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> Which is a fine sentiment; the problem is that it makes no sense for people to be going deeply into debt to become well-rounded citizens. If you're gonna end up with tens of thousands of dollars in the hole at the end of an education, at the start of your adult life, then yes, it's reasonable to need that education to reliably produce economic dividends.

I'll turn this around on its head: if we recognize the civic and social benefits of having a well-rounded population, then we ought to treat the current rash of students who knowingly go into debt for their degrees as performing a remarkably selfless act.

Like so many problems in the US, this one is entirely self-inflicted: you can get a liberal arts degree for virtually nothing in much of the rest of the developed world. This hasn't caused crises anywhere else, and hasn't caused students to flock away from technical programs (which are also civically necessary). None of this has to be the way that it is.
why? Is this because computer science text book expect you know all mathematics?
Really fun to play! Reminded me of CodeMaster [0]

[0] https://www.thinkfun.com/products/code-master/
This is what I keep coming back to. A backend that targets Javascript can take advantage of the desktop/laptop GPU. A backend that targets Wayland has to render everything locally in software (no GPU), and nobody I’ve ever worked for wants to build a system that runs this way.

Xaw and Motif worked okay, and it’s getting hard to imagine a heavy user who has access to only one computer, yet newer GUI toolkits have lost interest in X11 as a platform for remote rendering.
They may be “technically” abiding by their contract, but this is why judges are humans. Fraud is fraud.
Using sway on archlinux, the only problem with wayland i have is Java/Jetbrains Products and the lacking support for native wayland. The rest works the same as on x11 for me (or better).
> It is Gtk and Qt that for wahtever reason decided to ditch their Xrender backends.

It was often slower and more likely to run in to driver issues than just doing software rendering and sending pixmaps. They're now moving to GL and Vulkan because they can be faster and while they have the same risk of driver issues at least that's the same stack used for video games and CAD and such so more people care about it working well.
> A long phrase requires the user to keep the entire meaning in their head

You could say that about books as well? I mean, if you forget what it is about when you're about to read the end ...

Eumerations can be long and still easy to read especially if using 1) ... 2) ... style. And ; clauses too like the sibling comment says
Yes. That’s right. In problem analysis the problem state graph is implicit (or virtual, I’m not sure which is the appropriate term). It happen Ms that this puzzle also has a graph, but (agreeing with you) that’s not the psg. We could call the puzzle’s graph the “map” to be a bit less confusing, assuming we want to bother continuing this thread, but I’m guessing that it’s just you and me at this point, and we agree, so we should stop.
The best way for society to step in is to stop buying shitty products!

Consumers vote with their wallets and keep voting for more crap!

Change OS, lean new software, try something new.
I used that feature very rarely but the times I did it was insanely useful. Mostly running some debug software so debugging session could run locally but I could control it remotely, without installing whole graphical environment and somehow setting up vnc session just to run single app
Having worked in ads, yes. People click through and purchase, and in numbers sufficient to make the whole ordeal make sense. Granted I worked in ads at Amazon, on their platforms (Kindle and retail), and for items sold on Amazon, so they were winning no matter what happened. The sellers were doing good too though, with many repeat customers, and not enough inventory to satisfy them all.
> This site does not support Mozilla/4.0

I'm running Chrome. Thanks for wasting my time with header bullshit. Please let the browser determine if it's up to the task.
I can think of a few hundred people on Kaua'i that would be helped if Zuck fucked right off.
I'm not from the US but I do spend a lot of time there and every time the units are absolutely painful. Nothing can be easily inferred whether lengths, volumes or mass (weight). It's all memorization. So actually "how many strikes in a coon" is not different at all from "how many inches in a foot". I guess there are historical reasons for this but the imperial system is basically just nonsense that everyone agreed on.
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That flag has been broken for years: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-70387

I doubt it will ever be fixed, because it offers no benefits when the application itself uses actual hardware rendering with GL or Vulkan. XCB can't speed that up at all.
I love how he needs to bend forward while standing on the ground. A careless mistake like standing upright would roast his legs.
I'm referring to the physical impossibility of the things he suggests. Barely anybody seems to notice how entirely unfeasible his ideas are.

That's besides the fact that he makes wild claims about his car tech while they have numerous quality control issues and never live up to those claims.

He's just a profiteer and I don't know why anyone listens to him
> SUVs, but Audi is already in that market..... they'd cannibalize each other.

