skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile, I know of German and Dutch peers of mine who upon completing their masters in Europe, enrolled in California to do a second Masters ( at the time I believe they paid in the range of $100k) for the VISA and internship opportunities. And IIRC, the bet paid off because they all found employment in California, with salaries 3x to 4x what they could get here.
I second that. One of my favourite things to do when I’m bored is to flip through the INFO manuals and see what functionality of Emacs (or some of the often equally-well documented packages) I haven’t explored yet. It is so pleasent to navigate them from within Emacs once you get used to the info mode keybindings.

In general, I like how it is easy to access any kind of information about Emacs (keybindings, commands, variable values, active modes, text/face styles, etc.) from anywhere within Emacs through the C-h shortcuts or via “Help” in the menubar. Contrast that with what is usually offered as “Help” in most other applications and how hard it is to find just some basic piece of information.
We shouldn't see the government as solution to too many problems. If we overdo on it, we get socialism. And we know how it always ends.

Let the market forces decide. Eventually people will realise college doesn't work and will stop going there. Seriously problem is that too many people think they are smart and can benefit from a degree, when most can't. If 10% top graders go to college from school as it was in the boomers' era, ROI of higher education will be enormous (as there won't be an oversupply of useless graduates), and costs will be low (as low demand always reduces prices).

We shouldn't punish people who take the money because people are willing to pay it. Who's fault it is that they are dumb? Do we see much say, annoying advertisement to the tune of "go study X with us, you'll be rich and women will love you"? No. People are doing it because they are dumb. If we try to build a system that prevents smart people from taking money put on the table by dumb people, we will make the whole system dumber by incentivising dumbness.
Governments can shut down the core developers, or at least force them into hiding and force them to use nyms (like they should do, as cypherpunks anyways).

But stopping people from downloading and running some code… well on a closed eco system like Apple App Store, sure, you can pressure a company into compliance, but how are you going to stop determined people? Who download and share code over I2P and TOR?

It’s off course true that if it really came to this globally, the price of bitcoin would probably tumble and be more compatible to other currently more privacy forward coins like Monero .
Have high expectations for your computers (2016)
All other unsecured debt disappears after what seven years but this university debt is somehow guaranteed?? That’s why this happened.
> The reason ZFS isn't the norm is because it historically was difficult to set up.

Has this changed ? ZFS comes with a BSD view of the world (i.e slices). It also needed a sick amount of RAM to function properly.
I don't know about nationally but my local universities are having year over year enrollment decreases. I think there are some market forces in play, but they aren't reducing tuition, just making the universities ask for more state or local tax money.
How optimizations made Mario 64 slower [video]
Thanks for putting in the work to locate this. Sadly, nothing is italicized in that passage so it’s not as awesome as it might be.

Edit: Using your link I found the same story elsewhere with emphasis added https://www.noigroup.com/noijam/hypnotic-anaesthesia/
Factor is a lot of fun. I have a dream of one day building an OS from a Forth bootloader all the way up to a highlevel language. Do wish it had a more expressive type system though.
It is genuinely insane that US Colleges are basically holdings companies at this point. They priority is investments. It seems hostile to the goal of students
Roughly speaking, if you remove Nova class 4 you are back at mid-century eating habits and I doubt anybody would dare to claim that they weren't much healthier than today with 2/3 of US population being overweight. "Unhealthy" groceries still existed, but the quantities consumed were much smaller.
our time of high culture, their era of decadence

at least the omegaverse is not formulaic to the hilt

and also has actual smut
Faster processing means less time-to-sleep means better battery life.
Matt Groening grew up in Springfield, OR (also Portland, the streets names sharing a lot of character's names), it was only after he placed it in Springfield that he realized Springfield could be anywhere. He apparently makes direct references to local landmarks and establishments, and certain characters are rumored to have been based off of locals.
Great tool! But the City, Country box is a bit unintuitive. I am not sure how to fill my place in. I live in the US so it is "city, state, country"
Do you seriously believe that all CrowdStrike on Windows customers were at such imminent risk of ransomware that one-two hours to run this on one internal setup and catch the critical error they released would have been dangerous?

This is a ludicrous position, and has been proven obviously false by the proceedings: all systems that were crashed by this critical failure were not, in fact, attacked with ransomware once the CS agent was un-installed (at great pain).
It's somewhat besides the point of the piece and might be unfair, but I can't help to feel an immediate sense of distrust for any piece of writing that uses AI images.

Anyways, tying lending terms to the value of the degree sounds like a horrible idea, because how do you even determine that?

Seems to me the big issue is A) that the loans are managed b private companies with ridiculous terms and that even public state universities can basically behave like private companies by increasing prices this much.

