skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 20-44 age range, 1/500 - 1/1000 die. In 45-54 it's 1/100 - 1/200. And that's ignoring long-term complications from the disease. The numbers are a lot better now that vaccination is common, but how many people would roll that die if they don't need to?

Since we talk so much about personality choice and responsibly in the US: it's their decision to take that risk, not yours.
> I would guess it's the reverse, judging by /r/WorkReform

You think /r/WorkReform is highly representative of an entire working class?
Alchemy sired Chemistry and Medicine, not Physics. Physics comes from the natural philosophers pondering ballistics and not the people hoping to make gold out of lead.

Anyway, Newtons contribution with Principia was to collect facts known in his time and put them into one unified mathematical framework, he didn't actually discover any of "his" laws (as predicted by Stigler's law).
The way I think of large cities is that you have a million people at hand to help.
Ask them for an administrative hearing. 99% chance they won't and will just remove it.
Its been a few years since Chromebooks have had swappable disks. There used to be some high priced models that supported user upgrades but then the OEMs figured out that no one wants to spend a fortune on a Chromebook so everything is soldered in now. Since what is being installed isn't actually malware but just some enterprise spyware, the easiest solution is to just wipe it, log in as a user unassociated with the school, and then add the school account. The spyware won't be running on the unassociated account. Kids have always had their 4th amendment rights encroached upon in schools and clearly this school district is extending that to their devices in this manner, for better or for worse.
> There is a lot of value to be earned by closing the gap between cutting edge, but proven, science and easily understood training documents for contract workers.

Oh absolutely! But those are two completely different things.

> I would say most people would not care if we stopped using tax dollars to fund string theory research or finding 'habitable' planets, and a host of other luxury topics.

I agree. And then all of those people will be shocked to see $SOMECOUNTRY do crazy stuff in a decade when the US will be reduced to rubble or decline to irrelevance. Something like that almost happened with Goddard vs von Braun during and prior to WWII. Then, the US suddenly faced rocket interceptors, ballistic missiles, and jet fighters. The whole of US research, and in particular the Air Force, was reorganized after that experience.

> This standpoint is very specific to the world we live in today.

No, it's just very specific to your personal opinion. I take it you wouldn't have funded a patent clerk in Switzerland in 190x when he studied what happens when you sit in a train going close to the speed of light. I'm glad someone in the US listened to him, because otherwise it would have been Nazi Germany to build the atomic bomb that came from his insight.

The whole crux of the matter is that we don't know in advance what pays off.
"The DARE program was such a joke."

It was so long ago, but I though it was very detailed and informative. I think it's enough to keep curious kids uninterested in using. No amount of education will keep the hopeless person from using. And I mean hopeless as in they lack hope for their life and feel its over already, then they choose to use anyways knowing about the effects.
I don't think the parent meant ignore in the same sense you're taking it.

You still engaged with what you felt. You named what you were feeling, and decided to act on it. In the past, you acted in accord with it; in the instance you cite, you acted in defiance of it, and then on further after-the-fact examination identified what was going on inside of you and determined that acting in defiance of it served you better.

I believe the parent was not using 'ignore' in the sense of "don't act in defiance to how your emotions would incline you to behave", but in the sense of, literally, to pay no attention to it. If you were not paying attention to how you felt, you would still have avoided; your emotions ensured that was the 'easy' and 'natural' choice. It was only by recognizing the feeling, and how your past responses to it didn't serve you, that you were able to decide to act differently.
> Apple is a lifestyle brand

If "I want it to just work" is a lifestyle, then yeah, it's a lifestyle brand.
Kids with access to GDocs use it for real-time chat. It's like the old talk(1) program but with rich text!
You are going to spend a lot of time and money to address this. Better solution is to buy a second Chromebook only for school or personal use snd explain to your kid that their government hates them.
> So generally Epyc come with some multiple of 8 CPUs enabled (1 per chiplet)

Not quite, AMD does use values other than 8 cores-per-CCD in Epyc as well. Take the 7402P, that's a 24C SKU, if you did that as "3 8-core chiplets" then you would only have 3 quadrants = 6 memory channels and 48 PCIe lanes. Those are done with 4 chiplets of 6 cores each. Same for 48C SKUs.

AMD also has a number of "frequency-optimized"/"cache-optimized" SKUs that are like, 4C or even 2C per CCD, with all the cache enabled, to allow maximum frequency and maximum cache-per-thread, for stuff like HFT where there just is no substitute for A Few Threads Going Really Fast. Or playing games to minimize your software license costs, as that is often based on core count.

