skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the financial returns to college vary widely depending on the institution a student attends and the subject he or she studies.

Let's not forget grit. That is, a given individual's drive and willingness to persist, to move forward. That is a key source of energy, and a critical chacter trait.

Unfortunately, adversity is out of fashion, and coddling is in. Yes, of course. There's luck and other intangibles. But simply showing up isn't good enough.

The point being: no one has a more significant impact on the ROI of your education than you do.

https://angeladuckworth.com/grit-book/
air quality sensors are not a bad proxy of activity patterns. (now does that have any value? good question, and probably very much "depends". Probably does in the sense of things like law enforcement requesting data from siri etc for criminal cases, to feed into advertising targeting it's only a tiny datapoint)
Would that not be iTerm?
> Zero-config would be that those middlewares are enabled by default

What middlewares? Next has all basic middlewares needed enabled by default. What you're suggesting is that Next ships with every possible middleware that anyone could need, even the special snowflake middleware I want that adds a "foozlebozzle" property to the request context, just to say "We don't require you to do anything" and that's just not possible.

They have made it so you can hook into things and customize if needed, not "you have to now write all your own middleware for everything"
I don't think you understand how University endowment funds work. To put it short they diversify into asset classes - one being top tier VC (Sequoia, a16z, USV, etc.).

In other words, endowment funds are investors in virtually every type of company possible - public entities, lending, credit, cash, hedge funds, startups, etc. - they simply don't care what the vehicle is as long as it meets their risk adjusted return goals.
Not all systems are safety-critical though. Most hackers probably wouldn't mess with control surfaces, engine control, and instruments, and would err on the side of safety too. But planes don't immediately drop from the sky just because their radio is off or their navigation systems have a hickup.
Does Electron help with this?
Please tell me someone here loved Mathnet? It was a math version of Dragnet.
No kidding. The US government has been involved in domestic mass surveillance for about a quarter century now (see Carnivore), predating the pretext given by the terror attacks of 2001. When this was getting off the ground in the 90s, my recollection is that the criticism (if any) one found in the media was oblique. Any surprise that we now have surveillance capitalism?
"Venture Capitalists are just hedge fund managers who can quote the Tibetan Book Of The Dead." — Taylor Mason, Billions, Season 3: Flaw in the Death Star.
Until fairly recently, Dell. However, I can't find that option anymore when specing a new PC, so perhaps I'm wrong about that. I think HP does as well.
Wow even some of Photoshop's more obscure shortcuts are the same. Embarrassing that it feels snappier than my actual copy of PS.
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The hardware for the gen 2 is pretty good in my opinion. The only "exotic software" is the notetaking app, the rest of the system is linux. The device is running ssh and the root password is in the licenses file.

That's a lot more than you get from most devices of this type.
Would that be cryptographically secure? Couldn't someone perturb an RNG based on background radiation by beaming radiation at it?
Basically a crypto hedge fund.
Sure but in small GA planes you're not likely to be travelling so far that the magnetic declination is significantly different so just keep it in mind each time you reset the DI. Or if you are travelling long distance you could make a note of it along your planned route, or your GPS app could let you know.

My point was that this shouldn't require any instrument upgrades to the GA fleet
That Victron box has an automatic transfer switch in it, and is certified for permanent grid connection.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted into oblivion, but for a terminal emulator with a great feature set (minus the X server part), iTerm2 has served me very well (and can integrate with tux sessions to display tmux tabs and windows as separate OS-level tabs and windows).
Exactly. “This is a fundamental disruption to the venture capital model.” should be read as "We are now a hedge fund like Tiger, Coatue, et al."
Why was this horrible article so long?

The answers you want to know in one paragraph:

Aside from a few scratches, there are no identifying marks on the cylinder to help investigators figure out what it is or where it came from. The encapsulated chunk of cobalt will make its way north to Leipzig, Germany, where a specialized firm will search it for a serial number and eventually melt it down and recycle it. Judging by its size and shape, the object was probably part of a medical device or a machine used to sterilize food. Disposing of such material is expensive; Italian officials won't speculate on how it got conveniently lost in a Saudi scrap yard. No one knows how the cobalt got into the container or how the container got into the system.
The Distributed Mutable Containers spec looks super exciting: https://dream.public.cat/ https://inqlab.net/projects/dmc/ - https://inqlab.net/projects/eris/ - it's in https://openengiadina.net/ - https://gitlab.com/openengiadina
safety net for education or for safety? One of the main points of the article is that the supposed educational benefits are probably not even real.
I had the same complaint, supposedly it curated that out quickly when you don't engage with it. I assume that is the biggest common interest new users have.
I am not crazy about the PineNote design as the SoC and memory are well beyond what I would consider efficient for an eInk tablet who's primary role is to replace paper and pencil.
>Last year's deadly winter storm in Texas showed that a lot of natural gas infrastructure does indeed rely on electricity.

