skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not cancelling student loans is also a political play, because of the securities that depend on this unpayable debt (SLABs).

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/rmbs-to-slabs-history-r...

So right now we are prioritizing SLAB investors' profits over giving consumers more spending power. If college graduates suddenly could spend their loan payment money on other goods and services, it would be great for the economy. Loan repayments have been frozen for years now and nothing bad economically has happened.

But instead we're just protecting the rent seeking of the wealthy, which isn't really worthwhile economic activity.

Personally I think SLABs are extremely unethical, but even if you disagree with that, SLABs are unsustainable and look a lot like the subprime mortgage bubble.

I agree that there needs to be something to drive the cost of education down, but I don't know if a tuition price ceiling is the way to go. I think a good start would be punishing schools that spend elaborately on buildings, athletics and excess/overpaid administrators while also paying their grad students doing a lot of the teaching work starvation wages (or if you're UCLA, don't even pay them at all!) and neglect spending directly on education and tuition. I think an endowment cap is a great idea in this area, to force schools to lower tuition by having to spend a certain part of their endowment, rather than letting them hoard money.

Some other things that are extremely good ideas is letting the interest rate be renegotiable/refinancible. For example, why did I have to continue paying 6.5% on my loan when rates everywhere else were near zero? And also letting people discharge loans in bankruptcy like pretty much every other debt.

The bubble will burst any day now, since enrollments have been declining for years at this point. Until then, the only people benefiting are student loan servicers, useless and overpaid administrators, plutocratic athletics departments, and investment bankers, NOT students or people doing the actual educating.
Do you wish to enlighten us?
Like I said, you seem trapped in a poor vision of what enlightenment means — the goal isn’t to burn down your inner garden, but to tend it.

:)
lol I guess that makes sense.
>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.

I don't want to be insulting or make this a flamewar, but really? c'mon. It's not like they're putting the coat of arms in their logo, there is _zero_ indication this is a government run scheme.

If a presumably fairly well educated and tech literate person thinks "MyPayNow" button next to their latest order of trendy clothing/smartphone accessories/whatever is a government scheme, I'm not sure how much anyone can do to prevent less well educated and tech literate people being taken advantage of...
> of the application: factors like leadership, talent, motivation and personal character are weighed as well as grades and test scores.

Yes? So they have a catch all justification for discrimination against and for whoever they like. Remember, holistic admissions was invented to keep out the Jews. Now it’s used to keep out Asians.
It's sad that the "well you're just a paid shill" retort is used to heavily nowadays. Not just for GMO related discussions either. It's got to be the laziest, empty non-argument out there and I wish more people would call it out for what it is.
Older AMD CPUs e.g. FX-9590 don't have it.
> In response to an article about how Monsanto has undue influence on scientific studies, you posted a review paid for by Monsanto...

Anonymously
> It's possible to make a cross platform app, but it only looks good for Android and iOS.

Why is that? Flutter is best suited towards owning your own UI and design language, and not relying on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS etc specific designs, like many companies these days (Spotify, Slack).
Tuition costs were lower a decade ago but so was overhead. What the tuition cost is telling you is how much it costs the University to educate a single person and create the BU experience, whatever you may think for that.

That dollar amount is not made up. And that money is coming from somewhere. It is either coming directly from the students or endowment.

And it is based on your family’s income. It is not a negotiation. It is automatic and based on a standard chart. The less you make the less you pay. Pretty straightforward.
I grew up in the area and didn’t wear Nike shoes because of a lack of money
It feeds into really top tier schools, right?
All is about data.
Thank you!

I dislike style nazis too, e.g. carping when Peter Norvig's code won't pass PEP 8.

I'm just leery of the expected cost in this kind of case. It can go on working for years until some new complication or some change in the ecosystem makes it suddenly create a really weird problem. Or when you want to try moving to a fancy new Python implementation, you find you have this friction. Matter of judgement where some chance of such messes is paid for by what it can do for you. (Of course when it's less "load bearing" the balance shifts.) With https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ for example, it used bytecode hacks to do something you couldn't do otherwise, and that's unlikely to mess you up.

I have had old C programs go crazy years later in a really hard to debug way because newer compilers may interpret your code like your ex-wife's divorce lawyer (as Kragen put it). Back in the day a lot of us thought we had a different kind of relationship with C compilers, and it'd be fine to code to that informal social contract. (Just a loose analogy.)

I'm piddling away at https://github.com/darius/cant these days. (Some of the motivation was feeling too confined by Python, actually.) No Wasm, but I'm happy it exists! I tried to make a system like it 20 years ago (Idel) and gave up too soon.
> You would be the first person I've heard say that. Everyone I ever spoken to about this loves Spotify's recommendations.

