skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate how you are downvoted for an accurate statement. I love math, but I've come to understand from a teacher's perspective how accurate your statement can be. I liked your insight.
Can you elaborate further on what gain I would have by having the tmux UI "rendered locally" on my system vs the SSH host? I'm obviously missing something based on your description.

For example: SSH into server, start tmux on that system. If I am disconnected for some reason, SSH back into server, tmux attach -t 0 (or whatever ID I have) and I've recovered my session. Cut/copy/paste, mouse use, etc., are all treated as they are through any SSH session.
I believe it's because both products appear to be using https://tailwindui.com/
We had maps, bus schedules phone books. It wasn’t that hard.
It genuinely scares me that so many adults think in terms of "good guys" and "bad guys".

One of the things that drove me nuts about the Qanon family of conspiracy theories, despite them being insane, was the rhetoric their followers used, calling the US government "the good guys". First of all, what conspiracy theory actually suggests that the government is on their side and not out to get them, and second, do Q followers think we're in a superhero movie with good guys and bad guys?
> I think that what this means in the long-run is that this small number of very highly resourced private colleges ... will be able to sustain "normal" people going there on the need-blind aid

The issue with this is that prospective students need to know this is how it works. When I was in school (in a similar caliber school), most lower income students applied on a whim not knowing the school would handle aid.

(Also I'm told the school did a bad job at handling aid, essentially giving people golden handcuffs to control additional factors of their life like housing).
A decade or so ago most families paid full price at most colleges/universities in the US. That is not the case today.

You see a lot of opinion pieces talking about how high tuition prices are at colleges and how the pricing is out of control, but what isn't talked about is that most of these schools are now discounting their tuition increasingly every year. Typically it is on a sliding scale based on need. For some of the Ivy league schools tuition is free if you are anything below upper middle income. Universities do this by pulling a small percentage from their endowments each year (think of a retiree pulling 2% of investments each year while still growing the retirement nest egg by 4%). That is exactly what colleges are doing.

Bigger endowments = bigger discount rate = better quality of students attending = better (hopefully) students = better reputation. At least that is how the thinking goes.

Google "Boston University." On the right of it will tell you the tuition and average cost of attendance, including cost by income bracket.

Cost Before Aid: $77,662
After Aid:$30,259
I lived at home and went to a state school around 15 years ago. At the time, in-state tuition was something like $10k/year. I got around $10k in scholarships, so my education cost roughly $30k or $41k in today's money. This means one year at BU is two times the total cost of my education, time adjusted.

Insane.
I think it’s pretty easy to demonstrate you need financial support when your after tax pay for the whole family is less than the annual tuition cost.
I think you just summarized the problem pretty well.
> What does PowerToys Run do that the standard WIN+R run dialog doesn't? Or just hitting the WIN key to get the search dialog?

It's more reliable and predictable. The standard windows search often prioritizes online searches vs searching through your files. Even when I type in math, sometimes it gives me bing results instead of just solving the math. Especially for subtractions.

Having online searches in the start menu is cool, but I want that 15% of the time I search, Not 80%.
> Obviously $80k is still an obscene amount of money, but I don't really have an issue with kids of millionaires

Lets assume person is a milionaire.

Having to pay 8% of your networth (including retirement and the value of your home [is that correct?]) so that one of your kids can go to uni (what if you have 2?) is silly.
Thank you. We won’t be needing the rest of the hour. HR might be in touch.
‘Time Bandits’ was before, so it's the other way around.

Besides, you might be unfamiliar with the fact that Gilliam referred to ‘Bandits’, ‘Brazil’ and ‘Munchausen’ as a trilogy about the same thing. Which trilogy evidently ended up having at least nine films in it, excepting ‘F&L’ and me having not watched ‘Quixote’ yet (the latter's theme obviously follows the rest, though).
Everyone makes mistakes.

But when they committed to that mistake, they thought they were right at the time.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23771902/

Diagnostic errors by Doctors are probably the gold standard of being error free. My estimate is that CEO types are usually right at least 60% of the time with these big decisions as it were.

What I'm curious about is why they thought they were right when they made the decision.
Most libraries have a way to request items for purchase and usually have budget to buy things that are requested, within reason and depending on their policies.

Austin TX has an eCard program, you can access their Overdrive for $22 https://library.austintexas.gov/mylibrarycard

As well, you may want to look to see if you can get access through other librarires in Texas via the TexShare Card program. https://www.tsl.texas.gov/texshare/card
Spot on with the foreign money thing... I live downtown and they're all living in the new Theater District and North Station buildings.

