skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that most research universities aren't in the business of "educating". They are in the business of credentialing more than anything else, as far as the benefit to students. The actual professors are often uninterested (or less interested) in teaching as compared to their own research/career. This isn't limited to just private institutions either. Big public research universities also don't do a great job at "educating". My feeling is that students by and large educate themselves, and learn that skill of learning in the process.

Regarding the article's main premise: Harvard's value is its existing network effect, which is a student body that is highly talented and selectively chosen (ignoring the discriminatory biases of "holistic admissions"). That student body makes the degree worth more than degrees from other universities. That's why high performing students continue to go there. If lower-quality students are admitted into the Harvard brand, the value of the degree goes down. That's a cost paid by higher-performing students whose merit gets diluted by lower-performing students. If Harvard just plainly educates more students, it will stop being Harvard since that name's weight and meaning will change.

As a fix to all this, what we really need is decentralization of education. That will allow students lower cost paths to education, greater choice in educational culture, and bring a focus back to teaching/learning rather than professors' research areas.
You've completely changed the direction of the argument.
One thing I want to figure out (because I don't have a dedicated Windows gaming desktop), and the documentation on the internet seems sparse: it is my understanding that if I want to use PCIe passthrough with Windows VM, these GPUs cannot be available to the host machine at all, or technically it can, but I need to do some scripting to make sure the NVIDIA driver doesn't own these PCIe lanes before open Windows VM and re-enable it after shutdown?

If I go with vGPU solution, I don't need to turn on / off NVIDIA driver for these PCIe lanes when running Windows VM? (I won't use these GPUs on host machine for display).
>Have you seen a easy Asian wet market in person before? If you’re comparing it to Whole Foods I’m not sure you have?

Have you seen one in the last decade? It's changed dramatically, and ranges from an open-air grocery store to yes something more depressing like what is in that wiki article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whbyuy2nHBg
Rhetorial questions being, of course, one of the very oldest manipulation techniques.

https://people.uwplatt.edu/~ciesield/platovsoph.htm
the reason behind it is that almost 70% asian experience racism, and we don't see British people being attacked in street randomly
Not even Alabama but overseas where not only is there no union, but companies can get away with paying starvation wages to effective slaves. How an American is going to compete with a guy willing to work for $0.50/day on an 18 hour shift 7 days a week is a mystery. He doesn't even ask for healthcare, and when he dies of exhaustion there are hundreds more waiting to take his place because that's a huge amount of money for them.

One of the few things I think Trump got right is when he brought tariffs back. If you want companies to keep jobs in the US you have to make the labor cost just as much no matter where you find it. Otherwise it is just a race to the bottom.
Oh my god! I can't believe Apple would make the entirety rational decision to not make iMessage for Android because there's no good reason for them to do so.
I've lived periods of life in different cultures, income levels, etc... It's interesting how people see things in such a binary sense (eg: x is good while y is bad, universally). Everyone does it and it presents itself differently in each perspective, but it's been an interesting watch.

As I've grown older I've tried to resist the urge to marry myself to these stark beliefs. Following this thread there's a lot of good information on what those competing perspectives actually entail. In my current area, which is mostly liberals of varying degrees, unions are almost universally championed. If you ask about the downsides or present an example of how they can be bad you can face people who think you're some kind of oppressor, or that you must be conservative. Where I'm from, which is mostly various flavors of conservativism the mention of unions causes similar outrage but in the other direction. If you mention how a union could be useful or various implementations that are non-stock (such as unions that don't try to practice authoritarian control over pay and just maintain representation for working conditions) then you'll be demonized for being a socialist. I used to think, "these are bad people of varying variety" but I've come to understand they're just people without experience in each other's geography and problem set, so it becomes easier to speak dogmatically.

Sometimes a union can be good, sometimes it can be bad, sometimes it's a bit of both pending nuance and implementation details, but at the end of the day this is a truth: the only people whose opinion matters is the people whose lives it will directly affect.
This may come as a surprise to you, as it did me... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_responsibility_laws
> Can you explain more clearly what you mean?

I can try... Specifically, given a command that produces a list of "everything that can be done with the file", how do I cause the (unstructured) text of that list to be piped into a arbitrary other program, in the same way that `grep foo a.txt | bar` causes a list of occurences of 'foo' in a.txt to be piped into arbitrary program bar.

> How do you pipe the output of cp into awk?

$ cp -vT foo/ bar/* | awk '...'
While I agree with hiding the parent commit for the flamebait, that also hid my on-topic layman's explanation of what's happening :(

[Er… commit = comment… TGIF, leaving it in for fun ;D]
Just last week we were talking about a zero-click bug in Apple Mail (https://mikko-kenttala.medium.com/zero-click-vulnerability-i...) that didn't even need to bypass Apple's built-in sandboxing—simply overwriting Mail.app's config files was enough to trigger a devastating information disclosure.
Thanks for the explanation, but that's more of a "this is how it works" than a "this is why it's useful".

