skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Cryptocurrency miners could, in theory, buy massive amounts of solar panels with the money they make by mining" is not in any meaningful way a refutation of the criticism that cryptocurrency actually, right now, in the real world, uses an absurd amount of energy and contributes significantly to the greenhouse gases warming our planet.
Well, actually...

In this case, the fish isn't a closed system. It's harvesting energy from the moving water, which requires external energy from the sun to keep the water cycle going.
Forgiving student loans doesn't benefit everyone, it benefits the people in proportion to their student loan debt, which is to say it disproportionately benefits the upper classes including a lot of people (like me) who could pay off their debt but instead they invest it in the stock market where the returns outpace the interest.

Student loan forgiveness is both unfair and regressive.
I'd love to get a console, it'd make things so much easier (pretty much any bog standard laptop would work for me otherwise), but none of my friends are on console
This is not a problem. Tooo many kids graduate with degrees in which they cannot find decently paying jobs, so they end up in a different field altogether. Why have that initial non-starter in the first place and place them into a career that has better potential in the first place?

Once there are too few people in the arts, demand will incentivize more people to get into that field.

Moreover, don't we currently have a problem where we don't have enough students going into STEM?
I think you misunderstood. Regardless of what the blog post said, this was a one–hour exercise, not a three–hour project. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31065845

I agree with you that interviews which incorporate a larger project that takes multiple hours are usually a waste of time. Usually the project turns out to be too unfocused and too subjectively judged to provide useful information about the candidates. I spent four hours on one once where the only feedback I got was that my solution “wasn’t object oriented enough.”
>You're saying they actually have a law on the books saying it's okay to do it accidentally?

Don't take my word, here they are:

Nevada:
A parent, legal guardian or other person responsible for a child who is 7 years of age or younger shall not knowingly and intentionally leave that child in a motor vehicle if:

Texas:
A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly leaves a child in a motor vehicle for longer than five minutes
Agreed but, if someone tried this you know the schools and media would blast this as "Party X Robbing from Education, hurting students, the next generation", etc. It's tiresome.
x13 amd is just about perfect. linux or ltsc both work.
I wonder what the pause in student loans has done to contribute toward inflation? I would be paying 200 dollars a month right now, but no way I'm paying 0% interest loans that may get partially forgiven one day.
Yes, the way I see it, one of the major benefits of deep learning is that it lets you define functions (in the R^n -> R^m sense) that would be basically impossible to define with traditional programming techniques. I think this comes up a lot in subroutines of combinatorial optimization, like heuristics for guiding search on subsets of NP-complete problems. The fact that you can automatically evaluate the heuristic and train by RL is also very convenient.
Predatory debt traps are evil. The student loan industry (the schools being the marketers and beneficiaries) seem like predatory debt traps to me.
Well even without the fish moving itself it wouldn't be a perpetual motion machine because the running water would be an input to the system. Agree though that a living, untethered fish would need to expend energy to stay balanced and in the right spot.
Short of anyone here working at Nintendo, we have no insight into what the bar is for release, the LOE to fix graphical bugs, or any of the challenges they face between platforms.
You are mixing two things together. The "average/expected case" and the "worst case" are two different functions, each with their own O, Θ, Ω.
It's a definitional thing. If you build a cafe for the primary purpose of encouraging coworking, you've built a coworking space with coffee, not a cafe.
Breaking Bad was released by AMC, which was mostly airing theatrical movies. They had little original programming prior to Breaking Bad (and Mad Men one year before). Additionally, HBO and TNT, two TV networks with more experience than AMC, turned down the idea.
> I wonder if areas like these would cause fish to congregate

Any fisherman, especially one who fishes rivers, has a wealth of intuitive understanding of what kinds of water features lead to greater concentrations of fish and indeed a lot of it has to do with depth and turbulence. You'll often hear them talking about whether a patch of water looks "fishy" or not, and that often has to do with how still or turbulent the surface is (along with many other factors).
IMO it goes beyond Ask HN. If you make a post and you know people are going to make a particular reply, it doesn't matter if you preemptively address that reply right in your post; you're going to get that reply anyway. People skim, they don't read, and they don't think deeply about posts. They're just pattern matching on a couple words and slamming out a reply. The reply is practically locked and loaded before you even made the post.
It reminds me of septum piercings which I personally think are pretty cool
haha, great comment. This whole thread is full of people who enjoyed Seeing Like a State loving the discussion
How does M1 play with an external 4K monitor?

I have a 2020 Mac with the highest fucking configuration (32GB RAM and i7 8-core 10th gen) and the fans on it are always going off.