I've got some friends in one of the newer condo buildings downtown and they have been really annoyed by how much the building is like a dorm. Foreign money buys up million dollar units and lets their kids stay in them while they are in school. Kids in turn throw noisy parties and do generally stupid 18-21 year old crap that pisses off the regular residents.
The implications for the future of this industry, if what you say is true, are profound.
Anyone have any book recommendations for learning economics?
But only 38 kb was available using the built-in kernel.
A large number of people probably just skim the top 5 comments. For them, seeing an astroturfed “actually X is great and here’s why” comment is enough for them. They’re not digging 8 levels deep into a thread until it’s finally shown that the person is decisively a shill.
most of the online library apps used by public libraries (like Overdrive/Libby) are built entirely around enforcing DRM so I think it's unlikely they'd allow easy access to the raw text
https://www.google.com/search?q=harvard+attendance+cost

Harvard attendance cost: $15k on avg after financial aid. But $60k on paper.
> Have you ever litigated in small claims court?

Yes.

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> I don't think you have because

This is not relevant to me.

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> IANAL, so my advice

This is not relevant to me.
Almost certainly per-person. There is nothing in Boston that can be rented for $700 short of a broom closet and that might still fetch $1000.
Being a web developer is a terrible waste of talent if your friend is truly good at University level maths. Can I suggest he consider data science or deep learning? Check out coursera/deeplearning.ai's moocs; he can get a feel for it by going to youtube and checking out similar material.
I got a headset that mutes when I move the mic up and unmutes when I move it back down: jabra evolve2 65, comes in mono and stereo. If you want an over-ear option they have evolve2 85 but that's like $500
This submission is likely an outlier amongst outliers. It's a crazy expensive private university. So I have no answer for you.

For public universities, the claim is that historically, tuition never covered expenses, and the difference was taken care of by the state and federal government. State support has dropped significantly in the last 40 years, and hence the significant increase in tuition.

About a decade ago I know one nearby public university would be open with their expenses and showed that their expenses per capita/student hadn't changed in decades (adjusted for inflation), and that it wasn't bloat that was causing tuition to go up.
Similarly, I didn't attend some schools I was accepted to because the debt would have crushed me.

That's why I don't get the big push for canceling student loans. It feels like rewarding people for irresponsible behavior, and ultimately punishing those who acted responsibly.

Further, I expect it would drive tuitions even higher. Who cares what it costs if you don't have to pay...
The solution is and always has been to cut the fluff from the academies. For context, go add up the salaries the 'student services' area of the expensive school of your choice.

Having worked for one such office for ~15 years, the most appalling part was that they are largely antagonistic toward the faculty and mission of the schools. The waste is dizzying.
> The court where you moved to doesn’t have jurisdiction.

Yes, it does. Banks are federally regulated.

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> The types of damages you can recover in small claims are limited.

In most of the country it's five figures, which is enough to get a bank to stop screwing around
How does Session differ from Briar?
Yes this also reminds me of “circuit bending”
Coding is not building software. Programmers program. If you want to build software, you don't have to code. Just get the source.

>$ ./configure
>$ make
>$ sudo make install #not war!

And that is how you build software. Let's stop confusing people by stealing words and trying to make them mean something else.
Expat here, $80K*4 = $320K for college education? how is this sustainable.
A few theories:
We prioritize unimportant stuff over people. Examples: going to the gym, grocery shopping

Too much ceremony around the actual meeting. Your place gotta be tidy, you gotta be a good host etc. I have neighbors I really like who moved in ~6-8 months ago. We had them over twice and visited their place once. Each time each party made a huge effort. My wife made us clean our place for the better part of the day and every time we visited someone clearly had spent hours cooking and prepping stuff. Nobody wants to do this all the time. I even brought this up explicitly that we all gotta chill the f out about being super hosts. Everyone nodded and I am sure whoever hosts next time won't put much less work in.

Cultural change. I don't even know how to get to the place where I would just walk to my neighbor to "hang out". It feels like everything these days needs to have a reason and a plan. And this is in the rare case where you actually could walk over and don't have to drive 20 minutes to find out your friends took their kid to swim class.
I’m not sure this is universally true, but in most contexts I’ve heard while studying Japanese and visiting Japan, サラリマン (sarariman) indicates someone with the kind of lifetime-employment, “I live in town in a coffin hotel during the week and only see my family on the weekends” job that used to be common for white-collar workers.

The identity, uniform, and work ethic are all part of the package. It’s been a while since most big companies in the US could claim that kind of life-long career and mutual loyalty was likely or even desirable, but early IBM might be an apt comparison., down to the dress code, company songbook, and 40-year tenures for senior staff.
It would be great if that information was published.

I received a full tuition scholarship to BU.
Depends on BUs decision, they might be one of those universities who believe parents should've been saving up for their childs education for 18 years and would still happily charge you the full amount.
I expect them to listen to my non-legal-code claim of "this is the wrong product".
I am so thankful I went to college 15ish years ago and my parents were able to do it without loans... our future is so fucked with the way we are burying our young under ridiculous amounts of debt.
I think the challenge with these online services now is that their barrier to entry is minimal.

