skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. The liberal arts high school kids still go to university (think lawyers, political scientists, literature majors, and designers). The vocational student kids aren’t going to high school at all usually. Like I said, high school isn’t compulsory in China, I think they are at about 40% or so kids attending high school at the moment, up to 50% already would be surprising.

Teacher schools (normal universities) require high school. I’m not sure about tourist or sports schools. But the tourist college I visited (in Zhangjiajie) seemed more like a college than the vocational schools I’ve seen. I didn’t ask, though. I assume Beijing Sports university is a real university, but I’m not sure about the other more provincial ones.
No, Crosscode only uses Haxe/Kha for the console ports, maybe only for switch.
The original PC version just uses impactjs.

The video your link contains only explains how the switch port was possible, since the switch has no available webbrowser applet or is too slow or has not all features needed.
Same here. When I don't want random apps sniffing my files, I just unplug my HDD!
Here's a list of the SciAm articles, which I assume were the gateway to his books -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Martin_Gardner_Mathema...

One of the most iconic, John Conway's game of life wouldn't be an article today, it'd be swamped by many authors quickly. But many articles still seem unique. Can the hard slogs survive when the icing is gone?

Really I think it's just down to most kids don't get stuck in a library or at home with only SciAm to read anymore.

That sort of information flow is dead. It's pull not push, which Martin Gardner's format doesn't fit. Pull is bit sized.

Equally kids now can read peer review straight from the source and also peoples criticism, SciAm is no longer the gatekeeper, you lose the recreation for better science.
What about Arachne, a DOS-browser?
Large study finds Covid-19 is linked to a substantial drop in intelligence
>law-abiding citizens have 'nothing to be afraid of'

Though what if they laws are unreasonable? Which quite a few are in dictatorships.
the sandboxing makes it hard to modify applications to remove spyware. the app design for websites keeps you from using adblock to block them,

The entire thing is a captive market that desktops didn't worry about because only trusted apps get installed so the "download our desktop app" spam popups wasn't as effective as the mobile versions, leaving the shady activity to websites that could be modified with extensions to remove unwanted behavior.

Edit: also, fuck safetynet
What is the statistical likelihood of this appearing by chance? Note that 2014 to today isn't actually that long of a timeframe, as prices in a time-series are highly linked to the previous data point.

Berkshire Hathaway has been trading for several decades; so that's 40 years of data; as compared to 7 years of data. yet the author, by using the same charts, seems to falsely imply that these are remotely comparable.

This article seems to have as much logic as the whole "Benford's law proves the elections were rigged!!!" claims by QAnon, who tried to apply Benford's Law on a county level, found that it generally fits a vast majority of the time, but cherry-picked the counties where it didn't fit (which generally tended to be smaller and hence less data points). Well, duh, it's statistics: outliers are to be expected.

Pretty poor take from an author at "statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu".
On aliexpress you find LFP at about 130-140 USD/kWh

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002625171294.html

(random link, never tested this vendor).

Prices have gone up a bit in the last few monthes.

Good source of information on Chinese LFP vendors here: https://diysolarforum.com
I totally understand the appeal of a totally silent desktop, been there :-) Making it fanless sounds like the obvious way but it gets quite expensive very soon (I just checked and just the DB4 seems to cost >200€ here in Europe).

I secretly keep on wishing to build a true fanless system, but I have personally opted for something in between. A good quality PSU (fanless or with a fan only active after certain threshold), SSD drives (mechanical ones are terrible offenders about noise), a bulky CPU heatsink and good quality fans spinning at no more than 800 RPM can give you a really silent desktop for a reasonable price. If you need to add a discrete GPU to the equation you can get a not too power hungry one with decent fan regulation (they can work fanless under low workloads).

While not fanless and not a truly 0dB system, any potential noise is covered by any background noise, even in quiet places, your own keyboard typing or the audio from your gaming session if you are stressing your GPU.
In Copenhagen, 30-50% of the gas in the consumer network is produced like this.
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Indeed, I bought a b550 board specifically because it doesn't require a chipset fan that's tiny, inefficient, and much better at making noise/vibration than it is at moving air. Then tend to be rather unreliable as well.

There is a newer x570s motherboards out now, if you need the highest end boards and don't want the extra fan.
Are most crypto libraries verified? I'm not sure they are!
The Germans save a lot and they refuse to increase public debt which means some other government has to take on that debt. Germany's ability to export its products is actually just its ability to export debts which is only a matter of how far you are willing to go vs your competitors. If everyone followed this strategy there would be no world economy.
Do these alternative Smartphones are able to seamlessly run native Android/iOS apps in containers? It'd be great if they could "embrace" such walled gardens, and possibly "extend" some of their functionality :-)
Amazon Web Services In Plain English (2019)
OT: I have a copy of The Annotated Alice; I revisit it every couple of years. It's not maths, although Charles Dodgson was a mathematician. Gardner's marginalia bring the books to life.
> which may have native drivers issues, will it even run gta?

