skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the OP, but as I’d say that subjectively speaking, you’re better off going to MIT, but only if you have the passion and drive to succeed at a place like that (which you probably do if you got into MIT).

But for Boston College, Boston University, or Northeastern? You’re probably going to end up paying more than MIT and get an education that’s indistinguishable from UMass, quite possibly worse in some respects.

What people have been saying in this thread is not incorrect (though should be nuanced): the ivy leagues are worth it for the caliber of the student body and reputation; otherwise, go to a (Tier 1) public school.

Unless, of course, you don’t want to and can easily afford otherwise.
Here you go: https://pastiebin.com/603528abd6813
Personally, aligning columns like that drives me nuts. It's awkward to maintain and makes things harder to actually read most of the time.
> Charging for links had to be the single most destructive piece of tech legislation ever conceived in a 'free' democratic country.

It depends what you mean by free. Australians have an "implied right to political communication", but it's not the same as "free speech" in the U.S.

It would have been an interesting case to determine whether sharing news links on private servers (FB & Googs) was a constitutional right.
Firefox is fine and quick as long as you don't need to use any heavy Google apps. Some people might even consider this a plus. For me, between work and personal use I'm effectively married to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Hangouts. Unfortunately that makes Firefox a non-starter for me. Not to mention Firefox's privacy settings trigger countless reCAPTCHA gates across most of GSuite. I get that this is not Firefox's "fault" and it's done intentionally by Google, but as a user it becomes my problem.

I really want Firefox to work for me and I'd love to drop Chrome, but last time FF made big noise about performance improvements I tried it out and Gmail was still unusably slow.
A Demonstration of Modern Web Bloat
Curious: Rare and seasonal how? Most honey lasts for years or decades if willing to put up with some crystallization.

All things in moderation... . A dab of honey in tea once a day can't be that many micromorts.
I would argue ethereum (network) is about distribution as well. As the computation is done repeatedly by each machine locally.

The advantage of ethereum over zeronet is it support more flexible verification (via smart contract) while zeronet mainly verify by signature without customizable logics.
Creative A.I
A.I. that writes Game of Thrones and Harry Potter series, creates fake news, does stand up-comedy and thinks like Elon Musk and Donald Trump: creative-ai.net
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$100k is not enough to totally phase out financial aid from top schools, but sure, there are some families that could afford to pay but refuse to. still, no one is writing $40k+ loans each year for students with no cosigner. if you have rich parents who won't pay and the school considers you a dependent, you're pretty much SOL.
Yeah same, I was anxious to see if my job is close to be automated away.
HFCS is a misnomer. It's just 55% fructose and 45% glucose. Whereas sucrose is exactly 50% fructose and 50% glucose. HFCS is a health problem, but not not more so than sugar already.

Balancing free fructose does not matter because by eating starch, you are already intaking much more glucose than fructose.
If the causality is correct, then this "new" reality is already here. Hence, adaptation is too currently happening. Big policy changes to curb plastic use is only a favor for our grandkids.
> Who in 2021 is building web apps with no internet access?

Defense contractors? Government entities? Entities worried about chain of trust in packages? Choice of upgrade path instead of forced? Ability to keep working when the net is down?

There's a reason for lots of people to still want 'on prem' and to not want to have the whole Internet as a dependency.
every corporation: "if they die, they die"
I value education for its own sake. So I got my degree from a well regarded university in a lucrative field that I'm good at and enjoy. A roof over my head and money in my bank account, I can study anything I want without worrying about the financial yield. Sometimes that takes the form of free MOOCs. Sometimes that takes the form of paid classes taken through university extension programs. Unlike when I was taking classes for degrees, I'm learning things I want to learn, not things I have to. It's very nice.
I checked the spec again:

It's unclear: At one point it says "An object is an unordered set of name/value pairs." while in the actual grammar it is ordered:

object
'{' ws '}'
'{' members '}'

members
member
member ',' members
I'd bet for the average user privacy impact of tracking is much less significant that the privacy impact of constant account compromises.
I'm not skeptical. I know it is a killer. I'm AA and AI and historically we have endured poisoned blankets and forced neutering. The only way anyone gets this stuff in me is if I'm unconscious/restrained.
How I Got Sucked into a Discord Stock-Trading Group and Made Thousands
correct: right now the interests of the lawyers are aligned with the people they're suing, not the people they're representing.
I guess it's all relative and a matter of opinion...

4.75 nanograms may not seem like a lot, but when you consider that, at 414.07g/mol it is 6,908,293,060,000 parts of the stuff, it seems like quite a bit to me. And that's in just one cooking session.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a while since my chemistry class.

The EPA drinking water standards, the ones watered down by industry influence, are measured in parts per trillion.

