skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Education is clearly a path to increased prosperity for many people, and they will pay a lot for education to try to distinguish themselves. And when it's nearly an expectation, it's not a completely voluntary purchase (like healthcare), so demand is quite inelastic and people will pay what is charged. (And also it is a spending choice at quite an early age when people are not great at thinking about whether taking on debt is a smart choice, etc)

My theory is that as our society matured, people/companies/institutions gradually figured out that education was something that they could extract value ($) from and take a cut out of. (Whether that is just blatant profit, or using the money to invest in education-related things, or even less insidious semi-reasonable employment of lots of people in that industry to benefit off of it. A gradual creeping up of somewhat well-intentioned desire to turn it from classes in just-good-enough lecture halls into polished buildings that need endowments and administrators to oversee.)

The problem is when goods that are pretty mandatory to succeed in life get turned to the for-profit market to be solved, of course prices will go up.

What we are increasingly failing at is to offer enough seats at high quality educational institutions at affordable prices. That's how you get out of this.
Mmmh that's San Gimignano? Near Siena, Tuscany. Definitely worth a visit for any tourist in Italy but it's definitely also not Bologna.
1 kWh per hour is 1 kW
First time I’m hearing that feature flags and commented out code are the same thing.
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> As of right now, there is no indication that any customer money is missing.

I haven't been following this very closely, but the last I heard the problem was that they had no records of how much money should go to each customer. Even if all the money is there, it's in a big pool all together, and you can't get it back if you can't prove how much of the pool is yours.
Thank you for being the voice of reason in this... mess of a thread
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Amiga Minimig Ported to Tang Nano 20k FPGA
In my experience at $OLDJOB, working under Scrum, there were two types of user stories that came in. The first would be issues from the QA team that absolutely had to be fixed. The other were commands from On High that absolutely had to be implemented.

Not much room for compromise (from the story, at least) in either case.
This is only true for meetings created with free gmail accounts. If use Google Workspace this limitation does not apply.
It's kind of hilarious how some people with no real industry experience aren't able to do a simple search on the CHPL. Obviously, there's nothing illegal about using OpenEMR regardless of who wrote the code. And certification isn't even necessarily required. Providers who don't participate in certain federal or state programs are free to use non-certified software as long as they're able to comply with applicable interoperability and privacy/security regulations; regulatory compliance and enforcement for that stuff is at the provider organization level, not at the product level.
> When you price something as $9.99, you're signaling to your customer that you're trying to manipulate them. Whereas a flat $10 is honest.

JC Penney effect. They do it because it works. And most consumers don't reward honesty with better business. It sucks but at this point it's on the consumer.

And JC Penney was barely more than a decade ago. This phenomenon has been practiced for decades.

>Given the replication crisis is worst in these types of studies - the kinds of studies that beg to be the subject of TED talks - you have to wonder how reproducible these effects are.

Forget the lab tests, there's more than a few other live experiments to study (not just JC Penney, though I'm not sure if they did this even back then).
The venerable http://www.baseball-reference.com/
I've seen it be a company culture thing where every discussion was resolved with we'll put it behind a config/flag. It's an easy way to avoid hard choices. It's probably something like that the author refers to.
I think they're referring to <$150k, specifically low income 20-40k lower class families.
> Reminds me of people who tried selling sturdy repairable phones with longer battery life.

My brother buys these. They survive up to a year in his "care", rather than the usual 3-4 months of flimsier phones. They all end up with cracked screens within months though.

Almost no mainstream consumer electronics nowadays are meant for people who lead active lives (outside of planned and streamlined activities like going to the gym or running) - because the people as a whole generally don't live active lives. If you happen to be an outlier, making your phone survive becomes a serious logistical issue. Sadly carrying one is a necessity in this day and age.

Another example: Many offroad vehicles/trucks nowadays won't survive days of the advertised use-cases without serious damage and are often utterly unsuited for it (the cybertruck isn't an outlier here). These things are being sold to people who like to play pretend. Manufacturers cross their fingers and hope you don't actually.

Notable exceptions to the rule are things like satellite communicators and some dedicated GPS map devices. They seem to have no issue surviving many phones with their own screens and functionality intact. Their manufacturers know you wouldn't buy them if you didn't plan to use them in the advertised conditions.
I've got a weird relationship with market socialists because I generally think they're much more sensible and convincing than the average "destroy evil and create utopia" socialists, but ultimately it's hard to understand whether their efforts to rebuild society would yield much better outcomes compared to European style welfare capitalism with more taxation and welfare spending.

I suppose they're trying to build a grand theory of social market economies / social democracy, which is nice.
Available for Google Workspace customers with the Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Business, Gemini Education, Gemini Education Premium, and the AI Meetings and Messaging add-on.

