skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
University does not teach critical thinking. They teach assignments and tests, where the information is forgotten as quickly as it was received. You do not learn critical thinking having to remember every definition in the textbook. Yet that is still how classes work.

Whatever the intent of liberal arts, it's a clear demonstrable failure now. You should not be able to graduate without being able to think for yourself on a wide range of topics. Yet here we are, and we know that people heavily compartmentalize and have severe difficulties getting into the professions related to their degree. Even the employers no longer believe a degree serves critical thinking. It just says you have debt, are willing to work for less, and will be easy to push over.

We can no longer economically afford to keep the social experiment going. The poor are kept poor and the rich rich with the insane requirements and costs of a degree. Defund universities across the board, fire the accreditors, remove all these nonesense old people sitting on a government paycheck stolen from the middle class.
Any of a number of apps can serve your music/TV/Movie collection off your home network to the internet and stream it to your phone or other devices in real time. Plex. SubSonic. MediaPortal. Kodi. Etc.
Fair enough. FWIW, I think it's still a great comment.
This is survivorship bias. You only hear about the people who are bad workers in general and get caught, not the ones who do both jobs well and only get positive feedback.
Worse yet, there is NO WAY to unlock most front-loading washers!

You will literally have to smash the front glass window (which is at least two layers thick) in order to pull your drowning child out across the broken shards of glass, or have a prybar handy.

This might sound like an imaginary scenario, but it's not at all. It happens every year, and no agency has stepped up to mandate "An big red emergency unlock manual handle seems like a good idea, even if the water pours all over the floor", even though we have mandated emergency trunk pulls from inside vehicles (another place where kids like to hide.)
Lucian's True History as Science Fiction
Tangentially related, with pandemic WFH, have we finally achieved the "paperless office"?
One important Usenet feature that enables efficient tracking of and participation in discussion is that read/unread status is tracked per posting. (See my related comment in the sibling subthread.) That kind-of requires keyboard navigation to make it practical (e.g. press Tab to jump to the next unread posting, which then automatically becomes read). But keyboard navigation by itself also tends to maximize usability for frequent/regular users, which I'd argue are the important demographics for discussion forums.

One issue is with mobile UI, where there's really no good way to make per-posting read/unread status practical with just touch (and/or voice) input. But I'd also argue that asynchronous discussions (as opposed to chats/IM) are best performed on desktop. On mobile they will always remain a compromise in usability and content quality.
They’re both based on QuickTransit, but Rosetta 2 has an AOT mode as well as JIT. I’m sure the R2 engine is more advanced than the original engine, Apple employed several engineers from the original team, but it still uses and is based on licensed tech.
I misunderstood the assertion being made; thank you for clarifying, and my apologies to the commenter in question. I continue to stress the “always report” point, though, as it’s important to get people to overcome the Bystander Effect — so that someday, if/when their own child is put at risk by a device, they remember and report.
> How many developers have created what they think is a pretty intuitive UX only to find out users can’t figure out shit?

But no matter how often that happens, nobody thinks that every new UI should have to get approved by a federal government board before users are allowed to see it.
As someone nearly deaf, a few things come to mind:

* Can I hear this white noise thing? I can hear the typical backup beep up close. They're annoyingly loud for people like me. In theory white noise might be audible to more people with partial frequency losses. I don't know in practice.

* Audible measures should never be a sole indicator of danger. Why isn't there a flashing light?

* I can't hear electric cars at low speed at all.
1.6 billion per shuttle flight, more like 60 million per falcon 9 flight per google.

This isn't to say it's a sign that NASA was bloated. Often the first movers to fast moving tech experience the most costs. That was, in fact, part of the original mission of building a NASA - get the 80% of the original cost down for future development to improve upon.
Now gomand schedule five interviews that way. Makes 15 slots blocked, till responses are in. And then the day not packed in a way that remaining time can be used in meaingful ways.
Your experience is a bubble, and a very different claim than "most people under 30 don't text"
Sound waves broadcast really well through air, and they come with localization information built in to the signal.
Your biased is clear, that you think the value of the company has anything to do with the liabilit. Would you blame a search engine if the results of a query returned results. Siri, on the iphone can give very similar result, I don't see the revolt and people blaming Apple.

Where does amazon say that they are going to filter the results, to make sure you don't have to use critical thinking to evaluate if your query result will harm you?

I just don't see the logic, and this is seemingly is largely driven by the current hate stream pushed towards amazon.
It sounds like you're referring to MemoServ. This requires both parties to have an account on the server, and a separate private message to a dedicated bot.

