skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point, this nonsense has to stop. Both in the UK and the US.

1) Student loan plans (especially in the UK) are gonna cripple the economy and are vastly unsustainable. Especially given the ridiculous payback terms that change on a whim every year, and vastly unsustainable interest rates. People aren't earning enough to pay them back either.

2) Grants are being used as a negotiation tactic, with EU horizon funding being held hostage by the NI protocol negotiations.

3) There looks to be a sharp drop off of Chinese student inflows post-covid.

4) We are hitting a bump where we will soon see the population curve drop, and a dramatically reduced number of people attending Uni.

5) As much as people decry the pension changes, I have seen the values given to senior professors and academics. They are vastly unsustainable.

6) University appears to be hitting a weird point of serving too many functions. It props up real-estate, loads millennials/gen-X with debt, acts as a adult school, and provides critical research. A lot of these functions should frankly be split up for different purposes.

Don't even get me started in regards to the current ridiculous scheme used to train junior doctors and nurses.

7) Given we have had 2 years of at home lecturing, at what point does the value of this come into question? Professors barely learning how to use a laptop are not worth 3x an open university degree.

8) At some point someone is gonna realize that the paper generated by some of these institutions is not gonna help in a rapidly shrinking junior job market. The nature of which appears to be rapidly changing.

9) Current Universities work on vastly exploiting their phd students, supervisors, postgrads and teaching assistants at close to minimum wage. People are gonna realize this isn't worth it, especially with rapid CoL rises.
You can set up Alert words in your personal settings and when that word appears in the chat, you will get notified as well.
Why would anyone think someone would implement YMODEM over BLE if they could use anything else? It's one of the crappiest things ever.
Not really in secret, they do it every year at Davos, Switzerland, but it's not public either.
> So they figured that everyone should have a "family doctor" and, with a few exceptions (dentist, eyes, maybe others) you always have to go through this doctor first.

Every private insurer I've ever had in the US has the exact same requirement.
You can’t reduce dependence in a week, so it can’t bring meaningful change in the short-term, which is what they’re really looking for right now.
If you remember just one thing, it's that no asset class goes up forever. Some assets tend to trend up overtime more than others, but they all have times where they go down too. Make sure you can survive that.

People buying homes in places that have only gone up in the last 40 years need to consider that that might keep going up for another decade, or they might be cresting the hill before correcting.
Reminds me of this video by Eben Moglen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lRs8ZPbHtos
Every, and I mean _every_, successful revolution was due to the governments/rulers/aristocrats/elites thinking they could successfully quell a revolution with force and distance themselves from the mobs.

In the French revolution, which took place in Paris, the elites all lived outside the city. The royal family lived in Versailles. No one went into the city for any day to day business. When the revolution happened, the nobility fled, and they directed their armies to seize and starve the city. They were using all their wealth and power to quell and flee. Much good that did them.

Putting the present elite at an even stronger disadvantage, though, is that Western billionaires only have power because the people allow them to -- land, money, stocks, it's all owned on paper. If a revolution is successful, there is no reason a billionaire's wealth or power couldn't be wiped away at the swipe of a pen. Elon Musk does not have enough of a private army nor his wealth in gold to defend his claim to anything.
Easy with the sarcasm! We all know the readers and posters don’t always handle it gracefully.
We of course have a privacy policy (https://zulip.com/policies/privacy) and some security pages that touch on privacy (https://zulip.com/security/; https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/security-m...) but we put a lot of care into privacy issues both in product design and in what vendors we use, and adding a dedicated page about privacy is near the top of our TODO list for the website.

If anyone wants to help, I'd love links to privacy pages that folks really like and/or lists of questions that readers would like to see such a page clearly answer.
I would really not like to double my grocery bill by being excluded from buying the store brand items. I actually like Great Value because it's half the price, same as Amazon Basics. I think they are both fine things to exist.
The clients already use some secret for authenticating to the server, no? Can you not use the same secret for encryption? Or are you using tokens that need refreshing?
I don't have time to read extensively, but an Earth-Sun binary with all the other planets orbiting the sun doesn't make sense given our understanding of gravity.

Also, NASA has flown shit to pretty much every planet. You think they could do that if the heliocentric model was wrong?
Indeed, it seems they went into the study with preconceived notions about the superiority of men. Garbage in, garbage out.

Edit: just looked up the author. yikes... https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emil_O._W._Kirkegaard
I can only speak to Champaign (UIUC engineering) and Bloomington, IL, but I think your prior comment misrepresents the circumstances in these cities.

The Asian/African/(-American) populations are mostly transient (students) and while grocery options exist they are oriented toward a student’s diet: expansive in snacks and novelties, but short on staple vegetables, grains, and meats. I’ve heard of times in the past when friends of mine had to travel to Chicago, which is 3 hours away, for their haircuts because their regular stylist closes down for the summer when students leave.

