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If you want to make student loans more accessible, the trick is not to stimulate student loans be legalizing the loan-sharking of students. This way you are just encouraging students to take a bad deal. You are making the system more accessible by offering really bad options.

If the reasoning is "It is a good idea to have high education", then stimulate that directly. At the very least, have government-backed or government-supplied loans. And ensure those loans have reasonable terms.

I know australia has an interesting system.

In my country (the Netherlands), student loans are given by the government. They are hard to get rid of, _but_ the repayment terms are very very lenient. Very low interest rates (either 0% or the current 10 year government bond rate); a maximum monthly payment of 30% of what you make above minimum income; debt forgiveness after 30 years; the ability to pause repayment for 2 years in total.

I am not a big fan of this system (I still think it is too burdensome on students) but it sure seems a lot more reasonable than the US system. Even though this is also a form of debt that cannot be cleared by bankruptcy, the generous repayment terms really help. The trick here is that the government is willing to take a slight loss (through the 30 year debt-forgiveness) on repayments. Though that the moment, since our 10 year bonds have negative interest, the student loans might be making a profit for our government. Still I am not going to complain about a loan with 0% interest.
But surely that position would only apply if Apple hadn't removed the game from the app store? If myself as an indie dev breaches the TOS and my app store account is suspended, surely Apple can't sue me for lost revenue because they opted to suspend my account? Imagine the precedent that would set: Apple could sue you for lost income if you break the store TOS causing your app to be removed.

I think Apple would have had much more of an argument for lost revenue if they had kept the game on the store. It would be directly quantifiable, they could say "look, the game made x million and we received $0, we should have received $y".
> Also why limit this for parents only, why can't the same benefit apply to singles who can use the extra time off to find their potential partner and hence help in societies growth.

You're mistaking an acute problem for a chronic one. Society won't be harmed if you have to put your dating life on hold for 6 months because of a pandemic. But putting child care on hold for 6 months will result in a lot of dead, injured, or developmentally messed-up kids.

> I feel it's tone deaf to just talk about parents problems during these crisis.

I don't think that's the case at all. As an example, my employer also talks about general mental health during this pandemic, and encourages everyone -- parents and non-parents alike -- to take the time they need to care for themselves.

But as a non-parent I recognize that I haven't been affected much by the pandemic. Yes, I miss seeing my friends, and doing normal things out of my home, but I'm dealing with it reasonably well. If I had kids, what I'd be dealing with would be orders of magnitude more difficult. So I expect and accept that orders of magnitude more time will be spent talking about the problems parents are having right now.
a bit like when referring to a deity: 'I love god' vs 'I love The God'
The simple solution is memory isolation - let the modem be as insecure as you like, but anyone who breaks into the modem can only see your network traffic (hopefully all encrypted anyway) and nothing else.

Sadly todays qualcomm hardware has no real memory isolation at all - any bit of on-chip hardware can see all memory.

It isn't perfect, but it's far easier to do that than properly secure a multi-million lines of code codebase with a substantial amount of unpatchable hardware...
Ever since Gmail has introduced "snoozing" functionality I have been using it for this type of prioritization. If I receive an email, I will snooze it to a later time in the day/week when I will be going over random stuff. Unless the email needs a response right away, in which case I will reply to it immediately. In this way, I can achieve "inbox zero" which I have found helps a lot emotionally!
Great question.

I suspect that if the water table is high enough to cause problems, you'd do pumped hydro storage instead.

A lot of solar power is out in the desert where the water table is hundreds or even thousands of feet below surface.
Same with linux and dd
I have a negative feeling about this, it gives me that "self centered jerk" vibe... no, I will definitely not let people wait just to "teach them a lesson" then rationalizing it "I'm doing it for their own good". If I cannot answer I say "sorry no idea", if I can answer I answer when I have time - and that will happen when I can make time. And if it's really burning they'll ping me again and I'll see what I can do then.
More precisely any journalist or editor knows that such a demand might make a better story than the original article.
Also known as the Eisenhower matrix
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But the Epic Games Launcher is free and doesn't preclude you from using any other launcher/store for anything else, so how does that harm competition?

By contrast, if I want iMessage on my phone, Epic has to distribute Fortnight to me though Apple.
This is great, thanks. I started off as feeling very destructive, but I found the tools to let things grow, then things became overgrown, and I became destructive again. It was fun to have a piece of wood with plants on it on fire. I tried to put out the fire with water, but the water would cause the plants to grow, which would make the fire grow.
I think Minecraft is the only game I could conceivably nominate as objectively the best game ever. It's not my personal favourite (I'm more a Paradox guy), but it's the only game in this over-saturated market that literally everybody knows. Even out of the box there's already a lot of different ways to play the game, and then there's mods and custom servers with plugins that open up such an endless world of possibilities that nothing else comes close.
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So this basically seems like the AMD equivalent of Intel Boot Guard, except that the keyfusing seems to be done on the CPU, not the PCH.

