skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three things:

(1) One genius inventor like Newton is worth more than an infinite number of idiots. No exceptions.

(2) If education becomes a meaningless credential where everyone gets a participation trophy -- then educational attainment itself will be completely disregarded as a metric used to compare individuals. Thus, this drive to use the resources of education (while it is currently a prestigious metric) to try and balance for differences in the cognitive abilities given to us by DNA is going to harm the reputation of the credential altogether.

(3) When accreditated, public education is reduced to a daycare, the private sector WILL fill the void by producing an alternative system while also calling for defunding the public system as it had been rendered useless by "good intentioned" radical race marxists.
Yeah I know at least ASUSTOR's ADM and Synology's DSM are both basically lightweight Linux distros (usually on an older kernel than what you'd expect building something custom), and they use standard Linux storage tooling (for mdadm RAID or btrfs).
No need for tablets when one can use a foldable laptop or 2-1 hybrids, which are quite successful in Europe, including the Surface models.

Now the Android tablets, that is another story altogether.
us-east-1 has always been the canary region hasn't it?
You wouldn’t. The data point is there for completeness. At least the ruling didn’t connect “racialized” with “cognitively disabled”.
Thanks, but I find that r/Fire is perhaps a bit too conservative and singular-focused. I was hoping to find some other takes on HN.
Right now I think InvestAnswers on Youtube has one of a the most clear-headed takes on this (hard focus on crypto though).

Perhaps also something on alternative income streams. I managed to work 24/7 on a startup once, but after it crashed and burned with nothing to show for it, I don't think I can do it again. I tried many times but I couldn't make it work.

AI would be more lucrative to work on but even though I have a degree labelled such, I find the chasm to a job making more money from that somehow impassable. But maybe it's not entirely.
There is a huge advantage in a lot of the questions in knowing shortcuts and simplifying the questions. Someone with a strong math background is going to find this a lot easier better than someone who struggles with math.
Not terribly excited for generics.
I'd suggest that those teachers need more resources -- in terms of education, and additional helpers in the classroom.
I 1000% percent disagree.
Firstly as a user I see no point in this browser at all. They should have partnered with Mozilla to stick to their commitment to privacy and to their effort to support open source projects.

Imho they don’t aim to customize the UX that much.
They’ll build something like their mobile browser and push for their search engine, mail protection and whatever they’ll try to sell in the future. And we should just not trust them. So many people use browsers as they are (which I find impossible nowadays with all the ads and popups) and reading that DuckDuckGo magically protected them will be enough for them.

Instead of Electron they could have just used Chromium but that is ethically terrible and an un useful effort for them (given what I said about their intentions).
In the US, an accredited undergrad degree requires a math course. Many years ago I taught that course at my friendly neighborhood Big Ten university. The topics were those that were required for accreditation, and were in my opinion disjoint and archaic. The course didn't even touch on the use of computers.

However, the legislature in my state introduced a bill, believed to be written by ALEC, that would have eliminated the college degree requirement for K-12 teachers altogether. So count your blessings.
It's not that these aren't interesting subjects or potentially useful in adult life. They just shouldn't be the priority. Is it potentially useful in adult life to know how your car's IC engine works? Sure, but nowhere near as useful as knowing how to get a good rate on your car loan.
Then they should get rid of that requirement, since it's unfairly disadvantaging racialized teachers. But if you're going to teach math you should absolutely be competent in the actual subject you're teaching.
> I would argue that linux would need to be installed by default for that to change dramatically.

I disagree. There are good reasons people choose not to use Linux and it is annoying that the community continues to tell itself variations of this kind of thing so it doesn't have to face that fact. Even starting out a potential user has to navigate a ludicrous number of distros, all with slightly different ways of doing things and various levels of inadequate and out of date documentation, and as soon as they ask for help they'll likely be told to try a different distro regardless of which one they pick.

Even having Linux preinstalled won't change this because, as we've seen, every single manufacturer wants to build their own distro instead of throwing their effort behind an existing one.
Ignoring the ethical concerns, all the data they collected was completely worthless, because many of their subjects were contacting eachother and responding to it with the knowledge that it was a mass email sent with a variety of presumably fraudulent names.
The first section of the exam does not cover specialized, esoteric knowledge. Deficiencies in basic reasoning extend to other areas of knowledge as well, and it seems unconscionable to allow those who suffer from these to teach.
110 units per day? It is going to take the world, how I failed to see that.

Nintendo better watch out,

https://www.statista.com/statistics/687059/nintendo-switch-u...
It is possible that some people don't have the ability to do math well in the same way that I don't have the ability, try as I may, to draw well. Should society have a place both kinds of people? Those who can't draw and those who can't do math?
Sort of. A failsafe reactor design [can] include[s] things like:

* Negative temperature coefficient of reactivity: as temperature increases, the neutron flux is reduced, which both makes it more controllable, and tends to prevent runaway reactions.

