skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utterly fails the site test, just like that gyroscopic scooter. And when it comes to a robot, the sight test matters.
My master's degree was essentially thermodynamics, all the various aspects of it, and I have never met anyone self-taught in that area. You just do not sit down and just learn about the physics of energy (storage, conversion, transmission, ...).

Part of the reason is that at least in mechanical engineering, the curricula are more or less well-curated and grew over many decades, if not centuries. You learn maths, electrical engineering, mechanics, fluids etc. all at the same time, and they all intertwine. Sometimes one is the basis to learn about the next (mechanics lays the foundation for fluids mechanics; maths is simply the foundation of everything you do and learn). Other times you discover meta-connections that elevate your understanding of everything in combination (voltage, pressure and temperature as potentials, current, mass flow and heat flow as flows resulting from that potential; each with their respective resistances: ohm (or impedance), friction, heat transfer coefficient).

It all comes together beautifully and forms a new, elevated whole.

I am willing to bet I will go through life without ever meeting someone self-taught, in my field. Computer science might be different, but people confuse computer science and coding. Coding you can self-teach easily, computer science not so much. That is more on the level of self-teaching maths, and I have never met such a person, either.
Even though back in March, Apple said there were no Authorized Repair people in PR, I had found one through my own search. It's called Metro Technologies in Hato Rey, not too far from Plaza Las Americas. I can't vouch for them since I have yet to take my AirPods Pro there, and I don't know why Apple didn't show them on their own search page for finding authorized repair, but I decided to search on Apple.com again, just now, and found there are 5 places now, including the one mentioned. It seems even Best Buy here does repairs now, too.

https://i.imgur.com/SLIRWD4.png
But it is whataboutery when it's used to deflect and minimise the original criticisms of what the Chinese regime are doing, which is what we are seeing here.

What people are saying, pretty straight out and literally in some comments, is "Stop whining about China, the West is just as bad".

It's not, and it's pure distraction.
What We Can Learn from Japanese Management
edX. But also they really are not the same courses, at least the MIT courses on edX are not the same as "real" MIT courses (or what they put on OCW). Video lectures are separately planned/recorded to be shorter duration "modules", which decreases the depth and sometimes also results in entire topics being cut out. Assignments are heavily simplified. There is no proper replacement for recitations/office hours. And so on.

Also, there are sites like HMX which is more in the realm of $1000 per class, and still not "the real thing". These classes are solid but they are just not comparable to actual classes at Harvard Medical School. My experience with taking classes versus trying out mass online learning has repeatedly resulted in "this is a nice amenity to have, but it is not a substitute for a proper course".

Does Harvard have a monopoly on undergraduate math, philosophy, etc. materials? No. But there is a huge difference between doing challenging problem sets/having complicated debates with a high quality peer group (+ access to top profs), and doing the most basic "understanding checks" with a random sampling of college students. I think it is silly to pretend the only value top schools provide beyond random U is the value of building up a network/credentials. That is part of it, but it is also actually much easier to get a better education at these schools.

I think there are two main problems with higher ed: 1) the top schools do not do a good enough job of admitting talented students across socioeconomic lines and 2) students are taking out debt to go to mid tier schools at unsustainable levels [especially because some of these students do not actually have a plan for college but feel pressured to rush into it]. There are also probably a bunch of lower tier private schools that should not exist.

Anyway, for some reason I get the sense HN takes these 2 problems and somehow comes to the complaint that "elite schools are a waste of money". Given the generous financial aid, the greater availability of classes and rigor of coursework, the career building resources, etc. I don't think you will find better value per dollar at any US schools than from the HYPSM+ cohort.

Students for whom it is at all feasible should just take a gap year this year IMO.
> Is SEV really a "breakthrough technology"?

SEV is a breakthrough in the sense that it's essentially transparent to the guest environment. Earlier technologies like Intel SGX or ARM TrustZone have a lot of performance limitations, and application needs to be explicitly developed to support it.

Intel is working on a similar technology -- Total Memory Encryption (TME) -- but they haven't released it to market yet.
There are many benefits including trying out something new without jeopardising your career.

Life is not just about making money. Some wants to get involved in exciting things. See where it might leads to.
That's subtly different to what you said before. Godwin's Law wasn't why you had to lock down code reviews. It was in anticipation of the law being true that you did it, which isn't quite the same thing. Self-fulfilling prophecy, perhaps.
Yeah, I stopped reading at that one.
Gmail lets you add "." in arbitrary places, but not to append additional text.

