skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is somewhat misleading as the initial part of their page says `BU meets 100% of demonstrated financial need for all admitted, first-year students who are US citizens or permanent residents.` — BU is part of a small number (in the dozens maybe) of private US colleges/universities that are "need blind", which can basically be thought of as "price discrimination" from microeconomics. Wealthier families would pay full price, while less-advantaged students pay a more reasonable amount of money. At these schools the total out of pocket cost ends up being roughly comparable (if not less) than going to a state university would be. I went to a similar school and the out of pocket cost was far less than going to my state university as an in-state student would have been, and I got a much better education.

Obviously $80k is still an obscene amount of money, but I don't really have an issue with kids of millionaires + billionaires having to pay that much to attend.

I think that what this means in the long-run is that this small number of very highly resourced private colleges (Ivies, a lot of the small New England liberal arts schools, Duke, MIT, etc.) will be able to sustain "normal" people going there on the need-blind aid, and lower-ranked private institutions (out of the top 50-100 schools) will probably close if they can't afford to offer that level of aid.
Even an Ivy isn't worth that - not these days, anyway. Maybe before the internet it might have been worth it
Dental problems do cause depression. Health problems in general. Or is depression to cause health issues?

Mens sana in corpore sano.
I don’t understand the point you’re making, explain it to me like I’m a complete moron so I don’t misinterpret you.
I'm a keen gardener and have spent a fair bit of time investigating this issue on an amateur basis and the conclusions here do ring true from what I've read. However do be cautious,

> Funding

> This work was supported by Monsanto Company, the original producer and marketer of glyphosate formulations.
The issue is that Europeans who have visited Iran are no longer eligible for the USA visa waiver program.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/tourism-...
May people would view helping to feed the world's hungriest as an act of compassion
Important to note that the lithium does not provide energy, it merely stores it. A lithium battery is equivalent to a gas tank, not to gas itself.
In Australia, the fees for a four year engineering degree is around $30k AUD, and that's with very humane packback rules. $80k a _year_ is mindblowing. Rich folk and scholarship students I get, but why would anyone else go there?
I recently listened to a great podcast [1] on the importance of salt and its role in proper brain functioning—the host is a tenured professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford.

Part of the into:
Additionally, I examine research findings suggesting that some individuals might benefit from increased intake of sodium and other electrolytes (magnesium and potassium) to enhance mental performance, lessen anxiety, and offset dizziness. Yet, other people may need less sodium. I discuss how you can determine your optimal sodium intake and why sodium intake levels need to be uniquely tailored to an individual’s lifestyle.

[1]: https://hubermanlab.com/using-salt-to-optimize-mental-and-ph...
Thank you for this link. I will finish it tomorrow but this seems really great.
> What Is the Cost of Attendance?

> Probably less than you think.

> ...

> Total Cost of Attendance $82,760

How in the world can someone write this copy with a straight face?
There is no going back for me... It is a god like power...

Over using a cellphone vs. not using a cellphone day to day. Yes. That is a problem.
I went to BU for undergraduate and master’s degrees ~12 years ago. Was only (!!) $50k then but was still very expensive.

The education is high quality and there are so many majors that they keep grading standards high as anyone can switch out to something easier (i.e. communications).

That said BU is full of very rich foreigners, and fairly rich US students who couldn’t get into Ivy league schools for whatever reason. Some of the dorms and buildings are new and cutting edge, others are really old and shitty. Living in the newer dorms is significantly more money than the older ones, so the prices quoted at the link are for the shitty old buildings.

I would not encourage anyone to go to BU who needed loans. I would recommend a merit scholarship or have rich parents. The price isn’t worth the degree or the experience.
It's difficult though; giving the reason would directly lead to an explosion of fraud, because you are telling the fraudsters exactly what they screwed up and how to avoid the ban next time.

Anti-fraud is basically all smoke and mirrors; if you reveal the methods it doesn't work any more.
I was asked this one in a google phone interview in ~2009. I remember deriving that intervals of 10 floors were optimal in the two-egg 100-story case using some simple calculus and getting that far took me most of the hour. Your solution is super nice, but I hope you don't ask candidates to recreate it :P
Thanks for quoting Haldane. I need to reread that excellent essay "on being the right size".
This is broadly correct, but note that the only way to get perfect equality of opportunity is to have no opportunity for anyone, because if people have the opportunity to build up wealth that their children can inherit, then there will be unequal opportunity in the next generation. (And preventing people from passing on their wealth to their children in any way will destroy their motivation to work).
That doesn't work for a four way split. The top of the screen could have almost zero delay, but the bottom of the screen would need half a frame of delay.

