back, even if it is tempered against some other incentives. What's more, a government body certainly can and surely would limit total loan amounts for affordability reasons.

More to the point, the comparison here is against regular private lenders, but instead against private lenders with government guarantees. Those have no disincentive whatsoever to avoid people who can't pay money back or to limit the loan amount. In fact they have a very strong positive incentive: there's a guaranteed profit on every loan and it's proportional to loan amount. What's more, if you cap the loan amount then the "customer" might use a competitor with a higher cap, so you lose the whole of the loan.
Construction workers are generally hired locally, and I doubt that specialized construction skills would be considered qualifications worthy of priority visas in the US.
while the as_number->as_name lookup is usefull i would have opted for adding this feature to one (or more) of the existing utilities (traceroute, mtr, paris-traceroute) instead of crafting yet another command.
After supporting the creator your get the RSS feed in an email:

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Isn't Patreon at risk of bankruptcy due to previusly poorly written T&C's?

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