skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you seen the religious right in the news lately about abortion? Oh but my movie didn't mention god...

So people do not know how to act in their own self interest. Maybe there is a way to help with that...
You're just confused over who's paying for it. Someone is, I can guarantee you that. And it's not student labor.

I'm not differing on the point that free tuition might be a good thing. The (unspoken) point of this story was to suggest that student labor might be enough to make a college solvent.
Everbody's paying for it in the form of tax, I would rather not bail out universities/banks that prey on the financial illeteracy of high school graduates.
Hardware attestation makes that a theoretic impossibility.
SSG can usually be configured. You could have whatever folder structure you want and still have all the URLs straight under the root.
Going 20mph below the speed limit and not letting cars pass you.
Stress leads to bad decisions reducing your options. What I have experienced is that savings help you tide over life's uncertainties. Yes I am letting go of a few % in returns, but I gain something far more valuable - peace of mind and optionality.
It's the easily available financing (secured against bankruptcy) which has enabled the cost spiral; eliminating this would start to put pressure on university prices.

This would cause them to be somewhat cost conscious in certain areas; explosion of administrators, and use of capital contributions for excessive facilities.
On a big database migration a few years ago where I was working, the “solution” was to assign one of the engineers the DBA-ish role for the duration of the project. Turned out to be a bad idea, but he did his best.

If we had had anyone who was actually good at that stuff, besides the few top people who were needed elsewhere, that person would have emerged a hero.
That does beg an interesting thought experiment though: what would that school look like if everything had to be done by the students. Less professoring and upper managerial responsibilities? Make the business students hash out contracts with vendors, IT students handle the networking, mechanical engineers the boilers, hospitality management majors dorm maintenance, and so on and so forth. Something like 15-20 hrs/week, plus 20-30 over the summer from every student is a lot of manpower. Albeit very ill trained/inexperienced manpower.

That said University's don't exactly make an external product to sell, so some money would need to flow inwards from grants or otherwise for salaries and capital expenditure.
in a better world, every family would not have the traditional copy of monopoly on the shelf, but would instead have a copy of chinatown

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/47/chinatown

https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/videos/review-chinatown/
It reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_education_system

This system is only used in German-speaking countries but it works there. The basic is that students are employed by a company and work there half the time. In return the company pays for the studies in the other half.
I read Letters From The Earth. On the surface it's a rather scathing mockery of mainstream Christianity and morality of the time, but there's more to it. A disturbing and difficult work. Bitter, seeped in frustration both of the soul and libido, viciously polemic, yet sometimes tender and wistful. It mocks religion, but mostly to get at the real problem, of how religion alienates man. Maybe from himself. Or from God even, if you want to view it that way. Some sort of deep spiritual or moral scream of frustration and despair wrapped in some flowery religious allegory. I am rereading it now and some of the letters are indecipherable in their overall meaning, if any.

It's probably fitting that it's up on sacred-texts.com though whether it should be there as satire of religion, or as accidental revelation, I'm still undecided.

https://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/twain/letearth.htm
> but it would be bad for the quality of life of a lot of truck drivers

> For the US, Norden plans to follow a similar strategy, starting with a Class 7 variant (equivalent to the 16-ton EU model), with smaller Classes 5 and 6 variants following.

It is not a replacement for a 53' trucks. RTFA?
It may vary well work best by genre, or not cater to people who have gone through spaghettification (insist on subdividing genres infinitely) with their music.

For example, take the "Phonk" genre, which I only was introduced to due to the Ukrainian war. To mean these recommendations give me a lot of new music to listen to. But then you have people lamenting that "Phonk" has really been overtaken by "Drift Phonk".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAV7hnCB_ZE&ab_channel=yokai

On the other hand, I personally enjoy albums and songs major artist after they achieve critical success, when they establish their signature sound, like David Bowie(1970-1983), Stevie Wonder (1972-1976), or Peter Gabriel(1986-1992), but if I "like" any of these songs on Spotify, it means I get their entire catalog mixed in my daily mixes, and if they ever release a live album, those tracks show up. This is not what I want.
https://archive.ph/ZnFdZ
I usually create a "file filter" instead. Keep the extension as is (hi.html) and then use the try_files directive in nginx to make the server look for files with the same path using .html as an example. It has been a while since I used nginx but it looks something like this:

try_files $uri.html
In-person socialization down, but social media isn’t to blame, researcher says
Not a great analogy for the point you're trying to make. A few people close to Michael Jackson alleged impropriety.
Ask HN: How do I find the smallest box than can fit x smaller boxes in it?
I have a packing problem. I have a 5 packages, that I want to fit in one big box to ship. The big box is priced per unit volume.

