skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US is great for Masters levels and above, where there is indeed such a thing as a world-class specialists helping shape the next generation of experts.

If you're thinking about college though, that doesn't churn out experts. The material is well-known, and IMO it's more important to have great teachers available to answer your questions than to have world-class research experts on the brochure. Great teachers are also not everywhere, but they are in far higher abundance than the so-called "top faculty", and maybe good teaching doesn't even correlate very strongly with research brilliance.

Some of the classes in which I learned the most had teachers who were (I now see in retrospect) relatively middling postdoc folks, or long-tenured professors who didn't really have much more research "juice" in them... but they had a well constructed syllabus, were able to cleanly articulate concepts, give examples, give exercises, give encouragement, etc.

I've also taken classes with world-class researchers, and some of them were outstanding, while others had sloppy syllabus prep, didn't adequately coordinate with TA's, gave lectures that weren't engaging as they jumped into long solo calculations at the blackboard that they had trouble making their way out of... In short, they couldn't be bothered.

So I wouldn't generalize from my experience either, but I think that especially for college, teaching quality, and student body quality (peers are an important source of motivation) are more important than world-class research renown.

Working in tech in the US, I see enough high-performing European and Asian immigrants that I think it could be good for an American kids today to consider getting a degree from a school abroad for a fraction of what it would've cost them in the US.
2 o'clock right to left ;-)
Obviously her doxxing was a poor choice. However, she didn't have much legal recourse. She lives in China, and viewed herself as being at risk of retaliation from the CCP due to some of the personal details Vice choose to release. (Despite knowing (from her) the danger it would put her in.) Many (most?) people feel that the doxxing was her only means of retaliation given the circumstances.

Both actions are bad. But if I have to pick one to be "more" bad, I'd pick Vice's.

Those two points are probably what's at the root of the calls against Patreon here.

We don't live under eye-for-eye law. (Maybe China has some laws like that?) But people often view things in that light socially.
I hate break it to people, but C19 is not going anywhere and this is not over yet, especially in countries/locales where there were very few infections. Meanwhile, Sweden had no new cases yesterday.
> 1) Is a Pinephone a viable alternative either iOS or Android?

No, probably not, not currently. It's a prototype phone, in low-production numbers, with a somewhat underpowered SOC (but with proper FOSS drivers/kernels).

The regular "Linux-distros" you would typically boot on this phone instead of iOS or Android are still under heavy development, although things are improving.

I consider the PinePhone a good first POC for a pure Linux phone, and I'm happy to have one though.

> 2) How do you get it connected to carrier X?

This applies to any phone any place in the world: You insert the SIM-card given to you by your carrier.

This is literally how it has been done since mobile phones were invented with no change. Seeing a question like this on HN honestly has me quite baffled.
Yes, that's why amazon is hiring people who are expert in negotiations.
"Content"
I made the mistake of commuting from home my first year in university (UW, i graduated high school in the area), it is really not that great to “commute” and pure commuter schools (where most students commute to from home) offer a different experience from other universities.

One point of university is to make it on your own. If your daddy is rich, this is in the dorms, if not, you rent a basement room nearby and bike in.
> blames the workers for getting as much as they can from their job.

Is that what you think I'm doing? Is there any evidence that "the workers" are getting as much as they can? It seems that a small percentage of workers, mostly in positions of power over other workers, are gaming the system in a way that does not benefit the public they're supposed to serve.
> SF "protects" its single family neighborhoods by herding all the heroin, hookers, and new housing into a few containment zone neighborhoods.

I don't see as much of them lately, but several years ago there was a rather large contingent of SF police on dirt bikes wielding billy clubs whose job was to roust the homeless in nice neighborhoods and tourist areas and quite literally herd them downtown. Presumably their disappearance has something to do with homeless visibility--although not sure if its cause or effect (i.e. simply too many homeless to prevent spillover).

