skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s arguably more harmful to give a poor person $120K in debt to study something that almost certainly returns little, especially as those same people (statistically) may not know that some college degrees are worth significantly less than others.

This isn’t fully fleshed out, but the government could set a cap in loans based on anticipated the future earnings. Johnny gets into Med School and wants a $400K loan? Great! Iowa Central College wants to charge $200K for a dance major? Good luck finding students to enroll!

This also has the benefit of placing downward pressure on college tuition.
I tend not to self censor too much (though I do on certain topics, where people are ready too jump). I get banned on pretty much every reddit sub that has any kind of political element to it now.
There are only 3 Baltic countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_states), Neither Poland, Finland nor Sweden are Baltic.
Hello you - sorry I missed your SMS before xmas :') - They've left me alone since 2018, I think I had one follow up declaration and then that was it. Agree regarding we shouldn't have to on principle but I just went along with it for the sake of drawing a line under it.
> One of the great things of the Licence fee was that the Government does not get to control the national TV like it does when the one who pays is it directly.

Don't know about that. Here in Germany public state broadcasters have a board elected by parties, churches, unions and other large bodies aiming, on paper, for proportional representation. The results are insufferable, mediocre palliative-care TV shows, corrupt sports (I hear they have that in UK, too ;), and news shows, with the occasional outstanding documentation (public radio stations are better IMO).

Until recently, I regarded their news as ok-ish, but the hysterical focus on CoVid and their tendency to polarize and putting every critique against the party line into the realm of Corona deniers or some such in the last two years has pulled the curtain for me, to show a self-referential political-medial complex bringing up topics irrelevant for large parts of the populace.
They frozen my account at Christmas. How do I get in
Involved with this
3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated
> nobody cares about energy usage. It has exploded in the last decades

That's not quite right. In the West, energy usage per capita has risen until the 1970's or 80's, then stayed flat or fallen. (Of course, it's continued to rise in Asia, but fairly linearly; I wouldn't call it an explosion.)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...

https://ourfiniteworld.com/2012/03/12/world-energy-consumpti...
Not a ham operator, but I'd assume that a transmitter like this will emit a significant amount of noise across the RF spectrum (also, make sure to check your local laws before transmitting in potentially reserved frequency bands, e.g. with the FCC [0], or the Bundesnetzagentur in Germany [1]).

Other than that, looks like a fun little project!

[0]: https://www.fcc.gov/engineering-technology/policy-and-rules-...
[1]: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Sac...
Er... no? Except maybe if you are part of a specific cryptocurrency "bubble", but I'd say that for the typical HN reader, "crypto" still means cryptography in general, not its specific blockchain-related applications.
If there is something of higher value to steal, thieves are willing to take larger risks to get it, so you have to expend more effort if you want to prevent that.
Right, the latter is probably easier.
It used to be, but nowadays the organization only claims to "observe" how the language evolves instead of deciding what’s valid and what’s not. Also, France doesn’t have the monopoly of French: 80% of French speakers are outside France; the largest French-speaking city of the world is Kinshasa, in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Happy about this. I decided to never pay it again after buying a TV on Amazon (for videogames only) and that action and my address being shared with the BBC so they could harass me to pay it. Insane breach of my rights and privacy from what is essentially a TV Channel.

Still get harassed by them once every two years or so where you have to tell them again that no you are not interested or they’ll “open an investigation”. Of course BBC like to pretend this isn’t them by having a fake organization “TV Licensing” to make it sound like some government arm.

BBC is a shadow of its former self, I’d have been happy to pay in the 90s and 00s but I haven’t seen them produce anything of quality in the last decade.
Pointing lasers at solar sails on small probes is theorized to get to 15-25% c:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

To me this seems like the logical next step after using chemical rockets to populate a moonbase. Plop some big lasers on the moon and use them to push things really fast. No weird physics needed, just improvements on what we already have.
There were a few overpowered solutions of the week, but typically they were then cleaned up in later episodes. The writing was rather fantastic at that.

Aside from the nanites that aged O'Neil feeling more advanced than any other tech the goauld scavenged. But then I suppose the galaxy is littered with stuff like that they had either forgotten or lost themselves...
In Minnesota when improvements or repairs like roadwork are done, directly effected property owners are billed above their normal property tax.

This story explains it better than I can: https://www.twincities.com/2020/02/25/15700-street-assessmen...

work on a street with only local traffic will have a higher percentage of the project cost paid by the property owners on that street.
That would also be even better indeed, but much harder to achieve overnight. Reducing the use of coal power is also good, though.
Some resources I've collected about pricing:

https://cranberryblog.substack.com/p/a-simple-argument-for-i...

https://zimtik.com/en/posts/lessons-learned-on-saas-pricing

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/payback-period

https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/07/01/dont-insult-...

https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/restaurant-prices/

http://justinmares.com/why-real-businesses-dont-charge-5mont...

https://adilaijaz.medium.com/6-questions-to-ask-before-adopt...