Not to say this is representative of the other cities on your list, but your comparing the ones I’ve experienced to San Francisco is laughable.
You stated the answer is to "build housing at the rate and income levels needed to house people" however that's clearly ignoring important aspects of the issues and is not a long term solution.

Housing is complex, takes effort. To build and pay for, and then also to maintain and keep livable and operational.

Many of those homeless have observed inability to take care of things consistently over times. Probably related to impulse control. It's a continual effort/challenge to keep one's life on the 'straight and narrow' to keep the many aspects working. It's hard for the average person - they work at it continually.

Whether, and HOW it's possible, for which percentage of the homeless population, to be able to keep on the 'straight and narrow' and look after a home they have been gifted from others hard work is an important part of the 'the answer' that you talked about.

Otherwise you get the situation of the workers building the homeless expensive buildings that are not treated with respect as homes but instead neglected or actively destroyed over time.

So 'the answer' you proposed isn't realistic. The closest thing to what you said that may actually work is to first build them a home, then maintain it for them financially as well as operationally, and then continually repair that home when the damage gets too bad.

In other words a house with ongoing service agreement. And of course food and healthcare as well. Oh and internet and entertainment, and support when the drugs has caused another problem.

Meanwhile this is like 'retirement' that the hardworking part of the population strives and works their ass off to get to as a 'goal'.

If I understand your proposal of taking lifes major goals for the productive and just giving it to those who don't take accountability for themselves, I wonder if your solution would be fundamentally destructive to society because then why would productive people work, if instead they can get high regularly while other people work for them?
1. Cable TV was never unbundled, just telephone/DSL

2. In 2003 FCC ended unbundling of DSL (though unbundling had already had a lot of teeth removed by various court cases and FCC interpretations of the law).
Ask HN: What's your use case for iPads/Android pads?
I realized, after reading that Newton article, that I actually own one iPad and one Huawei pad but not doing anything with them.

The iPad mostly sits and collects dust and the Huawei pad serves as a music player for my 18-month kid. Recently I managed to read a bit on it but the experience is mediocre.

I'm wondering what's your use case? I feel I'm missing out a whole range of electronics out there.
My man, no one is becoming fat because they eat too many oranges for the vitamin C.
AFAIK this was the inspiration for Microsoft's database filesystem attempt that almost killed a Windows release and ended up never seeing the light of day. I can't even remember its code name.
Or China will take over advanced manufacturing.
There was an insurrection that came dangerously close to overthrowing US democracy. Some have argued that its still underway.

Revolution isn't just spontaneous popular protests leading to regime change. It can also be further slides authoritarianism.
> It's odd that with all the issues plaguing the US because of higher oil prices, many governments (local, state and federal) refuse to acknowledge that our built environment has made us entirely dependent on oil for the foreseeable future.

That’s right. During the 1973 oil crisis, the Netherlands banned private car usage on Sundays to curb oil usage: https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2020...

It seems there’s little appetite here for anything like that, even in places that already have excellent public transport by national standards.
I'll plug his book here, then:

https://warrendavisshop.square.site

(scroll down a bit)

It's a fun read and it goes into depth on the later games. I bought an autographed copy for myself before the GDC video was available and was surprised to learn about his impact on the later Williams games. I hadn't made that connection before.
Hey HN, I'm the CTO and a co-founder at Quantbase - a robo-advisor for high-risk investing. Our platform offers funds which offset high volatility with higher returns. Feel free to AMA :)
Hmm, this reminds me that I have a Newton… somewhere. The last time I booted it up it still worked.
How are the video call options on Zulip? Is it possible to easily jump on a call with somebody and share your screen?
The speaker won't break, it will reach a limit and that's it. Otoh, this constrained system will break.
usually on the DOE machines some time is reserved for 'hero runs', but its generally only the classified stockpile work that qualifies
It boggles my mind why not more of these Slack clones implement threaded conversations. It’s such a popular feature and not hard to implement. It could be introduced in a backwards compatible way in order to not break existing clients.
it's also short-sightedly self-centered. the better solution is moving the economy toward being wage-oriented, with asset income being periphery, rather than our current asset-focused system.

make money by doing stuff rather than having stuff, the latter of which is the epitome of economic rents.
Last time it was this low was Feb 2008, remained below -40 for a year after that

https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/great-recession-...
It probably won't be a factor. The likelihood of the system using standard compilers or drivers is quite low. It's non-trivial to optimize a compiler and drivers for a supercomputer, so companies like Cray make their own.
> entirely dependent on oil for the foreseeable future.

We are dependent on energy. That's never going away.

Electricity prices are going up just like gas, (although without the daily price changes).

