skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This transfers the debt to the top income earners who pay federal income tax into the general fund. The bottom 60% of Americans, 100 million households, pay no federal income tax.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/61percent-of-americans-paid-...

> Look, I am not trying to be rude and I am trying to be gentle when I ask this: Where do you think the 'assistance' the government is going to provide comes from?

The wealthy and high earners? I pay substantial federal income tax, and I’m not too bent out of shape about this. I’m more concerned about waste going forward, not financial relief for my fellow citizen. The need for this debt would’ve never existed if state and federal funding for higher education had not slowly been withdrawn leaving students primarily to shoulder the cost burden (although I’m mindful of unchecked college spending and the need for cost controls due to the inelastic demand).

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-co...
Trans people are especially attracted to online life since they face stigmatization in meatspace.
We're subsidizing relief from it. Loan debt and interest are what subsidize the bad actors.
It's a shame that metabolic ward studies are so expensive and relatively rare. I think there would be a much more informed conversation on these topics if people looked to them more enthusiastically.
Sure, but how much crap do you have to memorize? It's not a unified experience. It's a duct-taped Frankenstein where every subsystem works differently.

IDK, my experience with JetBrains is it's leaky abstractions all the way down, outside the core edit/refactor features. Using JetBrains Git without knowing git... I mean, I've seen people do it, but they seem pretty frustrated and confused when things go wrong.

I'd rather just learn the underlying tool once, rather than the underlying tool and also the leaky wrapper around it too.
Anecdata: I stuck with CICO + IIFYM and strictly kept track of everything manually using a scale, excel, and nutrition labels. I lost 30 lbs in 3.5 months almost exactly in line with my calculations.

A big factor was "standard days/meals" so that I could just measure food & re-use previously entered numbers to save time and hassle. Admittedly, my diet was boring. But I didn't care because my results were so clear.

From my interactions with lots of people whom CICO+IIFYM fails, they seem to not be actually tracking their intake precisely and honestly.
It might be alerted as a suspect transaction.
Then the eye of Sauron will turn to you.

https://www.fatf-gafi.org/
I got 87k in PPP loans. It was forgiven, but it all went to my employees.

That's a good thing.
Building event-driven API services using CQRS, API Gateway and Serverless
Well, the guy that wrote this fibonacci function that the model reproduced verbatim from some "learn to program" site sure went unattributed. That's AI for you.
They compared human cells to mouse cells, showing improved performance for the human cells.
"need" would be the key word here, do college graduates need the money? If a program is regressive, it means it's transferring money from people who need the money to people who either don't need the money or need it less. That doesn't exactly benefit people who need the money either.
If we want to argue about tax dollars being stolen then the massive bank bailouts and decade of QE by the fed are massively, _massively_ more of a problem and cost. Stop bailing out bad business decisions with my money and then we can talk about not spending it on stuff like paying off education loans.
Please stop accusing people of wishing for higher energy prices or being a troll. You have done it on a huge number of posts in this thread. If you want to convince anybody accusing them of wanting something bad is not the way to do it. In fact it makes you look like a troll.
I guess you were downvoted for the first paragraph but the core claim you've made later on is factually accurate. Getting 80 percent of the grid onto RE, with no storage required to do that, is far cheaper and far quicker than nuclear. The variability is a non-issue. The idea that variability is a problem is propaganda by the fossil fuel lobby. They know that nuclear is too slow to build and too expensive so they create this false narrative to slow the real solution. Then people lap up the false narrative without actually checking whether it's true because it's plausible-sounding and it aligns with their partisan tribe.
Your monthly spend is less than two dollars across GCP, AWS and Azure? If that's true, then of course it makes sense at your scale to stick with them.
Genuine question: why "should" we be going in this direction?
Related:

FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32327711 - Aug 2022 (79 comments)
Yeah, that's what I thought too
What Is gRPC?
Before my previous job i went on like 36 interviews for months before I got lucky And found a match with a company that wanted to hire me.

The expectation that it’s easy to find work is not the norm, and the belief that if you can’t work as a c++ developer you might as well end it all is unreasonable.

Plenty of people are plenty happy and live rich fulfilling lives outside of tech. Go get a job in a grocery store or starbucks or restaurant or something and keep applying to engineering jobs on the side.

Problem solved.
The Antidepressant Wars
Maybe they could run for senate in my home state
I actually think that education should be free, but with strings attached. The US college cost is growing, administrative overhead is growing, admission process is often not transparent. Once it is fixed and controlled higher ed should be free with a certain level of commitment. For things like medical school, which are ones of the most expensive ones, working for a few years at public hospitals can be a requirement for getting such education for free.

But this was done in the opposite direction, some people made really bad financial decisions. Some people opted not to pursue college degree, precisely because of cost. Why the latter should be paying for the former?

