skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both questions were answered in the article. The reason for precise directions is because otherwise people will complain, and if you ignore their complaints, they will complain to your boss. At the end you'll win, but you'll waste a bunch of time defending yourself.

The reason for not allowing cheating is repetitional. If you get a reputation for allowing cheaters, then all the cheaters will want to take your class, and eventually you'll have so many that your testing will be worthless. And if word gets out that your institution allows cheating, then your students will not be respected when they leave, causing harm to the non-cheaters and your chance at keeping your job as fewer people want to attend a school known for allowing cheats.
Skiena's "Algorithm Design Manual" (which recently got a third edition) introduces algos and their application -- when to use them, why you might use one over another, etc. With lengthy "stories from the trenches" about problems he's solved using them, in some cases. And it's a handy reference on the ideas behind the algos, too
On one hand, I've been happy with the amount of footage available from the frontline via TikTok.

On the other hand, the way a lot of these videos are overlayed with some corny rap song or an epic orchestral piece over images of death and violence feels like we're framing a tragedy like a shitty action film.
Which is why you should cook in as little water as viable.

Packaging says to cook pasta in a lot of water, but this is because that is what large kitchens do, as they reuse the water throughout the day.

In the home kitchen you get closer to the reused, starchy water, by simply using less water and stirring.
Does this work with the higher-protein "keto" pastas out there? So my question, I guess, is when is pasta pasta and what actually is pasta and at which point does it become not pasta or anti-pasta? Can any of these questions be answered? Will they ever be? Who knows such things.
> if you're so inclined: you can remove unneeded modules from your UEFI firmware

I’ll bite.

How, concretely, do I do this? What’s the procedure to follow? How can I get the new BIOS image signed, so my motherboard will accept it?
That is an excellent point. Yes, usually parents do "what is best for their children". However, good intentions do not guarantee good results.

It took me 20 years to undo some of the more direct damage done to me by forcing me into a path I didn't want. Parents being completely wrong for the right reasons is very much a thing.

That doesn't even count psychological damage almost guaranteed to lurk in there pretty much forever
Is it crazy to suggest that taxi drivers should be paid hourly rather than by fare? I know it’s a radical departure from the business model but what are the downsides?
I had same thought - I suspect there is no upper bound. There are other examples of this sort of thing, but Hawking was new to me.

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peddling the idea of hawking

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peddling "throat-clearing hawking"

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No economy. No infrastructure. No housing. Little of value except a concept, a minimum viable product, and something to sell to investors. This is something that can part people with their "investment" dollars. In many ways analogous to so many venture "investments" without any of the potential exit strategies, except by boat. This particular investment has a literal chance of being under water for the investors. Very telling that at the end of the piece, the folks who sold the investment said they don't know where to take things next because they hadn't thought farther than buying the island and getting investors. This is quite the analogy for tech startup investing in many ways.
You should stick to Harry Potter.
Mearsheimer is deeply informed, objective and honest. Dangerous traits to have when your opinions don't mirror those of any given establishment.
> it seems possible the teacher's instructions were confusing.

Yes; I've been on both sides. I've written assignments that I thought were clear and unambiguous, only to find that a significant number of students misunderstood what I meant. They weren't intentionally trying to make the problems easier, they just weren't sure what I wanted. (And, of course, who is going to interpret an ambiguous problem so as to make more work for themselves? A few students will do it both ways -- the easier interpretation and the harder one -- but most won't.)

And on the other side, I've taken continuing education classes taught by other teachers where the instructions were confusing, ambiguous, or sometimes just plain impossible to follow ("You'll find the answers to this quiz in the article you just read." but the article was revised and now uses different terminology from the quiz.)
Even Science can't resist to publish about politics.
And if you don't fire or contain the bad apples, the good ones will go.
Ironically, measures like discussed in this article can actually make classes much harder for students with ADHD. Keeping on top of busy work, maintaining a tight schedule, etc. is not easy with executive functioning issues, and could lead to a student that actually did learn the material and performed well on exams receiving a bad final grade.

This may be more relevant to "twice exceptional" students that can still pick up on the material without following the whole class. There is certainly heterogeneity and I don't mean to speak for all ADHD students in what they would prefer. I just think it is funny your comment could be read as supporting either side of the debate without the parent context. And given the parent context I have to say I disagree.

