skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understand, a top-notch professor of philosophy at a first-tier university will teach 1-2 classes per semester to 300ish students per class for which they will earn no more than 300k per year ( although typically 3-6x less ).

This works out to roughly $250 per student per semester. It's difficult to price the work of T.As as they are often students themselves, but assuming each student requires an average of 2 hours per week of dedicated grading/tutoring time, then at $20/hr the total cost of providing a first tier class should be $730 dollars.

This number is roughly 1/3rd to 1/2 the cost of a class at a community college, 1/6th of the effective cost per class for UMass Amherst, and roughly 1/10th the effective price per class of MIT.

I can assure you that the lecturer at your community college is not making 300k either. But this calculation does show that most of the tuition costs do not end up in the hands of the teaching staff, and that providing a first rate education could be done for an order of magnitude lower cost than current first tier universities charge.

Or hell, offer professors 1 million per year and still charge 1/3rd the price of MIT.
Private businesses pay private prisons far more than the prisoners get paid but less than legit labor driving out fairly paid labor.

Everyone who is benefiting lobbies far stricter laws and harsher sentences not for societies benefit but so their labor force can grow.

This slave labor is disproportionately taken from minorities and the poor who it is more acceptable to enslave. Mostly by patrolling areas which have lots of minorities and shaking them down in hopes of finding drugs. See the fact that black and white people do drugs at the same rate but white people are far less likely to be prosecuted.

In one case they actually caught 2 judges taking bribes from private detention to hand juvenile offenders maximum sentences. Effectively selling other people's kids.

Banning private prisons only removes a fraction of the incentive.
Yeah, but if you're Bill Ackman you can do it on front of millions of people on CNBC.

"During the epic verbal battle between Icahn and Ackman that was televised on CNBC in January, Icahn predicted that Ackman’s Herbalife investment could produce the “mother of all short squeezes.” Shortly after that incident, it became clear that Icahn had taken a big position in Herbalife’s stock. He has since expanded that position, bought 16.5% of the outstanding shares and gotten two representatives on Herbalife’s board."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2013/07/22/carl-ica...
The Wendy Carlos meets Prince of our generation. Goodbye SOPHIE.
Official updates are here: https://element.io/blog/element-on-google-play-store/
2019: all these empty hospitals with too much staff and no patients?! Let's close them down, save some money!

2020: why is our medical system running at 90% capacity in normal times?! Why don't we have some idle capacity for emergencies (natural disaster, pandemic, war)?
The practical effect is a massive decrease in tracking information for companies- defaults are powerful.

I agree with Apple’s decision. It’s just going to have negative effects for some businesses, which is a price that must be considered against the gain in privacy.
The US lets immigrants leave if they want. Most US immigration issues revolve around people being forced to leave.
Cory Doctorow interview about Attack Surface/tech+politics/future of publishing
LineageOS on a 5T here, everything works perfectly. The lineage + OnePlus community is very active
"When free software was born, if you wanted to clone, interoperate with, improve, or modify any existing software, all you needed to do was reverse-engineer that software and go to town.

"The GPL wasn’t permission to make something new that was compatible with something that already existed. People who knew how to make software already behaved as though that was something they were permitted to do, irrespective of the feelings of the company or individual whose code they were interacting with.

"The GPL was a request for companies and software authors to make this process easier and less tedious by handing out source code, so that would-be interoperators could skip the wasteful, time-consuming reverse-engineering step and go right to the good stuff – making a new thing that improved upon (and/or competed with) whatever was already made.

"The GPL was icing on the cake. Applying the GPL to your code didn’t signal that you’d forswear legal vengeance upon those who wanted to make something compatible with your thing. You had no right to that vengeance! Applying the GPL to your code signalled that you wanted to collaborate with interoperators, rather than impotently shake your fist at them from the sidelines as they went right ahead and interoperated with your code against your wishes.

