skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During the early part of high school, a few friends and I began attending community college night classes for subjects we got exposed to in our day classes. By the time I graduated, I was half-way through a AAS degree and considered continuing locally a no-brainer.

Ended up transferring 70 credits or so over to a four-year institution 1 year after graduating high school and managed to walk away with a BS degree earlier than my peers and with no debt. Without community college, there's no way I would have achieved this; I owe a lot to that part of the system.

For many years, I felt like an imposter because of my community college background. The irony in it all though was that for a much cheaper, often more flexible schedule, and sometimes better teachers, I walked away with a lot of the same opportunity as my peers. Naturally, my "network" wasn't filled with ivy-leaguers, but I'd later rub shoulders with them in my employment and be considered equal.

More details around hacking through education: https://medium.com/@9bplus/hacking-the-education-process-1be...
Thank you for ellaborating.

It seems like your argument is centered around inflation, which is a relatively new phenomenon.

Regarding consumerism, perhaps you’re right that lack of inflation will reduce it. But what if, after a certain point, consumerism is the main driver of economic growth, the thing that enables all the really good stuff to develop, such as scientific development?

Regarding warfare, before fiat currency, you could argue that some wars were waged in order to get access to gold and silver mines. But I hope you’ll agree that those were only a small minority.

I’m excluding violence for the purpose of simply stealing gold and silver outright, because the equivalent can still happen in a blockchain world - just point a gun to someone’s head and tell them to transfer all their coins to your account.
The 2018 one is not a real quote.
Have you tried defining a custom network using Docker Compose?
If you're into NeXT or want to mess around with it you can get OpenStep 4 x86 to run in VirtualBox. You can get the ISOs here (including a crapton of other old OS's):

https://winworldpc.com/product/nextstep/4x

Instructions:

http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2621

I got it running but I haven't had a chance to setup the display (no color or high resolution) or install any apps yet:

https://i.imgur.com/pDfDT2v.png
While I'm not everybody, I think its decent and better than the default which is your ISP. Normally pointing directly at google or cloudflare does not hide it from your ISP. I actually just did this yesterday though not with a raspberry pi since I just care about my windows box for now and my router is not open enough to allow this. I think they recommend doing it on your router directly if possible. This helps with Android devices for instance which do not really let you set your DNS easily. I installed DNSCrypt for windows on my desktop and pointed at cloudflare. As others pointed out without a VPN, its only kinda helpful but I figure I don't need to share any more than I really need to with my ISP who I don't trust in general. Also I figure even with VPN anything that slips past the VPN for whatever reason is leaked less to my ISP.

Had an extra benefit of creating a log file of queries so I can see addresses that are being queried. I found NordVPN pinging random websites and wondering why? (To see if I'm blocked apparently)
I'm no expert, but here's the sequence (in reverse order) as I see it (for now): bad-things-happening <<< crazed-immune-system <<< crazed-gut-bacteria <<< 1st-world-bad-living

Anything that treats "bad things happening", or "crazed immune system", or "crazed gut bacteria", will be a bandaid.

I think our first world lifestyles create a perfect storm of bad living that undermines the foundations of a healthy human being from a multitude of vectors. Not enough sunlight, not enough unprocessed fresh foods, not enough exercise, not enough fresh air, long term consumption and exposure to compounds and chemicals that work against your bodies natural processes.

A friend of mine had to go every other month to sit in a chair for 4 hours at a clinic to receive an IV drip that included medication to squash his immune system. Why? Because his immune system was attacking every joint in his body. He could not move without extreme pain without the treatment. Eventually he stopped eating the cheapest and most processed of garbage food, started exercising every day, gave up alcohol and diet sodas, and lost 75lbs. He found that he no longer needed the medication after about a year of turning his life around...
Flag? What's this link without context?
They did have that pretty terrible bug where you could log-in to anyone's account with a blank password for a while though...
We have 12 public broadcasters that are independent of each other each with their own board (and on top working under the laws of different states ensuring that no one political institution has power over all them, the federal government is strictly barred of interfering by the constitution). 10 of those cooperate closely, share some resources, and produce a common TV station in addition to their own radio and TV stations. One is a radio broadcaster using resources of the others. The last one is a TV broadcaster that works separately. It's pretty inefficient but ensures that there is no single entity controlling everything.
Reading this entire thread has been enlightening. I use a 2015 15" MBPro at work (should be upgrading to a current model around June or July). It's been OK, but it runs into weird quirks on the regular. It also occasionally runs real hot and loud, though that could be entirely due to some [ineffectual and circumventable] corporate malware they force on us to prevent "leaks", etc.

