skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a solution that avoids the 'noise' university environments create.

Ideally:
1. Attend an in-state university.
2. Look at your school's graduation report, which surveys students by major on their starting salary
3. Choose a program with a high starting salary
4. Take all general education classes online at a community college, starting the summer after high school graduation

This is the most probable way to achieve a high roi on college, for an average american.
Let me give you a hint what happens when a state violence monopoly disappears: something else tales their spot.

If you value not having to walk heavily armed, or pay big money to some protection racket, or something worse, then you’re better off having a state police despite them being questionable.
Would you rate KDE (Plasma) better?
I always took that to be a reference to "it's so robust, it'll survive nuclear winter," which is pretty cool if true. The last database standing after all other species die off.
It makes it easier to search for support.
Because arbitrary expressions open a pandora box that complicates everything touching them.

For example, expressions can be strings, so now you have strings inside strings, and the strings may even contain further levels of nested formatting strings. This would make correct tokenization of Rust quite difficult, and out of reach of most syntax highlighting tools.

So the next question is why not allow only some "simple" expressions. It would require teaching users which expressions are allowed and which aren't. The rule that only a single identifier is allowed is both simple to parse, and simple to teach.
France is an example of a western country with < 50% prevalence according to that site. I think you might still be biasing your estimates (the 95%) due to your own experience.

Amazon.com, for example, accepts checking accounts and retail purchased gift cards for US residents.
Sorry I have never used it so I don't have an opinion. That looks like an oauth/openid/saml ssh integration?
> They totally botched the rewards system... If the stupid, tacked-on reward crap wasn't there, everyone would just be enjoying a fantastic online shooter.

Ah, I remember the old days, when you "won" by having your side win, and having a Kill / Death ratio sufficiently above 1.0.

I haven't played much since the Halo: Reach release. Even back then, they had started adding XP, so that you could earn a higher rank... which didn't mean anything in-game as far as I knew. Just access to more fancy armor mods and such.
I was originally interested in business because I thought it would be a meritocracy. It's just a ladder-climbing suck fest where whoever rocks the boat lest and kisses the most butt wins.
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GTK4? It seems like Rust based UI toolkit is still missing.

I like the idea of using Rust for the DE, but personally I'd stick with KDE.
Not if you can have an army of people work the problem.
Supreme Court Halts Vaccine Mandate That Covered 80M Workers
What do you mean, you've never heard of the Rigel Convention? Silly earthlings, if you can't be interested in your local affairs...

(Thanks, Douglas...)
If you think what you've done is an essay, you should retake some composition classes. This has been more akin to a contextless info-dump.

I have neither the time nor the inclination to dive into the transcripts here to figure out exactly how the issues in these cases apply to messaging, a topic I note you studiously avoid.

As we used to say: plonk.
I would agree with you. They did control for some factors, and that seemed to be the point of the study, but my first reaction to it was it seems like the controls they used seemed insufficent. It is a shame you were being downvoted - I expect that from other places but not from hacker news.
Having to play around a tether the whole time isnt a super great experience. The wire gets in the way and you have to think about it constantly.
> One other detail to note is that we built our software architecture in such a way that we can stop traffic to our PostgreSQL databases, queue the transactions, and run a PostgreSQL update without affecting payments acceptance.
Well, handwave handwave. Nothing to do with the compiler except that I'd assume if you rip out the /runtime directory you'll get a compiler that can't output working code.

The point is that these domains have a tendency to eventually overlap each other.
System76 very much advertises Pop as an OS for engineers and developers: https://pop.system76.com/
Very good points - I had no idea of this crazy situation for student loans.

So, perhaps, "student loans" need to go (in the sense of all of the awful regulation (or lack thereof) around them), but not necessarily "loans to students to earn a four-year degree".
I'm not arguing whether it is a good idea or not, I was responding to the request for where those property rights were in the Constitution.

As for the applicability of those rights to specific issues, that's up to the courts, which have a record of creative interpretations to do whatever they want to.
Belarus and Kazakhstan dictators have support of local military.

Ukrainian military these days is pretty built up and indoctrinated. It's not doing 180-degree turn-around just like that.

Russia won't be able to control the situation remotely with just a threat of a parachute operation.
No, they are not.

I may want something to be done by the end of next week and at the same time I would like somebody to spend less than 4 hours on the task. Spending entire two weeks of effort would not be acceptable in this case even if the task was delivered on time.

