skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, this is what I've noticed at the high school level. Only the self-motivated kids, and the kids who want to learn and pass are learning and passing. The others just don't even have to give a pretense of it anymore since they're not physically there.

I can only imagine how people think fully remote learning will work long term, without an overhaul in how our education system is structured (does everyone need to know algebra 2 or how to balance chemical reactions?)
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Something much more pervasive than a response to a real and imminent danger.
If you are distributing an OSS app, put it in HomeBrew. Done

There are thousands of OSS apps available on the Mac. None of them are signed. This includes many GUI apps like iTerm.

Most people who use OSS apps are already going to have HomeBrew regardless.
If Pine64 threw a bunch of Ethernet ports into a Clusterboard that'd be a pretty killer platform for a router. Start with one SOPINE for the actual router stuff, then add more for things like NAS, print servers, home streaming, home automation, etc.
Not Teamspeak (or Mumble) servers.
Which is why I pretty much only wear band t-shirts.

EDIT: the irony of this comment hit me just now.
the m1 isn’t competing on many of the same axes as an intel or amd cpu, because it’s necessarily packaged inside of an entire computer built around it. that computer is a mac, which might be different from the purchaser’s current os so they decide not to switch, or they already bought software for windows and want to use it there, or they’re married to the microsoft ecosystem, etc.
See, the problem is you misunderstand the situation.

The legal/political system in China is not new. Actually, China is probably most stable system throughout written history, practicing roughly same government/legal system and its approach to relation between government and individual person for the past two millennia.

Which is to say that in China, as opposed to western civilizations, there is no human rights as we now it because Chinese people are and have always been subservient to the government.

In western civilizations monarchy powers slowly eroded and had to either give concessions or be overthrown in a violent revolt. This never happened in China.

If you have doubts, just read The Origins of Political Order (Francis Fukuyama). This is well explained there.

Ignore labels like "People's Republic of China", the fact is that people in China have only so much rights as it suits the government to give them for the country to prosper. And it does not hesitate to reserve those rights the moment it suits some need.

Do I agree with this? It does not matter.

Stay on the facts.
>>*SiFive is strategically leveraging or responding to the geopolitics surrounding Chinese technology.*

interesting subtext.

We should all be debating HW WRT the fact that you can't name a single device (aside from weapons) that does not contain a single-non-chinese-manufactured component...

every phone or machine is almost 100% chinese built.

"designed by apple in cupertino california" (but made with slave labor from congo, china and other countries)

And we already know about all the backdoors both China and the US do...

FFS we have known about Eschelon since the 70s - the carnivor, room 641A, etc... etc....
It really is a polarizing topic.
Just venting on a semi-related note: Dropbox's web UI is atrocious. I have a side bar which won't go away with features I don't want. It's clunky, slow and endlessly frustrating. Viewing a PDF with something like a schematic is almost impossible unless I download it locally.

Just get the basics right before you upsell.
From the site that's down, or the dump that includes all messages whether they were deleted or not?
What did you work in if you don't mind me asking?
I sure hope not. Every vertical company wants my files locked in their walled garden, but I want my files to be horizontally portable. This is a fight where it's nice to have a $10B company in your corner.
Agreed, and they’ve been good enough so far for me. Its just that I’ve come to recognize there are cases when downvotes are appropriate, and won’t lead to escalation, as well as cases where downvotes send the right signal and lead to overall constructive behavior. The downvotes I’ve received have helped me introspect and learn. Even if my immediate reaction wasn’t constructive, it has helped me become more constructive in the long run. I think I’ve seen this happen with others here. Without downvotes feeling harsh, I might not have worked as hard to see the positive in other comments and to say the positive in my own.
We can't.
Probably because learning outcomes isn't the point of school. The point of school is to teach worldly skills. To talk to other people. To interact and to stand out in a world full of other equally smart individuals.
If learning was the only point of school, we would have moved to online education long ago.
I think kids should still go to school and then get absorbed in jobs and then learn on the job.
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Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done and statistically speaking it was not seen to be done.

"Although there’s no widespread evidence of election fraud, fully 72 percent of Republicans say they don’t trust the presidential election results."[0] That article was from December, so things may have changed since. But it's clear that something is seriously wrong when the distrust numbers are that large.

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/22/do-republ...
I imagine it's non-trivial. I think it would involve (in case of iOS):

1. downloading the binary

2. jailbreaking the phone to extract the binary (pretty sure this is necessary on iOS)

3. check the version of the binary, then compile the original sources of the version

4. ??? compare the two binaries, this is likely the most difficult part, they won't be identical because of things like codesigning (and build flags, timestamps, ...)