My personal 13" 2013 MBPro has been fantastic. I haven't had an issue. My only complaint would be that it doesn't have some updated physical features but otherwise its great. If I upgrade my laptop, I'll be sure to keep this and go to town modding or whatever with it. It's been indestructible. And frankly I am hooked on the Mac trackpads—nothing else has been better for me yet
Show HN: A search engine for vinyl records (powered by RediSearch)
My physics professor at CC was an ex surfer whose son was a famous world class surfer. He would spend most classes telling us about surfing, mixed with warnings to never go into Physics unless you loved it because there was no funding. We did lots of fun labs, but nothing too rigorous. He was an amusing guy.

My worse teacher was for CS. He was supposed to teach us about assembly language, but he had absolutely no idea what he was doing, and it was obvious to everyone. He would just babble nonsense for hours every lecture, trying to pretend he understood. The class revolted and petitioned to get him expelled from the college! I think he was one of the most senior lecturers there, he might have even been chair of the CS dept. Can't say I'm surprised, I think CS teaching quality is poor outside of 4 year schools.
Different market. You could say they missed the market on medium and large format cameras until you realize they were in the 35mm camera market. Different optics and recording medium size compared to smart phones.
Some thought on why an explicit social credit score might be better than the current system.

The current system already has surveillance. And it's very likely that some hidden score system is already in place (because surveillance is basically useless without some kind of data-analaysis/filtering tools, which boils down to giving scores to people...) So with the current system, you may be denied government jobs or access to some services based on this hidden scoring system already in place. You will be denied but without knowing why, with no clues on how to fix this.

With an explicit social score, contrary to the current system, you see your score going down whenever you do something that does not please the gov. You also get an explicit score increase or (whatever reward) if you manage to change your behavior to please the gov. This makes it possible to understand why your score might go down and to game the system to bring your score back to normal. Gaming the system and understanding how to regain access to denied services is not possible with the (probably) currently implemented hidden scores.

Of course, I am fully against this type of surveillance and thankful of not living in such country. But the idea the the new, more explicit social credit scores will be worse than the current system can be challenged.
AlphaGo (documentary movie)
I believe backblaze let's you backup with your own key, but you should confirm as I'm only ~95% positive.
For sure, I was makimg a haphazard joke about German efficiency. Is a pleonasm an oxymoron?
Donations from Tech: find out who your company PAC is donating to
Depending on the price and some safety stats, I think I'd be very willing to take slower trip in a modern zeppelin. Just for the passiveness (for my own comfort and the lower energy requirement for the environment) of it.
It's not as user friendly to set it up as it could be, but I'm using https://upspin.io
Yes, you can follow the instructions from the wiki https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/wiki/DNSCrypt-2.0
I've never really understood liberal opposition to the possession of firearms in the United States, given the country's founding principles. That said, I'd be more concerned about the right to vote, the right of the free press, the 10th amendment (which why aren't people more angry about?), the right to privacy as currently understood by the courts, and the fact that class-action lawsuits on behalf of people harmed unlawfully by such a system would cripple any corporate version of it.

I don't really understand the political spectrum in the United States, tbh. Obviously you need to be willing to take up arms against an oppressive federal government, should such a thing happen (and who would be deluded enough to think that a military coup would be categorically impossible in any country - if not now, what about a century from now?)
The OP gave a specific reason: "I’m interested in decluttering."
Your English is fine and way better than my 2nd language skills. Unless you are going to become a con man or a spy, I wouldn't give it another thought.
Time and again telecoms continue to pull these types of shenanigans. If you are building a website in 2018 using https with hsts enabled is a must.
To be brutally honest, recreational drug use is absurdly overrated, and the people that insist on engaging in cool kid drug experimentation merit badges are selfish to the point that they wouldn't be missed. Bombs away, and let it burn.
Most people use modern English translations of the Bible.
The disinformation campaign and massive radiation increase behind the 5G rollout
For Rust there's the nom [0] parser combinator library. Very pleasant to use, good support for expressing parse errors, with speed quite close to hand-written parsers.

[0] https://github.com/Geal/nom
Also got the xps 15 and don't recommend it.

The PCH overheats very easily causing cpu/gpu tasks to throttle for its life.

The system has a interrupt overload from the WiFi extreme which causes subtle stuttering.

I've lost 47%battery health in just over a year.

The sound pops when playing YouTube videos and sometimes just goes Max volume until the sound card resets.

The graphics card didn't work when I got it and had to be downgraded to a different model and version for it to work.

