skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this significantly misses the point of higher education. By far the most valuable parts are 1) peer interaction, and 2) lecturer-audience interaction.

I learned way more from discussing the topic with my classmate during breaks than I ever did from the course material itself. Learning a fact is easy, deeply understanding it is not - and discussing it with your peers is the best way to discover each others' flaws in understanding.

In addition to this, people asking questions is a crucial part of the lecture. Sometimes a question is because someone was asleep during the previous lecture, but most of the times it was because a concept was not explained clearly. And in a few rare but valuable cases someone asked a question, and the lecturer's eyes lit up as someone had rediscovered an open research problem - or made a critical link between two seemingly unrelated topics.

Textbooks and videos can teach you a lot, but they do not allow for interaction. If you wish to simply get a basic understanding of a well-known topic, that might be enough. But if you want to truly master it and perhaps even contribute to advancing it yourself, it simply isn't enough.
> I have thus been stuck for quite a long time in “Sr” purgatory.

The move beyond senior becomes almost entirely political. You have to play the game or you’ll be stuck there forever (or until interviewing into a higher role elsewhere). It’s all about doing the right things for the right people at the right time, with your name prominently attached.
Who has time for training? My small team is about half the size it should be. I'm already rarely doing stuff I already know how to do each day. I'm supposed to rush to keep up with all the new stuff I meet on the job AND do training on stuff I'm mostly not going to need to know for work, yet somehow remember enough of it to pass an (expensive) certification test? Reality does not suit a subscription model for this kind of training. Better to buy or download something I get to keep until I have a chance to use it.
I confess. He must be out of (stashed) cash. That is totally insane.
It’s an enjoyable read, but bad advice for this particular problem.

In Oliver’s world everyone is suffering because they’re avoiding thinking about the things that are important, and need to deeply examine their values. That’s true, I suppose. But some people are also struggling because they can’t keep their life straight enough to go to the dentist (got a root canal coming up, after I finally went back) or pay their bills on time, and working for a living at well paid job they’re good at is torture because they simply don’t know how to operate in a regimented corporate environment with agile boards and stand ups and reporting progress every day.

It’s a frustrating read because it is written as if everything Oliver says is natural and relatable, when often it isn’t. Of course we look down on those who have hobbies (what weird ass British nonsense is this?) of course we receive constant emails from random members of the public (nope, not really a problem for me.) It often didn’t read to me that Oliver believes these things effect the “real world.” They can. People really struggle.

After all that, I actually would say sure, OP should get the book. An enjoyable mix of pop-psychology, pop-philosophy, and a few actual productivity tips. But it’s bad advice to OP without caveats. People should know what they’re buying.
I accept this as one point; I do question whether the opposite side of the benefit calculation was made - i.e. did we have a public debate where we correctly looked at the tradeoffs of increased fossil fuel carbon pollution, economic impacts from lack of energy and failures to advance, balanced out with honest cost estimates of disaster profiles? It doesn't seem like it. It seems the debates were fairly one-sided; this leads me to believe a better outcome would be weighted more towards pro-nuclear.
what model i'll post a link if i can find one
Engineering problems are perfectly capable of dooming a technology. Fission's problems are all engineering problems.
In my school you had to rename the binaries to calc.exe and then they'd work.
I haven't used vim in years but there's a package by Tim Pope: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fireplace

This is a key piece of the REPL workflow: you rarely type into the REPL, you use commands in your editor to select code and run it in a REPL. The idea is that you eval stuff in the same place you type, and that gets run in the same environment over and over again without having to restart it or redefine the data you're using to iterate your functions.
Wonder how that relates to your earlier comment in the thread and if the impace of dataset quality on performance has been studied.
Being intelligent at math is quite different than handling a crisis well. IMO he's spent the last few years with everyone sucking his nuts and going on about how smart he is and it's gotten to his head.
Yeah but the claim being discussed wasn't "Is Elon good at hype" it was "Musk's edge has come from tackling hard, technical problems"
Yes, you're mistaken.

