skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No I was responding to the parent’s musing on what motivation someone like Jen Psaki would have on coordinating a negative press campaign because someone like Joe Rogan criticized her on a podcast. Of which I responded to, based on my own personal observations of people in high places.
> https://www.costablancaworld.com/robots.txt

Somebody screwed up and made their robots.txt in a rich-text editor like wordpad.
Reminds me a little of https://github.com/calderajs/caldera-react
Exactly, I only played Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program when I was depressed. Every other time if I feel bored or burned out enough to try to play a session I think about my list of backlogged greenfield great ideas and immediately end up doing one of those. They are honestly just as creatively rewarding and fun in the greenfield stage at least.
I used to say shit like "I'm not smoking at the moment" or "I quit every time I put one out"

I turned phrases like that into a contrarian joke to justify my addiction.
That is assuming that the speed of light truly is the end-all-be-all. It is quite possible there are other ways of travel that we’ve yet to discover. I have no idea what they’d be but humans have really only been doing this space / astronomy thing for a few hundred years at most.

We have barely scratched the surface of what is truly going on out there. It would be incredibly “human centric” to think our current understanding of the universe is “it”, in my opinion.
34 years old, been playing forever, and all that matters to me is that I get to keep listening to music, playing music, collecting music and spinning music.

Started playing the violin in orchestra in elementary school, taught myself the double bass in middle school so I could join jazz band, then taught myself the alto sax so I could help teach my little brother. Ended up shifting my focus to DJ'ing, then picked up the guitar in my 20's and now I'm learning the piano. I own some synths, too, and produce Ambient music occasionally.

Most of it's for myself, but sometimes I'll spin in a club which is always a blast. I love volunteering with local club promoters to help them throw underground shows. I love putting together abstract concept mixes for myself and sharing them with just some family and friends. I love trying to bend some of my favorite piano pieces into some kind of abstract Ambient piece. I thought about pursuing it as a career and took some music production classes in college, but quickly realized that I really didn't want to bring money into the equation.

You could call it a hobby, but I think a better word for it is passion. There's always something new to learn; new methods of playing, new ways to build a set, new instruments to pick up, new records and artists to happen upon. It's exciting to know that I'll always be discovering and learning in an area that I love so much. There's also a strong emphasis on improvisation in most of what I do, and learning how to trust my gut without second-guessing myself is an area that's always up for improvement.

I don't need other people to hear what I do, I don't need to make a single cent doing it. I just need to be able to get lost in it. Aside from my wife and kid, there's no better feeling in the world to me than when I get that itch, that urge, that screams, "Go play RIGHT NOW," because I've learned over the years that, even if I don't know what I'm about to play, I almost always fall into that "flow" so goddamned easily and for such a long period of time whenever that urge hits. I love it so much.
Thank you for taking the time to write this! This is very helpful.
A security key? Depends on why they really want a phone number.
Not understanding the existence of unspoken social conventions that have no written rules and nothing explicitly preventing you from violating them, is the definition of poor social skills.

And you did that on the forum, so people get to point it out on the forum.
I wasn't trying to compare the rates in which we murder each other.

New York is a shithole and terribly ran, of course the murder rate is higher, especially these days.

There's a lot of gang violence and pickpocketing, knives are the goto choice, especially since it's so hard to get a hand gun legally in that city. Better to carry a knife otherwise you're a default felon.
I don't think you're alone there. This was EXACTLY my mindset as well.

I have the same problem with the various Japanese logic puzzles (Soduku, Nurikabe, Hashi, etc):
1) This is fun!
2) Hmm, I'm using the same algorithms to solve every puzzle
3) I could probably write a solver
4) Don't write solver. Move on to something else.
What’s wrong with google hotel? I travel exclusively with airbnb now but in the rare cases I can’t I’ll use google hotel
The same amount of food is not produced, more food is produced because it's the only way the food company can keep up with inflation.
I've never heard of so many failing a college algebra course, at my second university it was around 25% failing and mostly because they'd relaxed the entry requirements in order to increase enrollment.

However, for non-STEM and non-Business majors college algebra is rarely a prerequisite for any other courses so you can still continue your major without it, you do need to pass a math course before graduating though. They also have other math courses that can be used that aren't college algebra and may be easier.
Zachtronics games. They’re all about processes and optimisation but in quite different ways.
The other problem with sending a space probe is that the devs will have to actually deliver the Proxima Centauri mod on time and on budget, which, let's be honest, probably isn't going to happen for another few years. Think about it, you have to skin the whole planet, make sure the AI isn't weird, make sure it doesn't conflict with the existing storyline or retcon all the earth NPC memories. It's a HUGE project. Right now we just literally return a light curve from the function when someone looks at it.