The thing is a piece of shit. I had the macbook 2015 before that and it worked flawlessly in comparison.
It is far more difficult to condemn illegal drug trade and consumption than it is to condemn the trade and consumption of completely ineffective "medicine".

Drug production and use generally causes little damage, the same does not apply for this insane "natural medicine" practiced by some people.
Why don't you enlighten us on what their viewpoints are?
That was my first thought as well. Did you find anything?
I need citation on this idea that flux is just as toxic as lead.

Being a technician, I read the MSDS:

https://www.mgchemicals.com/downloads/msds/01%20English%20Ca...

vs:

https://www.mgchemicals.com/downloads/msds/01%20English%20Ca...

I mean, I ain't saying you should lick either one... and yeah, I don't know how much if any lead is released into the air during normal operation, but lead is pretty seriously toxic to humans, and avoiding touching the lead as I'm using it sounds kinda difficult. The flux? yeah, that isn't any good for you either, but I don't think it's in the same category as lead when it comes to toxicity.
It does mean of course that you can't search through your files while they are stored on the cloud or use any cloud-native editing tools on those files. For many, this is a reasonable tradeoff, but it means the encryption can't be totally transparent.
The problem currently is that they aren't getting warrants!
HP Spectre
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/spectre-laptop/overview.h...

I have the 2016 version and the only gotcha I've run into running Fedora out of the box is suspend to RAM does not work (sleep, wake, sleep, wake, sleep, wake). But it's easy to fix:

Create a file in /etc/tmpfiles.d/
-rw-r--r--. root root suspendfix.conf

w /proc/acpi/wakeup - - - - PWRB
w /proc/acpi/wakeup - - - - XHC

That's it. Powerbutton will still work for suspend and wake. Gory details of bisecting this and ACPI debugging with kernel devs
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185521

And one other small problem with easy work around, older kernels (Fedora 27 and older so circa kernel 4.12 and older) do not instantiate USB if the USB-C to USB-3 adapter is connected during boot. So if you boot a USB stick with one of the two USB 3.1 gen 2 ports, you'll see GRUB 2, it finds and loads the kernel and initramfs but then you end up in a rescue shell because the kernel itself can't find the stick. Workaround 1 is to boot off the powerport / USB 3.1 gen 1 (not Thunderbolt) port using a fully charged battery and install. Work around 2 is Fedora 28 which has a kernel that's working correctly, so you can use either of the USB 3.1 gen 2 ports just fine while still being plugged into power.
Recently I've started thinking about the importance of acknowledging multiple top-level goals. At times I've tried to describe my life goals as a dependency tree of priorities, but eventually decided that framing it as such, with a single root node, does not do justice to the human experience. I want some selfish things, and also some very altruistic things, and those can coexist because I'm not a singularly focused machine. I have different moods and am influenced by the people and culture around me, and I admit that I cannot fully control my environment.

Perhaps this is too abstract an answer, but maybe it helps a bit. I'm 35, and am still working on more concrete answers. In many ways my thinking has not changed much since I was 21.

I want to do no harm to the world (or as little as possible from the environmental perspective). I want to spend my time on intellectually stimulating, meaningful work that is of real consequence to others. I want to be in love with someone, and have deep relationships with a variety of people. I want to be wealthy enough that I can live in comfort as I get older (although I feel that some level of frugality is healthy, physically and mentally). I want to enjoy the natural beauty of the world, all the more because much of it will be gravely damaged in my lifetime.

I think I have made some progress on all fronts!
Self-driving Lego train system shuffles balls around endlessly
These excuses seem to be regularly voted to the top. I wonder if Zuck has his minions crawling this site.
For how long of a period? Also, what level of detail? Is someone only knowing your name (like most famous people in history) sufficient?
Same in London (buses, not sure about trams). Catching a night bus home from Trafalgar Square along with eighty other people who are also at the wrong end of a big night out is a classic rite of passage for Londoners.

It got a bit less overwhelming when they started running the night buses from all over central London rather than just from Trafalgar Square. It's changed again recently now that some underground lines are 24 hour.
99.9% of people where?

If you look at the world outside of your little bubble, there are over 3 billion people with little or no access to banking services that the west takes for granted.

And do you think people in Venezuela, India, Greece, Zimbabwe, etc trust that their governments will do the right thing?
Surface Book 2 has been an awesome machine for me. I had about 5 laptops last year trying different ones. This one stuck.
I went to community college in San Diego, CA when I was trying to return to school to finish a computer science degree. It was a godsend.

