skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left college for a semester, then re-enrolled and graduated. It's incredibly easy to do.

If I were a current Harvard student, I'd drop out for the next year. Take some community college courses, work, travel (in a COVID-responsible way...maybe road trips only).

This is a unique opportunity to get off of the well-trodden path and far preferable to sitting in front of a computer in your parents' house for a year.

There is a huge safety net once you've gotten into an Ivy or other top school. Best case scenario, you start a business and no longer need Harvard, a la Zuckerberg or Gates. Worst case scenario, you graduate broke at 23 (with some great stories), rather than broke at 22 (without the stories).

The value of a college degree is:

1) Signaling/exclusivity (the diploma)

2) The connections you make

3) The subject matter that you learn

4) The social environment – all of the benefits of adulthood with none of the responsibilities

Distance learning only hits #3 on that list. Harvard can get away with charging full tuition for its classes because...it's Harvard. So it also hits #1. But the majority of schools are in for a rude awakening when they realize that students were paying for the social environment and aren't willing to, in the words of Good Will Hunting, "Waste $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library."
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I would guess that you still get to 2—because the more times you add 2, the greater the impact of dividing by 2, and the more times you divide by 2, the greater the impact of adding 2. Is that the case?
Code is a mixture of what and how (and with IaC, sometimes who and where).

I agree that "why" is the role of documentation. I've been experimenting with tying the two together with (machine checked, automatically surfaced) cross-references, so we can better know what bits of documentation a test supports, &c. I haven't yet gotten rigorous about it.
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> The problem is going to be if we see a spike or get directions from the federal, state, or tribal governments late in summer.

The US is well into a second wave of infections, which is dwarfing the first wave. The US is stuck between state governments making noises about lockdown fatigue (When the first lockdown wasn't even implemented correctly) and a federal government that is doing absolutely nothing.

I do not foresee a future where things are going to look any better in September.
Bridge.NET has been around for a few years:

https://bridge.net/
For your own benefit mostly. If you want to spend some time for the benefit of society at large, so much the better. But at least you should care about your own benefit.
> Journalism’s purpose is to report current and past events that have a bearing on history — both political and social.

No, it's not. Journalism serves the current public interest, not history, except insofar as the latter serves the former.

> You may not want to work with a former KKK member, but that doesn’t mean the press (or anyone) has any business exposing their sins in public, unless there are specific crimes for which penal justice has yet to be served.

The scope of the public interest isn't limited to crimes, that's a ludicrous idea. Heck, that's not even consistent with your earlier claim about the relationship between journalism and history, as the interest of history is much broader than crimes.
The pure definition of “lights out” refers to a fully automated facility where human hands never touch a product during the entire manufacturing process. In theory, a true lights-out plant would operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with downtime only for routine maintenance or repair.

https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/94982-lights-out-automa...
Your 2012 Mac Mini's video output doesn't go higher than 2560x1600 anyway, so just staying at 1080p doesn't seem like a huge sacrifice.
I never understood why people promote Marxism. Leaving aside the fact that Marx was racist, any society that went in this direction has suffered horribly. Scientifically and even theoretically, there is no evidence that Marxism has worked or will work in the future.

There is a reason people from more socialist countries flee to less socialist countries like the US despite any problems in the US.

Nowadays, we can’t even fully split up labor and capital as though they are two different sets of people as it was in the days of Marx.

Everything is a spectrum. Going to any of the ends (pure capitalism or pure communism) will be a disaster.
Do you have numbers to back up the claim that the majority of people don’t approve of the quarantine? Because the numbers I have shows 74% of Americans approve of the quarantine: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
I guess I'm not anyone, then: given a choice, I'd pick JavaScript over most non-Lisps
Neat!

In contrast to previous toys I've seen like this, EDEX-UI seems to have a bunch of good ideas. It's not something I'd use yet, but it's close. The idea of showing files in my current working directory is good. There's a bunch of other stuff that's good. And then there's a bunch of stuff that's a useless waste of screenspace.

But I could totally see myself replacing the useless stuff with things I care about:

* System status (computer thermals, connected USB devices, Bluetooth, Wifi, audio devices, etc.)

* Weather and time across places I interact with

Etc.

Key thing would be a simple extension API, where I can add the things I care about with a 5 minute learning curve.

I'd be glad to toss something like that up on one monitor.

I use a tiling window manager, but it doesn't support general tiling of the type needed to make everything an appropriate size, like this thing does.

Keep pushing. I think you're onto something.
> Well this is a bizarre 4th degree polynomial equation, \(x^4-2x^2 -400x=9999\) and he applies one approach to solving it, then comes to a dead end and says "Hence ingenuity is called for" and finally finds that his unknown number is 11. I, personally, would not have had a clue how to solve it.