You can sign up to these services at the click of a button and they're also heavily promoted next to payment providers such as Visa. As opposed to them being a separate service you would sign up for, they're integrated into the checkout process as easily as PayPal.

I even saw a service similar to this here in Australia called "My pay now", where they say you can access a portion of your pay early. When in reality you're just borrowing an amount that is a portion of your upcoming pay, with the expectation that you will pay it back when you get paid. The way it was marketed I thought it was a government scheme where you would actually access a portion of your pay early, but no.
The getting upset part is interesting. I have some theories, but am curious to hear why you think it makes you upset.
Glancing at the DBA jobs in a job search engine, you're going to be a functionary at some non-tech business like a hospital or university. Which is fine, it's just kinda on that old school IT side of the business.
More than double the price of some entire degrees in Canada
I’ve never worked with a DBA. The DBAs I do know are doing valuable and meaningful work. I agree with several other comments highlighting the org size distinction.

Do you like the work? Do you want to work in large orgs? Keep doing it! If you don’t, there’s plenty of room to branch out and I assure you if you’re half decent at the job your insights will translate well to many other meaningful contributions.
They've probably subcontracted and outsourced some of their reputation management to shitty providers. You see this all the time with SEO and link building, for example.
I'd attend BU and hire from BU before UMass Flagship, and certainly before non-flagship. That said, I wouldn't think poorly of someone with a UMass degree. I assume BU has a better professional network and more business connections to get a job.

The volume of top-tier schools in the north east means that there is a subtle student brain-drain from state schools not found in other parts of country - this obviously applies only to students who can afford it of course, and smart people certainly attend UMass.
If the person hasn't said anything about being unable to stop, then it might be a bit inaccurate.

But it is very common for people to explicitly say they have trouble stopping. Almost as common or maybe even more common than having trouble eating less sugar.

And it is very common for people to believe they are negatively affected, unable to focus on books or movies, that their relationships are impacted, that their health suffers, that they are stressed by the miserable content they consume, and to be confident that these problems are new or worsened since the phone era.

Maybe addicted isn't the best word for strangers, but "fairly likely to be having some level of addiction symptoms" seems to apply to most phone owners.
Personal example, I almost did an MD/PhD at BU. Almost every MD/PhD is fully-funded due to the time commitment and presumed loss of 4-5 years of attending-level salary. BU's MD/PhD program is not fully funded...you have to pay for your living expenses all throughout the MD years, not an easy price to stomach in Boston (see: https://www.bumc.bu.edu/mdphd/admissions/funding/).
Nth. Spotify recommendations suck if you have non-mainstream tastes.
Maybe try just having notifications for things that _are_ important? If you've got "hundreds" of missed notifications after a week, you're clearly not vetting those notifications at the source.

Or better yet, just disable notifications.

Our phones are a great tool, and we don't have to be a slave to them, nor do we have to get rid of them entirely to free ourselves from being slaves to them.
You can ethically take blocking actions just fine if you allow for due process. The mere existence of bans is not what's being criticized. (Though I'd say bans generally shouldn't be lifetime either.)
It's interesting to note that the author, Paul Thacker, is the one who writes about [Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial] (https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635) at BMJ.

[Here](https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/q/53286/214) is a related question on skeptic SE that tries to verify the claim (which has been closed, unfortunately).
I’m not one of the downvoters but I suspect he’s being downvoted for an inability (or refusal) to think in hypotheticals for the sake of an interesting problem. It gives the impression of someone who so dislikes thought exercises or is too insecure about their ability to solve them that they prefer to ruin them with silly objections about practicality.
A few years ago I have worked with people 100% focused on making the best out of our Postgres databases, but I wouldn't expect that specific scope to still exist outside of huge organizations.

Today I think a "DBA" in a small/middle sized company would be also touching cloud resources and data funneled through analytics and other sources. Basically the "big data" fad we had a while ago becoming just "data", and that data has to be administered, optimized, and backend/frontend devs also need guidance and education on how to best deal with it.

In general, I have the feeling "administrator" roles are disappearing to be either more specific in the biggest orgs, or way broader in the middle sizes/run of the mill orgs.
> you simply can't reach salvation and union with God without starting from right morals.

This is almost the opposite of Christianity, depending on what you mean by "right morals".
Christianity says you simply can't reach salvation and be with God unless you are flawless, which is humanly impossible, so unless God does something... hence Christ.
Warning to anyone with a physical C64, there are a couple memory addresses that if you poke them it will fry your monitor or your drive. Maybe this was a rumor as I can no longer find the source of this info but it would be a shame if someone damaged their system.

