skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't view it as getting something in return. They made a choice. The people complying with this other program made a choice. Both choices result in less debt they have to worry about. This leads me to think we're having a different conversation than the one you want to have.
This is mainly a policy called Public Service Loan Forgiveness which says that IF you make 120 payments on schedule and on time (ten years) AND you work during that time for a qualified 'public service' job (think government, teacher, non-profit) THEN after 10 years the government will pay the remainder of your loan.

There's some other stuff but the majority of it is that, a policy that's been in place for many, many years, but has been a bureaucratic hell to correctly navigate (you need to check each year, perhaps each month, that your payment has been recorded correctly, and reported correctly, etc).

This is not general loan forgiveness by a long shot.
No kids would die by being forgotten in a public transport.
And this point as nothing to do with what I said.

My point was that those kids die because their parents are forced to use their personal vehicle to do anything (groceries, drop mail, going to work, see friends) that sometimes they forgot they brought their kids with them, because of habits of being alone in the car.

So, yes, so death are the product of a society dependant on personal vehicle.
Do the recipients have to pay tax on the amount forgiven?
depends a lot on the context too. Over an evening with meals I don't think a bottle of wine is that much. Downing the bottle is another thing
The content of Reddit discussions on relative merit are terrible. Usually a bunch of groups are repeating long-held misconceptions that may have been true at some point but are no longer true, and get upvoted by people that recognize the same out-of-date facts.

I'm not saying the web-at-large is _much_ better, but curated content from true experts _tends_ to be a lot better (finding those experts is obviously hard). Throwing more algorithmic crap on the results page doesn't make results better. It just adds more noise.

The given example on the blog post points to this page [1] where the top comments/top replies are:

- "I know OLEDs are better, but you should at least show 2 pictures from the same angle." "The room lighting is completely different as well. I don't understand the motivation here. Bit of a weird post"

- "You ah ..... You see that location more times than you care to admit ?" "Yeah but now when he sees it, it has the deepest blacks"

- "I absolutely think OLED is way better than LCD, too. Just your comparison is not good. [...]" "I totally agree, it was a spur-of-the-moment comparison as I saw the awful backlight bleed and the shimmering on the image I put on top there [...]"

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/safq43/the_dif...
So unsecured personal loans? Those depend on your credit which most students don't have much/any and your debt-to-income which is normally infinite for students because they don't work. You would massively screw over kids whose parents cannot pay/co-sign a normal loan as it would force them to work and study.
Also, you normally cannot get very much with such low income and cherry on top, they have awful interest rates which range from about 6% to 36%. The APR on loans for borrowers with excellent credit is around 12%; it's about 29% for bad credit borrowers which students with no credit are likely to be.

As an example: say you work at target for 2 8 hour days on the weekend making 15 an hour and with a 36% debt-to-income ratio limit, you could afford a payment of $374.4 a month. $15,000 punched in a 30 year repayment at 29% interest rate equals a $362.57 payment. So you might be able to do it but I would hate to be working every single day between weekend work and weekly school and that is assuming an entire 4 year degree could be pushed to to $15,000.
Could it be possible that this is being done more as a way to garner votes for the midterms? Someone else commented that this affects like only a tiny fraction of people w/ student loan, but it does make for a good headline, judging by the number of comments here.
Let's do healthcare now
I think it's hard to get a read on this and it really depends. For example, where I live there's an elementary school in the neighborhood, low traffic (even though it is the suburbs), and there's a walking path and a playground at the school. When the weather is halfway decent, there are kids streaming through there all day. During the pandemic it was just a party back there, in a good way.

But not all suburbs are like this, and I do think that low density and focusing on cars over people makes kids unlikely to go outside. Where I live, yea the school is nice, but I've seen kids standing in the middle of 5 lanes of traffic (they are standing in the turning lane) trying to pass and standing there with, say, a skateboard.

This is definitely a problem.

On the other hand, I think kids are just staying inside and playing with electronics more too. But why are they doing that? Is the neighborhood not stimulating enough? Is there anything to do outside? Again in the suburbs I'm in, what is a kid to do? You can't really walk to any store, park (besides the school area), or anywhere else. You can't even bike anywhere. You'd definitely get hit by a car at some point.

So I think it's a bit of a cultural shift, sure, but I think that doesn't account for poor urban planning. Most likely in the past kids were just so damn bored that they'd overcome crappy neighborhoods because there was literally nothing else to do. Now? Why risk riding down a country road on your bike and getting hit by a car when you can just sit at home and text your friends?
> As for why that perception came to be?

This article is about a government program managed so terribly, they did not keep track of payments. You had to call in and trigger a review to be forgiven. These 40k loans forgiven are essentially the lowest hanging fruit.
xeus-cling didn't exist back then:
https://github.com/jupyter-xeus/xeus-cling#a-c-notebook

https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp#debug

A standard way to benchmark and chart {sorting algorithms, web framework benchmarks,} would be great.

