skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put myself through college with some very shiny work and living conditions only to be met with medical debt from a congenital issue later.

Can never wrap my head around why America would forgive student debt and not medical debt, especially when the former is always a choice.
I think their point is that Adam Walsh's murder kickstarted the fear mongering on the news you're talking about.

It might be the columbine to school shooters. Everything else is derived from it.
didn't gab or something advertise a feature like this?

anyway, comments attached to arbitrary urls enabling 'multiplayer web browsing' seems like a great idea no matter how you approach it
"Sir" is a style or manner of address, not a pronoun.
I think there' a lot of "too good to be true" here. If it seems to be a total net benefit, then it's unlikely to be so to most of us.
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It should be on the university and college, if you must have private higher education, and not just make it free. State that the institution and/or potential employers must give out a loan that will cover the entire cost of education, which can be paid back with x% of income for 120 months of full time employment. If the student cannot find a job, or is not desirable for a given industry with the degree, and has to take a waiter job, they still owe x% of their wages, but the absolute value of that will be much lower.

Now, the university will stop offering loans for worthless degrees, and they will only give you a loan for things they think you can actually succeed in, ensuring that there is huge incentive for everyone to ensure the student succeeds if they end up needing a loan.

Private cash payments can still be made to take whatever underwater basket weaving major you like, but you can’t go into debt for a degree that will bind you for the rest of your life.
> choice consumers will have left are: (a) TV with ads or (b) no TV

Like you can chose now between a smart TV or no TV?
> What we need is a way to inhibit lying.

1. Society already does this; most morality systems discourage lying (with exceptions of course).

2. Could your lobotomized person understand lying? If not, they won't be effective at governing the rest of us lairs. If so, the "lair/truth-teller" logic puzzle applies: they could truthfully report what a liar would say, thereby truthfully lying.

> They will be given a mark. A forehead-tattoo

Does sarcasm count as lying? Does fiction?
So first off, remember that the people taking out the loans are typically between 17 and 20. I don't know about you, but when I was 18 I was a fucking idiot. I mean I still am, but more so back then. I would be surprised if you weren't (and you probably aren't even the median case!). Also consider that a lot can happen in 4 years, especially at that age. Your interests typically rapidly change, you learn more about who you are, and you may underestimate your future earnings (especially given that schools tell you that you'll earn so much because of your degree and their connections). But there's some other issues.

- Interest rates have gone up

- Cost of schools have risen

- The government holds most student debt

- It is still usually a good deal to get an education, but the deal is rapidly becoming less of one (the value of the deal is even changing for people in the middle of education or even graduated)

- The clauses on the debt are getting stronger, being almost impossible to cancel the debt and leading to people never being able to pay off their loans.

- The loans are predatory and becoming more so (when I took mine out a decade ago I had the option to pick "fixed rate" or "variable" but that wasn't actually fixed _interest_ rate)

- Schools are promising scholarships and then not giving them (my school would constantly schedule me for meeting with the financial aid office, a requirement, the week after the deadline and wouldn't schedule me before)

- We're better understanding the major impact on our economy when a generation that is in their prime earnings age is still not consuming and instead paying off debt.

- An educated population results in a happy and effective civilization (especially if one of your main exports is technology)

I think there's a lot of good reasons that people are pissed off. Our generations specifically was told "go to college and you'll get a good job and have a stress free life." But we quickly found that going to college doesn't lead to a good job and we can't get the same things our parents did. Jobs are harder to get, they don't pay as much, and housing is insanely priced. So basically people are pissed about a lot of stuff and a whole messed up system, and most young people are either: in college, avoided it because cost, or recently graduated. Considering that, it is unsurprising that it is a major focus.

Also I should add, some bailouts work. Pretty much what people are saying here is "this has gotten out of hand. You need to bail us out so we can effectively participate in society."
NASA is supporting some seriously risky missions to the Moon–it’s about time
If you're already planning to use Linux daily, the Framework is a solid choice. I personally sent mine back (because of that "beta" feel), but it was more the software than the hardware- I am a Mac user and expected Linux desktop to just be a bit better than it is today.

The Framework hardware is easily my favorite laptop hardware (aside from Apple, but really they're a different category than Framework).
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>As a parent, none of the risks are as profound as that of some other member of the public calling the police to inform on your “dangerous parenting”.

And even when these events are rare they get reported on which increases the chilling effect.
Quick bug report: I changed my username, and while it's updated the routing, it hasn't updated the UI. The form keeps trying to use the old username, and the profile menu item keeps linking to the old username.

