skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are Scholarships Real?
I see things like "financial aid package could contain a variety of scholarships, grants, work study, or loans", but it always feels like a "you have won up to ..." scam to market loans. I've never known people to get any notable scholarships or grants. Do they exist in any practical sense, or are they just the bait to get you to put in a loan application?

I'm not counting things like a $500 scholarship obtained after 80 hours of effort. One would be far better off just working minimum wage.

Consider the case of an ordinary non-special student, not even a bad one, just an ordinary student. They might not be well off, but their family doesn't qualify for things like WIC and reduced-price school lunches. They are an able-bodied straight white male. They have a GPA that is perhaps in the 2.7 to 3.7 range, or perhaps a class rank or SAT score that is in the 45th to 90th percentile. They aren't amazing at any sport or musical instrument.

If you know somebody like that who did in fact get a significant scholarship, how lucky do you think they were? Were they the one-of-a-kind miracle, kind of like a lottery winner, or is there some reason to believe that scholarships are not primarily fantasy?
Thats pretty snarky, well im no expert on snark, but can you please give me your current snarky-ness status as a number of improvement over previous years of snark. If you did not improve snarklevel growth to a rate of 1.41 you are fired.
Would Xiaomi be a leading premium manufacture if they had a devices running for $1000, when their Smartphone ASP is below $200?

>People who live in the US kind of live in a reality distortion field around Apple, and are somewhat blind to what is happening in Europe and Asia. And this complacence is a pretty bad way to evaluate your competitors.

It isn't RDF, it is "leading premium manufacture" does mean what you think it means. It would be more accurate if it was "leading premium Android manufacturers".
I've never eaten breakfast. I don't tend to get peckish until around 1ish and I always do my best work post-morning-coffee and pre-eating-anything.
> the fact that Waymo chooses to advertise theirs as a measure of improvement of their cars tells me that they have no real results to show

It tells me that's the weakest number they can possibly report. If I were Google and I knew I had the strongest ML teams in the world by miles, the strongest internal results by miles, I would say as little as possible for as long as possible. Get as far ahead as possible.

I think the Alphabet board learned their lesson on announcing early. They still shut down products, of course, so does Intel, Facebook, and every other company. And I think they're learning their lessons about sales (Cloud's hiring 10k sales people) and customer support (I'm sure they're painfully aware of the issues).
How can I prepare for getting hit by a bus?
There are many auto manufacturers that have left various markets or folded at various points in time. Most major recent one I can think of off the top of my head that isn't mentioned in another comment is Suzuki leaving the North American market in 2012 (USA) / 2014 (Canada).
Maybe so, but can you please not post like this to HN? We're trying for thoughtful conversation here, and that means being kind and responding substantively (or not at all), even when another comment is completely wrong.

If you'd read the site guidelines and take the spirit of HN to heart, we'd be grateful. We're trying to be less hostile and a bit more interesting than Internet Default, if you know what I mean.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not duplicating. Overlaying and eventually replacing. For a very, very long time the roads will need to be compatible with human and machine drivers.
> There's also an issue if I start connection with only the left bud, probably the right bud is the main one?

I think they are symmetrical. You can use both separately, without the other.
Thanks. TFA itself is unviewable with NoScript. And too many bloody resources to consider allowing.
It honestly shocks me the degree to which some software developers are able to live with a complete lack of self-awareness. Developers absolutely rant about product managers giving any sort of technical feedback, and yet they're perfectly willing to act as if they should be included in corporate level business strategy.

I don't mean all software developers, but it's a common refrain on this forum.
Ehhh.... Asrock has AFAIK never been an Intel shop, and also hasn't existed for decades (they'll have for two in 2022).

Just head over to eBay and you can find a bunch of used Asrocks with Socket A/462 for AMD Athlons from the mid-2000s.
> Google have no choice but to comply with US law

Like they have no choice with tax laws. Or no choice with cartel laws. Or no choice with data protection laws.

