skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why are student loans not tied to the value of the program, which determines their ability to pay?

They used to be because they could be discharged through bankruptcy.

Once you prevent people from being able to discharge the loan through bankruptcy, this is what you get.
It's interesting how companies, and governments, are quick to tell us how our data isn't worth anything so they don't have to pay us for it. It's not private, but they recognize the violation of privacy laws by purchasing through 3rd parties.

Our data is worth $,$$$,$$$,$$$'s and it's time we campaigned to get paid. It's time we change privacy laws worldwide to make violations of individual privacy worth 30% of a company's gross income for 5 years. If the penalty is large enough, they'll stop screwing us.

We can't send a company to prison, but we sure as hell can take that prison tax right off the top of their bottom line. Hell 30% gross profits for 5 years is probably not even enough, but it's a good damn start
Down and Out is my favorite book. His essays were so much better than his fiction, IMO.
Why? Explain.
> The prevailing wage in the UK is lower than in Silicon Valley, but higher than in, say, Oklahoma City.

This probably isn't true. A quick googling indicates the average software engineer salary for Oklahoma City as being in the 70-80k USD range, while a similar googling says the number for the UK is around 50k GBP, which is...68k USD.

The median software engineer salary for the US as a whole is 110k USD according to the BLS, so even cheaper areas like Oklahoma City won't be super low.
Some screens can be rotated to be tall and thin. If yours doesn't, you can probably buy a mount for it.
Having the extension and letting people try it on the web seems like a more reasonable choice. People need to try it out.

That said...there is a search textbox at the top of the page and it worked for me in Firefox and Chrome. Did people just miss it? If so, it should probably be in the middle with the big blue button.
also forgot, it's important not to forget the spiritual successor to the client side of nis which is sssd. i think it might be a redhat or canonical thing. either way, if you are insisting on doing live network queries for passwd entries, you generally want it, as it will cache in the event that the network goes down.

one of the reasons to prefer flat files is if getpwnam and friends start to hang or return inconsistent results, the system will become unresponsive or misbehave in all sorts of amusing ways.
This is excellent- thank you!
As with most LTT technical content it rubs me the wrong way.

Weird ass hardware = weird ass issues. 99% of these you won't encounter on a more normal desktop or laptop setup. Your average user doesn't have a 1440p monitor next to a damn giant 4k/8k oled TV or use EVERYTHING through thunderbolt.

I really wish they did this on laptops and desktops normal people would use instead of exotic desktops with crazy ass peripherals. Not surprised at all as it makes good content.
It's kinda implied when you hear 'fully vaccinated people do not require a mask'. I think that it's a bit of a stretch to come to the conclusion that that implies the vaccine is a magic bullet, but I have been surprised IRL by people who really do think that and would expect to be completely immune after getting a few mRNA shots. I was not surprised by their annoyance at learning that wasn't the case.

I think you are coming from a place of having a bit more knowledge than the absolute minimum you'd pick up through osmosis by never doing any research or due diligence. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that awareness campaigns deliberately ignored facts that might make the vaccine sound less appealing. It's hard to make good decisions if you don't really have a full picture.
Twitters algo is broken and it's idea is old.
I would wager that most farm equipment is sold to large corporate farms, they just want the machines to work and don’t mind paying Deere to fix them.
I've been keeping an eye on London, Paris, Berlin, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal for about 5 months now, really not seeing much movement at all unfortunately. Toronto and Vancouver are particularly holding on strong, stuff will sit empty for 3 months I'll go back and ask the brokers, owners are still not willing to lower the rent a cent, they really think everyone is coming back Q1/2 next year - it's pretty interesting to me.
A scale makes for less dishes too. Just reset the scale and pour next ingredient into the bowl. No need to use another spoon to dig from the flour or sugar bag.
Actually grouped:

1. Fossil fuels: 42.9%

2. Renewables: 41%

3. Nuclear: 11.7%

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Actually split:

1. Lignite: 17.8%

2. Natural gas: 16.7%

3. Wind onshore: 16.4%

4. Nuclear: 11.7%

5. Solar: 9.5%

6. Hard coal: 8.4%

7. Biomass: 7.6%

8. Wind offshore: 4.0%

9. Others: 3.2%

8. Hydropower: 3.1%

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Actually not as bad as I thought it would be!
Germany should pick this up and pledge to be free of fossil fueled power plants by 2025, banning energy generated from fossil fuels from being bought and consumed.

If they can beat France on cost then here is a political win to be made. Be it using lithium batteries to store up 3-4 weeks worth of the nations energy consumption, or the more likely green hydrogen which is commonly suggested as being more likely choice for wind energy.