Almost all of the VW car brands have SUVs in their portfolio. This includes Bentley, Lamborghini and, indeed, Porsche. I would not be surprised to learn that Porsche sells more SUVs than non-SUVs.
"targeting" seems like an odd thing to say there. This is an interactive shell command. Does the shell you are using interactively support it seems like a more interesting concern? We don't have to be portable typing commands into a shell. :-)

Never seen {push,pop}d in a shell script.
Choosing which degrees to support faces all of the problems of central planning. One problem is that if colleges are told to create more STEM degrees than the number of students who are already capable of studying for those degrees, it will encourage the creation of empty "STEM" degrees like "bachelor of arts in information studies" that are even more useless than an English major because everybody will know why those degree were created.

It also creates boom-and-bust cycles. I graduated with a degree in physics, just as the Cold War collapsed and mandatory retirement for professors was outlawed. There was an absolute glut of physicists all looking for jobs at once.
The free market has always been a fantasy. There has never been perfect information, and there never will be.
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The cost of labor is roughly zero, so energy is really the primary driver here.
Isn't a semaphore usually a better choice than a condition variable / event, because you can still race if you try and wake the condition variable multiple times? e.g. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060622-00/?p=30...

Why pthreads included condition variables but not semaphores, I don't know. Maybe because POSIX already had them?
No. BART tracks pass under the street at this point. This motorcyclist managed to fling himself over a prison-style fence while operating on a street with a posted 20 MPH limit.
Move slow and don't break things
Limiting advertising created bigger tabacco companies that shut out newer companies. Demand remained constant because it's a drug...That might work for other drug like coffee or pop/soda or social media but will not work for Tom's hardware and nails having an excess inventory of power drills
Why does it miss Argentina hyperinflation in 1989-1990? [1]

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-ame...
>Also - there is easily $7B of “stranded” energy in flare gas and hydro “rotating reserve” available to secure Bitcoin and similar systems. Besides, the limiting factor for a successful 51% attack isn’t the energy — it’s the capacity to actually create the hash capacity to execute the attack. Not even the NSA could do that, let alone some non-state attacker.

The cost of securing bitcoin is not just in electricity, it is also in the depreciation cost of ASIC hardware.

I guess it would be easy for the NSA to pull off the 51% attack if they are able to backdoor the handful of ASIC manufacturers.
I guess one could use this technique to create any sort of very precise measurement or calculation tools, like slide rules or sextants.
Context on why the Twitter thread was deleted: https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/15716489346947563...

He nuked his account from orbit after confirming he copied from a reddit thread in response to closer scrutiny. Without extensive documentation of a sort that seems unlikely now, it seems best to treat this whole story as a fabrication.
I'm willing to believe he did accomplish all these things, because the things he did aren't really intellectually complex. It is more of a matter of having social intelligence and patience, and perhaps arithmetic knowledge. A sufficiently motivated child with enough intelligence could accomplish them, especially if he had not much else to occupy his time.
Curse those meddling governments who want to tax you to pay for roads, hospitals, and schools, and social welfare.

At least, speaking as a European, this is where the large majority of my tax euros go. If your government spends your tax on less useful things then maybe the solution is to work towards a better government, rather than trying to hide your savings in untaxable havens.

(Actually I have no idea how easy it is to hide money from the tax collectors using crypto, but I assume that's one of the appeals).

EDIT: user above me edited their comment to reference Russia and Venezuela. My comment about working towards a better government still stands although I recognize it's not an easy task.
I had to laugh at the commonality of experience. My toddler bathtimes often involve negotiations as to which vehicles he's allowed to bring in too!

Keeping his brand new fire truck complete with electric flashing lights and siren out was last night's big challenge.
Yeah, that's frustrating sometimes, and I don't even have a super hi-res screen.

But I just live with it. Honestly I don't resize windows that often. I either use the window's natural size, or maximize. In the 18 years I've used Xfce it hasn't been a big issue for me.
”For years, studies have found racial bias in common oxygen-measuring devices called pulse oximeters”

This writing is terrible. How is a meter biases against “race”? Does the meter give an incorrect reading for a light skinned black person but a better reading for a dark skinned white person of the same color?
The fees you’re describing are not really proportional with the median pay difference, which is more or less my point.

The acceptance difference isn’t really that great, either. Not sure what property valuations have to do with anything.

For example at all of the ivy leagues there’s no significant difference in tuition for major nor is there really a substantial difference in acceptance rate. Some, like Columbia have different schools, but even within them majors, and prospects, differ.
From the way you wrote this comment it seems that river is superior to sway for you. Why so?
I never used river, only used sway.
Anecdotally I've found Braintree to be at least mostly comparable in terms of their API. But I'm not aware of a list that compares this sort of stuff.
Same goes for parking, especially in cities like San Francisco. (And if someone wants to counterargue that self-driving cars can drive away to park somewhere else -- that just makes the traffic even worse, since now there's twice as many cars entering and leaving the city around rush hour.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32889072

The number two post on HN, when you posted this, was how poor writing/reading skills are the biggest barrier to understanding legal language.
Very cool! I recently created a similar project where you can upload an image to be converted into low-poly art!

https://wcedmisten.fyi/project/lowPoly/
because one of their claims is to have a much better upscaler than the average bear.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/support/shield-tv/ai-ups...
This is making a bunch of assumptions about what cursive is and what it means to write it that mostly just aren't true. Just to set the stage here there is a small but real division of history focused on the study of scripts over time so you don't need to just make stuff up starting from now.

