skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computer Science curriculum in most universities is focused on theory. Mine had a large component of working with and understanding digital electronics, Operating Systems, Networking, Discrete Math. Most of the ‘popular’ electives were AI related. Very few courses on actually building maintainable and functional systems. Most of what I learned I had to learn from experience and from others I worked with.
There are subreddits pretty much dedicated to generalist hardware that does things "well enough". Reddit users recognise that not everyone has a large budget to play with, such as teenagers who have to scrounge together a setup with a few dollars and a handful of pocket lint.
False dichotomy. Animal farming takes up nearly 80% of global agricultural land. Switching away from livestock would reduce the need for land clearing, not increase it.
It got up voted, ipso facto it was on topic.
Agree with everything you said, although "Get a job" is harder* than it sounds. Learning programming is straightforward, getting a job is non trivial.
This is completely true. The left had Obama and the whole 9 yards for two years; nothing done. Trump and the Repubs had the whole nine yards for 2 years as well and got nothing done either (besides the tax overhaul). I'm not sure much will ever the change the current situation, honestly.

Both the parties server the same ruler. All the news and "issues" at hand are just distractions to divide and conquer.
> Agree with all your points, but there is a third way: apprenticeship with older engineers.

That's unlikely to work: our industry has an ageism problem, combined with the low prospects of promotions/raises which results in engineers having to frequently job-hop to get ahead. This results in most organizations having very limited institutional memory. Other compounding problems are a discussion for another day (title inflation: e.g. "Senior engineer" with 2 years total experience)
I've chosen XPS-13 because Dell supports Linux on it. I am no longer using it (Switched beack to Thinkpads because of keyboard) but I had all hardware working on it with Linux just fine: wifi, camera, sounds.
I agree that's the intended sense of what was said, but what a fascinating side-track! I can readily imagine the idea of illegal "states of mind" (1984/Orwell style: simply things the state made a law stating that it's illegal to think or whatever) but the idea of illegal consciousness is much more bizarre!
U.S. Navy controls inventions that claim to change “fabric of reality”
Note that the infotainment systems in cars are way more closed than an iOS device.
> things besides terminal

I think this (terminal) might be a key market segment to focus on, though. Lots of people are turned off by the colorful yet wasteful designs of modern smartphone apps. Third parties are never going to get anywhere trying to compete with Android or iOS. If you want buy-in, you have to target the people who want to leave the mobile app paradigm. This is either people who want all-in on web (Firefox OS) or people who want all-in on CLI (nothing really exists here except SSHing into a Linux VM).

It might honestly be pleasant to use a smartphone with a terminal-like interface if you can provide vim-esque keyboard shortcuts to accomplish complicated tasks, like creating content (documents / todos / calendar events / songs / photos / videos / websites / etc). It would only ever appear to power users, but those power users would become life long customers.
You are in a sense naturally vaccinated if you already healthily recovered from Covid and now be a part of the herd immunity. Still better to get vaccinated even after getting Covid.
As I read it, the simulated response call doesn’t actually hit the URL, it just sets up the object like it’s going to then loads the data you supplied. Not sure when that’s useful since I’m not an iOS programmer.
hackernews folk.. When they're down voting its the most righteous. When they get downvoted it's never because they're wrong.
Look at it this way, if Bitcoin/crypto fails, then you have nothing to worry about, since they'll just go away and there will be no environmental concerns. In this scenario, you lose the 1% you invested.

If they succeed on the other hand at becoming world reserve currency, then that energy usage will be justified since it's replacing something that takes even more energy (current fiat system). In this scenario, your 1% investment has probably grown to be a much larger % of your portfolio.
This is covered under the proceeding affirmative defense and the phrase 'legitimate activity'. I imagine it's pretty easy to make the case that spammers are not engaging in legitimate activity, but that's up for interpretation I guess

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Subsection (a) and (b) shall not apply if the defendant establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the conduct described in subsections (a) or (b) would not result in harm to the competitive process by restricting or impeding legitimate activity by business users.
>takes American individualism to the logical extreme.

It's funny that you opened your comment complimenting how I verbalized something, but this feels like an even better verbalization of it.

What's the answer to my crappy 2 hour a day commute? Remote work, not funding public transportation.

It's all about convenience without stopping to think of what we're losing as humans. We didn't evolve to live these siloed lives without any sense of community. I feel like American society forments a lot of loneliness.

And the tone of it really comes through in the people who advocate so fiercely for it - there's an entitlement there.
I believe Files was integrated into iOS on release, but even system-integrated apps have entries on the App store to say re-add them after being removed by the user.
Same here. Especially once you've seen all (or a good portion) of all the little niches that exist. The rich socializing, the bar scene, the scrungy clubs, the raves, the food experiences, parks, dating around, building social circles... etc etc.

