skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's unclear to me is whether these numbers are for all outstanding debt, or for debts at graduation.

There's another possibility too: People who attended but never graduated. I know someone who went to a community college for a year, taking out about $10K in student loans, but dropped out before completing their Associate's. [0]

The thing is, there's so many possible categories when it comes to considering loan debt. People who didn't graduate, people who got an Associate's and stopped, people who got an Associate's and kept going, but didn't finish their Bachelor's, people (like me) who were able to stay in their existing home while going to school versus having to stay in college housing...I could go on.

And how you choose which subset of student loan debtors can determine the narrative you want to shape. If a study only focuses on people with at least a Master's that stayed in college dorms, then you'll probably get a high number, but of course the news sites will have a headline that claims "The average college grad has $XXX,XXX in student loan debt", and only mention in the body of the article (that many people won't read) that it's only a subset of college grads.

[0] Somewhat irrelevant footnote: This person then rants about college being a complete waste of money because you'll "still end up working Comcast tech support for $13/hour".
I'm able to tolerate #1, but #2 definitely makes it suck for me. Haptics and requiring some pressure would have made the touchbar much easier to not hate.
Had to check the calendar for the year because that story is from the 80's and the articles that circulated and were popular were mostly written in 2014-2016 and cycle back around every few years because factoids that let people laugh at how dumb Americans are seem to be popular clickbait. Seems to be making the rounds again because A&W is taking the piss by rebranding their "1/3 burger" to a "3/9 Burger". I also had to double-check that I wasn't reading an article from The Onion.

I think it would be funny in a sad way if people are actually good at reducing fractions but still get confused by 1/3 > 1/4 after they've simplified 3/9. Least it'll make good clickbait in the 2050's.
I'm not trying to be pedantic, but this doesn't seem to include the daily commute for bank employees, the waste from each bank, and the collective volume of mail delivered.
> "okay, let's make a list of all the sexy things we can think of that would make the macbook unique"

what are we talking about here? pussy right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuTvA1_NNSo
I love my touchbar. Until it freezes. Then I am whining that I want F keys back.
>Do people still use wired headphones on the go?

I do, at least. The main reason is that they just work. I never have to worry about pairing with different devices, walking too far away and disconnecting, keeping them charged... I have a pair of bluetooth headphones but I'm pretty sure they're not charged.
No, that day will not come.

Enjoy your precision and recognize that there ARE others like you. I choose to be disappointed by the "journalists" who do poorly by comparison.

I know many who have different emotional responses than disappointment.
Researchers create mirror-image peptides that can neutralize SARS-CoV-2
This is essentially the same reason many people don't like Tolkien. If you don't enjoy world-building for the sake of world-building, you're in for a bad time
I unironically agree.

For those that don't, have you never put slackware on an ancient laptop and marvelled at the functional computer you've effortlessly created?
They specifically state in the email “Imagine if everyone gave? We could transform the way knowledge is shared online.” But they give zero indication of that vision.
Spose you're right, but I've never tickled a SOAP interface with curl. I fire up a python script when I need to do even the most basic interaction with a SOAP endpoint because, as Dustin Hoffman says in Hook, "Brace yourself lad, because this is really going to hurt."
I didn't realize Azure and CouchDB/Cloudant got along together for awhile! No more though?

> I just don't think I have the budget/time to build and test such a proxy

Same here, including with the authentication shortcomings we hope get addressed, like per-document security or other improvements.
> “We already know how to stop climate change (rapidly decrease our CO2 output)”

Who knew it could be this simple? All we have to do is go nowhere, buy nothing, sell nothing, eat nothing, do nothing, and freeze to death in the darkness.
Ask HN: IRC at Facebook
From various third-party accounts, it seems like Facebook's engineers still use IRC for internal communications. This surprised me in the age of Slack and Discord et al.

