skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're confusing secured debt and unsecured debt. Student loans would almost not exist if they weren't secured by assets or guaranteed by someone with the assets to pay them off should there be a default. Since student loans have no collateral and most student don't have a credit record that makes loaning them $50,000 a rational risk, the only way for them to make sense from a risk point of view is for them to not be dischargeable. If you disagree, you are free to lend out your assets to every and anyone who wants to take college classes and as a personal loan, they will be dischargeable in bankruptcy. When they default, you will have no way to get your money back. Since you're advocating for others to take this risk, why haven't you done it yourself?
> This dramatically limits the levers that can be pulled.

I don't disagree, but this feels like slapping a bandaid on a bullet wound. It's unclear to me how this will fundamentally make improvements at the source of the problem vs. temporary forgiveness.

What do you think it would take to gain some majority alignment to actually move the needle effectively?
It's possible that they're capable of recognising intelligence in another species, like we are, so that may just be play... Or they think you might be a seal in a human costume
Maybe they overbought, thinking they would have usage? Then, when they got only 8m visits in a month, they stopped paying on the contract.
The passport process in the USA is beyond awful. I just had to renew passports for my three kids, and my wife. It took a call to my local house of representatives office (who referred me to a different rep) to make it happen after 6 months.

Anything to do with the government is beyond awful.

From a country that practically invented modern software, modern SaaS solutions, modern mobile apps, it's a total disgrace.
A not insignificant portion of our population buys into the myth that government is fundamentally incapable of providing timely and cost-effective services like this. As a result, there is little motivation to fix or improve these processes and instead we end up squabbling over whether to eliminate or privatize them. This turns the myth into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I feel like the effect on me is the opposite of the cow studies. Wasabi nori snacks are awesome though.
Interesting project. I will suggest to add links to HN discussions too. In many times they are more interesting than actual link.
Popups already exist on the web. Typically they are implemented by injecting an element as the last child of the body element, and then use absolute positioning on it. Last inserted element wins. This proposal just allows the same effect with simpler code and no need for DOM injection.
And the people carrying on with all this litigation will be seen as the people trying to take away student debt relief. Good luck spinning that one.
I'd put that one in second place, behind ClF3.
If you have a Google Ads account, the Keyword Planner tool will give you estimates-- broad monthly ranges if you don't have any ad spend, or closer approximations if you have paid spend. It recommends similar terms, too.

SEMRush has a free version where you get ~10 queries per day, so you can explore search volume for terms like "test automation software" and drill down from there. It won't 100% match GKP, but will be similar enough in magnitude.

If you're comfortable using APIs, https://dataforseo.com/ is going to be the cheapest/easiest route. I've used it for past projects, and it is basically like $0.10 (don't quote me, but around there) to fetch monthly search volume for <700 terms per batch. I think they can also provide search suggestions, estimated CPCs/competition indexes and other metrics as provided by Google.

Google Trends is easy/simple, but only gives an index score-- not actual query volume. Lots of marketing people use this for ideation.
More importantly, what have they done for us lately? Literally nothing in the past 1000 years.
I got one and had a terrible experience.

They ship it from Hong Kong with no packaging foam, so it arrived with a broken screen. I contacted them about it and they gave me some trouble shooting things which didn't work and then told me I could pay to ship it to their service center, even though it shipped to me broken. They referred me to their return policy which at the time basically says the buyer assumes risk for the product if they ship it broken (which is a violation of Visa and Mastercard's seller's terms of service)

I then had to fight them for months to get my chargeback, the whole time they were threatening me in childish ways and only after I won (because obviously, I don't know why they thought they had a chance) did they politely offer to pay for a return label.

Horribly run company, if you order from them be sure to use a credit card or something with a chargeback capability
Where in the loan transference program does it state that campaign donations are being made illegal?
It’s amazing how much easier things are when you’re at 20% the scale of a larger operation.
I'm assuming you received a PPP loan?
Sure, but that methane + CO2 has been in a steady cycle (cow -> air -> grass -> cow) and fairly constant quantity (before mass agriculture there were e.g. numerous bisons in the US), so they’re not contributing to “global warming” (i.e. a rise in temperature).

All of that warming is caused by fossil fuels.
It’s true that they are creating new money but only temporarily. Forgiving a loan is truly creating money (permanently). Not saying it’s bad to forgive the loans but there is clearly a difference.

My stance on it (although I am not a US citizen) is that without adding some law that restricts prices for college tuition this actions will do nothing good and only helps to perpetuate a system that moves the money from a younger generation to the pockets of a select few.
Last year wasn't exactly typical. (I haven't needed it but I was very glad I renewed my passport pre-pandemic given that it was nearly out of pages even though it had a few years left.)
I suspect the poster meant "the actual student debt cancellation being done".
Except due to the nature of student loans, it's possible an amount equal to the principal has been paid by now. Especially for those who have been paying for a while. Capitalization, deferment, the initial high interest rates, and the focus on "income based repayment" are a recipe for "forever loans". Which would please the lenders to no end.

