skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it seems to me that there are way more questions about those with > 80k. I am going to assume they ended up that way because they made poor decisions, like taking out massive loans to do things like not work, to attend over priced schools, to slack on school work and have to repeat school.

I mean I worked full-time through school, raised a family and still managed to finish my BS in 18 months and MS in 12 more a few years later, mostly because I didn't want to end up in debt.

It seems pretty messed up that I've been strenuously paying back student loans to avoid debt, and then the people that partied hearty during school get their loans forgiven because they make piss poor decisions.
Wouldn’t that result in the CEO and board being literal scapegoats, employed by the people actually in charge, to be beheaded if something goes wrong? They would even sell it as „giving control to the employees“ or something.

I don’t believe in measures to radically change the world. That’s both a direct example of the Chesterton fence, and applied game theory - CEOs, board members, or investors, they are all gamers. Give them any set of rules, they will analyse and subsequently game them.
Yeah, that's fair enough. Sadly the natural gas shortage affects more than just winter heating, in the UK at least it's one of the main factors of the price of electricity. All of this has had a knock on effect that goes way beyond just the price of heating.
That’s an interesting question. It would realistically escalate to nuclear war. But I’d we set that aside, it’s not immediately obvious to me how the dollar would do. It might actually strengthen.
The EU is a great idea, implemented in a way that leaves a lot to be desired. It certainly is a lot better than what came before, the economic gains are felt everywhere but not equally so. That's the thing that should change, unfortunately such change takes time.
75" seems to be par now, so not far off!
Apple is planning on adding ads to the AppleTV.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-...
You can still adb your way to freedom but it's not a solution for average users.
I’m not sure if it would be that significant in the short-term. Required student loans payments are still deferred, so cancelling them wouldn’t increase cash flow (at least today).
College isn't a consumer good.

We need to stop thinking of it as such. It's a prerequisite for the vast majority of jobs. Which makes it a vital public good that should be run as a utility. We should be running a public university system with the goal and assumption that everyone has a seat at their local university - covered by their tax dollars.
A fellow I know used to do contract work with GCP. Same horror stories.
What kind of grad students? Excluding PhDs because people don't typically take on debts for those we've got med school, and masters programs. The former should be cheaper but it seems very inappropriate to bucket them in with the general population. The latter could vary wildly in terms of ROI.
Blocking google fonts creates weirdness but doesn't really break much.
It's more like the Russians bombing and invading, say, Cuba.
Livejournal got so many things right that modern platforms throw away.

* Posts could have multiple access levels: public, private, friends-only, and a custom friend group. This was somewhat annoyingly intertwined with the list of who you followed (your “friends”) but it was pretty powerful and easy to manage. Public and private spheres were seamlessly integrated in one account on one service instead of spread across multiple accounts with half-assed privacy measures.

* Long-ass posts and long-ass replies. Something like 64k was the limit. Replies were threaded. Complex conversations making subtle distinctions were easy to have.

* MULTIPLE USER ICONS. Everyone has dropped this and it was great. You could choose a particular icon for every post and comment, or let it be whichever you said was the default. Icon choice could mean a lot of things: it could apply an emotional layer, it could designate multiple characters in a role play account, symbolize projects, whatever. It was fluid and wonderful.

* Seamless e-mail integration. Replies to your posts/replies showed up in your email client. With a reply form right there in it, complete with user icon drop down and a “reply” button that would POST the form to the site. You could keep the conversation going without having to switch to the web browser. This was back before e-mail had become pretty much useless due to the volume of spam.

* Just the people you follow, in chronological order. Not notable at the time, this was what everyhing with any conception of a central agglomeration of everyone you wanted to watch did. There was no “algorithm” to optimize for user engagement time and ad views. That shit needs to die.

* oh and it did RSS too, you could follow any external site via a slightly kludgy method of creating a special account that mirrored an RSS feed, and that showed up in your friends page along with all the LJ accounts you followed

And then it got sold and went through multiple hands before ending up as a Russian site where being gay is illegal.

Nobody talks about it any more. Probably because its glory days coincided with GenX being young adults with the time to write lengthy essays about their lives (and to share dumb personality quizzes about their Hogwarts house). And GenX doesn’t exist any more, we’re all either Boomers or Millenials depending on which side of 1973 we were born on, and our own weird moments of cultural relevance are forgotten.
usury always eventually ends up in impossible situations like this

there's a reason traditional societies had jubilees
I agree with that, but let me add, for the benefit of younger viewers:

The term "fake news" was originally used to refer to small advertisements that would get people to click on them by showing a text saying something like "The pope has been assassinated! Latest pictures!". Anyone who clicked on the small advertisement would be shown a big advertisement for porn or gambling or whatever; there was no serious attempt to make people believe that the pope had been assassinated. "Fake news" was a good description for that practice. But then journalists decided that "fake news" should be a pointless synonym for propaganda.

