skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's actually a fundamental difference between the anglosaxon system, US/UK(Canada?) and basically all the others though which I kind of like.

In the US and UK you're considered educated once you go through school. So you can go another two years to University and become a lawyer(same with medicine, provided you can afford it). In Germany you're kind of set for life.

Engineers are not considered business people, business people can't be considered engineers. But one of my favorite startups back in the days(Basho the makers of Riak) two absolutely fantastic engineering managers I met were an english literature grad and an business school grad. Both just had a lot of interest in Computer Science.

Of course the other extreme of the equation is people that found the Fyre Festival or Theranos.
"I don't care about privacy; I have nothing to hide."

Can I offer a variation of this one? I care about privacy. I wouldn't want a human to be looking over my searches. That said, if they're just using the data to serve me relevant ads and it's all either automated or aggregated so that I'm never personally identified, then I'm cool with it at the personal level.

I say "at the personal level" because I think there's still a practical problem when it comes to politics. It seems too easy to sway elections using it. Not even necessarily by shaping the results in any way. Simply by being able to identify the groups of users who will vote a particular way in particular electoral divisions, and then seeking to lift their voting rate above the average. (eg. by prompting/reminding them to vote)
Show HN: Computer Vision groundtruth generator using Blender
Yes, that is such a strange this to do. I'm really confused why a website would play a loading sound!
The laws of psychology state that this guy is compensating for something. Time for the tax inspectors to take a closer look, or the police to check his hard drive.
That's beautiful and moving! This is what computers are really for.
I use !yt for YouTube.
One additional wrinkle that I saw on a video[1, about 7:00] about the skull painting was whilst the clouds are a static map moving per time-step, that starts when the first map is loaded, not each map. Which means it can be misleading.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCEu4DmB174
Copying files to an external APFS is a lot faster than copying to HFS+.
I agree with the author's crusade against pointless meetings, but their attack on email doesn't sit well with me.

> Avoid email loops. Those have too much overhead, and will divide your audience pretty quickly.

The author recommends "async slack" in a cartoon, but then advises against using email -- which is IMO far superior to "async slack" in every way possible. Mailing lists are severely under valued in corporate environments. They are still a great medium for discussion.

> Create a slack channel instead of the email loop. This will retain the whole conversation in 1 central place.

So will email? With the added benefit of being self hosted, with a great collection of software which works on any and all platforms, which has been around for decades, which can easily be archived, and which will still be accessible decades from now.
I work in the enterprise space, and Mcafee is the AV I see the most, and I believe largely for the "checkbox compliance" reasons you mentioned.

Personally, I find Mcafee AV to be absolutely fucking horrible. It installs something like 10 Windows services, and runs about 15 processes, and it always consumes by far more CPU than anything else on my system - and I run Docker, Rider, etc, so actually put the system through it's paces.

As an aside, I'm currently working with a company that was recently hit by a randsomware attack. They have responded by installing two endpoint protection (aka next gen AV) systems, another DLP system (Mcafee DLP is already installed), and a kill switch that let's them remotely destroy a machine. The end result is that a machine that was previously severely degraded by Mcafee, is now a machine that is at times unusable, and permanently sounds like an aircraft taking off. I don't think they're even done - I'm pretty sure they're going to install more crapware! This BTW is a company that sends about 10 internal spam mails a day, many of which are images or/and full of spelling mistakes, and some of which are asking you to download and install .exe files...
> YAML is to config syntaxes what Python is to programming languages. Seriously, significant whitespaces?

That's his critique of YAML? That it is too pythonic? You're not getting far in convincing people of something being bad, if your top argument is "It is like python".
It is entirely implemented in the window manager. It's not an X11 feature.
Pico-8 other than licensing is superior. But TIC-80 has a pro version that is paid and has some features locked behind it. I generally dislike the practice. You either release the whole software as open source or release a commercial product.
But... he sold the company in 1994?
> happy SMART output

I wouldn't put too much trust on SMART[0]: since yesterday I have a disk in a raid 5 array making loud clicking noises, mdadm says everything is fine and all disks report perfect SMART data.

