skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was doable when I was attending in the the early 2010s. I did exactly that, except I also lived off campus my sophomore year.

But that was only doable then because it was an in-state public college in a LCOL city. I was paying $300/mo for my share of rent and utilities. That cost alone is at least doubled now. My $9/hr job for 15-20 hours a week covered everything to live, and need based pell grants covered most of tuition to with a few small loans through the govt that didn't require payments before graduation (abt 2k pet semester). When I found a new part-time gig my junior year that paid $27/hr, I was set up to be in a very be good place compared to most college students.

Again, cost of living alone has made that path very difficult today. But it was a thing not that long ago.
The word of the day is "Regulatory Capture".

(Yes, I know that's two words, "don't @ me" as the youths would say.)
Not sure I understand the point of sharing this?

The other comments and this post’s title seem to imply this could relate to COVID-19.

If that’s the case, then why doesn’t the article discuss COVID or even international relationships or funding, or even China for that matter.

Further, the date of 2017 would imply the Trump administration itself holds some degree of responsibility, if Americans were funding Gain of Function research in Wuhan.
Idea:

1. Create a throwaway account.

2. Add a bunch of professional developers' at big companies email addresses to the account. Just shoot in the dark: johnanderson@google.com, mikejohnson@airbnb.com, wandamaximov@apple.com, throw in a couple common email aliases as well like developers@twitter.com or mobileteam@airbnb.com

3. Publish a bunch of apps to the play store which clearly breaks their app store policies

4. Google has been known to automatically network-ban associated accounts and their play store apps if a play store account is found in violation of their policies.
There's probably a quid pro quo that motivates them to amend it.
>What of a white lie to protect the feelings of a loved one, lying to tell someone who is about to die something good

If you choose to do that, it might be the right thing, but it also might be the most monstrous thing you ever did, and nobody will ever tell you because it's not socially acceptable.

Some (but not all) doctors will falsely tell a terminal cancer patient she is recovering and not tell anyone this is a "white lie". A doctor that does that may never get any feedback on how horrific it can be to be deceived like that. Some other doctor is honest, and nobody has time to educate the younger man, he may change eventually.

Conscience is a shortcut to relative peace of mind when you can't pretend it's possible to analyze a situation fully or satisfy everyone.

Oliver Cromwell once said (and never mind the context): "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, to think it possible you may be mistaken"...

And from Maus: "Yes, life always takes the side of life, and somehow the victims are blamed..."
I would think that the first generation base would be situated at the poles with perpetual (or as close as possible) sunlight.
Future HN post: Can being added to a project be defamatory?

(Maximum fun when you sue your own employer.)
Ahh discourse... such a good engine. Only matcher by nodebb
That would be a good reason to start calling them.
I work with mostly gen Z. They are great but the definitely don't like working like grandpa. Ie stupid suits and ties, memos, pointless meetings, butts in chairs. If you let them be results driven, they fuckin show up.
> The product doesn’t violate any factual claim of the seller, but it’s not what you had in mind and want to return the box.

The product doesn't have to violate any "factual" claim of the seller when the seller isn't beholden to customers.

> Should the seller eat the loss and accept the return?

Yes absolutely. Sellers should stand behind the products they manufacture. If a customer doesn't like something they purchased then the customer should be entitled to obtaining recompense up to, and including, a refund.

Suppose you go to a restaurant and order the McFatmeup Burger Prince. You take one bite of it and decide you don't like it.

Should you pay for the burger?
Actually those people do provide specifics and substance, but people (as you here do) have a habit of generalising and dismissing with a broad stroke brush rather than doing some further investigation.

The fact you even buy into using the term 'alternate facts' as used by those in power to dismiss counter argument or propose lies as truth highlights your attitude to paying any attention to things not on your 'side' of truth.

What you should have done with Trump, is have a look at the actual policies and facts going on behind his bluster, hyperbole and lying. Not everything he put forward was wrong (e.g. some of his foreign policy), much like not everything put forward by Biden is right (for instance student debt forgiven at the federal level, where no student debt is held).

Preposterous personalities (Trump's ego and overstatement and Biden's clear cognitive incapacity) are a great distraction from the real machinations.
> The right to free speech does not protect your right to commit crimes or [...]

If hate speech were to be made a crime, your exact same argument "the right to free speech does not protect your right to commit crimes" could and would be used as an argument why the First Amendment supposedly does not apply.

> It neither helps cause physical damage nor costs the victims money. You cannot, in the US, ban the expression of a thought just because you think somewhere down the line it could result in damage to someone.