They are agressively trying to circumvent many laws all the times to extend their monopoly and grow their profits. They have multi-billion fines from the EU and several member states pending and no somewhat critical thinking citizen would claim that EU has been particularly tough on their monopoly and tax evasions.
But would autonomous cars be that much more efficient? you may get some efficiencies but I doubt it can solve the problem itself.
I love being in Mexico but when the occasional thing happens it's horrifying. In Cabo San Lucas someone in my family has a house and it feels safe and fun to go there. Then two years ago there was a kind of mini drug war and one day there were dead bodies hanging from the freeway overpass [1]. If I was driving by they might just kill me to keep it quiet. That's the terrifying thing, I never worry about that in the US. I have a friend from Mexico, he was a college prof, he refused to give a student a good grade based on a bribe but he didn't know his family was in some kind of gang and one thing lead to another and he decided to immigrate for safety. We never had problems in my family, but we stopped going that year it got dangerous there.

[1] https://www.kcra.com/article/bodies-found-hanging-from-overp...
Maybe so, but can you please not cross into personal rudeness or post unsubstantive comments here? We're trying for better than that on HN. "Better" in this case might mean pointing out better advice and explaining why it is better. But for sure it would mean following the site guidelines, which ask you to do a bunch of things when posting here, including Be kind.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've used Parmalat boxes to help repair cracked slates.
This is starting to sound a lot like the discussions around optimizing C compilers. Only in that case you can drop into assembly if necessary.
I was born in the early 90s, in the U.S, and boy am I sore for having missed the demoscene. I realized when I was a kid that in the U.S. there really wasn’t much going on, especially near where I grew up. I still keep up with new demos occasionally, but I will probably never participate in a democompo, short of maybe if an interesting one pops up in the Bay Area. Oh well.

I did watch Tokyo Demo Fest a year or two ago via livestream, and it makes me wonder how the U.S. is so lacking, compared to seemingly many other countries.
Deloitte research “generation disrupted”: Millennial and Gen Z feeling unsettled
Honestly, that sounds like a sexed-up description of a SOC analyst. There's plenty of room to move up from there, but it's definitely not automatic.
Even for people that study well-paying subjects and do well in school and for whom a 100k loan balance is worthwhile, it is still better to leave school with no debt.

Fun anecdote, an ex of mine was admitted to Mayo Clinic Medical School back when we were seniors in college. I don't remember all the details completely well, but they put a huge emphasis on getting students through med school debt-free so they could focus on being the best physicians possible in any area of medicine and for however long it took. My ex ended up with a full-ride with their help and it made it much easier for her to focus on being the best physician possible, less stress/able to buy a small home while in med school/take up additional study opportunities/trips/and again much less general stress (we are still friends 14 years later).

It sucks that us Americans are so boot-strapped oriented, but ah-well it makes them easier to exploit.
> In many cases, knowing how to break apart a problem like that is how you become an expert in the first place.

Funny, I had this notion that experts are most of the time better at avoiding deadends. Subtlety and patience. Noobs are impatient and depth first and lose hope.
Of course, where else they gonna get money from
That's why they say "one learns to learn at university"
that's a strong claim, that outliers can't work 1.5 times as much as normal

Imagine you truly were an outlier. One of those 10x guys. If you were that good, why would you choose to work more hours? So you could get 15 times as much done in that one day instead of just 10?

Put the way you did, the natural conclusion to draw would be that outliers would be the guys getting their thing done in fewer hours, while the average guys trying to fake it would need to stay late.
The Ryzen explosion on HN as of late is because the AMD chips have not fallen victim to MDS, and I think people have been looking for alternatives to the Intel monopoly.
You should try USB 3.2, which is 1500 or 3000 pages, The original Intel version of USB 1.0 was a nice comprehensible 150 pages.

And that is excluding the Type C, Type A and all other connector Spec.

