skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of people are debating the giveaway itself without reading the article about abusing the PSLF regime using LRAPs.

So aside from the giveaway, Biden’s EO has also sweetened the deal on the public service loan forgiveness program by lowering the percent of income you pay, raising the income exclusion, lowering the interest rate, and increasing the type of loans that qualify.

What schools have figured out is they can charge atrociously large amounts of tuition and it doesn’t matter anyway, because the student is only ever going to pay a percent of non-excluded income for a certain number of years and then the rest goes poof.

There is apparently no limit to how large the “poof” can be at the end of the 10 year income-based repayment period. So they charge several hundred grand for tuition because YOLO (You Only Loan Once).

But it’s even better.. schools will even make a side hustle agreement to pay your income-based payments for you if you let them charge even more. Apparently they do it so often there’s even a name and acronym for it!

But it’s even better, because you can also tack on “living expenses” onto these loans so go big or go home! Actually the article suggests students go big by renting an expensive home and then subletting.

So great that this toxic policy is even driving up rents!

I mean it’s money-funnels like this that when VCs or negative-margin startups, or crypto-bros do it, everyone can see how market distorting and insane it is. Now it’s the Federal Government doing it, and you know they just print at much as they need of the “dollar” thingies…

Maybe when milk is $10 a gallon and college tuition is $50k a semester and apartments in college towns rent for $8k/mo we will rethink it?

In the meantime, the only way to reasonably go to college is to either not have any money so tuition is waived, or know that you won’t have to pay it back. Pitty the poor schmucks who have saved into their 509s for a decade to pay their way through.

I have two kids who will soon be college age. I told my ex-wife, make sure as hell you don’t get a raise, ask for vacation time instead. If the kids can’t go for free, it’ll cost like half a million dollars to send them. So we have to be sure we don’t earn too much. This is an effective marginal tax rate well over 100% on the middle class. The only way to win the game is not to play, and people generally speaking when they figure this out are not stupid. Why the heck would anyone work their asses off to make a $150k household income just to walk face-first into a $100k/year college bill? A lot of the best colleges are free for undergrads as long as the parents don’t earn too much.
> but according to the Oxford dictionary it is pronounced the "obvious" way that I pronounced it: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...

Just to point out, if you refer to "the Oxford dictionary", people are likely to think you mean the immensely prestigious Oxford English Dictionary, not the completely irrelevant Oxford Learner's Dictionaries.
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Did it? You're relying on surveys on people self-reporting illegal activity and comparing it to post-legalization data. There is a lot to think about in regards to these issues and I suggest you maybe read up on it some more if you are interested.

In the meantime, before legalization, weed only become stronger and more readily available. Many teenagers could get it more easily than booze. That was with the government at all levels doing everything it could to stop marijuana use. With many ruined lives of otherwise free people coming with those polices.
Reminds me a bit of the classic essay, So You Want to Learn Japanese: http://www.stmoroky.com/links/sywtlj.htm.
What a sad worldview this is.
Those were never regulated. Industries where the network effect is so strong it leads to monopoly used to be rare. In the early days of antitrust, only railroads, street cars, gas, and electric companies had extremely strong network effects. Competition didn't work. So those industries were regulated into common carriers or regulated utilities.

Today far more industries have strong network effects. But that's another topic.
Carmack is the Michael Jordan of programming.

23 year old guys who have never played basketball shouldn't suddenly be sad they didn't wind up living Michael Jordan's life.

I don't regret any time I spent on anything before I was about 26. You still haven't started. You still have time to have two full, successful careers.

Just get started and don't quit easy.
isn't c++ at place #5 on https://pldb.com/lists/top500.html ?
I think the poster was making the point of doing a survey. Perhaps not set on the actual method of that survey.
If that's really happening, then DCMA take-down?
I've never used Sendgrid but with Courier you send 10,000 free messages per month so you can try before you buy.

"Launch new channels in minutes
Courier supports email, SMS, push, in-app, and multiple chat channels in a single API. Start supporting a new channel with the click of a button—no need to write more code."
This seems a common theme in the US. In 2018, there was a nation-wide prison strike across all states in the US. The largest prison strike in world history basically. Many prisoners died or were injured.

I remember checking NYTimes and CNN's frontpages and being shocked to see nothing written about it. The strike lasted nearly a month

Really wild to think about how this could've gone down in history books for immense historical significance if we just... paid any attention at all. Instead hardly anyone knows about it

Similarly there's an immigrant detention center near where I live in California. The detainees recently went on strike. They have to work to earn money in order to buy food. The work is "volunteer" so they can get away with paying them $1 for a full day's work. A bag of beans costs $3 and a 15-minute phone call is $2.50. So a full week of work gets you a phone call and some beans. The prison guards use intimidation tactics like "the judge won't like hearing about your bad behavior when your case is up" to keep them from organizing. Lots have gotten sick from the black mold growing in their cells too. It's straight up modern slavery and the only media source I've seen even mention it is LaborNotes[0]

[0] https://www.labornotes.org/2022/08/immigrant-detainees-strik...
Rust, the one true programming language that will save us all. Repent! and confess your sins so that Rust may have mercy upon your soul.
> Most densely populated country in Europe has solar parks for fuck sake.