But you can keep the delay to a maximum of about half a frame (and an average of just over a quarter frame across the whole display). It requires driving the two bottom displays out of sync to the two top displays by half a screen.

You could do more with a small software modification on the n64, make it interleave the top two and bottom two images as alternating scanlines. That way while it's outputting the repeats for the top two, the n64 is scanning out the next line for the bottom two.
Possible title change to clarify: this is $80k / year!
Thanks. My brain always thinks pentominoes for “S” and “ℤ”.
These internal conversations you have are sometimes referred to as "rumination" or "chatter". Here are some links you might wish to visit that have tips that have helped me somewhat.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24444431

https://behavioralscientist.org/how-to-channel-your-minds-in...

Wish you all the best
Fecal transplants reverses effects of aging in mice
In the default layout the analogue stick controlled forward and backward movement and turning left or right. The yellow c buttons could be used for strafing or adjusting the vertical "aim" (the game heavily relied on autoaim). It was also possible to use the R trigger to enter an aiming mode where the analogue acts like the left stick would in modern FPS.
I'm a third-generation maker and inventor. My job requires that I have an intimate understanding of engineering, prototyping, hardware, software and networking. I literally have two kinds of soldering gun on my desk, alongside an oscilloscope and a signal generator. I can talk you through how traffic is routed around the internet and what happens when you press a key on your keyboard in nauseating detail.

Clearly, it's not as common a term as you believe that it is.
> Compassion for your fellow humans is quite unnatural for a lot of people.

Could you please quantify? I recall reading the exact opposite conclusion in behavioral and psychological science journals. It’s the reason why the military has to break people down to teach them to kill. Our natural reaction is to have compassion for each other and not to kill each other.

We are a cooperative species that works well together and survives as a group. If we weren’t naturally compassionate, the human endeavor would have died out a long time ago. It also goes a long way to explain why things like hatred, racism, and subjugation of the other require massive amounts of propaganda and disinformation to perpetuate themselves.

I also recall reading in specific cases where compassion seems to be lacking, that there are larger cultural, religious, tribal, criminal, and social pressures at work influencing the outcome of human behavior to limit compassion. Once these forces are controlled for (often with the help of changes to the legal system) compassion tends to return to normal, average levels. Examples might include Good Samaritan laws.

It is my experience that more people want to help than hurt, more people want to promote the general welfare of the group rather than a select few, and more people desire to see others happy and prosperous, rather than unhappy and suffering.

This enduring, popular myth that everyone is out for themselves and doesn’t care about anyone else is the product of larger, psychopathic forces at work wishing to control society for its own purposes. The masses of humanity wish to live peacefully and in harmony with others. It is a very tiny few that have chosen to take power and use it against others. They are the ones that lack compassion, not the whole of humanity.

Over many decades, I’ve personally made note of and observed a strange and unusual undercurrent to popular culture that seeks to make people more aggressive, violent, and unnecessarily competitive and war-like, while attempting to denigrate, decrease, and diminish our proclivity for sharing and cooperation. This behavioral system of control is obvious and omnipresent once you start looking for it. It is not natural and it only serves to increase inequality and give power to fewer and fewer people.
BU is an undergraduate diploma mill; always has been. Back in the 80's and 90's Silber (who was basically a late 1900's puritan) cared more with keeping students from fucking each other in the dorms than he did the curriculum.

Around a decade ago I dated someone who worked as an assistant professor and she was told in no uncertain terms to give passing grades to the NCAA hockey players taking her class. None of them had attended a single lecture or turned in a single assignment.

These days BU is where ultra-wealthy Chinese send their kids who aren't smart enough to for Harvard or MIT. You can spot them a mile away in wintertime if they're out walking; every single one of them owns a $1000 Canada Goose parka. You won't find them on public transit, because they're driving top-end luxury/hyper cars.
Unbankruptable student loans should have a hard cap proportional to the median expected earnings for a given major.

I know that the purpose of college degree isn't just to make a lot of money, but if you can't make a lot of money, you shouldn't be able to take out 100k+ in loans that's legally protected from being removed in bankruptcy.

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.
As a database engine developer (before single service, now cloud service), it seems that we keep making more specific purpose DB engines that are highly tuned to specific workloads, and take care of scaling, backup, etc. automatically on our end.