These are probably the same journalists who decided that a "hacker" is a criminal, a "troll" is someone who spreads propaganda or harrasses an individual, and a "selfy" is any photograph showing someone's face. (That last one didn't really catch on but for a while the BBC was repeatedly using the word "selfy" in that sense.)
> Over-measurement is often worse than not measuring anything at all.

Yes. Not only is "time spent" or "code written" or "features implemented" or even "user engagement" a lossy metric in the best of cases but it can literally end up doing the exact opposite of what you intended. Campbell's & Goodhart's laws are often cited. The trap I see in software companies is a hyperfocus on quantifiable short term wins, entirely glossing over the value created by longer term cultivation of quality. One can see projects where code cleanliness, documentation, testing, CI, and performance have been effectively disincentivised, even though, in the short, mid, and long-term, you will see gains. Such gains, however, are less visible and less quantifiable to the kinds of people who define and foster the metric regimes.

A narrative I observe variations of:

Universe X:

- Programmer A implements feature in one week. They get a admiration and a raise.

- One year later: Programmer B implements feature in 3 weeks, because they had to use Programmer A's shoddy and inconsistent API.

Universe Y:

- Programmer A implements feature in two weeks. Less admiration and no raise.

- One year later: Programmer B implements feature in 1 week, because they were able to use Programmer A's better implemented interface.

Hopefully it's obvious which universe is preferable and produced a net-win. ...

Bad metric regimes are unforuntately not _obviously_ bad when you're inside their machinations. They really need to be dug into to see the fallacies.

One has to look no further than Meta/Facebook for the absolute deteriment caused by overzealous performance reviews and a fixation of experimental upticks in user engagement. It is a bad metric regime.
Getting ready to start reaching my IT for Professionals class this semester.

I've basically shifted to making the final project something involving "a machine on which you (genuinely and completely) have root."

This would be why.
Quitting the Internet
Fantastic, thank you!!
Ahhh! Thanks for this.
Electric Fish Genomes Reveal How Evolution Repeats Itself
I am from the south. We are wasting money and producing too little. We don't have the massive wealth of the north because we are culturally incapable of behaving some other way.
> FUD about "well, they could tax the wrong people" is pretty irrelevant

This is not FUD. They always tax the wrong people.
We as a society can do many, many things but we simply cant coordinate to do them. And indeed we should consider this lack of coordination (for a lack of a better term) as something we should take into account when making decisions.

I honestly dont have a solution to this problem.
I started on BBSes, helped build one of the first local ISPs in Louisiana, was on IRC in 1994, lived through the rise and fall of Yahoo!, had a GeoCities page, was a MySpace early adopter, etc. Feel free to ask away.
"No discussion allowed" sounds impressive, almost like legal impetus was involved. What parts of the story can be shared?
The other repository seems more interesting (can someone translate?)
https://github.com/kingyoPiyo/RasPico_SHIBAKI_Board

This seems to be SFP with Raspberry Pico.
Nonsense. When have people not trusted others to tell them what's true? When have they not been manipulated as a result? If that kills democracy, then it was dead from birth. Democracy persists, imperfect though it is, despite these facts. If it dies, it won't be because someone "invented" fake news. It's more likely to die because people believe it can't safely be practiced because of things like fake news.
That is exactly what is wrong. When Apple does it, it is all good. As if other business provides zero value to the world.

And to answer your last point. Apple are already doing it to Google. Apple collect $10+ Billion per year from Google just to be the default search engine. Squeezing Google left and right, partly forcing Google to increase the amount of Ads around the web.
A gem from the post you linked:

Your compensation is on a second-by-second basis: at the end of the day you’ll see that your wallet has been topped up by the exact amount you’ve earned that day

No no no. I want a salary. I want to know how much money I'll be making over a week, a month, even , <gasp>, a year. How else am I supposed to plan expenses? Support a family?

Really, what a stupid idea.
Yes with "debugger" in JS and 'breakpoint()' in Python.
It's great!

For defensive programming I have a common assert routine which does all of the above
I got one of these a few months ago. I use it to monitor my weather station. I really like it!
> referred to as "apple picking" by the perpetrators

There was a missed opportunity here to call it scrumping

"To steal fruit, especially apples" - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scrump
For the same reason my taxes and insurance premiums pay for someone else’s healthcare.

Student loan debt at this scale should’ve never existed. It’s a policy failure (but so is a lot of US policy, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
Read what numeric83 said. I couldn't have put it better myself. The longer they leave it the worse it gets. But human nature means they won't act until the train hits them in the face.
Hey intern / junior - save that code down to the shared folder and I will review it and commit it when I get a chance.