Also, "Near me" doesn't seem to work. It finds nothing, even though when I manually search my city there are plenty of options. Might be useful to explain how it determines what's "Near you" and attempt to expand the radius or suggest a search if it finds nothing.
On the other hand, iMessage is a vastly inferior user experience to Messages, WhatsApp, or Discord. Which is why I leave it disabled, despite having an iPhone. I leave group chats and media sharing to the platforms that are built for it, and use texting for logistics while out and about.
Programmers need not be very good computer scientists. The actual scientists publishing papers on algorithms usually get it right.
It impresses that age has not meant better tooling for C/C++ when compared with more modern languages.

I really envy productivity people using more "dynamic" languages have had over C/C++ developers just because of tooling. Of course, each language is like a tool tailored for a more adequate domain and I'm sure better tooling wouldn't magically fix all of old languages' traps. Nevertheless I miss it.
The sheer perseverance is humbling. I have a hard time staying focused on anything for much longer than week, and those tend to be interesting and intellectually rewarding, to be focused on transforming rock to rubble and removing it for decades is somewhere just below 'god mode'.
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they're expensive so people innately defend them despite being no better and worse in a lot of ways
I'd like to think that people know that this stuff is (most likely) not real, but some people can chime in and provide interesting information anyway. The top comment (about being trained in working in confined spaces and asphyxiation hazards) is new information to me, for example.

In my opinion, this kind of entertainment is in the same class as morning talk show sketches like "Second Date Update." It's obviously fake (who would agree to talk about a date on the radio from a random caller?), but it's hilarious and, for some, an interesting thing to talk about with friends who might even have similarly crazy stories that are actually real.
Which is great for a risk-management standpoint: the modified genes will only spread through great human effort, there's no scenario where there's unintended side-effects and we can't stop the spread.
I mean for first-party ads that makes sense
I must have missed the, "this doesn't count for public employees if they are a professor, then their constitutional requirement is to be nice" clause in the first amendment. Could you point that piece out to me?
I can relate to this: there's been numerous times where I've resisted keeping a regular exercise regimen because it sends my libido through the roof and I didn't want to deal with the headache of going out/socializing to restock my harem.
"You can’t say something important about anything ever, without offending. Important speech about important issues, especially contentious issues, is instantly offensive."
The dataset they used is public, the models and the training process they used are not.

https://areyoutheasshole.com/about
https://areyoutheasshole.com/training-data
Is that because if they really believed it then they'd commit suicide? or some other reason?
Your first link doesn't say what you think it says. Did you link to the wrong thing? Or just make a wild assumption based on capacity factor, which is what that page talks about?

The second link also doesnt say what you claim. It says 12 hours of storage or HVDC connections would be required. 12 hours storage being half an EV per American household, which isnt particulalry massive and is explicitly an upper bound, ignoring hydro and nuclear and biomass and demand response etc.

Their solar only model suggests 1.5x overprovision. How much cheaper does solar need to be for a purely solar grid to beat nuclear using your number? 1.2/1.5 suggest 20% cheaper is all they need in this extreme solar only model. But in reality solar (and wind) are 20% of the cost of new nuclear (80% cheaper) and predicted to fall further.

So even your entirely unsubstantiated claim about needing 3-4x wind overprovision means it would be cheaper than nuclear.
Another important thing to consider is most of the time in addition to what others have said is that the best price for any given product will usually be at some large retailer (online or otherwise). The key here is MOST of the time. Smaller retailers might have better sales for products, but sometimes they have much worse return policies, or risk going out of business so won't support you if anything goes wrong, and the extra 10 bucks saved isn't worth it. So consumer behavior in the US has essentially learned to focus on the larger national/international retailers. That's why "buy local" is a thing here. People feel that they are somehow supporting their local economy more directly by buying from some local small retailer.
how would that work? the point of the SEO spam is to fill up a site with 'content' and then sell ads or affiliate links to make money on that site

You can't really make money by commenting on Reddit, they are very agressive about affiliate links and banning
I found some of these genuinely interesting and useful, so thanks. Overall I don't see a reason to come back to the website and not interested in the newsletter format. Nevertheless, I think you can turn this into _something_ if you are persistent with interesting websites.
> from what I'm seeing they're something like 1-2% interest. Inflation is > 8% right now per the government's own numbers

That's a real yield. TIPs "adjust in price (principal amount) in order to maintain their real value" when inflation rises [1].

So if you buy a TIP for 100 that pays 2%, and inflation is 8%, the face value is adjusted to 108 and you get a 2.16 coupon. (Super simplified, to the point of being technically incorrect, but framework-wise fine.)