And there is the newest WiFI 802.11ax or WiFi 6, Even earlier this year as I skim through it, the draft still has 2000+ comments unresolved. ( One reason I am looking forward to 802.11be to fix this mess instead )

Sometimes I do miss the day of parallel port, everything was so simple. That is may be me getting old.
But both of these were mostly science problems. Self driving cars are about making machines interact with humans. That has never been solved before.

Self driving in itself wouldn't be an issue, it's the other humans on the road that make it so hard to solve.

One of the main problems for manufacturers is that we have never before solved a similar problem, so there's nothing to compare it to.
Please check Gravitational's excellent Teleport.

Privileged access management for elastic infrastructure. https://gravitational.com/teleport

https://github.com/gravitational/teleport
I’ve emailed HN support about comments that were showdead because they were new accounts or once a comment I made that was flagged, I felt, unfairly[1], and gotten actual support from real people who can make decisions and fix problems in under 12 hours.

HN does actually have better customer support than Google.

[1] If you find yourself doing this you are taking arguing on the internet entirely too seriously.
cling got a C++ jit via LLVM lately. When you add or change a function, it's jitted.
Does this apply to phones being currently sold? If I buy today the Huawei P30 Pro, in amazon.de, will I have (and keep) access to Google services?
Almost none of the Chinese phones use barebones Google Android. They all have their long established skins and launchers (EMUI, MIUI etc)
13.7% might be foreign born but immigrants are crucial to our economy, they stimulate the economy by their spending and we'd have negative population growth without them. Even undocumented or illegal immigrants are a net positive economically. Many many industries would be devastated without their foreign workers, including agriculture and restaurants, among many other areas.
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I have not seen your reply when I edited it. Just had another point to add.
> cue Gary Bernhardt's Pretzel Colon

Could you provide a reference/explanation for this?
Thanks in advance!
> Large corporations just don't die like this.

MG Rover Group collapsed pretty spectacularly.
>This isn't CYA as much as making sure we both walked away from the conversation with the same understanding.

This. Thank you for being this person.
Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again
Haha. Yes. That they really don't. Good point
I wonder if part of what makes it work is luck of the draw wrt. the microbial life that was present at the start. You need stuff that will break down the dead plants at a good enough rate but nothing that competes for resources or produces anything toxic to the plant. Or maybe that's a typical microbial makeup for sample of gardener's compost?
While not nearly as cool, I spent the entirety of April cleaning out the house of a hoarder. Buried beneath 40 years of garbage, I found an Apple II computer, still it its original box, complete with stickers and an integer ROM card (also still in the original box). It was interesting to see one of the first computers I ever touched after all these years.
Doesn’t seem like a backdoor AFIACT—just support for handling a request from the government. (Distinction being that the ISP manually tells their equipment to intercept data instead of the government having technical access.)
To use the title of Dan Ariely's book: Predictably Irrational
But they're still using easy environments. Not sure a German motorway without speed limits is easier to navigate than what Waymo faces.

I doubt that maximizing the miles between disengagements should be our goal. The goal should be for the car to face the worst conditions imaginable (snow, ice, dirt roads, other drivers ignoring traffic) and somehow manage to survive in those situations.
I think it always had a JIT?
> why would you choose to work more hours?

Because you have a neuro-atypicality that means you prefer to stick with one thing for many hours.
RPCValet: NI-Driven Tail-Aware Balancing of μs-Scale RPCs [pdf]
Start to think about what matters to you and what deeply interests you.

Maybe the answer is something offline.
It's difficult to get jobs like that though.
Historical VR code; possible reconstruction (1973)
The problem here is that Debian's OpenJDK maintainer removed the "work in progress" indicator string manually. No approach protects against this.
I concur.

Although personally, I use a somewhat modified version:

1. Find the closest person who knows more about what you are doing than you do. Then, for everything you can say about the problem, do so, out loud. (It is very important that you say it out loud and not just in your head.)

