skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Demanding "even-stevens" all the time doesn't help the situation at all. The people that were able to pay off their loan debt were people who chose a degree that would be able to make significant money, were talented enough to land a great job in a field without a lot, or had the circumstances that let them finish a degree where others were unable to.

Do some people make bad decisions about degree choice? - Yes

Do some people drop out of school because it's too hard or because of other circumstances (unexpected baby, financial hardship, etc) - Yes

Do those people who either have made bad decisions, had less fortunate circumstances than others, or a combination of both deserve to live under a mountain of debt for the rest of their life? - No

One other thing people don't consider is that Most 18 year olds don't have a good grasp on money or what they want to do in general and in my hometown (poor county in WV) there was a TON of pressure to go to college if you didn't know what you want to do. Kids don't know better to not get into debt for a degree because everyone tells them not to worry about it. There is a serious problem with financial education in the US.

You can help out people who made a bad decision or had bad luck without being so uptight about how everything has to be complete "fair". The world isn't fair from the time we're born till the time we die.
I think claiming that it is not different is disingenuous.

Europe is still grappling with the large wave of non-European immigration from the second half of the 20th century up to now, which has been and is still causing a lot of social and cultural problems.

The last thing Europe needs is to add more fuel to the fire, especially that, again, immigration is not a solution and is not needed.
Nah I don't feel too aggrieved. At the rate they're printing money they'll inflate away everyone's debt in no time at all.
because juggling multiple jobs is stressful and a hassle
Awesome website. Though, I am disincentivized to add my favorite hidden gems, lest they become so crowded that I can no longer use them myself :)
This framing is on its head because America already has a very generous welfare state and hands out money much more liberally than many European states. Including in education which is why there's such an inflation in education cost. The US even has a more progressive taxation system than most European countries.

In Europe education is largely public and thus its subject to budgetary concerns. It's why Germans go to vocational training and have half as many people in tertiary education, there's no degree or cost inflation.

People in the US who aim for European policies need to understand that it consists not of liberal fiscal policy but of robust public services provided by and largely paid for by the middle and working class.
Personally, I’m concerned about our government’s track record of mismanagement and infighting that is detached from the needs of the people. Without that implicit trust, giving them more power is a general concern. Speaking geopolitically, the US military is the most powerful force in history including present day and our economy is the largest globally, which makes us coveted by those who seek to wield power for their own benefit, more so than your average Europe country. If the US were to fall to tyranny, that’d put everyone else at risk. Again, less of that risk with your average European country.

If I lived somewhere like Sweden where there is heavy taxation with equally heavy social benefits, I’d probably be fine with the arrangement and wouldn’t fight it. Sounds nice.

I’m not trying to equate welfare with tyranny, of course. The use of bread and circuses has been associated with the downfall of empires to sway public opinion with a short term good at a long term cost. If you start disrupting our major economic systems like that, we’re more likely to dissolve and those with power would use that weakening to their advantage.
I've been doing the same when I was traveling in Asia :)

Btw, you can also submit and check into food courts on Workmode!
I've added a couple myself haha
Yeah that's a fine sentiment, but I don't feel like I'm getting any love back, so...
It was probably a mistake for the government to provide the funds and low interest rates and for private banks to reap the profits.

And of course universities continue to raise tuition and fees with complete impunity.
I'm not angry at students, I think everyone should have their debt forgiven. I think banks should be canceled to provide equity.
That seems not true for me. I have that setting enabled, and I last updated my computer November last year, and before that in 2019. Just checked my imessage db file and it goes back to 2014.

What you experienced sounds worrying though, I wouldn't want to lose that db on a potential computer upgrade. Do you have any more details on it or what you think happened?
I'd argue that it continues to increase, because everything is a web app packaged into a Chromium instance.
> idiotic licensing issues nobody cares about

The owner of the license cares about it.

This is not copyright being self defeating. This is copyright working as intended. If the persons who own the rights to something don't want to sell it, why do you think random third parties should suddenly be entitled to sell it instead and keep the money?

Sure it's frustrating as a consumer sometimes, and the copyright expiration periods are way too long now in the us. But how is the concept itself flawed, except to self-rationalize theft/piracy?

My latest irritation on this front is the movie Strange Days. One of my old favorites, and my partner has never seen it. The police violence narrative is powerful. Angela Bassett's performance is fire. Juliette Lewis's musical performances are great. It's not available for purchase on bluray in the US, and it's not on any streaming services in the US. Press speculation reports James Cameron owns the rights, and wants to personally oversee the remaster instead of trusting it to others. And he's not got around to that yet. Are you arguing my desire to watch the movie should override James Cameron, the producer and copyright holder's decisions on when or how to sell their artwork?
Two videos I highly recommend on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PEVmflpUCo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAYW9n8i-C4
Why is no one questioning whether this is real?

