skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't fall prey to these tales to yourself.

I worked full time thru college for bad pay and still needed 30k in student loans to make it out with my degree. I went to a state school, nothing fancy.

I hardly ever had fun in college, it was awful. The working world is waaaaaaay better for me.

Not everyone who has loan debt just partied away on borrowed cash.
`+` is a legal part of the mailbox name everywhere but gmail (and gmail clones). Broken "checks" like these are exactly what the simple validation is avoiding.
> Germany has tried the "pure" route once before, it did not end well

What are you talking about? It went great, and it ended with them dominating Europe financially and industrially. Ethically it was a disaster of course, but practically observing the aftereffects you have to be kind of impressed. Not many countries get absolutely demolished and then manage to turn that into a win somehow.

Edit: I'm not fond of the Nazis, this is more of an observation.
You do know there are vaccines now?

Ps. Locking a couple of million is more appropriate, not 10.

But they are grouping together to get tested for COVID ( and getting it then, it seems)
It's pretty hard to repo an education.
I maintain that "you either love it or hate it" is the most ingeniously manipulative advertising slogan of all time.

It catches you off-guard. "Why are they admitting that many people hate their product?" While you're distracted by that, the real payload is dropped into your subconscious: "I don't hate Marmite - therefore I must love it". And the meme-like quality means that the false dichotomy is socially reinforced once in a while for good measure.

Marmite certainly has a distinctive taste, and many don't like it. But I doubt marmite preferences are really bimodal. When asked if I love or hate Marmite, I tend to say something like: "It's OK - Nice-ish". I have received reactions ranging from dumbfounded confusion to outright aggression.

Wake up sheeple!
> These weren't un-executed ideas, though

I think you're straw-manning what I said a bit.
Applied Materials: America's Biggest Semiconductor Equipment Maker
"Stabilization of gamma sulfur at room temperature to enable the use of carbonate electrolyte in Li-S batteries" https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-022-00626-2
There should be no student loan forgiveness. But bankruptcy should get you out of them.

As it stands, not even bankruptcy gets rid of student loans. This is true in the UK too.
A History of Eve Database Server Hardware
The article isn't loading for me (504 error), so hopefully my headline-based comment isn't too far off-topic:

Now that we know sincerity can be signaled, candidates can now cynically practice being the most sincere.
~12 years ago in Austin TX:

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crews-arrive-to-fill-in-tu...
I was gonna say

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

except Product Hunt never appealed to me. It seemed to attract people who were interested in the idea of products but not who were interested in products.
The Bay Area is not immune to anti-walking nonsense. At the elementary school that was formerly close to my home (which my children did not attend, specifically due to said nonsense) the children who were walking home had to stay at school for 45 minutes while "pick-up time", i.e. parents with cars picking up children, was conducted. This was deemed a safety measure.
Enjoyable to see someone reasoning creatively about various ways to
solve this. In the end there are so many ways, each giving their own
feel. I would do generative landscapes by starting with Perlin noise
clouds, low pass filtering and then "flooding" the height-map with a
water table. That's basically how old generative landscapes like Bryce
used to work I think. For caves, pick a min and max plane, extrude to
get walls. As mentioned in the article checking connectivity was
always the PITA - and with 3D procedural mazes you have to also check
they're passable for the chosen engine's collision code.

That's how I learned about my favourite constant... Gerver's optimal
sofa constant...the maximum size sofa that can move around a
unit corner [1].

[1] https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Sofaproblem
I second System76 for these exact reasons as well. I like their hardware and Pop!_OS customizations, but I love their company and support.
Depending on where you live it’s very possible iTunes songs had DRM in 2006 so you’re limited to playing those everywhere.

Does anyone do this as you’d like to see it with software? Maybe Valve?
I have yet to hear of a mountain biker causing a collapse that destroys a nearby road, which someone raised as absolutely a possibility here. Less that the risks are "novel" and more that they are absolutely known in the mining industry which is why this is illegal.
The war in Ukraine is changing – and the West now faces a stark choice
I primarily use Pop_OS (Ubuntnu derivative) on a Thinkpad X1 as my development laptop. I'm able to run a few containers and VMs, vscode, some utils, spotify (via it's electron app), bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth headphones, with no issues. Pretty much all of the hardware stuff like bluetooth and wifi was supported out of the box.