Could anybody at/ex-Facebook share what's kept Facebook on IRC, and how Facebook operates on IRC?
> Touch Bar? This was nothing more than adding expense to raise the ASP (Average Selling Price) of Macbooks, that had fallen precipitously low from a shareholder perspective because of the superb value-for-money proposition that was the 13" Macbook Air.

If customers don't like the Touch Bar, how does this make any sense? If pro users will pay (made-up number) $2000 for a MacBook Pro regardless of whether or not it has a Touch Bar because it comes with the CPU/GPU they want, adding a Touch Bar just decreases the margin.

If the MacBook Air is a better value-for-money proposition than the MacBook Pro to begin with, and customers do not actually like the Touch Bar, then why would they start switching to the MacBook Pro?
It's still not repairable...
I think he makes a few very good points, though the title and main story seem geared more towards making people not agree with him.

I couldn't agree more with him on the points that immediately stood out for me.

For him and his co-workers a short commute is one of the top deciders for what makes a great office. And we're talking DEC Alpha times here for the 'bad traffic' he cites. That's a big one for me too. I wouldn't mind going to an office if I can reach it in 5 minutes from the school (which is already a commute on its own). I wouldn't mind an older building if you give me more space than a desk that barely fits one monitor, the laptop and maybe a few inches behind my chair (OK I'm exaggerating a bit but look at WeWork: when two people sit at their desks on opposite sides of a wall, i.e. their chairs are 'facing' each other, there's not enough space to fit another chair through between them). I can do without the creepy crawly infestation he mentions. That'd be a killer.

I don't want to live in a condo tower. I don't want everyone to commute to the same place ("downtown") for work in the morning and back out in the evening. That creates total grid lock chaos. I don't want millions of people crammed into a small area. That breeds a lot of problems on so many levels. If you ask me, the whole "densification" thing going on everywhere is not making things better.
Thanks. I had been thinking along those lines, but not quite that far. It is good advice.
Using Lightweight Formal Methods to Validate a Key-Value Storage Node in AWS S3 [pdf]
I got a 500 error with stack trace mentioning a hack file from slack last week.
> That being said, I don't think anything BUT www is written in hack.

I was at FB a few years ending in 2020.

Wherever I work, I end up doing a fair bit of 'code/tech archeology' just for fun and curiosity's sake. While WWW is the vast majority of Hack, I did see it in active use and maintenance in a number of other areas.

Pretty interesting stuff really.
The two are not comparable. You don't need a car to live. But in some countries you're cut off from essential services in the name of politicized science.
UMA-16 main audio processor is XMOS though.
Stored communications, data stored electronically is protected as well under the wiretap act. Search history, location history is covered, it requires a warrant.
> For example, I have implemented layers where GraphQL queries feed into mobx to manage some additional application state that never persists.

Not sure what you want to say with this because it sounds like you used Mobx for state management in that case. Or do I misunderstand you?

> I additionally think that it's a very light layer in terms of managing state

According to bundlephobia:

React + DOM = ~42KB Gzipped

@apollo/client = 39KB Gzipped

For reference redux + redux thunk is like 2KB

Xstate is less than 20KB

> what I really mean is knowing when the client-side cache needs to update

Aha, and that sounds sensible. I agree. There are lots of other things in Apollo though that you apparently aren't using.
My experience with a Windows y and a Wifi USB antenna.

1 the hardware had a mini CD but that PC had now orking CD-Drive

2 Google for the name on the box, I found nothing . Many companies buy a chip, put their packaging on top and they sell a new product

3 Test it on Linux, it works great

4 run a Linux command to find the real chip used

5 Google for a driver for that chip

6 the official website of the chipmaker only deals with companies not random individual

7 there are many other websites where I can download a driver that might be compatible, but fuck me, can I trust sites like "driver.com", "software.com" , "xyz.com" this are random names I created , in the end I decided that I used 10 years ago softpedia.com and back then they had no malware so I ricked it

8 after I get the driver files I Google a tutorial on how to install .sys files (or maybe the extension was different, sorry)

So not all hardware just works on Windows and some hardware just works on Linux.

printers come with ton of bullshit stuff, in Linux was plug and play but I had to change a setting, but I don have the GUI for ink levels and the software that will diagnose the errors with a clear message instead of a LED. This is the fault of printer makers not Linux though...
Do you mean in the ad-effectiveness sense that many donors wouldn’t care or would be lost?
hm.. this is really strange, office equipment like printers, fax has always been developed for Windows first and foremost.

