skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I’m having trouble parsing this statement: “As a result, the student experience increasingly diverges from that of other courses, in which students feel a higher level of comfort, receive greater affirmation of their opinions, and earn higher grades.” But on the surface it seems to match a trend I noticed in college where students are optimizing for easy grades instead of for actual learning.

It's probably because the market in most jos, including corporate jobs, doesn't need or optimize for actual learners.

Which wouldn't be a problem if there was internal motivation, but the whole culture doesn't respect or optimize for inspiring that either...

>It really seems like the academic field of macroeconomics stopped matching reality in 2008 and now an entire generation of kids have grown up mistrusting economists and policy makers for good reasons.

I think it never matched reality: it's just that things were cushier before 2008 (all the way to the previous serious bubble and accompanying economists spin).
Democracy creates buy-in and legitimacy, and requires good ideas to be sold to the people rather than imposed on them. There is additional evidence that compulsory voting adds to this legitimacy (in ways that may be freedom-harming, if that matters to you - in particular, some people find evidence that Australia can typically impose stricter rules than other democracies because of compulsory voting). Some of this might go against the American tradition of democracy (which exists to help entrench freedom) but it is compatible with the Australian-British tradition of democracy (which is the goal in itself).

Democracy acts as a circuit-breaker for entrenched inefficient resource allocation. For instance, if there was no usable legislative process, but only an executive and a precedent-based judicial system, markets would generally be free, but this would allow the intergenerational accumulation of capital/wealth until some people have almost total power, and some people are essentially serfs. But in democracy, the mere potential for the mass of people to vote themselves wealth limits the incentives to aggressively accumulate capital/wealth. For instance, if the rich want their property rights to be respected, they need to make sure that the mass of the country has enough property to also want protection. And if that potential doesn't work, it can actually be used and new taxes and rules can be introduced that distribute wealth more efficiently.

As you can see, some might not agree with your conclusion that "there's a good case for limiting democratically elected politicians['] influence over the economy, by enshrining private property rights and the independence of the central bank in the constitution". By asking the question you did, you first presumed that democracy was inefficient and on that basis drew a conclusion, but then asked how a person who thought democracy improves efficiency would argue for the conclusion whose premises they disagree with.
A former boss taught me of the "law of conservation of bullshit" :-)
This is the Pipe B of the Nord Stream 2. The pipe's capacity is 37.5 BCM which is almost four times greater than the alternative Norway-Baltic pipelines.

It is very convenient for Russia that the "Anglo-Saxons" forgot to blow up the newest of the four Nord Stream pipelines.
Show the ad to identified bots, but don't count it might be a solution
Note that most of those retorts aren't backed by any sort of sources, and that the one comment that does refers to Alex de Vries, who is basically the single source of energy FUD for the past 7 or so years. Alex de Vries also works for the Dutch central bank, and has built his entire career identity around headlines such as: "Bitcoin transactions use more than [INSERT COUNTRY NAME HERE] yearly energy", which is a much a bogus comparison if I ever saw one.

If the Bitcoin camp is to be suspect of bias, so is the other side.
Game pass is nice if you aren't picky about what games you play. But if you feel like playing a game that's not on game pass, you are paying for nothing.
Is that actually true? Germany and scandi countries seem like major outliers. I’d guess that corruption and presence of good institutions are as important as tax % but would be interested in data either way.
It's not a joke in the sense that it's actually true. Not just SSH, you can install practically any Linux piece of software on it.
That's not unaffordable, that's not afforded.

Choosing not to pay for something —when you pay for so much else— isn't the same thing as not being able to afford its upkeep. It's an active decision, not a passive imbalance.

There is a level of healthcare that we cannot afford, but pretending that we're there already when we know privatising elements is going to make it more expensive for everyone is not honest. There are enough variations on the theme to know what works, and that our current system —while starved, and poorly served by central political whimsy— still delivers the best value out of any healthcare system.

As I've said elsewhere, subsidised childcare, after-school programmes, and mental and social health care all network together to keep us working at our best. Not only are they cheaper when centralised, relieving the burden makes people happier. Having to choose between your health and your job is no way to live and this ethos of welfare, having your citizens' backs is a key aspect of high-tax society. Once you stop worrying about poor people with less, life is better.
>there’s no significant externality to tossing a few squishy potatoes in the compost bin (or a landfill for that matter)

If in the process you used practically finite fertilisers in the form of phosphorus from Morocco and nitrogen from fossil fuels, etc then you may wish to rethink that.
Because the 21m hard cap and change resistance are the definition of Bitcoin.

If these are taken away for any reason, the result would be indistinguishable from shitcoins.
Were you also saying Tesla fan were stupid when Tesla invested in its own manufacturing when everybody said 'Just go to Magma'. And then again when they made their own batteries?