This is just a lie.

A bunch of crap in TX froze up because the physical infrastructure was not designed to operate in those temps. When you're compressing and decompressing gasses moisture becomes ice. Their facilities were not designed to prevent icing in low ambient tempts. They had no problem getting power for the most part. Remember, generators are SOP for pretty much all utilities and doubly so anywhere you might get a hurricane (which is a good chunk of TX).
Mom and pop companies didn't have their ad framework embedded into hundreds of applications to do cross-application tracking in the first place.
If you're going for implausible comparisons, I'll go with the tens of millions, since in the first case, you piss off the handicapped version of Hitler, and he goes on a killing spree that ends with hundreds of millions dead, or more likely deadly disease spreads due to a lack of hand washing. That's at quite a lot of millions now, and people have stopped caring
Quite a few countries have strong workers protection laws like France and Brazil, favoring FTE as those get additional benefits and social protections. Misclassifying full time employees as contractors may get company in a lengthy cross border disputes. There are a few EOR (employer of record) providers, who can act on hiring company behalf and hire a worker directly in a different country using their entity.
Pray do tell of those more open (and cheaper) alternative devices?
Even extremely progressive consumption taxes?
Are friends worth it? A return-on-investment analysis.
> Can I get the 2% tax rate too,

Sure.

Make $200k/yr and in 2014 buy 556 Bitcoin for $220/btc and in 2018 you will find your effective tax rate 2014-2018 is about 2% ... until the price of Bitcoin dropped or until you sold the Bitcoin, at which point you'll be taxed (which is also the situation for bezos).

[I could otherwise pick any stock that has gone up a _lot_ since then and make the same example.]
The install footprint from npm is 302 packages weighing in at 504mb. It includes a lot of superfluous debris, with packages containing single functions like "is-string" and multiple polyfills for functions like object.assign. That's a very large attack surface considering the poor security practices in the npm ecosystem[0] and the growing frequency of attacks on transitive dependencies[1].

[0]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/52-percent-of...
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28962168
Portland has moderate weather like the rest of the northwest. Have you tried living in New York during the winter?
(Er, Skylake, not Ice Lake)
> you can walk in plenty of places in Berlin (and it's often German authorities in the lead) and spot much worse dealers than those selling online

People who sell online are very different from those who sell in-person. Most come from socio-economic backgrounds where all kinds of anti-social behaviour is normalized. They are also not "professional" so to speak, and do not know the words Op and Sec. Someone who's selling acid on the net will not rob you, since they're not dumb enough to. So it's an apples to oranges comparison in my opinion.

Regardless, I do wish they would cut it out with the useless arrests. Good job, you seized a car-full of drugs and some dudes who mail drugs, do they think the global drug market has felt real hit? That unlike at every point in human history in which something was prohibited, the black market will just stop? That this actually puts a dent into the bottom-line of criminals? Even if it did, momentary weakness by one criminal group is an immediate invitation for another to expand.
The article discusses that people were signing up for the service.
> So is there actually a distinction here?

Yes.

Quoting GP (emphases added):

> Apple’s advertising platform does not track you, meaning that it does not link user or device data collected from our apps with user or device data collected from third parties for targeted advertising or advertising measurement purposes, and does not share user or device data with data brokers.
You can still get pirated versions of CC everywhere. Adobe didn’t act like they had the benefit of their users in mind in recent years, so there’s no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I don't think that's the rub. The issue is that with a hash and the algorithm, you can reproduce the hash. I think opponents to this are advising against having the retinal hashes in the first place, to eliminate their abuse in the future.
My point is that the intersection of people who become president and had been VP's, Governers, Senators or previously run for president (20 years before) in the modern era is 2 (out of the last 21 presidents). I didn't go through and look at other major candidates, but the other major candidates didn't get elected; my sense is that the losing candidates, at least recently, have been more experienced politicians (hence, "Americans don't elect people who have been in the public eye for a long time"). Trump, Obama, W. Bush, Clinton, Reagan and Carter all got elected as "outsiders" against clearly more experienced establishment politicians.

An interesting thing I noticed going through that list, though, is that a much larger number of presidents came into a more visible position (such as the ones you mentioned) by T-15 years. It seems (and in fact this somewhat mirrors other leadership-oriented career paths) that ~15 years of visibility and experience (usually preceded by a local politics, private sector, or military career to build a network) is roughly optimal for a presidential career path.
The recent (circa ~15 years) stock market boom has driven this. Their LPs are sitting their wondering "ya sure you got us a 100x return on investing in Facebook in 2006, but if you woulda kept your position when it IPO'd, it woulda been a 500x position".

