skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, both college education and healthcare have become enormous taxpayer wealth extraction schemes. Everyone has a "right" to education and healthcare, therefore we should subsidize it with taxpayer money. That is as far as the politics go. We have stupidly funded the demand side of the equation to where both education and healthcare are incredibly bloated behemoths capable of absorbing all the money thrown at them. All perfectly justified.

Where the taxpayer money should have gone: on the supply side. For example, the number of UC campuses in California should have doubled as the population doubled. The last UC campus to open was Merced in 2005. Before that was Irvine and Santa Cruz in 1965. And we wonder why tuition keeps increasing? 1) Demand increases with population increase. 2) Demand increase with more people seeking 4 yr degrees. 3) Demand increases with the US subsidizing the ever living shit out of college tuition. 4) Supply stays relatively constant.

Similarly Obamacare drove the demand side by subsidizing health insurance and onboarding millions of new members. It did almost nothing on the supply side - same number of hospital beds and doctors. Insurers and medical groups made a killing as the price of their services grew dramatically.

In both cases, political stability was achieved in shoveling taxpayer money at education and healthcare without increasing competition. This is a very clever way for existing vendors in healthcare and education to soak the government.

Solution: drive prices down by investing in supply of education and healthcare.
There were also trade war about car, TV, and semiconductor after plaza accord
A newly found loophole enables researchers to see through walls
How many people would go back to a job that had fired them? not sure I would
> ditching the ballots of those that cannot number 1 through 6 is no great loss.

It's worth looking into the statistics around that. For example, one study[0] found that:

"Between 2004 – 2016, 32% of electorates reported more informal votes than votes in the margin between the winner and runner-up."

Of course not, not all "informal votes" are due to people trying but failing to correctly fill out their ballot paper, but the study also found that "more candidates cause more informal votes", so the complexity of the ballots was clearly a factor.

The fact that as many as a third of seats would have a different winner if every vote was counted, though, has to undermine confidence in the democratic process. And this is in a polity where voting is compulsory, so in the US it would be more likely that these informal voters just stayed at home, and the problem would be even more brushed under the carpet.

[0] http://eamonmcginn.com.s3-website-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.c...
It seems like this may actually be a useful application of blockchain technology.

If you see a video of someone on a link that hasn’t been minted by them, then it’s not genuine.
Even in Canada it’s getting worse. I finished undergrad in 2010. Back then I paid about $3000CAD per term. Someone in my program I met recently is paying $4800. The program is the same. Admin keeps growing.
Interestingly, this does not affect iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. Either the production lines for them are not affected (yet) or Apple have plenty of inventory for the holiday season.
A while back I started the legendary `xeyes` application and just had it open for a few weeks while working.

Interestingly, I noticed that whenever I switched to a desktop without those eyes, I instantly felt a small but noticable twinge of loneliness. So I thought, if this silly application can help the monkey part of my brain feel at ease, it might as well stay open. And yes, it's slightly embarrassing to be a human, so posting anonymously.

Human needs are weird. Years back I noticed clearly that I'd go insane after only a few days without human interaction. However, after only a couple of hours of low quality smalltalk, which I dislike, with people I find uninteresting and didn't have much respect for, the crazy went away.
You need to be discharging the capacitor somehow; I suppose it was meant to measure the charge, even then measuring the cut off of the sine is not hard. It's just all retrofitting design - led into incandescent bulbs, LED drivers into sine cutters - all to preserve the existing lighting fixture.

I have some near ceiling lights that allow dimming via a remote control (infra red or 433MHz) or fast switching on/off (remembering their state afterwards).

There are other ways to communicate, e.g. using the zero cross - the dimmer can send whatever signal to the lights downstream - the latter would read it and set the brightness.
inertia, probably
I'm not the person you asked, but yes, I do eat all those seeds raw with the fruit, usually. I won't eat something big like an apricot pit though. Cherry pits, sometimes. They're right on the size border of what I would swallow.
honestly, after seeing how badly twitter has handled all the crypto attacks any change is a good change at this point.

i know people love hating on elon but twitter has always been a terribly run company. they've been a joke for a long time. why not give the guy 3-months and then we can judge?
> I’m not going to go do Silvergate’s research for him, but I’m surprised he doesn’t cite such a readily available piece of compelling evidence, which at best suggests he’s too lazy to track it down, and at worst that reality does not support his hypothesis.

Why do you assume these influences to be mutually exclusive? Upward price pressure for unnecessary bureaucratic positions does not invalidate the problems with those positions, but rather exacerbates them.
They can’t leave because of COVID restrictions not because of Apple.
n-hypercubes are very relevant and tangible. they model the state of your computer, for one.
With regard to having kids in particular, I found this argument fairly persuasive: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/please-dont-give-up-on...
We roast and eat pumpkin seeds with the shells still on.
What a fantastic series. I know what I’m listening to now. Thanks!
Does the Twitter Chief Hotline Operator not have a sense of humor?