Qubes uses Linux drivers. However, games will not work unless you do GPU passthrough (with second GPU).

> When I have to install some shady app

Good UI allows you to move the line of what "shady" means. You can significantly decrease your trust in apps with a reasonable effort. For instance, I run Zoom in a VM, it feels great.

> If my grandma was into computers, I can’t see how qubes os could help her.

You indeed have to spend some effort to use Qubes OS. However if your grandma cares about security/privacy, she could perhaps use basic Qubes functionality like having two VMs, one for everything trusted and the other for everything untrusted. VMs on Qubes look like normal windows, so it's not that complicated to work with. You have to separate your workflows though.

> I just clone a generic vbox instance and delete it afterwards

Hardware VT-d virtualization is much more secure. Also the GUI is more user-friendly.
very nice

for the author, what about split panels or tabs, sometimes I needed to operate on two parts of the registry in sync~

also maybe a diff view for patch export/import

just suggesting

kudos
You can make all those things private only to the extent that you trust each individual participant. The larger the group, the more likely a leak can happen. The other defense is limiting what you share with the network, and selectively encrypt.

There's a lot of benefit to be gained from sharing the social graph (or at least statistics based on it, which, however, can sometimes be reversed unexpectedly)

At the moment, we have the exact opposite of the situation you're asking for--anyone who's got a database and 10 bucks can see everything, while those for whom the data is the most relevant and potentially beneficial have very limited access... so even full transparency is an improvement, IMO.
In his defence, the "regular"/cheap rubber dome keyboards you mention are unusable if you're used to mechanical switches. $170 is around average for something respectable.

I've never understood penny pinching something like a keyboard, it's your interface to the computer and you use it every single working day. A 170$ mech keyboard from a good manufacturer will easily last more than 10 years.

That said, I personally don't trust the reliability of Glorious.
I have a home NAS, accessible through a Wireguard network set up on the router. Am I self-hosting Synology's things (for photos / music / video / downloads)?

Synology also supports Docker, so I have

- Gitea
- Vaultwarden
- Nextcloud
- pihole
- Miniflux (+ rssbridge)

running there. These I would definitely say I self-host.

I'm also happier with these choices (with the exception of Nextcloud, which I'm replacing with Syncthing) than I would be with any commercial / cloud replacement.

Storing passwords outside your control just is not sane. RSS readers on the web suck and want money to read a well-established file format from a public source. Gitea is really nice for things I don't want on GitHub or public, but want to be able to look up on the go (my Org notes, dotfiles, any short-term miniprojects, &c). Synology's apps are used for high-volume stuff, which would combine into quite a large regular bill if done "in the cloud".
Get Google Fi via eSIM before you leave. I haven't tried, but seems possible.

Wonder why there isn't more companies doing same minus Google weird UX and creepy tracking.
Ricoh releases the E INK eWhiteboard 4200 in Japan
I saw a lot of comments arguing about technical requirements, but companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, and others, don't do what they do because technical requirements. They do because they want control. More control they have over the platform people are using, more money they can extract from them.
Iron ore is mostly oxides so it was never going to be an energy source like coal, but an energy storage medium.
Well migadu, like Proton technologies, is based in Switzerland.

A lot of it comes down to reading over a company's privacy policy (if you can't understand it / its really long, that's a red flag), where they are located, and -- important -- if its free or paid.

Here's the write-up that convinced me to switch: https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/19/Mail-service-provider-rec...

Protonmail is mentioned in the footnotes.
You can get 75% keyboards for much cheaper. Like you can easily get a mechanical one off Amazon for $50. With the Glorious GMMK Pro you are paying for the metal backplane, the ability to hotswap switches and in theory it should support QMK? Maybe? Depending on which chip it got. QMK would allow it to be configured outside Windows just with more effort.
You have to think of the long game when comparing open source and closed source projects. If you need an app in a year, a well-funded closed source effort will win every time. But open source projects with significant mind share from developers (market share is irrelevant for the most part... developer mind share is the true wealth of an opensource project) just keep improving. Both Linux (yes even on the desktop), Blender, and LibreOffice(which admittedly still has a long way to go) are examples of this.

I would argue the closed source software you use is generally higher quality because we are just at the beginning of the conversation when it comes to software. If an open source project with enough mind share can take a long enough view, it is hard to see how it WON'T someday surpass its closed-source competitors. Funding is generally on the side of a closed source project, but time is always on the side of an open source one.
Attacks on IT infrastructure have other motives besides ransom too.