It's all a bit silly. But also interesting and slightly respectable because it's silly.

Personally I really don't want to move back there for work once the pandemic is officially over. I do like to go back about once a month or two and get a little taste.
If you are spending more that 50% of your time in Linux emulation mode under ChromeOS you'd better off running Linux natively.
buy everything pre-owned/used. the whole baby industry caters to first time parents with the idea that "if you love your kid, you will give it (buy) it the best / more expensive".

but experienced parents know that is bullshit and your kid will go through everything: clothes, diapers, toys in a breeze.. so it's much better to buy pre-owned, and then have your money saved for real emergencies (like a medical problem).

Apart from that your child changes so fast in the first three years that you don't want to miss anything about it .

leave work at work...
and your smartphone at the door... enjoy every precious moment
In case you're interested, word creation is a pretty interesting topic in linguistics. The wikipedia page on this -- they call it "conversion" [1] -- seems like a good starting off point for someone interested in the subject.

[1]: Conversion (word formation), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(word_formation)
I target about 2.5% of my portfolio to be crypto. Another 2.5% gold and silver.

It's kind of amusing and baffling watching all these people speak with such certainty and conviction. If crypto currencies collapse, meh, oh well. If they spike another order of magnitude, nice, I'll just sell to keep my allocation on target. Like you, it just seems prudent to have limited downside (ie a crypto collapse won't ruin you.. at all) but also having some exposure to big positive swings, and never basing ones hopes and dreams on it. Anyway, here's to enjoying the show.

Edit: when you disclose something like this, and people get viciously defensive about it, it usually means you're on course (see comments below).
The Pali Canon contains the kernel of the Buddha's Teaching. It is not difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff and arrive at the essence of what the Buddha taught. A guide on how to approach the discourses:

https://suttacentral.net/general-guide-sujato

Sujato addresses several claims in his essay, and has some helpful hints on the historical placement of the Buddhadhamma.

The Buddha was not a social reformer - his teaching was about total renunciation of the world. But there are plenty of discourses that reject the birth-based caste system and instead establishes that deeds and actions are the sole criteria for judging a person.

An example: https://suttacentral.net/mn98/en/sujato

You are mistaken about Karma (Pali: Kamma). Kamma is a central pillar in the Buddha's Teaching. It is, arguably, one of the most important aspects, since Nibbana is described as the cessation of kamma.

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/study/kamma.html

Adi Sankara's rejection of the Buddha's Teaching was not a simplicistic dismissal based on sectarian divisions. His rejection was based on philosophical differences - the Vedanta Sutras make that very clear.

In any case, my main point was that it is nonsensical to call the Buddha as a Hindu.
> it’s hard to make the argument against allocating somewhere on the order of 1% of your portfolio to crypto

This isn’t a great heuristic. It green lights every high-gain proposal, irrespective of the risks, actual rewards and odds of success.
> This is after excluding one outlier who shocked himself 190 times

Someone really, really hates being bored.
It depends on what your goals are. At Cisco, we absolutely needed to do E2E testing because we were shipping people physical devices that they relied on to work as intended. We built automation test frameworks and reusable/configurable tests. We built labs full of equipment and time-sharing systems to keep equipment constantly in use. Quality engineers wrote tens of thousands of (mostly) no-code tests, that would each do tens of thousands of permutations of tests. We wrote new test tools and bought high-performance test gear. In the end, we were able to do via automated testing what it would have taken thousands more people to do individually.

Your organization and product goals may be totally different and not need that level of testing. But if it is needed, you can do it. It's up to your business to decide how much to invest in it.
I just finished setting up a new machine to run some Kaggle stuff. Both Tensorflow and PyTorch had issues with CUDA versions and dependencies that weren't immediately fixed with a clean virtualenv, while both Knet.jl and Flux.jl installed flawlessly.
I've never seen an energy consumption breakdown of what it takes to run the branches of the Federal Reserve or the Treasury. Do you have any primary source material on that?
Part of my team’s interview process is a small do-it-at-your-leisure at-home exercise in a repo we provide. Beyond the “solution”, we also get to see tests, documentation comments, commit messages, etc.
This is literally one of the first things that Hal Finney pointed out couple days after Bitcoin was announced publicly[1].

1: https://twitter.com/DocumentingBTC/status/136350447853262438...
Nice descriptions. How would you describe SF and the rest of CA?

It just seems like it was a beautiful place that a bunch of people wanted to move to. And now there's lots of money there.
> I’d give this future a 1% of happening in the next 15 years.

This will never happen. Governments won’t allow loss of control and the planet can’t support it either. If Bitcoin is not banned in all western nations within 10 years I will be very surprised.
There's an entire universe of things you can invest in. Picking crypto with no real thesis except one day the entire world may be transacting 7tx/sec isn't really a good one.