But we don't talk about that when we talk about cancelling student debt. Because doing so points out just how fucked the entire racket is.

This is not allowing various companies to essentially seek rent in perpetuity from people. It's putting people's production back into their own hands.
To me what is missing from this debate is the long time effects of letting this increasingly loose wheel of education for profit gain further momentum.

What are you talking about? For profit education is nearly dead - ITT, etc., Do you mean private schools?
My impression as an immigrant is that Americans are great when working in private organizations. Effective, helpful and friendly.

But give them a government job enforcing anything, and they become the polar opposite somehow.

There may be a little of that in my home country, but nowhere near this extreme.

> So it’s nice to see that the improvements are coming, they just took a while.

This is one single improvement, long overdue. I wouldn't extrapolate to anything else.
You're calling something "traditional" (PAYGO) that didn't exist until 1990, was killed in 2000, and was recreated in 2010. Also, that something is "traditional" doesn't make it rational.
>> As many of the comment here point out, you can view ALL government spending as money creation

No, you can't. Collecting taxes is not printing money.
The idea of them was a thing. Which is what I am referring to.
Rich people fought controlled inflation every step of the way dude. It’s a tax on then and a way to ensure they keep their capital at work.

This is an uninformed talking point
"Yeah. RISC is good" .... https://twitter.com/Hackers_bot/status/1547829853231075331
This is it, and holy hell it's worse than I remembered.
Based on how @ZeroGravitas quoted me, he must have replied about 30 seconds after I posted, and 30 seconds before I edited my opening line to "A car requires about as much, or even more CO2 for its manufacturing, than a lifetime of driving". So, we are in agreement on that. But, it is clear that he did not skim the report from Volvo before replying and insulting me. I think Volvos report is more relevant, here, because it's actually realistic. Volvo is dedicated to transitioning their busines to EVs, and they are in a unique position, as they manufacture an identical EV and ICE car on the same manufacturing line. They can, therefore, compare like for like.

Nothing else he mentioned seems relevant to the central issue. That manufacturing to support this ICE ban will result in a surge of CO2, that you believe will be offset in the future, when we have improved the energy mix of our grid.

For clarity, most of the world is not as progressive as California; globally, clean energy is about 5% of the grid. Nuclear is another 5%, and they plan on reducing this. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio...

Switching to new EV cars will dump vast quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere. And it is hard to see how that does not accelerate climate change? Front loading a 60% CO2 fee and hoping to offset it over, what, 20 years? The batteries won't last that long. Plus, you need to manufacture the solar panels and wind turbines, and that also is CO2 intensive and missing from your calculations.
Beware of false idols, says the old book. Tech can be amazing, tech can be boring. At the end of the day, tech is but a tool. It will never satiate your soul. Find a target worthy for the love your heart yearns to offer, and aim at it steadfastly.
But is it actually "good". Take a 40MP photo from a Lumia 1040 compare it with an A7R3 not really the same picture.
10+ years but I started consulting while as an undergrad.
I mean, the vast majority of vegans and vegetarians I know own zero private jets.

That said, even if they did, and we all took the route of dismissing any change on the basis that the advocates of that change aren't perfect, as no advocates ever are, well then it seems that nothing would ever change.
The science of why you have great ideas in the shower
And being "banned" appears to mean "he wasn't invited to do the keynote presentation this year".

> Hi David,

> Hope you’ve been well.

> With you having been mostly offline the last year, the program committee has decided it would be valuable for the community to start sharing the opening keynote stage with other contributors. We have a few in mind but if you have any suggestions of people who have been impactful this year, please share them.

> If you have any questions, please let me know.

> - Evan
Ok, let's have everyone pay their fair share (as a portion of GDP) then. We have plenty of internal improvements to work on over here.
"they figured why give it away for free and pulled the plug" /s
I totally agree that one has to know the circumstances very well to do fixed bid successfully. But one quibble on the Agile stuff:

Agile is not a match for the contract if the client values contract negotiation over customer collaboration, as that's the opposite of one of the Agile values. [1]

However, even with a fixed-price contract, one can use Agile approaches internally so that you finish pieces early and often, in an order prioritized by customer value. That way when the specific Tuesday in May arrives, you are most likely to have completed the pieces they most care about. And also have the flexibility to make tweaks if priorities change.

[1] https://agilemanifesto.org/
And everyone knows the only GPS on the wing of a plane is in the pocket of a gremlin tearing the wing apart.
My completely amateur theory is that the reason there was never any Roman industrialization is because there were no innovations in literacy and information storage or spread. Aka, the printing press.

