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>Feds don't prosecute the stuff their own tribe is involved in

I get it. The world is complex, and grouping helps make it more manageable. However, in no way are the "Feds," part of the same tribe, especially in 2023.

>All such schools are hotbeds for govt spies, other folks.

Maybe recruitment? I'm not familiar with the curriculum at USC. Seems like you'd get them when they finished their degrees, unless they offer "wetwork" as an elective.

>They use the same techniques that this neuroscientist uses.

Disagree. Whatever tribe or faction these people you describe belong to, they are definitely not publishing papers. They'd be administrators. They are not involved in prosecuting academic malfeasance, and certainly the prosecution, is not taking advice from retired government employees. He/she/they have their own careers to consider!
claiming to do != do
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Come now, the charitable interpretation is that the OP is not considering dictatorship as the alternative to democracy.
@RandomLensman - would be very interested to speak with you. I work with some folks in Ukraine to support defensive tech. chris at ukrainedefensefund dot org
That, and what GP describes, is what I see as the overall trend of the market to hollow out the middle. It's not just about technology (though it plays a big role), as all optimization coming from competitive pressure - materials, processes, business models, marketing.

What seems to universally happen is, the market bifurcates - one part is in a race to the bottom, the other (much smaller) aims for super premium tier (overpriced quality), because only those two positions are sustainable, once the race-to-the-bottom side drags all the economies of scale with it. So as a consumer, you get to chose between cheap low-quality garbage that's barely fit for purpose, and rare, super-expensive, professional/elite high-end products. There is no option for "good value for reasonable price".

This has been happening to everything - software, furniture, construction, electronics, vehicles, food, you name it.
He’s being sarcastic
tl;dr: it’s a real problem; it’s also one we can transcend and grades themselves and accompanying resentment are the biggest problems ime

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If you find this upsetting, I would recommend taking a moment to consider how cruel grades can be. Yes, celebrating excellence is a lovely thing. But until college, one’s life is not fully self-determined. Many bright and gifted individuals do not experience the love and gift of learning and developing the intellect; but come to be oppressed by it; feeling they must put up with it just to get to the next stage when they may finally find freedom — my current working definition of authentic ‘freedom’ being ‘loving what one is doing, being loved by others for it, and having ones needs met lovingly’.

At Yale, a rare few have this kind of ‘freedom’ already — they love what they’re studying, excel at it, and have peers, mentors, or lecturers that enjoy them. And they get great grades; sometimes they are valedictorian and they compose some of Phi Beta Kappa.

On the other end of the spectrum, there are those with exceptional potential; yet were not offered freedom — namely, they were asked to learn and engage in things from mean or unfair parents, teachers, and peers. One can find themselves stuck in this realm without escape, in part on account of the lack self-determination one has before they leave the home.

Achieving this level of freedom, once one realizes they don’t possess it — which itself can be a difficult journey; let alone then doing what it takes to free oneself — to engage in life primarily with love for what one is doing, to be loved by others for what one is doing, and have all of one’s needs met is yet a more demanding, yet tenable journey; but is very personal and there may be no guides, though there are helpers (eg for some, those who ask questions like “what brings you alive and those around you alive?” or “how can you do what others love of you in a way that you, too, love?” — and encouraging you to not give up on attempting the search for an answer for oneself and to encourage you to take care of yourself so you have the time and space and enough love to continue on the journey, its attended contemplations and experiments).

Anger at grade inflation, though, strikes me as like begrudging a prisoner that was next to you in a chain gang; being angry and upset with them — which is reasonable to a degree if they take their freedom and don’t live ‘freely’ (ie seeking to oppress others for their benefit — which except for the rare sociopath is wildly unpleasant, as attractive as the money or other benefits it comes with can look; which is not to say money is bad). As opposed to directing one’s resentment to those who are binding them; and then finding a way to transcend all that bullshit and to truly be free.
Iran has also rebuilt its own mosques with Persian design cues. In fact there is no single Islamic style anymore.

At one time mosques were like outposts that advertised the religion so they had to be built to be identifiable to strangers and mosques everywhere had a largely Arab design language. But given that these mosques were quickly erected they often needed repair and the differences in climate, culture and available building materials as well as advancing knowledge of construction techniques meant that parts of the mosque were modified.

There are only two structures in Islam that can't be modified, everything else just needs to serve the function of hosting a large group of people in accordance with local safety regulations. Yes, really. That's it. Most mosques are formerly abandoned buildings that look like warehouses. The holiest site in Islam is a simple cube. There is no specific shape or pattern you need to use to call it a mosque.

FT has been on a crusade to divide Muslims and the Chinese for a while now which is why they are upset about the shape of mosques in China but okay with Muslims dying everywhere else, this article is terrible even by their very low standards. These are all completely valid mosques.
That's a separate point (and we'd be largely in agreement, I suspect).

