skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hypothesis: MIT and Harvard had enough experience in distance learning by now to realize that it is NOT going to be the wave of the future in education. They don't want to exactly say this out loud and take flak for it, so they're just unloading this (for significant $$) primarily in order to refocus on in-person education, since they've realized that distance learning has been around for decades and nothing about the Internet has really made much difference in how well it works. For a few people, it could be significant, especially if they are in a remote location and don't have the option of attending in person, and have an iron will to remain motivated when not in a school environment. It is not what most students need, does not give the networking bonus that is a big part of MIT and Harvard's value, and is not going to be the future of education.
> Electrocerebral inactivity (ECI), or electrocerebral silence (ECS), is defined as no cerebral activity over 2 µV using a montage that uses electrode pairs at least 10 cm apart with interelectrode impedances < 10,000 ohms and >100 ohms.
https://www.medscape.com/answers/1140075-177597/how-is-elect...
Thanks for engaging with an open mind. I agree that there's an incentive for owners to keep racing pigeons healthy, that owners can be caring, and that it can be a more comfortable life than in the wild. I just disagree with the racing part -- there's no need to make birds fly over half of europe then the english channel purely for entertainment.
I miss my bike commute too, but a couple months before COVID hit my satellite office was closed and the main office is a 30+ min drive. Now that I've been working at home I try to get a ride in after work or if I'm having a particular hard day I take a long lunch and ride to clear my head. It's probably help keep me sane during all of this.
Shooter who threatened virologist found dead in Belgium
Well I can see your point, but this is not exactly the same.

As a thought experiment imagine that someone now builds a website called Linkedout and they post your profile with a layover animation resembling a big red stamp which reads 'Slacker'. I guess you are not OK with THAT information about you.
I am selling my site on flippa
why is food science in quotes? you wouldnt put physics course in quotes. As someone that works as an engineer in the food industry, our work is just as rigorous as other fields. When working with vendors that support different domains, they always get excited to work with us since we have some of the craziest and most challenging problems that are not straight forward. While the work we do may not be critical to saving the world and solving some critical problem, it does make a difference in the grand scheme of things.
Well, it depends on the kind of a learner you are. Some learners prefer to listen to long lectures and some short (and some might prefer interactivities, and others might prefer one-way communication). This is where personalized learning comes in, which is something in its infancy and being explored by academicians and especially companies focused on e-learning delivery. (I work in tech at an online / blended learning higher education institution).

Now this comment by OP (benrbray) and you (wodenokoto) gives me an idea that courses can be designed in a way that the learner can mention how much hands-free time they have to spare now, depending on which the platform can hold off any interactivities / quizzes until then (or something like that), to make the learning process more personalized.
Same, but Electric Guitar. Coding is just another hobby for me right now.
Shorting deep into a double-digit correction sounds just as likely to lose money as buying deep into a double-digit expansion.

The author is talking about a short-term trade, not an investment. There's a lot less room for error on the timing, and I suspect the timing here.

On that note, the author says nothing about the halving cycle. Proceed with caution, brave "shorter."

The bigger problem is that all of the author's criticisms have been valid for many years. This is old news. It would be more interesting to read about a complaint that has never been discussed before and to understand why this time will be different for Bitcoin.
StarUML
Yea; that's a clearly broken system. 2-3 clicks to look at menu is fine. Filling in credit card info in-phone is too far.
States paying for travel to states that don't respect equal protection under the law might not be legal. This is the kind of question opened by the Supreme Court ruling that the Civil Rights Act protects LGBTQ employees. It's why we have courts.
The usual configuration is 1 or many subnets per VPC, and one or many VPC per project. a Shared VPC setup between projects is also possible but requires prior agreement from both projects.
As a child who was spanked, there was a single moment in my life where I realized as a teen, my parents didn't spank for discipline, but they were just shitty parents. So being raised in a conservative household, obviously Fox News was on. Glenn Beck was talking about spanking your children. And he said one of the most profound things that I honestly couldn't wrap my head around for physical punishment. He said "After you spank them, you hug them. And remind them that you love them and say it!"

That was the moment I realized my parents were just abusive and thought they could alter behavior just by beating us. I hear it all the time with their dogs. If they do something they don't like, they don't take time to properly train them, it's straight to an angry tone and "I'm gonna get a stick." Meanwhile I helped train these dogs and have taught them many things. On top of this they all listen and come to me without threatening them. The funniest part is my parents always say "Why do they follow you all the time?"

