skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To illustrate why the argument might be invalid, let me put down some assumptions:

• Harvard gets 20% of its income from students, and the other 80% comes from investments and other sources (matches what link previously posted implies).

• There are two cohorts of students (A) wealthy but undeserving students, and (B) poor but deserving meritorious students.

• The argument made was that we are better off if wealthy undeserving students subsidise the poor but deserving students (paraphrasing).

• I'm going to pick a number that every student costs the university $100k per annum (incorrect, and assuming zero variability between students . . . I'm just picking this number so I can make my point clearly. Edit: actually $100k matches a back-of-the-envelope calculation from other figures).

Then:

Any wealthy undeserving student paying between $20k[1] to $100k actually reduces the number of deserving students. Said another way: wealthy undeserving students need to be paying more than 5[1] times what their fair prorated fees would be before it helps the poor deserving students.

Also the article is talking about excessive overhead costs - maybe Harvard could trim 20% of administrative costs, and then concentrate 100% on teaching those that merit it the most, regardless of their background.

Edit: Let us assume it is okay to buy your way into Harvard if you also pay for one other deserving student (that can't afford it), then with my hypothetical University costs of $100k for a student for a year, the fees for the rich student would need to be $1 million to meet that 1:1 ratio, and that ratio implies (in the limit) that 50% of students are undeserving rich students!!!

Also note that 98% of Harvard students graduate: https://college.harvard.edu/resources/faq/what-harvards-grad...

[1] Edit 2: low value of $20k here is incorrect. Although 20% of income comes from students, a large percentage of expenses are for research and other non-teaching expenses. See my other comment, with an analysis from a different direction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838700
Canada does this for passport control (as does the US in at least some circumstances - I know they did it every time I entered when I had my TN Visa, not sure if they do it for all foreign nationals or Americans). But this article isn't about passport control (which the TSA doesn't have jurisdiction over, it's handled by U.S. Customs and Border Protection); it's about passenger screening, presumably even for domestic flights.
Floats get rounded to an off-by-one pixel.
> I'm asking for you to justify yours with something better than the ACLU president having said "trust me".

This article is from FIRE, not the ACLU. The ACLU now interprets civil liberties and rights to be potentially in conflict with each other, which is part of why FIRE got started and grew so much.

> I'm not asking you to anticipate my thinking, I'm asking you to catch up and engage with the questions I've already engaged with (some of which I asked upthread!)

The questions you asked were already answered before you asked them. You did not absorb the discussion above before you started asking questions, and are now asking to be spoon fed answers. Take some time to read the other comments above in this chain, check out the sources, listen to FIRE speakers on why current jurisprudence is where it is. Nobody is saying "trust us", they're saying, "this is what I think, and here are the sources that inform my thinking. You can check them out and decide for yourself whether you agree or disagree."

You've ignored all of this and insist that someone must tell you why they are right. Nobody can decide for you what's right. Opinions are subjective. Make up your own mind, nobody can do it for you.
This is not just an FAA problem. Pilot medical certification decision making by the authorities in many countries is capricious, opaque, prolonged and usually behind the science by a decade or more.

A childhood diagnosis of ADHD or asthma might be a bar to obtaining a pilot medical even though the condition was resolved over a decade ago.

That said, one pilot with mental issues deliberately crashed an airliner in Southern France several years ago.

The captain took a washroom break and was blocked from the cockpit by the hijacker proof door.
Is this HTTP redirect using Wikipedia, rather than DNS over Wikipedia?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33835815, which has the original source.
Yes, yes, and storage in cloud was always much more expensive than just "amount of hardware for that amount of redundancy".

Bandwidth price to datacenter is below $1/Mbit at bulk rate. That is either sold in form of whole link (say 10Gbit) or per 95th percentile (essentially "peak transfer rate") not "per MB sent"
Are you suggesting then that Florida’s boundaries were materially different in the early days of the USA than they are now? Aside from losing part of the panhandle, I don’t believe they have changed much since 1776 or that draining the swamps had anything to do with Florida’s borders
That article is based off this one, so even though the submission was earlier, we merged the thread hither.

As phnofive pointed out, there was an earlier discussion --

Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33789501 - Nov 2022 (25 comments)

-- but it never made the front page, so we won't count the current thread as a dupe.
I wonder if this collapse didn't happen, which happened exclusively by being found out, that once his books were eventually audited that the criminal handling of deposits would have caughth up to him eventually.