I figure a laptop with a discrete GPU can handle external screens and graphics much better than integrated, but was wondering what your take on the M1 mac for this would be.
I don't think they tampered with git in any way. If you work on a git repo through GitHub there is corresponding data in GitHub tools which is now gone. Many existing repos have commits that came from syncing/cloning/etc repos hosted elsewhere, and these commits should look like that.
It's more likely the bookstore would be the loss-leader for the cafe.

The usual killer, as you've identified, isn't people sitting at the tables but the rents. Possibly you could do a quite "successful" cafe as a non-profit that owns the building it is sitting in.
Idk why you dont like the program but generally speaking this program is only needed because civil servants get paid absurdly low salaries.
> marmite could lead to peace in the middle east

Right after we finally decide who has the best hummus.
To provide a counter argument, the base spec M1 MacBook Air is 1130 Euros on Apple EU website, not $750, and that's with a pitiful 8Gigs of RAM and 256Gig SSD which, IMHO that SSD space is what phones come equipped with these days, and too low for a dev machine/daily driver computer, without needing to ductape a slower external USB SSD to your laptop, and 8Gigs of RAM is too low for the year 2022 + futureproofing a couple of years into the future (I had that amount of RAM on a PC from 2009).

Instead, I got a Ryzen 5800U based 13" machine for 780 Euros which came with a much more spacious 1TB NVME and 16Gigs of RAM for that added piece of mind when spinning up some VMs. That's much better value for me for a workhorse, plus it runs any linux flavor natively. The equivalently specked M1 Air would be 1820 Euros.

And best of all, the screen hinge rotates full 180 degrees, which for me was a must vs the screen on the Macbook and most other laptops that for some reason stick to 110 degrees and limits the positions I can use it from.

Sure, the Ryzen 5800U won't reach the same Geekbench scores as the M1, but the performance still puts it in the top percentile of CPUs on the market right now including the M1, and plus, CPU cycles are infinite while RAM and storage are finite.

As an added bonus I can also play nearly any game on Steam on it despite the device being barely thicker than the Type-C port.

Different strokes for different folks.
I understand the risk of busybody adults and CPS. We chose to let our kids have some freedom of movement. I have lawyers in my family so we were less worried than other parents we knew. In Portland specifically CPS overreach got a lot of negative press and pushback from parent’s groups — there’s strength in numbers.

Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah have enacted so-called “free range” laws to allow kids to do unthinkable things like walk to the corner store or park without a security detail and body armor. Oregon will probably be among the last states to ease up — dogs will get the right to vegan CBD-infused meals there first. I no longer live there.
> As far as I know, none of them were elves.

Obviously they weren't, because for excavation you hire dwarfs.
I can't stand the touchbar. Aside from having to look down to know what I'm pressing and Monterey introducing bugs causing it to disappear forcing me to restart my computer, when it does work an entire row of keys shouldn't be able to "go to sleep". My media controls disappearing because I haven't touched my computer in 60 seconds or however long it takes is ridiculous. There's no way to disable it without hacking together a script[1]. It's one of the most frustrating designs of any product I've ever used.

1. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/269174/disable-the...

edit - I just timed the sleep functionality. After 60 seconds it dims, and then 15 seconds later it goes to sleep completely....such a horrible implementation
Did she ever offer to help with the digging?
Many big-box stores effectively block most if not all cell signal; you might not notice because Home Depot provides free wifi.
The system is already selective. It doesn't pay for my neighbor's boat, why should it pay for his student loans?
s/before me/above me
> I realize big government is here to protect us

Created by people who mean well perhaps, but subsequently captured by another sort.

> Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration. Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc. The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
Many people trace the inflection point back to the kidnapping of Etan Patz in 1979. The case was highly publicized and made many parents afraid of child predators in a way they really hadn't been before. That case and a few others led to putting pictures of missing children on milk cartons so then the fear was in their faces every day.

https://crimereads.com/how-the-disappearance-of-etan-patz-ch...
Nope, that is not how unsecured personal loans work. Those depend on your credit which most students don't have much/any and your debt-to-income which is normally infinite for students because they don't work.
People are skeptical of the federal government getting involved because of decades of propaganda and underfunding. Bad roads? Well, Congress and the states won't raise the fuel tax. Bad education? Congress lets loans go to shite diploma mills that have owners who make big campaign contributions. Just look at how underfunded (intentionally) the IRS is. How audits are primarily focused on the bottom 50% of earners, while the top 50% skate. The Federal government does a great job at many things, when given clear legislation, and funding. Unfortunately, Reagan did a great job with his BS about "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
From a libertarian philosophical standpoint I like this, but I'd like to know more practical reasons. Is it just the fact that it's a massive amount of R&D that's only recouped from sales and marketing?
I paid off my student loans. My wife has student loans still.

