skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Academia don't only train people for academia for the simple reason that there's clearly not enough academic jobs for all of the students who come through.

And the teachers and professors know that.

Here's one CS department which explicitly states how they can help students improve their career changes in the professional world, quoting https://cse.unl.edu/focus-areas :

> The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln introduces Focus Areas for its Computer Science and Computer Engineering majors. The goal of the Department is to equip our graduates with advanced skills focused in specific areas to better position them for successful careers. In today’s professional world, computing and computational problem solving skills are ubiquitously in demand in a host of advanced technology and scientific applications.

And they are far from unique. Here's an English department, quoting https://www.saddleback.edu/la/english-department :

> Of course, the first thing people imagine when they think of getting an English degree is teaching high school. Teaching is certainly a noble profession, but there are many career paths one can pursue with an English degree outside of teaching due to the excellent training provided in this field.

Emphasis mine in both quotes.
COVID is an accelerator, not an innovator

Travel is the big unraveling. Tourism has ballooned since 2000 but it was no longer tourism: how many tourists even talk to locals anymore? Look at Youtube travelogues - how often do you see locals? Tourism degenerated to fodder for the social media/instagram economy and every holiday is the same packaged experience , just different background. That makes it easy to virtualize. It's also fueled by high density urbanization, tiny living spaces in insufferable cities (urbanites travel more). There are entire countries and world regions that rely on tourism, and for them this is going to be the most consequential long-lasting change (also for environmental reasons).

In person entertainment, privacy, work from home, remote schooling, all these have been slowly eating the world.

There s another one: Biotech. We are now testing things like mRNA drugs and antibody therapies at an unprecedented pace. If one of them proves safe, biomedicine will be next to eat the world.

This is not happening at the national level, it's happening at the individual / company level and people are noticing. The overfunded US and China army can't do nothing for the pandemic or the climate, and govt agencies across the world have proven unreliable. The pandemic has been a shitshow for politics / governments and a boon for private initiative, and people are noticing.
My issue with heat management is dust (on fan), also I live in the equator line area that makes it very hot in the afternoon (makes heat sink less effective).

That makes me think a lot before choosing passive or active cooling.

The Flirc case-as-heatsink one seems good tho, and on-line with your statement
CSIRO didn't invent WiFi. CSIRO invented and hold one of many patents used in WiFi. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/04/how-the-aussie-g...

That said, I recall concluding CSIRO were unfairly treated in the patent pool issue, despite the title of the linked article.
googling for film name streaming doesn't work, most of the results are specific to the USA instance of Netflix/Prime, not all content is available globally. Most of the websites that list content are spammy looking.
HTTP: //AI
There is no underlying concept of "free will" just as there is no underlying concept of "a car". They are just names we give to things that appear to be.

Within the experience of consciousness there is a sense of free will. The mind takes ownership of whatever it perceives, and works it into a story, in which itself is the protagonist. So for practical purposes we all behave as if we have free will. It's all just part of the universal dance.
Simply - I can't afford it! :)
Anatomy of RAM
Yes, become heavily moderated is one way but I haven’t thought about it yet, I’m still at the first stage of site development and attracting users. Maybe chats for doctors can solve this in part so that users would trust only moderated doctors.
I smell a burnout, not a small one, but a late-stage one.

I am 48, working on my own bootstrapped projects for 20 years. They are profitable and pay my rent, some travel. Life is good, but I am far from rich.

A few years ago I started to worry about the future because it is getting harder to build something successful and I am not sure this lifestyle will still work in the future.
Next step was losing the fun on programming. Something like a burnout started. But I still marched on hoping the next project would not just be ok but a winner. It didn't happen but I had a heart attack and my private life started to deteriorate.

Now I am doing nothing and try to learn stuff which doesn't have to do anything with computers. In hindsight, I think it would have been better to do this when I lost fun programming.
> most people know they don't know transistors.