The lack of innovation in this field was likely because of class issues, especially the upper class wanting to retain control over knowledge.

There is a reason why industrialization followed the invention of the printing press, and not the other way around.
The litigants will be carefully chosen to be politically isolated from either party.
I just had to order more cards now that I am doing more in-person events. I have not seen any health concerns around business cards.

I have a QR Code on the back of my card to make it easier for people to import the data, but IMO the physical cards are still highly valuable. I use them as easy reminders about who to follow up with after an event, or to jot a couple of notes on while talking.

The contactless alternatives are neat, but they are always a hassle, IME, as the article also outlines.
I wondered about this and found the awesome https://discover.passportindex.org/security/who-prints-your-... - the US seems to be unusual in not contracting it out to De La Rue (who also do banknotes) or Gemalto (subsidiary of Thales).
72€/h (+20% VAT on the invoice). 7+ years of Magento development experience for the local SMB market, Estonia.

Just for reference, Magento is a huge monolithic e-commerce platform (PHP + jQuery + knockoutjs + xml - hello 2012!) that doesn't seem to be very popular amongst the HN crowd. I do it all from the frontend to integrations with ERPs, client tutorials/ handholding, hosting/devops etc etc.

0 marketing, all clients through word of mouth basically. Most follow a similar pattern: larger agency develops some almost working solution over a few years, developers leave and take in-house project specific knowledge with them, client left hanging and agency bills huge amounts for no progress and the relationship sours.

Most end up being long-term clients since the market for Magento devs is horrific, e-commerce never sleeps and the tech keeps on churning. Who wants to do primarily legacy maintenance work, right? To my surprise, it's actually very rewarding because of the close contact with the primary stakeholders.

I manage around 20 billable hours a week, all remote since the beginning. I say manage because having a 2year old run around takes the other 20 to 80. I have way too much work piled up already and yet here I am writing this comment for some reason...
Sorry, students. We can't forgive any debt for you because you weren't a credible threat to the government.
I'm more concerned about the battery itself bursting into flame on my wall, frankly, than having a battery that needs some insulation and a metal enclosure between it and air-conditioned space. Lithium batteries can do that. They say this one can't. Either way, safety steps should be taken before putting a battery in a pile of oily rags or anything.
Thanks! How does something like Dataforseo estimate the search volume?
It's grass. If you stop growing grass, something else will grow in its place.
Don't things normally get more efficient with scale?
https://www.starlink.com/business

From their own website, also currently the only way to ‘buy it now’ so to speak. Also the only way to get the main benefit of Starlink, internet service independent of geographic location.

The pricing you’re referring to is a waitlist for ? period of time for a vast majority of the US population, at least last I checked.

Waitlists are not a product, they’re marketing.
Ask HN: Heroku vs. Render Benchmark?
Now that Heroku stops giving free access and it frequently disappoints, has anyone started to migrate their services to render? and how does it comparatively performs to heroku?
Mandating payment provider or store competition has no clear end result, with significantly more overhead for everyone.

Countries around the world already regulate pricing on things like Credit Card transaction fees. This should be no different. In Australia for example:

"Each scheme's average interchange fee, weighted by the value or volume of transactions in each interchange category, is required to be below a benchmark of 0.50 per cent for credit cards, and 8 cents for debit and prepaid cards."

https://www.rba.gov.au/payments-and-infrastructure/review-of....
> they didn't innovate in general technologies, like energy/information production/transmission, or metallurgy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_metallurgy#Mechanisation:

“There is direct evidence that the Romans mechanised at least part of the extraction processes. They used water power from water wheels for grinding grains and sawing timber or stone, for example. A set of sixteen such overshot wheels is still visible at Barbegal near Arles dating from the 1st century AD or possibly earlier, the water being supplied by the main aqueduct to Arles.”

I think that aqueduct is an example of energy transmission.

“Ausonius attests the use of a water mill for sawing stone in his poem Mosella from the 4th century AD. They could easily have adapted the technology to crush ore using tilt hammers, and just such is mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia dating to about 75 AD, and there is evidence for the method from Dolaucothi in South Wales”

“They also used reverse overshot water-wheel for draining mines, the parts being prefabricated and numbered for ease of assembly. Multiple set of such wheels have been found in Spain at the Rio Tinto copper mines and a fragment of a wheel at Dolaucothi. An incomplete wheel from Spain is now on public show in the British Museum.“

I think that shows innovation in technologies (not as fast as happened in the industrial revolution, but it is innovation)
I’m an accountant, not developer, but in my case I found freelancing much preferable to working on a team.

