skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the supposed benefits to loans being cancelled is equally applicable to tax cuts, except it would have less unintended consequences and better targeted. The current loans are targeted to college educated young people. College is still a good investment so the benefit will skew towards relatively wealthy.

> It feels to me like giving people lower levels of debt, access to affordable education, and a social safety net to allow risk taking would improve our economy overall. Of course this isn’t what the government has provided at the moment.

Right. Student loan forgiveness does nothing about lowering cost of education. If anything it doubles down as people will be more willing to borrow more thinking they will get it forgiven. It also discourages others to pay back their loans. The reason schools are crazy expensive because we encourage students to take out uneconomical loans. Basically a no questions asked loan given to any 18 year old attending an accredited school. Private lenders are more discerning and will consider the cost, major and profile of the student and offer a lower rate than the federal rate for borrowers with strong profiles (e.g. going to med school vs majoring in pottery at NYU)
Only a decade behind. Same goes with FedNow, which will be ready soon.

Who knows, maybe things are finally starting to catch up?
The US spends 3.4% of GDP on defense. All NATO nations spend at least 2%.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/262742/countries-with-th...
That's the trouble with playing a game with changable rules, isn't it?

Ignoring advantages because of the rules you wish were in place seems like a great way to consistently lose. Then how do the rules get changed?
On a personal level, eat less meat. Let’s say half of what you are used to.

On a systemic level, you need products like Mootral that help cut the methane emitted by cows.
Product Hunt Launch after half-year of work
Source
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T4UQf7zb3Pk

Notice that "acquisitions" is misspelled on each card!
> petrodollar system

What happens to the US dollar once, let's say optimistically, the world is mostly on renewables by 2050?
I never really knew what to do with the business cards I ended up with at conferences and the like.

There was one time, I had about twenty or so cards and I was out at a bar with a college friend during the conference so I started going up to random people, and saying to them things like, “Dave Burbach, eel trainer,” and handing them one of the cards I’d been given and walking away. They got some surrealism in their lives and I got rid of all the cards I’d accumulated.
I guess the site can only be reached over IPv6? It seems I only have IPv4 :(
Lack of transport infrastructure.

When byproduct methane is conveniently located (like in the middle of a city) it often is piped through gas lines to be sold, or a power plant is built on site and connected to the grid. Many landfills already have power plants built on them, https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/california-power-gene...

The problem is when it is very remotely located, and the amount of gas is far too low to economically justify building out gas pipes or electric transmission lines.
Custom ROMs/patches can be made hide that the phone is unlocked and fake that it passes SafetyNet, even if you use official Play Services it's just ridiculous it's something that needs to be done in the first place.
This one has an easy fix!

If you're in computing and want to produce garbage that is accepted anyway, don't write papers: write software.
The vast majority of cattle are raised on grain, not grass.

"The researchers report that grass-fed beef contributes very little to the global protein supply, accounting for just one gram of protein, per person, per day. In comparison, ruminants as a whole contribute 13g of protein to the global average protein intake, per person, per day."

"Despite making only a marginal contribution to global protein intake, grazed beef accounts for between a quarter and a third of all greenhouse emissions from ruminant livestock."

https://tabledebates.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/fcrn_gn...

A related interesting fact - 77% of the world's soy is used for feed:

https://ourworldindata.org/soy#:~:text=The%20majority%20(77%....
That seems an entirely reasonable incremental usage. In particular when the using A/C allows you to sleep and not running it means you get too little sleep and of poor quality. When the nights at 30-35C and the humidity high, an A/C can be a blessing.
Others have mentioned the usefulness of literate programming so I won't reiterate that.

Partially the lack of discipline comes from the implicit data dependancies between cells. Variables are all globally scoped and unless you ensure the notebook can be ran top to bottom its easy to introduce subtle bugs. I believe Julia's https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl solves this issue quite well.

Another part comes from cells that should really be functions. In my opinion this is because functions are 2nd class citizens compared to cells, and could be improved with UI (function cells? node based programming?).

Programming is more than just manipulating text, so why shouldn't tools move in a direction of just being fancy text editors?
It doesn't change the fact that Medicare and Social Security are being paid for by current contributions. That money coming out of your check isn't getting socked away for later, it's getting paid out now.

That's what she means and kind of what she literally said.

There are people who are paying into a system they will see no benefit from.
Yup! When Jason departed, we couldn't be an OCTO without a CTO soooo rebrand! but the mission remains the same. Prototype things to figure out what should be!
>Hopefully this is a one-and-done and we can be more creative going forward, like providing more grants for deeper, more fundamental degrees like chemistry, math, computer engineering, manufacturing, etc.

