skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not what the data says. The data says that public universities have the lowest. But public and non-profit private are very similar, so the real split is probably between private for-profit (i.e. scams) and everyone else.

https://infogram.com/student-loan-default-rate-by-school-typ...
Yeah, Symmetry is the one I was looking at. I clicked on their links and did some reading. The initial impression is a positive one.

'Woke' may be the wrong term, although that is a component. Initially, the idea of being 'woke' comes from The Matrix, where it's positive, meaning being clued in to what's really going on in the world; i.e. that everything is a lie and illusion. (The movie is highly symbolic of the times we're living in.) Recently however, the term has been hijacked, and is now used in reference to extremely toxic, divisive ideology, like 'critical race theory' to name one particular example, which I refuse to come even within a hundred miles of, as it's so corrosive. I'm not a goosestepper or Kool-aid drinker, of any flavor.

In reference to tech stacks, many of these companies use stacks that I just find completely repellant, like anything to do with Javascript, for example. As a C guy, I like to keep to the low level basics, and avoid all these big, heavy, bloated frameworks. That's why D is looking interesting, as I can stay at a lower level while avoiding the sometimes drudgery of C.

Truth be told, I'm not even a 'programmer' per se, if the word is taken to mean only doing that One Thing, as a specialist. I'm a polymath, and my fingers are in just about every pie. I feel just as comfortable rebuilding an automobile, or doing plumbing or electrical work, or any number of other things, besides just programming. (Specialists are ubiquitous these days, and they often look down on generalists who do more than Just One Thing, as if we are somehow inferior.)

Computing is what I have been doing for the longest; among other things I developed my own Linux 'distro' from scratch, which is lightweight, clean, and fast, even on old hardware. Right now I'm in the middle of switching it over to Musl Libc, and setting it up for cross compiling to x86-64, i686, and ARM.

Is your company still actively hiring right now? I see they have at least in the past been in search of technical writers to create documentation. Writing and breaking down technical things to explain them to other technical people or end users is one of my strong points. I've done that in the past as a satellite communications engineer. Seems like a job I'd really enjoy. I'm currently self employed in fertilizer sales, although COVID has wrecked my business; thus me kicking around the idea of applying somewhere.

I also dabble in stock and options trading BTW, although I'm not very good at it; that's what caught my eye on this article, since it's about D and HFT.
A woman's entire business is based on close-up photos of eyes
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I've seen people with above 10%.
IMO Tacit knowledge is what we used to call judgement.

Judgement is basically knowing a bunch of things but having a good idea of which things are more important than others, and especially knowing which things are worth spending time on any which aren't.

It's like when I see someone talking about financial options and they put everything on the board at once: what are puts and calls, what's an iron butterfly and other strategies, do they need to know the payoff diagram, what about black scholes, what are the Greeks, when should I exercise, and so on. They are all things that a professional option trader knows, but when you're a pro you reduce your cognitive load because you know what actually matters and you are not juggling all these concepts at the same time.

It's also the source of frustration when interviewing. Say you've written CPP for many years, you're probably not prepared to answer questions on all corners of the language, even though you're an expert in some sense. Someone relatively newer might be better at that task, because they're thinking a lot about everything, including things they haven't decided are unimportant yet.
In previous generations in currently developed countries, the cost of child rearing was not borne by men. 2 or 4 or 6 kids, it did not make much difference. I know both of my grandfathers did not really even touch their kids until they were walking and talking.

It is not that the men wanted or did not want kids, they could not have cared less. Or they could have wanted them as assets, at least the boys. Either way, I doubt too many were sufficiently fussed about the woman’s sacrifices, especially if it meant they had to completely give up sex.
So because of a budget crisis people should be paid an unloveable wage in that area? Which would exacerbate the crisis since they’d be forced to find cheaper housing elsewhere, thus less income to the city.
Evaluating PostgreSQL Compatibility in Distributed SQL Databases
He was hired to fix California schools while running a business in Philadelphia
Gold plated audio cables come to mind.
Aside: I wish posts like this would be (re)titled "US inflation rises 6.8%..." etc.

I'm in no doubt that HN readership is mostly US-based, but it's definitely global...
Well, it's cheaper but not always free. And there are costs apart from tuition. You may want to study at a uni that isn't close, so you have to move/move out and rent a place. Then there's food, etc. I believe student loans sometimes are explicitly for that, so you aren't dependent on a grant from a certain uni if your parents can't cover those costs.
Website Obesity crisis going on and on: https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

Was here on HN several times, sadly still the case.
الأمن العام يتيح نتائج القبول النهائي للوظائف العسكرية (رجال) برتبة (جندي)
مديرية الأمن العام مُمثلة في الإدارة العامة للقبول المركزي بوكالة وزارة الداخلية للشؤون العسكرية (نتائج القبول النهائي) للوظائف العسكرية (رجال) برتبة (جندي)، وذلك وفقاً للتفاصيل وطريقة التقديم الموضحة أدناه.
> you could hack around that by using Disqus

But that's not actually solving the problem, it's just offloading it. Not to mention that you're selling your community to yet another tracking company, and jacking up user page load time.
AGPL doesn't prevent running unmodified software and offering it as a service by large vendors. See the controversy around SSPL and the recent ElasticSearch fork by AWS - I suggest reading Kyle Mitchell's take on this: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/20/Righteous-Expedien...

