skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once lived next to a woman who did this as her side hustle. She once did pretty much all of a master’s degree for a wealthy middle eastern student, but her clients included plenty of US-raised students as well.

This is far from a US-only thing though; degrees serve as gatekeepers to status and positions worldwide, so there is a market that will be filled.

As an example, my grandfather did similar work as a side job — in the USSR. The real qualification for many director level posts was “on good terms with the right people in the party”… but the formal qualifications required some related degree to the (factory, institute, etc.) function. If you could not get the degree yourself, you found someone to help.

I would not at all be surprised if the situation is identical in modern China.
I'm no economist, but access to markets seems to be the thing that the US was important for. Nowadays not as much so though still true. The trick is to still have access to markets other than NA, such as EU, India, Africa. Can't afford to lose all the US/western-aligned markets.
> It makes no difference to our lives who governs Ukraine.

The occupation of Ukraine signals Russia's intention to do the same with other countries they occupied in the past (Poland, Romania, the Baltic countries, &c) which are now part of NATO.

If you think Article 5 should be honored, then it does make a difference.
They did specify government "authoritarians". It's not much of a stretch to think that they don't believe "everyone in government" is an authoritarian.
This article sits on the false premise that Tesla aimed to make luxury vehicles long-term, which we know isn't the case. Elon has long stated that the plan was to start with profitable, low volume vehicles and work his way down to mass market. While you can make comparisons to Mercedes in regards to their profit margins, I think the more accurate explanation is that Tesla kept their prices high to reap profits while the cars were in demand, and now that the car market has more or less stabilized they're adjusting their prices again while other companies (who were maybe less flexibility in price due to dealership models) aren't.
Paraphrasing: "If you don't want to, don't sideload apps, no one is forcing you to" - do people really not see the problem? It's not that technically unsophisticated users will want to sideload apps. They don't know / don't care / have different things to worry about.

But they want their Facebook. Or SnapChat, or Insta, or TikTok, or whatever.

Once other app stores are allowed, there's nothing stopping Meta (for example) from revoking their existing apps, and requiring the use of the Facebook App Installer for access to Facebook. They've paid people in the past to use their Onavo VPN app to bypass Apple's privacy controls, so this would be unsurprising.

Of course, that's just an example; replace with the next SnapChat, TikTok, whatever. If that's the thing that teens want, and the way to get it is to click a bunch of "Yes I agree" dialogs, they'll happily do it. And now suddenly some developer has access to all your family financials through your teen.

If your solution is "well, people shouldn't do that then", you might not understand teens. (Or grandparents. Or regular people.)
I guess I "forgot to carry the 2". Thanks! (as in, where did I get the 7 min from - no I don't remember)
While America is holding the global power, you can freely write you shitty opinion on the internet and get away with it.

If China or Russia would replace America, you will be mining uranium in a gulag / re-education camp, counting days until you'll be dead, comrade.

You choose.
> There was always one monotheistic religion and God, but then things got sidetracked and people started making stuff up.

We know for a fact that this is false. For example, the Egyptians were building the pyramids and worshipping their gods at least a thousand year before any known monotheistic religion. The native people of Australia have even older polytheistic religions.
You don't need to lie. There are plenty of generic reasons you can give why you're leaving that probably even have the virtue of having some truth to them. (Was time to make a change.) No reason to get into a blow-by-blow of why now and what all the things that made the situation less and less tolerable were.

It's not lying. It just not telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

ADDED: Companies can also obviously be in a place where at least some of your reasons are so blindingly obvious they don't need to be stated.
They are also letting US intelligence agencies decide what Americans see, sometimes with direct electoral consequences.

I think it's past time we decide on an Internet Bill of Rights so that we can fight against any type of unreasonable censorship.
> oddity of JS

I can't think on any modern language that lacks some short syntax for lambdas.