Parody works because you don’t signal ahead of time.
The idea of Passive cooking has always been interesting, but the device itself really feels like an April Fools bit.

It's basically just an alarm.. That needs to be paired with a smart phone. Really ?
Right, yes this makes sense! I suspect that these short-lived new flavours actually increse sales of the original flavours, since the consumer desires to taste the original again.
I believe the best way to phrase it is "pushed out a masto-toot"
I do eat grape seeds. Apples, the core is too tough. With watermelon, I greatly prefer seedless. Like it’s not even close in terms of taste or texture. I probably eat about 2 whole watermelon a week in the summer time. It’s always a sad day if I accidentally buy a melon with seeds.
the 15625Hz is a transformer not a regulator coil - rather hard to make it not 'vibrate'
Do you mean it cannot be used for verification or just that it’s currently not practiced?
>(In normal arithmetic of course, multiplication and division aren't reversible because of zero.)

"In the beginning, zero was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move..."
I’ve tried Zettelkasten for about a year now - it’s a massive time sink, and I’m not sure I’ve seen enough fruits to be worth it, to be honest.

But I also don’t publish writing so maybe that’s my fault!
I hope not as well.
Yet, not for common workloads and 12+ hours of sleep per night.
> [...] very money, time, and resource consuming it all is.

So where do you want to spend that money, time, and resources instead?
Other industries that depend on manufactured goods (not electronics) have been feeling this for a while.

Tried buying HVAC supplies recently? Flex duct has been very difficult to get for the past year, as have many other supplies and of course, the HVAC units themselves. I think Mitsubishi is still quoting next year for many of their products. Some areas even relaxed their energy codes (e.g. allowing R6 duct instead of R8) because of the shortages.
> why not give the guy 3-months and then we can judge?

We've got no say in the matter :) waiting and watching is the only option on this ride.

Up to this point it's been a spectacular and entertaining disaster to observe. I do feel bad for all the Twitter employees, didn't expect he'd really lay so many off, because it's an insane (and monumentally short-sighted) move. People are a hugely valuable resource, the most valuable a company can have!
Not very absolute in the freedom to speak whatever twitter handle you desire.
The device seems absurd to me, too. Why would I need anything like that just to time some pasta?
It's an optimization problem. You want to minimize the number of deaths AND minimize the impact on the economy.

Let's say if you shut down the entire economy, you're able to save exactly 1 life. Is this a worthwhile tradeoff? Probably not.

Now the question becomes, where do we draw the line on the number of "acceptable" deaths and the acceptable impact on the economy.
It's calcium. It won't hurt you, and you can't taste it.
Do the crowd demonstrate a preference or behavior difference when fed the different nut varieties?
> But I also don’t publish writing so maybe that’s my fault!

My understanding is that it's indeed 100% pointless if you don't use it with the specific goal to publish.
For one: People are less incentivized to bribe Twitter employees just to get the badge.
You don't need to be a Twitter employee to know this. Merely posting on this forum gives you enlightenment and insight that others would only dream to have. I stand proudly with VWWHFSfQ.
I don't have the data, but I think what usually happens is more people leave (ie put in their two weeks) once they see everyone get fired.
Lives > Money
‘Age related’ hearing loss is an interaction between age, noise exposure, and other factors.

Yeah, I have some experience as a sound engineer in the sense of wiring up instruments and the board so people can do a musical performance but I can’t stand doing it much because I think almost every concert or bar is way too load. I think all the other sound engineers are deaf.

The navy found out that sailors working on aircraft carriers with jet aircraft were losing their hearing in a matter of months and did the initial research on the subject which revealed that different people have different threshold for how much noise accelerates age related hearing loss and that for some people this threshold is as little as 65db so there is no practical safe noise level.
One of the most valuable parts of the in-person college experience is learning to live independently, exposing yourself to a much wider variety of people, and taking personal risks in a semi-controlled environment. You spend only around 20% of your waking hours in the classroom anyway, if that, but the rest of the time in the college environment is still very educational.
Dozens of employees, some of which may be essential to critical operations if they are in fact this desperate to get them back. If Twitter is down for 24 hours because they fired the three people that know the affected subsystem the best, the "it's only dozens out of 5700" proportion says nothing about actual business impact.
Take Skyline early one morning and grab breakfast at Alice's. Whole lot of people with loads of money don't want to give that up.
We’ll see with apple. Hopefully they won’t be as obnoxious as Microsoft. Windows is getting so bloated with adverts, teams integrations. Most of the OEMs hardware is junk with a load of spyware installed for good measure. Linux may be the last bastion of the free world.
It is noteworthy to look at how calm the government of China is, and how calm the government of Saudi Arabia is, and even Modi in India has been eager to strengthen ties with Putin.