Here is what you can do. If there is an integer solution, we can keep the constant term 9999 on the opposite side and factor the formula.

As in:

x^4 - 2x^ - 400x = 9999

x(x^3 - 2x - 400) = 9999

Ok, so no we have x f(x) = 9999. From this we know that if there is an integer solution for x, x itself must be a factor of 9999: either a prime factor, or a product of factors.

So we just factor 9999:

3^2 11 101 = 9999

9999 has 3 as a degree 2 factor, and then also 11, and 101.

Looking at just the factorization breakdown alone, x could be the product of these combinations of factors: { (3), (11), (101), (3, 3), (3, 11), (3, 101), (11, 101), (3, 3, 11), (3, 3, 101), (3, 11, 101) }.

If we substitute these factors for x, in order from least to greatest, we will soon hit upon the solution.

Intuitively we can guess that x is small, because the opposite factor is cubing it. So for instance, it can't be the case that x is the product of 3, 11, and 101, such that x^3 - 2x - 400 then works out to the remaining factor of 3.

It's obvious that x can't be too small, like 3, because x^3 is only 27; that's not going to leave us a positive factor when we subtract 400 alone, let alone -2x.
Unfortunately, some optical key switch designs may be patent encumbered: https://aimpad.com/patents/
No it's not. doctorhandshake wasn't even making an analogy. They were applying OP's rule (we shouldn't dictate business based on political beliefs) to a hypothetical in order to demonstrate its negative moral outcome.
Some are even still selling their music in cassette format. [1]

[1]: https://boninibulga.bandcamp.com/album/sealed
Awesome video.

I got some Satisfactory vibes out of it.
They’ll have had an entire summer to improve online course work; I expect last spring’s online semester was, at best, scattershot.

Somewhat related, Amherst is bringing back 60% of students; Reed wants all back, but is limiting to one student per dorm room (and is encouraging nearby apartments for others.)

Bottom line, it seems the small liberal arts schools (less than 5,000 students or so) are bringing students back. The big unis (Harvard, Stanford, Cal), not so much.
> From its inception in 1888 until the start of the 21st century, De Beers controlled 80% to 85% of rough diamond distribution and was accused of being a monopoly.[5] Competition has since dismantled the complete monopoly, though the De Beers Group still sells approximately 35%

Interesting. I wonder if synthetic diamonds played a role in that downward trajectory.
> The controller completely serves it's purpose- replacement for a pure mouse control for non-controller native games.

Maybe I didn't give it enough time but it definitely didn't do that for me. I gave up trying to use it as a mouse replacement and as a normal controller. Here's a video of Internet Superstar Rich Evans solving that problem much more effectively [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89qQy-rEUgg&feature=youtu.be...
Not all stocks are up. Indexes are mostly up because of crazy high tech valuations and tech stocks just keep going up parabolically.

Banks, industrials, materials, energy stocks are still very cheap, barely recovered from March lows in many cases.
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Does anyone know of an organization that is actively trying to Push Buckeye's ideas? Or are there a number of different ones? I strongly believe the premise that we could easily take care of everyone in the world with a minimum of effort if we worked together. And when I say "we", I mean the 10-20 percent of us who have been gifted with the ability to do science and engineering beyond the grade school level. Let the rest of the people play.
I think you are referring to dual-use technologies [1], where the "dual" use means civilian and military. The list of technologies that are deemed "dual-use" is quite explicit and can be found in the Wassenaar Arrangement document [2]. In that document you'll find out there are plenty of paragraphs about software, for example on page 139 "software application programs designed to be hosted on general purpose computers located at Air Traffic Control centres and capable of accepting radar target data from more than four primary radars". I would be extraordinarily surprised if Autodesk were not in compliance with this rule. Similarly, as soon as a rule were passed to limit the use of a technology to ecologically damaging activities, Autodesk's Legal department would start combing through it and make sure they are in compliance, and if not, they'll see what steps to take to fall in compliance at the earliest date possible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology

[2]https://www.wassenaar.org/app/uploads/2019/12/WA-DOC-19-PUB-...
More on this idea here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

One quibble though: I would extend this to basically everybody who wasn't born wealthy.
No. Stop spreading disinformation and inform yourself.

It’s pretty easy to compute normalized infection rates for populations based on samples of data, which haven’t changed materially with the testing ramp up.

Additionally, antibody testing allows for an assessment of past infection rates at a community level.
I don't see how this reduces returns for indexers in particular. Investing in an index means you get the market average. This may result in lower returns for the total market and thus also for indexers but for some active investors to overperform thanks to this some other active investors will need to underperform. Winning that directional bet requires someone else to take the other side of the bet and lose. Total market returns are zero sum.
So if samsung is so ahead, why aren't we seeing it in present displays? Is it because it's too expensive? Or are they hoarding it for a rainy day?
What bigger optimization of time could there be other than spending it doing something you love doing? You can't put it in a bank.
I worked in a financial aid office for some time.

