skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traffic may have been down, but, anecdotally, the pandemic also put a bunch of people on the road who normally wouldn't have been driving themselves, no?

Inexperienced drivers are stupidly dangerous.

In addition to the "congestion" hypothesis, I would also posit that the lack of traffic deprived people of a lot of cues. Most driving in cities is "station keeping"--maintain your position relative to the cars around you and you can pretty much ignore everything else. If you're one of the few cars on the road, you are responsible for maintaining your speed, maintaining your lane, slowing down ahead of curves, etc. in response to all the environmental cues.

And, as the self-driving folks have found out, "station keeping" is WAY easier than controlling your position relative to environmental cues.

My anecdata on this is because of my eyesight going bad (getting old sucks--I recommend against it). I live on a street that I regard as a "target rich environment" (lots of pedestrians, bicycles, and motorcycles with a nice mix of Uber/Lyft drivers who are fscking road hazards)--and driving on that street was what drove me to start wearing glasses all the time. I simply cannot miss somebody because my vision is subpar and my brain edits them out, or I will kill them.
Windows will absolutely blast your boot sector/UEFI partition with no concern for other OSes (it won't chain load). Mac avoids this with Bootcamp, which is more similar to firmware than an OS.

I'm surprised the parent comment has this issue. They are either using BIOS, or the automatic disk mode (and just complained about the installer doing things automatically on their disk). Avoiding this scenario is UEFI is as simple as creating a exFAT partition and mounting it to /boot. Any calamares-based installer will let you do that.
I've read rotting fish can be great for gardens... maybe the quantity of fertilizer needed is low enough that salinity isn't a major issue.
Apple may be better but they’re getting into using their OS to push ads themselves. Only Linux is truly free of adware, at least if you install the right distro.
Agree, for the average end-user switching is still difficult. I do think for some of the more technically oriented ones (some gamers, etc...) it may be possible.
>> VR synthetic reality. [Already here and super fun and useful]
>Is it though?

Yes. The Quest 2 is incredible. No PC required, just a headset and 2 hand controllers. Games give you a completely immersed experience in a synthetic world where you can look around, explore, play, talk to other players in real time.

It is here and I would call it super fun, but not useful (maybe that's what you were questioning). I think it may be a fad like the Nintendo Wii, or it might hang around to varying degrees. Maybe I lack imagination but I don't see people wearing AR glasses in public or to work even if they do become ultra-compact and awesome.

Some people let their excitement lead them to believe "cool fun new thing" is somehow the magical future. I played Dactyl Nightmare (VR) back in the 1990's and have been waiting for awesome home-VR since then and quest is every bit of what I had imagined maybe it could be. But at the end of the day, rec-room paintball is just Dactly or Quake Arena. A 25yr old guy at work had to show me Mario Tennis on his Switch - it's just pong with special moves and fancy graphics. What's new is old, and I don't see any revolution with VR outside of niche applications like training and some visualization. Now get off my lawn while I go play some EchoVR.
I wish they removed Google...
statcounter.com lists MacOS as 15% of global desktop market share [1]. It's a bit more in some markets (25% in NA) and a bit less in others (5% in South America), and anecdotally dominant in some niches (US Startups, EU designers, etc). But I think your point stands that Windows is the overwhelming majority of the market, MacOS a distant second and everyone else barely notable (ChromeOS ranks above Linux).

1: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
10 years ago, in my list of "Nice things to learn and do to be serious about software engineering", Design Patterns was probably in the top 3. Nowadays, it doesn't even make it to the top 20. I can't really say why, though. I guess 10 years ago I was really junior and I didn't know tons of stuff... It's not that nowadays I know all the patterns, but it's just that the noun "design pattern" already evokes in me red flags.
Isn't it a violation of the license to use it for anything other than testing/evaluation?