Thats management material right there.
I'm not seeing the viable alternative to a clearly-stated policy on the duration of repair services.

Ok. I can imagine a world where I could bring in an Apple II from 1980 and get it serviced at a shiny glass Apple store. That would be pretty cool in fact, leaving aside the small but entirely real population of enthusiasts who would lose income, livelihood in some cases.

But it doesn't seem like a reasonable demand. At some point the specialist aftermarket takes over. Clearly stating when that will be in advance is the most one can ask for.
> Excluding PhDs because people don't typically take on debts for those

I can tell you from personal experience that you're very wrong about this.
That 'French' guy owned a US company at some point.
Why would 4 day weeks become a thing? Why would UBI? I see the trend snapping in the "unresignation" direction before employers or society start the UBI or 4-day path.
Tell HN: Stop sending unsolicited emails to developers GitHub email
Number of emails I'm getting for developer related products and surveys based on my Github email is increasing.

Those emails never go to the "Promotions" or "Updates" tab of Gmail and make it directly into my Primary inbox

If you're working on developer related products and using Github emails as a marketing target you should stop! Those emails are not meant for marketing.

Edit: Today I learned you can set your email to a noreply email provided by Github[1][2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32553451

[2] https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-email-preferences/setting-your-commit-email-address#setting-your-commit-email-address-on-github
Depends. Golang allows you to create a nice error chain with fmt.Errorf where you combine your message with the previous one up to the point where you should print the log message and either end program, or ignore the issue. This strategy makes sure code remains nice and clean. Don't forget to keep messages local to their context, that is, the function X shouldn't return an error saying "X failed due to event A", instead it should return "failed to do B, because an A has happened", then the caller say that X has failed because of `X message`, etc. You get sort of stack trace so programmer knows an exact path.
Just to clarify for the rest; the borrower (ECB) is literally printing new money every time they give out a loan.
On Car Seats as Contraception
To my knowledge, LG TVs don't run Android TV, but webOS instead.
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Yeah but that often casts the net too wide and catches expected 3rd party internal logic or catches the exception too high and you lose the local context.
> I think most people would say this isn't the needle the victim was poked with.

Well, yes, except that the haystack is actually a needlestack (everyone has DNA) and a needle identification expert told you the chance that this is the wrong needle is 200 million to one against, that rather changes the logic.

It's suddenly not simple any more and if you want to make sense of the probabilities here, you need to be systematic[1], or just admit that this is about gut feeling and not a logical process. Instincts good enough to statistically avoid enough saber-toothed tigers to survive better on average than the others might not map onto million-to-one-scale odds, which is, partly, why lotteries can make money.

There's also not enough information given (at least via this telling of it) to even establish what the 200 million figure's priors are. Does it assume an independent distribution of genetic markers? Does the defendent have a large family that might raise the chances of someone in the population being a match? Are matches disproportionately located in the same area, etc?

> Monty Hall is really a trick question (you need to know Monty knows the answer and is using that info to know if he should open the door)

That's literally the kind of "gotcha" motivational prior that you really do have to take account of when looking at probabilities in a criminal context though.

[1] and I certainly do not claim to be able to accurately construct a systematic probability model because it was proven over and over to me in statistics classes that I can't be trusted to get it right.
"MOM, DON'T PICK UP THE PHONE, I'M ON THE INTERNET!!!"
You’re really over complicating things…

A travel router will do the trick.

https://a.co/d/4Y6UwOE
I shouldn't be responsible for someone taking out a $40k loan for their art degree in poetry and not being able to find a job that can pay it back.
> downloading video content copy for personal consumption without owning original is legal in many European countries

No it isn't.
> partied hearty during school

This is a straw man.
And what about those who never took it? Wouldn't it be fair to them to also give them same amount of money possibly helping them to set up business or investment?
Git Branching Strategies in 2022
depends on how much the raw materials cost if they're coming from outside the EU, or if other people are competing on price for the raw materials
Why bother investing at all when you can just buy back stock and make the owners/CEO rich[1]? If you think these companies are sinking their profits into investing for the future, you're dreaming.

[1] https://financialpost.com/investing/energy-firms-pay-record-...
In financial markets its pretty simple: When you raise interest rates, you increase the denominator in the DCF calculation, so most assets are repriced downward.
What kids in San Francisco have to walk through to get home from school
Firefighter deaths by cause and nature of injury (US)
I don't get how that addresses anything. Maybe they're "tilted" toward a "higher" price, but until you put actual numbers on these (are we talking $10 higher or $1000 higher?) it doesn't say anything. I'm saying that, for a wide variety of common repairs, it is a fact that you can literally get the exact same repair done for the exact same issue (parts, labor, everything being the same) for far less (literally hundreds) than Apple does it for you. And I'm talking about profitable businesses here, not charities. There's no need to give hypothetical academic rebuttals on economics when the facts are clear on the ground.
Setting aside the issues of ethics and fairness, it's worth noting that debt jubilee-type proposals are not a sign of a robust economy. They are a sign of an economy locked in a debt spiral.
Yea I've never seen a wait period after the official release either. This guy must be confused.