If you're the only person with the private key, you're the only person who can move the funds.

It's math. Unless you have a mathematical argument as to how to move funds without the private key, you're ignorant and uninformed.
People in jail and prison testify in court all the time. They are transported to and from the court by guards, have a guard assigned to them in the courtroom, and sometimes testify in prison uniforms etc.

I don't know why a house subpoena would be any different.

If you are out on bail, I have never heard of bail conditions restricting what someone can say, that's not what bail is, I don't think that's even a thing. Judges in the case do sometimes put "gag orders" on the parties involved, but that's not related to bail.

Where are you getting this information?

He's perhaps unlikely to be testifying to the house tomorrow though, when he's been arrested in the bahamas. Probably just as a practical matter he needs to be extradicted to US custody and processed first.
Bail is definitely not just a US thing, in fact a quick search brings up details of how bail works in the Bahamas.
That said, bail does seem unlikely in this case.
dragon ruby uses mruby which is a much more constrained ruby designed to be embedded into applications and does constrain your gem use some.
The usage may have changed over time which can definitely be irritating but I think "engineer" is a useful word to mean roughly someone who applies some sort of theoretical knowledge to solve practical problems. E.g. financial engineering. If you have a better word for this let me know. I wouldn't mind the term "computer programmer" but no one uses that as a title. "Developer" just sounds dumb.
Nice, but I wish they opted for an RSS feed instead.
Never jokingly name your communications by the thing you hope not to be prosecuted for doing. otherwise it might show up as state’s exhibit A in your prosecution.
Thanks for reminding that classic engineering is still alive.
It's gratifying to me that the hype around fusion has been increasingly replaced by a cold and realistic assessment of its actual level of realism.
I had opposite experience with a health insurance company where it hung up on me. They have so many angry callers that they filter them out when the voice menu fails instead of giving you a person.
In the US, the average capacity factor for wind turbines is about 33%, so your nameplate 34,500 MW capacity is immediately ~11.5 GW actual. Wind makes sense, but deceptive numbers don’t help your argument.
My opinion is that it's all faux stupidity. I think his whole "I really didn't know what was going on" spiel is going to fall apart quickly in court. Anyone with a couple brain cells to rub together would know to shut the hell up. He seems desperate enough to try lying and manipulating his way out of hot water. That's what his whole media tour has been about. He's not giving interviews to people that will give him tough questions and follow up on his responses. He's giving interviews to people that are going to ask "so, what happened?" And follow up his half-baked response with "Wow, you didn't know what was happening, that's wild!"
I do find it odd he was arrested the eve before his congressional testimony, something Maxine Waters tried to avoid in the first place.
> is there a shield planned for the Orion spacecraft

Not sure what they are using in Orion. The general answer is that, yes, there has to be a shield. Historically that has been aluminum. Mass is a huge problem in going to space. Because of this, you can't have the shield you really want.

Over the years we have learned that thick laminated (under heat and pressure) polyethylene is a better space radiation shield than aluminum and at a significant savings in weight.
You're aware that control of the House of Representatives is still Democratic because the new Congress isn't sworn in until January right?
yachts
Maybe not the kernel since JS needs a runtime at least, but there is https://node-os.com/ based on the linux kernel.
Oh, so it really is 4 dimensional chess, huh?
Fast reactors present the possibility of prompt fast criticality in a serious accident. This could be worse than Chernobyl.
Can anyone recommend a good podcast episode that dives deeper into the implications of this?
While it is true that there are no wildfires on Venus, there is also no wood, or oxygen. Any oxygen released immediately reacts with the dirt to make, largely, more CO2.

If you wanted to terraform Venus, you would need to make diamonds out of the air so the carbon wouldn't just burn again. The oxygen you release would then react with the dirt and rocks to make more familiar minerals, and more CO2, of course. For a long time.

