skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem pretty biased. You now have cryptos that allow you to transact with anyone in the world, instantly and without fees, while consuming barely any energy. And all of that, while remaining 100% in control of your money. You have others that let you lend or borrow assets in a permission-less fashion, without many intermediaries. More and more companies are using it as a backbone for their operations, for example in IoT settings or in financial situations. If you look a bit more, you will see many interesting development. But like everything in tech, there are good and bad things.
45 million folks in the US have student loans so even some action for 3.6 million folks isn’t a large percentage.
ZFS doesn't (yet) support reflink copies.
Content moderation. Moderation creates the culture of online communities by reinforcing or diminishing certain behaviors. Not all communities have great cultures.
> are in exactly the same situation

I don’t know you could possibly reach that conclusion.

I paid off my loan and lost 1000 hours of work.

You didn’t have to work 1000 hours to pay off your loan.

We’re not in exactly the same situation. I don’t know how else I can put this without ELI5’ing
You don't see a difference between deliberately trying to wipe out a species and accidentally doing it while in pursuit of other goals?
>It seems all you do on HN is run around spreading outright lies.

It would seem you are doing a great duty in following me around HN to ensure I cannot spread lies.

In reference to this current lie. I did reference the world health org. I guess I have nothing to rebuttal against your allegation that the WHO is lying.
Highly recommend the Librem 14 personally. Pureboot, great set of mainline Linux drivers in PureOS, plus a very easily hackable firmware (I hacked mine to change the keyboard layout/behavior).

The build quality is also surprisingly good, and you’re supporting a special purpose company that fights for the user!
Yeah, the ThinkBooks (both the 13" and the 16" models) are great! Linux Support is also good. The 16" models are also great if you need a laptop with a dedicated (consumer) GPU without any kind of "gamer aesthetic". :D

They don't support classic sleep (S3 standby) anymore, though. But I'm not sure if any modern laptop still does. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Then the government should handle the loans directly and not involve the banks at all.

All other debt can be discharged in bankruptcy, so the banks have free reign to be racist on mortgages and credit cards, but somehow student loans is the problem?

Also see who asked for student loans to be non-dischargeable hmmm.
Not only that, but the chances of having more than one developer at a company who already know $LANGUAGE_NOT_USED_AT_COMPANY is slim. There's maybe like two or three other people at my company who know Rust, and none of them are on my team or even close to my team in the org chart. So me proposing we write a new service in $LANGUAGE is basically me saying, "If I ever leave, you will have to literally move heaven and earth to maintain this thing. Or worse, you'll have to build institutional knowledge of $LANGUAGE as an insurance policy against me leaving."
They better themselves, they better the economy and taxes

What if they want to get a PhD on how autumn leaf colors in New England impact the emotions of rattlesnakes from Texas? You want to pay for that?
I've been using sam.sung@domain for them. First time I've come across this block in years of using this method.
I ended up working 60 hour weeks to not take out student loans. People talk about having a good time at college but all I remember is getting up at 4am to go to my first job, doing class all day and working my second job until 10pm. No spring breaks and no summers or holidays because I could work those hours to stay out of debt. It is hard to have much sympathy for people asking for student loan forgiveness.

On the plus side I ended up graduating with $20 and no debt.
Only vaguely related, during one of my burnouts I worked for a high-end custom wood flooring company as (45 year old) "shop boy", electrical fixer (tools) and estimator. It was a guilty pleasure, I really enjoyed it (didn't pay well, but don't say there's nothing good about Fundies, they gave me health insurance to my great surprise).

So, in some suburban environment (which has been engineered to not have cellular reception) there is a house. Out in the yard, if you look for it, there's this thing that looks kind of like a cupola, sitting on the ground, about 50 yards from the house. It has a basement (never found the pool). In the basement was a metal door, with a little room and a hallway around a corner. When the door shuts behind you it goes "WUMP! Wump! wump wump wump wump". Looking around the corner, there's a pulley, like a clothes line, disappearing into the murk. It's a gun lane.

Guy who'd bought the house wanted to use it for a wine cellar. He wanted a wood floor in it (on top of the concrete). This is insane! We found an amazing high-end engineered product (laminated) faced with cypress. Aged it in the hole for a couple of months prior to installation. Lost about 10% of the product, but we planned for that. Crazy. Paid well.
You don't, it's just not disallowed :)
Nice finds, thanks.

Also Antitrust (2001).
You can't pay for groceries with crypto. The easiest way to transfer money people can actually use without a bank account is probably texting someone a prepaid card number, though for low amounts the purchase fee is kind of a lot. Crypto is good for circumventing the legal system (ex. getting DIY HRT where it's not legal) but for most basic needs it's not very useful.
This looks fantastic. Working remotely since the start of the pandemic, these days I'd love a sustainable option like that for 3 hours at a time once or twice per week.
Reviews are hard. Nobody agrees on anything, and some people have very strong options about certain things (trackpads, keyboards g that little mouse nub between the g an h keys)..