If I'm going to violate the terms of the license, at least I'm going to do so for free.
It’s worse:

https://i.imgur.com/64sP9yh.jpg
The last tike I installed an OS myself, before Ubuntu and a new, clean Windows on my laptops, was Windows 2000. Ubuntu was actually easier to get running on the daily driver then a clean, local account only Windows 10 on the back up. No problems with Ubuntu whatsoever, not sure how much of that is due to Ubuntu or Lenovo so.
I decided to package up a fully portable version (including Downloads path and registry keys) for Windows: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/lagrange-portable
Interesting considering how long they advertised directly on ThePirateBay
Yes but what I mentioned does not require any interaction, it still does change the route to a faster one without having to do anything. I don't see how that makes a difference in safety?

I am not worried about people using a GPS on the road, I am worried about the people I've seen who are scrolling through their social media feeds and watching videos that play in the feeds and everything. Or the people sending big text messages, the people who are having conversations with passengers and for some reason always have to look at the person to speak rather than keeping their eyes on the road, etc....
Another story [1] from 2017, where some guy who already cheated to become an IPS officer, tried to cheat again to become IAS. IPS (Indian Police Service), IAS(Indian Administrative Service), etc are legacy of the British Raj and their ICS (Indian civil service). Once you get through these exams, you will end being the top level bureaucrats in India. These officials collude with ministers to become super rich.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/ips-officer-caught-che...
In a way that's more expensive than if you just gave them a free home and a bunch of free spending money. Right?
China too.

Just because we haven't been shooting the entire time and because we are polite on the world stage doesn't change that those in power have made choices and policy with the understanding that we are in a cold war. I don't know what criteria you require to call it a "Cold War" or "War with Eurasia" or some other state of affairs, but it seems a reasonable description of reality to me.
Do people really believe that? Like, every fourth AskReddit thread seems to ask questions specifically of Americans. Which means someone thinks we're different enough to make a thread about it (over and over again...), ergo we have our own culture.

Maybe I've just traveled to much, and I have certainly rolled my eyes at some of my less informed countrymen, but I have a hard time believing people could think that our culture is somehow a baseline.

I agree that we project our culture a ton, and I really wish we wouldn't. It's so annoying to try and share something cultural with a foreign friend only to find out they already know and have opinions about it because they saw it on Friends
If you eventually reconsider the decision to not teach OO concepts, I recommend Pharo as a awesome language, including for teaching OOP as it was meant to be. It has firm roots on Smalltalk, very easy to install, with a superb IDE and proven track record on children education. There's a MOOC on https://mooc.pharo.org/ See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368962 For a example of a nice educational project done with it, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30562009
Cheating on licensure tests at publicly subsidized institutions is hardcore fraud. Why should there be a carve out for white-collar crime like that?
I never went to med school, but in HS I had my beloved modded HP48 that could store loads of text. I didn't manage to wire it to my computer so I resorted to type everything manually.

After a whole day of char-by-char input.. I knew everything by heart and didn't need to look it up in the calculator.
I will agree that twitter irrevocably has changed the online landscape. But I believe it's the ability to instantly transmit things that has pushed towards shorter and shorter content. For example Vine really took off, and now you have Tiktok/Instagram reels/etc. Not to mention Snapchat/Periscope.

It's a lot faster to digest and get a dopamine hit from a <140 char tweet (now <380 chars) than poring over a book, so the outcome of twitter was destined to happen.
Rote regurgitation is only useful for teaching the basics, not advanced stuff. I propose testing this, asking students not to cheat, and catching cheaters later, in case they screwed themselves by skipping the basics.

Why do math students need to know the sine doubling rule? Not so they can calculate with it (they could look that up) but so they can reduce certain expressions to sin(2x). That's why calculus teaches this stuff.
It can't deduct the value of lawsuits until it gets training data.
Good points. But I somehow hope we underestimate the moral aspect here (and the WWII lessons) that EU leaders and people take into account.
Also, hasn't Russia proved to be an unpredictable and dangerous partner? Rethoric question: how can any European country justify making business with it now? (Sadly, it is still easy to imagine...)
About 5 years ago, I had 3 students who worked as a team to cheat.