And even if we could get the adversial networks to model all this garbage, etc it needs to line up with the plan of the rest of the Universe from the franchise and the managers can't even decide whether the photon is going to be a wave or a particle. Jeez. Vaporware like HL2.
Or use Tor. Nobody likes it when you blend in too well, even just for reading.
I can't imagine humanity not making it to 4000. There are very few true existential threats.
A security key wouldn’t prevent spam since you can buy multiple. It would increase the cost of spamming, but it’s unclear of the relatively affordable price of security keys would love the needle enough vs attrition from legit users
That's just fucked up, there's really no other way to put it.

I can't even begin to imagine any team I've worked on in my 15-20 year career acting this way towards anyone, nevermind an actual member of the team.

You probably have some legal options you could pursue (IANAL) but honestly, everyone and their mother is hiring right now. I wouldn't waste another day on these kinds of assholes.
This is like meeting a celebrity. Awesome work on homebrew!
Sorry if it’s unfamiliar, but the index argument is critical to many real use-cases.

As far as ignoring errors silently, sure, but I’m not even sure what the error would be in this case. Index is a number and radix is a number; even typescript won’t complain about this because the types line up.
If your life goal is to optimize for "productivity", then you will of course encounter your issue. I imagine the vast majority of people seek out leisure activities. What I've found that Factorio does for many programmers is that it hits the same dopamine receptors that productive programming does, just in a non-work context. A professional football player should be able to enjoy playing basketball in their off-time because it's another athletic activity and not feel the guilt of improving their football skills.
Controlling access to "opportunity for authors to get their work in front of a fairly dedicated audience" sounds awfully like gatekeeping.
Factorio is right on the cusp for me. SpaceChem, too. TIS-100 was a bomb for me; if I'm literally writing code, it better end up in a GitHub repo.

With Factorio for me, I always reach a point where I know how I'm going to scale up, and then I lose interest in actually doing so. Just knowing that I could do it is satisfying enough.
I think this viewpoint is really interesting, especially when one considers how massively incentivized this addiction is (by way of high-paying jobs with generally-great benefits and working environments).
Maybe that's true. A lot of people tried the RTE stuff, and Basecamp/37Signals came close with a solution (I forgot the name). I guess it's a hard problem by definition, dealing with copypasted stuff from Word, dealing with browsers, etc. After using my simple Markdown solution for some years now, I came to appreciate the bare basic style of it. But it's not for every use case.
If you are asserting that university departments do not run courses that are designed to remove students from the major, you are wrong. I'm not going to bother to try to prove it to you--look it up if you want.
iCloud Private Relay tends to work better than your average VPN, I suspect because it has a big enough non-technical userbase that just blocking it would lose customers
You post two links to the same incident in *Vancouver*? Not Ottawa? Not Windsor? Not Coutts, AB?

And then turn and castigate the person you are replying to with a dismissive "...if you bother to look."
My guess would be the dividing line goes between science and engineering. The top level science work requires a lot more (mathematical) rigor than the top level engineering jobs. (I say that as more of an engineering type myself, albeit with a confidently above-average degree of mathsiness.)
Nectr - a place for IT professionals to maintain an free, accurate, sharable profile of their skills, experience and availability: https://nectr.network

I've always wanted this service, so even if I'm the only user, I'll keep it online.
How about proof of humanity?

Or Apple FaceTime Attestation?
> and nobody will accept a Google Voice (or most VOIP really) number as valid.

Apple will accept a Google Voice number as a trusted phone number on your iCloud account, and it even works with their SMS 2FA, in the few places where they still support that.
You can read the PDF directly in browser: https://docmadeeasy.com/v/484772290
inb4 someone makes an angry stakeholder mod that spawns biters unless you hit some arbitrary metric in a set amount of time :)
This is a lower level math class. It isn't being taught by a professor. At best it is being taught by a grad student.
A constant rectangle can be a superclass of a constant square; a mutable rectangle cannot be a superclass of a mutable square (without some kind of type changing mutation?).

I think this generalizes to any "this is a more constrained that".
There's perhaps no better example of a publication selling its soul for pageviews than Forbes. While Malcolm Forbes was editor, it was my favorite business magazine. Today, they sometimes have decent articles if you can plow through all the popups etc. to read them, but there's a huge amount of content that has very little real editorial oversight.
I think that is the whole point of not giving answers.

You should be able to solve a problem in multiple ways and prove correctness.

It takes loads of time, but that is the only way to truly learn.

Most of students given answers will solve a problem in one way see that answer matches the correct solution and stop there. That is not the way to learn anything.

It is the same with software, it takes a lot of time to get good at.