Now whether the hand holding of attendance policies and weekly assignments and the like is better for the class on the whole I can't comment on. It's not an easy tradeoff and I don't think the decision should be made primarily based on how people with ADHD perform, unless you are teaching a class where it is disproportionately represented.
Employer based health insurance should be abolished. Same for things like 401k or pensions where a company decides what services the employee can get (and probably not the employee's benefit but for the company's benefit). Everybody should have access to the same plans when it comes to retirement and health insurance.
They bought an island to start a country in the same way Key West is the Conch Republic[0] with passports, currency, and a flag. They won't be recognized by the UN, no diplomatic outpost, and your zarpe won't be recognized by any other border agent.

Still seems like fun!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch_Republic
I see lots of potential for a legaltech startup that offers an easy way for companies and their employees to not have to deal with this and to compute tax implications beforehand.
Why are people still saying this? This statistic has been unmasked to be quite useless and only used for fear mongering so politicians/bureaucrats can cling to their emergency powers.

These “Thousands of deaths” are where the deceased happened to also test positive for COVID. Most of the deaths were people who were already very sick and likely not caused by COVID.
Molten salt fuel cycles where waste products may be separated from the liquid fuel through more conventional chemical separation methods seem like a simpler solution. It's too bad about the negative public view on nuclear. I think next gen fission power research deserves greater funding.
Good people have died. And you are thinking about bad PR and shareholder feelings.
Putin promised Xi the war in Ukraine would be over very quickly but what has transpired is that China is part of the blowback against Russia as a result of knowing beforehand that Putin would invade Russia.

The US now has every excuse to coerce China, from everything ranging to Taiwan, trade issues.

In large, Putin's war with Ukraine ended up raising fossil, food prices which puts real pressure on Xi's regime.

I do not think Russia has the same level of worry as China because it has endless amount of oil and food that China does not. If China is suddenly no longer allowed to import these from other countries, it would be forced to trade with Russia under Putin's terms.

The last time we did this to a country, they launched a war instead of waiting for the inevitable internal collapse. All of this is creating an uncertain and volatile future.

TLDR: Putin's war and looming US sanctions against China will cause a volatile reaction.
when it's about budgetary constraints, it's coming from the tax angle, but applied uniformly otherwise. When it's coming from HR, your imagination is the limit like a person's physical location, skin colour, sex, sexual orientation etc.
Oh that’s easy. Under certain other political conditions, the addition of a system of universal healthcare that is not market-based will harm the members of its society more than its absence.

I think those conditions are met. With doctors having legalized limits on their numbers etc. I don’t think we’ll see a requisite increase in healthcare outcomes for the money spent.

Given that, my preference is market-driven outcomes with deregulation of medicine, then the status quo, and finally the worst option: simply paying everyone who is doing the current job 10 times as much and expecting this to mean everyone can go see them.
It's cheaper to dig up and refine uranium ore instead so the economics don't make sense.
I mean, this specifically has nothing to do with the Israeli situation. Israel isn't trying to "give it back" to anyone, and even if it was, the Arabs/Palestinians or whomever, are not the group that Israelis hate. (If there is such a group that would've made sense after hte war, it would've been the Germans)
Also, conferences are basically job fairs and service markets. Of course companies pay for them, they exist for their interests.
Even before phone apps and internet banking BofA was godawful. They'd process debits first, issue overdraft fees, then process credits at the end of the day. As a poor college student in the mid 2000's I got screwed over twice before I closed my accounts there and haven't used them since.

Then at one point I was between jobs and filed for unemployment - which conveniently came on a BofA debit card. 10 years later and I still get an email about some kind of monthly statement for the $0.43 on there. I tried to close out the account and gave up after several attempts, and just marked it as spam.
Do NOT use Cap1 for banking!

I too was satisfied with my Cap1 cc account(s), tried their banking, and it was a total disaster. I eventually got my money out (through two systems that had been deprecated and closed down, with no apparen't notice to me), and left $10 in one account that still has paper statements - but no ability to sign in to the account any more.

I leave it alone to spite them.
>google product manager: also a chat app

This may be the best line I've read all year.
I wouldn't be so confident. Some of the most exciting developments in space xploration are coming from private firms. Anyways why do you want a inefficient state bureaucracy to do something the market can do for half the cost?
My favorite thing on Yahoo finance is how the headline for the day is re-written throughout the day to keep it current, frequently becoming the opposite of what it was in the beginning of the day.
It's _short_ half life that can be scary, because that means a lot of radiation.
It's inhabited by Russians now, so you might have to, um, rearrange people.
(On homework)

> And you know what? When the students blame you, maybe they are right. The teacher is supposed to use their experience to help students learn. Shouldn’t you help the actual imperfect humans in front of them, rather than imagining a bunch of perfectly rational Platonic objects?