The TechEmpower "framework overhead" benchmarks might have at least average case sorting in there somewhere:
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...
> And also reimburse the people who sacrificed to pay theirs off or avoid them in the first place.

Most of the loans in this specific program were forgiven in exchange for at least 10 years of specific public sector jobs. Those jobs usually come with a reduced compensation in exchange for the loan forgiveness.

I have a few friends who went this route as lawyers because they prefer helping out in the public sector instead of doing corporate lawyering stuff or the other options.

They definitely did not come out financially ahead by going this route, even with the massive loan forgiveness.
A major difference between when I grew up and now is the prevalence of the severely mentally ill living on city streets. Would you send your 5 year old self down the streets of San Francisco or Seattle? As a 45 year old I’m frightened often enough - I can’t imagine my daughter being forced to navigate those situations alone. The assault and murder rates due to the untreated mentally ill in the cities I’ve lived in is high and visible.

In the 70’s and 80’s we still had a functional mental public health system an a relatively small population living on the streets.

Case in point a clearly disturbed person walked into my daughters school grounds and began exposing himself last week. The teachers corralled him and the police took him to jail, but they said more or less he will be back in a week or two and to be more careful securing the school grounds.

If that’s the environment at school, what about the sidewalks and streets between home and school?
I agree with you, even if I came to a different conclusion on which ecosystem fits my needs better at this moment. I respect that everyone has their own needs, and they will make the best choice for themself. I hate the shouting on the 'net.

I usually stay the heck out of the debate because it devolves to namecalling so quickly, but something about HN makes me want to participate -- the promise of a civil discussion.
To add to that - the way we do sports and extracurricular activities is absolutely mind blowingly different now, too.

Back in my day, neighborhood kids played baseball and football and basketball together as they could. Now everything is structured and scheduled. There are travel teams for kindergartners. There is a coaching structure for 5 year olds. Kids play for competition, winning, and opportunity, not just for fun.

Maybe this is just me being old, but it's very depressing. It adds a layer of pressure to childrens' lives that just doesn't need to exist. Parents complain about it, I can't imagine it's healthy for kids, but it still exists.

It's so bleak.
If I pay for shipping, would you part with the XPS?
Right, that's why I said it's probably apocryphal.
I dismiss bitcoin not because I have faith in the conventional system, but because I am far more cynically mistrustful than this author! You cannot beat the money machine with anything that works like money, because the bastards who run the money machine will always have more of it than you do. What's more, they are in cahoots with the bastards who run the political machine; anytime you come up with some new idea clever enough to threaten their hegemony, they will simply change the rules out from under you. Try to resist, and you will find that you can only do so to a limited degree, using stupendous amounts of money, which you probably don't have.

I dismiss bitcoin not because I think it doesn't work, but because the world in which it exists will not allow it to work. If it does not fail, it will be assimilated; if it cannot be assimilated, it will be crushed. (Can't be crushed, you say? Maybe not, but the people who use it certainly can, and then what's the difference?)
There is a big difference between how ecosystems change through human and animal migration and technocratic "solutions" that usher in a whole new level of medical invasiveness.
Rewarding people who have worked for decades to climb out of that situation by lifting those who didn't do the same to the same financial position doesn't exactly encourage upward mobility, either.
I love the idea!

A couple of thoughts:

1. I'll never use social login

2. When you're on a city, it's not clear how to add a place (do you have to be logged in?)
All of them. Here’s the link on the Omni Calculator “Visit website” button, just one example.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/?ref=insanelyusefulwebsites
&utm_campaign=Insanely%20Useful%20Websites
&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
> MacOS does not require you to swear allegiance

No but the company follows a certain direction and you need to buy-in to their idea of the future if you want the seamless experience they promise. For the full Apple "experience" you need multiple Apple devices, an Apple ID, etc...

Windows is slightly more open but similar; you need to buy-in to their ecosystem.

With Linux I can use Gnome, KDE or other... A bunch of distros. A bunch of browsers (without ads, annoyance, etc...). Anything that's an open standard basically works. There is maybe slight buy-in needed to work with my Chromecast (need Chrome on it) but that's an okay compromise.

> Now if you want to participate in developing free software, for good or bad, those things are no longer immaterial, and if you have unpopular ideas about religion or philosophy you will sooner or later be ostracised and some hip code of conduct thingy will be the last thing you will see there.

You can develop free software and ignore those things. Just work on your own thing. But you seem to mean "participate in existing project with existing organization" which is different than your first fragment.
The schools should also have some skin in the game. If a former student defaults on their loan then the school should have to eat part of the cost, and schools (or particular majors) with high default rates shouldn't be eligible for loans at all. This would fix the problem of irresponsible schools encouraging students to take on huge loans that leave them stuck in debt for decades.
Apple has always perpetuated a Cult of Mac since the Apple II days. I believe this is tactical from a marketing standpoint.