* The ringleader placed his iPhone under his leg.

* He would lean back in his chair and hold the exam sheets up in the air. It looked a little unusual, but it (initially) seemed innocuous.

* What he was really doing was pointing the sheets downward toward the camera peeking out from under his leg.

* He was broadcasting the exam to God-knows-where.

* He and the other two students then received answers via tiny earpieces.

* In addition, the two other students would call me over to "ask clarification questions." In reality, they were trying to distract me while the ringleader broadcast the exam.

* I eventually realized they were cheating (after exam 1), but I couldn't figure out how, until another student (exam 2) approached me with a note that read, "The guy to my right has his phone under his leg. Every time you circle the room, he pushes it completely under his leg so you can't see it."

* At that point, however, each student was taking a slightly different exam (unbeknownst to them).

The ringleader emailed me at the end of the semester and said something to the effect of: "I know I don't deserve to pass, but if you fail me, I will have to stay an extra semester."

I ended up failing all three.
The failure of ethics is most troubling, because how can we solve it?
Fox News Correspondent Hospitalized After Being Injured in Ukraine
Unless they are located in the stairwells at Hogwarts, it does not seem like those names would change often enough to necessitate adding a network connection as a point-of-failure for this sort of technology. (Which I consider the most important aspect. This is life-or-death tech for a subset of our population, and networks are fundamentally unreliable even if you get the security 100% correct.)
Not a Microsoft Advocate, a Microsoft advocate.
Two things standout to me here.

One is, whatever your opinion on ads on file explorer see might be, using the triangle/exclamation mark Hazard signage for ads is absolutely unacceptable.

The other is, is it just me, or is all the negative press about Microsoft these days caused by the Windows division?
If you're ever in the flatiron district of NYC, I adore the signals at 23rd street. "The walk sign is on across 23rd street," is a simple message, but the gentleman who recorded it sounds like they remembered at the last minute and pulled whoever from the install team wanted to do it (as opposed to some voice actor or something). The gravelly queens accent makes you feel right at home in the city.
And all of that ~5% are going to be graphic designers, video editors, etc. With the occasional executive who insists on using a mac because it's all they know at home.
If he will be the same when he gets out, and you know this, why let him out?
The doctor shortage in the US is because current law effectively limits the number of residency slots to 100k, pushing out foreign graduates who may have earned a spot and causing medical schools to expand slower than they would like due to fear of not matching graduates.
I got curious about this and wanted to spitball some numbers. According to a Google search, Google's average user "conducts 3-4 searches each day." Nobody goes into details, so we don't know if those include subsequent searches or the average number of pages they looked at -- though I think we can assume that would be pretty close to 1, as most people are going to find what they're looking for in the first few results.

Let's say the average searches per day is 4 and they are general enough queries to be showing ads, of which there are an average of 3 per page. It would be a mix of CPM and clicks, but each placement will average out to roughly $0.007 in revenue. That's 360 ads per month resulting in ~$2.50 per user.

Of course, that doesn't include the specific overhead of brokering the ads or developing and maintaining such a bizarrely complicated system, and it's safe to assume their margins are at most 20-30%. So, after expending all of that effort in creating this anti-privacy, anti-consumer, anti-competitive system that's rigged against both the advertisers and users, they're making a whopping $0.75/mo per search user.

Which is all to say that if search were simply search, then they could: charge $10/year for an ad-free and privacy-focused service, drastically simplify their entire infrastructure, reassign the ad support staff toward much-needed consumer issues, and actually be making more money in the process. However, this doesn't include Maps or other services, which is how they convert that $0.75/mo search user into a $10/mo ecosystem addict (or $1,000/mo supporter of content creators).