There is a very good chance that you are the person who knows the most about the problem, at least in the way you are presently thinking about it. This implies that you need to speak out loud about the problem, to yourself, and nobody else if necessary. Therefore, in order to make yourself take this step seriously, record your dictated thoughts (even if you never plan to play them back). This is a very important 'hack', because it simultaneously tricks your brain into thinking somebody is listening, causing you to take what you say with utmost seriousness (even though it might start out as non-sense), while at the same time giving you the freedom to say whatever you want (which is almost never the case when somebody is actually listening, since mutual intelligibility is a prerequisite for all conversation).

2a. Draw what you see in your "mind's eye" when inspiration strikes (when with a colleague, at the board; alone, on a blank, unruled sheet of paper). Do this for months, until you become fluent in a private 'diagram language' for describing your thoughts.

Similarly, utilize a private 'jargon language' to name things that don't exist yet.

2b. Start typing it all into org-mode, until...

3. ...you realize what the actual solution is. Then go do that.

N.b.: If you squint, everything I just said is nothing more than a generalization of what professional mathematicians do at the blackboard. I learned to think this way in undergrad in the math program, but it's equally applicable to any field IMO.

Disclaimer: This technique risks making you hopeless impractical and obsessive until it starts to pay off. And I have to admit, this is not really an algorithm for solving problems, so much as coming up with creative insights about problems. I think that most problems don't need some massive insight so much as dogged persistence and organization (in which case you should completely disregard this post).

Does this strategy apply to programming? Consider the xkcd cartoon[0] that Bonooru posted upthread. One possible realization of what the the "?" step in that cartoon could be: utilize my "conceptual" strategy to shrink the amount of time spent doing actual coding to a minimum. Doing this with abandon is surely dangerous and risks getting stuck in the first, trivial loop, but if you can find a way to iterate on paper...

Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap. -Vladimir Arnold

...then perhaps, by analogy: the kind of conceptual work I'm promoting here is the part of programming where the "inner loops" (that is, actual coding, like in the xkcd cartoon) are empty. Take this too seriously, though, and you may one day wake up in academia[1]... :-)

[0] https://www.xkcd.com/844/

[1] For example, AFAIK, Edsger Dijkstra prided himself on writing programs only with paper and pencil rather than at a computer.
>Simple. Progressive income taxes, wealth taxes, and inheritance taxes.

Your argument that "The people who busted their asses to do things the right way are the ones who get shafted" could also be applied to progressive income taxes: why should the student who busted their ass through college to get good grades and a well-paying job upon graduation pay more tax to support the D-student who drank their way through college and bullied people who cared about intellectual things?
Interesting that 'smart history' chooses a picture of the circus maximus that obscures the fact that it is now st peters basilica in rome, itself no small historical detail..
Why isn't this titled as "Google revokes Huawei's Android license"?

"Suspends some business" is an understatement.
> I don't understand the "personal escape room" comment. Escape- from what? In a car? How?

My car is my second home, one that I can bring with me anywhere. It's why I prefer to drive long distances rather than fly. It even saves on hotel costs in the summer.

It's a place to escape from "out there". When I worked in an office, I would take my car to get lunch, then spend the whole hour absorbed in my thoughts or reading a book, away from my co-workers.

I'm a bit of a loner, but I can say that I've observed similar behaviour in others. After a many hour hike in the forest, getting back to the car in the evening is a relief. It's comfortable, familiar, and safe.

Sure, I could get used to public transit. But as long as I don't live in a dense city, I'll keep my car, and love it.
This will also affect Huawei in other countries in Emea if they can't access Google play.
... For now
They don't seem to be doing a very good job of communicating whether this is voluntary or mandated by the trade sanctions. It would seem to be terribly damaging to Google and Android if they can't convince OEMs that this is something extraordinary that no other OEM will need to worry about.
Pretty much every manufacturer is already selling tech similar to Tesla, they just don't call it autopilot but driving assistance. If that's our goal we could just stop researching self driving cars and put the money into EVs instead.
wait, so you can either have one "owner" and transfer ownership between domains (via move) or have shared, but immutable, ownership?

