skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Verbatim re-posting a past comment[+] of mine that seemed to have resonated with HN folks.)

Hans Rosling[1] used to call himself a "very serious possibilist":

People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn't know about. That makes me angry. I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I'm a very serious “possibilist”. That's something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful.

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In his book 'Factfulness' (definitely read it), he talks about "bad and better":

Think of the world as a premature baby in an incubator. The baby’s health status is extremely bad and her breathing, heart rate, and other important signs are tracked constantly so that changes for better or worse can quickly be seen. After a week, she is getting a lot better. On all the main measures, she is improving, but she still has to stay in the incubator because her health is still critical.

Does it make sense to say that the infant’s situation is improving? Yes. Absolutely. Does it make sense to say it is bad? Yes, absolutely. Does saying “things are improving” imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It’s both. It’s both bad and better. Better, and bad, at the same time. That is how we must think about the current state of the world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling

[+] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29550178
That was the alarming part I saw at the beginning of the pandemic. I had no idea that medical mask/PPE manufacturing had been moved offshore to the extent that it had. It would seem to me to be a capability that any country should have as part of their national biodefense strategy.
Certainly 'will' is a huge issue, the biggest IMO. I def on't disagree it can be done but my experience and from interviews recently people just don't know. People don't know where their containers are deployed. They know whats in their registries of course but can't trace it all the way though. What I have also seen is people using deploy optimisation tools that dynamically pull from multiple code repos, containers and orchestrate highly optimised global deploys. I def on't disagree it can be done, just it usually isn't.
I always significant increase in weight lifting exercises immediately upon starting fasting. Feels like an adrenaline response tbh.
The market trend seems to confirm the Clean Hydrogen Ladder [1] prediction that Fuel Cell Vehicles are a bad idea.

Quote: "FCVs continue to find it difficult to compete with BEVs on cost
and popularity and are unlikely to gain market share in the
passenger vehicle segment."

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/clean-hydrogen-ladder-v40-mic...
That's exactly my point. Even if you just rip it and do nothing else to the data, storing the resultant raw files is basically no effort.
>If I pay $60k/year, I can’t fail out.

Can't fail? Not even on exams? So a mere sum of 180k USD guarantees a degree? I hope not.
I think the argument is less related to hacking, as that would be like making something tamper proof which is a much higher bar. But more like if software can cause hardware damage, that means software bugs can cause hardware damage and potentially pose a safety risk, which should be seen as a critical hardware bug

For example the safety critical systems you mention should absolutely fail-safe at the bare minimum, all kinds of things can adversely affect running software like equipment generating EM noise nearby or someone tripping over the wrong cable
How about .. let's just forget about pro sports like chess, tour de france, 100m dash and instead work out ourselves. Makes more sense anyway, instead of sitting in front of the "TV".
Getting tabular data from unstructured text with GPT-3: an ongoing experiment
Has it not been successfully argued that an IP address is not sufficiently identifying (in various court cases wrt piracy)? If so then the source host's name, either given directly in the protocol or returned from an rDNS query, shouldn't be either.
What has divisiveness to do with any of it? Is it divisive against other plants to claim that apples only come from apple trees? Universal human dignity can be accepted, applied, and understood by everyone. But so can belief in God. In fact, the Christian religion has already spread through virtually every culture already.

By the way, one of the books I listed was by an atheist historian, Tom Holland, who was as surprised at his findings as you might expect, so that severely undercuts your insinuation that these ideas are a fictional manifestation of bias.

I believe God is real, and that we as humans are individually known and cared for by Him. This is the foundation for universal human rights, and even some atheists worry about what will happen to these values if faith in God wanes.
> Pactor 4 digimodes.

I've always been curious as to how they "got away" with being proprietary: encryption isn't allowed on amateur bands, but given its black box nature, the codec (?) might as well be a cipher.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACTOR

Has anyone reverse engineered it? It is possible to create a third-party implementation, either in hardware or SDR?

* https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/PACTOR_IV
/s missing?

Isn’t that what education is? Paying someone money and putting in the work?
I'd argue the Fossil wrist PDA is smaller than the Rex.
Or they have lots of 2-3 people companies and $99 is a lot for those.
START: The solution to this problem is yet another rightwing think tank.

GOTO START
> "I had this error."

Does that mean you experienced the "potentially bogus panel power sequencing delays, which may harm the LCD panel" ? If so, was your LCD panel harmed?
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No relevant user...surname?
No, there are other, objective differences. Boomers, at the same age as millennials now, commanded a much, much larger proportion of the national wealth than millennials do now. This has been true, at the varying ages over time, of Boomers since they hit working age all the way through now to retirement age. If you don’t recognize the impact this has on both groups’ psyches, then I’m not sure what to say.
> Of course Linux is great for servers too but why stop there?