That is exactly what your example of planning to rob a bank is. The planning to rob a bank does not cause any damage. The planning to rob a bank does not cause any victims any money. Actually executing that plan does that, but the planning does not guarantee that the execution will happen. Yet if I were to say "You cannot, in the US, ban it just because you think somewhere down the line it could result in damage to someone" you would rightly dismiss it as nonsense.

> Hate speech is mostly just hurting peoples feelings.

We may disagree on the "mostly", but even you are acknowledging that it is not limited to that, so let's focus on cases that can't be considered that.

> Libel is a tort because you lie (important) to damage someone's reputation and this could cost them money.

Okay, now consider for instance well-known conspiracy theories that the world is controlled by (insert group here). They are lies, they damage the reputation of many if not most members of the group, and this could cost members of the group money. They are not libellous if not said about specific people, they are generally considered hate speech if based on any of a specific set of protected characteristics, but despite the exact same reasoning applying to both, libel would not be considered protected speech, and, as far as I understand, this particular form of hate speech would be.

It is also easy to think up scenarios where supposedly constitutionally protected hate speech "helps" cause physical damage: if without the hate speech, a group of people would be left alone, but with the hate speech, other people become convinced that it is morally defensible or even necessary to commit crimes against those people.

I can see no distinction in the constitution to justify this. I understand that this is how US courts interpret the constitution, but everything I can see tells me this is an arbitrary distinction drawn up by US courts with no actual basis in the constitution.
Yes, I see that now. I should not have read so hastily.
Nope.

"Any better" was used in the context of the question whether being an X person who does X because genetics is better than being an X person who does X by choice. To which I replied that it's not "any better" (both result in many people being murdered horrifically).

"Just as" was used in the context of the question whether fantasizing about X is "just as" bad as doing X. To which I replied that it's not "just as bad", but it's still a bad/creepy thing.

So not the same "semantic content" at all given the context.
What channel was broadcasting old Dick Cavett?
>Twitter has a clear rule about not sharing hacked information, which this falls under.

This sentence tells me you're lying and have not actually read them.
There are many types of prefabs. With https://parcelplot.org we're using sky bubbles for our off-grid vacation rental projects. They're a fairly luxurious solution and let visitors get a pretty neat view of the stars, and they feel like they're a part of the environment. Of course, that doesn't really work so well in an urban setting.

But I think there's going to be a growing market for luxury prefabs in general. Futuro houses are also worth looking at https://thefuturohouse.com/
I am not even sure what all the fuss is about. AWS IAM has the exact same “issue” where an IAM principal can be allowed to access a resource without asking the party in question.

This model is used because otherwise providing permissions becomes extremely difficult, and users are more likely to throw away the entire concept and settle for one common set of credentials for all users across the project (in the form of a common Google account in case of GCP, or the root user credentials in AWS.)
Nostr: An Introduction
Many students will have graduated by the time they are 24, so it is possible that both statements 1. the majority of American children go to college and 2. 40 percent of 18-24 year olds are enrolled are simultaneously true
> Yeah it’s a fail safe from a government intervening in your financial affairs, but it’s also a fail safe from them protecting you by intervening in others. It’s the opposite of collective action.

Engineering is trade-offs.

Personally I prefer my money to be immune from collective action, given that it's personal funds and not collective money.

> Hard to calculate but it feels like a net loss in my book.

It is very nice then that nobody is required to use cryptocurrency for any reason if they don't want to. Everyone who holds cryptocurrency has explicitly opted in to those benefits and risks.

I wish I could say the same about US retail/consumer banking. I would abandon those criminals in an instant if it were possible. Unfortunately, everyone is opted into an unsafe system against their will, with no recourse.
When redefining traditional measuring units into metric, it is generally preferred that the traditional unit equals a terminating decimal number in metric. For example, 1 inch = 25.4 mm exactly. This helps with transitioning to metric because old specifications can be translated to metric without introducing fractions or repeating decimals. The fact that the survey inch is exactly 100/3937 metres violates this property and makes it more cumbersome to work with in metric.
“The only safe way to do _____ is for our competitors to have to play by our rules, on our turf, and with us making sure they don’t do anything we consider unsafe.”
"Highly personalized, AI-powered medical assistant will complement (and eventually replace) our General Practitioner."

Doubt it. Regulations and jobs protectionism will make this illegal to do. Lower regulated fields with less powerful incumbent interests will be disrupted first.

"The era in which we can no longer believe our eyes ushers in “The Age of Attribution” and a default distrust of our human senses."

Doubt it. The human species has a tendency towards arrogance, narcissism and away from introspection, humility. The default will remain belief in one's own initial perceptions and judgement.
View-less meaning Phoenix.View module is refactored/replaced. The amount of boilerplate code is still a challenge in Phoenix.