What would be the main use case?
Not a Nix user, but I spent some time trying to understand it. One thing that I wish I would have understood earlier is that "Nix Pills" is a decent, bottom-up Nix tutorial and probably a good place to start. Initially I thought "Nix Pills" was just a collection of recipes ("Nix By Example"), but it is not.
Then again, not having resources or entertainment while having a soul-crushing boring job is a massive mental health risk.

Ignoring that is of course a nasty bias. Much like ignoring that you do sometimes have to buy clothing or shoes, you probably do have to spend on something to unwind.
(What it is depends on the person.)

Likewise, ignoring cost of transportation is a chief sin of those analyses, even bus tickets are not free, and bicycles are not exactly fast.
Why do you think so? Almost all TV shows are exclusive to their platforms, and they're doing fine. What makes audio different?
I take it you don't remember X11 when it was 12 years old. Wayland looks quite good in comparison.
Not sure how true that generalization is. If you look at Germany, you'll see high unemployment rates (and less education) among immigrants from Turkey and Arabian countries, while you'll see significantly more success on all fronts for immigrants from e.g. Vietnam.
Lowest level of global poverty ever? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...
You can do something — where I live, this app is amazing: https://toogoodtogo.org/

My family has been saving piles of money with this, and getting all sorts of interesting food that would otherwise have gone to waste.
Apple M1 Power Consumption Deep Dive Part 1: Safari vs. Chrome
I disagree. Instead it should be mandatory to choose. Make it a condition for getting a driver's license or even your ID.
Something similar can be said of writing survey paper in academia. Nobody wants to go through 150 papers about some godforsaken topic, but the one guy that goes through it is immediately considered to be a top notch expert.
In fact, knowing that it’s a regular contender implies it’s a consistently solid blog — enhancing its value.

Especially given the topic can’t possibly be driven by flavor-of-the-month trends — no one ever accused HN of being textile-construction nerds
So? Doesn't change the fact that once you've intepreted a function in some file, you've interpreted it and now it's in memory, and you're going to use the same as long as your program runs (even if you try to reload the module).

(I mean, this is the default case without using something like this project, or other tricks).
I'm in the same boat. I use Zoom frequently on Linux and it's performance is quite acceptable. I use Zoom successfully on other platforms as well. It compares well to altneratives such as Google Meets which in my experience starts to fall apart past a certain number of participants on a call. Quite interesting to see the variance of experiences as it doesn't match what I've observed personally as well as comments I've heard from colleagues who have tried various systems. I hear lots of praise for Zoom and Teams but Meets is either loved or hated.
Clearly we're living in a difficult time, and the media is looking out for stories that "humanize" the difficulty. Inequality is a one of the challenges of our time.

But the problem is, the actual data is a bit mixed. One study says, "bankruptcies are down 27% in the past 12 months"[1].

Another report said that savings was at a modern "all time high".[2]

I remember reading stories about how personal debt had fallen the most in 2020, "a record" amount.[3]

Today I read that more money has been put into the stock market in the last 5 months as has in the last 12 years.[4]

Governments (in Canada) have been sending billions of dollars in direct payments to people who's income has been affected by the pandemic. The cost of direct pandemic support payments per capita in Canada works out to $10,000+.

Others have said that this article was written/sponsored by a bankruptcy firm. This same firm has published this same figure ("50% within $200 of bankruptcy") for years and years.

And so in 2021, this makes a good story. And people think it feels true. There is inequality. We see it. We feel it. But you can't measure it the way this study did (asking people) and I question the source of the data.

[1] https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/covid-was-supposed-to-increase-ba...

[2] https://time.com/nextadvisor/banking/savings/us-saving-rate-...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/americans-paid-off-a-record-...

[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/09/investors-have-put-more-mone...
Besides cleaning, another example is strict enforcement of outdoor mask laws. In Poland, the health minister has been criticized by scientists (often the same ones concerned about COVID) for requiring masks to be worn outdoors even in remote places where there are no other people around. Ultimately he admitted that, indeed, there was little scientific basis for the policy like had been claimed previously. He just thought it was more likely that people would have a mask on when entering shops, if they simply had to wear one at all times anyway, but the public was never told that.

It turns out that if you give a public official purview over something and don’t make him or her very answerable to other officials, that public official will get comfortable being heavy-handed and failing to adequately explain things to the citizenry.
That's sad man. RIP. It seemed like he was struggling with mental issues and addiction. God give me a sign is one of my favorites.