* Negative void coefficient of reactivity: as voids (steam pockets) increase, the neutron is reduced.

* Control rods constructed solely of neutron adsorbent. The RBMK reactor (Chernobyl) in particular used graphite followers (tips), which _increased_ reactivity initially when being lowered.

It's also worth noting that nuclear reactors are designed to be operated within certain limits. The RBMK reactor would have been fine had it been operated as designed.

Source: was a nuclear reactor operator on a submarine.
When I switched away from Gmail, I used my password manager to track the logins I needed to change. Then, just monitored the Gmail inbox for anything I missed.
> 1 in 300 connections were deanonymized at many points throughout this year.

How do you figure? If you are referencing the bs “0.3%” chance figure. Please not that this assumes that each “peak” number of malicious nodes were used. If you actually look at that medium article, the peak exit, relay, and entry nodes do not occur at the same time. Those malicious nodes have since been removed. This also assumes tor users are not using any onion services.

> For any given trustworthy VPN, 0 connections were deanonymized this year.

Lol. I can’t believe I even have to respond to this. People use vpns to visit clear net sites with loads of fingerprinting JavaScript. They bring their google analytics cookies with them! There’s no onion services!
The kits are always going to be marked up—and even more so today, since it's so hard to find individual Pis in stock anywhere.

Here in the US, the only way for many people to get a Pi 4 is in a kit that's at least $100 (sometimes scalped and marked up to $150-200 on Amazon or eBay). Until about 3 months ago, though, I could reliably find a model I wanted from Micro Center or one of the official Pi online resellers for $35-75 (list price).
What grade is this supposed to be for?
That's bad (tests definitely should publish practice tests), but for god's sake, it's grade math curriculum. It should be passable without any practice.
Every wingnut that thinks windmills give you cancer, essential oils are medicine, is anti-vaxx, votes for pro-oil lobby politicians, climate change disbelieving and so on, has been failed by lack of STEM education.
Who cares about them running code as root. Modern day malware can do everything from userspace: autorun on startup, key logging, token / credential stealing, cryptomining, software installation, pop up ads, remote desktop / screenshots, recording mic / camera, getting your ip, DOSing a sever, acting as a proxy, replacing sudo with one that steals your password, popping up fake password prompts, etc.
There is, some countries are reaching dangerous low fertility rates. But, then again, a lot of people in reproductive ages would consciously try to avoid getting pregnant in the middle of a pandemic. I guess we’ll only really know decades later.
Is there an explanation of all the techniques used somewhere?
"how the world actually works" is a bit of a misleading statement. a deep understanding of various concepts can take years or decades to develop, and the understanding you get from 1-2 years of general education can lead you to make false assumptions and assume you know more than you actually do and as a result dismiss the opinions of people who are actually informed.

I don't believe that an extra year or two of education on thermodynamics or electricity would make the vast majority of the population better in their everyday lives, and it might make things slightly worse in terms of experts' ability to push things forward. Do we really want all our neighbors bikeshedding utility grid management like amateurs crowding into a github pull request? We've seen how good the general population is at epidemic management lately.

I was personally deprived of basically any education until community college due to how education and parental "freedom" work in the US, and while the gaps in my education (STEM in particular) are regrettable, in practice they really have not interfered in my everyday life. I enjoyed learning about biology, physics etc and do some reading on my own time to this day but the stuff that I actually need to know about in my everyday life tends to be from the 'soft sciences' or non-sciences, like history or economics - despite the fact that I've been working as a programmer for over a decade.

Math is essential, though, no question there.
>Education and stock market are not analogous

Why not? A company is just an aggregate of people working towards a shared mission. Not unlike a society.
PEs, architects and lawyers all need to pass standardized tests in order to enter their professions. You have to study for these. Expecting preparation is not the end of the world.
My analogy wasn’t saying it’s niche. It was comparing the difficulty. And yes, there are trained people (I’m one of them ;) ) but that doesn’t make it easy, cheap, nor even less error prone than using cloud services. Which was my point.

Also the reasons those companies usually run their own infra is historically down to legislation more than preference. At least that’s been the case with almost all of the companies I’ve built on prem HA systems for.
Did you just describe teaching as "cushy"?
Knowing some amount of physics, chemistry, and the like come in handy on a regular basis for me in my everyday life. Plus, as noted, knowing how to use the scientific method (how to analyze, hypothesize, and test ideas) is incredibly useful.

I would also argue that economics (home in particular, but also micro and macro), social studies (government in particular, but also other societies), and history all have their places in life and are worth being part of the curriculum. But, aside from maybe home economics, they aren't as useful in everyday life as the STEM topics.

At least, that's my opinion based on my experiences. I only have me to base my opinion on, and I'm a sample size of 1.
What about the hundreds of other accounts that use your gmail as either the 2FA target or password reset?