Overall Tesla strategy has been very good and it has made most people money.

Its just your opinion that this has now changed.
I was talking about skilled labor experiences.
Semver has its uses. Those uses are not in something like a kernel. A kernel can be considered to be a collection of multiple APIs, with each one have its own audience. Every version brings changes to some of these APIs which makes its a breaking release to some of the audience.

Semver is good for things like libraries that have a single audience. Either the workflow is broken for all of them or none of them (at least mostly). It can also be used for individual APIs. But for systems that are a collection of multiple APIs (kernel, browser, apps, etc), semver starts making much less sense.
That's not the joke, Sony's approach to their hardware is.
People using a privacy service are also highly likely to be using an ad blocker, I don't think trying to identify which ones are bots is even worthwhile.
Whether the solution is working well isn't about whether you have caused work for fraudsters (though I'm all for that) but about whether you are actually preventing fake traffic.
Play Store link (from this comment) is dead. A bit on the morbid side though, no?
i'd say Fabrice Bellard is a good role-model to look up to if you're talking about respect and legacy
Nice! But can you even buy it?
Hardware is the gating factor to all human progress.

Materials science is so woefully behind that we’re still charging up electrolytic batteries like it’s 1859.
I'm not objecting to making the move (definitely do it) but about selling it as a "solution" when it's really beginning a perpetual fight.

People often don't recognize that they are in an adversarial situation, where taking a step that looks like it solves the problem does much less than you expect because other people will later counter your work.
> the current mrna covid vaccines were not an exact match for the most common circulating strain right now (omicron). So, of course, those vaccines will not fully prevent you getting the disease

Please don't propagate "common sense" around these new vaccines. The very limited trials showed outcomes were better getting the original booster vs the new bivalent which contains a closer match to the circulating strain. Why is that? Obviously its counter to initial expectations, but we'll never know if we don't study. We'll never study if people are contented with "common sense".
It is too bad COVID couldn't have waited, like, 5-10 more years, we might have had VR zoom by then.
Totally! That explains why it felt I should be reading this on ultra glossy paper in some “financial business” waiting area.
Good writing in a good format doesn't make you feel like that though.

You could also say someone rambling on about something, repeating themselves, using lots of uh, like filler words and stuff and that sort of thing and just generally not really..not really getting to the point is 'called a conversation'; sure, doesn't mean it couldn't be done better.
As mentioned in the article (that which it is apparently vital never to read on the Orange Website), they did give away 44m doses; they failed to find takers for the remainder. This is fairly common; there's significant
supply of mRNA vaccines (including donations of surplus) now.
Sometimes VCs do give good advice
Pivots are a part of any startup's journey. In this series, Anh-Tho Chuong, the CEO and founder of Lago (open-source billing API - https://www.getlago.com/), explains how the team changed their business model after some surprising investor advice.
Office hours are a compromise. A professor can provide you with individualized help but in a timeboxed manner. One class is no more than something like 20% of a professor's time, either because they are spending most of their time on research or because they are teaching a huge pile of courses as an adjunct. Having professors sit on slack all day ready to respond to asynchronous questions from students is simply not an option.
On GitHub you can add ?w=1 to diff URLs to get the same thing (there's a button for it too?)
A significant (and arguably growing) part of the world population would likely disagree with your characterisation of Bitcoin's service as 'largely philosphical' (check your financial privilege!): https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1502067170242613248
ASML's Secret: A view from inside the global semiconductor giant [video]
> Tesla may also be unique in having a strong need for machines of this kind

All other car companies?

> If the other manufacturers have that down, then their need for very large components of this kind is lower.

This is not how this works. Tesla also 'has it down' with the Model 3 manufacturing line.

Its still lower CAPX and lower OPEX to use gigapress.

This is a large part why even the former CEO of VW said they were behind in some ways.
Even before online, newspaper would "distribute" their papers to hotels and college dorms to "invisible" subscribers to increase the count of their subscriptions. And let's not even get into how radio and TV viewers are counted via Nelson.
Does uMatrix work on MV3?
I see comparisons with David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen selling the rights to their back catalogs.

While this firm seems a little sketchy to me and probably didn't really own the rights to his likeness, I think it's something he and other older actors should consider to provide a financial legacy for their heirs. I imagine the contract would contain things like what an acceptable use would be, payments for using it, and caps on fees.
> Initially, the only thing stopping me from getting this vaccine was that people died of blood clots / heart attacks / strokes etc...

Basically all of these (exceedingly rare, one should say) side-effects are also associated with a covid19 infection.
The idealistic capitalism you speak of has never existed, not even in the US which has supposedly been the shining beacon for capitalism. It's a false idea spread to keep people believing that they can "make it" and that no other system could possibly work better. It's an idea spread by think tanks owned by guess who. Capital owners.