However, the link is certainly a little bit amorphous. Some Epyc SKUs only have 4 memory channels, but through some magic they can still access all the memory slots like they were a full 8-channel part. I guess that means you have 2 quadrants active (2 memory controllers/PCIe controllers) but they can access the PHYs from the other two disabled memory controllers, not 100% on how that is implemented, but it exists.

https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7002-rome-cpus-with-ha...

Generally Epyc doesn't like "unbalanced" configurations though (this can incur severe performance penalties, like losing 2/3rds of your memory bandwidth level "severe" if you only populate 3/4 or 6/8 of your sticks) so that gets used very sparingly, and only in situations of "power of 2" resources I'm guessing.

As a general rule of thumb, assume anything Epyc-specific (IO die, IF links, etc) is designed to work with 4 of something, or at least 2 of something. All the "variation" happens at the CCD level. So a 24C is not 3x8C, it is always 4x6C as your baseline assumption (and it is). As mentioned sometimes memory controllers can be 2x but... generally four shall be the number that is counted, and the number of counting shall be four. Thou shalt not count to three, except that thou proceed to four. Five is right out.
Occam's razor is a very useful guiding principle, but it still is a philosophical principle, not a requirement for a theory to be scientific. Observation of course is, and in fact string theory (potentially) is consistent with observed phenomena. Its main problem is that it is too difficult, if possible at all, to determine if it actually is, and in which form. Actually the same Sabine Hossenfelder wrote a book about that as you probably know
Girls are reported as attempting suicide more. But from the very article we're talking about, boys are repeatedly ignored when they give indications of suicide. And even to the extent that girls do attempt suicide more often, it's relevant that they use it as a cry for help and are more likely to receive that help (still not likely enough to receive it), while boys' intentions in committing suicide are more focused on actually completing it.

I agree it's not a competition. But pointing out demographic trends and that some groups are more likely to commit suicide doesn't mean that you think other groups don't deserve attention and support.

It's unclear why you're telling me it's not a competition for pointing out exactly that; the article does the exact same thing (except with LGBT youth and nonwhite youth), but it'd be silly for someone to come in and say that the author is trying to turn it into a competition.

It's especially galling that you're accusing me of trying to turn it into a competition when the comment I was replying to (and you yourself!) jumped in entirely out of the blue to argue that girls have it worse, while I made no statement that boys have it worse.
There seems to be two camps of people in the comments here. One camp is saying more or less what you say, and the other camp is people who have had it happen to them personally and don't wish to expose themselves to the possibility of the downside risk again knowing how sucky it can be.

Source: I've experienced a situation where I gave honest feedback and nothing bad happened, and I've experience a situation where I gave honest feedback and it impacted a subsequent employment opportunity.
Yes and no.

Consider predicate types, or first-class null safety through unions.

If statements introduce propositions, which type systems could take advantage.

example:

let idx = randomInt();
if (0 <= idx && idx < arr.length) { // proposition introduced
// idx now has type: int where 0 <= idx && idx < arr.length
// irrefutable proof of safe indexing by type propositions
let value = arr[idx];
}
Suicide is really easy if you actually want to die. I assume "attempted suicide" is most often closer to a cry for help than a genuine attempt to end one's life.
If you take a strictly deterministic view then yes, success isn't down to free will, because there is no such thing as free will. That doesn't say anything useful (or even interesting) about the luck-vs-your-own-choices debate, though.
Do you know how to program? I have no idea what you're asking.
>Avoid, be bland, lie? There is no integrity here.

Integrity is a trap.
Did you ever consent to the GoGuardian monitoring of your student?

I'd probably wireshark it and see if it's sending out data - especially on other users than your kid.

That moves this from "The school installed invasive but allowable anti-cheating software" to "The school is monitoring my family without consent" which is a more interesting avenue.
Isnt this the same way Windows works? If I sign into a work Windows account and they want to set my default browser or something, thats absolutely something they can do. ChromeOS isnt doing something particularly new in that regard.
> I did a full factory reset, signed in to his account again, and now the system is once again locked down.

> So now I'm in the position where I have to ask permission from a local government entity to please let me install stuff and don't monitor the computer I bought and paid for.

I don't understand, this sounds like an issue with the account, not with the Chromebook.

Does this spyware persist on this device even if you sign into a different account?

If you look at third-party apps in the account settings, can you delete this one?
I don’t think companies are required to provide a break room, are they?

If a company goes above and beyond the requirements of the law and then removes that perk, I don’t see any legal issue with that.

As long as they’re not a monopoly, the option of working for another employer is a good way of combating legal, but immoral company policies.
Simply by using some application for things like online test taking that only works on ChromeOS. If you can't afford to buy a Chromebook, you may be eligible to receive one free from the school.