I don't know how much is from solar parks? About 20% of all houses in the Netherlands have solar panels according to some sources so that adds up.
People who want their loan forgiven are the me me me. They don't want to fix the system for the next generation, they just want a check to their name.
>Kinda funny to think about because leaf-eaters tend to have larger more complex gut microbiomes. Your gut microbiome has been called "the second brain" because the majority of neurotransmitters (including over 90% of all seratonin) originates there.

Leaf eaters also tend to have larger jaw muscles and attachments for same.

That tends to limit the size of the brain case, as that space is needed for the chewing apparatus and supporting skeletal features[0].

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/news040322-9
If I'm making $10 a day from my solar panel, so after 30 days I'll make $300. Job done.

It instead makes sense for me to buy a new second panel for $100 after 10 days and then I can make $20 a day, then 5 days later buy a 3rd.

30 days into this I'll have made $45, and be making $30 a day instead of $10.
Sure, but this thread wasn't referring to the solid state theory - it is referring to the philosophical problem of creation from nothing.

That is, in our usual life, everything that exists comes from something else that exists. But we can't easily apply this rule to the very beginning of the universe (be it the big bang or whatever other model).

So, the question is - how do we handle this? Thomas Aquinas said that this is itself proof of God's existence: the universe did not exist at some point, then God created the first thing. Of course, the next logical question is - ok, then how does the rule apply to God? And the religious say - well, the rule doesn't apply to God, only to creation.

But, if we accept that the rule isn't universal, then we can also choose not to apply it to the beginning of the universe. Instead, we can tweak the rule to say that everything except the singularity at the beginning of the Universe is created by another existing thing; the singularity itself was always there and requires no explanation. This is perfectly consistent with the Big Bang theory, and is in fact how most scientists conceptualize it (or, they say that questions about the origin of that singularity make no sense, since time itself began once the singularity started inflating, but this is philosophically similar).

Of course, we can posit anything we want about that singularity and its past (if any), and we will never contradict another theory, since there is no remnant in the existing universe of what came before inflation, so whatever theory we want will be consistent with the current universe.

Did a different universe collapse into that singularity, perhaps one with slightly different constants of nature? Sure, why not. Was it a regular black hole in another, larger, universe that still exists, but which is too far away from us to be detectable in any way now that space-time has expanded so much? Possibly, why not. Did gods and demons fight until they a powerful sorceror cast a spell to imprison them into single point, where they and there magic were ground to dust and exploded in the inflation? Perfectly coherent with all known physical theories.
> IMO it at least contributed to some of the worst riots in recent history.

What an absurd thing to say. Even a cursory Google search proves this to be utterly false.
It would probably be more of a weight issue that an aerodynamic issue. And not for the brain itself, but rather for the strong neck necessary to support a large organ so far from the body's center of mass while in flight. It might put evolutionary pressure to reduce the neck length, which would have far reaching consequences for birds.
> Former Connecticut inmate Fred Hodges, who served more than 17 years in prison for killing a man while trying to retrieve his son’s stolen bicycle, came into $21,000 after his car was totaled in a 2009 traffic accident. The state claimed half of that, he said. After paying his lawyer, he was left with about $3,000.

That's not coming into money. His $21k was compensation for the vehicle he no longer has. He was more liquid for some time but not in any way richer. It's grossly unfair for the state to interpret that money as something they could go after, even if such pay-to-stay laws were fair (which I don't think they are). What replacement vehicle is he going to get with $3k now?
Linking REM-sleep eye movements to dream gaze has been tested before, I don't know how the research behind this article could miss this?

http://www.lucidity.com/slbbs/

In short: Pre-arranged eye patterns have been successfully executed while in a lucid dream state.
How do people even pay that back? It sounds as if one most be incredibly lucky to get back on the rails? What happens if you don’t pay?
> He said he used to jog, but "the problem with running is you can think a lot."

Listen to podcasts?
It's useful enough in other cases though - it's just a bit overzealous when I am accurate. The weird thing is that there was a period where it was near-perfect, then one iOS upgrade caused a sudden decline in quality that's remained ever since
No it isn't my problem. The company I work for knows that I have a business. Because they were originally my customer. I was honest and completely transparent with them, so there was no issue. Completely different if I had kept the business and not told them about it.

