skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe in your next reply you could expand on this idea

From my earlier post in this same thread:

"I didn't imply GOOG was setting up gulags, but I will refer to my early comment in response - it's either naive or bad faith to say that network effects from dominant players do not lead to enforcement in everything but name, and that the scope of concerns from engineers and the products they build should stop at "well, its just a feature." Algorithmic news feeds on social media was just a feature too.

Enforcements, mandates, suggestions, impacts, governances, features - spitting hairs semantically on the overall issue that tech "features" shape areas that tech and its product owners have no business shaping/influencing/impacting/enforcing but still do anyway, let alone even understand, and the downstream ramifications are significant.

They get away with it partially via enablers like your view which minimize the dynamic to local examples that open up framing the counterpoint as something absurd - yes, Google's gulags aren't built yet.

Edit - to put at least one impact of tech like this another way, it's not Google that puts a user in a gulag. It's the coworker of the user who notices a phrase the coworker also typed, was caught by Google, and the coworker corrected - why didn't that user also change it? All these second order effects were doubtlessly considered by that Google product team, I'm sure? Putting aside my original point that Google doesn't even belong in this space by a mile."
The title can be read in an extremely misleading way. The US has forgiven forty thousand individuals loans. Not 40k per individual.

It’s how I first read it. Since there are millions of US citizens with student loans that’s far less than 1% and doesn’t seem… news worthy.

Whatever broader relief the government is offering could be news but the details are extremely scant so far.
Sounds ideal in principle (principal?), but low interest/risk on student loans is what allowed tuition to inflate well beyond general inflation in the last several decades.
Fun to play around with, nice job. Looking at all the cafes and coffeeshops from the before times when going out was safe and working from home wasn't the norm.

Random: a 'workplace' near me is listed on the map but it's a medical supplies store? Not sure why it's listed as an option, pretty sure there's nothing in there but retail. What's the criteria for your listings?
End federal involvement in student loan and allow student loan debt to be discharged in bankruptcy. Problem solved.
This is literally an attack on blue collar workers. What do they get from this?
Particularly a while ago it was nearly impossible to utilize the program because it was a bureaucratic and underfunded mess. So the number who qualified was effectively zero.

Now it's marginally less terrible and actually forgiving some people's loans.
I am a parent and have a vested interest in this. That sounds like it can work, though my car and my phone do not reliably connect via bluetooth and I am sure there are other cars like that.
And also reimburse the people who sacrificed to pay theirs off or avoid them in the first place. I’d donate my reimbursement if they did, but of course they won’t.
[Ads showing]

Viewer: "Sony"

[Ads stop]

Viewer: "...sucks!"

[Ads back]
> Do you scan the internet yourself and proactively warn customers when their real IP is findable in this way?

There is no reason for them to scan the internet. They could simply probe the configured origin server from an IP outside the whitelisted cloudflare IP range, and display a warning if it's accessible.
Same here. The Go approach is easy to read and eye compile. I can't stand exceptions now.
Perhaps in China, or some other country that doesn’t value human life. In the West we generally don’t just watch people drown and say “sucks to be them.”
Just to have some perspective, that's 40k out of ~40 million, or about 0.1%.

The cynic in me is already speculating on why/how that 0.1% was chosen ...
> I'm applying for principal engineer roles, however the companys I've interviewed for are looking for this role to be primarily focussed on moving tickets across a JIRA board, which isn't really what I'm shooting for.

That isn't what a principal is for. Avoid that place like the plague.
> As I established a more Go-minded approach, it became much more pleasant.

Could you explain more by any chance?
Plus, colleges and universities will think twice about increasingly charging an egregious amount for tuition if people aren't willing to buy their product no matter the price.
Any of your masters programs cover the tragedy of the commons?
>The contemporary art market is exactly what you describe.

Yes, there are strong parallels between the art market and the NFT market. The main one being that money laundering seems to be the primary purpose of both. But at least art does provide people with some level of subjective enjoyment beyond that.
Why even port GCC at all, and not simply LLVM?
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Magic-Chef-3-5-cu-ft-Mini-Fridge...
"Yuppies"? What decade is this?
This reminds me of our AR future! https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs
His thesis is not convincing at all. Pseudo-intellectualism all the way!
It really seems like this "no PR" idea is having a moment on HN. I can't tell if it's just engagement bait contrarianism or genuine. That any developer would trust themselves even to just not make simple typo's is baffling to me.