That's not an argument
Never even heard of Cochrane Reviews until tonight, but am I understanding your argument here to be that there exist organizations that are somehow immune to bias and corruption and are perfect at editorial filtering?
I live in a town with tons and tons of students. They live here for a few years and move on.

I’m glad they avoid voting. They’d just vote for high taxes, which they wouldn’t have to pay for very long.

The city has a good system for dealing with political activism by students: there are a ton of unpaid committees with actual power - but exercising the power requires jumping throwing hoops to make sure it’s used well.

In practice this means students can get lots of influence, if they’re willing to put in the time and effort.

That seems like a good system to me.

It also makes me very cynical about voting in general. The fact that someone is willing to wait in line for 20 minutes and check a piece of paper says little about their ideas.

Spending 20 hours a week - evening and weekends - to research and write reports shows you care.
> Of course, the real solution here should just be free public college + clampdowns on cost overruns so that it's practical to fund. Less money on nice dorms and endless administrators and whichever sports lose money. We used to have cheap college, and it's possible to get back there. Find what changed over the decades and cut back.

Agree in theory, but then we should really be sure that the "clampdowns on cost overruns" will be effective before giving the government carte blanche to spend our tax money on this. The government is not even able to build rail without huge cost overruns and delays. I don't trust it to run universities.
No, what I think he is highlighting is how people not interested in math approach a problem like this. I asked my girl friend this question on the way home from our Mother's Day dinner, and she had a very similar statement. It says something about how mathematicians could improve on their analogies, not whether he is interested in solving a math problem. I found it insightful even if it was not directly tied to the "correct" speech on Hacker News.
I think that it's going to be hard to interfere that way, they'll be too busy making money hand over fist from lithium.

The grid storage market, which sodium would serve, tends to be far more price sensitive since the storage is not attached to a massive amount of other tech that is sold primarily based on marketing and emotion, which is what sells cars. Grid storage is pure industrial economics.

I bet lithium miners and lithium battery manufacturers will be happy to hand over the grid storage market for the next decade, as vehicle battery demand will keep far ahead of vehicle battery supply.
One thing that sort of bothers me about this discourse is that, for one, there is no real evidence that the Chinese government is using Tiktok as a weapon to cause dissent through US population. All of it is based on fears that, because it is China, they might do it.

On the other hand, companies like Facebook have and continue to do so all across the world! Not only that, but Facebook itself has been weaponised against americans! This is a problem, but to me, the reality is that companies with this kind of reach are in no way better off in the hands of privates.

I know this is an opinion piece but passages like "... we know that China has been amplifying Russian propaganda worldwide." without any links whatsoever to a source are extremely inflammatory and, honestly, quite ridiculous when Fox News itself has been spreading Russian propaganda to Americans as well!

I'm not trying to make a whataboutism argument here, TikTok is a problem, but it is not a problem because the chinese are behind it; it is a problem because its reach is massive just like any other big tech out there. I really dislike when journalists try to spin this issue as if it's a new-found issue because the chinese are behind it. I assure you, to the chinese, Facebook, Youtube and the rest are also seen as a threat. It is the nature of the game.

Also, personally, I've not encountered a single pro-russian video on tiktok (probably because the algorithm feeds me things I resonate with) but I have encountered a plethora of them on instagram and youtube. Maybe I should write an article for the NYT as well?

Tbh, this article is just pointing out something people have been talking for years. Tiktok is a threat because the chinese government could manipulate its algorithm to spread propaganda... I'll leave you with this final piece from the author:

"Imagine a world in which the United States has a contested presidential election, as it did in 2020 (to say nothing of 2000). If one candidate was friendlier to Chinese interests, might the Chinese Communist Party insist that ByteDance give a nudge to content favoring that candidate?"

Literally what happened in 2016 with an American company (no mention in the article whatsoever that this same scenario has already happened with an american owned, american controlled company).
Working as an eng leader for five years in the industry gave me a considerable base of factual knowledge about the state of the industry even beyond my own company.

I was just summing up my knowledge with an (I thought innocuous) 'I believe' statement. Sounds like you believe otherwise. That's cool with me, and I don't doubt you have good reasons way :)
If you are not using roundup, you are still using something. "Organic" pesticides do not work better so you will generally be using more and that goes to the same places roundup does.
Gold is 3 orders of magnitude more expensive than lithium so this seems like a somewhat useless analogy.
What about publishing an HN comment? At the root of it, they’re both means of publicly disseminating information.
>I find there are a lot of parallels between anti-GMO and anti-vax:

it is a Monsanto gospel

"Crowe (Monsanto) preached a scientific gospel of GMOs that went something like this: If you’re pro-science, you must be pro-GMO. If you’re anti-Monsanto, then you’re anti-GMO. Therefore, if you’re anti-Monsanto, you’re anti-science. His objective, it seemed, was to render opposition to GMOs as ridiculous as belief in Bigfoot, and to amass a movement that could be counted on to shout that message from the rooftops."

from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31310371
Major colleges are an absolute ripoff. If I asked you to give me $250K so that I could give you an $80K salary to start, which isn't a given, would you take that investment?