Is there a formula or algorithm to find the smallest big box that will fit a certain number of smaller packages?

As a sample, here is a sample of 5 packages which i need to get into one cheapest big box:

L x W x H
11.1 x 10.0 x 4.0
9.3 x 6.8 x 4.8
17.0 x 3.3 x 1.7
5.1 x 4.7 x 3.9
17.7 x 11.8 x 2.8

If there is a reusable solution or method to finding the big box size, it would be much appreciated.
Well mine was a question, not an argument.

But, please feel free to point to the sophistry in the study. Where's the flaw?
Bellingcat – TikTok hashtag analysis toolset
It increases taxes on the rich and then uses those tax funds to redistribute wealth.

Canceling student debt on the other hand would be a massive handout for the rich as the majority of student debt is held by rich and upper middle class Americans. Students from from the poorest quartile of households have just 5% of the student debt [1].

1. https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-by-income-level
the main way most people use it the Chrome or Firefox extension
Well, the root cause is likely the interest rate hikes but the proximate cause is that the economic environment has become drastically worse in the last ~6-9mo.

Tech stocks are down a ridiculous amount and funding for startups is now much harder to come by. Probably other factors I don't know about as well.
Ask HN: HN-Post of two large maps showing chemical transformations
A while ago (maybe 3-4 years ago) someone made a post that showed a large map where a chemist noted all possible ways to transform a family of chemicals into each other. The post was made to showcase the impressive amount of complexity in the world and in other fields that we might not be aware of. Does anyone know what I'm looking for?
I found MicMute[1] has anything I want from such a tool.

[1]: https://github.com/SaifAqqad/AHK_MicMute
> and there’s nothing really that can be done

And even if they had been posted.. it is still not the price you would pay at the till, because you know, reasons.
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting flamewar comments and ignoring our requests to stop. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30363116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29362936

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28859357

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For some obtuse reason people think software is some ethereal magic abstraction that somehow doesn't follow any rules or practices. We have to start pushing for the fact that yes, to engineer software you need a true engineer just like to engineer a house you need a true engineer. Nobody ever laments the fact that it's clear that basic construction workers could never engineer a building following all the best practices and regulations (and most importantly, know the pertinent laws of physics in detail). And yet we give basic programmers tasks such as developing a scheduler, a traffic management system and whatnot. I want programmers to have the right responsibilities and the right expectations, I want regulated proven industry standards that we can follow and I want software to suck less
> Unless I am misunderstanding things rather deeply, I do not believe you need consent to track individuals' activity in your own app, with server-side logging.

You would require consent for this as far as I understand.
Coincidentally, an Indian mystic named Kabir Das [1] also criticized the narrowness of contemporary orthodox religious practice and is also up on sacred-texts [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir

[2] https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sok/index.htm
Choosing between left and right if they're both open fixes the bias when there is only a single pixel falling, but not when a circle is used. This is because the update function runs from right to left across the screen, so the falling pillar of sand behaves like a solid wall as the update has not had the chance to move the other side of the circle yet. The best example of this is dropping a pillar on the right slope of an existing cone, a solid line will form on the right side of the falling segment, but a slope will form against the left side of the pillar. When you try this with the left side of a cone, the behavior is correct.

One fix I found is relatively straightforward:

class FallingGrid2 extends FallingGrid {
// Draw from the end of the list to the beginning
update() {
+ const direction = Math.random() > 0.5 ? 'ltr' : 'rtl';
for (let i = this.grid.length - this.width - 1; i > 0; i--) {
- this.updatePixel(i);
+ if (direction === 'rtl') {
+ this.updatePixel(i);
+ } else {
+ const offset = i % this.width;
+ const flipped = this.width - offset;
+ this.updatePixel(i - offset + flipped);
+ }
}
}
}

Cheers for making the source so easily hackable :)
I think this kind of conflict often comes from frustration at developers not having much understanding of the underlying technology that the network engineer / DBA is responsible for.

Networks & DBs present abstractions, but they're very leaky ones, yet developers often expect to just treat them as magical black boxes about which they don't need to know much of the inner workings, constraints, tradeoffs etc. That makes the interface between the network engineer or DBA and software developers a natural site of conflict.

(You even see this above in this very thread, someone complaining that a DBA was punishing developers for "querying the database too much". Most likely the DBA was actually upset about how they were querying the database, not that they were querying it too much, but the developers want it to "just work" so the distinction isn't important to them.)
> The aim is to find out the highest floor from which an egg will not break when dropped out of a window from that floor. (emphasis added)

The egg doesn't break when dropped out of the window (i.e., instantaneously). It potentially breaks when it hits the floor after a time delay t. So, the answer is 100 and 0 trials.

ps: This is a joke. Don't take it too seriously.
On a lighter note, I think someone I know might have resorted to this programming technique way back in my engineering college days...albeit without results (or shall I say "requirement marks for the exam question").

