skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Online misinformation can kill people [0] and act as a recruitment tool for Nazis [1].

So? Are those bad things? Is it for you to decide?
Colleges need to change their model and build a "facebook for rich students". Memberships cost $1000 / month, pokes $100, by invitation only.

I 've heard that online classes do not work. Conferences do, however, in fact i think they are preferable. And they get a ton more visibility and attendance too

If there's something about university it's that the culture of curiosity, studying and learning is contagious , and also there's the competitive element which pushes students to perform better. I don't know how you would recreate that in the virtual world. Perhaps with a lot of gamification
> it "just" needs some UI improvements

Yes unfortunately the develops are not receptive to improving this. They feel that any attempt to make it more intuitive or easy to use is dumbing it down. Disappointing.
It all started with Alex Jones, and everyone cheered...

YouTube is a private company, and yes it can choose who it wants on its platform.

On the other hand of the argument. When do we determine that a company's platform has become so big, that it is a public space and it should just "maintain" the platform and make it as inclusive as possible? For example, we had Alexandra Ocasio Cortez blocking people on twitter, and it is a private platform that a public figure is using, however it was deemed illegal, I'm not sure if it is the same thing that happened with Trump and a few others.

I'm not an US citizen, and I don't live in there, however it's so important to see people's views, no matter how stupid or ridiculous it can be. I want to be able to make up my own mind, some views may be terrible and we should be able to hear them. Be curious in pursuing these things.

David Icke, from the little I know is crazy, and says some ridiculous things, but he should have be allowed to voice them.
A key quote:

> As it turns out, there was a little-known Freedesktop-affiliated project called xdg-hostname in 2009 which was a start towards creating such D-Bus “utility daemons” for use in desktop widgets and others, all as a standalone project. Had this been followed through instead of having the utility daemons end up being part of the systemd source tree, a good deal of political acrimony could have been avoided – though at the cost of reducing systemd’s leverage.

That is, if they used xdg-hostname instead, SystemD wouldn't be tightly coupled with Gnome, so users could choose between SystemD and InitV, and all this mess could have been avoided.
Paravirtualization means that the virtualization does not entirely pretend to be real hardware, but has special interfaces that require OS modifications or special drivers to use (although sometimes optional. E.g. KVM offers full virtualization, but also has the option of providing VirtIO devices, which you might call paravirtualization)
> having a reputable college you can put on your résumé.

At what point will firms rank new grad candidates inversely proportional to the prestige of their university?

Prestigious universities equate with more expensive candidates. Many positions probably don't demand skills beyond the ability to write mostly CRUD apps. The pedigree doesn't really matter in that case.

All companies have these roles. Somebody needs to do the mundane work.
Japanese Honeybee vs. Giant Hornet
I think the “30 second finger ECG sampling” is unique to the Apple Watch. Most modern continuous trackers use optical heart rate (PPG) alone. Garmin includes a red light PPG that is used as a Pulse Oximeter during sleep to measure SpO2 and they also continuously monitor Heart Rate Variability (HRV) that they report as stress. Garmin also uses machine learning models to predict sleep stages with PPG data without an EEG.

All of these consumer grade sensors are poor compared to the medical PPG, ECG, and EEG equivalents but they have the advantage of being ubiquitous and continuous. They offer the ability to collect a baseline for our health data that is supplemented with short samples during exceptional events.
Horeshit.

having taken lin alg with Gil Strang and simultaneously watched his Youtube videos, I can confidently say that Youtube Gil Strang clicked while realtime Strang confused.

;)
Agreed. That's exactly why I've been using https://upverter.com Sure it's not as feature rich, but I found the interface much easier to get a hang of that for my small TTL and 6502 projects it's been great. I'd much rather put time contributing to the component library than dealing with a bad UI.
Not all EDA software is like that. I had a similar "sheer cliff" experience to you with Kicad. If you aren't already an EDA expert don't even bother.

I suggest trying DesignSpark PCB. It's not open source, and Windows-only (though I suspect it would run perfectly under Wine). But unlike Eagle, Kicad, gEDA, etc. it has a vaguely sane interface (it's still has a weird zoom though) and beginners can actually use it to design real PCBs.
They exist and cost $10 for a couple of pages, as the OP said.
If you were running a country, would you want your brightest and best people leaving and never returning?

A large proportion of chinese people have to go back to China after being educated, or china will discourage them from leaving in the first place, since it wouldn't be in the national interest.

The US does similar stuff - through their worldwide taxation scheme, they discourage citizens from earning lots of money abroad. They're pretty much saying "if you're successful, we want you to bring those profits back to America".
Maybe you could go with something like the Australian model where Uni is relatively expensive but high quality for international students while it is subsidised for domestic students with interest free loans and direct subsidies on course costs.
Why should the WHO recognize Taiwan as a country when the US, Canada, Australia, Japan and all of Europe do not?