[0] I trust SMART when it says it's not OK though
Understanding cold storage wallets, and why they don't need to be so cold
I've had the same experience of Mcafee - it makes you wonder how much their loathsome AV is contributing towards the company's power bill, and indeed global warming!
The water-saving device wasting billions of litres every week
What works for me was dragging from the corner of the <div>, not from the svg itself. (Firefox 81.0, Ubuntu 20.04)

Looks neat! Great work.
and with higher stakes!
Naturally, if you want to be pedantic, X11 is a network communication protocol for GUI based applications, X servers have plenty of freedom how that protocol gets rendered.
You mean like this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/08/07/apple-a...
The only conflict of interest I see here is that lambda school could increase their student body within a single year by admitting worse students to sell the ISAs and then close up shop to run away with the money. The biggest victims would be the investors. Although it's possible it sounds very unlikely. You'd expect this from a Bitcoin exchange.
Turkish hackers. Terrorist Turkey is transporting a lot of missionary jihadists (pays them around 2k) from Syria to fight for Azerbaijan. You don't want those "commercial" planes to appear on flight radar. Do you?
While this article is off base, there is a distinct lack of leadership in demonstrating effective ways to solve the problem. There is way too much plastic used for disposable packaging, from foods to toiletries to the infamous heat sealed plastic clamshells. What does an ideal zero plastic life look like? Is it even possible to conduct such a life in the modern world?

For example, yogurt. Ubiquitous. Comes in nice little plastic cups, which will, at best, end up in a landfill. Suppose there is a wide agreement in society to phase these plastic cups out:

* Do we ban yogurt?

* Do we use recyclable glass instead?

* Do we use recyclable glass, and only dispense yogurt if you bring a recyclable container for an exchange?

* Do we use recyclable glass, only dispense in exchange for a recyclable container, and standardize container shape such that the recycling actually recycles, as opposed to sending the "recycled" container to a landfill anyways?

* Do we limit the amount of yogurt containers one can buy in a given timeframe?

* Do we create a heavy tax on the container, say 10x the price of the content?

Life is short and people may get overwhelmed by too many details. Problem which compounds if there is too much choice. Almost always better to have a standard recipe to follow, than having to figure out a recipe on a case by case basis.
It is hard to make money with iOS if no one in the country owns Apple devices (note "local market"), if you managed to do such feat please let us know.
> What is the reason and goal of this thinking?

Maybe the term "insignificant" was not ideal. What I mean is that we may not be special in any way. By considering this we will set the right expectations as we come up with theories and learn more things about the universe and our place within it. In the past, whenever we thought we were special, we had to revise our theories at a later point.
An Interview with Rick and Morty's Animation Director – By 19 Yo Indian Student
Quit social media, political media and rest of internet is just fine.
Yes most things will also magically disappear when burned
:)

Angel list had a page where one could find out the valuation based on various filters. Unable to find that now. However, many YC companies fail to raise in demo day! And there are non-yc companies who 've gone to raise $3m-$5m in seed alone with just a deck. The latter had the advantage of proven track records etc. Also, the higer valuations at seed stage can come back to hurt in Series-A.
Ctrl+f microplastics gets 0 results in the text. Is the author aware of it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics
There was a comment posted on HN a while ago that has always stuck with me[0] that basically said that plain old pen, paper, and a system of rules was more than enough to start a business, organisation, or, as a follow up comment said, even Rome.

This has rung true in my life many times over. I've tried complicated note and habit tracking apps that just do far more than I ever need and I tend to get stuck in the weeds, missing the forest for the trees with these types of platforms. The default reminders app and notes app on my iPhone so far, has been more than sufficient for everything I've needed to tackle in life from moving overseas, starting a business, and fostering relationships as well as building every habit I currently have.

Basically, this is just a long winded way of saying "keep it simple"

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21222150
Ha, I also eliminate Google search from my browsers' search bar options.
Perhaps, but if my current employer would let me take a 25% pay cut to drop down to four-days a week I would bite their hand off. Differential preferences are, ultimately, what create a market.

There is, however, clearly something broken in the labour market though. The progressive income tax system in the UK means that someone working a five day week for ~$160k p.a. would only see a 12.5% reduction in net income if they could drop down to four-days per week.
You are clearly very intelligent. You could do something else with that. Over a lifetime, you could have an impact on China, through sanctions or whatever.

That, is also, Moloch, of course. But if we can’t but fight, at least fight the good fight.
We should be glad to have this, especially in these times. One problem is that people often leave the company after completing the apprenticeship and they even get encouraged to switch employers. Every healthy company I worked for didn't like company hoppers and tried to retain employees. Some departments always have some fluctuation, but it is one of the best quality markers for a company in my opinion.

But as you said, lateral entrants might have a difficult time since there is a profession for everything. It is a transient education system though. Even if you only got the lowest kind of basic education, you can do an apprenticeship to get access to university or any higher education. Some people need some time to find motivation.
Also worth checking the new CloudFlare 10th cakeday announcement for their serverless approach to statefull objects. As I understand it, they can accomplish some of the basic CRDT use cases without the technical overhead.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-workers-durable-obje...
Indeed, microecology is a thing.
So basically Time Capsule backup is useless if you want to buy a new Mac?

I now use the password generation and Keychain Password manager so much I dont even know any password of my online account.