The current commercial viable lithium battery solution, that which solar farms has written articles about, is around 4 hours of 80% capacity. Not bad. Every day the batteries get charged when the sun is at its peak and powers prices is at its lowest point, and every day when the sun goes down they can utilize the highest price point as demand exceed supply of cheap energy.

For wind it is a bit more complicated. You can have a few weeks of good weather, followed by a long period of low wind conditions and high demand. A few hours won't cut it, and the more capacity you add the slower the discharge cycle will be. Green hydrogen would be a more economical storage medium, but right now the technology is having a hard time to be economical viable. That said it would benefit the world if Germany made a run for it so we can compare the cost to nuclear.
I understand that this situation already de facto exists in some parts of Mexico, where cartels have their own governmental system, complete with armed forces in uniform.
Have you looked at postgres row/column compression? Obviously, compressing the same data twice won't be too helpful, but maybe there are more wins to be had.
> You're saying there were no actual, serious problems with nuclear plants?

Compared to other forms of energy generation, measured in illnesses, injuries, maimings, and deaths, past and plausibly attributed to the future, per KWH? Not really, no.
True, or maybe not so much because coming from a wealthy family they could feel comfortable pursuing a career in the arts knowing they have a trust-fund to fall back on.

We could come up with a million scenarios.
It's only good news if they aren't PWR/LWR meltdown-possible 70 year old designs.

I do like there is a large market to this startup. Hopefully that will result in a somewhat price-competitive reactor design. But I doubt that will happen for another 10 years.

I think solar/wind/battery will eat the lunch of any new nuclear plant in cost once it goes online.

Hoping for the best!
Interesting - I think wider columns produce exactly the opposite outcome. Too much space to cover and width to contemplate, hampering my ability to edit quickly. I don't think the width extra width helps you ingest and manipulate the words more efficiently.

The horizontally-condensed version of the same text allows me to see all of those same words, by the way. Just laid out in a format that isn't quite so exhausting to handle.

I even narrowed the HN editor while writing this reply and editing it for mistakes/grammar.
Really awesome to see people following their interests and dreams :) I don't have an iPhone so can't download this, but it looks great, well done!
It drives money into the system, popularizes the markets, and also because it's probably hard to make a case in the current state of things. This is America, big corps get preference and grace. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying that's my assumption of how it is.
> Apps/programs are a la carte, TV / Music services are not.

Google Play Pass[0] is basically the app equivalent of Spotify. One monthly or annual fee for access to a library of "hundreds" of apps. And movies, TV shows, and music can all be purchased a la carte, not just through streaming subscriptions.

> Any service should be able to stream/rent any media for the same rate as any other.

Sounds good to me. I would also be fine with compulsory licensing for individual copies, or frankly just an end to copyright altogether.

[0] https://play.google.com/intl/en_us/about/play-pass/
It makes conflicts of interest a little less likely, but not at all unlikely.
There are myriads of unsolved, ongoing conflicts of interest on any topic other than non-controversial scientific topics with broad consensus.
Unvaxxed 20 times more likely to die from Covid – Texas Research
Jordan Peterson – Why Being Creative Is Problematic and Even a Curse
See also the province of Ontario ("Supply" tab):

* https://www.ieso.ca/power-data
This seems to be kind of a complex topic, with a number of variables.
Here is a study:

How physical text layout affects reading from screen
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220208446_How_physi...

A quote from the Discussion section:
"Most of the studies on line length report faster
reading with longer lines, and point to the number of
characters as the variable responsible for the differences, rather than physical line length (visual angle)."

The OP thinks that humans read thinner columns faster. Generally, this seems not to be the case, so maybe we should treat his main conclusion with some skepticism. In any case, it's probably best to refer to the scientific literature.
Hi Richard! I think competition against Google is a good thing, so I will give you and whoever else is tackling this area the strategic advice I would give myself if I was in this problem space.

If you read the comments, including your own, you’ll come to the same conclusion people did 30 years ago, while witnessing Netscape accidentally hand Yahoo the keys to the kingdom: if you want to control the search engine, control the web browser. And if you want to control the web browser... Make a web browser.

That’s not a particularly profound thought, obviously. Having a great index only took Google so far — it was obvious to them that their fate was in the hands of the browsers, and that they’d have to either own the browsers or pay the people who owned them. They did both. They’re still doing both, and that very simple equation drives a very significant portion of their entire empire.

At this point, you’re (You is? Hmm...) doing neither of these things. You’ve got a browser extension and a website that is easy to visit and then forget about. But the world of 2021 requires you to solve that browser problem if you’re going to get anywhere.

