skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a developer I'm totally onboard with Flash having died a while back - and these tools educational suites really shouldn't have anything to do with Flash... All that said, when Apple killed Flash they did it unilaterally and really did break a lot of existing systems, if this pandemic was happening a decade ago I'd absolutely be on an Apple hate train since the sudden drop of support forced people to scramble.

At this point though, Flash is known to be dead and buried and folks that haven't migrated off of it have made their own beds[1].

1. ...And unfortunately caused a lot of headache for quite a few parents with multiple children that are trying to let all their children learn concurrently on different devices they have around the house.
It’s not a fair comparison. Companies are forced to go remote and many are doing it quite wrong. Most companies have an immense amount of experience working in a shared space but only a month or two of remote so far. It’ll get better.
That argument doesn't really hold water.

Having an income (via UBI or some other mechanism) would help the poor, that is true (minus the caveat above about economic upheaval). Assuming that said income will reduce economic waste is not at all evident.
Power users are not necessarily devoted to your product, they might just have to use it.

While a feature being targeted at power users is certainly not a reason to swat it down in itself, feature prioritization is usually based on impact. And it's usually easier to get impact by improving the satisfaction of a broader user base. That's why many product people tend to favor optimizing not for power user, not for beginners, but for the average user. (This whole discussion is kind of a red herring tbh).

Of course, you need a balance, and getting people to really love a product often takes things such as smartly implemented power-user features.
Often times a single person in a group working remote can cause problems. It's only when the entire team is remote at the same time, either entirely or partially on the same days, does remote stop becoming a concern in the ways you mention.

Teams tend to do better when they're sharing remote or sharing coming in. Teams tend to do the best (ymmv) when they're full remote but are local, so they can come in as much as they want to meetup when it is beneficial to do so.
i-lv-it, rlly cncise nd easy-t-ndrstnd.
Because the average score should be a 2.0 GPA.

If that university has a better fount of students then an A at that uni is better than an A at another uni. Don’t worry, institutional reputation is already a thing, so that’s not a problem. Grade inflation means you have no idea how poorly of well someone is because everyone gets a “participation” score.
i agree, and thanks for your charitable reading (re-reading what i said, i actually hate the way i said it).

> love is entirely rooted in lower cognitive states

you likely already know this, but emergence adds a famous corollary to what “rooted in” means:

> Downward causation can be defined as a converse of the reductionist principle: the behavior of the parts (down) is determined by the behavior of the whole (up), so determination moves downward instead of upward. The difference is that determination is not complete.

It gets into an example that makes this sound less mystical. But applying that here, “love love” abstractly might be the higher signal abstraction for understanding “lower cognitive states”, because the lower stuff emerges higher stuff that constrains its behavior using higher complexity rules.

[1]: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/DOWNCAUS.html
I generally don't like to say people are making things up, however there is a lot of mythology around how much work IB students do. I've frequently seen IB students while I was in undergrad boasting about their level of proficiency, despite it seldom being supported.
I had a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition back in the day, and if I recall correctly, it had twice as much RAM available as the OS exposed, and you could load a third-party assembly program that would wire up a specific hotkey to essentially swap banks of memory. This way you could have what appeared to be a clean calculator with no programs on it, then swap over to the other memory bank and all your programs would be accessible. Even telling it to clear RAM would only clear the current bank.
Iirc it was close to 40-50% of their staff.

They have sales and customer support. They also don't have a (sizable) network of 3rd party developers yet, and had a lot of staff internally working on content for the platform.

In addition to the fact they design their own hardware, they manufacture and test it themselves too so they have supply chain/logistics to worry about, QA and test development, factory workers/technicians, etc.

Of all the "how does X have so many people?!" ML makes the most sense. It's hardware, not easyware.
non-paywall: https://archive.vn/145aA

Also note this article is from 2019.
Many comments have pointed out that pay is determined by the cost of replacement.

For employees at an office in SF (or Seattle or NYC or London or anywhere else), the relevant cost is how much they have to pay to get someone else in that same city. Hence, for non-remote workers the pay has to be high in high cost of living places.

Many people seem to think that when the same principle is applied to remote work, that means the pay should depend on the cost of living where that particular remote worker lives.

Is that actually the correct application of that?

If a remote worker in, say, Tulsa, OK quits and the company wants to replace them with another remote worker there is no reason they need the replacement to be in Tulsa, OK. It should be fine from the company's point of view if the replacement lives in Boise, ID (which has a lower COL than Tulsa), or Salt Lake City, UT (about the same COL as Tulsa), or Spokane, WA (higher COL than Tulsa).

So why should they offer more for workers that happen to live in Spokane, about the same for those in Salt Lake City, and less for those in Boise?