An example would be a task that is not on the critical path of the project but still needs to be done. There is a deadline by which it must be delivered or it becomes part of critical path and starts delaying entire project.

Assuming the task is performed by one person using the fraction of the time available before the deadline, I would like to be able to use the rest of that time (resource) as either a buffer in the project or for completion of another task. Having the person deliver the task before deadline but after two weeks of continuous work where I assume only 4 hours will be necessary means that the project was deprived of almost two weeks of buffer or there are now some other uncompleted tasks.

When we are talking about project management, there is an important, clear distinction between time and cost.
Yes. Not only does it run better, but it's also a better managed project.
> consistently remind that if they have a boundary they are free to enforce and you will respect that.

The clearest and most effective way of doing this is to proactively establish and propose safe boundaries for the other person's benefit. This is the underlying dynamic behind many rules-of-thumb of ordinary courtesy and politeness (often wrongly dismissed as some sort of useless, obsolete 'traditionalism'). Not everyone is so assertive and comfortable with themselves that they should be expected to verbalize their boundaries to you, or even to understand them proactively.
This is no news. It has happened to other digital creators/entertainers for years. Like youtubers, twitch streamers, bloggers, twitter, instagram etc.
The music industry (in collusion with Congress) killed DAT with this same specious argument, when everyone knew that "perfect digital copies" were the LEAST-likely vector of attack on their industry.

The obvious and dominant form of music copying was with double-cassette boom boxes in dorm rooms and bedrooms around the world.

And in the end, the media publishers' lies about "perfect digital copies" were proven to be just that, as profoundly IMperfect MP3s became the real threat.
it is the wisest work of fiction I have ever read, if you think you found a better one please share it
Is your argument that delaying the arrest of a serial killer is worse for society than not arresting him at all?

Bundy was arrested in 1975 but released due to lack of evidence. Does that mean the police didn't want to arrest him, or does that mean the police officers were following the law, and couldn't just lock him up on their hunch?

Look up the Aspen summit, where dozens of officers and prosecutors came together to share information, discuss his case, and they agreed that Bundy was the man they were looking for, but needed more hard evidence to arrest and convict him. That certainly looks like the behavior of officers who want to arrest him, and not stalling behavior.
>Between whom? Gorbachev has no memory of it, based on his public statements.

I'm going to go ahead and take the word of the former ambassador to Soviet Union at face value. You can reject it based on your own analysis as you see fit. I'm not necessarily trying to take a particular side here, but one thing I have a problem with is that the "Status Quo" of "America runs security for Europe" isn't really a relevant or wise way to view things anymore. That perspective seems to drive the vast majority of discussion on this topic and it portends a level of competency and reach that I don't think the US military has anymore. So some realism is needed.
50TB is not so big these days. I read that in 2008 (!) Yahoo had a 2+ PB PG database. What is the largest you know of, 14 years later?
Isn't YouTube bestaudio already Opus?
I pointed out where they were written in the Constitution. It's one of the Bill of Rights.

It's a simple, definitive answer.
Short answer: yes, the music industry (and similar media industries) has historically fought tooth and nail against any technology that allows anyone to consume content in any way not directly controlled and monetized by the music industry. There's a well-documented history of media industries fighting against "time shifting."
Worth noting that this may or not have any bearing on the conclusions...

"The manuscript presents some new data on, and provides a section of discussion of, the effect of tobacco consumption on patient susceptibility to COVID-19, and cites other studies that claim SARS-CoV-2 infection is less prevalent in smokers or tobacco users." Perhaps reading those other studies would be prejudicial.

I once spend the better part of a day online looking for actual data on the known dangers of second-hand smoke. I found the not-so-surprising answers in a hard-to-find article in Lancet. It ... contradicted the mainstream tale.
A lot of universities are openly hostile to tenured professors, unless those professors are gigantic names in the field they can use for marketing. Many Universities would be a-okay with ditching tenure all together.

The reality is many universities have gotten out of the game of offering quality education. They still offer education, but they are largely indifferent to the quality of the education, so adjuncts will do just as well as any professor.

Instead, universities have spent enormous money and effort to protect and emphasize the college/university "experience." Thus you get an enormous amount of handholding and bureaucratization in higher-ed because they're functioning like giant weird resorts with health services, legal services, financial services, extra curricular services, and a whole lot of other crap with education as only the implied "reason" the students are there.

> But no school is judged on their regulatory compliance.

