skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience is entirely different from yours. "Associate Prof. X" is not a title. It'd be "Prof. X". In every context outside the university where a full professor would be called "Prof. Johnson", so would essentially every faculty member in my department. Including those who do not have a PhD.

And yes, staff also refer to all instructional faculty as "Professor".

This goes not only for my current institution (GMU), but for several other major universities with which I have had experience, as well as major conferences and other academic gatherings. I think it is the norm.

Is it possible that you're seeing something else because of the culture stemming from a different area of academic study? I am in computer science.
I love the Jevons paradox but it has limits. Per capita energy consumption in the US peaked in 1979 and has dropped 14% in the last 20 years. https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T...
SNAPSHOT's Artemis Missions – February 2021 – ArtemisInfographic.pdf
The elephant in the room is Adtech. It wastes obscene amounts of energy, mostly coal mines, and it's only going to waste more with the growth of the economy and the increasing competition between advertisers.
> My sweat smells different (as if I haven't showered in days), my jitters are increasing, I get very unfocused and aggitated and worst of all, mild panic attacks.

I drink 1-2 cups in the mornings only, and I haven't seen this at all. How much were you drinking?
And god help you if you'd like to add a font. You'll need to read hundreds of pages of mostly out of date documentation. Then track down brusque gatekeepers on IRC and obscure communication channels to plead your case, only to be mocked and told simply, "No." You will be told it's not "the Debian way" and hundreds of pages of more documentation will be thrown at you. Almost certainly someone will quiz you on your knowledge of obscure 90's unix minutia and the writings of Eric S. Raymond. And once you pass that gauntlet your font might be accepted in a few months, at which time it's already way out of date and you start the whole process over again.
Pregnancy+is+a+risk+factor+for+restless+legs+syndrome+|+Health+Lines
In my opinion and recent experience working with ESM, the design and tradeoffs are worth the trouble especially if you use a bundler or an optimizing build step, and especially if you prefer named imports/exports.

On the other hand, benefits of ESM on Node are currently conditional on whether you’re running the same code on the browser and want consistent behavior on the server. For server-only projects I honestly think you’re still better off using a build step that compiles to CommonJS. That may change as Deno grows in popularity and interoperability becomes more of a concern, or as other compelling ESM features are introduced (for instance native import maps).
README says, "Work in progress: WebAssembly".
Over a billion people use Apple products, it's an extremely solid business. You can't compare that to a speculative bubble. Tulips were also very expensive once.
>Another reason why the macOS model is better for users. OS companies should make their own hardware.

That is a pretty strange conclusion to draw. I would say this is a reason computers should ship with no software installed whatsoever. Hardware vendors using software as a differentiator is what started this mess. All PCs are pretty much interchangeable and should be treated like it.

(If they aren't interchangeable, that's because someone is selling broken hardware. Looking at you, Nvidia.)
Yes, but the option is there. How does one protect their identity with a credit card transaction? The argument that BTC is not private doesn't seem to hold up.
Yes, and my understanding is that neither metric favors bitcoin.
Yeah, that is annoying. I am surprised they didn't tell Jessime that they were looking for someone with a PhD.
I can't disagree.

I'm not convinced that your average tax paying American will benefit from this - if anything the difficulty in taxing wealth and loss of ability to print/control money granted to Americans by American guns could lead to a noticeable decrease in quality of life for them.

That being said, there is a tremendous demand from people in many countries to defend their wealth from less stable environments that seek to control their ability to freely transact/store wealth.

No idea how it ends, or even if these cryptos deliver on their potential. Any idiot can see there are many roadblocks, and I personally think that Bitcoin's price is wildly manipulated (and most likely a ponzi).

However, as someone who has 2nd hand experience with poorly run govs stripping peoples' wealth for political reasons, I'm very excited by these possibilities in spite of some of the negatives.

For the record I have no Bitcoin, but I do run a node for another crypto I find interesting.
aha - Shift+R in "less", didn't know that - thanks!
> I'm saying it's inefficient

Compared to what else that provides a decentralised, censorship resistant monetary network without trusted third parties required to secure it?

> the metric mentioned is not relevant

It's relevant in explaining the energy usage relative to economic value and architecture of an engineered monetary system.

If you have a metric that can explain Bitcoin's design and value proposition with respect to energy consumption better than Dan Held's explanation, you should propose it and logically demonstrate your idea's superior explanatory and predictive power.
I mean is it not a good narrative to push? Someone in another comment pointed out each transaction uses so much energy it would be more effecient to just drive 600 miles in a tesla to hand deliver them money. That is awful, and basically for no reason, a digital currency could be designed without that entirely. There is no way to fix it, as proof of work demands that much energy be used no matter how effecient computers become.
Bitcoin can be carbon neutral but it has a long way to go.

