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While I know I discovered this thread late, I hope it's not too late to reply :)

Being a Dane it mostly seems to me that people defend their university a lot and it often correlates with where you grew up/went.
So people saying Aalborg is the best probably grew up near Aalborg or went to study there. This is of course very anecdotal but when I studied CS in a CPH university nobody ever spoke of Aalborg. People spoke about KU, ITU and DTU. Sometimes Aarhus was mentioned.

Not saying Aalborg isn't great, but my general observation is people defend their university choice like it's holy. Probably the same in other countries :) so my suggestion would always be go where things are "closest to home". If you're a foreigner, pick the one closest to the airport for convience.

One example is from outside Denmark is another commenter in this thread mentioned the royal Stockholm uni, but forgot to mention Lund University (LTH) which is just as prestigious.

In the end I never noticed anyone caring except in jest. Never met anyone who cared professionally.
I have been facing the same issue and eventually went for the Thinkpad X1 Extreme - and I'm quite surprised to not seeing it mentioned here.

I was afraid of the 15" being too big but as I'm not using much external screens anymore, this is the perfect size - the laptop is also very light and portable, given it's a 15"...

The GeForce graphic card is awesome. So are the 2x pcie and additional RAM slots. Bonus for the mate screen.

Small minus to the battery life, who averages to 5-8hrs (max). Otherwise it's an amazing, durable, efficient machine that does the job, at probably replaces well a MBP. Also, Windows 10 isn't perfect but I'm finding it pretty good after all. I use HyperV Linux VMs for dev and the overhead is totally acceptable.
You can rebind your capslock key to escape. I'm so addicted that I rebind it on every keyboard I use now. It's a much better location than normal escape and works everywhere throughout the OS.
Screwing over workers for profit is nothing new [1]. You’d think after more than a hundred years we could start calling a spade a spade.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_...
I find it ludicrous that amongst the hundreds of comments between here and on Twitter, people seem to completely ignore that this is a FREE WEBSITE. But one that is likely incredibly expensive to operate.

How to reconcile this and attempt to make up the shortfall? You're looking at it.

Imgur started as hardly more than an IMG element. It burned and burned and burned money, and their users were happy.

Then it added ads, but it didn't matter because people direct linked from reddit anyway, which was the vast majority of the traffic.

Then imgur realized they need to break their dependency on the reddit social mass, and built their own to apparently great success.

Now people go to imgur for images directly, and stay.

So. All that "bloat" came around for a reason and it was to try to make the company sustainable as a business.

Dammed if you do, and if you don't.
Thought on Vue 3 Composition API – `reactive()` considered harmful
As someone who disagrees on most things with yang and sanders, I didnt see the most attractive thing about yangs proposal: this UBI replaces other social safety net programs and aims to gain efficiency by eliminating the overhead from multiple government offices.
>, it's a balance.. but it's not one that most people can adjust without significant work.

Instead of engaging your other points, let me focus on that one I quoted. Does "significant work" mean you agree with the author's idea that we can change our introversion?

If so, you're using the term very differently from me and it's not productive for us to even debate it because we're not even on the same page of what introversion _is_. Because I'm saying this: if I go to another social function, and even if I enjoy that social function, that does _not_ make me "less introverted" and I have not become "more balanced".
lets just hope it is not a gamma ray burst as that would potentially still get both planets
Evacuating cities in the event of an atomic attack was also cited as a reason though that obviously seems questionable as well. As I wrote in another comment, the defense justification was probably mostly just a way to get the help get the act passed.
What's it... for? If my MacBook's closed and it hasn't been, like, several days, the answer to "how much charge does it have?" is "about what it had when you closed it".
If you drove to the store in a car you knew had faulty brakes and killed someone: yes you would be pursuing milk at the expense of human lives. And I guarantee you if they could prove you knew your brakes were bad, the punishment would absolutely be worse than if you just had an unpreventable accident.
The difference between small, point to point vehicles that operate like taxis and rail is that taxis actually get cars off the road.