To a certain degree this is untrue. Student complaints and/or payee (parent) complaints for things like Title IX violations, as one example, mean a potential loss in federal/state funding and negative press. So institutions seek to bureaucratize the whole process from the tip of the root to the highest leaf. Higher-ed in the US has become a kind of ride into adulthood.
Nice! Reminds me of the Cyclone / "stop the light" arcade games. If anyone wants to play a similar game on iOS, I made one about 7 years ago called hyper•loop https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyper-loop/id944029806
I use Plasma. Of all the DEs it is probably the most buggy, but I continue to use it because it is the only one that doesn't force an ideology onto me. It is so insanely configurable that you can make it whatever you want.

It's also still mouse-first, and has not been redesigning itself for touch screens.
The problem, of course, is that it's impossible to know everything :)

IME the best compromise I've found is to learn enough to recognize the problems, so that when I implement a bastardized compiler, I'm aware that that's what I'm doing and that at some point in the future I'll need to decide how deep the implementation should go or switch to actually using some library.
Maybe it's whatever is causing a more general decline in labor force participation?

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1481468372911116295
Well, it's very relevant. Why else would you try and smear a company that is your competitor, yet fights the same fight you're fighting?

And also, you're completely wrong.

As a Plausible customer, your data is never processed in the US, or sent to the "cloud" outside of EU.
The Dutch equivalent of "misery loves company" is "gedeelde smart is halve smart", which roughly translates to "a burden shared is a burden halved". I've never before interpreted that phrase in any other way than an acknowledgement that personal problems are easier to bear if you have someone to confide in. I certainly wouldn't interpret it as a cynical comment on codependency.

But maybe I've always misinterpreted the English phrase. Is there a different English saying that's closer to the Dutch meaning?
I know a lot of the comments here are from the lens of money input (as a cost, to pay for education) and output (as a return, on the investment, in the form of a job / career).

However, I wanted to take a step back and offer a different perspective. College does more than teach one a trade. It should, ideally, help the student become a better citizen of their own culture, of the world, and of their community. College taught me deeper empathy, and different kinds of empathy, it taught me more about literature, history, cultures, anthropology. There is so much today that could be improved if, for example, philosophy was a core requirement of every CS curriculum.

Outside of coursework, It taught me how to make friends, and how when I did bad things, I would lose friends. In a way, it is a continuation of high school except with the training wheels off, with all the consequences of adulthood to be tasted for the very first time.

I know it is a privilege to say this, and it is why I am such a huge proponent of free education, but to miss college is to miss more than some academic study in a field. It is to miss a whole chapter of life. To go from high school to labor, without that sweet blissful blend of freedom, stress, and discovery feels like a life not fully lived.

I would love for everyone to experience this, so from this personal perspective, I find that this framing (of money), on the whole, a rather negative thing.
European here — that is an insane cost for college fees from my POV. I attended one of the most highly rated courses for my profession in Europe and only paid about €3K per year.
The point of the split for Gymnasium is supposed to be to only admit those students who would successfully adapt, though. Attending college also requires passing the Abitur, which shows skill in the areas you are planning to study. A failure to understand engineering topics should show up in the topics chosen for the Abitur. (Similar to the choice of A level topics in the UK.)

Somewhat relatedly, college in Germany is more focused on the theoretical than it is in the US. A lot of engineering college programs in the US would be closer to a German technical school than a German college.
Is the charging port USB-C? If so, can it be charged through more than one port, in the event the primary one is damaged? (My phone experiences tell me the likelihood of port damage increases the more you handle something, and this will not be sitting on a desk all day)

My first thought, before I realized I had a serious question was that it would be awesome (in my particular opinion) if the battery could be separate, enabling easily swapping it or having various configurations...
Maybe a belt clip or the dreaded fanny pack?

.....

I just realized this is probably quite silly, you almost certainly have it identical to a laptop where you can work with it plugged in/ charging, and that would make that port even more likely to be a problem.

Personally I would love to see easy support for external power packs to extend usage, but I can't think of a good reason why I would actually need that, so maybe I have been playing to many cyberpunk games lately...

