skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is really sad and people absolutely need the relief (and I say that as someone who paid off over $200k in student loans), I hope this gives lobbyists/activist groups/etc more focus to attack the _real_ problem of higher education being way too expensive.

We're trending towards major swaths of higher education only being accessible to the wealthy, which will lock so many people out of opportunities to improve their station in life.

This comment in particular really frustrated me:

> In the opinion, delivered by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court found that the debt forgiveness plan would “cut into Mohela’s revenue, impairing its effort to aid Missouri college students”.

Ah, yes, let's defend a _de facto national_ lender from obtaining revenue for an industry it helped create. Disgusting.

(I had a loan serviced by MOHELA. I went to school in New Jersey. I never lived in Missouri.)
i think the xbox layout is better for more hand types, but certain people seem to never be able to switch from playstations layout

my thumb joints still ache from beating ape escape
Many of the homeless already have crypto wallets...thats why they are now homeless
Okay, well what did you think it was, giving cryptocurrency directly to homeless people?
Is your system consistently profitable enough for you to live off of? How long did it take you to get to this point?
I understand that it's in fashion with a certain crowd to attribute to journalists every sin imaginable, but how is "you tried to hide something relevant, and you didn't hide it, so we're reporting what you tried to hide" somehow "gotcha journalism". What constitutes "courtesy and grace" here? "Well, gee-wiz Mr. GiantMegaCorp, we're real sorry we legitimately received some information you don't want disclosed, so as our solemn duty as 'journalists' we want to know if it's okay to publish it...you know, only if it's okay with you...totally fine if you want us to pretend we never saw it"? What's exactly 'regrettable' here, that a journalist didn't bury an inconvenient fact? How is this a 'trend', as if pointing out when people with power screw up never happened until recently? Before the current fad of "anything I don't like is fake news", this would have just been 'journalism'.

Of course, these are also the kind of folks who call people like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein 'traitors', so what do I know.
Unfortunately no. I think the problem is there wasn’t one single case, and its been so long I can’t remember specifics to the cases I did hear.
That'll be amazing, then we can give them jobs and make them pay taxes.
How about that! :)

One interesting thing is that there do seem to be courses available for this, but I still haven't come across any books. Maybe this is just because I'm a dinosaur, but I really feel like what I'm missing is a book about this, with a good Introduction and Chapter 1 motivating the subject and giving a lay of the land. I'm sure every techie publisher will have one of these by the end of the year, but so far I really haven't seen what I think I'm looking for in this space.

(But having said that, you can bet I'll check out your course.)
Hurl and it's test cases have been awesome at our Ops team. We're managing an autogenerated config for hundreds of complex webserver rules, and we've been able to (auto-)generate hurl test cases for every single rule and test them in both CI and the actual infrastructure after deploying.

It's simplicity but powerfulness is amazing!
Would you mind sharing more details about your role?
I thought I was underpaid given the salaries I see people brag about online, but if the salary ranges presented by recruiters are any indication, my company is right in line with the industry..with the obvious variable being stock-based comp.

My suspicion is that the majority of people lie online about salaries to inflate their egos, even in an anonymous setting. There are some people making ridiculous amounts of money - but most are not.
> "folks who do not understand the real complexities in making systems which really can function in a fully autonomous way in an environment which is hostile and dynamic."

OK but consider that guys like Noam Brown are becoming involved in LLM based AI, this was the guy who made the Poker bots that beat humans (libratus/pluribus) and the guy who made the first Diplomacy bot that can beat people (cicero). I mean those AIs didn't use LLMs and they weren't literally superhuman cognitive agents in the fully open ended world but I mean they are working on it right now and they appreciate the differences between adversarial and non adversarial environments as well as anyone probably even the military. Also the military is using these LLMs and they probably sometimes think about adversarial environments.
The only worthwhile UUID standard IMO is v4 (simple random), and I still don't get why it needs dashes. The other ones don't really accomplish anything.
Get as much money/benefits/etc as you can. There is generally no correlation to how hard you have to work.

Case in point: I also had a really chill job and was ridiculously underpaid. The recruiter I worked with got me a job paying 2x more, with much better benefits, a great working environment, a much shorter commute (10 minutes) and cool projects to boot. There was literally no downside to taking the job. Work expectation was 40 hours/week. Yeah, for a while I did work a lot more than that because I was single (no reason to go home early) and I really liked the work. There was absolutely no pressure on me to work more than a regular work week.

