skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
7ish year delay in buying a house. Which may be better than 20 years of payments to debt.
There is, but keep in mind this is yet another refresh of Skylake, not really a "new" CPU.

Supposedly the new socket is PCI-E 4.0 capable, which the next CPU "Rocket Lake" will supposedly enable.

But since it's still 16 lanes from the CPU only, that means you'll only get PCI-E 4.0 to likely a single slot. And likely not any of the M.2 drives, which typically are connected to the chipset instead.
I think this part is a little off:

> Perhaps you have no sympathy for web applications that store sensitive data in query strings, as that’s widely recognized as an insecure pattern. The URL fragment is more serious. That otherwise is a safe way to store sensitive information, so it’s alarming to see a third-party library sending a copy to an external server.

> Firefox Send and Mega.nz are both examples of popular web apps that use the URL fragment to store client-side encryption keys so that users can save end-to-end encrypted files to the cloud without the server ever having access to the underlying data.

The URL fragment is not designed to be any more secure than anything else in the URL, it's just a funny quirk of how web browsers evolved that it doesn't happen to be sent to the webserver. That popular platforms are (mis)using it to pass information without that information hitting their webservers is unfortunate. But it doesn't mean that the URL Fragment is somehow special or should be thought of as "secure" - that's not a guarantee that the URL scheme makes.

For example, those fragments will easily appear in browser history for anyone else who uses your same device...
> it involves going to each county where you think the person resided and looking up records there

They had an open warrant, which means it hit state databases and shows up in a warrant search.

I have no idea what background check system their employer would use (or what level of investigation the job warrants), but a human investigator would absolutely find these records.
> That is, to communicate aspects of human life that are deeply interwoven with facts and experiences outside of the music itself.

What does that even mean? As a counter-point I listen to heavy bass music with zero lyrics. The production value is the most important thing for me and I would 100% listen to AI generated music.
> Did they have a shortage of products to sell?

Very much so. I ordered a new watch and it took three weeks to arrive, when usually they are just a few days.

My friend who works at Apple said in March people weren't getting laptops when they joined the company because they didn't have any to give, as all the new ones were being sent to customers.
It's entirely possible to implement that behavior in a privacy preserving way. Just encrypt "sensitive" data with a key that's stored on the secure element. That way if you restore to the same device, you get everything back. Sadly, I don't feel like wiping my phone to test this out, so whether Apple actually does that is an open question at this point.
It's not just re-usability, but turn around time as well.
I don't understand Urbit now and then. Is it artwork like TempleOS? Is it over-ambitious vaporware like Xanadu? Is it a revolution attempt like Bitcoin?

The technical details (Hoon and Nock) sound weird like TempleOS. Some claims (see parent) sound like Bitcoin.
Bitcoin block transactions are terrible for microtransactions, since the amount of transactions that can be held are intentionally limited, which means higher fees.

Lightning network is capable of solving the issue though, as these transactions are done over a secondary layer.
Ok, well let's say you're using an algorithm to trade, and an HFT firm identifies what your 'algorithm' is doing, they're going to front run you - whether that be using VWAP or flashing 10 lots every 30 seconds. And both of those absolutlely happen. They're not going to literally 'know' what you're going to do, but some algos are pretty obvious and somewhat exploitable.
Yours is a narrative that universities themselves like to put forth. However it doesn't make sense.

Tuition rises are a long-term trend. As https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_spending points out, from the 1950s to the present, the share of GDP spent by government on universities went from 0.4% to 1.7%. With sometimes progress, and sometimes a loss. But the long-term trend is that spending by states has gone up relative to both enrollment and inflation.

Yes, there are recession years where universities blame tuition hikes on cutbacks in state spending. But tuition has outpaced inflation in good years as well. Which suggests that the long-term trend has other causes.

