skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "people with disabilities should receive reasonable accommodations to access the content that is provided".

I would agree with this if this is something that they paid for or is for govt services. Govt libraries/buildings/hospitals, definitely not for private services. And they do accommodate in majority of universities. I disagree that whatever is available for free should also have accommodations made for people with disabilities for which it costs extra for the person providing the free service.

> For you, it's a simple case of "it's the ADA's fault". Is it so difficult to think that it's {the UC, MIT, ...}'s fault for not captioning their material?

Yes I find it difficult it's their fault since they are doing this for free. CC is available for deaf students of those universities, where they do help them out. But I don't see why they should help out for a free service.

> Between providing captions and removing their videos, they chose removing their videos.

I'd wager that's the more economically easier route (and likelier outcome from a cost standpoint) considering that they don't get anything in return out of this goodwill in the first place and that it would cost them more either battling the ADA in lawsuits or creating the CC.

> It is terrible of you to make disabled people the villain in this story

Why not? I'm all for campaigning for equal opportunity/accommodations for everyone, for services we pay for, for services we are entitled to. For any free service, there is no obligation for the service provider to do anything to accommodate anyone unless they want to. The argument feels like someone who has peanut allergy suing someone who hands out free cookies/biscuits.

Also, the ADA's lawsuit and approach is the reason disabled people are being portrayed badly here, I'm not saying that the people are bad.

> The point of the ADA is to generate legal pressure to improve accessibility and create justice. I cannot say this is the best outcome, but it is an improvement on the previous situation where you (and countless others) were not even thinking about accessibility. Now you are.

What was the outcome? Restriction of access to all the courses available. Was that beneficial to the disabled people? I don't think so. Was that beneficial to the non disabled people? I definitely don't think so.

My disagreements and questions stand. Can you please answer my questions? Why is the ADA targeting a free service ? Who will/should bear the costs of the CC to be created for the free service that's provided and why? Why isn't the ADA collaborating with the govt/univs to enhance the free service provided? If you feel that disabled people do not have the opportunity to use materials because of lack of CC, don't you think that the actions of ADA has now resulted in opportunities being lost to everyone instead of a few? How is that a good outcome or even a win for the disabled people from the eyes of the general society?

I repeat again, the approach and the outcome of this is bad and unfavorable to all parties involved and has accomplished nothing for free services, in this case OCW.
it confused rationalist harry potter fanfic with 'harry potter hogwarts hardcover journal and elder wand pen set', amazing
I get the sugar bit but i don't get why you would want to remove potatoes or rice?
I honestly thought that the quoted "Calories" on food packages were a measure of typical bio-available energy, and not simply a measure of the total theoretical oxidation energy.
Aren't lifetimes closer to 10+ years due to better battery management (managed operating temperature and charge/discharge)?

Tesla suggest such with its megapack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Megapack
> If civil forfeitures without criminal charges resulted in substantially more losses than burglaries, would you consider the prior poster's point provisionally made?

I am unsure about that. I'd argue that one must only include undisputed forfeitures. Despite the arguments about attorney costs, the total sum indicates that most of forfeited property costs much more than the cost of an appeal.

Specifically, related quotes from Wikipedia:

"From 2005 to 2010, government seizures of assets from both criminals as well as innocent citizens went from $1.25 billion to $2.50 billion"

"In 2010, there were 15,000 cases of forfeitures."

If you divide $2.5B by 15k cases, you'll get avg. $166k/case, which is far from averages posted above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
I wish the subject of "solar life" was explored more in sci-fi. It's something that shows up every now and then, but rarely in any detail, or significant to the plot.

For another example along these lines, there's David Brin's "Sundiver": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96472.Sundiver
> it wasn't meant to be condescending, it was meant to be a serious technical critique of what appears to be a publicly advertised product

Oh, I think everyone was confused because there was no serious technical critique. You made a flippant comment about disk space and network latency. Basic observations that anyone building this would have considered.

You can see from all the comments that everyone viewed you as condescending and unhelpful. You might want to revisit your writing style, since your intentions are not clear to anyone.
Before COVID-19, when I was still allowed to travel :-/
Only my primary care. It was a pretty major center in terms of associated doctors.

The idea that someone would have to keep calling different doctors offices to find one that would take me is just as absurd as needing to wait 1 month.
I regret that you did not get compensated for your lost time.
So 65 isn't necessarily the correct value, but whatever the phone's default is?
It makes me happy that others do this too, I make use of pretty much any plaintext field in proximity to strip formatting
Nuclear has never decarbonized an entire industrial economy, so by that definition, nuclesr is nkt "proven technology".

