skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a time when "dd" was the only game in town for deep copies on Unix systems. E.g. HPUX in the 1980s.

It always had issues of course: e.g. if the source was a 100MB drive and you dd'ed to a blank 200MB, you'd get a new 100MB drive and all the rest was lost because it was a low level copy. Similarly any bad sectors on the old drive became bad sectors on the new and any bad sectors on the new were simply used as if they were OK.
From the environmental perspective PoS blockchains are acceptable (merely very slow and inefficient rather than outright planet-eating). They're still pretty dystopian long term, since they're fundamentally plutocratic and naturally leading to an oligarchy.

Ethereum PoS is perpetually "almost there" like Star Citizen and the Year Of Linux Desktop. I don't think anything they say matters until they actually shut down the PoW system (which I don't think they can).

Either way you will still have to pay gas fees to the staking overlords for the permission to do anything on the blockchain they control. I'd rather have a federated/self-hosted system, and drive it down to as close to free-of-charge as possible by improving its efficiency.
You can add exemptions to preference: privacy.resistFingerprinting.exemptedDomains

edit: wording
For some reason you say? I don't think you could make a circle on the (empty, of course) slope with older skis :)
A good point. You could call all those "end of our incredible journey" posts "rugpulls", except the investment isn't financial but the investment of your data on a platform which gets deleted. There are a few extra steps in "Vine sell out and now all your vines are gone", but the overall effect can be similar. Founders cash out, users lose out.

Somehow it's difficult when people invest actual cash money, especially in large sums.
In the us, a PhD is 5-6 years if you include the masters that is potentially received along the way.
Colorado State will allow this fully online.
https://www.online.colostate.edu/degrees/online-phd.dot
> If these family-level environmental inputs had substantial effects on adult IQ, we'd see it in the behavioral genetics research. But we don't.

Actually there is a direct correlation between adult IQ and stress [1], it isn't genetic though.

> The adult IQs of adopted children have very little correlation with those of the adoptive parents who raised them or those of their adopted, non-biological siblings.

To quote [2]: "Studies of mixed-race children and black children adopted by white parents suggest, however, that racial differences in test performance are largely if not entirely environmental in origin."

In any case the question is open if "IQ testing" is actually a decent measure of intelligence, especially with children that suffer from a variety of stuff somewhere on the ADHD/autism spectrum (e.g. selective mutism, anxiety issues), or if it can be used as a metric at all due to disparities in testing incidence between population segments - often enough, it's teachers who recommend IQ and ADHD tests, and there have been a number of suggestions that racial and other discrimination can negatively affect children there.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/analysis-h...

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-black-white-test-scor...
Eh, there've been technology fads before; they sometimes make it into universities, but rarely further. When I was in college, XML databases were very much the thing, and there was a whole optional course on them (which I didn't do). You don't hear much about XML databases these days.

(I think a couple of years before this, it would have been CORBA).
With OSS you're at least coming out with a product that is useful to the ecosystem and you can show off for the rest of your career. It'll take you about as long as the LC nonsense does.
I don't think he's trying to do himself any favors. If anything he's trying to do others a favor by expressing a very common problem within academia.
I've used AWS Step Functions extensively over the past several years and give me code every day of the week over the Stepfunctions json config. Once you get beyond a few simple steps, it gets very hard to look at the config and understand what's going on with it. Especially true when you haven't look at the config in awhile. The DAG visualizer definitely helps, but as soon as things get beyond the trivial I long for a different tool.
In England a PhD tends to take on the order of 3-4 years if done full time, largely because they generally require a masters as a prerequisite to even start the degree. A part-time PhD tends to take on the order of 5-6 years.

Of course, even doing a part-time PhD, you end up spending a fair bit of time studying (on the order of 4-6 hours/night).
Depends a bit on the nature of the bio mass. If we are talking about the non-edible parts of groceries or the manure produced by raising animals for meat, that is quite renewable. However, I don't think explicit farming for energy production is a good idea.
I have a compromise. Allow hacks of cryptocurrency to be prosecuted, but when they are, the also prosecute the creators of the cryptocurrency for making unregistered securities and for any fraudulent marketing of the cryptocurrency, or any failure to disclose risks, or for not following financial regulations.

This is another example of make risks public and reward private. They are arbitraging the financial system and trying to have the freedom of cryptocurrency, but when things go bad, want law enforcement to come fix it.
> PhD students by law cannot work more than 20 hours a week. Most have 9 month stipend appointments.

Wat. Citation needed.
Nuclear power should not need any of endorsement from political parties. Only from scientists which it already has.
Targeting information no, but that's a distraction in the news to downplay the significance.

* Boat moving slowly? Check.

* Boat oriented in correct direction for broadside attack at the waterline? Check.

