skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. But are there are "hard" skills from an MBA that transfer? Not to offend, but MBAs just seem like networking and drinking degrees to me, for people that love business. I've seen MBAs syllabuses: I've literally seen very basic things like "profit = revenue - cost" on slides. It seems like with MBAs it's almost entirely soft skills, no?
GitHub’s top blog posts of 2021
The R-PACE loan principal is not senior to the senior lienholder's position. Past due payments (only) are treated as tax obligations, meaning that only past due payments are senior to the first mortgage holder. In your example the original bank would likely get well over $65K of the $70K sales price, and the new buyer would be on the hook for the remaining (not yet due) PACE loan.
They can emulate the SIM card which gets provisioned on-the-fly with no user input according to the position of the device and whatever contract apple has for that area.

That's definitely going to be a step up in user comfort... The average apple user will definitely love it
Most of these are old documentaries that are not really 4K.
This is FUD. It’s about streamlining configuration of plans and activation and getting rid of physical widget

https://www.t-mobile.com/support/tutorials/topic/esim/activa...
I don't understand the relevance of your articles. What would nodes have to do with the issue of who creates the nodes? Why would nodes reject valid blocks arbitrarily? Why would it be an improvement?

I'm talking about a situation where a small group of people would have access to exclusive technology that would let them mine blocks faster than the rest of the miners with no way for others to compute without losing money. Nodes are irrelevant here unless they decide to arbitrarily reject valid blocks coming for certain miners because they'd deem them "unfair competition", but that's a huge can of worms. Who decides who goes on the list? Based on what? Could it not be trivially worked around?
For 5-20 MVA you're talking about 67 kV substations or similar, where a transformer costs in the low 6 figures. HVDC converter stations in the same range would cost somewhere around 8 figures, although that's mostly a guess- you typically need maintenance and supervision in a way that you don't with transformers. 1%+ downtime is pretty common, which absolutely sucks if you aren't a full grid and can't pull extra generation.
By this logic, if I ask my email provider for my data, it would only supply an archive of emails I sent. It certainly seems like the emails sent to me are mine as well. I'm not a Discord user, but is it really true that exports only contain one side of DMs? Seems almost like malicious compliance when I consider the purpose of such archives!
first of all, thanks for your feedback and discussion :)

if entering an email for downloading the paper is a concern, we'll consider it.

immudb should be used as a traditional database (log, key-value or even a relational store - with limitations of course), so it's up to your deployment to whom you give user credentials with read/write permissions. The key difference is the state being captured by a single hash value.

Given the hash value denoting the entire state can be signed and exported. It's out of control of the server how many copies or when a validation is going to be made. Currently, official SDKs are storing the latest validated hash in a local file, but it's perfectly possible to store the hash in a remote storage, other database, etc. This will ensure data is only added but never changed once written, please note with never changed I mean it's subject to detection when a proof is requested.

immudb does not pretend to provide a complete security solution, but a key component when you deal with sensitive data.
Asian eSIMs are common now. For example the Thai travel sim you would get at the BKK airport can be purchased online as an eSIM - so you can skip that local queuing and currency exchange experience.

Discloser: I sell eSIMs.
I don’t want to force anyone to do anything. I want to find a team that has the same primary work mode that I do: in-person collaboration. My current team has a loose agreement that this is how we’ll work after covid, but I just joined in the last year so we’ll see. If there are also teams (or whole companies) of people who work best over Zoom, then that’s great.

Of course I can be flexible about things like covid variant surges or natural disasters.
Let's say I bought a children's toy that for $35 my child could speak to and receive responses from.

One day, I overhear it telling my child to hurt itself as part of a game, and it begins counting down from a timer.

My child doesn't realize that what it's being told by their fun friend is dangerous and not really a game.

The vessel is not the culprit. It's not a mechanical fault that's endangering my child- it's the logic. Who is responsible for that?

There is a distinct difference from being asked to engage in an activity and being provided information. We learn this as children in grammar class. It is also not our role to make determinations on behalf of the authorities that govern the safety of products, only to report.

Alexa told this child to play a game that would have resulted in their harm and began to count down from a timer. It was designed to expect the child to engage and comply, not just passing along information. It's different.
I'm not sure if you're aware, but the data on OSM is covered by their ODbL which is a "share-alike" license. From their FAQ[1]:

What do you mean by Share-Alike?
If you publicly use any adapted version of our database, or a partial extraction from it, or works (such as maps) produced from an adapted database, you must also offer that adapted database under the ODbL.

In other words, if you improve our data and then distribute it, you need to share your improvements with the general public at no charge. A painless way to do that is to contribute your improvements directly back to OpenStreetMap.