In software it is easy to get correct solution with wrong approach, but often people just stop at "make it work" where they should step back and "make it work, make it right, make it fast".
It's abstract thinking and ability to work with new math constructs on the spot.
This isn't about convincing you to like math or anything like that. Just a bit of an exploratory thing. Check out some of the math and geometry videos that Vsauce has made. One of my favorites is A Proof That The Square Root of Two Is Irrational: https://youtu.be/LmpAntNjPj0
Is it critical in some way that's absent from all the other langugaes that have a map()? There are standard, composable, explicit patterns in Python, Clojure, and I presume other map()-equipped anguages to get you the indices along with the items. (enumerate in Python and map-indexed in Clojure)

The error I was talking about was the argument count mismatch erorr, that would have taught you on all the other times you used map() without knowing about the extra index argument.
Three things.

1) Gatekeeping. There are lots of professors in lots of disciplines in lots of universities, be they STEM, social sciences or arts and humanities, who are determined to keep out any student who hasn't followed the exact progression that they believe is necessary in order to take a course. Often there is no good reason for this. They're just petty.

2) Most academics are awful teachers, even worse course designers and have no formal training in pedagogy. This is why you get stupidities like the author describes where answers aren't given to problem sets, or courses based around lectures that are literally someone standing at the front of a lecture theatre reading from a text book in a monotone for an hour. Teaching and designing courses is not a priority for most academics as it is not what they are in academia to do, and being good at this usually won't help them in their career. They are often given little or no training in either course design or teaching by the university and so tend to fall back on trying to replicate how they themselves were taught. They then panic or are dismissive when faced with a student who asks questions or requires some guidance. Remember, the job of a teacher is to teach, not just to grade.

3) Some courses, even at a fairly low level, are so specialised that it only really makes sense for a major to take them, or they are not "stand alone" as they are intended to be completed at the same time as another related course with concepts from one helping illuminate concepts from the other.
But that money could also be applied in other areas of the economy, that might have far better payback. And with France's current track record of nuclear construction, throwing more money at nuclear without fixing the fundamental problems first is serious misallocation of capital.

Just the latest news that is the same as the last decade of bad news:

> EDF now estimates the total cost of the project at 12.7 billion euros ($14.42 billion). Its expected cost has more than quadrupled from the first estimate made in 2004.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/edf-announces-new-de...

$15B of lithium ion battery factory would have far far greater carbon impact, dollar for dollar. $1B on early stage startups would similarly be more impactful.
How do you know that 800 × 3 = 2400 if you haven't learned multiplication tables?
To an extent, I agree: Hegel is subject to the normal waxing and waning of intellectual trends. On the other hand, I think really seismic shifts in faculty are generally driven by outside pressure - and the largest source of pressure, historically, has been political witch-hunting, closely followed by marketization.
I recently created an app to help make and animate stamps on iOS with a fun/quirky interface. You can export the stamps as gifs or use the iMessage “stickers” interface to drag them on a text message. It was a passion project. I even created all the assets in the app myself while the app was being developed which was a bit of a stretch creatively for me, but was a ton of fun.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stampfx/id1583460487#?platform...
I remember hacking together a Twilio API script for registering multiple Google accounts (since they do phone verification for each account so I needed a pool of numbers I could register with). I managed to get about 20 accounts registered before they caught on, and banned each account. And there was a twist: my main Google account got caught up in the ban (which I tried really hard to keep insulated from the en-mass account registrations). But they somehow figured out it was me (even after using several proxies/VPNs).

But luckily I could appeal the ban of my main (personal) account and the copy read something like:

We want you to keep communicating with Gmail, so you can appeal to get your account reinstated here using this form.

Turns out Google is human after-all, and I learned my lesson.

For those wondering why I wanted so many Google accounts; well at the time Google+ was happening and I wanted to promote a bunch of SaaS products and side hustles. In truth, I wanted to spam G+ with links. But the takeaway from this is: Google does let you appeal and has your best interests at heart, despite any rogue/malicious intent.
I talked a bit about this in my release day talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRZ3o-NsU_4&t=8151s), but:

* Every edgedb type has a postgres table

* "single" properties and links are stored as columns in that table (links as the uuid of the target)

* "multi" properties/links are stored as a link table

So it's basically just translated to a relational database in normal form
Yeah, clicking this link on my 2016 MPB caused all of Chrome to completely hang for about 3mins until I could close it... yikes.
It seems that all of them were built for recursive archiving in the early '00s for personal storage (so they were programs literally installed on computers rather than a specific group). Probably a legacy thing (considering at that time Wikipedia literally runs on a single server). I found a robots.txt file that even list a greater variety of said software: https://www.iatse.com/robots.txt
You might be able to run a virtual instance of Android (on a PC), and use wireshark to capture the traffic, and maybe burpsuite if you want to get spicey. I think, I am no expert.