Hell, it's very easy to make a point that lacking short syntax for lambdas make a language not modern and unusable for our current standards.
What does it have to do with the number of people forking and developing their own browser? Agent string sibstitution/emulation has been a thing since time immemorial.
Automation Can Create More Hours in Your Day
I did care, until i realized it was talking about facebook. Idk what they are propagating, it's a private platform.
> An iPhone has pretty good parental controls, but when it’s time for the child to connect with their peers, the same place they connect with peers is the same place designed to exploit them, with little to no alternative.

try to use it and you will see how bad it actually is, reinstalling an app removes its timeout, any kid almost trivially goes around it, you have to not forget to block the web versions of the apps, there is +1 minute, there is issue with whatsapp links etc

my daughter(12) also just asks for 15 mins extra youtube, then she just looks at my fingerprints on the phone to guess the screentime code, so i have to wipe my fingerprints like i am in a james bond movie (changed the screentime code like 3 times until i figured out what is happening)

i am trying to teach her self control and also to monitor her feed like a hawk and be super critical of what she watches

also once a week we go over all the feeds and try to teach the algorithms to show better things (like/follow some science/code youtubers, block toxic ones, watch few videos etc)

i also pay for everything i can so she doesnt see ads (including having pi-hole and adblockers)
Academia is addicted to pedigree and prestige. People in academia could very well create their own publishing and peer review platforms that they all use, cutting out the middle men but there's an obsession with top journals/conferences and how that is tied to career progression that stands in the way.
Things that seem great: translation in your own voice

Things that are old hat: Catch me up on emails assistant (outlook has this built in)

Things that are pointless:

-Using a projector for caller ID. Your phone, watch, whatever will tell you that.

-Checking food allergies on packaged food. The label is right there in your hand.
I can’t really argue with that, good line of thought.

See, my reaction has been, “perhaps our reasoning and actions are pretty much just a biologically-encoded statistical model too, it just doesn’t _feel_ that way because of some other factor.”
$args[x] breaks. Get-Content breaks. probably more.

...admittedly i'm not the best with Powershell. There are probably workarounds or things that i did wrong.
I'm more worried about the media corporations themselves than "activists". What are activists censoring?
Any data stream which is not the first one.

Data stream is basically the file content and on NTFS a file can have more than one. In practice it is comparable to extended attributes in the Linux world but somewhat superior.

But like extended attributes it doesn't seem to have too much real world use. The only use case for alternate data streams I can remember are the "this file was downloaded from the internet, do you really want to run it" warnings. In such cases the browser attached a standardized marker as alternate data stream to the file.
Yes, we do. It's on our public roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/highlight/projects/11/views/1 (marked as "Future Work")

We'll likely get to it by Q3 of this year. We hope that the design choices we're making (Clickhouse, OTEL, etc..) will set us up for supporting tracing easily when we get to it.
Unity is a really good alternative. Flash kinda went sideways and started really trying to lean into the Java crowd with flex. Unity is more like what would have happened if Flash heavily leaned into what it did well.
Light-duty vehicles, including sedans, SUVs and pickup trucks, are currently responsible for 58% of U.S. transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions. Pickup trucks accounted for 14% of light-duty vehicle sales in the United States in 2020... (https://news.umich.edu/study-greater-greenhouse-gas-reductio...)

The sky isn't falling and pickup trucks aren't that big of a problem from an emissions standpoint (my F-150 gets 19mpg, within 1mpg of my wife's minivan and my neighbor's Toyota Highlander. Passenger car/truck transportation accounts for 7% of the world's emissions. People are acting like buying EVs and small cars is going to make a damn bit of difference.
Typically in music theory, we would talk about a hemiola as a rhythmic technique in which a rhythm in a simple (2) metric division is introduced in the context of a compound (3) division of the beat, or vice versa.