It probably could have, if you priced carbon appropriately 50 or 60 years ago, but no one did so cars and various industrial processes never made the shift and other random things like cow burps it cant even theoretically fix.

Now it's too expensive to bother trying even for the bits it's suited to.

Ironically, the main thing that wpuld make nuclear cheaper, would be cheap energy storage as youd only need to uild enoigh plants to generate the average yearly demand and use tge storage to handle the varying loads.
Yup. Don't forget the whole "frequently choose not to have a kid" part, and it becomes extremely one sided. Dual income families aren't new, but 2 high earners professionals with no kids aren't just the occasional doctor/dentist/lawyer couples anymore.

I'm a software engineer myself in one of the high paying tech hubs, and married the same. When we went to look for a home and toured open houses, all you saw were pairs of young couples wearing Google, Microsoft and Facebook swags. Sure, I didn't personally ask every single one of them where they worked, but I'd venture that a non-zero amount of these couples were "Tech DINKs", like us.

The average person simply can't compete with that. Add that in the urban areas these folks are less likely to want a big car, some may be happier playing Final Fantasy 14 during vacations than traveling across the world (I know plenty of travelers, but there's certainly a lot of "low cost" vacationers in the industry), and some level of financial literacy (common for people who get compensated with RSUs), and it's absolutely one sided.

With that said, median home prices have only increased a little faster than inflation. When you account for interest rates tanking + inflation, a median home in 2021 is the same price and sometimes cheaper than it was in 2005 (data for the last few months is harder to find, and there's been a unusual spike, so it may not be quite true right now, but it was just a few months ago).

The bigger problem is that everyone wants to live in the same place (usually in urban centers, where the jobs are, and where you don't have to drive an hour and a half to work). So prices where people want to be have increased higher than median.

I'd expect people are more ok with paying a larger portion of their income to live where they want to be. Even as extremely high earner DINKs, housing will eat up a good chunk of our cash flow if we feel like blowing it all to live in Manhattan in a condo that doesn't suck.
The laws surrounding striking violate the employer's contract liberty. For example, the employer cannot simply fire the contractors/workers striking, and replace them with people willing to accept their offer.

>>but in just societies that isn't an option.

Someone offering people work on terms that you think are inadequate is not unjust. Interfering in private interactions between other consenting adults, to deny them the option to engage in some voluntary interaction, is what's an unjust act, that is predicated on an unearned sense of moral superiority.

And such an interjection doesn't improve the opportunities available to workers in general. If it were that easy, we could set a minimum wage of $500/hr, under which all employment offers are illegal, and create instant prosperity.

The correct wage level, for maximizing economic development, and by extension, wage growth, is set by market forces, via the intersection of supply of labor, and the output that people are willing to trade for that labor.
That's what everyone has said about every piece of enterprise software ever.
If you bought a Nexus 5X or 6P, your device eventually bricked itself due to overheating literally melting the solder connections between the CPU and mainboard. Software support isn't the only thing Android vendors are skimping out on.
This result link should be cached, does this work for you?

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Erd%C5%91s&tar...
Really glad to hear there is an effort forward to bring out more of Lem's work. One of the most interesting SF authors, with what would seem to be a deeper understanding of actual science than most of the others I've read. I especially love His Master's Voice, and am happy to see that on the list of MIT reissues!
The ability (and willingness) to dive into legacy codebases and make sense of them paid my bills for a good 15 years after graduating with a CS degree.

It was fixing bugs and adding new features to existing code, usually stuff that was 5-10 years old at the least. If I didn't understand something I needed to wait for That Guy to show up. The one who did the first version some time in the last millennium.

Latest versions of anything was a pipe dream. Java version was at least 1-2 major versions behind the time. Business logic was PL/SQL and Perl scripts old enough to have a driver's license.

Also: print-debugging all the way. There were exactly zero ways to attach any kind of modern debugger to a 20 year old pile of code that had organically grown to what it was at the time.

I think I was 16-17 years into my career before I started a greenfield project from scratch, one I could decide the full tech stack from top to bottom.
The free vs paid thing is so true. Just see app store reviews. No one expects so much as someone who didn't and won't pay a thing for what they are demanding. It's a whole different mindset.
I've practically never disagreed with a user when they've had difficulty with software, or the workflow, or error messages or whatever. As someone with a very low tolerance for hard to use software myself - I totally git it.
I am not familiar with the Quran, but for the Bible, different translations have different copyright policies. For instance, the ESV text is free for non-commercial use, but if you want to use it for commercial purposes you must pay a licensing fee.