That said, I believe SSPL is an overkill, and what's needed for a less known SaaS product is a legally enforceable revenue-sharing mechanism - so it can benefit from being listed on popular platforms.
Almost everyone does it, but it's for living expenses, books and such, not for tuition.

Currently, a university student borrows around $800 and gets around $300 each month. Then you are supposed to pay back what you borrowed during 25 years starting 6 months after you stopped borrowing.

It really is a great system imho.

edit: Had to check, apparently only 70% takes student loans.
Do these default statistics include perma-forbearance? The link in the page was dead.
Are there any open source boiler plates for RoR?
We would just keep using Encarta.
Do you have more info on this mixing? I have one J&J shot and am due for a booster in February but I wonder if that is enough against Omicron.
These findings are pretty irrelevant, obviously for all we know the first two jabs could also have 75% protection within the first few days and then can quickly wear off. 2-3 months is not a long time and suddenly you're down to 22.5%. We can safely assume that this stuff is getting published so soon to increase the vaccination rate of the population and not because it's actually meaningful.
We would do well to remember these shenanigans the next time Ms. Yee is up for re-election.
Wtf is this deathcult bullshit.

Maybe in 2A Jesusland death is the only option, but in other parts of the world there are taxes and proportional representation and euthanasia.

Yes, there are problems, but saying that death (and more specifically aging with all of its shitty slow painful consequences) is great (okay, you said necessary), because it somehow "solves" other problems is a logical fallacy.

Plus, "actually" aging is one of the things that causes inequality, because wealthy people live longer thanks to having access to better healthcare, food, lifestyle, etc.
My own battery + solar powered blog [0] is 100% inspired by lowtechmagazine.
I am based in The Netherlands and due to my sub optimal location, I have to cheat in the winter by recharging from mains about weekly. I still do get some sun, but nowhere nearly enough to get through the day, let alone the night.

[0]: https://louwrentius.com/this-blog-is-now-running-on-solar-po...

And lead acid is also terrible for solar applications because no matter the capacity, recharging is very slow. Even solar could recharge the battery, the slow adsorption rate prevents it from doing so.

Lifepo or similar Chemistry is probably the better choice for a project like this.
“Beta” classification for the former is a post facto excuse after a fatal crash(there were naturally several). The latter is actual unfinished software(called Beta but more of Alpha/PoC).
i had to look that one up.... that.. i had not heard that one before
> It is easier if you are a native English speaker, because you have a wide range of expressions at your disposal to express disdain or irritation without going nuclear.

This! I - non-native myself - worked with fellows who learned English late in life and sadly to some share from the wrong sources (action movies and rap music, I'm afraid). Naturally, at times they appeared quite immature. Otoh, I had the good fortune to work with some British fellows, which, at times, was quite educational.
The most expensive music format (in the world) [video]
the least morally hazardous way is to not take from the future at all. there’s no reason for the top-heavy not to take less into retirement. there’s also plenty of excess wealth to easily avoid stealing from the future while still providing for all the top-heavy now.
> all designs are draw with LTR in mind

I agree. Take a look at Figma, it's a fantastic tool, but it doesn't even support writing in RTL languages without using a plugin!
Good to see that YugaByte folks get it - compatibility with a database X (Postgres in this case) is not only about building a compatible syntax-parser, there's so much more (wire protocol/database drivers, transaction semantics, execution engine capabilities, etc).
New Malicious Python Packages Found on PyPI
Why are you making this vague distinction instead of addressing the actual conclusion (on topic)?

> Suggesting [x], is ridiculous and sets a dangerous precedent.

The root parent shared a values-based opinion with no objective support.