For example: foobar@ foo.bar@ f.o.o.b.a.r@ are all valid and normalize the case without the periods.
Will it really reduce student numbers? There are usually more than enough Americans on the wait list for US schools.
So the civilian contractor who set on fire a submarine with no casualties (linked elsewhere in this thread) got 17 years of jail, but the military pilot who killed 20 innocent civilians (in an allied country, while not even being at war) got 6 months. Not a blazing example of military accountability.
How far along is safenet? What can it do today, in terms of its parts?
I built FriendlyCaptcha over the past 2 months because I was tired of there being no good alternatives to Google's ReCAPTCHA and the like that your users won't hate you for.

FriendlyCaptcha is based on proof-of-work (think hashcash): instead the user labeling fire hydrants in images, they commit their device to doing computations for at least a couple of seconds. The idea is that the cost of an attack is not so different for a spammer: instead of running a ML model to label the images (or solve the audio challenge) they would need to solve the proof-of-work challenge. That's probably good enough for most if not all websites, and compares favorably against ReCAPTCHA which has many issues (privacy, accessibility, bundle size & bandwidth, menial tasks, customizability, closed-source).

The attacker shouldn't be able to use much more optimized code, which is where WebAssembly comes in: the FriendlyCaptcha solver is WASM based (with JS fallback) which achieves close to native speeds. The solver [0] and widget [1] are all open source so you can play with it or customize it for your website.

In case you missed it on the main website, there is a demo here [2].

[0]: https://github.com/gzuidhof/friendly-pow

[1]: https://github.com/gzuidhof/friendly-challenge

[2]: https://friendlycaptcha.com/demo
It's not linear like that. If the machine is on and the core is running you can dispatch instructions into it at zero cost.
about as worthwhile as Harvard is, to be blunt. It's really all about chasing what your target audience thinks is cool, isn't it? Some of us could really mock the kind of people our elites are, and find them just as distasteful as you find twitter power users.
It is difficult to know how much of that is currently cosmetic and how much is real. An actual carbon tax on fossil fuels would make everything that utilizes fossil fuels more expensive. Building materials, transporting materials by trucks, people commuting by cars, generating backup electricity for those moments when wind or solar energy do not momentarily produce enough.
I have no idea if socialism or communism could really work and am generally skeptical, but it is clear that no real experiment has ever been conducted without severe, aggressive interference from global capitalism led by the United States.
Also when it comes to applying what one learned by solving exercises or doing proofs feedback is so crucial and helpful. Firstly, one sees the parts one didn’t fully understand yet and secondly your way might be correct even if it isn’t the same way the provided solution approached the problem.
It is becoming a rather crowded space the last few years [1] [2] [3]

[1]: https://www.kpler.com/

[2]: https://www.spinergie.com/

[3]: https://www.refinitiv.com/en/products/eikon-trading-software...
>weaken your ability to authentically criticize violations abroad

It does no such thing. Being a hypocrite does not impact the correctness or incorrectness of what you're saying (which is why the tu quoque fallacy is a fallacy), doubly so when we're talking about entirely different categories of abuses that invalidate the hypocrisy charge anyways.
Silence is generally viewed as complicity yes.
Technology, technology, blah blah blah.

Tell me this: will Google indemnify you against all your losses proportional to the amount they are to blame?

i.e. if you lose $50 million because you relied on Google's "confidential VM" and an investigation shows it's 100% because Google didn't protect the VM, do you get a year's worth of fees back or $50MM?
Periods are handled slightly differently than "+" characters in Gmail -- periods are ignored (so an email to email.spam@gmail would be delivered to emailspam@gmail.com), while everything following a + would be delivered (so email+spam@gmail.com will be delivered to email@gmail.com).
Show HN: I created a website to help 10 people find a job. Everyday
My dad got us direct tv back in 2000. I watched a lot of MTV, Cartoon Network and Discovery Channel (where mithbusters was broadcasted for us, Brazil). I already had a taste for science and engineering, I use to love Beakman's World (when I was even younger). Is great to see how many people, like me, were inspired by people like Grant. He will be missed, for sure. You should see some of his videos in robot fight.
Its the same with other mooc programs undergraduate gpa of a 3.0 gets you in.
Soft power only works if there is 100000 tons of hard power sailing nearby.
I fail to see why this is news. I had games we played 20 years ago in school which taught me tons of stuff, math blasters for example.

Putting a game on a school reading list when there is already 100's of games on there, is not really news.

Kind of just seems like a ad than anything else.
This has changed a lot. Back in the HDD-powered iPod days you could drop and crash the hard drive (as in the drive would physically crash and break, for you kids)... and they'd still repair or replace it for free.
Exactly. When we retired the half-penny, it had a purchasing power that would equate to 10-15 cents today. Someone just needs to have the political will to do this. We should just have quarters and move dollar bills to coin only. So much cheaper to make and they last forever.

