skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've bought my own router and had Comcast later claim it was theirs (because they collected the SN off it, and put it in their system, then later, lo and behold, the SN is in their system).

I've had issues, called them, they say it's likely a router issue, then when the tech arrives they HAVE NO EXTRA ROUTER, so I had to take a second time off work.

You're screwed either way, but I do feel you overstate the difficulty. Installing my own router was actually the same procedure as when they rented me a router. The "techie" part is if you don't want to install all their crappy spyware, but otherwise, it's plug in, hit a website, and press the power button when prompted, which is exactly what they had me do regardless of who owned the router.
There's a bunch of free videos. I thought were very useful on this.

https://microconf.com/saas-crash-course/
great tool - congrats on the open beta!

it wasn't immediately clear to me that the product is still in beta, and was unable to find any pricing information which threw me off.

another question - is there a reason why Github isn't a support authentication method, considering that Github integration is a big part of the product?

But the tool looks super interesting - going to try it out and intro it to our team!
It's not as rare as it used to be a couple decades ago. If you block tcp/53 you will find a surprising number of things breaking as record sizes have increased over the years.
> This is the thing that is really the most shameful and outrageous thing about the US system. Our entire K-12 educational system and our culture is set up to paint a college degree as a ticket to "the good life".

That's because it is a ticket to the good life if you are of average intelligence, average ability, average connections, and average parents. Or, more specifically, it is a ticket to a less bad life.

Not everyone can go into trades. Not everyone should go into trades. If you are an average person, and you're not working trades, and you don't have a college degree, you're going to be capped out at waiting tables and flipping burgers.

At least these masters-degree holders can apply for crappy low-end office jobs. You actually get evenings and weekends off with most of those, and you're unlikely to get a chef screaming at you while you're holding a pot of hot oil.
I hope that in this light we can agree that using the term "free market" as a cudgel is a sign of immaturity.

I think you're caught up in an is/ought conundrum though: "idolizing the idea of a completely unregulated market" is the discourse! That's the pro-side rhetoric in a nutshell, how bills and laws get passed, and how the (US) economic system is constructed. So don't blame my inference, it's just what I'm reading in the newspaper.
I thought Philosophy was essentially pre-law.
DXR – Mozilla's code search and navigation tool
A downside to watercooling in general is that it has a higher thermal capacity relative to a fan and heatsink. This means that a watercooled CPU will stay hotter for longer after it is no longer under load, relative to a heatsink setup. IMO an AIO is a notch down in cooling performance relative to a large heatsink. I still went AIO for noise reasons though.
It's kind of irrelevant, timing-wise. If other varieties of coronavirus are anything to go by, it's likely that people's immunity will fade in something like 12-18 months and we'll get another round of this (albeit more localized based on where the cases peaked 12-18 months before) if a vaccine isn't available yet.
Highly true. You learn a lot through osmosis, by interacting with smart peers (faculty/other PhDs) and that is invaluable.
IMO at least in the US college is an education themed social exercise.
Exactly what the 1x developer is looking for.
Looking at the first chart tells me that the size of the upcoming cohort will be similar to Gen X -- that is it will be smaller than the previous but not unsustainably small.

Although that chart doesn't capture the ratio of women of fertile age in each year, so there may be an unforeseen cliff.
I mean if they’re properly citing their sources I think it’s useful to have someone throw lots of compute at things and see what happens.
15k in just tuition does not seem outrageous.
Suppose a year is 30 weeks, and you spend 10 hours a week in classes (not even counting the other benefits that college/a college campus may offer), thats about 50 dollars/hr you're spending for lecture. For some classes/fields it's clearly a much better deal. But 40k+ in tuition? Yea agreed, that's pretty outrageous.
Not to nitpick but it's spelled "college"
> the value of the average four year bachelors degree today is less than the value of the average two year trade school

but why do you think this? I see this assertion more commonly than I'd expect here and it always to me seems wrapped up in an implicit glamorization of blue collar work & tradesmen without referring back to, say, quality of life, long-term earning potential, flexibility in occupation, etc.
Another factor is that oil seems to be much more vulnerable to volatility than renewables. I haven't read anything about renewable sources needing continue production when it's unprofitable to do so because the cost of turning production on or off is so high.
You've broken the site guidelines, both here and in other comments. We ban accounts that do that, so would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended?
Not to be flip but the crux of the issue is (I think I've got this correct):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-world_assumption

vs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-world_assumption

Which means we're dealing with philosophy, no?
I agree completely with everything you said.

The point I was trying (perhaps poorly) to make is also along the lines of "marathon, not a sprint". Yes, do your job. But find the healthy balance where you aren't killing yourself for results that aren't appreciated.