Also, to further the redevelopment of southeast SF, the city built alot of new public housing not only downtown but also near Fisherman's Wharf. I'm certain the increase in crime around Fisherman's Wharf is related. AFAIU, they chose Fisherman's Warf because 1) the port authority owned alot of land there and 2) rules regarding port authority-owned land made it relatively easier to push through low-income housing projects. Previously public housing in the NE of the city was predominately for seniors, who don't generally attract trouble.
Love that movie, love that scene in particular.
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Sorry for the confusion. I meant a person that brings a lot of subscribers to the platform ergo generating them the revenue
Only part of that is possible, changing from the current input to another. But as soon as the monitor is on another input it doesn't accept DDC messages on the first input anymore so Lunar wouldn't also be able to change back.

I plan to implement just the first switch along with a brightness/contrast reset to some default values so you can easily switch the monitor to another input.
You are a process rather than a snapshot of material. The material is what the process runs on.
A prestigious residential university is the student's whole life. Leaving its boundaries is a special event. You eat, sleep, study, exercise, work, etc. with your classmates around the clock. Like a monastery. Administrators are not just engineering the content of lecture. They are engineering the group of classmates in the library at 12:45am puzzling out together what the lecture meant. Students who only show up on campus for scheduled classes throw a wrench in those plans. Hence the mandate to live on campus.

This has always been the image of college in the United States. The alleged change is that conditions are getting less monastic.

This mandate can relax after freshmen year because at that point you've integrated. You'll take an apartment with some friends in the neighborhood, but you won't really be leaving. The university may no longer be your landlord and your grocer, but your landlord and your grocer will be doing 99% of their business with university-affiliated customers. The neighborhood is still campus, de facto if not de jure. You're still immersed. Technically some students may use this freedom to move across town or back in with their parents, but the mandatory year on campus has brought this risk acceptably low.

When it works, it works well. I have memories from late nights in the library and from Saturday evenings in the theater control booth that I wouldn't trade for anything in the world. But many schools in their search for prestige are trying to force this on kids who don't want it, and on top of that are failing to deliver.
If she has no recourse than the only form of justice she has available is an eye of an eye.
She's a single person against a huge conglomerate like vice. Sadly, legal means are not relevant in that situation.

If you don't want to live in an eye for an eye rule of law, attack the causes, not the victims.
The kind of household willing to regularly pay the premium for same-day/1-day groceries and/or shipping is an upper middle class household. How is Walmart going to shake the branding of being cheap and low quality with the segment of price insensitive consumers? Your middle middle-class household is not a Prime member, and the services Walmart and Amazon are competing on will only expand their TAM (Total Addressable Market) if costs go down. Median households don't have the budget for these services.
Nearly all of our budget and housing issues

What budget issues? SF budget is tops across almost all US cities in per capita spending.
Facebook was valued at $1b around 2006.

On July 17, 2007, Zuckerberg said that selling Facebook was unlikely because he wanted to keep it independent, saying "We're not really looking to sell the company... We're not looking to IPO anytime soon. It's just not the core focus of the company."

I think FB started turning bad around 2015. So if we're comparing Patreon to FB, give it another 10 years before they look like something else. Even Google had to be worth several billions before they dropped the "don't be evil" motto.
Interesting. Almost sounds like we should Defund The Police. But who am I to say.
Does Fargate use Bottlerocket?
Not sure about anyone else, but I've been enjoying supporting the cafes, restaurants, bars, and shops near my home and getting to know the people in my community, rather than spending my money in the CBD.

To me, this doesn't feel like a loss of economy, just a shift away from spending at big corps to spending in smaller businesses.
For example, advocates of this law warned that Portland would become more like SF: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/737798440/oregon-legislature-...
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So you don’t get to adjust based on CoL, because you don’t spend all your money and have more disposable income.

You don’t get to compare on housing, because you live in a city.

So meanwhile city dwellers have more disposable income, who continue to dispose of more income on rent, while their counterparts outside the city get to invest their money in their own property, which they can later sell for a fat return, while continuing to begrudge city dwellers for making a few more bucks in disposable income in the short term?

Living in a city has its upsides and downsides. One of the upsides is higher pay. One of the downsides is pissing away lots of that higher pay paying someone else’s mortgage instead of your own.
I remember the file copy process completely stalling, when I just pressed a mouse button. Is that what you mean? :)
.Net Core runs natively on linux and mac as well. Not sure about the mobile platforms.
Hey thank you so much for posting this! I didn't expect this to get so much attention.