What was being described was more like saving a highlight; with much less friction. On Discord, I can @someone even if they're a nickname-only user with no account.
Because telegram can access the messages. If the vendor can access the message data (eg: not end to end encrypted), anyone can. That is the bar. E2E||GTFO.
Curiosity Stream is ok. The price is great, but the content is hit-or-miss, and it's really hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Everything is rated 90%+ regardless of actual quality; the "staff picks" were almost certainly picked by a [bad] algorithm; the "collections" have very limited on-topic content mixed with tons of off-topic content. A lot of the videos are short; like 15-20 minutes. A bunch of them have synthetic voices, possibly using automatic translations from the original language (this is even worse on Amazon Prime); the effect is a creepy uncanny valley unease that isn't immediately apparent.

If you know something specific to search for and watch, it's a bargain, but if you just want to browse around, it can be frustrating. More often than not, I spend half an hour or so viewing the first minute of a bunch of videos, and then give up in frustration. New genuinely high-quality content doesn't seem to come around very often.

About the only reason I keep it is to re-watch the good videos I can find by searching for specific people (like my favorite physics presenter, Jim Al-Khalili). That and the fact that I forget I'm subscribed until the annual charge hits, and then it's not worth my time to figure out how to cancel.
> In practice there are people who won't be able to use the data for their use case if a non-permissive license is applied

Well, of course. The whole point of a non-permissive license is to.... not permit things. It's frustrating to see people bring this out like some sort of gotcha. I use the AGPL because I think it's important that users have access to the source code the applications they interact with operate on. If people aren't okay with that, then they're completely welcome to not use my code.

(I am somewhat sympathetic to people who think that the GPL's definition of "Combined Work" is too broad—I've personally never viewed the inclusion of dependencies in a dynamic programming language with strong module boundaries like Node, Ruby or Python as creating a "Combined Work"—and I'd happily license my works with a theoretical LAGPL or an Affero-like Mozilla Public License if either of those were available. Unfortunately, the AGPL remains the only game in town for networked software.)
I suppose that works for the headphones that have FM receivers. I use those today for playing mp3's in the vehicle since I only use older vehicles. Tricky part is workers close to each other having to coordinate frequencies but it's doable.
> Every garage band in existence would also exist without copyright

I think you are under-estimating the extent to which these people are seeking to "make it" and become profitable later.

There are also lots of SV start-ups that never make any money, yet it doesn't prove that they would still exist if NONE of them EVER made any money.
One of the points I think the grandparent is trying to make is that quite often key ideas are obscured by needing to read vast amounts of literature. For example before I've asked on a forum for some of Kant's key ideas, and all I got in reply was to read several 700 page books, which would be nice, but that isn't what I asked for. I've seen this several times so in certain parts it seems to be a cultural issue for some people. This connects with Orwell's six rules for writing that say when you write you should write to the point.
Ask HN: Why are smartphone keyboard keys not hexagonal to maximize touch area?
>>How do we arrive at "amazon endorses the challenge"?

The system Amazon's designed, built, maintains, and runs, actively interpreted the request and out of thousands or millions of answers, specifically selected THAT ONE to return as the result.

They obviously had somewhere between zero and massively insufficient filtering process to filter out inappropriate or non-responsive answers. They presumably have filters for porn and vulgarity, which would cause an uproar, but are not bothering with life-protecting.

This is because either 1) Amazon are too stupid to anticipate the problem, or 2) they did anticipate the problem and don't care enough or figure, like Ford did with the Pinto, that the costs likely damages are lower than the costs of making it safe.

Either way, the only ethical choice is to not field that product. Amazon did not take that choice.

>>And, whatever logic is used, does it also indicate Google, Bing and Yahoo endorse it as well?

If they are providing similar answers to children, without caveats, yes, of course.
Desktop GUIs were making great inroads until the push to put everything on the web arrived. HTML/CSS/Javascript was never meant to build these types of apps. That's why it is all popsicle sticks and glue. Javascript was almost toast until Google brought it back from the dead.
HN doesn’t take kindly to affiliate-link self promotion. Few tech communities would, honestly.

You can argue that you have algorithms and multiple sources and call it a Rotten Tomatoes style site, but it’s still an affiliate site that recycles tainted reviews from other sources in an attempt to capture affiliate payouts.

If you really want to produce something valuable, do your own reviews. You’ll need to demonstrate and establish trust, but recycling content from other websites is not a good way to do that.

Create some actual value for the reader. Don’t just front-run other people’s content in hopes of cluttering up search results so you can capture a piece of the affiliate revenue.
> The beeps are annoying but what else does a better or equal job?

White noise generator / 'broadband alarm':

> White-noise / broadband alarms offer advantages over the typical tonal alarms:

> * Broadcast a range of frequencies making them easier to locate

> * Sound is more confined to those in the area who are most at risk

> * Reduces noise disturbance and noise pollution in surrounding community

> * Are available with adjustable sounds for specific environments

* https://www.worksafenb.ca/about-us/news-and-events/campaigns...