Success, money and fame don't magically fix you as a human. They help, but the human condition afflicts us all.
Yeah, each project has its own default.nix that might look something like this:

{
pkgs ? import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/cd63096.tar.gz") { }
} :
with pkgs;
let
mypackage = callPackage ./mypackage.nix { stdenv = stdenv; python = python3; };
in
dockerTools.buildImage {
contents = [ mypackage ];
}

You then write a package definition in mypackage.nix, following the template of packaging things in nixpkgs.

(Dev environments work in a similar fashion except with mkShell instead of dockerTools.buildImage.)

I haven't used Nix flakes but I think it develops this simple idea further.
that seems quite common in the gaming world. i've seen games packaged with tons of *.pyd files (the python dll equivalent for windows). Probably a large portion of the game logic was implemented in python
You fucked up. Could've attended college for free, but decided not to.
Cellular providers aren't giving LG a cellular modem for free, esp. 1Gbyte/day. Unless there is going to be something that causes cellular providers to give away data, it's going to be a significant cost.

The only sustainable ways for this to work is:

A) for the data for LG to collect to be worth what it has to pay to the providers. Aside from hopefully unlikely things like LG collecting audio and visual from hidden devices on the appliance, What the hell could anyone collect from a dryer that makes it worth it to pay for a cellular connection to your dryer? Is when and how much I use a dryer worth $30/month on a 2 year contract, for example?

B) for LG to charge you a subscription to use your dryer. People won't do this dumb shit for a dryer unless the dryer is not sold to them, but rented for like $30/month--with free installation. Even then, if the monthly cost is over a certain threshold over me going down to the laundromat and putting quarters in machines there, people won't do it--last time I did laundry at laundromat recently it was $4.25 to wash and effectively $5 to fully dry and that doesn't include soap and dryer sheets.

Now if you throw in a bundled detergent and fabric softener and dryer sheet subscription on top of it, and a free service if anything goes wrong ... it might work. And then ... maybe it is worth it?

$55/mo for a free dryer and all-you-can-eat soap, softener, and sheets--brand of your choice. Like commercial copiers/toner--well, imagine if it was "pay per load".

I mean we're probably going down the road of--in a few years or a deacde--manufacturers being so cheap and the middle-class-eviscerated consumers being so disempowered and poor that it ends up being you have to replace the dryer every 2 years anyway.
In most of non tech org software development is cost centre. Implementing new features always take priority over paying debt.

IMHO, it's difficult to get such job. Specially in today's world where technology is changing at very rapid pace.

In my case management philosophy have always been "why fix things that aren't broken" or it will be responsibility of next person.

YMMV
Or you could buy life insurance like the rest of us! Upvotes for the lateral thinking though and since your downvoters are treating it like the disagree button. I don't think you deserved to have the post deleted. My fundamental disagreement is that I think the staff and professionals that carry out the donation process and medical procedures are completely worthy of their pay and that the recipients pay for the medical procedure, not the materials. If they paid market rate for the organs, these lifesaving procedures would be even more out of reach.
Take a look at the report you linked to, it's the one I used: "Approximately 50 billion tonnes of Cavendish bananas are produced globally every year."

Yes, other sources are taking between 80 to 115 million, but if I have to choose the UN over National Geographic, I'm choosing the UN source. though I acknowledge that the UN could still have had a typo.
Those things are not so easily separable.
It was apparent that other people here care, so I wanted to know why. I know that transferring that kind of appreciation may be difficult; as I remember how some people were not amused with the Eddie van Halen thread being popular on HN, and I sure would be incapable of finding a way to explain to somebody like that how much his work means to me. But still I'd like to know what is it that makes DMX's work significant, and how does it fit in to the "gangsta" image.
How is it any different than renting a car, or a hotel, or any other various things one might rent? There's just this illusive concept people seem to have of owning software. This kind of model would have had me as a legit paying Adobe customer way back when I did "borrow" their software. I never had enough money to buy a >$1k bit of software for a couple of things, but I could have found $50 (maybe closer to $60 if not doing 12 months??) for a month's legit use of the software for a random freelance gig
Seems like it's regulars getting nixed.

Maybe they asked for a cut of the money?
Switches to Morpheus' voice

What if I told you you can use ANY Adobe software, procured legitimately, in perpetuity without using cracked/pirated copies; without paying a dime?

No shenanigans like modifying or deleting files, changing your PC's clock, etc. Just using the OS's system tools[]. It's so obvious, I'm certain a sizable number of Adobe users do this.

Obviously outlining how would alert Adobe and I'm not sure I want to risk that.
> Amazing! Simply amazing!

If it's such a cool feature, why does NVidia lock it away non-Tesla H/W?

