skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the initiative as I think it can make for a positive push, but I have my misgivings as well. It feels like a push into the bootcamp space and with it, I immediately wonder about accreditation in the legal education sense.

- How will schools view these certificates?

- Do they count as credits in any form?

- Is this just Google’s play into the certificate space like Oracle, etc?

I wonder because of this line:

> ... at Google we will consider our new career certificates as the equivalent of a four-year degree for related roles.

This is coming not long after Google says that they don’t care about degrees anymore in their hiring process. A positive take on this statement would be that they are trying to signal to the rest of the industry that there are other ways for people to prove their skill other than university degrees. A negative reading is that Google is now simply moving towards using their own testing system as a signal for candidate screening.

As with many large companies, it’s hard to understand their motives underneath all of the PR.
Shopify is profitable[1] even with the high levels of growth they are undergoing. There's little reason to think BigCommerce would be anything else.

Most commerce companies don't want or need complete control. They want a unique look and feel (which Shopify/BigCommerce gives) but beyond they they want reliability and ease of integration with things like stock control.

[1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200212005238/en/Sho...
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This is such a good example on why security is hard.

I mean, good intentions, should've worked, but a single mistake wasn't discovered among all of the features involved in locking it down as hard as possible.

Security is a fight nobody can win, because it's an N-1 relationship of reassuring your own mistakes vs. finding a single mistake as an opportunity.
> ... we will consider our new career certificates as the equivalent of a four-year degree for related roles.

For me the key question is this: what's will Google's job acceptance rate be for Career Certificates vs Bachelor's degrees? If they can get it to 1/4 the rate for a university education, then it seems like it has some value. Otherwise, this is all just a scam.

Good on them for the other things though.
I had this exact same thing happen with the Powerbeats Pro. A buzzing that would change in intensity relative to head movement. No music. Annoyingly I noticed just before I packaged them to return that they were working normally again. As expected they came back untouched. They’ve not done it since but now I feel I own a pair of time bombs.
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Sketchy or not, they're using the same immoral and parasitic principal to operate. I mentioned in another post how usury is so ingrained in today's financial systems by means of bonds, options, CDs, debt for debt, and so on. It's not trivial to explain in a paragraph or two.

By issuing debt, especially when not in dire need, the borrower is enabling others to engage in said parasitic practices.
The Feynman story:
https://books.google.ch/books?id=_gA_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT109&lpg=P...

As for the daily shower, these days I guess a class distinction is between whether one showers before or after work. (idem for hand washing and urinals?)
A decorator that checks if the user is logged before running a GraphQL mutation.

@login_required

def mutate(...):
I remember one keynote where he was talking about slowing PC sales and a huge rise in iPad sales (tablets were relatively new back then). Yet he didn't credit the two most obvious reasons - market saturation (everyone already has a PC) and slowing upgrade cycles - today's PCs are "good enough" for many more years than they used to be, as hardware improvements have stagnated.

Years later, the same kind of slowdown happened with tablets (especially Android tablets which are basically dead, but iPad wasn't completely spared either), and will eventually happen with smartphones as well.

The "we are now in a post-PC era" hype of 2010 (after the iPad's release) has eventually led to many "tablets are dead" articles by 2016.
This is absolutely devastating.
Primo as fk I see
Unschooling doesn't imply a lack of involvement but rather a lack of structured teaching.

Unschooled adults I've met all had very busy social lives as children.
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We’re talking engine and transmission at minimum.

Torque from an electric engine is insane. Tesla prototypes literally tore the transmissions apart. This is why a Tesla has the second fastest 0-60 time of 2.28 sec, and the low-end model (Model 3) still has a quick 3.0 sec time
I think the same thing happens with most honest wine studies. The truth is there is a huge range of quality in wine and most people agree when blind, but the quality is completely uncorrelated to price.
I agree with this. It should have measured the correlation between parents' degree of formal education, attitude to raising their kids.
The other typical retort is this: in the real world, you often have to do boring and unpleasant tasks, and unschooled children are therefore unprepared for the real world, since they spent all their time doing whatever they want.

The people who make this argument overlook the fact that coercion is not required for someone to be motivated to do unpleasant tasks. If you have a goal, you will be motivated to do the tasks that help you reach that goal. It's pretty much never the case that those tasks are uniformly pleasant for any nontrivial goal. And I don't believe that coercion is required for children to form constructive goals. I know I certainly had goals as a teenager that motivated me to do much more difficult and substantial things than anything I encountered in school, and in this case the coercion was in the opposite direction.
I would not be surprised if he is diagnosed with COVID-19, it can cause blood clots that obstruct blood flow.