Most of the times nowadays you don't really need a driver, if your printer has wifi/ethernet capability. Almost all printers with network capability work with generic drivers over TCP/IP, and windows is pretty good with identifying these.

Now if you use USB, or god forbid LPT from the previous millennium - then yes, you need drivers that work with your combination of Windows version, x86/x64 version, etc, etc
Touch Bar I think was a legit attempt at modernization.

Every time I 'see' a touchbar, I want one.

They look cool and useful.

The only reason I don't have one, is because everyone seems to indicate they are useless.

It's also possibly a platform issue - maybe they just didn't get enough participation etc..

Also - 'thinner' is a rational and generally positive thing, it's just that we've reached a threshold where the diminishing marginal returns are starting to weigh on other things.

Even ports - it's not an aesthetic issue only - they're trying to get everyone onto a standard. Frankly, I support the notion - I'd love it if everyone just used the same dam connector. The reason I don't like my 'USB C only Mac' is only because the ecosystem isn't there yet. If the ecosystem were there, I'd be fine with it.
True - going from Text to [Char] costs far less than the other direction all told.

But [Char] is quite nice for certain uses.
Thanks for the name drop! Luculent looks like a nice font that checks all the boxes. I'd like to see it added to this project as well.
I had a 2007 MacBook Pro. Replacing the battery for that laptop meant toggling two switches and popping it out, then dropping a new one in.

It's not unreasonable for people to ask for that level of simplicity.
Did you read my link? Let me quote it for you:

With a death rate of 0.07 per TWh, nuclear power is the safest energy source per unit of energy generated.[164]

(This estimation takes Chernobyl and Fukusima into account!)
They usually find me.
Not sure why you consider it a "problem", but FWIW, this phenomenon is very well known. Many articles have been written, and studies conducted, related to this topic.

https://www.google.com/search?q=think+better+while+walking
This is why I never upgraded from my 2015 MBP. I'm still using it everyday, God forbid it breaks. My next laptop will be something else entirely, with Linux on it.
Fake news.

A lot more people would die or not be born, without fossil fuels.

If you want to learn poor economics, read The Economist.
Exactly, once something exists in government it never goes away. We still take off our shoes in the airport even though no one will ever hijack a plane again. The only reason it even worked in the first place is because passengers were just following protocol for every hijacking that ever took place.

If someone tries to take over a plane with box cutter again they probably won't walk off.
...the next generation trusted DOGE to the tune of 900%+ growth this year.

It feels foolish to be long USD at the moment.
Indeed. 2 million tonnes == 2Tg. 2 million metre³ == 2hm³. The unit in the article is "cubic tonne". I mixed the whole thing without thinking. This is maybe adding weight (what a pun) to my original point though. Using the proper unit at the source.
Title seems like Facebook bashing but the article is more even keel. Suggest that "Then it gave up" be removed from the post title
those smd mics can't be more than $1 or so each

The actual mic capsules are likly far cheaper than $1 a piece (probably closer to $0.10 than $1) but the mics in an array need to be phased-matched. The two approaches to getting phased microphones are 1) building them using precision techniques so they are phased-match from the start (which is expensive and why pro phase-matched mics are around $1,000 each), or 2) get a whole pile of cheap mic, test them one-by-one (or really, pair-by-pair) and select the mics that are best phased-match to use them in the array. The #2 approach is cheaper, but does add cost.
I mean let's be honest, how many of us are road warriors that need every single type of connectivity known to exist? Having a single port type on your device simplifies one half of the equation.