Consolidation of capital and property in the hands of a few is the natural state of capitalism, it's been a slight improvement over the consolidation of feudalism.
Wasn’t the issue that you can make a core just below critical and shove it above critical by wrapping it in reflectors?
this is why (tech) startups should be open-source (or open-core at least)
What Is Permaculture and How Can I Use It in My Home Garden?
I admit to being a pessimist; now let me think of some of the consequences of Too Much Internet, with the preamble that I'm not claiming it's a bad thing, however I would like to get rid of all the algorithmically generated trash cluttering everything up in an attempt to appeal to absolutely everyone and succeeding on hardly anyone.

1. We find it more difficult to engage with people who are around us, because our favorite parts of the internet share our exact interests. Very few in our immediate locality can match it.

2. We find it difficult to disengage from our greatest interests because there is a nearly limitless stream of new information flowing from our chosen corners of the internet. Some mundane but necessary tasks get neglected.

3. The internet in all its vastness can contain something that seems like our ideal version of the world. Coming back to the reality of most of our lives can bring on depression.

I'm not out to change the way we interact with the internet, but perhaps if we can remain cognizant of how it's affecting us we'll be able to continue treating each other like human beings. It's easy to forget...
Methane is 10x as powerful as a greenhouse gas, and reducing methane is far more relevant to combatting climate change than fighting CO2 emissions.

The research you referenced is sourced eventually to Alex de Vries, a person that has for years built his entire career image after "exposing Bitcoin's energy use". That fact that he works for the Dutch central bank should ring an alarm bell honestly.

Note that practically all research critical of Bitcoin's emissions are directly sourced to Alex de Vries's digiconomist website.
I was on the fence about closing my account. This was a good motivator to actually do it. It is hard to understand who PayPal is trying to appease.
UML: My Part in Its Downfall
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Nord Stream blasts ‘tremendous opportunity’ to wean EU off Russian energy
Elon Musk reveals Optimus TeslaBot prototype
And yet it doesn't make it any less true. The correlation exists, just as tides to moon phase, and doesn't negate the existence of either. HN has turned into that one site where any remotely ideological topic, any minutely political (cue the "everything is political crowd") will invariably bring out the "BUT NAZIS" replies. It's insufferable.
> No group wants to compete, they want to have already won.

Or to put it another way: a capitalist fears nothing more than a truly well-functioning market.
It's not how all vaccines work. But some do.

For example we basically eradicated smallpox meaning that the resulting immunity will neutralize any virus when it enters the body preventing infection.
This is quite possibly the oldest insight in the world. Dressed up as something new and clever in order to promote his twitter account. Oh God how I hate social media.
only if there are only two options, for more options any rank-ordering system will be plagued by Arrow's and other impossibility theorems. quadratic voting uses cardinal preferences, which avoids some of those issues, and QV specifically has linear marginal cost of votes, which can be shown to be optimal in a very simplified mathematical model of voter preferences.

but I don't want to evangelize QV too much here, it has enough proponents already and I'm not fully convinced that's is resilient to problems like collusion
The probability of a nuclear explosion at Los Alamos is vanishingly close to zero for lots of reasons. The probability of a nuclear accident at Los Alamos is pretty much 1.0, since several have happened there before, and recently.
Fleecing the investors, who are fleecing the workers and consumers to entertain their gambling addiction.
The flu shot is an exceptionally poor-performing vaccine and the Covid vaccines are similarly bad or even worse. Especially the side effects are bad compared to other vaccines.

Just like any medical intervention, taking a vaccine is also not completely risk-free, so if I'm taking one, it better protect me from something.

Now that Omicron shots are out, it seems to be in order to dispose of the old vaccines against the original, now-extinct, strain. (It's always in order to dispose of expired medication anyway.) Non-expired doses can be given to impoverished nations who would otherwise not have access to any vaccine at all, but that's also waning in significance as those places have acquired natural immunity.

Also, neither the vaccines nor natural infection "only lasts 4 months." Antibody titers are expected to wane over time. More meaningful indicators such as the T cell response are not being tested on a large scale, so we don't have any data.
Windows is a gaming platform, as is Linux in a lesser degree.
So not more than already happens, and games can require anti-cheat software to be installed.
My Self-Hosting Setup
Electricity isn’t a magical thing given to us by the high priests of the Ministry of Electrons. Take a magnet, take a copper wire, and voilà! You have electricity. Anyone can generate electricity at all times, as long as they are doing the required work. Electricity is here to stay precisely because it is not brought about by authority. It is a natural phenomenon, brought about by physical interaction. There is no central authority in charge when it comes to making it.

