skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except, you know, the top tier research labs with the most talented minds working in them. That absolutely has value. Is it worth the money that you are paying for your diploma - I don't know.

The denigration of our best technical programs to say they don't have that much value above and beyond networking benefits really undermines some of the core values of our educational institutions.
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Aren't earthquakes super common in Iceland? Or am I wrong on that?
Let's be honest here, all OS do
Sorry - I wasn't intending to be negative, but making a quip about how arch users love to tell everyone about it. I've got Arch in use on a couple of machines (Steam Deck being my favourite, though I strictly use that just for games) and it's one of my favourite flavours of Linux. The best part of Arch is the wiki which has quality information on a lot of Linux tools - it's useful for all Linux wranglers (maybe not your mum unless she likes reading documentation).
The picture, where it looks white and not like a mirror.
I agree with you to a point. In my small realm WordPress is the thing behind it, and simple search spam can just bring the app to its knees because of the horrible indexing WP has, even with plugins like Elastic. If you have control of the app it's a whole new ball game and then like others have said, the WAF is there to replace your own poor practices.
Dumping more money into college is like dumping more raw garbage onto your kitchen floor and complaining that it didn't solve the rat problem.

The problem with higher education is that the trough of unaccountable money is bottomless, and it attracts grifters, ideologues, lazy bureaucrats, and all other types of useless drains on society. None of the major problems in higher education are something you can pay to make go away.
> Android applications there is also to download an .apk from the internet and install it manually.

This is how I do it in the US whenever possible, too.
Good article. Says they're already using some solutions that have been raised in these comments, like recovering (some of) the water used and moving some cargo by rail (to meet weight limits).
It is good to see, I would hope that Apple sues them and instead of winning get a big antitrust fine.
United Nations?
The political aspect is obviously not true relative to the past.

The post WW, Cold War era was marked by the federal government, senators and intelligence agencies literally maintaining lists of “communists” that were blackballed almost entirely.

Oppenheimer was released only recently, a movie which is all about how a tenuous communist connection led to the demise of the career of among the most famous scientists in WW2.

Students were famously killed for protests in Berkeley just a few decades ago.

And it’s only been a few decades that anyone but a white man was even allowed on campus.

The idea that speech on campus is anyways more restricted than it has been in the past is ridiculous on its face.

The idea that speech on campus is censored any more than in the past is very clearly not true. What might have changed is either the groups of people whose speech is curtailed has changed slightly, but more likely, you tend to hear a lot more about it because of social media.
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Looks like replicate is perfect. Will look into it. Thanks!
The biggest example I can think of is Fermat's Last Theorem. Uncounted mathematicians devoted years of their lives to the theorem, and the developments they made along the way may have some applications. But I have yet to hear of any physical truths derived from the fact that a^n + b^n != c^n for n > 2. Most math is like this - beautiful, and useless.

The motivation of most non-applied mathematicians is aesthetic, much like the motivation of someone in the arts. It's done for its own sake ("mathematical beauty"), not because it has any practical application.

Mathematics might turn out to be "useful" more often than the average novel - but that doesn't mean the math was done with any use in mind. For example many developments in differential geometry made in the 19th century were inapplicable to anything physical for decades until Einstein applied them to create general relativity. Plenty of math becomes useful long after its development, and plenty more never finds any practical application.
> For one thing, the definition of “using electricity to heat their homes” used by the federal energy office appears to mean the use of electrical resistance baseboard heating versus natural gas heated-air furnaces.
FX is the largest market in the world. It's about 30x global GDP.

If BTC can take 1% of the FX market its value would be $1.5M, each.
As the price of btc rises it becomes less volatile, which makes it more attractive for large transactions. Btc transactions settle without active third party involvement or approval.

Btc, in particular, should be very attractive for International settlements in the future. That's why the OECD wants a piece.
This article was Sponsored by WhatTheFrack Drilling Company.

Fracking/Natural Gas follows the same playbook as big Tobacco, they hire experts and sponsor all kinds of studies that align with what they want people to believe.

The main cost here seems to be the energy monopolies, not the method of heating.
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I think the people concerned about the price of college are basing their opinions on actual contact with the educational system: they generally have kids and paying for education is a serious challenge most families face. I wonder how many of the “college is politically intolerant” opinions are based on actual student dissatisfaction, and how much of that is based on sensational news reporting? (The same news reporting that has half of America convinced that you’ll be cut down by gunfire five minutes after arriving in any American city.)

My experience from having conservative friends with kids in college is that the kids are mostly concerned with work and having a good time, and the parents are mostly concerned that their kids will develop bad thought patterns.
You tune an existing model on your own set of inputs/outputs.

