skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can't even eat in most non-urban places or foreign countries because the insane concept of not cooking with animal fats and eating and using animal products just doesn't exist. You have to survive holding your breath from one hipster downtown area to the next.

I don't know about their vegan traditions, but vegetarianism has been big in India for at least 3000 years. It sounds like tradition to me, religious (Jewish and Muslims do not eat pork, Hindus do not eat cows), and something outside a hipster downtown area.

I suppose going to McDonald's and eating a super-processed burger from some chemical injecting factory farms in the antithesis of "bugman".
I didn’t find out until many years after graduating that the US is sprinkled with what are known as Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs), including a large number of well-regarded 4-year colleged which don’t have graduate programs, the professors don’t do (much) research (but do have PhDs generally) and the hiring and evaluation decisions are 90% based on teaching.

These institutions are usually on the small side and don’t make money in grants because they don’t do research, so they don’t spend millions in advertising or in sending out interviewers to thousands of high schools. So there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of even the ones you live near to.

These schools tend to produce both better experiences (less reliance on the painful “weed-out course” degree plan architecture of huge school) and somewhat better outcomes. I will almost certainly be sending my kids to be PUI and not a megaversity when they’re older.
"je ne préférerais pas" is "I would not prefer to" not "I would prefer not to"

"je n'aime autant pas" is "I might as well not"
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Yes

"Google seems to have signed me up for Google Pay without asking"
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1504079288051589120

This was on hacker news.
A lot of effective functional testing is getting fixtures ready so that your test can reliably hit the important part of the system under test. For external integrations this becomes difficult. Presumably your test uses the api sandbox, so hopefully it gives reproducible results. If not, then you need to test manually and focus on unit testing to assure the software.
I've always wanted to create something like this and make people use a specific cryptocurrency to rent or receive payments that they could also mine with a GPU and call it 'Ouroboros'.
We are in the year 2022. We don't have the technology to produce bug free software based solutions.

100% code coverage, as other mentioned in this thread, does not guarantee you exercised 100% of all the inputs values possible.

That is why:

- You can pay millions of dollars to a Software Company, and when you install the product the usual license text, says something in capitals along the lines of:
NO GUARANTEES WHATSOEVER FOR ANYTHING...
plus some will mention you can't use for controlling X-Ray machines, Nuclear Power generators and so.

and also why

- Software where life depends on, normally will use a type of summation or
consensus based software like the Shuttle had with 3/4 computers.
Yes. My wife got the opportunity to go there for grad school and the year I spent on campus with her was one of the highlights of my life. It’s an amazing place, and it will give you as much as you put into it.

You go. Full stop. Do not pass it up. The connections you will meet will put your life on a totally different path.

If after one year you totally hate it, you can transfer to the other school. But going the other way may not be an option.
When I rarely switch my GrapheneOS phone off airplane mode, I feel like Bilbo putting on the ring. The eye of Sauron is upon me.
I'm on 4K at 2x scaling.
> I am quite sad that so many philosophers and members of the public seem reluctant to accept this challenge at overhauling the millenia old stagnated academic debates.

Many philosophers and public members are sad that you insist on ignoring their input and are going to charge ahead long term consequences be damned. (I’m not taking sides here)

> If they don't participate, engineers will "solve" these problems themselves, perhaps choosing ease of implementation over moral considerations.

It’s OK. Congresses, parliaments, and other policy making bodies, basing their decisions on populist emotional feedback loops, will regulate these solutions in ways that leave both the moralist and the solver confused and unhappy.
But it's still a Boeing. Which makes it a close enough fit to satisfy the needs of the people who's low effort commentary invariably drowns out any legitimate discourse about events like this.
so an open market for scalpers to sell you a "GPU time share"...
I didn’t claim the anecdote was hearsay, I used the word “it” to refer to the hearsay, not the anecdote. The mistake is in the assumption of what it refers to, especially without asking me to clarify, or in not extending the principle of charity.
Or, except if you need absolute precision, you wrap all those primitives in a function that uses SI. So seconds for your sleep wrapper.
But I this is not really necessary, if you use a IDE with integrated docs, where you see the parameters of a function on a mouseover.
It matters when evaluating their response. If they said "huh, weird" for a 200$ charge I'd be suspicious, but for such a small amount, I totally see why they wouldn't bother explaining how it happened.
>Software encoding works just fine for current video call applications

Current video call applications look like crap

>also most twitch streams

Don't they use hardware encoding when possible? And higher bitrate than video calls.

>do you think software encoders won't get anywhere near x264, which can do it in less than one core?

Not at full quality
Interesting document. I remember seeing a document before that had been declassified about Cray at some US government agency in the 60s/70s. I think it was NSA. I'll try to track it down. I'm just thinking it had some technical details redacted...could it be possible that some of the MHz were redacted and were higher than the published 80 MHz figures? Maybe, right?