We don't know transistors because (guess!) WE WERE TAUGHT WRONG! http://amasci.com/amateur/transis.html

Latest news: apparently Shockley had to distort the explanation of the BJT transistor, saying that it was a "current amplifier," because the FET had been invented twenty years earlier, and FETs are obviously voltage-input devices. Since transistors already existed, the early Shockley transistor patents were being rejected by the patent office for "prior art." They thought the latest device was just another crystal triode invention like the FET invented by JE Lilienfeld around 1923.
I don't want to diminish importance of graphviz, but PlantUML is better suited for visualizing state machines, message sequence diagrams and whatnot.
This is timely for me, I finally am upgrading my original A to a 4! Another advantage of the Flirc case is that it hides the blinking lights which are so tempting for my toddler!
Understanding First Time Manager’s Misery Through the Lens of Math and Physics
I think the concern is less that it contains a virus and more that there will be some weird monetisation stuff going on like selling usage data.
"Central Europe" appears to be the more correct geographical and cultural term:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe

As a German I would never consider Germany to be part of "Northern Europe", that's more fitting for the Scandinavian countries.
My original pi has been corrupting SD cards all the time, especially now that I am running pi hole on it which seems to need more RAM than is available on my old board.
> more recently saw its self-taught agents thrash pros in the video game StarCraft II.

Clarification: DeepMind never fully 'beat' SC2 pros the way they did in Go.

Their AI was super impressive, certainly far beyond any other that has been developed. But they only went so far as consistently doing 'okay' against top tier players on the ladder, and that with some significant caveats to their performance. In particular, it's debatable to the extent that they're overpowering some players through sheer APM, rather than superior tactics or strategy. Yes, this is true even after they put in certain restrictions.

And given their recent silence on the issue, it looks like they may have given up, which would be unfortunate.
> audio through HDMI, and bluetooth didn't find my mouse

Both unsupported.
Another cool digital logic simulator is http://boolr.me/

I played with it while reading the excellent book Code: Hidden Language of computers by Charles Petzold.
Military tech almost always has redundant systems for navigation. The reason why missiles don't prefer GPS or any other radio-based navigation as primary is that it is not reliable and not secure enough. An enemy can disrupt or worse alter the signals to re-target the missile.

yeah, probably my info is outdated. I am not an expert on military tech.
From what I got, the future should look like :
-You choose the RISC-V design first.
-From that design, you choose the fab that will produce the design. Each fab has its own price and trustfulness.
I took letter combinations aa ab ac ... zx zy zz z0 z1 z2 ... Created a file for each letter combination aa.dat ... zz.dat ...

(26 letters + 10 digits) * (26 letters + 10 digits + space/wildcard) = 1369

Peanuts for Apache.

Each of my 10 000ish articles got a single bit in those files where the offset is the article number.

A search query like foo bar would involve the files " f", "fo", "oo", "o ", " b", "ba", "ar", "r "

These are only 8 files! for a whooping 8 kb-ish of data.

We then perform the AND operation. 0000000 01000000 00000000

Remaining articles are pulled [in reverse order] and checked for the presence of the exact phrase or the presence of keywords.

The php then flushes

'<br><a href="'.$articleNum.'.html">'.$title.'</a>'

to the page.

(I also did a version with a file with url's in it. Then the first url is article 1 or bit 1. Fun for stuff linked to from the blog)

For longer articles one could make 3 digit files. 37x37x37 is little over 50 000 files. Each query only involves a few of those.

Sadly one cant push bits to files but for a new article bits are to be appended to each data file eventually. I just add the new articles as false positives until I have a bunch of them.