"Severe brain haemorrhage and concomitant COVID-19 Infection: A neurovascular complication of COVID-19": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199686/
The word "bank" in the first sentence [0] links to the Wikipedia page for JP Morgan, so I'd wager it is Athena.

[0] "There was one remarkable legacy system when I was working in a bank sometime back."
Lenovo just released the Thinkpad X13 (an AMD version of the X1) for the first time. It has a 10/25w TDP 44/46/4750U. I think the focus right now for the lower TDP chips is laptop computing because that's where you'll see the most improvement. I've been following the market for the past 9 or so months because I need a new machine and both Intel and AMD have taken that strategy. Look at the ASUS G14. A laptop that can nab 10h of battery life on a 76 watt x h battery because its workstation (H, not U) series processor is only pulling 10W. And it benches close to a desktop 10th gen i7 at full power. It's getting exciting.
> How? Unless the compressed air thruster is also going to take complete control over the cars handling... how is it going to overcome the limiting factor of the 4 contact patches your tires need to keep the car pointing in a given direction?

I guess we'll have to wait and see how it's implemented.

My understanding is that there are really only 2 times a hypercar is traction limited: accelerating from 0 and breaking. I suspect that those are going to be the only two times the system will kick in and have meaningful impact on the car's performance.
Re-enforcement learning would be fun on this one.
Piracy has always been rampant at companies, sure now days its too easy to track but in the beginning we only had good piracy bandwidth because so much of it was done on company dollars. With the good eyes of CEOs, sure it was cold hands when they got raided.

I never do personal stuff on company time/equipment, just seems stupid. I'm not sure I think it should matter though...
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23828444
Nice! I use Fedora Silverblue and Emacs. Since Silverblue uses toolboxes (OCI containers), it would be nice to put most config codes into projects and set up one toolbox for each of the projects. That way, I can start working on a new computer in 10 minutes, without setting up all those environments.

fw seems to make this more feasible.
You might have smelled it more often than you know. It's still common as a perfume base note.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_(perfumery)#Base_notes
Check out https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html
I worked for a large cable company and usually once a week, a thumb drive went around with all the latest pay per view movies on it. Folks from every aspect of the business were apart of this, people who worked in security (had to get rid of logs), people with access to the files (stored in s3 buckets), and people with the decryption keys (set top video app guys). Once the videos were decrypted once, they were converted over to a normal mkv file. I wasn't in the right groups as I had been waging war on the people who were just comfortable at Charter. My team had their own supply of video sources, which was generally things that weren't even ppv yet.
Quantum Body Scanner? Promising as an Innovative Cancer Scanner
So, so sad. I absolutely loved Grant, in Mythbusters especially.

This is hitting me hard.

Fuck 2020.
One of his most recent creations was a Baby Yoda! So sad to hear of his passing, like many others here I was inspired by him and still aspire to be a creative coder and builder like he was.

https://youtu.be/I7P4frD_GiE
> Its very easy to build a highly customized and resilient system using cloud offering combined with these open source systems.

For you, maybe.

Odds are for every person with the knowhow to do this, there are 100+ who don't even know what "open source" is, let alone have the skills and understanding to even attempt what you describe.

Even among those who know what it is and might consider doing it, some portion rather spend their time selling their products (aka making money) rather than doing a bunch of things that might get them ready to make money at some point in the future.
I think they are already doing stuff like that.
Armed with science, engineering, and curiosity, the Mythbusters crew inspired a generation. Embrace the Scientific Method, and you just might solve any problem that comes your way.

Still to this day, my friends and I consider the Mythbusters as the final word on so many "myths".

Grant's clever use of robotics, sensors and code opened my eyes to a world of possibilities. I still remember the first time I read a temperature sensor on an arduino. Here I was, interacting with the real world, using just a few components and some code... solving no problems but feeling invincible nonetheless.

Thanks Grant for inspiring me, and many more like me. There are so few that inspired so much.

Rest in peace.
I know someone I'd like to send this to. Did anyone see an application link? I didn't see anything about applying for the scholarship in the article.
RIP. He was my favorite person and in my opinion, most talented on the show.
Exactly.

Often you don't have to educate kids if they don't see education as a chore.

Restricting things like television and access to video games can lead to boredom. Boredom is a gift that leads to socialization or exploration.