Also that VESA page is golden, now I know where to point people when they ask me for advice on what peripherals to buy.
Because it creates a positive feedback loop. More police means more incidences of law breaking get detected as crimes, which results in more police enforcement.

Imagine a road network and police with a limited number of speed traps. If you send the speed to the places where there have been more people caught speeding then the fact that the speed traps where in that location will have a higher rate of caught speeders.

Another example is drug enforcement. Black people are searched more often then white people for drugs, which results in them being caught having drugs more often which in turn makes police think that they are more likely to have drugs.
Just so I understand correctly, does that mean you then need to control the end point of every site you want to use as part of fingerprinting?

If so, wouldn’t that drastically reduce the effectiveness of using DNS resolve times as a work around for Firefox containers?

Not trying to be argumentative here, just trying to understand how effective the sandboxing is, or whether I need to design more layers of indirection. :)
We are at the stage where nothing is enough for either fps or resolution. I use a vive original and its painfully blurry and thats 1080p per eye and a very low fov. For a high fov lens we will probably need 16k per eye at 144hz before people will consider it good enough like 4k for monitors is now. We don't even have the cables to push that much data currently, let alone render it.

I expect to reach this we will probably have to start using foverted rendering.
>Even so, Peninsula residents still spend $1M for townhouses and condos built on former SuperFund sites.

Their gardens must offer a unique taste of computing history.
> Supporters can support in many ways and not only with money

I don't think a witch-hunt would have been a better option. Honestly it was an ugly affair, but Patreon shouldn't have gotten involved. Much like MasterCard or Visa didn't get involved in Vice.
This seems like goalpost movement. A moment ago you were celebrating high salaries and collective bargaining when presented with evidence that a small number of public employees (apparently, based on the graphic, largely "peace officers") are using a system which pays them far, far more than they agreed.

I think we're all mostly fine with the former, but the latter is a very different situation.
Fusors make neutrons and can cause activation of nearby materials which can lead to all sorts of decay chains and radioactive products.

Particle accelerators are cool though, despite the obvious danger. If you're dealing with just electrons, IIRC you need to get to about 6MeV to overcome the nuclear binding forces and initiate a decay. You can make a hell of a lot of X-rays below that of course, but personally one of my life's goals is to cause an atom to split :) No time for that now, but that's what retirement is for. As a bonus, radiation is a lot less damaging when you're past 50, so unless you get high enough to induce acute radiation poisoning you'll probably be fine.

You can actually make a fairly low-tech accelerator with just a large Van De Graaff generator. There are even designs which replace the belt with a chain(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelletron) and reach fairly high energies(for a home unit anyway).
Does she currently receive support on another crowd funding platform?
Instead of endlessly rehashing Blade Runner and ripping off Neuromancer, it would be nice to see film and TV execs produce something about the what the future world will look like when it’s dominated by the Chinese Communist Party.

They won’t though because the Chinese Communist Party is fucking scary and doesn’t take to being commented on.

All those little plastic widgets and cheap clothes we import are paying for this navy.
SFgov 2019 survey on homelessness (page 70) [1]

"Do you have any of the following health conditions?"

Drug or alcohol abuse - 37%

Any psychiatric or emotional condition - 35%

Those are the top two health conditions identified. There is obviously overlap since the total of all of the answers is >100%.

[1]https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2019HIRDRep...
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Yeah, I think while Patreon's high end are fans buying merchandise and donating, Zynga's are addicts.
You need to consider it from the point of view of each entity. Each entity may not like to be destroyed irrespective of whether there is a copy.
Even in the middle ages there would be a substantial rabble of 'service sector' entrepreneurs following the troops around to provide repairs, food and other entertainment services. Peace was the last thing these people wanted as their whole livelyhood depended on the perpetual war campaigns.
Autothrottle is not made to deal with engine failures, we do that manually.