I tell my gambling friends that if they bet the farm and win big, their wives will be horrified at the risk they tool even though it worked out. It's a moral loss regardless of the outcome.
This is a good one! Progressive muscle relaxation I think it's called. You can start in your toes for example and progress all the way up your body through to your face.
Customs and immigration is a distinctly different situation than a domestic flight. (Not that I particularly want my face scanned for the former either.)
We seem to have a very similar view on what makes our national parks great. I’ve been thinking about a little road trip to a few of them, would you mind sharing your favorites?
Elon Musk’s Cruel Brain Experiments
> I wonder if the existence of a stable overclass of alexandrines distinct from the native population pre-prepared Egypt to be a Roman vassal state: it was already functioning as an analogous model, they just replaced the top set, but kept the governance model as-is.

No, those are two different phenomena. The piece notes that once the Romans took over the Greek elites immediately fused with the native elites.

Any time anywhere with a functioning administration is conquered, the local administration is mostly left alone. The existing administration is already doing the job you want it to do; why would you change it?

But it's not relevant (to this question) that the top level of the Ptolemaic administration was ethnically distinct.
My youngest daughter’s favourite TV show is operation ouch which is aired on the ABC and produced by the BBC.

Having a publicly funded TV network goes a long way to producing good content.
We did. https://clara.io/pricing. It was incredibly ineffective.
How would city vs rural not have an impact on that??? If your cell happens to have a major urban area in it, you would have to share the satellite downlink with many many more people than if you were living in a cell that covers mostly ocean and a few tiny islands. (Or mostly deserts and some tiny hamlets, of course)
It's both. If pro cameras (or even point and shoot) had really bad software, we would see corrupted files all the time, unreadable media, exposure completely off, weird bugs in battery monitoring or power consumption, etc.

Smartphones have constant "updates" and yearly new OSes, and we think it's marvelous if a two year old phone still functions. Yet digital cameras from 15 years ago still work fine with exactly zero update.

Robustness and dependability are important features. In-the-box HDR is cute but it matters less.
You're entirely right, I just wanted to provide rough perspective on the complexity of actually overhauling the world's fleet.
write a short rhyming poem explaining a tensor
For me, I can do 99.9% of things on my phone. I can't remember the last time I had to actually print something.

I guess my experience must not match others', fair enough.
Also, it's supposed to say "<= 1.5%". Sorry!
Okay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33827631

What is meant by "this is fair" if not a tacit admission that you lied about launching an unpaid intern program?

If you define a lie as any stated falsehood that you have not tried to explain away, then of course we will not be able to find one that satisfies — you've made sure of it!

It's the same method you use to reach your "86% making over $50k within 6 months" number.
> Most prosecutions don't involve playing coy with the defendant in hopes they might be forthcoming with evidence before things get all adversarial.

What is this assertion based on because that’s exactly how things very often work?
To be honest, I don't see why it is advertised here at this stage.
I appreciate effort, but project is too young and unable to do any serious plugin. I guess it is try to get new contributors on board?

I see that project on github started few months ago. Isn't it too early to adwertise it to the world?

But it already have fancy website with modern styles and so on. But it lacks good documentation.

Article says that docs have "dozens of examples in different languages", but it just have dozen languages and helloworld in them.

And basically examples are just simple function call from host to plugin. Operating on strings/basic types, and JSON.

That's not what we want from plugins. Wee need some way to expose Host API some way, perhaps in OOP fashion. To let plugin interract with host app, perhaps even change UI.

But not of examples show that, how to pass at least basic functions into plugin.

As I understand it comes with it's own HTTP stack, presumably implemented in Rust. This can be used as starting point to make your own macro processor that would be able to expose API for plugins, and then dogfoof this codegen for your own HTTP lib.

And passing JSON around is not thing that is needed. With same success IPC could be used, with relatively similar performance.

We need proper marshaling.

There much work to be done, sadly. That's big endeavor.

Well, I hope this project would grow in something good, but it's in really early stage.
Write a short rhyming poem explaining a tensor in easy but accurate terms
I see mostly Dem and Dem-leaning celebrities been talking up crypto, and a conservative side more educated and knowledgeable about dysfunction in the financial sector as a whole. So even without any stats on the donations, it seems fairly logical to suggest party favoritism is at play.
I agree with this explanation too and think it's complementary. The US system is pretty happy to let people blabber on and incriminate themselves. That they can't immediately arrest him isn't a huge hurdle while they build their case and let SBF talk.
No crossbars on the capital "i", so no dice.
>Theorize to me what their wages will go down to

If the companies are backstopped by the govt prohibiting a strike, they will go down to the absolute lowest level tolerable, until people retire and nobody is willing to take on that job. Likely, we'd see what happens in other industries that create a bimodal tiered system, where the grandfathered employees are still paid well while the newer tier are paid a fraction. Or, wages will stagnate until the equivalent occurs.

Again, taxing the companies will make sure incentives are more aligned between workers, shareholders, and the public. The problem with one-sided approaches is that it's very easy to levy a fine that someone else has to pay. The public and the shareholders can favor an ever-rising tax as long as long only the employees are burdened with it. Taxing the company will ensure that everyone is incentivized to find a reasonable taxation level.

