skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to ask a stupid question, but how would you find the answers about these questions? (It's bad question, but I'm aiming at L1 and L2 cache)

Which programming language is low level that need that kind of understanding? (Obviously all of them, but I still need the answer)
> Yes, making student loans dischargeable would mean fewer students would get loans

That pretty much defeats the point of the system, to give loans to poor people to give them a chance.
Every time I hear new "country/state X achieved Y% of renewable power generation for Z hours", it's usually during warmish sunny weekeds (usually sundays) with relatively low power use and high sun and wind generation.

If we switch eg. 30% of the current cars to electric, and most people charge them in the evenings/during the night, the math for renewables is a lot different, and without building nuclear, totally unsustainable.
If only 1 person does something it’s not normal. Hell if 1,000 or even 100,000 people on the planet do something it’s still not nominal but the vast majority of that first 1,000 let alone everyone after that going to be followers.

Put another way the first person to ever make pizza didn’t suddenly transform it into a cultural phenomenon. It was enough people copying the idea that transformed the initial concept into one of the most popular types of food.
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If it applied to new people making new decisions, it's an improvement. But if it applies retroactively to bad decisions, that's different.

Any "free" money going forward would presumably come with some strings that at least attempt to keep things reasonable. But it just feels wrong to pay off someone's irresponsible private school loan from a few years ago.
Thank you for that. I'm taking a look athe the parser, lexer and generator.
Question about the current usage of it, can you take some app LISP code made in some other LISP environment and make it work in this one?
https://youtu.be/EvyiWg3qCPw
I'm not sure what you're thinking GMO technology should be used for. Pest control is a large part of successful agriculture. BT is used in organic farming as well (mentioned in your linked article) but instead of it being made by the plant itself as a GMO does, it's applied to the plant which means more of it needs to be applied overall. Pesticide resistance is nothing new, GMO or otherwise. That's the nature of nature and the reason 99.99% of the pesticides you consume are made naturally by the plant itself.

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/gmo-faq/do-gmo-bt-insect-...

https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/06/13/9999-pesticides-we-eat-...
Literally just use different spelling or ordering of names. Change address slightly or use a PO box, work address, relative house. New bank account etc. If they got the social that may be the sticking point, but I'm not even sure of that.
This is one thing I love about Wooting keyboards. The Wootility [0] lets you drag and drop keys around your layout to remap them, and save the mappings to the keyboard itself, so the keys will stay mapped even if you move it between systems.

[0] https://next.wooting.io/wootility
Giving an 18 year old a bunch of money who has never lived a day of their life outside of their parent's supervision will always have its issues. Personally, I liked when my friends would get their student loan checks. It meant they were about to buy a bunch of beer and weed for all.
I hate to imagine how many startups out there don't even create indexes and just consider it to be a database problem and increase CPU/RAM and look the other way.

I worked for several years at a semi-startup as a Database Engineer where my role was to guide developers in writing performant SQL (and writing indexes for them) and architect their schema to be inline with our future plans and various other database tasks (managing query plans, being an expert on the database feature set etc). I even created an internal course: SQL School, that I included the directors/customer support teams in.

To that specific company my role was priceless, new features could be built in 1/2 the time with an expert writing the queries and handling the database. My programmatic analysis of our 20 year old code base had 5000 unique queries and 3000 more when accounting for dynamic SQL. Not gonna lie it was a complete mess but if I didn't exist they would have needed a lot more database resources. It was a terrible code base and any plan to refactor and avoid this mess would still need my role to do the transition.

I loved that job but its extremely hard to transition to any other roles and nowadays its easier to use alternative solutions.
In a good economy, sure! 2010 was close to the bottom of the last recession, competition was heavy and "Recent College Grad" doesn't sound so recent after 2-4 years.
Sure, with enough perseverance, a smart kid could get a better education than a tutored kid just by via the internet. As you point out, the tutor may actually be a crutch and the self-taught kid might actually be better off.

So does simple access to the internet provide equality of opportunity when it comes to learning? At least beyond something like 6th grade?

And each college having a sailing club seems pretty unrealistic. Consider something even more niche like being a dolphin marine biologist. Easy if your parents own something like SeaWorld, otherwise get in line.
Nvidia LHR Lock Officially Cracked Bringing Full Crypto Mining Speeds
What is wrong with working for Facebook or Google?