I really whish I could know if I would actually get the use out of it it deserves... I love the idea but sadly I can only actually work on company devices because of export control restrictions,
so my personal use case would need to include gaming to justify a high end new machine right now. I will absolutely be keeping an eye out though,
and if I don't get one I will hopefully be able to buy your V2 model.
That's good to hear. When I started that job, the DB upgrade was a massive, manually curated SQL file that would be run for every upgrade and contained every change from the beginning of time. You can imagine how well that worked. I blew peoples' minds with the idea of "building" a database package
Re: numbers 3) and 4). It's a hard trade-off. I believe in equality of opportunity in education, which infinite guaranteed government loans do provide to someone willing to take on that burden (which often ends up being a bad decision for most people). However, the very act of guaranteeing unlimited loans to everyone creates a very simple economic effect in which colleges will grow in expense to meet the supply of money. Look at all the ridiculously nice buildings, statues, grounds, and administrator salaries at even C-tier colleges.

The alternative, IMO, is to make state run schools tuition free, but there's no guarantee you'll get in. Use some relatively objective metrics like the SAT and relative standing in high school class to determine eligibility. Then get rid of federal lending altogether. Apparently this is more similar to some of the European models. Under this model, any highly gifted but poor person worried about debt can get a higher education. Granted, the gifted person is also generally okay in the current model, because they probably end up making enough to handle their debt. It's the less gifted person who still wants and benefits from a higher education, but can't get into the free state school, who benefits in this model, because the removal of unqualified lending will bring down prices of less competitive colleges.

But in the end, college as we know it, as great of an experience as it is for many of us, is likely becoming obsolete (in its current form, that is) with the rise of the internet and the ability to learn just about anything in your garage with an internet connection and a computer.
I remember being shown the minitel in the early 90s, and being AMAZED.
Wow, that's a great test of spatial reasoning (or something akin to spatial reasoning). You kind of have to rotate the shape in your brain to figure out which direction to turn from the line's perspective. I've driven with people who can't follow GPS directions unless it's in "first person" mode, e.g. if the line is moving "down" but then heads to the "right", you actually need to turn left, but they think you need to turn right or are just confused in general because the orientation is different - and I wonder if they could train their brain to work that way by playing something like this.
The cameras and lenses used on the latest Oscar nominated films
Did you happen to see the recent discussion of the maintainer-hoarks-up-a-dependency problem? How does your CD system handle testing?
#080 is #008800, not #008000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Shorthand_hexadecim...
It does make it easier to sue them:

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/investigations/10-investig...
This is very interesting to me because this might be a huge sex socialization difference: I'm friendly, including physically, with people I would rather not be at least occasionally.

There's a couple of reasons for this:

1.) If you're a young, small, female, people will be in your space whether you want them there or not. Keeping it "friendly" makes sure that it doesn't turn violent. (Note: This isn't just from men: My go to example of a person disrespecting my space was a woman in undergrad who, upon meeting me for the first time, picked me up because I was so small and 'cute' to her.) Luckily, I'm over 30 and an old hag now! 10/10 do recommend. V. helpful!

2.) As a female, I'm expected/allowed to offer comfort to people, and that includes physically, so I'll do things like hug my friends when they're sad if they like hugs because I still want to support them even if I have PTSD. Or I hug and take care of my little sister because I know touch is important for her mental health and I value that. I also occasionally offer childcare/ have nieces and nephews or am in gatherings with children, and they touch.

I generally let people, and people know that I/Aunt Mezzie needs some quiet sometimes.

I also have MS and malfunctioning nerves; I view them similarly. "Wow, my brain has a lesion and now I can't feel my feet what." and "Wow, I'm traumatized and now I can't relax around people I like what."
Sorry, didn’t see this until now. To be clear, I’m arguing that the radiation in honey is almost certainly not of concern. I think we’re on the same side.

That said, radium bioaccumulates because it subs in for calcium. You are over 2% calcium by weight, but you only take in about 0.1% of that mass per day. Potassium is about 0.2% of you, and you take in 2-3% of that daily.

Meaning that radium almost certainly more dangerous to you than potassium.
TIL! Thank you very much
Luckily clock skew already happens and is handled more or less by the current systems. The difference between the system moving at relativistic speeds versus a crystal being slightly out of spec add up to the same result. Incorrect number of ticks for a given proper time interval.

That's part of the genius of Leslie Lamport, embracing the fact that your distributed clocks aren't consistent, so start looking at effects through distributed systems from a light cone perspective just like you do with relativity.
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Good thing nobody is really advocating for disbanding all police departments. The "Defund the police" movement just picked a catchy and attention-getting name (and boy did they ever succeed at that), but even those "extremists" just wanted to reduce the workload on cops by reallocating a portion of their budget towards non-police workers who could take over on issues that don't require armed response.