Here is a science question for you: If the EPA limit for PFOA in drinking water is 70 parts per trillion, what volume of water would need to be mixed with 4.75 nanograms of PFOA in order to bring that water to within the allowable limit for drinking water?

Now, here is a quote from the EPA:

> These studies indicate that exposure to PFOA and PFOS over certain levels may result in adverse health effects, including developmental effects to fetuses during pregnancy or to breastfed infants (e.g., low birth weight, accelerated puberty, skeletal variations), cancer (e.g., testicular, kidney), liver effects (e.g., tissue damage), immune effects (e.g., antibody production and immunity), thyroid effects and other effects (e.g., cholesterol changes). There is limited information identifying health effects from inhalation or dermal exposures to PFOA or PFOS in humans and animals.

Based on this question, do you think there are any "health effects" if exposed to PFOA and PFOS below these "certain levels".
The external reward in "useful" PoW is given to all miners, good and bad. So everyone is equally incentivized. In fact it should actually increase the participation in the network, e.g. those who don't care about cryptocurrency but are interested in the "useful" problem being solved.

The external reward by itself provides no competitive advantage. It reduces everyone's costs by the same amount.
Rewriting history still remains difficult.

So what am I missing here?
Don't preppers keep it as an alternative to sugar or as a carbs calorie source?
> For the single reason that biased systems in certain areas will not deliver the results you need to use it properly.

well, they produce happy numbers for papers and depending on the brainwash-level of a population, they might also sufficiently often do the "right thing" towards minorities that noone cares too much about, independent of whether it would stand a chance against objective evaluation.
For those that are wondering how this works, Gridcoin uses PoS - not PoW - and then rewards for research on top of it. It is not locked into any algorithm because it's not PoW. There are currently 18 different BOINC project [1] that it rewards. New projects can be voted in or can be voted off.

To try to reduce the centralization, there is a system of oracles that gathers the stats from each project and the nodes verify that the oracles match each other. As well, each project only consists of 1/18th of the rewards [2] from research and there's also new coins rewarded for just staking, so if a project acts up, they wouldn't be able to largely manipulate coin supply.

If you have any more questions about it, feel free to ask me

[1] https://gridcoin.us/guides/whitelist.htm

[2] https://gridcoin.us/wiki/magnitude.html

Note: I help work on the gridcoin.us website and have ~5000 Gridcoin, so I may be biased in my view of the coin :)
You need to look at this from the perspective of someone who has little to no familial safety net and cannot rely on family resources to help them out when things get tough.

Boston area schools being "basically free on paper" to middle income families is a reflection of the fact that a student from a ~100k income family has better options for getting ahead in the world than attending these institutions at any cost but these institutions would lose legitimacy without "economic diversity" tokens so they have to reduce the price. Going to Harvard (or similar) if you're not from the kind of people who go to Harvard is a high risk, high reward gamble with years of your life. These schools have to reduce the potential downside in order to get the quality of candidates they want to get from the demographics they want to get them from (i.e. they want to be able to pick the very best people from the "can't afford to attend" demographic). Also it's good PR.

If you're the son of a plumber and your options are going to MIT for CS, or UMaine's "we match your local in-state tuition" deal paired with their crappy CS program the Maine one actually looks attractive because you're going to be surrounded by people a heck of a lot more like you (on a life experiences level), you're not gonna be bottom of your class and you won't be running the Boston rat race when it comes to housing, a part time job, commuting, and all the other "life" stuff". If you're the kind of high-achieving individual who goes to Harvard from a middle class background you're all but guaranteed to live more comfortably than your parents and retire comfortably regardless of the choice you make. Rolling a degree from a lesser state school into a stable job at BigCo isn't something you're worried about. The networking value add from Harvard or MIT isn't as much of a value add because you have no frame of reference for it and won't be making the kinds of life choices where it can be most helpful anyway (remember, no safety net, you're gonna be the one that builds it). So if you're gonna "win" no matter what you choose why add the additional risk of Harvard, MIT or some other program you could wash out of?
Seems like a silly mechanism. I think a better tactic would be to offer "bounties" on problems, then devs can decide whether or not the problem is worth the effort. As long as the requester defines the input/output for the change, then this should work out well.

There are times when I'd spend 15 minutes writing a small bash script for $30. Sometimes I feel guilty about buying luxuries like delivered food, and I wouldn't feel so guilty if I use half the saved time earning enough to pay for the meal, even if it is well under my typical billing rate.
Some fabrics aren't kind to sensitive bits. I prefer to have cotton boxers between my bits and whatever rugged exterior cloth is worn.
Drug companies look to AI to end ‘hit and miss’ research
I'll carry that torch when I feel it's appropriate. But the reality is, this practically requires making the decision to use free software and keep the entire open source community at a long arm's length.