Your device's ports are a casualty of the lack of standard data port. The HDMI on displays makes you feel like you need an HDMI on your laptop, I disagree if my USB-C port can do that AND a whole bunch of other things.
Are you able to share some more about what makes the tooling at Facebook so great?

edit: typo
The vast majority of services used on the internet by everyday people are paid for by ads. If you measure where people spend their time online, it is on average almost entirely within products supported by ads.
The world has changed, move on! You're completely ignoring snaps, flatpaks and appimages. Ok, you can't install drivers with these, but if you have to install proprietary drivers, you're likely talking about an edge case where it is reasonable to expect that the user can add ppa, install from .deb or .rpm or compile from source.

You make it seem more complicated than it really is.
It's the thing being stretched between the fingers. Like a command strip.
It's broader than just the classics, but take a look at the great books curriculum of colleges like St. John's.

https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-bo...
At some point in the future, we'll see a blog post: "Run Your Windows Programs through WINE on WSL for Better Performance!"
Hey, author here.
I've wondered that myself. It's not quite as "built in" to other languages as it is in JavaScript but if there was a good implementation it could probably work well. Something to look into.
> from my experience, linux compiles my code about 5-10x faster than on windows

If this is C++, you must be running GCC? And I'm guessing it might not be the MinGW version? Try Clang. Something GCC does makes its performance die on Windows. Not entirely sure what it is but you won't see this kind of a difference with Clang (or I think the MinGW version of GCC).

Well either that, or you're compiling a language that's so fast to compile that most of the time is spent just opening and closing files.
Microsoft's UWP = Unwanted Windows Platform?
That explains the extremely high margin of his business.
Breaking news: This paper was censored with no explanation given: https://youtu.be/4_kW7_9azxI

"Read the papers they dont want you to read" advised Dr. Weinstein.
https://github.pathcheck.org/eu.dgc.html

All you need is the private key. You can find the kIDs and certs here: https://dgcg.covidbevis.se/tp/

But you do need to find the private key.
If a med was repurposed and proven to have widespread positive effects, it would literally be handed out like candy. Prolonging the pandemic benefits no one from either party. They both want their lost tax revenue back at the minimum. Hospitals, doctors, medical insurance companies want to get back to their core businesses: elective outpatient procedures and processing the minimum amount of claims.
Arweave! Its a 200 year storage endowment https://www.arweave.org/
I'm often tempted by magnetic adapters but when I look on Amazon at the options, it seems like I always see reviews from people who said it nearly caught their stuff on fire.

You have any recommendations for high quality magnetic gear?
Thanks for the link. Now I need to find some pomegranate juice so that I can make my own!
Seemed like hyperbole in order to put forth the point that NL is the size of a German neighborhood.
Well, I am a native speaker, and I'm doing worse than you are. I just now realized that my post could come across as criticizing your word choice. I did not mean to do so. I meant to be emphatically agreeing with you.
"The Amish don’t always reject a technology, but they have very specific rules about how it is to be used."
Maybe they determined a way to use their iphones without them being harmful? I.e. using specific apps or only in certain circumstances.
One use-case could be if you want faster updates for articles on current events. The full database dump for the English Wikipedia runs only twice a month. I don't think that will go away, but you can now pay to get streaming real-time updates.
See I genuinely wouldn’t mind a reminder email, if that email gave me any information (or links to it) but instead it gives me no context for their costs or how donations will be used. How far does google’s millions of dollars go? Etc.
I haven't checked recently, but PHP jobs tend to pay less than other languages. I've also been at interviews where the interviewer mocked PHP and I would probably have been marked lower if I tried to write my answers in PHP.