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tips.asp
Aren't these idiosyncratic?

For instance an online bookstore might have the following kinds of "person":

an administrative user
a customer
an author
a person who a book is about
a contact at a vendor

the same is true for some other application just the list of "classes" and essential attributes of those classes is different.
Well, increasing delta vee increases mass rate exponentially, which leads to unexpected effects.

initial_mass / final_mass = exp(delta vee / exhaust velocity).

This assumes a single stage to orbit rocket for simplicity.

So the mass ratio for a delta vee of 10 km/s and exhaust velocity of 3 km/s might be exp(10/3) = exp(3.33) = 28. So for 1000 kg of fueled rocket, you have 35 kg of empty rocket + payload. Rocket structure might be 25 kg and payload might be maybe 10 kg.

If you can shave off 1 km/s off with spin launch assist, your mass ratio will be exp(9/3) = exp(3) = 20. For a 1000 kg of fueled rocket, you have 50 kg for rocket structure + payload. If the rocket structure is still 25 kg, your payload is now 25 kg.

Your payload just multiplied by 2.5x with this insignificant-looking 10% ground assist.

In reality of course it's more complex with two stages. And making the rocket resistant to side forces and high drag forces can increase its weight.
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Seems like they're introducing an ad-supported plan now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31090319
Yes wanting to do the right thing mixed with very little domain knowledge and a only vague hint of what the right thing might be… is a dangerous combination, and very common among people advocating for “good” these days.
Yeah, but then you're talking to an emotionless box in a Zoom window, which is even worse.
Then poor people won't qualify for loans.

The only solution is some form of price controls, presumably by nationalising some universities or competing against them at the federal level.
generally ... American policy is designed by the wealthy of the wealthy and for the wealthy. So unless a problem is effecting the wealthy is has a low chance of getting fixed.
In our species, inheritance in terms of money and properties means a lot in terms of "social" evolution.

More serious: some epigentic factors do play a role.
I agree with you on this, but this is completely unrelated to student loan forgiveness.
There's a whole database, Datomic, that works roughly this way -- not the UDP multicast but the idea of having a slightly more nuanced consistency/availability/partition tolerance tradeoff by having a thin transaction organizer which is not partition tolerant and officially states which one came first and second, upstream of the replicas that grant normal availability.

I would have liked the discussion about Raft/Paxos that they said they'd leave out of this episode though :(
I'd like to understand the tech, the implications of it, how it impacts the industry.

That article strikes me as hermetic, not really trying to speak to people who aren't already deeply involved.
With my former biologist hat on I would ask the authors to define "dead"

Lots of cells and tissues remain alive for months after death. It's easily possible that the nerves and muscles of this fish are alive enough to trigger basic autonomic swimming responses that are powering it upstream.

I want to see an artificial fish model that shows this behaviour.
Yeah there are plenty of these.

Skycoin is a nice one as well.

My point is that it isn't necessary (perhaps, simply a nice added feature for incentive).
The closest attempt at creating a directory of standard platform-agnostic UI templates I could find is this repository [0] associated with the Adaptive Cards project [1]. Unfortunately, it only contains a handful of templates.

In practice, Google's Rich Results [2] seem to provide the most extensive set of templates aligned with Schema.org, but documentation is limited and they're not open source. Similarly, Wikipedia features thousands of high-quality infobox templates [3], but they're not readily usable outside of Wikipedia and might have limited utility in non-encyclopedic contexts.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/adaptivecards-templates

[1] https://adaptivecards.io

[2] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_infoboxes
Why is that a bad thing? Math books should teach math not CRT.
Despite knowing the biological term, my first thought was still the in-game currency in the Elder Scrolls games.

"Do you have a septim or two for an old beggar like me?"
Oh? What difference would that be? If I intend to add or remove a species from somewhere is that somehow worse than if I accidentally add or remove a species from somewhere? In what way?
Maybe rephrase that: "instantly offends someone". Speech isn't often truly offensive; but different people may feel offended.

The fact that some are not offended says loads about this. If the speech was intrinsically offensive, wouldn't everybody (most people) agree?
It misses the very common mistake of typing a comma instead of a dot.

Otherwise, yeah, most people would be better served by a library that detects domain typos like https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck than spending time on regexes.
Sorry to hear that. I wonder what a parent can do in this situation. And would they know if the kid is just suffering typical school harassment (which shouldn't be allowed, but happens all the time) or if the kid is experiencing something more severe.