I know noone that does this.
Lobsters is invite only and I don't know anyone to give me an invite, but it seems like discussions there are pretty good from what I've seen.

The only other places I've seen that aren't this way are various chan style sites and oldschool internet forums, but those places have their own obvious problems.
Does OpenWRT implement some of the more obscure features, like MIMO and what not? I'm still using DDWRT on a Trendnet
AC1750 supported router. I definitely don't need much more but I could use some bandwidth and power range for local transfers and such.
I've been off of Facebook for 6+ years now, and my life has barely been affected. Occasionally one of the kids will be part of a school group only communicates on FB (WHY THO?) and I'll have to request things be mailed to me.

The juice just isn't worth the squeeze to me. (Turns out I was the one being squeezed anyway.)
more people are working remotely which probably requires more people looking for ways to share files more efficiently.
Some routers openly tout the hackability of their routers to add open source firmware as a selling point. But those were also relatively expensive.
Yeah I’m actually fine with that part. Even application level libs are still mostly dynamically linked and you can’t for example take a .dylib and link it statically (not with standard tooling at least)
Flagging is used by people to silence important discussion more than anything else now

Where's the evidence of this?
> why do we need it?

Because we don't have a social safety net in the United States, so getting laid off could make you instantly destitute.

> why do employers give it?

To maintain their community reputation. In the future when they hire again, it's easier to paper over a layoff if you can show that you tried to take care of the employees.

Also because it's the ethical thing to do.

> should one negotiate it?

Usually in a mass layoff like this you can't negotiate it, since it's a standard package and you don't really have any leverage. But if you're a one off "layoff" you can and probably should negotiate it. Your leverage is "I might sue you for wrongful termination". So the company has to make a calculus on what that might cost them.

> what is fair/unfair?

That's the 64,000 dollar question, isn't it? It seems like three months is pretty typical. When someone gets six months most people call them "lucky". When someone gets a year people call it "unheard of". No whether that's fair or not is anyone's guess.

It would be great to get some data on how long the average laid off tech worker is out of work. Maybe start a movement to get severance to match that. But again, the laid off employee has very little leverage.
Even typing explicit searches like "8kun website" or "8kun url" don't give any result, but if you search "8kun.top" you find the website in the first result.

This also happens when searching for "4chan archive" which isn't necessarily bad.
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The SoC, with the Rocket core used. This is very different from SiFive's own U series cores, which are proprietary.
It’s a commoditized space and the competition has easier access to new users... Microsoft, Google, Apple... all offer similar services bundled in.
I gave them access to my bank via coinbase. If I change my bank password would they lose access to my account? If not, what do I need to do to make Plaid lose my banking access?
You can say by analogy that you think due process should come before the fact, but your choice of analogy does not change how the law works.
The fundamental issue here is that we only know the medical details because this went so badly that he was taken to a hospital. If it had worked and he felt miraculously better, there would probably be no "official" documentation because he would get on with his life and not see a doctor about it.

I can speak firsthand as to what that gets you. And being labeled a "hero" is not what that gets you.
Tomato is\was amazing, like you I've moved on

However I've never found a cheap router that has Real-time, PER-IP network utilization graphs that you can just click on like in Tomato (I don't want to send netflows to another machine for analysis, I just want to see it right on the router's web interface)

If anyone has a suggestion I'm all ears
Yeah this was also the gist of my comment(s).
It has no clear advantages over M4A, and the critical problem is it has no cost-control consequence.
> Magic mushrooms, in particular, love cow dung as a growing medium.

This is a myth. Most magic mushrooms grow in wood, moss, dirt, etc. The media just likes hyping up p. cubensis first whatever reason.
Companies also pay lobbyists to influence the government itself.
Isn’t Cobra usually paid for by the member?
But they argue, it will make things worse and promote bacterial spread and growth...

They say the VD supplementation is comparable to steroid treatment. I don't see what's to be enthusiastic about, tbh.
Build your own hotel?
Arm provides Verilog source code of their CPU cores for their customers. It's an industry standard practice.
I believe you're referring to a mushroom growing technique called PF Tek. But following this technique, you are supposed to wait until the substrate is done boiling and has come back to room temperature before inoculating it with spores.
Makes sense. Just another digital bus. Bummer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C2%B2S
Because he wants to run a file server from it. This too was my first question.
I think everyone just has to accept that

if (expression is {} val)

Is the right way to code, even if it looks ugly.
I think Box ate their lunch in the corporate sphere and they have a lot more competition in the consumer space from things like OneDrive and iCloud Drive. The only reason I still have Dropbox at all is because I don’t have a reason to pull the plug—and it wouldn’t have to be much of an excuse.
What if linux distributions stop packaging stuff altogether?

