skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look up US vs Europe university statistics and the population. Also look at what socioeconomic classes in Europe and the US go to and finish university. The data is very close to one another. To the point arguing one is decidedly better woule be too much.

Status and class in the US blows. It doesn’t seem to be much different in Europe either.
As another former p4 user, know of any git tool that provides anything like p4's blame viewer (was it called "time-lapse view"?)?
> managing the phone in COBO or COPE mode with Android Enterprise

Better solution IMO is flash Lineage, preferably a variant with signature spoofing, and refuse to use proprietary garbage that pins certificates. If that means no streaming services or whatever it is then fine, I'll just pirate instead thank you very much. Why should I put money towards supporting things that erode my rights?
Use multimc.org. When the launcher changed to a microsoft app we moved to using the multimc launcher. It has far more predicatable and reliable behaviour than what microsoft is offering
The Australian Government is only targeting big social media. They are requiring big social media to be able to identify users so they may be prosecuted for defamation. They and the courts don't care about sites that an insignificant number of people follow (yet). Age verification on Google is just the start. Soon you won't be able to use Twitter, Facebook or comments sections on Australian news sites without sending them ID or using a VPN. Tumbler, Pinterest and hacker news have not yet been targeted.
Ask HN: How would you like to interact with the cloud?
How would you like to interact with the cloud? Like, how, in your workflow on the daily and also on the world-is-on-fire circumstances?

Would you be typing in a document? Do you do Pull Requests? How, in an ideal world, would you see things working?

I find working in the cloud to be a bit of a pain. Feels like there's everything and anything all over the place
These kind of differences usually iron out fast when they're about cpu. Fs and network layer differences however, don't.
They consider search done. Or at least, it doesn’t get promotions. New products that even fail does. The incentive system is misaligned.
Sri Lanka cancels school exams over paper shortage as financial crisis bites
Sure, go with “taxable value”, but let’s not pretend it’s market value any more than the market value of a human life is what an insurance company values it at.
"Not screwing up the company" is a necessary but insufficient condition for startup success.

I did not say that "Bezos just won" nor that his ideas and approach had no impact. As has been noted by others in this sub-thread, the point is that if it had not been Bezos (because he stayed at D.E. Shaw, or fucked up early Amazon) it would have been someone else. Capitalism abhors a vacuum.
> Neither is working at a FANG company a signal of intelligence

You really believe that? I find it extremely hard to believe that the distribution of intelligence for engineering roles at a FAANG company is the same as that of the general population.

It seems far more likely that the distribution is shifted 10-15 points to the right.
Yes, it's a reasonable point that truly effective masks do exist. I'd be very surprised if most individuals were prepared to wear them in all situations where infections could occur though. A lot of transmission is household transmission - would many people be willing to wear a fitted n95 mask or equivalent as a precaution when visiting friends or family - potentially indefinitely?
As far as the Skype thing is concerned, isn't that the exact thing they got sued for with Explorer for in the 90's?... or somewhat similar?
I think Facebook and the various other forums that attempted a realname policy disprove your claim that civility is connected to real world identity.

I do agree that meeting your coworkers and talking to them can indeed have very beneficial effects. I just don't see how a picture of a face helps that in any way. That's the connection that just doesn't seem to exist. It seems like people who want video on on Zoom calls. There are very few cases where that's a bonus.

And yes, I agree that the people who called getting to know their peers via an onboarding process that was probably somewhat corny "infantilizing" seem way offbase.
The leverage is – "I will not pay you and take the credit score hit, which I am okay with. You will then have to sell my debt to collections for pennies on the dollar. Instead of that, let's work out a favorable monthly payment plan."
> The problem with that is it breaks end to end encryption.

Depending on how it's implemented, I'm sure there are security issues to consider, but I'm not following how this kind of feature would necessarily cause a breaking encryption problem. If you can add some thoughts on how this breaks encryption, that might be interesting.

> Would you feel ok with having a database on each mail client that caches all text-only content for sorting/searching locally? Let's say a 1GB disk-space allocation for this feature alone ?

Given that modern HDs in most professional machines are in the 1TB and way up range, I'd say that anybody who wants to use the full power of email would probably consider that tradeoff worthwhile.
I think it would be a good option to allow users to choose.

A totally private (white list only, friends and family) email address would be very attractive to a lot of people.