How bad is it? At present average college tuition at a private school is $45k/year. Salaries for the people teaching vary from $40k for a postdoc to an average of $95k for a full professor. Which means that in an average classroom, a handful of students could hire the teacher as a private tutor, give the teacher a pay raise, and themselves save money! This basic fact suggests that it should be possible to teach students for a lot less than we consider normal today.

Now why have caused risen? It turns out that a lot of causes have been proposed, from the cost of buildings going up to an increase in bureaucracy to deal with government regulation. But attempts to quantify all the different factors, such as https://www.nber.org/papers/w21967, find that the biggest single factor is the combination of restricted supply and artificially increased demand (thanks to the availability of loans and financial aid).

Exactly as I said.
Brutalism is NOT just "cheap functional architecture with no nods to true beauty".

Yes, it is an extension of Bauhaus, with exposed fixtures and minimalist, functional designs. Yes, in the hands of a hack, this yields ugliness. Buildings like Habitat 67 in Montreal, Vancouver BC's central library, and UC San Diego's Giesel Library are works of art.

To say there was no thought of form or beauty is patently a calumny.

Strip-mall architecture is the fast food of architecture. Quick, cheap, and, at best, lacking in nutritional value.
How does Windows 10 compare? It also tracks and reports which websites you visit, but maybe it doesn't in private browsing mode?

Edit: People asking for sources, go to Settings -> Diagnostics & Feedback. See the part where it says "Send ... info about websites you browse"? You might also be interested in the setting below it; when you enable it "Microsoft will collect samples of the content you type"[1].

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468236/
In my area the $15 per month includes the modem rental, so it’s a even better deal.
Obscurantism is very much the point, otherwise nobody even attempt to take it seriously. The target demographic is 'people whom you might be able to bamboozle into also becoming crypotnazis' which I realize sounds bananas but that's barely scratching the surface of the banananess of it all.
I think I would have preferred the company be removed of their ability to collect credit information than any other penalty.
Contrary to what you'll hear a lot of folks say on the internet, there are use cases where Go and Rust overlap. My team has a lot of experience in Go, but not much in Rust. It would be useful to gain some experience, as Rust is growing in the org, and we may need to contribute to some Rust codebases in the future.

We needed to start a new service, and there was an initial prototype of the beginning of that written in Rust. Then, the pandemic happened. This means priorities shift. It makes more sense to not try to learn new things while trying to ship new things when there's so many other things going on. Additionally, it was going to be a bit harder to do it in Rust because there were already some useful code lying around in Go for some things that we'd have to port.

I am a PM these days so I have no real bearing on these decisions, but I support my team in their choices, and told them that I would no matter what. I obviously love Rust, but it's not the end-all be-all of languages, and I think the right call was probably made.
But we have other ways of testing for bots. See for example Google's Recaptcha (again, example, and not my main point). I don't see why we need to give away our personal information to yet another big company, especially if the information comes from web surfing behavior that has nothing to do with payment.

And in case this is all still necessary, can't this be handled by some trusted party instead of the company that already knows about all our online payment transactions? Compartmentalization is a very important concept in user privacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmentalization_(informat...
Crypto Fund II to pay off investors from Crypto Fund I... genius I tell ya.
African skeletons from colonial Mexico tell story of first generation slaves
Slowly?! Hasn't Win7 been dead for years?

> Latest release Service Pack 1 (6.1.7601) / February 22, 2011; 9 years ago

> Mainstream support for Windows 7 ended on January 13, 2015.

There is:

> Extended support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020.

But that is referring to very specific business contracts, not casual users pretending EOL never happened.
Companies that live off marketing don't deal with the same economic physics that other companies do.

Take the backlash Blizzard faced for their pro China stances where Apple banned an app and received no significant backlash. Heck, there were apologists (or marketers) to defend Apple.

There's not much to learn from an economic or operations standpoint from this. At best we should mimick their marketing strategies.
Our town used to have the Mechanics' Academy. A 12-week study program to learn enough math to balance, books, amortize a loan, calculate weights and measures, figure load limits. Graduates were very employable. My Mom's Grandfather was one.