The program was to compute a factorial in C. It had to be written on the answer paper. The first few lines where the usual headers, then the main block. Inside the main block was a "novel" on how to accomplish the computation. (That was not even in comments).

Makes me smile thinking about this even today...
tmux is a basically all of the modern features of terminal management but scriptable.

So you can have tabs, splits, sessions, etc, all scriptable. Eg if I hit F1 in the shell I automatically get the command’s man page alongside the interactive shell.

I’ve also used it on occasions where I’ve needed to pair program with someone on a poor internet connection. We’d SSH into a common area and share a tmux session while chatting on a regular phone call. Thus no bandwidth heavy video conferencing.

It’s also been handy back before I worked fully remotely, I’d have a dedicated desktop running tmux and when I got home I would VPN into the office and resume the tmux session so I could resume where I left off.
Technology can produce goods with greater intrinsic value for less energy and fewer materials. A modern CPU is vastly more capable that the supercomputers of the 90’s, but costs less to produce and consumes far less energy. More importantly it means the market for CPUs and their contribution to GDP has exploded.

There are ultimate physical limits to how much information can be processed with a fixed amount of energy, but we aren’t near those limits yet. I’d argue that if you factor in technological growth you could go for much longer than 500 years before running out of energy, even if you limit yourself to a type 1 civilisation.
They already often have very large trucks that only go to warehouses, and would be a pain to drive through a city, especially such an old and super-dense one as NYC.

Smaller trucks move smaller quantities around the city from the warehouses.

Maybe sometimes you need to bring something especially large e.g. for a construction; such deliveries may be special-cased and planned carefully, instead of being completely off-limits.
Ask HN: How to Plan Research Projects and Careers
I am wondering how successful computer scientists working in research positions plan their research projects and careers in the face of uncertainty and career pressures such as external deadlines and publication expectations. Time estimation is a notoriously difficult problem in software development and in research, yet managers, deans, and other people who evaluate the performance of researchers for hiring/firing/compensation purposes need researchers to be able to make accurate estimates of the time and effort it takes to complete their work. "Publish or perish" is the reality for researchers to earn a living doing research, but competitive conferences have acceptance rates in the 10%-30% range. How do researchers manage these performance expectations without "perishing"?
Phone numbers are not a magic cure-all-ills pill, either. My phone plan became outdated and my number wound up being cancelled, which means my old work email now no longer can be accessed.

If Google actually gave options to its users instead of babying them and pressuring them to give up all their personal info (like EVERY OTHER EMAIL PROVIDER), this would not have been a problem. Google clearly cannot be trusted with anything of value.
I'd be willing to bet the whole thing is automated, so you might not be far off the mark there...
Nothing worst then being a debt slave for worthless shit. They will learn.
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I think you're missing the point of the comment. There is no judgement on their capability there, merely an observation that a JS bootcamp probably doesn't adequately prepare you to manage a typical startup's entire tech stack, and if you try to do so with only that training/experience, the result might not be very good quality.
Not who you're asking, on a technical aspect, briar is p2p so the recipient must be online in order to send them a message, there's no server to queue and send the message when the recipient comes online. This affects UX quite a bit as well.
I live in Japan, I convinced my Japanese bosses to buy a bunch of yubikeys, I make yubitsume all the time... and even then we didn't realize the connection
The Mechanics of Software Evolution
I don't feel like I tried to do a low salt diet, but I don't eat pre packaged foods and normally cut out skipped salt just because it had such a bad rap.

Recently I started drinking a homemade electrolyte and if I miss it for a few days I can really tell. Increasing my salt and potassium has made my head feel better, I don't get dizzy standing up quickly, I got rid of the always thirsty feeling and my circulation is better (fingers aren't cold all the time).

Why did I make this change? My wife had a bunch of tests. The heart doctor said everything was great and to increase salt in the diet. We eat the same and many of the things I listed were mentioned in her appointment - so I figured it would likely be good for me.

Pass the salt.
London added the "Low Emission Zone" in 2008, phasing it in over 4 years with more aggressive pollution levels, with the "Ultra Low Emission Zone" coming in to effect a couple of years ago.

Polluting vehicles aren't banned, just charged each time they enter the zone, via automated camera based solutions. Aim is to provide a solid financial incentive towards using more fuel efficient vehicles. Large commercial vehicles get charged £100 a day, everything else just £12.50. So not really prohibitive, but also a cost that soon adds up.