What I'm hearing here is that Dell, HP, etc. are designing their firmware to keyfuse any unfused CPU it sees to their firmware automatically, silently, and without any prompting whatsoever. And that AMD apparently has no problem with this.

In no way, shape or form is this a reasonable design. A boot prompt before basically quasi-destroying (for many purposes) a CPU would be the only reasonable thing to do. "This operation is irreversible and will render the CPU unusable in other machines", etc.

I'm wondering if Dell etc. could be sued for this.

>Outside of x86, IBM POWER10 is making a push for enhanced security, so the will need to have a silicon root of trust to enable their security feature set.

If this were true, this would make POWER10 dead-on-arrival in terms of being something Raptor is willing to ship. Comments made by Raptor don't suggest this and suggest they will be able to ship POWER10 eventually, so it doesn't seem likely.

Keyfusing is an excessively brittle technology, can't support key rollover (you're stuck with one key forever, or at best can change it only a couple of times, depending on the size of OTP), and is basically unusable for owner controlled (not vendor controlled) secure boot.
I have developed an experimental browser extension which helps reading.
It colors sentences into alternating colors. It also colorizes the grammatical structure.

For this article where Capitalization was missing, it only worked when using the neural network parser :) which sadly isn't fast enough :( if you don't have a decent GPU.

Chrome :
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorify/pipnfjhpb...
Firefox :
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colorify/
Differentiation is like squeezing toothpaste out of tube, integration is like pushing the paste back inside.
I'm assuming that the quadratic parent refers to comes from the increased potential energy per kg of material multiplied by the ability to store more material due to the additional volume.

If you picture a dense weight like a cannon ball on the end of a string you're right, but if you're digging down n meters, encasing n/2 meters worth of dirt and moving it up and down the free n/2 meters of shaft, the energy storage would indeed be proportional to n^2.

I don't know anything about the field and had the same reaction you did, but considering parent is running a startup in it they're either a lunatic that doesn't know the equivalent of FizzBuzz or there's something we missed on first inspection, and we should charitably assume the latter...
Prices would be very low and unemployment would have averaged 50% for the last 12 years.

I’m half joking, but if the Fed did nothing then we would still be in the middle of the Great Recession. Or consider the British “Great Depression” of the late 1800s — that lasted 20 years because the pound was over-valued.
We built this internally to test that the UI we built for Kubernetes deployments was producing the expected YAML. Thought it would be useful to share.
> 20 MW storage systems

Megawatts measure the peak discharge rate, not that amount of energy stored.

For a fixed number of dollars of investment, gravity will store far more joules of energy.
Right. Among other potential issues, such a license is effectively revocable based on someone declaring some particular action or entity "evil" (which is heavily subjective). A license that included the term "this license may be revoked by the author at any time" would also not be FOSS.
This article is pretty interesting.

- Supposedly Amazon has operated things like AWS at a loss for long periods of time (I highly doubt this - AWS has never been cheap).

"And it's through this mass adoption of Alexa devices that consumers (and the army of human beings Amazon hires to listen to consumers) can collectively train Amazon’s voice recognition system, which is then monetized through Amazon’s primary source of profits: Amazon Web Services."

There is no way Amazon has echo / alexa out there just so it can develop a language recognition model. They could just record their customer service reps talking to customers, train it on the millions of movies and shows with subtitles on amazon prime or train using audio book narrations. And the profits from their transcription service are not likely very high relative to other services they offer.

Whoever becomes the device that people want in their home, the one they turn to to coordinate their heating and cooling, arming their security system, getting the weather and traffic is going to be in an incredible position.

Google is also chasing this market, and apple to a degree. Google has an incredible voice recognition model already. They are chasing this market because it is THE most powerful and personal way to have a connection to the consumer. If you don't understand WHY these companies want apple siri, google assistant or amazon alexa everywhere you don't see the future. These companies will OWN consumer loyalty. A child growing up in a amazon echo / alexa integrated house may become a lifelong brand consumer including when they buy their house and setup their home automation etc.

The other thing, despite all the claims about "amazon microphones" - people will PAY for these - by the truckload. If I could get a space already pre-integrated with home automation etc? Very appealing. And normal people do call these things echo devices or alexa.