Anyway, also interesting is you both (you and another commenter) used the terms "conspiracy" and "whackadoodle" :) First time I've seen the word whackadoodle, it's a pretty interesting name. And now I'm wondering if it's a common combiner with "conspiracy". Used often?

edit: I just looked up the whackadoodle. Turns out it's a noun, too, huh. I see it's more common in the US, maybe that's why I never heard this before :) Reminds me of yankeedoodle (or, seemingly unrelatedly, "wanker", from the whacka - for masturbate, and the doodle for penis. Maybe that's just my Australian transliteration, haha). Anyway, I see the word is so interesting there was a WSJ article[0] on it from 2019. Woosh, straight over my head with that one, heh (was that too much of a 90s phrase?) :)

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/wackadoodle-a-ludicrous-word-fo... - A ludicrous word for ludicrous times.
Well, sure, I pretty much hate programming now.

It took less than five years of it to essentially retire though, we print money. As far as I can tell salaries are now generally higher than they were for me plus there are more jobs about.

Compare against the opportunity cost. I don't really know anyone in a career that hasn't had to put in the same effort (e.g. dollar for law/medical school) that isn't just completely screwed with 0 money and no hope of ever owning anything.

I've taken for granted the fact that OP wants to like, have a decent life at some point rather than being a wage slave forever.
Right. I would've hesitated to upgrade if it wasn't for the upgrade discount.
Man, the level of contempt for difference - and the desperation to justify that contempt with some sort of reason - is really astonishing here. What an unhinged piece of garbage.
Does that apply to all state media, like the BBC, or only Russian?
I think you read propaganda.
Yeah, I agree. :-)
> So Orwell was one of the few authors, possibly the only author, to have been shot by Fascists and nearly shot by Stalinists

That seems like a quite weird take, I would expect there would be more examples that are at least similar?
> What about those of us who don't like macOS UI?

Uhh, choose from countless other desktop environments out there for linux?!! Like I mentioned in the post, I used MATE desktop which is Gnome 2 style with classical UI metaphors. Works and is well supported.

> Gnome's prediliction for putting UI controls into the titlebar is dreadful, IMO.

It bothered me for an hour and then it was fine (as soon as I realized, it didn't interfere with dragging the window around). I'm talking about Gnome 40+ btw.

> However it seems that the designers of every other desktop OS have macOS envy.

Because it turns out the majority love it. Every developer/entrepreneur/maker soon realizes that having focus is crucial to success. In a lot of scenarios, that translates into accommodating the masses and if time and cost permits, allow for future customization.
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> No, they are not. Certainly there are places where they use a polygraph as something other than a party trick, but those places are fewer in number than the places where dogs are used to do police work.

Both are bad. If one's (finally!) getting reduced then that's a good thing, but that doesn't suddenly make the other one valid.

> You akin every dog owner to an abuser. This is needlessly hostile and I'd go so far as almost willfully unfriendly. There's really no call for that.

No, I'm saying that this "dogs are great and there's something wrong with anyone who doesn't like them" attitude is abusive. Not all dog owners are abusive, but I would go as far as to claim that there is an inherent selection bias where people with this attitude are more likely to own dogs. And far more likely to tell everyone they encounter that they own dogs.
How rough is this translation? Does the "...walks into a bar" joke predate monotheism? Though we know that the Egyptian neighbours were drinking beer at the time, did either culture actually have drinking establishments?
So essentially you may have thousands of computers trying to write to the same file at the same time so you implement a consensus mechanism to determine the final write, something like an n-way diff
That's a fun analogy, but you're leaving out some stuff. For one, the virtual computer consumes 112.65TWh of power every year[1]. Importantly, the "gas" fees can only be paid in a special monopoly currency which you have to buy from a speculative market. IIRC you also have to pay for memory usage.

[1]: https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption/
Wow. This is tough. It all depends on your long term goals and who the hell knows those well when they are 18? I certainly didn't and I doubt you do either. (Your goal is pretty squishy, no offense.) If I were you, rather than pick a career goal, I'd like a few things that are important in your life and structure your career around them.

So then the question is what gives you the most optionality towards what may be your goal?

As others have said, the PhD may or may not be a goal after a few years of college (or, haha, a few years of PhD studies).

So I'd focus on the bachelor's. Then the question is, what do you gain from Z vs MIT.

On the Z side:

* Financial freedom (bc full ride)

* Some opportunities

On the MIT side:

* Higher caliber acquaintances and friends

* Pedigree

I am here to tell you that you can have a successful career (in terms of money) without any pedigree at all. But on the other hand I had one high school acquaintance with the exact same gpa and she went to MIT and has had a far more illustrious career than I (was also more ambitious too).

The question then becomes what do you value the most: the connections and pedigree and career achievements or the financial freedom and the chance to make your own way?