There is a balance between speed of writing and legibility, and scripts in a single language tend to just go back and forth on those two over time. Cursive is fairly balanced between them but being moderately biased towards speed. It isn't easier to read for most people, anyway, though not much harder than our other scripts either.

People also love to, and always have, attribute various intellectual or moral virtues to specific scripts! That impulse is similar to dialect, where it has a lot more to do with who uses different scripts, who they are associated with at a given time. In a society dominated by church-educated aristocrats for example, a literate merchant class will attribute sophistication to the ecclesial script and eventually switch to it, etc. It's not hard to extrapolate this pattern to our current time, I don't think.

And then finally users of non-cursive scripts still think and write in terms of units of words, and making this error in your reasoning indicates you probably have the nature of language flipped on its head. The "true" language is the spoken one! Writing systems are just that, systems used to write it down, and the scripts used to make them are even less a part of the language system a person uses to think.

And finally finally our non-cursive script is very close to carolingian miniscule and predates cursive by like centuries. There's not even historical authenticity to cursive superiority. It's fine that you like it more but don't make it an issue of intelligence or virtue because it is neither.
Higher property taxes pay for kids to study in schools where they have a chance of preparing for entry into a competitive STEM program.

I taught at a university where students were given a math placement exam before being assigned their freshman courses. Getting into Calculus and passing it with a good grade was a sorting hat for what major you could study.

Fees proportional to pay sounds like an income tax.
I have seen this play out so many times over the years, “if we fix this bug, our revenue will go down X%” and no one will fix it. Ever. Any redesigns or redacts that fix this bug will probably fail A/B testing unless they account for this bug. It holds back the entire company from making real progress with the product, all for a few extra bucks.
That’s not how probabilities work.

If I flip a coin and get heads 3 times in a row it doesn’t change the odds on the 4th flip.
My one misgiving with hard switching all devices daily is that they all have some kind of AC to DC power conversion with the cheapest capacitors imaginable that are subjected to high inrush currents every time I toggle them on.
The shape/design was copied by the Westworld designers for the quantum supercomputer "Rehoboam" in season 3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgBtBkW0u8Y

Also - given the large motion of the damper in today's earthquake, why weren't more people freaking out? I'm also curious about how much the dampers (shock absorbers) heated up from restraining the movement of the ball.
I've been hearing the "college teaches you how to think" trope less often lately. Can't imagine why.
Paying for things can be a personal connection. I adore artists work, and occasionally buy things so they can be connected to me in addition to pay rent and so forth. So it's money for _connection_ vs paying for an individual _product_.
This is a reprehensible way to look at the world, one that is self-consuming: should we close scientific research labs because they're cost centers? Should we forbid exploratory work because it lacks a clear road to shareholder value?

And that's before we consider the intangible nature of "real world value." Very few of us want to live in a world where value is a pure function of expected production.
> Econ 101 time: value is subjective. Human beings merely use value as a description - it does not exist inside of any object or inside of any equation

Econ 201 time: value is concrete, the definition of value is subjective. I can say that the value of two exchanged objects are concrete - that they have the same embedded value.
What's weird to me is that somebody would have such a hard time accepting verifiable facts about a gifted outlier who happens to be remarkably young but also reads Hacker News on a Sunday night, presumably because they see themselves as someone who is involved in the tech/startup economy.

The whole reason that there's a story here is because it's exceptional. If he hadn't been an outlier, there would be no story. There's no conspiracy to embarass your younger self, here.

I bought my first hard drive, drums and television with profits from contract software development when I was 10. I was on my first (non-profit) board of directors when I was 14, and I got a small business loan - co-signed by my father - when I was 15.

None of this is as rare as you so righteously think. The key detail you may have glossed over is that while his parents are disabled, he was clearly very proactive about recruiting mentors and advisors online. He got really great at doing two things: teaching himself new things as they are needed, and developing a network of people who he could ask for help and advice. It's a winning strategy.
Again what is the connection between higher property taxes and this competitiveness you’re referring to?

California for example has proposition 13 which fixes the tax. Are kids in California less prepared? New Hampshire has higher property tax rates than Massachusetts- are they doing better? Etc.