These companies are trying to deliver things to consumers that generate high brand loyalty. It seems to be working. I noticed this when browsing for cars - EVERY salesperson emphasizes that their cars supports "apple" carplay etc. My guess - 50%+ of even CAR buyers want to have a connection to their brand loyal assistant.
Why the “brushing” name? How can you write a whole article about it and not even raise this glaring question?
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The logical next step is for individual countries to regulate the maximum % commission that a digital marketplace can charge its developers.

Which will place Apple in a much more difficult position than if they unilaterally reduced their commission level to 15%.
Not just surrounding cities - to your point, above them. All those single family neighborhoods. All those new buildings built to 6 stories instead of 60.

In Seattle, basically every building built is built to the maximum zoning allows. And it’s all arbitrary - purely about the whims of the local homeowners.
For comparison, Google Chrome tries to get security patches to most users within 24 hours.

Yet most android devices are lucky to receive a patch within a few months... Don't worry though - that's only a window of a few months where an evil actor can drain your bank account and log your porn browsing sessions...
Well, Civilization 1 certainly wouldn't pass muster today, but that's because it's too simple, with too many shortcuts. There are far more complex games today that are doing very well.
Some background info on this:

Every few weeks news pops up about a YouTuber being de-platformed. They usually end up migrating over to one of the alternative platforms (Vimeo, Bitchute, etc).

However, people are lazy bones and tend to continue to use YouTube as their main go-to for video content. Forgetting to visit those other platforms to catch up with the creators who YouTube gave the ban-hammer to.

EveryTube is a simple Chrome add-on which lists the content you subscribe to on other platforms and lists it along with your regular YouTube subscriptions your https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions page.

It currently supports Bitchute and I'm in the process of adding Vimeo support.
My view. There are roughly 3 types of people in the US when it comes to Trump pardoning Assange:

1. Those who have no idea who Assange is and will never care. == No political gain for Trump.

2. Those who have been successfully brainwashed to think Assange is a sociopath scary smelly nerd and national security threat. They believe that he leaked state secrets and raped a bunch of girls and hid away like a coward (without showering). == Political loss for Trump if he gives Assange a pardon. The "journalists" will write about how Trump pardoned a rapist enemy of the state with Russian ties who helped him win the elections. This is extremely predictable IMO.

3. People on Hacker News. Obviously an insignificant irrelevant minority. == No political gain for Trump.

No. I don't think there's anything to be gained here for Trump politically. I'm still hoping for a pardon though.
AMD, you removed the TrueAudio block from your older Radeon GPUs, couldn't you cut the PSP and implement some of its functionality using logic instead of a CPU? So the first thing to boot will be an x86 core, as it did in the old days. A physical jumper can be used to disable the security functions and remote attestation (to a server on the LAN) can be used to determine if CPUs are running in secure mode or not? Thus satisfying the needs of corporate users?

Removing the PSP will eliminate the negative PR it creates together with the associated security risk of having a secret part of the CPU where malware can hide.

On GPUs HDCP functionality can be implemented with ROM-based microcontrollers as it did on older hardware?
Thanks for the link. So as someone who is completely new to this, if this guy used this model instead of gpt 3 would he get similar results?
It's more likely users would be mad that their browser update makes them play cookie-clicker to get to their sites.

By and large users are unaware of how much resources something uses, or should use. They don't really care about anything but getting from A to B as fast as possible, with as few interruptions as possible.

Computer resources are just like any other resource; expendable. User will always use more if that means it's more convenient. Human time is very valuable. Accepting multiple dialogues would take even more time than loading a fat page

as an add: there is no single resource you can bind the multiplier to; many sites use no css, but lots of js, or webgl, wasm, tables... There is simply no possible way to foresee what will be slow and what wont
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I have just given up on the Apple app store entirely at this point. It feels like 99% of it is pure garbage, and a significant portion of that garbage is trying to trick me with in-app-purchases.

Every time I think "I bet there's an app for that", I go away disappointed.

It sounds so hollow when the Supreme Leader of Apple brags about their store having 10.000.000.000 apps. Sure you do, and maybe 20 of them aren't total crap.
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They should do the change and add in the introduction what Amazon requested.

I can see they actually did the change with no mention of the edit, and they still dare to conclude "Amazon did not respond to Motherboard’s request for comment."

It can by no way be called a "request", that was definitely an "order".
Not even close. Thanks for the link.