It's about integrity, something many people lack here in America today. And I very much doubt they are producing enough. They are likely working 10 hours a week per job. Being both an employee and a business owner that has employees, integrity is critical to any type business relationship. It may not seem like it, but trust me, it is paramount.
They go into the fruit finding is harder than leaf finding in the article.

flying creatures I would guess have a huge pressure to eliminate weight.
The sun is responsible for a lot more of our energy than just solar. Photosynthesis, wind, solar (of course), hydro, are all energy sources that directly capture energy from the sun, which we then use. Like the parent poster said, it's about transportation. Sometimes nature does that transportation for us.
Not all texts are vague and open to interpretation. A proper religion with strong scholarly underpinnings like Islam has this issue figured out. The Quran itself calls out the issue, and Muslim scholars from the very beginning have a foundation on which to base rulings.

> so when making choices about others

By living in society, someone is making choices on the behalf of another regardless of whether that society is religious or secular.

> Please provide evidence for this

We're seeing it today. Look at the rates of depression, suicide, etc. in so called "developed first world" countries and compare them to war torn "third world" countries that are generally religious. Society is in moral and ethical decline, and it worries me how much longer this can go on before some chaotic event will take place.

Without an authority, the very question of what "good" and "bad" mean becomes meaningless. I recall one atheistic head (might have been Dawkins) who claimed that rape is not good or bad, it just is a phenomenon like the spots on a cheetah. Or Kraus (and others) who said that he could not find a moral justification against incest if there is consent from both sides.
Leveraged buyouts of existing accredited colleges or trade schools.
Whenever there is a comment such as this I suggest people start journalling.

Journalling is enjoyable, rewarding and pleasurable.

Journal what you do, how you feel, inspiration and ideas.

I am also interested in concurrency and parallelism. I am recently working on a parallel actor model and I wrote a model checker. Unfortunately it's too slow it would take 170 days to finish. So I need to parallelise it to prove my parallel software correct.

See my profile for my journal.
Rust is the legit the best thing that has happened to the industry in the last 30 years.
How to Get Started with WAP and WML (2002)
Have you ever even taken an opiate?
> the big question when deciding whether some issue needs to be controlled through regulation is whether the market will function well without regulation.

All markets are regulated. Markets are defined by their regulation. You're talking about the calculation one should do when deciding when some market needs to be more or differently regulated.
Furthermore if a human time travels back to the past and then sets up shop and lives amongst the first humans, maybe they are the first human? Semantics and ambiguity have a way of making unspecific questions paradoxical
But back then you could google it.
The light searching I've been doing since my last comment had indeed been leading me in that direction. I even came across a mention of this here on HN from a few months ago[1]. A sibling comment to yours also suggested a hormonal imbalance as a possible cause which can't hurt getting myself checked for.

Some anacdata: This strange temperature dysregulation feels somewhat similar to what a too high dosage of my ADHD meds does to me.

Anyway thanks for your comment. I'll be seeing a doctor about this for sure.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31512100
I don't want to skew the results.
“Too” aggressive. While normally not a big deal if there’s a typo, someone else commented and this in attention to detail can put people off as they may think it extends to
other areas.

It’s mostly relevant because your comment is about your writing.
On the topic of prison systems in America vs. the civilized world, this is absolutely worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtV5ev6813I
Firstly, you can sell Mac apps without using the Mac app store. I do. But you have to use a payment processor and still deal with digital certificates, notarization etc.

Secondly, 13,000 line of code is tiny compared to many (most?) commercial apps. I wouldn't consider anything under a million lines of source code as a 'big' code base.
The NYC parking tickets thing has a few other dimensions, like the fact that the worst scofflaws are actually the diplomatic corps of other countries (there for the UN) that claim immunity to avoid having to pay the tickets. So not only do you get to bash elites, they’re other country’s elites and not countries that the US has warm relations with.

There was actually a sigh of relief in many circles when New York lost the 2012 Olympics bid, because many people did not see the benefit of holding the games being worth the massive headaches of infrastructure overload.
Would be funny if Google did custom hardware entirely for VP8/9, since VT1 on the face of it doesn't seem to support that. But more likely, Google didn't want to rely on a competitor, and in general with datacenters that have a reputation for doing things their own more-optimized way even if it's a hassle.
Literally the whole West's defense spending for the last 70 years has been to counter Russia. Supporting Ukraine is the single most cost-effective thing any Western government can do right now...
One of main reasons the scientific method has been so successful is because it forces us to challenge our assumptions that our perceptions of the world are correct.
>to not always mark the object, but sometimes the place you walk through

This is anecdotal, but from the 2 Japanese people I've asked they see these usages of を as being the same. Ultimately the way it's classified doesn't really matter so I personally see both ways an being valid.
Impure drugs are a consequence of drug prohibition.
Stadin slangi?