ESV has a pretty decent API, actually! https://api.esv.org/ I used it way back when when Google TV was a thing, to make a verse-display used during bible studies.
I am currently reading „Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance“. I drive a motorcycle myself. I get things he talks about. Still, in between the interesting parts, it’s just not enough to keep me interested so I’m thinking about putting it down, too. Maybe I should. It was recommended to me and I thought I’d give it a go. There are philosophical concepts and I get that they might be interesting but overall I have a hard time to keep on reading.
I'd much rather they relicensed early if they can, to set expectations and to ensure talented people actually get to sustain its development, rather than parasitic jobsworth FAANG types who will inevitably drive development at Amazon. Free software in this context is very dead, let's not pretend network and channel effects of AWS were ever envisaged in the 1980s when most "contemporary" free software licensed were designed.
I love Quanta, but recently I encountered a few pieces that were not up to their usual standards. This is one example, and the other example I currently have in mind is also by David S. Richeson - so maybe it’s just him.

In the article linked above, there are some glaring omissions (A conceptual overview of the notion of “dimension” that mentions neither the Krull dimension nor matroids? An emphasis on high-dimensionality while ignoring concentration of measure?).
To anyone curious, this browser is proprietary. Fortunately it makes no claims of respecting your privacy so at least they aren’t liars.

That being said, I can’t wait to enjoy the open source alternative. Optimized web rendering, especially on the RPi, is a godsend.
The amount a household can spend on housing scales at a faster rate than income. Say, a family is making $2000 a month with one person working, and spending $800 on housing. If another person goes to work making $2000 -- spending, maybe $300 in work-related expenses, gas and such -- that household now has $800 + $1700 = $2500/mo available to spend on housing, while maintaining an otherwise similar standard of living.

So doubling of income tripled the amount that could be spent on housing.

But wait, there's more. People buy housing with debt, and a doubling of the monthly payment on a mortgage more than doubles the price that can be afforded. So that household paying $800/mo could move from their $195k house into a $600k house with a $2500/mo payment.

So, a doubling of income has the potential to increase the amount of house a household could afford by six. Granted, this ignores things like taxes, and most people don't spend their entire raise on housing. But this fact is probably what helped drive prices in places like California into the stratosphere.

The crux of the problem is probably that income follows a roughly pareto distribution. When housing is limited, the poorest households drop out of the market. And when populations grow but a town doesn't, housing gets bought by people higher up in the income distribution curve. And past median, incomes climb quickly.

If you have 30k houses, in a town with 60k people, then housing will be affordable to a median income. But if the population grows to 120k, but housing doesn't, then only the top 75% of households can afford a house. Median income, to top 75% is a huge jump.
Prices are higher now. And please don't compare Berlin to SF it's apples and oranges.
Well global worming is protecting us from that scenario
That’s true, but irrelevant in this case as in the short term people are O2 limited not CO2 limited which is why the world record for holding ones breath goes up by breathing pure oxygen.

It’s also one of the reasons I was asking for examples as I assumed you where making assumptions that didn’t apply.
If it's so easy to bypass then it sounds like it's a useless feature that won't prevent the proliferation of CSAM
People being underwater happens to mean that the banks have bad loans. We have seen that movie before.

Interest rates will not be allowed to increase faster than the property market can absorb. You can count on that; the political imperative could not be more clear. The next crisis will probably be some novel flavor of financial recklessness.
We haven't all survived, somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 million people have been killed by COVID. Obviously not all of them died from contracting COVID at a restaurant or coffee shop, but I suspect the number of deaths from trips to get coffee is significantly higher than zero (and that's before you take into account other factors like traffic accidents)
Thanks. This actually answers my initial questions. So basically, deadbeats gaming the system :(.
> Social security is more of a forced 401k. You will get back the money (in theory)

Don't you get the value of the money back for all taxation, according to any theory that approves of taxation?
But does it really do anything to secure a device that’s past EOL? Or is it a marketing action?

Long official support is absolutely a benefit when looking at smartphones, however, articles keep popping up about Apple basically buying and sitting on vulnerabilities for latest and greatest iOS, because that’s what works economically.
Yeah I have 3 iPhone 6 from 6 years ago with new batteries but can't update iOS or install modern apps. No hardware issues at all but will have to throw them into the garbage for the sake of Apple software support policy
Edited because a correction by another user helps to clarify - it is not about the 20 mutations (which they created a mutant spike will all 20 of them!) though, it is more about what was and was not effective in defendening against the mutant spike.
Does anyone know what theorems/definitions this paragraph is referring to?