Share-Alike only applies if you distribute what you have done to outside people or organisations. You can do what you like at home, or in your school, organisation or company ... the following section does not apply to you.

It's true that people can use their software and data for non-free services built on non-FOSS code, but people using the data publicly do have to distribute modifications to the data-set under the same license

[1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License
> Experience in grant-writing, data analysis and presentation will serve you well, say Samantha Baggott and Jonathan McGuire.

These are in my opinion also soft skills from a PhD program (not 'hard' skills). The hard skills are the scientifically deep results that you learn and/or investigate as part of your research.
Well, the Swahili coast is nowhere near the Nile/Mediterranean and it was quite advanced. But that was connected to the Arab world via trade and I think what you mean is did any African societies develop to a similar level of sophistication without influences from outside of Africa?

That's a complicated question that I'm not qualified to answer (Congo maybe?), but I'd point out that even in the ancient near east, trade and contact with foreigners preceded the development of civilization in those regions and European civilization especially owes a lot of its success to contact with outside civilizations. So the fact the most well-known African civilizations had regular trade contacts with Eurasia should not do much to diminish the accomplishments of those civilizations as such.

For example, it's possible that iron smelting began in the Sahel in Africa, and from there spread to the Near East/Mediterranean rather than the other way around which would mean that Africa entered the iron age well before the rest of the world. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_metallurgy_in_Africa
If we created a change we can un-create it. People who just accept that we are powerless to our past are the architects of our future hell.

> I can store map of entire continent offline on my phone, and do not have to ask remote servers for navigation!

The fact that you think anybody would need to have that is ridiculous. And also I can store an entire map of pretty much any place I need to go to and it doesn't require a phone.... Furthermore, maps are only necessary in over bloated cities not designed with facilitating humans as the main objective. Just because that is where most people live nonetheless does not make it any more right.
Tesla’s V11 UI changes are receiving strong critical feedback from drivers
I worked in the online media space for a long time, and the fact of the matter is that DRM enabled the era of networks putting their content online, it enabled Netflix, etc. - DRM was the only way to get past the liability gridlock between content owners and distributors. Also, in practice DRM is bad for users only when its presence causes friction in the legitimate viewing process. It has a bad rap because, historically, it has almost always caused a lot of friction for legitimate users.

More fundamentally, DRM is a bandaid whose need arises from trying to apply traditional economic models (of buying and selling physical, tangible things) to digital assets that never wear out and cost /essentially/ nothing to duplicate and distribute. Even basic concepts of ownership and having possession of something don't really apply in the traditional way.

If we could start from scratch, what might work is a purely use-based model, where e.g. every time you listen to a song, you pay a tiny, tiny fee for it. This creates a much stronger correlation between creators providing value and consumers deriving value from what they created, which in the long term makes more sense anyway. There are a lot of hurdles to getting there, though. On the consumer side, the concept of paying-means-owning is pretty ingrained, so we balk at the idea of continuing to pay for something after we already bought it. On the creator/provider side, the price for each use is going to seem far lower than what they think is fair, again for largely the same reason.
I don't see any basis for reaching the conclusion that energy exports are uncompensated based on the article.

Several of the net-embedded-energy exporters are also major fuel producers, notably Russia, Canada, Australia, and Brazil. Whether or not direct fuel exports are counted isn't clear to me.
well then, redirect your funds to sequoia-pgp.org then. they make a good alternative, which is more secure than gpg. several former gnupg developers work on that as werner did not want to work on citrical issues back then.
> Poor countries have benefited a lot more from industrialization over the last 50 years than wealthy countries.

Wealthy countries had already industrialized. Poor countries were starting from a _very_ low base. They’re still a lot poorer and their contribution to historical emissions is small.

Re the metrics you present, I agree against those things are much improved. But I sometimes wonder whether those metrics are very western centric, chosen by technocrats to make themselves look good. In the context of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, I suspect people in many of these places are in a worse position than they were pre-colonialism. Particularly in terms of self-actualization. But on the other levels too.

I say this as a former technocrat.
Is this one of those things where you could technically pay for Winrar, but perhaps should never admit to doing so?
I suspect it stems from a feeling of fairness: I have to follow the rules, so how come you get away with doing whatever you want? That's intuitively not fair.

Now I don't agree with that from a consequentialist point of view, but I could understand the feeling.
sequoia is better :)
Recent versions of Java, say JDK17.

With sealed types, pattern matching, var, records, it is fun to write compilers. Java is on track, as it has been for a long time, to become ‘ML the good parts.’
Would this be like a modern sdf.org? Sounds cool.
The "gut biome" is not a genetically fixed factor.