Well, not the near-undecipherable real deal[1] Stadin Slangi, but just ordinary contemporary colloquial, I guess.

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[1]: Near-half (old-fashioned) Swedish, near-half (old-fashioned) Russian, a tiny smattering of (old-fashioned) Finnish.
Ameca facial motion capture [video]
Built in the south west of the UK a humanoid robot mimic the captured face of an operator.
There are literally hundreds of crimes that are neither drug possession or “murder, rape, and manslaughter.”
I'm pretty sure I saw something shared on HN last week or so. Essentially, what Webb is sending back doesn't look like that a BB should look like.
You can want loans forgiven and want the system fixed. Where are you getting an observation that, in general, people who want loans forgiven also do not want the system fixed?
They were never in trouble on the manufacturing part. In fact, they’ve been the best at it for 40 years.

I think it’s way easier to dig yourself out of a whole by picking up a previous architecture and updating it (ditching the Pentium 4 and using the 3 as the basis for the Core architecture) than it is by regaining manufacturing lead, especially when there’s only one company that’s able to do it these days. Lots of companies are able to make compelling architectures with different instruction sets. Actual chip making, however, is TSCM.

How Intel lost their lead is probably the greatest business case to be studied in our industry’s recent history.
I’m sat in a plane right now and am able to code with a high latency, low bandwidth internet link without issue. If I were using something from this dystopian vision of yours I’d not be able to do that. It doesn’t matter how much “courage” may be involved, frankly.
If I publish a book, and the local Barnes and Noble doesn’t carry it, that’s not censorship or suppression, right? I see FB as the same thing, choosing not to distribute something is not censorship or suppression unless we dilute the meaning of those words to the point that they don’t mean a whole lot.

Also, Facebook has deleted things that are overtly sexual for as long as I can remember. I find it odd that all of the people complaining about “censorship” never complain about that or think through the implications of what their framework would mean when applied to that.
> Her argument could be applied to the idea of the Big Bang itself

What's wrong with that?

The thing about science is that it cannot pretend that it knows. It needs to prove. To which end, I don't think we should be supposing that we're going to know. Otherwise we're doing religion.
I think this is roughly equivalent to their point: Pi is a rational number, as long as you're in base-pi
It's an opportunity cost, particularly in Germany against other RET investments such as nuclear/wind: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142152...
For me, it was changing my dinner time from 9pm or 10pm to 7pm
And "trafficking" is defined to include things like "possessing the amount of weed HN types by for themselves to get the bulk discount" not just "getting on a plane with bags of coke strapped to you.
Carbonating at Home with Improvised Equipment and Soda Fountains (2015)
I just checked the official annual budget for all of the penal institutions in Turkey. The 2022 budget is 3.2 Billion Liras[1] ($180M) for about 300.000 inmates in total. Dividing, you get about $600 per inmate per year! (and honestly it doesn't even sound that absurd considering the low cost of living here)

[1]: https://www.sbb.gov.tr/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2022_Yili_...
After I pick up the crack pipe from my HN brother, I come to the same conclusion. Most questions aren't even answerable in a cosmic context because they become ill formed at that level.
Oh, It is much more then just fertilizer plants. Fertilizer plants stoped this week all over EU. (Yara Norway, Azoty Poland etc.)

The moment you stop fertilizer plants you stop supplies of CO2 and NO2 industry gases and that stops dairy plants, meat factories, breweries etc... Basically you stop food production and distribution. And after cows get culled and you have 2-3 years before production can come back to initial levels.

It is going to be rather tough decade for Europe.... And not just Europe...

Europe’s Energy Crisis Threatens Glass Production

https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-energy-crisis-threatens...

There’s a Carbon Dioxide Shortage, and Food and Drink Makers are Scrambling

https://www.wsj.com/articles/food-beverage-companies-race-to...
CPL (the direct ancestor of BCPL) also had a form of `//` comments.
Quoting from the manual:

> A comment is introduced by a double bar and continues up to the end of that line; the whole of this text is ignored.

The double bar was written as `||`.

This information comes from the "CPL Working Papers", July 1966.
There is no "fair" comparison, because quite frankly the US is quite unique in this respect.

(Well, I guess you could say that countries like North Korea are worse, but even the thought of having to compare against North Korea should give a hint on how bad things really are.)
Your point about the external battery pack is a good one. Even if you have cell coverage, your phone will do you no good if it's out of battery. "Phone about to die" is a common refrain we hear. You're likely at the edge of coverage and so your phone is using high power and constantly searching for towers and been out longer than you were expecting and now it's dark and you're using your phone as a flashlight..
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Presumably murder, rape, and manslaughter carry longer sentence terms.

If a rapist spends five times as long in prison compared to a drug offense, then there will be five times as many rapists behind bars if the quantity of the two crime's convictions are comparable.