In fact, I'm sure you've noticed the heaps of government-funded software trash.
I don't completely agree here, but there is some merit to what you are saying with regards to honing on some social cues, gossip, candor, etc. However, I'd still take being in the dark on some of this stuff in exchange for all the benefits of working from home.
Sure, and whenever Warren Buffet gives a speech to 1000 college students, the average wealth of every person in the auditorium briefly jumps to millionaire-level, until Buffet leaves the room.
Yeah I've got a WordPress blog I self host as well. Having seen how well it's matured I wish I'd picked it back in 2003-4 when I switched.
I've also had a good play with Hugo which I absolutely love. I tried to export my Drupal site to it, but all my old shortlinks broke and it doesn't support making some posts private and available to only some people etc.
So in the end I've stuck with Drupal, I know most of its warts. The key thing is not to use many 3rd party modules, because often they will hold you back from upgrading to the next release until they are upgraded, if they ever are. Now I stick with mostly core modules except for a few I need for other features I require (mostly making some posts needing you to be logged in to view)
I'm not sure this is "more affordable" in total, it's just more affordable per projectile. It's a lot like a 5" gun on a destroyer. If you ignore the cost of the ship, it's about $1,200 per shot. A bargain compared to a Tomahawk or SM3.
Peeks at paper.

They immediately misspell Tom Fulp.
Radiation weapons don't have to radiate visible light - we could pick any practical wavelength
I'd say that using floats to make columns and rows in layouts was way worse hack.
Not to mention we already tried this "weaker EU" model and it failed horribly.
Brake lines are a solved problem. Water lines wouldn't be any more difficult. If air cooled it could be a sealed unit.
Coming from Go, I got used to :=. I would’ve preferred if it defaulted to const though
Not sure how someone can write an article on the shift towards more conservative politics and fail to mention that the individual income tax rate for the middle class in the Netherlands ($75k+) is nearly 50% now. And that's just the income tax. I'm sure that has something to do with the shift.
If we want to tackle societal harms then perhaps gambling is a better starting point?

I also think the idea that society steps in to prevent people getting hooked on drugs is hilariously naive.
I was going to say that isn't my experience, but then I realized I haven't dealt with sending a resume into the void, that while I send in a resume, i've always landed my next gig through my network.

Building a network is absolutely key, people who enjoy working with you remember you and at some point you just become set
Very true I have been working with a webdev company that only makes sites in Drupal and it was very nice how fast they could implement things but the updates were lengthy and often took way more hours than any small version jump upgrade should take.

And because of the release cycles it's hard (or expensive) to keep a site running for 10+ years. In the end we opted for a plugin called "tome" that would just render the page as a static site and we'd just push the HTML files
Hat tip to The Morning News (https://themorningnews.org/) for putting Neglected Books on my radar!
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I'm not really sure what the point is here, especially when +/- 500 enrolled is the only separator (actual enrollment, professor, section and scheduling are just a few other factors that I imagine would affect final grade).

Nonetheless, it makes sense that less objective learning is graded on level of effort and exploration, instead of correctness. And that effort would be more inherent in students seeking out niche courses where they want to...wait for it... explore something fuzzy and interesting.

Of course there are students looking to mail it in, but in my experience those students are looking for the lazy professors and charitable TAs for the courses that fulfill the foundational degree requirements outside of their major (this is just as true for Eng students who need a writing credit, for example, as it is for English majors who need a quant credit).

Most interestingly, if a gender studies course was graded more objectively, I'm guessing there would be push back for excluding any opinions outside of the defined parameters of success. It's a lose-lose situation that devalues gender studies but I feel that's for the customers (students, alumni, major donors) to decide.
I don't think we know how small of an effect gravity can have over a large distance. Is there a lower Planck-like limit?
It means there's one node in that chassis, eg here's a 2U4N product: https://www.servethehome.com/dell-emc-poweredge-c6525-review...
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That was exactly my question when I read that quote too.

Everything is temporary on a large enough scale and everyone w/i that golden era also thought it would last and that belief is part of why it didn't.

Humans will never build anything that truly lasts for a very simple reason. The lessons learned get forgotten after 2 generations (3 at most). Stop and consider how the US fought for its freedom and how nowadays many people from the US would vote to have more limitations on speech.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/AWI.html

It’s not that low, it’s higher according to many sources.
How to use AI tools to convert notes into a draft
There's enough left-wingnut commentary in your single post to not be disappointed.

You are so blinded by jealousy that you missed the point on the prior comment.
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who said visible light?
Whoa, well let me just say thanks for the awesome app!! it's pretty entertaining to spin this up in situations where I don't have internet (Airplane, subway etc.)

I was also surprised on how well it ran on my iPhone 11 before I replaced it with a 15 pro.

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"super excited"

This is funny language, it's been adopted into the corporate bullshit buzz phrase guide thanks to Altman.
It's not that the United States doesn't spend enough on the military, it outspends the Chinese government by more than double. What it spends that money on seems to be the problem.
Note that under the Dutch PR system, they were the largest party, but well short of a majority. Indeed, it is unlikely that they will form a government.