You don't want the autothrottle to add thrust in an asymmetric situation, that's far more dangerous than losing a couple of kt or temporarily accepting a small deviation below glideslope. Because with asymmetric thrust, any power change causes yaw that you need to counteract that with rudder. You want manual control over both to ensure they happen in coordination.
And then enticed tech into those containment zones.

Chaos ensued.
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Facebook news threat risks 'big stick' tax hit
Facebook runs the risk of getting slugged with a general tax on all internet transactions if it goes ahead with its threat to remove all news content from its platforms to avoid sharing revenue with Australian media companies, former competition regulator chairman, Professor Allan Fels, has warned.
The shockingly obsolete code of bash
That's the major thing why I dislike modern guitar sounds, all sounds like Guitar Pro through a TON of VST to make them sound "real".

This was, very oldschool, obliterating the mic with way too loud amp in my small flat.
The bifurcation of where the lower middle vs upper middle shops for general household items which both groups need is a notable trend. I typically shop at Target, but went to a Walmart for the first time in years. Everything is locked down. It's a demonstrably different experience, and it feels part of the trending inequality.
That’s correct. Things only break if you pip install setuptools into the Debian-provided Python globally, not if you use both system-provided setuptools and pip, nor if you pip install setuptools into a venv.

IMO neither party really did anything wrong, the situation is caused by users depending on implementation detail that used to work but no longer does. I would’t say it’s a non-issue though. There are so many instructions out there that recommend `sudo pip install -U pip setuptools`, and Python packaging developers take all the blame when the spacebar no longer overheats the CPU. This situation is, in some way, a microcosm of how people get the impression that “Python packaging is a mess”.
US high school education is not uniform throughout the country.
Are you going by some states' requirements here or are you assuming some amount of AP credits?
> Walmart's low-wage workers cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion in public assistance including food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing, according to a report published by Americans for Tax Fairness, a coalition of 400 national and state-level progressive groups.

https://www.worldhunger.org/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxp...
initially glazed over the article looking for mentions of Boom or Aerion, then i realized this was about hypersonic.

i didnt know hypersonic was like twice as super as supersonic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic_speed
The photons are not somehow "different" because of this.
Yeah. Mouse was always way better in Windows and Linux. Finder browsing files has also always been laggy. Now with the latest macos versions it's ridiculous, if you take a screenshot, it takes about a minute for the file to appear.
There was a group called "alt.anonymous.messages". E.g.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.anonymous.messag...

It was mainly meant to be integrated with anonymous remailers as a way of avoiding traffic analysis.
As with a waiter, failing to tip a cabbie is expressing extreme displeasure.

The stressful and annoying payment dance at the end of a cab ride was a not-insignificant factor in the rise of ridesharing.
In the US and Canada, very.
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Real-time surgical training in 3D VR
Are you going to keep a CRT TV running in your house to do so?
Autothrottle is not in speed mode for any transport category airplane on takeoff. You set a thrust demand and it maintains that.

The V2 speed is achieved by pitching for that specific airspeed, followed by an acceleration phase and flap retraction schedule if necessary.

Source: I'm a commercial pilot
Given the prevalence of CGN, especially in mobile / cellular internet, and the reality that mobile is first for a large number, the use of IPs as a primary key feels less likely these days than a decade ago.

> A user cannot change her IP address with the same ease as she can change her software fingerprints.

I dunno. It’s a lot easier for my less techie friends to reboot their router and get a new IP than it is to talk them through installing some privacy enforcing software they required regular maintenance or results in weird and wonderful breakage of their favourite websites.
Curious, does anyone know of a good (similar) alternative to move to that isn't as profit-crazed?
There was a time you could do time or lose a job and come back to a SRO unit.

Not like anyone warned there was a problem:
https://thebolditalic.com/life-inside-sf-s-vanishing-single-...
More like undead.
And Nvidia has been sabotaging it ever since.
Well if those allegations are true, then Amazon is gonna have some 'splainin' to do to the NLRB.
One possibility is the Owen Benjamin lawsuit, the suggestion being that patreon would have to pay for arbitration (under their previous TOS) for every complainant.

Not sure how meaningful that really is though...