skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this!

> Sadly it doesn't let you edit WYSIWYG, ie when you click "Edit" it still transforms the section back into monospaced markup script in a textarea.

I actually prefer that; I didn't mention it because it seems like additional complexity that few besides me would desire. I'd rather edit using markup; it's much more precise. Heck, I could use an extention to add a Vim UI to the textarea and I'd be in heaven.

> Possibly add a toggle edit button?

I think that would be important in most circumstances, to facilitate a reading UI (including navigation, as you mention) and to prevent accidents and make editing more of a thoughtful choice.

> The formal 3/4 step editing process has its problems, but it's a useful barrier against the tides.

We could still have required preview steps, without waiting for reloads and losing our place on the page.

> you could stick to using MS Office/Libreoffice, set the view mode to "web" and hyperlink to subheadings as your navigation (instead of "pages").

I thought about that. Several problems, mostly related to complexity of word processing: Over many years and edits, word processing documents become a mess; text-based wikis are invulnerable. Also, it's harder to create simple structured documents, with proper formatting, in word processors (and things become a mess again), where wikis again are very simple - just use the header/subheader syntax. And word processors are paper page-oriented regardless of mode, which is more complexity and also an absurdity in a wiki.
if you're in the PNW like me, you will find 80% espresso stands the size of a shed, and 20% actual cafes. it's pretty frustrating.

if anybody is in Redmond, WA and love good, modern espresso, i highly recommend Five Stones. they have single origin espresso that's almost as good as what i make at home ;)
Given Bitcoins overall direction compared to the dollar, it appears deflationary (worth more over time) rather than inflationary (worth less).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/326707/bitcoin-price-ind...
This predates that, the patent is from 2009. The Reddit thread is from 2020.
I might trust my kid.

I do not trust people in cars.
Apologies indeed!

'Outposts' as in those who live in 'odd' parts of the world where such delicacies are consumed and appreciated.

(Despite derogatory comments below you still qualify - see my Wiki quote re Vegemite to dfxm12!)

:-)
A major player faces upstart businesses all the time. They aren't suing them all into oblivion. (The ISP problems are a result of the monopoly franchises granted by the government, and are not applicable here.)

As for needing capital, some business startups need capital, some don't. It depends on the type of business. My own business started with a computer - something everyone has.

As for it being easy, you're right, it isn't easy. It's a lot more work than working for The Man. If you're not willing to put out the work, it's a little unfair to blame others that are.
Mr. Lobster

I appreciate your well thought out response. Thanks for the discourse.

> All right, you define what a "person"

I was only originally using this to say that the government can't tell me what money is in the same way it can't say I'm not a person.

That said, you're correct the government will likely try to destroy private currency that is out of their control.

> Either way you need a solid plan for what comes after that accounts for the known variables

I agree. This is where I spend my time in the crypto-sphere.

Here's a fun resource on agorism:

https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/black-market-activism...

Maybe it's a bit over optimistic. Either way, crypto and agorism is my current plan, and you're probably right in that I should shore up this plan.

Bitcoin was actually the answer to the government having shut down all attempts at alternative digital money prior, but for sure it's not perfect.

Cheers,

reedjosh
In the world I live in (big org using Jira), that sounds like an epic, with lots of stories underneath. Some stories are defined early on, more can be added as the business comes up with new reqs or devs find things that need more work.
It's a bad look if a malicious HTTP request to your Rails app can trigger RCE on your server. It's not about running code that's malicious, it's about bad data triggering a code path in the VM that is able to change the function of the application.
Strange, zero mentions of trying to sell you some weird life insurance or knives.
I kinda like this idea, although I suspect that some may be willing to put up with the annoyance if they're aware its just a ruse?
There are a lot of different versions of these income-based repayment programs, dating back to the early 00s at least. They are all structured similarly but have differing eligibility cutoffs and rules. Typically they involved making payments on your loans for 20-25 years at some maximum % of your income before the remaining balance is forgiven. PSLF has a shorter forgiveness window (10 years) but you need to make 120 payments while working some job that is socially useful but not-market-optimal like public service or working for a nonprofit.