Energy usage itself is not a bad thing, it’s the energy source that can be environmentally problematic.

Currently 39% of mining power is driven by renewables [1]. It’s not much but a good start.

The simplest solution to speed this up would be to create a law requiring that all mining must use renewable sources (or at least tax those that don’t). It would drive innovation, jobs, and make locations with renewable sources competitive places to live.

[1] https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternati...
This is a bit of a myth. The actual mining is very fragmented and so are the Chinese mining pools.
While I agree this looks like a nice simple tool for managing fonts, bringing up the differences between it and apt is hardly an argument for how this is the "apt for fonts".

I'm not the target user here since I'm usually happy enough with whatever font is available by default from apt, but that makes this tool (as nice as I'm sure it is for the intended users):

1. Install new package manager for a special category of packages

2. Learn/use different syntax for installing/searching/updating/removing

3. Remember in 6 months I even installed this thing, when I feel like a font change
And 50/50 that he's alive.
> As an aside, Microsoft fought in court to force OEMs to not install this crap alongside Windows (reasonably since it was damaging their brand and making the machines less secure), but they lost.

And now they are actively distributing it through Windows Update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24502768
This is being looked at https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/31658
The problem w Bitcoin as a global reserve currency is that it cannot be manipulated by the nation-state. Manipulation in this case is not a bad thing it is actually a safety feature for society against pure supply/demand dynamics. The prevailing wisdom is that having a fiat currency which value and velocity can be manipulated by, granted the Fed Reserve is a quasi govt agency, in times of emergency helps preserve the social order and smooth fluctuations. So Bitcoin has no value as a reserve currency unless it could be manipulated by the state, which it can’t, so it won’t.
I gave up my smartphone 2 weeks ago, after a year or two of paring down apps and accounts, and experimenting with techniques like leaving my phone in a fixed spot in the kitchen most of the time (including at night).

I finally took the plunge, as I hate the direction that Google is taking the Android ecosystem, and I also realised that allowing Whatsapp so much power over my social life is a terrible mistake. It ties you in - you need a smartphone, typically a Google account, and the benevolence of Facebook, to maintain your "friendships".

I found that, for the first few days after this change, I was incredibly stimulated, and didn't sleep till late. I wasn't overtired, at night or in the morning, and my sleep settled back down, but it was a very interesting effect.

I have two small kids, so not sure how much my sleep is better now, but I can say that this is one of the best decisions I have ever made. My mental acuity and productivity, both at home and at work, has gone through the roof.
Someone needs to pay businessinsider to make an article against ads. And such an article could be sponsored by... nobody.
My father asked me to “fix his laptop”, I looked at it and wasn’t able to tell if it was windows 10 or 8 or Vista. It has become some strange hybrid somehow with telling different things in the different parts of the OS. Also the styling would be different at the different parts of the OS(The windows menu looks like 10 but the window decorations are like Vista etc.). He had some professional software that wants to keep so I didn’t dare to do a fresh install or clean up, left it as is. He is still using it just like that.
That was my take as well. I'm not convinced that BTC is technically or ethically "worth" the energy usage either way, but this is a useful/nuanced perspective.

Energy usage is distributed across industries and sectors, and we frequently criticize oil/gas and automobiles. Other technologies, like batteries, seem to avoid the laser-focus of the eco-oriented press. Batteries are very energy-heavy/carbon-heavy to produce. For example, the total carbon impact of a Tesla may in fact be higher than a conventional automobile. [1]

Point is: understanding total environmental costs of any technology is a Hard Problem.

[1] https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/cleaner-cars-cradle-grave
130 tons of steel for one wind turbine foundation
Unfortunately this won't do much anymore, as Facebook and others are transitioning to server-side data transmission. Businesses now log data onto their own servers, then transmit it directly to adtech companies so that your device never directly touches the adtech server.
A lot of people are mentioning that this is old news, but that's not the case for me: thanks for sharing!
Is it just me or is there no way to import prior `.paw` files to the new UI? I've looked in both the web and Linux version (both the same) to no avail.
A Poetic Apology: Or Why Should You Use Poetry to Manage Python Dependencies
That’s the practical approach .. and you are lucky to have a manager who is technical enough to make suggestions like that
I agree, and I don't think bitcoin will ever be efficient. But I don't think any of us can stop it at this point and it still seems less frivolous than many of the things we spend energy on.

Since energy consumption has historically always increased and since it drives all of human progress and innovation I'm not convinced that the demand side is where we should focus on solving our problems.
In my area of Europe:

Buying things at stores and shops that don't take card payments for one.

