skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past students were not only for free speech, but actively fought for it. By contrast older individuals tended to be less supportive of such. Now those roles have largely swapped where age is, by far, the biggest predictor of somebody's position on freedom of speech (younger = less). And so the widespread censorship on college campuses is met with relatively little opposition.

If there's a protest related to speech on college campuses now a days it's more like to be calling for more censorship, or cancelling somebody who said something perceived as offensive, rather than opposition to such behaviors. Hence one of the many reasons confidence in higher education is collapsing. In my mind higher education with censorship is teetering on being an oxymoron.
https://www.policemag.com/patrol/news/15310860/half-of-surve...
Half of Survey's Very Liberal Respondents Believe 1,000 or More Unarmed Black Men Killed by Police in 2019
The Washington Post database says the number was 12. The Mapping Police Violence database say the number was 27.
I mean the whole BBC (nevermind ITV) archive, not Connections specifically which I've never heard of before now.

If they just put up everything they already made they could charge more than Netflix IMO. Instead, god knows why, it's a limited selection that too from which some missing episodes due to the usual 'woke' rewriting of history & present (racist or whatever-ist people exist right, so what's the problem with a show having such a character? Doesn't mean it's right, nor that the show itself is that-ist).
China Should Just Accept US Exceptionalism
I'm aghast! Everyone must RTO now! We're laying off 20%, and bonuses (if any) will now be paid in Amazon gift cards. We stand together in these difficult times.

Sincerely,

-CEO of V

-Board member of W

-Board member of Y

-Director of dishonest charitable foundation Z

*Reminder, I'll be out of the country 11/17 - 1/15, taking the entirety of our extended family to Bali. Love, peace, and prosperity to all!
According to [1], burning natural gas generates 0.0053 tons per therm. According to [2], the cost to reclaim CO2 from natural gas sources is approximately $90 per ton on the high end. Some quick math done on an old gas bill of mine suggests that reclamation would increase my bill by 40% (assuming that no reclamation is presently priced in).

So... If the article is correct, and electric energy costs 77% more than natural gas, then yes. Natural gas is still cheaper when factoring in emissions.

1 - https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gases-equivalencies-ca...

2 - https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2019.006...
From the perspective of an individual consumer it doesn't matter much. e.g. if you 100% rational (which is not necessarily the best approach) there is no additional cost for you related to you choosing to use gas regardless of what happens with the climate.
Didn't MatPat do a video on this on Food Theory?
.NET 5, .NET Standard, .NET Framework, .NET Core, ... now .NET 8. It's so confusing still.
As a noob who's still finding his way around, space to search menus looks great.

https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/35d3d525...
Vantablack is only limited to Anish Kapoor for artwork. This isn't artwork. However, it's also finicky to apply, so Black 4.0 is much easier.
Nice resource/archive of content

For some more anecdotes from HNers and related links see a recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927344
We didn't have a software patent.

>I might change my mind if I hear of (m)any cases where software patents actually turned out to be helpful. Have there been any instances where you got a (software) patent outcome you were actually happy with?

We lost because the jury found that we didn't infringe. Not because the patent was bad. I already explained that to you. What difference does it make whether or not we infringe to the validity of "software patents"? Which, btw, I explained we did not have a software patent.
It's more than that. And it's not just a "last 20 years thing", it probably goes back to the beginning of the 20th century, if not before.

There is a subtle selection bias going on. Like-minded people congregate together. A college professor will favor students who are agreeable to his politics, and will offer encouragement and extra effort. Those students are likely to go into academia themselves (and those who don't act as casual/amateur recruiters out in the private sector, to that university and even to the professor). Balances shift, glacially. At some point, it becomes perceptible enough that some students actively avoid those professors, programs, and universities. It's polarized (the polarization was noted decades ago, before our current mess).

The side that favors this process gives its biggest shit-eating grin, says that there is no such thing, and if there is, isn't it the other side's fault? The other side grumbles about how they're just indoctrinating kids (and you can find evidence of the grumbling going back at least through the 1960s, but picking up steam in the 1980s).

It's very real. It's not a good situation. It's not very "diverse". It leads to warped perception from both camps. One now thinks it is the champion of reason and logic, of science (and it's not). The other side grows to distrust those very same things (we'll all feel the damage from that, if it's not already happening).

And there isn't really any good fix to this.
>Hypothetically a battery of missiles on the moon could be launched without being noticed by anyone on earth.

If your opponent puts missiles on the moon, put observation satellites in lunar orbit.

Surely stealth nuke satellites in earth orbit would be better than fixed positions on the moon? But even nuke satellites are way worse than land based missiles.