The whole surface would be a mile deep in diamonds before you finished. Hardly any water: the solar wind, not deflected by a magnetic field, carried most of that off. She probably had a field when she still rotated fast enough.

Earth gets to keep her water because the moon keeps us rotating enough to keep a magnetic field. Mars lost his because he is too small to keep a liquid core to generate the field with.
Copyleft foss for the user, this is the future.
She must have known where the bailout money was coming from (FTX customer funds). Yet she accepted it. That makes her appear as complicit.
How do I work around this paywall?

If not possible, is HN the right place to put it? Sites with paywalls that can't be bypassed are not okay on HN [0] cc @dang

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
> Ah, remember those times that crypto was heralded as some sort of wedge against "2008-level government sponsored corruption? , That was a nice thought while it lasted.

How did any of that change exactly?

That 2008 style Wallstreet corruption is bigger than ever, it's just a matter of time before the world sees that the upcoming/ongoing inflation is not actually "due to the war in Europe and Covid".
wow 89% use Atlassian tools..
IMHO what would determine whether or not he was extradited from one of those countries is not various treaties but how much cash he brought with him.
Programmable editing a target base in genomic DNA without dsDNA cleavage (2016)
Illegal transactions and money laundering isn't going to disappear. A generation of engineers obsessed with crypto will not suddenly stop caring even if a bunch of coins go to zero. The potential prize (control of a global currency/commodity) at the cost of just writing a bunch of code is too potentially lucrative to make people stop trying.
I remember reading here (on a previous article about FTX) a comment that said SBF had friends in the Bahamian government, or something like that, so no way he'd get extradited to the US. I found that... pretty funny... at the time, and seems like I was right.

Why would the Bahamian government risk their relations with the US over someone like SBF? Kinda absurd...
Holmes got 11 years in Federal prison for her first offense for financial crimes.. that is a long sentence. SBF obviously won’t get life behind bars, nor should he.
(not the GP)

I tried it again last year some time and it was neither as configurable nor as stable as 3.5. Granted, maybe it's just rose-coloured glasses, but Trinity DE still seems to provide a better experience for me to this day.
This is effectively what I was initially going to add ( I made a similar mistake ), but let me elaborate on it a little bit. While in an abstract there is no reason to care about the title ( I have a ridiculous title compared to what I actually do now despite being an IC ), but depending on the environment you are in ( finance comes to mind ), you will almost automatically fall under different band with HR for salary/benefits package. I wish this stuff was properly standardized, but every company does their own thing ( and does what it can to ensure it is hard to compare your job title to one at another company just in case employee has a bright idea they can compare competing salaries ).
Solving Advent of Code with jq
Due to a range of software compatibility, and the new scheduler, I'm going to have to upgrade to windows 11 soon.

For those who upgraded: is there an edition (like win10 LTSC), which disables all these nonsense, and creates a livable computing environment?

If not, is there something like w10privacy for windows 11?

if neither, what's the current-best guide of setting up, and locking in a livable environment?
What would you suggest for someone who wanted to get started with CL? Emacs and SLIME?

(It would be nice to tinker.)
I mix 5 parts of Walmart great value brand whitener, 1 partnestle choco powder, 3 parts granulated fine sugar (table sugar), 2 parts instant coffee (thumb pressed through a metal tea sieve to break all clumps). Part measurement is a scoop cradle. This gives me exact mixture as Nestle 3-in-1 coffee mix.
It has been possible for a century to self-study to the equivalent of a bachelor's degree using textbooks but it is…

