skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Netflix appeared, more movie watching happend. When MP3's appeared, more music got listened to. But when my school broke for COVID, the amount that got learned dropped sharply. I teach at a college but my wife teaches at a high school and it was the same there also.

OK, maybe instructors are not up on what to do; for sure, I'm not. Maybe it is that the tech is not there yet; it all seems to me to be so static. But perhaps also the great majority of 18, 20, and 22 year olds aren't going to learn the same amount of material if they are at home also working at Target than if they are on campus with someone teaching them. I'll venture that certainly people who have significant socioeconomic and cognitive struggles are going to do worse in a climate where they are on their own. So I worry a lot about what would replace in-person college.

The top post about how a person can make and do wonderful things is ... wonderful. But very, very few people will do it. Not disparaging that poster at all, in fact quite the opposite, just making a historical observation.

> So that leaves the on campus experience, which I personally think is amazing. ... The new ideas from the classes are just a small part of the new ideas you get exposed to from other students and campus events. Plus with the increasing independence, it's a great gentle introduction to adulthood.

Yes, it is great to be given space to grow.

> employers often look for the degree

Yes, having access to a good job is an important part of what people need to get. Of course, there are other things. Some understanding of civic responsibility comes to mind in the current climate, for instance.

Even if we just focus on work, say with a CS degree, evidence to employers that candidates passed being expected to write well in a political science class, to understand something about data in a statistics class, and to have an overview of their field of speciality in a theory class, are things that they may be glad they have in an employee a decade from now. I get that many employers may be looking to what they need now, but I'm only saying that it is not dopey for at least some of them to be thinking along those lines.
Amateur astronomers file class-action lawsuits alleging telescope price-fixing
I can believe there is a correlation between atheism and democratic/humanistic values, at least among modern western intellectuals. But Pol Pot was also an atheist, so it is not like it follows by necessity.

I'm really just pointing out that atheism does not imply any particular philosophy beyond the rejection of religion.

The grandparent comment sounded to me a bit like "I tried not believing in Santa Claus, but it didn't really give my life meaning." Well no, but it's not supposed to!
.cyou domain registrations go live
Not to mention that processing and roasting also changes the bean and the resulting coffee brewed from it.
> By exposing yourself to people different from yourself on vectors that actually bring you together, you also expose yourself to their perspectives, worldviews, and lives.

Your premises do not lead to this conclusion. In fact it leads to the opposite. Facebook does its best that people I meet today are exactly the people I already know and like (pun intended). I don't see a single initiative where facebook even attempts at bringing together people who have only 20% shared views. In fact, at least from what I gather in the news and conferences, facebook wants to match people who have 100% shared views. Because that will drive engagement. People like to see their beliefs repeated and to be frank most social media sites prey on that. The algorithm is matching me to stories which I would like to hear, to people who I would most likely be friends with and groups where I am by default in the in-group. I fail to see how any of this helps me have a diverse exposure.
Somebody paid $185,000 to create the .cyou TLD....
> The writing was on the wall that RISC would win [...]

What do you mean by "win" exactly? RISC is just an architectural choice and means nothing on its own. For reference, Google's TPUs, which - according to Google - deliver 30-80x better performance per Watt than contemporary CPUs, use a CISC design instead [1].

This whole "RISC vs CISC"-nonsense is quite inane, given that it's a design choice that's highly application-specific.

It's even debatable, whether the A64FX can even be considered a "pure" RISC design, considering the inclusion of SVE-512 and its 4 unspecified "assistant cores" [2] ...

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/an-in-depth-look-...

[2] https://www.fujitsu.com/jp/Images/20180821hotchips30.pdf
> But they probably still advertise "latest Intel CPU with xyz GHz and blah blah amount of cores."

From what I have seen of LTT, their biggest criticism of Apple is their tendency to emphasize the turbo boost clock speed when the CPU is nearly always being throttled (presumably below the base clock speed) due to the machine being unable to dissipate the heat.