Reddit is full of far-fetched stories like this that ultimately turn up to be completely fabricated (obviously for the purpose of internet points). While this one isn't ridiculously far-fetched, it's definitely borderline.

Also, the first thing that came to my mind when reading this was the movie Vivarium [1], where one of the main characters does almost exactly this. It sounds like the author watched that movie, modified it slightly, and posted it to /r/advice.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8368406
Nice though didn't work with AutoPagerize Chrome extension with page 2 onwards
Mystery as 100+ former New Jersey school staff and students develop brain tumour
> that one quote in that one movie

Everyone in this thread is talking about different quotes [1].

[1] https://www.fandom.com/articles/jeff-goldblums-greatest-jura...
In the future it will be "machine dreamed-up" instead of "procedural generated".
In this analogy, responsible disclosure would be something like I take a peek in your window and then let you know that I can see inside, and then you can take appropriate action since you probably didn't know your blinds were open a bit.

What weev did was more like set up a 3d scanning apparatus outside the window and create a perfect 3d scan of my entire house through the little opening in my blinds.
Agreed. I sometimes feel tense crossing big box parking lots where mostly no space has been designated to walking. Imagine a small person surrounded by pickup trucks and SUV’s from which they’re completely invisible.
Eindhoven Reinforcement Learning Seminar
"I throw my lot in with the Linux crowd because of freedom: freedom to use the software and not give a fuck about anyone's philosophy or religiousity. "

I am not sure if you really are expected to give a fck about those things when using any of the major OSes. MacOS does not require you to swear allegiance to the cause of gender equality, even if the company behind it does indeed favour it.

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.
That makes sense. What does not is that there's no data available to make an informed decision.
This is the answer. Lenders would then have to do proper qualification on borrowers, would be more limited in their lending, and this would put downward pressure on tuition.
Interesting, maybe I was bringing live turtles? Can't recall if that was possible.
per Google:

https://www.kaseya.com/datto-to-be-acquired-by-kaseya (Apr 2022)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaseya_VSA_ransomware_attack (Jul 2021)
I almost guarantee this is a shelter / disaster prep, the "inherited property" thing is what is the giveaway.

All of a sudden he has a "playground", maybe some cheap property that doesn't have a great use or value otherwise. Those become nice to have for dude toys and dude projects.

Girlfriend of course has multiple agendas that she didn't discuss with him and doesn't like any activity outside of those, which is garden variety manipulative partner stuff.
The most difficult thing I find about C is the (apparent) lack of libraries and packages. With other languages I know where to go to find libraries for anything I need, but I never know where to look with C. As a result I never really use it.

A boilerplate project with testing, common libs for data structures, and pointers to useful resources like extra libs, would be really cool. :)

That said if I had to do something nowadays that I would use C for, I'd probably just pick up Rust.
I’ll be interested to see if others here have a similar aversion to the name, septum, completely separate from the tool itself. Septum is both a very biological word and a word with an almost visceral, bodily intonation. The vision of nasal passages, mucous, deviated septums, etc. Additionally, all the bodily words ending in -tum immediately end up associated in my mind.

Is the name supposed to be illustrative of the adjacency of search results? Or, what is the root of this name, if you’re willing to entertain such a question after hearing my bias?
A "beefy" workstation these days doesn't need to take a lot of space. For example the Intel NUC machines are pretty powerful and can fit in the palm of your hand.

I'm considering something like this for personal compute-intensive projects, or things that I want to continue running while my laptop is closed.

If your workload is really greater than a machine like that can handle, you should probably be considering some kind of cloud based compute option.

The only case I can think of where a really powerful local computer is required is the link stage of a huge monolithic binary, which by it's very nature is not parallelizable, but you'd never do that on the laptop anyways.
That's what has been done until now. Germany even had an explicit policy of economic interdependence to make a war unimaginable. You can see how well that worked, right?
that is not what i asked. why did YC fund hackerrank? sounds like a shitty idea and bad for our industry.
I was about to make the same comment, that's indeed my biggest fear, this video makes good points about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYsE7T2hXe8
Thanks for following up!

I guess what happened is a user of your system tried to be funny. In this utterance there are 3 short fully grammatical sentences. And a 4th one which is not very grammatical but fully understandable, commanding the device to clean the carpet :)

- Cleaning is good.

- Dust is so bad.

- Make your miracle.

- Cleanly my carpet. [1]

[1] original is an ungrammatical imperative

Some (more) human review would have been needed.

The Finnish samples are full of very weird utterances, too. Some like people might have written over 50 years ago, but nobody would speak like this.