Many of these 'elite schools' are possible to transfer into, and a bigger predictor of success than prior learning is wanting to explore.
Yep, typically phone companies put mobile internet behind NAT, exactly this is why I tested it, as I knew it will be false positive. ;)
I also ran flash on a HTC Wildfire around 2010. Flash sucked and drained the battery. But it was great to be able to access flash content. At that time, I frequently stumbled across content that I could not access otherwise. I was very happy that I was able to access it on my device, despite the crappy flash experience.

Take that as a data point that Flash on day 1 would have been good at least for one user. :)

Apple's decision probably still benefited the ecosystem as a whole because it drove the adoption of flash replacements.
Except there was no faked value injected anywhere, all tethers are 100% backed by USD in the bank. The reports are fake news. If it were not so, the freely traded tether/USD value would be below 1, but it isn't, it's traded at exactly 1.
My personal experience as a freelance wordpress tuner.

Part of the problem is the drain of the plugins they load up, but invariably Wordpress would be far less useful to them without those plugins, so they just end up wrestling with it all the time wishing there was an alternative.
This is why I hate certifications.. I’d rather people actually talk to candidates rather than bin applications because of pieces of paper
Sounds very interesting, thanks for sharing. Do you have any more information or perhaps a URL to a write-up for this? Or do you remember the challenge name?
I think my interpretation was a little bit different on the first read. But looking back at the original quote, it does say "playing small" -- as in, pretending to be smaller than you are. I agree with you that that shouldn't be necessary.
To me at least, anything longer than 1 'idea' must be put together in language. For example, I couldn't think of a mulți-step algorithm or a plan or even a recipe without putting it in language.

Still, I think Chomsky's idea, as far as I understand it, is that there is a level of language that is not immediately accessible to us, where basically your mind constructs a concept tree that can be 1:1 mapped with the syntax tree of the phrase that it could be used to represent. The strucutre itself is the same, but the thought process works with internal concepts, while the expression in external language works with English or Japanese words. The brain would work with this tree internally, applying well-defined transformations to it, merging it with other similar trees, embedding it etc. ; this would happen both consciously, semi-consciously and unconsciously to different degrees. In the end, when a plan is formulated, it can be acted upon directly, or it can be communicated to others, by encoding it in English or Japanese or Sign Language etc.

Note that I am not claiming to have studied this seriously, so this is at best a layman's understanding from watching a few lectures. Chomsky also is careful to mention that his idea of language as the mechanism primarily for thought is a fringe view in linguistics, though he strongly believes some version of it will come to be accepted as correct in the future, as the field matures.
China ;) they build a hospital for few thousand people in a few days
Does it?

Having worked with robotics in mfg, part of the cost is stiffness. A stiff arm and mounts means repeatable actions.

In the video this thing was flexing all over the place. It’s cool, no doubt. But it seems a well placed LEGO could nearly shut it down.

I’m not seeing 18k as “cheap” in any sense here. Maybe I just don’t understand the business model or what goes into this.
Sorry but that’s flatly silly to encourage an accelerated timeline for a couples marriage
The deaths coming back up in the last 2 weeks, so far consistent with 1 month lag.

If you are right and that’s what Wall Streets is looking up to, they are in for the big surprise in the next two weeks.
>No way Apple is shipping that in their first MacBook ARM...

No doubt. However, I don't think the article is so much "getting it very wrong" as it is working with what they've got. We've seen what a 10-18 watt soc from apple can do in the iPad. And it's pretty cool. But the point is it's not truth defining jaw dropping revolutionary. We can look at what AMD is selling right now. It's also pretty cool and starting to turn some eyeballs. It's very unlikely Apple is going to release something that outright spanks the status quo. So my expectations are that whatever Apple releases will be competitive with what we currently see from AMD and, maybe, with what we'll see later this year. That's all. I'm skeptical that the shift to ARM is the crux of the matter, is all.
> Support agreed that this is a problem and sent a new AirPod.

I've had this problem with companies, too.

I owned a Belkin router. If the microwave was on, WiFi devices "connected" to the router would lose the connection. The router's front panel LED would go from green to red.

When the microwave was done, sometimes the WiFi would recover … sometimes it wouldn't.

Support agreed that this was a problem and sent me a new router.

It, of course, had the same issue. I sort of understand the WiFi and the microwave interfering. I do not understand why it should persist even after the microwave is off.