The advantage of the disadvantage in that each page has to be checked for the keywords is that if it is gone it wont show up in the results. Even a highly accurate search solution shall have false positives.

http://blog.go-here.nl/search-blog.php?q=aliens

view source for laughs
Yes, Biotech will rule this century.
Apollo 15 Mission Anomaly Report No. 1 – Main Parachute Failure [pdf]
In addition to “Woman in the Dunes”, I'd also nominate “The Gospel According to Saint Matthew”. And, in fact, “It's a Wonderful Life” for those who haven't seen it (it's a much more grown up and dark film than you may have been led to believe).
Magit, before I used Magit using git was a chore, now it is a pleasure.
vertical orientation also seems to impact temperature

"""
Simply moving Raspberry Pi 4 into a vertical orientation has an immediate impact: the SoC idles around 2°C lower than the previous best and heats a lot more slowly – allowing it to run the synthetic workload for longer without throttling and maintain a dramatically improved average clock speed.

There are several factors at work: having the components oriented vertically improves convection, allowing the surrounding air to draw the heat away more quickly, while lifting the rear of the board from a heat-insulating desk surface dramatically increases the available surface area for cooling.
"""

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/thermal-testing-raspberry-p...
What impact has the Covid-19 pandemic had on the foster care system?
News on Social Media: It’s not Real if I don’t Like it
Oi, who you callin' "economically less developed"? Italy boomed post-WWII, was in G6 in 1975, and is still very much among the top 8 industrialized countries.

In fact, this narration of "backward Southern Europe" is very much a recent artifact of monetary crisis due to debt, rather than anything to do with industrial output.
That's a good idea. In my case, I wanted a static search that I could deploy next to my content. Cloudflare workers would require a (free) account, but most importantly they wouldn't work full offline. For bigger indices, that would be a great trade-off, though. If you like, you can try pushing tinysearch to a worker using wasm-pack. It's all Rust in the end, so you'd only need to add a `/search` route e.g. with hyper (https://github.com/hyperium/hyper).
If you're willing to experiment with this, don't hesitate to open a pr/issue on Github and we can add that feature.
Isn't the way those languages make concise programs by having short symbols instead of descriptive names?

Comparing NumPy to APL it looks that way.

https://analyzethedatanotthedrivel.org/2018/03/31/numpy-anot...
The article is dated November 22, 2019, which makes me wonder whether it was before the Raspberry Pi 4 firmware upgrade that reduced heat generation quite a bit.

My two 4GB Raspberry Pi 4s have had no thermal issues. Running the same measurement script now, will report back the results.

Edit: Ok, done with the tests. Both RPi4s are bare and should be running exactly the same versions.

RPi4 #1 started at 51C, peak 79C, no throttling at any point. Ambient temperature 24C.

RPi4 #2 started at 54C, peak 82C at which point it started to throttle. Ambient temperature 27C.
Sounds like a crappy sdcard to me. I tossed an older one out recently that would randomly stall during io operations.
I tend to like movies/shows on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics like the movie less than the other users, e.g. The Orville https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/orville

P.S.: And audience score should roughly be above 70.
So now you have submitted this thing three times in 20 minutes. Isn't that a bit aggressive?
There are slogans about this ("free software is a matter of freedom, not price", "software should not have owners") but the issue in practice seems to be that software licensed that way is not very good at attracting contributions or broad support. Also, it's difficult to write a license that has the effect of requiring payment without also introducing the other problems that non-free licenses have: you depend on software that you don't have the right to fix, for example.
Get-command, Get-member And get-help can make things more discoverable.
It should be obvious that money prevents the sorrow of poverty.

"Money doesn't buy happiness" refers to happiness, which is not simply the lack of sadness.

It means that once all the typical material needs are provided, simply having more money does not make people visibly HAPPY all the time, and most people tend to focus on other goals.