Expecting more from the WHO than you expect from the members who fund it seems insupportable.
A hint as to the US federal infighting is that very few other countries have statues to the side that lost the civil war. Or other similarly traumatic wars; the Communist countries have demolished their statues of Lenin or herded them into museums, even Spain has removed its last statue of the dictator Franco.

(Not to say that you can't see the faultlines in other European societies though. Ireland's parties inherit from her civil war. The UK has not entirely given up on anti-Catholicism, and has forgotten that its own most recent civil war only ended in 1998. I would put money on East vs West still being somewhat live in German politics, but conducted with a good deal more dignity)
Ask HN: Which blogs, podcasts to follow on the progress in AGI?
On the Topic of; Artificial General Intelligence, or Human Level Machine Intelligence...

Do you know any medium blogs etc. to follow the latest improvements, discoveries in AGI research?

How about podcasts, youtube channels etc.?
> They said bans on air from specific places (especially those that disrupt supply chains) are bad.

No, they advised "against the application of travel or trade restrictions to countries experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks." Which is identical with not restricting global air travel.

https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/updated-who-re...

> When this claim was made (in early january), there was not clear evidence of human to human transmission. It was revised a few days later when there was.

True, the exact wording was "no clear evidence", but this is widely regarded as a cover-up, especially because it is known there were attempts at covering up the outbreak.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/who-haunted-by-old-tweet-sayin...

> This isn't what was said. They said that random people shouldn't go out of their way to acquire medical PPE (save it for medical personnel).

Again false. They wrote for individuals without respiratory symptoms, "a medical mask is not required, as no evidence is available on its usefulness to protect non-sick persons".

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/330987/WHO-...

> 4% seems like a reasonable estimate there.

All epidemiologists seemed to have agreed at that time that CFRs were inflated when compared with a more stable situation with more testing kits being available due to the unknown denominator. Simply using the country average was extremely silly data. There were much better data available from Wuhan and that cruise ship.
The idea that technical aptitude is somehow inversely correlated with how much consideration a person should receive is a terrible concept that is constantly used to validate toxic behaviour.

I understand the rationale. We don't need the "filler" or "extra padding", or perhaps the "hand-holding". The fact is, that's all irrelevant. You can easily communicate the exact same information and not be cold and careless about it -- as I demonstrated in my prior comment which I casually typed up in like 10 seconds while getting ready to go out.

When you communicate with people, it affects them in some way or another. As a result, how you communicate makes a big difference, whether on the job or elsewhere. Some people may be more sensitive about that kind of stuff than others. So you "assume the worst", especially when someone is coming to you for help, and you treat them kindly and with consideration.

Great mentors never say things like "your code is shit", they say "this will probably run slower than it could - let's get on a call and discuss this". I understand that communicating like this as a standard doesn't come naturally to a lot of people, but it's not "business standard" or some kind of special ask because of executives or MBA guys. Further, it goes a damn long way with people, pretty much anywhere in life.
Except Adobe had fairly affordable student licenses too, and lots of ways of getting them. (E.g. signing up for Photoshop evening classes for a few weeks could qualify you to get one)
> Ideally we would keep talented people here instead of paying for their education with taxes and have them go back afterwards.

Not sure how Swiss uni financing is setup, but I believe in most countries international (undergraduate) students pay full price so it's hard to argue that the host country is "paying for their education with taxes".
If you already had that feature then you are free to use your 25-year-old solution instead of systemd.
where i am the SE is 500€. Is a LOT more than the 180€ that i payed my xiaomi. I wouldn't really call it midrange... but i guess it depends where you live?

Considering another 460€ for the watch it become very expensive.

Also not long ago 500€ (here) was considered a notch under top of the line.

edit: as a reference, feature phone extremely rarely surpass the 100€ on amazon and are generically around 50-60€.

edit: fix grammar
The inevitable double bind – Surfing Complexity
> I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers

Assuming this is the real true reason (I would trust Tim, but you never know, so just being explicit here), it takes huge balls to do something like this.

The economic loss has to be somewhat taken in relation to your total wealth (e.g. if you lose $1M by quitting but you already have $10M+ in the bank, it's not as hard as if you had zero in the bank), but still... Very few people would have the courage to walk away from big sums of money purely on principle.

Again, assuming this is all true, I admire Tim for this move, and plaude him. I had my issues with Amazon when I was there (2008-2014), some of them made me uncomfortable, but I would have never had the courage to walk away.

It also potentially damages Tim's ability to get hired in the future, as some other large organization might not like his behavior with Amazon and be reluctant to bring him on board. At the same time, hopefully there are smaller startups that want exactly this type of courage and rectitude and will hire him for his talents.