I normally work next to a power outlet, but if I don't have one my typical dev setup (vscode, spotify, some bluetooth, some containers running) gives me somewhere between 3 - 6 hours, which is pretty good imo.

When I was feeling cheeky I setup Steam and got some basic games running through the Proton compatibility layer. That seems to have broken my ability to do updates due to some issues with Nvidia drivers and I'll look at that at some point.

Overall though, an X1 with Linux can get you really far these days. I do have Windows around to dual boot if I need to but it is much slower and burns through battery like a jet plane through fuel.
Yes, but North Korean control is also not really desirable.
I share your opinion of the new official doc site, and also use https://godocs.io when I need online docs for something.

But as another alternative, a sibling comment mentions running the docs locally, which is my main way to access the docs now. For anyone else wanting to try it:

> godoc -http 127.0.0.1:6060 -play

(the "-play" makes the examples runnable)

Works like a charm!
Nah, it's all about getting to that sweet, sweet flow state
You should look into amortized complexity. That's the formalized name for worst case runtime over multiple trials.
I agree with your main point but it's worth it to point out that air tightness is only a consideration in climates with really cold seasons. I live in a roughly mediterranean region (Lisbon) and it drives me up the wall to see people spend fortunes on passive-haus-like builds.

Meanwhile my own home is about 200 years old, built out of stone and lime, has no air tightness whatsoever -in fact it had a 5m2 hole in an exterior wall for most of 2020 and 2021- and I'm perfectly confortable with no environmental heating or cooling. Windows are opened every day of the year.

Good design and a good location beat excellent construction any day of the week.
Not just that, but with interest rates at zero and inflation at 8.5% per year (and growing!) it is incredibly stupid to pay even a single penny of federal loan debt early, unless you have a really good need to polish your credit score.

Federal student loan debts are getting cheaper by the minute, why pay more now?
Not in the US they can't.

"officials placed two brothers into foster care after one, 11, was found playing basketball alone in his own yard."

He'd gotten home early from school and his parents came 90 minutes later. He was in his own yard. The family lost their children to foster care. Ironically in foster care ACTUAL abuse rates are pretty darn high!

"When Cindy and Fred arrived home they were arrested for child neglect — then fingerprinted, strip searched, and held in jail overnight.Their kids, meanwhile, including their 4-year-old boy, were removed from the home and from their parents’ custody"

Mom worked in the school district ironically.

"We still do not have our children, we are fighting for our own freedom and due to the nature of my employment I am no longer employed,” she wrote. “My son was in his own yard playing basketball, not in the street or at the park. The authorities claim he had no access to water or shelter. We have an open shed in the back yard and 2 working sinks and 2 hoses. They said he had no food. He ate his snacks already. He had no bathroom, but the responding officer found our yard good enough to relieve himself in while our son sat in a police car alone."

Being accused of child abuse / neglect is a career ender. The idea of my 4 year old being taken is beyond belief. What is so ironic is so many real / terrible things are happening (crime of all sorts / abuse in the traditional sense / financial fraud online) where nothing happens. But your kid shoots some hoops in their own yard, you lose custody. You are jailed and strip searched. You lose your job.

I realize big government is here to protect us, I just wish they would focus on the harder problems.
I care less about the "Feds" than Comcast, my mobile provider, or literally any other actor on the SMS chain. Not to mention potentially corrupt local law enforcement or litigious former-friends.

Encryption, like deadbolts, helps society function.
Good summary, you're unusual (and have good taste). :-)
Looking for Technical Co-Founder ASAP
Hey HN,

this is my first post on HN. After reading many posts and submits as well as success stories, I thought to give this a shot.

Situation is the following:
My team and I are hacking away different projects for a couple of years by now. We have been active primarily in the Gaming and Esport Market and build products for problems we were seeing. In September/ October 2021 we went ahead and entered the Blockchain Crazyness (investors since 2016, but going full-time from a business/ entrepreneurial perspective in 2021).