Even in college, we had a freshman year computer requirement where we had to have a Tablet PC. Freshman engineering classes all used a Windows-only handwriting application for class participation. The Tablet PCs they sold at the time were expensive and crappy. Luckily the application worked in Wine somehow and you could get by using a cheap Wacom tablet so that's what I did. I sold the Wacom to another freshman so they could do the same. Eventually I bought a used Thinkpad tablet PC because I actually liked handwriting my notes and homework but I hated the fact I was almost forced to.
> Even those who stick it out through Grad School and post docs often lament that they toiled away always believing that the grandiose visions of research presented in pop sci would eventually come true for them.

> [...]

> We need to do better at Science writing.

Rather: we need to get better at not believing what advertising tells people.
I do think it’s representative of a commonly-encountered sentiment, especially in the younger generation’s working class.
Ask HN: How to Learn Software Architecture?
I am really curious on learning good software architectures. The main motivation for me wanting to learn these things is to prevent/identify some architectures with flawed designs that become fatal once project grows up!

Is there a way to learn these things without building the software and seeing it mature? Directly jumping into mature projects doesn't make me appreciate small design decisions!

Therefore, I would like to request the community to link some good resources on software architecture and code organization!
If you want to be even more upset, if you log into Chrome with this account on a “real” computer, I bet it will download and install a bunch of Chrome extensions without asking, too. It certainly did on my daughter’s PC when we were using it during the pandemic.
>exit interviews aren't to express opinions or talk shit, it's a data source for HR

These are the same thing. You're trying to legitimize your opinion under the pretense of seeking raw, objective data, and characterizing OP's interview responses as something less than data, but it's not true.
I have a TS3 for work and looked into the TS4 but it's been out of stock everywhere.
Just curious, since the article lacks some details. Does anyone have a link to the picture of this sidewalk?
on the other hand, you can (sorta) go from lambda calculus up through all the sugar of a nice Lisp. or start with types and evolve dependent types and get all the way to ZFC and theorem proving. there's ways of reasoning about imperative code mathematically too, though I know less about them.

OOP itself is more of a style, imo. you can boil it down into the things above if you want to think of it as such. I'm just not sure there's much there mathematically.
Not entirely familiar with Chrome OS but if you log out of the school account and into a personal one instead, does this monitoring persist?

Regardless, this is pretty much the perfect example that RMS was extremely prescient about free software and the distinction between freedom and free beer (or a Google account in this case).
Haha... That's pretty perfect. And after 7 years I'm also still playing with stuff.

I got a hub with an external power connector that plugs into wall and it charges my iphone at trickle charger rates.

Meanwhile my "crappy" apple charger seems to blast my iphone up in no time.

One cost me MORE (the hub/dock).
i think it's an improvement. there's nothing wrong with functional style.
Show HN: Component-based static site web starter and templates 100/100 LH score
Amazon, Alphabet and Others Are Quietly Rolling Out Drone Delivery Across US
The most pragmatic thing to do is probably acquire another school only Chromebook. Either have one issued from the school or buy another one. This is probably a worthwhile lesson for how to treat personal and employer assets separately anyway.

The work to try to get the school to make the software removable is a laudable stand for citizens, parent, and student rights - but would come at some cost of time, money (more than buying a second chromebook anyway), and maybe strained relationships with school officials.
It gets bad when the leaders in a field are the cranks. Progress halts until they retire. Then Wikipedia can't be updated until they die.
Yeah. Apple has made the perfect photo workflow for me via their smart albums. I can manage a 100K library with the ease of something 100 times smaller.
Wow that's annoying. Especially the "without asking" part!
https://archive.ph/Kwz0Z
How is it bold to discuss stuff in the discussion section of a website?
In the beginning of my career, I worked at a company that offered categorized internet filtering for workplaces. At its most reductive, it kept people from browsing porn at work. However, the behavior of the filtering engine was wholly customer configurable, and a lot of companies elected to not block...simply monitor. If anyone was logged doing anything they shouldn't they planned to fire them (we were asked about the accuracy once they chose to use it for firing and legal action).

When we asked our customers what this preference was about, it came down to that this "felt better" for employees and blocking felt too draconian.
The difference is that it's very cut and dry with POC and LGBT. Across gender lines the difference is murkier in adolescence - one attempts suicide at higher rates, but the other succeeds more often.
The link https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/spotlight_suggestions_sto... is interesting.

It's a binary file, but if you look at the hex dump there's a list of vaguely "bad" words near the end including "whorehouse," "Zipperheads," "unabomber". I have no idea what format it is, though.
I found he too myself)
I once fired a Jr dev who lied about having done work and was generally being a salary thief. When I told him, he said he would work for free, it would never happen again, it was a misunderstanding and pleaded for his job. I told him no, so he went into the office crying to beg the founder for his job.

