skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Docker high energy impact on macOS with no containers running
$40k/yr pays for the name of the school.

You can go to a great in-state public university for $6/yr or less.

Pedigrees are dumb. Humanities degrees for more than $6k/yr are absurd.

Georgia Tech offers a fully accredited online masters CS program for $6k as the total program cost, and their teaching is world-class.
Federal money was just one of basically 3 co-equal causes for tuition inflation. The other 2 are 1) drastic reductions in states funding their state colleges As a result of that, there's 2) the arms race to have the newest and shiniest facilities and amenities for students so they can compete to raise enrollment and get more revenue.
No the batteries he's referring to (4-6 cell LiPo's) don't have any electronics in them. They are as bare bones as you can get for the racing factor (lightweight and more capacity).
Embracing NewSQL: Why PalFish Chose TiDB over MongoDB and MySQL
Yar, matey.

Followed by learning Krita.
And you can no longer use the 2008 version of Gmail. Adobe moved to a subscription model that has allowed them to stay alive as a business without monetizing you as the product like many other ad based businesses. Adobe gets trashed endlessly for this because we had a taste of the perpetual license long ago. But the perpetual license doesn't make sense with cloud based updates and document sync that everyone also expects in modern digital tools. Imagine creating software today with perpetual licenses but no updates or sync across devices. You would laugh it off your machine.
The original EULA doesn’t say those things (CS3 was before the era where everything had an arbitration agreement stapled to it), but does say that the software is only warrantied for 90 days and that that is the only warranty you get unless you have a support contract.

https://labs.adobe.com/technologies/eula/photoshopcs3.html
I changed jobs in August, and the new job is in a high rent city, where I'll pay $75/night for a 1br apartment (i.e. $2300/mo). We're all remote until at least January, so I decided to not rent and instead work while traveling -- you can live in hotels and AirBnBs quite comfortably in many places on a $75/night budget.
I'm glad you qualified "old", because I tried to run some Switch games from the cartridge when I was at a cottage with no connectivity, and both games forbade me from playing without updating first.
Or better yet, an open source alternative. I like both GIMP and Krita.

The problem with piracy is that it still ends up with more people knowing the proprietary software, and thus helps it keep the position cemented.
A PhD -- especially in CS -- is not really best understood as "furthering your education" in the traditional sense. It's better understood as a paid apprenticeship in R&D.

It's preparation to become either a professor at a university or an independent researcher at an industrial/government research lab. It won't increase your lifetime earnings or job prospects, but it does open up doors to jobs whose primary allure is intellectual freedom rather than material reward.

If you don't go one of those two routes after a CS PhD, then a CS PhD has rather high negative expected value except in a few special circumstances (e.g., BS from NoName Branch Cappus to PhD from mit/cmu/stanford. But that's not the typical case for non-immigrants.)
> Given that we can't eradicate this kind of crime entirely by improving security, I think ransomware is the least bad option in the sense that it punishes the offending company while minimizing the risk of the data being leaked which would hurt the data subjects themselves (the public).

There is nothing to guarantee that attackers will destroy the data and not further exploit it even if you pay them. Improved security isn't going to fix the problem, but we can make it less profitable and make that profit more difficult. If our policy is to pay we're just making it highly profitable with very little effort on the part of the attackers. If we refuse to pay, they will have to pour over our data looking for what may or may not be valuable to anyone, spend time searching for those people who might pay them for it, and then spend time convincing them to pay enough to justify their time/efforts.

We should be refusing to pay and making sure we've got backups of our own stuff so that we'll never have to.
Exactly. I work on Laser2, the approach is the same as Laser [0], Laser2 performs better on some low resource languages.

A more ELI5 explanation would be something like this: Laser is an encoder/decoder architecture trained as a translation task from language X to english/spanish, with the particularity of having only one vector between the encoder and decoder. Once this system is trained (with public translation datasets), the vector that the encoder gives you for an input sentence represents the "meaning" of that sentence, since the decoder relies only on that information to generate a translation. And this vector representation is the same for any language the system was trained on.