If next year all new college students get free tuition I'm not going to be upset that I had to pay.

I'm going to be happy that they don't have my burden.

We as a society need to push the next generation up, not complain that they don't have it as hard as we do.

*Free Tuition = Tuition paid for by our taxes.
They're saying that because the fish is dead it has to be tethered, otherwise this wouldn't last for more than a few seconds before the fish becomes unstable and the phenomenon stops. For a living untethered fish, some level of energy would need to be expended to keep the fish stabilized instead of the tether.
thanks will take a look!
When I was in 5th grade, I had a friend with bent legs, who walked with supports attached to his arms. (Well, gripped in his hands, but with a partial ring that went around the arm; I assume to make them easier to hold on to.)

The school considered us bad influences on each other - we got in trouble a lot, which hadn't been true before we knew each other. But his mother thought I was great, because one of the activities we did together was go for long walks around the neighborhood. She thought the exercise was beneficial, given his condition.

I can only imagine how she would have responded if someone had complained to the police that she was letting her son walk around unsupervised.
Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care? Additionally, Sony should do it again if they get the chance!
You are in a bubble if you think the average netflix subscriber knows how to download using bittorrent or usenet.

And did those who knew and were inclined to pirate ever really stop?
Coinbase NFT Marketplace (Beta)
Lol 40m vs 1m. Yeah I don’t mean to be rude but you probably didn’t know what you doing using C#. Your first clue that you did something wrong was the time difference.
Education is never worthless.
I guess so, but the fact of the matter is that ML/AI is actually, right now, doing useful things that would have been impossible 10 years ago. I don't think I could say the same about crypto (as distinct from cryptography).
I'd say that what defines bullying is when it can't be "shrugged off".
I use a 49" Samsung monitor that does 4k and like you mentioned my Intel work macbook pro is constantly spinning fans/hot. The M1 I honestly haven't noticed it making any noise while plugged into it. It also runs a lot better, less graphic glitches and weirdness. I don't like having to use my work mbp at all anymore.
I agree with the shadowbanned comments here. This article is hilarious to read, but I am willing to be cognizant of how common this level of anxiety is.

This person receives a follow and a couple DMs from someone that used to undermine their self esteem. Instead of saying anything, instead of just ignoring them, they wonder about a half dozen scenarios of horniness that completely misunderstand men in general, then they go to Twitter and to a PhD Sociologist (a "doctor") to get a variety of explanations.

The culmination being this dissertation style thought piece.

Talk about spiraling. Wow.

Are a lot of people like this such that I should stop laughing and "validate" this behavior? I can do it. But only if consensus says so. My whole modus operandi is blending in for status.
Even the cheapest M1s?
I get annoyed enough having to find the wifi password, having to do a monkey dance every hour would be more annoying still.

I think the reality of the situation is that it's WAY less of a problem than people make it out to be; most every coffee shop I've ever been in has been mostly empty.
Really great couple weeks for Atlassian, between this and their multi-week cloud outage...
The videos of shanghai residents wailing from their balconies en masse suggest this is hardly a cultural difference. Many Chinese nationals are outraged.

You're making a number of assumptions, most which I think are utterly bogus

* Chinese numbers are genuine. They're not. They're probably not as bad as the US, but it's very difficult to tell. China does not release statistics necessary to validate their claims. They don't release, for example, excess death rates.

* China's policy here is going to work. It won't. It's an endemic disease now. This is going to happen all the time. Are they going to lockdown every time? What's the value of this?

* The economic fallout won't cause even greater harm. They're shutting down everything. They're already on the precipice of a real estate collapse.
At least people who proselytize for Linux or Windows aren't telling you to throw away your laptop so you can buy a new, $1,000+ replacement machine. Oh, you don't like it? That's because you didn't buy a $700 iPhone, and you didn't compliment it with your $300 Homepod. You didn't forget to buy a $400 Apple Watch, did you? That would almost be as ridiculous as forgetting to buy a $50 Magsafe charger! W-wait, you didn't buy that either? Good luck charging your phone, then... your Mac only ships with a USB-C cable.
It's all a matter of context, people can learn to do this, but one would need a reason.

I've actually visited an old Victorian-era house that had "a tunnel" in the basement. It ran from the front of the basement, underground, to somewhere underneath the public street where it terminated in a half-cylinder chamber perpendicular to the tunnel. Everything was lined with bricks, solidly built. I was told it was used to store booze during prohibition but no one is really sure. Found this on youtube (https://youtu.be/nDTyz7ivgNk?t=78), that's the one.
From your comments I think I understand your feelings on this issue, but please understand that you're ignoring reality and getting upset about something that isn't even happening. The population is dropping in many developed countries and fertility rates are plummeting. The world with fewer humans you seem to seek is already happening.
Yes but why would you do this other than to be extremely smug when forms fail for you?
> If they don't work for you, maybe you should ask what you're doing wrong and trying to fix the situation before throwing the baby away with the bathwater.

