skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That lack of physical space."

This stuck with me, I guess because it also implies a lack of social space as well.

For this to work, the majority of people thinking of attending college would need to have an aversion to sharing physical space with others. Otherwise they would derive some utility from sharing physical space with others, which could then be assigned a dollar value.

The dollar value is tuition.

I would concede that there is a nonzero percentage of college students for whom the utility of sharing physical space with others is a net negative. I would also argue that this percentage is in the minority, and although they may not, their parents might derive positive utility from increased socialization of their child.

For the vast majority, the opportunity to share physical space with others engaged in the same pursuit generates positive utility, and can therefore be assigned a dollar value.

As long as there is a dollar value there, tuition will be collected.

There is also the motivational aspect. Due to fundamental adaptations in human nature, external structure is often needed to motivate productivity. Although there are those who are outliers, and are truly motivated by intrinsic interests, these seem to be in the minority. Therefore, having external structure to motivate also generates positive utility and willingness to pay.

You can do all of what you described in your room with a textbook and practice problems, but why doesn't anyone just do that for four years, and then go out and get a job? Sure, it happens in software, but that's unique in that in software you can literally go from NAND gates to DOOM in a sandbox-like environment, but the rest of the world doesn't have that ability to manipulate their field of study from first principles in an interactive environment.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24460126
Global Times (China's CCP-run English Language News Portal) claims that ByteDance will NOT sell TikTok-US operations to Oracle or Microsoft.

Edit: They're probably being technically correct about "sell", but not so much about "operations".

https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/13054102792833884...
lol, at the risk of sounding callous there exists a certain set of user that is indeed "stupid" for lack of a better word and it's not worth wasting the last 10-20% of your team's time trying to account and perfect your product for them.

anybody who has sat behind someone not familiar with modern web UI conventions and watch them hunt the UI and try to even log in will understand what i'm talking about.

give people autonomy in something like a site builder and "trust their competence" and 9 times out of 10 you will end up with some fugly, frankenstein site which might be what they "want" but doesn't serve their goals.

it's a lesson in futility and frustration. it's the same people who never bother to learn shortcuts, opting to go to edit menu -> copy every single time. my mother traded in her iphone for an "old" candybar phone because it was too complicated in her mind.

in the end, identify your audience and build for familiarity while balancing usability aspects. this fetish for the holy grail of efficiency and simplicity is damaging IMO.
For me, the fake cable makes them look dumb. But as Someone said, they seem to require a certain sized antenna. I couldn’t think of a better solution to hide one either.

Note that I never said they suck, I was pretty certain that the $200 something is not all just the Apple tax ;)
Also deliberation happens behind closed doors and not in front of C-SPAN.
More like who are ARM + Nvidia's customers.
Why wouldn't he? tech is evolving and especially when WP can be sometimes behave like a dinosaur
Yesterday’s NeWS (2016)
> But other designs (e.g. round blob sticking out of earholes) are even worse

Interesting, I always thought they look better simply because they don’t stand out as much.
What's the best OS to use on the PinePhone?
To-do list without bullshit
I'm not defending Apple, just thinking that can't we say this for many of the biggest tech firms? They are way past the line on anticompetitive business.
You can also connect your phone to your laptop through usb or wifi and use it as a camera positioning it however you like.
First I've heard of this. What is the software situation like on a device like this? I assume no comptability with Android, so apps have to be developed specifically targeting their OS?
Thank you Jean-Pierre for taking the time to answer.

She is followed by the CRC SLA Paris/Salpêtrière. The center has been closed march-june as it was given to Covid patients and since then they seem to be struggling.

She's been put on Riluzone, she asked for other drugs but she got told there is none - we have never heard of Edaravone before, thanks for advising and we will look into it.
Google cache link down now. Still cached here:
https://archive.is/L7MT1#selection-1846.0-1846.1
Beware that while it looks random, this is actually not a great rng. For example, it does not satisfy the central limit theorem.
That was a really sad time honestly. QCOMM went from leading the pack to basically using reference designs (which they still arrogantly brand as Kryo despite essentially being a tweak of a reference design.

It all happened because Apple came out with the first 64-bit design, and QCOMM wasn't ready. Rather than deliver 32-bit for 1 more year, they used an off the shelf ARM 64-bit design (A57) in their SoC called the Snapdragon 810, and boy was it terrible.
And that product was just pulled out of Europe last week for privacy violations. There is also a pending class action lawsuit against Oracle (and Salesforce) for this type of product violating GDPR.