Your parent asked for an explanation of the circular conclusion.
The point would be that the government assumes the risk of all students as a collective. With government rates much fewer people would default.
The hippo isn't the only thing involved here though, the parasites and bacteria are too. So it may not be strictly best for the hippo, it may be best for something else that is able to influence the hippo.
I’d be curious how “read file from a zip that I know the exact path to” performs compared to “recursively walk the node_modules directory and dynamically lookup the location of the file”.
ExpressiveJava: Rewriting simple Scala interpreter – JDK17 code nearly identical
Not any system. My recollection of that specific event was that is was due to the bright white tractor trailer not being picked up by the Tesla's camera. A system built with an orthogonal sensor could have picked up the trailer despite the camera missing it (e.g. a LIDAR). Proper fusion of those streams would have avoided the issue, and that person would be alive, or at least not dead because of Tesla's poorly engineered system.
The utilitarian argument doesn't require that they be better than every human driver in every condition -- just that they be better enough against the average situation that outcomes are net better.
I really wish this idea had become more widespread. Microsoft Research published this 15 years ago. It shipped as part of windows but the paper describes it in enough detail to implement it I think. I got it running years ago and it seemed to work really well.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Thanks for the informative snippet, but explicit expressions involving defer is not what RAII means. In RAII resource is automatically tied to object lifetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initia...

Regarding errors in a C++ constructor: https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/exceptions#ctors-can-throw
> english teacher is equivalent to a math or chemistry teacher

Do they actually have different qualifications? Each of them has to be trained for a teaching job and, er, remember most of their school program?

In the same vein instructor at the bootcamp is someone who's good at motivational shouting and in all likelihood isn't missing opportunities to serve as a commando.
>and bloated with JS crap?

CSS animations too , especially the ones that use infinite.
To be clear, are YOU advocating for the belief that banks don't need to exist?

Because the statement is technically true, but basically meaningless... Cars don't need to exist, modern medicine doesn't need to exist, electric lightbulbs don't need to exist. But they all provide conveniences and functionality that most people seem to appreciate, and would not be willing to part with.
What does a big truck have to do with safety features? To me, it just sounds like you’re happy to pollute the environment just so you’re sure to annihilate your counter party in an accident.
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My highest was 14%. At their suggested payment rate it was going to take something like 15 years to pay off because the payments are mostly just covering interest. Without giving too much information away this loan was for an in-state state university, not some crazy expensive private school. It's borderline criminal in my opinion.

I'm so glad I was talked into going to a state university instead of the great private school I got accepted at, the loans for that would still be absolutely soul crushing. The loans I have now are just mildly soul crushing.
What is an acceptable signal to noise ratio for a security tool to be useful? clearly some amount of false positives to any real threat ratio causes people to just ignore it completely. Cue me looking at my npm vulnerabilities with I install packages lol.
There are several tangible benefits if you drive near a lot of Teslas on autopilot in a highway setting. Besides the advantages of adaptive cruise control (constant speed and set follow distance) it is adding safe lane changes where it always has visbility into blind spots and always activates the blinkers.

This beta adds the same benefits and more on city streets.
https://archive.ph/NEKYy
college endowments are where money goes to die or be exploited unproductively

in any case, the rise of China will cure the problem of rotted American institutions
You can give away the code (and the right to use it) but still charge for development, maintenance, and auditing.
Yes, it is. It's still not acceptable.
No, they're saying you're making purely gut judgements that are rash.

For any employer, private or public, slashing salaries and benefits is a great way to start trending towards 100% turnover, which is a pretty negative outcome if you want to maintain any semblance of operation.
That is just telling me that Windows Defender should start flagging Riot executables used as part of this malware injector. This does not, and cannot lead, to an improved user experience.
California Educators Urge Common Ground in Civics Education
As I said, momentum. Are you familiar with newton's laws?
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2108829
Because the company behind it benefits from ignorance?
Let's debate the merit of the poster's argument instead of casting labels around. Do you think there's no scope for medical exemptions for vaccine requirements? High blood sugar is dangerous, and the OP specifically said:

> blood sugar spikes greatly worsen my health.

I'm curious what the condition is, and if there's mitigations available or if one vaccine is worse than the other.
This is really the endgame of cheating and anti cheat wars. The anti cheat has to basically become root kits. I wonder if they will eventually offer a unprotected server to people who refuse to install the root kits or not.
I know people who host a static website on a home dsl connection with 5Mbps upload, using Cloudflare. The CDN literally does all the work.
Thinking vs. Feeling Is a False Dichotomy
This is the problem with Apple products. If you don't like anything - display, keyboard, etc. - you will not be able to get an alternative (except peripherals). But some people like it to not have a choice.
Consider the large missing areas on the map. For example, Poland and Germany has 0 sites (Poland pretty much built all hydro it could without causing more environment damage)
The operating system should not allow Riot to do stuff like this. Sandboxing on the desktop is badly needed. Flatpak may have its problems but it's probably the best effort so far.
This article is from 2019
I think I would understand was is meant by an "information service", but what exactly is an "information society service"? Such odd wording -- does it have a specific meaning?
Show HN: LivePoll – Real-time anonymous poll
I wanted to share this little project I found. The author has been writing Java re-implementations of the same Scala interpreter over the years as newer JDK versions & features are released.