Why? Because business doesn't give two shits about your productivity. They care about one thing, the productivity of the software. And so they will buy other goods and services that will at some point be closed source. And then you're the one that has to integrate them.

Are you deploying to GCP? Already you can't run your full stack locally. My last week was spent hacking Google's Anthos CLI tool, nomos into a kpt function. Kpt is open source, nomos is not, it's not even source-available. It's just proprietary. And the platform it interacts with, you can't run locally. Go ahead and check out the troubleshooting page for one Anthos tool:

https://cloud.google.com/kuberun/docs/troubleshooting

No sections on spinning up a local env. You can't self-host or run locally, Google won't let you.

This isn't isolated to just Google. People need to get it into their heads that open source is the realm of business and not the realm of hackers. You're a cog in their machinery.

If you can't run free software for your whole stack, then your troubleshooting steps will necessarily involve understanding at least two environments, one of which will be a very black box.

Devs, if you want a better world, start contributing to copyleft software.
https://www.givelegacy.com/ is helping men protect their fertility.
https://www.reddit.com/r/talktotransformer/comments/lqgz2r/a...
Simple, make a law that makes consent via banners invalid.
Ok, it seems you know what you are talking about. Maybe you can help me with some doubts:

-Japan have been monetizing the debt for decades, what is the consequences predicted by the textbook mainstream for inflation and interest rates? And what mainstream think are the consequences of its high public debt?

-In 2011-2012 there was a crisis of sovereign debt for some countries of the Euro-area. The reason was that "the markets" perceived the debt of those countries as too risky, so, they demanded a high return. How was, by textbook macroeconomics, the crisis solved? Currently, those countries have bigger public debt that then, and, a very big (Covid) crisis in their hands. How mainstream economics explain that the returns demanded by the market are so low now compared to then?

-When was the last time that a country payed its public debt and what would happen if they do (by textbook macro)?

-What is the mechanism that produce inflation when you increasing reserves (monetary policy) instead of spending in the economy (fiscal policy) and why has not worked (except for the stock market)?

-What are the measures that Cowen is talking about when he says: "[..] central banks simultaneously act to decrease the velocity of money — that is, if they take measures to reduce borrowing and lending [..]"
why are all degrees four years?

The university of Buckingham in the UK will do a two year official BA with no holidays. about $15000 a year. Americans are welcomed. It does OK but most students still choose a university with longer courses but more holiday and students interested in greater, let us say, "cultural development".
'Dare mighty things': hidden message found on NASA Mars rover parachute
Thats true to a degree. But I'm betting many unfit people would get fit if adapting the same diet/lifestyle habits.
I wish I could find this quote, but paraphrasing:

"There exists a curious belief that because a business has always made money a certain way, that it is somehow entitled to continue doing so, regardless of the changes in the market. This curious belief however is not borne of any specific law, rule, regulation or principle."
>> recreate traditional products developed in a period where reality was just very different.

Ever see a house with the Tesla solar roofing shingles? There is a line of thought that for customers to accept a new product it must be as externally similar as possible to a preexisting one, even if doing so means degrading the performance or practicality of that product.
You're free to encode meaning in the order if you want, as the JSON spec explicitly punts on the issue:

"The JSON syntax does not impose any restrictions on the strings used as names, does not require that name strings be unique, and does not assign any significance to the ordering of name/value pairs. These are all semantic considerations that may be defined by JSON processors or in specifications defining specific uses of JSON for data interchange."

https://www.ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-4...
Of course they settled. The only way the settlement could have been more favorable for them is if the plaintiffs agreed to pay Epic.
i'd seen some lo-fi 2d positional-conversation systems like this & demoed some very non functional 3d ones (we overloaded ths server quickly). right away though skittish had a much more appealing aesthetic.

then andy jumped into the theater & there were a bunch of people looking at a shared screen! this is what computing is for, one of it's magic abilities. bring people together, connect. this looks like some very special correspondence magic Andy is putting together. awesome awesome.
I am taking a wait and see approach. So much of the political response to this was, to me, an over reaction. So at the moment I have low trust in these vaccines.
Show HN: Online Binary / Hex / Decimal Converter
Reverse ETL – A Primer
Hasn't HTML the summary and details elements for this specifically, or am I overlooking something?
Here's a sample of stand-up written by AI:

"All right. If you're one of the use of the female sex robots and you're hoping that they're going to replace human women, are you are you serious? I've been in show business 30 years. I've never seen a woman in my life get laid. I've never seen a woman get laid and I promise you, I'll tell you right now, if they make the robots gorgeous, there will be a war between human women and robot women and, I swear to God we will freaking win"
Hi HN,

I'm often googling "binary to hex" or "decimal to binary" which lead to clunky online tools, so I built my own minimalistic online base converter.