I've been in industry for 30 years and have never taken a job where I worked more than 40 hours/week unless it was a short crunch. No one can force you to work more; they can suggest it, they can try to make you feel guilty, but they can't force you. And unless they want to get rid of you for some other reason, you're not going to be fired for working "just" a normal week.
Why was this downvoted? Sheesh...
Why do human females have permanently prominent breasts? (2016)
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36535822
151k, Embedded Linux, almost fully on-site. Strictly 40 hours/week.
Musk commented on this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505

"Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"
while RH may follow the letter of the GPL, many people feel it is an attack on the spirit of copyleft.
I made a GIF blinking JWST's and Hubble's photos of WR-124 and its nebula. That background spiral galaxy in the mid-infrared ("green" ↦ 11.3 μm) isn't visible to Hubble at all.

https://i.ibb.co/Db9V8p9/hello.gif

Sources,

https://esawebb.org/images/weic2307f/ (HST)

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/111/01G... (JWST)
Japan returns to a cheap alternative fertiliser made from human waste
We need to get rid of these either, and also of horse-flies.

Totally no reason to have any of these around. Any ecological niches they are taking should be left to those who do not prey on human.
For anyone reading, I think this is the best description of derealization in the thread. The window metaphor is good. I even had a quite literal experience of this "window" kind of effect. I took a strong dose of salvia (known to cause derealization, as a dissociative drug) and actually saw my vision as a small "window" at a distance from my actual "self". It was like being aware of the blackness around my vision.

Later I took a much smaller dose of salvia and I didn't hallucinate but still got the strong feeling of derealization. It's so hard to describe but everything seemed "fake" or "plastic". Like hollow and so lonely. Maybe, I guess, what looking at a scene through VR would look like. The sun didn't feel warm, the grass I was touching had no feeling of comfort with it (?). Ah, I thought I could describe it but it's so hard to describe, I give up.

If you take a small dose of salvia you can understand what it feels like. Definitely don't recommend but as far as I know, it's harmless and (for me) impermanent.
Not sure what you mean, but I probably can't help you find DMT beyond suggesting travel to places where it's legal or decriminalized.

I'm not the person to ask whether it's a good thing for you, my own experience has been that people have almost always enjoyed having tried it, and often felt like they were benefitted by it
It simultaneously incentivizes clicking on ads, but also increases the concentration of ad-susceptible users on the platform. Depending on the correlation between a high propensity to click on ads and a high propensity to buy once on a website, such a change might actually increase the quality of clicks that you get.
You're not wrong, but most mathematicians aren't working on (or even interested in) foundations. Not saying what you mentioned isn't math (I think it is), but my point still stands.
I'm on the tech side of it so I can't fully speak to the labs. But some of the lab people I do work with since before we got acquired with this company have received emails saying they could receive a 1k bonus for helping find people for certain positions that exactly match theirs lol.

So the company is trying to solicit the very people they're replacing to help them find their own replacements.
Count me in the group of solo algo trading developers (Go and Python and Tradingview Pinescript and other sruff). Planning to send you an email but maybe we can form a group/discord or something online.
$730k in cash (mixed base and bonus), 8 years of experience and I work around 45 hours a week, mostly in the office. This is in London
Yeah, in "prime locations", I know that. But I know it because of other sources, and to some extent despite Blind.

There's just too much rumor there written with full confidence.
Yep. Spanner docs even tell you not to use time-ordered keys.
I'm sorry. I assumed you were trying to make a counterpoint and not simply naming factual information. When I asked, "why not forgive any type of debt," I was making a point about how there's no reason we would judge either debt to be more worthy of forgiveness if we accept parent poster's claim that this was just about peoples' present-day financial struggle.

Bankruptcy is very different than student loan forgiveness. For example, 91% of people hire an attorney to do the bankruptcy, there are court fees, you take a huge hit on your credit score, you can't get credit, you either get put on a payment plan or you have to liquidate your assets, etc. Compared to that, student loan forgiveness is basically a freebie. When I asked, "why not forgive any type of debt," I meant it in the same kind of way that student loan forgiveness works.
And so will they.
Not quite the same, but reminds me of a Chinese soda called "Chicken Partner" that, as it turns out, is best paired with fried chicken: http://www.weirdsodareview.com/2015/11/chicken-partner.html

The reviewer wasn't a fan of the drink by itself, but one of the commenters notes that it's actually pretty good when eaten with the corresponding meal. It's made me wonder about the untapped potential of various food/soda combos, not unlike wine and cheese.
Just open more browser tabs.
This was the case for interactivity for any click if opened without logging in since years, similar to Instagram as well
(2015)

Unfortunately, Voevodsky, the "hero" of this piece, died in 2017.
Fsckboy's Better-ish Law of Headlines:

if the headline asks a question, don't read the article, answer all the things you know! :)
Not sure why this is the sentiment, perhaps because we started with FAANG. But we have much more data now representing tons of companies all across the board: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer?country=254

Larger companies do tend to get overrepresented but it’s also due to the fact that these companies hire the most and do actually largely represent the labor market.
Since Altman is on their board, its moreso other companies that aren't OpenAI that would be effected? OpenAI got what it needed; has their own straw in the milkshake, make it more expensive for anyone else.