UNIX philosophy - do one thing and do it right?:)
> The argument attempted now is that we should not escalate.

We have already escalated. NATO has been encroaching on Russia's borders for 20+ years now. Our foreign policies are one of the main causal factors in the current war where thousands of people have died and where nuclear exchange is now on the table. I think it's time to reevaluate that strategy.
Okay, so the market price doesn't have a lot to do with the price per share?
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Pessimism can be just aversion to risk. Those that can afford to fail can be more optimistic - because they can try again. You will be more pessimistic if failure means losing everything, no?
I am not an expert on the matter but as far as I understand you need the appropriate hardware platform, too? Last time I did some research about it I came to the conclusion that for instance Raspberries make for a poor RT platform. Is that not the case?
Certainly in my area they seem to just wear dark plain hoodies and face masks and don't care much about cameras as at 4am no-one is likely monitoring any alerts that come up and once people see the footage in the morning there isn't anything distinctive to ID them.

I have seen some cases of just using spray paint or even some kind of oil or whatever else to mess up the lens (mainly for doorbells or otherwise where the camera is easy to reach and see) or if it's too far out of reach they just throw rocks or hit it with a long stick or similar until it's out of action.
I have to agree with you.

Linux on laptops is great, especially ThinkPad's and machines older than a a few generations. I just started using gnome after being a loyal xfce user for years and it's refreshing with all it's integration (with lots of extensions for customization).
To me it is kind off crazy when a build tools needs some 3rd party config library to make it usable.
As with Fred Sanger (chemistry) and John Bardeen (physics) who also won twice in the same category.
Try raw honey and lemon with some hot water.

There is also as theory about germ ingress thru the ears, 2% peroxide in the ear with a content bud has done it for me before.
So basically stack ranking with a 33% attrition target?

… I know, I know, it’s not exactly the same, but the logic is analogous. Hurting people so that an outcome matches some prespecified distribution is just lazy.

Of course we should have hard classes, and of course some people that try a hard thing will fail, but they should fail on their own merit.
I think you meant to reply to my other comment[0], since that's where I did make that argument? But as to your questions:

> You don’t think anyone was hurt by the absolutely enormous amount of stress he chose to create?

Fair point, I imagine the last couple of months have not been great for many Twitter-employees.

> Or the army of lawyers that Twitter shareholders had to pay for?

As far as I know the shareholders don't directly pay for the lawyers, that money comes from some financial reserve Twitter has. In normal circumstances massive legal costs can reduce the value of a company, but in this case the shareholders will be able to sell each share for the same $54.20 as before the lawsuit. If the company becomes less valuable because of this, that's the problem of the next owner of the company. Since Musk will end up owning Twitter, he'll end up paying for the lawyers on both sides of this suit. Or am I missing something?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33092570
I feel like and old man saying this but I remember the pass rate for the C++ exam at my uni (in Eastern Europe) was 42%. There was no petition, we learned to code.
Students are paying to get a diploma, not to learn something. Customer must be always satisfied, that's the reason why private universities are destined to produce useless and unskilled absolvents.
All of this can be true or achieved without making a class so difficult as to fail 1/3 of the students.
It does seem rather underpowered if you compare it with the requirements of state of the art Deep Learning models in other areas, not an apples and oranges comparison though.
Lots of mention of the word orgo here but the terminology may not be colloquial everywhere. Before college, I hung out on the premed forums and then told my peers about “orgo”. They were confused and corrected me that I meant “ochem”.
“I can’t fail”

Not “I’m guaranteed a degree”

Im saying once you fail out, $180k in debt, most peoples lives are effectively over.

You have to go get a job making $40k-60k a year and pay $10-12k per year for the next 10-20 years.

After taxes, food, housing.. you’ll basically have to live with your parents, will have trouble starting a family, etc
Good thing the US government does not have an incentive to lie in this case. Oh, wait. Maybe they want to avoid having taxpayers start panicking and rioting in the streets.