We started off with a NFT project and, being very community driven, had the community vote on the chain we will be launching on. This vote ended us being voted on Hedera HashGraph, a Top 30 Blockchain with NFT Infrastructure in Place since about 6 months. Hedera is a Distributed Ledger Technology and is traded among the best chains when it comes to fast transactions and environment friendliness.
To give the NFTs more utility, we've started building up the first NFT Marketplace on Hedera HashGraph. Quickly, we've reached almost a thousand users and a couple of thousands revenue generated.

While we said mentally goodbye to VCs after former products and with the beauty of the blockchain ecosystem (we are crowdfunding with NFTs, early investors are sort-of early backers), this changed: We talked to one single VC and got a termsheet on our table.

After discussing it team internally, if we want to go that route, we decided to do it. If we say yes to something, we are doubling down on that like crazy. We are working non-stop and keep building and shipping.

What a bummer it was, after we crashed through the Tech Due Dilligence, reason for that: We do not have a Computer Science graduate on the team.

We have been presented a timeline that we need to find a Technical Co-Founder until next Monday (5 days from writing) to have that deal working. While finding Co-Founders is sometimes difficult, we were thinking about the old Brian Armstrong, finding his Co-Founders only few hours before joining YC. Great companies are build by the madness of time constraint sometimes. Thus, this post.

We are looking for a Technical Co-Founder ASAP.

Few details:
You should be able to build WebApplications, our techstack is React and Typescript.
Blockchain Knowledge is appreciated, but not required.
We are based in Berlin, Germany - being in similar timezones (+-3 hours) is benefitial, but not required.

To us:
We are having a large vision, building the whole NFT Infrastructure for Hedera (think OpenSea, RarityTools, Icy.Tools, NFTBank - together)
We are hardworking and ultra-commited
We know what we are doing but never stop learning
We are building user-centric and community-first

If this sounds interesting to you and you want to join a venture-backed startup, please reach out via the mail in my profile and we schedule a meeting ASAP.

Fingers crossed!
This is just the Education department doing what it is required to do under various federal programs that have (pretty much by definition) existed for over a decade.

We can have a productive conversation about whether those programs were too generous or had unintended consequences, but millions of people have structured their finances around these programs and the rules in them - it's a rug-pull to suddenly have regrets and oppose the policies only now that the remaining balances are being wiped out.
If people could default on these loans, what incentive is there for lenders to agree to the loans in the first place? If you're a lender, why would you agree to a $50K loan to a teenager with no credit who can just default?
Thanks for this. I quite like how Russian characters look in GNU Unifont:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180321021749/http://czyborra.c...

For my own needs, I prefer IBM VGA 8x16 from The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_vga_...

Might try GNU Unifont now, though.
Having worked in EDA myself, though not on these final signoff steps, I agree that purely geometry-based checks really don't need doubles. Most of it should just be done as 32-bit fixed point. Both because it's better for performance, and because it drives home the point that you need to think carefully about precision issues for correctness reasons. Using doubles is just a band-aid.

I'm less confident about it when it comes to anything that involves calculating anything electromagnetic because I just don't know that subfield.
One important aspect of this that I often see people forgetting is that this check is designed for working with ASCII, but the domain name at least can be non-ASCII. User interfaces should remember to support IDN in domain labels and convert it to punycode before validating, and if you store A-labels (which you probably do) then convert it back to IDN form when presenting it to users.

(Alas, <input type=email> still doesn’t support non-ASCII in the local part, which isn’t supported everywhere but is, I believe, fairly widely supported now. See https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4562 plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address_internationaliza... for a little more background on what it is.)
The next pain point is that most of those libraries have custom build processes etc. This is a far cry from what most developers work with. Conan is making progress, but the overlap of C projects which also work with Conan appears small.

Many practical C projects seem to simply fork any dependencies they want to use and stick them in their own internal repo/build process.
I guess the way I'd put it is that in internet etiquette, asking something like
"Are you saying science should progress regardless of consequences?" isn't a reasonable response to a comment like "Nothing has held back science and progress more than that one quote in that one movie. Pretty amazing if you think about it.
"

They didn't say science should progress regardless of consequences, they didn't imply it, and the way you ask it sounds like you want to start an argument. Instead, what they said was that likely some legitimate scientific endeavours were discouraged by people quoting the movie when their concern wasn't warranted.

I say this as somebody who spend 30 years learning how to permanently modify human genomes only to conclude we're not even remotely ready to have the ethics conversations those things would lead to.