I was able to complete linear algebra, introductory physics, and vector calculus for something like $200 in voluntary book costs (tuition was waved). My instructors were knowledgeable and professional. I got more out of the physics class in particular than I did out of the University of Minnesota version, which were run by bored TA's and researchers who frankly had better things to do than lecture.

That saved me a full semester of university tuition. I had already completed the breadth electives in a previous pass through the academic world, but if I hadn't I could have shaved off another year or so, for a savings upwards of $22,000.

I believe we should continue to expand and invest in community colleges very aggressively, and keep them very cheap, and very easy to get into.
My takeaway from the whole GDPR craze is that if you respect your users and have some ethics as to how you process their data then you don't have much to worry about to begin with.

If you are an asshole that's trying to get as much data off your users in order to resell them to the highest bidder, share it with "partners" (partners in crime that is), or to advertise/spam them with shit they don't need, then frankly you (or your industry) asked for this themselves.

The only downside I see to GDPR is that we've now opened the gates for a new breed of "GDPR consultant" that's gonna charge hundreds an hour just to rehash what the law says in a slightly different way and defraud businesses that way by pretending to be a valuable service (and no doubt there will be clueless execs that'll actually believe it and pay for that).
Modern versions of Minesweeper actually makes it so nothing _around_ your first click is a mine, so you always reveal more than one square.

https://guangcongluo.com/dminer/

is a version I wrote while trying to teach myself React.
Have I taken on too much
Hi guys,

I recently got offered a job as technical lead for a startup company and they offered me £35k and I’m not sure if I’m taking on too much. I’m thrilled about the position but not sure if I’ve taken on too much and if I’m good enough.
How about SyncThing?
> I've used googles (a bad idea, in retrospect) for the last 10 years or so.

That is a reasonable consideration, but Google is very specific about how they use and retain data collected by Google Public DNS. Assuming they are not lying, I don't think it's a significant concern. (Admittedly, their policy is not as good as Cloudflare's "no IP logging" policy.)

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy

TL;DR: Logs with IP addresses are deleted within 48 hours; permanent logs keep city-level location data, but no personally identifiable information. "We don't correlate or combine information from our temporary or permanent logs with any personal information that you have provided Google for other services."
As I understand it, the existing Directive has to be implemented by member states in domestic law. This makes it difficult for one member state to enforce action against a company incorporated in another. As a Regulation, the GDPR is directly binding and can be enforced at the EU level, rather than just at the national level.

In some ways, it makes it easier to comply, because you just have one set of rules rather than multiple national implementations of the Directive.
Obviously you dispatch localized fleets of drones to catch the discarded batteries.

Then you just need a fleet of smaller planes to carry those drones.
I got to think about this for months after I made a hit ios app (everything is relative but should be fine economically for many years).

I landed in something like "creating things that humanity hasn't yet created."

Ideally this should be real technical inventions or scientific discoveries that makes our lives better or extends the knowledge of who we are.

However I'm not smart enough to even start doing this within say nanotechnology, physics or cosmology.

I am now working on a science fiction film that also aims to raise awareness about ai security (very indirectly but still). If I can contribute to that discussion starting in society at the same time as I'm doing something I love, and people can enjoy watching, I'm very happy.
A lot of really clever people have thought about this problem, including Prof. Rivest (the "R" in RSA) https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rivest-ElectronicVoting....

It also leaves me wondering, is there really no good way to secure voting machines?
Yeah one of the mistakes I made was taking the "everything sucks" approach too early and too often. I don't think that taking a different approach would have helped though. Sometimes I think it takes (near-)complete turnover of the original implementation team to make things suck less.
Password protection using 7Zip probably is the easiest solution.
Actually the aux tank wasn't added to the Mustang purely for range. A big factor was helping to balance out the heavier Merlin engine. Pilots would typically leave about 1/3 of the tank to keep ideal balance and have an emergency fuel reserve. Typically by the time they had taken off and made the climb to altitude they had burned enough fuel from the aux tank (about half) to be in reasonable "fighting trim". Would've been pretty audacious for the Luftwaffe to try intercepting them that early in the mission, well within the range of every other USAAF and RAF fighter.
Musk-Stark efforts bear fruit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9BUcjuW-_A
While there is a law (to be precise: one in each state) mandating to pay this fee it is levied by the broadcasters themselves and the money is at no point touching accounts controlled by the government.

(As a sidenote because it's confusing for people from both sides: In Germany we differentiate between taxes which end up in the general budget and can be used for everything and fees which are purpose-bound from the moment of collection, e.g. in this case the levied money must be used for broadcasting. This differentiation is not common elsewhere.)