Work at a pace that you can sustain for years on end. That goes both ways. Don't overwork yourself to the point of burnout. But also don't underwork yourself to the point that you are unemployable should circumstances change.
I don't understand how people can spend 4 years pursuing a major and never spend 5 minutes googling job prospects and salaries for their major.
This may be just good enough to hold off AMD from further gaining market shares on Desktop. For certain group of user that doesn't need a GPU, the iGPU included is a good enough solution.

One thing that bothers me a lot is the 2.5Gbps Ethernet that is supposed to come with those new Intel motherboard ( assuming MB vendors uses it ). Why not 5Gbps Ethernet? How much more expensive is it? It seems we still dont have a clear path on how to move forward from 1Gbps Ethernet. Personally I would have liked 10Gbps, but the price is still insanely expensive.
> If an app's function requires location, how is it Apple's fault that the user decides it's better to enable that app to spy on him

Apple makes the iOS SDK and writes all the app store policies. They could deny apps that embed third party location data mining/spying that is nonessential to the app’s functionality, just as they do that now for checkouts/payments of subscription services that don’t use App Store IAPs.

Apple has taken an aggressive stance regarding the curation (alternately, censorship) of the App Store. Everything that is or isn’t in it is “Apple’s fault”.

They let App Store apps spy and harvest data for shady data and location miner companies.
> Debt is good. It's what enables people who don't have the money up front to start businesses or buy houses.

The reason people go into debt to buy houses is because everyone is using debt to buy houses, thus driving the prices up.

If mortgages were capped at 5-year terms, the price of houses would be a lot lower, which would be great for society - for the same reason that having cheaper electricity is great for society.
One analysis I read ages ago showed that an electric car (even of that time) was enough more efficient than a gasoline or Diesel car that even if the electricity to charge the batteries came entirely from coal, it was a net CO2 win.
Are we giving FB a pass for stealing competitor ideas? IG stories (from Snap), FB Room - Zoom Clone, etc.
This despite literally any old person you'd care to ask beseeching us not to do this.
Two thoughts-

1 - Maybe it's big in your circle, but not everyone has the same experience.

I literally don't know anyone who uses the app at all.
(And I've asked around)

That's not to suggest your experience is invalid, just to point out WhatsApp may be more popular in your social circle than ubiquitous.

2- Moving off of FB-the-app has advantages, even if you're using other FB-the-company products. It's not all or nothing.
It's publicly known that Nvidia and AMD pay game developers to optimize for their chips; you can see the logos when the game launches. Yet you're presenting this as some kind of conspiracy with a persecution complex tacked on.
> Tar Sands

I like to read these words. The oil industry and the government of Alberta, Canada freak out when people say "tar sands" and insist on calling it "oil sands". They think "oil sands" sounds less dirty than "tar sands".

But the truth is that the stuff is really tar (oil, sulfur and sand). That's how all local people called it up until the early 2010's. Once you remove the sand it does look dirty, a dark sticky goo. They're just trying to put make up on a pig.
cli-pto. A little CLI text-editor in Python with simple encryption
This is not to be a super strong program that can only be hacked with super-duper computers in million years, just something to keep your notes from curious eyes. I am yet to learn tons of stuff and go a long way, so feedbacks and contributions are welcome :)
> The reason they aren't dischargeable is because what bank in their right mind would give a loan to an 18 year old with no collateral?

If it's a bad bet for the bank, it must be far worse of a bet for young adults. That's the point -- right now we're essentially suckering millions of naive young adults into a life of wage slavery by giving them a "bet" which they are completely unequipped to evaluate; and many of them are making a bet when they shouldn't.

What you're essentially arguing is, "We have to enslave these people or society wouldn't function". On the contrary: we must not enslave these people; if stop doing it, society will figure out some other way to get things done.
The state cut all funding under the last governor so they had some major issues.
That ignores the fact that heat has to be radiated somewhere, otherwise the water just heats up. You're only moving the problem, not eliminating it.
Why? Schools can't be cheaper?
> All of us should be regularly lobbying our lawmakers to make student loans dischargeable by bankruptcy

That'll just make loans even more expensive for everyone else.
it’s all downhill from here.
The web is full of those symbols, so I'm sure there are books (or online resources) explaining them. And if not, someone should do something about that.
"Older people are less likely to be tech-savvy, less likely to use ad-blockers, less likely to be able to understand the difference between legitimate news and lies, and they’re more likely to spend longer time on Facebook and share more information on Facebook."

While I would like to say I agree with this, it's due to confirmation bias and an availability heuristic. If you don't provide data to support these claims then you're assuming your readers are no better than the subject of your post.
Thanks for sharing the spec, I'll give it a read.

