skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are more than two decades since I use only glass vessels for cooking, eating, drinking or storing food, so I have been using many dozens of them.

About half of the glassware that I have been using has been from borosilicate glass and the other half from tempered soda-lime glass. I would have used only borosilicate glass, but it is more difficult to find every size and shape that one may want in borosilicate glass.

Even if not frequently, glassware has been dropped from time to time on floors or in kitchen sinks. Such shocks would have shattered traditional glass, but in most cases both borosilicate glass and tempered soda-lime glass survive.

From an approximately equal number of shocks during the years, I have broken a single borosilicate glass object, a double-walled drinking glass with extremely thin walls, while I have broken somewhere between six and ten tempered glass objects.

The only reason why someone may say that for a certain type of glassware borosilicate glass may be less durable is because it is frequent to make borosilicate glassware with thinner walls, because of its better toughness, while the objects made of tempered glass are invariably made with thick walls, to reduce the risk of breakage.

At equal wall thickness, there is no way for a tempered glass object to be more durable than a borosilicate object.

Moreover I have never seen a borosilicate glass object damaged by thermal shock, but I have broken a tempered glass teapot when attempting to cool it after boiling water in it.
Yeah, it's how the rich kids get to connect with the smart kids. If it was all just smart kids then where is the value? The entire point of an institution like Harvard is to manage and cycle elites. Existing elites get to group their kids with the the types of up-and-coming kids from non-elite backgrounds but with elite level skills. New elites are made and the elites that weren't even good enough to get in on legacy will have their future lineage recycled back into the pool of non-elites.
that's an astute observation. i think the current administration designed this legislation for maximum airtime by trying to go all-in on debt forgiveness, without any conviction about whether it could actually withstand challenge.

if they were interested in actually helping the disadvantaged, then there are plenty of workarounds, like forgiving the interest and fees on student loans rather than forgiving principal. this would be more impervious to the idea that the executive branch was trying to wholesale rewrite legislation, rather than tweaking it on the margin, which was part of the court's rationale in this case.
I thought we were talking about student loans?
The universities are first and foremost responsible for this situation, especially their predatory Masters’ programs that cost several arms and legs and offer little to no improvement in one’s career marketability.

Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy, and allow creditors to pursue the universities for repayment. Spending $100,000 you can’t easily pay back for a useless degree is foolish, but nobody should have been allowed to sell a product like that in the first place.
Calling out the atmospheric river implies a cause of purely precipitation, whereas the other floods are likely caused by some unfortunate combination of snowmelt runoff and high-precipitation events.
That is the point I was making. You replied to the poster who said "Fidelity is not a public company." with a link to an excerpt about their share representation, which as nothing to do with the point.
While I agree, read my other comment.

I think we really need to tackle this. Some people just make stupid decisions. Maybe they don't know any better? Maybe they are dreamers?

Someone I know personally got a "useless" degree, I have told her multiple times to do research on what prospects she will have after graduation and what kind of ROI she can expect. She got the loans anyway and ended up taking a job that she could have gotten without the education. Total waste of 4 years.

I think art is essential for us humans, but do we need art degrees?

We also need to tackle the cost of higher education.
Only after insurance is factored in https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc515
I don't understand all these CentOS forks: you're still dealing with Red Hat and reinforcing their ecosystem for free. What if those forks poured the effort behind Debian? A truly democratic distro that cannot pull rugs from under your feet.
Wasn't really TSMC...but some info that was shared to Kinmax by TSMC. Totally different than TSMC being hacked directly...it's not like they hopped from Kinmax into TSMC's network either.
So we can't look at the statistical distributions of students and the entire population to see whether individual groups have statistically significant advantages? Why not? Even if we can't get to 100% fairness, we can move away a bit from unfairness.
Because so far it continues to trend upwards? And it's nowhere near the efficiency of the human brain, so we have good reason to suspect we should be able to at least build highly-interconnected AIs with at least the efficiency of the human brain. A couple million of those alone would be unfathomable.

Probably not any time soon, but insofar as we have reason to suspect there's an upper limit (which we don't, IMO), we're not even close to the upper known limit.
The US doesn't have a minority rule death spiral because of social media, it has a minority rule cycle because the constitution literally entrenches minority rule via mechanisms like senatorial malapportionment, supermajorities, the electoral college and judicial review of policy (see citizens united, roe v wade, affirmative action) rather than merely procedure. It has experienced this before, sometimes devolving into outright civil war, without actually reaching death.