I have chosen the latter through most of my life and been pretty happy, but that's me.

What about you?

PS the comment to ask MIT for more money are spot on; it never hurts to ask.
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Reading this article and reading the comments I am reminded that writing automated testing is still an art and less of a science.

I highly value testing and it does eat up project time in weird ways. I believe as I get more experience it won't eat as much time. My hope is for productivity gains in the future.

I hope in the future most documentation is written with a testing focus. Maybe then I would not have to understand as much as I do now before finishing testing.
If you like reading about the jerrycan design you may like Engineer Guy videos. He discusses pop cans, coffee makers, inkjet printers. He even has a four-part series discussing Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2bkHVIDjXS7sgrgjFtzOXQ
It doesn't say anything about "wouldn't be able to form thoughts", in fact it explicitly refers to smoke as a medium being insufficient.
Good point, clearly eusocial insects are intersting in a way that non-eusocial ones are not. But I'm thinking primarily of feasibility.

Individual eusocial insects can still act autonomously, so there's two levels of intelligent behaviour there, that of the individual and that of the society. Figuring out how to create the former is hard enough without having to think about the latter also. So an insect like a cockroach which (for the most part) goes around on its own is probably easier to begin with.

There may also be increased costs in creating many "artificial insects" compared to having just one. I don't know enough about robotics to be sure about this one.

Edit: Cybersyn - wow. I had no idea!
Before the iPhone and the >500€ price tag, the mobile phone market was like the screen market you describe. Computers were also boring before the iMac. It takes some magic to change that, but it's highly possible that Apple could try it.
It works if your are asked "which is your favorite command?" "no, yes" ('which' is a command).

It doesn't work if you are asked "which one is your favorite command".
> When Microsoft tries to make Windows more Mac-like

Just a consideration: Aren't nearly all users who love the Apple/Mac experience already in the Apple ecosystem? In other words: Should Microsoft not rather assume that making Windows more Mac-like might be a bad idea considering their core customers?
Invention is different from innovation. The way Apple has the memory in the same silicon as the CPU and GPU all in a laptop and now desktop... has anyone else done that? It looks like an innovation.
The number of tree species on Earth
> Most of the people I know who turned down higher-ranked schools for lower-ranked ones because of money regret it.

What do you base this on? What about people who went to higher-ranked schools that regret having 100k+ in debt when they graduate. College helps you get your first job, but after that I don't think anyone cares in most fields (true in engineering from my experience, as long as you have a technical degree and even then you can get by). A lot of the difference in outcomes is selection bias. You should look to see how someone who got in a selective school but didn't go compares to someone who got in and went. I've read that the differences are not that stark.

> You will make a lot of life-long friends in college, and you will just be exposed to a different caliber of person on average at mit.

I don't know. I went to a mid-tier state school and my friends were just people I happened to be lumped together in housing. Is it "optimal"? No, but I enjoyed it. My friend crew consisted of a stoner, a very religious dude, a meat head and a Brooklyn hipster. I don't know, I liked it like that. None of them really taught me anything (wtf does an 18 year old know), but it might be different in technical fields. Both have trade offs.

> On the other hand, I think the differences in career outcomes on average are small, although I wouldn’t be surprised if the probability of starting a company with any given level of success x is 10 times higher for mit alum than Z school alums

It'll probably help you raise money, but I think being ex-[FAANG] would be better at least now. And raising money is not the same as starting and running a successful business. FAANG has considerably broadened their outreach and hire outside of top schools. I have a non-technical degree from a mid-tier state school and interviewed with a few FAANGs, more than once.

> In my opinion, the lifetime of friends and network effects is most of the benefit, and not to be underestimated. You only live once.

From what the author stated, I think he would have more experiences from going to school Z with his friends and family. Unless he really wants to get away from everyone, which doesn't sound like the case.
If you take info sec seriously that should be immediate reason to ban one note, IMHO. Because if you are not trying to, MS will just spill company data to your private accounts for you!
I can see that side of argument, but where do you draw the line ? What about government blocking truckers bank accounts. (Without any due processes!) And blocking accounts of people who donate to them. Even if you disagree with what they are doing. They have families to feed.
Me too; I have many scripts employing wmctrl both for work and for fun. Some time ago I posted the following on unixporn (the first two minutes are relevant):

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/ek3cyc/cinnamon_s...

The first two minutes of this were done automatically in Cinnamon using a couple of bash scripts and lots of wmctrl and xdotool; does anyone know if this can be done in a simple manner in Wayland?
I don't think I mentioned anything about user-accessibility or servicing, I was just thinking from an assembly point of view.

In my experience, which has never been at the scale or complexity of iPhone manufacturing volumes, anything with screws is a big no-no. You must minimize the number of screws and having things which snap fit is greatly preferred over a screwed connection. Even when robots are doing some of the assembly.