Good luck, Tim.
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Without the benefits you named, I'd argue that you get almost no value out of university. You end up paying a lot of money to teach yourself things. At that point, I'd rather rely on the excellent (free) resources available on the internet. Khan Academy did more for me than my university ever did.
the USSR placed such great faith in science as the saviour of their people and a vindication of their way of life

Perhaps you need to read some history. USSR socialist "science" resulted in a horrendously mismanaged economy and multiple famines (1920s: 5+ million dead; 1930-33, another 5 million; 1946-47: over 1 million dead).

In all three cases, the leading relief efforts (and vast improvements to Soviet agriculture) were provided by those "anti-science" Americans.

Given what a horribly ignorant "anti-science" place America is, it's baffling that so many of y'all want to go there to live.
> and make it as inclusive as possible?

This argument would be stronger if it mentioned all the people chased off these platforms by the virulent toxic supporters of Icke and Jones.
I have the feeling like OPs reputation theory is self fulfilling in the US and a narrow effect that came up with those paid education thing they have over there. It's like that artificial value you get for your extra money. Like wearing the brand of cloth you bought on the outside of it for everybody to see.
My company recently adopted SecureMail, SecureHub and the other Citrix mobile stuff, it seems to sandbox itself from the rest of the system pretty well. It controls which apps you can cut-n-paste between or share links to for example. I think it's uses MDM under the hood to manage data sharing and permissions.
Amazon, Flipkart, Ola and Uber begin to resume their services in India
Assignments are often locked down.
Nice work! The world badly needs a FOSS EDA program that isn't insane.

Any plans for Mac downloads? And also, does its component model separate out schematic symbols and pin assignment (like DesignSpark PCB and I assume others) or are they inseparable (like KicadPCB)?
That's only the reminder in the sense of "I've made other videos before about that" of Mick West. The relevant playlist of Mick West with many videos with detailed analysis is:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-4ZqTjKmhn5Qr0tCHkCV...

For example

https://youtu.be/4Btns91W5J8

Explains how the camera's automatic tracking system contributes to the appearance of movements which aren't real at all.

Or:

https://youtu.be/PLyEO0jNt6M

how the appearance of the "fast movement" is actually due to the plane speed, not the speed of the object observed, which is almost certainly something simple like a weather balloon

...and much more details there.
I feel like there are many more folks that would vote for Trump in spite of Biden "winning" the Democratic nod. 1000% agree that the next president is going to be left holding the bag of sht and get blamed for everything so might as well let it be Trump.
Surprisingly, as an Italian, I know exactly what this means: “wonderful, amazing, perfect”.
Bryan Kaplan argues that the majority of the value of a reputable college is signaling.

> Suppose your law firm wants a summer associate. A law student with a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford applies. What do you infer? The applicant is probably brilliant, diligent, and willing to tolerate serious boredom. If you’re looking for that kind of worker—and what employer isn’t?—you’ll make an offer, knowing full well that nothing the philosopher learned at Stanford will be relevant to this job.

If the value of education was the information taught in the classes or the network, you should see a somewhat linear increase of value as you progress. For instance, after completing your second year out of four, you should receive ~50% of the college premium.

> Most of the salary payoff for college comes from crossing the graduation finish line. Suppose you drop out after a year. You’ll receive a salary bump compared with someone who’s attended no college, but it won’t be anywhere near 25 percent of the salary premium you’d get for a four-year degree. Similarly, the premium for sophomore year is nowhere near 50 percent of the return on a bachelor’s degree, and the premium for junior year is nowhere near 75 percent of that return. Indeed, in the average study, senior year of college brings more than twice the pay increase of freshman, sophomore, and junior years combined. Unless colleges delay job training until the very end, signaling is practically the only explanation

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-c...
Let's go even more general: I would be unable to download PlayStore apps without violating the EULA. Did you know my apartment building's washing machines are literally inoperable without an app? For every app, you need access to the app-store platform. I wouldn't care so much if it's optional. However, we are at the point where we can't use basic household appliances without apps...
As the saying goes "A principle isn't a principle unless it costs you money."

Fair play to him for standing up for what he believes.
Before i had a degree, my father said it's really important etc because of all the things you'll learn. Now after he says it's just about making sure doors are open that would have otherwise been closed.

I guess maybe i needed to do my studies under one set of assumptions to have the motivation. Whilst only finding out on the otherside that those years were really only spent to get me my first job. And now my degree doesn't matter.
Like when I asked my friend when we were kids: why don't you have money? And he said we have money, but it's for something else. I said well what could be more important than this? (Forgot what "this" was, most probably a new PC.)
Exactly the same in Italy. Weird, that.
I Grew Up with Star Wars – Tales from a ‘Millennial Falcon’
Although I welcome deletion of David Icke account, I am afraid that now he will play on a card of suppression, scoring even more points for his conspiracy theories, fueling even more flame of fear and hatred.
I think it's almost exactly the opposite. No one cares what college I went to, but the network I built during my time at University is still paying dividends.
> Embedded makes less for whatever reason.