I would never dispute that. There are known derivatives and byproducts created by the most common gut bacteria when consuming different toxins and proteins. This is where most peoples allergens originate from today. Different meats and vegetables have different affects on different people and that is why I believe this should be tested on a large sample of people. I bet you could get a college town to try it out. This would also be a good way to see if anyone is going to buy this stuff.

Fat content also varies wildly in classical meat, and in plants, so what about it?

And it is clearly labeled based on the specific product. So in this case are we going to have a package of crickets clearly labeled as such and you know what you are getting, or will people be buying various insects with unknown quantities of protein, fat, vitamins, etc? The packaging for meats and vegetables is clearly labeled for people to know what they are getting. Some people can't eat beef. Packages that have beef are clearly labeled as such allowing the buyer to avoid it. That is all I am asking and I don't believe that is unreasonable. My concern is that a company will just add insects as x percentage of various insects. Some people can't eat certain amounts of fat and protein unless they take bile salts and digestive enzymes to match the quantity so these people will need to know what they are getting, as they do today with meats and veggies in the grocery store. Future business owners in this market will certainly care if they operate on a margin as many agricultural business do.
I love documentaries. I have subscription to curiositystream but I wouldn't recommend this. Most are very old, low quality documentaries.

I won't be renewing my sub
Scanning a carrier provided QR code… this is how it’s currently done with iPhones
I would have used to argue this, until I learned that Ada not only allows enum-indexing into arrays (compiler handled), but it also allows non-zero-based indexing.

Example: #1

-- You just index into this using 100 .. 200 and let the compiler handle it.
type Offsetted_Array is array (Positive range 100 .. 200) of Integer;

Example: #2

-- Indexing using an enumeration (it's really just a statically sized map)

-- An enumeration.
type c_lflag_t is (ISIG, ICANON, XCase, ... etc.

-- Create an array which maps into a single 32-bit integer.
type Local_Flags is array (c_lflag_t) of Boolean
with Pack, Size => 32;
There is certainly a need for consultants to help organizations do PGP-style security well. And it doesn't look like they're transforming GnuPG into an open core product model with critical components only available commercially.

So, this seems good? It doesn't look like they've been bought by anybody (e.g. a VC) who's going to require the sort of rate of return that can only be attempted (and probably not achieved) by doing things incompatible with GnuPG's role in the open source ecosystem. Not every company has to be huge — GnuPG can have outsized positive impact on the world while remaining small and sustainable.
I don't think these articles are written for CS PhDs, who are an exceptional class of PhDs.

First, CS PhDs can ALWAYS get tenure-track academic jobs. Maybe not at a top R1, but getting a university teaching job in CS is not some sort of prize. Quite the opposite. Most non-phd-granting institutions with sub-billion endowments struggle to hire CS faculty (they pay sub-100K, sometimes as low as 65K... if you go that route in CS, your undergrads are making 3x your income at their first gig). So there's no "oh no plan B" fear. You don't need to be reassured your PhD wasn't a waste after failing to get any sort of academic post, because if you lower your expectations enough you will get an academic post. This is NOT true in nearly any other field.

2. CS PhDs, with a few exceptional subfields, are in high demand. It's pretty reasonable to expect 300K out of a top CS PhD program; the total comp number for top-tier MBAs is about half of that. CS PhDs who choose industry don't need to be reassured that their PhD has value. It's reflected in their compensation.
Just as a layperson often underestimates the true depth of a PhD's expertise in their field of study, many people often underestimate the skill of someone who has spent a similarly long time meditating on the "soft skills" that actually glue a good idea into a successful business.
There’s a decent contingent of South African Twitter “intellectuals” who will tell you that 1. Zimbabwe is flourishing and it’s western propaganda that says it isn’t; 2. Mugabe was well-meaning.

I’ve never met one in person, and never met an actual Zimbabwean who believed such nonsense.
Age doesn't do signing.
Kids just pick it up from seeing their parents do it.

Why people have them I don't know. Sure they're practical, whatever, but at what cost‽ When will people stop trading convenience for safety, privacy, sustainability, etc?
I feel like very few people actually think before they buy something.
Basically, yeah. In addition, the usual way to bypass W^X memory, using ROP chains, is also mitigated by the pointer authentication the M1 implements. It's not bullet proof, but it prevents most of the old exploit methods from working at all. You'd need to throw up a VM on an M1 Mac to learn much this way (although that'd be ideal anyway, to get an environment without other protections like ASLR)

I know at least OpenBSD also enforces W^X protection universally, anyone else? I know Linux can with the right SELinux policies, but not sure any distro ships with those by default.
Your link seems to show that people care about the effects it will have on them. I can't find anything about future generations.
> Most people just get up and leave it there.