Also, let me ask you this: when you got your degree, did you go to a community college first to pick up some credits and transferred to save some costs?
Somehow I feel OK about that given the fact that the three generations before me didn't give that much thought. Sorry! See how that sucks? It does suck! But I am luckily 1.3k USD away from being income excluded so maybe for once not aggressively pursuing salary will get me an extra 10k! Magic!!
Yes-but the catch is you gotta define “rich” the way Europeans do: about 1.5x the median income. So around $110,000 in the US.
Please post updates as they slowly happen! I tried to do this a few years ago with my employer, but only GET the data (a freeze wasn’t a thing yet). Equifax stonewalled and told me I had to go through my employer to get my data. HR was purposely unhelpful and I got frustrated and gave up.
Hi, I'm a European.

We should have switched to nuclear decades ago.
I found foundationdb-rs pretty good & robust. Haven't tried any FDB 7.x features (tenants, etc.) though.
If you were presented with an actual case, would you change your mind over whether introducing this warning is advisable?
You might be misunderstanding the idea. "used PD to power the disk" means the adapter used PD to obtain electricity, and then used that electricity to power the disk drive via the drive's normal power terminal. The disk drive still wouldn't know anything about USB Power Delivery.
Fugitive is legendary for using Git inside of Vim/Neovim.
I've seen the term used to mean dedicated servers or VMs, by European hosting companies. Possibly all German companies though that might not be a solid memory, but it does seem quite localised. I assume it is to differentiate between hosted servers where you have an account, multiple accounts, or a reseller account, but not full admin (root level) access.

Always stuck me as a clunky term, but it was where my head went first on reading the title here (then I thought DNS servers, but that did not compute so the first thought "won").
OP could explain why they imagine fatal problems. Would, if they were not just trolling.
"Othering" is itself an evolutionary development. Innate human altruism is deeply parochial, which comes out in many experiments, but especially those with young children. And it makes perfect sense when you think about it from the "selfish gene" perspective. We also know from observation that genocidal wars are something that other apes practice occasionally, so "othering" within species is likely something that predates our speciation as humans.
Own your own root, run it on your own machine or hardware.
No, not until the density of objects in LEO is much higher IMO
it's called Pell Grants and it doesn't involve subsidizing universities for providing useless degrees at ridiculously inflated prices
I don't think a question like #2 has to be destructive, but it seems clear to me that it was here. The comment tossed out an extreme position—"You should just give it to them on day 1, right?"—and suggested that an executive couldn't even function if vesting was socially expected any time before the contract date. That's hyperbolic, and the "where is the line" question shouldn't be taken in good faith at that point.

Constructive engagement usually involves proposing answers, not just asking questions, or at least demonstrating an agreement on some underlying premises. The comment could have said "I can understand the expectation that vesting is right around the corner carries some weight. But surely there's a point where it's too far. It seems clear to me that six months in with six months to go shouldn't be a concern. If someone hasn't been there for a year, do you think two months would be socially problematic?"

Maybe it isn't compelling, due to vagueness, but what counts is the social reality—and that's often fuzzy.
Hey!

Outside of Canada possible?
That’s awesome to hear and is absolutely a good thing!

Sadly we’ve also heard a lot of stories of complete misuse and outright fraudulent use of PPP loans. I’m paying for those unless the government gets that money back (after spending hundreds of thousands in legal fees). Whereas as far as I know student loans can’t be misused, at least not to the extent that many PPP loans were.
To be honest without looking it up, all I remember is stoner Steve. Dude, you’re getting a dell vs the Jeff goldblum mac ad that showcased pc cabling vs simple Mac. Still smile when I think of stoner Steve.
Depends on how quickly the neurons can learn to be incompetent and waste tax payer money, only then will they have a real chance ;)
And Instagram and Twitter and all the other domestically-produced mind-addling time-vampires? I understand looking for "real motives" but getting people addicted to stupid things is a very common business model everywhere under our economic model.
How might opting out of something like this affect your future ability to get financing for something, approved for a loan, or even allowed to I dunno, rent a car, open a bank account, start electricity/internet service somewhere, or rent an apartment?

Not trying to scare anybody away from opting out (I'd absolutely love to as well) but having been through something similar in the past and being denied access to basic services to live in the world as the "hidden" punishment for it, I wonder if something similar might emerge here should you do so...

Anyone have any insight on that, one way or the other?
With that logic, nobody can ever be helped because it’s unfair to those who aren’t being helped at the moment.
Much of the PPP loans taken were fraudulent, wasteful, unnecessary and inflationary. Businesses who had no need for them took them and had their best quarters and year. The market sloshed around and shot up with all this 'free' money.

We're willing to spend all this money unnecessarily on businesses but when it comes to supporting students all of a sudden - its too much and we have to draw the line!