Embedded goes into hardware, which is mostly a low-margin product. Whereas software products (be it FAANG or startups) either make a ton of money or are perceived by investors to have a potential to make a ton of money, so they can afford to spoil their devs. In the realm of non-product development, enterprise software can deliver milions/bilions in increased efficiency for the enterprise, so it's another field where there's enough money to spoil devs.
Can you expand more on why you feel like these students are being paid for with taxes? My understanding is that foreign students in the U.S. are typically paying massive amounts compared to their domestic peers. If anything they're subsidizing locals (assuming profits are used to expand capacity).
China is not communist, at least not in any way related to the western definition. There is no common ownership of the means of production and there is still very much an independent state, money, and social classification.
It's different if you worked in France though, right? From what I understand, the grandes écoles are very similar. It's not so much that you'll get an education that's ten times better, but you'll have a degree from a school that says you've been selected for leadership.
Some states like CA were prepared

By what definition of the word was CA "prepared"? There was an improved pandemic infrastructure provided under Schwarzenegger, but that was completely gutted by Brown and left there by Newsom.
All of my views come straight from primary sources which I meticulously uncovered, including Debian mailing lists.

I realize that you have been one of the more visible members of the pro-systemd side for years now, so I'd definitely like a more coherent rebuttal to both the historical and technical sections.

Of course, you'd probably consider any kind of response to be undignified, and I understand.
> Why not just refund and let them enroll after the lockout?

Because if everybody does this for everything at the same time the economy will collapse. Thing that can be solve later with a little negotiation should be solved later to cause as little as possible long term disruption.
"Wildly" has the additional connotation of "erratic".
I mind the cringy, boring and melodramatic stuff, but I find that the stuff that does work in his games incredible enough to slog through it.

Planescape: Torment is on a very short list of games where some of the story or setting just randomly pops in my head again. Really one of the best.

The gameplay was pretty awful though, and I never really got into the incredibly cluttered Infinity Engine graphics. Would love a proper 3D remake that either improves the gameplay or makes it even less relevant.
Trump 2020 only since it seems not enough people think we haven't learned sht and hell, think we are somehow a better country because of him. Let it burn and maybe AOC can start with a clean slate in 2024.
The way Linux works now seems sane. You might very well have seen a change in the way Linux works. But when you've seen it change, multiple times, and each time 50% of what you know has to be tossed out and relearned, it gets tiresome. At times it just seems like it's change just for change's sake.

I want to have fun with the computer, not run madly just to stay in place like the Red Queen. Remember to re-read your own comment 30 years from now and see if you feel the same way.
Your sweat could be getting a bit of a current going through it, are there charging contacts near the part of the watch that gives you the rash? Salty water (sweat) and electricity could well be making acid that's causing the rash. Sorry that this isn't really a solution but I find if I don't wear my fitness watch when exercising I don't get rashes.
Subtle difference: YouTube is the biggest TV channel in the world, by probably an order of magnitude.
Yes gEDA is what you want! Each component of gEDA (schematic, layout, etc) works on text files which you can script up easily.
That's a dishonest argument and you know it. The entire home directories thing is aimed at enterprises, and nobody wants to enable it for individuals' machines. Poettering said as much in the talk where he presented it. It would be much more reasonable to respond to people who dislike systemd if they wouldn't constantly make bad-faith dishonest claims about it.
ETH Zurich is is Zurich... Switzerland
> and it takes all its children with it.

Now what happens if it crashes? Repeatedly? Or if a user intentionally manipulates their session to keep running?

Should any user on a shared university computer be able to spawn processes to run for all eternity?

Should your desktop environment crashing lead to all software continuing to run, for all eternity, leaking memory like there’s no tomorrow?
I am doing a course on epidemiology this semester and I find it is once of the best courses I have ever taken, offline or online. It is offered, usually, in both online and in-person formats. It is very well designed and has rich content and opportunity for online interaction. I get the impression the in-person version is just as good as the online one. So why is this one so good when so many suck? Two possibilities:
1. The course has had an online format for several years and is thus experienced with online delivery.

2. It is a well designed course, regardless of delivery format. Which means only a reasonable amount of deliberation and care is needed to make it good for online delivery.

My conclusion is that I don't think the format is the issue. I think the issue is that most courses are poorly designed in the first place. Insufficient effort and resources are applied and the result is crap.

This comes with the caveats that many topics are best learnt in practical settings (chemistry, some biology, arts etc) so they translate poorly to online only.