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/saas-pricing-strategy

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/29/subscription-based-pricing...

https://www.bannerbear.com/blog/don-t-charge-a-month-for-you...

https://danmorozoff.substack.com/p/ai-reversion-to-the-old-d...
I absolutely archived this site onto a 100MB Zip Disk back when this first happened.

So I guess now I need to find an ancient SCSI card and unearth that archive.
"So, what do we do? Can we just pay 3x the property tax to the city and fund our roads? Our city already has pretty high property tax rates for a city in a state that already has pretty high property taxes. We can’t raise our property taxes, and we can’t raise any of the other taxes to make up for the difference. What is causing this and what do we do going forward?"

I'd love to have property taxes this "high" - I live in a village outside a small rural city in PA and my property taxes are about four times as much as the author's taxes. The author states that they'd need to assess property taxes at 3x in order to fund their infrastructure so we'd (in theory) be ahead of our infrastructure maintenance. (Clearly this comparison isn't apples-to-apples since our properties aren't directly comparable.) I think the real answer is that if we're going to restore communities, we're going to have to pay more than we're accustomed to.
More like "they had, but decided to remove". Firefox on Android used to support any extensions, but they cut that down. You can still get the functionality in browsers like Icecatmobile, though.
I listened to him recently and he seems to be looking at the climate problem in exactly the way that we should be - taking a step back, looking at the big picture, what works and what doesn't, instead of focusing on one aspect hysterically over everything else.
Small bug :) it's fixed now.
I am dreaming of the day I can yell “f*ck you!” And throw my phone into the ocean, walk off and never need it again. Live in a little town somewhere, read books, write about stuff. Dress up as a wizard and read the hobbit to children.

If you have a chance to get rid of it and make it work, go for it. We survived before without it, we can do it again. :)
How do you prevent voting rings?
Polaroid camera in pure CSS/HTML
At that effort, close to 0. Maybe 20% for someone with great genetics.
One of the best cheeses !
You know, I'm extremely frustrated with "wokeness" and its attendant ideologies, but I agree with almost everything you said.

I think the problem is that "woke" ideology employs a lot of deliberately slippery language and rhetorical flourishes that make it difficult to argue with. It employs motte and bailey strategies everywhere.

I recently lost a friendship with someone who converted to wokeness. I say 'convert' because he was religious in his fervor. We were discussing a particular Netflix series fondly when he stopped and told me that he musn't get tied up enjoying it too much, because he knows it's just a ploy to get him to forget all the other ways that white people and white society "deliberately designed" to cause him to hate himself for being non-white.

"My anger allows me to think clearly. By making me forget it, this show is how a white supremacist society gives me a few breadcrumbs to just be happy for a moment. So even though it has some positive representations of my people, it really is just more white supremacy designed to make me hate myself."

I tried to tell him, as gently and empathetically as I could, that I was quite sure that, at least in this particular case, Netflix was not trying to get him to hate himself and he could maybe allow himself to enjoy the show. He told me that I was blinded by my white fragility.

I don't know how to argue with this, or what to call it. But his system of belief increasingly touched every topic in every conversation we had until he finally stopped talking to me for being white (although he framed it that I had "chosen the side of white supremacy").
I wonder if these writers are simply projecting. I go hiking, camping, fishing, skiing, diving - I love nature. Yet I also love living and working in the city, away from all the mud and hard work, in high-rise clean buildings with sterile offices and lots of tech.

It doesn't have to be either/or, I can enjoy both and choose when I go for one of the other.

I hear people looking way back and saying that it was better. But my grandmother was rising at 4am to feed the farm animals then work the rest of the day in the field. She also had only two surviving siblings out of 14 or 15 in total. Her words to my father and me were always: study and study well because without that life is damn hard and always lacking.
Hey, air conditioning doesn't belong on that list. It uses a lot of energy but it also significantly improves quality of life in hot and humid regions of the planet. And unlike the other items on your list, there's no ethical or intrinsically pollutive aspect to it. Also lots of developments in newer more energy efficient compressors and DC ACs with smarter control algorithms meant to run with solar.
How the ‘Djokovic Affair’ Finally Came to an End
Welcome to the dark side. I’m sure (almost) every bug you report will be appreciated here.
Awesome little project! One disclaimer about learning Morse code though -

While that dit-dah tree might be a concise reference, is a horrible learning method. Morse code is learned most efficiently through repetitive exercises in which you learn to "hear" the encoded symbols as characters.

Master CW [1] has a nice little demo that shows how this works. Disclaimer: it's a small app that I built and operate for amateur radio operators and anyone interested in learning CW (Morse code).