This has been proven again and again by scientific research.
I think every developer knows that without open source their abilities would be much worse. That isn't an ideology.
I thought we don’t use fro anymore ;)
https://fsf.org
In a perfect world the cars should be simply "stored away" and the garage area used as a workshop or additional living area, like:

https://www.idealpark.com/Products/Car-Lifts/

https://www.idealpark.it/Prodotti/Parklifts/Parklift-462/

(this kind of stuff is relatively rare even here in Europe, and used only in "luxury" houses or condos in the city center as it is definitely expensive)
Yep. Except that instilling and maintaining institutional knowledge in an employee represents a sunk cost, which means the fewer employees you need for a job, the less it costs, even if the actual number of hours spent doing the job is the same. This is why instead of everybody working 3-day work weeks, we have 40% of people underemployed or unemployed and 60% of people being worked to death.
I am having trouble submitting a direct link to this site, I suppose I could just edit my prior posts though. Also this includes the relevant information about the MX records which I would like to share. ICANN does not allow this by service agreement when you get a TLD however ccTLDs predate this.
You don't have buy all at once, you can't watch all at once. If buying old DVDs and bluray, you can get a lot of movies very cheap. If cancelling whatever streaming service(s) you had, it goes a long way.

I'm much more worried of the day when Bluray and DVD won't be made anymore. Which might be pretty soon. Also storing hundreds of discs is a big chore. I rip everything, but that is beyond the abilities of most and the equipment is becoming even more niche than the play equipment. (Some people don't even know their Playstation can play DVD and Bluray movies!)
expect down vote ... no free speech right!

evolutionist: believe or I kill you(r voice)!
Most of the public is only familiar with colliders like the large hadron collider at CERN. However, most accelerators are much more common/practical than what is going on there.

In terms of research impact, accelerators are our most powerful probes of matter. If you're a chemist, a materials scientist, a biologist, a medical researcher, or any other number of specialists, then you probably want to use an accelerator for your work. Think of them as kind of the foundation of all modern research going on in these fields. It's to the point that one in three Nobel prizes in medicine, chemistry, and physics in the past ~fifty years benefited from an accelerator in some way.

If you want to know what a protein looks like, it's done at an accelerator. If you want to get time resolved structural information about a chemical reaction, accelerators are how it's done. If you're a company or the military and want to optimize a new super-alloy, you do that at a particle accelerator. Most modern research where you want to know what matter looks like on an atomic scale is done at particle accelerators. Not just for pure science, but for industry.

I work at a synchrotron light source and our facility is over-subscribed to the point where we only accept something like 10% of users. Part of that is also industry users who travel from across the world to our facility. During the Covid-19 shutdown, my facility was still operating and being used to study candidate treatments and vaccines.

Besides R&D, accelerators are used in industry, medicine, and security/defense. Food sterilization is done with accelerators. Future semiconductor fabs are expected to rely on accelerators to produce the XUV light needed for advanced photolithography. Most modern ICs use ion implantation at particle accelerators. Accelerators are being studied for fusion/fission power generation. They're used to treat cancer and are also a predominant source of some medical radio-isotopes.

The reason accelerators are important and every major region in the world has one or is building one(including unexpected places like Africa and South America) is because a surprising amount of research and development across many fields can not be done without them.
In India, the YouTube-TikTok Rivalry Turns Nasty
I don't know if you've tried Plasma but it's an excellent DE that hits your "seamless synchronization" and "better UX than MacOS" requirements.

Sandboxed apps are a no-go on a productive desktop. Have you tried using Snaps? They're sandboxed by default, and it's extremely annoying having barriers in the way sharing data between them. Sandboxing is the sworn enemy of composition. It's like keeping all the interior doors of your house locked.

Clearly defined platform / guaranteed to work: Linux-the-kernel provides a binary-compatible ABI. This is entirely sufficient, if you bundle everything including libc. If you don't want to do that, well glibc is backwards-compatible so you can just build against some reasonably old version of glibc and it'll work on any recent distro. This isn't some obscure method - lots of software is binary-distributed this way (Firefox, Blender).

Easily make a commercial product: well, I'm currently using Pointwise and Mathematica on Linux, so it doesn't appear to be that hard.
Yes. The Pi3 could always boot from USB once you enable[1] it. The difference with the Pi4 is that it's initial boot eeprom is now updatable. The first release didn't include the option for USB booting. It has just recently been added [2].