"Some 40 years later, the world is a very different place. Between software copyrights, anti-circum­vention rules, software patents, enforceable terms of service, trade secrecy, non-compete agreements, and the pending (at the time of this writing) Oracle/Google dispute over API copyrights, any attempt to interoperate with an existing product service with­out permission from its corporate master is a legal suicide mission, an invitation to almost unlimited civil – and even criminal! – litigation. That is to say: if you dare to modify, improve, or replace an existing, dominant software-based product or service, you risk bankruptcy and a long prison sentence.

"Forty years ago, we had cake and asked for icing on top of it. Today, all we have left is the icing, and we’ve forgotten that the cake was ever there. If code isn’t licensed as “free,” you’d best leave it alone."

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip
Well I'm a securities lawyers soooo I kind of know a thing or two about this stuff. I stand by everything I've said. If that makes a stranger on the internet think I'm a "blowhard", so be it. Apologies if reality hurts your feelings. Nothing I've said is wrong. Many things you've said are, though.

Oh, and you might want to google Phil Falcone.
^ This.

If the Biden SEC comes after Redditors while the Obama SEC let this and many other things pass, whatever chaos they imagine won't begin to describe it. It's one of the few things AOC, Warren, Cruz, and many others (claim to) agree on.
I think too many people are underestimating WSB users. It really shows from comments like these.

Disclaimer: I am not one.
Not on the latest versions of Android, unless you're only updating interpreted code like Python. You can no longer execute files that weren't packaged with the original APK.
> Can anyone at all become a citizen of the persian countries?

They are not Persian countries. They are Arab countries that lie on the southwest shore of the Persian Gulf. There are huge cultural and linguistic differences between the two, to say nothing of the political differences, both historically and down to current moment.

Furthermore, those Arab countries have been trying to change the international standard name of the body of water to "Arabian Gulf" to counter their adversary Iran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf_naming_dispute#:~...

> Can anyone at all become a citizen

No, unless you are ancestrally connected to the country or it's co-ethnic neighbors, or are a foreign woman who marries an Arab UAE citizen.

Some selected naturalization requirements from the UAE's website (https://u.ae/en/information-and-services/passports-and-trave...):

- An Arab individual from Omani, Qatari or Bahraini origin

- Arab individual who enjoys full legal capacity, has continuously and lawfully resided in the member emirates for at least seven years

- Any person, other than those mentioned above, who enjoys full legal capacity if he has continuously and legally resided in the member emirates for a period of no less than 30 years

- A foreign woman married to a UAE National may be granted nationality by citizenship after the lapse of seven years

As out of touch as this might seem with modernity, remember that the United States had anti-miscegenation laws on the books until 1967, and only opened immigration from non-white countries in 1965.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws_in_the...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Ac...
Retail investors are going to be left holding some heavy bags.
> They don't need social justice either

Taxpayers have been pumping cash to share owners for the last decade. If a frickin pandemic can't cause shareowners to stop increasing their net worth, what will?

Because while non-shareholders are working on treadmill living and majorly suffering, there's something seriously wrong. Either fix the market and the wealth disparity, or some people will just say "ah fuck it" and watch the world burn.
You can buy products from American prison slaves here.

https://unicor.gov/index.aspx
and why is that so? What is different with new reddit that fails with the Tor browser?
I think if an app claims "no data collected", it should have no network access, or access to apis like apple identifier.

If it does network access on your behalf, that would be trickier.

Also, apple should not collect data on behalf of the apps like statistics of any kind (unless you opt-in)
I didn't have to get permission from my employer to look for another job. Not sure if you are trolling. Flagged the comment.
Netflix Is Testing a Timer Feature to Pause a Title After a Certain Period Of
In CRUD apps all head of line problems are caused by abject bloat. Protocol isn't going to fix that.
IBM paperweight teardown: Reverse-engineering 1970s memory chips
Thanks for increasing my interest in FreePascal / Lazarus (which I've been looking into for the past few days.)