If you want to see an example of Apple advertising the turbo boost speed in very large print, check out the "Overview" page on the 13" MacBook Pro.
If you're in tech, in Northern VA, and can get a TS you can angle for wayyy more than 10k -- from AWS or others.
buy all the bitcoin you can scrounge up the cash for.
>is what University is for all people

I guess this is a problem of all people, then. You have a perfect opportunity of free time, networking and connection with your peers, if you are not leveraging it it's your own fault.
Does it make sense to name & shame these bad actors?
There's an ISO standard for how to brew tea for laboratory comparison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

Also here are all the ISO standards for coffee:

https://www.iso.org/committee/47950/x/catalogue/p/1/u/0/w/0/...

They don't yet have any brewing standards but a lot of what they seem to do is by nose with green or roasted ground coffee.
This is unethical.
Here's a tangible example of systemic racism in practice:

https://www.revealnews.org/article/for-people-of-color-banks...

The rest of your post appears to be a lot of goofy far-right talking points.
Actually this is not whistleblowing. Technically, you need to have legal access to the data to whistleblow. If you have to acquire access to the data illegally to then release it its just illegal.
- I haven't had any issues with my multi monitor setup and multiple DPI values recently.

- Subjective. I love old Macbook keyboards. I hate new ones.

- WSL2 is available on mainline Win10

- Yeah
I have strong feelings against permanently remote. I feel like this hasn't been fully thought out. Face to face interaction is much more high bandwidth than remote video calls (in other words, it conveys more information). Not to mention that this transfers the costs of office space to the employee, maybe this is why all employers are quick to jump on this bandwagon. Curious to see where this new trend will fall in 2021.
PyTorch Global Summer Hacakathon Launched
Your theory would fail spectacularly if you replace coffee by alcohol.
I'm happy to have discussions with people I disagree with, but generally once you're down the "poverty is good, actually" [0] rabbit hole I think a discussion would be a waste of both of our time.

I think you should be embarrassed at edgelord takes like "I don’t see the value an impoverished set of humans can provide" [1], and I don't have any interest in talking with far-right extremists. Bye.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23591648

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23599938
Once upon a time (aka the early '90s), Gopher and WWW were both simple systems for publishing hypertext. Neither one was appreciably more complex or ambitious than the other.

WWW eventually pulled out into the lead, due largely to licensing considerations; WWW had been developed at CERN, which explicitly disclaimed any ownership over it, while Gopher had been developed at the University of Minnesota, which preferred to leave its ownership claims ambiguous. People gravitated towards WWW for the simple reason that they knew no one would sue them for using it.

As WWW's userbase grew, demand grew as well to add features to it. Mosaic added images and image maps; Netscape added JavaScript; and on and on and on. Eventually WWW grew to the ginormous, do-it-all system we know and (ahem) love today. Because Gopher had been left behind in adoption, it didn't have those pressures to extend its capabilities; it was free to remain the simple hypertext system it was in the early '90s.

I see a lot of people today point to Gopher as an example of what the Web should be. But this misses the point; the Web isn't what it is because of some design decision it made that Gopher did not, the Web is what it is because it had users. The more users there were, the more things people wanted to do with it; and the more things people wanted to do with it, the more features got tacked on.

If Gopher had been the one with the permissive licensing back in the '90s, it's very possible that it would have been the hypertext system everybody used, and today we'd be complaining about how complex Gopher has become and asking "hey, whatever happened to that toy Tim Berners-Lee was hacking on back in the day? Remember how simple that was?"
Traipsing through Street view in VR is even more surreal.

I got my grandma to try it on Oculus and she couldn't get enough. At one point she asked if she could call up my aunt to come at the door when I showed her my aunt's house on the other side of the world :).