Most of the time it seems to create more trouble than it's worth (for the developers and mantainers of such distributions).

Maybe just provide a base system and package management tools but leave the packaging to third parties.

We can see that already with repositories such as EPEL and others more specialized.
Dropbox as a small business makes sense. Quality syncing, a few productivity tools like Paper. Along the lines of https://readdle.com

Dropbox as a publicly traded global megacorp does not make sense.
I went on vacation from mid-December and returned to work a few days ago (no lockdown here, office worker). I spent the entire "vacation" in pain, weakness, and/or headaches, but now they are gone (as is the money spent on treatment). I need to check if this has anything to do with my shitty home chair and couch or just being in the office. It would be very nice if the problem was in the furniture.

Upd: no, it’s not that virus (tested). And I had the same problem in March when everyone went to "holidays" for a month. Hell, as I write this I get more and more of it... Thank you, thread.
Yep, those are pretty much all I buy nowadays for home / small office routers. Absolutely rock solid.
> Lawyers are subject to perhaps the most intricate body of professional regulations and so lawyers rarely ever do anything that might hurt society at large.

Patent trolls and the copyright mafia are a scourge on society... the amount of progress that they have blocked for decades is astonishingly bad.

And that's not even coming remotely close to the lawyers that aided organized tax theft (aka "tax optimization") or threatened the foundations of democracy itself (Giuliani and the rest of Trump's associates).
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Relax, it's just a phase. :-)
Azlo, abruptly announced that they were going to be closing shop in the next month or so. They had recently been sold to PNC Bank by BBVA, and employees and customers had been given no advance notice of the impending closure.
Novo is the best Azlo alternative on the market for those businesses. Use the link to see why http://bit.ly/BankNovo
It's the same thing. COBRA means you continue any healthcare plan you had while employed, with the only difference being you pay the full premium rather than your company subsidizing it. But in this case, it seems Dropbox is still subsidizing it (if that is indeed what that sentence in the letter means)... so it is just continued health coverage.
> He prepared it for injection by drawing it through cotton before injecting the concoction into his veins.

This is a preparation stolen from heroin users. The idea is that you only want the water-soluble (i.e. dissolves in water) parts, and that the non-water-soluble parts are bad. So the cotton is meant to catch anything that isn't dissolved in the water. It's likely effective at catching large particulate.

> And the fact the injected juice of boiled mushrooms made mushroom grow in his veins... It's beyond my sub-mediocre understanding.

Mushrooms reproduce with spores, which are basically tiny tiny seeds. Too small to be caught by a cotton filter; solutions that have spores in them look like they're just kind of grey, you can't see the individual spores with a naked eye.

Spores are also some of the toughest things on the planet to kill. Surviving boiling wouldn't be crazy surprising to me. Anthrax spores (which is a bacteria, not a fungus) have been under the permafrost in the Arctic for who knows how long, and are infecting animals as the permafrost thaws.

Also, the article says he poured boiling water over them. Dumb, it's not going to uptake much of the psylocibin from the mushrooms on a single poor, but you know those gills on the bottom of the mushroom? The part with all the rows of really thin flesh? Those are covered in spores, and pouring water over them will definitely wash those spores into your solution.

Long story short, the guy was a moron. I think he was attempting to make injectible psylocibin, but that is a) generally unnecessary, and b) far more difficult than "lemme boil some mushrooms in water". At the very least, I would think you would want to isolate the psylocibin. Right now, he's injecting psylocibin, spores, and whatever bacteria he washed off the mushrooms with his boiling water bath. I'm not willing to bet my life that boiling water is enough to make it safe to inject. Maybe safe to drink in an emergency, but I would not risk sepsis for this.
I wish articles like this were around when I built my crypto trader mac app. I agree with others here that codesigning is a pain. One thing -- I don't really think adding licensing/copy protection is that hard and I personally think it is beneficial. I use a SaaS to hadnle the backend of that. It's been awhile but I remember it being pretty painless to integrate a simple licesning setup where my users activate devices up to their maximum according to their license key's tier.
I have UBNT gear at home, and have had it for four years to replace my apple AirPort Extreme. I got rid of the AirPort Extreme because I thought apple would abandon it. I’ve been very happy with the UBNT platform since. I do wish there would be a decent upgrade to the USG 3 coming soon
> I think, that instead of vendoring, Debian should instead adopt a different packaging policy, which would allow them to package whole dependency trees into a single package.

I'm not sure how this is different from what I call vendoring, and I think this is indeed the solution.

In Go, there's "go mod vendor" which automatically creates a tree called "vendor" with a copy of all the sources needed to build the application, and from that moment on, building the application transparently uses the vendored copy of all dependencies.