FWIW, IBR systems they are a common policy suggestion from both conservatives and liberals (with differing priorities / rules).
This is fine but I would really like to see an effort to get the rising costs under control. Otherwise colleges will just suck up more money the same way health care is happy to accept subsidies while raising costs.
They're not forgiving student loans so much as forgiving themselves for not administering them correctly, and then taking steps to rectify the years-long errors.
No it didn't. Cryptocurrency is not "sound money" in any way because it's not backed by anything, in the case of proof-of-work coins it's only "backed" by random people solving random pointless math puzzles. Proof-of-stake is even worse because that's only backed by how much money people have already invested into the system.
Absolutely need to plug Not Just Bikes, a youtube channel done by a Canadian living in The Netherlands about urban planning using Dutch infrastructure as the gold standard. Key points he makes are how bad North American environments are for child freedom. Its almost entirely due to NA urban planning prioritizing cars over everything else, making it just dangerous for anyone to try and walk anywhere, let alone children. A general difference is that Dutch urban planning prioritizes pedestrians, bikes, transit, then cars, in that order. Whereas in NA cars are really the only thing prioritized.

My favorite video of his is about this exact topic, Why I Won't Raise My Kids in Suburbia [0]. This video completely changed my own life, motivating my family and I to move to a city from the suburbs, and fingers-crossed, eventually to The Netherlands.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_xzyCDT98
Don't let battery drain scare you like it did to me. There is a workaround that alleviates that a little with deep sleep mode on. Although, not perfect it's bearable.
Aside from that I've been a happy customer for a solid 5 months now.

Random aside, just last week one of my friend's kid dropped some sticky food on keyboard and closed the lid leaving my keyboard virtually unusable. I was able to just unscrew everything and clean the keyboard and get it to working again. Would have never been possible with Macs. :D
There are several assumptions in your comparison that may or may not be true:

- the Shanghai lockdown happened in reaction to a number of infections. For these "zero covid" does not apply. How high was that number?

- the current variant is much harder to contain than earlier ones. So it might be that you have a lockdown now, then again in two months, again in two months,... until everybody had it (depending on how well the current chinese vac works against the current variant).

- An actual lockdown, much more than the tame western versions, has mental and health costs. How high is the damage of n weeks of lockdown compared to 0.3%? For which n?

- Financially, what n can you afford? Is that long enough?
This is a bad plan. Why would any 21 year old ever pay? Just ignore this debt until it is discharged. So you have to wait 7 years to buy a house? That sounds like no big deal.

What we should do is have the fed define a maximum allowable charge for the school loan that can be protected by the government. Pick some number, like $10K a year all in. Any other school loans can be discharged as they aren't protected or schools could try to force the parents to co-sign. But either way, the government stops propping up runaway tuition inflation.

We have to also look at why some of the cost is through the roof. When I was in school, housing was block buildings with bunk beds and a bathroom for the whole floor. Cafeteria was 2 choices and drinks. Now, everyone has a private bedroom and living room to hang out in and their own apartment bathroom. Cafeteria is like a commercial buffet with all you can eat Nutella. That money has to come from somewhere. People want it to feel like a 4 year cruise ship. That is one reason that the costs are out of control.

This is also one factor in our healthcare. Everyone wants lower prices but they also want an Urgent Care on every corner so they can go when it is convenient to them. Someone has to pay for that building and staff to sit there all day waiting for customers to show up. Everyone seems to want it both ways and never stop to consider their complicity.
China counts Covid deaths differently than most countries. Recent claims about them only having 3 deaths despite a surge in cases are, as far as I can tell, making the fundamental mistake that China has far more stringent requirements to call something a "Covid death". The true number of Chinese Covid deaths is likely higher - though I imagine still lower than in places like America.