For a non-technical user (like my mom), this is a herculean task.
Want to reverse aging? Try reversing graying, first
Ancient DNA reveals the world’s oldest family tree
True, but I just never quite managed to understand why you'd want your visitor to return nothing. And if you did why it was too much hassle to just return '0' or something.
How is this going to be effective if files are encrypted and with no discernible name?
Non-white French speaking populations are probably very distinct. Maybe immigrated from French-speaking former colonies? Though if every teacher in a French district takes the French test, then it would include any internal immigration in Canada...
The right and left tail of the distribution are not equal and offsetting here. The cost to society from one idiot is more than offset by the benefit of one genius. Therefore equality is not a desirable outcome. Optimizing the abilities of the right tail is.
How do you think FT.com should fund their research and publishing?
how is that the case? IIRC when I was in secondary school (ages ~11-16 in the UK) I had to take science (I also took physics in college afterwards, but that's besides the point). What did I learn? Newtonian mechanics, some basic experimental procedures tested out against the whole "objects fall at the same speed regardless of weight" proof, and such things. How does any of that help people to vote?

I'm sure this is related to the "Republicans are anti-science" thing, but that's a cultural divide, not a lack of education.
Don’t forget that school science is 50% practical work. It’s not just about learning F=ma.

Pupils have to become proficient and disciplined with setting up measurements and getting consistent results — often in pairs — just as much as they have to learn the ideas and apply the math.
This is for teachers. Unbelievable, I know.
Thank you for sharing your story! (I'm a former skills instructor, although not at CA.) Hearing about this kind of life-change makes my day. :)
Having taken a look at those sample questions, would you really want a teacher who cannot complete them without explicitly preparing for them to be teaching your children?

They're not particularly complicated and I'd expect not only every teacher to able to complete them, but every student as well. This continuous dumbing down standards in the interests of equality of outcome does not end well for anybody.
I've been wanting to test out one of Solid Run's boards, but haven't had the opportunity. Have you done any benchmarking to see how much throughput you actually get? I would hope it's a lot more than the Pi, but can't know until it's thoroughly tested!

One thing to note: the Honeycomb LX2 is listed at $750 :)
Similar here, I picked up mine at a drugstore for $50 along with a pile of discounted games from the rack. I never thought I'd own the thing for 20 years and watch my oldest beat Sonic Adventure at age 6. Watching those credits roll he gave me the most badass look, lol. They still ask to play it from time to time.
Get a job for a FAANG…?
The "file system" is stupid-easy: just a JSON file renamed to `.vha2` -- see the interface here: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/blob/main/interfac...

I've had no problems with 20,000 videos in a "hub" and I've heard people pushing past 100k. JavaScript has no problem applying .filter() across this many objects quickly.

Each search is its own .filter method (inside an Angular pipe) so every search should be virtually instant. And since the screenshots are pre-extracted (the most time-consuming part of using the app), you should be able to infinite-scroll with no delays in loading previews.
Right, we need to trade a vanishingly small probability that anti-abuse systems at Google will flag your school photos as Al Qaeda propaganda for the much higher probability that your files hosted on an elaborate scheme operated mostly by 4chan users will be unavailable due to widespread malfunction, malice, and capriciousness.
Were the US officials that Uganda was spying on diplomats, or "diplomats"?
I had this experience when I asked about s3 backup also (after a junior programmer deleted a directory in our s3 bucket...). The response from r/aws was "just don't let that happen" or ("use IAM roles")
One thing I find so valuable about jails is the ability to jail a single command with no other userland than what that binary requires.

Here's an example from my personal name server:

/usr/sbin/jail /jails/www www 10.10.10.36 /lighttpd -f conf/lighttpd.conf

... and although this jail has a lot of content files in it, the actual UNIX userland is only what is required to run 'lighttpd':

# find /jails/www/usr | wc -l
43

So it's an extremely lightweight environment with very little attack surface.

You can also share a lightweight environment with multiple commands - here are two other jail commands:

/usr/sbin/jail /jails/dns ns1 10.10.10.30 /nsd/nsd -c /nsd/nsd.conf
/usr/sbin/jail /jails/dns dns 10.10.10.37 /unbound/unbound -c /unbound/unbound.conf

... see how both jailings of 'nsd' and 'unbound' point to the same '/jails/dns' userland ? Once again, that userland is very, very compact:

# find /jails/dns/|wc -l
97

... so, 97 files total to run both name servers.

No 'make world' necessary, no building and maintaining of a full FreeBSD system - just the lightest skeleton required for both 'nsd' and 'unbound'.
Really great to see such renaissance of Linux gaming where progress in Wine/Proton, Vulkan, dxvk and vkd3d gradually unlocked so many games for Linux users despite publishers refusing to address that market. That knight move by Valve which sidesteps that catch 22 blocker was really neat.