My God is this drivel what passes for "intelligent" pro-bitcoin writing? Nation states don't control the existence of electricity, nation states also don't control the existence of bitcoin, therefore bitcoin is as important and fundamental as electricity. Gotcha.
Judging power structures by how often they turn into unicorns is nonsensical at best. The concept of a unicorn is exactly why you can't judge based on that. There have been so few co-op unicorns because there have ben so few co-ops, the fact that there has been at least one already is a statistical anomaly (because unicorns are statistical anomalies by definition)
http://archive.today/E5LLW
Please note that this is a piece of a larger whole. The "21 lessons" by Der Gigi are the origin for this piece.
I don't think ad companies care too much about that.
That's not the question I asked.
GNU Indirect Function
Quite some time ago, I ran into a website on HN that let you easily calculate how often you are likely to see a person before they die. I couldn't find it anywhere though, on HN or the wider web. Anybody remember?
Years ago our company was running an ad campaign on social media. Curious on the results I spent time looking into a randomly selected pool of the “users” that had been clicking on our ads. It quickly became clear that at least half (if not a lot more) of the clicks were from what appeared to be fake users or bots. We shut the whole ad spend there off immediately.
You won't find a job that's 100% free of it. But everyone intuitively knows which ones are in the 90 to 99% range. Emergency responders, garbage collectors, transporters, powerplant employees, nurses... basically any job that's actually essential and not just something that grows another person's fortune. Once these people stop working, you notice.

So would you sign up for these jobs? Probably not, because they often require a lot of work or not much money (very region dependent) or something hard to deal with. In comparison, you can be paid insane amounts to code skinner boxes or ad optimisation in a well-lit office.
> We don't punish people based on their net worth but on the impact that their actions had.

This means I should be able to steal at the supermarket and if caught, only pay for what I stole?
I thought it was John/Jane Doe but I now realize that those are only for unidentified people (in police/judiciary contexts).

In Italy - for the record - it would probably be Mario Rossi (as an example on a mockup form), but conversionally it would be Pinco Pallino.

There are a few dedicated English wikipedia pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placeholder_name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terms_referring_to_an_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_placeholder_names_by_l...

it is interesting to see the slighty different use in the various languages.
Structural rigidity in space is 99% tension and 1% compression, due to the lack of gravity, and I'm being generous to compression here. Rock is good at hold itself up against gravity, but is very poor at retaining an atmosphere compared to, say, UHMWP aka Dyneema.

Hollowing out an asteroid is more about raw materials and micrometeorite/particle shielding, both of which a slushy will provide in abundance.
There is a difference between optimising engagement by padding a trivial one sentence story, and writing good literature.

Sahil Bloom is not Henry James.
I closed my PayPal account years ago as they were constantly withholding my money, charging exorbitant fees, and they attempted to hold a lot of money from my father's business for 6mo whilst they 'investigated' until the threat of legal action suddenly made the problems go away.

Everyone should delete their PayPal accounts, and encourage friends/family to do the same. Shocking business practices, and they only continue to do business because they've often been the status quo, but since dropping them I've never once wished I still used it.
Yeah, hobbyists like the US Air Force Research Lab

(I imagine, I don't have any info to suggest they actually had to literally jailbreak their PS3s in order to build their supercomputer, but just making a jab)

If it's good enough for the USAF, it should be good enough for hobbyists to have a go around with it!
The Aftermath of Mate Poaching
The only thing I noticed quantified in this paper was the number of students failing. Could just as easily be explained by a decline on the teacher's end.
I hate to admit this, but I was (briefly) involved with the Ethereum Max project.

They gave me a sizable sum of cash up front, no contract, to act as a general and technical consultant. This happened less than 48hrs after I met some of the main "team" which consisted of over two dozen crypto bros and various boxing promoters, none of whom understood the most basic concepts of blockchains, transactions, currency, regulation, etc.

I was with them when they contacted Kim to shill, and I actually advised them to take a much different approach, but of course, I was ignored, and I promptly left the project about a week later.

EMAX is really the epitome of everything wrong in cryptocurrency and I'm glad to see a fraction of justice being served here. Now if only the dozens of other "team" members who were (from my firsthand perspective) equally culpable in defrauding the public could also be held accountable, that would be great.
Office hours for academic consultation is the norm.

Apart from anything else, making teaching points via email or any chat app can be a royal PITA, take twice as long and is more open to misunderstanding. Teams and Zoom can be a bit better, but you never know who the student is sharing the room with (parents, little brother etc).

As for the older males thing... Certainly the current climate can make personal consultation an issue in that regard. This is the reason I now compel students to book consultation in small groups.