"Finally, in 1912, almost half a century after Cantor’s discovery, and
after many failed attempts to prove the invariance of dimension, L.E.J.
Brouwer succeeded by employing some methods of his own creation. In
essence, he proved that it is impossible to put a higher-dimensional
object inside one of smaller dimension, or to place one of smaller
dimension into one of larger dimension and fill the entire space,
without breaking the object into many pieces, as Cantor did, or allowing
it to intersect itself, as Peano did."
I remember having fun of two different bills one from transfer and taxes and one for power itself. The monthly fee for just having connection in apartment building in a town was more than what I paid for power it self... Not to even mention the taxes and fee for power transmission...
Barclay can do it.
Segueing from “rich” to “multi-billionaires” is a neat trick by rich professionals to divert attention from themselves.

Five years ago, we moved into a 3,000 square foot house in the Annapolis suburbs. We are right on the water so it cost a princely $485,000. But it was easy to get a house in the neighborhood for $300,000 or so, or just 4 times the county’s median income. As a result, the neighborhood has lots of young families (many without college degrees!), retirees, etc. Today, the house next door is under contract for double the price, and is smaller than ours. As far as I can tell, there’s no billionaires or even centi-millionaires anywhere near us. Just upper middle class people whose 401ks have done really well thanks to the Fed printing money like crazy, not to mention upper middle class welfare like more than a year of deferred student loan payments. (Lower income folks with student loans were already eligible for income based repayment.)

Reaganism has won so completely in America that even AOC doesn’t want to tax upper middle class people. But these are the people directly competing with the middle class for fixed resources. They’re the people driving residents out of gentrifying neighborhoods, driving up the price of coffee, etc. There’s not enough 0.01%-ers out there to move the needle on these assets and services.
Any video with 3blue1brown is worth a watch, in my opinion. I also quite enjoy Numberphile, but Grant (3b1b) has such a fantastic way of introducing and teaching topics.

Viewers with even the slightest interest in math, and are not familiar with 3blue1brown, should check out some of his other videos at [1]. Not only is he a great orator, but the visuals he provides have really clarified some of the tougher subjects for me.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown
I'm starting a business selling guillotine insurance...
i love it. i used to play this late night in college with whoever was around... part of me feels like seeing the graph takes a little of the joy out of it, but that's the same part of me that wishes i made this myself.
There are a lot of comments here that echo my sentiment.

Simon, I am a Canadian founder. I got my first job offer in the US (San Francisco) at 25 years old. I took it right away. It was not FAANG, though I was interviewed there many times: not once was I given an offer. My degree was in Biochemistry, not CS. I probably would have been over the moon to get an offer from FB. So I can understand how you feel.

However; I think you should consider finishing your degree. The job offer from Facebook will always be around -- or some equivalent. If you can get that at 20/21 you can get it at 21/22. The only time where I'd recommend somebody drop out is if they're committed to a project that is either clearly a business or has the potential to be one and they're pursuing entrepreneurship. I know a number of founders that have pursued this route and are quite successful. That said; college is really a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I wouldn't trade my time in college for anything, even though coming to Silicon Valley at 25 years old made me feel ancient. If you focus your last year on personal growth, hacking, friends, your network, building relationships - both at McGill and around Silicon Valley - you'll be even more set up to succeed post-graduation.

Re: the FB offer. The ugly truth you're glossing over is that working at FAANG can -- for many -- ultimately be just as boring as coursework in college. If you want to get into startups and like the energy surrounding them, my recommendation is use your last year of college to (1) kick college's ass and get that degree so immigration is easier and (2) start a badass side project.

That's my $0.02 but YMMV. Shoot me a DM on Twitter if you feel like chatting.
The argument comparing claim cost against the size of property is bogus. Winning a forfeiture case AFAIK mandates the government to cover the attorney fees.

Also, repeating my comment from below:

Specifically, related quotes from Wikipedia:

"From 2005 to 2010, government seizures of assets from both criminals as well as innocent citizens went from $1.25 billion to $2.50 billion"

"In 2010, there were 15,000 cases of forfeitures."

If you divide $2.5B by 15k cases, you'll get avg. $166k/case, which is far from $1400 you mention. So either your source or my interpretation of Wikipedia is wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
First Fortran program runs, September 20, 1954
I used to work with someone who refused to learn another programming language besides VBA in Excel. He slowed everyone down and it got to the point where he had implemented a JSON parser and generator in Excel 97. Badly. It's one of the worst experiences of my professional life. I dislike VBA because it convinces those who learn it that it is a programming language and that Excel is a programming environment just like Python or another popular programming language with their standard libraries. That's just not the case, but its very hard to convince business people who have spent their whole professional life using MS Office that there are better choices for building their business apps than MS Office and VBA. Just let Excel and VBA die.
12 hrs is nothing. In many places the shifts are 24 hrs. In surgery residency, most only get to scrub in after they've done all of their admin work - so many deliberately push their hours to get more of what they need the most - OR time.