So we use that system to mine data from commoncrawl: giving any language pair (say romanian-nepali), having two vectors close to each other in that latent space means the sentences have the same meaning.

We use fastText's language classifier [1] to filter from commoncrawl, compute the vector representations with Laser, and find close vectors thanks to Faiss [2].

[0] https://engineering.fb.com/ai-research/laser-multilingual-se...

[1] https://fasttext.cc/docs/en/language-identification.html

[2] https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
Don't order from Banggood. It takes weeks to arrive and is likely to be a knockoff. There are several US retailers like RaceDayQuads.com, GetFPV.com, etc.
Or Krita, depending on your usecase.
I actually froze my hand inside an ice cream machine like this when I was a teenager working fast food.
I hit a standby button instead of the off switch. (I was too tall to see the off switch and was never trained.)
I spent two weeks in a burn unit while they healed my hand with magic synthetic sin grafts.
Today you can’t even tell which hand got frozen in there.
I hope that some day ppc64{le,be} get there soon. Would love to use openpower based completly open systems. Atleast for the time-being only OpenPower matches or beats the performance profiles of x86_64.
Try Montreal? A great and affordable city. Only 1.5 hour drive to Mont Treblant.
I've been kicking around a related idea for a while. A static "death day" is great because you can internalize, and countdown towards it, but it loses the distribution behind life expectancy. A single day is probability's expected value, but there's a huge range of days that could be your last - even today!

My idea is a daily (or weekly/monthly/etc) notification that re-computes a "death day" for you, on that recurring basis. Each notification would include a day, and together, they'd form a distribution that faithfully represents the variance in days you're likely to die.

For example: me; 28-year-old male. I'd regularly get "death days" that are ~50 years out. Occasionally, maybe they'd be 25, or 55 years away. And very rarely, they'd be things like 10, or even 5 years away. A perfect reminder to play hooky, or call up a friend, or tick off a bucket list item every once in a while!

Anyone interested in this? I'm kind of fishing for an excuse to build it...
Should it just be illegal for police to break into phones? Those rich enough to use the latest release of phone seem to have been protected from such intrusion. Isn't it inevitable that practically unbreakable phones will eventually be available for everyone? Crime will in that case have to be fought somehow with a different approach.

Backdoors make everyone vulnerable. We need unbreakable phones. Criminals will gain practically unbreakable communication. It seems to me that an adaptation needs to occur, but how?

Will crimes that consist purely of digital data transmission become unenforceable until they breach into physical action?

How severe may the issue be?
"Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has rolled out campaign proposals over the past month that include major increases in federal R&D spending, with a focus on clean energy and emerging technologies."

https://www.aip.org/fyi/2020/biden-and-harris-envision-ambit...
And here I thought the mantra on this site was "correlation is not causation."
You heartless bastard, they were so old. One day until retirement!
PDF files are an ISO standard (including the digital signing part), so that should be fine.
Shoot me an email. I have a couple radios (one new and used) I can part with.
Deepfake being used to “undress” underage girls
Correct, no change, not if you already have a job or the ready prospect of getting a new one. But if you were a regional manager overseeing a dozen restaurants in a now bankrupt chain, your job prospects aren't very good, and retraining a long upward hill battle.
This summer I bought a house in Tahoe (Carnelian Bay) and am now going through some mostly DIY renovations, with a little local contractor help here and there.

We also still have a place in San Francisco, but we're spending 70-80% of our time in Tahoe.

We spent the whole month of June here, and when we booked our place to stay, Placer county was not allowing short term rentals, so we booked for a full month to get over the threshold. While we were here, restaurants and other things opened back up.

About mid-June we started looking at houses. We made one offer for asking price, and got it accepted, right at the end of June. Overall I think we were fairly lucky. There were some stories of places going for substantially over asking price, which is rare for the area. But the largest impact was that housing supply is low, and houses moved really quickly.