It seems to me to make the most sense from the company point of view to consider all remote workers to be essentially in the same location, and how much they pay should be what it takes to attract the number of qualified remote workers that they want to hire.
realtime systems. avionics, robots, radar processing, low latency network appliances, trading platforms...
> It’s just hard enough to type a sentence on the TI-84 that nobody would bother

Are you sure about that...
> That video doesn't strike me as particularly flattering.

What about it struck you in such a way? It looked rather clean and elegant to me.
There’s really only so much you can do to train small children to be quiet. My oldest is almost 4 and she’s just now getting to the point where she’s able to be quiet on her own for extended lengths of time. My younger kid is 18 months and when she’s awake there’s basically nothing that can stop her squawking.

We are moving to a house next month with a separate office space on the other side of a 2 car garage from the main house. I am beyond excited.
Yeah, if it's five, then each person is paying less than $1,000 for rent. That's really not bad at all to live in a city. And if they're splitting an entire house amongst them (vs the 3 bedroom apartment flexed to a 4 bedroom that I was living in), then their living situation is going to be quite pleasant.
The One Advantage That Rules 'Em All
Technically, many microphone types (MEMS, and electret) are a sensing membrane which are always reacting to the air pressure changes ( and other energy transfers - depending on microphone technology) regardless of being “on” or “off”. It’s technically always “hot” even when muted by software - which is why software mutes and software controlled LEDs can’t be trusted.

The safest way to disable a microphone is to physically disconnect the microphone, which is offered on some modern devices (hardware kill switches) - but isn’t an option on any device I personally own or have ever owned.

I know of patent pending ways I invented to disable the microphone - but it’s an extremely hard problem to solve. Attempting to isolate/insulate/block the microphone are futile or impractical due to the amount of sound reflecting/absorbing material you would have to attach to your Mic.

Do you think a company could make money selling the intellectual property to externally “kill” a MIC without harming it in our current society? My company doesn’t seem to think so :(
Writing actual CSS is the waste of time. SASS variables, mixins, and the "&" operator are pretty much indespensable.
Why can’t you take the post of others as exactly what you’re saying: that person’s opinion on office life?

Why continue engaging in a circular argument about individual preferences if you’re saying it’s subjective?

If it’s subjective why must a norm either way be a thing? Isn’t that putting pressure on people that DON’T want office culture?

You’re the one making how they phrased a comment a blanket statement. I’m inferring it as their personal preference alone. Detach from semantics and literally perceive it as another person typing text into a box.

It’s silly to expect everyone to language in a vague way so as not to appear too opionated based upon your sensibilities.
Thanks for the Alan Kay talk, I really enjoyed that.
This is the elephant in the room here.

It's a basic good, but its price is still very much driven by supply and demand.
I love how the last git commit is dated "Feb 11, 1983"
Ok so developers would normally just have an external build target selected as the active target? I assume this means you lose all of Xcode's scheme editor capabilities though.
In spite of having a launch model PS3 I wasn't able to claim my $9 of PSN credit or whatever; iirc you had to prove you had installed linux before a firmware update vaporized it.
But many, many important applications are not mass-market.
The other similar language to Finnish is Hungarian (that and a language spoken in Mongolia). My wife is Hungarian, so I have some exposure and I think the grammar is probably simpler in some ways (no "perfect" tenses for example), it is the spelling that probably would push it over the line.

Spelling in English is an atrocious amalgam of contributions from a number of languages. My son is learning that in school so I am getting a front-row seat to that (especially given me out of work and remote schooling). He is constantly running into places where the rule he just learned does not apply.

Oddly, I have heard the argument before that Japanese and Chinese students are at an advantage due to the complexity of writing their languages. The argument being that their brans are being trained by that to work harder. I am not sure I buy either argument.
Indeed, I briefly mentioned my service work with my church in my interviews as a part of an overview of me; it led to some of my larger accomplishments I wanted to highlight. In most interviews, this resulted in me getting a look like I'd just grown a third eye. This after reading web pages full of smiling, multi-cultural faces that lectured me on just how diverse and open-minded students and alumni were at these universities. I'm a bit baffled; when did attending church become unusual in America?
Yeah, I also went to $GOOD_UNIVERSITY (in the UK). There were a lot of private high school students, but what stood out to me even more was the level of resourcing and support that the state schools that some students had gone to had given them.

A lot of these "good state-funded schools" pushed people to specific A-levels that looked good to universities, and had coaching on the university interviews and entrance exams (not to mention a much higher standard of teaching). These schools regularly had 100+ students a year get into $GOOD_UNIVERSITY. In contrast to my school that 2 people go in my year and none some years, and and couldn't even work out which entrance exams I needed to be entered for (which they had to do on my behalf).