How is that acceptable and not widely known?
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Yep, another Chrome only application.
Standard says: "

CData ::= (Char* - (Char* ']]>' Char))

Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] / any Unicode character, excluding the surrogate blocks, FFFE, and FFFF. */

"

Which means the following characters are illegal: #x0, #x1, #x2, #x4, #x5, #x6, #x8, #xB #xE, #x18, #x19, #x1A, and #x1C

I'm not arguing here for or against inclusion of these characters as legal characters in a text block; just saying that GP's point is oblivious to actual encoding (explicit escapes or cdata)
Reminded me of this: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Classic-WTF-The-Indexer
I have never heard of 2 year phds anywhere in Europe and I'm in European academia, working a lot in European projects so I have quite a bit of exposure to academic cultures across the continent. Nominal time is 4 years, 3 years is already something special. And a masters doesn't count towards this, not having a masters is basically not having finished your studies, nobody I know would hire a phd student straight out of their bachelors.
If you have to lie to do reasonable things, most people will lie.... and then you get used to lying, and find it easier to justify.
There a number of people giving daily updates. I think Craig Murray's reports are the most extensive, but Kevin Gosztola has a list of other journalists and organisations covering it here: https://shadowproof.com/2020/09/21/guide-to-journalists-assa...

There's one journalist from Sydney in that list.
Fourth, are they Christian yet?
Applying Google's research on high performing teams
Fixing cold start problem in recommender systems
My last company, a large regional hospital, spent over a decade trying to create a remote work policy. The app and business management side spent all that time figuring out which productivity monitoring software to buy. People from the network and security teams got sucked in spending endless cycles trying to figure out how to get these platforms working in our complicated network. Legal and compliance also spent God-knows-how long making sure everything was in line with HIPAA. Rinse and repeat with every pilot and trial of monitoring software.

The whole effort was so focused on employee monitoring, other things like security and actual productivity tools and protocols were essentially ignored. In the end nothing was ever formalized and business units just did their own thing. Some never even allowed it.

Then COVID-19 hit.

The network and security teams spent three weeks+ working on capacity upgrades for things like the VPN and laptops accommodate everyone. Old school managers who had never used anything like Slack or Teams suddenly had to figure out how to manage without patrolling the cubicle farm. During that time, nothing got done because employees were sent home but didn't have the tools to work.

If management actually stuck with their charter of creating a remote policy instead of software shopping, they wouldn't have missed a beat.
> Durability is the guarantee that data can be accessed after a failure. It seems like this should be very simple: either your system provides durable data storage, or it does not. However, durability is not a binary yes/no property, and instead should be defined as the kinds of failures you want your data to survive. Since there is usually some performance penalty for durability, many systems provide a way for only "important" writes to be durable, while "normal" writes will eventually be durable, with no specific guarantee about when.

I believe we should return to dual-disk systems with separate disk/flash drive dedicated for executable code (OS+apps+swap) and for user data storage. And this can be especially easy now as NVMe drives and micro/SD cards can be so small and low-power.

Performance is very important for the drive where you load your executable from and where you put your swap. The speed of this disk actually defines the user experience. At the same time it rarely is a serious problem if it fails - you can just replace it and re-install everything. The user data (like documents, pictures, multimedia files, source codes etc.) storage usually doesn't really need to be that fast to access but it really should be durable as its failure often means loss of some unique valuable data which is a result of work expensive or impossible to repeat in required time.
So I HAVE to subscribe to "TRIAL" ? - (I have already SIGNED-UP")
Based on what I've seen, it can't even cope with simple plain English - in a video I watched earlier, in just the first 90 seconds, "This subject has" -> "If his subject has", "A weapon that was" -> "Her weapon fat was", "spherical shape" -> "severe achill shape".
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Arty Bollocks
I wouldn't have thought it necessary to explain how what's acceptable for a local, profit-focused business differs from what's acceptable for an international NGO, a military organization or even a multinational corporation, but here we are.
Interesting, as per my comment below, this is something I tried and failed to do well. Would you consider getting in touch for a brief chat? You can reach me on mr475 [at] cantab [dot] net - thanks!
What is the motivation behind this article? Is it an encouragement for all employers to track their employees or is it that we should all return to the office? This form of surveilance should be deemed illegal as the employer is not buying my life but my work. This is just a poor country exploitation practice that is being tried to be introduced in developed countries to maximize profits. And by advertising this on bbc makes it normal. Next step is to connect mind reading hats and to require that you only think about your work during the shift.
I really wish Time Capsule could do iOS Backup.
WhatsApp provides a direct APK download from their website, no store needed
Sounds like you've got it easy. At my $DAYJOB it's once every ~6 months and they always measure time for the building to empty, so they don't want people to leave or not come in on that day.
Is your knowledge of professional photography that there are no professional photographers in non-Western countries?
> the browser feels like vim in a small way

Use a real Vim emulation like tridactyl[0], life changer.