Why can't the government not just radioactive prices for their own universities
They do! It's called the M1 MacBook Air.
pop Tart has literally tens of ingredients, toasted artisanal bread with butter and jam has at maximum 10, all natural. Seems quite obvious the diference.
Yea, and jobs that selected by university degree wanted to implicitly select for class

Making the path to go to a university more accessible is admirable. Entrenching this hiring practice with policy designed to enforce its implications on universities was always ill-conceived and the consequences have mostly been negative, creating a class of permanent debtors, turning universities into dysfunctional and corrupt quasi-businesses, and not really causing a significant de-stratification of job opportunities on balance at all
I think in part because on the "buyer" side, there's often a problem of how to sort through 100 resumes for a position. Given that in any given pile of resumes, probably 70% are unqualified, filtering for "degree" is an easy way (though naturally not great, though how not great it is is hard to measure, which of course means we do it) to cut the work required in half or more.
Funny you should say that, because it was indeed a whole district built from scratch by communists after the war to house people working in the local steelmill and indeed everyone there was initially roughly the same age.
> "Probably nothing" is not an irrational belief. You don't need 100% certainty to want to avoid that.

The words "probably nothing" imply that on something more than belief, you can assign a probability to nothingness. Can you provide an objective measure of probability as to whether nothingness is what awaits you after death? When you say "probably nothing," the belief in "probably nothing" is an emotionally nice but similarly irrational hedge on "nothing," because nobody can assign a probability to an unknown unknown like "what happens after you die."

> If I don't have my memories, then the old me is effectively gone forever. Wanting to avoid such a drastic and disruptive change has nothing to do with "fear of the unknown".

Wanting to avoid that change is almost definitionally due to a fear of the unknown. You are afraid that the new state you will be in will be worse for lack of those memories. Many people who lose their memories are happier for it, and it is in fact a common trauma response to block out old, bad memories.
I treat LLMs like a fallible being, the same way I treat humans. I don’t just trust output implicitly, and I accept help with tasks knowing I am taking a certain degree of risk. Mostly, my experience has been very positive with GPT-4o / ChatGPT and GitHub copilot with that in mind. I use each constantly throughout the day.
Oh, I also got confused! You're right, this is just a confusing subthread.
I use rectangle, but the critical missing feature is the ability to move focus directionally. Why bother tile your windows if you can't have a hotkey that moves focus up, left, down, or right?

Lacking such a hotkey, I now must keep track of them temporally (Cmd + tab + tab + tab to go to the one I used three times ago) which is a really clumsy way to think about something that supposed to be analogous to objects in a 2D space.

This isn't Rectangle's fault, my impression is that the public window management API is just not powerful enough.

Amethyst is the closest thing I've found on MacOS to the alignment of placement & focus management that I'm after (which doesn't require disabling system integrity protection) but I'd much rather think in terms of directions than monads.

So I have to chose between the kind of UI sanity that you find in i3/sway and the kind of battery life that you find on an ARM MacBook, and I blame Intel.
> Dealing with filenames with spaces is a pain, and files that start with a '-',

Wait! The fact that arguments with a leading hyphen are interpreted as options is not bash's fault. It's ingrained in the convention of UNIX tools and there's nothing bash can do to mitigate it. You would have the same problem if you got rid of any shell and directly invoked commands from Python or C.
OK - there's always a nonzero chance of hallucination. There's also a non-zero chance that macroscale objects can do quantum tunnelling, but no one is arguing that we "need to live with this" fact. A theoretical proof of the impossibility of reaching 0% probability of some event is nice, but in practice it says little about whether we can exponentially decrease the probability of it happening or not to effectively mitigate risk.
I think that's effectively what a lot of people here are arguing they should be. You're not going to have cheap and quality research institutions (except via financial aid/loans). You can imagine different systems--and they exist to some degree in Europe. It's presumably not a terrible system but it probably does tend to be more exclusive.
That's not a one-size-fits-all solution. Many 18 year olds will not be willing or capable of making a good financial long term decision regardless of education.

Mortgaging yourself into decades of indentured servitude shouldn't be an option that's available to young adults.
They are not a supportive example, their one child policy doomed their demographics and future economic growth.
There was no potential upside of becoming fabulously rich. Nobody can “extract” those keys.
Fundamentalists are fond of responding to claims about evolution (dinosaurs, etc.) with, "Were you there? How could you know if you were not there?" This is even taught as a rhetorical tactic in fundamentalist elementary schools (which I'm embarrassed to be an American for admitting they exist here).