We were taught C and Pascal in college, and I distinctly remember thinking out loud, "Wow. Why do people bother with C when Pascal seems so much easier to understand and just nicer?" (Ofcourse, in hindsight, I now know Pascal was easier to understand because I had already learnt programming concepts with C previously). But I still prefer Pascal's overall 'ideology' and syntax over C (except for the BEGIN ... END - would prefer braces :).
These labels aren't provided by Apple so the very first sentence is nonsense.

This is self reported. Many developers probably don't even realize the Facebook SDK they included tracks their users and just looks at what they personally collect.

While its possible (likely apparently?), Apple doesn't verify this information, there is a strong chance they will at some point in the future. And falsifying this is likely a quick way to get booted from the App Store.
Giving people sufficient basic resources for survival doesn't stop them from working.

Everyone being paid more than a living wage is already choosing to do more work than they have to. Why do you assume that people would stop working, if they have a choice? It's already evident that people choose to work without coercion, if they are paid properly.

My point is that coercion via threat of personal destitution is bad and should be eliminated, not that work is bad.
circular dependencies at runtime are not really a problem and often necessary. circular dependencies at build time/between modules are evil.
BuT eXpAnDiNg InTeRnEt AcCeSs To RuRaL cOmMuNiTiEs Is WoRtH iT.
You clearly don't follow enough left wing media that has been calling every non-establishment storyline a conspiracy theory and making readers/viewers completely paranoid about them.

Also - believe it or not you can actually be entertained by people like Alex Jones without believing what he says. He's incredibly entertaining. IMO in the same way as the Tiger king is entertaining. I hate that these clever intellectuals think that somehow I can't think or read up about things and decide for myself.
Your comment is getting downvoted because it comes across as dismissive of her as an artist. Immediately after someone dies, even someone you don't know, it's best to either be kind or be quiet.
What activities do you mean by media handling?
Sonic Pi 3.3.0 (Beam)
> While true, the plus side is EVs are still a net CO2 win even when charged by dirty fuel.

Are they? Does that include the manufacturing process?
Of course there are specific individuals that are focused on one or the other, but there are also specific individuals who span both concerns. Significant examples include the secretary of health and human services and the surgeon general, among other high level administrators, who ultimately decide who will be managing both problems.

If said leadership wanted people that would take the clear and simple steps needed to solve the obesity crisis to be in charge of that problem, then the obesity crisis would have been solved. The obesity crisis has not been solved, so we can only conclude that the leadership does not want the right people to be involved. Yet presumably we should also believe that said leadership has our best interests in mind now that there's a new virus going around, when they have already irrefutably demonstrated that they don't?
> Do you also want cancer charities to stop asking for donations?

I'm going to assume this wasn't your point, but come on. Don't compare the current actions WSB and others are taking right now to curing cancer.

> Should start up founders not be allowed to ask for investor money?

Startup founders are already not allowed to ask for investor money buy posting on reddit or buying social media ads.

> with multiple accounts to hide the moves, ... these folks are publicly declaring their intent

I don't think anyone has fully look in to what accounts have been pushing things, and at this scale it will be incredibly difficult to do.

> Out in the open with frequent updates.

Just to be clear, I have absolutely no issue with anything DFV (who I assume you're referring to) has done in this situation. But DFV is not the entirety of "retail" that could have crossed a line here.

> "fuck these guys for going all in on destroying a quality company for no reason other than the lulz."

Lol I'm not even going to respond to this.
Structuring doesn't apply to cryptocurrencies and there is no reporting threshold to be avoided yet. There are some proposals to make thresholds. Structuring currently only applies to physical cash passing a boarder or physical cash entering or exiting a financial institution. It does not apply to institution to institution transfers of any type and it doesn't apply to cryptocurrencies at the moment. I’ve had this discussion before, FinCEN is trying to change that.