Worked on a large project using live views.

Pros:

- can achieve interactivity without using client side js frameworks

- less developers / man power needed compared to client side js frameworks

- evolving in right direction

- community / forums

Cons:

- still evolving and releases are breaking (no backward compatibility).

- the amount of boilerplate code which is generated is too high.

- forms are basic and need to evolve for handling challenges which come with Server side rendering and interactivity

- there was leex, then heex, now components taking centre stage.

- most of the books, tutorials, videos, articles are stale due to frequent changes / evolution

Elixir/Phoenix Community is small and non toxic on forums. But sometimes the size of community is drawback. Some questions get fewer replies and will be a puzzle for the developer who is working on the project (this does not happen frequently).

Anyone who wants to adopt Live View for production projects will have to overcome these challenges.

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Google in general has become far more loose on spam, from spam emails now showing on my Google calendar, to being added to projects where I cannot remove myself. They open up quite a lot of security holes and seem not be taking it seriously at all. I feel like this year for me has been some of the worst in a while. The amount of stuff I report everyday is considerable. I've been added to other drives in the past just you and I'm trying to find out how to move away from Google because of this issue. They are too big to care, but I've seen other platforms open up unfortunately it's hard to get away from the convenience of Google. Personally I think if you can move your stuff and create a backup account somewhere else it's probably a good idea too.
> huge ass-trucks

https://xkcd.com/37/
About to start working on an app and exploring this stack. Do you have any resources, sample repo or any open source app that I can learn from?
I can't think of any times my university cared about anything I did outside of the lecture hall (besides maybe my professors caring about me having done the work?) in the US. What are you referring to?
Or the people called fascists for not wanting to wear them.
The ubiquity of spellcheck and autocorrect. I can't spell for shit anymore.
I think you misinterpreted some stuff. Generally, for ex-Indian and ex-PRC nationals, coming to the US on a TN and working on a TN indefinitely is preferable to having to return to India or China, because worst case you made bank and are a national of a first world country with a standard of living comparable to the US

Also, at least circa 2012-15, Microsoft's immigration lawyers would recommend going via the CBP border post in the San Juan Islands or Port Angeles (take the ferry from Victoria to Seattle) because they'd just wave you thru with little to no hassle. The CBP post at Surrey/Blaine would tend to grouse you more.
Install Stylus, the CSS manager extension: <https://add0n.com/stylus.html>

Create a stylesheet for substack.com.

Add:

/* Nuke fucking Substack nags */

.intro-popup {
display: none !important;
}
Wayland and the surrounding ecosystem is written with the fundamental assumption that you will be coding in C/C++. Abstractions and architectures were written assuming that.

In the last 15 years, that assumption has broken. People want to write applications specifically avoiding C/C++ and even Gnome/KDE.

Wayland has not adjusted to this new reality. It is not clear that it may even be able to.

The problem is that this kind of graphics system programming is a gigantic pile of work while being very fiddly with non-obvious details that you have to get correct. Very little of it is "fun" and the people qualified to be doing it are capable of earning a lot more money doing basically anything else. The fact that almost exactly the same people doing Wayland were the ones doing X11 previously shows that nobody is jumping up and down for the chance to attack this.
I've read about more than a few issues running Linux on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon. So, I'd recommend a 9th gen. My 9th gen has been running amazingly.
> They can use the extra credit to buy more assets like houses, or even take personal loans to 'yolo' into crypto to $TSLA.

I'd agree that this is the case and argue that it is what has been happening since the aftermath of the ~2008 GFC. I'd further argue that this is one of the chief drivers of inequality as it drives up the price of housing for everyone without driving up everyone's ability to pay for housing by the same degree. To my eye, that is an adverse consequence. That it also drives up stock prices is mainly of interest to the relative few in the economy who own stocks. That an increasing share of flat-ish income is spent on housing rather than on, e.g., food, is an adverse effect of the strategy.

You're moving the goalposts to raise supply shock scarcity rather than something inherent to money for everyone rather than money for the already monied. I do agree that supply shocks are probably a factor these days. That said, there's only so much a given population is able to consume and making sure that they all have an equal chance at it seems more pertinent to maintaining stability than increasing the price of assets, where there is no inherent limit.
It would be cool to get this tech into the hands of small-scale maker/builders, at relatively low cost. A matter of time, perhaps.
>I know this won’t be a popular point, but I think we have nearly all of human history as evidence that “magical believing” societies survive more effectively than not.