I have a system76 oryx pro running pop os. It’s older now (8th gen intel). Works well, though I had a fan start grinding, it was an easy replacement. The machine is a clevo so replacement parts are easy to get. I like it. My previous home machine was a 2014 Mac book. Oryx is bigger, faster, heavier. The build quality isn’t as good as the Mac but it decent. It has nvidia graphics which even run games. Battery life isn’t great, especially when running the nvidia card (you can switch to intel graphics ). It upgrades the os easily unless like me you do so manual stuff.. system 76 support is good (part of what you pay a premium for)

I just got work to buy a new system 76 machine for me. The amd laptop model “pangolin”. I like it so far.
If you are on Mac, open up your Messages and go to any thread with some historical messages. Now scroll up to load past messages, and do that a few times. How slow is that for you?

For me, when I scroll up to load historical data, it takes always multiple _seconds_. This is on the newest, highest specced m1 macbook. What the hell is it doing in that time? Multiple seconds to do read-only queries a <100MB sqlite DB (and sqlite can be incredibly fast), on an SSD with >5GB/s read speeds, with 64GB of ram (where the whole sqlite can/should be loaded into memory), to render a blue bubble with some text inside.

What is Messages doing, and why is it so bad and inefficient. I'm certain the local sqlite db has the data I need because the above bothered me so much i wrote some scripts to read my historical chats from the cli. Quality of Apple software is certainly not increasing but going downhill, you see that across many of their apps.
"dad's old gas mask" - runs in the family

"after church today" - I can see why he wants to get away
I always found the following expression amusing:

"Universities are actually hedge funds that happen to have a school attached to them".
He who dies with the most debt wins.
I don't think this is the main reason. It fails to explain why neighborhoods that kids played freely in decades ago now keep their kids inside. I'm talking about suburban neighborhoods in modest towns that haven't seen population growth or urban development.

I used to walk to school frequently, every time I missed the bus it was a two mile walk down country roads. If the weather was nice, sometimes I'd choose to walk without even missing the bus. My mother retired from that school district last year, and she tells me things are very different. She would be required to report any kid who was walking to school, it simply isn't allowed anymore. So what changed? Did the town get bigger? Nope, it actually shrunk a bit since the plant was sold. Did the roads get narrower? Twistier? Nope, they're the same as they ever were. The school? Still the same place they ever were. The only thing that changed was people became more fearful.
>Let's build our homes for centuries, not decades, folks!

I agree with you, but unfortunately the incentives in the system penalize constructing high quality buildings. The higher quality the building, the more taxes you pay.
True. And that’s why I love him.
Awesome list, thanks for taking the time to write all this. Looking forward to watching some of these!
i would really recommend to try out wsl2. its become massively fantastic. you should try it if you havent.

Thinkpad with Windows 11 and WSL2 is mindblowing
What makes the lifting enjoyable for folks? I personally find commuting to the gym, lifting for an hour or two, and heading home to be kinda draining. I feel “better” after doing it but mainly only because I felt like I was making progress and there was less guilt for doing something. The actual time in the gym sucks and just feels like a hamster in a wheel. I’ve never found a way to not make it this way.

After all - I’m at the gym, solo grinding for XP, and surrounded by guys with 8-packs who are 5 years ahead of me. Even if I get to where they are, no guarantee that it’ll have been “worth it”. Being in the gym literally feels like I’m in the tv show “severance”. (Admittedly I haven’t seen the show - I just know the premise) It’s completely lost time and at no point enjoyable. It’s what I imagine people with two hour commutes feel like but now add in physical pain and discomfort.
> Do you not see how the original comment was implicitly responsive to this claim?

I do. I think the comment is a generic "but unforeseen consequences" response. The target mosquito could have some unique ecological role the other 799 can't fill that only becomes apparent ex post facto.

That's why we're conducting limited tests. To look for those. Something Mao didn't do.
AirBnB's and hotel chains who can now charge $5 less than their competitors (or pocket the $5) per guest because ad revenue is shared with them.
Who cares about the top 50 schools? I went to Hofstra University, graduated with no debt (worked while going there and commuted by bus!) and I did just fine. I’ll be damned if I’ll subsidize someone else’s 4-year country club experience at a “top school”. Noting terrible will happen if only kids with rich parents went to them.
Yeah, because with transfering money via Western Union you have one problem: they take a cut, but the person on the other end gets fiat in their local currency and you pay in your local currency.