Community and state schools (and even state schools are too high) are the better way to go. Something has to give...
In static service even lead-acid batteries are great.
I submit that architecture may yield to Conway's Law[1].

To your point, language design may have more todo with the cohort of the original language desingers.

That said, languages tend to add more baggage over time; does recent C resemble K&R very much?

Python with full type hinting is a far cry from the 2.4 stuff I first encountered.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Seems like it would add to the cost, but I'm behind this on general principle!
Random musings: I collect “old books” and have for years. My excitement for the hobby changed about two years ago when I was watching a Sotheby’s auction dismantle an epic collection that was a life’s passion and work to assemble of autographed first editions from some of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

The problem with the hobby is that you can’t experience them (I rarely touch them and don’t let others) and perfect replicas are available online for free. Watching the auction, I realized that my kids won’t love this as much as I do and then they’ll just pawn it off just like what I was watching happen.

I’ve moved on to collecting anime Cels among other things. Unfortunately those have a shelf life! Still enjoyable though… It’s one of the few collectibles that actually is a piece of the original.
Until I went to Colorado my only experience with people “into the outdoors” was in Canada (many from France) and they were some of the nicest, most considerate people I’ve ever met. But whatever I saw in Colorado (and to an extent in San Diego) has led me to believe that people who do move to these places in the US tend to be self centered, just my observation. Probably merely a correlation with deeper connections than causation.
They likely don't want to discuss ethics because the exact same arguments and insults get trotted out everytime. Especially because if his arguments don't align with the common narrative, several people will likely just dismiss him as a "paid shill." Why would anyone willingly wade into that mess with nothing to gain?
>Most people have no idea how abrasive sand is. Imagine sandblasting...

Sorry, I can't imagine sandblasting because I have no idea how abrasive sand is.
In many ways, a lot of the complexities in computing are born from the lack of capabilities.

C is a simple language. It's so simple it has no concept of modules/packages. So as a hack you can 'include' header files.

But this simple hack creates all sorts of complexities.

Things would be simpler if the compiler had a concept of modules or packages.

Ruby is so simple you don't need a compiler! You just need packages to exist in your system which you can install using the command line.

Except now to ship a program you have to ship the entire environment with it, so you create Docker.

But things would be simpler if the language had a compiler that can produce a self contained packaging of the program.

Supporting only English makes things simple until people from other countires come along and they independently try adding support each for their own language, and you end up with tons of encodings and code pages and all the mess that was there before unicode.

Regarding shell, actually the shell language has a quite a high barrier to entry, but only because it's cryptic. That's not my problem though. My problem is even if you add error checking and all that, you don't know if it actually works. There's no compiler that will report errors for you. It's very easy to write incorrect code and get absolutely no feedback about it.

There's really nothing to gain from doing this.
Everything Shakyamuni has ever said is just a "finger pointed to the moon". It is only known through the memory and writings of other people, so it's sensible to take that statement — and pretty much everything attributed to him — with a grain of salt.
Yep, fair enough. I'll remove the comment. Others have phrased it better.
This site is blocked in the EU. :-/
Chiyoda-ku is larger than the areas people talk about. eg you say Akihabara not Chiyoda-ku (or Taito-ku) and Ikebukuro not Toshima-ku.

Does anyone wish they were back in the Tenderloin?
That could work, but without cost/price changes the result of fewer/smaller loans would make it much harder for poorer kids to attend college.
Yeah, this is what I was getting at.
Buy the worst house in the best neighborhood and your initial apprehension eventually becomes a valuable asset. I wonder if the same holds true for college. This was certainly my experience.
I'm gonna come out and say that this is too much money to pay vis a vis the starting salary of a developer.

I would highly suggest just getting any cheap degree from anywhere because every recruiter I talk to doesn't care where you went.
Moisture extraction vehicle. Moisture farmer, like Luke Skywalker
I’ve worked in that space. Observability tools may not give you all you need to debug certain classes of problems. I saw your other comments about Lightrun and will check it out though!
I feel uncomfortable when I leave home without my wallet or (in longer trips) messenger bag. These are powerful essentials that help me neutralize dangers that happen outdoors that I don't expect. I don't see why a smartphone is any different.
As a Vancouver resident, it’s always a bit of a relief when you notice the green dots on the meter and don’t have to fiddle with a credit card machine.
Per kid.

