skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a weird take to read when you're someone who dropped out of college when the debt load got too scary and had learned enough to gain a marketable skill and enter industry. Paid my debt off in a couple years. This was less than a decade ago, too, I'm not that old.

Tuition has been frozen at my university since I left so the kids there now have the same exact choices I had

The big difference between me and my peers was that I did poorly academically my first year and it forced me to enter the work force and learn the value of the money I was borrowing, and after that I borrowed the minimum I could to remain in school, for the minimum time, as it was so expensive.

I'm supposed to believe that it's impossible to avoid... When I avoided it?

I even got screwed by federal assistance because my parents seemed financially healthier than they were. I paid for 90% of my own educational costs, by working part time. And like I said this was the late 00s, early 10s, I'm not telling a tale from the 70s

My wife has a similar story, but started out much poorer. Now we're both professionals sans degrees making over six figures, no debt. But that's impossible.

I get it, these are anecdotes. But student loan debt is a choice, and it's one we both avoided, so it's definitely possible to do.
I never check "remember me" so maybe that's good for me?
Is there a word for someone who consistently dismisses and ignores the concerns and values of their friends and community?
This is where the magic happens: https://pointerpointer.com/new-positions.json
I don't count calories and I will never start counting calories. Hence it is useless.
Waste? Any press is good press and a lot of people are talking about this.

Besides, the company already allocated budget for this last year as part of their broader video budget. This commercial run just happens to be about the donation. These things are usually done by some Chief of Bullshit and Diversity Officer and the ad agency chose to highlight it to tick the “social responsibility” slot in this year’s slate of commercials.

Would you rather they spent the money on more ads of dripping cheese? Would it be ok to spend $50mm promoting it if the donation was also $50mm? What a nothingpizza.
Um. You may want to tone this down a bit.

The current solution is Cloudfoundry.

On AWS.

They are simply doing what every other CF customer is doing - realizing that the platform they chose to run on is dead.

Last I looked, no one was holding a gun to any Europeans head saying "You must only use evil US software comrade!"

In fact, I think it's a European who is holding a gun to other Europeans heads at the moment.
There's nothing wrong with spending your own money on anything you want.
"Convenience Fee" is a bullshit weasel term that needs to die, though. Call it "excess profit" if you like, but businesses that piss on my leg and tell me it's raining get zero sympathy, and I hope they all go bankrupt in the upcoming recession.
Curious to hear what you're buying!

My rule-of-thumb is that if it helps me be more productive or creative, it's a worthy investment. A Remarkable tablet has been my best tech purchase so far.
Honda makes great, reliable cars but they don’t give a shit about software or stuff like this.

Consider their refusal to fix their head units - https://didhondafixtheclocks.com/
Ask HN: Examples of large acquisitions that did not ruin the acquired company?
By "ruin" I mean the less tangible parts of the smaller company, such as the culture, the enthusiasm and spirit, the flexibility, the overall happiness.

Having now been in two medium-sized companies that have been acquired by large, public firms, I find that everything we enjoyed is gone. Perks slowly disappear; meetings, trainings, and general wastes of time increase; productivity slows; engineers become demoralized; processes grind through bureaucracy. As I understand it, this is typical.

What are some examples where acquisitions like this have happened and the smaller company wasn't essentially destroyed?
At those levels? Not many. And we're talking a company the is not profitable, what Uber is doing in any other market would be called dumping and it's illegal in most of them, and that without beginning with the semi slavery that promotes Uber.
Yet. Because if there is money in subscription services, they will add those — or go bust if they don't because, as you've said, it is one of the most competitive sectors in the world.
Asking that question here is like asking a bunch of car enthusiasts whether there's anything wrong with splurging on cars ;)

So obviously I'd say there's nothing wrong with splurging at all. The question is what you do with it once you replace it when you splurge again; I'm certainly guilty of having an ever-growing collection of "spare parts", but even that's better than the landfill.
The UN is not itself democratic, it just self-asserts democracy as one of its core values. But it very much does include leadership of countries that are not democracies.