Theorize the govt owns land that has the sole unobtanium mine that the fulfills some public necessity. I have the only equipment that can process the ore. You have the only skillset to operate it. Overtime, my contract terms get to a point that you feel is unreasonable. But the govt says you can't walk away because the public needs their unobtanium. Your solution is that the government tax you for the privilege to continue to mine - which they've also said you can't walk away from. Meanwhile, I pay no penalty to continue to press you for less favorable contract terms so that I can make ever increasing profits. Does that sound like a reasonable arrangement or is it marching towards a Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas scenario?

By taxing me instead, it forces me to find the right level of salary to you, rates to the public, and profits for myself. Everybody has skin in the game, unlike when your scenario that gives you an ultimatum you can't walk away from.
Is it basic fraud, or are there important facts we don't know? Should crypto be regulated and if so how? How can we answer these questions without conducting an investigation?

I agree with you that that is how it currently appears based on media reports, but that doesn't mean that's the whole story. To me it seems pretty obvious that Congress would want to know more.
TikTok is such an obvious threat on so many levels, it’s very hard to understand why we don’t talk about this more.

I don't feel like its controversial to say that social media algorithms can be designed to manipulate people, or that this capability is especially dangerous in the hands of a hostile state. It seems to me like TikTok is ripe for weaponization in any future conflict between China and any other country.
> Well, in the manner of speaking only. Back in the day, the "country" was where people had settlements, and that was the delta and the banks of the Nile...

Absolutely untrue. The country was the territory held by the king. Most of the people were in the agricultural area, yes, but the Egyptian king also operated a lot of mines and quarries. Those were in the desert.
So which other Roman provinces had functioning civil service which was taken over? Parts of Greece I guess.
I’ve always appreciated the numerous salient points in this 2012 Economist blog post comparing how Kodak and Fuji Filmfilm responded to the ascendency of digital cameras:

https://www.economist.com/business/2012/01/14/the-last-kodak...

or

https://archive.ph/W9MMG

The article succinctly captures the responses of the companies, consumers, and the stock market. The lessons demonstrated by the relevant actors are ones I’ve carried with me in my own business work and shared with others when appropriate.
We had bosses come few times to price the cloud migration and every single time it ends up being few times as expensive.

"What about extra work to keep the physical hardware running" - for 7 racks we have maybe a dying drive every month or two. Installing a rack of servers takes about a day with all preparations.

"What about setting up software" - we have automation and paid it off long time ago. Genuine concern for company that starts up but not really for one that needs at least few racks worth of servers.
I'm glad it works for you but man I am peeved that they instituted it in the katahdin woods and waters national monument area of the east branch of the penobscot in maine. People have been just heading down that waterway on trips since time immemorial and it's generally not a problem finding a site, but if it's particularly busy you would pull up and ask someone if they don't mind sharing. I've never turned a person down and I never will, but also I've never paid for a campsite on a river. I feel like paying to book a site just changes the dynamic of a shared waterway so much.
This is really really interesting. I wonder if the data from FrameNet would be enough to reliably generate this kind of information in a Japanese dictionary, and if the license supports is usage. I'm going to explore this more, thanks.
I made ChatGPT take an SAT Test
The EU threw a €387,000  'gala' launch party in metaverse, 6 people showed up
> At the risk of stating the obvious, the reason Madoff was arrested so quickly is because he confessed to every element of criminal fraud…

From a European perspective, this is strangely backwards: Madoff confessed and was fully cooperative, hence, there was no need to deprive him of freedoms without a process. In the SBF/FTX affair, on the other hand, there are no signs of full cooperation and there's some danger of obstruction of justice and tampering with potential evidence. (Which should be, apart from risk of recurrence and/or acute danger, the only reason for depriving anyone of granted freedoms without a due process.)
I did, the agent tried to tell me that I had to use the facial recognition system. I pointed at the clear sign which said it was optional. She called a supervisor and they checked my ID as normal.

I fly often for work and have only seen this once out in the wild.

Besides having to insist that it was optional, there was no additional screening necessary.
They could look at a picture of you.
> It could bypass HTML, CSS, and JS entirely and just run as if it were a desktop application.

Not quite, because in order to display anything to the user, it still has to use HTML/CSS/JS
Kind of like MTV’s evolution away from music-themed programming. Maybe History Channel can follow their lead with “H2” where they still play history videos.
Artemis I – Day 17: Orion Fine-Tunes Trajectory, Downlinks Data, Cont Test Objs
People do this when they have nothing to say, but find a post uncomfortable and want to try to either weaken the post, or discredit its author.
> but it's far from being popular enough to be financially sustainable

That feels like it would be true but is there any publically available data to confirm it?
You're right. The first sentence reads as advising what to do. I should have skipped it and gone just for the statement of fact in the second sentence.