Furthermore, the lockdowns have caused quite a few deaths on their own through things like delaying access to healthcare, and we don't have reliable stats here. One doctor is estimating 1000 diabetes patients will die from lack of healthcare access during the lockdowns (again, we do have to apply some skepticism to the numbers). Lockdowns aren't costless and merely keeping people locked in place for a short period.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/world/asia/covid-shanghai... (non-paywalled: https://archive.ph/GIDBw).

I won't disagree that there's a tradeoff you can consider for China's approach, but we all need to be very wary when trying to compare numbers between Western nations and China.
That's also because much of the funding was based on inherently unsustainable models of indefinitely continued population growth.
Yes and no. They're lifting fuel into orbit, but all at once. That has three implications of needing more thrust for the engine than if we did it in multiple trips
Miso isn’t similar, but something that _is_ is a spread called Gohan Desuyo.

It’s made from seaweed and soy sauce but I’ve found it to be very similar to marmite

https://japanesetaste.com/products/momoya-gohandesuyo-nori-s...
TIL: The first law of thermodynamics has an exception for dead fish.

(JK, don't cite me in physics class!)
If it becomes a market standard (due to ancillary revenues, reselling user data, etc), then the only choice consumers will have left are: (a) TV with ads or (b) no TV. "Voting with your wallet" has so many failure cases.

"That would never happen!"

Try buying a new car without touchscreen controls or software that controls the engine. It's still possible, but harder every year.

There is definitely a portion of the market that wants physical knobs, but one-size-fits-all is cheaper to make. Still, this seems like user segmentation that could present a commercial advantage, so I can't really explain this trend.

Related: Physical button on an Audi exists solely to upsell you on a software feature: https://www.thedrive.com/news/44967/audi-owner-finds-basic-h...

Welcome to the future.
Could we normalize that being emotionally strong and having some amount of resilience is like, something desirable for all adults?

Why can't these people shrug it off? Just by math everyone can be expected to meet abusive people during their lifetime. Would be really useful...
Jira Server and Jira Data Center CVE-2022-0540 – Authentication Bypass in Seraph
They banned T-shirts at some point, too.

https://businesstech.co.za/news/business/397591/south-africa...

Pre-made warm food too, if I remember correctly. Absolute insanity. Someone sitting behind a desk tweeking nobs and hoping to stop Covid by banning benign things.
My experience (Caltech) is a major counterexample to all your complaints. It doesn't matter if your uni was top tier - if your complaints about it are valid, you went to the wrong one. Sorry about that. I got a great deal of value from my Caltech education, professionally and personally. I have no complaints about it.

P.S. The value you get from a university also can be heavily dependent on the choices you make while attending. I.e which major, which classes, how you went about taking the opportunities available. I chose classes for maximum utility in my expected career.

At University of Washington, for example, you can get an excellent education. But you can also get a worthless one. It all depends on the student making the right choices there.
I don’t think Saul Goodman went to Finland for his degree. But seriously, it’s dumb. People with years of demonstrated expertise and progressive responsibility denied opportunity to apply for jobs because they simply don’t meet the MQ of the piece of paper. If you go back for it in the US you’ll be confronted with extraordinary cost, silly pledges for DEI, and all the rest.
dell xps laptops are (a) pretty nice and (b) do ship in some models with ubuntu as the main OS.

personally, i use an xps15/windows/WSL, mainly because i also use the laptop for video games and so on.
I use JuMP as modeling language. For MILP i am usually using Gurobi or SCIP. For ILP problems have have been looking in to the exact solver https://gitlab.com/JoD/exact which seems quiet promising.

For NLP i usually go with either https://worhp.de/ or just IpOpt.
This is the result of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program started in 2007.
University employees are, unfortunately or not, consistent one party voting blocs. Cuts to them are highly unlikely.
Sure, if we can also normalize accepting that emotional pain and injury is no less serious than physical injury.