A co-ordinated satelite strike from ow orbit means all you satellites need to go over your target at the same time. In an emergency unless you happen to have a bunch of sates by chance over your target, on average it actually takes longer to wait until a given satelite is over a target before you can launch, compared to using ground based missiles. You can compensate by having about 20x as many missile sats as you actually need, so there's always enough over your targets. In theory that gives a small advantage over land based missiles, but that's hugely wasteful.

Putting any of that on the moon just means your enemy has 3 days to figure out what you're doing, or means if you need an emergency response it will arrive in 3 days time.
I want to give you and OP a million upvotes.

I guess I can appreciate the OE hustle, but that's just a super minority of remote workers and we all know that one bad apple ruins the bunch. Most of us just want to earn a decent living and do some good work, same as always.

Beyond BI, check out news on LinkedIn. The latest i read was something like, "Is remote work more harmful to women getting ahead in the workplace?"

There's clearly an agenda out there and we need to be vigilant on calling the BS out.
Got it. Here’s hoping that this will be a continuation of the trend.
This has been my experience as well.

Every person I've noticed who says that ChatGPT isn't good at what it does has the same thing in common - they're not great at talking to people, either.

Turns out when you train an AI on the corpus of human knowledge, you have to actually talk to it like a human. Which entirely too many people visiting this website don't do effectively.

ChatGPT has allowed me to develop comprehensive training programs for our internal personnel, because I already have some knowledge of training and standardization from my time in the military, but I also have in-depth domain knowledge so I can double-check what it's recommending, then course correct it if necessary.
(That's a "yes". Blender 2.4 was an in-house gamedev asset authoring tool that was open sourced, Blender 2.8+ is very different and apparently pretty pro-level.
Yup. GIMP feels like it's being developed by a bored engineer in their spare time to play around with image editing algorithms. Blender feels like a professional workhorse you can build your whole business around.
Well indeed - but copy writers and artwork creators having to up their game is hardly an extinction level event.
>It's interesting that administration and spending has gone up at the same time funding has gone down.

It's because state funding has become a small fraction of total income for many universities. It sounds counter-intuitive but giving universities more money will not solve the cost problem. University spending is out of control
That's a really nice sentiment and I used to believe it, but going to college has disabused me of this boomer/gen x lie.
Can I get an explanation of the relationship between .NET and Mono?

I have vague memory of reading somewhere that Mono or maybe just MonoBuild was completely obsolete since everything was now open source in .NET.

Does Mono still have a reason to exist? Is it all incorporated into .NET now?

(btw, I still don't get why it's called .NET, and I don't know if assemblies are native code or bytecode wrapped in the same binary format as .exe, where is the ".NET for hardcore open source Linux nerds" blog post?)
Sure a research base, but we probably wont see colonies on mars for the same reasons we don't see colonies in antarctica.
”Genocide” does not mean simply killing, the full definition is broader that.

The definition includes

”genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
…
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;”

I.e. just eradicating a national identity from a group of people suffices. This is the main reason Ukraine can be considered a genocidal war, for example, to eradicate the Ukrainan state and identity.

Similarly it’s not implausible to view the reconstruction period as an attempt to do some culture- and state eradication in the slaver states.

Nobody is defending the horrors of slavery. But, state institutions were demolished, a specific cultural identity was attempted to be eradicated. I’ve never visited US south of Colorado but just by reading about it the feeling of genocide comes strong.

World is not black or white.

Was eradicating the institution of slavery right? Hell yes. Was it right to attempt a bit of genocide on the side? I have personally no frigging clue. I do know it took to 1960’s to complete the process of allowing full citizenship rights with civil rights movement so clearly some things had to settle for over a century.

To maintain rule based order we must be committed to view events via the same objective interpretation.

The same north-led US was pretty good in genociding the native american nations decades the civil war ended.

Just achieving one good thing (ending slavery) does not give a state free pass on all the other things.

We (as the western world) try to improve by admitting our failures and trying to do better. This requires first admitting fallibility, and naming things correctly.

The current zeitgeist tries to view the world via the infantile manichean lens of victimhood (of pure goodness) and oppression (pure evil).

This is a very narrow ethical model, and seldom applicable towars any beneficial goal.

Things are complicated. The same state that fought and bled to end slavery also committed multiple genocides during the same historical period.

Was reconstruction period an actual genocide? Probably not. Did it use the same methods one would use to implement change that can be categorized as genocide? I’m pretty sure, yes.

A point I would like to be argued: I guess it' fair to say that

From point of eradicating culture, melting Lee's statue would be comparable to melting a statue of Sitting Bull. Both are representatives of hostile nations towards US, both of which were eradicated.

But are there any arguments against this point of view?

[0] https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull
Like the other commenter said, you haven’t tried Apple silicon if you think all laptops suck.

My M1 MacBook Air is way faster than my iMac with i7 7700. And now M3 pro is probably faster than my desktop i9 10850k.
This is a bit bluntly stated, but I agree wholeheartedly. I am an introvert who enjoys social interaction occasionally, but it must be meaningful in order not to be a draining experience.