In my ideal world, Debian would run "go mod vendor" and bundle the resulting tree a source DEB package (notice that the binary DEB package would still be "vendored" because go embraces static linking anyway).

If the Debian maintainer of that application wants to "beat upstream" at releasing security fixes, they will have a monitor on those dependencies' security updates, and then whenever they want, update the required dependencies, revendor and ship the security update.

What I totally disagree with is having "go-crc16" as a Debian package. I'm not even sure who would benefit from that, surely not Go developers that will install packages through the go package manager and decide and test their own dependencies without even knowing what Debian is shipping.
That is what I mean. They have investors, if business model is such that can disappear in few year, what is the point of investing in them.
Other folks have said it was in context of trying to buy Dropbox, which is true.

I believe Steve already saw the fully realized platform of cross device computing in 2001. iPod illuminated the idea that context can birth new device classes, so naturally if you're going to have the same person use multiple devices, their context should morph to the device while being consistent in a global user state. This means that a file syncing (and by extension file sharing) feature is absolutely required to be fluid and desirable as a consumer product.

Firewire was created in part because of this desire for the file sharing to be seamless - now Dropbox had a real-world tested wireless and continuous implementation running on Apple hardware, of course it's an acquisition target (I'm just surprised he didn't go higher knowing how much trouble MobileMe / iCloud accounts were at the time).
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Tbh, how hard is it to create a Dropbox equivalent with today's technologies? Like how many people would be required to do so? I don't think it's anywhere near to 2300.
I'm not talking about discouraging it. I'm talking about not encouraging people to go at it in the wrong way so as to get called a "hero."

People do a lot of stupid stuff for short-sighted reasons like public recognition.
Most of the people do need to find a ways to share files more efficiently, but hardly any sane company would choose Dropbox given their security proposal.
I notice that the search is not doing partial matches within words, e.g. "RTC" does not bring up results with "WebRTC" in the title. Not sure how this would affect other results.
Very good points!
Initially, that's what I wanted to do! But then I found out that to get someone's skills you must accepted into a program of theirs called "Apply with LinkedIn".

The whole thing sounded way too complex. I got the feeling LinkedIn was only interested in sharing that info if you were part of one of their revenue pillars (hiring, marketing, sales, learning).

Now, however, I feel glad that I'm using my own Skill tables. We can now add stuff like Piano Playing as a skill. It may be not very "professional" looking, but imagine how cool it would be for team bonding if you could also find mentors for skills not directly related to your current job!

For the endorsements, one thing I've heard a lot while interviewing users was that they thought LinkedIn endorsements were useless, like Facebook's poke button of yore.
All remote collaboration software is growing like bonkers during the pandemic because of remote work.
Perhaps your storage needs are low, but I feel like at this point once you're past 4-5TB, a Synology or QNAP NAS is a no-brainer for anyone even remotely technical.

I need quite a lot of storage for my projects and am up to a 42TB Enterprise NAS at home w/ Fujitsu helium-filled drives. Probably more than Dropbox customers would ever want to spend, but well worth it for me. Even if I didn't need as much storage, I'm pretty sure I would use the same product.

Access from all of my devices is easy as they're all on one VPN, including my phones.
Even smart good people have to fire people. Dropbox clearly overextended itself, which was a mistake and is entirely the CEO's fault. But the severance package is the best way to judge their ethics in these cases. It looks like they're behaving compassionately.

We should all refuse to work for well funded companies that do layoffs without ethical severance packages.
Self employed and businesses get a tax break/expense for that. It could be the same with personal insurance. Doing things only for the tax break leads you to all sorts of finagling twisted fixed markets.

I'd always take real wages over total/real compensation which is supposedly about 30-35% of your pay.

Binding healthcare to employers also makes for less competitive consumer markets as the target customers of medical services are insurers and employers, not the actual users of the service, individuals.

A good first step to break this legacy grip and fixed market would be allowing individuals to expense out their healthcare cost, it would also benefit people that have health issues and not make it so detrimental to their quality of life.

Right now healthcare is a cartel borg bureaucracy because of being tied to employers and not a direct consumer service.
Because they are core piece of remote work culture, like Zoom and Box.
They are consumer oriented. Companies scaled up their Box instances, so they are likely doing well. But Dropbox never really had the Corp customer.

And with people having access to Box, why would they bother with Dropbox?
Ezra Klein had an interesting podcast recently with Robert Sapolsky on how constant stress damages your health:

https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-ezra-klein-show/episode/ro...
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> HN: Some really repugnant attitudes from time to time need to be downvoted. For example, personal attacks and things that would have been moderated out of existence on other platforms.

What are things that are moderated out of existence on other platforms and not on HN?