With sending bitcoin you have many more problems: converting your local currency to bitcoin, and if you're like 99% of regular people using a hot-wallet like Coinbase and they take a cut to buy bitcoin, waiting for that to clear, sending it to another bitcoin address, waiting for that to clear, then the person on the other end has to cash out. Is there a coinbase-like in DR? If we're talking about underbanked, then how do they get their money? Is there a window for this coinbase-like thing that will pay out in fiat of the local currency? I've seen plenty of bitcoin ATMs around my area, but none are for withdrawal.
That's why you don't use cosine activation and always limit yourself to Lipschitz functions, I guess?
> I’m not trying to equate welfare with tyranny, of course.

But that's exactly what your first paragraph did, at least in the case of the US.
Why do you think welfare "works" for Sweden and would not work for the US? Is Sweden tyrannical?
> I've only ever heard it said about eliminating the single largest source of death in human history.

Let's take a step back.

What makes you think human lives are worthier than mosquito lives?
offtopic: Such a great engineer and yet their blog says: Website Powered by WordPress.com.

I find the pragmatism worthy of praise. I've been meaning to start blogging since forever but I keep planning and researching about blog platforms/tools and never get to the point.
Netflix's collapse is a warning sign for stocks
What Are You Reading?
Just how much, after invading Ukraine, people are hacking Russia
School should just be free in the US, as it is in other civilized countries.
Zut alors! I thought it did.
When you say "cancelled", do you mean "told the creditors to eat shit" or "we paid the creditors off"? Because everyone thinks #1 is happening, when usually it's #2.
They aren't changing the scope at all- they're just fixing some problems that meant people who should have gotten their loans forgiven but didn't will finally get that problem corrected, and they're granting credits for people who are already in the system. This will now allow a single person outside of that program to benefit, and it won't add new people to the program.

This may change with future actions, but quite frankly it's kind of embarrassing that they're claiming this is a win when all they did was follow through on a promise made years ago that was basically ignored.
I could imagine there's a lot of people who:

1. Are paying/had paid their mortgage properly. Usually implies being down to earth and choosing a home you can actually afford.

2. Paid their student loans.

3. File and pay their taxes properly.

4. Have never went unemployed, or better yet, they're self-employed.

5. Never played stock market bets, as they're more conservative and prefer to save money in a predictable way through the years/decades (yes, decades).

6. Didn't get bailed out for COVID as they were not eligible because of 4, or they didn't need it because of 5 and their own savings bailed them out.

They should feel really pissed off right now, with just cause.
I think you must be misreading the tables.

It is only sunk-cost nukes, ignoring construction and leaning on military subsidies, that match the current cost of renewables + solar. And, of course, the cost of the latter at the time any new nuke construction could (ever) be completed will be much lower.
That is not the point. The point is that kids whose parents cannot pay/cosign a loan can currently get into the top 50 schools but without the government backing the loans, none of them would likely be able to get in at all leaving the top schools only for rich kids.
C++ proto reflection is a convenience. If it actually shows up at scale in production, that smells like a design error.
Yes, but this kind of erudition isn't typical for language cops.
What a snake. You should make a video calling him out with proof, forcing him to respond. Post it all over Reddit/HackerNews etc;
More than that! They won’t have to pay income tax on that forgiven debt. You were taxed on the income you spent for college.
Some thoughts:

1. I have heard only good things about Framework. If I were getting a laptop today, that would be on my short-list

2. I have had an HP zBook 15 G3 for many years now, so no issue with durability there. However, I just tried to price one and the price has gone way up, so it's out of the $2k range for anything reasonably configured for developer use.

3. Battery life; if it's going to be mostly plugged in, select the option in the BIOS for that; it will stop charging the battery sooner to increase longevity of the battery. If it's going to be use unplugged a lot, try to keep it above 20%. Ignore any advice about fully draining the battery to prevent "memory effect" that was dubious advice even for NiCd batteries that could potentially suffer from memory effect and was never true for LiIon chemistries.
Logs Told Us It Was DNS, It Felt Like DNS, It Had to Be DNS, It Wasn’t DNS
I definitely think laws can do what you say. But I think that's not always what happens. What I object to is really more specifically how the gist is "change the laws, its an easy fix". Anyone who spectates government (odd phrase, I know) will understand that this is very much not an easy fix.
How much do you really think this is taking out of your pocket? You are paying for others all the time with your taxes, which can’t be selective for the system to function
I still stand by my statement.

IN ESSENCE, absorbing migrants is not an easy task, and this applies to ALL migrants, no exceptions made. IN PARTICULAR, some migrants might pose additional challenges to integrate but they are not necessarily to blame fully for this, sometimes the host population are biased against them making the process more arduous for them, while giving at the same time a preferential treatment to other migrant populations.
Amazing machines? I haven't tried extensively the M1, so my experience is still limited to the Intel Macs.

They are OK. Not jaw droppingly good, just okay-ish. I work as a mobile app dev and unfortunately you can't avoid Mac for iOS dev :p
You could always modify an M1. Try to get one with a fan, since that'll save you from installing an after market fan controller.