I hate to stomp on your hope, but this is a late-stage step on the road to 'free' public K-16 in the US. Graduate degrees are already needed to provide the signal you could generate 40 years ago with undergrad. As to actual learning apart from the signal of a degree, the bulk of undergraduate educations, now that there is such a bulk, will provide progressively less value compared to top institutions where students are ready to learn, just as most public schools fall behind the well-known magnet schools that we all wish were more than exceptions to the rule.
A couple years ago my son and I watched the Mark Rober video "Feeding a fake burger to Bill Gates to save the world" [1], and one of the takeaways from that is "you don't have to go full vegetarian, you can take a step by doing Meatless Mondays".

I don't recall if his video talked about Methane, I do recall it talking about the staggering amount of water that is involved in making meat, and I live in a high plains desert, so water is something on my mind.

It's been fun taking small steps.

[1] https://youtu.be/-k-V3ESHcfA
This assumes a lot of things about alien physiology, structure, and tolerances are the same as humans. It's not hard to imagine the possibility of a species arising that either is less affected by a greenhouse effect or at maybe exists in an environment where it doesn't happen.

That's not even getting into the possibility of different paths to energy production.

This is always a problem with any Fermi paradox thought experiment. We're extrapolating so much from a sample of 1 and we understand so little about even that one case.
New AI-enabled, optical fiber sensor device could help monitor brain injury
My final thoughts are, what my original comment (2-3 comments up the chain) was.

Your “solution” doesn’t solve anything, but merely delays the inevitable.

There is only one solution to global warming, which is stopping fossil fuels.

Deleting all cows is not a solution, therefore it is promoted simply as a distraction, and a way to let people hate each other, via “sin taxes” (very similar to “paper straws” drive a few years back, which also had a zero-to-negative effect on pollution and global warming)
Thanks. Then maydemir's explanation doesn't hold up for me. The Mailscarp page doesn't say anything about the features he describes. It seems like the simpler explanation is that they just tried spamming people and got caught. I hope that's not the case, and I hope they'll respond to questions to straighten things out.
Can Technology Help Cities Manage Curbs Better?
Hello, Mr Russian, while scanning the globe for increases in methane, we noticed large regions of Siberia....

Russia: ok, go fuck yourself
Yeah same here when I renewed my kids' UK passports from CA. It took a week, all online/mail.
> I feel the same. I'm tired of languages, can't even muster the energy anymore to give Rust a serious try - although I'm considering I'll have to do it in the future anyway, given that the hype hasn't ebbed away.

At this point, it probably won't die out. The time to die was in the beginning, when they set to do overly ambitious things that had a high chance of not working. People have been wanting what it offers for quite a long time.
Sorry, it's an XKCD joke, itself from Terry Prachett. I know HN is no place for jokes...
The straw man I was replying to you mean? Zoning allows my to build a house and know there won't be an asphalt plant built down there street(something I had to fight being granted an 'acception'). Zoning gives me the stability to know that THE LARGEST INVESTMENT I will make IN MY LIFE will be suitable for my intended purpose. Without stability you will end up with nothing.
There's a distinction to be made between how the schools are organized as business entities and how they actually bring in and spend money.

You're correct that schools organized as for-profit business entities have a bad name and are dying back.

But even state schools and universities that are nonprofits on paper can conduct themselves in ways that are profit-driven in practice.

It's kind of like the Hollywood accounting practices where a movie that has brought in an enormous box-office haul is treated as only breaking even on paper. As long as the numbers line up right, you can be a "nonprofit" where salary and perks for top figures are exorbitant.
>Nitpick: the world's only good superpower.

The Middle East begs to differ.
"IMCP" looks to be a typo.

Normally wouldn't bother to mention, but, you know, CVs
My last job gave me a box of business cards that was the size of a brick. 500? 1000? I don't know.

What was I supposed to do with them? We never met with anyone in person because of covid. I cut them into strips and used them to pick my teeth. When I left, the box was still in my desk and I had probably used 25 of them.
There is a rule somewhere that Passport processing must pay for itself with user fees, i.e. that it should not cost any taxes at all to do it.

Considering how expensive a passport is, there's something about the process that's very expensive, don't know what.
lol, very 2022: trolling companies to get them to fix their code.
Keeping them in a pool in your yard for entertainment is not the same as conservation.
There are several modes of transport besides commercial aircraft that reach the border of the US.

Wouldn't surprise me if "look at me I'm white and speak with American south accent" might have gotten a charismatic enough individual on a plane to the US at some point after not having a passport for whatever reason, on some unscrupulous airline.

Edit: per below, unscrupulous was a poor word choice. I should have used a whatever word means "imposing low level of scrutiny."
The massive run-up in tuition prices has not been confined to just private or for-profit schools. Public and private universities alike have gorged themselves on federally-guaranteed student loans. Whether the loan gets repaid or not doesn't matter to the school. They get all the money up front; the feds are the ones who must later try to collect. Schools have used this money to drastically increase the scope of their bureaucracies and facilities, often while paying teaching staff less:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-re...
(https://archive.ph/Ju3ro)
This is a very inaccurate picture. Only a minority of cows are grass-fed [1].