Since you’ve got access to the largest pool of capital in the world, why don’t you do it? Go back to Benioff and your other investors and tell them they’ve under-funded the mission for what you’ve got to do to make a dent in this problem space: you need to create a really great search engine and a really great web browser, and have the two tightly integrated and coupled in a way that DoJ-wary Google could never do in 2021. Yes, it’s a mission that requires a zero added to that $20m war chest, but it’s also big and weird and exciting enough to get a lot of really smart people to come out of retirement and under-employment to see what’s possible.

There’s still a very high chance of failure with this strategy, but there’s also a very high chance of something interesting and weird and different coming out of it, such that those who are involved as both employees and users would say, “that didn’t work, and I would have been financially better off just parking my savings in GOOG, but the work we did was truly different and special.” The best people in Silicon Valley are always chasing this sort of romance. You know, like, “come make a ‘dent in the universe’ at my failing computer company that acquired my other failing computer company, even though you’ll be underpaid and get stock options that are likely to be worthless, because we could maybe possibly redefine the future of computing.” Benioff once knew a guy like that.
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What's weird here is that I would estimate it to be very difficult to find a person who generated over 30USD of revenue through ads for anyone other than the people selling the ads.

But maybe my worldview is wrong here, I'm definitely not the right person to estimate Facebook's reach.
Digital Foundry's YouTube Channel Hacked by Cryptobros, Gets Taken Down
I wish it wasn't suicidal to point people to nohello.net in professional contexts.
Analyzing clinical data of a controversial Alzheimer's drug [video]
> a big advantage of F#

I think it gives a (unfair) stigma to an otherwise really nice language
Not intending to sound completely clueless about the world, but these wages you're quoting...is that USD per month? That sounds way off for a yearly salary.
While this is true and adds effort, it is relatively easy to convert them too.
> You seem to feel that the amount of money they should have is just above what they need to get by.

Not at all. The only reason Wikimedia do not have enough money to run Wikipedia in perpetuity is because of Wikimedia's exponential spending growth in non-"Pedia" projects.

I would love for them to spin off a Wikipedia-only endowment that funds Wikipedia forever. It would (likely) not need to take any future donations. The level of money Wikimedia take in is far, far in excess of "just what [Wikipedia] need[s] to get by."

The problem I have with Wikimedia's fundraising is that it is disingenuous.

Wikimedia's gross mismanagement of the donation revenue threatens Wikipedia's long-term viability, which is something donors should probably care about.
How would humanities, arts, pure reasearch and the like survive in this model?
Congresspeople are also all multimillionaires who are PR vulnerable.

As of 2011, the average Senator had a net worth of $14 million and the average Representative had a net worth of $6.5 million.

Presumably it has only gone up in the decade since, given the long bull market in everything.

https://ballotpedia.org/Net_worth_of_United_States_Senators_...
This should be Elon’s next startup.
Xi Jinping’s crackdown on Chinese tech firms will continue
I don't think nuclear is much more resistant against forces of nature than solar/wind are... An INES level 7 accident in France could cause a similar outage in France's nuclear capacity (similar to Japan's nuclear lost decade). Or massive droughts could cause nationwide nuclear outages due to a lack of cooling water. Having a mix of nuclear/solar/wind with hydrogen as a "battery" in an EU super grid seems like a good way to mitigate the risks.
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There was a Byte Magazine article by Steve Ciarcia, in Sept 1983, entitled “A 64K-bit dynamic RAM chip is the visual sensor in this digital image camera,” describing how to do exactly this hack. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-09/mode/2up
> I'm nowhere near 100K in Spain but I wouldn't make 300K in that job in SV either :)

I wouldn't discount yourself. A lot of people have this idea that becoming a senior engineer somewhere like Google must mean you're super elite, but as someone who's worked at Google for several years, I really don't think that's true. Google developers as a group are quite solid of course, but real 'rockstar' devs who just blow you away with their skill are a small minority even here.
It's good to see someone countering all the dismissive voices around the Metaverse pitch from Facebook(Meta). We are in an interesting phase where large parts of the technerati are having to somewhat rethink their dogma of having written off VR as a failed tech the mid-2010's based on both Facebook's determination here but also the undeniable breakthrough in price / value / performance / ergonomics that the Quest2 brings. This thing is absolutely affordable to the masses and absolutely has a value proposition justifying that level of purchase. We are definitely close to if not over the tipping point where this thing could explode in popularity and Facebook is currently the only game in town.

With Facebook backing it to the hilt there's a real prospect it will leave not just a lot of journalists having to rewrite their viewpoints but many of the major tech companies revisiting their investment in the sector in catchup mode.
Expertise is authority with foundation.
I'm really enjoying it so far. It seems to fit with my mental model of making video games, which basically ended when I was 15 and writing games in MBASIC on my Heathkit (and later QuickBasic on MS-DOS, but I sort of stopped making games at that point) Obviously the language is very different and it's object-oriented, which MBASIC definitely was not, but it sort of feels... similar somehow? I can't really explain it.