I used to get very anxious about leaving stuff laying around even amongst people I know wouldn't steal things (think like a meetup or something) and eventually got over it. If I'm concerned I'll ask someone if they can watch my stuff. It depends on where I'm at though obviously. I think in Columbus where I live most places you can do this and 99.9% of the time it would be fine. I don't begrudge someone who doesn't trust this though. I'm familiar with "if you lose contact with it, it's compromised".

> It's the little things that give our social status away

I'm not with you on this one. I don't think a single person at a coffee shop is looking at you like you're "of low social status" for taking your backpack to the bathroom. They probably just think you don't want your stuff stolen...
> These days it's hard to find an in office job

I’m not sure that’s true; most companies do plan to re-open their offices if they’re not already open.

It probably is harder to find an in office job that is in-office today. Virtually impossible in some places, depending on government guidelines. But generally the intent is to go back.

I’m in the same boat; can’t stand working from home, and wouldn’t take a remote job. I had eight days back in the office this year, after which the government advised offices to close again… (Ireland has been particularly aggressive about this). During the brief window we were allowed (though not required) to go in, lots of people do.

I do hope and expect to be back in the office properly in 2022, though.

My impression is that the average person would prefer part in office, part WFH. I’m an outlier, strongly preferring all in office. I think full WFH may also be outliers; most polls seem to have flexible as the preferred option.
I switched to using an eSIM with the iPhone 11. I was frequently traveling internationally and wanted the convenience of quickly purchasing a local SIM at my destination for easy cheap data, while retaining my US eSIM for important communication back home.

It took [large US mobile operator] THREE days and multiple conversations to get the eSIM working. Multiple support techs either told me eSIM's did not exist or were not compatible with [large US mobile operator]. I sure hope this has improved in the US since my experience.

What is the eSIM experience in other countries?
It does random projections [1] which is really useful for dimensionality reduction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_projection
I'm not arguing for hard skills over soft skills. I'm asking if MBAs actually provide transferrable hard skills.
You don’t have to like Netflix, but as far as the UI goes, where are you finding better content discovery for shows and movies?
How to give feedback in the Enterprise without everyone getting mad at you
This article claims LastPass has responded to their request for comment: https://www.howtogeek.com/776450/lastpass-says-it-didnt-leak...

"LastPass investigated recent reports of blocked login attempts and determined the activity is related to fairly common bot-related activity, in which a malicious or bad actor attempts to access user accounts (in this case, LastPass) using email addresses and passwords obtained from third-party breaches related to other unaffiliated services. It’s important to note that we do not have any indication that accounts were successfully accessed or that the LastPass service was otherwise compromised by an unauthorized party. We regularly monitor for this type of activity and will continue to take steps designed to ensure that LastPass, its users, and their data remain protected and secure."
I am not saying that. I am saying iPhones are “propped up” by people walking into a store (or browsing online), looking at the selection, and choosing an iPhone.
The scenario descibed in the article isn't children challenging a non conformist for stepping out of line, or using a non standard technique, the children are correcting, perhaps helping, someone who appears to be getting something completely and utterly wrong.
Purple Dot, a waitlist and preorder platform for the fashion industry raises $4M
I think it's important to realize this struggle. You can take a myriad of approaches to life, to what and how you contribute to other people's lives. I think that ultimately you'll be taken advantage of a million times, because you can't really affect how other people act, but that shouldn't keep you from acting, if that serves you expressing yourself. So what you should be concerned about is how much it's actually hurting you or keeping you from realizing yourself.

To make this a bit more tangible, you could examine this stuggle from different viewpoints.

For example, does it hurt you that some people benefit a lot from your work, if you otherwise lead a comfortable life?

Or, would your idea/knowledge be popular if you kept it "closed source"? Maybe it's popular now and many people benefit, and if those were paying users, boy, would you be rich. But the alternative could be that the fantastic knowledge of yours wouldn't get traction in the first place, leaving you with a worse outcome, but of course you're not taken advantage of either.

I think what you should examine is what would make you feel like it's worth it to release the knowledge. Does applause sound nice? You could look into presentation. Do you like digital feedback like HN karma or youtube subscriber count? Look into content creation. I think that if you're honest with yourself about what would make you happy, then that should show the way.
You have to be upleveling and counting on equity to grow but it is very much a thing.. check out levels.fyi
I can’t ever remember how to write loops in bash or the command line flags of xargs so I sometimes indulge in guilty metaprogramming pleasures like

ls -l | awk … | bash

even though it is notoriously unsafe. I guess a lot of younger folks know xargs but not awk.
Genuinely curious: what's your background with archaeology? I assume you're pretty well-versed to make such a criticism?
just an fyi: this can be deceptive, as you can change the security iterations while keeping the master password the same, which will reset this figure.