Purely conjecture obviously, but him being on both sides of that, not hard to see how all this becomes more favorable to his company making the moat wider for others.
How about you come correct with evidence when you make bold statements that are trying to push some ideology you have. This isn’t Reddit.

That link, which is funny because it’s basically blog spam, lists: ATC(school and years of experience required), pilot(school and years of crap pay to break into those numbers), and then lists a bunch of other careers that don’t pay six figures or still require a degree (and you’ll be competing against people who have degrees to get).

Perhaps you are the one who should stop ignoring reality and update your beliefs. Best of luck with that!
My laptop is also a Thinkpad. My experience is the opposite of yours. A plain install of either Fedora or Ubuntu leaves me with about 40% of the battery life on Windows and a much busier fan. Tweaking gets me up to about 50% of the Windows battery.

The synaptics trackpad in my laptop has driver support. Gnome gestures are enabled at install but the trackpad multi-finger swipe gestures are detected erratically and then often stop working until I logout and back in. I assume this is a software issue since rebooting the device is not required. The linux version of my browser doesn't have any gesture support.
If anyone is really concerned about the future of AI, why aren't they calling for a strong moratorium on AI research?
Yup, there is a market for cheaper support. The problem is RHEL licensing (price and hassle). If CentOS was around, RH could offer cheaper support for it. That was the solution to this problem, not kneecapping their platform.
That's a great photo, and an interesting article (I got sucked into the Wikipedia articles on Wolf-Rayets and WR-140).

The article says the view is at an agle, but I can't figure out any angle. In the photo, there appears to be an axial pair of jets running from 10:00 to 4:00. They don't appear to be part of the dust-rings, they're continuous. Would a pair of big, old stars make jets like that?
I work a standard 9-5, 40 hours every week. I make 140k as a Senior Software Engineer for a large, late stage startup. I have 6-7 years of experience. My experience consist of full stack web development using AWS services with frameworks like NextJS or vanilla react / vue projects.

I started just with a CS Degree and graduated college in 2016.
My first job was data entry for Uber maps. I made about 30k a year.
Next, I worked on a smart-grow application for large size cannabis farms in CO. 3-5 people sized team, I made around 40k a year.
Next, I worked at an online advertising startup, around 20 people, and I made 70k a year.
Now I'm at my current job as a Senior Fullstack engineer, in a late-stage startup, that does online coupons and cashback.

I really enjoyed every previous professional experience, and believe that working at a startup accelerates you much faster than starting at a larger company.
Next is NFTs for the Homeless
Racket frustrates me
It's a law from 97. Probably at the time, the only reason you had to make a test was for paternity/fraternity, and I'm not shocked that any country think privacy and not giving your DNA to unknown labs under unknown entities is a good idea. Probably even worse, is giving your children's DNA toaan unknown party. In France, the parents do NOT have total power over their children.

I think the law is old and should be updated, to authorize personal tests at will (why not), but restrict testing a child privately (for obvious reasons).
I believe the point is that she would also refuse to create a same-sex wedding site for a hetero customer and would be willing to make a hetero wedding site for a same-sex customer. It's a subtle but important distinction.

Of course, it gets very messy because in the case of wedding sites, the correlation between content and customer is 0.999999999.
I work 3 days/week, which comes out to $130k annually at my current rate. 9 years of experience.

I was working full-time making $325k, and I decided I wanted to trade comp for flexibility and free time. I’m now a self-employed contractor lucky enough to have a client that wants me 3 days/week.
Check your privilege.

Many, many people (myself included) would have either not gone to college or would have gone to community colleges at best without those loans.

The biggest reason I have the career I have is because the school I went to had a cooperative education program and had strong connections with great employers.

While I highly respect community colleges and the upward mobility they provide for millions of students, it would have been a much steeper hill to climb to get as far in tech as I am with an Associate's degree.
at the risk of being histrionic, I view ads as memetic viruses. when you think about what an ad is actually is trying to achieve, its pretty wild that we just accept them as the status quo.
I can imagine (but too lazy to write an proper SF story) a situation when scientists finally crack the code of cetacean languages and achieve contact with various whales. They encounter a sad, savage culture, while the whales inform them that they used to have a great and sophisticated intellectual culture, passed orally, but it was all destroyed during a genocide a couple centuries before.
Well, it sounds like it's still going to have extensions for all the other browsers. Im not sure if the integration is changing other than the auth method to pocket.

I'd rather it not become any more integrated, I just want to browse the web and use extensions for additions like this.
No, I think most people are fine with paying for a service, it's just that most people in this thread are completely right.

1.) Google drove up ad coverage in front of videos to the point where I have to watch 2, sometimes 3 ads before I can watch a video. This is insane. I'd rather go back watching TV instead.