Fortunately this never happened to me as a kid. I was thrilled when found one of the addresses for controlling a sprite.
The puzzle is a good example of pseudocontext:

"Instead of giving students realistic situations that they could analyze, textbook authors began to fill books with make-believe contexts – contexts that students were meant to believe but for which they should not use any of their real-world knowledge."[0]

I think for a math puzzle that people choose to do for fun, pseudocontext is fine. We can suspend our disbelief and engage with the math as it's intended to be engaged with.

In a classroom setting, on the other hand, I think it's best to stay away from pseudocontext. Either make the context realistic, make it clearly fantastical, or just use math as the context without trying to dress it up in real-life details.

Pseudocontext in a teaching environment is problematic because it requires learners to ignore the common-sense reasoning that they'd apply to a real-life problem and it reinforces the impression that math has nothing to do with the real world.

In this case, we could call it a dragon egg and that would be enough I think to transform it into a fantasy context, since nobody has preexisting assumptions about how durable a dragon's egg might be.

[0] https://blog.mrmeyer.com/2010/pseudocontext-saturdays-introd...
I hope not. We need to hire a Postgres DBA at Fivetran, we have more or less a single Postgres database with all our state, and it’s become clear that we need a full time person to optimize it.
There's an actual controversy over whether Monsanto's best known products are actually harmful to people, especially on balance vs. their substitutes. Your response for how Monsanto should handle this situation seems to be that they should dispose of the controversy and just concede your side of it. That's only persuasive to people that already agree with your side of the argument. Do you have a better one?
Some of your previous explorations were motivated (IIRC) by UIs that had (potentially) many thousands of objects for interactive visualizations of datasets. Is that still a motivating example for this evolved approach?
Hi, let me try to answer your last point, which imho is the most important.

The problem is the type of ad, which is worth nothing. The data is just BS used in order to dress up the selling of a worthless ad placement for good money; and yes, that data is also largely flawed.

And even if it were not flawed, ‘guessing’ that someone who is supposed to be a certain age, gender, in a certain job, in a certain relationship, with or without kids, etc could be interested in a certain product is much harder than simply guessing that if you like these 10 or 100 songs, you may like this other song.

And how is anybody going to ‘prove’ that all this quasi-magical targeting worked, when click rates are ridiculously low even for highly targeted ads?

Imho targeting and ‘personalisation’ serve just one simple purpose: convince the marketer that he/she is doing the right thing, or what is considered right or best practice at the moment, and so that they are safe and are not going to be fired because, you know, nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM.
They don’t do number two, that is not need blind (blind means admissions doesn’t look at financial need, and this makes sense because the applications are due before financial aid is filled out). But here’s what they do do:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/education/edlife/finaid-p...

B.U. may be need-blind in admissions, but like many colleges, it is not talent-blind in financial aid. When the admissions office accepts a student, the file gets a rating before going to the financial aid office. That rating, Dr. Pohl says, is based on a holistic read of the application: factors like leadership, talent, motivation and personal character are weighed as well as grades and test scores.
I am both an idealist and a realist. I'm very much aware of how much surveillance governments run on their own citizens. There's no place in the world that is exempt from this. So you could either move to Mars and hope the Elon doesn't do things like everyone else, or you can try to effect change here, but it's an uphill battle. All governments are drunk with the power they have, and they are not going to give it up willingly.
Was there ever a layoff/pay cut in those 15 years?
Canceling student loans is purely a political play. I agree wholeheartedly with your opinion. I worked my way through school, granted it was 50k all told over 4 years instead of whatever the hell it costs now.

Maybe my ignorance is showing, but putting a cap on loan amounts for undergrad would probably protect the student quite a bit.
My sister works in an assisted living home and she tells me the residents pay over $7,000 a month. If you can get a cruise cabin for under $200 a day then it's a bargain.
Wait until you learn that we give people who think like this firearms, the license to kill, & qualified immunity.

Very rarely it backfires & we get things like this.

https://youtu.be/4fQcjmt2Q_o

Overwhelmingly, most people think this is fine.

I hate it here.
Assuming no overhead:

If professors are making 250K / year, and the average course load per student is 4 courses, the class size is twenty, and each professor teaches two class sections per semester, student tuition would be $25K.

Professors make much less, course sizes are much larger, and tuition is at least double my estimate.

My conclusion? Professors with teaching positions should unionize or just found separate, low overhead universities that are optimized to provide higher education.
It's this. Normal people might quickly read some comments on Reddit and then go on with their lives without digging into them, building a false consensus in their minds. They never really think to challenge what they read, not because they're dumb or anything like that, but because people only have so much time and energy to put towards critically analyzing what they see online.
8% times 4 years.