> You clearly have an axe to grind with story points, but this says more about you than about the technique itself.

This seems to be a very common occurrence whenever a criticism arises about agile or scrum -- "the issue isn't agile, it's how you're using it". At some point it's worth considering that there may be flaws in the techniques themselves, and its not always the fault of the people using those techniques.

You've taken the several very short paragraphs I posted and started flinging some pretty baseless accusations at me. I'm not sure why you're intent on turning this into something more personal, but I'm not really interested in continuing the conversation anymore because of that.
Those be some beefy machines. Nice.
I think (and this is heavy arm chairing so maybe good to back up with some due diligence) that Carpenter v. United States made it so this required a warrant. I think if you have a warrant though, Google will give over this kind of info.

[1]. https://harvardlawreview.org/2021/05/geofence-warrants-and-t...
So because a couple people you worked happened to be wealthy and you didn't like them, we should throw out protecting IP with copyright law everywhere?
"My problem is mind-numbingly complex, like everyone else doing supply-chain optimization" brings me joy. I'll definitely reach out - would love to get your reaction to some of our new ideas.
Essentially this is Aesop's fable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper
I think about this time to time but always remember it’s not programming I hate, it’s the industry.
My cynicism of politicians draws a shade over my eyes and I cannot interpret it more charitably: I interpret this to mean, plucking heartstrings works as long as you take no substantive position on the issue. I think this can be seen empirically in Dem leadership communications strategies over the past few years/decades, with all the waffling, pathological centrism, and immediate appeasement of the squeaky wheels among us.
Even reading the lines and re-playing it with their exact voices in my head, it still makes me laugh out loud to this day. Good writing stands the test of time. I wish I had the "knack" to get to this level of quality. Such an amazing skill.

I find myself going back to old simpsons clips and just laughing as if I just saw them.

For example, tell me if you get a laugh from this 1995(almost 27 years) clip

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdz4bc2LGMM
The way you present the problem is inaccurate to me. It's not "I can't have it so nobody can" or "I couldn't have it back then, so nobody should have it now.".

It is: "At the time, these were the rules, I ran the numbers, was responsible and ended up limiting my opportunities. Others, who were not responsible, now not only have more opportunities thanks to their degree but will also end up not paying for it".

I'm sorry, but to me it feels extremely unfair that people who frivolously took loans will now end up being ahead of people who - at the same time - decided to be more financially responsible. You can't retroactively change the rules and expect people to take it quietly.

The problem is made even worse because in the case of student loans, there is nothing to repossess.

This has nothing to do with changing the rules now.
I think the frequency and intensity of the abuse is the problem. Not all people shrug it off, some shoot up their schools, commit suicide, or pass on the abuse.

Since bullies cause exponential suffering why should the larger group of people, the victims, shrug it off when we can try to eliminate the problem?
I think we're talking at cross-purposes here. I 100% agree that it would be an absolute disaster if America adopts even European levels of censorship, let alone Chinese. I am absolutely in favour of extremely free speech.

My point here is that yes, obviously, they could speak their mind once they got to America because of the attitudes of society and the local governments. They hadn't been permanently altered by their former societies refusal to use certain words, or present things in certain ways. That is, the kind of "mind control" assumed by the people who try to erase certain types of language, doesn't actually alter anyone's minds. It may appear that way if they're afraid to speak out but nothing has actually changed. People's opinions aren't altered by language policing, yet, the people who do it are convinced it does.

That's why I'm sort of confused by your post. You suggest that once language is "de-nuded" then it would take "generations" for people to be able to "think again outside the constraints on communication". This a strong Sapir-Whorf take, right? It's an assertion that the language you can use controls the boundaries of what you can think. And my point is that this hypothesis has been proven wrong a very long time ago.
these resources look great, thanks. also yeah great suggestion for buying a cheap vintange microcomputer!
or MLM schemes.
One thing that's important to remember is that bullying and mocking can have real world consequences. It's not just a matter of hurt feelings. It can lead to being socially ostracized, to not being able to get dates, to missing out on opportunities, etc. And it can include physical violence or the threat of violence. It can cause you to be suspicious and aloof and never open up to people, lest you give them something that they can use to attack you. It can affect the whole course of your life. There's a big difference between good natured ribbing and real bullying.
The initial hit to hydrate / initialize the app.