Some people can't just "shrug it off" any more than some people can't just "walk off" a broken ankle.
Theta(X) is not "average case" behaviour, it means "both Omega(X) and O(X)".

Ex: merge sort is Theta(n log(n)), but quick sort is not.

The author is likely saying "worst case O(n log(n))" as redundancy to emphasize that this is worst case behaviour.
Huge part of why OpenROAD (and as this article.indicates, nvidia) are so focused on machine learning! Because the nitty gritty of chip design has abundant gnarly problems requiring deep deep expertise. Deploying software engineers is hard. But building ml is kind of our bag!

There's another nice upstart opensource project with even fancier ml placememt systems that spawned recently out of the openroad world, dreamplace, https://github.com/limbo018/DREAMPlace

This is just gonna get more & more biased against a couple super smart engineers who we've deeply entrusted to divine inner the workings of the chips on, & become increasingly a set of better modelled problems that we can machine learningly optimize.
Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine really hit home on the fear factory that major news networks promote on nonstop 24h basis.

In addition to buying more guns, people also fear everyone else. CPS gone wild is a direct result of that.
The search is also terrible.
It's true, broad stats aren't great predictors of individual outcomes. Or at least that's what I like to tell myself haha, though at times I worry it's tough to distinguish from "yeah, but it won't happen to me."
Same boat as you, waiting for the second generation, I don't event want to jump to the apple ecosystem but the battery life + performance at that price range makes it a almost a non-brainer for me
Not really, if a private lender believes your degree will pay off then you'd be able to easily get a loan for top 50 schools.
I like the bit about day-drinking at work is proof that the Powers That Be at the top of companies don't really care about productivity. What they really care about is asserting top-down social control.
While the most prevalent narrative in threads like this sounds something like, "back in my day, we weren't so scared!", there's a few assumptions being made. The primary one: people are overestimating the risks associated with autonomy we had "back in the day" as kids.

It's also just as possible that we are adopting a lower tolerance for that risk, or that the risk is better clarified than it once was.

When I was growing up, I was allowed to roam the neighborhood. I lived on a military base in my youngest years, but later I lived in a suburb of a small town.

Nothing seriously bad ever happened to me, but that's anecdotal.

I wonder what is more likely: my parents were more risk tolerant, risk ignorant, or the world has become more dangerous. Both are possible, but I think the former two are broadly more likely than the latter.
Anyone in doubt that US vs. UK and the other colonies are very, very different countries need not consider "lemonade" (Sprite) or Marmite.

Just order breakfast with toast. Anywhere except the US, the toast will come out on a "cooling rack". They actually want their toast cold! I have never found any hint why anyone would want this, but I did read an Ian Fleming short story in which James Bond, while in New York on (IIRC?) a personal vendetta to gun down some Cubans upstate, complains that his toast is delivered "damp".

While I am here, fair warning: if you are in Boston and order a milkshake, you will absolutely not get anything even slightly resembling a proper milkshake. You have to ask for a "cabinet". I am not joking.
Computer Chronicles was a PBS series that ran for 20 years and captured a lot of computer history as it happened, it's a great watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/user/ComputerChroniclesYT
What an astonishing take from musk, quite shocking that the billionaire son of apartheid diamond magnates dislikes wokeness.
> what made the process of converting business logic into solver-speak painful?

The fact that every solver doc I found shows me two near identical variables and 4 identical constraints. I can solve that using Excel Add-In. My problem is mind-numbingly complex, like everyone else doing supply-chain optimization. So I need examples for each type of constraint I have but instead, the tools expect me to figure out everything based on very generic examples. Dates are a big deal in what I do. I have no idea how to convert "each day the customer order is delayed is bad, but I also can't make things 3 months before they want it" into solver-speak. Cleaning a machine takes time, so it is often better to make similar things in a row (campaign-mode). No idea how to convert that to solver-speak.