2.) Simultaneously, they have made it impossible for creators to support themselves by using ad payouts - indicated by how many creators chose to go with third party sponsorships. So even when I'm using adblock, I'm watching ads, only this time I'm usually okay with it, because I can skip them and even if not, it supports the creators I'm watching (although I'm sure advertisers will slowly figure this out as well and creep over to surreptitious advertising).

> that means to the app/platform/creator/website to go private and with a paywall

You pretend like this isn't already happening. Google is so detached from their customer-base, that Linus Tech Tips is currently starting his own streaming service, that does exactly this. Using their YouTube platform as a way to advertise it.

Larger content creators will just build their own platforms, as Linus proves.
IIRC that's always been supported via CDATA.
Wetting is an interaction between liquids and solid surfaces. If water can't wet a given surface/wet it effectively, it's what you'd call water repellent. Like rain gear, flys on tents, etc.
The pause can also no longer be extended due to Congressional action:

> Congress recently passed a law preventing further extensions of the payment pause. Student loan interest will resume starting on Sept. 1, 2023, and payments will be due starting in October. We will notify borrowers well before payments restart.

Source: https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/covid-19/payment...
yeah... The company I was originally with before we got bought was highly tech so they understood all that. However, this other company that we were bought by they have no tech experience and they hate paying tech salaries. However, dealing with their IT & other people is insanely frustrating and doesn't foster a good development environment.

The thing is with our tech is we have contracts for clinical studies that run years out. So they can't just kill our products and some of our stuff runs on REALLY old technology and definitely not something their IT people know how to handle. So i'm actually curious to see how this goes for them and I wonder if they won't try to bring me back as my group has always been a slightly special/weird group when it comes to what is needed for support.
Maybe we do it to babies to amplify the signals we’re giving them, since they can’t interpret most information yet. That could explain why we do it to dogs too, since we can hardly communicate with them.

I’ve also noticed something similar when talking to people with whom I hardly share any common language with. I use more obvious or exaggerated facial expressions and vocal intonations to try to convey meaning better.
Pricing is based on notions of value. The question is: why would you pay $12 to skip ads in the official app without any more fiddling? Many of us take that offer.
The tea from a region in Fujian has a great flavor that is referred to as "duck-feces fragrance". When people ask about the soil, the farmers say they use duck feces to deter others from stealing their soil.
Evidence [0][1] suggests that the fructose in honey acts differently from fructose in table sugar, and seems to have some unexplained metabolic benefits.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12421854/
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21621801/
Don't forget that we block ads for privacy, too.
Too big, SNES's d-pad is better. The 6 face buttons on the Saturn is better only for Street Fighter, a single game. If you're that into Street Fighter, get an arcade stick.
There is a principal of loan forgiveness that is old, nearly universal, and so well-known that it already has its own name: bankruptcy.

At some point in the recent past, at least during my lifetime, this was forbidden. It is one of the few classes of debt where it is forbidden.

I do not know why we would try to force through some weird one-off amnesty, rather than re-implementing bankruptcy for student loan debt which would fix the problem with permanence.

Bankruptcy includes many of the factors that opponents of forgiveness complain about... it's not exactly free. Those who avail themselves of it must make an uncomfortable tradeoff. They're limited in how often they can use it. It invites scrutiny to make certain they aren't using it except when they actually need it. Scrutiny from judges and arbiters who have experience sniffing out such fraud.

In the 3 or 4 years this has made the news in mainstream media, I've not once heard anyone mentioning this, or offering it as an alternative. It's quite bizarre.
Even though I have a firefox account, I'm glad I have moved off Pocket (to Readwise Reader).

I don't want all my accounts joined. I don't want a threat model where being locked out of one service takes down everything, especially when that service has no support. This applies to gmail and Mozilla equally.
Noam Brown of Libratus/Pluribus/Cicero Fame Has Moved from FacebookAI to OpenAI
Why Didn't Ancient Rome Have a Space Program?
Thanks, didn't know this - but from my experience, DMT smoke smelled and tasted kind of plasticky (like when you burn plastic). Did I just interpret the poop-smell differently?
This is irresponsible approach and this package should be forked by more responsible people. Person who made this change should be avoided in the future.

I'm all for ESM but alienating your own users is stupid. Create node-fetch-esm and support both versions until commonjs popularity would be low enough to be dropped.
I hope they don't follow Reddit.
A shorter term doom scenario could be our cognitive irrelevance.

It's just one step beyond the current "powerful assistant" paradigm. It doesn't even require AGI, just a whole set of verticals where AI outperforms us. The consequence would be that almost anything becomes pointless as all you need to do is ask. Nothing is impressive, nothing is worthwhile doing. Nothing is worthwhile sharing because anybody could've done the same thing by just asking.