Housing is probably at the root of this protest vote. Housing is a principle mechanism for transferring wealth from people who create it to those that don't. This is fine if the beneficiaries are the retired etc who cannot produce wealth, however it becomes problematic when the wealth flows into the hands of the already very rich.
Yup. Got a set of Saturn Vue gearshift linkage cables in the garage because one broke and left the car in a non-drivable state and it had to be towed home. I have the entire assemblies because I was able to get by with just replacing the broken part and not entire cable going through the firewall.

I could go through a list of critical mechanical systems that have broken on cars I've driven over the years, including my beloved Toyota pickup.

> i want less SW in a car, not more

I just want Good Engineering Practice. Good engineering encompasses a lot, including doing a DFMEA (Design Failure Modes Effects Analysis) that will advise whether the software system is safer than the hardware linkage or vice versa.
The current elites didn't do their jobs.
Yeah I don't think they ever stopped, it's just the PostNuke fork had a better community behind it with a deeper focus on security. Then they stopped developing it and instead released a think called Xaria or a similar name, but it never had a strong community.

PHp-Nuke when I installed it I couldn't believe. My own Slashdot!! With comments! It was amazing.
Yeah that’s creepy as.
Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension to Hide DLCs on Steam's Website
I believe they're making an allusion to the commonality of loneliness among many of today's young men. Such loneliness is likely only to be exacerbated by habits that are enabled by this work.
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The fundamentals and concepts haven't changed much at all, and probably won't for a very, very long time. If you have a good handle on those, everything else is relatively easy to pick up -- even the really new stuff.

What concerns me about new CS grads is that they're not only lacking a lot of the fundamentals, they sometimes even argue that learning them isn't useful.
The best liars believe their own lies.

I fully expect he does too. A bit like Steve Jobs' reality distortion field.
I am sorry if you feel that way. I joined HN when it was a small tight-knit community without much of marketing presence. The "obvious" comment is more like "people know other people" kind of thing. I didn't try to deceive anyone to use the app (and why should I?).

If you feel this is unannounced self-promotion, yes, it is, and can be done better.

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Also, for the "objective" comment, it meant to say "the original comment is still objective", not that you can be objective only by being a developer. Being a developer can obviously bias your opinion.
Yeah invokeAI is fantastic!
Technically, ALGOL-58 lead to ALGOL-60 which led to ALGOL X (1966) then to ALGOL W (1966) and then to Pascal (1970). X and W were proposals by Nicklaus Wirth and Tony Hoare as successors to ALGOL 60.
Lead plumping is already absent in almost all homes in the US (except for drainage purposes where still required by code in places like NYC). And water mains rarely ever used lead.

The main source of lead in the water supply comes from the service lines and goosenecks that connect homes to the water mains. These would be buried deep in your front lawn.

There is already some grant money that people can apply for to replace the connections in front of their house, but solving this problem for real would require utilities to systematically going house to house and digging up front yards at massive expense: ~$5k or more a pop.

Ideally you could save money if you have dedicated crews just going neighborhood by neighborhood and digging up the pipes. But because you are dealing with something outside of the normal utility easement, you are going to be upsetting a lot of residents if you just rip out their yard looking for the thing.

It's a pity that we don't have more community/volunteer organizations in our country that can get this kind of work done. It's something that's going to be ridiculously expensive and time consuming to have professional crews do. But the majority of the work involved is not particularly difficult or hard.
That's fair. I assumed they're going for similar thing to what Google has been playing with at various points over the last decade, where they were willing to effectively synthesize a new image out of several input shots and a heap of assumptions.
China is the single largest producer, and consumer, of grain. they still import tons, but they produce quite a lot.

the US is the overall top exporter of grain.

Latin America, however, still sends a lot to China.
Evolving patterns of productive publishing behavior across science
Really not. This is a protest by those who, rightly or wrongly, don't expect to ever reach that tax bracket.
Go back and re-read the prior comment. Then think about it.

You'll then understand that fixing things, currently or in the near future, it will be the current leadership that has much of the blame or applaud coming to them.
Correct, Microsoft and Alternative Man have excellent PR campaigns.
SCP Foundation has been around for like 15 years! The wiki itself is absolutely great though, it's definitely a good example of that DIY ethos. It's been interesting to see how much content has been generated from the stuff on the site over the last few years. My kids seem to enjoy the SCP lore explainer videos (at least, when they're allowed on YouTube).
It's nuts how much energy server fans can use.

I recently picked up an R730xd. By default, a non-Dell-branded PCI-E device will force the fans to ~16000RPM, but there's an IPMI command to disable that and go back to regular, temperature-driven, fan control. Total server power came down by 70W after issuing that command.
It bugs me too. Mainly because I don't see anything wrong with "=", plus it's shorter and more intuitive.
Yeah, I have no idea how really high-altitude climbers do it. I've climbed pitches of otherwise fairly easy alpine ice at about 6000m in Peru, and that was the hardest climbing I've ever done. I've never had my calves burn like that. I can't imagine leading on verglas like that at >7000m.