skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No significant experience. I was just holding the stock that I had earned through my job. I was the person who would check their company stock every day because I had all my money in it but wouldn't care to do anything with it. When the market was tanking I sold it all for cash and then said "now let's make this grow into more than we started with this year". That was the beginning of trading.
I just wanted the directories, not the files. Your command is great if you want it down to the file level. The -h args are of course a matter of preference.
Can any current students comment on why you didn’t take the year off? It just seems like such a waste / not worth it.
How to resign from your job as a software developer
https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b/?node=21328123011
What if the biggest threat against a country can instead be the president of that country.
Then what's your point? actual undergrad philosophy textbooks don't "shy away of critique and dispute" either. is your complaint that russell's idiosyncratic views are not foregrounded enough to your liking?
I was gonna say you cant beat gt5 and xdiskusage, but then I saw this is for windows
Maybe it's better to say "Don't be someone you're not." instead.
I'll assume you're referring to obtaining drugs which many consider to be something that at the very least should not be punished by prison time (myself included), as opposed to say... the distribution of child pornography, ordering hit men, arms trafficking, or the selling of hacked credit card numbers, passwords, and zero days.

If that was your idea, wouldn't we be better served by lobbying our politicians to move the needle on the drug war (seems to be happening) instead of creating volatile whale controlled crypto "currencies" which use huge amounts of electricity as our planet faces a climate change crises and which also enables all of the other really terrible illegal things listed?
There have been lots of other currencies privately traded previously, but since the state has the guns the state can outlaw it. If it truly started competing with major currencies you would see it outlawed.

It also is not secure as China is controlling a majority of the mining now and the majority can control the currency. Further, Google has a computer that can hack the encryption and you will see a lot more organizations have them soon.

It consumes more power than Switzerland. It's bad for the environment.

It's just a bubble and can be popped anytime.

Not to mention that it is just unusable for actual legal transactions on a regular basis.
I should not have to choose between giving Google a free for all access to my location data or having no location functionality on my device.

This is one of the primary reasons I won't use Android. They always bundle critical features in with privacy violations.
Hmm... so things started going downhill in 1990. What was happening around that time? Intel/AMD/Cyrix were churning out commoditized x86 CPUs. The 486 was the hot chip around then, and it was quite impressive. Meanwhile, HP was horning in on their business with PA-RISC, and HP was still a massively respected company at that point. Their workstations were rock-solid.
With all of these rising problems, DEC still had 120k employees... They probably should have specialized, laid off some product groups. Instead, they made a search engine, which was an unprofitable business back then.

Actually, it's strange that they made a search engine, because search engines show the power of the "everyone has a crappy computer, but they're all networked", which is the opposite of DECs "1 powerful computer for every N employees, who have to share" model.
While 16 bit CPUs are good for many purposes, these are not the same purposes where you have run Linux ever and where 32 bit is currently being replaced by 64 bit. So the analogy is not helpful.

Maybe 64 bit CPUs can get more resource efficient than older 32 bit models. But that's a misdirected use of resources if you use such technolgy to make 32 bit CPUs obsolete. With the same technology 32 bit will always use less resource-demanding than 64 bit. And the claim was that 32 bit has so many use cases (basically all phones and many PCs) that economics of scale are possible.

Of course the nonsense model that you don't pay for Internet services directly, but use Javascript and a lot of other bloat software to run advertisements on your phone to pay via a massive detour is not an energy-efficient approach.
It will never happen. Python doesn't trust programmers with the power to make packages like dplyr and ggplot
For LVT, structures are not considered. It would have to be improvement to the land itself.
And this is how one day he might be forced to take a job where he becomes one of engineers at VW who hid the pollution so he can pay the bills.
Universities seem like they're begging to disrupted with this sort of overreach to those who are putatively their paying customers.
I’ve contracted at a couple of large orgs.

Previously when I’ve been at them they where on Slack, more recently they use Teams.

People complain about using Teams compared to Slack but Teams seems good enough for the people paying for Slack to decide to stop using it.

Teams being bundled with Office 365 is a huge value proposition. It’s not a case of who’s best, Slack seems more useful but can never compete with free which Teams is if you already have Office 365 which most large orgs do.

Teams video chat is way better than Slack also which may of helped this past year with working from home.
> It's an efficient store of value. Here is a dilemma - you have 10 million dollars

It's not a dilemma. At all. If you have 10 million dollars just lying around, chances are, uo already know what to do with your money.

So your entire premise is based on a combination of assumptions that make it entirely laughable:

- that if you have 10 million dollars, you have a problem with storing them

- that in order to defend bitcoin you have to come up with an example involving no less than 10 million dollars

> Do you buy gold? Gold is useless. Buy stocks? How do you pick them? Of course USD is going to deflate.