If you allocate 1% to every longshot you will be broke. Should I allocate 1% of my portfolio to Dentacoin in case dentists on the blockchain become the future of dental work?

Especially knowing that 80% of all trading volume is against Tether, which is 3% backed by money. 95% of all trading volume in the space is fictitious, according to an ETF that tried to list a few years ago.
I regularly bring up the subject of physical write-enable switches (that hard drives used to have). Inevitably, someone responds that it's a great idea, and their software has a write-enable setting.

The other mind-boggling thing is I argue that remote updating shouldn't be allowed unless there's a physical switch to enable it. The response is that remote updating is necessary to keep systems secure from malicious remote updates.

I have a paper sleeve that goes over my webcam when not in use.
It's a problem if you assume that your infrastructure needs won't scale. For many of the positives listed upthread, it can be a worthwhile trade to heavily invest in infrastructure. It just needs to be a conscious choice, and it also does more or less eliminate any small or even medium sized companies from making microservives work best. Unless you can afford to have an infra team bigger than multiple of your product feature teams, you're not at the point of needing microservices probably.
‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great ideas
I believe network effects are what creates this really strong draft that keeps you on top once you're there. Hosts want to list their places where they have the most possible guests – and guests want to book where they have the largest selection of listings. Hard to break that cycle, even if the company makes mistakes that would be punished if it was easier for competitors to grab market share.
I don't understand this argument. There are lots of things people like to do that use a lot of energy that I think are stupid. Like why to people in the West drive such stupidly large cars? Surely the answer to clean the inputs, not the use case? Trying to control what people can do is just going to make the transition to a clean future impossible, because you will piss lots of people off, and make then enemies. Bitcoin uses a lot of energy because that's it's security model. Trucks use a lot of energy because they are huge. Seems a lot more productive to concentrate on moving electricity to be a clean world input ( say a carbon tax), or move to electric vehicles ( say via tax credits), than to police the actual end usage.
The bond market is over 100 trillion. Why would people buy bonds returning low fixed interest rates in depreciating currencies if bitcoin with a fixed total supply becomes the global reserve currency?
Gold is currently at a 10 trillion dollar market cap, and is a pretty small part of the global financial system at this point.
The odds are absolutely not zero.
Wow, that's a surprisingly insight-free article, it might as well describe any maverick(s) solving an issue in the corporate world...

Featuring gems such as "The eventual changeover started with irrefutable data from customers,", "The biggest challenge was getting it started, he says." and "$EMPLOYEE put a presentation together and presented to $HIGHERUP.RANK $HIGHERUP.NAME"
Code Smell 79 – TheResult
I'm seeing LTO-5 drives on Ebay for far less than $1000 (more like $150 to $300). Am I missing something obvious?
Once again, lightning network is here and functional with growing adoption (1ml.com) and that's what they are using in El Salvador. LN can achieve almost instant and practically free Bitcoin payments.
Huge win for climate !

https://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas/wells-to-consumer/tr...

Just 190,000 more miles to go !
Here's the argument: I give this much MUCH less than 1% chance of happening.
If the battery life can stay the whole day, I will buy.

I think it's like 5h max
It doesn't matter what they will allow. What matters is what will happen.

Science fiction has explored the idea of transnational, nation-like organizations that have more real importance than an actual country. If nations reject bitcoin I suspect that is where we're going to go.
gcc default settings I presume? GTA3 on PS2 also ships with names, and the android ports of most PS2 era R* games also ship with names by way of just exporting every function (and in GTA3's case even static/local names for some reason).
The USA dollar is the settlement currency of the world. Which means you are really looking at the energy use of the Army/Navy/Air-force. If, in this hypothetical future, BTC became the settlement record.
Also 8% of the rules could block like 99% of web traffic. But also notice the part where they went to 1m random sites too. That would be a sample from the rest of the Internet.
I think the major argument against that is ethical. I wouldn't invest in something that has disastrous consequences on the environment, even if the expected returns are great.
Do they though? Because that's not really what I'm hearing.

Strike is, in the US, a custodial US dollar wallet. You give them dollars and they keep them as dollars. You send them to another person in the US and they just amend their internal ledger.

When you try and send them to El Salvador things go pear shaped. They:

(1) Buy Bitcoin with those dollars.

(2) Use a private LN network that they don't let anyone else onto because it made it totally un-workable according to their CEO.

(3) To send those Bitcoin between their own two accounts.

(4) And then buy Tether with them in El Salvador. You remember, the dollars that are actually 3% dollars.

Strike is somehow the absolute worst case for the people of El Salvador. Centralized, permissioned, censorable (it's not available in Hawaii or New York) and backed by Tether. Not a coin that's likely to have the money (USDC) but Tether, who admits they don't.