* https://www.heavyequipmentguide.ca/article/24957/backup-alar...

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/new-back-up-alarm-snow...
So out of place, yet completely on brand. A true American treasure.
There’s also cloud scale OS work that was done for AWS and Azure. And moving Linux to embedded and IoT class devices.
Indeed. You are not alone @OP.

BTW, pretty neat trick to help with culture fit for a start-up.
The Fading Ways of Indigenous Arctic Hunters
>Efficient fridges

those look like... really small fridges? The top selling fridge on bestbuy.com is this: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-20-2-cu-ft-top-freezer-refri..., which has 572L (20.2cf) in capacity and is 50% bigger than the samsung fridge you linked. It costs much less: $800 USD vs $1357 USD for the samsung fridge (after factoring in currency conversion and VAT). It does seem to be much more efficient (60% less energy after normalizing for storage capacity), but it's doubtful that you'll ever break even on the purchase price disparity.
keep calm and `shopt -s histverify` on
This may be a good place to ask, where do you buy DRM-free ebooks? Amazon only sells "Kindle Edition" books which are DRM or a proprietary format. Same with Google Books and the Kobo store. There are independent publishers who publish content DRM-free like

* https://www.manning.com/

* https://pragprog.com/

But is there something like Amazon which has a huge library of DRM-free ebooks for sale?
Very confusing post. It doesn’t explain how they are now making money--which is probably relevant for some folks to trust them to protect online privacy.
Long ago (maybe 15 years) I tried Gobolinux and thought it was a better approach for the typical Linux convert from Windows. I believe it was the lack of software, relative to Debian, Ubuntu, or Fedora, that kept me from running it.
I'm confused as well, it's not clear from that post what the new structure is, or how sustainable, or if there are back-up plans. It just says, that there is a new structure essentially.

I'd appreciate it if someone helped me understand, or get more context.
GOP-led states extend unemployment aid to workers who lose jobs over VA (cont)
> if a standard embeddable programming language had been available he'd of course have used it in TeX — I think Lua would count

I agree with your general idea, but it is really a shame that Lua was chosen as the language to embed in TeX, instead of something sane like a Scheme, Common Lisp or at least Python (today, maybe Julia). Furthermore, the effort to rewrite as much of the TeX implementation as possible in Lua is perplexing.
Privacy ship has sailed long time ago. Try to remove license plates from your car. Or refuse to share information about your health!

Now it is about gate keeping. Young people and startups, need the same ability as govs and established players. Until recently you could not even embed maps on your website (too expensive). Free data are levelling the playing field.

And if anything OpenStreetMap helps me not to share my location. I can store map of entire continent offline on my phone, and do not have to ask remote servers for navigation!
I'd like to see more evidence that the job is stressful; more than just 'it pays a lot and thus must be hard'.
Pretty sure operating something billed as a "suicide hotline" and then playing a message to every caller that says "kill yourself" would open you to significant criminal and civil liability in every court in the USA if anyone attempted suicide after calling your hotline.

While there are certainly free speech protections for discussing suicide, there is a pretty solid line between that and using something billed as a crisis resource to directly encourage suicide.
> Except for the actual binary of the MSI installer for Windows and client specific configuration files, all the software is available under the GNU GPL and other Open Source licenses.

They’re paying for a Windows installer. Building Windows code from source is not something most Windows users are capable of.
The feedback is provided as a training case for the AI. While language AIs may not actually feel pain, they can understand the danger in terms of language. This requires a data store to remember the conversations it is having, which is something that isn't widely implemented in AI.

In this case, the focus is on the idea of an AI suggesting something irrational and then providing proper feedback for how it can understand recommending similar things in the future.

Having a polarized conversation about this on a social link sharing site isn't going to help the AI understand this, which is the point I was making.
Is PGP a zombie technology that won’t ever die because there are organizations that have nailed their identity to it?

(For everything you think you should use PGP for please use Age - https://github.com/FiloSottile/age)
We should really expect better from someone who's about page says they are an interface designer, though.
A Swiss solar company announces a new production facility in Arizona
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7751110 (May 15, 2014, 234 comments)
There is this great article[0] on the "Bazaar" on ACM[0].

[0]: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257
Interesting. I tested twice before with the wrong password and vpn and it generated the email but was not able to get in. I assume it would still show in account history because that event is the login verification email event.

It isn’t sending that email for me at this point so maybe something has been corrected and LastPass will acknowledge something soon.
Prime Editing System Inserts Entire Genes in Human Cells
flexible wire

So, LEDs in Christmas/holiday lights are patented?
This! Somewhere down the line we managed to get a copy of the manual — we played a lot more after that!
That's a weird metric to focus on. Who cares how much energy is consumed if it's clean (e.g. hydro/nuclear/wind/solar)?
> * Instead of trying to "earn" that promotion by working 80 hour weeks and "keeping your head down" at your office, apply for a different job elsewhere that offers better pay and work/life balance.