I'd expect most Facebook employees working on the main project feel like they are doing good in the world helping people connect with their friends and families, organizing events, etc...

For Google I'd expect most employees feel like their products (search, android, chrome, chrome os, maps, gmail, etc...) help billions of people in positive ways.
Inside life is great and people are nice, and all of the evil is generated at the boundary between the inside and the outside. On top of that, information about the evil is very much suppressed within the organization, so that the people working on it are even more ignorant about it than external bystanders. For example, take the oil industry in 2006: everyone inside it was inundated by detailed climate change denial, so that they were worse off (in terms of the accuracy of their beliefs) than relatively uninformed outsiders who vaguely recalled hearing something about how climate change was a problem.

(Not to change the subject, but this always strikes me as funny when people debate misinformation; some of the most damaging misinformation of the past 50 years was disseminated first and most intensely through the internal channels of powerful institutions.)
Can you not turn this into something like a libel or slander lawsuit? They are impugning your name by preventing your ability to sell on their platform by claiming you're fraudulent when you're not. Can that not be taken up by a lawyer?
Facebook used to keep "Data Engineers" on staff back in 2017 which more or less played a DBA role across their massive data infrastructure. I don't know if that's still the case.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-role-of-a-data-engineer-at...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke
This analogy doesn't hold up. A cheap new cure doesn't help those who struggled in the past but they can still cut me a fat check for the money I paid back and I will benefit from it all the same.
>If someone's parents make $100K/year then they aren't going to pay anywhere near that $80K/year figure.

In my case, using the calculator estimate dropped it from $79k to $70k. And this is just an estimate, I doubt I would even receive 9k from the needs based scholarship.
https://npc.collegeboard.org/app/bu?sessionId=N5uYUvK7OuteM4
Major drug companies wouldn't do this to promote a new drug or deride a patent free alternative.
This is like asking why census bureau employees work for the US government when they know the multiple genocides, wars, etc. it has perpetrated.

Not every position is responsible for the worst aspects of every decision made at a company/institution. No company is perfectly ethical, as people aren't perfectly ethical. Most of the work at Monsanto is for the greater good, and the world is a better place for it being around.
People get ads? That sounds sad.

Yeah, there are probably fairly accurate ghost profiles on me. But they aren't going to figure out when I spend cash at a food truck. At least I really don't see how. Like, how would they know which food truck, or that I went anywhere. It's not like they know how much cash I have in my wallet.
> Students should pay the maximum that they and their family are able to, inclusive of student loans. If their parents have collateral in any form including home equity or retirement accounts, it should be assumed that this collateral can be used to secure loans or pay for the school.

This rings true for me at least when I was in college (early to mid 2010s). My parents happened to buy a house in the late 80s in a community where real estate values ended up rising enormously by the time I was applying for financial aid, and my dad happened to work for a private company where only employees were allowed to hold stock for the vast majority of his career (he coincidentally started there around when they bought the house), so his stock was basically part of his savings for retirement. I ended up not getting a huge amount of financial aid in terms of either grants or student loans, so the options were for my parents to refinance their mortgage they weren't done paying off, spend a huge portion of their retirement money on my education, or have me take out private loans with them as cosigners with the idea that I would hopefully be able to pay them back on my own. We opted for choice 3, so I ended up graduating with around $100k in debt with fairly high interest rates due do having had no credit or income at the time we applied for the loans. Overall, it's worked out due to some luck in terms of the job I was able to get out of college, but it still feels like that shouldn't have been required in the first place. On the other hand, I completely agree with the assessment that I was not anywhere close to a priority to receive financial aid. One of my best friends in college had one parent who only was able to get part time work and another parent who was disabled and couldn't work; between the grants and low interest loans he was given as financial aid, he essentially was able to attend for free, which I wish was available to everyone like him who needed it much more than I did.
Yeah fair. I asked a teacher once, "seems like Buddhists don't have the best record at service, should I be concerned about that?" and he just replied "yes."