So I don't think this is a great step forward for US consumers.
It's a shame they didn't have you on the team researching and writing this paper then. Could have saved everyone a lot of time!
"meant to be" versus rockets that land and can be reused.
You could always start doing high powered rocketry. Some of the current rocket companies started that way. You could also develop a payload and test it as well.
Custom Domain with Digital Ocean Spaces Using Cloudflare for DNS
it's all posturing unless the government makes the company to agree to punitive severance packages to be put in an escrow account to be released to the company after 20 years or to the people if fired before that.
One certain online service (the one that lets you look at advertisements and fake new while you talk to your Aunt) is very popular for sharing events. On mobile they go out of their way to disable the ability to copy text. Even with the "copy" app set as my assist app, it seems to block or muck up the scrapping of text from the screen. I have to go to mbasic.thissite.com (which doesn't include all the same content) to get things in plain text. It's a real barrier to my participation in society where there are characters in the text I cant read, and I just want to copy them to a translate app..

It also made me late for a Teams based interview, as I foolishly tried to pass the join link between phones using this webpage, and couldn't copy it on the other end.
Long-term stress is the default mode of the 21st century
Gandhi, not "Ghandi" (I blame the early installments of the Civilization game series for this misconception).
I really hope so. The UK government should block it also, but I don't think they will.
the war is over. Arm has won. That dominance will take a long time to fade. AWS and Apple's future is Arm.
Can machines think? The Chinese room argument
> The best data scientists are just people who try to understand the ins and outs of business processes and look at problems with healthy suspicion and curiosity

I guess the unsaid part of this is “... and curiosity AND are often able to leverage this in data-driven solutions to bussiness problems”. Because nobody cares whether you’re curious or not if you don’t bring any value to the company. With that said, the part you mentioned almost seems like an innate ability, while the part I filled in could probably be trained.

Suppose you were still in college and wanted to become a data scientist. Based on your current knowledge and values, how would you go about it, being a student? Which skills would you hone and how?
They also claimed that the lightning cables were fake, when they looked quite real:

https://twitter.com/sneakdotberlin/status/130491195246486732...

This is the same portion of the US government that runs the concentration camps in Texas (and has endlessly harassed me personally for exercising basic human rights), so I’m not that surprised that they remain dumb as rocks.

They also recently expelled 8800 unaccompanied children(!):

https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/about-8800-unaccompan...
That just means that their home/core market got smaller, so they should have protected ARM to stay inside E̶U̶ the UK, then.
Anything is better than the fully in-ear design that makes up 90% of earbuds on the market.
Either this guy is a crank or the world is about to change. Maybe both?

https://mobile.twitter.com/brianroemmele/status/128777130722...
Trademarks are not limited to text, the gray and yellow color scheme is a Registered Trademark by Fluke [0]. Nowadays 2/3 of the cheap meters use this color scheme, at this stage this trademark is effectively dead, most people will not connect this color scheme to Fluke. I didn't even know it came from Fluke (neither did SparkFun I guess), until this incident.

But unless Apple registered something similar for shape or the color of the AirPods, or somehow patented its design, it's not an infringement, and the CBP cannot seize them.

Now the question is, how much does it cost to sue the CBP...

[0] https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75934005&caseType=SERIAL_...
I mean, I could* redirect ra.pi.st to donaldjtrump.com and it'd have about the same worth as this redirect.

* I'm not going to.
You still have the ability to not use these services and have a reasonable privacy. Makes GPS and blue tooth superficial and you might need to carefully select the apps you trust, but theoretically it can work. I know that most people don't care and it is imposing that others suffer from their indiscretion, but at least there are solutions aside from tracking ambitions of your ISP.
This is fun, my first jump was to a fruit I didn’t know existed, and apparently is very healthy. It suspiciously does look 100% like black currant ;)

https://www.lifebrook.com/tonyd/
It was good while it lasted. RIP ARM
Slightly off topic: Phoenix used these strategies for their Grammy-winning album “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”. Also, MGMT mentions “ The wisdom of oblique stratagems“ (a play on word) in their aptly-named song “Brian Eno”.

For a long time I’ve thought of creating my own version of the deck. I’ve heard it can be used punctually to get out of a dead end, or from the very start through the whole creative process.
If only Julia Child were still around to show us how to safely cook up a batch of delicious phosphine.

Julia Child Cooks Primordial Soup (1973)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24467695

Walter White had a quick and easy recipe (which doesn't actually work in reality):

https://breakingbad.fandom.com/wiki/Phosphine_gas

Breaking bad red phosphorous scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9mLUB_pKQE
Learning to play piano takes years, but rewards can be more or less immediate if one knows how to set the right expectations.