It has been highly effective, with a large reduction of pollution in the city, and no doubt the city really appreciates the additional revenue stream (even if it's tied to specific projects)
This is not the first thing an organic farmer reaches for when they have a weed problem though.
I love simple browser-based projects like this. I did one years ago that is surprisingly still running: http://busyboxes.org/fizx/
The ones who alleged impropriety had prior track records of extortion.

You have to actually dig deeper and read all the allegations and evidence. In particular the statement of support by Corey Feldman.
No. Because database will still be the core of the IT service, enterprises still need engineers have the expertise about database. But I think the responsibility of DBA is changing, due to evolution of the database technology and the movement to public cloud service. Since the third-party vendor will provide better and better database service (I would like to use service than product, because the rise of DBaaS on cloud), DBAs could shift some of their time from DB layer to the platform/application layer. Maybe there will be a new name for DBA, like DB/Data engineer.
Migration probably isn’t failing due to insufficient staffing
If the 2x2 cell is moving horizontally and vertically by 1 block, then wouldn't that mean you miss the 2 corners you don't pass over for the cell you're currently calculating?

Unfortunately the demo video in the link you posted seems to be private, so I might be misunderstanding.
I've only used it a handful of times, but https://www.focusmate.com/ has a pretty good set-up.
> Both the College of the Ozarks and Berea College rely on a stream of non-tuition funding to pull off the work college model. This includes a mixture of private donations, Pell Grants and sustaining funding from hefty endowments.

> [...] Berea’s $1.6 billion endowment covers around three-quarters of the college’s operating expenses for its approximately 1,600 students. College of the Ozarks has an endowment just shy of half a billion dollars; its endowment-per-student ratio is one of the highest in the country.

> Relying on this type of funding does limit the number of students that can be enrolled each year and can make the schools particularly vulnerable to changes in the economy.

So the students don't really need to work as part of the model. It's more of a "Large endowment and private donations enables colleges to not charge tuition".

But I do think that work experience is important for college students. Even if your work experience isn't directly related to your field of study, just having stood behind a cash register, gives you a lot of maturity when facing the job market after graduation.
I dislike this take. Twain produced great works near the end of his life, including The Mysterious Stranger and numerous essays. The characterization of the "Aquarium Club" as an "embarrassing obsession with prepubescent girls" seems like slanderous manufactured scandal clickbait. Futhermore, Twain was still touring the world and paying off his debts, and his money problems are pretty interesting. Why not recall Twain's later years as dark but revealing, productive, and inspired?
Non sequiturs are not helpful during polarized conversations. I can infer your meaning, but the idea that you're gesturing at seems absurd to me.
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A college where everybody eats free dinner and lunch (We pay 1/10 of the actual cost of the food), pays no tuition, can take student loans with really low interest rates (the amount they loan is not much and it's not same as student loan in Western countries where you take loans to pay for tuition fees rather here students take loan to buy stuff they need like laptops and such.) is supposed to result in prolific people who are going to help the country so the government takes care of them. However a lot of these student immigrate to other countries to study for masters and PHD and never come back and stay there for life while they were supposed to be going there only to study! Seems like the government is providing people so they can immigrate. How bad this government can be?!!

BTW I'm Iranian and since I feel like everyone here is American I thought maybe sharing a little different point of view could be beneficial. I myself think of immigrating to another country a lot and honestly seems like everything here designed in a way to make us immigrate. From mandatory military service to economic problems and being disconnected from the world (more in a economical sense again where we can't have international transactions, but here I am connected to you informationally(I think I just invented a new word)!)
Hmm, I kind of feel like if someone is still around as a DBA now, it’s either because they’re amazingly good, or amazingly bad.
Is this the DBA gone off the rails story thread?

I tried to hire a guy for a postgres DBA at a company I had worked at. I knew him from before as a MS SQL DBA from a previous company and hoped he could fulfill the role, he said he could. The guy saved our asses in the previous case.

We gave him like a month paid time to get acquainted with postgres. Dude DISAPPEARS, gets his vpn keys revoked and everything because we're like what the hell. A month later he sends this big long email saying how he got in some altercation with the police, and landed in jail... it was just way too rambling to take seriously. We ask a mutual friend what the hell was up and he said that since he was working too much his wife CONFISCATED HIS CELL PHONE.

I think we called him 'ballgag ***' (fill in the blank with your least favorite person's name) after that

These guys are worth their weight in gold though, I think I heard he ended up getting a job at Microsoft down the line