That said, I wouldn't be dismissive about people learning to forgive themselves for their flaws ...
That’s a very Pyrrhic victory for Intel to be dominant in the personal computer space. Apple alone sells more ARM based devices than the total non server market and it only has a 15% market share in phones worldwide. Even in the server space, the cloud providers are moving toward ARM where it can.
Do you have some links of Google funneling data to advertisers?
Is it more irresponsible for an 18 year-old to take on six figures of debt or for the lending institution to so easily give it out?
It seems like Datadog is defining a new career title called DRE (Database Reliability Engineers), which is IMHO a next-generation of DBA, just like DevOps.

https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/detail/?gh_jid=1825950
YouTube channel "LegalEagle" did a discussion contrasting two Florida women being charged with felonies for throwing a glitter bomb vs Mark Rober's glitter bomb pranks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRSHeKgMFlo
The graph shown in the article is based on yearly averages, and has one data point per year. I was curious whether the price spike had anything to do with the invasion of Ukraine, so I found a better graph[1]. Turns out the answer is no. Lithium prices rose dramatically through the autumn and winter of 2021, and hit their peak in late March of 2022.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lithium
Australia has an interesting system, the government owns the student debt and once you earn above a certain amount it raises your tax rate slightly until the debt is paid off.

Those who can earn enough money eventually pay it off, but they're not worried about debt collectors if they're not earning any money.

People who don't ever earn enough simply don't pay it off and it's not a problem.

To prevent abuse from the universities raising costs too much, if they want to participate they have to adhere to set rates for degrees. There are a couple of universities that don't participate in the system but they're no-ones first choice
> it means that lenders have no incentive to do any due diligence.

That's hard to do because young students haven't had time to build credit history, you can't extrapolate creditworthiness from SAT/ACT scores without hurting students from poorly-funded education systems, and most importantly by rejecting to offer loans, you are preventing a student from a shot at their dream school which could pull a whole family out of poverty in a decade.

The problem isn't how the loans should be disbursed, managed, repaid, or forgiven. The problem is that the base tuition is so high that students need loans. Loans should be for housing, gym memberships, extra-curriculars. I am absolutely ok with my Federal, state, and local taxes funding actual education, not college stadiums. This would also incentivize schools to reduce costs for the basic education and charge people who can afford to pay for the full "college experience."

But over the years state governments keep cutting funding for colleges and universities and students keep having to take out loans. And since loans are easy to get and cannot be discharged, everyone is incentivized to do anything to get more students who will pay a higher tuition. It is a terrible cycle that I hope either gets obsoleted by virtual education, trade schools, or some miracle.
India and Pakistan heatwave is 'testing the limits of human survivability,'
Same boat. I got into CalTech, and instead went to CalPoly SLO because I was afraid of the debt. Things worked out fine tbh.
And MS is also trying to get parity between Office for Windows for ARM.
Study preregistration accomplishes some of this, though the main aim is to preclude p-hacking and similar motivated data exploration.
Oh yes of course, I must have missed copying that over. Thanks!
Yes, and “travelers” have historically had their own systems of law and governance.

The US military being an excellent example. Extraterritoriality for merchants was a big thing in the 19th century. Ecclesiastical laws was a big thing before that (not all clerics were travelers - monks needed their own legal system for the opposite reason).

But nobody said “screw physical jurisdictions” - they just created a new, non-territorial jurisdiction for a select few.
Would have been interesting to start with the ice ages and the thawing out of the ice ages.
Exactly, it's such a massive improvement over oil pumping infrastructure, which requires absolutely massive and complex and expensive logistics to move around all that physical material. Pushing electrons is superior in pretty much every way.

This weekend had to take the gasoline car for the first time in a long time, and along the way I had to stop and get gas. After months of always having a full charge from the comfort of home, pulling off the freeway to fill up and deal with all that messy infrastructure felt incredibly primitive.

Ideally I could live my life with only occasionally driving in a year. Second best will be switching to full electric. Gas cars and gas infrastructure can not die fast enough. It's like steam engines or horses.
Agree or not all you like but I flat out don't believe you don't know what is meant.

1) Doesn't wish to discuss the ethics at all.

2) The working conditions are very good.
They had some eBay agents type thing a while back. I think they called it eBay concierge.

But something similar to a notary, could validate items if a certain value. I think they are doing this with sneakers and certain luxury goods.
+1

I’m a biochemist and while I’m not interested in sticking my neck out to defend any company, a lot of the criticism directed at Monsanto is unfair, uninformed and/or unintelligent.

This is particularly true of criticism levied against glyphosate (one of the least-bad herbicides I know of) and GMOs (which people are usually just super confused about).