What the parent post describes isn't an isolated gesture like that, but a sustained state of overlapping meters, if I'm understanding correctly. In the case of the ICM described, as well as math rock/meshuggah/etc, I would describe the technique as "Polymetric" or maybe a "Sustained polyrhythm," and not a hemiola.
At least in the US, poor people used to but used cars, until the used car market tanked in 2021 or so. Now they buy new, but finance for 84+ months.
Oof, yes, I didn't even mention corporate compliance.
Very possibly, which is why I was only saying that the article is positing such a slippery slope, not that they have proved it in any way.
Autonomous drones will probably be a big issue -- could potentially home in on cell phone IMEI for targets, or even just be let loose to attack anything in an area that looks like a person, or infrastructure target.
Why do they lump India into this? Modi is democratically elected leader unlike Putin and Xi. Just because one doesn't likes ideology of opponent, one cannot dismiss them as dictator!
If your best friend abandoned you because you got a 55% raise and tried to give lots of notice, then your best friend was a jerk.

Good luck seriously in finding new and more quality friends! You'll find some!
Both can be made to give more drafts by just asking the same question again...

I don't see more drafts as a real differentiator.
Don't these high end cars have hidden GPS devices inside of them? Or is that a myth?
Why has that not happened on Android phones?
I wont go as far as to say its "Good" full stop, but Kenya (and other less developed nations, relative to US) have an opportunity to base their economy on the next thing, rather than incumbents which must unwind policy and allow long term investments to fall to unacceptable ROI (often bankruptcy) ...

Consider telephone and credit card networks. Some countries skipped straight to mobile/wireless telephony (with internet!) while the US had to make the "this region already is wired, why are we putting a cell tower there?" (this played out in the 90s). Similar has happened with creditcard terminals in USA, where other countries got better infrastructure faster because there wasnt a competing incumbent investment in place.
I think you're forgetting some major facts about that case.

FWIW, I'm not on the left or right. My comment history establishes that in spades.
Clickhouse is fast and doesn’t have absurd architectural complexity.
At least for Korean, it was right to left only when written top to bottom. Then it changed to left to right. It's never been right to left horizontally. I think it's the same with Chinese. I'm not sure about Japanese.
KeePassXC Responds to ProtonMail's Encryption Claims for Password Manager
GOP congress seems love western musk so much.
I remember figuring this out when I needed to buy a new key for my Audi and the dealer wanted $200 to program it.
https://www.audiworld.com/forums/a8-s8-d2-platform-discussio...
the software's available online, all you need to do is get access to the OBD port and you can make your car trust a new key!
It's possible that Popehat's Law of Goats applies here. Even if Mackey was totally joking about what he was doing, he was still engaged in voter suppression.
Doesn't work for this simple prompt -- maybe it's not fully rolled out yet?

> Can you write a <HTML> file that POSTs a form with firstName, lastName to some other URL?

> I'm a language model and don't have the capacity to help with that.
There's at least one fanatic who sells Atari 800XLs (and other Atari systems) on eBay, and he does things like test, refurbish, and update with HDMI interfaces, etc. I don't disrespect what the remake folks are trying to accomplish but I tend to think dealing with the refurb guy might actually be a more rewarding experience, with a simpler path towards getting support if it's needed.
Optimization Without Using Derivatives
Reading the discussions under a previous thread titled "More Descent, Less Gradient"( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23004026 ), I guess people might be interested in PRIMA ( www.libprima.net ), which provides the reference implementation for Powell's renowned gradient/derivative-free (zeroth-order) optimization methods, namely COBYLA, UOBYQA, NEWUOA, BOBYQA, and LINCOA.

PRIMA solves general nonlinear optimizaton problems without using derivatives. It implements Powell's solvers in modern Fortran, compling with the Fortran 2008 standard. The implementation is faithful, in the sense of being mathmatically equivalent to Powell's Fortran 77 implementation, but with a better numerical performance. In contrast to the 7939 lines of Fortran 77 code with 244 GOTOs, the new implementation is structured and modularized.