Maybe the kernel of a good idea in the comment: A team that prioritizes reviews, such that PR's are not a significant hurdle, is indeed a sign of a mature team.
Yes around 2016 they finally started gathering real data and it was so remarkably high in certain areas they brought in the foreign buyer tax. It only took like a month of data before the government, which btw long dismissed that there was any problem, was convinced that there was a real problem.
That's where the 40,000 in the headline comes from. But the article also says this:

> Several thousand borrowers with older loans will also receive forgiveness through income-driven repayment (IDR) forgiveness, plus another 3.6 million borrowers will receive at least three years of additional credit toward IDR forgiveness, the Education Department said in a statement.
This NPR article goes more in depth about this: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/19/1093310151/student-loans-inco...
> People read into this and think big Sony/BMG money but in reality it's tiny contractors.

There's a general trend for people to treat the happenstance actions of individual workers as fully-intentioned top-down decisions of a unified, hivemind multi-billion dollar entity. A previous employer of mine has been in the news for things where a shortcut by a single lazy engineer was interpreted as a political attack on free software.
But there is a important point here too - these loans are issued with too low of an interest rate BECAUSE they are guaranteed by the government.

Drop that guarantee and the interest rate is going to float to more of a credit card level, which will make them prohibitive for funding tuition, which will put an extreme downward pressure on tuition rates.
> Why Mac seems to attract so fanatic behavior?

Ever think it’s simply because they are amazing machines instead of being some conspiracy or mass brainwashing?
Autoplay. One of the single most stupid default settings in Windows ever since Windows supported removable media, which is a while ago. It's up there with the default of hiding full file names from you.

Basically, if you inserted the disc, Windows would see the data partition, and "helpfully" run the installer for you. Then you'd have the driver installed, and it would block access to read the disc as a generic music disc.
I follow tens of Emirates staff on my instagram and it’s really hard to square this with all the profiles of openly gay Dubai residents I know.

Was your friend perhaps a local? The rules are unfortunately different depending on where you come from.
Is there a no-cost option if I don’t want to upgrade?
A no-cost option will be available for all customers who do not want to use Gmail with their custom domain (for example, your-name@example.com), or the ability to manage multiple users. Customers who choose this option will retain access to the no-cost version of Google Workspace services such as Google Drive and Google Meet, and additional Google services such as Google Search, Google Maps, and YouTube. You will also retain access to paid content such as movies purchased in the Google Play Store.

You'll see a message about the waiting list in your Google Admin console in the coming weeks.

If you want the no cost option, you need to join this waiting list in the Google Admin console before June 1, 2022, so your account is not automatically upgraded to Google Workspace. Those on the waiting list will remain on the G Suite legacy free edition until the no-cost option is available. Once the no-cost option is available, we’ll be in touch with more details on what will happen to your account. You will have 60 days to evaluate the no-cost option or choose Google Workspace before any changes are made to your account.

If you change your mind after you join the waiting list for the no-cost option, you’ll still be able to upgrade to Google Workspace at any time.
Let me guess - it's not "genocide" because there's no such thing as a "Ukrainian" ?
Visicalc was not free software. Unix is from the 70's, but Linux 1.0 is from 1994.

The point is not just in having an application, the point is in having an application created under the new paradigm.
Not convinced - a sensible bank will look at the likelihood of a person to get a good job after their education, and might conclude that while choosing Engineering over Art History is a factor, there are far stronger factors like

- parents wealth and social position
- wealth of parents of peer group at the university
- skin colour, gender
- propensity for drug alcohol abuse in the family
- heart and other medical conditions that might result in early death

We choose welfare insurance at the state level to avoid / correct these undesirable features of our current society, not to continues them into the next generation
Also, cryptocurrencies help Russians evade sanctions, that were put on them for genocide in Ukraine.
Nextdoor is very revealing. I had no idea how racist my neighbors were until I read the Nextdoor post about a suspicious cherrypicker truck driver in the neighborhood, who suspiciously claimed to work for the power company.
I’d also add the book “But How Do It Know?” from J. Clark Scott as a fantastic primer, building from gates to RAM and CPU, to a simple bootloader and assembly programming. It comes with a CPU simulator on the book’s website so you could make sense of what you’re learning - and being a light read you could reasonably finish it in a week.

http://www.buthowdoitknow.com
> the single largest source of death in human history.

Government?
Semantics, they should stop underwriting them.
I am doing some research for a personal project and wanted to integrate a tiny and fast http server. Most of the good and suitable open source code are built with C. You want small + fast, C, C++ and Pascal is still the way to go.
I let my three kids walk to school, the park, around the corner to friend’s houses. Neighbors complained to my face multiple times, and threatened to call CPS twice. My children all survived to adulthood.

I was walking to school with other kids when I was four, no one had a problem with it then. Teaching kids to fear everyone and the world they live in doesn’t do them any good — it just causes anxiety.
In most countries, more equity would not benefit the ruling class. Do you have a political solution that accounts for this which I could suggest to my representative? Because absent one, a digital gold standard seems the least bad option to me.
>the ecological niche left by Aedes aegypti will be filled by other mosquito species, and no ecological disaster will occur.