I attended Hack for LA a couple years back and 1/3 of the traffic in downtown LA is drivers looking for parking. Switching to shared ride transit will decongest the roads.
“At whatever costs” easily becomes a moral stance even if nothing strictly immoral was supposed to be assumed.
http://www.puzzlepiece.org/bcontrol/voegeli1956.txt
> they are betraying the gnu leadership

What do you mean?
I do ultras at MAF pace 180-age=heart rate. I've dong 50K and 13M mountain race, each about 6 hours, I'm slow. I ate nothing, I came in about a 1/2 lighter, that's about it.
Lobbying is another problem. For example, the Koch brothers have been involved in lobbying against (and placing public advertisements against) local public transportation improvements in a number of cities because it will hurt their oil industry companies and investments.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub...
Thanks! I have another question about observable: are you aware of anyone using mathbox in conjunction with observable? Do you think that could be a fruitful direction?

https://github.com/unconed/mathbox
The advice given in the blog is colored by the author's life experiences: they had a job they weren't satisfied with in Japan, tried their hand at an ISV (this is what start-ups were called back then), then at consulting and found what I assume to be success with that. This happened over the last 15 years I think.

The funny thing is that calling oneself anything except X programmer has become pretty common. In fact, with more and more money flowing into programming, there's no shortage of bullshit artists and self-promoters.
Like the idea of a dumb TV without a web browser, etc. But this implementation doesn't appeal to me. Sorry.
There really is no reason picking up a rental needs to be as time consuming as it is (could be dropped off like an Uber near to the station) and I’m amazed there isn’t a version of Uber that combines short hops from public transport somewhere timed for when the train arrives. These problems are actually opportunities in my opinion, I’m surprised Uber isn’t onto them...
It only lists free fonts
UBI is interesting politically. It combines the social welfare and income inequality that some like on the left and the libertarianism (people choosing what to do with their money rather than heavier government services) that’s popular on the non-batshit right.

I doubt that the American electorate would go for it in the next fifty years. Given that it’s gaining support first on the left combined with the impressive propensity of the Democratic Party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, navigating such a successfully nuanced political proposal seems to require one of the once-in-a-generation leader.

High hopes, no expectations of success.
The sad thing is I generally support things like SmartOS. I have a SmartOS box at home. It's just that anytime SmartOS or anything like docker comes up on HN, annatar comes out of the woodwork to complain how shitty linux is without providing anything of value.

A while back I even tried to encourage him to explain HOW zones are better with real examples instead of just shitting all over a how-to mentioning docker. He instead attacked me and said it wasn't his job to teach anyone anything. Awesome job, the only thing anyone learned from that thread was that SmartOS users are assholes.

What's left of solaris is dying and he is helping in every way he can.
UBI plus removing the minimum wage seems like an interesting option.
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1. The highways are such good competition that they make the already-dubious capital and operating cost picture of passenger rail even worse.

2. The US has the best freight and logistics rail system in the world. Existing rail right of way favors freight uses at the expense of passenger trains, which makes the passenger trains even less palatable. This is a feedback loop, where in turn rail ridership is low and gets even less resource share.
I don't flag articles but this is one that I would flag. Why? It's typical HN 'red meat'. Well presented and (seemingly) well written and thoughtful. But the writer not only has no expertise (he did research?) but offers no backup (other than things that other news outlets have written) for most if not all of his statements. Now it's on thing if you are a major news outlet (NYT, WSJ or online well know publication) and it's another thing if you are just 'some guy, writer with a 'media company'' (what he does) and you do this and post your own articles.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=davidperell

Why bother to read this exactly? There is always a question of what you read being true and sure it's fun to poke positive or negative. But honestly having a flashy website or blog is not enough.