Oh well. I later changed to Comcast's router. If you enter in WPA2-PSK key (not a password, an actual key) and you power-cycle the router (which happens automatically on occasion) the router will reset the key to the factor default password. But only the password/key changes, not the SSID or any other settings.

Support agreed that this was a problem and sent me a new router. (I… actually didn't want a new router, I just wanted to make them aware of the issue, but okay.)

And yeah, that one of course does the exact same thing because it's a software bug, not a hardware one, and I'm the only person on the planet choosing a key by random generation.

So now I feed the output from urandom through base64 to make it a password, which goes through whatever KDF (at least, I hope it's a KDF, but my gut doesn't trust WPA2 that much) WPA2 uses just to get random data into more random data. Or, IDK, perhaps I should just give up and declare WiFi patently insecure and just craft a nice riddle for the password.

It is sort of along the lines of something else I've noticed: there are a ton of companies, who, in one way or another, sell software, but have absolutely no public-facing bug tracker, and doom their support agents to just fielding the same bugs all day, which, practically speaking, they likely just /dev/null those reports, and in the same breath, their marketing department will shove the words "valued customer" down your eyeballs.
Viruses are a part of life. Those 50% have accepted this and moved on.
There have been several. We've merged them into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23828253.
Google has tried to do this before and gotten good press with as far as I can tell close to 0 results [1].

Their last program was basically just "office hours" on how to use Google Analytics in libraries across beset former rust belt cities.

They did have a consistent office hours for their one pilot program in New York that people could also call into, but it was mostly college kids who were brilliant, talented, and going to get a job anyway the couple of times I shadowed.

The saddest part was probably their previous partnering with Goodwill. 0 people were hired from this partnership. This was back in 2017 when it was hard to know, but that organization is under significant litigation now for practices such as paying sub minimum wage (sub $1) to mentally disabled employees, paying board members well in excess of 6 figures, etc.

I say this as someone who considers GCP their favorite
cloud and consistently recommends it to customers where security is a priority.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/technology/google-job-tra...
Nobody can tell a $2000 win from a $20 wine? I highly doubt that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(vehicle)

also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachanka
> you are not in fact forced to store your contact information with Signal.

I am not convinced this is correct, can you elaborate in what way Signal is now not storing my contact information?
The robot is cool. The economics feel a bit off kilter for me though. With tongue in cheek, I raise the following points:

-/ Heaven forfend transferring wealth to the local laborers, to pay them to install this infrastructure. Why waste all that money by converting it into Ugandan wages when it can be spent on robots instead?

-/ Hopefully the fibre and connectivity is only leased to the Ugandans, for a more efficient return on the capital investment.

Hmmm.
This post focuses on Apple's text, but it also shows the icons from Samsung, WhatsApp, and LG. These all appear to have their own unique text as well.
I assume a lot of the value is in the software.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23828253.
> People have a hard time admitting that the normal school experience is often a negative socialization experience.

For what it's worth, this is a very common result of shared suffering, from fraternity/sorority initiation rituals to compulsory military service.
No pun intended? :)
I’m fairly certain China is the new Indonesia. My $100 Fender DG-7 was made in Indonesia 17 years ago, anything in that price range even inflation adjusted would be made in China now.
The cause and effect there is wrong. Saying that wealth causes success in school is like saying that an increase in the use of air conditioners causes people to go to the beach, or that Christmas shopping makes the days get shorter. There is a different factor causing both.
School is a place where, 80% of the time, children are explicitly forbidden to socialize.
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I torrented CentOS 8 in December; I must have been given another DHCP address since then, since the site shows an empty list for me.
No, I would be saying that wearing a seatbelt improperly is obviously dangerous and ill-advised.
But the guy's got LMB in his name, what's up with that?
No, it’s a regular sized Stretch!
If curious see also

a bit from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9017648
I guess it depends on what you assume are mathematical "primitives".

Log is an integral. Exp is an infinite series.

Normal cdf (erf) and its inverse (erfinv) are implemented almost everywhere exp and log are implemented. E.g. MKL and CUDA. Both can be computed via series or integral (like exp and log).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_function

[2] https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/gilesm/files/gems_erfinv.pdf
A foreign data wrapper is an extension.

To install it, you run "create extension my_fdw"
Well I am fine, more or less (was homeschooled in the early 90s, lived in 6 countries since then, worked as a software engineer in finance for most of the time since then, now on track for a biomedical PhD). I am, however, probably the poorest (ex) financial software engineer you ever saw... but I have serious ADHD, so there’s that.