So basically unaffordable for most organisations.
I was watching Till Harbaums github in the hope to see this happen: awesome! I will have to go shopping for a tang nano immediately.
Have they figured it out for the US? The funding is a contentious issue. We've seen free tution schools in CA slip into paying large "fees". It's a similar story for previously free universities throughout the country. The money has to come from somewhere and most people hate taxes.
I used that word because they aren’t actually sectors, but it’s immaterial if it is a cell or the enclosing sector. They can be overwritten as a full block of course.

Whether this actually resets the voltages might vary by drive, who knows—would need to see hard data to properly verify. Without that data, both Gibson and critics are talking out their asses.

Gibson is a known quantity and more reliable than internet nobodies however. It sounds feasible and I (so far) have no tangible reason to disbelieve him. If you want to prove him wrong, do the work.
It very rarely matters which product is "better" in any objective sense. If you are team that work with Teams, your meetings will be on teams. Teams could be much worse than Zoom or Meet, you wouldn't move your group from Teams for one meeting anyway.
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Thanks for the kind words! We'd be super happy if this work gets picked up, whether in a commercial context or not.

We were thinking of some disco ball-based logo (among some other designs). With this encouragement, there'll probably be an update in the next few days :)
In this alternate universe, Discograd was successful and became the cultural hub for Soviet rock music. It influenced bands like Kino, Aquarium and DDT who incorporated Marxist-Leninist themes into their music. Disco beats were indeed evolved but in a way that resonated with the ideology of the time. The four-on-the-floor beat became more intricate and complex, incorporating elements of jazz and folk music from various Soviet republics.

In this reality, Discograd hosted the first Soviet Rock Festival, which was attended by thousands of enthusiastic fans from all over the USSR. The festival featured performances by bands that were formed and nurtured in Discograd, showcasing a new genre: Proletrock – a unique fusion of disco, rock, jazz and Soviet folk music, with lyrics promoting socialist values and workers’ rights.

Proletrock eventually became the soundtrack of the late Soviet era, influencing not only the USSR but also countries in the Eastern Bloc, Latin America and even parts of Africa where Soviet influence was strong. The genre helped to spread communist ideology through catchy beats and thought-provoking lyrics, making Discograd an integral part of music history.

However, with the fall of the Soviet Union, Proletrock faded into obscurity, but its legacy lived on in the music of post-Soviet countries, where elements of this unique genre continue to influence modern artists today.

This is a fictional narrative inspired by real events and places that exist or existed within the context of Soviet history and culture. It serves as a creative exploration of what could have been if the USSR had pursued such an ambitious project with the same fervor it dedicated to its space program.

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Curious what the technical implementation looks like. What kind of TTS are you using? How do you scale it? What are the costs involved?
just this particular post on hn. I'm not from the UK so I can't fully comment, but based on the stories I read here, I'd agree with your general sentiment.
Hmm. We natively record and transcribe many meetings via Meet. Maybe it’s a function of the plan we’re on?

I wouldn’t want “autorecord” though - it’s better for culture and rapport to not feel like every conversation is “on the record.”
Digikey's filterable product search (what I yearn Amazon had): https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/memory/memory/774

Open Data Network: http://www.opendatanetwork.com/
Tangential question from a layman: when I lose access to a particular website, or the internet as a whole, why is it so hard to tell where in the chain the failure is occurring? Like it’s often unclear whether

* I’ve got a network misconfiguration on my local machine;

* My wifi connection to the router is down;

* The cable between my router and ISP is cut;

* My ISP is having large scale issues; or

* The website I’m trying to reach is down.

I’ve been given the vague impression that it has something to do with a non-deterministic path by which requests are routed, but this seems unconvincing. If some link on the path breaks, why doesn’t the last good link send a message backward that says “Your message made it to me, but I tried to send it the next step and it failed there.”
Yes, like for images. You can't send image updates over SSE.
I think it's central to the story that it was highly unusual. My dad couldn't believe I could do that, so it doesn't surprise me that you can't either. Many children aren't speaking clearly at 3, much less reasoning about what is likely to be in another person's mind. I do remember he reacted by growing cold, which surprised me because I thought it was a great cool new thing I had discovered. But as I said, I didn't interpret at the time. I only realized why he reacted so differently from how adult me would react to a 3-year-old today because I know so much more about him now.