There are thresholds and guidelines, but in my experience financial aid officers have a lot of flexibility and discretion. They look at the complete picture, including assets, number of other siblings that are dependents/in college, etc.

You can also appeal the financial aid decision, and just going to that trouble will often get you a bit more aid if you have a decent reason.

The depressing part was how many people obviously lie and misrepresent their financial situation to try to cheapen their student's aid cost. Not that I can really blame them, even if you make enough money that your kids don't qualify for aid, $70,000+ per year per child is just out of hand. And there's basically no risk to trying, the aid officers just look at it and are like "obvious lie, rejected" or "possible lie, ask for supporting evidence/documents".
They're both fishing metaphors and they both make just about as much sense.

https://grammarist.com/usage/trawl-troll/
You mean like the trend of "Artisan" products that's been going on (maybe ended already?) the last decade with Etsy and hipsters?
Before 'trolling' became popular, 'trawling' was common and correct use for this case. Same kina use as fishing trawlers. The dictionary has more detail.
System tests too!

The last code-base I worked on had do-everything system tests (with unexpectedly good coverage, I'll admit). They were so slow and passed often enough that I didn't immediately spot flakiness.

I got suspicious when the tests started failing regularly when I added new unrelated code.
> quantity of harm

It's very possible (I'd argue probable) that operating a single, large-scale coal mining operation causes more total harm than bashing a single person's skull in with a hammer.

> existence and quantity of positive benefits

Coal as an industry is unnecessary at the scale it exists at today, so any added efficiencies in that industry due to the use of Autodesk products most likely count as a harm rather than a positive benefit.

> presence of stated intent

From the press releases on the page linked by the OP, it seems that Autodesk is well aware of the activities of the coal companies using their software, to the point that they use it as a selling point for their products. Perhaps the first moment they began selling to those companies they were unaware, but at this point they have explicitly advertised to the public that they know what those companies are doing.

* Edited to fix line breaks
> Why do you think it would make a difference if a competitor pushes the message (as long as the message is true)?

Because then it comes off as a cheap-shot to gain more clients and not an antifragile movement to make headway in the current climate disaster. It has the potential to corrupt and cause real long-term damage to such movements if they are only used as means to profit financially in the short-term. Again this is totally hypothetical in this case. I think vigilance is required even in what are facially "morally pure" causes.
Have you used it? It's pretty good.
More precicely, it means that compromising the public key infrastructure requires compromising one specific CA, rather than compromising any single CA out of hundreds. Ideally, we would it to instead require compromising all CAs out of hundreds, but as long as the defective-by-design X.509 PKI is used, that's not very possible, much less likely.
Thanks everyone for the very interesting conversation, I made this site and am still working on this project.

Another interesting read that confirms that none of the policies are actually enforced, and autodesk attempts at "sustainability" is just PR as a smoke screen. CEO is actually misleading customers, employees and investors.

Feel free to ask me any question or precision.
I'm somewhat disappointed in the lack of progress on OLEDs the last few years. For TVs, LG is the only company that actually produces panels, every single OLED TV uses their panels. And even though there are new models every year, all OLED TVs of the last few years use the same old panel.
It seems to be fairly common for experienced programmers to point to unit test code as a way to explore or understand an open source software project. I don't doubt that this works for them, but it definitely doesn't work for me. When I'm trying to explore a new software project, the first thing I want to do is find the relevant "entry point," which is arguably the exact opposite end from the unit test code.
This decision does not apply to HBS though
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1888/
Endowment paying operating expenses is essentially financial aid, because it's a cost that is not passed on to the students.
The important thing to note here, was that the jobs that existed before were not bullshit from the perspective of you when you hired for those positions.

Now you may realize that those jobs may have not have had value and were possibly even counterproductive, and you seem to have done the rational thing given the info and eliminated those jobs.

But the jobs didn't have no purpose before. The purpose was misguided which exposed itself over time.
Yes, I also own the steam link.
That's already done today. Most modern codecs support variable bitrate encoding so more of the data budget can be given to high complexity scenes. Source video can also be processed multiple times with varied parameters and that output then compared structurally to the source to find the parameters that best encode the scene. This is beyond the more typical multi pass encoding where a first pass over the source just provides some encoding hints for the second pass. It takes several times longer to encode (though is embarrassingly parallel) but the output ends up higher quality for a given data rate than a more naïve approach.
I bought a quality vacuum from Amazon and then continued to be aggressively advertised vacuums for months (on Amazon still) while shopping for things that honestly I could have used some advertising for to let me know what even existed in the space. Seems like not a great strategy for any involved party.

They never advertised bags for said vacuum...
It's called lights out cause the machines don't need lights, so why pay for them?
Right. That sounds fairly severe. Addiction level.