In addition to the M1, I suggest getting a summit brand under the counter frezer, such as:

https://www.summitappliance.com/catalog/model/SCFF532D

They come in different widths, and are designed for built-in installation. You didn't say how wide the closet is.

Anyway, their trackpad and display ppi are terrible, and they're incompatible with asahi out of the box (leakage could result).

Using a USB-C to serial dongle, attach a thermocoupler to the mac. Remove the cooling fan assemblies from both devices, and place the mac fan where the fridge fan was. (You may need to run extension cables.). Place the processor as close to the condenser coils as possible. We're using the mac's temperature control logic to decide when to cool the fridge coils.

Now that you've done that, purchase an IFTT compatible smart outlet, and plug the fridge into it. Write a zsh script that polls the thermocoupler and powers the fridge on and off accordingly.

I'm assuming your closet only has one free power outlet. The M1 idles efficiently, so go ahead and plug it into the smart outlet too. It should be able to charge while the fridge is running. If you have a second outlet, consider getting a deal on an old intel macbook. They have bigger fans, and the battery life won't matter.

Anyway, that's it. It's pretty simple once it's working, and, with this setup, I guarantee you that your asahi won't freeze.
I will note that "drill operator" is the #2 most satisfying job according to data here: https://www.payscale.com/data-packages/most-and-least-meanin...
Dead fish swimming upstream .. Reminds me a bit of this: a wind-powered vehicle than can accelerate directly into the wind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCsgoLc_fzI
It wasn't just the Trump administration; it was clear there were significant problems with the way the program was administered well before the first loans were supposed to start qualifying in 2017. Among other things, the Bush and Obama administrations that created and administrated the program provided no guidance and no oversight to the companies overseeing the loans, so the companies made it effectively impossible to qualify.
I once described it as "like blue cheese, minus the cheese."

An American who first tasted vegemite at age 40---and loved it! If you've never tasted it, you owe it to yourself to try it once.
Unfortunately no politician will have the guts to do this.

This is why people are skeptical of the federal government getting involved in just about anything.

They passed this program to help students afford school, and it’s done the opposite. It was also passed as a revenue neutral program of loans that would be repaid, now they’re increasingly being forgiven or put into forbearance.

Now to fix it, someone will have to feel significant pain, most likely both the educators and low-income students.
Great fun read. I love this stuff; when I first learned C++ many years ago I didn't really know much about complexity and what I have learned over the years is that complexity costs depend a lot on the underlying data distributions.
Extremely misleading title. i assumed 40k was the dollar amount cap for each loan. not the number of loans forgiven.
This is about a 15 year old program and nothing to do with current political sentiment. Those same people always had the choice of complying with this program as well.
US: We should use the power of our massive government to subsidize and guarantee 30 year fixed home mortgages.

House prices: shoot up

US: Surprised pichachu face

US: We should use the power of our massive government to subsidize and guarantee loans for college education so people can afford houses!

College prices: shoot up

US: Surprised pichachu face
So since it's only 8% it's fine?

How many 8% increments can there be until we're allowed to be against this?

I'm against any percentage of funneling taxpayer money to college administrators.

Reduce tuition, don't rubber stamp federal loans while letting administrators increase costs.
Thanks, I'll remove the note about "recalling"
The success of Netflix came as it was more convenient to use it than to download. If all streaming service are not seen as convenient everybody will be back to "old" download strategy.
X Macro
> a packet of noodles and some cooking oil, once every two weeks.

Then everyone would be dead, so clearly this is not true.
Maybe I'm misremembering ThePalace, but I feel like in the late 90's there was a web browser that would create a live chatroom for whatever web page you were on at the moment.
I'm not doing it but you're more than welcome to come and try.
I would return the TV immediately if they tried this crap. Shameful
No. That is only for sunk-cost nukes, not for new construction.
Do you honestly think the ecosystem or the species cares about our intent? We (humans) are literally fishing entire species to extinction because we like the taste.
We're actually quite fond of corporate welfare but loathe individual welfare. States will try to out compete each other to offer subsidies and tax relief for a giant-corp's new facility but shun much less expensive assistance for poor families. Golden shovels win re-elections! [0]

[0]https://goldenopenings.com/Gold-Chrome-Shovels_c_46.html
While all of these statistics are valid in their own right, I don't think it makes sense to take them and use them to extrapolate the rest of your life, especially in such a doom and gloom way.

My attitude is certainly not of the 'oh don't worry you have plenty of time' because we really don't have that much time. But if the view is that in an 80 or so year life span, you got to get in 8-10 golden years as a healthy American, oof, that is pretty tough, and I probably won't change that mindset.
The initial discussion started with someone saying something to the effect of "just change the law, easy". To me, that reads as "just use the government, it'll be fine". Perhaps it's just me, but that sounds a lot like blind trust in an institute.