I was an unusual little kid--and a girl, not a boy, though that's not terribly relevant to the story. Not really sure what else to tell you. I don't think I progressed intellectually any farther than most people do, but I did progress faster, which was especially noticeable when I was young. I have the handwritten list my mom made of the 100 words I could use correctly by my first birthday. My earliest vivid memory is of my 2nd birthday party. For all I know, I may also have been very close to turning 4 at the time this story took place, but I know my being 3 contributed to his unease, and I know I was reading at 3. It's not a brag. Being an unusual little kid (honestly I usually just say "weird") just added another perspective to the parent comment.
I don't think the market is broken, I do think it has been heavily distorted by government intervention though. I think you are correct that credentialism is a problem here. For those who suggest free tuition for everyone (government funded), I would ask how that would solve this particular problem. It seems like it would worsen this problem and probably lead to an even larger shortage of people going in the trades.
Very nice. Printed it will be a gift for (your) children. I wish I had gotten something like this.
I see, but this military does share this very information.
Yeah I feel like with a couple UI tweaks or options Meet would be the best by far. It's just so much more convenient and accessible than the others.
How does this compare to Enzyme (https://enzyme.mit.edu/)?
GGUF implementation in C as a library and a tools CLI program
In the EU at least (where maybe it won't be just a re-skinned Safari) Chrome will use all of it if you have more than 3 tabs open.
This idea is really cool, I'll try :)
Specific decisions or the need to preserve legacy may be questionable, but overall - yes, blockchains fundamentally don't scale well.
Currency transport and printing are some of the few businesses incentivized to support paper currency as a competitor to digital payments.
probably a bit of a "that's the joke" question, but is that due to the market being closed Monday?

or is that it didn't adjust on Friday and this isn't significant enough to adjust the next time the market is open (Tuesday)?
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Assistants work the other way - do this task and please ask any needed followup questions if the task is unclear or you are stuck. And they go off and do it and mostly you trust the result.
Can you point me to more info on “free college” of the past?

I know that for this immigrant few years off the boat, federal grants and deferred interest loans was what gave me access to education that would otherwise put a huge burden on my family at the time.

Granted this was for an engineering degree at a public university and amounted to no more than 10-20k as opposed to 200k for an art degree at a private art college that we often read about
By value, I meant, broadly, engineering/environmental value, not financial. Its value as a material from an engineering perspective is that it (a) functions fantastically in compression and with the addition of (usually) rebar, it can function in tension and bending as well, and (b) it is generally speaking easy and cheap to build structures (of all sorts) with it. This comes from a beautiful interaction of materials - cement, sand/aggregate, steel - all working in concert together. In fact, turning concrete into gravel on roads does precisely what you suggest is a bad thing (and which I agree is bad!) - pursing an economically valuable form of recycling which is less environmentally valuable than the significantly more challenging pathways towards proper structurally valuable reuse.

All sorts of things can go into aggregate for roads: various forms of sand, stone, concrete, etc. anything you can make gravel out of really. If you can instead somehow reclaim the concrete and/or the cement within the concrete for structural use rather than use as aggregate, you can displace more carbon emissions by preventing the manufacture of new cement/concrete.
With Google, the deletions almost always are intentional, not accidental, and this is a huge problem with it. Google (not GCP) deleted ten years of my data without warning or notification or remorse or recourse even though I was doing nothing illegal. Amazon would never do something like it. To Google, once a customer or service becomes just 1% inconvenient, it's time to get rid of the customer or service. It's a very valid concern.
Thanks! Another important bit:

> sealing changes the lifetime of a mapping, i.e. the sealed mapping won’t be unmapped till the process terminates or the exec system call is invoked. Applications can apply sealing to any virtual memory region from userspace, but it is crucial to thoroughly analyze the mapping’s lifetime prior to apply the sealing.
Our experience has been quite the opposite once we were forced to migrate from a free plan (a long time ago after what felt like abusing the free plan due to the amount of bandwidth we were using).

The bandwidth caps and all included features were clearly spelled out in the entetprise contract and when we went over, they didn't push for a contract renegotiation unless the overage lasted like 3+ months. And we frequently got new features included in for free.

In fact, recently they asked to renegotiate the contract due to some obsolescence and we ended up significantly dropping the bill as a result. Kind of backfired on them, I wonder if the account manager is kicking herself for this.
I've been using EAC over 20 years and have never seen anything like what you're seeing. (that said, I might be on a pretty old version, I'm not sure) Try to reinstall it and make sure you do not select the GD3 plugin on installation. It's the only option I'm aware of that might come with a nagware type dialog box.
I'm not saying the response is reasonable. I'm saying it is.

So either optimize for reality or stick to your principles.
This is just military production. It's like the growth you have when a hurricane destroys a city and you have to rebuilt it. It doesn't accumulate, it's just a waste.