I almost wish I could play the curb your enthusiasm theme anytime they talk because they are absurdly out of touch with even a base line level of psychology.
> Pistol shrimp (also called snapping shrimp) produce a type of cavitation luminescence from a collapsing bubble caused by quickly snapping its claw… was whimsically dubbed "shrimpoluminescence" upon its discovery in 2001.

I would love to see shrimpoluminescence first hand but it says you can’t see it with the naked eye.
Why are we clinging to "generalizability"?
I expected some clarification on the TPM 1.2/2.0 debacle but nope. Not that either.
Doorbells typically use 12-16VAC provided by a small transformer near your circuit breaker panel. It's plenty of power to run whatever you need.
Yeah but the people who want to find you there have accounts.
Also googling how to remove ads in Windows 10 shows a bunch of solutions.

From your link, it seems most ads are on live tiles. It's really easy to turn that feature off. (No one likes live tiles anyway)
Money Changes the Way You Think and Feel
No matter which part of Facebook you're looking at it's not a monopoly.
A Man Building an Anti-Gravity Device, and the Alien God Inspiration
14 years ago today, iPhone changed the world
later on they also had the need for it to be honest, albeit only for a very specific external service that required us to have a fixed public IP address to connect from. The only solution deemed scaleable was using such an AWS provided NAT Gateway..

so yeah, it surely depends on the case given...
Last time I helped administer a deployment on one of these clouds, one of the first things we did on the startup script for the instances was to install an iptables rule so that only uid 0 (root) could talk to the metadata servers. The need for that kind of firewall rule on every instance shows that these metadata servers are a bad design.

It would be much better if, instead of the network, these metadata servers were only visible as a PCIe or MMIO device. Of course, that would require a driver to be written, so at least initially, unmodified distributions would not be able to be used (but after a few years, every Linux and BSD distribution, and perhaps even Windows, would have that driver by default). That way, it would (on Linux) appear as files on /sys, readable only by root, without requiring any local firewall.
how am I suppose to have a burner bank account to use with it? don't forget mobile number are associated with your identity in China
South Africa’s startup ecosystem achieves major milestone
Ask HN: Advanced Python Coding Books
What is a highly recommended advanced python (3.x+) concepts and coding book?

@decorators for class methods, type coercion, other stuff that may be deemed "interesting" or advanced that I'm not thinking of.

I came across a few books published ~2013 which I'd consider dated.

It may also just be a matter of reading the latest python documentation.

Thanks for any input.
Thanks for the tip on Binary Eye. I've long used Barcode Scanner [0] from f-droid, which appears to be the origin of the "Zebra Crossing" scanner implementation Binary Eye uses. "Barcode Scanner" is now in maintenance mode, so it's good to have a migration path!

Google really does its users a disservice by not simply providing a decent barcode scanner with AOSP. The lack of such a basic utility makes it so easy for users to install spyware in frustration just trying to accomplish the task (sort of like the early "flashlight apps").

I've long wondered why they decided to make this task so hard - it reminds me of their omission of video output on the Pixel phones, but in that case their motivations are clear (they want to force people to use Cast instead) - I seriously can't understand what their rationale is for making QR scanning difficult!

[0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.google.zxing.client.andr...
This pattern is what I did when I used SQLite in production. I used a lightweight actor model microframework to make it easier to route write requests from multiple areas of the code to the single writer thread and offer a continuation (or async/await) perform any follow up actions. Performance easily went beyond the requirements for the app.
Or public transport. Or, as in the Netherlands, small golf cart like vehicles that can go on the bike path and the speeds are capped at a level where they are not a threat to everyone around them and they don’t take up inordinate amounts of space.
Hmmm no I think I'll stay on the one people have actually heard of where you actually get scouted.
This isn't a totally hypothetical question, unfortunately:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/child-abu...
I love Wagtail too. It's really nice and polished, well-supported, and idiot-proof for the end user.

But for this use case it sounds like something hosted by a third party (Contentful, etc.) would be better.
I have never hit my kid (but my ex-wife has) as for whatever reason, he has an amount of respect for me that my body language alone is enough.

Here is the thing, you probably not doing something wrong. As long it isn't a everyday thing, it isn't so bad as people make it to be. The 'tap' to stop, then talking with him/her works, worked on me when I was a kid, probably the only thing that did to be honest. The 'physical violence' was the awakening call, then the conversation after that grounded it.

ps: if you just slap the living crap of him, say he is bad, and send him to his room without talking with him, then sure, that is an absolutely shitty behaviour, but I don't think this is what you are doing from your text.
No More Periods in Texting. Period
If generalizability wasn't an issue in studying European groups, why is it one when studying African groups?
"Banks are old and slow, technology is fast and new" so technology will win. That is totally reasonable logic.