I have often felt like the nectar for a hungry extravert to feed on, and when they are done with me, it turns out they never actually cared about ~me~; they just needed to feed on the social interaction with me to gain energy for themselves. I was just a means to an end for them.

As an introvert who craves meaningful connection, I have found myself being used and drained by extraverts countless times. I am as a consequence very wary of them.
I can't speak for this particular editor, but Visual Studio once shipped with a mode for C# I think it was, that was like a neon light show. It was unbearable. Also SSMS it has full-on intellisense or nothing at all, and having it on; it just gets in the way. It's like MS only know "my way or the highway".

I realise this is tangential to the subject but I think it bears repeating: respect the user.
It’s passion industry wages similar to working on special effects in Hollywood. These industries of course take advantage as much as they’re able. A lot of the pay is measured in “cool job” units.
My electricity is 99% green (wind + solar).
Variable number of arguments is a keyword, params. I don't believe there's any 3 dot operator in C#. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
You and I clearly live in different neighborhoods. The trees planted in the sidewalk of what is otherwise my concrete jungle does not constitute "nature" by any stretch of the imagination -- not any more than my indoor plants do. And the number of birds and squirrels is roughly zero -- I've got to walk half an hour to a park for any of those.

I love walking around my neighborhood but it's exercise and walking -- it's certainly not nature. Don't confuse the two.
Oh yeah, sure my friend. You're going to implement

* text entry (right to left as well as left to right)
* file browser
* treeviews that scale to 50k nodes or 10x that
* menus

in GL in a month. Not believable.
You might like to know that RCX has a new, maintained fork in RoundSync [0].

If you're just running it as a local webdav server, you can just stick with the current version. But if you also use it for the more typical rclone tasks (keeping cloud storage synchronised), RoundSync is updated and fixes some things that were missing in RCX, like cronjobs.

[0] https://github.com/newhinton/Round-Sync
You can also upload pdfs to it
> Because most people are content with using Adonis' Edge templating with something like Alpine for sprinkling in interactivity, or using Vue.

I'm not talking about adding client-side interactivity though. Read my comments again.

> I think now you're just starting to move the goalposts.

I think you're not really reading my comments.

Obviously no solution will solve everything 100%. That's not even an argument.
Since this article inexplicably doesn't link to the source material

https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2023/11/14/active-adversary-fo...
Athletic, insect-scale long jumping robots reach where others can't
Will it cause something like snow blindness if I look at it?
I read this book recently: https://www.amazon.com/Anomaly-Novel-Herv%C3%A9-Tellier/dp/1... - don't want to give away too much (that's why I'm not linking to the Wikipedia article), but it fits the genre you are proposing - except spanning the entire world, not just a town.
> With a heat pump, at best it will be comparable.

Would it?

e.g. according to https://c03.apogee.net/mvc/home/hes/land/el?utilityname=ure&... unless you live in area with extremely expensive gas and very cheap electricity it will always be cheaper.
Yes. These administrators are not teaching classes, they are not marking papers/exams.
It's not unlike the Soviet Commissariat. They exist to enforce a political ideology, not do anything productive in reality.
Depends on the concert goer, really. At this particular time in my life, I'm not really interested in the spectacle so much as the love of the music, so the "it's a party" doesn't have the same appeal for me.

I'd rather see someone like Colin Hay play an acoustic set in a small venue where I can sit and have a whiskey than a big stadium thingy from a band that I like but don't love. The Cure have the full package, for me: The spectacle, the amazing sound live, and their music really resonates with me in a way that U2 doesn't.

I did see U2 on the Joshua Tree anniversary tour - and it was a great spectacle. My wife, who loves them, was over the moon. I was moderately entertained. Would've been a huge waste of money if I'd gone solo, but it was worth it because she loved it.
Sure, but condensing boilers are already 90% efficient. The difference will likely be lost in electricity transmission.
I remember reading the prices in InQuest back in 1995 and thinking $200 is kinda steep for a beta Black Lotus.
That looks remarkably like the current UK spending allocation. But the detail matters.
Either the snippet has a bug, or he changed his mind and removed it, but it’s not working.
> Person who sells snake oil speculates that snake oil cures cancer.
I will start reading about it here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-dotnet-asp...
I use AC because I am hot, electricity for AC generates CO2 as a bi product, everyone gets hotter?
Vulkan is a drawing API, not a GUI toolkit.
It didn't play a major role, the WSJ made it up due to bad accounting and journalism.