Here is a detailed blog on it: https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/cult-of-mac/
Outrage as Judge Approves Assange Extradition to US
Heh that's 1/3rd the cost of a median LA home in just four years.
this program has been available for 15 years, you could’ve used it
"...however, twiglets are ridiculously tasty"

Love 'em too (but don't often buy them as I've insufficient self-control to leave a packet half uneaten)! ;-)
it is! thank you
Some of the high mission cost is over-engineering to guarantee success given the already high costs. OTOH the public doesn't want to see NASA failures even at lower costs so there's that...
Annotations at entity level were expected, now it's done.
Good job.
that's ignorant by all four Oxford listed definitions of ignorant.
Canceling student loans will never happen. It’s crazy how so many people have hung their hopes on this event occurring. To the point where they will likely die or become very poor if it doesn’t happen.
I've been thinking of setting up a Substack and that comment fucking stung. :)
I'm a UK guy in my 50's. I went to uni (the US term for college) in '83. At the time I was in the minority of the population. I was given a grant of £3000pa and was able to make ends meet. I might have lived in, shall we say, the most salubrious of environments, but I emerged without debt.

Same thing when I did my masters and PhD a few years after that.

I basically caught the tail end of uni, when it was for the minority of folk. I shake my head at the monster that higher education has become. I'm hardly in the loop anymore, but I've noticed that the UK want to nickel-and-dime the students with tuition fees, graduation fees, and whatever fee that they seem to concoct on an ongoing basis. The US seems even worse, with books costing 100's of bucks.

Shocking. Truly shocking. The whole thing is a shameful scam, and no-one is calling it out for what it is. The truth is, one rarely /needs/ a university education. It's really just a piece of paper to get you into an office job - if you're lucky.

The problem is, now that everyone's got a degree, they're not particularly valuable in their own right. It's a foot in the door to a club that keeps upping its membership fees.

Dare I say it, but it was better when a uni education was the preserve of the elite few. Now, I appreciate it that this is going to rankle a lot of sensibilities about "fairness". If fewer people had a uni education, then it wouldn't be considered quite so important, as employers would have to take what they could get rather than insisting on a degree. Plus it would also put an end to a large swathe of the population starting their young adult life with a small mortgage.

In my eyes, what we're seeing today is morally unconscionable. Lambs to the slaughter.
Agreed.

I see complexity as kind of a mass, and our job is in part to reduce it as far as possible.

Like mass, you can shuffle complexity around, or add more, or discover unexpected ways to reduce it, but there is no way to reduce it below the problem's lower bound.

Sometimes, the solution is as simple as it's going to get, and it's still complicated. State management is a good example.

I'm more referring to that situation.

This article's headline is an example of the argument I mean. If not using Regex is the proposal for reducing complexity, it's not going to reduce complexity.
> which prohibits you from preventing an emergency call being made

The solution to this is simple: A land line behind the counter.
Try freshly chopped celery, or carrot sticks and stick it into some fresh miso as if it were ketchup. Beautiful...
As if I haven't read thousands of "these companies are public utilities" arguments ever since conservatives embraced Trump's politics of total war against perceived enemies.
Cause and effect and caution are for the little people. This is a startup board.
We move fast and break things. In this case, Florida Man.
So just port LLVM + yjit.
The T480 that I got is the worst laptop purchase I have done in years. The m2 port is not bolt in but you will need to buy an adapter if you want to install a second drive if your configuration is only 1 drive. The USB-C charging port had problem quickly after a year where it don't receive charge unless you put it in the JUST the right position and pray to god that it will keep charging. And the USB-C card is part of the mobo so you are looking at $700-800 mobo swap to fix the problem.
That video is awful. I made a good faith attempt to watch it to get an opposing point, and I made it right up to the 11 minute mark where he starts explaining that the woke agenda is anti-white and "they want to replace people of European descent in their own lands with a servant class who is lower IQ, easier to control, works for lower wages, and is driven entirely by material consumption."

To sum up for anyone else who wants to avoid it, the whole argument is that culture drives consumption, and it's better for the elites to have a homogenous population who all consume the same things, and that "woke capital" is an attempt by the elites to coerce the populace into homogenizing.

It's basically the "gay agenda", but now rich people are behind it.
Now imagine letting 7-8 years old buy groceries in a zone with actual gun fights -sometimes weekly-, bombs -one 2 or 3, blocks away, not worry- and gangs -next door live some people rumored to do fast-kidnap!. And go to school hanging from the doors of the bus.

I think I end ok!