Ah, I feel so sad for people who have 10 million dollars which they have to just "park". How did they ever manage to do that in the past?

Oh, right. Stocks, property, securities, bonds, investments, diversified portfolios.
To provide a little more context...

Students faced a ternary choice prior to the Fall semester:
1. enroll as an on-campus (and thus live in a dorm), or
2. enroll as a remote student (and thus live at home), or
3. take a leave of absence (and thus live wherever)

Only students in that second bin were subject to the requirement stay out of Providence. A cynical take on this is that Brown has always had strict residency requirements for its students, and residency fees are far above the market rate in Providence. If students could simply mark themselves as "remote" to get out of paying dorm fees, I'm sure many would.

The other key bit of context is just how poor of a job Brown did at geolocating students. Dozens of students (some international!) received baseless notices of reprimand. The most compelling theory I've seen is that these students were using Brown's VPN, and were identified as on campus via IP geolocation.
Microdosing: Improving performance enhancement in intelligence analysis (2019) [pdf]
Just to be clear where I'm coming from, I have taken a course on quantum information theory, so I'm not completely lost here. But some things I for-got and somethings I never-got.

And in particular, the (separate) course on qft lost me at hello, so I never got the chance to incorporate that into my worldview.
> "Generation Kill" by Evan Wright which was turned into a mini-series on HBO)

I haven't read the book but I've seen the miniseries many times, it is one of my favorites. It has a TON of great lessons about how large groups of people organize themselves and how the individuals within those groups behave and why that are very pertinent to tech and management in general.
My criticism is with how likes like these are bolded, almost like it's trying to say "beware! they're logging everything, don't get on the administration's bad side!"

> The C•CURE 9000 lets administrators view the complete historical building access history of a person.

> Combined, these logs paint a very accurate picture of your location on campus at any time.

But I did see the author's comments elsewhere in this thread[0], so there's no ill intent. This is an overall educational article.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25319883
A few years ago, I met a former DEC guy. I told him the story of how Cisco Systems got its start by running bootleg versions of the TOPS-10 operating system on its very first routers. Even with the overhead of emulation, Unix of that time simply didn't have what it took to do the job under those hardware constraints. Later, Cisco came clean to DEC.

The guy hadn't heard that story, but he did remember that DEC got a really sweet deal on Cisco hardware.

A lot of ideas from DEC operating systems are due for resurrection.
I think the fine print about being around Providence is what probably tripped some students up. I am also betting that a few students had their plans change and didn't quite update their registration.

That all being said, I think threatening suspension is a bit too harsh for what is probably a simple mistake for a bunch of 17-22 y/os
Depends on the person.
It's a trading vehicle.
I'm a late-stage PhD student, and thus academically unaffected. However, virtually all of my undergraduate friends did take the year off.
The piece has the usual complaining about CL being a Lisp-2.

When I ask to have the advantage of a Lisp-1 explained to me, I get some handwaving about "elegance", rather than a specific explanation for why someone would want that. Personally, I find a Lisp-2 (or a Lisp-N) to be more convenient and more understandable. And I don't have to have lexical variables named "lst".
The only anecdote I have is that we started out with Slack and moved on to Teams, which we prefer. It was just an easier integration with our existing systems.
Lots of Google searches that landed on Investopedia. Huge props to that site :P I subscribed to a bunch of things like Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal. I would say Seeking Alpha was probably the best value for money. It just gave me ideas for how to think like an investor/trader. Most of my research and learning wasn't in the mechanics of trading but building up mental models for how things might play out and thinking about risk. I spent a lot of time just watching and observing the markets without tacking action.
I tend to cut DJI a break, because customer (non-)compliance with no-fly zones is a class-1 existential threat to their business selling consumer drones. Pinging DJI servers to check for altitude restrictions at every power-up cycle is intrusive, but I honestly don't see that they have much choice.

However, they are also playing these sorts of games with other types of devices, where no such justifications exist ( https://www.eevblog.com/forum/eevblab/eevblab-83-dji-pocket-... ) That needs to be answered by returning the product as defective.
Scientists Explore If Exposure to Earlier Coronavirus Helped Asia Fight Covid-19
1 139 27.8% rg
2 68 13.6% cd
3 36 7.2% brew
4 28 5.6% pip
5 27 5.4% pyenv
6 24 4.8% ls
7 17 3.4% git
8 16 3.2% cat
9 13 2.6% ssh
10 12 2.4% sudo
We unfortunately "reward" our heroes with things like that. Empty gestures. Just a pat on the back.

On the other hand we reward the people who actively cheat and exploit the world with large sums of money.
Seriously stop spamming your product in every single one of your messages. Especially when you fail to mention that you have a vested interest
If you want Python to go faster, use PyPy.
Nice write-up. While it's not appropriate for every game, UDP based networking may offer another order of magnitude improvement over (TCP-based) websockets. WebRTC can be used for unreliable datagrams.
As a philosophy major, I would advise you to pay attention to the order in which you expose yourself to materials. The earlier stronger impressions in your journey will naturally have a weight on your opinions of later materials. In addition, academic departments usually have an -ism bias so that will also influence their content recommendations.