The market is driving this decision - there really isn't anything magical or bold about this.
<1 ms auth speed... I'll take that
I'm in the market for alternatives. What equivalent devices are both cheaper and more open? I haven't found any. :(
I wish I could see the pitch from the hardware people who told Sam Altman that the orbs were not going to be cracked... the whole project will fall apart as soon as (if) Worldcoins have significant value and an orb falls in a moderately-skilled hacker's hands. Or someone will just do it for the lolz.

That or orb-owners will just set up a booth in poor areas of the world and give people cash for a scan, pocketing the distributions forever.
Automating TLS certificate management in Docker
There are, of course ways we can measure progress. E.g. by measuring the results of applying science and scientific results to practical problems. Since we talk about medical sciences here, life expectancy is a good measure. So is being able to cure specific classes of diseases. And these are off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure someone into the philosophy of science could come up with much better and more general metrics.

> At the time of Galileo, scientists had, after many centuries, perfected their means of calculating geocentric orbits.

Again, Galileo had a clash with the catholic church not really fellow scientists.

> Thee equations worked extremely well.

I'm not so sure. Galileo came up with his theory based on what geo-centric view couldn't explain.

> Experts at the time would have told you that science had progressed significantly since the time of Aristotle.

> Yet it had progressed in a completely wrong direction.

Which was true. They indeed got ahead, because they also had to perfect the math and measurements, etc. Not just the descriptions of the orbits. Also, BTW, Galileo was wrong. He thought the Sun was the center of the freaking universe, which it isn't at all.

Also what are you then arguing for? If you can't say that science evolves and improves over time then what's wrong with censorship? Those ideas that you think would be censored (I didn't exactly say that, but let's go with it for now) would not improve science. Or, at least we wouldn't be able to measure it, according to you.

The way I like to think about it is that science is a machinery that constantly builds and improves itself. It not only gets 'bigger' but it constantly gets better and building itself by improving the scientific method itself. E.g. if you think about medical sciences again, 150 years ago doctors would experiment on themselves (n=1) and use their "experience" (i.e. a small amount of inaccurate measurements aggregated in their head). These days we do double blinded, randomized controlled trials and funky statistic checks to filter out errors, then other people look over the results multiple times (think peer reviews and meta-analysises). It's an iterative process that keeps correcting and perfecting itself. And we do know when we go in the wrong directions because results will be off from the reality.
It should be a quick way to re-enable js, not the other way around.

Learn to drive before considering driving without a seatbelt.
That code is your application logic.

Next is a lightweight framework. It doesn't implement authentication for you. It's up to you to implement it, but the scaffolding is there for you to easily do it.

You're arguing against your initial comment:

> Feels like all tooling starts out with "We're simple, no config or code needed!" and eventually ends up so extensible that it's hard to figure out how to even use it.

The point of Next.js is that the framework functionality is minimal. You learn the basic concepts and then build the rest out yourself. If they built all of these middlewares into the framework, then we would be in that state you're complaining about since now you have to learn how to use their specific implementation of that middleware because god knows their implementation won't work for your specific needs.

Next.js takes care of everything but the application code itself. It's a true framework.
Does Next 12 allow for getStaticProps() in _app.js?
> motives are not the defining factor regarding the public utility of leaking this material

An evaluation of likely motives is incorporated into the evaluation of the evidence. There are a lot of things that can't be known: How much is true? How much made up? How much is true but not representative of the totality?
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Outside of Cloud Storage (which is is not worth $8/mo) and handwritting there is nothing in their services that require cloud..

The storage integration should be on the device, they choose to make it via the cloud service. There is no technical reason they could not have made it work directly on the device.

Further their 2 largest competitors in the Space, SuperNote, and Boox all seem to be able to offers these features and more for free.
Not at all surprised. This is pretty much the fate of all "minimalistic" devices like this (the freewrite comes to mind as well). Minimal just means that they reserve the right to put necessary features behind subscription walls.

What this also means long term is that any openness of the device is under a Damocles sword and will be actively expanded except where GPL demands it. The benefit of openness does not appear directly in a spreadsheet like a subscription service does, and if people start trying to supercede the subscription service, they will attack it.