Buying weed for another.

Buying/selling small things in person, think garage sales, or even buying second hand cars.
Google is teasing us with dark mode for desktop search
Ethereum hasn't even migrated to "Ethereum technology". They have been claiming for years that they are planning to move from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake. Maybe someday they will.

My take on this: I remain unconvinced that any form of Proof of Stake can give the same security properties we easily get from Proof of Work. I won't say never, but getting Bitcoin to move would take a very convincing argument about the viability of PoS, and so far that's not happening. (Especially given that the poster child for PoS does not actually _use_ PoS yet, they just keep promising it "soon".)
I thought this article would be about Asian students being held to higher standards than others when applying to universities or elite schools or biases in how much papers are cited, but it was about

1. an offensive restaurant listing someone created (which was subsequently reported and removed)

2. survey results of Asians being harassed (up since covid?)

3. personal microaggressions about people asking where they're originally from or if they're related to someone because of the same last name

4. warnings from relatives about not going out at night

All of these are important, but the ones mentioned in this article would basically fall under "be kind to one another". I don't think an "education" campaign or condemnation by a university is especially helpful.
I wanted to use Pi-Hole to block Microsoft servers too... but their updates and blocklists are on github !
No design needed. If the price of gold doubles, twice as much resources can be invested to dig up a ton of gold.
You make an ad-hominem attack, I stand by it. Whether or not you walk your talk is not my problem.
I've always assumed that whenever the law was originally passed, the fine and jail time were more sensibly related, but inflation has caused the fine's impact to plummet without reducing the jail time in a similar way. I'd love to know if anyone has a more detailed explanation.
While I do think the term “neoracist” is appropriate for some of the new social justice dogma about race, we also need a term for when these same ideas are applied to non-racial group distinctions.
The pre-reqs are roughly 'you know a programming language and have access to a Mac'.
I still don't get it. During the winter, the daylight hour is literally shorter, not just shifted. Shifting one hour won't magically make it longer. At best it gives your more daylight in one end, while sacrificing the other (and more than 1 hour, since again, the total daylight hour is shorter). So why bother?
12 hours of unpaid labor to just get your foot in the door? I'll take the hardest conceivable pass, please.

If a company sees no issue with asking for a TED talk just to consider you for a position, imagine what kind of work/life balance you can expect once hired. What kind of last minute assignments, what kind of weekend calls to wipe some higher up's rear end after they foot-mouthed with a client, and promised the moon, and now you've gotta go to Kroger and find 40 tons of cheese and carve it up so they don't need to look stupid.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: we as software devs/code monkeys/devops/admins have fucking worth. You should not EVER be willing to put yourself through this kind of meat grinder, not just to avoid demeaning yourself, but for demeaning everyone else who practices your craft alongside you. They're not worth so little as to need to do that, and neither are you.

You want me to write code for your company? Awesome, I'd love to do that. Pay me.
It depends what you expect from your education. I'd personally expect a university to focus on the academic side of computer science rather than teaching typical practical "busywork". The theory is what I expect to count in a university, the practice is just a nice side effect for testing the theory. Others expect a university to just teach you how to be a software dev as best as possible.

I don't believe that Apple is the best at teaching people proper coding techniques for their platform; they have trouble keeping their API documentation up to date, I don't expect them to be that great at teaching people how to use them. Different approaches taught by different institutions are often a great way to improve your software design as well, because if you only learn from a single track then you can easily become too blinded by how things should be done to think of how things can be done. So, different places teaching how app development works rather than letting Apple be the guide towards the platform is a good thing in my eyes.

I can understand the ties behind the Stanford connection, but I would expect a university to at least design a course to be platform-neutral. Focussing a course on extending the very closed app store ecosystem from an educational institution feels sketchy to me.
Is there an effective way to remove Facebook and Instagram ads on a iPhone? I have tried DNS solutions like blockada however they don’t work
As it happens I just listened to a long talk by him, perhaps this one. He kept arguing that "bitcoin isn't volatile, because the price of various things measured in bitcoins keep falling".

Either he doesn't know what volatility means or he is trying to scam people.
Regarding "which best describes how you validated your original business idea?", is anyone aware of more research around the effectiveness or practicality of different validation approaches? That is, rough false-positive (validation indicated that business idea had sufficient market demand when it didn't) and false-negative rates (validation indicated that business idea had insufficient market demand when it did) for different validation approaches.

Naively it'd be great to have data of the form "given our idea for a business was bad specifically because there would be insufficient market demand, when we validated the idea by method A (e.g. getting verbal commitment from n potential customers), validation result indicated there was enough market demand to proceed, we decided to proceed, but the business failed later specifically for a reason that the validation approach was intended to measure (customers willing to buy the service) and not for some other reason". I.e. known ground-truth, measurement, measurement result, decision to proceed or abort based on measurement result, actual outcome.