It's typical for houses in this area to sit on the market for 3-6 months and sell for right around or slightly under asking price. This summer we saw a house go up on Zillow, on Wednesday, and we hemmed and hawed about it until Friday, then told our agent we wanted to tour it. The house was already off the market by that time. We saw plenty of places hit there market, and go into contract within 2-5 days.

We looked at several that we're real fixers. Like an 1100 square foot A-Frame that had a terrifying set of disclosures, probably needed at least a down to the studs renovation. All the electrical replaced, plumbing replaced, etc. Everything was DIY, not to code, etc. It sold in a handful of days for at least $500K, and certainly needed another $150K in work.

The place we did end up getting, we only got to see because our agent knew the seller and the selling agent. We got to tour it before it hit the multiple listing service and we had an offer in before it actually went on the market. It did hit the MLS for a few hours, but the buyer ended up wanting an easy sale, so accepted or asking price offer.

This kind of quick sale is typical for the Bay Area, but not at all for Tahoe.

I'm not keeping as close an eye on the market now, but overall asking prices are up, and people are still buying quickly. Also all the local contractors are very busy.

The other issue (and we're part of this problem) is that a lot of former rental houses are being put on the market, so locals are having quite a hard time finding a place to rent, and having to end up in places like Reno, which is roughly a 45-60 minute drive away. SFGate has an article about this exact issue here: https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/Bay-Area-transplant...

The other anecdote is that up until a couple of weeks ago it was still quite busy in town. People working at the local grocery store were commenting that it's the busiest shoulder season they've ever seen. Typically this time of year, this place is nearly a ghost town.

Both me and my partner have been working remotely since the start of March and expect to continue at least well into next year. Perhaps permanently.
Anything that buys you the time you need to work through free resources. Time is the hard part for self learning.
There are special no-activation-required versions of the entire CS2 and CS3 product line!

Adobe killed the product activation servers for CS2 products in 2013, and for CS3 products in 2017. For CS2, they offered Activation-free replacement installers and generic serial numbers on their support page. This resulted in a bunch of press[0] about it being a /!\ omg completely free Creative Suite /!\, so for CS3's 2017 shutdown[1] they made you register your original serials to your Adobe Account in exchange for an individualized offline serial and the offline installer[2].

I don't know exactly when, but some time around the end of 2019 or the beginning of 2020 they ended[3] the offline installer program for CS3, removed the ability to generate offline serials in my Adobe Account page or even re-access the offline downloads for my already-generated serials, and have seemingly scrubbed their Knowledge Base of any mention that they ever existed.

I am so thankful I got them while I was able to since aside from needing to tweak the high-DPI handling[4] the CS3 apps work beautifully on my Windows 10 x64 machine. All CS3 applications are only 32-bit, but they're also the final versions with traditional UIs before they gave everything a shiny new Flash-based UI in CS4, so I'm fine with it :)

[0]: https://nofilmschool.com/2013/01/adobe-releases-creative-sui...

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20190401002548/https://helpx.ado...

[2]: https://i.imgur.com/ae1SWN5.png (my screenshot!)

[3]: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/locked-photoshop-cs...

[4]: https://i.imgur.com/OjBggBb.png
Would you mind sharing? I'm sure many people here are interested in functional programming tutorials.
But who authenticates the digital signatures? I am under the impression that these are certified by Adobe.
Significant portion of what kind of users exactly? Professionals upgrade their software and I could bet that 13 years old software is nowhere near of being significant. It’s the same kind of stupidity like shouting that Microsoft EOLed XP. ;-)
However , their sale terms for cs2 did not say you can pay a lot of money to use till Adobe changrs their mind. Their license agreement said I can use as long as I wanted to
This reminds me of the old ESO servers for age of mythology/empires. Microsoft bought ESO, eventually I think in the late 00s they shut down the online multiplayer servers. But they weren't really shutdown, the certificate had actually expired. If you started up fiddler2 and did a little tinkering you could actually get connected to the servers through the game again.
Just swap "Adobe cs2" for a car so it gets a lot funnier

>>Sir, you are no longer allowed to use your car

>But I paid for it! It's my car!