Torrenting is great but TBH I'm not going to waste my time setting up Sonarr/Radarr and maintaining tracker accounts to torrent stuff that I can watch through services I already have access to.
"as far back as needed" may be single site multi-user systems. messaging on those systems was a hack that quickly grew important to those using it; but the idea of "computers as communications media" instead of machines to perform "thought assistance" tasks for individuals took a while to catch hold.

I'd be happy to old fart at ya from my memories of BBS times to slashdot, email me or start a Discord perhaps.
> What does lead to a weaker currency? O

Much more expensive gas means the German economy goes kaboom, which is exactly what is now happening (afaik Germany recently had the biggest trade deficit in 30 years or something). The EU economy as a whole largely, largely depends on the German economy. The Euro is the currency behind most of that EU economy.
There are whole sectors of economy begging for employees, or curtailing services due to lack thereof. Some people are perhaps happy with that but it must be impacting inflation.

Childcare and retail come to mind if you like examples.
So many people commenting on OP's post essentially gaslighting them for not wanting to pay $1000 for a screen repair, as if we dont live in a universe where replacing screens on every other product is 1/3 that cost.
AppleCare is insurance. There's a bit of a wrinkle in that it's insurance from a company who can do the repairs as well, but at the end of the day, it's insurance.

At work, we looked across the body of devices we had and tracked the AppleCare incidents (times when insurance "paid off") and concluded that it wasn't worth buying across the fleet. (This is aligned with the general principle of "don't insure against losses you can afford".)

If you can't reasonably afford the loss, insurance can make sense and you should consider AppleCare. If you can (or if you can self-insure across a large install base), you probably shouldn't.
Which basic human right did they take away?

I've been able to go out, see anyone I've wanted to, write whatever I want.

I can even be guaranteed to drink the tap water regardless of where I am in the country. If I accidentally wander off a path I won't get shot.
If I have the wrong coloured skin it can still be dangerous to be in the wrong neighborhoods in the USA.

American have a very strange perspective on "basic human rights". Have you been watching too much Fox and think that there are "no go zones" in London or other batshit insane things?
Wealthier class makes in always incredibly difficult for foreigners to take the jobs. Through paperwork, qualifications and red tape. You can see how angry they get here when the topic of visas for Indian tech workers come up. Suddenly everyone stays they are cheating, bringing wages down etc.
These are two different branches of government, though. Congress passes the law, and the IRS collects the taxes (the executive).

And the majority of taxpayers don't itemize so should be in pretty simple tax situations.
Archived copy without paywall:

https://archive.today/t0oH2
In Germany the entire premise of monitoring performance is prohibited. Employers aren't even allowed to look at email.
Here's an interesting pattern.

You eat a banana. It's delicious and nutritious. Cool.

You read about a fellow who ate a banana. Ah, such a fond reference.

You read about your banana-research employees. Taste, nutrition and fond references are furthest from your mind. You only care about your sales numbers.

Abstraction=progressive numbness.
It changes the risk profile for the lender when thinking about future loans and gives people who got caught in a bad situation more options.
He's not untouchable just because he's writes a good technical article. He should be called out for spewing hateful bigotry on his Twitter.
Countries with >90% of electricity from renewables are, almost universally, ones which have unusually good geography for hydropower combined a low enough population and energy demand that this meets their needs. This is not something that the UK or most of the world can replicate.
Can I have your email if that’s okay with you? Or you can drop me a line (rk@rishav.io) and I’ll reach out to you within a couple of days. Thanks a bunch!
Not everyone lives in higher density housing, so open wifi networks are not always a given. Also a built-in cellular modem would be antithetical to having a lower cost TV set based on ad subsidies.

I would worry more about mesh networks like Amazon sidewalk
> It might also be labor intensive considering how unrepairable Apple products are.

Even if two thirds of the price of the laptop is a reasonable reflection of the cost of repair, poor repairability is a choice Apple made. It seems fair to criticise the cost, and to factor it in to future buying decisions.
I feel very similar to you, only I'm not that well off and have dependents (which creates pressure). I hope you find something you enjoy. I'm going to browse the replies hoping I find something too, although I won't hold my breath.
Yeah, they are also included. Anyone who had their education financed any other way should also be eligible, otherwise this doesn't seem very egalitarian. It punishes those who made the responsible financial choice of avoiding debt.