(Kudos David for being opportunistic (I really mean that btw) pulling this off).
Coffee mug warmer works, or just a large bucket for thermal mass
I’m glad it works for you. It doesn’t work for me, on top of the myriad other Linux things that don’t work for me that, although well within my capability to fix, I would rather not have to deal with.
This isn’t a big selling point on the left. It would be in the general, but the make-up of the primary voters is further to the left. Dismantling government programs isn’t their jam.
As engineers the way could be like this:

- Write down the rules precisely.

- Get input from as many consumer rights organizations as possible.

- Submit the final rule set as a RFC or standard.

- Create a certification process with logo.

- Start lobbying for this certification become mandatory whenever there is a big cybersecurity scandal.
WeWork and its investors did not try to value it like a high margin software company. WeWork was valued like a standard, overly optimistic growth company. This is another narrative invented by tech journalists who don’t understand how valuation works.

Regus is a mature company with no plans for massive growth. Of course their Value (p/e of under 20 I believe) is going to reflect that.

Meanwhile, look at any non-tech company in growth stage. Take Shake Shack for example. Their P/E ratio is 170. Chipotle had a p/e of 400 a few years ago.

Nobody thinks Shake Shack and Chipotle are tech companies. These valuations reflect the prospects of growth—-not misplaced beliefs about restaurants being tech companies.
I am against UBI because the soon as you give people $1000 dollars, their rent, transport, and other associated costs will go up by exactly $1000 over a relatively quick time frame. It will initially look good, but it will be extremely transient. You'll then have all the same problems you had before and a huge financial engine sucking in and spitting out tremendous amounts of money that needs to be managed to no practical effect.

These effects might not be visible with a "mincome" type RCT experiment because they rely on there being enough extra income lying around for it to be worth it to industry to design programs and policies around it.

Instead, we should nationalize certain industries and make them free of charge to end users (e.g. healthcare, public transit, housing, education, etc).
This is such an important topic and missing skill in the tech workplace.

It's impossible to prioritize work without estimating the cost & value of projects, and teams that don't prioritize are always overworked, playing catchup and are unhappy.

What the author says about 'we shipped different functionality to what we planned' is really important too -- beginning managers aren't willing to have this conversation but scope de-creep is the only way to deliver quality work on-time.

It's not enough to play planning poker, you need to have ICs in the room for spec design and make time to identify & resolve unknowns before committing to features / timelines.
I don't think donating huge money to Github can be an evidence that M$ are moving toward Java
Continue to raise the H1B numbers until the STEM salaries fall...
True for workstations, but most services are running on VMs these days. OS shouldn't need blobs to run on VMs.
Not all devices have a screen or an easy method to input a TRR URL. So even if a vendor has the best intentions, the effort needed to make DoH configurable could be more than what can be justified for a "niche feature".

I believe there are ideas for a network-level autodiscovery of DoH servers, analogous to regular DNS. That would solve the problem, but I can't see how it would get buy-in from the DoH crowd, as it would tie DNS to the network again - and it would still have to be implemented by every single device.

Of course all of this is moot if the vendor actively wants to prevent you from intercepting DNS.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree that there is some information missing. We will extend the documentation in the coming days to fill in missing information.
I don't object to you being angry about devices you don't control on your home network. You should be angry about that. It just doesn't have anything to do with DNS.
>bought 300 tickets for activists

I'll protest if you get me season nets tickets. I'll bring a winnie the pooh costume
From the brain cancer study:

“Findings from this study suggested that higher consumption of coffee may contribute to the lower development of brain cancer in Asian populations. Tea consumption had an inverse association for the risk of brain cancer in American populations, instead of other populations.”

That’s a pretty important footnote that might mean the causal factor here in this study is not coffee or tea, but other foods in the diet. It’s certainly a good reason to pause and question whether to dive into an 8 cups/day routine.
before trying to find out if it can be similarily optimized in deep learning, one would have to define a differentiable equivalent of histograms / means.

