skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was in incredibly insightful comment for me, thanks!

And I think you can take it further, as it goes both ways. The value proposition is specifically the mix and ambiguity between the legacy and smart students. You’re selling the legacy students a chance to associate with (and, most importantly, appear to be themselves) smart students. And you’re selling the smart students the chance to associate with the legacy students (as you said).
> I think allowing legacy while also promoting lower class students is OK.

Why are you thinking in terms of class? Class-based conflict was the center of original Marxism. Then the 20th century Marxists, realizing that it wasn't working because capitalism was actually good for people, moved on to identity politics (neo-Marxism), with which they've had far greater success in disrupting and tearing down our society. And, now that there is finally some institutional pushback against neo-Marxism, you want to go back to classic Marxism?

I think your worldview needs to be updated to not be centered around group-based dynamics and politics. Individual meritocracy is the least corrupt system we've come up with to determine access to opportunity. How about we gate access to Harvard based on things like ability, and focus instead on making more high quality schools? This would increase the supply of quality education, which would actually make the world a more equitable place! It's amazing how many "equity"-based policies exist that actually make the world a less fair, less equitable place!

Part of the reason the above is so difficult is specifically because the institutional elite of our day want a class-based society. They want to be part of an emerging new nobility class, and they like having certain filters and gates like ivy league schools. This is what Marxism has always devolved into, really. Harvard loses it's power when we stop treating it as so special, and that goes hand in hand with fighting against those in power today who want to build a an ever-wider moat around their power.
The uniparty is trying to deescalate the likelihood of a civil war.
This one was just clearly unconstitutional right? Not sure if I’m missing something.

Not that the government can’t or shouldn’t do something along these lines, but it needs to be Congress right? Commentary about this seemed to split along party lines so not sure if there is some legitimate interpretation where this might be constitutional…
> that won't reflect badly on the administration

I will agree if we define the audience as “the masses”. If, on the other hand, we consider the subset of people who actually engage in critical thinking, things should be different.

This was a political stunt to gain votes. And, as you seem to suggest, it will still be used as yet another us-vs-them wedge tool used to divide and polarize the population.

What’s outrageous is that the cost of university education has been inflated precisely due to government involvement through guarantees.

Everyone should be horrified that 17 year olds are agreeing to loans in the $150K to $300K range (and more). And sometimes this is for degrees that will never lead to high income jobs. I saw this piece a while back on this 32 year old with some kind of a sociology degree that cost her $250K. She was making $60K a year, with no real prospects to do significantly better.

My guess is that a reasonable cost for a degree is in a range similar to the cost of cars. The idea being to be able to pay it off in 5 to 7 years at the average earning potential for the corresponding degree. That might mean $20K to $150K max. For example, a CS undergrad degree should probably be in the $20K to $50K range.

The only way that happens is in a market where government isn’t in the student loan business.
No, all Debian releases are completely supported 3 years (1 full year after the release of the new stable release) and are LTS for 5 years.
There certainly are large house designs that are, to me, aesthetically pleasing. They tend to be simpler and more classic. I see quite a few up in coastal Maine. It probably helps when you have a view from the house which tends to focus the design on features that take advantage of that.
This is entirely compatible with their analysis
Yes. You might be enjoying it due to deep seated nostalgia developed from Nintendo marketing to us as children.

I don't know why I play every Zelda game. I feel the compulsion to do so.

I didn't even like BOTW but I felt the need to beat it.

Look at people's obsession with Disney, the grown adults who go to disney like its their job have some sort of mental illness, why is it so hard to think that Nintendo didn't do something similar? They both market primarily to children, who have no concept of corporate mascots.
When there are ratings with 1-5 stars, I filter to only read the 3 star and 2 star reviews. The 5 star and 1 star reviews are meaningless, the 4 star reviews are a minor gripe, 2 star reviews often contain valid criticism (though sometimes it's just "I hated it but there's this one thing I liked"), and 3 star reviews offer a nuanced point of view.
> Things like doorbells/thermostats/light switches I'm not too worried about because they don't have network effects

Until the government comes in and mandates you need such and such light switch/thermostat/doorbell because of some regulation and conveniently all of the ones on the market which meet that spec are adware-infested nightmares.
If lobbying governments to ignore the world slowly boiling to death is ads, then yes.
And there is absolutely nothing stopping Google from doing the same thing.
CentOS (and it's forks) never backported security fixes for old software versions; it was always RedHat that took on this grunt work.