I had been getting antsy due to this lockdown, but this made me appreciate my grandma's patience and fortitude even more for being practically locked down for over 10 years. I'm glad I could help her experience cities from all around the world at this age

Oculus TV/YouTube also have a series of immersive VR travelogues, some even in 3D which are even more unreal. There's definitely a lot more reasons to try out VR than gaming, if you haven't already. Especially if you're somewhere you won't be able to realistically step out any time soon
> Wow, I guess I'll just tell my team you want them to die and they should find another job

This is what I told my boss when these orders came down... they are still deciding what to do.

Edit: Be aware, I have enough emergency savings for around 3 years worth of fuck it. I'm not you and you should not be me.
OK, that's probably what I remember then
Aren't companies already paying indirectly by providing free service? I am no fan of Facebook but I am using the service free of cost and in return company collects data for targeted advertising.

Shouldn't this be more targeted at cable companies which collect a monthly fee and again sell your data? And may be forcing Big Tech to provide a paid alternative which doesn't use data collected?
drinking coffee for years made my anxiety levels increase significantly. i started to notice this whenever i get into scenarios where i'm most uncomfortable. it used to be more mild that when i'm nervous, my heart is just pounding but no sweating and i can still hide the fact. now, with my coffee addiction, i get more noticeably anxious, where i have involuntary muscle twitching on my face/hands, more sweating, and it makes it more obvious that i'm nervous.

to combat this, i started researching and led me to matcha tea. i just drink a lot of matcha tea now and i found it helps with my anxiety and i'm generally more calm. it still has caffeine at lower doses so it still gives that caffeine feeling so what i'm feeling might be a placebo but definitely helps.

i did not quit coffee 100% though, i still drink it from time to time but not as often. it used to be > 4 cups of coffee per day (sometimes espresso shots) and now to 1-2 cups every 5-7 days.

i have to say my coffee journey was fun though, for the last 10 years i started from starbucks, to roasting my own beans, to aeropress and drip, to a full fledge espresso machine.
you're mistaken, I'm not complaining.

this thread is about apple margins and people that is arguing they will transfer margins into lower margins. I really don't know why you're arguing about product value. this is the thread starter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23598122

what has your point about prices and product quality anything to do with this?
The implication being going into the office sucks and everyone has to do it to be fair.

I wonder if they're aware of that subtext....
The issue is, I know I would be fired, and cannot afford to lose this job. There is no one hiring in the area, and we're geographically locked due to factors around my child that I don't care to get into here.

So, the answer is yes, but there is no way to do that without losing my health insurance, and probably home. So that's neat.
You need to back that one up.

You're basically saying: "Assume we can eventually manipulate stars, then this follows".

And while that may be true, I'm not willing to grant you your first assumption. Why do you think anyone will be able to engineer a star? What do we have today that makes you think we can manipulate something that we can't even get within a million miles of.
So their calculation is actually for the number of civilizations in the galaxy that are at exactly the same level of technological development that we are. Even assuming that some percentage of civilizations annihilate themselves beyond recovery there must still be a very long tail of ones that only do so at a later date as well as those that do not and those that recover at some later time.
Not sustainably. Giving away product isn’t apples style. ARM will allow for $799 MacBook Airs with better battery life at the same margins as before.
> I would hope it’s well understood... [that racism is]... a net negative for society.

Sure, but there are many racism-adjacent topics that are not so clear cut. For example, affirmative action is a "racist"--in the sense of discriminating based on race--policy, but there are serious, intellectual arguments made both for and against it. I put "racist" in quotes there because there's also presently a debate on the changing definition of racism: is it racist if a policy or stereotype is race-based but well-meaning and positive? Is "power" required, and does this immunize minorities from being racist? Is it racist to criticize a long-held cultural belief or practice such as circumcision?