Whatever you expect to start typing, and have the model produce as output, should be those input/output pairs.

I'd start by using ChatGPT etc. to add comments throughout your code base describing the code. Then break it into pairs where the input is the prefacing comment, and the output is the code that follows. Create about 400-500 such pairs, and train a model with 3-4 epochs.

Some concerns: you're going to get output that looks like your existing codebase, so if it's crap, you'll create a function which can produce crap from comments. :-)
Exactly. I'd much rather wait a minute and buffer more video at reasonable resolution and bitrate, rather than switching to something unwatchable.
On that specific example, I have a drugstore near my home that I go to regularly for miscellaneous things. There are one or two humans at checkouts, and two self checkouts. The self checkout is almost always (with the only exception being someone who hasn't used the machine before) much faster. I'm talking like half or a third the time to use.

Same with the grocery stores near me. Nothing wrong with the cashiers, but it's just so much faster to checkout for myself. I've found the same at restaurants as well. I get full exploration of the options at a kiosk, kind of like the benefits of a GUI vs TUI interface. The menu rarely has all the options (at least around me).
Haha yes, was an issue with a rate limit on the Github API, should be fixed now! Didn't expect this amount of traffic :) Docs were built with Mintlify and the links to the repos in the docs will work once you have accepted the invite (after making a purchase).
I’ll take a good linear algebra professor over an excellent linear algebra professor and crippling debts
I have always wondered why they don't use techniques from survival analysis to be able to draw conclusions even from sets with lower failure rates. Or for that matter to avoid slight bias even for drives they do report.
I would recommend community college to smart kids without direction. It’s a great place to explore subjects without going into debt.
> Even a short and simple conversation can make you feel good.

I think when people prefer to use a digital kiosk, it's sometimes because they have had negative experiences of conversations with service staff. For example, a staff member might give you a funny look if you order something weird, hurry you along if you're pausing a lot, or force you to say "no" when they offer extras. I know that's where my mind goes! Of course short conversations can - and often do - make you feel good, we as humans are not great at focusing on that.
the report is from the US Energy Information Administration
> But isn't the bloat of electron which enables the greatest benefit of VS Code? By which I mean the plugins with their wide range of abilities and UI-integrations.

Maybe for some users. I'm sparing with extensions because I find them hard to vet; I checked and I'm only using clangd and prettier right now. But I don't think Electron is required in order to have rich extensions - just see Vim/Neovim, Emacs, or any IDE.

> Sublime has LSP since a while now.

My bad then. I thought sublime's LSP support came from a third party package.
Most people don't really have a choice to switch to gas from electricity: it either runs to your home or it doesn't. Even having stored natural gas requires a yard, so good luck if you live in that high density housing everyone wants more of. On the other hand, people with natural gas could switch to electricity if they wanted to, and if they had a large pile of money sitting around and felt compelled to spend all of it and get a little bit of it back on their heating bill. What I'm saying is that this is an argument that people who write building codes should be having, it has almost nothing to do with homeowners.
Yeah there's lot's of people in this thread who didn't read the full article and the conclusion the Author comes to.
I think the misunderstanding here is that there is no campaign of 'indoctrination' -- rather both are caused by the same phenomenon.

As universities increasingly operate like businesses, their administrations create business cultures -- stage-managed PR, no 'offense', etc.

The issue in both cases is that universities are supposed to operate outside usual market forces and be run for the sake of inquiry, to the (very long run) benefit of society.

There's a lot of irony in right wing people decrying allegedly 'left wing' campus policies which are none other than the symptom of applications of a right wing economic agenda.

Such is the irony always here with market solutions proffered by people with values: market mechanisms do not operate on values; and without regulatory floors, tend to dispense with them rapidly.

This is what has happened to universities over the last decade: the throwing away of high-risk, low-(market)-reward institutional values
First two years in community college, transfer to state university is by far the best return on investment. In part because some kids after two years of college decide it's not for them.
Robbery is by definition violent
I feel like this article is best summed up as "Owning a car no longer adds up for people who don't really drive anywhere."

I'd even go so far as to say that's always been true.
According to paragraphs 5-7, closed source software is magically free of bugs and bad random number generators. lol
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It seems a little crass to say "it felt like a genocide" considering the horrors of slavery. Similar thoughts regarding erasure from history, given the amount of controversy around whether or not schools should be able to discuss the horrors of slavery.
why not solar panels?
That implements the requirements of international copyright treaties.
There must be some “law of bureaucratic empire building” that discusses the inevitable headcount bloat caused by no accountability and ever increasing budgets.
Blender only became successful well after it was made open source.