BTW look up North Korean economy growth after the war :) North Korea was always the rich part. It was developing so fast after the war. And somehow now the South Korea has Samsung and Kia and Subaru, and North Korea has starvation.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Keun-Lee/publication/22...
I was apparently not watching this well enough, sorry for the delayed response.

Deliver was because we ran the SMTP and queuing infrastructure at the time. We started as Gmail SRE, then split out some of the delivery and abuse services into its own team (SAD), then SAD got SRE, hence SAD-SRE =)
BoxOfficeMojo is one of the most cited sources for movie ticket sales info and has lots of interesting data and tables. They paywalled a bunch of cast data a few years back but the title data is still there. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/
You know, it's taken a lot longer than I would have hoped, but I'm grateful enough that it happened at all that I don't dwell much on what could have been!
Check out https://transportation.report it has a lot of cool auto and transpo data that I didn’t even know existed.
I definitely agree, needs no installation, things just work, quality is good, has nice features like push-to-talk, etc.

It's great, there are just some tiny UX niggles that could be solved very easily but haven't been, yet.
> "Half the lines of code I write are useless, I just don't know which half." - an incompetent coder

Legacy code in a nutshell. On some blue moon you get a chance to do a clean refsctor, but otherwise business doesn't care if 90% of the code is useless.

Even as the refactorer, you know that refactoring can be anywhere from throwing away simple unused code, to removing a seeming unneeded line and causing a forest fire. I imagine that's the equivalent with advertising (i.e I agree with you).
Passive limiter: a gps based speed detection for a “brief one-time” audible & visual warning if speed greater than 10mph over the highest posted “limit” by 2029 50% then adoption 100% in 2032.
I think CA public funding "dropped" from 30ish% in the 70s to 15ish% more recently. However, enrollment and costs have gone way up. The only way to keep it up is to increase revenues, decrease cost, or cap enrollment. None of those have much support. So the increased cost goes to the student.
There's currently a widespread outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in America's dairies, so it's in the news.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/05/25/g-...
Seems to be very academic at this point: the processor is only usable for about 100 days. Unfortunately it will take decades just to see if it can be used for anything in practice. Today it's good for patents I guess.
This amazing news for my hybrid team. It has always been a struggle figuring out with laptop to use, moving around so you get closer to the mic etc. Hopefully it is as seamless as they portray it here in the blog.
yep, it happens every single time a negative story about cloudflare appears

more than a coincidence
I don't know why I need it.

I don't know why projects fail to demonstrate a basic example that shows: how to do the job without it, versus how to do the job with it, and let the user decide if it's worth the difference. If a project can't demonstrate such an example for comparison, then it has nothing.
Apple watch is a 'dumb' phone. I upgraded to watch ultra for this purpose. Just leave the iphone at home or in the car (bonus: one less item to carry). I use browser to check twitter occasionally, but it helps break the habit of keeping phone around all the time. Do miss the camera though..
I have no idea why I wrote "system prompt" here, obviously meant custom instructions.
My company has conference rooms that have specialized hardware for Microsoft Teams meetings. The audio really sucks -- everyone must project their voice for people joining online to hear. If someone speaks in a low voice, nothing can be heard on Teams even though it is clear enough for people in the room. I don't understand how we haven't solved this problem yet.

The functionality here seems interesting, but I assume only works well if everyone or almost everyone brings a laptop. It probably won't work well for those situations where only one or two people take their laptops to an in-person meeting.
I still have my icq number memorized and I think I always will
Mine was to learn to give myself a break. Incorporate short breaks into work schedule helps me to maintain focus.
Prices are out of control on things people need to live. Food is 50% more expensive than it was 5 years ago.
Base on this figure, the main business lines of UC today are hospitals and sales: https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2023/4684/4684-fig1.png
If you don't need cryptography secure rngs, PCG is pretty cool.

It's pretty straightforward and builds off basic primitives, but the results has some neat qualities/features if you find you need them. E.g. People often find that they don't want pure randomness, but rather want some kind of uniformity//equidistribution over some period, which implies state (I.e. Shuffling a music playlist).
What does “Whats’” mean?
The collateral is your future earnings. These loans rarely get discharged. They'll get their money, even if it takes them a lifetime. Maybe not for every individual, but a large enough portion of the population.
When the producers at Apple TV+ finally get bored with “For All Mankind”, they could greenlight this as a spin-off.
I have always had way more issues with meet than zoom. Guessing it is something about browser compatibility but participants regularly have issues with mics and cameras that I don’t see with zoom.
>> There are higher Direct Unsubsidized annual loan limits for borrowers enrolled in certain health professions programs, and special loan limits for certain students who are not enrolled in a program that leads to a degree or certificate awarded by the school they are attending.

So, more of that, except linked to objective workforce measurements instead of cherry picking professions.