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> I interact very heavily with academics (though am thankfully no longer one myself) and one thing I can't stand is that all of them will complain endlessly about the horribly abusive and broken system that academia has become, then without hesitation turn around and flog the next person in line when it's their turn to continue the process from the abusing side.

Completely agree.

> The amount of bullshit being produced and regurgitated in academia needs to be called out. Your definition of "unprofessional" is just "this makes us look bad"

No, it isn't. First off, I'm not in the academia. I'm not part of the "us". It doesn't affect me if person A is attacking people B. For me I don't care at all. Also, I specifically said that the problem wasn't criticism. The problem is criticism so vague it's impossible to defend, because there's nothing to address. Person A says that person B is superficial. Person B responds "no I'm not". Very substantive!
Conan has repeatedly publicly said his top goal is to maintain control of his content and was quite sad when he had to give up his oldest bit to NBC when he left.

I wonder how he will feel when Sirius starts taking down his old podcasts. This isn't exactly life changing money for him. Maybe it is more for his producers to have an exit.
Ghost was briefly the hot new place to host a blog. And then static sites came along (like Hugo), and a lot of the market moved there.
Orwell’s 1984 about liberalism not totalitarianism, claims Moscow diplomat
Given that not many people use Firefox, wouldn't the usage of fingerprinting protection within a given geography (can be inferred from IP address) be considered a fingerprint itself?
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This dev board is primarily focused on showcasing an FPGA which is a different animal compared to a Pi and other small computing platforms. Selling these Xilinx FPGAs for your PCB manufacturing is the thing they’re prepared to do at scale.
I'm not familiar with Zig, but a quick look at https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Generic-Data-Struc... makes me doubt that Zig does genericity on module level; looks rather like parametric polymorphism.
Indeed- there were a good number of useful "Web 2.0" sites available out there widely being used before someone came up with the term.
Yes, that's exactly the problem with smart contracts and why people are interested in resolving the case.
Stores left holes in Michigan malls, then came Black entrepreneurs
This isn't a hack, it was straight arbitrage. I distinguish them because there was at no time a transfer of administrative power or control over the contract or targets infrastructure to Medjedovic.

In a smart contract, I'd make a legal distinction between syntactic parsing and calculation, which has to do with the purity of functions and data. An arbitrage would be fair game if it levered an unanticipated calculation, whereas a recent example where the contract was only checking the last several bytes of a destination address key would be a parsing exploit. Medjedovic's arbitrage as described appears to be a pure calculation advantage, and not exploiting a parsing error, and so this is very reasonably fair game.

He used logic endogenous to the contracts, with no exogenous control of the systems running the contracts. When you exploit a buffer overflow, you are breaking through (sabotaging) a parser as a means to manipulate the raw memory and machine - whereas this arbitrage is closer to something that lies somewhere between clicking on a link someone provided but had some unspoken intention about you not using it, and a SQL injection or other evaluation error that yields an index. (edit: Actually, it's more like saying something really funny and unexpected on a platform that hasn't banned that kind of humor yet, and they're just mad about the consequences. we could even see a future where the distinction between a hack and arbitrage will be the complexity class of the algorithm and whether it represented a scheme that was Turing complete)

Unfortunately, in Canada they'll go after him just as a fugitive now, and there is no shortage of political actors who will want to make him the perfect example villain for their hysterical policy objectives. This is one of those increasingly classic situations where a really smart kid gets system-involved and can't comprehend how insane it is because the legal system and politics are not subject to mere reason. If he has the money, fleeing before charges were laid was probably even rational, as there is no reason to expect the legal system is equipped to deliver justice in something so new.
Usual caveat that no one actually makes minimum wage
> Switching to a plant based diet is almost equivalent to eating half as much of an omnivorous diet : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06466-8

The improvement is way bigger than that for most meat-intensive (e.g. American) diets.

See https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
If code is law, you.
I suspect this is exactly what they are going for but at the same time, reliability is critical if you only have a handful of them you can't afford for some to not work, so by the time you use some prime components, they start costing "military" money instead!
Live demo: https://dragonsabound-part18.netlify.app/test.html

Source code: https://github.com/srt19170/Procedural-Map-Compasses/tree/Pa...
TLDR: safe from the storm, at high risk of other drivers ramming into you because you’re an idiot and stopped in the middle of the road.
Plenty of crypto mining places using old hydroelectric dams around the world. It also means the maintenance of said hydroelectric dams are paid for. Even oil companies are looking at ways to harness the energy from burning gases on oil rigs for crypto mining. In a way, crypto is turning the world greener by not wasting energy.

https://bitcoin.ca/canada-just-got-a-huge-new-bitcoin-mining...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-hydro-put...

https://biv.com/article/2021/07/former-canfor-sawmill-site-n...

https://www.sentiman.io/hydroelectric-dam-new-york-crypto-mi...

https://screenrant.com/hydro-plant-green-crypto-mining-costa...
Newsflash: "Not having a profitable job well into your 30s leaves you poor, study finds"
Niceee, im looking forward to start learning rails soon for private projects
I know biology and many other STEM stipends are very low.