Perhaps that is because they expect Russia to win. They certainly are not expecting Ukraine plus 'Western Volunteer Country(s) du jour' to win, otherwise they wouldn't be so calm.

The 'Golden Billion' do not have the resources, manufacturing capacity, or the number of military-age males to achieve any sort of victory.

Those 'calm countries' are sitting back with their popcorn watching the spectacle of the demise of the West.

And if anybody brings nukes into the play, then everybody dies anyway. So as Alfred E Neuman used to say "What? Me worry?". And Old Ma Nature cleans the blackboard of Humanity, her latest failed experiment after the Dinosaurs.
Large Chinese factories are usually staffed by migrant workers who are housed in company owned dorms.
I’ll believe it when they can solve Tower of Hanoi to arbitrary depth.
Three possible reasons:

1. Workers only get food if they show up for their shift. If they are sick and don't work, there is no place to get food in the Foxconn campus. Due to the lockdown, the workers can't order food delivered online if sick.

2. When local governments force people to quarantine, they are supposed to provide basic meals. However, it seems most workers who were quarantined recently did not receive any food or water for days because the local government expected Foxconn to provide it instead.

3. Someone made a viral video suggesting everyone who was quarantined in a dormitory room died of a new deadly disease.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hKBAeie5wY
shocking to see an announcement like this on a Sunday. Then I realized they might be hoping the news gets buried

When companies want to bury the news, they release it on Friday. It's called "taking out the trash."

/Former journo
I really hope musk can hold on and pivot away from ad only revenue. The ad business is cancer. It's a big bubble that will pop. They don't need most of the data they collect, it's all pretty graphs for egocentric managers.

And they abuse their bubble and disconnection from reality by requiring censorship from Twitter with minced words like brand image.

By the way, the ads bubble is quite similar to crypto bubble. They both consist of unregulated "markets" or "exchanges" for some digital good, which are actually mostly managed by those selling those goods (even worse in Google case than the crypto case!), and the market is rigged and manipulated but good luck fighting the unregulated exchange. They both abuse people's normal perception of the concept of markets to get them to buy at much higher prices because it's the "market price".
I agree, if I'm buying a top-end consumer chip I only really care about raw performance - finishing a compilation run 20s faster 20x a day or running my Grand strategy game faster in the laggy endgame :P.

I guess from a practical perspective, if you aren't modifying the chip clocks then yeah, they are talking about the right thing. But from a technical perspective, I'm more interested in the underlying architecture performance, which is to say:

If the intel chip is set to a Power Limit of 100w, and the AMD chip is set to a Power Limit of 100w, what does performance look like then? Because it's nearly meaningless to run one processor at 250w and the other at 150w, then say the 150w chip is more efficient. Processor power skyrockets at high voltages and clocks, so likely the intel chip can use 50% less power for 10% less performance, if desired - Intel merely made the (correct, imo) calculus that maximal performance is more important than efficiency for this class of chip.

I think we pretty much agree - I just think it would be interested to have a more accurate architectural efficiency/performance comparison (which would also help when choosing eg. a laptop where those numbers DO matter)
Adding a little vinegar and water and boiling it will often remove most of the scale. Maybe hard when you're travelling, but at home it works fine.
Didn't read the article cuz paywall. But they don't (or in the past haven't) accepted anyone who has smoked weed within the last year and the pay is junk.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33497012
People have been bringing email up a lot, but it’s really a good example of why federated systems end up centralizing and fail to accomplish their goals.

Almost nobody runs their own email server, the few that do struggle with not getting blacklisted by Google and the tiny number of other companies everyone else uses.

Even the tiny number of highly technical users that persist despite that are communicating almost entirely with people on gmail anyway. This is a failure.

It’s a failure for the same reasons mastodon will fail: spam is a hard problem, servers are too hard to run, centralization has UX advantages that can’t be overcome without changing underlying problems with the software stack (dependencies, general complexity, how updates are deployed across a federated network).

Urbit is trying to do this, as far as I can tell nobody else is taking it seriously.
But if they were to, would they not have discovered the iterative solution?
I don't think you have answered it yet, do you believe that shareholders, CEOs, board members, etc. are paid justly for the work they produce?
For the record, I'm now interested in your note-taking system and would love to read more about it.
> The article doesn’t use the font it is extolling the virtues of, except for illustration. I found that interesting.

I do use them for writing and coding.
This looks like it applies mostly to the blue checks. Having an unobvious verified parody account does raise issues, but its hard to know exactly where to draw the line.
This reminds me of a joke from comic Sebastian Maniscalco called Doorbell (it's on YouTube) about how people reacted to having someone ring their doorbell today vs 20 years ago. He talks about how 20 years ago we'd be excited by an unexpected guess ringing our doorbell versus today we'd be more incline to being upset. Really recommended giving the joke a gander for a good laugh.
"Drive the price down by increasing seats and then fostering competition between schools."