El Salvador by the way, is a dictatorship mandating their citizens use of Bitcoin.

Where's the win exactly?

[1] https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/06/11/el-salvador-...
That's pretty much my stance, the universities are obsolete garbage. I did give them another shot and took as many math classes as possible, but they screwed up and drove me away.

I now do all my math research independent, as the universities are unable to facilitate my math research activity.

https://github.com/chakravala
Here's a company that was trying to use an AI lie detector to deny insurance claims: https://www.vox.com/recode/22455140/lemonade-insurance-ai-tw...

Here's a company using AI personality assessment to decide hiring: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/ai-hiri...
Farewell from Rusty Russell (2018)
Serbians Suffer Long-Term Effects of NATO Depleted Uranium – 2005
Chances of Bitcoin being still around in 10 years and valued accordingly are a lot higher than 1%. The first 10 years were way more difficult and challenging. The market will chose, some governments will try to fight it, but its much easier for governments to stock up Bitcoin reserves and embrace it.

Bitcoin now is basically too big to fail.
The workers don't own the company.
Thanks. I really like idea number 2. In training, have people fail nearly purposefully.

I think some of the problem is that there's no real standardized training for developers. Many have 4 weeks of 'bootcamp' and are cut into the wild.

And I can't be too negative about it, I didn't even have that. I would just say I learned from 20 years of reading and mistakes.
Heh heh, I came to say the same - my first professional development job was on an Acer C720 for which I had barely enough money to buy from my restaurant job.
I agree. In fact if I chose a chromebook, I'd automatically restrict the budget to $250 max even for a brand new one. For $950 or more, I wouldn't accept anything less than a performance laptop with a discrete GPU.

So the question is, can you get through the Master's program with a brand new $250 chromeook? I'd say yes- you basically need to set it up as a remote coding machine. Georgia Tech (and most other universities with decent graduate programs) provide access to educational and research computing clusters these days. Also, Google Collab is your friend, especially during the assignment deadlines when those clusters will be occupied by other students.
>it is just the tax all at once that you would normally pay over the life of the distribution.

It's not. You don't have to rollover the ENTIRE account. You can choose to only rollover a certain amount of money.

The idea is say, you calculate that as a person you spend, say, $60k a year. So 5 years ago, you convert $80k of your 401k into a Roth IRA. It becomes ~$60k after being taxed. Your tax bracket is just the one that's an income of 80k would be at, because you only converted 80k.

Now you can take that 60k and spend it on your life. Repeat every year, that's the ladder part, and you can spend money out of your 401k no penalty, normal tax rate, as if you were retirement age.
Interesting relevation is the NY Times and Google gag order was actively contested. The contract between NY Times and Google required that Google disclose any data requests to allow NY Times to contest them. Google actively contested the gag order because of this clause. That is going to be requirement in any service provider contract that I sign going forward.
I don't follow this reasoning - why would moving to BTC as a global settlement currency make armed forces obsolete?
Funny how you replied to that comment, and not my comment above it, which made it absolutely clear that the noose being a symbol of racist lynching is absolutely not modern. It was the reality for millions of black people living in the South for over a hundred years, where there were decades with an average of one lynching every four days.

And yes, it was a symbol as well as a reality. Here is a noose carried by a Klansman to threaten Black people and keep them from voting in 1939 [1]. Here is a mock lynching at the University of Mississippi in 1962, to scare off the university's first Black student [2]. Black men at work would find nooses at their stations [3]. Nooses were mailed to NAACP Secretary, and in 1956 a noose was hung in a schoolyard tree during a battle over desegregation [4].

You said yourself you're an "outside observer of American culture." Well, this is a history lesson. The noose has been an extremely potent symbol of terror for over a hundred years.

1. https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/masked-ku-klux-klan...

2. https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200623111206-noose-do...

3. https://www.adl.org/media/10204/download

4. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shuler-noose-hat...
>"I believe you it's there.."

Yes it is there in the same section as the topic mentioned. It has too much of the text IMHO to include in its entirety. Just in case you try again here is the pattern to search for: "(A) compete with the covered platform".

>"but I'm not sure your accusation"

The poster "accuses" proposal based on a single item taken out of context from the relevant section. Meanwhile the same section includes said Exclusion clause.

>"net contribution to the discussion"

The net contribution is that the distortion by omission of the bill's section is being prevented.
This. I did not even realize OP was talking about a $1000 chromebook.
As a hobbyist with no commercial reason that could justify faffing about with imported tapes, I have a deep hatred for import taxes and the (occasionally very) steep shipping prices across the Atlantic. If I'm gonna have to pony up 200% of the original price to get the tapes delivered to my doorstep, tape drives might as well be fictional to me.