The technologies for resolving America's problems are well understood - majority decision making, parliamentarism, representation and participation of electoral minorities rather than inhibiting the work of the majority, a narrower scope of judicial review and/or a more flexible constitution. But as long as people say, as you do, "it isn't the thing that caused the problem that is the problem, it is some fancy gadget that is the problem", then you will be unable to solve the problems
I certainly share your nostalgia.

I've restarted my blog (https://jdsalaro.com) this year and, as painful as it is, I've chosen to go against the grain and ditch Medium and the like.

It always was just my place to nerd out and I noticed earlier this year that I had become disenchanted, but that taking action and not resignation was the solution. What if it doesn't rank, people don't enjoy my writing style or what about ads? So much thinking and not enough doing.

So far people have been extremely kind on Mastodon, Lemmy and, yes, Reddit; so I encourage you to create and interact with other creators.

I am not putting my bookmarks, including Blogs I enjoy, out in the open yet as I need to clean them up, but I certainly will at some point.
The artist you enjoy might not be but the streaming service you use to listen to them absolutely is.
RSS > RSS compared with Atom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS#RSS_compared_with_Atom

CDATA > CDATA in XML: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDATA#CDATA_sections_in_XML

IIRC RSS was not originally an XML document, so CDATA tags (to prevent XSS) didn't work; and the issue remains with content syndication: feed elements should somehow HTML escape their content to prevent XSS (arbitrary JS on a different Origin)

XSS: Cross-site Scripting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting

Same-origin policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-origin_policy https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-o...

Content Security Policy (CSP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Security_Policy https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP

CSRF: Cross-site request forgery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery

JSONP > CSRF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP#Cross-site_request_forge...

The whole internet was broken, and RSS helped us realize it: the one-way, one-time syndication advantage.

These days it's all about https://schema.org/CreativeWork JSON-LD instead of RDFa, which you can try to sanitize with Mozilla/bleach like arbitrary HTML in comments on the page.
Biden must really like this decision. He has never really supported large scale forgiveness and does want repayments to start again. This gives him the political cover to restart payments without upsetting his base.

However, the Supreme Court appears to be hellbent to limit government powers in all areas other than those related to police powers, military, and foreign affairs. With an end to effective federalism as it pertains to domestic policy I think it will soon be apparent to everyone that the Constitution needs a rewrite. The structural representation imbalances will eventually necessitate a change of some sort. SCOTUS is doing what it can to make everyone aware of this.
True but it was still a hodgepodge of interesting stuff. They funded different people to make various content so to the consumer you saw a bunch of varied articles and pictures.
I couldn't be so cold as to give Graphene to my grandmother. That said, I am writing this from Graphene myself, having never touched an Apple device in my life.
I think the last pieces of major legislation—laws that involved a regulatory effort* and not just shoveling money around—were in 2010. Dodd-Frank and the ACA. That’s six Congresses ago.

* or deregulatory, I’m not trying to make a partisan point
Why not? They have access to credit data and are able to adjust pricing close to what is affordable. Much of the rental market is consolidated by 10-figure firms running similar sets of algorithms.
Here’s something I say to my clients: personally, if I am buying a property, I am unlikely to do an inspection because I’ve seen a lot of houses and systems and am generally able to assess for myself the quality of the systems and construction. But - especially for first time buyers - people who buy and sell houses infrequently and who don’t have a background in these things are at an informational deficit. For that reason, while the list of things an inspector checks can never be complete, it’s more information than a buyer may be able to gather on their own. Houses are just like software systems - they will never be bug free, bugs pop up for various reasons, and all an inspector is really doing is telling you the state of the system on a given day.

Also - I’m about to stop recommending one of my recommended inspectors, because he’s at best a “B”. He catches most issues, but the level of care isn’t what I want for my clients. There’s another guy I used to recommend but again, he’s nearing retirement and getting sloppy.
to describe that from another angle -- history is full of great violence, great chemical harm, great swindles and great despots "which worked remarkably well and makes us richer" .. Puritans and swamp-hunters have been pushed aside by New York attorneys and their masters of the day. And we allow all of that "because it works remarkably well and makes us richer" .. and I able to type this too.
It's gaslighting by the cast iron/stainless steel crowd, pure and simple.