I think all of these topics are worthy of open and honest debate. (Incidentally though, I think that the best way to shut down flat earthers and other conspiracy nuts is also through open debate...)
Migrating from .NET Framework to .NET Core
There’s nothing illegal, or inherently unprofitable (for the business), about selling people a lifestyle. Louis Vuitton sells people a lifestyle. Harley-Davidson sells people a lifestyle. Apple sells people a lifestyle. All of these companies have products, sure, but the products aren’t really the point.
companies who ask their employees to take risks with their health, without a compelling reason, are destroying any sense of goodwill or morale. In the short term, that change might be invisible, but over the long-term it destroys businesses
If I could swap over to the parallel universe where the big data landscape was implemented in Rust instead of Java, I would make that trade.

Hopefully there would be other good things about that universe, too.
In the current climate, we need less not more of this.
You did it right, with deep engagement. I dropped out of high school to secretly enroll in college. I felt high school was a waste of time, plus my home state is overly Christian and I'm not. I did not care about a degree, I wanted an Education. As soon as I could, I went to Boston and just started taking classes anywhere I wanted with any class of interest. I started with Harvard Summer School and continued with Boston University and MIT for a period of 5 years. I got to participate in the early 3D graphics research community, was a part of DeVanney & Mandelbrot's team that wrote Beauty of Fractals, participated in the AI research of the time, wrote my own 3D animation language, and finally graduated B.U. one semester shy of 4 more undergraduate degrees. I just did what interested me until I was forced to graduate.
As someone else so eloquently explained, this is a form of(perhaps inadvertent) bias given the comparative scale of what we're talking about.
Not you, your parent commenter.
The iPhone SE is $499, and faster than any Android phone ever made.
Ask HN: How do you block email spy pixels?
Perhaps the most attractive feature of hey.com is that they block spy pixels hidden in HTML emails from everyone (MailChimp, Superhuman, SendGrid, you name it). As recipients we have no way to give consent to being tracked if we opened an email, where we were when we opened it, etc. However, the approach with hey.com isn't without downsides, mainly the fact that it reads all our emails in the proxy server and modifies them (removes the spyware).

How do you do this today? Chrome extension? Blocking all images? Do nothing and let it slide?
I sort of agree with the first part but I fail to see how this translates into "great time to buy outdoor apparel ads" when the market leaders are forced to cut spending.
The smoke comes from the chaff of the bean and steam as the beans release moisture. The actual bean never gets hot enough to produce smoke. Unless you over roast, but then your coffee is undrinkable.
I think it's the way it teaches you to build things from ground-up and forces you to understand the principles. I'm reading CSAPP 3rd chapter and it gives me the same feeling.
No, switching the charging did nothing for me or any of my colleagues.

But when I used a MacBook Pro about 10 years ago the machine overheated all the time and burnt my lap. They are just a shitty design, but they look pretty.
I see. I'm sorry you've seen such a drastic change.

I'm 37 now and went for years in my 20's without needing to visit a doctor more than a couple of times in total. I can see some of the changes that come with age but for me they're mostly related to slower physical recovery after exercise and some general wear on knees etc. Common colds might also make me feel somewhat worse than they would have 10 or 15 years ago, but I almost never develop any complications that would require anything else than time, and the change has been gradual enough to make it difficult to judge.
Yes. I worked for a major newspaper and would guess that all the people in editorial make up less than 50% of the staff. You have business, accounting, tech, delivery, support, sales, security etc...
Blender-2.8 drops support for OpenGL 2.1
Deus Ex 2 was not a bad game. Most of the complaints centered around the negative effects of consolization (small maps, reduced detail, universal ammo system) more than anything else.
Looks like 1.0.3 has been updated to "In Review" status.

https://mobile.twitter.com/dhh/status/1275085027613609984
http://archive.is/PNY80
I would love to contribute to Anki, especially learning that it's Rust. I know Anki's time-based space repetition is highly effective for long-term learning, but I've found it frustrating when I or my friends really just needed to cram the night before an exam.