I disagree. "more effectively than not" is an implicit comparison between "magical believing" societies and "non magical believing" (in other words, scientific) societies. Given the latter allows modern medicine, surgery, sanitation, mass food production and countless other advances, it seems obvious that science affords a much greater degree of survival than does belief in magic. One only needs to look at the increase in the average human lifespan and reduction in infant mortality rates over time to see that.
I write a decentralized database in Rust
I have experience in both and I agree with OP.

python's type-documentations are useful but sometimes they are just wrong which makes it impossible to actually trust in them.

> Having a Scala code base not compile because someone went all-in on type-level programming, and now simple changes require an understanding of category theory and the associated compiler flags .. that's real pain.

Well, the same can happen in python if someone goes crazy and uses a lot of reflection / dynamic changes (i.e. overwriting builtin methods etc.). In both cases it sucks and should have been prevented by other people, but at least in the case with Scala you still have a compiler that can help you "unroll" those changes because it tells you when you screw up. In python you can only have tests or pray.
This is not the issue.
Nuke the moon! Right now the topography of the poles necessitates quite tall towers to get into perpetual sunlight; but a bunch of judiciously placed nukes could easily take away most of the shadow-bringers (crater rims) and reduce the tower height necessary to get up into perpetual light to a small fraction of what it would be now.

Just remember: nuke first, then colonize. So, sooner rather than later.
> Something went wrong in the US after 911

To be fair, the media landscape changed pretty drastically since the 80s or so. First, cable (and talk radio?) let us start forming bubbles. Then ubiquitous Internet made more bubbles and pushed people apart more.

And what's great for forming bubbles and, coincidentally, marketing demographics? Nothing new: fear.

The thing is . . . the media landscape hadn't been so mainstream, pine-scented, and vanilla-flavored until really recently: probably traceable to the rise of radio in the early 20th century. Before that, every big city had many newspapers, most of whom claiming some of the others were lying. "Yellow journalism" dates to the last century.

Radio and broadcast television were highly regulated. The idea was that use of those things should be for the public good. And people who voted D and people who voted R both had reasons to want that enforced. And their politicians found something to agree about beyond scrabbling for donor money.

In these days of corporate capture of politics, regulating anything for the public good is only going to happen if it profits the biggest gorilla in the room.
What jobs in IT and software are there for people who find programming tough?
I'm currently learning MERN and I'm finding it tough. I'm currently on react js after finishing html,css,bootstrap and javascript. I have a computer engineering degree (just graduated), and I found nothing as tough as web development. Things are pretty complex. and it's not like I'm building complex websites.

I'm currently following this course and everything is confusing to me.

https://www.udemy.com/course/react-beginner-to-advanced-with-redux-ecommerce-app/

The problem with frameworks/library I see is that the tutorials are not independent of each other. SO, If I'm confused when watching this tutorial and want to watch youtube lectures, I'm doomed.

I don't need course recommendations but please help me in 2 things:

1) Jobs except software development in IT that'll be a good fit for me.

2) How to learn reactjs,guidance and if you were in a same position like me some time, share your expereince. I can't ask specific questions because there are none. You get questions only when you're learning and understanding something. The whole framework seems mind trembling to me.

I'm based in Nepal for reference.
Taxation of electric trucks is something that hasn’t been resolved quite yet.
I feel like a dinosaur using hexadecimal colors because I'm familiar with them. This article convinced me to give other color formats a try.
It looks like the EFF had one. [1] Though, the website currently does not load, and from archive.org, it looks like they killed the project sometime before July 2021. [2]

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/canary-watch-one-year-...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210712025824/https://canarywat...
Just add larry@google.com to a GCP server churning out “inappropriate” Stable Diffusion images. The bug will be solved in no time at all.
The governor told the legislative sponsors that they had to accept these changes or she would veto the bill. It was accept this reduction, or nothing.
Or saying that it’s run by a white supremacist.
Or just map the FB as WT.
> for several hundred dollars

more to the dangerous point: for whatever amount they choose, even if they are specifically pricing it to make repair unreasonable.
Most highways in the US that I've seen are either concrete or asphalt.
They were trying move both caffeinated & decaf at time of writing.
I will read less text from LCDs and more from dead trees.
You’re right, but you’re going to get a lot of dorks here saying “but my side is right! And the other side is evil! You can’t argue facts!”
I think it's the superclass A of both G and M that defines the eigenvalue() function. Then when both G(A) and M(A) inherit from A, it captures the mathematical relationship. The subclasses indeed should implement the eigenvalues computations differently, like in real mathematics.

Funcional programming is used in Coq because it captures logical chains, for theorem PROOFS, but not for specific COMPUTATIONS, such as eigenvalues.
Mr. Teller, any thoughts on how to create canals on Mars?
ah, are these are "standalone" or static binaries with no dependencies then? I think end users may need to have the crystal runtime installed as a dependency.