Even within that 12-24 month timeline, security fixes are commonly only backported where there is a significant enough security risk in a significant enough package. More resource on this mundane but important task is sorely needed
learning from their new Masters in Redmond perhaps?
Works in the Bay Area for me. Agree that communication isn't great.
I have been asking around but people in the know are keeping quiet. I'd love to know and will reply to this comment if I find anything out.
Do you feel the same way about disaster relief, since you chose not to live that area?

I haven't had student loans since the early 2000s and I'm fine with forgiving them or at least reducing interest rates to something very low.
Let's say they get rid of legacy admissions. Kids of rich and powerful people will still ostensibly need college educations. Not all of them will get into the elite schools, so they'll be spread out among more schools. That'd increase the overall exposure between wealthy and other classes, which would benefit both the wealthy and the other classes because exposure to other groups helps for better understanding humanity.

It would also encourage rich kids to focus more on their educations so they can have a better chance of getting into their preferred schools. A more educated elite benefits everyone. I see no downsides to society as a whole, just downsides for some value propositions.
You can compute solid angle (a.k.a. spherical excess, normalized spherical surface area) by taking a surface integral, but the units are not "square degrees" or "square radians", but instead an entirely new type, usually just measured in radians ("steradians"). Some people have defined https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_degree but that is a stupid unit.

While rotation is naturally oriented like a bivector (plane), solid angle is naturally oriented like a trivector (3-space).

The natural representation is as a kind of (unitless) ratio formed from 3 vectors, not the product of two vector–vector ratios.
Carbs are essential for good health and any sort of exercising. Why would someone want to avoid carbs entirely?

Artificial sweeteners will only put you in an early grave. Why eat anything processed or artificial when better alternatives exist?
Persuasion depends on logos and it is a requirement to be capable of it before you are susceptible to persuasion.

Intelligent (and properly motivated) people indeed have staggering persuasive powers over lesser ones. You can watch the news and see for yourself.

Edit: what I am getting at is that without logos, without reason, there can be no persuasion proper. I’d lean towards calling it “coercion” and that ultimately depends on force. It’s more akin to “persuading” a rock to float by picking it up than to influence someone or something’s psyche to trick it into believing you are right which I regard as proper persuasion. I think it’s quite likely that an “AlphaPersuade” is quite.. persuasive. It would catch us off guard like it caught us at chess and go. I wouldn’t rule it out.
Definitely not saying Bill Gates doesn't have questionable history. I'm just saying I don't know that this article is particularly good evidence of it. But, not feeling sorry for Gates in this regard, since he has historical issues here.
I think of a McMansion as an "expensive cheap house". I suspect they are mostly owned by people who aren't truly wealthy but are trying to convince themselves that they are.
I dont even know where to start with this. How many times do we all have to have this same conversation. “Student loans being forgiven does not increase inflation, as no new money is being injected into the economy”. It’s either spent before being collected, or spent after being collected by the gov”.

Guys, seriously, we’re not talking about people taking loans out to do blow and hookers, they’re trying to get an education. You’re all acting like we’re just going to give out forgiveness and then throw our hands up and doing nothing after that.
How well will that work with the modern web and modern web browsers?
Can't you use a "sanctioned" VPN to tunnel your connection to a "real" VPN or any wireguard endpoint? They could still be able to find out you're using a VPN, but not monitor your traffic.
I mean if DnD can release a book that’s 43 pages long (with many pictures), this more than qualifies
Those 10,000 5-star reviews are fake. Now they’ll also be illegal
Don't have more sources , but my understanding is that Canonical considers that anything other than downloading an Ubuntu disk image from Canonical and hosting that on your own site constitutes a modification.

So, for example, if you take an Ubuntu image, change the default username and password, and re-export it as a new ISO, you have modified the Ubuntu image and can't redistribute it with the *buntu trademarks unless you make an agreement with Canonical. IANAL so don't take my word for it, but this is my honest understanding of what Canonical claims at least.

This does seem to be in agreement with the next item in the FAQ I linked - where they say that using an image that doesn't conform to the IPRights policy from someone else is not recommended since they can't guarantee that it will work with future updates or such - which any modification even of default settings could provoke.
As far as the public goes, their primary concern would be how LLMs could put a lot of them out of work in the artistic fields. AI Doomsdaying is primarily a hobby for nerdy scientists who believe too much in the singularity, not the average Joe.
Honestly, seeing an old spice ad isn't going to make me buy old spice.

And seeing a 1 hour ad for some guy telling me to stop eating what I'm eating to have no-wipe bowel movements isn't going to make me buy the stuff.

There have been studies done about plumbers. The ones that pay money to get on top in the White Pages have worse reviews than the ones that work by word of mouth. I go by the same thing. If you feel that your product needs an ad, it's probably overpriced and / or doesn't do what it says it does.
> I will agree if we define the audience as “the masses”. If, on the other hand, we consider the subset of people who actually engage in critical thinking, things should be different.