The reason we don't is that people hate change and politicians don't like to rock the boat. A lot of our issues today are not that we don't know how to solve problems, but that the politicians aren't willing to take them on.
The US government is stagnated by politics and the current political culture focuses on screwing over the opposing party above all else. On the surface it seems like the grumpy old men in charge are just being stubborn and exercising their power to ensure their opponents lose, but if you look at the legislation that does get passed you start to see something very different.

Most of the legislation passed revolves around redistribution of wealth, and it's not taking from the rich and giving to the poor but quite the opposite. Any and all amassed wealth is being extracted from the poor and being given out to businesses in the form of lucrative contracts or, more recently, bailouts. The companies that receive this money promise that it's going to trickle down while they fill Golden Parachutes, perform stock buy backs, and find other ways to funnel that money to their wealthy share holders.

The message for decades was that the government was inefficient and wasteful, and that private business can do it better. We've all heard the stories of the $300 hammer. But when things are privatized things generally get worse. Fewer workers earning lower wages doing more work but the overall product is worse and it's usually not cheaper. Any and all reductions in cost are just converted into profit margin.

The US is being sucked dry and when there's nothing left, the globalist in charge will just up and move on.
Quite a few: protect sensitive data in the cloud from the tenants and cloud providers, protect my clients sensitive data, address some requirements of the regulated markets, mitigate some privacy regulations, and a few new: collaborative computing with untrusted parties?
I think visible blue light is a large contributor to skunking
The CPU throttling issue (battery gate) was the worst one for me. So, so many people defended that, and still do. Apple being against right-to-repair is an ongoing issue that people love to defend.
Thank you, diarrhea.
Not really answer to "education missed this stuff".

Especially since all of these are in the category of "people dont know that they dont know if they never heard of it".
Is that true? I thought cores slept until they were needed. Or didn't clock as high if instruction load wasn't there to match.

There is of course always some nominal minimum power consumption for a server to be on. But every instruction requires some additional amount of electron flow to execute.
The N.Y. Times doubles down on TV and film ambitions
Another variant with ovals: https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1261851180881174529
The process for sending email /from/ a + address is tricky.

First -- in GMail at least -- you have to explicitly set up a + account as being in your list of "from" accounts and then you have to remember to use it every time you reply!

Not to mention forgetting the email I gave them when resetting passwords sucks, too. "Was that foo+hn or foo+ycombinator or foo+ycombinator.com or foo+hackernews or... hm... uhhh..." (You need a centralized password manager, in other words.)

I've had several issues where I've replied and sending from the base-address means the conversation goes awry ("We don't recognize this email address"), or at best I still expose the base address because I only remember to reply using the laboriously-created-from-plus address about a fourth of the time.
> The number from the first sentence is misleading. The internet consumes about 4 percent of the world's electricity

How is it misleading? It says "Data centers consume about 1.5 percent of the world’s electricity". It does not say anything about the internet.
I think the best approach is for the US to move more concerns to the state level. E.g., it would be great if states would start implementing their own universal healthcare for their residents.

States commonly have more internally aligned political goals and therefore can move quicker. It also has the benefit of allowing different states to experiment with different solutions and all states can learn from the results.

Lastly, inter-state mobility is much higher than inter-country and this will allow residents to congregate in a state that matches their political desires. E.g., if someone doesn't like the tax burden of states that provide more services then they can move to a state that provides fewer.
> Back then Microsoft's attitude toward the Internet was "embrace, extend, and suffocate."

I'm pretty sure that's close to Microsoft's current attitude towards the Internet.
It's trendy to say that college eduction does not matter or these elite educations are not worth the price. Or that what you learn in these institutions is the same as what you could learn anywhere. And I have to disagree.
Your course work will be significantly more challenging at MIT than some other lower ranked school. You are going to go through MIT and every thing is going to seem a lot easier later on. It's a great workout for your brain.
The US still mints several dollar coins - although the Susan B Anthony coins haven't been minted in over 20 years.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Sa...
Back in the early/mid 2000's I used to basis trade LLTC against MXIM and now and then ADI. Always thought TI would be the buyer of LLTC or MXIM.
Had a keyboard once, with three brightest high intensity leds ever seen directed at your face.