Search is the method for directing traffic where they want it to go, and the trick is to also be making money from all of those places, with even more profitable ads or salable products. I think any search engine will struggle with this when it inevitably grows beyond its core product, because the alternative is a mess of different companies, products, APIs and methodologies that barely work together -- moral high ground wages aren't exactly an ingredient for explosive, cohesive and industry-competitive innovation.
Wow, when I was young my father sold bijoux and he also used to create necklaces and bracelet on the fly with names of people written on grain of rice, he used to sell those for like 5.000 liras (in Italy, in the 90s, before euros, it would be 2.50 euros right now), if I knew I would have told him to start offering his services to cheating students, instead of tourists in Positano :D
It's neither immoral nor treasonous to interact with individual Russian people as human beings.

Immoral would be working with public or private entities that hurt people. Treasonous would be transferring funds to sanctioned entities or individuals, perhaps.

Hiring Vlad from Irkutsk, who's a kind HN member like you and me, to write a CRUD app for a digital agency, is neither immoral nor treasonous.
That is not four sexes at all. That is a potential speciation event and "weird sex chromosomes." There is still a large gamete and a small gamete and no other type of sex cell involved. Two sexes.

It's actually pretty sad that this (non-peer reviewed, layperson-written) article got published as-is in Nature. Tetrahymena thermophila has no sexes; it is isogamous. Chromosome configurations are not sexes. But I guess the point of the article is the human interest story, not the subject of the title.
Actually I'm okay with the idea, but only under these conditions:

* They are "to the side", not pop-ups and not blocking or pushing primary content into canned sardines.

* One can close/minimize them to make room when needed.

* They are clearly ads and can't be mistaken for normal content, because you know sleazy marketers (ad purchasers) will try to trick viewers.

* One can pay more to get an ad-free version, or even tiered so one can choose multiple levels between parting with money and annoyance level.

* User can change spam level/features down the road without a big change-fee.

* Does not mine personal info to target ad content, or at least offer a clear and easy way to opt out of targeted ads and related personal content mining.

* Doesn't use "dark UI patterns" to trick users out of money, into loss of privacy, etc. (Amazon is doing more of that, it's friggen annoying.)
Adding to the mix: `when` is used for “guard clauses” in pattern matching in Ocaml, Erlang, and Elixir, so it’s not entirely unheard-of in programming languages.
The article suggests these are ads to push other Microsoft products.

That makes its worse than "just" an annoying generic distraction to consumers, it's a massive legal liability in it being anti competitive behavior.
Because people who get a doctor to implant something in their ear will have so much trouble getting such a card?
They're building a tunnel.
Why does Andre make bad choices?
I've found niche uses for Yandex; translation specifically, which can do OCR on images you upload to it. Google translate won't do that, last I checked. If anybody knows of an alternative, I'd like to hear about it.
That's how you end up with the USB-C shitshow :)

There's really no good answer, IMO.
Which makes the iPhone worse than Windows. Microsoft allows you to disable the ads in the start menu and allows you to disable the ads mentioned in the article, Microsoft refers to them as suggestions, by disabling "Tips and suggestions" in the System->Notification settings.
Triaging a Malicious Docker Container
It still seems crazy that even though carriers knew how easy it is to spoof numbers, even back then, they still decided to just skip any voicemail passcode authentication if you were calling your own number from your own number to get to your voicemail.

It's like letting someone in your house because they're holding up a paper cutout of someone else's face that you know in front of their actual face and that's good enough.
(landlords are part of the poverty industry FWIW)
I have a Bosch heat gun in my kitchen.

I use it for all kinds of things:

Melting cheese on sandwiches. Adding a crust on Sous Vide meat. And roasting coffee.

Highly recommended.
The reality is developing an OS is very expensive. I can totally understand why MS is going down that path. It's great that MS is asking for feedback from users. Unlike Google, which is keeping users hostages for some extra money.
This is probably way more pervasive than we imagine.