We are in the fog of war. The ground truth of such matters will be elusive until that fog lifts. In the meantime, no one should believe the propaganda spouted by their government without extraordinary proof.
i have a couple of these boards that use u74 (hifive unmatched) and afaik they don't have any official encryption extensions (RV64GC + bit manipulation extension) [0]

[0] https://www.sifive.com/cores/u74
Yep not to mention pushing their SSL root CA to all the clients so they can scan everything without SSL errors.
In a poorly constructed CRT you can definitely damage the drive circuits by an excessively high line rate. That's basically the reason why CRTs tend to include "out of range" warnings and shutdowns. You could, I think at least theoretically, also cause damage by incorrect blanking, because line rate + blanking determines the drive waveform for the LOPT.
So, what exactly stops the car when it gets too hot? Or when there's no oil? (except the eventual engine failure)
i wonder how many of the commenters own several iterations or current models of the RPi. i am still happily chugging along on the OG model B; only if it could route traffic a bit faster.

while the foundation became too successful to the point they are dependent upon by other companies, the enthusiast part of the consumer market is not helping either.
One can go back to the ancient Greeks to find that pattern, but does it hold?

If one subscribes to the theory that culture moves in cycles (hedonistic Weimar Republic, WW2, conservative backlash in the 1950s, left backlash in the 1960s, conservative backlash in the 1980s/1990s, woke backlash in the late 2000s), then sometimes the complaints are valid.

Gen-Z has an unprecedented cancel power, anonymous reports, controlling speech of Gen-X. It has never been like this before.

Certainly Gen-X disliked their older generations, too, but they didn't have the tools or the self-righteousness to openly intrigue against them.

Gen-X is too soft to fight back, to the detriment of our society.
Twitter should be able to negotiate some stronger terms, because it would be silly for them to agree to the same terms and suspend their court case when Musk has proven to not be a man of his word.
So, 30 years later and the advice regarding bad X Windows configurations still apply.
I don’t think anyone suggests that med school should be easy, but the difficulty should be in the core stuff that the end practitioner will need day to day, not something tangential to the practice.
Honey and lemon juice, mildly hot (put water in a pot, and the honey and lemon juice in a smaller glass inside the pot, stir until it is liquid and mildly hot).

Grandma recipe, works for me.
Not a medical advice
> It's supposedly described as an art school for engineers and at the same time an engineering school for artists.

By detractors or publicity? Because as insults go that’s just brutal.
knock knock knock

I'm Dick with the FBI. Is your husband home?
“They weren't coming to class, that's for sure," said Jones. "They weren't watching the videos, and they weren't able to answer the questions."
Other issue is that there is just too many people with degrees. In past just passing meant that it was good enough filter. Now the GPA must also enter into picture, which drives demand for grade inflation lot higher. If this aspect didn't exist, I doubt grade inflation would either...
not denying value of the article, it's great, but kinda solved problem for me - for multiple years, 99% of cases the first command after ssh login to server is `tmux attach || tmux` for me. Almost never run anything not in tmux/screen.
> Why not... filter pre-med students by simply limiting admission into the program?

That would be a much narrower window into what the students are capable of. Instead, you offer them a challenge, and let them succeed or fail on their own merit. You'll find some students who don't look great on paper have the grit and determination to make it through the class, and some students who look outstanding on paper wilt when put up to a challenge.
I remember when I wanted to be a mechanical engineer. After a statics and dynamics class, I realized I was just not mentally fit for the job, and decided to be in the Internet advertising industry instead. Stupid me, the right answer was to sue and demand a degree in something I couldn't have managed to perform at. These younguns are geniuses.
> Not so driven pessimists might tell that it is a waste of time, because Earth is Doomed

or kill himself because Earth is Doomed and effectively be part of the solution.

The reason why people do things it's mostly irrelevant, it's what they do that counts.
How exactly do you imagine bot/attach protection (cloudflare's main product) working without JS? Even to bypass a captcha using your browser to assert trust requires JS.

Are captchas and DDoS bot protection ruining the web?
Yes, "back in the day" you could only get it through official distribution, or hack it in with a gameshark code. There was a truck behind the SS Anne that you could get to(you had to get the HM move from the boss, then faint - that would put you in the nearest pokecentre, so you could continue until you found HM Swim, then you could go back to the ship since it never departed, and swim behind it - and yep, there was a truck) - but that truck did nothing, it was just set decoration.

The RNG method to encounter Mew in the wild was only discovered years and years later and most definitely wasn't known 20 years ago.
Most likely in the terms and condition.

"We're not responsible for the service in the event of a disruption of the radio field technologies used by our products"
Exactly, a well designed hard test is great. Besides being a test, it's also a learning opportunity. By confronting your limits, you get to learn aspects of the material you didn't know. Past years tests like this are also great when studying the material (assuming that the teacher is decent and renews his tests every year)
I've seen on the last thread that sometimes for cheating one bit of data is enough, something like a signal at some point where you could make a decisive move. I wonder, then, how you could send stealthily to someone a bit of data. Something like an implant under the skin giving a slight shock or vibration or heat. The answer to that would be to block signals from entering the space where the game is played, but then maybe you could implant a whole device in yourself to do that. I'm not sure how you could give it the data of the current game though.
LOL, older people complain about the younger generation… and the younger generation complains about the older generation.