Long ago demolished and turned into a Mall during Urban Renewal.
U.S. officials crafting retaliatory actions against China
> Congratulations. You are still getting paid the same.

After the first week, yes.

Whether you are still being paid the same after a year depends on you and your negotiation skills.
Maybe. You would have to have a star, which is already about $2.000
Considering that a DOCSIS 3.1 modem costs right about $150 right now, this actually doesn't seem like such a bad deal. Add a decent-quality consumer router and you can be looking at around two years to break even, which is right about there with replacement cycle on some of these things.
> If my school didn't have a philosophy major, it wouldn't have a philosophy department, and I would never have had those classes.

I went to an engineering school, the only majors were X Engineering, Business, and Nursing. Somehow, we had professors for the humanities classes, so I don't think a major is a requirement.
Central to their reasoning is the thesis that every ~15 years there is a breakthrough in computing (PCs in ~'78, the Web in ~'93, Smartphones in ~'07). This thesis is laid out on their site.

So, the hedge seems to concern investing in a new computing platform that will gain traction around 2021-2023. Does either the thesis or hedge seem bad? Well, the thesis doesn't seem obviously bad in comparison to other VC theses out there (I mean, theses are sort of about putting a stake in the ground with regards to predicting the future). Let's agree the thesis is sound. Is the hedge still bad? I don't know. If you were to line up the other options, like A.I. and AR/MR/VR (are there any others?), I'm not sure one would really stand out above all the others. Maybe A.I.? But even then, they've already invested in the other options (especially A.I.), so at this point it's a matter of distribution of invested capital.

Could the crypto investments end up being complete and embarrassing failures. Definitely. But, I'm not sure how this risk really stacks up to a different hedge for 2021-2023. It doesn't seem to be obviously bad in comparison to the other options.
In the United States, there was case that got a decent amount of publicity where the opinion was that training a model on copyrighted works is "highly transformative" and is therefore permitted under fair use.

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-important-supreme-co...
Because it's one that's been aggressively pushed by the institution itself and the only one that I know of that seeks partnerships with many companies / institutions without any royalty involved (that I know of, at least).

Also because they were quickly able to get 1000+ people for the Phase 1 study, and they're starting the Phase 2/3 study next month (objective: 6000 people recruited).

They want (assuming that it is effective, of course, which is absolutely not guaranteed) to have something ready for emergency use by early autumn.

Perhaps it's just better communication on their part, mind you.
>I thought this was a feature.

???

In what way does this benefit the user?
Hold onto your hats though when companies release results next quarter (in early July).

Consumer spending is way down across the board (everything from appliances to travel). Early indications are the stimulus checks are being saved or used to pay off existing debt - not consuming/purchasing.

The ripple effect of this sudden drop will likely be unprecedented.
Payment is still optional, and SourceHut is still considered an alpha. This completes only one of a few important milestones blocking the beta.

And, thank you for the kind words :)
Great to hear you enjoying streams - you got my upvote :)
Your backup is encrypted https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
Reddit introduces chat feature, AskHistorians goes dark for 1 hour in protest
It's not more efficient than an RDS instance.

The video you linked leads with "it's been too complicated in the past to explain return on investment" lol, if you can't tell me if your product will save me money or not, your product is bad and will cost me money.

It's like going to buy a new fangled electric car, and you asking the salesman, hey, so how much will this save me on gas! And the salesman responds: "well that's hard to say." That's not a good sign.
what's with the waifu thing, why not just call this Selfie2Anime/Manga or whatever.
That would be cat and mouse. You can ssh on any port.

But I agree that it's not a good idea to poke holes in your corporate firewall (which is really what this is doing).
They should outlaw hiring practices with required college degrees for all but the most regulated careers like doctors, lawyers etc.