With JDK17 and the introduction of Record types, sealed classes/interfaces, and pattern-matching the implementation can come close to ver-batim mirroring the Scala 2 one:

https://github.com/Randgalt/expressive-java/blob/master/java...

> NOTE: Pattern-matching for switch is in second preview for JDK17, so not all features used are stable

Unfortunately, the Scala org website is down right now, so the original/target code can be viewed here for the moment:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200103022853/https://www.scala...

The final feature that is needed to really seal the deal, is part of JEP 405 for destructuring + binding to values in patterns ("Deconstruction patterns"):

https://github.com/Randgalt/expressive-java/issues/3

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/405
Isn't this the fault of EU regulators? GDPR says that a website cannot degrade the service for users who decline to be tracked, yet almost all these popups make it harder to reject cookies than to accept.
Did the author use a CDN? Because that's kindof cheating: you are just having another (free) service burning the electricity for you.

I assumed the solar server serves the sites directly, because of this. Maybe I was wrong.
How I checked the battery health of my Android phone
It’s not that kind of proxy.
One bridge, one engineering, two nacelles. That's it, that's the whole ship.

"Ensign, report to sick bay."

"Aye Captain."

A few seconds later redshirt is seen floating through space on viewscreen.
You're right, I'm not a scientist. I'll give it to you that researching in a scientific way is science, but if it's not reproducible then what you publish shouldn't be established as "truth" but as a hypothesis that needs further research.

What bothers me is that some people are very dogmatic about things that are published and most of the time those people aren't scientists either.
Do you think a firefighter and a teacher should be able to afford a house in the community they work in?
To me, this is the key excerpt:

"Nevertheless, Yale continues to commit this elitist view of change-making, closing the doors of the university to anyone who isn’t deemed capable of becoming a world leader. Yale’s acceptance rate keeps ticking downward as the years progress. In last year’s admissions cycle, only 4.6 percent of applicants were offered a place in the incoming class. Though Yale acknowledges that a vast majority of its applicant pool is qualified to attend the University, and though Yale has the money and power to expand its student body, it continues to manufacture scarcity for spots on campus."

[There are hyperlinks under "money" and "power" in the original text worth clicking.]

Yale isn't interested in improving the world through providing a high-quality education to the largest number of people possible. It's a hedge fund with university attached, where admissions are done with an eye toward creating future donors and political/business/technological leaders, whose fame can be leveraged for prestige and money.
Star Citizen is notoriously widely considered to be vaporware; I wouldn't really give it as an example of "achievable with time, budget, and limited resources."
fwiw, slip.so appears to be pivoting away from education marketplace. I received an email for a course I pre-purchased recently:

"We're pivoting our company away from the course marketplace idea, so we're reaching out to inform you about your purchase and what to expect next.

We'll be helping [redacted] migrate his/her content to a new platform, and make sure that if you've purchased his/her course on Slip, you will get access to it on the new platform, with no additional charges.

You'll receive instructions via email on how to access the course on the new platform."
Krugman is so wrong, so often, that it is now fair ball to call him an Actual Idiot, prizes or not
It is apparent that many modern anticheat mechanisms are almost indistinguishable from root kits, which may pose additional security risks of their own.

Realistically, as potential consumers of those products, is there anything we can do to make a meaningful change for the positive? Education and raising awareness can only do so much...
This software limits the user with a maximum of allowed sessions.
It's interesting; their anti-cheat already is a root kit that runs as a ring-0 (or lower?) kernel module in Windows, yet they keep having to ban cheaters every month. But this goes beyond root kits. It's now apparently acceptable to operate arbitrary applications on users' PCs even when not playing the game. Utter spyware.
Or by any of the conventional media. This student is very brave in highlighting Yale's past, even the founder's name itself has a darker past.

Whether if anything will be done about that is extremely unlikely. Goes to show that the university knows it won't do anything serious about it, despite it having all that money and preaching their so-called 'social justice' or 'Diversity' and 'Inclusion' nonsense; whatever all of that means these days.
Part of the reason I wrote my last app in Node/Typescript is because Python’s typing was such crap and MyPy wasn’t mature enough at the time.
That's basically replacing regular currency buying a service. The earlier comparison was to commodities and crypto's difficult to value nature.

I won't argue you can't buy goods and services with crypto. You certainly can't produce plastic without oil, but there's nothing that can be made with crypto. It's not a commodity. That's why it's a speculative asset that's hard to value. Sentiment means more to crypto values than downstream values.

In this particular example, if a competitor offered data sharing and shared compute services 100x cheaper than the eth network, I don't think eth value would go down anything close to 100x. If I found a way to turn air into plastic and gas, you can bet oil prices would plunge. If Musk said crypto is dead, prices would plummet.