As someone in a business field with a very high stipend (32k), I am also feeling the pinch. My wife and I keep a relatively strict budget and I track with YNAB, and gas alone is pretty damaging to our spare income. And I am lucky to be at an institution in a college town with a relatively low cost of living. I don't know how my peers in cities like Boston do it.
How is this any different from 20, 30, 40 years ago??

Hint: it's not.
what matters is the direction. You don't compare apples and oranges.
You're blaming... Jimmy Carter, the first president to be nominated under the new system? What specifically did he do, and why did the trends start before his presidency?

Presidents don't change frequently enough, or have enough effect on things, to have such a profound and immediate broad-spectrum impact.
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To answer your question directly: If you're grepping through source code, you generally do not care about caches, backups, personal workspace configs, node_modules, "compiled" output (JS projects generally "compile" to JS and if you're looking for something in source files, you probably do not care about the bundles you're outputting, just the source), etc. You generally care about your source code, which is the stuff that's not getting added to .gitignore.

Since we're talking about an open source project, try to keep some empathy for developers that are solving their own problems first and not trying to solve everybody's problems. It's a configurable option, anyway.
"when I'm traveling/consuming media/couch surfing/shopping with wife - tablet is much more convenient"

I hear people say this but I really disagree. I have never found a tablet more convenient.

With a tablet you either have to hold it up with one hand, while you use your other hand to navigate, or you have some sort of case with a built-in stand that is never as stabile as a laptop. You also have to be very careful holding the tablet, because otherwise you'll touch the screen and unintentionally open or close the app you're using. Also when you use a case with a tablet it often makes it as heavy as an actual laptop.

Not to mention all the keyboard shortcuts that make navigating the OS faster than a touch-based OS. I just don't really "get" tablets. I've tried iPads and Android tablets but I always grab my laptop instead.
How on earth is TikTok a competitor to Netflix?!
so called “tax havens” actually have a role to play in the world economy.

but on your main point regarding “modern finance and law”:

2021:
https://member.fintech.global/2022/01/05/the-top-five-compli...

https://www.kyckr.com/aml-fines-2021/

tldr fines amount to billions in total and sometimes criminal proceedings are brought forward.
> Pop quiz: In what countries does it cost a full day's wages or more to fill a car's gas tank?

i'm going to guess "most of them" if you're using minimum wage.

i just checked britain and came up with 107.31 pounds for an average tank, whereas 8 hours at their minimum wage will get you 76 pounds.

so what's the point? grad students are usually salaried in my experience, and can get housing near enough to the university that they walk, not drive, even in the US.
Yeah I would rather FF provide falsified, plausible data than no data. The website should ideally not be able to detect fingerprint protection.
You don't need to go to court. Most cities will be happy to fine your neighbors for "harboring pests".
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Using a blockchain for storing stuff without needing the double-spend protection is like using a car to just listen to music on the radio, without the driving part. You can do it, but it's a wasteful overkill.
If you don't want people to read your post, perhaps write a private diary instead.
Part of the annoyance there is that most research gigs are gatekept behind doctorates. I cannot tell you how many times I've been declined from Microsoft Research, despite having a bachelors degree and more than a decade of industry experience, specifically because I'm "not qualified enough" for a research engineer experience.

> That time could have been spent gaining experience, which IMHO, is extremely valuable.

I certainly agree that if your goal is to maximize earning potential, than there's no question that industry experience is substantially more valuable than a PhD.
Minimalism is "subtract until it breaks" and this is reaching the breaking point.

Of course, we all hate popovers, slow websites etc, we've known this for decades.

This website has no identity other than an emoji and the fact that it's purposefully lacking design beyond basic text styling. It looks like 1000 other sites, at a glance I can't tell what this website or article are about.

And there are still elements I want to get rid of! "Toast me" button, "Like and subscribe!," the ad for the CMS, analytics script etc.
Only if there's active use of e.g. JavaScript or some server-side scripting that needs the info for some processing, for example using JavaScript to place a floating modal flush against bottom/right corner. The browser itself doesn't need to relay the dimensions "to the webpage" in order for HTML/CSS to render as any specific size, nor to achieve responsive/scaling UI design that adjusts to the window size.
Kids from poorer households are much less likely to be in these programs. Of course plenty of individuals defy this, but from a broad sociological context mostly kids from wealthier educated backgrounds end up in "gifted" programs.

In the US household income is one of the most reliable ways to predict academic success. We're already seeing Covid widen some of these existing gaps.