>>Our aging servers had to be retired

>Can't you just turn off the checking so it won't cost you anything and I can keep using my car?

>>No sir, without the checking people would start pirating the car

> But you don't even sell this car anymore! So much so you don't even want to keep the servers online!

>>I'm sure you'll love the new model we are selling

> I don't need a new car! I already have one, fuck off! I'm just gonna use a crack

>> Sir it's illegal to run unauthorized software on your car
This seems incredibly abusive and inappropriate. Just like it was in 2012 when business owners where pressuring people to vote for Mitt Romney.

This article lays out a pretty solid case for why politics should be kept out of business.

https://www.epi.org/publication/unwise-employers-directing-w...
I had this thought when watching a cold-case show awhile back. The detectives had dug out the original cassette tapes which helped "crack the case" - what are modern police departments doing? Hopefully this stuff isn't just in the cloud somewhere waiting to get lost? In 20 years will we have any ability whatsoever to recreate everything from today?
Yeah sorry that in Europe people go to local univerities, live at home, take the bus to school and don't travel the world and buy useless things on a student loan.

In my opinion, Americans could do exactly the same to a local community college and have basically no debt.
> And you can no longer use the 2008 version of Gmail.

How is this relevant? Gmail has always been a remotely hosted service. This is about Photoshop CS, not CC.

And I do not expect old software to do cloud updates/document sync. I expect it to keep working as is.

I also can't stand the endless "Needs connectivity" and "Set up syncing now" in modern software.
Everyone wants to see firm commitments on the NIH and NSF budgets. The article here is just wishy-washy with bits of social justice thrown in. It's not what's required, we need industrial policy.
Legally perhaps, most of these earlier software had plenty of cracks to bypass the early copy protection they used.
Parents and their children choose these astronomical loans when there are much more affordable options. Every student coming out of a mediocre private school with $120,000 in debt could have received the same education for less than a third of that. They're absolutely sharing a large portion of blame when they make that choice.
I don’t want to starve
> Did you accept the agreement when installing?

That actually doesn't matter if the terms are unreasonable.

Courts commonly understand that one-sided unreasonable licenses are unenforceable when litigated.
> Further, if the Wi-Fi network is not encrypted (an open insecure network with no password), then any user on the network can also read your traffic!

Is that situation any or much better when a password is set, but known, shared, or trivially cracked?
I’m also not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure that’s not a thing, at least in the US. Downloading/distributing abandonware is still piracy, it’s just much less likely anyone will care.
I'd bet there's some other law that applies when a product ceases functioning because it was, in a way, sabotaged by the manufacturer.
Good idea but this doesn't save history which can be useful sometimes.
> And you can no longer use the 2008 version of Gmail.

Gmail has always been a hosted service - not software that runs entirely on your own machine. Apples and oranges.

> Imagine creating software today with perpetual licenses but no updates or sync across devices. You would laugh it off your machine.

You mean like any number of extremely popular software packages like IntelliJ that offer perpetual licenses?
No one would still be using CS 2 or 3 if Adobe had reasonable prices on new products. I bought Adobe products since the mid 1990s, but I recently switched to Affinity Photo and Designer because Adobe priced me out. Elements wasn't powerful enough for me. I was surprised how good Affinity software is. It does everything I need and is a very reasonable price without a subscription. I may never buy another Adobe product. Adobe is so foolish for giving their competitors an opening. They are giving away their business.
Whoa. Business thinking right there... but seriously why should they?
I've been on the road 6 months now working remote. It's pretty great, especially going with a friend or two. The main concern was internet - here's what I found:

1 month Southern colorado - terrible internet

Denver, SLC, Seattle, Baja - all no problems

The key thing that's helped is directly connecting with ethernet.
> In Germany, students are heavily segmented into tracks from an early point in their academic career, and if you're not in the traditional "college" track, tough luck: it's very difficult to get moved.