Maybe they were reviewed on Mechanical turk with moderate requirements / payment? Well, you get what you pay for...
Dreams of the Universal Library
any chance there might be a thinkpad x/t series style case made for these?

knocking off the mac is kinda cute, but mac laptop ergonomics and durability are terrible.
Nextdoor post in my neighborhood complained about a "suspicious car" that "scouts the area" around 11pm at night. Whipped enough people into a frenzy to where someone decided to block the car and confront the driver one night. They wound up being a neighbor who gets off late every night, driving straight to their house. The driver made a post chastising the community for targeting them, but it got removed because it was too "political".
These stories are why I'd never use a service like this until it reaches some maturity.
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FYI check your local law before attempting this. A few states in the US have legal minimums for allowing your kids to roam/be alone and they vary, but many do not!
From the users of Workmode

You can create an account and actually check into places on Workmode :)
You can do so by clicking on the button in the bottom right corner.
It starts a speed test and review form.
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Hillary Clinton and friends claimed the election was illegitimate and that it was stolen by Russian influence and/or hackers. Clinton supporters then violently attacked Trump's inauguration.

I would agree there is a difference in scale - more violence at the January 6th thing and more incendiary rhetoric from Trump's camp, but I don't think there is a difference in kind. They are both the same kind of thing. I would say they are both protests that got out of control and turned violent. You seem to be saying the January 6th thing is a coup, but it's odd that you don't describe the fundamentally similar Trump inauguration thing the same way.

Finally, on the subject of the difference in scale, I would just say that it doesn't seem particularly meaningful because there is a massive difference between a real coup attempt (say, the 2016 Turkish coup) and January 6th. The difference in scale between January 6th and Trump's inauguration protests is relatively slight.
I also do this. I recently picked up an Acer Spin 713, which I'm very happy with. On the one hand it can be a terminal to a honking desktop machine, or something beefy in the cloud, but it also runs Linux just fine, so I can do a fair amount of local development if network access is limited or non-existent.
In CA there's laws specifically against leaving a child in the car due to risk of overheating.

There's no laws about leaving them at home alone.

That being said, there have been lots of horror stories of other adults calling the cops out of concern for child "neglect." And this creates a huge hassle for the parents. Try to figure out our neighborhood's feelings on the topic, and obviously look into the Free Range Kids movement for resources.
22oz of beef per day seems crazy high for peacetime cattle ranch owners, let alone deployed infantry. (I’d love it, but that’s 5.5 quarter pounders per day, which seems really high for wartime rations. If the US pulled that off, that had to be a massive [relative] advantage in troop energy and morale.)
It was 1968 during what was called (at the time) the Hong Kong flu outbreak. I was 5 years old. I was the only person in the house who was not stricken by it - my parents, uncle, sister, cousin all had it and it seemed to hit them pretty hard. But I was fine. I recall several days where I was pretty much on my own as the adults who had it were bed-ridden. At one point my mom sent me to the store about 1/2 mile away with a note I was to hand to the grocer and $5 for milk, eggs, bread and soup. I was able to complete the mission.
The second you run in debug mode with breakpoints in VSCode or Goland you're using Delve. I actually think VSCode uses Delve by default. It's the standard debugger. And it's not complex, most people are interacting with it though their IDE/Editor UI.

Most people actually don't know about the race detector. It's not surprising at all that Delve is used more often.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_regulation_in_the_United_...
Netflix loses $45B in value as subscriber numbers drop
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>if you look at a government as investing in its citizens like a VC fund, then providing education and medical care is sensible

Be careful what you wish for. if the US was a VC fund, they'll have to not invest in every company they come across and perform due diligence, which probably means excluding disadvantaged people with poor academic records.
What? That's not at all responsive to the GP.
Helpful map and catalogue of relevant laws in the US:
https://letgrow.org/resources/state-policy-maps
The topic at hand is, specifically, that nobody makes cores that enforce alignment restrictions anymore. So, it doesn't matter where the pointer goes. All that matters is if your compiler lays out its structs the same way as whoever compiled the code a pointer to one ends up in.

There are embedded targets that still enforce alignment restrictions, but you are even less likely to pass pointers between code compiled with different compilers, there.
Pure research for scientific purposes is done by Ph.D. students and is already funded by research grants. Student loans are not part of the equation here.
A future where universities looked more like community colleges situated next to research institutes, rather than weirdly blending the two, could be neat.

Have people really interested in teaching rather than research teach the 100/200-level courses. The scientists next door can teach seniors and juniors, and show up for guest lectures.
Just like in GMail
Exactly. Plug the hole first (or concurrently), and then worry about bailing water. Additionally, as others have mentioned, it needs to be done in such a way that we aren't punishing those who have been responsible and made sacrifices to pay off their loans.