As an adult learner, you need to make sure you are enjoying the instrument so it should have the right action and sound. It's unbeliable how you can purchase a Casio CDP S100 these days for less than 400 bucks and get a decent keybed and sound, advances in digital piano technology are staggering! not only sample libraries are huge these days, most digital piano companies have been including physical modelling into their sound engines with success, it's only a matter of time until these offering end up in the lower price points

One can safely predict that in a decade the only difference between an affordable digital piano and a real acoustic piano will be the keyboard action.
They don't need powerpoint to do that.
You've twice mentioned a "fake cable" - what are you referring to?
At what point does being incompetent turn malicious, if you are in a position of leadership? Choosing to continue ignoring a real problem you cannot handle is pretty bad. At least get some advice or allow competent people to take the wheel.
Of course in this instance, the blame flows uphill and then falls of a cliff.
I whish this kind of shop talk was part of more sci-fi world's world building. "No-one liked the P-class light patrol missile gunships, they were only commissioned because the space engineering devision was incentivised to deliver new projects..." on second thoughts zzzz
Well it's borderline acceptable to indirectly forcing them to sell by threatening a ban, but to actively oversee the sale and micromanage it is far beyond the line.
If we had it your way, the surplus states would be fine but the deficit states would crash. That's why when there's a new military contract they often build it in a deficit region, balancing the surplus out. The reason why the the states are "united" is so that the region as a whole is better off than just a few states that do well.
India is not a relevant market.
I disagree that privacy is opposed to security. On the contrary. Linux is an open systems and it didn't have widespread malware problems. You could make an argument about number of users here, but then it would also invalidate the argument of providing security on Apple systems I presume.

Even more open than Windows was Linux and we hadn't this malware problem. There are repositories that work without the lock-in crap other manufacturers pull.
Or really just where the buck is meant to stop.

The problem is that a pandemic is an n-th order effect nightmare, with a distinctly low failure threshold based on covid's epidemiological parameters.
A country's commander in chief needs to listen to scientific expertise & provide clear public communication and apolitical leadership to avoid this kind of calamity, which just didn't happen.
Nobody should be forced to be available for the employer around the clock
Sure, this works, but a cheap USB webcam would have been a far better solution than writing on top of your keyboard
The reality is that neither career prepares you for interaction design or HCI, so being an art school trained designer or a software engineer has little bearing on how deeply you understand design; comes down to your own learning path.
I mentioned a “deep” multi-layer neural net, which implies more than just 2-3 layers. As far as I’m aware, this is the first eight-layer trained network mentioned in any publication. http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-conspiracy.htm...
https://sites.google.com/site/theworldaccordingtoapple/

2011 but still valid it seems...
The antenna stick. Don’t know how else to describe it ;)
Yes and no. In my opinion Elixir/Phoenix can make you and your team productive from day 1. Phoenix is well designed (apart from few naming quirks and inconsistencies, but hey, which eco system doesn't have them) and Elixir is mature enough. Few years ago there was a problem with 3rd party libraries which were hobby projects, but never turned into proper OSS and were just abandoned - e.g. User Management library called Addict (https://github.com/trenpixster/addict). IMHO the community got much more mature now, so the problem is less apparent.

The argument for no, is the shortage of Elixir developers. I have a feeling that while it's easy to find node/java/c# devs - it is remarkably hard to find good Elixir developers.
Well, depends on how it's done. A wood burning stove in a regular one family house, where daddy is more concerned about the cost of the firewood than its water content is terrible yes.

A power/heating plant with proper monitoring of the combustion and filtering of the smoke is definitely no worse than a coal burning plant.
The aim to publishing this paper is probably that: first of all to invite as many as possible scientists to propose new abiotic pathways that would have been overlooked.

The sensationalism is probably an excellent way to pick their skepticism, so get more people to find counter-arguments.
ARM was launched as a joint venture between Acorn, Apple, and VLSI. I believe that since day 0 Apple had perpetual access to the IP.
I’d be nice to see a picture of an original deck, especially from Brian Eno. Also, I believe the list of messages has changed over the years so it’s be interesting to see which list you have.
Fair point, but that's not the only reason. Coal-fired stations have been replaced with gas ones, which aren't ideal, but are clearly better. Renewable energy has increased quite a bit, albeit from a low base and not nearly fast enough.

My quibble is that people are entirely writing this off because it's not enough, and I don't think that's helpful. We need to take some satisfaction when things are going in the right direction, even if it's not enough yet.

It's like a boss whose only method of motivating people is to constantly point out deficiencies in someone's work, rather than giving balanced feedback and praising them where it's due.
To be fair, OnePlus Buds appear to be counterfeit AirPods in everything but the name. Same shape, same white plastic, same metal endcaps, same black dots, even the same case design.

In other words, a straight-up rip-off of Apple’s design with a few minor changes.
This has been studied and it doesn't actually change the big picture much.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-largest-co2-import...

US up 6%, China down 10% for example.

But, yes, to accurately track responsibility this adjustment should be made or else unethical people will have an incentive to shift production to lax regimes.