To be clear, that's a tiny minority which rarely impacts the outcomes of elections, and elections are what matter to politicians.
> But as soon as it gets to a certain size, you have to put in stupid things like the grand entrance with a showpiece staircase.

I mean, you don't, but people tend to.

Though, also, the "certain size" here is generally a minimum of about 6000sqft. This is too large to be a practical house, so you end up with either unreasonably large rooms (uncomfortable, undesirable), completely superfluous rooms (probably the least-worst option) or massive grand entrances and other not-quite-room features (most common approach).

Of course, the sensible thing would be to build a smaller house, but that doesn't appear to work for the people who like these.
> Thanks "Open"-AI for ruining the Internet.

Shocked, shocked to find that group to have poisoned the well long term for short term gain.
You poor man! But aren’t there a few sites such as Netlify that offer free support to static sites?
I think what the GP was stating here were two independent reasons why we would find it hard to know what would happen if a gravitational square-ish wave interacted with spacetime: 1. spacetime is "stiff", and 2. there are no gravitational square-ish wave generators around to observe.

The two things are kind of related, though. One "natural" way to create a square wave in nature, is to "interrupt" a material transmitting a sinusoid wave, at the peak of its transmittance. And one way to do that, is to break through the modulus of elasticity of the material transmitting the wave, such that it switches from the elastic-deformation domain (transmitting the wave) to the plastic-deformation domain (ripping apart.)

Imagine a speaker cone tearing at the peak of a high-amplitude drum beat. The cone pushes "out" — and then doesn't push back "in", because instead the air behind it rips forward through it. The air created by the speaker cone wants to rush back "in", but now there's no longer a speaker cone acting as a waveguide for the inward flow, so the natural turbulence cancels out much of the "falling" energy of the wave, making it look much more like a square-wave drop.

I believe that the GP is saying that, because spacetime has such a high effective "modulus of elasticity", we haven't yet observed any practical way to perturb so as to create the conditions that would generate a gravitational square wave.
Historically they've generally politely ignored community rebuilders and got a trifle enervated by commercial rebuilders - they changed how they handled distributing kernel code (to a fully patched tree rather than a pristine tree and a stack of patches I -think- from memory) in response to Oracle doing a commercial rebuild.

Exactly what the triggering incident was this time they've been very careful not to officially say (which is likely a better option than the optics of getting into a finger pointing war with a smaller target), and I suspect we won't be able to fully judge their motivations unless/until the details leak and/or are inferred by people close enough to the situation to guess correctly.
> I will worry about hyperpersuasive AI when someone manages to come up with one that can talk flat earthers out of it...

The real Turing Test.
Cheetah, Bear or Shark? Playing hidden oil patterns on bowling lanes
It's a big debt jubilee, and you ain't in it.
The Economist does this too. It's infuriating to see ads in the app when I pay for a yearly subscription.
On the contrary, controversial wedge topics such as abortion and, namely, affirmative action show how divided people are. Good faith is valuable but often lacking; I daresay I could pull examples from this HN megathread. And HN is a small portion of the population that is engineered to be somewhat conducive to good faith discussions. I concur that many people here are genuinely trying to express their morals, but the discussion seems lacking in understanding. On these divisive issues, people fall into "us vs. them" naturally, and bridging the gap of understanding is not easily achieved. Everyone is an island in a sea of other viewpoints unless people make an effort to understand.
Might have just stumbled onto a pleasant-sounding, neutrally-styled ringtone.

https://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/?v=1&d=AAAAAAgAAIAA...
I share a similar experience. I transitioned from Gmail to Fastmail and haven't once regretted it. The migration process was impressively streamlined; I transferred several email addresses, including a few gigabytes of data, to Fastmail without any hassle. I'm particularly fond of their interface; it's straightforward, user-friendly, yet remarkably powerful.
Salaries and other compensation can be considered part of the overhead of managing the money and the institution.
Details matter. It's not a good analogy.

I definitely support the development of a policy designed to attack the short term problem of untenable student debt (to the extent there is a problem... I think income based repayment is already a good policy targeting this), while also targeting the underlying causes of the student debt situation.

But this forgiveness policy was not that. It was a half-assed political gesture toward a campaign promise that the administration never seriously thought was going to solve any problems.