[EDIT]: Funny, but the answers to this question actually provide way better answers to the other question I posted in this thread (as in: what is this for).
Exactly. With GPU virtualization the driver is able to share the GPU resources with multiple systems such as the host operating system and guest virtual machine. Shame on nvidia for arbitrarily locking us out of this feature.
There are actually tons of studies that show preventive healthcare reduces spend later on. For instance, if you pay for someone's routine checkup you might catch a heart issue or cancer early. Both insurance companies and the government (Medicaid/Medicare) would save money by paying for preventative care.

Study by the NIH: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5296930/
The use case is allowing the host system and VM(s) to access the same GPU at the same time.
> So? The same has been the case for desktop Linux in general, for 2 decades.

Some of us have been running Linux desktops for over two decades. Nothing more fun than setting Modelines manually for your VESA card:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFree86_Modeline
Sounds extremely boutique. There would almost certainly be a cat and mouse game where licensed retailers refuse to sell to these local shops, which would drive prices through the roof
To me this is laughably naive question, but I ask it any way.

My understanding is that CPU/GPU per application can make only single draw call in sequential manner. (eg. CPU->GPU->CPU->GPU)

Could vgpu's be used for concurrent draw calls from multiple processes of an single application ?
Linux Powershell CouchDB Tool
You have probably heard of the Wilderness Society he founded.

Edit: mistook for Sierra Club
I don't think it's terribly difficult to emigrate from the US to the EU. Aside from plane fare, what's holding someone in the US?

And if it's just plane fare, there are probably a lot of places you can make it with a bus ticket that have better prospects without needing to go to Europe.
I think that guy is supposed to be recording binaural audio with the microphone and monitoring the levels with the headphones. Not using the mic to replace his senses.
That sums it up.

"I know better than those people", posted a thousand miles away via the latest iPhone, while binging Netflix and waiting for their 2nd Amazon delivery of the day.
FTC Seeks Public Comment on Dark Patterns Topics Ahead of Workshop
To make people pay more.
Jury rigging is totally different, and the connection to "jews rig everything" is a total stretch (not to mention the tradition phrasing of the conspiracy is that jews RUN everything, not that they rig it).
> mostly breaking a billion useful things that X has had for some time

This is always the case when there is some widely used legacy tech, but it shouldn't stop us from trying to move forward, or we'll never get better things.

I've personally switched to using wayland on my main laptop and am very happy with it. I was using X before and was getting incredibly bad screen tearing when using i3, I tried every recommendation I could find (double buffering, running a compositor, etc) and nothing helped, but Sway on wayland fixed it for me and its been running flawlessly for the last 9 months. I have no plans of going back to X anytime. The only thing I use X for is playing Windows games with Proton (which this HW acceleration change might even fix, if the laptop had an nvidia gpu, but alas, it does not).
Proud to be a registered organ donor after reading this. If you want to do something right now, you can donate blood every 8 weeks. I just got a text message notification that my most recent donation (last Thursday) was just sent to a hospital, between reading the article and making this comment.
My Gentoo/Xfce multiple monitors with Nvidia has been great for at least 10 years.

Linux Desktop is Great. Wayland is still in the process of becoming great (I think it's making good progress too)
In Italy copay is very limited, almost symbolic, even for those in the highest income brackets. As you point out wait times can be (very) long for exams (at least when there is no indication of urgency), but for serious/complex procedures the quality is way higher in the public sector than in the private one.
For some reason my fortune pays for Teams but has all of their big meetings on zoom. Makes no fucking sense and I would rather not have to download their app.
I worked at a company in 1994 that had 10,000 licenses to Netscape Navigator. I had a support person I could call. So on some scale, there was definitely a way to send them money.
Institutions and insititutional practices are powerful and essential to functioning in a modern and complex society.

Even marginal or ineffective practices, and quite probably overtly harmful ones, can have some value and significance.

That said, yes, a key weakness of insitutionalised practices is that they often far outlive their actual usefulness, and are difficult to change. In part because of reasons discussed elsewhere in this thread (see my earlier longer comment), but also out of sheer inertia and the difficulty in coming to a collective agreement on a new standard course of action.

Additive rather than subtractive problem solving bias being a recently discussed case in point as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26727878
Vertical scrolling could be bound to the direction of pedaling as well.
They will still honor it. But it's understandably hard for them to even think about at it right now.
Is this for SR-IOV? It's too bad SR-IOV isn't supported on regular desktop AMD GPUs for example in the Linux driver.
This time last year I was washing every item that came from the grocery store, and putting my mail in the oven at 170F for about 10 minutes. Stopped doing all that back in about June 2020.
> LLD is buggy.

While certainly not bug free, you may be overstating things.

> once Apple whips LLD into shape

Pretty sure it's engineers at Facebook contributing mach-o fixes to LLD, not Apple. Apple is happy with their linker ld64.