* Short range defense radars down? Check.

* Other defense assets out of the area? Check.

"Ok bring up your targeting radars and fire"
https://archive.ph/1Li5P
The author suggest prepending v to a tag name for the sake of shell completion. This assumes that everyone will be interacting with git tags using a shell. I disagree that a v should be prepended for that reason.
This sort of extrapolation has been very common re: children and school and the pandemic.

"Who will think of the children??" come to life
You’re making a lot of strong assumptions when you say that it’s considered acceptable. I strongly doubt that it is normal for anyone to want to be a single parent (there are of course anecdotal exceptions to this, but not on a cultural level).
That's a good list, and especially with animation illustrating them, of the types of things games will do to make something feel good.
The same issue with roads and bridges in the US.
Pretty sure the first question should be are you avoiding something or someone?

Anecdotally I feel the worse when I have been avoiding {item(s)} I need to do that I have yet to start. Soo many more times than not, I start doing the {item(s)} I stop feeling like shit even if I don't do it perfectly.
> 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"

This can be generalized, I think. Professional social standards, specifically, do seem to primarily be about protecting and saving face.
Make resilient web apps with progressive enhancement
>This is unlike, say, any major US campaign of the past 30 years

because the US did not face a formidable adversary in the past 75 years

in a war somewhat comparable with this one in terms of manpower and tech - the Korean War, the US had suffered heavy casualties and had only narrowly escaped a complete defeat
Uh... yes? Are you seriously trying to imply that would be legal?

If someone ever cracks modern encryption, that doesn't mean they can do whatever they want with everyone's accounts everywhere. If you find an exploit and exploit it, that's illegal.
I would say the photographers that spend 6 weeks in the arctic to get 5 minutes of footage might be even more deserving.
So if the leading cause of death from the 18-45 year old group is opioid overdoses

and since abstinence only education is ineffective

and the culture could be updated to carrying naloxone to prevent said deaths, if people were actually willing to have a conversation that wasn't based on abstinence only

then.... this is a dumb and counterproductive policy? how much of the insurance pool is really affected? ... the narcan is to save your friends if you're there, this is like saying "there's a defibrillator nearby so since you might die, insurance denied" with a difference being that there was a purchase record. if an insurance pool is part of the calculation, would that difference matter? seems like you would need actual evidence instead of guesswork.
Running Airflow on Kubernetes has been one of the most painful data engineering challenges I've worked on.
Actually, we mean:

sub.domain.com, sub.domain.com. {
reverse_proxy localhost:8080
}

But seriously. Can you stop posting about this every single time there's even a vague mention of Caddy on HN? It's tired. You've gotten your answer before. Huge majority of people don't care about trailing dot domains.

Trailing dots are complicated and really not worth the complexity it would involve to support them. See https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/12/a-tale-of-a-trailing-...
One place I am using decorators is pytorch in combination with hydra. Decorating functions so that an instantiation returns a function , not a call of the function. This allows easy reuse of existing functions in ETL pipeline setting it up with config files and hydra.

But I have to say, the native python logging module is pure evil.
I definitely disagree with you and you're being extremely condescending, patronizing and dismissive. Have some respect. You have no say in who my friends are and who cares about me. You have no knowledge about that. They definitely do care about me and I definitely do care about them.

I think you live in some kind of bubble where people have more choices than they do. You also forget that your friends would stop visiting you if they couldn't drive, even if bus, train and walking were available. That's just the way things are. People have lives and limitations, and that doesn't make the connections or exchanges between them any less valuable to any party.
I recently collected the first-year PhD stipends in computer science across 39 university departments, to have a real sense of the numbers. Basically to have a fair comparison, because a lot of reported stipends aren't clear whether they are 9-month or 12-month stipends, and stipends can different depending on the year/candidacy of the student.

Data: https://jeffhuang.com/computer-science-open-data/#verified-c...

The main conclusions I arrived at from this exercise is that 1) CS stipends vary quite a bit but have slowly been increasing, but NSF funding needs to catch up for them to go higher, 2) the 12-month stipend makes a big difference from the 9-month stipend, and I think universities should guarantee the 12-month stipend (which only half do), rather than making summer stipend dependent on availability of advisor funding or student jobs (like TAing).
It's a difficult row to hoe.

Some light sometimes needs to be shed (look at Susan Fowler's post on Uber. I think it triggered a fairly necessary reevaluation, or Edward Snowden's revelations), but it is seldom without cost to the person that's holding the flashlight (Snowden is unlikely to receive a warm welcome, if he comes back to the US, and I suspect that Russia won't be a particularly joyful place, in the near future. I have no idea how Susan Fowler has done).