I wish you luck.
Easy come, easy go?
The only trust that crypto removes the need for is the trust that a transaction will be recorded. You still need to trust that the person on the other side of the transaction will uphold their end of your bargain, which is literally the only thing that actually matters in any transaction.

When I swipe my credit card at the grocery store, I'm not worried about whether or not it will show up on my bank statement. Switching that transaction to crypto solves nothing, it gives me no additional assurances to whether the food I just bought is poisonous, whether somebody was watching over my shoulder for my pin, whether a delivery for something out of stock that I ordered will arrive, or anything else.

In fact, using crypto would make me less confident about those things because, since crypto transactions are eternally immutable, I can't get my money back if they screw me.

Being able to trust the fact that a transaction happened is not a useful innovation.
Then accuse non mainstream sources of "misinformation" when they try to expose the crypto scams.

Fact Check: "No, Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme and is actually good for the environment!"
This is interesting because I am personal friends with the editorial teams of two different literary magazines that were started in the last five years. Having seen the numbers, I can say they are doing quite well. I am curious as to what is going wrong in these particular magazines that is causing them to close?
Would you be surprised if heroin addicts have chronically high blood harman levels? They do. Two of the most abundant sources in the human diet are coffee and tobacco smoke.

It has been postulated that some alcoholics use alcohol as a means to escape the anxiogenic (anxiety-generating) effects of harman.
> I suppose that depends on what you call cheap, and whether you include “guaranteed”/“dedicated” in the definition of reliable for bandwidth.

Then there are no cheap options. Even frivolously expensive “cloud” providers don’t give you this.

The reality is that there are very few customers that actually have a real need for “guaranteed”/“dedicated” bandwidth.
I had the same thought. It only recently hit me how much of the world around me is sneakily driven by individuals wanting to strengthen their resume.

I had underestimated how often the frameworks/languages chosen was influenced by a developer simply wanting to built up skills in that area, rather than it being the best tool for the job.

But, interestingly enough, it seems to me that this can often lead to great results! The developer is motivated both to prove that their decision could solve the problem and also to learn the technology for reasons beyond that project alone.

It seems that might be what’s going on here: the graphic designer is flexing, and a page about a font is trending on HN.
I had an organic chemistry professor who would not return anything until the end of the semester, homework, quizzes, test, nothing. I had the impression she was a procratsinator and just didn't do the work. It was beyond frustrating. She also got her ph.d from Princeton coincidentally!
I don't know about that. I know that anecdotes != empirical data, but, anecdotally, I've seen video games and gambling destroy several peoples careers, relationships, etc.

One dorm-mate was kicked out of college because he spent ALL of his time playing WoW (World of Warcraft) and failed all of his classes. (Side note: I remember being scared to go near that game from hearing so many similar stories at the time.) I've known many people who remain unemployed and do nothing but play video games.
You only have to look at how the US faired in high inflation periods in the past to realize how awful this is for normal working people. I'm amazed at how many people are so flippant about something with hard data showing how destructive it is.
blink shell is the best.
The article perfectly reflects my experience teaching STEM in the last semester.

Instructional material that led to rave reviews and amazing student outcomes the years before now results in similar reviews like “lost a lot of respect for the Math department after taking this course.”

The main complaint is "Why won’t anyone teach me XXX": "it seems like the instructor is expecting us to learn the material ourselves".

Sorry to say, but for many STEM topics that's the only way. You need to struggle, do, and solve the problem. And not only there: you won't learn figure skating / cycling / playing an instrument by watching a lecture (or video) on it. You have to actively do it. The instructor can lead you to the water but can't force you to drink. Just staring at the water and complaining does not help.

I wonder what these students will then feel like in their first job. You hire engineers because you have a problem that needs solving. This kind of graduate on the other hand expects that someone solves the problem for them and feeds the solution in small packets.

Also, of course, it's interesting to wonder why this is happening now and if it will go away. The connection to the pandemic seems clear, but how exactly?
Didn't implement save. It was the late 90's and eventually lost the HD. Never put it online. Don't judge me, I did in Delphi (C++ Builder, actually). Simple and pleasurable to use IDE. I've been thinking about re-doing it in processing or p5, but never cared enough. It wouldn't be too much work though. Certainly a good exercise to learn a new language.
Genuine unmetered/unlimited bandwidth claims also include a port speed. And the really good claims will include a 'minimum sustained' rate (with well connected peers), which lets you complain when you can't get decent throughput because all the servers on the 10G switch share a t1 out to the local internet exchange.
Is this standard practice where everyone lives, where they preemptively come to your door if you posted to social media in regards to participating in a peaceful protest coming up, or do you see this as intimidation?