[1] - https://www.mastercw.com/demo/
I don't believe their property taxes are 10%. $50,000 per year on a $500,000 home? Come on
The problem boils down to this: we've vastly over-paved and in general overbuilt our road network. We've paved all sorts of roads we should have left as dirt/gravel, but they got paved because it's a sign your neighborhood has "made it." It's a pretty high level problem a well; we built a ton of bridges starting around the 50's, without anyone thinking about how we were going to pay for them. Well, those bridges are starting to crumble because repairing or replacing them would mean massive hikes in taxes, and no politician wants to touch that.

Ironically, the vast majority of vehicles purchased are SUVs and trucks to the point that Ford will stop selling sedans entirely. At least everyone is prepared for the coming changes?

If we hadn't allowed the automotive industry to essentially dominate american society, we'd have neighborhoods with dirt/gravel roads or narrow paved paths for walking and bicycles, neighborhood parking lots for those who own cars, functioning bus services, lots of passenger rail, etc.

Instead we have a country where we're slaves to cars.
Just want to say that the time you spend reporting bugs on Linux environments is not in vain but much appreciated.
I try to give back to the community and spend time fixing issues people have for the Linux desktops MATE and XFCE, at least a few times a year.
Do fail stories cause false beliefs about failure/success?
In the context of this article, the difference is not as much as you’d think. Basically every road in the UK is paved. That isn’t true of the sparsely populated parts of the US.

The US has 4.3m km of paved road for a population of 331m. That's $287bn per year upkeep (at the $20/ft rate), so each resident needs to pay $864/year for road upkeep.

The UK has 0.4m km of paved road for a population of 67m. That's $28bn per year, so each resident needs to pay $421/year for road upkeep.

In other words, Americans should only need to pay 2x the tax, not 10x the tax.
Yes, and in fact Freeview started off as a primarily encrypted commercial service called ONdigital which was taken over by the BBC and turned into Freeview when it failed commercially.
Completely missed the username - hope you are well!
Ah, thanks for the link! It seems what you're saying is right — the security guarantees of Chia are not the EXACT same as Bitcoin, but it's not clear to me that this means they're "weaker" for the reason you described.

> As soon as one honest farmer has added a foliage block, the foliage becomes impossible to re-org beyond that height with the same PoSpace

With ~350k Chia full nodes, the likelihood of colluding farmers being able to pull this off is a lot lower than if there were only the ~14k full nodes of Bitcoin, no? And Chia is still pretty new — it had a maximum of ~750k full nodes before.

I guess it's kind of a trade-off, huh? Bitcoin's big centralized pools are a worrying source of attack that's not there in Chia (the official pooling protocol has the farmers sign blocks so it's completely decentralized and pools using it can't orchestrate attacks). https://docs.chia.net/docs/11pooling/pooling
The Phones Emitting the Most Radiation
It used to be like that, every television outlet had their own political views and openly criticized the opposing ones.

However, when the pandemic started the government spent over 15 million euros directly in private televisions [1], and gave over 100 million euros in institutional advertisements to radio outlets, newspapers and the aforementioned private televisions [2], supposedly to avoid their economic collapse. Also some regions did the same with regional or local outlets.

So, it's not like they're at their service... But why should the media in Spain criticize the hand that feeds them?

[0] Note, sources are in Spanish (and both sources got institutional advertisements!):

[1] https://www.lavanguardia.com/television/20200331/48219498329...

[2] https://www.elespanol.com/invertia/medios/20200407/moncloa-a...
Not at all! And CDA deserves to be spelled correctly, anyway. All good.
I don’t think you can have multiple excel documents open with the same file name, that’s been around for decades if I remember correctly.
> What if we figure out something good to do with that carbon, and capturing it becomes profitable? Should we return all that money to those it was stolen from?

Well consider this. We have these things called taxes. Everyone pays them.

Sometimes we change the tax rate.

Once we change the tax rate we don't go back years and give people refunds for the new rates.

Nor do we retroactively go back and charge people more if we raise their tax rates.

Carbon taxes would, perhaps not surprisingly, work the same. At the moment we consider adding carbon to the environment to be a negative event and well tax is as such.

If at some point in the future we decide we really want more carbon in the atmosphere then we can incentivize people to do that, but we generally don't go back and retroactively give people refunds for their old taxes:)
What I don't get is why the conservatives were so draconian over covid. Your partner is dying, you can't see them. Folks couldn't walk around outside. Some guy driving to walk around outside was like national news.

I mean, if you go to this extreme, and then are throwing parties. (Rules for thee, not for me) it would make me furious as well. Let me go sit on the beach with sunshine and fresh air instead of having to cram into a grocery store or whatever.

In the US DeSantis or whatever right wing politico could easily go to a public event, not because its a good idea, but because they haven't banned others from going to activities.
Only pump Bitcoin is good at is pump and dump.
Those stunts sound super creepy and messed up. Weird, manipulative campaign.