This seems to be an approach similar to what you're taking here, except you put an interesting twist on it by handwaving your appeal to spooks with stuff about "the unknown" and then claiming it is the more rational position. Once again: we know, as certainly as we can know anything, that the mind cannot function without the body functioning. Therefore, the idea that there is no experience after body death is a more rational position to take than anything involving 72 virgins, nirvana, reincarnation, or blah blah Bible Jesus magic.
Boeing workers embrace labor movement leverage with strike
Yes, easy enough but annoying. Going the other direction (async -> sync) is a bit more problematic though. Now you've got to wrap things in spawn_blocking(), which isn't nearly as benign.
In the UK they love their safety labels. Only country where I’ve been where there’s a safety label on everything. It’s ridiculous.
Been using MacOS for 12 years as well and I still dislike it.

On my Arch development machine I have about 30 Gnome extensions that play nicely together.

I have also developed extensions on Gnome and I can certainly do much more extending than MacOS allows. Developer documentation for Gnome is bad, but if you dig in the code, you can make anything happen and the community is quite helpful if you are stuck and out of ideas.

Workspace navigation, window management between workspaces and on workspaces is a lot nicer and certainly more advanced on Gnome.
On Gnome, extensions integrate into the control center directly, while on MacOS everything is a separate paid app that has different UI/UX. And once you have too many of those helper apps in the top bar on MacOS, they disappear between the notch on newer Macbooks. You simply can not access them anymore, they are permanently hidden until you close other apps to make space, which is just ridiculous.

And try extending the top menu or dock on MacOS. It is not possible in a nice way. I have tried and paid for many tools on MacOS and it still is bad. You simply have to accept the defaults if you want to have a good time. And those defaults are counter productive for me personally.
I find that for writing (not coding, writing) I don't need the external monitor. There's an even simpler solution.

I just pair my phone with a lightweight butterfly-foldable BT keyboard ($40) and I can type on the train, plane, etc. It works really well, no laptop needed.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C1VSRZ59/?th=1

It's a great way to take notes in a lecture hall too, or to do some writing in a cafe while I'm traveling. I've done lots of long-form writing this way and it's perfectly fine. Also great for writing HN comments with.

Lugging a laptop around always seemed overkill to me. Even an iPad is too much weight to carry around.

A phone and a foldable keyboard is all I need.
Completely agree, but it's in the URL in a fairly nice form.
I think this is about intellectual power more then money. Academics, who benefit from this system, have an outsized influence on political discourse.
A key skill necessary to work effectively with LLMs is learning how to use technology that is fundamentally unreliable and non-deterministic.

A lot of people appear to find this hurdle almost impossible to overcome.
They would need to have a self-sufficient base otherwise a good old-fashioned blockage would be very effective.
I question utility of that reduction. When you reduce complex situations to simple words like 'socialism' you lose nuance and predictive power. It's not binary. It's more or less. Canada is more socialist than USA. Norway is more socialist than Canada.

Reducing to "is" or "isn't" doesn't help understand the problem or come up with viable solutions.
The Jackpot Generation
It isn't set up to now, but it has been before and it can be again
You don't have "an industry" that hikes prices, and there is a central authority without ulterior motive that has an influence over what is funded. Not to mention that you don't put young people into debt from get go.
The brazillian probably borrowed from the american. I don't know how.

We don't have anything similar to american pancakes in our culture. There is no such thing. So, if anyone needs to say "pancake" in brazil, refering to american pancakes, they'll use the term "panqueca". Movies do this, Google Translate does it and most bi-lingual en-us+pt-BR people will recognize this.

There's a well-estabilished linguistic relation between the two, despite any etymological root differences and despite the dishes being so different.

Our word for cake is "bolo", and our word for pan is "panela", but "panela" means one specific kind of pan here. Thin pans (like the sort of pan you'd use to cook an egg) are often called "frigideiras" (there's a relation to frying there somewhere, not fridge). I guess "bolo de frigideira" just didn't made any sense to whomever popularized the translation over here (it really sounds weird, I totally understand why).
Yeah I don't get why this isn't talked about more. It feels like one of those things in the 80s/90s during the free market fad where people decided that private loans would fix education and it ended up just disastrous.
Those things are so goddamn loud, I've seen them tested before a bunch. I used to see them for sale on ebay and amazon which was pretty funny. Not anymore. Still on aliexpress, as well as these sound laser directional speakers albeit the LRAD will run you at least 5 grand and you can probably make the directional speaker cheaper as in this DIY project
Local AI obviously
Not the balls themselves, but I believe the fabric is thicker, and thus has a bigger effect on the balls' motion, on snooker tables compared to pool. There are also other difficulties, such as the cue having a smaller tip that brings more variability in the spin imparted to a ball, but those I think are less relevant to the ability to model the game from first principles (Newton's laws of motion).
People got addicted to cannabis as kids because it was banned and was a forbidden fruit and kids love forbidden fruits. Now they are not kids anymore but high-earning professionals (those from the working class instead, went to jail because cannabis was still illegal and what gets a working class dude to jail, a middle class kid can usually get away with). But they stay addicted. New kids don't care about weed because it's now legal and so they never develop an interest to it because no cool factor.
> The ceremony was wonderful. It’s a bit of fun in a big fancy hall. It’s like you take the most serious ceremony possible and make fun of every aspect of it.