One approach would be to define the histogram as

H(x) = sum_i_0,N ( A * exp(-((x-x_i)/B)^2)) with B a spread parameter, and A a normalization constant so that a single sample integrates to a unit area under the gaussian. The mean M would then be the value such that integrating from minus infinity to M equals N/2 (half the samples below, and half above, with sample position blurred along the histogram)

Perhaps a different convolution function can be chosen for easier integration? A/(x+B)^2, is symmetric and perhaps more easily integrated.
It's so hard to untangle hormones from life events.

I transitioned in a way that's somewhat backwards from how people typically do it these days; I was presenting female or genderqueer pretty much 100% of the time before I transitioned.

And through that, I found my female side was the one full of color, life, extroversion, you name it. It wasn't hormones so much as just being me. The party half of me - who went to bars, clubs, etc, was always female.

It definitely does something, though. Both times I got on hormones (once after a few weeks break for surgery) I went through a period of weeks-to-months where I was very zen and in control of my life, though whatever it was, I gradually adjusted. It's almost impossible to tease out what's life events, what's hormones, and then what hormones are causing which things. Because E2 and T are coupled (E2 suppresses T, albeit with lag)... which is really driving what? And never mind P.

Bottom line, biology is too complicated for the very blunt instruments we have to measure it. We're really winging it, transgender people especially. It's easy to say things like women live longer and are way more prone to migraines and depression. But why? Is that from hormones? Are people who have a little bit more of some hormone just a little bit more likely to be depressed? Or is the depression an artifact of how culture treats women?

There's no basis for the assumption that cisgender hormone levels are ideal for transgender people (and even if they were, at what part of the cycle would be ideal?), but it's kinda all we got to go on.

Hormones are weird, yo.
Ubuntu Mono remains my favorite for coding/terminals. It has a great mix of character and minimalism and of course is completely free/libre. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Ubuntu+Mono
It lacks explanatory power.

It should be possible to screw workers without endangering lives or the bottom line. Boeing did that long time. So did Airbus, GE Aviation, Rolls-Royce, Bombardier.
How is OpenAI misleading? The entire post on OpenAI is about the physics of the problem (different sized cubes, materials, etc.)

When I saw the press release I understood the demonstration was about hand dexterity and not trying to use AI to solve a Rubik’s Cube pattern. That would be overkill IMHO. You don’t need a neural net to solve it and I never thought OpenAI was trying to mislead.

Side note: One of the commenters on the Twitter thread referred to Marcus as the James Randi of AI in jest. I worked for Randi for several years handling the Million-Dollar Paranormal Challenge and investigating unusual claims. I can tell you a lot about misleading claims...
On the other hand their productivity in a well organized sorting facility might go up, such that you're paying them a fair and legal hourly wage but the price per sorted item remains similar. Maybe.

There are other complications though. The willingness of the public to employ such people, and the willingness of such people to be employed.
You can probably guess why that wasn't raised by Yang - people who have said programs or think that poor people benefiting from said programs would see it as a bad trade.

Personally, without cost containment on the supplier side (ie, inflation), or pegging this benefit to inflation, it sounds like a bad idea.

Cash handouts are some of the most cost-effective things a government can do (up to a point), as dollars given to people living on a shoestring often recycle in the economy up to 5x, and result in about $1.73 returning to government via taxes for every $1 spent.
Trump Campaign Floods Web with Ads, Raking in Cash as Democrats Struggle
It's probably more similar to NixOps, but there is

https://propellor.branchable.com/

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/unifying_OS_installation_and_co... kinda talks about this sort of thing
Together, the cheapest plan I could add that would actually
give me the shows I watch is around ~$50 additional, so it’s about even.

Not taking Prime into account cause I use other prime features more-so
Right, yours does. OK.