I'm not opposed to student loan forgiveness, but I don't think it's nearly as popular as many progressives would like to believe as a standalone proposal. Come up with some qualifications and limitations for reimbursing past loan payments, as well as a systemic fix for the future, and I'd be all for it.

All that being said, is it still wise to forgive student loans at this particular time? Originally, the pitch was that it would help act as a stimulus during the pandemic downturn. Now that we're dealing with the opposite situation, I don't see the rush. Maybe a bill could be passed that had a delayed or gradual effect.
Really? OP should have put every requirement in the title? You couldn't have just read the requirements then moved on? And because you didn't then OP deserves these nonsense responses?

Get a grip.
I think so. Scuba divers use a BCD (buoyancy control device) that sounds similar - it's used to control buoyancy only.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_laws_in_the_United_S...
> People who have paid their student loan debt are in exactly the same situation they were after this forgiveness than they were before: that is, they have no student loan debt.

You're missing the point, either deliberately or on accident.

(Prefacing this with: we should keep and honor the terms of the existing PSLF program that students relied on when taking on debt.) There's no particular reason people with current loan debt, but ineligible for PSLF, should get a wealth transfer from other taxpayers with similar income, net worth, and expenses -- but no current student loan debt.

> People in the US are not punished for being financially responsible. They are rewarded for taking risks, but not punished for being responsible.

In fact, a hypothetical student debt forgiveness event like GP was discussing would punish those who responsibly paid off their student debts relative to similar-earning classmates who did not.
Technically, without a dot at the end any domain name is a partially qualified domain name. Technically, 'gmail.com' should mean 'gmail.com.local.search.domain.' if your local search domain/zone is "local.search.domain."
Oh yes absolutely, he explained that initially the other villagers had thought him crazy, then after a few years and visible progress some started giving him food or chipping in for tools replacement.
Using a new language for a new project is a risk. Risks need to be weighed, and new languages rarely offer such a huge benefit that it's worth taking that risk over others. [0]

Also, it takes years to get fluent in a language.

I know every programmer likes to believe they can learn a language in a week or so, but that's really just the syntax and semantics. Becoming fluent means inhaling best practices and reading through years of PIPs and forum posts and pull requests, and watching other people struggle to solve weird problems and seeing how small choices in development impact future maintenance. Turning all of that into "unconscious competence" takes time, and it's obvious when people haven't put in that time.

Basically, I've spent a lot of time debugging Perl/Python/Go code written by people who only knew the bare syntax, and were obviously C/C++/Java programmers, and it was not a happy time.

[0] - Two exceptions I've seen were switching from PHP to Ruby on Rails back in 2005, and switching from Perl to Java for its typing and IDE support.
Yes, libraries have been one of my best choices for a year, instead of an hour driving to the office, I changed my routine to 10 min, grab a coffee, and head to the library. The only downside is you can't make a phone call in a library, sometimes I had to run to the parking lot (which also has wifi covered) to take Zoom calls :D
I can clearly see daily, weekly and seasonal lumps in your graph. Why do you think that contradicts what I said?

And note that's averaged across 4 years, across the whole US across multiple time zones and doesn't include energy for heat currently not sourced from electricity.

Cold places use more energy in winter and in cold years, the opposite in hot places that need a lot of cooling.

But, let's put that all to one side, on that graph what amount of energy are you intending to generate with nuclear and what are you intending to do with the excess (if you aim high) or with the peaks (if you aim low). Because whatever you do, is almost certainly going to be the same things renewables would do when demand and supply don't meet exactly. Like pumped hydro or off peak pricing which already exists and is therefore included in your "flat" graph.
I would go for framework.

Maybe if the Lenovo X13s (ARM) is out and reviews are good, that might be an alternative.

When 13 is a bit small, you could go for Lenovo T14s...

But honestly, if you just wanna use this machine for development, a used Lenovo T480s with 24GB RAM and HiDPI display would be more than enough and costs about 500 bucks.
I just ignore it, we all know they don't actually believe it in their heart of hearts. It's just a failure of empathy, which is all too common nowadays.

People just like being edgy, best to give them no mind.
"stranger danger" isn't just a delusion of over-protective parents...my own daughter has told me numerous times over the years of being followed and approached by males she did not know (a car following her slowly, a middle-aged man "asking her out" repeatedly in a park, etc)

we didn't respond to these instances by locking her up, but I'm not going to dismiss parents who are protective
> as it's being actively studied

Note the wording ”being”. We can actually conclude results in 10 years when we might generally agree some information. It takes time.