Several years ago they uncovered a large SAT cheating scheme, out of Thailand. They even made a movie about it : https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bad_genius

And that was using way more rudimentary technology. There are a lot of rich kids willing to pay their way to a deegre.
I'm a huge fanboy of Oxide, hope they succeed, the world needs more of this.

I'm very sad about what Silicon Valley has become. We speak of "tech companies" but they mostly no longer exist. What are the big names in Silicon Valley now? Advertising companies, for the most part. A movie company. Online shopping. Social whatevers. None of these companies sell tech products, they are not tech companies. Sure, they use tech internally but so do law offices and supermarkets, those aren't tech companies either.

I miss the Silicon Valley of actual tech companies. Sun, SGI, HP (the actual tech HP of back then), etc. Apple survives, but focused on consumer-level stuff which I don't find interesting. Oracle is around, but they were always more of a lawyer shop than a tech company. Real hardcode tech companies, do any exist anymore?

Oxide is such fresh air, exciting!

Every week or so I'm about to send an application, I really want to work there. My partner would kill me though, so I haven't. (They have a flat pay scale that, when living in Silicon Valley, would make it very difficult to support a family.. so I'm stuck cheering from the sidelines.)
whats the motivation behind the study?
It's essentially the 'duplicate content' penalty/penalties. [1]

It's pretty ironic really... take a look at this scenario...

Let's say we have Website A which we'll consider a "legitimate" website producing unique and quality content and we have Website B which is not, but it has some clever people running it's scrapers/submissions..

Developer responsible for Website B has identified that Website A produces quality content that it wants to steal - setups up a scraper to check for updates on Website A, when it finds them it will immediately scrape the content and repost it on Website B. Then they will update their sitemap and submit it to Google (or some other of the various ways to 'alert' google of a new page/updated content) which will trigger a crawl of that page/website.

If this crawl/index of Website B happens before Website A - who does Google see as the producer of that content and who is now the "duplicate"?

Whack-a-mole.

1: https://backlinko.com/hub/seo/duplicate-content
>If everyday people have near-instant access to information, how will we continue to assess expertise moving forward? Surely it’s not enough to just have access to rote information, like in the case of the cheating test-taker. We will also expect our experts to have the deep understanding that comes from experience in a domain.

We've always expected professionals to have an understanding. We've just been using memorization as a proxy for this.

Any 14yo with a cell phone can go on Reddit give you caned advise about investments or why your car is making a funny noise. But we don't trust teenagers googling stuff with those sorts of things in the real world because there's a huge difference between being able to pattern match information and actually understanding what's going on hence why we don't get advice we care about from anonymous people with backgrounds that can't be vetted

Professional education has a filter in front of it so it's going to be behind the curve when it comes to reckoning with the realities of information access in the modern age but it'll have to figure something better than tests out eventually.
Sorry, poor wording. I meant that my psychiatrist runs a ketamine clinic and administers IV ketamine treatments to patients.
It doesn't. Python is actually a pretty good language for teaching algorithms, you never need to type "defclass" unless you want to. You do, kind of, have to use methods, but that's not a huge burden for a learner compared to the other things they have to learn. Also, if you're using a language-agnostic algorithms textbook (in a course, solo, or as a mentor) then Python is very close to the pseudocode in most of those.
How is that any different from the rote memorisation that's been the mainstay of most education systems up to the 21st century?

It doesn't really aid understanding, doesn't incorporate active recall, and tends to become inefficient for a large corpus of knowledge.
Postinvoke for Go on AWS Lambda
Police saw the writing on the wall and started leaving for the suburbs in 2020, just as you and I would take a new job before waiting to be cut by a dying startup.
Google Is Holding All Your Old Free G Suite Accounts Hostage
Haha, I guess that makes me feel better.
My s21 updates all the system apps itself, I don't remember the last time I had to go into the galaxy store to do that.