Our "customer" is the developer or cloud system architect.
This answer describes what they're referring to there:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31309948
Imagine how cheap cars would be if they only needed 1 kg of gold. Mass is not predictor of cost across materials.
UMass schools are all pretty good. UMass Lowell is a pretty well regarded engineering school, UMass Amherst is consistently ranked highly nationally, Bridgewater State is a nice liberal arts college, etc. The majority of students in high school had UMass Amherst as their main choice - there probably is some amount of advantage to BU over state school, but it is a very large price difference especially if you are in-state.
Isn't organic at this point just substituting synthetic chemicals for ones that happen to be more naturally sourced (and possibly less suitable/targeted and/or more toxic)? It's industrial organic and basically the opposite of the original intent. I know my son who is all in on sustainable farming get super set off when I asked if their farm was organic, saying the organic chemicals used are worse, and complaining of the cartel like barrier to entry in the certification process and the associated certification fees.
That said, I'm glad we don't use human waste on our fields. OMG did that smell bad in when I was in China.
I would argue publishing a journal is a very public thing, note the root word of publishing.
Funny because if you search Steam Deck on eBay right now almost every result is a scam. And they do nothing about it.
Wellang, an Upcoming Language
I saw this on a post yesterday and thought it was interesting
https://github.com/wellang/well
"total", per year or for all 4 years
rpick() {
session=$(for i in $(tmux list-sessions -F '#S'); do
echo -e -n "$i\t"; { { tmux capture-pane -p -t "$i" | tr '\n' ' '; } || true; }
echo
done | fzf --exact --reverse | cut -f 1)
if [[ "$session" != "" ]]; then
tmux attach -t "$session"
fi
}
you would hold the R trigger down to aim and it would switch from walking/move to a superimposed crosshair you could aim with the joystick. I think you could also just hold trigger and shoot without aiming. That's how I recall it worked at least
I've not seen many 100% DBA roles except at "large" businesses (though, to be fair, I've only had 3 professional IT salary jobs in 12 years)... And it's arguable to say the people I'm thinking of are 100% DBA... The one that comes to mind best as "100% dba" was responsible for working with devs to improve queries, work with auditors, help manage deployment of certificates (not just DB related certs), and monitor DBs for unusually activity... On top of typical backups, migrations etc.

I would likely not suggest a "DBA" as a career, but it is a very valuable skill set... To get a job at anywhere but a large business... I feel you need one other hat at least.
I really like iTerm2 for Mac. The tabs, splits, and navigation, are intuitive and powerful. I haven’t found a need for tmux. I use fzf for file finding, it looks like this is use is a subset of iTerm2 capabilities
You do it because your tastes are different than others. Just because it is labeled as the best restaurant doesn't mean it is the best nor does it mean you will like it. There are still plenty of out of the way places to explore.
On the other hand, if you don't have time to explore it can help you narrow down your choices.
Not to mention of you search for "best restaurant at place x" you'll get a half dozen different ones.
It is just a tool, just it wisely.
Thanks!

The first of those has 51 comments, the 2nd, 27.

I'd actually tried a few variants of search, by URL, by the flight number (including in comments) which brings up a few interesting coincidental results, and various froms of "wrong way" without luck.

Cunningham's Law strikes again!
LOL. I had to drop out of (MIT, not BU, but w/e) due to not being able to get financial aid (even though I think it was technically during the "we will give you as much financial aid as you need to attend" era), due to parents having income marginally higher than some federal cutoffs but unwilling to provide documentation or loans. Ultimately worked out fine, but I'm pretty unsympathetic to the "soak people for $82k/yr and then offer some discounts" price discrimination lie.
For those who aren't familiar, BU was pretty well known (at least a couple decades ago) for being a "rich kids" school. That is, it had a reputation as a quality school, but tuition was always high there (considerably higher than what you'd pay at an Ivy) and so it seemed to attract wealthy kids. I'd put other colleges like USC in LA or Emory University in Atlanta as having similar reputations: good (but not great) private universities with sky high tuitions.

Just pointing this out because the fact that one US university has super high base tuition rates (before any financial aid) doesn't mean it's necessarily representative of much more.
If I were paying a mortgage with equity rather than salary I’d be nervous right now. There has to be a non trivial amount of people in that situation, and the stock market tanking means some people will not have the planned upon income. Then what?
> I think that what this means in the long-run is that this small number of very highly resourced private colleges (Ivies, a lot of the small New England liberal arts schools, Duke, MIT, etc.) will be able to sustain "normal" people going there on the need-blind aid, and lower-ranked private institutions (out of the top 50-100 schools) will probably close if they can't afford to offer that level of aid.

The term here to look for is "tuition discount rate" which is how many students actually pay the full price. You are correct in suggesting that high discount rates mean that only the extremely well-resourced schools will be able to compete for students who aren't able to afford the full price of college. Here's IHE's summary of a study about 2020's numbers:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/05/20/private-colle...

> “Tuition discounting strategies come at a heavy cost for many colleges and universities, especially those that forgo a significant amount of tuition revenue to expand educational affordability for students and/or to meet enrollment goals,” the study said.
Really?