This shouldn't really be legal surely in democracies to have campaigns that "appear to be the result of grassroots campaigns and children's charities, while downplaying any Government involvement", when it's a political manipulation campaign paid for, coordinated and organised by the Government themselves. I really hope the counter-campaign mentioned is good (although hard to compete with the already hundreds of thousands of pounds already allocated to this already).
Sure, because Nintendo is such a great example of openness towards FOSS communities.
It might be worth storing this data separately, to improve cache usage, but my experience is on any modern machine the amount of space taken by parsed code / ASTs is small enough to not care about, unless you do something like C++ where you "reparse the world" for every tiny file (due to header includes)
If your work depends on big ag you can't do much to resist those market pressures, "it is what it is" as they say. However, I've seen people with money spend extraordinary amounts in restoration of thousands of acres as we can find fit among the arable acres.
It's a poor country, they have lots of dirty coal. Their options are use it and have pollution, or pay money to import energy/electricity or build new nuclear power plants ( seems out of the question) or invest into renewables. Coal seems the cheapest option, especially for a country with complicated relations with many of their neighbours, which would make energy/electricity imports highly risky.
Well that's the joke. Other than that I find Gdansk more similar to Riga than Warsaw.
"The bigger the lie, the more they believe."
This is great journalistic integrity. I applaud them for that.
That man is a moron. A tweet to a large organization's twitter handle is not a formal complaint.

I guess sending in a letter isn't as good for social media engagement, though.
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Yeah, it reads like a very literal amateur translation by a native German speaker without much editing.
Who's Satoshi Nakamoto? [Short Sci-Fi] – Inspired from Hacker News Community
My guess is it's a labeling issue -- Comté is sometimes confusingly referred to as Gruyère de Comté, though it is obviously not a Swiss cheese.
> the Government does not get to control the national TV like it does when the one who pays is it directly.

You may want to double check who's in charge of the BBC. The Director-General Tim Davie is a former deputy chairman of a local Conservative party and Conservative councillor candidate. Not that bad, perhaps. But the Chairman of the BBC, Richard Sharp, was a banker at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, advisor to Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, and has donated more than £400,000 to the Tory party.

The Conservative party does control the BBC, selecting the leadership according to their political aims or whichever donor has thrown them the most money recently. And the BBC budget and license fee are decided by the government, of course the government can cut funding at any time...

None of this is to say that the BBC is as bad as the worst of state controlled media, just that there are obvious elements of government control, and having one model of funding over another doesn't really change that - the government can still squeeze funding whenever it wants to (and they have done this before).
I’m sure the author would be the first to agree that this isn’t a detailed analysis - they had various comments to that effect - but it doesn’t change the point by anywhere near enough to invalidate it. Most roads are not long dead end streets and especially now that people use navigation apps there’s a lot more traffic on neighborhood roads than there used to be, too.

The big problems are low density and how much most cities end up subsidizing non-taxpayers who drive a significant fraction of road demand with only minimal economic contribution. Those subsidies are doubly expensive because they hurt the city and discourage use of more sustainable transportation.
Yeah, we could use the same simple trick clear space debris from Earth's orbit!
25% for site administration and moderation.
We seem to mostly agree. Here’s the line—on one side of it are phones, able to produce decent images despite hardware limitations by applying black-box magic when interpreting raw captures (but not faring that well when used to shoot raw); on the other side are cameras, employing advanced tech (and sometimes, indeed, magic) to assist you with capturing raw signal of much higher fidelity and yielding full control as to its further interpretation.

That’s what I meant by cameras being in a qualitatively different category, and why I wrote my comment arguing against the next iPhone somehow rendering mirrorless cameras useless.

(The only point where it might become more of a debate in my eyes is if phones start applying similar extensive processing that they do, but at raw levels. There could be genuine gains there—but also unwelcome unpredictable adulteration of DNG captures.)
Or any government with two working braincells (in aggregate) left will ban it, leading to cryptocurrency being where it belongs - Wikipedia list of failed Ponzi schemes.
It’s not useful because it’s not really an indicator of one’s ability to perform and can’t really be affected through training. It’s primarily affected by genetics and weight.

That said, it does provide some correlation to an athletes performance “ceiling”, and you’ll typically find elite endurance athletes are naturally blessed with an impressive Vo2 max. You’re not going to win the Tour de France with a Vo2 max of 50 no matter how hard you train, just like you’ll never play Center in the NBA if you’re 6’1.
I think they often skip the first step of even bothering to outperform after correcting for socioeconomic differences. If you can cherry-pick students, education can be both more effective and cheaper for those whom you decide to serve.
People don't realize how efficient a colocated server is. There's a few websites sending about half a petabyte a month of data and are spending far, far less than these hosting costs.
To be fair, Comté and Gruyere are pretty much as similar as 2 different types of cheeses can get.