As a commercial project it was a failure. It only became successful due to two decades of open-source development, and the willingness of its users to invest in it - even if only to stimulate the development of a competitor to expensive proprietary software.

Blender only became an even remotely viable option in 2011, after being open-source for 9 years. Its popularity only really started in 2019 after a massive UI rework made it actually nice to use. This and related changes led to Blender receiving a $1.2M grant in 2019, leading to other companies re-evaluating it and awarding even more grants.

If anything, compared to today's successes its initial proprietary development should be seen as nothing more than a historical curiosity.
There it is, the 9th and 10th paragraph:

> One issue in the debate is that "electrification" doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone. For one thing, the definition of “using electricity to heat their homes” used by the federal energy office appears to mean the use of electrical resistance baseboard heating versus natural gas heated-air furnaces.

> But, in the Energize Denver initiative, city officials are talking about heat pumps versus gas furnaces, which means a different set of cost calculations.

This writer knows which headline to write to get clicks. Now it'll circulate on everywhere people think heat pumps and electrification are scams to make people dependent on big companies and the government. Great work, Scott Weiser.
Anyone who has electric heaters in the UK knows that well. When at some point gas prices went up by 350% and electricity by 200% I compared by heating bill with someone who had has heating. I was paying ~£400 per month between November-February, they were paying ~£40. We had electric shower, they had a gas boiler. I should not this wasn't completely fair, as my bills includes also 2 laptops and a TV.
> they have brainwashed the youth into thinking

they brainwashed parents of the youth, they hold the purse strings
Granted, it looks likely the Nord Stream pipeline attack was coordinated by the Ukrainian military

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/11/11/...
Unfortunately Backblaze requires[1] you to provide them this private key to restore.

[1] https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038171794-Wh...
In radio, talking over the start of a song and ending right when the lyrics kick in is called "hitting the post" and sometimes it's done without prewritten copy, just winging it.

It's just a skill you can practice and some people get quite good at it.

One difference with this is if you miss the lyrics, you can just try again next time. There's a new song every few minutes.

There was only ever one launch of Voyager 2.
For having tried to install a Linux distribution on other switches with Broadcom ASIC I can tell you that having some kinds of drivers, free to use by anyone, without the need to sign an NDA, is incredible !

Thank you Mellanox. Really.
https://archive.org/details/ConnectionsByJamesBurke

Also available on YouTube and torrents.
I've been selling dev tools and libraries for decades, and all of that exists (it exists with non-dev customers as well), but none of it is so awful that it makes addressing that market undesirable.
I talk to strangers all the time. I'm from abroad and agree that it's a pity here in the Netherlands that it's not more common or accepted.

But I still prefer digital kiosks. It gives me more time to go over the menu and compare the prices of different combinations, discover more options, and I can give more exact instructions about how I need it to be prepared etc.

Talking to strangers is fantastic but the meaningful difference between given your Big Mac order to a human rather than a screen is minimal.
Are you saying the bloated administration in a symptom of the political and social indoctrination going on in Universities? That's interesting. Can you elaborate?
> and don’t require any fancy equipment or laboratory to complete

Not everyone gets a CS or math degree.

For things like ME/EE/Civil Eng, equipment absolutely matters. And they aren't cheap.
While that is pretty huge, its not that bad IMO.

Its not an order of magnitude higher. If I had the option to eat lab grown meat for 77 percent more, I'd take that in the blink of an eye.

With my income, I can afford this. I even imagine most families could afford this. They might not like having to cut from their luxury budgets(drugs/gambling/live events/prepared food), but its not like this would be impossible to pay for.
Take a look at nix-shell scripts. Much simpler, lightweight and faster alternative to Docker and friends for being able to build a project forever. Start of a build script from a C project of mine:

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#! nix-shell -i fish --pure
#! nix-shell -I https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/4ecab3273592f27479a583fb6d975d4aba3486fe.tar.gz
#! nix-shell --packages fish gcc gnumake gmp git cacert
...build script goes here...

-i fish: I am using fish shell.

--pure: Environment is as pure as it can reasonably get.

--packages: Packages from nixpkgs to be made available in the environment.

-I <github_commit_hash>: pinned to a specific git commit of nixpkgs. This script will give you the exact same environment with the exact same packages with exact same dependencies forever.

You can drop into a shell with the exact same configuration by using the cli command nix-shell with the same options.

Admittedly this is not as declarative as using flakes, since it's a script, but hey, I'm lazy, still didn't sit down to learn them once and for all.