This is also kind of irrelevant to the parent article. All kids lost out during the pandemic. Without additional efforts beyond what was happening pre-pandemic, everyone will slide down a little.
They definitely do in engineering - USC and UCLA had most of its PhD students working full time in industry and only part time in their PhD program and grad school generally. I know because I was one of them.
For all the people shouting "Way to go!" and "The money is his!" I think you should remember he's currently a fugitive, and would need to spend the rest of his life living this way.

If that's what it takes to live the "code is law" dream, count me out.
Delightful, thank you. Very well done for 14 years of age!
This is nice in theory, but it will inevitably get screwed up by your less details-oriented coworkers.

The spaces and tabs are mostly invisible, so even if they did care about it these people can't really see the conventions that are in use. So the source code will inevitably accrue indentation done via spaces mixed up with the good lines indented via tabs, and then it's game over.

A script I have been working on lately is mostly tab-indented but has space-indented tracts and individual lines mixed in as it has been worked on by multiple authors over the years. When I started working on it, I thought the indentation was just plain borked (with the subclauses of if statements indented less than their if lines, etc). But then I discovered that setting tabstop=2 made most of the space-indented lines line up properly -- turns out this script was written to a 2-space indent (crazy narrow by my standards!) using tabs, with a few space-indented lines mixed in on the same scheme. Until another author came along some years ago with their tabs set to 4, and added some space-indented lines written to line up with the 4-space tabs they were looking at. So now there are several incompatible categories of space-indented lines in this 200 line source file.

The real argument from the spaces camp is that their approach is the only realistic compromise with reality: by banning explicit tab characters in source files on disk, there is no room for error.

(Except that the same coworkers are wont to include trailing whitespace or omit the final newline, but at least that sort of invisible difference does not affect reading the indentation.)
Oh, good point. When pv sees the actual file vs stdin, it can give % progress without hints. Which is nice.

And it’s nicer that the recent ‘dd status=progress’ (if I remember that option right).
for higher performance, latency sensitivity, or a tight latency distribution, or interfacing with hardware (i.e. lvds)...there is a _really_ big difference between software running on top of linux and transistors (even if they are soft-configured)

bldc motor control is a fine example. yes, you can buy a controller and program it from linux, but if you want to integrate current feedback in some novel way you should really be doing that in hardware.
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A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016)
UI suggestion: right now, you click or tap the phrase you want to keep; this is non-obvious.

I suggest you reverse this choice so that you tap the option you want to change, and add a ↺in the corner to make the affordance explicit.
Can it not? I'd reverse the question: Can China find it?

That's the part that I find missing from these discussions. Missiles like the D21 sound really deadly, but the information and communications needed to successfully target a carrier hundreds or thousands of miles away and deliver the weapon successfully is the much more difficult part of the equation. As the U.S. Navy (paraphrasing) said themselves, "The D21 has a long kill chain, and plenty of places to disrupt that kill-chain."

Likewise, the carrier goes around with much more than it's planes and escorts. It has the information being fed to it from ISR elsewhere, from satellites overhead to pre-mission information, communications eavesdropping, etc to know what they're up against and when and where they might encounter it. That, in my opinion is far more important than the specifics and specs of such and such weapon.

The success or defeat of a carrier battle group I think is going to depend far more on who knows what and when, and therefor, what's going on in the electromagnetic spectrum, than any singular missile.
Time to get minin'.
I should have used /sarc

The idea was to fool people and bots into thinking it was fresh!
When ever the military get involved, its already too late.
ROS 2 Humble is the latest LTS of the Robot Operating System (ROS), the de facto framework for robot application development. Yocto and ROS 2 allow you to build custom Linux-based production-grade operating systems for robots that obtain best performance for your use case.
Saying that Orwell did not write about the things that Orwell wrote about is, well, you know.
I mean I kind of wrote 2,000 words answering this in the post that these comments are about. We've always been focused on a single core usecase: Publishing, and that is still true today. WordPress diverted away from blogging and became a tool for building general websites, ecommerce stores, job boards, real estate listings, social networks (bbpress), enterprise tools (altis), and even full blown applications. In terms of diversity of usecase, you really can't beat WP for how many different things it can do.

Ghost's scope has grown significantly relative to Ghost, but - as I outlined in the post in some detail - our target usecase for the platform has remained pretty consistent, and far narrower by comparison.

All that being said: Apps have to evolve with the market, and Ghost is no exception. It's no use making something and then never changing it, because the world around it doesn't stand still.
Isn't the difference more about collateral damage? In the battle, you have at least an inkling of the person you are shooting being an enemy, if you are ordered to bomb a house and find out that a load of kids were killed as well as the target, it becomes much more traumatic.

I have zero military experience so just guessing!
Ease off the throttle a bit man, I'm not sure what the hostility is about.