In return, something almost as short and sad https://theoatmeal.com/comics/oracle
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> Meanwhile, a solid waste recycling industry, mostly in the informal sector, developed in Karachi over the years. [...] The contractors organising this activity pay the Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC) staff to not pick up the garbage so that the picking can be made easier.

> solid waste has been used for reclaiming land from the sea for both low income and elite residential purposes. Such reclamation is, strictly speaking, illegal in both cases. Informal developers informally arrange for KMC trucks to deposit their solid waste on the mangrove marshes and hire KMC tractors to spread and compact it.

Whoa. That's some next level corruption. Where it actually starts to supply infrastructure that should exist legally but apparently doesn't.
It's silly how the article idolizes Free Software and the 4 freedoms.

If only if they looked at OSI's open source definition, they would have realized the same 4 freedoms are held in it.
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I dont see why this comment was downvoted so much.
Lifting things creates hazards for what's below them in the event of catastrophic failure.

For example, all the dam failures that have obliterated entire towns.

I'd rather a failure obliterated a bunch of earthworms and voles.

I expect that the voles disagree with me.
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Oh, I see where you're coming from. No, the way that Epic have been suspended is such that they can't put out any more updates, but people who already have the game installed still have it, the game doesn't get deleted from your phone, so people are still using it and still buying stuff direct from Epic.
That only works if we assume that there will always be rich countries that don't have enough kids, and poor countries that have "too many" kids and send some to the rich countries.

While that may end up being the case for centuries to come, I don't think it's a great outcome for humanity as a whole to require vast wealth inequality between nations in order to keep humanity from dying out.
iPhone 6 came out in 2014; iPhone 6s on this day five years ago. Both are capable smartphones; the latter being capability enough to support the latest version of iOS.
TLDR; Alexa buy batteries.
It can be frustrating, but it's also frustrating if people ask without thinking what this might mean for your own routine. At the end of the day you won't get promoted for not getting your own work done while helping others and people tend to be very inconsiderate if you let them.

At Google one of the early engineers had a handbook on communicating with him, e.g., when to send an e-mail, schedule a meeting, send an instant message. I think this makes sense.

For me for example I think an e-mail should have content (an answer to a question, not a reply that I'll look at it) and I'll reply when I think is appropriate as long as there is no explicit deadline. An instant message might not get a reply at all if it's outside of my time zone or I'm working on something, best to follow up, if an e-mail needs an estimate when to expect a reply, ask for it.

On the other side, I think it makes sense to be as considerate as possible when asking for something, to make sure to get a reply, try not to waste other people's time and try to be as concise as possible.

Edit: one more thing that really helps getting a good reply: if possible tell the recipient what’s in it for them to invest their time.
Assuming that pretty much everyone is planning on eventually phasing out peaker plants for environmental reasons: I'd say that the market is pretty huge if you can develop viable technology to service it.
Serendipity is another GPT-3 based recommendation engine. Check its about page. http://serendipityrecs.com/
It's so sad many commenters don't seem to objectively acknowledge non-parents argument here. Calling them as selfish and non empathetic.

What If there is no pay cut and every employee gets the same 6 weeks time off whether you have kids or not. If employees are willing to work for those 6 weeks they will be paid extra. This should be a win-win solution.

I as a non parent, I'm struggling with being locked down for longer duration. With almost none social and dating life. I used to eat company catered meals before covid and now I have to spend extra hours doing it all by myself and no one to share the work load with. I wish I could take time off from work, visit my family back home or work on finding my future partner. But our manager looks up to us non-parents to meet our OKR's. So yeah, being a non-parent in this pandemic is hard. So please don't disregard our struggles just because you were non-parents before and you think all we do is chill and play xbox.
You can use HN for this.

E.g:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13566733

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23467400

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17511800
> Will actively block JS from loading in browser. It makes for a 'unique' browsing experience

It is unique in the sense that it has far fewer crappy paywalls, cookie consent windows, annoying "sign up to our mailing list" spam, tracking scripts, adverts, cryptocurrency miners, and pointless shit nobody cares about. Less RAM usage too.

With NoScript, turn off JS for most sites, then make exceptions for the sites that need it. Generally, it is a much better experience.
The problen with Stellaris is the 101 add-on pack sold seperately. It feels like they are milking the customer and getting all add-ons can be very expensive.
Stellaris is a grand strategy game with random maps. If you go into it expecting a normal space 4x similar to masters of orion it is easy to get disappointed since many of those aspects are weak. Instead think of it as HoI or EU4 in space and it makes a lot more sense.
How do negative mortgage rates even work? My brain doesn’t understand that. Does the bank make money on fees or something? -1% mortgage rate and 3% in processing fees?