[1] https://extension.sdstate.edu/grass-fed-beef-market-share-gr....
>>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.

but in this case, they are not 'providing timely and cost-effective services', so is it really a myth?
You need to login to your account, so how is that not an auth wall?
I sometimes write optimized low-level code, but many of these books, and internet articles, are rather old. CPU architectures have converted to just two, AMD64 and ARM64. They have tons of useful instructions like sign extension and integer division.

They also have less trivial instructions equivalent to some of these tricks, only faster. Couple examples.

To turn off the rightmost 1-bit in a word, on AMD64 there’s BLSR instruction from BMI1 set.

ARM CPUs have a fast instruction to reverse bits. AMD64 do not, but they have a fast instruction to flip order of bytes allowing to reverse these bits faster than what’s in that book.

These tricks are only useful very rarely. For instance, SIMD instructions can’t divide vectors of integers. Some older GPUs can’t divide FP64 numbers but most of them can multiply FP64, and all of them can divide FP32. For these exotic use cases, these tricks are still relevant.
what? people eat and garnish food with raw chilis all the time.

If anything, processes like pickling can bring even more heat out of a pepper
This is a very interesting discussion, and I feel like I'm learning a lot.

One thing I figured was worth checking was how many bison there were pre-industrialization, and how many cows there are now.

Some quick googling seems to say:

~60,000,000 Bison in North America in 1600

~1,000,967,000 Livestock Cattle worldwide in 2021

https://allaboutbison.com/bison-in-history/bison-timeline/
https://beef2live.com/story-world-cattle-inventory-1960-2014...
people were told they were not allowed to work their business. they had employees to pay for. going to college (let alone how you fund your college) is a choice. These are very different things.

This is just Biden taking tax payer money from everyone to give money to people who voted for them (vote for me again ok? I gave you money). that's what this is about, its not about 'the plight of young people'. not that they have a plight. I'd give everything I own for 10x their debt and to be young again.

Another interesting thing, where is the liberals going on about whataboutism now? hah.
What about The New Deal? It seems it have saved the lower rungs of society and worked out pretty well.
It's a sexy name by some middle manager somewhere, or some executive3 that got a good idea while taking a morning duce, to come up with an exciting new project that will juice their resume and hopefully get them promoted before it comes to the front that they do nothing and their objectives are entirely fluff.

It's an old trick first called out in The Dilbert Principle that you get promoted by being associated with sexy sounding projects, the best case is a sexy sounding project that has vague objectives.

Given the blurb above it sounds like there is very little substance to this and lots of style. Expect it to be sunset or fade into obscurity in 3-5 years.

EDIT: For context their stated mission is
> GitHub Next investigates the future of software development.
We explore things beyond the adjacent possible. Tools and technologies that will change our craft. New approaches to building healthy, productive software engineering teams.

Notice the lack of anything that will actually be produced, key words that you are dealing with BS is "explore", "approaches", and "change our craft" without any details on what any of that means. If they were producing or doing something they'd say that. As is it's meaningless marketing drivel that could translate better as "We've made up a fake job to play with cool tech, write ill-informed meaningless blog posts about what the next cool thing everyone should do is. We're also light on technical skills so we are going to focus on teams and projects not actual tech"

I don't begrudge them the fact they weaseled their way into this job good for them, but I don't expect much, and If I am wrong and these are actually super smart talented individuals that finally got the freedom to make something happen then I apologize for my dismissiveness. That being said when companies get acquired by MS they don't tend to be known for their innovation and ground breaking research going forward.
I've been working on some tools that integrate with USPTO (both from the application side and the validation side) for quite a few years now and they've been making a TON of formatting changes recently. A lot of their PDF forms have changed, they're requiring XML versions of all data we submit, they're handling classifications differently, etc. Their process always felt like it was stuck in the past and being handled manually by humans before and now it feels like they're moving everything toward automated intake and initial reviews. I imagine this change is for the same reasons, and that's a hefty fee to force it.

This also likely means I will need to rework our systems to spit out docx instead of/in addition to PDFs, which will be a nightmare to do. So that's fun.
Came here for that. Business cards are reduced to this scene now.
Her main point is that "what goes around comes around." You might receive a $10K bailout, but later your taxes will help someone else. That's her principle behind her thinking on why this is OK. If you hurt now, it will benefit someone else; and when you are hurt, you will benefit from someone else hurting.

I currently have very little confidence long-term that this will happen. Right now, I have 0% confidence in Social Security and Medicare existing when I am old. 0%. That money is, as far as I know, going away and I'm never seeing it again. The statistics back me up on this.