When I am strongly constrained in the time-domain, I've found the older Leitner method to be the most efficient. I also have a lot of difficulty performing this in Anki except by resorting to absurd time controls and manual resets that are difficult to explain to friends.

I'd love to provide Anki with a strict Leitner mode for last-minute cramming. I'm just not sure the Anki project would support this, as I've seen them be fairly dismissive of it in the past.

It's very exciting that this is in Rust.
> Isn't there any study about average executable size when comparing CISC vs RISC?

The RISC-V people have done a few while developing their RVC (compressed instructions) extension; see for instance slide 16 of https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/riscv-compresse... which shows, on 64-bit, x86-64 (CISC) being slightly bigger than ARMv8 (RISC), and on 32-bit, x86 (CISC) being much bigger than ARM Thumb2 (RISC). The main reason is that the encoding of x86 instructions is not very efficient, with rare instructions having shorter encodings than common instructions; an infamous example being the "ASCII adjust" single-byte instructions which nobody uses.
I foresee tech companies creating paid and non-paid versions of their products. If you don't want your data monetized, please pay $50/month for Google Search, GMail, Maps, and YouTube. If you are okay with the value exchange of ads and free services, then you are opting into a mutually agreed upon arrangement with no compensation.
> I like the distinction between a university and an institution focusing on practical higher education

The USA already has Fachhochschule. See: any non-phd-granting regional branch campus of the state's university system. Places like https://www.ucmo.edu/.

The problem is that we don't admit that our Fachhochschules are Fachhochschules, and students at our Fachhochschules therefore often don't understand that they are at a Fachhochschule. People in the US talk about university as if it's one monolith, when in fact we have at least three very different types of universities with very different purposes: elite finishing schools (top-tier LACs and the Ivy League), universities (state flagships and large R1 privates), and applied universities (low-tier LACs and state branch campuses). And then students make dumb choices because all of those universities offer the same educational programs.
In many ways, the worst kind of people to be police become police.
Building serverless Java applications using Micronaut and OpenFaaS
Lessons learned from two failed projects affected by timing and politics
They keyboard is still wrong, and doesn't match the layout.

Plus it seems to disable the switch between windows in the same app.
So looking at anandtech's breakdown the CPUs are closer to a knights landing 'CPU/GPU' than a traditional CPU (currently). They also have a ton of HBM2 right next to the dies so this should be insanely fast as they can feed those cores very very quickly regardless of how fast each core is by clock and pipeline. That should massively reduce stalls.
Author here. AlphaZero.jl supports both Flux and Knet indeed and users can choose whatever framework they want to use.

As far as I understand, Flux and Knet have different strengths. I think Knet is a bit more stable and mature for large-scale Deep Learning, but Flux shines for "scientific-ML" usecases where low AD overhead is crucial.
Screening for low testosterone needed for men at high risk from Covid-19
Ask HN: Tax on Digital Services?
Hey HN,

(Using a throwaway account just for good measures)

There has been some noise around taxation of digital goods across the globe. While the movement seems to have more teeth in Europe, the US is less clear-cut. Some states seem to have pushed through their own legislation, but there is no nation wide system for this [1].

Companies (e.g. Avalara[2]) are trying to offer services to solve this, but does it matter?

The question is: if you're running a US company (10+ headcount) selling software, how worried about this are you, and what precautions have you taken? I'm particular curious to hear what the advice on this is from major VCs.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2020/05/18/calls-for-a-digital-services-tax-intensify-in-europe-as-a-similar-tax-is-struck-down-stateside/
[2] https://www.avalara.com
> Sugar-free drinks that have artificial sweeteners are still sugary-tasting drinks. I think it is actually better overall if folks drop most sugary-tasting drinks in everyday life and save them for occasional use.

That may be a debate worth having, but the sugar-tax debate was framed entirely in the context of the negative health effects of sugar. It's then dishonest and unconstructive to apply the tax to sweet sugar-free products.