Because structuring is a criminal law, they would need to show a court a bit more to convict. But before a conviction they could make your life complicated with dumb rationale to a judge for a warrant or seizure notice, and that has nothing to do with cryptocurrency, everyone relies on the government and private persons not making their life complicated.
In the case of Element, it would be the people in charge of Google's Play Store: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25964226
Just asking anybody figured out, how to find high low for a period of time. Say in a period of 6months, starting from a initial point, next point could be a high or low, if high, program needs to find next lowest point and afterward, it needs to find highest amd continues to do so in zigzag. For low it's vice versa.
Damn, you're probably right, even though it would never work that way for a greenback.
H1-B is far from ideal to put it mildly, but it's about an order of magnitude away from what's described in the article.
Legitimate app yes, but was it actually popular? The cached copy of the Element store page says 100k installs, <2k reviews. Compare to e.g. Signal at 50M installs and 1.2M reviews. Or WhatsApp with 5B installs and 130M reviews.
In my view, money is a technology, meaning that a money system does not have an inherent purpose, but is designed to serve specific purposes. For instance I think that the US money system is "designed" to serve as a medium of exchange, a temporary store of value, and a tool of government economic policy.

Bitcoin might have been designed with some other purposes in mind. It could also be co-opted by a government. For instance, I suspect that subsidized energy for bitcoin mining represents a government monetary policy, but I don't know the extent of the influence or its real purpose.

Moreover, like a technology, people will use money if it's useful to them. For instance people in countries with "bad" money will often use it for daily expenses, but move the bulk of their assets into instruments based on the currencies of the US, Europe, etc.
Visual Explanation of Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm
Watching this escapade has really helped me to understand bitcoin.
Have you ever heard of Corporate Bullying? This is one case
Where are you getting those % values? And on what basis do you make the suggestion that Melvin still has a short?
While marketing may tell you otherwise, there is no such thing as ‘full spectrum CBD’. CBG, CBD, CBN, THC, etc., are molecules found in the cannabis plant. One cannot make a molecule of CBD (C21H30O2) ‘full spectrum’. On the other hand, one can get ‘broad spectrum’ or ‘full spectrum’ cannabis oil that is supposed to contain multiple or all naturally occurring cannabinoids, plus possibly other compounds like terpenes (eg. limonene).
This resembles sql a lot. Btw I'm surprised that few languages seem to have in their standard library a many-to-many container which supports efficient lookups in either direction.
That's an interesting anecdote - so did the Finnish army actually use your Pascal compiler? And when you say you were ordered to write a manual for it, where you in the Finnish army at that time?
As I write this, I am attempting to reduce the number of licenses allocated in the Adobe admin portal.

After hunting through the site, it appears easy to add, but impossible to remove licenses without going through sales support (instant response with a human), who then transfer you to the "Cancellation Team" which are remarkably hard to find online and have not replied to previous attempts at cancellation.

This is my third try, and the wait has been ridiculous. After finally being connected to a member of their cancellation team, they are "reviewing my request" and 1-2 minutes (please stand by) has turned into 15+

This experience has been so bad (on top of many others), that I'm strongly considering moving our entire org to open source tools (aside from InDesign for the publications group, which our partners require).
Janssen has finished recruiting for their 1 dose Phase III trial, but is still doing that for their 2 doses 8 weeks apart trials, this huge one https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04614948 and this small one in the US and Belgium https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04436276 There reporting on their one dose trial's efficacy results is pretty good, about what I expected, so if this gets you that one first dose ASAP its seriously worth considering. It's also a relatively mature platform, used previously for their Ebola vaccine which passed an European Phase III trial, but wasn't the earlier one that made such a difference in the last outbreak.