I know teachers are sometimes well aware of some regular abuse that is going on. Typical stuff, like verbal assault, theft, battery, threats of violence. All criminal offenses in the real world. But in school it's just a detention or a request to curb the behaviour. I think it's difficult to judge the difference between a situation where the victim needs to learn to toughen up, vs a situation where the offender needs to learn that society doesn't allow these behaviours and there are serious consequences.
I think we already have a solution built into the legal system: Lemon Laws.

From the Great Wiki in the Sky: "Lemon laws are laws that provide a remedy for purchasers of cars and other consumer goods in order to compensate for products that repeatedly fail to meet standards of quality and performance."

Obviously, these degrees did not meet the standards of quality to make "productive members of society" so the universities should have to "buy them back", preferably using their own endowments.

In the short term, it would hurt them immensely - which is deserved for selling a "product" that wasn't worthwhile but in the long term, it would mean that they're more likely to a) keep prices more reasonable and b) make a higher quality "product".
>You touch and interact with a laptop far more often than a video game console.

While is this true, the number of console wars spawned from comparing physical controller feel might bring the parallel back on track.
It’s hard for me to understand this perspective. Don’t you see how this would create blind spots in academic discourse?

> Abusive

Is this the right word?
100% in good faith:

> I'm curious to know how these loans became such a political issue. It's unusual to take out a loan and then complain about having to repay it.

Saddling _teenagers_ with such debt is problematic in many ways. For many of my peers they were not ready/cut out for college but still had the debt + schooling jammed down their throats because "it's what you're suppose to do."

Then, there's the cost to quality situation... I got nailed with this one - accredited private college with little oversight with a _horrible_ program for my area of study. We're talking two professors for the entire subject, and most of the courses they had advertised in their catalog hadn't been offered in over _seven_ years. Lots of people's time at school was just jumping through hoops for an "education" with very little value to their eventual career.

Cost has gone through the roof - administrative costs for colleges have skyrocketed. I've worked in marketing for schools - they're businesses before they're educational facilities. They're profit seeking through tuition, grants, donations, etc. Don't even get me started on sports...

> We don't typically reward people for digging themselves into a hole by bailing them out.

They were put through an incredibly profit-seeking system that operates in it's own self interest to get as much tuition as possible. Just like the healthcare industry, we've let administrative costs and middlemen drive the price of an education up while whittling the quality of it down.

100% they were not the only ones digging the hole that they find themselves in. Additionally, I have a hard time nailing 17-18 year olds to the cross for poor decisions in regards to their "digging" activities.

> Unless they're large corporations. We bail them out in certain cases. But I don't think that's a popular idea either.

And, just saying - yes this happens!! We consistently cut breaks to the interests of capital (large corporations, the rich w/taxes). Regardless of how any of us feel about it, this will continue to happen. So if our corporate benefactors are getting help, why can't a citizen with/seeking an education get some help too?
Serving VC pitch decks doesn't mean they want want hypergrowth + exits. Having just gone through the W22 batch - it really doesn't feel like they encourage growing quickly and exiting.

Hypergrowth is often what founders want. It's validation of product market fit (and of all the efforts).
That's a great graphic.

I can't figure out what it is doing this - I'm UK-based too, and I know logically that everything is now safer - I used to walk two miles to the woods with friends at the age of eight or nine, but I wouldn't trust my own children to walk to the bottom of the hill here.

I don't really understand what has changed. Why were my own parents less paranoid? There are lots of people giving lots of reasons on here. The most credible is the constant "stranger danger" message pumped out in news, but I honestly wonder if there's been a baseline increase in people's general paranoia - my concerns are more around them doing something stupid and getting into trouble.
This is a public university in a town of 20k, which is 70% Republican, whose main employers are a local hospital, a prison, a railroad, a lumberyard, and this school. This guy wins this case 99% of the time which is why they settled. And it's all because the school just wanted him to be respectful to a student.
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I'm not sure there are even many SMTP servers that fully follow the RFC. Embedded comments in an email address is a weird feature.
Federal student loans went unbankruptable in 1976, private ones in 2005.

Did everyone routinely go bankrupt before 1976? I didn't before 2005.
I think you should consider the possibility that they are not "sucking" at headlines here, but intentionally misleading their audience.
On the other hand, Netflix refuses to translate subtitles to my language (Serbian) for years. HBO Max translated pretty much everything, while most kids shows are even dubbed.

They literally just have to hire one person in Serbia and pay them 1000 EUR a month, maybe another one to validate.
Sure, do both. But the relief, as it were, needs to come after the fix.

And frankly, rather than just give a relatively privileged subset of the population some money, we might as well crank up that printing press again and just got a $10K check to every last citizen, student loans or not. Might as well be equitable about it.