I think the reason the "head down" strategy doesn't work so well now is at least partially because it's still the dominant approach. Some time after it becomes the exception, it may become the path to success it once was.
Identifying your dependencies is hard. The easy solution is not to care: develop on a machine, and ship the entire machine! That way, software with the Works On My Machine seal of approval can be pushed to production without trouble!

I love Docker for the simplicity it offers, but the gigabytes of storage wasted on yet another slightly different version of Debian every time I pull a container irks me to no end. Sadly, it's the only way some software is distributed.
I haven't found one yet that doesn't suck in some way.
That's a good counter point. Hadn't considered it. Thanks!
The SFBA is, for better or for worse, largely zoned R-1 for single family home construction. At that density just about everyone gets enough sunlight to support their needs.

In my previous place - a townhouse where I owned much less roof - I still got enough sunlight to fully cover my needs.

PG&E is primarily a transmission company, and the demand for that is going to dwindle as the cost rises far faster than inflation. Distribution will fracture into smaller islands, potentially at the municipal level. We're already seeing the writing on the wall with new apartment complexes setting up "virtual power plants".

It's just not going to make sense to put a plant dozens of miles away from where the power gets used. The infrastructure is too expensive compared to local generation. That pendulum could swing back if Western cost disease were somehow cured.
I'd gladly pay Windows prices (say, $100/host). I run Linux because it annoys me less than Windows and wastes less of my time; at no point did license politics ever enter into the calculation.
unique_ptr counts as a affine type, the linearity is enforced at compile time. (even if access safety is not)
Holy cow, you have some amazing things there. The Kafka poster example is worthy of some deep study, as is the article you wrote around it. Thank you.
GoboLinux uses patchelf just like Nix but you don't have to learn the convoluted undebuggable mess of Nixlang (I run NixOS on all my machines, it's a love-hate relationship)
It's not a transmission line though, SNR does not apply in the same way. It's more like CMOS where the signal is refreshed at each gate. Each stage of an ANN applies some weight and activation. You can think of each input vector as a vector with a true value plus some noise. As long as that feature stays within some bounds, it is going to represent the same "thought vector".

It may require some architecture changes to make training feasible, but it's far from a nonstarter.

And that is only considering backprop learning. The brain does not use backprop, and has way higher noise levels.
I've seen this!

When the toddler plays an iPad game he likes to start by "failing" (choosing the wrong option, deliberately crashing a toy car, doing nothing at all) and watching what happens. It looks to me like he's basically experimenting - trying things and watching what happens. I generally just let him try and fail (and discuss what happened with him) and after about 1-2 minutes he tries the "right" thing because it helps him make progress - or hits the "X" and quits if he can't figure it out.

But some folks who watch him do this get pretty mad -- "no, kid, you're supposed to click on the blue one! No, don't crash the car, go down there! You have to push something!". This is an interesting philosophy, and while it's not one I share I'm not gonna intervene because he needs to get used to hearing this from people sometimes.
LinkedIn has made the process of finding an on-site position more difficult.

They will list a position as being local to your search, but when you view the listing, it will actually be for a remote job. There is no way to really search for on-site jobs in LinkedIn.
Great note! ocrmypdf can also output the OCR’d text as a file using the oddly named “sidecar” parameter.

$ ocrmypdf --sidecar text.txt input.pdf output.pdf
The document is about what can be easily requested from companies, not what can be hacked. Because telegram hosts no servers in the US they can't trivially request it. They can get it other ways and of course by hacking. But the document isn't about what they can successfully hack or request through back channels. This is why people say that you have to trust Telegram, as opposed to fully E2EE systems (like Signal) which require (almost) zero trust.
What shows or movies have you seen trigger pre-roll ads on Netflix? I'm in the US and have never seen one.
'Hard' skills from working as a McDonald's cashier remain relevant beyond restaurant business.

1. Understanding customer relationships

2. Creativity on the job: figuring out how to deal with edge cases for positive outcomes that were not in the corporate training manuals.

3. Understanding highly optimized and dynamic ordering systems, a workflow systems engineering marvel for delivering hot food fast.

4. Create financial wealth above and beyond most PhD students.
Eventually we would see a [citation needed] below the claim.
If the answer panels are stripping important safety information out in a way that endangers children? I would so say your should definitely report Google.
Which is a contrast to say, watching what Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood teaches 2-4 year olds about conflict resolution, taking turns, and finding ways to play together.
Reportage from inside of an abandoned Ukrainian atomic shelter