Reference: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/nix-shell
Similar allegations were removed from r/privacy as fake news: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/17st6yu/tutanota_i...
Whenever you see some small content creator complaining about people stealing their videos and such, they never actually file a DMCA to get relief, they just use youtube's bogus form and then complain when nothing happens.
The EPA estimates lead pipes serviced 9.2 million homes with water in 2021. That's closer to 10% of the country.

https://www.edf.org/health/lead-pipes-threat-kids-across-ame....
I've been using GitHub Projects lately

1 classic project for my check lists. The cards are open and I use check boxes to check them off as I perform them.

1 non-classic project for my tasks. I create a title only card and added a 'status 2' type (25%, 50%, 75%, complete, waiting, staged) and another field for the type of work (Paperwork, maintenance, project a, project b)

I'm also using Microsoft Sticky Notes to track pending work.

(I haven't found anything I like yet)
> the black alternative for winter.

Vantablack maybe?

Though, you'd probably need good connections in the US DoD to arrange it. ;)
Ouch! Hot!
Education is just indoctrination which we consider useful.
You’re not supposed to heat with electric heaters like it’s 1930. You’re supposed to use heat pumps, aka AC units.
"I don't want to be micromanaged but, if I can get off with having two jobs, it's my manager's fault because they're an idiot who doesn't keep a close enough eye on me."
Most of this is technically true but not really relevant, and no, this is not what makes it stand out.

Very little of what constitutes modern Blender came from NeoGeo/NaN. The original software was uncompetitive and unremarkable. In fact, Blender had to change most of its original UI conventions to feel less alien for CGI professionals. (because the original paradigm was from the ancient times before the commonplace UI conventions)

What made it stand out in the open-source community is devs using it for actually creating something (best investment!), positioning it at the intersection of interests of non-competing companies that need to get shit done, and also attracting a massive army of game modders.
Did you file the counter notices that force them to put the content back up?
Musk is collaborating with fascists. Here’s an example: https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-speak-russian-conference-17...
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xEFO1sQ2bUc
Only if you have access to end user.

If between you and your client four people are playing deaf phone (client's project manager, our project manager, team leader and some random product guy just to get even numer), then actually this is not what you are doing.

I would argue that the thing that happens at this stage is more akin to manually transpiling business logic into code.

In this kind od organization programmers become computer whisperers. And this is why there is a slight chance that GPT-6 or 7 will take their job.
A lot of the complaints about cancel culture actually come from the ability to challenge one’s lecturers.
That's true unless it gets really cold, where heat pumps become almost completely useless. In many parts of the US, heat pumps have to be augmented by the installation of emergency resistance heating elements. In the conditions where those system have to operate, they are less effective than gas and extremely expensive to run.
Tell that to the 1500 new built flats they developed since 1995 in my area. All come with 9k-14k Watts storage heaters.
I continue to be a little confused by the distinction between Google, Google Research and DeepMind. Google Research, had made this announcement about 24-hour forecasting just 2 weeks ago:
https://blog.research.google/2023/11/metnet-3-state-of-art-n... (which is also mentioned in the GraphCast announcement from today)
It's literally the playbook of every single business. Database vendors and graphics card manufacturers tout studies that show their product performs better. Pharmaceutical companies pay researchers who conduct studies that show their stuff works. If Safeway wants a zoning variance to open a new store, they will pay for an environmental impact study that says it's fine.

I'm not saying this to convince you should trust this study. But I think it's important to recognize it's absolutely happening everywhere, not just in the industries we don't like. Most of the research we read was paid for, and an overwhelming majority of it reaches the conclusion that aligns with the views of the researchers or of whoever is footing the bill.
They hired a lot of admins because that’s how they make money?

If you’re President heading a department of 10,000 vs a department of 5,000 it’s much easier to justify doubling your salary relative to what you were earning just a few years ago even in what has historically been a very low inflation period.
The average published novel hardly sells (couple of hundred copies on average), so if you write for the sake of a big audience, novels are not the thing to write - in that case aim for articles in a well read paper or magazine.

Selling even reasonably well takes a mix of persistency (building an audience over multiple works), talent, hard work promoting it yourself, and luck.
> Variance in quality of professors is huge.

But are relatively independent of rank of institution (some would say inversely correlated).

I went to a mediocre state school (definitely not in top 100), and a top 3 grad school. By and large, the mediocre school's professors cared more about teaching and put more effort into it.
Prove it…
Did you know that a heat pump can generate 4 times as much heat per unit energy than an electric heater?