I'd much rather see individuals paid directly than go through businesses and hope they are benevolent enough to use it on their employees.
And the cost of the backup power for when wind and solar don't generate enough?
> Web developers, ultimately, have very little vested interest

Yeah, of course. It's only the platform they depend on. Why not cede control of it to Google, right? What's the worst that could happen?

Sometimes I ask myself why people even try. What is the point when people have such an apathetic attitude? What is the point of these web standards? Some huge company comes in, dominates the market and suddenly they're the standard. Nobody cares as long as they're making money, even though the huge company is usurping control of the platform. Not even a year ago I saw a post here about people at Google talking about moving the web away from the previous "owned" model to a "managed" model or something like that. As long as people don't have to work too hard to get paid, who cares, right? This notion of an open platform is just a funny idea to laugh at.
Armory's (YC W17) Deploying OpenCost with a Functional UI
The investment was loaning the money to them in the first place. If they can't pay it back, it was a bad investment.
I was referring to the absurd claim that the oil and coal industry is pro-nuclear. If it wasn't for anti-science "environmentalists" we could have replaced ever single coal and gas power plant with nuclear by now.
Sure, but we don’t go around calling people with ADHD mentally ill, cough. The same way we don’t go around calling guns “mass drivers”, even though that’s exactly what they are.
Half a trillion dollars is not insignificant.
Didn’t they have to shut down a load of nuclear this summer because they couldn’t cool it sufficiently?

Can’t see that getting any better climate wise
Other apex predators don't have the intellectual capacity to develop abstract ethics, so they can't be held responsible for the suffering they instictively cause. But we do have the capacity, we have used it to develop our ethics, and now we're responsible for the conclusions that stem from it.

If you mean it in a sense of whether we're morally obligated to prevent predation in general - I actually think that we are in the (very, very, very) long term, but the limiting factor is the ability to do so without collapsing the ecosystem. If there were a magic wand that you could waive and make "the lion lie down with the lamb" - with full knowledge that both species would still do fine in this new arrangement - I think it would be highly unethical to not use it.
Jesus Christ, we’re talking forgiving student debt, not full-blown communism here.
You were so eager to write your rejoinders that you literally could not finish reading the final two sentences of my post? I think I fairly clearly anticipated and addressed most of your points in my post.

If you want to debate the wisdom of the U.S. Defense Production Act (apologies, I do not know what country you live in, based on what you said about nationalization of your industries - but if you’re unfamiliar with that law, feel free to look up it, or I’m happy to give you a capsule description if you like - I assume you have something analogous where you live, or maybe even a stronger version of it based on what you said in your post) or “too big to fail” and how I think that implies the necessity of temporary nationalization under exigent circumstances, then those are topics we could probably have an interesting discussion about. I bet we’d have some interesting disagreements!

But I do think it was fairly clear that I wasn’t calling for perpetual public ownership of formerly private enterprise.
I don't disagree with your views; I have no idea what they are. Please just follow the rules.
The effect of the proximity fuze on non-AA artillery was profound. The Germans certainly noticed when the fuzes were released for general use at the Battle of the Bulge.

A similar fuze was also made available for use in bombs, but I don't know if that was used in Europe. It was used in the Pacific against airfields, late in the war.
> There's no magic behind it, just mystery because we don't understand it.

How is this different from, or inconsistent with, Chalmers' ideas about consciousness?
> For instance, consider an AI algorithm that automatically scans emails and blocks spam messages (many popular email providers use AI to filter out spam). A paraphrasing attack would involve rewording a spam email to slip past the AI filter while conveying the same message to the human recipient.

This has been happening already. At some point, I would get email titled something like "(3)_GIFT.CARD_sent_to_{ my@email.address }" and wonder why the spam filter didn't obviously recognize it as spam. But then it started happening less and less often.
Having not seen the actual law or executive order or whatever legal reference document, one thing that has not been clearly covered by the media or in debates or even the studentaid.gov website is whether or not this law applies only to current federal loan borrowers, or also extends to those under the prescribed income limits who paid off their federal loans years, or even decades ago.
Sweden is net exporter of electricity over a whole year, but some days, depending on the weather, Sweden is a net importer in some regions.
> I'm not convinced ADHD is an illness either

Do you believe you have ADHD now?

I was fortunate to have some FMRI (I believe that's the tech) work done years ago, shortly after I was diagnosed with ADHD. The imagining made it so blatantly obvious that my brain was different than normal brains. Where a normal brain would light up like crazy for a given stimulus, mine looked like a black hole.

There are certainly bio/physical differences.

That said, I came into this comment thinking I'd take the stance of "of course it's a disease," but I think I've warmed up somewhat to what I think is your argument: lets stop with the labels.