I thought these ‘financial instruments’ were used only by the very wealthy… ;)
Labeling them as crypto-monarchists is though. It’s actually a neat throwback to 2012 before the current polarized state of online discourse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6785801
Just to clarify, when they say "100%" of need, is that exclusively grants/scholarships or does that also include loans?
Zx really intends to be a scripting language (and i think it does a good job) that happens to be javascript.

Personally I feel like thenbiggest missing piece ZX would beed to be a good straight up competitor to bash or zsh would be better interactive modes. A node repl.os ok, uses libreadline & has lots.of capabilities, but zx feels biased towards scripting, not am actual shell.

I dont see why you think zx couldnt be a substitute. Particularly & especially in the context of a discussion on powershell, where we are clearly already opening the gates of heterodoxy already.
Worse in Edinburgh. Sunset is at 4pm for god's sake.
yep, dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31299841
For reference (because we know titles are often changed): it's currently "Boston University Undergraduate Costs Reach $80k".
I am from Eastern Kentucky. My dad was the first in the family to go to college and attended Berea. I don't know what jobs he held all through school but he did a lot of wood working at one point and brought those skills home.

Several students in my high school also attended Alice Lloyd over the years. One of my closest acquaintances did custodial work and always spoke highly of it and seemed to enjoy being on campus and working there.

I think both of these schools (and I am sure the others) perform a much needed service and I would love to see more schools offer something like this. I was a work-study student in college but of course $8 / hr didn't cover much. It would have been nice to have some sort of merit / effort based compensation above the cash pay to help offset tuition costs.
Why do people these days not know how to act in their self interest compared to the past? This is very telling about your thoughts. Care to elaborate on that position?

And lower teen suicide rates does not mean conservatives have that on their side. Most kids are raised religious in America these days. The whole country constantly talks about god. Maybe actually the conservatives are the main source of modern day suicide because of their CONSTANT presence and influence that people are starting to disagree with.
Yeah, dialog trees is a good way of describing it. Every answer to a question directs the subsequent questions. After a long while, you've more or less memorized the common branches of the tree. I benefitted, accidentally, from working in wildly different systems engineering environments, which gave me intuition for large parts of the phase space e.g. exotic silicon supercomputers, massively parallel clusters, federated systems, cheap-ass computers, etc for various workloads. It gives you a better appreciation for the tradeoffs. This also requires understanding how silicon actually behaves, not idealized abstractions.

The other complementary skill is resource accounting -- knowing what everything costs in terms of bandwidth, latency, storage, compute, etc and how they interact. This allows you to look at any combination of hardware system and software workload, and quickly identify the resource bottlenecks. Again, if you do it long enough it becomes very intuitive. Old hands can accurately predict the performance characteristics of a software design on given hardware before a single line of code has been written, even if the design is novel, just through resource accounting. The application of these resources involves tradeoffs i.e. you can trade an excess of one kind of resource for another resource that is scarce with clever algorithms and architecture (e.g. classic space/time tradeoffs but more so).

Unfortunately, I don't have any reference material. I learned by doing over a very long time.
Tell me how much of a loan you qualify for and we'll tell you the price.
It's perfectly reasonable to say "I'll take fewer capabilities in specific areas, if there is far less complexity". Those "missing" capabilities can be hard blockers for you, and that's fine as well.

I also don't think much of your argument about shell is particularly strong, as it provides plenty of good facilities for dealing with errors (exiting subshell on first error, `trap`, etc.). The only reason I might expect an implementation in another language to be at least more correct in the ways you describe, is because the barrier to entry of those languages is higher, so the programmers may be more professional (in the good way, not in the meaningless way). Given there's just one developer here, we can skip rules of thumb like that and just assess that person and their modestly sized code.
Prospective student from the area here —- here are my two cents, but keep in mind these are the opinion of someone who doesn’t know what he is talking about.

From an educational quality standpoint, they are comparable. I personally like the rural feeling of UMass Amherst a lot more than the city surroundings of Boston University.

Educational quality also stems from the quality of your classmates. In that regard, UMass Amherst is a bit worse than Boston University, which has better rankings and attracts students whose families are more affluent. Finding a job with a BU degree is going to be easier than with an Amherst degree from what I understand.

Personally, I’d choose UMass Amherst because it’s cheaper and some of my smart friends go there (due to affirmative action going to another level this past year blocking out Ivies for a bunch of Asians).
I'm heading off the criticism that electric cars aren't green because of resource mining. But compared to gas cars...

And to answer your question: none. New electricity generation capacity in the States is expected to be carbon negative over the next two years because of retiring coal. We're adding mostly renewables, but some NatGas too. However, the duty cycles of NatGas generators are expected to decline as they switch to a peaking role as renewables cover base energy.