> reducing dependence on oil

Maybe you can drive less, but you'll still need lots of energy. In the net it won't make much difference.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ - this is a graph showing what happens if you don't have enough energy. After 1971 everyone worked to conserve energy, and the result was poorer employment and greater inequity.

To make this world a better place we need to increase supply, not reduce demand. Ideally clean supply.....
It seems obvious this would happen (it's just adversarial inputs again) - they didn't make DALL-E reject "nonsense" prompts, so it doesn't try to, and indeed there's no reason you'd want to make it do that.

Seems like a useful enhancement would be to invert the text and image prior stages, so it'd be able to explain what it thinks your prompt meant along with making images of it.
Interesting! I wonder if the model would "understand" the made-up names from today's stained glass window post[1] like "Oila Whamm" for William Ockham and output similar images.

[1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-guide-to-asking-robo...
I use it as a one-stop-shop for messaging. I setup a Synapse server ~5 years ago and since then have convinced many of my close family and friends to join my server (or another). Now many of the folks I want to chat with are regular users of Matrix. For some of my stone-age friends that are still on WhatsApp, I run a bridge [1] so that I don't need to look beyond my Matrix client to see WhatsApp messages. For other random SMS messages, I use the dated SmsMatrix [2] to push text messages so I can see/reply from Matrix. Beyond that, I also use Matrix to connect to several open source communities (e.g. Mailu.io [3]).

1. https://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp
2. https://github.com/tijder/SmsMatrix
3. https://matrix.to/#/!RJFCFtixHgPhzacdhW:tedomum.net?via=ghos...
This truck honestly looks great, and $40k is a practically unbelievable price point. Great job, Ford.

I'm holding out for a cybertruck, and will happily pay $100k for it, but...I dont't want to wait 3 more years. I kindof need a truck now, and if I can get one of these fords...
You make it sound like I can soon see the sequel "Mad Max: The Plains of Texas".
The 9% merit bar is increasingly being circumvented by students electing to take one or two semesters of community college and take advantage of the 30% transfer rate into the UC system enjoyed by full-time students of those schools.
I'd guess that the one you were remembering (also mentioned on AdNauseam's site; this functionality of AdNauseam is new to me too) is TrackMeNot.
n for next topic, j and k to move up and down within a topic, + to add a thumbs up to the current post, : to add any other emoji, and t to get a list of Recent topics so you can decide which ones to catch up on first. All these make Zulip so pleasant and breezy to use.
This was a fantastic read, thank you for sharing
As far as benefit to planet goes, I'll be honest, not tracking it. I'm tracking benefit to life and biosphere, which I do think is becoming increasingly connected with human self-interest, as we are very much the most active "shepherds" of the biosphere we inhabit.

Life as we know it will likely not exist anywhere but where we take it, and put in place the conditions for it's continued existence.

The Earth, or Mars having an interest or value impact is... Honestly a non-issue in my book. Call me biased against inanimate objects if you like, you won't be wrong.
Yeah, but the systematic problems come from the shape of the pyramid not the identity of the people at the top, so churning them doesn't help.
Graphs with zoomed in Y axes make eyeballing often misleading. Consider the data:

2000-2016: -4.3% LFPR

2016-2020: +1% LFPR

Current: 0.2% below what we were in September 2015 (while currently in a sharply increasing trend)

The graph is eye popping, but the numbers themselves don't seem particularly exceptional.
That's also the reason you cannot securely message Matrix users if you already have a XMPP address.
This is true if the market has it's normal up and down swings. However it's entirely plausible that we no longer live in such an environment.

Saving money is a smart idea unless you live in a communist state or a dictatorship, then your best bet is to spend as fast as you can or secure assets resistant to confiscation.

Maintaining liquidity is a smart idea unless you live in a world where the government decrees asset prices can never fall. In which case throwing everything you have into leverage is the best bet.

It's not an irrational bet that the Fed's hands will be permanently tied to a low interest rate environment. The more people who make that bet the more true it will be.
To your point, how can one measure 1% improvement in a meaningful way for abstract activities (e.g., learning)? The premise is that 1% improvement each day will yield large gains through the power of compounding, but if you aren’t sure you are making a quantified 1% improvement over your previous improved state things go awry quickly: if you only make 1% improvement over your original state each day then by the end of the year you have only improved by a factor of 4.65x, rather than your projected 37.8x improvement. Point being, if you want to take advantage of the sensitivity and power of exponential growth, you better be sure that you have a good way of quantifying your growth.

I know this is probably meant to be more inspirational than quantifiable, but then why even insert numbers unless to mislead people about the amount of effort it takes to improve? Either way you have to put in the same amount of effort to achieve the improvement, whether you break it up into 1% chunks or not there’s no free lunch.
Using a HPC Framework, such as OpenMP
This is how you end up a wage slave
HODL is a delayed investment.