But bitcoin provides no protection from fraud by design. If someone breaks into your house or hacks your computer and steals your private key you have no way of getting that bitcoin back. But if someone impersonates you at the bank the bank has ways of refunding you. Maybe some people prefer the bitcoin design, but most people will not.
Not really. Anyone who has an account can see profile. It's been a go-to for journalists for a long time.
> I seriously hope Google pushes their OEM to include QR code support in the builtin camera app.

afaik that is alrady the case
Never thought I’d see Ars explain what “commenting out” means.
It is noticeable, but that's not the point. A SSD-only engine can avoid some asset duplication and achieve an effective 4x speedup over a HDD equivalent, but that is still slow in the grand scheme of things: you could have a bigger or a more detailed environment, but that's about it. A PCI 4 NVME coupled with the latest compression tech means you can renew all the data in RAM in less than 2 seconds. That's the big deal.
It's a shame how academy ends up being unaccessible for many people, even though they receive a lot of endowments... while there are a lot of ways to make them more accessible!

Like: online courses... or... What about the white elephant in the room? The cost of social events and Ivy League athletes/sports.

I don't have anything against those, but if I were in a position of power in one academic entity, I'd definitely make sure sports is not a cost center, as it is today for many.
California drowning itself in irrelevance, everyone is leaving, so why not further isolate yourself ?
Concrete is one of the biggest sources of emissions in the world and it feels like a blind spot in our push for greener solutions.

Is there any research being done into alternatives that will scale to what we use concrete for? I've seen alternative home building methods, and different urban planning can reduce the need for large buildings that need it, but I haven't seen good alternatives for roads, tunnels, bridges, etc. Steel sometimes works but has its own problems and is more expensive.
I don't have any of this stuff set up on my phone either, and I don't tend to have my credit card with me at all times either. So even with a phone I wouldn't be able to pay.
IAM works across projects easily. The "Organization" concept it Google Cloud is used to collect projects, and manage permissions of groups (or subfolders) of projects very easily.
FWIW, I've been scrubbing my social profiles. LinkedIn, Yelp, Facebook, etc.

Barest of bones. Removing all connections, photos, posts, personal details. (I know the damage is already done. The aggregators never really delete anything.)

Why not just out right delete my profiles? I'm squatting. To ensure they're not used as socket puppets.

After a beloved coworker passed, their profile got highjacked. Ten years later, I'm still so angry about it that I could just spit.
"The issue with Facebook isn't that they own 100% of the ad market, but that they control 100% of the Facebook ad market, which is itself large enough to constitute monopoly concerns."

This is downright absurd -- you're a monopoly because your company has customers?
Yeah, occasionally a process gets designed that looks like "random people who have no real incentive to do a good job put together a spec and send it to me for review/sign off." And the expectation is that it's just a quick once-over on my part so "can it be turned around some time this week?"

I always explain that in this kind of process, all the responsibility falls on me. If they write something that's incorrect and I miss it, it's never that the spec writer should have known better, it's that I reviewed and signed off on it. Which is fine, that's part of my role, but if that's the responsibility I'm taking on then the spec review is going to be scheduled as a real deliverable with real time attached to it and if you need it ASAP then you can pick something else to de-prioritize.

A good one is "we spent 6 months working with the customer to build this spec, now we're short on time, can you review this week?" Well, if it's so complex that it took 6 months to build why do you think it can be reviewed in a week?

It's this idea that spec review is just a quick review but the reviewer is then responsible for anything that's wrong with it that causes a lot of issues in my world.
For software developers it must be easy and cheap to support ARM. Nobody will change their complete development and deployment pipeline just to support a few ARM users.

Every packaging framework I used on windows introduced it's own problems so far. It can take literally hundrets (!) of development hours until your Installshied, MSI or MSIX package works on all your customer systems. If you have a big user base it can happen that customer support spends thousands of hours to anlyse and fix installer issues.
They’re called qui tam suits[1] and in the US they’re commonly brought under the False Claims Act[2] which can apply to any government contractor but Medicare Fraud is a big piece. The way it works is the “whistleblower” files a civil suit with the allegations and then the government can choose whether or not they want to take over the case. If the government think your allegations are solid and the potential recovery is worth their while they’ll take the case and you’re entitled to 10% of anything they ultimately recover. If, for whatever reason, the government decides not to get involved, you can continue the case on your own (but kind of on behalf of the government... it’s a bit weird how it works) and anything you recover goes to the government but you get 30% for your trouble.