P.D: I walk with friends (10-15 old) from city center, detouring from an attempt to reach some small mountain after the zone get red, so we decide find other place and end in a close park [Aprox. route here](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/La+Milagrosa,+Medell%C3%ADn,...), kilometers away...

P.D.2: This not about being badass. Normal stuff by a nerd guy. Actual crazy stuff I avoided. Too dangerous!
It would be taking more than the already high amount that's being taken out currently. So I'm against it.
> i am personally in the reality camp and find cycling in traffic to be quite a bit more dangerous than being piloting a car

That is literally what I said but you just had to get the snark in, didn't you?
I fit almost all of those (except dabbling in TSLA calls a few years ago) but I don't feel pissed off, just mildly amused by the whole thing.
Debt isn't inherently evil, it's just a tool. But any tool whether it's a hammer or a gun or a student loan can be used for good or evil.
Does that mean that they retroactively deleted edits made by those Russians too? So when said person fixed a bug, the bug is there again? Or the project does not compile anymore because the diff was too early in the history and mechanical removal broke the code even syntactically?

Or are the edits kept, but the commit log is gone?
JS engines have had many serious vulnerabilities in their JIT optimizers, it’s not myopic at all and is a well known technique in the industry.

I agree that some folks aren’t executing untrusted ruby code so they wouldn’t have to worry about this - but how many PaaS/SaaS products out there are? Or how about third party dev tools that are blindly downloaded and executed on local workstations or CI pipelines?
You build what works best for the site. Anhydrous ammonia tanks can be anywhere, but are most useful near a port where surplus is easily shipped out and fill-in for shortfalls shipped in. Tankage is always cheap.

The cost for electrolysers is amortized over not just the time to refill local tankage, but over all the time when surplus power is available, generating direct revenue. The presence of electrolysers makes overbuild of top-line generating capacity an obvious win, because it is always generating income.
Heroku is down for four days
That’s a good point. Relatedly, Jaron Lanier says something quite insightful on the topic that gets to the root (pun) of the problem.

If you think all information should be free, like all software, then the creators of information are not being financially rewarded for creating it. That’s how you end up with cloud data centres making huge profits whilst most OSS projects struggle for cash. It’s also where the business models of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok arise.

Lanier makes a rather odd statement about how web links should be two way to solve this problem. I get his drift, but a better idea is that the web should be built on a more rigorous foundation (see Joe Armstrong’s talk - “the mess we’ve made” - for how it could work). But the general idea is correct - in an information economy either everyone is fairly rewarded for the valuable information they provide, or else you end up with giant companies capturing all the value instead, which leads to gross inequality.

Tbf to Stallman, he is more focused on constraining the worst commercial uses of software, but his fundamental idea that (as per this post) “knitting patterns should be free”, originally something that sounded like an exciting and inspiring idea, has turned out to be absolutely disastrous. He was maybe philosophically correct but in practice, the idea does not serve the best interests of most people.

Information shouldn’t be free (!!! I said that on HN) but rather information should be provided at a cost that is based on both (a) the cost of its provision and (b) the economic value that recipients of that information derive from it. So, for example, OSS authors writing code that underpinned Google’s empire or someone’s SaaS, should get a (small) slice of that pie.

I think once you recognise this, you end up in a really exciting place: like, how could this work in practice? What new concepts do we need to apply to information to do it? Some of the ideas of crypto should come in here: we need to be able to identify information uniquely, for example, so we can track its value. We need to know how many SaaS products are using Bootstrap or whatever. A new type of economy based on fair reward for information is possible. And for once, we do actually need a technical solution to a social problem.
Absolutely correct. The USA worships the car's speed above the child's freedom.
Err… can you explain in more detail how social security works in Poland, and how it is pyramidal, or at least multi-level?
There is something viscerally different between digging tunnels and being indoors tinkering around.
You literally can't make a museum of NFTs because the jpeg they point to is actually distinct from the NFT itself. A museum of NFTs would just be a giant list of hashes
Whoa whoa, don't crap on politician's favorite do-nothing-but-promote-everything method of working! If enough people realized what was really going on, our politicians might actually have to start working for us!
Yeah. And I'd say that anybody wanting to think about life on other planets ought to read Nick Lane's book about the early evolution of life on ours.
And we're definitely in a spot right now where folks that can pay off their loan are holding off in case the US forgives all loans or something. A perverse incentive that is going to boost the number of student loans that are not paid off.
The PSLF has been very badly administered to date. The Biden administration is finally applying it the way it was intended.
>I wager the deforestation taking place in Amazon will have a much larger impact than the absence of this species of mosquito

That might be true but that's also not a reason to deliberately change ecosystems elsewhere.

The issue with mosquitos essentially comes down to risk management. The question is can we intentionally remove a mosquito species from the ecosystem while limiting adverse side affects. Deforestation of the amazon isn't relevant.