I heard the last part is changing thanks to "Gesamtschulen" (schools with all 3 tracks and a way to switch after you finish your track).

But anyway, it’s not as if that’s the only way. Vocational training is another way to go to college.
> I want to record videos, watch videos, talk to people, read stuff. And I still have an SSH client on my iPhone for when I need to remote into my server to do stuff on it while on the go.

I do all these things on an OS that is entirely a open source community effort using absolutely nothing proprietary. F-Droid and it's derivatives offer all these things easily. Maybe I'm missing the point here?

Can we see the source code for your iphone ssh client? How sure are you about its security?
PDF signing should be pretty standard PKI stuff. If you have Adobe's public certs you're good.
I wish they would use this technology to make coffees unavailable in the app when they're not available in real life.
Instacart is pushing their side of Prop 22 very hard as well - with prominent placement in their app, and annoying calls to my cell phone.
> ...then drivers would probably routinely drive at times they found pleasant, not profitable times for the staffing company.

Are you sure? Have you ever worked in a job at the mall that was relegated to telling you to "I dunno, why don't you come in when you're feeling pleasant or comfortable?" Similarly, airlines that schedule flight attendants don't tell them to come in whenever they want. You can fire people who are your employees, yeah? And you can pay people who outperform more.
Windows 10 can do it too. It's called "Color filters". Both "Red-green (green weak, deuteranopia)" and "Red-green (red weak, protanopia)" work to allow me to use the site. The second one is more visible, but also much more distorting. Also I've now enabled the hotkey (win+ctrl+c).
In general, digital signatures should always be cryptographically verifiable by the receiver without anyone's cooperation - certification by someone may be required to make the signature (especially if you'd want the signature to include a trusted timestamp), but everyone else in perpetuity can verify if a signature was certified by someone even if that certifier does not exist anymore.
It can't. The point you're replying to is that being alive at age X gives less information about longevity than at X+1. For the younger person we don't know whether they'll make it to age X+1. For the older person we have the additional data that they did make it. That data is what makes the older person's life expectancy higher.
They did! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865636
I the past year I have been convinced the desire to get things done is a partial root of my unhappiness. I have been working a lot on learning to just be and perhaps do also.
UC is probably double that easily by now and all of them are that cheap for in-state only. Out of state is like 20-30k
But nobody paid for the 2008 version of Gmail.

Adobe cannot unilaterally change the rules of a sale they completed in the past. It’s Darth Vader’s “pray i don't alter it further” behaviour - a character built to be the representation of evil.
Doesn’t Sailfish OS have a proprietary UI? How is that an improvement?

Why not support a FOSS mobile like Pinephone or Librem?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_p...
Stoicism and Wellbeing, Cold Exposure, Listening, Hiring, Political Extremism
one thing.
Distribution. isnt the point of these licenses applied when you convey to the public, or users or such? from what i understand, you are fine whether AGPl or GPL or LGPL as long as its internal and not for distribution or selling or whatever.

in your example, if your SSO script is used internally, i dont think you need to open source your properietary blobs and all source code. it is only when you sell the product, or distribute it to your customers on the web for example is when you need to care about this thing.
When I was a kid (early 80's) we used to go to the "Science Center" in Baltimore, Maryland (US). There were a lot of cool interactive displays/experiments. One was a fan blowing under an orange street cone, and a levitating beach ball would hover in mid air - caught in what appeared to be an invisible tractor beam. You could walk up, pull the beach ball off, then place it (or throw it) back into the vortex. It was quite stable. I used to play with that for about 20 minutes straight I'd say each time I went there, which was often.