I don’t think I’m “bad” at working on a team, in that my team members would be happy to have me on the team, but I personally found it stressful to navigate multiple bosses depending on the project, having to rely on junior teammates that I would not have picked to hire, etc. I am much happier working with clients where I get to decide how the work gets done. Even though I still interface and meet with lots of people, it’s different and much more comfortable!
I came here to say this. The similarity was so striking it was jarring. Both really great articles. Might both be explaining the ~same thing in different terms.
If CSS would up it to be a 64 bit integer then timestamp could fix all that. That's a common approach to DNS serials, there they are 32 bit but there is logic about handling rollovers that wouldn't apply to layers. Or if you want to keep it human readable UTC.
Duolingo Has Math Now
People who understand a topic will simplify it for you. Even if it’s a complicated topic, they’ll be able to have a clear conceptual breakdown of its parts and their interactions.

Whenever someone tries to sell themselves as an expert through the usage of obscurity, their explanations are complicated, whenever you poke at it with questions they’ll answer with a new part of an ad-hoc conceptual framework, as opposed to explaining it in terms of concepts which are derived from a generalization of more fundamental, simpler concepts.

Also sometimes you think someone falls into the second category but eventually they’ll just tell you “I don’t know “ or “I don’t understand” as you explore a domain. At that moment I personally put them in the first category, because IMO people being aware of their partial lack of knowledge is a good signal of better quality in the part of knowledge that they do claim to have.
> that is an extremely good salary for even a senior developer.

Is there any kind of "outlier" there with like... it's good for a senior developer but not a principal/architect level developer?

I'm just curious why the poll on this post has people saying they are making $150-$300/hr... Are they "lying" and it isn't steady 40 hour a week pay?
"To do that, the researchers applied a mathematical method that allows them to discover neural populations that can’t be identified from traditional fMRI data. An fMRI image is made up of many voxels — three-dimensional units that represent a cube of brain tissue. Each voxel contains hundreds of thousands of neurons, and if some of those neurons belong to smaller populations that respond to one type of visual input, their responses may be drowned out by other populations within the same voxel.

The new analytical method, which Kanwisher’s lab has previously used on fMRI data from the auditory cortex, can tease out responses of neural populations within each voxel of fMRI data.

Using this approach, the researchers found four populations that corresponded to previously identified clusters that respond to faces, places, bodies, and words. “That tells us that this method works, and it tells us that the things that we found before are not just obscure properties of that pathway, but major, dominant properties,” Kanwisher says.

Intriguingly, a fifth population also emerged, and this one appeared to be selective for images of food."

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I think what the research is showing is that our visual cortex is primed to see 5 different categories: faces, places, bodies, words, and food.
I feel your pain. I was stick in the same boat as you a couple of years back. It’s hard as CRUD really is the bread and butter of the industry. I did two things..

1. Took a few weeks of holiday and didn’t TOUCH a computer during that time, did a hard reset.

2. Longer term, I looked into stuff I had never programmed (during my spare time) to rekindle my love for it. Stuff that was (objectively) useless for my career but that I did anyway for the sheer love of it. In my case it was messing around with 3d games libraries and building a basic gaming server.

Hope this helps.
Spin up an EC2 node recently?
What a marvel of a well made language it is, with all its well made security holes and its exquisite null corruptions, truly a thing of beauty.
> at the moment

Sorry pal, but they won't be getting any better. You're seeing the slow decline of a country.
I feel like singling out Rome is unnecessary here.

Why Rome specifically? Civilizations existed in the mediterranean (and elsewhere) for thousands of years before and alongside Rome. Why even assume that the industrial revolution had to emerge from a civilisation anyway. History suggests quite a lot of technology came from pastoralists, nomads, tribal agrarian societies, etc.

Alexandrian inventors were more likely to have recorded their patents and have those survive to modernity. My guess is that a prototype steam engine, or even functionally useful devices, probably were invented many times in many places.

The industrial revolution, seemingly, had a lot of chances to happen. Perhaps that's the answer. It was an unlikely occurrence, and that's why it didn't happen all those other times. Tracing back the specific path that led to steam engine prowess in England is interesting... but somewhat arbitrary... probably.

For example, the flying shuttle doesn't really need a steam engine. It could be powered by a water wheel, windmill or muscle power. Power isn't really the bottleneck.

I think what the flying shuttle actually needed from the steam engine was inspiration.
The money from taxes is burned, not spent. The government doesn't need your money any more than I need the paper I wrote an IOU to you on. The government taxes to control inflation and to intentionally change the relative cost of different activities in order to encourage or discourage them.
Yeah but it's a retarded rule. The other parent can sail the kid into international waters and back without a passport, this prevents nothing. If someone's willing to kidnap a child this does absolutely nothing to stop them, except make sure any international border crossing is done in the most dangerous ways possible.
The EU gets all the perks of being a vassal state with absolutely none of the taxes.

The entire post-WWII world order has been to their benefit at our expense.

I’d rather my tax dollars go towards state run health insurance than protecting Germany from Russian shenanigans.