Or just not continue it into the next iteration.
MIP=Re
If he can use the 50 Billion as collateral in a loan with which to fund his life, he clearly made something.
It seems to be a syntax mismash between Rust, which uses `let` and `let mut`, and JavaScript, which uses `const` and `var`, giving WGSL's `let` and `var`, probably chosen because they are the shortest.
There were some attempts but yes you're correct that pre-Windows you wouldn't normally get word processors, spreadsheets etc. from the same software vendor. (You could get them bundled by the hardware vendor/distributor sometimes.) I was using the term "suite" loosely, as in - typical combinations of software products (regardless of author) that were used in an office.
> With all that said, now that you're established in the Industry and you likely have Senior Dev status, how would you go about this: how could one pitch this in order to take you on for X sum of money and not have it fall on deaf ears?

This is something that I think about very often but I don't have a good answer to it. I started at $10/hr doing web dev work and in a short amount of time moved up to $15, $20, $25+ before moving to a salaried position. My best advice to other people is to teach yourself "enough to be dangerous" (online tutorials, code camps, etc) using a tech stack/framework that a local company uses and then apply at an intern-level. Then try to either work your way up at that company and/or pivot to another company after a year or so. For me it was Wordpress and Drupal, I found a local web dev/marketing shop and did that kind of work for them for about 3 years, during which I learned Laravel and Angular for personal and professional projects, before moving on to a product-based company and getting into more complex problems to solve. Personally I learn best by being forced to do something, as in "Build a site that does X, Y, Z" where I don't know how to accomplish X, Y, Z. I enjoy learning on the fly (Maybe I should call it JIT learning?) and having a goal I'm aiming for. Most of my comp sci education felt like "let's pour all these concepts into your head and hopefully you will remember them and they will be useful in the future", that kind of learning doesn't work well for me, I need to see it applied.

It's my goal to own my own company at some point and aside from figuring out a salary/pay structure that I'm comfortable with (something like ESOP) a big thing I'd want to do is offer an on-ramp for people who want to get into the industry. I've helped a friend go from an aborted CS education to working full time in the industry (I helped him learn enough Drupal to get hired at where I worked and then he took it from there) so I know it's possible and it's something I want to incorporate into a future company.

EDIT: As for project managers not buying in, I feel your pain, the sad thing is that it's such short-term thinking. Unfortunately they often don't have the political pull or desire to roll the dice on an unknown candidate and it only worked for me in past because I knew the candidate well, taught him myself, and vouched for him. That's not really sustainable IMHO and there needs to be a better way.
>What I have said is a simple truth: leading on IPC and trailing on frequency is not obviously an advantage.

it's obviously an advantage when you're leading on IPC by a factor of 4-6 (don't forget x86 has SMT) across a variety of benchmarks, and trailing on frequency by a factor of 2. Simplified numbers, but that's roughly the shape of things here.

you're just throwing up your hands and insisting that nothing matters, but it's pretty simple. Processors can be benchmarked, and those numbers can be analyzed, there is no need for nihilism in something so simple as CPU benchmarks.

People just don't like the outcome of that analysis and are looking for reasons to downplay it. Nihilism "nothing can be benchmarked, nothing matters" is certainly an interesting one.
Yep. The 4 (5?) year old iPhone X still feels slick as hell.
"Doctors and nurses say the severity of illness ranges widely and includes abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions, and suicide attempts, among others"
The ROI analysis helps understand whether subsidized college enables social mobility.

Subsidized college is politically convenient because you can sell it to corporate interests as reducing the cost of skilled labor, to labor as a way to move up social strata, and to lower-level elites as a way to facilitate booting incompetent or uncouth people out of their stratum (you can sum up the latter two clauses as "meritocracy").

If people weren't forced to accept subsidized college as a substitute for wealth redistribution (IMO this is largely the case) you might not see so much obsession with ROI.
>What do you think will happen when word spreads that darknet trading is way safer than offline?

Isn't that more or less already common knowledge?
When can we expect the docs to be updated?
Yes, it is a good thing but I do not see how it is zero config (and generally I do not think zero config is a good thing). Selecting your set of middleware is config.
Oh, I had assumed Newfoundland and Labrador because of, as you say, the Canadian context. So it was actually Netherlands.
Yes, GIMP layers are still in limited and a pain to use. I'll definitely try photopea next time.
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That was my first thought too. In this way, it serves a similar purpose to overly strict regulation, which is also something smaller companies have a much harder time dealing with than larger ones (and encouraging regulation of a specific area is a well known tactic of larger companies to raise the bar of entry to the market).

That's not to say all regulation is bad, just that like most things that have beneficial ways to be used, it can be abused by some to negative effect also.
Good example of why I usually wait for a few dot releases before upgrading MacOS.

I thank you and other early adopters (AKA QA testers) for your service.
I am curious to see how this compares to Graviton2, does anyone have relevant benchmarks/comparisons?
Or pure math majors for that matter!
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