They picked their legislative priorities intentionally (pandemic recovery, infrastructure, and climate), and explicitly chose not to include this one.
Or they could have just hired a competent architect who would quit as soon as the owner make them design something like this, but then you’d still end up with this
It's like "Carcinisation" for tech companies.
US Supreme Court rules against Biden’s student loan relief program
Yep. I put off migrating a bunch of domains with mail that I had on Google for almost a decade, thinking it would be torture to sort it all out. Took a couple of hours and a few clicks on Fastmail to bring them all together. Been a delighted customer ever since.
Indeed it will but I just like to make /sure/ ;)
I’m curious: what’s the alternative to ads then? How do you find new stuff that you might need?
Yep, see CNN!

Remember when you paid for cable so there weren't ads (yeah, I'm old)?

The best was a retrospective (20th or 25th) on CNN one NewYears in the early 2000s, which had old footage of CNN. In one of them, the anchors were bragging about how they didn't have ads that biased their coverage of events... Then it broke to an ad. I had to laugh, because the (unpaid?) intern who put that together had to know how it was going to look when actually viewed by the public.
Well it depends. How big a wave are we talking about? The ones so far have been very distant. But when to 100 solar mass black holes merge and form a 90 solar mass black hole they release 10 solar mass of energy (E=mc^2 strikes again). Being close to such a merge would be lethal.

However there's nothing that we know of that could happen close by, so the risk is near zero. Apparently the black hole at the center of the milky way is going to merge with another super massive blackhole in Andromeda in 4.5 billion years or so.
Between working with the GPT-4 API, unfiltered models like LLaMA, and agent toolchains, it strikes me as obvious and self evident that things could quickly get out of hand even with current capability levels. One we're dependent on it, just as how we very quickly became dependent on airplanes, electricity, and cloud datacenters, we will have to trust the machines because it will not be practical or economical to understand and double check what they are doing in real time. You don't need super intelligence for very bad disasters, just billions of coordinated super speed more-or-less-regular intelligences - which we are at the moment deploying as fast as we can manufacture the silicon. All of history is bad disasters instigated by merely millions of semi-coordinated regular speed regular intelligences, so presumably future disasters will be worse.

We have barely begun to feed data into these systems, almost all of the giant models were trained only on text with the exception of GPT-4 which received static images (notably displayed superior performance than it did before image training). If we supply a multimodal system the same or greater array of physical sensing data that animals like humans have, it seems reasonable to assume capabilities will continue to improve beyond what is even capable today, exasperating the issues I described above.
It's not backing AI. It's backing humans to try and make an AI to do something.
The Biden administration used the emergency of the pandemic to justify loan forgiveness under the Heroes Act.

…Except the exact same week student loan forgiveness was announced, Biden went on 60 minutes and announced that the pandemic was over.

So even if you accept the argument that the Heroes act justified widescale forgiveness, the Biden administration did itself no favors selling that argument.
> Nobody seemed to have an issue with giving loan forgiveness to businesses.

Well that's obviously false. I had a problem with it. And if you dared to say it during the pandemic, you were likely to get stoned by the wildly emotional pandemic mob.

The solution to the cost of education is the US, is to realize the cost somewhere, ie make someone actually responsible for the fact that very young adults with next to zero credit / income / responsibility are borrowing rather insane sums of money they can't actually afford to borrow. Society can debate who gets to be responsible (banks, universities, taxpayers, borrowers), someone has to be, otherwise the upward spiral (of debt) will just continue until it becomes an outsized economic threat (it's getting there). For decades the can has been kicked down the road intentionally, nobody wants to take responsibility. Biden and the Democrat approach is just more debt via loan forgiveness, which will result in an even bigger loan forgiveness after that.

It's identical to the healthcare cost problem in the US. The Democrats want to solve healthcare via universal healthcare, and they want to pretend it can be done without fixing the cost problem. They never talk about dramatically reducing the cost of healthcare, and how many millions of jobs need to be vaporized to do it, and how many medical professionals need to take a big pay cut to do it. The gravy train has to end, and that means millions of nurses, doctors, hospital workers get slashed pay; millions of related industry jobs vanish (in insurance, medtech, pharma, et al.), and the middle class and higher incomes that go with them.

Big education - the government borrowing pact with universities and their freewheeling ability to spend - is a gravy train for admin and universities generally, and has been for decades. It has to end just the same as big healthcare's gravy train has to end. Salaries have to be smashed, jobs have to be destroyed en masse, everything has to be squeezed, cut, slashed. Which is exactly how most of Europe manages their healthcare systems - tight rationing, tight controls.
Could be! I'm not familiar with their travel-adventure stories.
So the tradeoffs are proven, but not necessary?
> There is free speech, but people are "community-noted".

Whether or not there's actually free speech notwithstanding, how is community notes antithetical to that?
...Talking...to people?
The Marian Reforms Weren’t a Thing
That is basically the same as what Red Hat used to do. Centos had to be very careful to avoid improper trademark usage in their rebuild.