You should realize: your problem with boomers is that they exist and act like human beings. It might be time to let this one go.
"Aha, so an overzealous IT network decided to block the request before it even reached my server."

What classifies this as an "overzealous" act of network configuration? There may be a subjectively legitimate reason the user's network was configured this way.

"I had no idea I was ever going to get anything different."

There's an entire list of HTTP status codes. That was your clue that you would get something different. You made a decision to not have handling for them all. Not implementing handling for 418 is understandable, but forbidden and service unavailable responses are common enough.
I have a friend who tried installing Ventura Beta on a Mac, and it overheated and cooked two of her SD cards.
Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_chemistry
Not OP but if a huge portion of students fail a course tangential to the ultimate practice for which they are in the program, and this comes midway through the program so those students are now 10s or even 100s of thousands in debt / opportunity cost, then wouldn’t you chalk it up to a university’s failure to either (a) choose students for the program more capable of succeeding in the program or (b) teaching in a manner that doesn’t lead to so many failures, or (c) some combination of the two?

If one student fails, it’s that student’s failure. But at some point, once (x)% of the class fails, it is a systemic failure of the institution itself.
As a security guy, we are taught the CIA triad early and it's easy to forget.

The A stands for availability and if you don't make things available, you're failing at your own job.
Imagine a plant machete duel
I can recommend Midnight library (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52578297-the-midnight-li...). It is about what path we choose in life and what other paths could have for us.
Simple Phone
Just because you don't like a term doesn't mean the term isn't describing something real. And, just because a term was invented to describe something in the past, doesn't mean the term isn't describing something real. And, finally, every term both includes and excludes, else it has no meaning!

Your linked encyclopedia article looks very biased and misinformed. For one, Wikipedia states the term has been used since the 1800s. I also personally don't think "Judeo-Christian" excludes Muslims, who, to my knowledge, inherit this tradition by believing in parts of both the Old and New Testaments: From https://www.wikiislam.net/wiki/Portal:_Islam_and_the_Judeo-C...

"The Qur'an makes constant reference to the stories of the Judeao-Christian tradition. The references are familiar and sometimes in passing, and assume a great deal of familiarity on the part of the listeners. The audienceof the Qur'an was clearly one well-acquainted with the stories themselves and the Qur'an itself says that it is a "reminder" (73:19) of the message which has come before. The stories referenced are not only from the Bible, but come from a wide variety of literary traditions within ancient near east Christianity and Judaism such as the Alexander Romances, saints lives, and the Talmud."

Historians disagree about everything, and everything is up for conjecture because the man isn't alive today, and we can't read his mind. That said, here is some more evidence:

From: https://www.independent.com/2011/04/29/hitler-hated-christia...

Martin Bormann, one of Hitler’s closest and most influential aides, declared that National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable, and Hitler himself said that Christianity was a religion of fools and “old women.”

Hitler declared that “The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity…. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity.”

And from: https://thenewamerican.com/hitler-and-christianity/

According to Baldur von Schirach, the Nazi leader of the German youth corps that would later be known as the Hitler Youth, “the destruction of Christianity was explicitly recognized as a purpose of the National Socialist movement” from the beginning, though “considerations of expedience made it impossible” for the movement to adopt this radical stance officially until it had consolidated power.

Really, this is just common sense. Hitler was many things, but a clumsy politician was not one of them. He knew that until he had “consolidated power,” he would have to erect a façade for a Christian people and the Church; this is probably why virtually all his pro-Christian statements were rendered publicly and before he had closed his iron fist around the German neck.
When I start to think about. Organic chemistry is in subset of courses that actually train people for their work, that is being in chemistry. So everyone should expect certain level of competence from those passing the course.

Now to use it for filtering med-school students seems the broken aspect.
No it is not the same

WiFi even in perfect conditions is much less reliable than a wired connection, so a security device that is dependent on wifi should have a buffer, even if a wired device would not.

I can take measures to secure wired connection (metal / armored conduit as an example) there are very very limit to no measures you can take to prevent signal jamming
Of course not. You still need to actually learn the subjects and pass the exams. Putting in the work is not enough.

The people who fail usually should fail. When I was doing CompSci most people would fail discrete maths 2-3 times until they managed to get it. It's a good thing that they failed the first few times. I don't see how that's bad, they didn't understand it at first.