If someone were to ask me about hiring him, I would say in no uncertain terms that it's a mistake. I wonder, though, if he was telling his side of the story on HN, how I would have been painted as the villain.
MBAs in management lead to lower employee pay, study finds
Either way it's a bad reason to show up late.

If the fear is more legitimate, you shouldn't go at all.

If the fear is less legitimate, you should ignore it.
Cool. Most of these were new to me too. I will likely forget them again until I read about them in another blog post but interesting nonetheless.
I bet if you did a survey and asked whether you think it's appropriate to critisize the political elite of the country in public, you'd see a clear correlation with income levels. In the lower income countries the more bizarre they would consider this behaviour.

Perhaps we should conclude that blind servitude is a bad idea and one should not allow onceself to be exploited.
For this to work, employees have to trust that they can be candid without repercussions. And employees don't have access to the inner workings of the business that they work for, but know that there are similarities across businesses. For this reason, the conduct of an exit interview is governed by the widespread behavior of similar businesses, as communicated by workers among one another, and not by the company. If things like exit interviews are widely abused, then they become useless.
But isn't that exactly what "in plain sight" means? If people are reading it, but no one is talking about it or taking notice, it becomes hidden to the much vaster population who are reading the summaries of Herodotus instead of the original source.
i don't think you can. I had one of these chromebooks too, which I paid for. But my school did not want to remove the 'school policy' so now it's locked and even
other accounts are 'watched' and managed by the school's policy. Last time I tried to create an account it wouldn't let you create it unless you provided an email.
> I bought him a Chromebook for schoolwork, but also for other private things. When we logged in...

This is why you need to pay attention to the technology choices that you make, and that your schools make. Chromebooks are designed from the ground up to be locked-down dystopian spyware once you "log in" to them with a specific Google account. For heaven's sake stop buying any more Chromebooks.

The correct solution here is not technological at all. Call into the school's board meeting during public comment, and make it loud and clear that the school is installing spyware on students' Chromebooks. Share your technical credentials and the method by which you found this. Emphasize stories of previous data breaches involving educational companies [1], and show officials that they are putting students' sensitive data at risk. (Edit: See the important point in the reply from 'n8cpdx below about the correct tone to use in your comments – don't repeat my words verbatim!)

The technical details don't matter too much to educational officials – as soon as the "Chromebook = bad spyware" label sticks and they think that a fuck-up here could cost them them bad press, they will allow their IT department to make more privacy-respecting technology choices even when those choices cost a little more. If no one speaks up, it's a race to the bottom driving us closer to the fiction in The Right to Read [2].

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[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/22/smarterselect-exposed-mill...

[2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Yeah not even that sometimes...dates of employment, title, broad responsibilities (she wasn't a gardner, she was a nuclear physicist). Anything else potentially implies judgment and is open to interpretation/libel. That's how I've been trained in scenarios for references.
There are soooo many accounts on IG and FB that just repost TikTok content. FB doesn't even need to do this themselves because they pay/help monetize based on views/engagement regardless of if it's your content or not...
Your post was something of a blast from the past for me: toolbars! I had forgotten about those. I used to spend a lot of time customizing those. Then Chrome was released which really was the end for browser toolbars.
100% due to the crappy hubs.

I have a gigabit connection and have been using the CalDigit TS3+ since it came out. Zero issues, zero problems with it stepping down to 100 Mbps or anything else. I have GigE plugged in, two monitors, two large disk arrays, sound, and usually a couple other random things. The monitors and all peripherals work flawlessly, wake flawlessly from sleep, etc.

Every time I test the speed, it's around 940 Mbps, which is about the max that a gig fiber connection can actually push to you. Every time.

By contrast, a lot of my IT clients have tried to get by with the crappy cheap USB-C hubs or docks mentioned in this article, and without exception, they always completely suck. Eventually, they start listening to me and they buy a quality dock instead, and then their problems magically cease.
> I'm not sure what you mean by this, sorry.

Let me show you.

> Well, utilitarianism would suggest that good derives from pleasure and bad derives from suffering.

Why does good derive from pleasure?
BTW I've found the codebase in udanax-1999-09-29.tar.gz to be a fairly illuminating complement to this document. It would be pretty hard to read without some of the context in this proposal, but it adds a lot more detail.
Yeah for that kind of data Excel will definitely be more useful.

Datasette starts getting interesting with data that's too large for Excel - or data with multiple tables where SQL joins start coming into play.
> ... When I went through a divorce in my early 30's, I called my mom to break the news and she responded by screaming at the top of her lungs at me. She would later tell me that she was trying to scare me into making sure that I had made the right decision. That night was closest I had come to crossing the rubicon in many years. I still don't fully understand how a mother could talk their child this way in such a difficult moment, but such is life.

Then Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents may offer some insight [1].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23129659-adult-children-...
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