A glorified shitpost. I love it.

There was an article/blog post on HN not too long ago of a chap who realized Blue Zones are a farce and it’s underreported deaths instead.

To folks linking pop-sci books, you may want to think twice.
I know this is meant to be sarcastic, but it's a perfectly reasonable point. Not only that, it already came true; a lot of the time compute power has become so plentiful that we're more concerned about battery life and efficiency than actual raw grunt in personal computers. The main exceptions are gamers and people who use productivity software, but let's face it: Grandma does not need a 7995WX to log into Facebook.
But…the whole point is that it is NOT a market. If student debt is dischargeable and the government guarantee is removed or dramatically reduced, pretty much all problems are “solved”.

Universities will have to start focusing on ROI. Universities that provide a poor ROI will shut down. Universities will need to reduce costs for traditional coursework, cut courses with poor returns, add courses with higher returns.

The inflation in higher education that has run rampant due to subsidized demand being removed.
You are not wrong. Don't most people have a desktop computer which is less powerful than an M1? That strengthens the original comment, yes?
Not sure what you're trying to say here . x25519 is objectively not PQC and never claimed to be, and this isn't debatable.
It doesn't even need to be regulatory capture to cement their positions and prevent competition. It just needs to be enough regulatory burden (even if justified) to prevent competitors (or other human persons) from doing what they did.

I'd be shocked if the megacorps were not actively lobbying to seal off the market like this.
Add a wireless keyboard, mouse and monitor then you’ve got a desktop computer.

Not gonna happen from Apple but I’m eagerly awaiting the day.
Free education does not mean "no degrees", it means "funded from taxes/ by goverment".
Buying things isnt soft power. The discussion was about soft power. Owning things is not soft power. He is referring to cultural exports. And there are not any.
I fully expect remote solutions to smoke local options

Once you include the all the network overhead of sending images/video files to a server and back over a not very fast connection, I suspect it will be closer than you think for most real world use cases. And even if a cloud solution can improved the overall performance from say 4 seconds to 2 seconds, I don't see that as a huge win overall.

All that being said Apple does also offer an AI cloud compute solutions for operation too heavy to run on the phone.
And some jobs do. As I've noted elsewhere if you want to go into Big Law, you go to a relative handful of law schools, which are heavily fed by undergrad Ivies, and clerk at a high federal level.
Veganism is awful for you.
The profit motive reliably exposes brokenness. What changed to make loans for useless activity profitable? Normally, a loan for useless activity wouldn’t be issued, because of the expectation that it wouldn’t be repaid.
It's bizarre to me how accepting we are of the idea that higher education should cost anything let alone be mind-bogglingly expensive. This is wildly successful propaganda. Student loan debt was an explicit political goal [1]:

> "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat," announced Reagan advisor Roger A. Freeman during a press conference on Oct. 29, 1970. Freeman, an economics professor at Stanford, was also an advisor to President Richard Nixon.

> "We have to be selective on who we allow to go through [higher education]," Freeman added.

Poverty is intentional and a necessary condition for capitalism. It creates a malleable and compliant labor force. Student debt, medical debt, housing debt. All of it only exists to make a handful of extremely wealthy people slightly more wealthy.

Modern universities aren't really about education at all. They're simply hedge funds in a trenchcoat.

Harvard, for example, makes what? Half a billion in tuition per year? But they have upwards of $50 billion in their endowment. The interest alone could fund the entire university.

[1]: https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/threat-of-educate...
I feel shame for our society every time I walk past drug addicted homeless people camped out on the sidewalk.

Drugs are shameful, to the degree that they impact your life.

Some of us are so oppposed to shame that we justify and defend the most self destructive habits. You should be ashamed for that.
Karpathy very recently said Tesla is a robotics company. They're making the machines that make machines.
It's always nice to know that people can store their data for so long. In my research lab, we still only use separate external HDD drives due to budget reasons. Last year 4 (over 8) drives failed and we lost the data. I guess we mainly work with public data so it is not a big deal. But, it is a dream of mine to research without such worries. I do keep backups for my stuff though, but only me in my lab.
Chrome, HTML Canvas, and `willReadFrequently`
I’d guess it’s some contracts that’s valueated at high multiple for all kind of reasons, like it’s enterprise deal so it’ll be there forever and only increase the amount; the apple deal probably was known back then but only public recently; the influential type of customer that could help them break into particular industries;