There is a discussion to include the PRIMA solvers into SciPy ( https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/18118 ), replacing the buggy and unmaintained Fortran 77 version of COBYLA, and making the other four solvers available to all SciPy users.
Thanks, I've been looking for that video.
Well if going 10 hours (say in Scotland in winter) without food is "fasting", I do that pretty much every day, I rarely eat or drink between 2200 and 0900, and rarely eat between 2000 and about 1230

Not convinced that not drinking water during the day is a good idea, especially in hot countries
Most code is "mostly insecure."
Still says "Free trial" and "Hide this message" in different-coloured buttons.

Is this in jest ("_ironic_")? If so, I at least am so used to such dark patterns that it did not register as a joke.

If it's meant as a joke, then OK, I can chuckle. But while I'm curious to see what happens, I'm not pressing no buttons, no sir, joke or no joke. I'm jaded like that.
Hear, hear!

This is the same message Apple should deliver to every senator and judge: “developers are more productive on things that matter - this is the consumer surplus”
It's used for other things too. Like modern file compression (compact /exe:lzx).
Yeah. That's pretty cool. I lived in Dallas for half my life and am surprised I never ran into the 8-bit guy at 1st Saturday or various users group meetings. I think we're about the same age. Love his channel, didn't know he was doing this. Thx for the pointer.
It's very expensive (a lot of work) to be so rigorous in verifying information. Forgoing trust is expensive, whether we're on this subject or talking about Proof of Work algorithms. It'd be great if we had trustworthy institutions who could distill the truth for us (hah!) but of course if such an institution accumulates public trust, that naturally makes them a target for capture by propagandists.
Next in News: AI takes the jobs of Nigerians who write emails requesting assistance to reclaim their temporarily inaccessible family fortune.
Eid Mubarak ♡ everyone
I am pretty sure this is a joke crater.
To be fully hydrated you need to drink water for 24 hours in advance. If you drink a ton of water before sunrise and after sunset, every day, you can still be properly hydrated. Not ideal of course, but not necessarily unhealthy.
> sideloading will become required by the most popular apps.

This point keeps being made in these threads on here, and the response I’ve seen made, which I agree with, is that this clearly isn’t the case when you look at Android. Sideloading already exists and it is far from a common way to distribute applications.

From a business perspective, it really doesn’t make sense to force users to pull from outside the App Store, because you’re basically going to destroy your business. Most users are not all that technical and the moment you require them to fool around with apks or whatever other format, you’re going to lose a huge percentage of them.
> It's dangerous to make a man with the nuke codes desperate toward the end of his life.

You always talk about the nukes because it's all you have left.

Western leaders will never bow to the nuclear threat because doing so means Russia/China can get their way in everything if they just use the nuclear threat.
> worry about job losses as a hard middle phase, even long before we get to whether or not AI runs society

I agree. There is a very large moat between where we are now and the envisioned AI that people hope for. And that moat is filled with lots of problems without any clear answers.

> because AI will be better than us at everything

Yes, I don't think this concept still has not been completely digested by most people. AI is essentially a skill/technology replication machine. It is going to bring about a crisis of meaning in society as well.

> The question will be if we have safety mechanisms if AI starts going rogue.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about and writing on this topic as well. Under the current premise of alignment theory, I believe it is a complete logical fallacy or paradox. I don't see it as a hard problem, but rather an impossible problem.

Now, this is just from the perspective of taking alignment theory's own proposed conditions. That being AI will be power seeking, scale infinitely on its own and we will solve this by applying humanities values.

I explain why I perceive this as an impossible solution here.

https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap
It's good to have more competition in the space. An AI space race between Google and OpenAI could be really interesting.
Why should you? It's their platform.

EDIT: Someone just posted snippet of their ToS, seems like it's not your data.
It has. Fortnite is not available in the Play Store.