Disclaimer: zero conflict of interest, I make all my money building software in the non-bio world.
Damn, yeah I took a full ride instead of paying the 70k back when I was deciding for college…agree would feel a bit miffed if everyone suddenly was forgiven all debt
I really like the diploma idea. Its mostly reasonable to me but not sure its enough. Lots of people leave before getting degree. After first job the degree doesnt really matter that much.
That is true, however only a handful of states have 0 income tax (making up for it instead with property tax), and most still have around 5-7%.
Ask HN: How to get good at data modelling?
I recently made a database for a side project (10-15 tables, moderate complexity). I estimated it would take 40 hours for the entire db (tables, columns, relations, validations, indexes), but so far it has taken 5x as long and still isn't finished.

I'd like to get better so such blow-outs don't happen in the future. Here's my plan:

1. Before modelling, map out business processes thoroughly on paper or whiteboard, including edgecases.

2. Implement ideas early to inexpensively discover if they work or don't work

3. Experience improves pattern recognition, so practice, practice, practice.

4. Know the types of table associations well

What other things can a self-taught SWE do/read/watch to get better at quickly and competently designing relational databases?
> They are all Christians.

Is it atypical for a Christian college to be attended by Christians? I toured their campus years ago with a friend that was looking at attending the school. I'm not sure why you would go there if you weren't a Christian.
Many people need to be more selfish. I see more people pleasers than selfish assholes

They would benefit from putting their own sleep, healthy eating, and exercise ahead of others needs.

Paradoxically this will enable them to be in a better position to help others and be in less need of help.
My god I always hated this game, now I know why.
Maybe. But the fact that a computer gets 20 hours of battery life and doesn’t sound like an airplane under load is important to people.
What year? I went 05-09 and it wasn’t bad but it was getting steep towards the end.
There are a lot of traditional religious practices that have been sanitised for modern consumption and marketed to the modern professional. The general vibe i get from these people is that these practices are useful inspite of the religion and need to be liberated.

Sam Harris who does this with meditation etc. says that we don't have "Christian science" because science is true and useful regardless of where it comes from and that "Christian" is not relevant.

I've held this to be short sighted. Useless at best. Socially and personally damaging at worst. This just seems to be the latest manifestation.
That's a pretty strange statement. Lead acid batteries have near 100% recycling. If lithium prices stay high, recycling is a great source of materials. All it takes is a small amount of policy if we want to have recycling be standard practice. And there are already a ton of lithium battery recycling startups, but there's so few old batteries that they are pretty much limited to recycling batteries that fail QC.
This reminds of a list I’ve been compiling for the past couple of years: English-language software and products with names taken from Japanese. I find them interesting because there has long been awareness, discussion, and controversy in Japan about the opposite phenomenon—English words used in Japanese.

The following examples all came from HN:

Koi Pond, a load testing tool. Koi (鯉) means “carp.”

https://slack.engineering/load-testing-with-koi-pond/

Anki, a flash card tool often mentioned in HN discussions. Anki (暗記) means “memorization.”

https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Bento, a framework for development of Linux kernel file systems. A bento (弁当) is a meal in a box.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09723

Umami, a website analytics tool. Umami (旨味)’s original meaning is “taste, flavor, deliciousness”; it now also refers to a particular basic taste sensation.

https://umami.is/

Senpai, a gaming assistant. Senpai (先輩) means “someone senior to or older than one, typically in an educational or workplace hierarchy.”

https://senpai.gg/

Shodan, a search engine. Shodan (初段) means “first-level ranking in a skill, etc.”

https://www.shodan.io/

YubiKey, an authentication device. Yubi (指) means “finger.”

https://www.yubico.com/

Asahi Linux. Asahi (朝日, 旭) means “morning sun.”

https://asahilinux.org/about/

Neko, a virtual browser. Neko (猫) means “cat.”

https://github.com/m1k1o/neko

Kaitai Struct, a declarative language for binary data structures. Kaitai (解体) means “disassembly.”

https://kaitai.io/

Hikari, a custom logon script engine for Windows. Hikari (光) means “light.”

https://github.com/NoenDex/Hikari

Hikari, a Wayland compositor.

https://hikari.acmelabs.space/

Hikari, a thread manager and dispatcher.

https://artificialilliteracy.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/introd...
related: BY KAVIN SENAPATHY 06.27.2019

"Opinion: I Was Lured Into Monsanto’s GMO Crusade. Here’s What I Learned.
As a once-vocal supporter of the company’s GMO push, I learned that debates about science are never just about science."

"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."

https://undark.org/2019/06/27/monsanto-gmo-crusade/