The github project with source code can be found here:
https://github.com/BaseConverter/bin2dec

For convenience, all of these domains point to the same site:

bin2hex.org
bin2dec.org
hex2bin.org
hex2dec.org
dec2bin.org
dec2hex.org

Hopefully you can get some use out of it too! Please let me know if you discover any bugs or have any suggestions.
Berries have very little sugar.

https://www.healthline.com/health/best-low-sugar-fruits
Cheese tastes good.
> Note the use of cython.int rather than int - Cython does not translate an int annotation to a C integer by default since the behaviour can be quite different with respect to overflow and division.

This seems like an important difference to me. Your regular type annotations can be used.
just posted a sample
At the moment, some of us in the PGH FP group are working through https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/pfpl/, and so far I vastly prefer it. It is math heavy, which I like for various personal reasons which are irrelevant here, but it also skips parsing!
tbf MMT does have an explanation for Venezuela, Zimbabwe and the Weimar Republic (supply constraints). This isn't by itself implausible, but their overall inflation model is very handwavy. I can buy "job guarantee could act as an endogenous stabiliser if the proportion funded by new currency issue is calibrated correctly" but not "the existence of a buffer stock of labour compensated by a JG means that we don't need to consider printing less or making credit more expensive as if prices rise firms could always hire from this pool" which seems to be the preferred version

But yes, they seem to be preferring to talk past rather than engage with mainstream macroeconomists. The sheer rhetorical effort they devote to convincing their readers the money multiplier is the wrong foundation that underpins all modern macro and not a simple pedagogic device for explaining how leverage works and why deposit insurance became a thing....
I think you will find the JSON object members are not ordered while JSON array members are ordered. Since the JSON object members are not ordered, changing the order for display purposes does not change the data in any material way.
I wouldn’t know. I went to college for a topic I’ve always loved and that happens to be lucrative.
I actually think the narrative of “pursue a career you love” is still the basic message. It’s just framed as requiring a college education in order to achieve that. There is some truth in it, as it’s hard to even get your foot in the door without the credential.
Someone close to me was recently hired as a new grad at Amazon. He only had one 30 minute conversation with a human to verify he was real before they extended the offer! The rest of the process was automated (virtually proctored coding sessions, multiple choice behavioral assessments, etc.).

Value judgments aside, you have to respect Amazon's efficiency.
Stephen LaBerge made this same discovery in 1987
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_LaBerge
They did not do their research.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock

2. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Exorbitant_privilege
Or if you're setting up a SaaS application where some of your customers will want integration with their own SSO. We don't have developer time to spare implementing that sort of thing but Auth0 lets us do it as one of its built-in integrations.

It lets us offer SSO with whatever Auth0 supports as a freebie add-on, instead of "well, we could work with your platform but it's gonna cost you."

I don't see how it's a trap, except that we have to pay auth0 a monthly fee to handle our authentications instead of having some number of hours a month spent maintaining and securing our customers' logins and integrations.
The spec[1] says:

> An object is an unordered collection of zero or more name/value pairs, where a name is a string and a value is a string, number, boolean, null, object, or array.

"whenever the order matters to the consumer of the JSON" should be never.

More pragmatically, regardless of what the spec says, a ton of JSON tooling assumes the order doesn't matter and relying on it would be a big mistake.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-1
LookingGlass displays. Their small version is available for pre-order for $250 and ships in June. I've got a leap motion laying around and some experience with Unity, so it sounds like something that would be fun to mess around with.
Ask HN: Advice on implementing push notifications to your app / service in 2021
Hi HN,

I'm currently designing a high speed gaming service which has a need for reliable mobile push notifications with accurate badge counting for when the user has the app killed.

So how are engineers on HN currently implementing push notification functionality into their apps and services that manage the badges counting, delivery and making sure the notification gets delivered to the user instantly with the correct unread badge numbers for each user.

Also very curious to know your server architecture, badge counting and design decisions on implementing this if you've done this before.
The mobile experience is atrocious. It's exactly what happens when you optimize for short-term value. Forcing people to download the app when they clearly don't want to is a great way to lose long-term users.

I hate the new layout. I find the video player abysmal and I loathe the mobile experience.

Some of the content is still very good, but I feel like it's lessening as the anti-user hostility intensifies. It's a damn shame.
I recommend reading the ECMA-404 spec instead. It's less ambiguous, and basically says that you can treat the pairs as ordered if you want, as the syntax itself doesn't imbue the order with any meaning:

https://www.ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-4...
The comment author appears to be using the Govs argument in an attempt to facilitate debate, even though they themselves don't personally hold the position. In the "debate, not argument" school this is a good thing because it lets us move the debate forward in good faith. Likewise, the response is to the argument, not the person.