With the exception of a small percent of the population this isn’t true. Most people don’t have the ability, patience, wherewithal to self study a topic in depth. HN comments are littered with examples of educated people in one area making foolish comments in other areas with those people thinking they are actually making insightful comments. Without training most peoples’ capacity to understand why what they think they know is wrong when it is pointed out to them is quite low. The classroom is much better at transmitting how to think about a subject than reading a book or even watching a video lecture.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2021/...
As some one who has moved countries and the main language isn't Indo-European in nature as well non alphabetical I'll share a bit. I have studied said language over 10 years and have been speaking it daily for at least 10 years. I have a few mistakes that I make but no one ever corrects them. I asked friends and family here why they never did. The response, because you sound cute making those mistakes. I was taken back and since then I always ask a coworker or loved one to check any documents I write that need to be official because those cute mistakes don't help.
Read this thread:

"Ask HN: How to Recover Gmail Account"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33850676
A good documentary which describes the process is know as “Jurassic Park”.
you can't drop them, because all your stuff is Apple stuff and it most assuredly won't work with the "alternative" you imagine dropping them for.
The House is still under Democratic control until next month.
Google refused to change search results, 'hurt the feelings' of Hong Kong
here's a video that shows a machine at Berkeley lab that makes a high-performance magnet wire, not sure if it's related to this project but still pretty interesting to see how complex just the wire is- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmmNRaKpBTI&t=2138s
I think it'd be a YT engineer who thinks inductively-coupled 120V AC into an extremely low-impedance circuit over a few tens of feet would cause a problem, not an actual EE.
Anyone who was in college in the US between 2013-2016 will probably have at least heard of the app Yik Yak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak).

For those who weren't or haven't, it was a geofenced, anonymous message board app targeted to college students that became fairly popular over the first two years of its existence before gradually fading into obscurity and finally being shut down in 2017 (but as of 2021 was rebooted with pseudonymous accounts, IIRC). Users could see any messages within a certain radius (0.5 miles or so, I think) and messages could be upvoted and downvoted, and were sorted by their vote score. Messages with a score of -5 disappeared forever, and I think also eventually aged out.

Being a chaotic sophomore with some Android experience, I decided it would be fun to decompile the app and see how it worked. I discovered that each device was assigned an ID based on a timestamp, IMEI, and a few other pieces of information that could be easily spoofed, by calling a fixed HTTP endpoint to generate as many new IDs as I liked.

I generated ~500 or so IDs using some Java code, hardcoded them into a .class file, and added some hooks to intercept existing calls to set up the Android UI and add my own event listeners. From there I added a button to the app's menu bar with a radiation hazard icon that would use the generated IDs to nuke every message in range of the user, downvoting them all to -5 and causing them all to disappear instantly. I also added the ability to long-press the upvote and downvote buttons, which would bring up a dialog with a slider allowing the user to upvote or downvote any post up to 500 times, sending it to the top of the list (or downvoting it to oblivion). Finally, I rebuilt the app with my added .class file patch.

Needless to say, this was a source of great fun and mischief for my friends and I. The most entertaining event was attending a hackathon at our (much larger) rival university's campus, where we nuked every local post a few times a day for 72 hours and voted our own posts up 500 times.

It was fun to mess with for a few months or so. We never distributed the patched app, for obvious reasons, and we never used it for anything truly malicious beyond being a mild local nuisance denial-of-service.
He is a much bigger "prize" for the prosecution. She had low profile and not all that well known to the electorate. Plus, prosecuting her may not even look all that good, for identity politics reasons. If she cooperated first, there is a good chance of immunity or very low sentence.
Fusion will have plenty of NIMBY once the tritium leaks start. It doesn't take leaking a very large fraction of a DT plant's tritium to reach levels that already cause fission power plants PR problems.
How do decentralized exchanges convert USD to crypto and back again? Especially given all the legal compliance requirements. This seems impossible without a central service / legal entity.
He was being followed. The minute he boarded a boat the USCG would be enroute with a cutter to intradict and perform a thorough safety inspection in international waters, perfectly in line with their law enforement and maritime safety duties.
If you value your data, you use ZFS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Recor...