In my own case, my history (quite checkered) has given me some fairly unique views into a lot of terrible behaviors, rotten attitudes, and outright hypocrisy by many folks that like to project a wholesome, professional, image. Now that I'm out of the rat race, I could probably be more specific.

But I won't.

In some, rare, cases, perpetrators went on to cause harm (Not much. I never worked with John Wayne Gacy), but most ended up in rather unenviable places.

In a number of other cases, however, people ended up changing their behavior/attitude, and going on to be happier, healthier people.

For reasons that I won't go into here, I believe in second chances. I was given first-, second-, and third chances.

It has less to do with "professionalism," and more to do with being human. It's not my job to clean up the world (just the bits around me), and I need to pick my battles carefully, so I can do the most good.
https://github.com/derhagen/derhagen.github.io/commit/71c934...

I don't understand what's so controversial about this post that the author had to take it down. Seems like a level-headed criticism of modern-day academia to me. Sturgeon's rule applies to everything, including academia.
I've also worked for companies worth billions of dollars that had tons of really smart engineers and didn't do LC. Its a cargo cult at this point, plain and simple. Google made it cool, now other people have jumped on, not because they have data but because they want to be like Google
Unless you have extremely complex dependency graphs, I really don't think airflow is worth it. It's very easy to end up essentially writing an "orchestrator" using airflow, it allows for very flexible low level operations. The added complexity has minimal benefit, and like something like apache spark, what looks simple becomes hard to reason about in real world scenarios. You need to understand how it works under the hood, and get the best practices right.

As mentioned elsewhere, AWS step functions are really the best in orchestration.
Scientists Use Gene Editing to Create Mutant Cockroaches in Breakthrough
> Many students do community college for the first two years, and then finish at a university, and end up on the order of ~$30,000 of debt.

For people in many European countries, this is an absurd amount of debt to get a university degree.

Edit: For context: About 20 years ago, my university's annual fees was $15000/year for out of state students, and $4600 for in state - in today's dollars. Now that university charges $28K for out of state and $8.3K for in state - almost doubled after accounting for inflation. In other nearby universities I see people paying $15K/year for in state. This is a huge increase in two decades.
Yes you note that I didn't take into account payroll taxes.
Then you look at the revenue college football brings in to the rest of the university, the coach salaries looks like a bargain.

Not only that, for most universities college football (some men's basketball) cover all the other men's and women's sports that hemorrhage money.
It seems like that's basically the approach they're already taking. Items such as these read like plausible fake data:

> Your timezone is reported to be UTC

> Not all fonts installed on your computer are available to webpages

> Your browser reports a specific, common version number and operating system

> The Media Statistics Web API reports misleading information
It's an interesting solution, but if I were to guess I think the users who surf with anything but a full-size window are in minority.
If power rates become very cheap during the day and when the wind is blowing, nuclear power economics get worse too.

It seems like intermittent sources of energy increase capital costs for every alternative? What energy sources win this other than peaker plants?

Maybe paying a lot more for backup capacity needs to be a thing.
Respectfully disagree. I think I've seen several times the belief(from crypto supporters) that the code is the code is the code, and these are the rules that we play with.

The "laws of physics" analogy doesn't match up. I feel like it would be more appropriate in an anarchist society (physics are the only laws, thus everything that obeys physics is game).

This feels more like discovering an exploit in a video game. It's up to the devs to patch it, or tournaments to outlaw, but if you find something out, you can use it. We agree to play by the rules, but if someone comes up with something last minute, they can win.
You might look to psychology’s concepts of “cognitive load” and “working memory”.
There may be some reporting issues with your data. For example how many helmets prevented would've-been-reported head injuries? How many injuries aren't reported? And how many hours on bicycle are there compared to constantly living around so many guns?

A natural experiment may require comparing similar communities with and with helmet laws.

Shootings and stabbings on the other had are difficult to not report. And can happen regardless of proximity to bicycles.

Ultimately let's do both: get helmets for kids and get rid of so many guns.
They do have some use as a “currency type” - it’s fine if all your code picks i32, but then you might want to use a library that uses i64 and there could be bugs around the conversions.

And C also gives you the choice of unsigned or not. I prefer Google’s approach here (never use unsigned unless you want wrapping overflow) but unfortunately that’s definitely something everyone else disagrees on. And size_t itself is unsigned.
This is an outright copy of https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-05-19/crypto-pl....

e: missed at the end of the article:

> (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

So perhaps this is reproduced under a legit syndication deal?
But to aulin's fifth point, often you won't get answered with the correct information. Instead you will get "corrected" with the local mythos, as the most repeated answer to a question usually becomes the preferred knowledge of a group.
I don’t like semantic versioning because it’s difficult to sort. E.g. 1.2 is more than 1.100, and that doesn’t even include fix versions.