Here is the summary: https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1717210060777009636

- WSJ journalists (Angus Berwick & Ian Talley) write a flurry of articles citing Elliptic data claiming that PIJ (Hamas affiliate) raised $93m in crypto (and cites BitOK claiming Hamas raised $41m) [1]

- Sen Warren uses this article to claim that Hamas raised "over $130m" in crypto. This article is her SOLE citation in her letter. The entire letter depends on the WSJ article [2]

- Over 100 member of Congress sign the letter, which asks for the Biden admin to further crack down on crypto

- Chainalysis comes out with an article disputing the WSJ claims, saying that instead of $82m of terror financing, the real figure is around $450k. It's unclear which wallets they are referring to. Either way, it looks like the WSJ analysis is vastly overstated [3]

- WSJ refuses to follow up or retract, instead writing more articles relying on their claims

[1] https://archive.ph/hdcWc

[2] https://warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023.10.17%20Letter%...

[3] https://chainalysis.com/blog/cryptocurrency-terrorism-financ...
I also went to university 20 years ago, and don't really remember challenging professors or other classmates. You largely showed up to the huge lectures, turned in your solved problems, and took exams. The oddest experience I remember having was that we used US units in the thermodynamics class, which was a first for me (high school science was all metric). I also paid $750/semester because it was a state school and I was a resident.

I really don't understand what people think goes on at universities. Sure, some students in their personal time have controversial takes on things. The vast majority of students are just doing their coursework, though. (And things are probably different if you are going for a more liberal arts-y education instead of a state-school engineering degree.)
Ah! I read it as "DOES" as in 'do', not "more than one DOE"

Thanks for clearing that up
This whole thread is wild.
This is essentially the conclusion the author comes to at the end of the piece
Do androids dream of electric sheep?

"First there was the dream, now there is reality. Here in the untainted cradle of the heavens will be created a new super race, a race of perfect physical specimens. You have been selected as its progenitors. Like gods, your offspring will return to Earth and shape it in their image. You have all served in public capacties in my terrestrial empire. Your seed, like yourselves, will pay deference to the ultimate dynasty which I alone have created. From their first day on Earth they will be able to look up and know that there is law and order in the heavens."

:)
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I'm in the UK. Looking at my bill, per kWh electricity is 3x more expensive than gas:

electricity: 30.823p

gas: 9.756p

It's much cheaper to heat my house with gas.
Oh yes, I've heard about TerminusDB, but completely forgot, that it exists. Thanks :)
I don't think that's true. The quote says "Republicans registered concern about politics in higher education" and then the post says "I think both parties are right" and then describes "a campaign of political and social indoctrination, and censorship of contrarian views" in parallel construction to the left concern that the "cost of a university education has skyrocketed."

This very clearly talking about conservatives being concerned about left wing political indoctrination on campus. I think that this is blown wildly out of proportion.
If you're doing any new work as of the past 3 years, it's just .NET. It's really not that confusing unless you're updating legacy software in which case you're probably quite embedded in the ecosystem already.
This is the saddest thing I have read in a while.
Please tell me ChatGPT, too, generated the title
I think in general it is corruption. That's what 99% of lobbying is. Rare exceptions don't change that.
KDE is the pretty terrible in terms of consistency. Because it tries to support every variation of workflow it always felt like it was really lacking in UX. Ive tried several times to get it but I usually fall back to Gnome. Even if I don't agree with every decision and lack of customization at least it feels like there's some vision in how it should be used.
Even at home, we've switched to the "digital kiosk" strategy.

I'd put it this way: it is easier for a person who is preparing something to cross things off a digital list, than do things any other way.

So for example, if we need something from the supermarket, don't tell me. Tell Alexa. Then when I'm in the supermarket, I'll access the list and buy what's on there.

The digital version never forgets, and if the person making the request is entering it themselves, it's never wrong. So it's the best choice, really. Everything else isn't quite as good.
You probably want to host that sort of content yourself. If your only backup is on Google's server, you have to prepare for a reality where they get rid of it.
The price of crypto isn’t the same in every jurisdiction due to restrictions on capital flows. If the price of crypto is lower in a jurisdiction, then crypto generating activities such as mining or freelancing become more profitable. If the price is higher inside the jurisdiction, then smugglers are incentivized to sell goods for crypto. These activities will find a balance within the jurisdiction.

I don’t know enough about the Gaza crypto market to know which state it’s in. But generally, if people are desperate they will try to earn crypto online, and if smugglers can’t get cash out they’ll prefer crypto.
I believe this post covers the most common use case of Twitch, which is live streaming. You don't want to be a minute behind the video when chat is live.
meson actually solves this problem on the build system, their wrap subsystem allows you to use the system provided lib if found, or fetch from a database during the build process if not.

best of both worlds, imo.
You still need quality labs to run experiments for engineering and science programs at a bachelor level education.
That could be.

Personally, I detest using digital kiosks and strongly prefer placing my order with a human, even if your examples happen.

I stopped going to a sandwich shop I used to visit nearly every workday because they switched to a kiosk to place your sandwich order.