Even if it were true, the most expensive schools are private and so property taxes still would have little relevance to the discussion at hand.
But in the end it's a monetary phenomenon and it is the government's choice to have inflation instead of other (painful) measures to address a distribution problem.

I would say the truly necessary component to the hyperinflation phenomenon is the existence of privileged borrowers. When inflation is high, market interest rate is also high. To benefit from inflation one must be able to borrow at below inflation rate. With credit money borrowing is what creates new money. Often it's the government that chooses this over taxation for its own funding. Other times there may be other entrenched private interests who enjoy such privileges.
Yes, look at those broke-ass losers like... Checks notes Peter Thiel, who studied philosophy, or Jack Ma, who studied English. Bill Gates was pre-law until he dropped out.
I saw a transportation guy that said what transit systems like BART are good at is getting people on and off quickly. Better than buses and far better than taxi's.
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How is CarPlay not connecting the phone to the car? I’m not following what you’re suggesting here.
Is there a blog post on how HN works? Like what's CMS, is it a totally custom CRUD system? Does it use super fancy data flows like stack exchange?
> Definitely a dark pattern and results in a lot of garbage clicks if you overlook that setting.

I really don't get this part. What's Google's interest in pointless clicks? Short term they could get some extra charge for those, but if they don't convert they lose a customer. On the other hand, for quality clicks they could just charge 5x the price and nobody would complain.
If we are going to have federal loans at all, they should be capped at something like the 70th percentile public school tuition. If schools want to charge more than that they can lend to students or parents themselves.
I’m saying basically that Apple knows where the money is. The desktop market is already a small market in the grand scheme of things. The desktop PC gamer market is even smaller.

The PC gaming market is a 28.6B a year market for software sells. The actual hardware sales have to be much smaller to the point where it would be even lower than that. Definitely not worth Apple sacrificing being able to move fast.
Agreed, from a systemic perspective, shit is broken in the US and needs to be fixed. The government should be paying more, and also controlling costs better (US universities spend a lot more than universities in other countries). Bare minimum, loans that are protected in bankruptcy should have a limit to how much can be taken out based on the median earnings of those who earn that degree, and this should be annualized such that you can't suddenly hit a limit halfway into your degree.

From an individual perspective, people should not be willingly going into large debt for poor or relatively uncertain financial prospects.
This is the most painfully obvious headline I have ever read. I wonder when they'll realize that the writing is intentionally poor in order to prevent comprehension.
I too am a Tolkien fan and I enjoy the show. Seems like a good one so far. Much of the criticism seems to be nitpicking from people with certain expectations that weren't met. If you don't like it, that's fine. You don't have to watch it. I'll continue enjoying it.
> Your phone and your car have no reason , absolutely no reason to be connected to one amnother

I completely disagree. I don’t want to login to my car. I want to plug-in my phone. When my wife is driving I don’t want to have to logout of my car and log her in. I want her to just plug-in her phone.

I have absolutely no interest in maintaining contacts, settings, and credentials in some “CarOS.” I don’t want to worry about someone borrowing my car and seeing messages, nav history, or contacts. I don’t want to worry about a thief seeing those things.

As I said I will not consider a car without CarPlay, and it has nothing at all to do with iMessage. I have one phone and I want to take that phone and plug it into a car. Period.
I never had to do it myself, but I have a feeling it will work better with Wayland. The delay of 50-80ms introduced by the network is not terribly much (everything under 110ms is fine for playing Dota), so if your software doesn't lag itself, like X11 did, maybe it will work.

You could also use something like Zerotier-one to recover from network being shortly disrupted. This service connects your machines into a virtual network with static IPs, so the IP addresses through which your machines talk will stay the same and TCP connections will recover and ssh will keep working if a device briefly goes offline.
I’ve worked at two places that turned off Google ads for some number of months (except trademarked keywords they had a license for). There wasn’t a significant change to sales or traffic.
No, it's wayland architecture problem.

It forces every single DE that will use it to reinvent same thing. There is no good reason to do that, just a lot of duplicated effort. You will not want to have different mouse behaviour when you use different WM. Having it pluggable is fine, even desired, but pushing it on every DE is just waste of effort and just bumps the bar required for any DE to move to wayland.

> GNOME is probably worst DE imaginable. After 20 years, they still don't have thumbnails in filepicker and even dropped preview side pane in GTK4. I can't even.

For me it peaked somewhere in 1.x, 2.x was prettier version of it, after that they completely lost me. And their constant dumb arrogance with assuming what their users want is just cherry on cake of shit. And the "fuck the compatibility, just change APIs will nilly" attitude they got after 2.x
Definitely, here's to hoping.