I think this is far too indirect to call it democratic, not only because of practical problems such as most people not even knowing the representatives of their own countries.

The parliament isn't really independent in my opinion. It is the most democratic institution, but I think the EU needs delegation to clearly defined responsibilities. But the parliament would of course never vote for that.

Nobody listens to the EU judiciary anyway. Just look at mass surveillance, Europe's police and intelligence agencies just operate outside of the law.
Maybe your money is no longer the most important thing for them at that moment? Given that you’ll probably proceed with the purchase anyway, they could be making more overall from the crowd which also signs up for updates.
An Uber driver in his way to being exploited:

Wake up, decide it's a good day to be exploited.

Kiss your wife goodbye as you enter your car "bye honey! On my way to being exploited by Uber!"

Drive away and open your exploitation app. Accept a ride, go to the person: "who's the person that's going to participate in my exploitation together with Uber today? Oh, there he is!". Drive him to the place he needs to be, drive away.

"Ok, do I want to be exploited some more today?"

Decide to be exploited on a few more rides and return home.

Now being serious, if you're an Uber driver and let's say that in the short term that's your best option, why would it be better for him to have this option striped from him? Why do you think anyone else should make that call except him?
Genuine question: is the goal to get something that is not achievable with JS/TS, or is the goal to simply avoid JS/TS?
oh wow this cracks me up in ways unbeknownst to me, almost in the same fashion as the first time I experienced the surreality of VR ping pong. There is something strange about human reactivity (and interactive humourous side-effects) that we need to research more on.
You don't seem to be actually introspecting but rather asking a different group for approval now that your peers made you feel bad. What do you think?
Let's just hope they get their autofocus issues ironed out or it will no longer be the Big Three of photography but just Canon and Sony.
Very interesting. On Windows in Chrome its just an i for me, but in Firefox its showing an extra dot between i̇y. But in my comment I can't get that to show up even in Firefox.
This is a standard anti-corp hit post.

It's better to just skip it and move on.
Given that the author(s) live in China and has been doing similar tricks for like, forever. I don't think most of the "crime" or "court" things in this thread make any sense to them.
On the other hand, giving local businesses $50M could easily constitute it's own kind of widespread advertising...
So the American government / society works according the same principles as Uber does. Let's take the earnings ourselves by exploiting others in weak positions. They can stand for the costs and the risks.
> Any press is good press

Tell that to Peloton.
If the coin is trading at whatever price (say $100 a piece), you can leverage by 100x doing this:

- Put $100 as deposit.

- They borrow you 10k to buy 100 shitcoins for $100 each (instead of 1 you can really afford), so 10k of shitcoins with the condition that if the coin price falls below $99 your position is liquidated and you lose all.

Note that there's no seller saying "the coin is worth X", it just trades at that price.
no, it's simply the reality that there's quite a bit of range from the the constant late-stage-capitalism crowd's doomsday worldview to the libertarian/alt-right/whatever crowd's "snowflakes just want to have 30 genders and don't want to work" narrative.

yes, things could be better. (yes, a lot better if people suddenly were suprarational.) yes, there are metrics that regressed in the US, or even in the world in general (civil liberties for example)

but it's quite possible to look at each issue in context, and this approach is a lot healthier and more useful than adopting either extreme. (student debt is basically the perfect issue for this, because without context we can just throw anecdotes or useless overly general statements at each other. there's not even consensus about what's the problem. yes, tuition costs are high, and rising. yes, many people have trouble servicing their debt. and so on. but these are different - though of course interconnected - problems. nor is there consensus about who is most affected. should society instead focus on those who did not even have the opportunity to apply to collage? should we focus on those who dropped out due to financial hardship yet ended up with debt? both? neither? and so on.)
Exactly the same thing happened at my previous company...