I am curious how you believe it's misleading? In its simplest form, is that not how it's going to work in Phase I? User has to input their information, platform will do what it does, health organizations will consume some aspect of that data. It will then be used for notifications when in proximity of others?

In the link you shared, in the intro:

"Exposure Notification makes it possible to combat the spread of the coronavirus — the pathogen that causes COVID-19 — by alerting participants about possible exposure to someone they have recently been in contact with, who has subsequently been positively diagnosed as having the virus. The Exposure Notification Service is the vehicle for implementing exposure notification and uses the Bluetooth Low Energy wireless technology for proximity detection of nearby smartphones, and for the data exchange mechanism. "

The last sentence was "Building a web of social behavior information." Is that in essence what is happening? I am not saying that controls are not going to be implemented, and that data is not going to be protected. I am also not denying the social frameworks that another commentator alluded too.

I am, however, implying that regardless of what you find in documentation, I have been around technology long enough, and at the most senior levels of tech companies, to understand there is a difference between what you read and what a platform can, and can't, do.

Why is that misleading? Is it simplified for users to understand, sure, but dismissing it because it doesn't reference technical specs is a bit shortsighted.
Peer to peer may not work on the mobile networks you're on, but it works on many.
Maybe it could be a percentage of all taxable income, kind of like giving out equity in the student themselves as a person?

Although of course there is no reason for college in general to be particularly expensive.
go blue baby, when i was a student in the CoE and having the standard "I'll never make it!" anxiety I'd take a peak at that report every now & then and feel just fine, lol
Thanks for pointing out. Fixed the link on the page.
I got my first coding job - junior level - when I was 49.

Then again, it did take 4 years of applying for jobs in the industry before I finally found a company willing to take the risk of employing me.

I don't know what my x-ranking is. I know I'm not a rockstar: my sister-in-law gets to tour the world playing bass in a band and my life is nothing like hers.
Arm has zero percent market share in PCs. It would take ten years or more to hit 50%.
> But allowing student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy would do more harm than good without other systemic changes.

Why?
From others experience it's 2 years at good community college and 2.5-3 years at the good state university. I've yet to see state college take all the credits from a transfer.
In your experience, what was the biggest challenge to be on par with Google?

From using Cliqz, I felt that the relevance of search results was fairly good.

The challenge I had in many cases was that the coverage was so much less for non-common search terms that the information I was looking for just wasn't there.

The Instant Answers on Google are also getting good to the point where sometimes I don't have to leave the SERP.
College, and the push to send everyone to it, makes much more sense when you view College as both an economic proposition, and a part of social class.

The economic aspect has been well covered here, but the social class has not. Social classes are a set of shared values, habits, and beliefs that help cluster people together into a sense of shared social membership. It is completely distinct from economic class, with some of the “lower” classes regularly having more income and net worth than the “upper” social classes.

In America, a large portion of the push to send everyone to college has been a push for the supremacy of middle class norms and values over working class norms and values via college. College is literally an indoctrination process into the middle social class, it’s where you learn the norms and values of that class and socialize exclusively with other members of said class.

As you’ve discovered, social class and economic class are not one and the same, and you yourself as a member of the working class actually make significantly more money than members of the middle class who went to college but did not reap any economic benefits from the process.
Wow—I didn’t even recognize my own code there with all the whitespace changed and semicolons inserted ;)

And yes—not having any dependencies or anything to install was one of my goals to help anyone get up and running with minimal fuss. I have more to say about that here:
https://quantumjavascript.app/contributing.html#JavaScript_s...

You’re asking a really good question—I should probably write page on this to make it more clear; it definitely was NOT clear to me at first either! The short answer is “no.” What you’re seeing there is the Q.Circuit.prototype.try$ function which forces a circuit to choose one of its probable outcomes. I mostly added this in so users could write a simple coin-flip demo and get an actual heads or tails result—you know; feel good about making their first superposition and then collapsing it to a conclusion:
Q`H`.try$() ? 'tails' : 'heads'

But it’s the management and redistribution of probabilities during the course of a circuit’s operation that is the real quantum magic—not choosing a series of random outcomes. In fact if you search the entire repo for “Math.random” you’ll see that this try$ function is the only “semi-meaningful” use of randomness. (The other calls to Math.random are either part of some included THREE.js bits for the Bloch Sphere visualizer, or for randomly tilting the click-and-draggable gate tiles in circuit palettes, or for choosing random color + animal names. Yes... Random color + animal names!)
Q.getRandomName$()

The way we manage probabilities in a simulator is by representing qubits as a pair of numbers. This should give you a better idea of how that works—and what “superposition” means in this context:
https://quantumjavascript.app/Q-Qubit.html

But the weirdest part for me to wrap my head around was that there is no answer until you’ve computed the ENTIRE answer. In a regular computer you can ask what the value of a particular bit is at anytime and that doesn’t effect any other piece of the circuit. But with quantum simulation like this you are mixing all of the ingredients together and it is impossible to pull one out, point to it and say “this particular qubit has this particular value!” Instead you can only know the total state of the system.