Lots of people would want 2 email addresses with varying levels of restriction --- one public and one private. I do this now but my private address is lacking any strict control to keep it this way.
They do look at it. Just not to do what you'd expect with what they see... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29954266
I sure hope that medical research funding decisions are driven by medical experts looking at data, not by any level of societal awareness (positive or negative).
Hmmm, I have some research and I found out that Adderall maybe a choice? What do you think?
That's not terribly different to my Teams experience on Windows 10.
> LSAT is highly predictive of bar exam performance. Students who score less than 150 (on a 120-180 scale) are virtually guaranteed to fail the bar.

Source? Or do you mean "taking LSAT at the same time as taking the bar for fun"? Because LSAT is typically done before you enter law school, while you take the bar after you get out.
They bought 3 separate systems with montiors. Easy to see how it got to the $17k+. It's explained within the opening minutes of the video
I’ve had that happen before, while on vacation someone dumped rolls of carpet on my driveway and I got fined for not removing it, plus had to pay to have someone remove it because the sanitation department wouldn’t take it.

The police said it’s usually a two-for. The people get paid to dispose of bulk items that the sanitation department won’t accept then they dump it in someone’s driveway and pocket the cash. Then they come back a few days later to see if it’s still there, if it is then they know the house is unoccupied and they’ll come gut it for copper. Luckily I came home before anything else happened.
My state had almost no restrictions, the quality of life is a trade off I welcome.

I had it in Feb 2020 before it really took off, and I recovered just fine. The reality is that we don’t have the medical technology to stop it. It’s here to stay.
I graduated high school in 1998, was great at math, and most teachers liked me, some loved me. MAYBE if you're talking about going to high school in the 70's or 80's, or in a more small football-centered town or something, this was accurate at some point.
>The M1 has a 192k instruction cache for performance cores which is not ‘tiny’.

ARMv8 and ARMv9 have poor code density. These cache are large as a workaround to that.

This isn't free, as besides making the die larger (and thus lower yields), the L1's clock speed is limited due to its size.
80s programmers trapped in front of the terminal for 20 hours straight is total opposite of the averaged doom scrollee of today.
After WW2 there seemed to be a lull in unbridled greed on the surface but it is only because financialization of the world was version 2 of colonialism. Europeans still harvest the wealth of a large majority of the world and where it can't there will be wars, assassinations, and coups.

The return of fuel to conflicting European war machines is also starting to occur as the harvesting of Asian and African wealth has started to marginally slow down mainly due to Chinese and some Indian activity. This greed was never really dealt with on a civilizational level in Europe, it just changed forms and still needs to be addressed.

The reason the Chinese thrive in Africa is because they have been an honest trading partner for over 1000 years. Many of China's non-western trading partners trust them more than any other group with close to similar economic scale. This is not a popular truth in western media because the ruling capital class that funds those orgs understand what this trend means in the long term.

>How weird are we humans that we privilege relations with our previous oppressor

On the contrary, on the surface it seems trade between colonized countries and their oppressors is voluntary but it's not the case. Central and South Americans violating European harvesting of wealth will still be sanctioned, couped and/or assassinated, the same is true for most African countries (For example, France by itself assassinated 22 African presidents in the last 40 or so years, they still harvest the wealth of 1/3rd of all African countries). This is the continuation through financialization I spoke of earlier and the arrangement is obviously not enjoyed by the majority of the people that regularly lose their popular liberative leaders and are kept in poverty to continue satisfying European greed. This activity is only recently being interrupted by Chinese trade expansion... De-dollarization/de-euroization and attempted re-routing of global trade are just the beginning of the chains being removed from the rest of the world.
This is a good point. The long tail of not that popular or active GitHub projects, would like to get more active or more users it's definitely not causing any problems for anybody.

The creators are not overwhelmed by too many demands. And the requesters are absent.

The whole issue of controlling your work the amount of work you have and making money out of that, really only applies to projects that get a certain level of attention, for the people in the situation where they want to make money out of it. If you're a student or otherwise don't need the money of course you don't have to care about that
> It’s only in the US where construction has gotten slower over the decades. Everywhere else it’s gotten faster.

Germany would like a word with you. Most of Western Europe for that matter.
Since you brought Bangladeshis into it, my experience with those that came to the US (mostly for graduate studies) (all guys):

1. They complain that they have to cook

2. They complain that they have to do laundry.

3. They complain they have to iron their clothes.

4. They complain they have to tidy up the apartments.

5. They mostly care about sports, movies, and if they're not religious, getting drunk. Of course, that's not necessarily true for those that go to top universities for their PhDs, but those are the minority, in any case.

6. They boast about how great it was that they didn't take humanities in their undergrad. Talking to them, it's also clear they have little understanding of the arts.

I've also met some very responsible, intellectual Bangladeshis.