In particular, @GWTIncompatable made the leaking between frontend and backend an absolute nightmare. Their whole application was built on the idea that your models would be the same from the presentation layer all the way through to the database layer for 'DRY' reasons. It was horrible to work with and security was a disaster.
Was thinking something similar.
author here - you're right that the average user doesn't care about decentralization as a first order benefit. people typically use social networks to be entertained / informed or to increase their status. we've been building a new, decentralized social network and we've learned this first hand.

but if you've figured out a new social network, building it in a decentralized manner today might give you very strong second order benefits. and its now possible to do this in a way that doesn't compromise the user experience.
I do the same thing, I had some little wooden etched boards made up with the ssid and and password on, then on the back is the qrcode for it.

Super easy to hand to a visitor that can either scan or type in.
You need to stop worrying about other people moralizing your choices.

If you asked those same people if getting abortions is immoral, they would likely say no, and that no one should be moralizing a woman's right to choose what to do with their body. And they are 100% right.

And in the same vein, they should not be moralizing what you decide to do with your money.
That was fun.

Until there randomly was a finger seemingly with a crush injury along with a large pin shoved into it lengthwise.

WHY wasn't that vetted out?

This one, specifically https://i.imgur.com/JimNuUL.png (Showing the injury/pin, so dont click if you dont wanna see it)
It's from the US. Sees candy boxes are loaded with random chocolates and you won't know what the chocolates contain until you put one in your mouth.

The quote was made famous by an old US movie starring Tom Hanks. The movie is called Forrest Gump. Fittingly, the character who said that quote is mentally challenged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJh59vZ8ccc
The old school taxi business has built up a massive reserve of consumer dissatisfaction to the point of blind hatred. Uber/etc disruption generated so much consumer goodwill because they demonstrated clearly superior features/advantages/benefits.

When someone pops your bully in the nose, you don't care if it was a cheap shot.

Of course that is short sighted and today's hero can easily become tomorrow's bully.
I imagine Pepsi's corporate culture LOVES this stuff. They must drink it up like, well....

I'm inspired by Jello Biafra's H2K2 keynote where he brought along a vinyl record of corporate training songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foFCd5xOrh0

Check it out @ 2:11:28 ; the crowd goes wild for Pepsi:

"Out there
It's a Pepsi universe
Thriving since time began

On a steady course
At a steady pace
Bringing pleasure everywhere
All through time and space

And up here
In the Pepsi enterprise
We have one perfect plan:
To bring Pepsi refreshment to all constellations

And if anyone can succeed
We know we can
It's all there on history's pages
One refreshment through the ages

[Spoken] Pepsi is the universal refreshment, but has it always been that way, Professor?
[Spoken] As far as I can remember.

We're proud that the Pepsi enterprise
Never, ever stands still
'Cause the company's working
Side by side with our bottlers
And if anyone can succeed
We know we WILL!
"
Good for them! Heardle is my favorite of the wordle clones, although some of the recent UK-focused one hit wonders have been brutal =P.
I agree with your point, but the numbers on that site are suspicious.

New Mexico's GDP isn't $400 billion - it's more like $100 billion. Colorado's is about $380-400 billion, and not $1.5 trillion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico

https://www.deptofnumbers.com/gdp/new-mexico/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Colorado

https://www.deptofnumbers.com/gdp/colorado/
This could be easily fixed by introducing a law forcing companies to give out half of company’s shares to the union. The only reason this doesn’t happen is political - peoples votes don’t matter, what matters is company lobbying.
Strange, I did get photos with black people in the first tries.
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Really good idea actually, I could test out the workflow of a framework whilst working with something I know. I remember I briefly looked this up in the past and there wasn't much on it, but maybe I should take another look.