All macs do.
Given the recent shakeup at GNU, perhaps the "GNU" branding should be dropped, in order to make this project more welcoming to women and the oppressed.
There's also a hippocratic argument to be made that you shouldn't throw out what's not broken.
Relevant thread on /r/MachineLearning: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/dkd4vz/d_g...

Greg Brockman commented there:

> We ping journalists to ask them to correct factual errors in reporting when we see them (though they may not always agree with our corrections). For example, the Washington Post article (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/18/this-ro...) feels misleading, so we've emailed them and linked them to the relevant sections in our blog post (namely, that we use Kociemba's algorithm as you mention).
It provide ways for military vehicles to cross the country easily and long stretches of highway could be used as aircraft runways.
High speed rail is paying for half of the electrification project.
> What was learned was object manipulation, not cube solving

Which is almost certainly a harder problem
Her points are super vague in my opinion.

I think it'd be helpful if she were to explain the levels these signs can take. It's very easy to find things when you're looking for them, even if they're not actually there. And most people exhibit any of these to some degree (i.e. she should qualify bad-mouthing or rule-bending: is it only egregious, etc.?).
Corner the market on rare earths. Alternatively, hold a nation hostage by threatening to transmute one of their mountain ranges into something unpleasant like astatine.
> The politician isn't looking to do what's right, they're looking to get reelected.

But that's true in all democracies, pretty much by definition.
That's a useful list. If I may say so I think it omits the best one!

Cmd-Shift-G: Use the filesystem however the fuck you like, with tab completion.
I'm available
> If automation was the problem, then US would be price competitive on goods with China.

This (and the article's similar approach) is only half of the equation.

'If automation was the problem and cheaper than offshored labor, then US would be price competitive on goods with China'

There are two independent variables: the cost of offshore labor (China recently, SE Asia and Africa now) & the cost of automation.

Businesses are going to pursue whatever is most cost effective.

But people are incorrectly ignoring automation because it isn't a problem now.

Put more restrictions on offshoring labor (thereby raising its cost) and automation is going to start looking very important.
It is close to the rules for a package to get included into 'testing' from unstable, they must have gotten the branches mixed up.
Good analogy, and I find it slightly ironic, because the introvert will go to the gym, focus for an hour, and be tired out, while the extrovert will go to the gym, talk to people half the time, and not put in nearly as heavy a workout...
This is not his proposal. His 'Freedom Dividend' is a minimum guarantee of income.

A person receiving $1,000/mo or more in benefits will not see any change at all.
Hi everyone. My name is Adi, and I'm a co-instructor for Stanford's CS43, Functional Programming Paradigms. We are designing our curriculum for the Winter 2020 quarter, so I would be very interested in feedback if people have any.

-AG
Good for you.

Possibly not for many people.
Good read- thanks.
Thank you for the feedback.

What is the problem with gender-specific analogies in computing? If I'm making an analogy with relationships, and I am a man, why wouldn't I use a female for the other half?
Came here to post about the LG Gram 17 as well. I too have never seen anything like it. I bought mine from Costco for $1200. They seemed to have some exclusive model where the specs are exactly the same as yours, but it only came with a 256 GB SSD, all other specs are the same (the model number has one character different: 17Z990-R.AAS7U1 vs. your 17Z990-R.AAS8U1).

The 16:10 screen is excellent. The battery life for me is about 16 hours, enough for a 2-day stretch, and I can go on a short business trip without ever having to plug in.

I transferred my 3 year old Fedora install with dd from an XPS 13, and then upgraded from 29 to 30 with zero issues.

Edit to add: Mine fits in a backpack meant for a 15" laptop.
> ”Each day I walk into work, and this slot opens up above my head, and money falls out ... the next day I come back, and the slot reopens; more money falls out.” This is a surprisingly dark way to view your life’s work.

This is a very realistic and nice way to look at money and finances. You were paid to do a job. Take what comes out and put it into all of the appropriate places, then you’ll be ready when you come back to work and — wouldn’t you know it — nothing comes out.