This is an extremely mean accusation.
As a former student, I've never ever blamed any of my professors for not giving me enough homework. I am sure I passed the final exam classes with much better grades and knowledge than the homework classes (which I usually failed and dropped very early). And if I've not, I've still felt extremely annoyed and mad about the system, and how nonsense and unfair it is.

I can accept a statistics about homework and no homework classes (which the article fails to provide), that the majority of students perform better, or the average is better, or the lower range is better, or anything.
But this kind of arguing is simply worthless (less than worthless).
React is not immediate mode, imgui is not declarative.
I was in the S12 batch “the batch that killed the YC model” with 80+ teams I think. After that they switched to the group model where the batch is divided in to groups and each group has specific partners. In our batch is was definitely challenging when you often got a randomly assigned partner each week and most of the time they didn’t know who you are or what you do. However, Coinbase, Instagram, Zapier etc came out of that batch.

For me as first time founder YC was super helpful and they really drill the right kind of mindset for you. Build product, talk to users. The stuff they tell you is often very simple but I think lot of founders naturally complicate the startup building and focus on the wrong things because they think thats what should do. YC cuts through all the bs and just makes you focus on the few actually important things
For now ;) or as the old proverb goes:

Бесплатный сыр только в мышеловке
I’m discovering my secret (even to myself) ulterior motive in posting the above may have been to identify a cohort of fellow HN’ers looking for high quality of life per cost of living areas suitable for remote (co?)working.

I’m currently PNW lifestyle, but planning a lengthy expedition around South America starting later this year; email in bio for anyone still reading this thread and wanting to keep in touch.
I think your logic is faulty here. There were BIOSes with no ip stack for many years that could boot OSes that did have the ability to access the internet.

Also, it's possible to remove the ip stack from most UEFI implementations?

Now, it does need a network stack if it's going to _boot_ the other OS from the network.
In what sense theory of computation is applicable to your current job?
I got a bit excited and uploaded it before thinking about that, I've added some context menus but it's basically

cmd+shift+j open doing
cmd+shift+k open todo
cmd+shift+l open distractions
esc hide
shift enter - complete task
There's plenty of concern trolling to go around.

And Poroshenko sending the army and battalions of neo-nazis to attack Ukraine's own citizens wasn't a first punch thrown by a bully ? Why didn't NATO nations or the UN react then to stop the massacre ?

They happily ignored it, which gave Putin the excuse then for Crimea and to send his famous "Green Men" back then. Letting it rot, and worse, enabling the worst elements of Ukranian society gave him an excuse in front ofthe Russian public to start this whole murderous theater piece now.

Similarly, 5.4 million dead in Congo between 1998 - 2008. What did anybody do about it ? Nothing. Most people in the west don't even know it happened. Same as Yemen's 370'000 dead. I'll also conveniently skip Lybia, Afghanistan, Iraq's million dead from sanctions, or more recently arming and funding Isis and Al-Quaed against Assad.

So let's pretend this has anything to do with any morals or protection of others from bullies, or democracy - or if you think different I'd say your local propaganda worked on you.

NATO is just the stick to the western lifestyle carrot - while in fact setup for an extractive system centered on dollar surplus recycled by the world's regional elites through Wall Street.

Russia, China, Putin and Xi are trying to create their own opposing version, and will be using the coming economic crisis born of this war to effect it.

It's all just the Great Game of colonial great powers all over again, 2022 Modern Redux.
Aren’t those Deel and Remote?
Given the low profile of the island in the few photos in the article, it looks like the island will be submerged in a number of decades. Anything built on the island will need to deal with hurricane forces at the beach level.

The island is only 7.5km from a major port. So that is an incredible bonus. For that alone, it's not the worst investment.
Did it work well or did China just stop reporting cases?
>Ultimately, I think the Tsar's Russia was a deeply sick system that had to go, one way or another

Note that it already went away by the time the Bolshevik's staged their 'Revolution'. Also, there's an argument (ironically mirroring yours) that had Russia avoided WW1, the Tsar's system would end up evolving towards a constitutional monarchy, but without the piles of corpses.
> Sorry, have to disagree. His repeated "Putin is a brilliant strategist" is right out of right wing orthodoxy. Putin is a nascissist and a ruthless bully.

It’s not a right wing versus left wing thing. It’s an idealist versus realist thing. Idealists tend to analyze international affairs in terms of ideology or the personality of individual leaders, rather than concrete facts on the ground, is precisely what has led to so much disaster in US foreign policy. E.g. Saddam, the War on Terror, etc.