Honorable mention goes to the Swedes with the Saab Viggen who managed to get missile lock on the SR-71 as it cruised through a narrow corridor past their airspace. The Viggen wasn't fast enough on its own, but much like modern cannonball runs, careful planning and coordination made it possible.
Is this related to the preparedness paradox? /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox
A lot of the money that was lost came from institutions and some public funds as well. Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, BlackRock, Circle, Sequoia Capital, Binance, SoftBank,...

SBF is a crazy character, he somehow must have thought he was above it all. If he'd done what all these finance companies do, scamming the little man, he'd probably still be free. Alex Mashinsky yet has to be arrested for example. And people like Vladimir Tenev aren't even prosecuted, many of them get off with a slap on the wrist.
Of many sh!ty things WU/upgrading does, this is the most infuriating one.
Why on earth do MS want to be so hostile towards their users is beyond me.
I haven't recommended Windoze laptop to any of my friends-n-family since the downward spiral of Win8 or so.
How I built and launched a Twitter username checker in 3 days
This is my nightmare. This is why I refuse to use 2FA. (Except on services that require it, and I wish they didn't require it.)

Am I worried about getting hacked? Absolutely! But when I weigh the likelihood of (1) someone else getting into my account without 2FA and (2) locking myself out of my own account with 2FA, the latter seems much more likely!

I understand how backup codes work. I promise you I will loose them.
It uses the same tone that SBF uses when characterizing the situation as a complicate mixup instead of what it really is, deliberate fraud using customer funds to increase leverage.

If you want to compare tone, you can look up any NYT article on FB https://www.nytimes.com/topic/company/facebook-inc.

If you want something specific to compare, just take a look at the headline/subtitle which about as far as most people get in any article.
He can pleas the 5th to congress
No, the problem is that the AI is playing coy about certain questions. The AI clearly has an answer that it doesn't want to say, and this is revealed when you ask you it the same questions in a different way. It reads like a Monty Python sketch.
it was sampled in a whole bunch of tunes

code 718 - equinox - https://youtu.be/Ffal9nAd1Sg

MOTU - Do You Want Me (Disco Latino Mix) - https://youtu.be/QV02KvyNQb8

paperclip people (carl craig) - remake uno - https://youtu.be/BdSFKvnpu2Y
My dream would be mruby or full ruby in Godot. OMG that would be all my xmas's all at once
If I recall, the overhead of running a university (the fraction taken by the central institution to run campus and facilities, versus the amount coming into the schools to pay academics) is around two thirds of the student revenue in Australia.

Although that sounds large, it's not in corporate terms. Charging the customer 2.3 to 3 times an employee's salary seems about standard. And universities are notorious for casual using work to an underpaid "precariate".

That suggests there isn't a whole lot of margin for technology to capture in the first place.

After which, you find that degree-awarding is a regulated activity in most countries, offered by public institutions subsidised by government loan and contribution schemes.

Tech has had a massive influence on higher education in the last ten years, but it seems to go via universities buying more systems and services rather than "University of the Unregulated Start Up" suddenly sweeping the public-controlled market for education.
No, sadly there is a decidedly right-wing mind virus around how SBF is treated with kid gloves because he heavily donated to democrats.

Ignoring that he also donated to Republicans. This is all part of that narrative - substantiated or otherwise.
Are you suggesting buying a car without ever driving it? Or test driving at a dealership 1 and then purchasing at dealership 2?
You don't have to have been charged to have 5th ammendment rights or be able to exersize them. He could have pled the 5th and not said anything whether or not they already charged him, it doesn't change that.

(If they grant you immunity , so they can't charge you even in the future, that's the only thing that gets you out of being able to plead the fifth).
There was a post a while back around poor and homeless people encountering exactly this problem on a regular basis. Lots of people in the comments were incredibly dismissive and sometimes actively malign about it.

Edit: One suggestion from me would be to try and start the dead phone connected to power but with the battery physically removed (assuming it's removable). That might bypass whatever issue it's having and let it start up.