Some things about the GML language are a bit odd, and sometimes it seems like people on the forums believe wrong things about it (I read more than one person complaining that you couldn't define your own functions, which is not correct, but the docs could be a lot clearer on that) But overall I'm happy enough with it.

I'm recreating a game I wrote in interpreted BASIC back in 1987 [1] and so far I've got the levels, basic player movement, simple enemy AI, and a very basic game loop. It's nothing fancy but I'm learning a lot so far.

[1] https://jeremyreimer.com/rockets-item.lsp?p=282
It's worth noting that ILM dropped Unreal in favor of their own engine for the second season.
I find this to be super important for noticing when my writing is getting repetitive; when I'm reading in that "Z pattern," it's easier to pick up repeated words or phrases in the last few lines of text.
That goes back at least to the Gutenberg Bible, which was two columns per page with generous margins for annotation or hand-drawn decoration.
This is already slightly out of date. Lots of Bay Area companies hiring in Canada and boosting salaries across the board + RSU grants. The wave started just before COVID and job openings are exploding.
It seems clear that a dev team could whip up a product that tested well (using folks in office, family members, friends, etc.); was trained with datasets that - for whatever reasons - weren't sufficiently varied; and hit some mark of success and pushed it out the door to refine the rest later. It also seems clear that the resulting product could do poorly when recognizing black skin, due not to ill intent but lack of polish with the resources on hand.

But something I always wonder when accusations like "white supremacy" are thrown around: is it falsifiable? What evidence would dissuade you from that?

- What if both ends of the spectrum do poorly and extremely pale people have problems, too?

- What if the threshold is dark black and lighter-skinned black people, Asians, Middle Easterners and other non-white people are able to use it successfully?

- What if only a narrow band of light levels work, making it clear their testing range was generally too narrow, not just in skin color?

- What if they took care to incorporate black models in testing, but the photo quality (and their own in-house cameras and lighting) overestimated the quality of most home users'?

And what of the myriad other things that were done poorly in the software: limited OS support, bugs, excessive memory usage, overall intrusiveness, browser limitations, disallowed mobile devices, lack of multi-monitor support? Do they likewise arise from systematic oppression of some group? What if we dig in and find that white people are more likely to use iPads, Linux, and multiple displays?

Most often these accusations flow in only one direction, and that all other flaws or problems are taken to be simply happenstance and noise. Certainly anything that impacts white people negatively will not be automatically seen as anti-white, although in a world with activist devs, such a result isn't incomprehensible.

Claims of white supremacy (among other accusations of character) are thus, to my mind, wildly speculative and carry a very heavy burden of proof.
This year's fad word, like 'cuck' was a couple of years back.

Like any other fad word, it's actual meaning will be fluid over its lifetime. I usually translate it as a derogatory adjective for left-wing people and used by right-wing people.

To illustrate its irrelevance, just replace it with 'lemon-scented'. That will be just as useful.
I would love to read a more detailed blog post about the software you wrote (if it's not confidential).

Sounds like you solved very interesting problems.
Thank you! It's on Google Play too...but if you meant that you don't use a mobile device in general, we still appreciate that you read the post.
It's perfectly reasonable for people to want greater privacy in off-the-shelf products they buy. People shouldn't have to resort to buying SIM cards with cash (???) to preserve their privacy.
Thanks. Glad you like the relevancy. We've been working on that for a while.
You're right. Especially today on our launch day, we're a slower than usual. Growing pains of launching a search engine :|
We'll improve speed for sure in the coming weeks.

We will open up the platform so people can contribute their own apps in the future.
We're also open in the sense that users can actually select their preferences and change their search results.

We will continue to work on opening up more of the stack in the future. Stay tuned :)
He's making a joke exactly about that.
Google factors in duration of stay on a page when ranking domains, not just the keywords. That allows for higher quality sites to surface at expense of SEO keyword gamified ones. Searching for Online Wishlist surfaces a bunch of “Wishlist%” starting domains that offer junk services. The private quality ones with high duration of stay are not showing, even after a lot of scrolling. Same with other queries. Something to keep in mind. The highest quality search comes from a lot of context, not just about the user.
Yeah. The paycheck is rising exponentially every year, and yet they find a way to spend it all every year.

The vast majority of those expenses are not Wikipedia.

Wikipedia's cancer is the Wikimedia organization.
I don’t think I’d ever use something javascript based for industrial purposes. Reliability is too important.
However a modern washer uses a fraction of the water and electricity of an old one - at least in parts of the world where these things are regulated. Pressure in this direction is probably the reason you're not happy with the quality of the clean.
Ha! Are you me? Am also 48. Developing in Godot Engine. Long way to go. But having fun!