You’ve given me a lot to think about in terms of adding more content to Q :)

I need another coffee now...
I stopped reading at "The Windows Runtime is based on Component Object Model (COM) APIs..."

Is that a bad choice on my part?

I see COM and think of OLE, CORBA and I remember that I'm old and going to die pretty soon (within the next 40-50 years almost assuredly).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model
This is a great resource! More of a reference / bulleted list rather than a playbook. I wrote something similar for my new front-line managers who were playing with the idea of transitioning from IC to management[1].

The big things really are all about 1-1s, feedback, coaching, and delegation. From everyone I've talked to the hardest part is the delegation piece. It's so easy to fall back on our original skills as developers. And yet, it's more important than ever to delegate those responsibilities whenever possible

[1] https://adamconrad.dev/blog/technical-lead-management/
Debt is simply a way to "materialize" risk. There are certainly good risks and bad risks. Leaving good risks untaken is one way to miss out on experiencing growth.
Also a name clash with Borg the backup utility (which is the #5 item returned from a google search for "borg" for me when I just tested what would come back):

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Funny, I was exposed to more propaganda in university than anywhere else. Are you saying that only humanities majors are educated enough to recognize propaganda?
I'm waiting for the SLS Heavy, with two starship boosters on the side instead of the SRBs.
Austrian Red Cross open-sourced controversial Covid-19 app
I don't like those seemingly arbitrary json operators. ->> #>> ?& @>. IMHO, they'd be easier to understand with proper function names.
I Just Came Home to Sweden. I’m Horrified by the Coronavirus Response Here
A.I. Steered Doctors Toward a Possible Coronavirus Treatment
> once everything goes back to normal.

Dream on. In Alberta, sweet dreams are made of oil.

The Atlantic provinces are still waiting for the fish to come back.

The fish won't come back to the Atlantic, not soon. Big oil won't come back to Alberta, not soon.
I did a lot of interviewing of new grads when I worked at a FAANG. I had the luxury of not needing a prior, and I looked at the resume only after conducting the interview and submitting my recommendation. I rarely looked even then.
The degree might have helped or hindered your getting through the early part of the funnel, but was irrelevant once you got to me.
And, as it always goes with the Gramham's number, all your physical metaphors for how ridiculous small metaphors go are so ridiculous small that if I try to convey the factor with a metaphor it will make almost no difference.

Or, in other words, blowing a kiss against a nuclear blow? That absolutely hugely more relevant than taking the log of the Graham's number. I can't even say how hugely more relevant it is without an almost equally irrelevant comparison.

(And yes, I am certain you know this. It's a pedantic clarification, I hope it made the point clearer.)
Maybe there is a way to pull the raw image off before it gets bayer filtered. It would not be the same but might be closer to what you want since it would be higher res.
That has not been my experience with CSP via Go channels after 8 years of solid use (I still use channels here and there, but not in a CSP pattern). Different strokes, I suppose.
Top-tier law schools get the majority of big law slots and are usually a pretty good balance. Anything outside the top 8-10 law schools and the % of graduates who go on to big law is VERY, VERY, VERY small.
Wow, i never even thought to do this, but i just did and i haven't had such a nice time typing in forever! The instant i turned it off it started typing better. Before now, i always had misspellings due to autocorrect, but not anymore. It's amazing i never thought to do this.

The only problem i have now is with the i not becoming capitalized automatically.
I always found the US model of colleges so outlandishly short-sighted. Problems of non-bankruptcy and wage slavery are just the very apparent outcomes that you would have a system like this.

"Free" education is the only thing that separates us from a dystopian society of social immobility. And hence people in US defend it.

I came from poor background and the fact that Uni education is free allowed me to, first of all, receive it, and also take risks that I wouldn't be able to do if I had to repay a 100k+ loan. These kinds of risks are what in essence allow social class movement, otherwise, we are talking about more comfortable wage-slavery.

On the other hand, belief in higher education wanes, people question if degrees like philosophy are "useful" (whatever that means) and then question why voters have no critical thinking to decide their own future.

I would love to see if there is historical data supporting my intuitive belief that free access to higher education made significant differences in the advancement of otherwise similar nations. USA is throwing its education down the drain and the decay is already visible.