Has there been a better proposal to semantic tags which makes organizing and sorting them easier?
Austin is fine without Uber and Lyft until it isn’t
Did you try installing with docker? You would just download docker, `docker-compose up --build` and you'll be good to go locally (usually)
I haven't used JetBrains software in some time, so this may be out of date, but:

It seems like a lot of software out of Central/Eastern Europe uses (or used) lots of custom UI controls. It gives the programs a certain... feel. Did Win32 controls in the past have especially poor support for non-Latin alphabets?
The last 30-40 years has seen massive expansion on the post-WWII model of PhD-as-industry-expert model.

It's not uncommon to see PhDs after five to seven years in industry in the C-suite. That is less common for MBAs, from my view.
Good to see the callout on SafeCurves needing some maintenance.
Without union, i can nearly guarantee she will earn less, work more and probably have no health benefits
> Where is all this tuition even going to?

I have a family member who works in the “alumni relations” department of a small, regional public university. Probably ranked like #300 or something. There are like 5 people in the department. They make a magazine, email newsletter and schedule alumni events.

It was really surreal when they explained their job and that the department exists.

There’s an admin costs problem in this country. There’s no sufficient governance or oversight in controlling university spending. This is even a public university and it’s just bizarre that they can make up positions that shouldn’t even exist.
In her case, it may have also been run through medical insurance to cover the cost.

There are a few ways this could end up in the hands of a life insurance company, no erroneous form-filing needed.
When I discovered it many years ago it was first called "spritzing". There are many online apps and extensions that can do this, quick google - https://www.spreeder.com/app.php?intro=1
There are a myriad of ways to work through signal jamming.Something designed to work in a battlefield can utilize one or several methods.

Most civilian devices aren't designed to do that because it's usually more expensive. There are also nebulous arguments about hindering law enforcement (but also counter-arguments about criminals eg "if you outlaw guns then only outlaws will have guns").
Only in much, much higher concentrations, like those of honey.
I worked at a small private college for a few years in IT. Tuition increased every year, yet our budget always seemed to be the same or smaller ("we need to do more with less"), and my salary certainly didn't get proportionately larger.
People in southeast Asia have motorcycles or trikes (taxis) despite having comparatively much lower income. In China most households own a motorbike. Clearly motor transport is highly desirable and borderline "needed" to keep up the kind of industrial society that can maintain their population, healthcare systems, fertilizer production, life saving pharmaceutical production, etc. Many people would simply starve if motor vehicles could not facilitate the movement workers and goods necessary to maintain these populations.

Having avidly driven both motorcycles and cars, I can tell you the safety a car provides you is not just a luxury. It's a a way to protect your children from higher chances of death in transit. In some states in the US transporting the family on a motorcycle would simply be illegal, as they mandate minimum age for riding on the kind of vehicles that one can legally transport their family on (in Asia the family is often times 3+ up on the same tiny motorbike).

I suggest you work on repealing transportation child safety and emissions laws if you want to bring us closer to Asia. Families do not need the spoiled luxury of these foolish safeguards.
Student services in US universities are massive coupled with salaries for coterie of admins, deans and middle-men.
Ooh you're totally right, thank you for pointing it out!

I think my brain was subconsciously seeking a miles-per-gallon result in a "reasonable" order of magnitude. Edited original comment.
> spark calls for action

If the action is having everyone else (including many who never attended college) pay off their debt, that seems like a bad idea. This just seems like a bad decision on the PhD student's part.
If this stays as an option then that's fine.
Paywall-less link: https://archive.ph/CoGDk
I got an ebike and filling that up costs me very little. Not to mention the savings on insurance, registration, parking, smog, maintenance and they can be cheap to buy if you know where to look
This is why I tend to follow the project's Twitter account and NOT the authors. Authors are humans with human opinions. Some folks seem more hellbent on USING their project's popularity to spread their views... but, I don't think I've ever seen a project's Twitter retweet the author (it's usually the other way around).
I don’t think anyone does grad school expecting that it’s going to be a good investment. Most people I know do it because they can’t imagine themselves doing anything other than research. Is it a waste if afterwards you just get some 9-5 software or finance gig? Definitely. That said, there’s few other ways you get to spend several years becoming a world expert *in a topic of your choice*
The language could represent that, but you pay per operation so checks tend to get thrown out the window.
"Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations"

Thats what I was tought as a kid... although oop north in the UK they say "clogs to clogs in three generations".
>They need to be very careful about how these features are presented, and evaluate how they affect the entire web ecosystem.

It's hidden behind an about:config option (rather than being in the settings page), and the linked article literally says "It is likely that it may degrade your Web experience so we recommend it only for those willing to test experimental features". What more do you want?