Also, the first sentence is not inclusive enough, as they target rentals even when not parked. Cars have had windows smashed and bags stolen while occupied and sitting at a red light.
Just yesterday i accidentally type `open .` in my Ubuntu/KDE/fish shell to open the current directory in the GUI.

I quickly thought “wait, remember that only works on macOS” and the was shocked to see KDE’s Dolphin open the directory. I dig into it and found there was an alias for ‘open’ to ‘xdg-open’

Nice
It is hard to know really. Nobody is incentivised to report the true scale of the protests.

If the scale of the protests were laughably small and of no concern to the CCP, it could just be a coincidence that China announced their scientists have determined Omicron has ‘reduced pathogenicity’ [1], as a pretext to relaxing restrictions.

[1] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1280880.shtml
US always took photos of non-US citizens at customs, they now take photos of US citizens as well at kiosks for global entry at least
Nothing for certain.

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senator-hawley-demands-google-...
I'm curious, why Meta? As far as I can tell all of their properties are in decline and don't have much cachet among younger users.
In Europe there are many brand new cars that have BT for connecting locally to the smartphones for handsfree calls, but no access to Internet. I love that. We use Waze a lot for navigation, with Android Auto your phone can show the map on the car's display.

Even better, I found that some 2022 model motorcycles have no chip in the key, it is just a dumb key that starts the engine or opens the fuel cap - usually the offroad motorcycles that you don't want to leave you stranded in the middle of nowhere just because the chip is not read correctly.
Phobos and Mars [2018]
There isn’t a split on the cost to run the site, so there’s not a split on the fees. I agree that the fees might be too high, but hard to quantify that, and the site absolutely is better than what the government would have come up with if they built it in house.

We have to remember that incentives matter. Good products are created when their creators are rewarded for them.
Fomites exist, sure. The statistical likelihood of getting covid by contact with an infectious surface weighed against aerosol droplet risks, would be interesting.

A non zero risk and one which hand washing alone won't solve. People who work in food handling are typically on minimum wage and can't afford to take time off work when sick.
This interests me. I've long been wondering how we could do that without knowing the NIC's hash and/or without having to brute-force the ports using the NIC's hash to reverse-map them. But maybe there are kernel facilities I'm not aware of to do that. If you happen to stumble upon it and share it to the mailing list, that would be great!
Zion would be worse without shuttles - there is no way to accommodate the mass of people coming in cars without shuttles.
Device can make hydrogen when dunked in salt water
There are many use cases like this that make it nice to remotely signal your car, but many of them shouldn't require a subscription or WAN communication.
"The company can call him at any time, and say 'get to XXX, your train will be there.'"

That another part of the problem with bombcar's concept from the viewpoint of the railroad companies, they'd need a lot more people than you might think so a spare could be close enough to "XXX" to get there without throwing off the Orwellian "Precision Scheduling" of this PSR concept.

The train goes when it's built up to an arbitrary number of cars like 150, not at any set time. Since the system is not even designed for trains that long, it would probably generally back up in any give location if a train was too long delayed in leaving. The companies obviously also wouldn't want to pay for "jets and helicopters" to get a spare to XXX really quickly.
This is a great read, but for those who would rather not provide their email address until they've read the book, here's a download link: https://sqlfordevs.com/ebook-download?expires=1670195527&sig...

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Based on your comments, it seems you really can't emphasize with others that cannot drive a stick for some reason. It's not obvious, it requires a cordination and timing; unless you know what to do, you will stop your car, over/under-rev the engine, slide back on a steep road.

I taught many people how to drive and it was always a challenge with manual. Anyone cannot figure out without any verbal or written instructions.

People do drive a stick with education whether its formal drivers license course/exam, or some one is teaching them. An American usually does not need to learn a manual because almost no one uses a manual. But some other parts of the world, automatic transmission can be a considerable cost item. Even some countries started to have automatic only drivers licenses.
Guide to Setting Up Python for College Football Analysis
> I really don't understand why camera manufactures aren't investing in software.

Some of them are. Olympus (now OM System) in particular has been emphasizing in-camera stacking features that take advantage of the fast sensor readout and very effective image stabilization they can achieve with a smaller sensor than most.

Those features aren't like the smartphone magic "make my picture look good" though. They're more manual and creative than that, like "let me take long exposures in bright light without filters" or "I want to paint light onto this dark scene with a flashlight". They produce a sort of raw file (it's obviously not simple raw sensor data at this point) suitable for further manual processing if desired. People not taking photography seriously as a job or an art form won't get much out of that, and most everyone else prefers the convenience of a phone.
thank you talking points memo