For example. IP theft such as stealing the secret recepcie to the KFC herbs and spices, or stealing the soure code to a competitors product, or the user database. Moreover, attacks to ravage the target without the motive of ransom are common, see the Sony hack for example.

The only solution against attacks is better security.
The you-tldr seems pretty useful, although admittedly hard to monetize.
This is simply a rant, and not worth reading (I stopped at the first usage of 'Python sucks').

Discussing the merrits, and criticizing aspects, of a programming language is fine and should be done. Having a healthy critical debate about most things is normal and necessary.

Please lets try bringing the quality of the discourse up a few levels.
Samsung appear to support their hardware for quite a while.

My three year old Samsung tablet gets regular operating system and security updates.
Ah, good old days of using these to disable auto-run programs (with some of them viruses) on Windows XP and 7.

And procexp! It's just the better task manager.
Sorry for the shameless plug. I made a video about Benford's law a while ago for anybody wondering how we get these values https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hY43XpVr1I&ab_channel=Treen...
You "I want a reliable phone that meets my daily needs" types like to think you have a monopoly on the term "great". Some of us like to take the scenic route to reading our messages.
(2017) but important enough to revisit. After seeing this article the first time, I can't help but see dead butterflies everywhere.

Previous discussions:

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013 164 comments

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788356 28 comments
I have 3 fanless desktops and you can build them quite cheaply if 65w cpus are enough for you. You can get a fanless seasonic power supply for 90 usd and use cpu cooler Artic Alpine 12 for 25 USD - the remaining components including the case can be quite standard
I don't think facebook is going to lose much sleep over that site going; it looks painfully low-rent, and when your grand "to hell with facebook" post gets all of 45 comments in 12 days, I'd worry less about moral posturing and more about getting new users.

And honestly, the anti facebook hate gets old. You all are just using it as a scapegoat to avoid thinking about what your own companies are doing or the changes you can make; its a ritual in this place now to have fashion-hate on certain things, and it gets really tiring. There is no way you can avoid negative interactions on the web if you have any real presence at scale, and complex systems are always going to have unintended effects that won't be seen till later and only can be mitigated up to a point.

The constant longing for a small scale web with large scale benefits simply isn't feasible.
When I need a simple linux distribution, my first thought is alpine.

Any idea what the benefit of KISS linux would be over alpine?
I agree. Also, from a practical point of view, if someone lies on their resume, they're likely to get caught. For example, their manager will ask them to do something that they claimed knowledge of on their resume, and it will be obvious that they don't know how. Lying to get a job is generally grounds for immediate termination.
I've been giving this some thought recently. Ultimately I blame Scrum, it is so poorly aligned with sustainable software engineering and so widely open to interpretation that its no wonder that every project seems to inevitably end in big rewrites. Scrum gives all the godly power to a product owner, invents a baby sitter in the scrum master and leaves everyone else to be the "dev team". I know there will be statements about it should be collaborative blah blah, but the fact is the named roles have gravitas and the amount of responsibly in the product owner individual is untenable.

There is also then the wildly misunderstood aspect of estimation. In my experience the only value beyond saying a feature is easy or hard is that it does spark discussion among engineers, the irony being if said discussion goes on for too long it usually gets shut down. Adding estimates to work you are going to do within the next 2 weeks seems of limited value, it changes no behaviour you will still do the work.

I feel we would be better served by reinforcing the principle that all of our purposes within the organisation is to deliver a quality product for the customer.

Product development is responsible for taking ideas and generating specifications for product features while software engineering are responsible for taking specifications and implementing them within a software product. This simple process should be monitored and systematically improved to deliver better on the core principle.
The "scrum master" is not telling you how long a ticket will take. They're asking you, can you break this ticket down any further?

I see that you have a task to implement validation in the phone number field, can we break that down into three tasks? Determining the format which needs to be applied and edge cases, adding validation to the field on the client side, and also on the server side?

Right away, thinking about it this way may reveal certain unknowns which you had not previously thought about. And all of it took an extra minute or two. While your team-mates are also engaged and "THERE" to help.

Later you can see which of the tasks took longer or less than expected, and use this to improve your future estimates (during the retro.)

This is only skimming the top of the types of benefits you can gain from a good Agile process.
C'mon.You are not telling the truth. There are times when it is beneficial to lie. (Though, perhaps not in OPs situation)
> common Linux interfaces are very easy to decipher and have a good usability

Then you are an absolute god of IT and have a very skewed perception of things as a result; alternatively you've made up your own definition of the word "usability" that absolutely no one else uses.