There are problem people in every society.
It seems like nobody else but Apple care about fan noise.
Google will also need to use this information to identify people making Youtube comments when those laws get passed and enforced.
Current x87 processors still can do 80-bit arithmetic. For example:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{ long double ld; double d;
ld = 1000; ld = ld/3;
d = 1000; d = d/3;
printf("%.16g %.16g\n",(double)(ld-333),d-333);
return 0;
}

produces the following output:

0.3333333333333334 0.3333333333333144

The 80-bit long double type gives higher accuracy.

This is on an AMD Threadripper PRO 3945WX using gcc 9.4.0.
I remember (this would have been in the 90s) my father getting crap from his peers because he listed his grad students before himself on research papers.

In his words, "Why would I not? They did most of the work."
The fact of the matter is that fusion, if ever achieved, will be entirely irrelevant to any concern of the time. It is discounted not because it might not work, but because it would not be useful even if it did work. There are people who willingly pay 10x for luxury goods, but fusion power would be a commodity competing on price with other commodities, and losing.

Whatever "economic activity" happens around fusion would be overwhelmingly better devoted to building out solar, wind, and storage, to slow the fast developing climate disruption catastrophe.
Strongly disagree with this for CS. At top universities, you’re paying for access to similarly interested/capable students and top internship programs. Having done undergrad research, it was both underwhelming and worse experience than my friends who did internships at FAANG.
Yes, I assumed it was not done by mistake.

The funny thing (to me anyway) is that a big part of the culture seems to be how absolute "ownership" is -- at least around NFTs -- and how this is decentralized, but with ENS it's a rental just like a .COM (but with something like 1000% processing fees) and it's more centralized than DNS.

I wanted to try out the .ETH name and I'm fine with them doing whatever they want with the contract, I just find it amusing.

Unstoppable seems a lot closer to the overall ethos: https://unstoppabledomains.com
But the problem is that in practice I still don’t see those laws being enforced in any meaningful manner. Case in point, Microsoft is doing this - they’re not stupid, they’ve reviewed the legal implications that and rightfully decided that they’ll benefit more than the penalty from enforcement if it ever happens. Same with Google, Facebook, etc.
Yeah, but heat out / electricity in is 5, but for an ideal (perfectly efficient) electric heater, is is only one.

It's one of those sufficiently advanced technologies that seems like magic. Like, what if we powered a sufficiently efficient sterling engine with it, and used that to spin the compressor and fans?

It's not obvious that it isn't a perpetual motion machine or some commercially available version of Maxwell's demon or something.
The actual hardware cost of this case of "macro-op fusion" is negligible.
>Linux still barely works in 2022

I have had zero problem running linux as my daily driver for the last 10 years, care to explain your comment? The only problem that I have is that video games don't always work because the developers don't care.
Hospitals require an army of admins because the regulatory burden is so high. And for that we can only blame our convoluted insurance model.
Have you considered getting sponsors on Patreon or Github?
Not smart but clever? The return of 'dumbphones'
> We have a different definition of "rapidly", and a different definition of need. Battery density is the single largest brake on the day-to-day usefulness of electronic devices right now. 3x is nothing. 10x is better, 100x is what we probably need.

I think we probably disagree on two points. First, it seems unlikely that it is even physically possible to beat current lithium ion energy density by 100x. That would imply batteries that are 2x as energy dense as gasoline. I think there's pretty good reason to believe that is not possible -- i.e. there is no easily reversible configuration of atoms that will yield that level of density.

Even if it were physically possible, I doubt that we'd be there today even if we had bent the entire productive capacity of the planet to this problem excluding all others for the last thirty years. You can't make a baby in a month even if you have nine willing mothers to be.

If you're inclined to strengthen the argument you're presenting here, I have one suggestion. If there is widespread underfunding of battery or precursor research, experts in the field are probably talking about this fact. You should be able to find some talk by a respected academic showing that particular worthy ideas likely to add value that aren't being researched for lack of funds. Another option would be to demonstrate that recent advances in battery technology resulted from blue-sky research in the past of the kind that 1. isn't being funded today and 2. could not reasonably have been foreseen to lead to improvements in battery energy density.

(I should also just point out that the whole thesis that we have stopped funding basic research is not even true, see here: https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/FunctionNON... -- general science funding, after adjusting for inflation, has increased substantially over time.)