Of course I don't think that, like I said that was a very one-dimensional example. Of course many things work well for many people. But I imagine different professionals have very different idea of what constitutes "useful" on the internet.

I guess I just poorly communicated my point, it's whatever. Not like I'm dying on this hill here.
Where is all this tuition even going to? Schools in the US charge an absurd amount of tuition compared to schools in Europe/Asia and yet these colleges are also systematically underpaying PhD students, Teaching Assistants, etc.

College Professors don't exactly make the big bucks either.

Yet, universities in the US have made put many Americans in lifelong debt.

These colleges are all "nonprofit" (and get significant tax benefits), so where is the money even going?
A simple way to add real time capability to your Django project using Channels
Came here to say exactly the same thing. If I wanted to use VSCode I would, making my JB product look and behave like VSCode is not something I’m interested in.
Experimental Product? Hasura + React

Product with market fit and scale needs? Elixir/Phoenix
People in the US are very spoiled in this regard. In Europe and Asia having a car and being able to afford to drive it is honestly a luxury.
I went to an excellent suburban public high school (ranked 10th on this list https://www.bostonmagazine.com/education/best-public-high-sc...) and I can corroborate the parent comment.
The whole purpose of not being specific is to not implicate certain people. This way he can criticize the "whole" industry.
Americans Can’t Imagine War on US Soil, but AI Can [OC]
Ask HN: How deep do you go?
When you’re learning about a new topic or technology that you want to incorporate into your workflow, how do you know how to scope the learning and when to stop?
I wish companies still did stuff like this.

It seems when a device gets popular enough, no matter what it is, people will try shoehorning it into anything they can, leading to hilarious results.

Like the gameboy fish radar. Or even the gas sedation add on for kids getting dental work done!!

https://www.destructoid.com/pedisedate-gassing-your-kids-one...

Now everything is an app, a bluetooth speaker, or a selfie stick. End of the era.
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'Welcome to Luton' stunt panics Gatwick Airport arrivals
> We have nothing and have to steal to survive

Well, if I am picking on you specifically (apologies) it seems that you have: abundant time, access to the internet, a solid command of the english language, and if you're in the US access to a myriad of social and mental health services that would easily raise your standard of living to Lower Middle class if you took advantage. Not to mention the endless non-profit groups that offer safe shelter options, free food, etc.

Speaking on behalf of society: We don't like seeing you struggle or in pain, but what else do you want from us?
Indeed. That was not the case 20 years ago (when I first saw those pamphlets on "Why we're not giving these back"), but today the Acropolis Museum is absolutely stunning. It sits at the base of the hill, and the top floor is oriented the same as the Parthenon. It contains all of the meropes and other art, laid out as if you were able to walk right up to it in its original site. It's an extraordinary exhibit, and your appreciation of the Acropolis will be vastly enhanced by visiting.

Some pieces are original; others are reproductions of pieces held elsewhere. (It's not just the British Museum, but also the Louvre and Berlin Museum.) Those museums should do a 1:1 swap: the reproductions for the originals. The originals should all go back to where they belong.

I do actually respect the British Museum as a museum of British Empire, which was a noteworthy historical event in itself. The theft of artifacts is itself history at this point. But they have plenty of pieces to display that, which interfere less with Greece's need to recover from colonization -- including connecting to its own great past.
> Pop quiz: In what countries does it cost a full day's wages or more to fill a car's gas tank?

Most of them? If you're looking at minimum wages, Luxembourg with the highest at $14.91[1] comes out to about $120 daily. Gasoline is at or above 2€/l in Europe now, a typical gas tank holds about 60 liters, so about 120€ to fill the tank. Which is more than $120.

You don't need to fill the tank daily, at least I'd hope not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_minimum_w...
It used to be like that, but not anymore. I just checked and if you access it through Firefox, it will have Firefox in the prompt.
They’re not. Not universally. I really enjoyed my PhD and so did most of my friends.

The issue with absolutist statements like “Why higher edu institutions are so disappointing and mediocre?” is that it is a generalization from a non-random sampling of narratives, one that appeals to our sense of outrage and negativity. If one were to collect a fuller set of narratives one will likely find a more nuanced picture — yes, there’s hardship in a Ph.D. but in many cases there’s also joy in learning and discovery. It’s all a function of your advisor, your topic, your funding, your peer group and yourself (not everyone is cut out for it).
It'd be interesting to see someone with industry experience bring industry problems to academia and explore them there. As a bonus, they might be accomplished enough professionally that they aren't interested in the publication rat race, so they're more likely to produce meaningful results (or nothing, but that's ok!) than a pointless paper.
You literally had the president suggesting that wearing surgical masks caused increased transmission and that drinking bleach might cure COVID. And the talking point about how it was no worse than a flu was extremely widespread in one part of the spectrum. It's obviously not a strict binary, but the insane ideas were common enough to talk about them as a "side".