Furthermore, this bailout, it will absolutely be repeated. There is never a one-time bailout that doesn't address the underlying cause without happening again in politics.
I also operate on a sliding scale. I once charged a ludicrous hourly rate for a client who came to me asking for VB6 work (in 2015) that was very last minute. I genuinely didn't want the work, it landed on my lap through word-of-mouth between a former client (who I had done some VB6 work for a few years prior) and this prospective client, and realized that I needed to adjust my rates to account for a variety of circumstances.
Metadata lives in the API, not the git repo. I would argue a github app with rotating hourly tokens which datadog seems to support is better than a users ssh key or an ssh key with access to many repos.
This depends on the types of projects. If you are doing a project where you have decent control and scope, project billing is ideal for both client and contractor. Unfortunately many projects I work are huge and shift constantly due to other factors, people, and organizations out of my control. So going to hourly on these puts the responsibility on those managing the project.
> The industrial revolution used water power.

No. "Water power is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydropower). Steam engines used coal, ie fossil fuels. By your defintion, even nuclear plants would be "water power".
Same, it begins. My ISP needs to get it's act together.
I did a talk about establishing criteria for differences between distributed SQL and NoSQL databases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJvnq8ZD_7Q

There are a couple of different dimensions to consider. I didn't focus on this in the talk but firstly you should consider these elements...

• Speed (latency & throughputs)

• Scale (gigabytes? terabytes? petabytes? exabytes?)

• Workload types (OLAP, OLTP, HTAP, data warehouses/lakes/lakehouses)

• Consistency Models ("ACID vs. BASE", eventual vs. strong, etc.)

• Data Model - RDBMS, NoSQL (Key-Value, Wide Column, Document, Graph, Column Store, etc.)

• Query Language (SQL, streaming SQL [Flink], CQL [Cassandra, ScyllaDB, DataStax, CosmosDB, Keyspaces, Yugabyte, etc.], Gremlin/Tinkerpop [JanusGraph, DSE Graph, OrientDB, etc.], and so on.

What I did focus on was more the "distributed system" attributes...

• Clustering & distribution (local clustering, cross-clustering, multidatacenter clustering)

• Node roles, high availability & failover strategies (primary/replica, peer-to-peer leaderless/active-active, load balancing)

• Data replication/sharding strategies (replication factors, consistency levels, manual vs. auto-sharing, topology awareness [rack and datacenter awareness])

I only focused on a handful. There are literally hundreds of databases tracked on DB-engines:

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

[Disclosure, I work for ScyllaDB]
I currently charge 65€/hour, which is incredibly low considering that beside doing the fullstack development for their rather complex product. I also do their product development, working with UI/UX designers, doing the devops AND I do first to third level support (basically for free).

Still, I was unable to explain this to the customer, who still sees me as the guy who does some programming.
For future companies, I want to move to project based billing (as already mentioned in previous comments) and stop underselling my work. Any recommendation on how I can train pitching myself or good readings are very welcome.
It's important to note that money is fake, and is given value by destroying it (through taxes as a major part of it)

This action doesn't change the supply of money in the system, just where it ends up, so really it cant have an effect on inflation.

the schools already got paid, and now the money will go into more than likely base economy spends like food and housing instead of the the end of monies lifecycle at a bank or investment.

edit: of note, money is introduced into the system by in large through gov spending (roads, gov, military) - so as much as it would be nice to spend less on military - you can't really cut it off without spending it elsewhere, which I am all for, but you can't just have the government spend less.

edit-edit: this is also kind of the least they can do, and doesn't fix the problem in the future which is why I give it a half-hearted golf clap. It's almost like they want an a class of people to be over-debted....
there is public DB of windows code out there, if "cant" is the word then let users submit the injest code and let it train on it.
if "wont" is the word then who gave them the permission?
Except there are less parts overall in an EV. Way way way way less parts. And way way way way less fluids for said parts.

Less parts means less things to maintenance. Less fluids means less things to refill.

In terms of "wearing out" the big questions really centers on the battery itself. We're seeing pretty low battery degradation on Teslas that have been on the road for 5+ years [1]. The data indicates that at 100k miles they lose about 5% power, which is pretty good. This is data about Teslas specifically though (they're the only car company that has enough long term data at scale to do this analysis on) and every car company has a different battery composition.

But aside from the battery (which is a BIG aside), there is a lot less parts (especially moving parts) that have to be watched/maintained/etc.

[1] https://electrek.co/2020/06/06/tesla-battery-degradation-rep...
I renewed my Indian passport 8000 miles away in California. The process took me around 10 days, no physical visits necessary. Honestly, I am quite impressed at the Indian passport services these days , both in the country and abroad.
The requirements is still there: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...