I also question your estimate of the importance of energy density, but that's a secondary issue, since I think your views on how fast the technology could be developed are unrealistic under any spending scenario.
How much does it cost for training BERT large?
I highly doubt it will collapse any time soon. People underestimate the level of inertia that exists in institutions even after it's clear they should collapse, even though I'm not certain of colleges having gotten to this point, as they serve many roles that are not simply about learning, such as:

- job training (like it or not, college grads are seen more favorably than non-grads, even in software engineering)

- socialization for young adults (I know many people who went to college in large part to make friends, and learning as a reason for going was treated as a smaller reason)

- research, etc

Colleges will remain here and for the foreseeable future, they are still very useful to many people. Altman is now at Open AI but I'm sure being YC's president for a while, Sam understands that YC has a vested interest in disrupting colleges, through investments like Lambda School (sorry, Bloom Tech).
This is sort of true but also at the same time I rely on a lot of staff to make my job a lot easier. Yes we could cut down on those administrators but it would mean that professors have to do more, taking away from research agendas. Universities have been optimized to make doing researcher easier and I appreciate that. I'd have to pay a lot more attention to my students' personal lives if we didn't have a dean of student affairs and the whole apparatus that is involved with that. There's a whole office of advising that does a better job than I ever could, and I am freed up to focus on other things that I'm good at.

As another example, we have a bunch of internal grants. It's basically free money that you can apply for to do whatever you want with it, to the tune of 10s of thousands. We need to pay administrators to handle that whole process. It's a lot of money to handle and it's not a cheap process to administer these grants. We could cut them and it would shrink the budget, but it would also stop the flow of early-stage ideas from forming that later turn into huge grants. If I have an idea that might cost like $10k, I can whip up a proposal and get funding for that lickity split, without having to go to the NSF or some other external agency. Then when the idea is more mature I can go and get external funding. If you cut the administrators just looking at a budget, you're really cutting research without realizing it.

I mean, running a University is basically like running a city. You have all the same concerns: infrastructure, food, security, a citizenry, political struggles, etc. You need a government (administrators) to do that kind of work that keeps this huge system running. Yes bureaucracies are expensive and inefficient, and sure there are of course things that could be cut, but by and large the University I work at gets the job done. Day in and day out for 10s of thousands of students. That machine doesn't just happen, it's administrators keeping it running.
So glad I’m not the only one who sometimes quotes those. Brought a smile to my face today, thank you.
Another nice one with GUI is proxyman.
Yea I'm not trying to down play it, just seems a little off. I can't think of a person in my entire life that I know that ever gotten the flu (while I've known them) besides my wife when she was like 16. I know around 8 people that got Covid though.

The loss of smell one is going to be huge but that's a side effect of any virus. Maybe what we're seeing here is an insane amount of people getting a virus, not necessarily that it has worse post viral syndrome than any other virus. Either way we're in for a shit show.

Unfortunately, we can't really dwell on Long Covid. We can only do what we can individually to reduce risk and move on. Unless of course we want to live in a bubble the rest of our lives.

Also if related to loss of smell for your friends, I'd recommend them trying scent training. I ordered a kit through here https://abscent.org/learn-us/smell-training. It does seem to help. I'm doing it as a meditation almost and thinking back to past memories with the scent. It's kind of cool.
My quality of life has been just fine (frankly my mental health is better now than it was prior to March 2020). Yet, I haven’t had so much as a cold in all of that time, which is fantastic.
mind if I ask how do you tackle external insulation? is it a common thing done over there?
I like your ambition. 18k stars, 1 million clones, but you say it never retained the level of you wanted. That's great!
We all know the answer to that is "no".
I've always wondered if you can buy your own debt from collections and pay it off there, as some sort of soaring medical cost hack albeit tanking one's credit score.
Not dismissing it, I had brain fog for three months and it was terribly disconcerting. I say 'nonspecific' because it can be caused by a huge number of things, including extreme stress or burnout or anxiety, and because most people will still eventually recover with sufficient time. It's like fatigue after EBV - very few actually develop CFS.

In other words, having symptoms for 3-6 months sucks, I don't deny it, but with the very likely prospect of recovery for most it's not the worst thing. Anecdotally though I don't know a single person who has had covid who is still reporting any symptoms after ~2 months (n=~20).
I don't see any mention of Cortana or how hard that is to rip out of the OS, but I think it's worth mentioning. The tool called "Everything" by https://www.voidtools.com/ is so insanely better than Cortana and blazingly fast that I'm not sure why they're still trying to push Cortana.

https://www.getblackbird.net/ helps a lot and it's one of the first things I do to Windows installs when I need to use them, but it can break stuff if you're too aggressive with it (e.g. Windows store / Xbox stuff, which for some reason is how to record screenshot videos in Windows... https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/record-a-game-cl... ).

The article also didn't mention the Microsoft Store and how awful everything around that experience is, especially compared to macOS, where the worst part is how signing apps works ( https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Se... vs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/package/signin... ).