0: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl
One argument that I could imagine (not sure that I'm supporting it) to prefer slack over mail: usage patterns for a shared email channel are far more individual than for a branded async medium like slack. With mail, some people will do elaborate filtering, others just dump everything in a single inbox. Some will use mail very close to real-time (perhaps even do all their mail hands-off through some Siri/Alexa/whatever voice interface?), others might maximise asynchronicity even to the point of hardcopies. A branded channel will be far more predictable in terms of client UI and usage patterns.
Of course it is, never said otherwise, just don't be surprised if you don't get treated decently and especially you shouldn't give up your dreams on the grounds of failing one interview.
When the Impact of Digital Tech on Our Mental Health Begins to Matter
The same as every flu season that we have had for years.
He is a juicy character, but in this particular case his opinion matches that of the industry... which is to never touch anything McAfee-made even with a long pole.
I'm from the EU and this is pretty much how I feel.

Also I kind of trust huge companies like Google more than smaller ones. Yes, I know Google is collection lots of info on me, and I know they will show me ads and try to sell me something or get me to use more of their services, but I don't feel like it's such a big issue, and I don't think it's in their self interest to abuse this data or that anyone there cares about me personally. What is some smaller company going to do with my data and who are they going to sell it to? Who knows. Can I really trust they are not collecting any data? Who knows.
Most people and I mean upwards of 98% (even the tech savvy ones) don't care much about privacy as much as the HN bubble seems to(or pretends to).
I understand your point but from my perspective I care a lot. Things do not stop there; it's the nature of companies to take more and more for entirely rational reasons (money), but those reasons eat deeper into the boundary between them and you.

If one allows them the thin end of the wedge, one will get the rest, slowly, and slowly accept it a la boiling frog, rationalising it all the way (maybe not you specifically, but many will. Why? It's the easiest thing to do).

You've already mentioned the problem of politics, in effect you've just acknowledged the rest of the wedge will appear. There will be other reasons.
I believe that if you don't really like Google, then you shouldnt use other Search Engines than Google like DDG, just let them be very tiny.
iOS 14 has some new Sleep stuff which semi-locks the phone at your "prepare for bed" time - you need to dismiss the "preparing for sleep" before you can unlock the phone.
This is neat, I hope it will also work with the Tridactyl's search bar
Two factors:

1 - a high school education in the US no longer results in someone functionally prepared for citizenship (manage a budget, understand how to vote, keep themselves fed and clothed, understand a newspaper etc). It’s also only 12 years. The first year of the 4-year undergrad program at most schools is leveling all the kids to the same base.

2 - despite my criticism above, the US undergraduate design is, by and large, intended to be broad rather than deep; while in most countries you can get an undergrad law or medicine degree and then be a lawyer or physician, in the US undergrads are expected not only to study their subject (“major”) but also some literature, maths, perhaps a foreign language etc. Actual profession comes in many cases from an advanced degree. I think this is a better system though not always well implemented.

There is also a Berufsschule- like system called an associates degree for basic accounting, dental assistant, etc.

My son attended German Grundschule and Gymnasium track, but did some US high school and US undergrad. I did US high school and US undergrad, but my exposure is to a different system. So while I think the us educational system is in a parlous state, it has some strengths as well.
But then doctors often end up looking at people's rashes all day and handing out hydrocortisone and tylenol.

There's a lot more advanced stuff pharmacists are qualified to do. Pills don't require much work, but liquids and powders may need to be mixed. Also they often can prescribe certain things like morning after pills for birth control.

Also pharmacists work in other places besides retail like hospitals.
It is now, it wasn't before.

I'm from Italy, my parents were both nurses, they started in the middle 70s, they did apprenticeships while working directly at the Hospital (couple of major Hospitals in Rome).

They received a degree of professional nurse at the end of the three year course that has been made equivalent to the new three year University degree that is required now.

My view on the subject is that it was unnecessary.

My opinion is that in Italy there was a low number of graduates compared to other European countries, so we created this short term University courses to compensate for it that don't match the MD courses, not even closely, they are just the same old apprenticeships updated and rebranded.
No one is a bit drastic, don't you think?
Alternative submission with more comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24599397
Perhaps the more original source for this idea is in Michael Spence’s 1973 paper on Job Market Signaling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
Xkcd: Messaging Systems
iOS has Android? If you have issues, sell on Android.
The difference is, that foreign gov couldnt/cannot that easily broadcast TV programms in your TV nor press.