Probably would be a very tricky thing to isolate the effectiveness of the validation approach and tease it apart from other confounding factors.
I have not read that yet, but it seems very accurate. If you look up "Zoom fatigue" there are lots of people writing about why video calls can be so stressful. When you've got a webcam on you're way more aware of what you're doing with your body and face than you would be in an in-person meeting. Most people at my company have their webcams off at this point.
Source? The first rule of adtech is to not trust your publishers to not defraud you.
Yes. The origin of idea is the easy part.

Personally, I procrastinate starting a product/service because I feel that I have to have an amazing idea before I get started. (There's nothing new under the sun.)

As this slide reinforces, though, a given person already knows many problems/issues that could be used as a starting point in a product/service endeavor.
dead keys are an hack that implement a feature of old typewriters. On a computer it simply disables the keys for accents and combine the accent with the next letter, the catch is that if you want to write the accent character (',`,^," etc.) you have to press the key twice, as the first press does nothing.
I haven't had many issues with rails.

In the past I used rvm on ubuntu, currently I utilise asdf-vm on a ubuntu windows subsystem for linux.
All rails apps I'm on utilise docker for production and ci/cd.
While I'm not generally a fan of test projects, etc., I have to admit that a writing and/or presentation sample is pretty much necessary for some jobs. That said, I probably wouldn't assign one so if a person already had examples, that would probably be fine. (And for a job that requires such things, they typically would.)
What about hydroelectric? Is it not possible to ramp up and down there?
Wouldn't it be easier to not own a car with family?

Everyone older than lets say 13 years old could go their own way as needed when needed.

No need to leave work earlier to pick up kids or to send them on after school activities.

As more people switch to not owning the need for parking spots disappears.

Cities can be more dense, real estate cheaper.
I wonder how many STEM professionals' K-12 education has anything at all to do with their career. Zero connection for me, and I went to a flagship Silicon Valley high school and maxed out the math curriculum there. I can't think of anything I learned in K-12 that relates directly to software development & IT.

I did however make a friend at that high school (in English class) whose dad worked at a big tech company and helped me get into the industry. The school's computer programming club was fun too.

Then again I'm almost 40; maybe it's different for younger people.
Immediately thought of "how to lose money" [1] (posted a few days ago):

> 2. Write a Book

> Most consistent

> You might think writing a book is a great way to make a bunch of cash – and you’d be wrong. In spite of the many books that will tell you how to make money writing a book, I’m here to let you in on a secret –writing a book is actually a fantastic way to lose money. I’ve written four short books and they have literally grossed hundreds of dollars. Now – hearing that I’ve sold some books might make you think you should write one also. But it’s a trap – you will spend hundreds of hours writing a book and then make hundreds of dollars in return. Not sure about you, but if I’m working for $1/hour I’m losing money fast. My latest book probably has more pages than it has copies sold – take a look here if you want a quick reference on how to get a job.

Jokes aside, props for the creativity and best of luck!

[1] https://www.getrevue.co/profile/andrewtye/issues/how-to-lose...
Too big to fail?

Remember all those Intel clones?

Intel crushed everyone now we need to save it?

Do we have another option?

“Only the Paranoid Survive” -Andy Grove

https://www.amazon.com/Only-Paranoid-Survive-Exploit-Challen...
Common Python security pitfalls, and how to avoid them
Not written in same spirit but his reminds me of the evergreen classic C++ FQA Lite. FQA of course stands for "frequently questioned answers".

https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/
I certainly empathize with you, but as long as most math curriculum is math at it's core, then it is a net benefit for the large majority of students. It does take a skilled teacher to really pull it off.

For the vast majority of students, the way they will use math most of the time is only after analyzing problems and translating them to mathematics, which for many students also really does help the math part work better. And ultimately before you start specializing your math classes (some may argue we should do it earlier than is done in the US, and I'd agree), it makes sense to train students to apply math a solid minority of the time in ways that aren't "just math".

Until the last two years of so of high school, the skills that are mainly being taught in math class aren't necessarily "just math", and the main reason they are being taught isn't to help people be better at pure math, but because they are foundational skills elsewhere.

These ideas aren't just there for fun. They're there because a significant amount of research has been done and replicated dozens of times around the world and found that for the educational objectives at that point in time it is the most efficient way to do so. If the hypothesis is that actually teaching math another way that completely gets rid of word problems and tie-ins to other subjects is more efficient, this is a testable hypothesis that is sure to be very interesting to the scientific community, and I'd love to see it put to the test.