Overall, PHP has matured a lot in recent years and gained in features that was missing from other popular languages (e.g. Composer/Packagist, Laravel, PHP 7 and PHP the Right Way probably contributing the most).
Show HN: NextDecision.io – Prioritize backlog items or other group decisions
I hereby officially seize my attempts of engineering human society. What are we going to do to spread the virus? Would you suggest vaccine mandates so that we can go back to normal, removing restrictions to travel and human contact?
Of course. I didn't say Next.js solves the complexity of building a massive product, no framework will prevent complexity at scale. That's my point since this thread seems to put Rails on a pedestal like it was the main thing making products built with Rails simpler compared to other frameworks in other languages when in reality, the product requirements are most likely pretty simple
I'm guessing that Apple will eventually need to release an update that will render Bartender obsolete. I like the product but always seemed like a feature that should be built into the OS.
> The "nation-" at the beginning of the term also doesn't add any context that is useful to understanding the story

Yes, it does, it distinguishes Westphalian sovereigns (like thr U.S.) from federated states (like Rhode Island).
What they usually do is design the inverter to only use line power as the reference to generate the output. No sine wave from the line, the circuit is completely unable to produce an output and thus shuts down even in case of failure.
It's mind-boggling how many trucks and SUVs this country owns...
LinkedIn rolls out its freelance marketplace to compete with Fiverr and Upwork
It's not just the Amish. Many communities have decided they wish to live at ~1850. It has always made me curious why, what do they know?

If you look deeply in many religions they are the same. Buddhist monks aren't excluded from tech but they certainly dont own any themselves. Why? Because it's something to consider and create desires. Just as they shave their head not because of aesthetics but because now you never have to worry about your hair looking bad.

When you eliminate the unnecessary from your life, you certainly live a happier life.
How Debian cron handles DST transitions
Tesla with an inferior product will have much more money to throw at the problem vis-a-vis Waymo .

Also everybody wants to work at Tesla , not so much Waymo.

Unless you think there is a correlation between the IQ of people who are turned off by Musk and Tesla hype antics (and "faking it till you make it" kind of process) , then there is reason to believe that Tesla is in a better position to attack the problem and not Waymo.
I think the maintainers and users are choosing to dedicate their skillset to the technology that serve their purpose the best. It is not MacOS's fault, and given Apple is a trillion-dollar company, it probably doesn't need participation from a niche scientific community anyway.

I happen to be conducting a brain imaging workshop today, and so far most of the hiccups have been caused by the quarantine rules in Catalina and up. Thankfully someone found a sudo command to fix it for a some of the participants, but I regretfully had to ask the rest to find a windows/linux machine to work on.
1) that is a political news piece (not anything rigorous) written in Canada for Canada that is breathless about victory in Finland, and where the primary source appears to be the primary political activist for the policies in Finland. Aka, good luck getting a solid idea of real trade offs or problems. When you read it there is almost no actual data. Where the head political advocate for the policy provides some data, it shows progress, but as quoted, not victory or a solution, see

“ A lot of progress has been made. We now have the lowest number of homeless. Our present government has decided that the rest of the homeless should be halved within the next four years and completely end by 2027”

So we’d need 5 years before even the most gang busters assessment could say if it was solved or not. And it seems to be because it was decided, not because that is what projections show will happen? So if the last 10% don’t co-operate, then what?

2) Finland has only 5.5 million people in a massive land area, and one of the lowest population densities in the world. They also are remarkably ethnically consistent. They also have a incredibly hostile climate that will strongly discourage (or outright kill in the first month of winter) anyone who is unsheltered homeless. They also have socialized medicine. They are also very wealthy because of natural resources which almost no other country has.

For comparison, the San Francisco Bay Area discussed earlier on it’s own has approximately 50% larger population than all of Finland all on it’s own in only 5% of the land area, and none of those other factors helping (add scare quotes depending on the factor).

That is pretty much the definition of a ‘toy population’ in this case, and even they aren’t saying it’s actually solved in that case yet, just that it totally will be at some point in the future.

While I think SF advocates have stopped trying to claim victory is possible or they’ll have it under control at some point in the future, there was a time that is what they said too.