I don't agree that the SAT is helpful though. These kind of standardised tests measure ability to prep far more than they measure intelligence. In my experience the universities are actually putting quite a lot of effort into making their courses widely accessible (setting lower entrance grades for people from less good schools for example). The problem is really with vastly uneven quality of teaching at the high school level which means that some students really are a lot more prepared for the courses than others (even if that doesn't reflect base level intelligence).
Completely agree. That's all I've been doing while furloughed and it's actually given me a lot of time to dive deep into things I didn't previously have the time for (AWS CSA Associate studying via Linux Academy and a Coursera Product Management course).

As long as your basic necessities are covered (food, shelter, etc.), this is a great way to go.
I think it’s fair to say that both numbers represent a measure of different ways that the pandemic has caused pain and suffering, whether it’s in terms of lives or livelihoods impacted.

We obviously need to deal with both problems concurrently. There are a lot of actions that can be taken which can help one which doesn’t come at the expense of the other, so it’s not purely a either-or decision.

It would be wrong to turn a blind eye to either effect. The death toll is an immediate concern, but so is a functioning food supply chain, and indeed a healthy economy is critically important to everyone.

No having lived through an economic collapse or a hyper inflation event, for example, it may be hard to appreciate how difficult (and deadly) that situation can be.
> panicked elites, rushing to the "side door" of the UC system

Speaking as a graduate of the UC system, I doubt "elites" are clamoring to get their kids into it.
People are worried about economies not for some abstract reasons.
Bad economies literally kill and have a potential to kill much more people than Covid-19.

From what I gather, the scale of current economic damage is seriously compared to the Great Depression in mainstream media[1][2].
Well, the Great Depression brought Nazi into power in Germany[3], WW2 followed and took lives of 70-85 million people[4] to say nothing of the post-war devastation.

Or look at Venezuela for an example of a bad economy in modern times, where "families buy rotten meat to eat"[5].

Also, if you ask families of people who will die because their cancer wasn't diagnosed in time, they will probably consider lockdowns too excessive[6].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/unemployment-today-vs-the-gr...

[2] https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-economic-cost-and-hum...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#Germany

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MGbyLUCw5k

[6] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-52747659
Here today, gone tomorrow. Like AOL, Myspace and Compuserve before them.

TikTok doesn't have anything other than a fleeting fascination with today's youth. As they age, the next generation will find something else.

Does TikTok even have assets? real estate, manufacturing capabilities, intellectual property ... oh and paying customers?
> First things the vast majority of users (virtually all) when they see an old ugly GUI is to hit the back button.

These aren't public facing apps you have to entice people to use, it's part of their job, if someone hits the back button and refuses to use it they're fired. Modern user friendly versions typically have half the functionality and take longer to do anything, they're universally reviled by people that took the time to learn the old green screen versions.

> Decent SPAs don’t take 15 seconds to load and they don’t break the back button. Stop spreading FUD.

Decent SPA's are few and far between, they take extra work to get this functionality that was free before SPA's.
Proponents of UBI were ALWAYS a coalition of different people who came from different ideological backgrounds and believed different things.
> if I didn't have a private tutor if I could get a perfect score my chances increase.

Sure and if you never played basketball ball but hit a 3 pointer on your first try 100 times in a row you could play for the golden state warriors.
All the justifications of "salaries are just supply and demand" are evil to me (not that I'm saying facebook's choice here is evil). Yes, they'll often pay you the least they can get away with. They'll also treat you as badly as they can get away with.

Treating people as badly as you can get away with is not good, even if it's a natural product of supply and demand.
Looks like it's the WPBT ACPI table again. Lenovo was caught doing the same back in 2015: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nas...

Windows will just blindly execute the binary from the WPBT table on boot. Specifically, it's done by the Session Manager, the first user-mode process (%SystemRoot%\System32\smss.exe).

The WPBT table is dumped as %SystemRoot%\System32\wppbin.exe and then executed.

This behavior can apparently be disabled by a registry setting:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager]

"DisableWpbtExecution"=dword:00000001

The previous time this happened, didn't Microsoft promise to keep this behavior on by default only in a corporate setting? Or maybe I'm misremembering.

(Edited to add more details.)
For more information on why this happened check out Richard's blog post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-so...
Hi, quick question - do you think stalking and harassing moderators will get me unbanned?
As soon as I saw this, my first thought was "where did my HP-49G+ end up?"