Given that iphone owners are more wealthy I expect this to happen much more often when sideloading is allowed on iphones since there's more money to be made. It's gonna get bad imo.
Warnings won't suffice when Facebook, Google, and increasingly ByteDance make apps that are necessary infrastructure for modern life.

People will be forced to choose between clicking through an explanation & accepting risks they don't understand, and participating in society.
I’ve found the assignment of com ports in windows really annoying
No: ban stupidity.

Solutions are chosen for the balance in cost, risks and benefits. Noisy but useful, within boundaries, ok. (Note: some of us are bothered already by motorways miles away when in otherwise isolated woodlands - but we are aware that traffic somehow must flow, and know that we have to select more distant places.)

Electric cars are becoming a massive threat in terms of noise pollution because people have become dumb and passive - cannot perceive and cannot react. The issue is not intrinsic in the technology, but it is part of reality: opportunity for madness + latent madness → disaster.

> not ICE cars

You do not seem to understand: the noise some fools put into electric vehicles is completely different. As in, "not a hum but brass" - where "hum" can be annoying and "brass" will surely be. See my other post nearby.
Propaganda is an emission of pressure waves or electromagnetic radiation designed to mentally and socially incapacitate enemies.
I don't think your experience is mutually exclusive with theirs. Do you think "you're not always looking for independent alternative sources of information and cross-checking claims from different sources" as per OP's comment?
Ask HN: Learning Sales and Marketing as a Developer?
I've recently taken over responsibility for relaunching a polyglot programming conference in Greenville, SC post-Covid (Carolina Code Conference) and I'm learning pretty much everything as I go here.

We just launched our official call for sponsors and the reception has been good so far...but I've been advised that I probably need to get better at sales to do this right long term.

Any tips to help engage sponsors and coordinate this aspect?
GitHub Star History on Streamlit
Not only there. Windows originally created them on disks that supported long names, too.

That was necessary to support the use case where an older OS tried to read the disk (could happen because the user rebooted into an old DOS, for example, or if an external disk was moved to a different computer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename#VFAT_and_computer...:

“VFAT, a variant of FAT with an extended directory format, was introduced in Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5. It allowed mixed-case Unicode long filenames (LFNs) in addition to classic 8.3 names by using multiple 32-byte directory entry records for long filenames (in such a way that only one will be recognised by old 8.3 system software as a valid directory entry).

To maintain backward-compatibility with legacy applications (on DOS and Windows 3.1), on FAT and VFAT filesystems an 8.3 filename is automatically generated for every LFN, through which the file can still be renamed, deleted or opened, although the generated name (e.g. OVI3KV~N) may show little similarity to the original. On NTFS filesystems the generation of 8.3 filenames can be turned off. The 8.3 filename can be obtained using the Kernel32.dll function GetShortPathName“
Android hasn't restricted cross-app tracking from Facebook and such as strongly.
Because software companies have proven they can't be trusted-- as soon as they can Facebook or someone will try to force side loading as the method to get their apps.
If it accurately emulates the SIO port and timings, FujiNet will just work on it. There is no need for something similar....
Also, $/Wh
I'm not so sure.

I think at some point, the cost of operating gas stations will fall below a threshold that it doesn't justify keeping them open, even if there is still _some_ demand.

E.g. imagine if demand were cut in half -- I think more than half of the gas stations would shut down.
However the capitalist system is one in which you should be rewarded for outsourcing something you cannot do or cannot do inexpensively yourself. Organization and correct market theories are what's rewarded* in capitalism. Especially in business schools we should be focused on making people who have those skills and rewarding them for successfully doing it. IMO the real distortion is in overvaluing those who have a degree, many of which only proves they can show up on time, consistently, and do as their told.

* (amongst other negative forms like rent seeking etc I'm talking about the positive case here)
This is so naive in the extreme. Who decides the ‘societal good?’ Some centralized moralizing force, that will no doubt be in disagreement with large swathes of the rest of the nation. Thinking that FB is some kind of powerful national threat that must be managed by the government seems absurd.