And yet, some people do manage to go cold turkey. And cold turkey is generally easier than a approach based on limitation.

Your one strength here is you know you don’t really need the access, as you already did it. If you want to google something or message someone you can write it down on paper, and handle it in the morning.

Perhaps this truly won’t work. In which case, would any software/hardware restriction work? They can all be circumvented, and fairly easily for someone technical. If you can find one will hard time based limits, that might work. Freedom, or Cold Turkey may be that, I’ve never looked into circumvention difficulties.

But then again, if you really want to try, could you treat yourself as an addict, say there are no real excuses, and force yourself to call someone if you desire to plug it in? Or even say you will plug it in for 10 min for a true emergency but unplug and tell them you did?

I don’t know. All of us have different psychologies. You’ll have to consider what has a chance of working for you. But I’ll end by saying that with a conscious choice it is possible to make a change, and it is often perversely easier to do this at a low point.

Edit: actually, the other commentor’s suggestion of a timer box seems extremely promising. You may want a dumb phone or a landline for emergencies if you do that though. But it has two elements: 1. Impossibility to circumvent 2. Physical separation

Edit 2: one thing that might work is Beeminder. You pay if you fail to meet the goal. And they have a weasel mode.
"trolling" works. It's a method of fishing, just like trawling. It's one of the lesser-used definitions these days but IIRC that is the root for the more well known antagonizing definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_%28fishing%29
Why do you assume that OP is American? Consumerism is a worldwide problem.
well depends, if x is 30% better than y and z is 50% better than y then z is ~15% better than x.

Also this kind of performance claims are 100% hot air. Real world benchmarks talk.
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As someone who has been buying my own health insurance for 15 years, you absolutely cannot buy the same exact coverage as an employer. They have MUCH better plans than what are available to individuals (in the three states I've lived in, anyway).
> To me this signals that Buffett believes

> it appears that the public simply is not interested

I'm not sure I agree. I'd say that it appears that Warren Buffet is not interested.

I think the public is interested but can't afford the investment.
I'm not sure your anecdote matches the reality that for traditional college-aged students, remote/online/distance learning yields a poorer result. There's a lot of maturity that has to exist prior to enrolling in online courses that the majority of traditional students don't yet possess. [1][2][3]

Calling plans to reopen 'bait-and-switch' is a bit unfair. I sincerely hope you don't think campus administrators are sitting in backrooms with dollar signs in their eyes thinking about 'pulling one over' on all these students and their families.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/research/who-should-take-online-co...
[2]https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/03/23/how-effective-...
[3] https://www.al.com/news/2020/07/tuscaloosa-students-held-par...
The sheet metal workspace in fusion360 does this pretty nicely.
And what will happen when these people get infected a second or a third time? Will they still be symptom less, or are they likely to start gassing problems? Unfortunately, we don't know yet. That's why we need to err on the side of caution.

Please remember that we still know little about this virus, about long term effects, about how long immunity lasts, about the risk of auto-immune responses etc.

It's never, ever a good idea to let a new disease spread along the population of you can help it at all.
> a vaccine is likely still 6-10 months off from mass production

What vaccine?
Can you hack this RISC-V?
ssh root@200.18.104.129

HP3QavjIHZA13ll3yOSGOUXl3JPFz8

https://github.com/pwn2winctf/challenges-2020/tree/master/rev-pwn-hw-Hardware-Trojan
> The idea that girls can’t be inspired by male scientists is extremely sexist.

You're right. I somehow fell into the framework set by the progressives. Any gender can do STEM, and the country I came from ensures that such message is loud and clear. Having female role models helps, but that's beside the point.
Yes but that does not change the fact that most of us are doing useless work in terms of value. Yes, there is a moat, yes one is not as replaceable (though that is not necessarily true) but a lot of our work is meaningless valueless crap.
Building paper airplane models was a very popular hobby in Israel (and probably other countries) during the 1960's. Each issue of the Israeli Air Force Journal came with a model which you would painstakingly cut and glue.
Here are some examples of what these models looked like: http://starry-side.com/wpe/wordpress/index.php/2019/08/08/ol...
Of course, this guy is on a whole different level of detail and dedication (plus he designs everything himself). Amazing work.
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I got a bunch of manila folder after being inspired...but I proceed to do nothing with it.
I also warn my mother not to think she's clever and talk back to the scammers. "Don't tell them off" I tell her. Just hang up. Say nothing.

> then realizing what was going on then positively jovial at how they'd played the scammers along for almost a full day.

...because once they realize they're talking to an old lady, they may realize the "kidnapping" story may not work, but a call verifying something for a Stimulus check might (for example).

Just hang up. You won't outwit them.
iSH actually uses a homegrown emulator, not QEMU.