Historically, the idealists were mostly on the right—Reagan, Bush, etc. Back during the Iraq War, Mearsheimer’s views would be comfortably on the left. (And outside the US they still are, which is why my Carter-loving Bangladeshi immigrant dad is posting Mearsheimer links on FB which all my aunties are liking.)
I don't know about the US, but in the UK the idea that you can just go online and learn things and replace University that way is absurd.

I am currently studying full time online. I'm probably learning quicker than I did during my undergrad.

But my undergrad _changed my life_. It took me out of some random little town, jumbled me around in the class system a bit and threw me into a world capital city with a cute girlfriend and not only "friends" or a "network" but with a completely different understanding of the world.

Worth the price tag.
> 20,000 cubic meters isn't a significant amount of space

20,000 m3 of water is not the same as 20,000 m3 material that is seriously toxic to the cellular bonds that form life in one teaspoon of material.. each teaspoon of material can be further subdivided into .. the air in your lungs, the fresh water that frogs depend on, or the bio-accumulating food chain of vegetable-deer-predator

factual responses welcome and encouraged
Wait, do you mean new tasks start out completed? Can you describe the problem in a bit more detail? You can email me at dirk@dirkdirk.com :)
Ironically enough, I personally find their snarky humor just as dated as the books they poke fun at.
the politics of this is very sad. there isn't a single country on earth whose politics are "correct". but cooperation is always, always better than division. turning off instruments because they were made in another country? its insane. what does that accomplish? science, and in particular all the sciences related to space, must transcend that. i mean, these countries blowing each other up, they sell each other the weapons.. but we cant share a telescope? :(
It wouldn’t matter if there were no resources in space (which obviously is not true). Nothing has to be brought back ever. It does not have to be profitable.

What it has to do is allow life (maybe not even human life) to survive if either humans or anything else ends life on earth. It’s more than the survival of humanity - we’re the only life that has ever evolved to the point of being able to leave. It’s about the survival of life itself.
It's not a novel idea:

"Laser induced nuclear waste transmutation"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08737

"Transmutation prospect of long-lived nuclear waste induced
by high-charge electron beam from laser plasma accelerator"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05770

"Fusion Driven Transmutation of Transuranics in a Molten Salt"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08741

"Generic method to assess transmutation feasibility for nuclear waste treatment and application to irradiated graphite"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02623
Omnibus spending bill includes $24B for NASA for 2022
Smart, gets things done on time, pleasant to work with. Pick any two and you’ll do fine. Neil Gaiman’s commencement speech. I think if two are lacking for a while you get fired…
It will raise the cost of goods to the point which will be forced upon the consumer which will not be able to afford it. Already unemployment is rising rapidly in China as is inflation, when Chinese people find they can no longer afford a roof or basic foods, they will have nothing to lose.

This is what Xi fears, death of domestic demand.
To prevent Google from tracking purchases. Google scans all email that passes through its servers and parses out who bought what. If the information isn't in the email, it makes it harder for Google to do this. Presumably Amazon wants to keep this information for its own competitive advantage. Further reading: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase...

Also, your comments seem to be auto-dead for the last couple days. Glancing at your comment history, I'm not sure why. I vouched to recover this one. You might want to check in with Dan (hn@ycombinator.com) and ask him what's up.
Amazon probably has the exact demographics.
Wow. 14,000 Ukrainians have been killed by Ukrainians since 2014 in the Donbass region. Heavy weaponry involved. If that is not a civil war, what is it?
Sounds like this pop view of Fukuyama is inaccurate https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/history-restarts?s=r

Most people have a meme-level understanding of him and no idea what he has really said. This is relevant today as the pile-on of negative comments on his credibility are based on this meme-level understanding.
Good article. This article, and it looks like almost the entire blog it's a part of, are about computer engineering and operation detached from "the business". So much about computers is written from a business point of view, where anything that doesn't pay for itself in the next quarter is considered worthless. This blog doesn't take "business concerns" into account at all.
Google the username of the guy he’s responding to.
>Except “the end of history” isn’t the article linked. Maybe you’d know that if you read it.

Again, following the advice in the HN guidelines I will "assume the best interpretation" of your comment and say yes, I and others are quite comfortable generalizing from a specific quote that happens to mention how to respond to comments about a post to understand how that recommendation would apply to comments about other articles and topics without needing that to be explicitly spelled out, and yes I've read quite a number of works by Fukuyama though in my opinion "The end of history" is far from his best work. I've personally found "The origins of political order" to be much more thought provoking.
Yes it is not covered by the media who is fixated on Ukraine at the moment but Shanghai is under lockdown.
Amazing they wrote such a long article about pretty much nothing. TLDR: A bunch of people bought some land together and call it a country (but it's not, as they admit themselves).