If you have any videos of robots installing lots of tiny screws in mass manufacturing, I'd be genuinely interested to see that. I'm interested in volume manufacturing techniques.
I had this impression too when I started reading about Ethereum.

I think, the mismatch is, while Ethereum is being sold as "the world computer" and being Turing complete, it's actually more narrow in scope, because if the points you just mentioned.

It's more of a decentralized and permissionless clearinghouse.

If you need storage, you wouldn't use Ethereum but IPFS/Filecoin, Skynet/Sia, or Arweave. For compute, you would use Akashnet (albeit a bad example here, but I don't know something better right now).

I don't know if there are plans to integrate features from other chains into Ethereum, to make it more general purpose, or if that's even possible. But right now multi-chain is where things are heading.
Another vote from here. I've tried a good number of merge tools but always go back to KDiff3. It has the best automatic merge conflict resolver I've seen, and really just enables me to fix things and continue.

I often have colleagues who are inexplicably afraid of merge conflicts and try to negotiate who's working on which parts of the app. I think a proper merge tool could help them to overcome this.
I’ve never seen an approach that scales. Once a team passes a certain size, it all turns into a disorganized shit show. Communication is hard, and as the pressure to earn revenue intensifies, there’s less & less time or buy in for craftsmanship.
I believe that in medicine, if a treatment fail because the patient doesn't follow it correctly, it is considered a failure of the treatment (of course better education can be part of the solution).
In the case of Jan 6th, people were overtly organizing it on Facebook, and this is gradually showing up in indictments.

There's a real problem that nonspecific calls for violence are both free speech and an increasingly normal part of political discourse - "someone should do something about those guys" isn't specific enough to be an actionable threat, but enough of them and they'll get turned into a stochastic terrorism event, where the mass shooter leaves a binder full of "someone should do something about those guys" messages which were his rationale.
> Private non-profit universities are essentially run by their tenures faculty

Nonsense. They're run by their boards and by professional administrators. The faculty have been steadily losing real influence since the MBAs started getting involved in universities in the 1980s. (Universities at the big level are basically holding companies managing assets called an Endowment that just happen to hold classes)
The comment had nothing to do with forming thoughts, but instead how thoughts can be meaningfully conveyed. If the mention of a minority or Native American technique in the analogy makes you close your mind before being able to understand:

Telegrams are insufficiently complex to express ideas on the nature of existence, and even if they were not, a frontier philosopher would run short of either money or time long before he reached his second axiom. You cannot use telegrams to do philosophy. Its form excludes the content.
You're probably right if you do professional runs. This is the few-bucks mass-production who-cares-its-cheap-as-borscht-anyway process we're talking about; it usually comes with 50% e-testing and I actually have a panelized PCB with traces very close to the minimum come back with a few of the PCBs crossed out. The question then becomes: what about the traces that just made it? Can I run any current through it, will they deteriorate over time? Hence my choice to (advise to) beef up the traces a bit.
People who don't like Gnome seems to love KDE, and vice versa.
"Yes, a sentence should contain a verb."
Quit calling it anti user. Am I not a user, or I do not count as much as other Linux users because I like GNOME?

There is absolutely nothing wrong in a DE wanting to go their own way instead of supporting any type of weird crazy configuration users might ask for. I want an opinionated desktop environment, I don't go complain to KDE devs that they should get rid of menus and adopt a headerbar because I dislike menus. Yet the opposite happens every time.

GNOME is exploring a UI paradigm different from any other else, and some really dislike them because of it. How dare they, the hubris of these developers!
Fascinating. I’ll look into these - never heard of them!
I have sometimes put my computer in the Iceland time zone for that reason when using dual boot with Linux, since Linux prefer to run UTC on the clock, and the Iceland time zone is UTC+0 with no daylight saving time. Making windows believe it is in Iceland make sure it does not mess up the clock. Though it is possible to set windows to UTC too with the same effect.
I am not american, but how do so many people decide to get a student loan? Is that the same scenario of 2008? Are there loan sharks for student loan? Do universities encourage student to get a loan?

Are there a lot of people who are going to default? It sounds like a new 2008 all over again.
PNAS is not exactly the venue of first choice for publishing AI research, so heuristically speaking, this article is likely not worth the reading time. Furthermore neither the abstract nor the first few words of the introduction give me any reason to read on. I'm going to assume this is irrelevant, until someone here can convince me it's not.
This is an established standard.

It's really not any stranger than starting dates at 1 CE, or array indexes starting at 0.
I've really been dreading the Microsoft account switch for Minecraft, which I run only on linux. Is it going to demand my phone number? A credit card (even though I already own the game)? I have no idea and I don't want to give them any of those things.
NASA has this online Terminal Velocity calculator. For drag coeficient typical values for commercial large planes are in the order of 0.05.

"Terminal Velocity Calculator":

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/termv.html