To require a BS or BA for a sales job is insane and just creates servitude dynamics for no reason.
Which ISP are you using out of curiosity? Not that I have an option other than comcast.
It's not a credit check like a car dealership would do.

The background check may query credit reporting agencies or other financial records to confirm data and expand the search (i.e. you had a credit card issued in a state so they will expand criminal searches to that state). These types of queries fall under laws that govern credit checks, so they have to disclose and obtain permission.
Pop OS 20.04 LTS
I'm surprised to just be learning that it was probably a governmental cyberattack.
How do you think ReCaptcha (at least ReCaptchaV3) works? It's gathers the same kind of "personal" data (mouse movements, etc.) to feed an ML model to determine whether the client is a robot.
Even as a non-American, this is fascinating. I wonder if other countries have it.
I suppose "the company be dissolved, its records thoroughly purged, and its ability to legally operate revoked" is a bit too much... though it shouldn't be.
This is sort of fair as a statement of principles but I think OAuth2 gets you into the same kind of trouble with special security status for the fragment.
Who should be the next interview?
Congratulations. One of my main critiques of Urbit was that I've been waiting years for something more widely usable and it seems that finally things are turning around.

There's a lot of very shallow and superficial negative opinions about Urbit, while it's one of the most interesting projects being developed online, IMO.

I do have my own set of criticism (see: https://dpc.pw/pragrammatic-critique-of-urbit), but overlay I hope it will be successful.
Don't bring it up. During the hiring phase they are looking for any reasons to NOT hire someone. Unfortunately this post may alert hiring managers at Facebook and try to find which application that is current probably has Utah arrest records. Since they don't have to disclose that they looked (they can easily have a legal firm in Utah paid by a consulting company do it). Not to mention it would probably be easier to identify you being the one candidate from Utah right now.
It's not uncommon for organizations to have to downsize due to changing economic conditions.

In fact, when people ask why colleges are paying administrators 6-7 figure salaries while classes are taught by lecturers making a fraction of that, they say they need to compete with private industry for top talent. I would hope that an administrator making $300,000+ can come up with a more creative plan for what to do with high maintenance buildings than just "let them deteriorate".
That's simply not true the biggest target is ARM. Most of the worlds devices run ARM.
Laptops outsell desktops by something like a 2:1 ratio. If you restrict your analysis to just consumer devices and exclude office PCs purchased in bulk by businesses, that ratio is even more skewed toward laptops. Desktops are a niche, and x86 could be relegated to niche status for consumer computing simply by ARM making significant inroads to the laptop market without having any uptake in the desktop market. (It's already the case that consumers tend to own more ARM-powered devices than x86-powered devices.)
Give my data to the glorious red state, for the greater good of the people!
Fun factoid, VBA/VB6 dichotomizes between the "NULL" of value (keyword Null) versus the "null" of reference (keyword Nothing).

Dim x
x = Null

Debug.Print "x", x
Debug.Print "x = x", x = x
Debug.Print "x <> x", x <> x
Debug.Print "x = 0", x = 0
Debug.Print "0 = x", 0 = x
Debug.Print "0 + x", 0 + x

(Yep, all of the above result in Null.)

Dim y
y = Nothing
Debug.Print "y", y

(That one results in an "Object variable not set" error.)
I don't know what "your own airwaves" is suppose to be. The electricity being used was already going to be used for your own use, so there is no additional cost to you.
> The power consumption isn't going up quite as quickly as we'd expect

Eh? From anandtech's coverage: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15758/intels-10th-gen-comet-l...

"Users wanting the 10-core 5.3 GHz will need to purchase the new top Core i9-10900K processor, which has a unit price of $488, and keep it under 70 ºC to enable Intel’s new Thermal Velocity Boost. Not only that, despite the 125 W TDP listed on the box, Intel states that the turbo power recommendation is 250 W – the motherboard manufacturers we’ve spoken to have prepared for 320-350 W from their own testing, in order to maintain that top turbo for as long as possible."