I've talked to multiple experienced and home chefs about this disconnect and they've admitted two things:

1) cooking on a screaming hot pan is possible of course. It's how all professional kitchens work. But it's way harder! You have to pay close attention & the timing for error is very small. Cooking at lower heat on Teflon lets you make more adjustments.

2) After doing everything perfectly, and seasoning perfectly, for the same heat you ABSOLUTELY still need more of some oil or butter on a cast iron or stainless steel then you would for an equivalent Teflon pan. This is non-negotiable.
France to Suspend All Bus and Tram Services Amid Riots
I wonder if people in favor of cancelling the debt are also the folks advocating for tuition free education in which case, sure, you take on debt, you should have to pay it back but really education shouldn't incur debt at all according to them.

Anyway, charging interest on tuition debt seems so backwards to me. We should reward people getting educated, not punish them.
Imagine ignoring long held precedent over standing in order to score political points against the President
A debt jubilee isn't the kind of thing you just do. Like tipping over a vending machine:

- you gotta get it rocking first

- it might kill you if you do it wrong

I view this as a preliminary wobble.
I just saw that.

"Using the UBI image, it is easily possible to obtain Red Hat sources reliably and unencumbered... Another method... is pay-per-use public cloud instances. With this, anyone can spin up RHEL images in the cloud and thus obtain the source code for all packages and errata."
Back in the 90s, there was a push to pass legislation banning or limiting legacy admissions, coming from a staffer in Ted Kennedy's office IIRC. Lobbyists from Harvard went nuclear and scared Democrats into opposing it.

I barely even need to point out that Republicans didn't need to be scared into opposing legacy admissions, as they eagerly supported them, for people who might be taken in by their meritocratic facade from the decision yesterday.

This is all documented in The Price of Admission (https://www.amazon.com/Price-Admission-Americas-Colleges-Out...).
Most "cybercrime avoidance" got pushed by insurances and GDPR. The problem is, it's mostly a set of bullshit checkboxes, intrusive surveillance software and utterly braindead "employee training programs" instead of actually useful measures.
You might want to try: https://adnauseam.io/
> not the architects'

Bold to assume an architect was involved (many of the more ridiculous examples on the site are likely a result of no-architect build-to-order construction...)
Oxford doesn't have legacy admissions, and there are still plenty of that sort of people around.
Almost every generation had problems with future prospects. I understand that GenZ is feeling bad after looking at the 90s and 2000s and thinking that they got a raw deal with the 2020s. But these things are actually cyclical, people who grew up in the 60s, 70s and 80s had the same questioning about jobs (there was major recession in the 70s/80s, not to mention the recent "Great Recession"), nuclear war, communism, AIDS, etc. Just look at the 70s and the hippies, that was a movement against modern lifestyle, Capitalism, consumerism etc. I don't think the problem is in any way related to "late stage" capitalism.

GenZ is feeling the pain of growing up, becoming adults and realizing that "life ain't easy". But what you experience today is actually better than the prospects for many generations of Americans and, even more so, Immigrants. Just hold tight, ride the wave, try to make the best plans you can and easier times will eventually come.
An "elite" upbringing doesn't confer taste and class.
> The influx of solar has paved the way for the retirement of one of New England’s dirtiest power plants. Mystic Generating Station, the third-largest power plant in the region, is slated to close next summer. New England electric customers have been paying a subsidy in recent years to keep the 1,413 megawatt gas plant from shutting down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_Generating_Station
It's highly variable.

Sample of 1, but my agent was frequently closing several homes/week during peak season (Spring, early Summer). At the time (2017), typical listing would be $500-$1 million (Fairfax County, VA).

So I'd guess 20-30/year for her.

Broker keeps 30-50% of the commission.

So, a good agent in NoVA is probably making $250-$500k/year (but has to pay their own payroll taxes and stuff out of that, IIRC).
>It's quite likely

...is it?
Indeed, and part of the magic is knowing jupiters position with a very high precision. Said precision was delivered by the Juno probe in 2016 or so. With that precision we now know the earth position with much more accuracy. The trick is the jupiter and sun orbit around a point outside the surface of the sun. Said point (barycenter) is the point the earth rotates around.

The increased positional accuracy of the earth allows teasing out the distortion from to various pulsars to use the galaxy as a ligo like gravity wave detector.
In many respects, I feel like it already ended.

- How many companies still offer free APIs for access to their data? This used to be amazingly common. Now, even my garage door wants a paywall.
- Google bragged about not selling search placement. But is what they are doing now really any different than the old keyword buying engines?
- How many people still use email? And of those, how many just use gmail, effectively giving Google a near-monopoly
- It used to be that MS Office competed with other office suites and there was a lot of talk pushing for long term interoperability. But all of that seemingly died with the shift to online services.