Hm. Who let the Rust folks in?
A disengagement generally measures when a human test driver had to take control. It’s not just telling a human driver to watch out—it’s taking the wheel from them. They wouldn’t necessarily lead to a crash, but there is a pretty good chance they would. If even 10% of disengagement’s would’ve led to a collision, you’re still not close to a good human driver.

One crash in 10 million miles isn’t as great as it sounds. First, it’s a meaningless number because a human is intervening every 11,000 miles. It’s not a true measurement of what a purely autonomous collision rate would be. Second, humans crash once in every 500,000 miles, and that’s under the full gamut of circumstances (drunk drivers, unfamiliar roads, teenagers, etc). Waymo is running with trained drivers on thoroughly mapped test areas in a place with easy traffic and weather. You’d expect humans doing nothing but running the same routes over and over in that carefully geofenced area to do better than one collision per 500,000 miles. (Especially with someone looking over their shoulder, like the self driving car is doing!)

If you look at the improvement in disengagement rates it’s not particularly compelling: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*oX-ykZtxiMiuguSow....

They’ve improved by a factor of 6-7 since 2015, but most of that was 2015-2016. That suggests the pace of improvement is getting slower.
IMO emotions are not emergent properties of an agi because it's a machine. It could learn how to manipulate the operator to add more batteries but that's not the same.
Maybe your are still navigating the work culture in the company/region. Try to figure out how much they expect from their employees. If it’s unreasonably high, don’t blame yourself too much. Otherwise, try to have a constructive conversation with your peers and your manager. Hope you could find someone to talk to :)
You’re right, once a year.
But I don't think that's really true in this day and age when it comes to programming. All the information to learn programming is out there. You have direct access to all of the lectures and materials of university courses.
I can see that happening on major freeways, the way we have carpool lanes now, but not on a general scale.
As silly as it sounds probably meeting with each other maybe making some calls or visiting a political friend.
I’m not sure how much you understand about how people become homeless. I don’t think anyone ever says they became homeless because “suddenly the area is too expensive”. The majority of people who become homeless are actually only homeless for a short time. Their roommate kicked them out, or they were sick and couldn’t make rent once, or or other individual crisis events, and they don’t think “welp that’s it, I can’t make it in this city any more”.
These all give "Error establishing a database connection".

HN hug of death?
Minor correction: It doesn't mean "Android", it means Google services.
I too disdainful SOLID. I appreciate this finally has been pointed out. Principles are in fact moral high grounds, without telling you what to do.

For example, you need to resolve the expression problem[0] in Java, with Open-Closed principle compliant. Then the answer could be Java code like in this article[1] (the technique is Object Algebra).

However the moral for me is, if I'm using Haskell or Ruby, when expressing Open-Closed idea is simple, I would use it. If I'm using Java, just forget the principle. I would just express the business, and change the code if I need to add new types or operations. Because the principle is written the code is not understandable to other people, just like design pattern abused codebases.

Another thing is Liskov Substitution Principle. I found most of the books cover this idea don't even mention how to judge if an object is LSP compliant. Every people I know talk about the principle haven't heard of covariant and contravariant, and didn't realize almost all of the mutable data type inheritance are in fact not LSP compliant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem
[1] https://koerbitz.me/posts/Solving-the-Expression-Problem-in-...
Agree.

That said after I started working at the place I work now I've actually experienced two Google engineers come out to us for a meeting to help us troubleshoot issues with Google Cloud.

Didn't help much but I was still really suprised so I feel I should mention it.

I also got some support on mail, IIRC once somewhat great, once clueless or downright actively trying to avoid helping.

And don't get your hopes too high, while we are small (<2000 employees) we are driving driving adoption of cloud for other companies.