As for the tool class, I don't use that much in regular godot to be honest. It always felt a little like variable exports, a bit of a hack for users coming over from Unity to feel more at home but not "standard practice". Not sure why it feels like that to me, but I do alright without it.
In that case buying a top end laptop might mean that it needs replaced further in the future.
These are all photos that look like they were taken with disposable cameras in the early 2000s. First thought was "why do all of these look like they were taken at my college parties?"
Folks recommending C are doing you a disservice, C is just one example of a systems programming language. And that example is now outmoded, Rust or Dlang would be fine first systems languages, I haven't looked at Nim in years, so I can't comment on that.

Someone else mentioned The Compiler Explorer, which is a great resource. I would second that.

Questions I would ask yourself are

1) How is a low level language different than the languages you are coming from? What do they solve for you vs what do you have to solve yourself?

2) What are the qualities you are solving for? Latency, predictable performance, memory bandwidth, IPC (instructions per clock cycle), etc?

All of the issues you would like to learn about can be learned directly in Python. So you have to figure out what exactly you want to learn and then learn that thing. Just learning about lower level compiled languages is like learning about rakes and shovels if you are a gardener.
Keep in mind most people in 'Czechia' (the new official name for what we all call the Czech Republic) still prefer 'the Czech Republic'.
I never said that the punishments are not possible, just that the processes in place and just the basic way Amazon FCs work prevents the picking issues from happening.
Even if the answer is a clear "no" that doesn't make this case acceptable.
Yes, it's called freedom.
Dang. I need to re-read some Heinlein. I read most of his books when I was a teenager.
Blatant victim blaming.
Excited to see the results, but this video production is ROUGH.

This presentation is a disaster... The cameraman isn't even using a gimbal so it wobbles like a 90s AFV video. They haven't been able to make any of the offsite video work. You can hear the production staff debugging in the background lol...

At 24 minutes in they finally got an offsite video working, but they couldn't cut out the transition music while the presenters were talking...

Their stream is hitching every 3-4 seconds...

Looks like a high school project compared to a SpaceX presentation. (not a Elon fan, just 'marketing' science is important to me, we need people excited)
And now I am greeted with 'Heardle isn't available in your location...'. (Germany)

I guess it's related to copyright, but Spotify is available? Not sure how that works.

Kinda sad anyway, Heardle was good fun.
Interested to hear more about how you use it please? I'm tempted...
But does AB testing provide the only or even best metric for that? It probably is the cheapest way requiring the least engagement with the lab mice.
Nowhere in until actual UN report do the words "total societal collapse" appear.
and the source for this is a link to an anti-work subreddit whose post content is a screencap and a title that doesn't source the $50MM ad budget?

How is this making the front page? I'm not claiming any of this is incorrect, but I am saying based on the submission I have nothing but some random posters word (on a biased sub) as the source.
For sure. I don't think there's general "overall" metrics that you want to be testing against every single time on every change outside of basic performance metrics for loading or rendering in real-world environments.

I wasn't at all trying to say that only a few places are optimizing for bad things, but as you see all over this thread, there's a number of companies that immediately come to people's minds as bad actors when it comes to A/B testing - Google, Meta, Microsoft. There's plenty of other companies that are more ethical about it, or use it as part of rolling out general changes and collecting feedback. I know half of the time I log into the AWS Console it has some sort of "Hey, we're testing out a new upcoming UX for this page. Click here if you want to go back to the old one", which seems like a decent way for them to get feedback on the new designs while not drastically disrupting things.
I do not find the game fun or interesting. All I got was a drum track that could have been pretty much anything for the first 4 attempts, and then the song was obvious the moment the singer started singing.
Making an online wifi QR code generator seems like a nifty way to make a good password dictionary. Just saying.
I think it's almost impossible to judge the speed of others unless you're consciously trying to maintain speed with the flow of traffic. If you're constantly passing people as you travel you're not doing that.
Used cars are now just $3k USD more than new cars, on average.

There should be absolutely no reason to buy a used car anymore.