The other vaccines you might get are less mature platforms, AZ/Oxford 2 doses 21 days apart has less efficacy than Janssen's 1 dose (Oxford had not before 2020 ever tried testing their platform on more than 40 people at a time), the mRNA vaccines I'm sure you've heard all about, but I wouldn't make any bets on when Pfizer will be able to provide you a dose from their currently? closed Belgium plant.
The algorithm give above is an excellent, extremely fast compression algorithm for ASCII-encoded numbers :)
"Monospace typefaces give each letter the same width"

"Uniwidth typefaces preserve the width across different weights ( Bold, etc. ) although each letter may not necessarily be the same width."

I feel like the above short summary should have been more easily visible in the article. From skimming the article I couldn't figure out exactly what Uniwidth typefaces were.
A welcome critique, though unfortunately mostly incorrect :-D! I'll address some of your comments:

1. Nyxt is entirely written in Common Lisp, so yes, any part of it can be reprogrammed at any time. All of our FFI bindings are also written in Common Lisp (https://github.com/atlas-engineer/cl-webkit). In fact, you can even GENERATE bindings at run time. So it is irrelevant what part is invoking C, it is still fully funcall'able at runtime. This is what makes Nyxt not a 'thin veneer', but rather a deep integration which exposes all resources to the end-user (something unique to Nyxt).

2. Our project is a chrome that is agnostic of the renderer engine. We can use both WebKit and Web Engine (Chromium). This makes us resilient to renderer specific problems. If websites decide to ban browsers that utilize WebKitGKT+, we'll have another renderer available to us. We talk about this in our article where we justify some of our technical design decisions: https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/technical-design.org

3. Security is very important to us. We rely on upstream providers of web engines (WebKitGTK+, Qt WebEngine) to test and audit secure web engines for us. We can't do everything, you're right about that. For this reason, we give users the choice, and hope for the best!

4. "Lack of flexibility and power"- I think this point is probably the most inaccurate. If you look through our articles you'll see a couple of things that make Nyxt powerful and flexible.

4.A. Composability, all extensions (plugins, as you may call them) can call and utilize each other. That means, as our ecosystem grows, so does the power grow exponentially!

4.B. Flexibility: We give the user access to the complete Common Lisp compiler, all packages on Quicklisp, and the ability to override and change literally any aspect of Nyxt. I often speculate that Nyxt is potentially the most flexible browser to have ever existed.

5. Lastly, no, we are not trying to deliver "apps" on top of Nyxt. Nyxt is a browser, and a programmable platform, not an app delivery mechanism.

I hope that the above was informative, and if not changed your mind, at least exposed you to our view point!

Once again, thanks for the critique, and happy hacking!
It reads as an extremist take on Chesterton’s Fence: “the fence exists, therefore it is probably the only thing that could’ve worked.”

There is nothing in this contrived example that F# or Haskell (gasp, pure functional) wouldn’t handle with ease. It just would be modeled differently from traditional langs. I’d argue the alternative modeling forced by FP langs would be superior.
Short interest is public info, but the price that they shorted is not.

A fund could short from $10 and cover $100 to lose $90...then short again at $300 and now the price is $200. Short interest would remain the same but they'd be up $10 (with having spent more money on the borrow cost at $300, of course).

Short interest is not enough to know how damaged the funds are. As a matter of fact, since these hedge fund employee the smartest people in the world (supposedly?) it would not surprise me if they are taking advantage of the GME sentiment and profiting from this sentiment.
As the OP says, the squeeze was already set up. Big names were already getting involved. The post was just a call to ride the wave. And a prediction to how high the wave possibly could go.
Isn't that exactly the question that informal logical fallacies seek to address?

I don't think you can just throw away the word "logic" like that. We try to make arguments using deduction and inference, so there is a logical structure behind them. It's just that it isn't as well-defined and doesn't have the mathematical rigor of formal logic.
Interest rates have been effectively 0% since the 90s.

> A phone support person tried to tell me that a human still approves the transactions.

This is true in some cases. They do at least have to audit some of them manually and possibly close your account, file SARs, etc, if they don't like you enough.