The seats have increased dramatically.

You won't be able to create efficient competition. The value shoppers already go to state schools. The other people are looking for a specific "quality" or just plain emotion (my family went here, this school is prestigious, etc).

Supply isn't the real issue in most disciplines. The problem is the demand side individuals making economically dumb choices (sometimes semi-forced by the larger societal situation).
I actually think the scale is the issue. It is just SO many phones and then subsequently, SO many parts. Without dropping any velocity in their ability to ship phones rebuilding a massive setup like what they have access to in China is not even limited by the money (probably by the technical know how)
It doesn't have to be a prime, it can also be a prime power
I've recently started learning Go and chose a project-based approach. I've been reading "Writing an Interpreter in Go" and "Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go" and it's been loads of fun.
There are tons of things that cause my MBP to burn through power. Slack is the most obvious. Then, you have Chrome that will sometimes fire update some high rendering page.

The most sure fire way to kill the battery is fire up an IDE and do any sort of software development. Introspection, compilation, specs, etc all take up a bunch of battery.

With that being said, you certainly don't need 100W for a laptop. In fact, I'm not even sure my Mac can cool itself appropriately with high CPU usage and 50W of power.

Most people could get through a full day with a 15W charger. Laptop might be nearly dead at the end of the day, but 15W will fill it back up over night.
You may be thinking of private trackers, where "ratio" is the currency of participation in that community. Debian, Libre Office, and even Humble Bundle care more about the community of seeders sharing the bandwidth load than whether anyone seeds their ratio
>For at least 20 years now the far left authoritarians have had total control over the media

I try not to cuss much on HN, but what the fuck are you talking about? If you think Fox News, one of the organizations with the largest audience is far left, you're out of your mind. If you think MSNBC or CBS were anywhere close to 'far left', you are again, out of your mind. Under no definition are those far left.

I think you have a confused idea that a 'open free market' system is building itself, where in reality a bunch of far right fascists are attempting a powergrab.
Endless announcements and mispredictions are what aggravates me the most, borderline fraud IMO. I am not so much disliking him for it, I think he's a little neurodivergent and it's not exactly his fault, but it makes me really sad there's never consequences and that so many people believe him again and again, it seems like there is some easily exploitable missing BS detector in a significant amount of the population.

He's a lot like Trump in that he jumps into everything declaring it simple and that he gets it unlike everyone else, then says it turns out this is more complicated than anyone thought.
There is a complicating factor of 3rd party software bugs and compatibility when run under the latest macos release. It usually takes 6-12 months before those have been fully ironed out
Hasn't been rubble-ized? TSLA's at $227 from a high of almost $400 this year, so I'm no sure what you mean. And given the shutdowns, it seems to me that Tesla's China factory would be the unprofitable one.
Was that barbed wire fence constructed recently just for COVID lockdowns, or has it been there the whole time?
Grandparent is correct. If you've proven the behavior correct, you don't need to test. The proof is the test. This is usually only true in languages-that-are-proof-assistants (idris). In the cases above, they hadn't actually formally proven the behavior correct.
Thanks for this, the logic looks sound and flawless. I'll definitely be using this when making future valuations with lenders.
Hopefully they will move manufacturing to europe and north america. Relying on dictatorships or corrupt countries doesnt help much on the long term.
“Check out this big artificial lake and this church that was moved on train tracks once”

(Goes to investigate)

There's a frickin wizard tower next door, you're burying the lede!

https://en.mapy.cz/zakladni?moje-mapy&m3d=1&height=675&yaw=1...
Schools compete not on price but on other factors. That's why they want to build massively expensive campuses and elaborate facilities, because that is what students base their decisions on. If schools competed on price, everyone would be going to state colleges c̶o̶m̶m̶u̶n̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶c̶o̶l̶l̶e̶g̶e̶.

I'm not sure how you compel schools to compete on price, because the consumers don't care about price. They'd rather get they "good college experience" for $50k a year than the "sufficiently good education" for $7k a year, even though both options are available to choose.
> This is a very funny way of thinking which gets reality backwards. Corporate brands go where user eyeballs are.

This is a rather naive and uninformed take. Here's yesterday's tweet of the day, where a top marketer called Elon Musk on his bullshit conspiracy theory.

https://twitter.com/LouPas/status/1588599808587345921
This needs to be bigger news. I never see this stuff covered and its absolutely insane what is going on.
> I don't know why Apple isn't more diversified.

Possibly because they've got a former CFO running the company which causes a myopic view towards profit rather than interesting hardware development. The age of apple dropping new product idea after new product idea is long past.
maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding
I would suspect the statements are provided by the scientists. They are likely the best people to make such claims too (though that doesn't necessarily convey high accuracy)
Ahh the good ol' hire to fire