With 2 kids = 640k cash.

And that is only tuition!

And what is the definition of net worth? If you own an ordinary single family home in an ordinary city, it may be worth $1 million which makes you a millionaire.

Will you sell your home to pay tuition for 2 kids?
You're wrong, and you cannot in fact accuse accounts of being shilled simply because their usernames are green. The guidelines are simple: if you think someone's actually a shill, mail hn@ycombinator.com and they'll look into it. The point is that these accusations burn down threads, and the guideline thus asks you to keep this shit off the threads.
At this point adding numbers to the people agreeing seems pointless, but I'm also in this cat3egory.

Sure, I've had some good recommendations, but I'd expect any recommendation engine to do that just by chance.

What I can say is that Spotify has never proposed something truly new and interesting to me. If I listen to a lot of metal, it'll recommend me the most bland stuff in the same genre. What's even worse is that it keeps playing the same songs over and over again. It's like the recommendation engine just gives up and starts repeating its suggestions again.
Getting cancer isn't a decision though, and curing cancer isn't zero-sum. You can argue the schools were predatory, but someone who made the responsible decision to take a scholarship at a state school is footing the bill for someone who made the irresponsible decision to take loans to attend an expensive private school.
Why a shelf life? Do the cels deteriorate?
Houston Public Library membership is open to all Texas residents. Their web site is currently not working for me, but I would assume it will be back up and running shortly.
So as I feared the unwritten sentence for this headline is "so we can fuck them up, too".
The actual RDA is not correct.
Trucks are not allowed also in my hometown in Italy, and it’s not enforced as people tend to let them work expecting common sense based decisions, but a couple of years ago a truck driver just lacked that and tried to go through a very narrow old street blocking the center for hours and got his license revoked and the truck taken, so I guess everyone just be careful
This "threat model" assessment doesn't come into play if your habit is to have it with you at all times. It's like how you have your wallet with you so you don't fear not being able to afford a trip home; you only really start having to assess these threats when you don't have your phone/wallet with you. The phone and wallet is thusly liberating you from such fear.
I'm fairly sure `open` is a generator and doesn't load the whole file into memory. So you wouldn't hit a memory error unless like you said the amount of unique words is high enough.
I was also going to mention Deep Springs. It's a very interesting school. Faculty do not have tenure and the college is largely run by the students who decide on faculty hiring, curriculum, and admissions. David Hitz, co-founder of NetApp is an alumnus. Students who graduate have been very highly successful in transferring to top schools.
Pyodide, PyScript – Monkey patching requests
And it has the side effect of forcing universities to consider the risks of loaning out hundreds of thousands of dollars for a degree that pays $50k on average.

When students can no longer afford infinite loans, the price of these degrees will magically drop like a rock.
I back up my photos with Google Photos and Dropbox simultaneously. Dropbox syncs them all at full resolution to my desktop, where I surprisingly still have Google Picasa installed (still so fast and so good!). But truth be told, I rarely open Picasa or view the photos on my desktop these days. If I'm sharing a photo, I still share through Google Photos (when the other user also has a gmail account). And searching through photos on Google Photos is the easiest. But it's nice to know I still have a full res backup on a different platform + local hard drives if I have to drop my Google account tomorrow.
Individual migration is a very temporary solution.
When the bank you just migrated to becomes a bit bigger -- it's the next target. Or some new law like digital ID's / one world currency make the migration irrelevant.
The problem is that USC and Emory have really upped their endowments and research game as well while places like Tulane have sort of chugged along.
I work in the consulting department at AWS. I touch a lot of different services. The service team will often tell me about upcoming features and tell me not to tell my customers without signing an NDA.

I’ll be thinking about a solution to work around a limitation of an AWS service, reach out to the service team to get their thoughts and they will tell me, they are working on something similar. They will either tell me they are working on it or for me to go for it. I’ve never had an instance where I found out six months later that I wasted my time because they wouldn’t share their roadmap with me.
Ugh. Whenever I see HSBC I think "These people should be in jail and their entire operation disbanded". Of course their annoying little pop-up is not GDPR compliant. And of course their little image-reformation attempt here has terms and conditions that make it impossible to actually, really use.

I know I'm not supposed to be dismissive, but I have nothing but contempt for HSBC.
Agreed, its a mass marketers pipedream.

If you're actually involved in creative work, knowing your niche is extremely important.
How's that strategy working out for the antivax movement?