Got an icepick and stabbed it until it was no more.
Highly satisfying.
A second hand kindle is also close to zero emissions. Why compare a new kindle to a used book? A kindle is more a replacement for a bookshelf, and each book within has trivially low emissions
I mean, 0.01 is objectively a tiny number. The problem is when you multiply by 328 million ;)
Wow this reads like the narcissistic stuff you would find on r/cscareerquestions.
It's pretty close, though. It easily survives a trip through the washing machine or a swim
You can login to your instances from the admin console according to this : https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/connecting-t...
So Google has a way to login to your instances...
I hate seeing this in every single Reddit or HN thread about the future of energy. Nuclear power is a great option but it isn't the end all be all of energy. It's just another (probably less harmful than fossil fuels) stopgap.
Well yeah, the whole point was to demonstrate Tensorflow.
it would be great if states would start implementing their own universal healthcare for their residents

This isn't really feasible because residents of one state with no universal healthcare + lower taxes could easily move to another state with universal healthcare + higher taxes when they get a serious illness.
Part of any organism's objective is to do more with less. Being efficient is a predictor of success in nature. Being efficient provides you and your family with health and security.

Obviously this evolutionary bias has gone a little off the rails with humans and we now have health and psychological problems as a result of efficiencies. I guess that's where self governance kicks in, unlike other organisms we can reason and adapt in spite of our fundamental evolutionary programming. Whether or not this evolutionary experiment works out is still yet to be determined.
Microsoft not paying bounties to security researcher for finding vulnerabilities
I agree that a lot of non-coders see a coder not typing on the keyboard as not being productive. Thinking is one of the most underrated skills in the world.
"There's a need for it, but possibly not a market for it."

Whenever someone touches on market failures, I'm reminded of how the USA government saved the domestic oil producers from themselves. TLDR: Govt imposed regulation and predictability onto the wildcatters, thereby protecting investors and insuring stable supply for consumers.

I don't yet know what future marketplaces for journalism will look like.

I do know that markets don't just magically appear. Efficient open markets require laws and regulations, to create and then protect those markets.
Large endowments are not always a straight forward metric to use for determining how well off financially an institution is. Lots of contributions to endowments come with strings attached on how the money can be spent. Wouldn't be surprised to hear about a large number of new costs associated with COVID that wouldn't be covered by a lot of an endowment.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/05/22/colleges-face...
I use shopname@firstname.lastname.email, with my own lastname.email domain. Fastmail makes configuring your dns records for this super simple.

It's always fun interacting with customer service reps when they for example confirm my email address... "errrrrr yeah so we email you at ourname@...?"
If interested, see this past HN discussion from time of publication:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5850067
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23815460
> Cashflow wins most debates

True that’s the reason Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba, Rakutan, Flipkart, Pinduoduo, JD, eBay, Lazada, Shopee, Momoshop, offer better value and platform compared to Shopify and BigCommerce and valued much more than them, because they solve the biggest problem of multi-channel commerce driving traffic, bring sales, manage logistics and seamless payments.

Shopify, Bigcommerce are competing with Magento, SAP Commerce (Hybris), Salesforce Commerce and the open source solutions listed earlier. So they do not solve immediate cash-flow problem. For any meaningful multi-channel commerce be it Shopify, Bigcommerce or open source based require similar efforts, except for small retailers, niche manufacturers and mom-pop shops.

That’s the reason if you look at BigCommerce S1 they ran out of money in 2019 (negative working capital of 2.2432 million) and need investor to save them. Now given the bull run those investors wants to cash-out. Shopify is lucky that in spite of loss making for years they got some boost due to COVID-19 and stock investors are waiting for big cash-out. Devil lie in details if you read BigCommerce risks and also footnotes in Shopify annual reports you can know that what they offer is easily available from many providers. Both might have been driven by technology but now they are primarily marketing and sales company to get as many customers as possible to survive and have an edge. You can observe it in Shopify annual reports consistently they need to spend a lot on just marketing and sales.
If you permit me an unsolicited suggestion, I've had success using a black permanent marker to dim overly bright LEDs to an acceptable level. For really bright ones, which are causing trouble when the area is otherwise dark, I've also had success covering them with black insulation tape. It leaves them bright enough to be clear but not so bright as to cause annoyance.
I agree that doing nothing isn't a solution. But that doesn't make this a solution either. That's sort of my wider point here. We need an actual solution, this isn't that, this might be part of that, but until we have that, it's not worth anything.
Its the difference between knowing which neighborhood you're in and which street or mabye even which house you're in.
I like the idea.

In 99% of the cases, I rather buy the service than develop it from scratch and support it long-term. Most consumer-facing services I've seen are relatively cheap. I only tend to develop existing things if I find there are some functionalities which either I cannot buy directly or they require a special setup that does not go well with security and other constraints.
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Same issue with the airpod pros.. clearing my throat or talking a bit loudly results in a buzz/rattle in my left earbud
I never claimed they faced no consequences, but the OP's claim that the US military are held to much higher standards of accountability that the civil service is not justified.

And I showed why.
I think he makes a really salient point about focusing on problems in search of solutions rather than the reverse. So often in technology we come with solutions and look for problems to apply them to, but Jobs is right that we have to start at the pain points and work backwards from there.