Hopefully with growth of the market, more publishers will start releasing native games as well.
This was super interesting to read, thank you very much.

Regarding the ffmpeg parameters and formats in general: Do you use newer formats too, like AV1 and the like?
I’m not sure why you would expect that everyone who would fail a test for a course they hadn’t taken would also fail that course if they took it. I’m pretty sure there are lots of things I don’t know now that I could learn if I took a course. That’s kinda the whole reason that courses exist and generally administer tests after material has been presented.
This is a STEM centric site, and most people here are in that bubble.

If you are in a STEM career, would you have been able to do it if you were mandated to take and pass (for example) a nursing course?

You might ask what nursing has to do with STEM, and you'd be right that there is not much of an intersection, but nurses have to pass math classes that are well beyond anything they will ever encounter in a nursing career, and the math requirement is one of the main courses that prevents people from pursuing a career in nursing in our area.

Likewise, for teaching, I don't think you can talk about 'teachers' in general. I know the union does, but it really does not make sense. Most teaching positions require very little math. It's too bad that anyone with a teaching degree can teach any math class in high school, whether they know the math or not. I have the experience of being taught by such a teacher. I survived, but you have to wonder why there are no safeguards against such a travesty. Now we know - it's unconstitutional!
From TFA:

We submitted an application detailing our research methods to the Princeton University Institutional Review Board, which determined that our study does not constitute human subjects research. The focus of the study is understanding website policies and practices, and emails associated with the study do not solicit personally identifiable information.

This came up during the Linux security patch debacle as well. IRB guidelines are focused on a narrow set of harms based in historic abuses of medical research, and don't necessarily condemn the types of deception available here. As TFA points out, “secret shopper” methods are common in academic research of business practices.
> Education got worse as a result.

While NCLB had negative side effects, education in America has been getting worse since the 1960s. The SAT is substantially easier than it was in the 1960s as well. NCLB had no impact on test scores either, so how do we even know education got "worse" if we've given up broad-based statistical evaluation criteria?

Seriously, what's the measuring stick other than an assertion?

> closing schools in poor neighborhoods

This might as well be a talking point from the NEA. Real-adjusted education expenses in America have tripled in the last 50-60 years. There has never been more funding or power for public education than now and we've never had as incompetent or entitled class of teachers as we do now.
I think NSO are scapegoats, because how hard is it for a country to setup up a honeypot device to analyse NSO'a attack vectors and then copy it for their own use whilst being able to blame it on NSO?

I say this because I've had stuff done to my phones in the past, one strange incident with a "hacked" phone was selecting an AirBnB, which I believe directed me to a few of their "safe" houses. Other examples, include batteries going flat over night when asleep despite phone being switched off, not charging but was fully charged before it was switched off. The phone signal is weak when that took place so it would have burned through the battery amplifying the signal, but listening in to people sleeping can elucidate what might be on their mind!
public posts on the internet being aggregated is not out of the ordinary, if one group doesn’t do it, another may.

Scraping private posts would be wrong or gaining access to posts under false pretenses. This would be wrong, although different than the email.

The email forced work on people and made legal threats causing work and other effects that would not otherwise happen.
Remember, this means Google has already been scanning and collecting the contents of your Google drive. All they’re talking about is applying a filter to certain files they find objectionable. Even without this announcement, this could happen at any time. If one day something you own is found to be illegal or objectionable, Google may delete it without notice. At worst, they may report you to the authorities.
(Render founder) We've learned a lot from these outages, most of which stemmed from DDoS attacks. We've since built DDoS protection into the fabric of Render: https://render.com/blog/free-ddos-protection.

Specifically related to this AWS outage, Render can already transparently shift your app between AZs, and we're also working on moving services across underlying cloud providers (GCP/AWS and eventually bare metal).
I wouldn’t say that solution is anything near the lake experience.
this is not about tests for students.
Same comment as above! Thanks for sharing your story!
I really dont like this. It just feels like people are trying to ram a square peg into a round hole. Personally I dont get why generics were needed in the first place. Every single example Ive seen so far, could be pretty easily replaced with `interface{}`. And now that we finally have generics, people still arent happy. Now that they have their round peg, they are trying to now ram it into a star shaped hole, as is being done in this post.

I really wish people would just use the language as it is. Yes, it does cause for some repetition, but thats not the worst thing in the world. Compared to some Java codebases I have seen, Go is extremely simple already, in terms of "flatness" in the filesystem, and flatness in the type system. I think people should just know when to leave well enough alone. I dont think the complexity of generics is worth it for 99/100 use cases.
Indeed, if you only deploy resources in us-east1, or any other single region, you're risking the occasional downtime.

I'd wager that will still give you more uptime than a physically-hosted solution for the same cost.