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

[2] https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/blob/master/firmwa...
There's a difference between what people can be made to do in the heat of the action (and it's frighteningly easy given the right circumstances) and what they will consent to when their rational, moral brain is engaged. (Though according to cognitive dissonance theory, the former influences the latter.)

The only axe I have to grind is that this drive to further demonize Nazism, as if it needed any outside help, is utterly counter-productive.

First it prevents us from drawing actual lessons from what happened. In this case, I posit that merely hiding the most gruesome details of the Holocaust was instrumental in allowing it to happen. "I should have known, I could have known, I didn't know" Albert Speer said. It was sneered at as being self-serving, but I think it reflects an important truth: it was rather easy to have people choose to ignore what was going on. They could simply choose to believe that the Jews had gone to live on a farm or something, so to speak, and avoid thinking too much about it at a time when they had plenty of other things to worry about.

Second, it gives credibility to denialists' arguments. For example, they point out that gas chambers look dodgy and extremely unsafe for operators. That's because the Final Solution was initially presented as a well orchestrated, industrial operation that would have required a larger population to have full knowledge. But the current historical consensus is that while it was indeed a massive operation, it was in fact committed with relatively limited resources using leftover supplies.
Currently that user is almost always the administrator (root). BFP is more safe than secure, if that distinction makes some sense.

So it's great because the eBPF verification makes sure that whatever the user loads doesn't blow up the kernel immediately, it's very restricted (no infinite loops, so not Turing complete, can only call predefined API functions, etc). But it still gets JITed into machine code, and still has access to a vast trove of kernel gadgets and data. So it's like a power tool that was designed to be almost impossible to cut your own limbs off with.

But it's still a power tool, it still not something you give to any random passer by.
More importantly, a good specification is one that is triple-checked: by inspection by a human, having the program to conform to it, and by having to satisfy a bunch of nontrivial theorems about the spec that a human would expect from programs conforming to the spec. Sel4's integrity, confidentiality, and worst-case-execution-bounds proofs are an example of this... it's quite unlikely for a program to simultaneously provably satisfy a specification, the specification to provably satisfy nontrivial (first order) properties, and for those properties to nonetheless be defined incorrectly. Obviously there can still be holes in your model (for example, not considering certain side channels), but that's a pretty different situation from accidentally proving a different thing than you thought you were.
My parents were grade-school teachers, and my dad almost got fired for defending the idea that nickel metal is magnetic.

But it's right there in the grade school textbooks! The only magnetic materials are IRON AND STEEL! PERIOD! (Oh and also the blood in your veins is bright blue like paint. And gravity in space is zero.)

Back in the 1980s I decided to do something about this (via science museum exhibit designs.) Then I discovered the great power of "educational memes," like engineering your own Vaccina viruses which spread all through the textbooks, jumping from author to author and innoculating millions of little kids against the bad information.

But to do this successfully, I'd have to write website articles which 1) correct the misinformation in textbooks, 2) didn't draw attention from powerful critics who would put a stop to all that and, also 3) didn't create even worse mistakes!

My first one was this: http://amasci.com/wing/airfoil.html

This "lifting-force counter-meme" has now spread system-wide. Air doesn't split before the wing, then rejoins behind the wing. Instead the so-called"path-length" or "equal transit-time" explanation is wrong, and actually the air above the wing will greatly out-race the air traveling below. The parcels are split, but then they experience significant "phase shift," so they never re-join again (this as long as lift is being created.)
This is true, but better tooled, equipped humans do more work and so you need fewer of them.

When your landscaping company buys an excavator, one person can now move as much earth as 15 people used to. You don't keep the other 14 on the payroll.
How Much Longer Can the Dollar Reign?
Practical Human-Centered Design (Don Norman) [video]