I feel like I'm living in a bizarro world b/c everyone seems to claim buying a used car is the much better financial decision. It isn't for me, by a long margin.
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You wouldn't download a back end
Wash trading aside, you're right that scams like this need new money. But consider who the target is here: would-be smart guys who are also would-be rich guys. In this new gilded age, we all know there are plenty of people getting wildly rich. Looking at who gets rich, and how quickly it can happen, it's easy to think, "What do they have that I don't have?" (There are answers to that question, of course, but not ones these people are eager to hear.)

That's a view very much encouraged in the cryptocurrency culture, and in the day-trader culture that preceded it. That with smarts and a little luck, a guy can get the riches he was destined for. The people who fall for it of course never ask where the money is coming from, because if they did they'd figure out it was suckers like them.

So when they see an ad that says, "ITS YOUR CHANCE TO BUY THE MOST POWERFUL CRYPTO COIN" they don't ask why the chance is specifically theirs. They don't ask what "powerful" could mean for a currency. They don't ask who's trying to convince them, or why the convincer can't even punctuate a sentence. They say, "Yes! It's my chance, just like I know I deserve!" And then they put in their engagement ring fund or the house downpayment fund or the money they borrow from family.

And very shortly that money ends up in the pockets of assorted assholes, who are now better funded for their next scam.
Sorry, but how does that matter?

Just because everyone (theoretically) does it doesn't excuse the behavior.
Ok I get the point!1
> if you want to rip them to a personal media server you still need to break the DRM

In the case of DVDs, you can just back them up by imaging the DVD with all parts intact—no deCSS necessary. This is partially what made DMCA anticircumvention legislation so braindead. The people hardest hit were those whose behavior was otherwise ethical and legal. The folks selling burned/counterfeit copies at the flea market or in the street, on the other hand, were undeterred, because (a) DMCA didn't make anything impossible—it just made a new class of things illegal—but the thing the bootleggers were doing (copyright infringement) was _already_ illegal! and (b) system used on DVDs restricts playback; it's not a copy protection system—because (again) if you want to copy a DVD, you can: you just make sure to copy the "DRM" parts, too.
It isn’t backed by fiat. Fiat isn’t a thing, it is a description.

USD is fiat money, built on trust sure, but in practice backed by the wealth and power of the United States.
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Indeed. The mainstream cultural response to the amorality of corporations was regulation. It wasn't a perfect solution (thanks to regulatory capture), but it was, at least, a reasonable way to balance different interests in society. The point of tech startups seems to have generally been to take an existing regulated industry (taxis, hotels, etc.), sprinkle magic computer dust over it, and claim that now the industry regulations don't apply because now it's a "tech" company. And then, of course, there are also the end runs around general-purpose regulations like the minimum wage and overtime. It's not at all surprising that the results have generally been disastrous.
its lately been coined "technocratic neofeudalism"
If you want to know the future, read Philip K. Dick (this subject is straight from "Ubik") and Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End".
Just because it makes you break out in a cold sweat doesn't necessarily map to others. I can work comfortably on both ends of the stack. I despise gwt and vaadin. Why would I want to pick an inferior technology because someone has an inability to program in a different syntax or spend a few weeks on the job learning about a new framework. Jesus.
I mean you have the freedom to shit in your hand and eat it, doesn't make it a good idea, or imply that the people around you should be pleased at your choices.
Edit: this is wrong.

For posterity my original comment was:

“From what I understand, tail calls can always (?) be lowered to while loops[1], which are expressible in WASM.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call#Relation_to_the_whil...
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Uber USA != Uber Germany.

Taxi business here is quite different.
Well, you just need to become an expert by yourself. I mean when I need to buy something for example "headphones" or "gaming mouse" I just watch reviews on YouTube and read negative reviews on Amazon. So I can better choose a product for my needs. I tried to find some useful sources but in the end, all of them have some relation with the products they suggest.