A neutral starter would be:
Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking

Once you have some formal thinking tools, I would approach philosophy building organically by writing down your beliefs and identifying questions and gaps, and then researching those ad-hoc. You may also discover that your current existing informal / intuitive model is mostly sufficient for a 21st century life.
it's the essence of faithlessness in governmental currency

it will survive (and more importantly: have value) as long as humans distrust governments
Didn't the user already exercise their control by choosing to buy a smart TV? And I don't think many people would say there is a lack of competition between TV manufacturers.
I do agree that it's ironic that a subthread on a post called "This is Real, That's Not" has devolved into conspiracy theories about secret cabals of businesspeople in smoky rooms scheming to cut public services in order to keep people on the streets so that the people not on the streets will be scared into continuing to pay their rent and mortgages.

I don't doubt that there are some people who want this, but the idea that there's a giant, organized, shadowy group out there... that's something out of a very bad spy movie.
Does Brown require that its students have mobile phones?
It doesn't need to mainlained in the same Linux upstream to be serious.

I am not familiar with it to say whether it really wasn't that useful for inherent reasons or whether vendors in that space were just more lucky to defend their proprietary solutions than the (mainline) Linux competitors.
What's different about it being on WiFi, where you most likely would be connecting to a base station in the same building that was then wired in over ethernet?
It's invaluable if you are involved in grey/black market trade. I was briefly involved in a legal-yet-taboo industry years ago, and being able to instantly receive private payments from people on the other side of the world without permission from anyone (indeed, while payment processors were limiting and closing my accounts) was phenomenal. It made sense then.

In fact I became a bit of a Bitcoin evangelist in my circles, especially as it aligned with my then-libertarian worldview. (However, the questionable leadership of the core Bitcoin fork has mostly eroded that enthusiasm over time.)

Now, as a regular taxpayer, Bitcoin makes no sense to me either. And I say that as a fortunate person with a significant stake, and a retirement fund increasingly grateful to all the dumb money being poured into it.

Its popularity and exchange rate is not a function of its utility, but rather an indication of a disillusioned and frustrated middle class looking anywhere for financial relief. Cryptocurrency is lottery tickets for people who consider themselves too clever to buy lottery tickets. (Especially all of the new, more volatile cryptocurrencies popping up each day.) Governments would be well-advised not to deprive their taxpayers of this distracting fantasy.

You'll know when you need it. Until then, if you want to take a gamble at timing your exit better than the next guy, thanks very much.
> some C.I.A. analysts who are Russia experts, diplomats and scientists contend that evidence points to Moscow

"Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA" - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/corres...
I disagree with the 'store of value' argument. I got into a similar argument with someone on here before, and I believe it is an insufficient economic principle to justify a currency. A good currency serves as a medium of exchange or a standard of value.

Are people using bitcoin to replace USD in general? No, not really. It's not a very good medium of exchange not because of the illegal stuff but because no one knows how it works and it's messy, that's why no one buys stuff with it. They also don't know how much it's worth on average and therefore struggle to use it, bringing me to my next point...

Are people using it as a standard of value? No, if I tell you a car costs 15k USD you know what that means. If I tell you it costs 1 BTC, you have no tangible idea of how to relate that to the real world because BTC's value changes sporadically. I am sure this will stabilise as crypto matures, but i dont think people should invest this much effort into something that is just going to be used as a value measurement.

So back to the 'store of value' thing, why do I want people not to invest their money? Is wealth hoarding not a problem now, or do you believe that just by virtue of it existing as BTC, it's doing something good?
Although true, philosophically speaking the governments of the world take on powers that exceed what is reasonable.

The US, for example, will happily assert its ability to intercede when Iran and China trade. It isn't at all obvious why that should be the case, and it is profoundly unclear why China and Iran should cooperate. It is plausible that countries should be trading using a decentralised system like a bitcoin-style cryptocurrency. US law really should stop at the US border.
I think that’s wrong for a few reasons....

- a stamp uses a small amount of resources no matter how many stamps you want (more stamps may even be cheaper from economies of scale).

- Bitcoin inherently relies on expensive computation to provide safety

- each Bitcoin is more expensive than the last due to increasingly difficult nonces.