I think Linux is great. I love the customizability it brings to the table and get a lot out of it. The time and effort invested to get here has been significant though. The manpages are dense. Commands are arcane. Error messages are very often inscrutable.

The major distros do a reasonable job as long as everything is working and there happens to be a well maintained program in the preconfigured repos that works well for whatever task it is you're trying to accomplish right then. I've set up Ubuntu for relatives who aren't tech savvy to do basic office work and everything is flawless.

The user experience just isn't on the same level as the proprietary OSes though. There are far fewer well polished apps. Many vendors don't provide compatible versions of their software. The latest gadget you bought probably requires Windows or iOS to sync or whatever it is you need it to do. Leave the well trodden path for whatever reason - something breaks, your new device isn't recognized, something else - and things aren't pretty.

It's not really the OS's fault. FOSS apps are largely written and maintained by volunteers instead of highly paid teams. All modern systems have a staggering amount of complexity under the hood and Linux distros intentionally give you access to it. But if you want or are forced to tinker then you're going to have to contend with it one way or another.
I don't buy it. My intuition here is that Benford's law is a thing because for pretty much any statistical distribution, large numbers are less likely than small numbers, and small numbers are more likely to start with 1. But I'd only expect this effect to show up when aggregating across many different statistical distributions (e.g. looking at all stocks in the S&P 500 at once) rather than looking at individual distributions (i.e. I think maybe he just got lucky choosing Berkshire, and other S&P 500 stocks might not show Benfordness in their price even if they're not manipulated).

Plus, even if Bitcoin's price is mainly a product of manipulation -- speculators trying to make the price rise or fall relative to where it is right now -- there's no reason we can't think of that as also being a random process which produces some statistical distribution.

Benford's law works for detecting fraud because the process that humans use to choose random numbers -- just write down a bunch of random digits -- results in a statistical distribution that is unusual relative to what would be produced by a natural process. But it seems quite unlikely to me that Bitcoin price manipulation takes the form of a whale saying "OK, I just wrote down a bunch of random digits, this is our BTC price target for Wednesday".
Honestly I'm not looking for an amazing phone, just a less shitty one. I'll probably buy a PinePhone to tinker with it and support the idea, but I don't expect it to be really usable. I hope in the coming years they'll get a usable/stable version. Of course I don't expect a great camera/software or anything like that.
Actually we had a severe youtube and game problem. Not just being glued to it, but up to a point were the child became a "zombi" just wanting the screen.

Removing the phone temporarily, and then saying unless limits were followed the phone would be removed again actually worked. This of course needed to be repeated at every lapse. The most difficult thing as a parent was being thoroughly consistent - no ifs or buts. It would create a terrible scene every time. But after a few bouts things became much better.

But kid's are different. It totally varies from person to person what works and not.
Free TailwindCSS components to build UI faster
A proper Sysinternals equivalent set of tools is sorely missed on macOS. Trying to do DFIR on them mostly sucks compared to whats available on Windows. (Open to hearing anyone who has particular favorites or recommendations)
It’s easy to blame management but there are also good reasons for it.

The naïve thing to do when you’re a manager is to manage more in response to problems. When you start out with an agile process, and you manage more / manage harder, you end up with no agile process at all.

Scrum masters / agile coaches are very hit or miss. Just like managers, just like programmers. Management takes the blame because their failures have a larger blast radius.
And it will run smoothly, if you choose simple software: https://sr.ht/~mil/Sxmo/.
Sure, but he knew he was alive, and being alive is a huge advantage if you want to address interesting topics in a way that matches well with readers of the time period you're currently in.

Being alive, generally, is useful for reaching audiences. Not everyone needs to be alive to do this, but it really does help, you know...
I looked into back in the day (but not quite as far back as that), https://alicious.com/secure-drive-data-wiping/, couple of references there.
I would like to look. Do you have some links ?
Are you saying you want to replace the specification with tests? That's really dubious to me.

I don't think it really helps software development, if instead of "here's the description of what we need to do" the SW developer gets "here's a few examples of what we need to do" (albeit if the examples can be automatically verified).

If that's NOT your intent, what's the role of specification in the TDD, and how it's interacting with the implementation and the tests?
Honolulu airport shuttle cost something like $50 which seemed like a straight scam so we walked to "public bus" with reasonable fee where driver refused us from boarding because of large suitcase.

Ended up asking a random stranger if they wanna pool and split the taxi fee - he initially freaked out a bit, but then 5 seconds later agreed to it. Had a nice conversation and they ended up paying for it...
I can’t imagine this guys posture with the monitor that low and small.

I’m totally with this guys on the LEDs.
Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about
Yeah, that’s my main complaint. I want it to actually work as a phone before I want it to work like a small computer.