Power is going up and by a lot to hit that 5.3Ghz. And requires a much lower temperature to do it.
Yes, but only from the page the captcha is visible on.

In contrast, Stripe collects also data from webpages that are not payment pages.
I know apple keeps on getting headlines for breaking privacy (and also making phones that supposedly get thrown away because they don't have right to repair)

My own sense is android phones are MUCH less private and secure AND have much shorter useful lives.
I think the point he’s making is that you didn’t take enough time to validate either way. If you do this with every idea you can launch and shut down 12 companies a year and not give any one a real chance of validation.
Interesting... looks like it's effective for routing minimum-sized packets. As an aside, this is the epitome of good web design. Fast, clear, proper line-widths... I'm in love :)
It is a concern but being popular is not the same as having high power: GitHub has lock-in to the extent that it's a great service but it's not exactly like they're changing Git to prevent you from using your own self-hosted service, Gitlab, BitBucket, etc. Similarly, VSCode is open-source with tons of competitors: where's the angle where they have much ability to dictate anything to users?
> It's why we have free public schooling up through the age of 18; many other countries simply carry that farther.

To be fair, we also have compulsory schooling for that period as well, and it makes complete sense to use tax revenue to pay for something the same government is making you do.

Note that I don't oppose the use of tax revenue to fund voluntary education, and I personally benefited heavily from it. Its just that using the example of the government paying for something it made mandatory is not much of an argument in itself for having it pay for something that is voluntary.
Will it gracefully degrade automatically to a slower speed if the cable isn't up to snuff, or will it just not work?
This is really great work. :)
On a slightly tangential note, I understand why they chose an audio representation over symbolic, but I think that training the latter is more useful (commercially speaking). Would love to be able to get a track rolling quickly just selecting an instrument set and tweaking some AI parameters and then hand-tune it from there (yes, this greatly detracts from the "art" of it but sometimes I just want to see results quickly). Of course, to do this effectively, you would also have to analyze on an audio level (at least per instrument) so that the usage and timing of instruments could be better understood.
In my opinion, it's too late for that. However, there are some healthy profits to be made with honest effort, most easily identified in the form of bounties. You can become a star owner by claiming and implementing a bounty listed on https://grants.urbit.org/. Some already claimed examples include: a Tor Nodes Relay Search Tile, an (HTML) Content Saver, and an Ethereum ABI Parser. In general, though, Tlon are very happy and willing to merge good pull requests, and often reward contributors with Urbit address space (which, if this gets big, will be worth quite a lot more than current market rates at, for example, https://urbit.live). Hope that helps.
Yours is a true statement that doesn't contradict what I said. Namely that until 2005, banks were lending to students without protection from non-payment during bankruptcy.

In fact the fact that banks insisted on mitigating their risks with a co-signer is actually supporting evidence FOR what I said.
GA? And what kind of customers?
On a Xiaomi device myself. Recently I've setup Nextdns.io to resolve all the DNS requests through it. Very frequent callbacks to Xiaomi servers for tracking. Blocked a bunch of them now, but it's half a solution.
If the questions are relevant to the job then I think that's fine. In this case, the code assessment is provided even prior to being able to apply to a specific position. From what I gathered, this assessment applies to everything from a team lead/management position to a front-end developer to a firmware engineer.

I understand that for a big company they need something standardized to process a large number of candidates.
Like I said, it doesn't fit the narrative of "data collectors = bad", it doesn't create the right emotional response, it doesnt help people hate equifax more, so it gets suppressed and immediately downvoted, on any forum.

Equifax can both be negligent and immoral AND not have caused any systemic identify thefts (that we know of, yet) from the event. I do think "a foreign government got the data on me" drastically shifts what the future threat from the exposure is, which should also change the settlement that was made under the pretense of them leaking data to traditional identity thieves or a black market.