What holds me back from getting on board is that it's not like a headache. I can't just be like "oh, I'm feeling scattered" and take a pill when I need to. That "I'm feeling scattered" is 100% of the time.

So I'm still in the "it's for sure a disease" camp. But I really don't care all that much in the end - I just want to make sure people stop hogging what allows me to even have a job and family.
If the lowest demand for electricity in a year is x watts and you have generators that run constantly to supply x watts then you don't need "flexibility". I don't get why this is such a hard concept to understand.
I don't think that this is the general belief of most anti-nuclear activists, and certainly not most people who don't believe in nuclear as a solution. Many are concerned about waste disposal, accident potential, and proliferation. These are all valid concerns, even though their figures and arguments tend to be out of date.
We should invest in education where we need it. This is STEM majors and those without degrees subsidizing liberal arts majors that got worthless degrees.
connection != session
Yep, electric cars aren't becoming more popular, no way.
Renewables don't need a 10x drop in battery price. They're viable right now to make up the large majority of the grid, with no storage, and are far cheaper and faster than nuclear. Variability is not an issue and it never was.

You should also look at the cost curve of batteries. It's linear decreasing on a log scale. A lot will change while we wait a decade for nuclear to be built.
Do you have this same feeling against Medicare, even though you aren't benefitting from the program directly? Against disability pay? Against food stamps? Against Earned Income Tax Credits? Against Low Income Housing Tax Credits? Homeowner tax rebates? Business tax credits? Half of your property taxes going to schools when you don't have children.

Talked to a guy just today paying over $6k a year just for schools but is childfree. I myself am paying about $3k of my annual property tax straight to local schools yet I do not have kids yet. That's at least $250 every month I'm paying.

Tons of taxpayer money gets paid for all sorts of things we don't benefit from directly. If you're not for any of it, so be it, but if you're not, and you're so against 'policies that take away from people' presumably you mean tax money funding these programs, you should probably be equally angry about pretty much all of these.

I also avoided getting student loans for a while, dropping out of college so I wouldn't take them out, and it severely stunted my salary trajectory because of it, working in places like Wal-mart shipping rooms for $7.50 an hour in my early 20s when I could have had a degree and made 6x more than that.

I eventually did get student loans and finished my degree, and paid them all off shortly before they announced this debt relief. I'm still all for it, as I've seen countless people crippled by student debt.
Modula-2! Seems like Algol-60 should be next.
Yes, there are three parties involved here:

1. The universities who got paid.

2. The students who agreed to the debt for receiving the services of the universities.

3. And everyone else, who had nothing to do with the above transaction. Many of this group were working class who never went to school or people who already paid their school debts long ago.

There is no way of looking at that scenario and saying that group #3 should be the one paying. It so deeply wrong that I almost feel ashamed watching people defend the heist.

If the government forcibly clawed back the money from the schools and the admins and the professors and (yes) the fat endowments, the media would howl bloody murder. But it would be relatively fair.
Employers don’t require a mortgage or a credit card for you to get a job that pays wages above the poverty line. They do require a degree with no economic exposure to that requirement.

> Lets at least be honest: "I like this but it means janitors / construction workers / hard working immigrants pay for the college of people who didnt."

Only if they have a federal income tax burden. That’s honesty, not the moral hazard you’re attempting to invoke. And it wouldn’t have been any different if that had paid slightly higher taxes previously to contribute to higher ed costs without the loans being originated.

I myself did not attend college, and yet, I will pay towards this forgiveness through my federal income taxes. I like (efficiently purposed) taxes, with them I buy civilization.
I think we're talking about different scales. Yes we haven't seen world wide nuclear but we have seen large cities worth of power. I think if we had that demonstrated with renewable storage it would look much better on paper.
Main frustration with PPP is that gov did not prosecute fraudsters aggressively enough. The bases of the programs are very different.
Back in the 1990s, I read a book about genomics by an English scientist who, in the introduction, remarked that it was a well-known but little-discussed secret among researchers that it really does help to throw money at a problem.

Regarding profit-driven companies, I worked for GE's Space Division on a big NASA contract back in the early-to-mid-1980s (and it was a great experience). Unfortunately, the defense side of the division was caught cooking the accounting books and the entire division, defense and civil, was barred from bidding on new government projects. Temporarily, of course, but long enough to result in our facility being dissolved after finishing a couple of smaller commercial projects already in the pipeline. (Coincidentally, one of my friends at GE had a master's in astrophysics and had spent a summer or two at Arecibo.)

At about the same time, Rockwell (I believe was the company) was caught charging defense project cost-overruns to its Shuttle contracts. On the plus side, private-sector personnel don't have that "lazy" gene that public-sector personnel have, so, aside from the cheating left and right, we're better off channeling money to the private sector, who are well-known for the superior quality of their goods and services.