One mildly surprising aspect is that countries that export fossil fuels show up here, even if you count the burning on the importer side. This is because the drilling and mining has carbon impacts on top of the burning.
bcachefs
I like to think that if we could dig beneath the surface we’ll find the remnants of an underground civilisation there... sort of like the martians from Broken Angels, but on Venus.
There are standardized exit exams among colleges affiliated to a single university.
The - to my mind - most absurd version of this was a well-known Swedish fintech I interviewed with where the one barrier they had set up was one of those online IQ tests (rotating, mirroring etc. blobs on a grid).

I was interviewing for a senior data science role and the other points of contact I had in the process were surprisingly non-technical conversations with a VP of data and another senior data scientist.

Alas, my skills in rotating blobs on a grid failed me that day so that was that.
The Pinephone is one of the most disappointing things I have ever bought. I'm an old Nokia N900 fan who was so enthusiastic about getting a new open phone, but the Pinephone’s CPU is extremely underpowered in terms of running the only interface that is both libre and has any real future (i.e. Phosh on Mobian – Ubuntu Touch is based on moribund 2014-era code, and Sailfish’s UI isn’t libre). Scrolling is ragged, opening new windows is painfully slow, and it is easy to make the device start swapping. Also, the Pinephone screen and case feel very cheap.

For me, the Pinephone is at best a tech preview for the sort of experiences you might get to have on the Librem when it becomes available.
The Gulf War 30 years later: successes, failures, and blind spots
Related: Why GOV.UK content should be published in HTML and not PDF (https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/07/16/why-gov-uk-content-should...)
Well, too bad.
Wood fires around your home: yes. Wood fires in power plants, instead of coal: probably not a big deal. Power plants already have extensive measures in place to clean their smoke.
Here's an interesting article about the downsides of Forth:

"My minimal stack of layers is – problem, software, hardware. People working on the problem (algorithms, UI, whatever) can't do software, not really. People doing software can't do hardware, not really. And people doing hardware can't do software, etc.

The Forth way of focusing on just the problem you need to solve seems to more or less require that the same person or a very tightly united group focus on all three of these things, and pick the right algorithms, the right computer architecture, the right language, the right word size, etc. (...)

So you need at least 3 teams, or people, or hats, that are to an extent ignorant about each other's work. Even if you're doing everything in-house, which, according to Jeff Fox, was essentially a precondition to "doing Forth". So there's another precondtion – having people being able to do what at least 3 people in their respective areas normally do, and concentrating on those 3 things at the same time. Doing the cross-layer global optimization.

It's not how I work."

https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines...
> forces them to FRAND licensing of ARM IP

FRAND licensing is worthless, if Qualcomm taught us anything.
> Verizon is CDMA-based and might not fully work on these phones

CDMA is no longer activated on new contracts/devices, and the CDMA network is planned to be shut down by next year (December 31, 2020).

Verizon is now LTE (GSM/3GPP)-based.
I didn't say either of these patched the kernel (one is in userspace, the other one is, well, you don't know where it since I didn't describe one) just that the difficulty and complexity of some potential exploit doesn't mean the exploit isn't important both to Apple and end-users.

You were arguing that some of Apple's mitigations are only aligned Apple's business interests and not those of end-users. I don't think you've said much to really show this is true, other than in your specific case. Not wanting the phone to be jailbreakable, to provide some assurance that when you buy an Apple phone, it's running Apple's software as designed by Apple and that it can't easily and surreptitiously replaced with something else is a perfectly reasonable consumer expectation very much in line with what Apple explicitly sells and promises of the product and services it comes with. The 'for no reason' bit just seems obviously inaccurate.
What makes it a better solution? Albeit a bit "life hack"-y, this is something that requires no technical skill or support, and is easily assembled from household items, so very little outlay.

I don't think I'd concede that webcams are a better solution, when thinking as an underfunded body such as a school district who may have to provide support for potentially thousands of these webcams to work for all their teachers.

Furthermore, I don't think this is something that we should hold the individual teacher responsible for: teaching is already a full time job, and workers should not have to buy their own equipment to do their job with, something that already happens too much in that field.

I did also think the writing on the keyboard might prove problematic, but also the teacher could theoretically remove the notepad and place it back if they wished. It's a relatively "open" technique.
Isn't that just the reverse of what Facebook and Google do currently?
I interpreted it as we (UK) are piped gas from Russia. We aren't, our gas is primarily from the North Sea.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43421431#:~:text=However...). (link jumps to the chart)
Why are you amazed about that? A modern Android phone is a general purpose computer roughly as powerful as a 2010-2015 laptop. Math software like Maxima, Mathematica, Maple have a very long history and was widely used on 1980s/1990s hardware.
PDF is a document format, Postscript is a Turing complete programming language (and rather a fun one IMHO).
Nah these are essentials. The detox is the non-essential stuff that just accumulates over time.

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