Looking at the DM42, it'd probably be good enough for the "not going to use Matlab for this" day-to-day math, but man did that '49 save my bacon a lot of times. Nothing like being able to readily invert a big system of linear equations and take integrals during an exam!
Guests have to be invited to individual pages though, right? So this means I still need to either invite my spouse to every single shared page (which is problematic if my spouse wants to create a new top-level shared page in my workspace), or nest all the shared stuff under a single top-level page which is annoying (and hurts navigation on mobile).
Accenture, accelerated: Three years of transformation in three months
You're still supporting that computer knowledge of what image file formats are and how to convert them should be part of the test. They can learn that later when their high school or college makes them take basic computer classes (hopefully), right now they just want to upload their image.

Either Apple or College Board is at fault here but it isn't the user.
Such a move would mean I would never have been admitted to university, and I don't think I'm alone.

I graduated third from the bottom of my class from High School and had enormous difficulties with a school system that was adversarial to me throughout my childhood.

In my public elementary school my principal deceived state officials to try to put me into special ed. She was admonished after it was revealed she hid my Iowa standardized test scores from state officials.

In my public high school, my teachers and administrators were given my elementary school file and treated me similarly. I was forbidden from taking AP classes or even taking the exams with self study. After I graduated, my high school refused to release a copy of my file to me, saying they had destroyed it mere weeks after I received my diploma.

Standardized tests were the one opportunity I had to demonstrate I didn't fit my grade point average or what I'm sure would have been derogatory information provided by my public school to any university I applied to.
Atlanta isn’t SF, though.
Something I find interesting, the excess mortality charts in the article only go down to zero but if you go to the euroMOMO website you will see that for France and Spain we are well into the negatives. France is almost at a score of -10 which is a lot lower than any historic data.
But that's not what the test is about. It's not a category on the test.
A noinline inline function? What sorcery is this?
Need more LVADs
> when I came to London about 10 years ago

Surely not London, Ontario. Wouldn't work in any city on any time.
But if employees work remotely anyways, why does it matter where the employee is (as long as they can work the same hours, so within a few hours of the same timezone)?
> Or you just run the installer in a sandbox/container, as has been possible for at least a decade in all major OSs

The level of technical know-how necessary to accomplish that is astronomical compared to "here's a link," especially since it's cross-platform out of the box. That's why it's a no-brainer: any sane person is going to prefer that over installing untrusted software. Basically zero users know about the sandboxing solutions available for their system, much less willing put in the effort to Do It Right.
> However it has been my experience that whenever an explicit test or hierarchy is removed another shadow one builds up that is more subjective, more biased, and more subject to abuse.

Many people seem to take as given that college admissions should be about "objectively" choosing the most deserving students academically and/or extracurricularly. That is not a complete picture.

At the top schools, there's a big focus on constructing an incoming class with students that are likely to succeed both in college and post-college, such that the class is likely to include future stars in law, medicine, business, academia, etc., likely to be able to contribute money or prestige to the institution in 20 years -- these correlate with high school academic performance, for sure, but they also correlate with who your parents are, what types of activities you choose to engage in, your internal initiative and knowledge of yourself, etc.

Of course, there's no way to know all this in advance, so admissions officers use a very noisy process to try to guess. That the SAT is game-able with money makes it a less useful indicator, because it starts to correlate with wealth rather than academic ability. Wealth already has plenty of proxies that are visible in the application file, so having another indicator of it is not super helpful.

> it also meant that if I didn't have a private tutor if I could get a perfect score my chances increase

Sure, if admissions officers ignore everything else they know about you -- which they don't!
You're right. It's difficult to get right. However, it is totally worth it. Once you get it working it just works.

I wish a standard set of higher abstractions existed on it though. Celery, from what I hear fills that gap very well in the python world but nothing like this exists in Nodejs land which leaves the room open for a bunch of redis-backed solutions which are pretty fragile in comparison.
With admin/client part builder, all open source and can be self-hosted:

(Node) https://strapi.io/

(PHP) https://directus.io/

(PHP) https://getcockpit.com/
The first is probably Fraud by False Representation if you do it in England and Wales. ("Made a false representation, dishonestly, knowing that the representation was or might be untrue or misleading, with intent to make a gain for himself or another, to cause loss to another or to expose another to risk of loss.")
If a prerequisite to making progress on your work is getting an answer to a simple yes/no question within minutes, that's a fundamental problem with how you're planning your work, not some commentary on the nature of 'active' vs 'passive' jobs.

Expecting instant answers from others is the WFH equivalent to "I love being able to walk to my coworker's desk and ask them questions!" Sure, because being able to do that lets you off the hook for needing to break down large tasks into parallel chunks, plan phases of work in advance, juggle multiple plates for when you are blocked, etc. It's making your job easier at the expense of everyone else around you, by basically outsourcing part of your job.

WFH is a mindset shift.