This cannot be claimed with any degree of certainty.

Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign
How else would you study the effects of muscularity in attraction? You have to control for the other factors.

This study - as unlike real life as it is - indicates what we all know… being more muscular is generally good for men in attracting women. If it wasn’t true - why the fuck is everyone’s advice always to hit the gym and get some muscle? It’s because it’s known to have some effect.

Yes, other things matter but muscles do too!! Stop trying to act like people don’t give a fuck about physical attraction! It’s the most important thing to starting a relationship! (It is an absolute deal breaker in our modern society to find your partner ugly!)
Yes, I agree! You can also submit and check into libraries on Workmode.co!
Why would it take multiple, multiple seconds to download JS bundle (cached behind Cloudflare) and then make a request for initial data (probably also cached behind Cloudflare)? Overhead of downloading most of the app is likely less than that of loading a single hero image from said website.
The 16bit chip had to be backward compatible with the 8bit, no?
We don't want others not like us to get benefits, especially if it's paid out of a common tax pool. Even if it's not, if we're not eligible for the same benefits. The US population has had decades (almost centuries) of us vs them politics within the country.
Yep that's right. It relied on autorun to install the driver when the CD was inserted. If that was disabled and the driver never installed then it was just normal 'bluebook' CD.
This create market driven dynamics in which degrees basically are tailor made for industry. This approach disincentivizes pure research for scientific purposes.
Well, sure, because Apple makes it impossible to develop for iOS devices without using a Mac. So you HAVE to fully buy into their ecosystem if you want to develop anything for their mobile phones.
Exactly, this is pure PR the headline should be “Government Fulfills Terms of Loans it Failed to Meet”
Ask HN: Do you use an optimization solver? Which one? Do you like it?
We’re trying to bring new ideas to the optimization space. We’ve used a bunch of technologies over time (CP, MIP, LP, heuristics, etc.). We’ve built our own solver (for https://www.nextmv.io) and learned a lot along the way.

Solvers are amazing. MIP solvers, for example, are some of the fastest and most mature software packages that exist. They’re also wickedly challenging to use effectively.

Do you use optimization solvers? Which ones? Why? Do you like them? Why or why not?
Amen - tuitions are skyrocketing because of the "free money".

It is also awful public policy to train people to get into debt right out of the gate - this just has all sorts of bad long term consequences.
It used to be that for PSLF you had to make 120 sequential "on-time" payments and if your loan provider claimed (correctly or incorrectly) that one of them was late then the clock would reset, making it next to impossible for anyone to claim the benefit. A 10-year clock that can be reset at any time by the bank isn't good.

I believe they fixed it (possibly temporarily) so that the clock no longer resets.

This is a partial fix. The full fix would be to have PLSF pay out incrementally, say 10% after each 12 payments.
Ohio is the U.S. State with the highest road density, IIRC.
US experiences come to me like from an alien world, most of the time. Zoning laws messing with cafes, banks kicking sex workers, and this is only from the last 5 minutes HN reads...

And back to the topic: yes banks deserve some stronger kicks and that can be achieved only through politics (aka, getting involved). Cryptids only shuffle the burden around a bit.
There's also a (probably apocryphal) story about Seymour Cray (the supercomputers guy) digging his tunnel too:

> John Rollwagen, a colleague for many years, tells the story of a French scientist who visited Cray's home in Chippewa Falls. Asked what were the secrets of his success, Cray said "Well, we have elves here, and they help me". Cray subsequently showed his visitor a tunnel he had built under his house, explaining that when he reached an impasse in his computer design, he would retire to the tunnel to dig. "While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem", he said. [1]

[1]: https://boingboing.net/2006/08/10/seymour-cray-liked-t.html
> Monero FTW.

Monero makes things more difficult, not impossible. If the government decides to outlaw Monero then by definition it will only be used by outlaws, and so long as the majority of the population doesn't see trading in Monero as worth the risk, it will remain limited in scope.

> You're saying a non-citizen isn't a person? I find all your viewpoints defeatist. Maybe that or you still side with governments worldwide? If so, fine, but I don't.

All right, you define what a "person" is and how it's relevant to this discussion. For all practical matters a random person in Angola might as well not exist to the US government, unless the US government decides they're important enough to warrant attention.

I fail to see how the government not being able to deny my being a biological human is relevant here. And actually theoretically they could deny it and refuse to treat me as a person, it just wouldn't change the laws of physics. The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia were notorious for telling people they couldn't be starving because "we're all equal, so if we're not all starving how can you be starving?"

I also wouldn't call my views "defeatist", I'm just presenting uncomfortable truths that I've yet to hear a coherent strategy for tackling. Which can be summed up as: "How do you plan to handle the men with guns, and the authority to use them, who don't agree with you?"