Free as in speech is in worse shape now than it was 20 years ago.
Are you saying apple is lying? Because they publish both weight and battery life numbers. Hint: "less" means the number is smaller.
We live in a Queen Anne era house, 120 yrs old.

Same idea of quirky mish-mash of styles, but they had less styles to choose from back then
Historically it was a quarterly. But they rebranded to GQ and around the same time increased print frequency.
Are any of those tappable certificates still considered trusted by wider internet? Which CAs are those? They should be removed from trusted ASAP.
Ask HN: Notion Like Alternatives?
Do we have open source alternatives to notion
Unelected and unaccountable people who were appointed for the express purpose of entrenching established wealth and power threw it in the trash.
What a joke, we just wasted 2 years on an empty promise that was doomed to fail from the start and now all the people who have been waiting and suffering are getting nothing. All we get now is a blame-game of finger-pointing instead of any solutions. We got teased and led on for years. There is no alternative plan to the one proposed, all eggs in one basket on such a monumentally important issue.

What a great victory!
What is "intelligence" other than proximity to that destination?
> Red Hat is like the 10,000 pound gorilla in the world of Enterprise Linux, and traditionally has walked a fine line (well, mind you)

I'm not particularly fond of this latest move but I'm unconvinced they've fallen off the line yet.

Even with this decision in place I believe that Red Hat will still be by far a net positive to have around for open source overall.

They could change my mind about that, certainly, but they'd have to make a substantially more egregious move to do so.
Canada has a lot of issues with spam calls. Something systemic compared to the US - it shows up in DBIR and cybercrime stats.

Point is, at this point I don't even bother answering unknown numbers. If it's important they'll leave a voicemail or text me
It could be a greatest lead to know where it may be - places where cultivation is a paramount value.
Thankfully, brewers have discovered that there are other types of beer than IPAs.
I'm not sure that the old model did either, tbh. The clones were never a great choice if you needed to satisfy business concerns.
Actually medical students have the most loans, so unless you think that medical professionals are useless or that medicine should only be practiced by the rich, you should reconsider your views.

In most countries around the world higher education is free (or almost free) if you have the grades to be admitted, it's very a natural process. The fact that you have to take enormous debts to be allowed to study (which is your only hope for social mobility) in the U.S is the exception and is honestly crazy to me. How can you even speak of 'merit' in such society?
Sure, Google is "special" among large vendors covering a wide market (Amazon, Microsoft) that "fails fast".

But if you stick to long running products, even with Google, you are unlikely to have that issue. Eg. so many companies are relying on Gmail and Google Docs for their work: I don't think anyone feels they are going away anytime soon. Basic Google Cloud services (eg GKE) are likely to keep humming along fine.

But there are a number of smaller SaaSes that will show up with a specific niche product (like Firebase Dynamic Links here) that may be gone as quickly as their VC capital runs out.
There is no reason both can't be true at the same time. Education is quite disconnected from research. Being good at one does not automatically imply being good at the other, but we do treat it as such.

Harvard is obviously a world-class research institute, but it seems to be funded by the wealthy essentially treating it like a social networking experience, and knowing that the label "Harvard" opens a lot of doors due to the research reputation. The education given to the "poor" and the stringent selection criteria imposed on them primarily serves as set dressing.
You're right I didn't have a problem with it in 2020 when those loans intended to keep businesses from permanently shuttering were forgiven. But I would certainly dislike the same policy now. Things are super different today than they were three years ago...
I don't think stopping lending is the answer. Stopping government guaranteed loans and undischargable debt is a better answer. I have no issue with private lending.

The guaranteed loans skew the market. They are a big banner to schools saying the government will pay you with tax dollars if you can get the loan qualifying kids to register. And, that is exactly what they did.
It's a complex problem. Personally I don't think we should be issuing loans for degrees which will not render a successful career path in which to pay back that loan. Similar to how when you apply for a mortgage or other loan, your income and other means of paying the loan back are verified and approved before the loan is granted.

Maybe one of the Europeans can chime in, don't the Germans offer tuition free education BUT it must be for a productive degree (e.g. STEM) and there are serious academic qualifications that have to be met. At that point you can just consider it a government-funded scholarship, it's not free money, there are conditions to be met.