The good thing is that once I understand how to convert my data into solver-speak, I can keep it updated on the fly since business logic doesn't change daily, just the data-set.

Feel free to contact me directly and/or we can Zoom etc. if you wish to discuss further. Wish you the best of luck either way!
I have a lot of trouble accepting this. One of my more vivid memories of the late 80s and early 90s is the nightly news always having some girl buying ice cream caught in gang crossfire. It was always the ice cream truck. We were banned from wearing blue, red, or Raiders jerseys because supposedly kids were getting shot walking home from school. We had smog days pretty regularly where we weren't allowed to play outside because the air quality was so bad.

I'm pretty sure in every real, quantifiable way, children are much safer on city streets today than they were 30 years ago. We're just also more afraid. It's not like skid row and homelessness didn't already exist back then, along with much worse drug and gang problems.

I'm sorry your daughter had a naked man wander onto the school grounds, but my middle school was shot at during recess by drive bys three separate times in the three years I was there. Things have not gotten worse.
I think you're armchairing the problem by stating coffee shops exist therefore there is no problem. Many coffee shops do impose user hostile actions like loud music, small uncomfortable seating, etc. The others are big chains that have efficiencies (e.g. lower prices, more efficient workforce, better analytics) that are not available to smaller shops.

In most competitive markets you cannot compete (i.e. not lose money) when you have costs that a competitor does not have the bear. For instance, if 20% of your customers are money losers, a competitor can cut those customers out and make a higher return. Everything gets priced in. So that means that person can charge X% less for coffee, or pay X% more for real estate, or have better coffee or better service etc.

Ignoring the trade off doesn't make it go away
A pretty substantial portion of this "civilization" thing is ensuring social stability. I won't say that this is going to be the hair that broke the camel's back. And I would agree with you entirely on the idea that kids shouldn't be assuming $40k of debt liability as children. But there's a lot of potential destabilizing effects downstream from this in many domains. What won't destabilize society is indicating it was volitional to accept the loan terms and to pursue a degree of nebulous worth.

I wouldn't agree that having a "worthless" degree is some sisyphian burden, my SO went into college and has two trash degrees, but also had all of the prerequisite credits to trivially segue into a meaningful career and a masters. Her loans are paid.

I, on the other hand, am in the middle of my post-secondary after toiling 5 prime years away to avoid debt. The proposition that I could've foregone that sacrifice and been toting around a degree and work experience without full time work throughout school, free of charge - is infuriating.

And this is discounting a thousandfold other paths. What about the blue collar parents that clawed their way up to the middle class, ultimately paying their kid's way through school at a relatively great expense? Or the single father who took out a second mortgage to put his daughter through school? Or an infinity of other possibilities that can't be written into a survey?

The system needs fixed first.
It also helps if you're hungover. Your body will welcome the saltiness.
100% agreed. Turning a parent a few years ago, has completely changed my personal experience of car-dependent cities, from a more intellectual curiosity into why it came to be, to something that I feel innately as a great malevolent force. Technology is not divorced from value-systems, and car-technology is inherently sociopathic.

> Where were the grandparents and extended families that could watch a kid so that they don’t have to go to daycare?

It's heartbreaking really.

> When that toddler turns to a teen, how has our world of “share this” and “retweets” that changed our sense of truths affect that teen?

While I have an unbridled confidence in my children, I still worry about their teen years. Adolescence has always been hard, how much harder will it be for them, with pervasive social media, and rudderless and overwhelmed adults at the helm.
Because student loans are one of the few types of debt that cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. There is an avenue, through our current legal system, to get out from under credit card debt or a mortgage one cannot afford. That avenue is unavailable to student loan borrowers.
I should add that my parents bought me my first bike while we lived in SF. The reason they say we moved to Marin when I started second grade was because my parents had nowhere in The City to teach me how to ride it.