- (dumb edge case) you can’t make old stamps so it’s hard to image using a lot of resources to find/make them. Obv not true for other products
You don't need to remove the modem, just find the SIM card and pull it. It's probably in your armrest console compartment or glovebox.
> we never thought it would blow the lid off Volkswagen

If they didn't set out with that goal, then there's little point in rewarding them, because it would not necessarily incentivize similar outcomes in the future.
Thanks for the context! Could you please explain to me as a European what's wrong with a student commuting to the university (if we put COVID aside, of course)? In Europe, university accommodation is usually below the market rate and is hard to get and many students end up subletting a room in a regular apartment.
The Right Stuff - Test Pilots

Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis - Medical Profession

McTeague - Frank Norris - Dentistry

Two Years Behind the Mast - Dana - Sailor in thr Merchant Marine

The Red and the Black - Stendahl - Catholic Clergy

The Centurions - Jean Larteguy - Infantry/Special Ops

I always suggest reading fiction, it is a good source for lot of incidental knowledge about various aspects of life.

Can anyone recommend books/novels on the English legal profession? Thanks.
Whoa there is a Brown VPN service?! I didn't see that mentioned in the article, but certainly could explain some of the issues.
The literacy and respect for learning was very high in early centuries of Islam. For some first hand relation, I recommend reading Ibn Sina’s autobiography, who described lively market for books in even minor towns, huge libraries maintained by kings, the reception and great respect he received from them etc. For comparison, literacy and development in 11th century Europe was really rather low, as it only started to recover from the civilizational collapse after the fall of the western Roman Empire.

However, respect for learning in Islamic world started to deteriorate around the time of the fall of the caliphate, while it kept increasing in Europe, and by the time of reformation in 16th century, Europe was significantly ahead: spread of reformation was both dependent on widespread literacy, and it also was responsible for its spread.
So it comes from my own frustration that Github can't render the MathJax in my semi-academic markdown file, and also, I am trying to include more fancy features like proper image Lightbox etc.

However, your point is very convincing and I hope I can get OneDrive etc. supported over weekend :)
On one hand ... yeah, just get a VM, use config management (Chef, Ansible), maybe try terraform to manage "your cloud" (so the state is managed), get docker on it, and run the app from the image you built on your CI.

... but, using k3s is a lot simpler than fighting Ansible, it gives a standard. Yes, it takes a week to get used to it, but then it works, and it gives a lot of benefits.
This article was aimed at non-technical members of Brown community, who were very surprised that Brown has any geolocating capacity like this. When they think of security and privacy, they think of the campus's guards and surveillance cameras — not the course materials portal or their email!
which parts of a toyota must not be made by toyota though? tires? air bags? seats? audio? air con?
> Google has a computer that can hack the encryption

Citation needed
Would "Bonfire of the Vanities" make a good introduction to 80s Wall Street as well?
I've found the whole "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, thrice is a pattern" bit to be far more useful over time than DRY.
I'm still surprised that bitcoin is hated here, such a great technology. It's a decentralised currency, and it's working really well. A lot of big institutions are taking it seriously now. Does paper cash printed by government make more sense?
Not a problem for GitHub -- on the contrary, probably good for them. More vendor lock in.
Personally I assumed they meant exchanging money in secret if you are a whistleblower and the government is after you.
What's the risk for bitcoin pertinent to entrenched pre-quantum encryption? Are the wallet/private key pairs based on such cryptography?

What's the technical feasibility of migrating BTC's pow scheme to quantum-resistant hashing?

What is the technical feasibility of migrating wallet/private keys to quantum-resistant crypto?

Would any such migration of wallet/private keys be dependent on public/non-public interactions with the blockchain by wallet holders, and would those interactions introduce deanonymization or other risks?
Based on the "tour of the Jupyter kernel" looks very useful, but unless I'm missing something, it's not immediately obvious how to install and use it.
The best book for this is “How To Think About The Great Ideas” by Mortimer Adler. I studied philosophy undergrad and ran the philosophy club. We used a lot of material from this book to structure our meetings.

Many people have mentioned taking a class (I agree too) where you can engage in a conversation. This book’s content is transcribed from a series of TV shows with Adler, the host having a back and forth dialog with questions coming from audience. Adler speaks in a way that makes complicated ideas in a way a child could grasp. This book accomplishments the classroom setting.

The second reason is that the content is structured about ideas. Chapters are broken down into “How to think about law”, “How to think about freedom”, “How to think about love”, “How to think about philosophy”, etc. I find survey books with this organization much better say diving into a book by a major philosopher. This way you can jump around and read the chapters that interest you first, coming back to the others later.

I’ll close with two quotes from my favorite philosophy professor.

“I know how much you know not by the answers you give but by the questions you ask.”

“Philosophy is the subject that when ALL thinking is done, there’s still more thinking.”
Quick tip, you could replace the ifs with

mkdir -p Dropbox/diary/$y/$ym
Here's the NAP report - https://www.nap.edu/download/25889
I don’t think any of these things come close to paying for the energy cost Bitcoin used circa 2018 (I haven’t looked recently — has it decreased?). And that cost would skyrocket if everyone used it day to day