When the government steals from your cash savings, you merely save somewhere else, but the purpose is the same.
It's a battle-tested open source Discord/Slack/etc replacement with sound 1-on-1/group chat E2EE encryption. It's like Facebook Messenger:Signal as Slack:Matrix, and it's easy to use software even for people not familiar with dealing with the ins and outs of complicated cryptosystems. Unlike Signal it has always been completely open source.
That's just pointless and unrealistic. While China should be encouraged to improve food hygiene practices, and end trade in endangered wildlife species, most zoonotic viral transmission events never had anything to do with Chinese wet markets. While we'll never know for sure, there is some circumstantial evidence that the 1918 influenza pandemic might have started in a US pig farm. And quarantine policies are ineffective without secure borders. Human trafficking gangs bring people from China to Mexico, then smuggle them over the US land border. All it takes is one index case to start spreading a virus in a new area.
Yet, give it 100 years and see what’s going on.
Yeah this was my initial thought as well. In fairness, the program was also somewhat niche.
Would you ask them to do that even if it meant less sales?
Think this way at any time in the last 40 years and you ended up with nothing. No reason to think the current bump in the road is any different.
no, its a gang scheduled process - at least that's been the standard model. those processes are run either close to bare metal or as a process on linux. containers would be useful to package up the shared dependencies, so that may have changed.
You're correct about being careful about assumptions about culture, but I'm not assuming much here. I've been told and read many times that that's what that means.
Opening the envelope is something that you added to the problem just now. It wasn't present in the original problem, and it wasn't present in your earlier post.

Here's a quote from Wikipedia: "Having chosen an envelope at will, but before inspecting it, you are given the chance to switch envelopes. Should you switch?" Note the part that says "before inspecting it". That means you can't open it.
It wasn't a true parallel hybrid in the Prius design sense, and it was only used in a peculiar series of events: it had a belt from the gas generator to help with power situations above normal highway speeds and/or torque in low battery situations or the provided Mountain mode (when concerned about steep inclines). The goal of that mode of parallel operation was to use as much weak torque power directly from the gas generator as possible (which had very weak torque) so that the system overall could save as much battery as absolutely possible so that in moments where you need high torque there was some spare battery for it. (On a steep incline on a mountain is absolutely when you don't want to run out of torque.)

In most operation patterns the Volt was always serial in regular driving and just about never "parallel". (Depending on how you drive of course. Drivers that consistently and regularly drive 80mph or more would have a different experience.)

Compared to a Prius there was considerable design/build complexity savings in the Volt serial design (that sometimes has a low torque parallel connection). Compared to a fully battery electric vehicle however, yeah the Volt was still super complex.
By the way it was similar to the memory design of Multics back in the early 1960s, (though Multics' final implementation was slightly different)
Housing has risen some 40% over the last two years, while this is certainly insane. If the trend continues the downside risk either becomes massive - or a mere 30% correction becomes inconsequential to the principal balance.
Depends on the scope of “history”. You could also say that historically that’s when a civilization gets put under a feudal yoke for scores of generations. Successful revolution by “the workers” is more the exception than the norm in the story of humanity, I should think. there are plenty of places in the world that are ruled by truly oppressive regimes, and I think most of the world, most of the time, has looked like that, not like the developed “West”.
I am going to hazard a guess here.

When cast-iron stoves were common and possibly the primary source of heat for many homes, I am pretty sure that for most of the cold parts of the year, they would be fired-up and kept hot most of the day and night for warmth.

So - it wasn't a big production to boil water, you would just put it on the already hot stove.

(And also - I did not know this until recently but kettle can mean just a large cauldron/pot - although typically it would also have a wire handle and a lip/spout for easy pouring. Hmmm they were also used to hang above campfires, so my stove theory might go even further back...)
Works for me on FF Android
> 7) Given we have had 2 years of at home lecturing, at what point does the value of this come into question? Professors barely learning how to use a laptop are not worth 3x an open university degree.

Two years of home lecturing that by all accounts has resulted in close to two years of lost progress if my observation of teachers complaining about ill-prepared students is anything to go by.
If text files are holding you back. Smalltalk exists...
War, actually. Inequality in the Victorian era was high, after the early 20th century labor movements and a couple of world wars wages greatly improved.

There have been many periods of high inequality and stagnation in history broken up by war. Since war is not a preferable catalyst in this day and age, we have to opt for organized labor.
So far nothing could beat just increasing the size of the first stage. Simplicity and weight as any air breathing hardware brings in weight and complexity. Even the simplest and my favorite approach - air augmentation - could not be made so far (beside a small USSR surface-to-air missile).

Also with the size of the rocket the proportional air breathing machinery power scales between linear and square while rocket mass cubically, so a useful air breathing on say a Starship is hard to imagine.