> Do they though? In America, from a purely signals and systems perspective, my choice comes down to red or blue (1 or 0) on a number of representatives and measures I do get to vote on--that's ignoring possibly corrupt voting.

> In the myriad of complicated laws that are passed, and even wars that are fought, I don't get more say than a binary choice on abstractions (representatives)? In what way is that government ruled by the people!?

I'm not saying the system is not corrupt or that it's perfectly representative. No system is either. But changes do generally follow the will of the populace in the long term on issues that affect a given population as a whole. Just look at Marijuana legalization, or the fact that we did withdraw (albeit with criminal incompetence) from Afghanistan. Now whether those changes are objectively positive or negative is another story, the whole process is full of half-measures, short-term thinking, corruption and unsatisfying messes. And citizens don't have perfect power as they would in a direct democracy (for good reason, lots of issues there). But we've yet to figure out anything better than some variety of democracy, and I don't see how crypto solves any of these problems unless you think the government has already collapsed beyond the ability to enforce laws on crypto users (it hasn't, at least in the US).

You can either try to reform the system or replace it. Either way you need a solid plan for what comes after that accounts for the known variables, and I've yet to hear a "crypto will replace the dollar" argument that does so, from even a cursory reading of history.
There's a whole new kind of fishing lure called a swimbait, of which there is a sub-type that's just a jointed fish shape. You cast it out, and reel it in, and it waves like a flag, looking exactly like a swimming fish. The only thing powering it is hydrodynamics.
I am fully on board with this idea.
The government provides education for people who want it.
They better themselves, they better the economy and taxes.
A side benefit is that educated people also better the human race as a whole.
He probably won’t forgive your mortgage but he (and virtually every politician of either party) will give you plenty of free money through the continuation of all the regressive policies that favor property owners to prop up the economy via the “property values always go up!” con game.

So, I am not sure that you need to feel too aggrieved. Cheers!
> cannot be claimed with any degree of certainty

It can absolutely be claimed with an increasing degree of certainty, as it's being actively studied (e.g. this study).
By working for the government. People must be rewarded for taking jobs that pay more on average, have better benefits on average, and are much harder to be separated from on average.
Uttering the word Eudaimonia at the company of hot girls will definitely get you laid.
And if a freezer (couldn't tell by post):

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Magic-Chef-3-5-cu-ft-Chest-Freez...
Free community college was in build back better, 49 republicans and Joe Manchin killed it.
Honeywell Anthem Moving Avionics into the Future
No, because capital is fungible.

Each dollar dumped into building a nuke is a dollar taken out of circulation and unavailable for wind/solar/storage. It would (a) in the end displace much less coal, (b) produce nothing for an unknown number of years, maybe forever. During each of those years, more dollars would go to coal making it also unavailable for wind/solar/storage.

So, starting a nuke plant brings global climate catastrophe nearer, even if it might be made produce some power someday, and not be canceled because of massive cost overruns and delays. Every dollar that can be pulled together for energy should go to building out solar, wind, and storage. And maybe geothermal.
I don’t understand what you’re saying. What’s wrong with eudaimonia?
Looks like someone at Sony heard the old joke "please drink a verification can to continue and verify that you are <username> by saying 'Doritos Dew it right!'", which was about Xbox, and thought "this is kinda neat".

I really cannot believe I am reading this headline. Granted it is from 2 years ago, but still.
I'll believe it when I see it. I vividly remember getting "credits" for $1 from fafsa, so if it's anything like that, it will be meaningless.
Bitcoin Lighting Network and Monero ftw.

Bitcoin is not yet perfect. Hopefully someday. Monero however is pretty great privacy wise.
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I believe you are absolutely correct.
The cost of higher education in the US is a joke.

Universities are tax exempt, and highly profitable. Many have endowments over $1 billion [1]. Yet, the average cost in state is $10,000 per year, and almost $30,000 if out of state. For comparison, the tuition at Oxford College, one of the most prestigious institutions in the world, is $12,000 per year.

Student loans may be considered even predatory [2], adding to the injury.

There should be a better mechanism to allow people to go to college in the US, without subjecting them to half a lifetime of debt.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_univers...

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/navient-settles-predator...
It's huge honestly. Do you think there's any chance of Microsoft enabling WHP by default? I think using microVMs for sandboxing apps could be amazing for securing user applications, but currently you still have to instruct users how to turn it on and reboot.

Also, how active is the WHP work in QEMU? Is it mostly done by the QEMU folks or inside MS? Is anyone other than Android actively banging on it?

Sorry for the deluge of questions but I think there's a ton of untapped potential in this tech.
Netflix plans ad-supported tier amid loss in users and plummeting stock
Ha! I thought you were making a joke, and then I realized I didn't specify freezer in my post. Thanks.