The SEC also has a whistleblower program that another commenter has linked and, as of recently, they have really been paying out a lot of money to whistleblowers. Larger sums and more frequent payouts than we’ve ever seen before.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qui_tam

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act
The news for me was that there is still legal in the most parts of the US.
Neovim 0.5 release stream (7/2/21)
Yes, people are generally wary of seeing mental health professionals. That's understandable. There's some stigma associated with being thought to be mentally ill, and psychology is a young science studying phenomena that are devilishly hard to study. Clinical psychology in particular is forced to rely a lot on inherited lore, personal experience, and intuition, because the needed science isn't really there yet.

But that doesn't mean nobody should see a therapist. It isn't all snake oil.

A good therapist can help you identify where you need to get to for your own sake, and what skills will help you get there. They can help you realize when you're putting stumbling blocks in your own path and figure out how to stop doing that. They can help you pick out goals, point you in the right direction, and sometimes offer some help getting started on the way. The rest is up to you, of course.

You don't have to be mentally ill to benefit from a therapist's help. In fact, I think you're likely to benefit more if you're basically pretty healthy than if you're not, simply because you're more functional, and therefore better able to make use of what you learn.

That's my perspective from having seen a therapist for a while a couple of times earlier in life, from having encouraged my offspring to see them at difficult moments, from having a friend who is a licensed clinical counselor, and from having gone to graduate school in clinical psychology before I became a programmer.

Caveat emptor, of course. There are good therapists and there are charlatans. Look carefully and use common sense.
https://www.afar.org/tame-trial

https://www.google.com/search?q=TRIIM-X+trial
Maybe eventually; I haven't seen a PointOfSale system that worked remotely well enough I thought they could be competent to implement in a useful way.

I tend to not jump to malicious that can be attributed to virtue signaling and/or incompetence.
Looks like an HP prime but worse build quality.
> With the exception of my phone number

You can get it from 2019 FB leak of 533M accounts, dumped for free this April. My boss is in there and phone number is correct.
Neat. Even w/o PoE already wired up, I guess a Pi Zero can be powered with a regular 12V line that every doorbell uses. Otherwise, getting this to run off batteries with a Pi (and WiFi) would be an exercise in futility - am currently building something with some Zeros, and even at an optimistic 150mA, that'll eat through 3000mA lithium batteries in no time.

I do wonder how the longevity of the case is, though - the case isn't weather-proof (also, its ABS, so I'd argue you can print it on an Ender 3).

I always find that to be one of the most challenging problems for outdoor-projects. If you ever too take a part e.g. a Blink XT (equally spyware, but I gave up at that point), you'd notice some pretty tight tolerances and seals, so that the cameras survive the outdoors. That doesn't seem easily replicated with a $9 box.
Not sure if the waitlist/vip method is well suited to this.
Duh. But that's not the question. But the question is, do you want to be the one responsible for spreading them?

Corporations have been compared to psychopaths, possessing tremendous power but completely free of conscience. They do only what makes them money, which makes it easy to take advantage of them both for good and for evil. And anybody who's observed social media will notice that that forums will tend to be dominated by the most obnoxious, hateful voices given the opportunity.

Nobody seems to mind that HN deletes spam. Spam, like extremism, is a judgment call. They delete the stuff that's unarguably spam because it's their judgment that it makes the site a worse place.

YouTube is a lot broader in its audience, but they don't want to see the world become a worst place for their existence. It's perfectly in their rights to say, "Fine, go make your video -- on somebody else's dime". If somebody else will host it, that's their problem.

YouTube has a lot to live with, being so broad. There's a ton of stuff they're going to delete no matter what (and burn through a lot of moderators who have to look at it before deleting it). So if they say, "Hey, at the very least we'd like to be a bit less responsible for spreading hate in the world", cool. Make people jump through at least the tiniest hoop rather than throwing up your hands and saying, "Not my problem".
Anecdote: MitX's science and math classes (QM, molecular bio, general bio, materials, Diffeq etc) are outstanding. I wish they didn't have to move to a paid model for exams etx a few years back. The classes I tried from other universities on EdX seemed to be of lower quality.