skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It isn't the education that Harvard provides that makes students valuable, it's the selection process.

As I am sure others will note there is much more to it than even what you have mentioned.

For one thing as a rule and for sure a generality (based on my own personal experience) you are around more high performing people (to be clear not everyone but enough of them) to pull you up as well and be able to learn from them and be in a great environment (while at school and possibly after). (This applies to any 'top' school not just Harvard). Again very generally a top school is going to have overall a better faculty (or teaching assistants). Better facilities. More connections to hiring companies. (Well known, right?)

Later after you graduate a degree from a top University is branding and gets you exposure and better opportunities.

There is also the very positive branding and halo that one gets from going to a top school. It's part of the reason that even if Kia or Hyundai made a car that was as good as or better than a Porsche 911 it wouldn't matter.

In fact there is a saying I heard once something like 'Sophia Loren without a nose is not Sophia Loren'.

> Get rid of the selection process and admit less intelligent and less well connected people and those people won't achieve the same results.

As mentioned the branding alone is worth it's weight in gold.

That said important point is the value as with any branding is driven a great deal by the media and popular culture. (Super important point right off "IVY League" branding goes a long long way).
Personally I find this useful, because it’s rarely just a pitch (at least I tend to assume some degree of honesty from an active HN user). Also it allows to explore a subject area even if you’re not interested right now. I often make bookmarks or simply threadshots of other products people talk about in show hns.
Yes, this is pretty much how it played out in other countries as well. Involuntary commitment has a very nasty history associated with it - rampant abuse, suicides, forced sterilization and lobotomies, untested electroshock therapy, unethical medical experimentation, pretty much every horrible human rights abuse that you can think of, up to and including genocide. By the 70s it had become socially untenable, and by the end of the century most countries had shuttered their publicly-run mental health institutions.

What is fascinating to me is that you can plainly see this evolution of thought play out in books, music and film. The portrayal of involuntary commitment slowly shifts from something that is normalized and somewhat necessary for society at the beginning of the 20th century, to something that is unabashedly evil by the end of it.
That seems like a great policy to me. I bought a guitar tuner app in the past and that's exactly and all it did: act as a tuner. But it then got acquired by a company that sells guitar lessons and other things, and they completely f-ed up the app and it requires an account and a subscription now if you want to tune your guitar. Fortunately there are other options in the Play Store, but I paid like $15 or $20 for it at some point. This tempts me at a side comment about why I hate automatic updates, but I'll refrain. Luckily it was Android so I was able to backup the APK before they ruined the app, and I sideload it now. Along with old Pocket Casts, Audible, and a couple of others.
Greg Egan's Permutation City also features the topic.

It's truly scary, but there is of course also the potential of eternal life in paradise.
That feature was always a byline at best.
Get with the times old man.
And the women who ride represent the top 0.00001% of Earth's best humans in the best shape too! And their accomplishments outside any effort that the vast amount of people will ever do in a day of their lives.

Of course women can complete such races! We know this because they do it all the time. Not only that, they can even win! All we need to do is let them.

Take the RAAM (Race Across America, a gruelling almost 3000 mile race, nearly 5000km). Women are allowed to join in. This is even longer than the Tour. Not only have many women finished RAAM, in Leah Goldstein actually won. Not the women's category. The race outright. Period.

Or the Transcontinental Race (TRC, similar to RAAM but across Europe and without a support team, between 3000-4000km depending on the year). Not only have many women participated and completed it, in 2019 a Fiona Kolbinger won. And again, not the women's category. She won the 10 day race beating out the best man by 10 hours!

Both of these races show that not only can women complete the men's Tour, they could end up setting better times.

> But they will not, and cannot, EVER, be asked to ride what the men's teams do. It is just too harmfull. And impossible.

I hope that the clear evidence I gave you, the fact that women have done far more than this, and have beaten the world's best men while doing it, will make you reconsider your position in the future. It's not backed by evidence, it's just prejudice.
There are, just in China, CIS, Eastern Europe, etc.

For example, the world's largest and most advanced modular building company was just a tiny startup in Hunan making niche HVAC equipment 2 decades ago: http://en.broad.com/ProductShow-131.aspx
Given that this is a Lenovo laptop, one who is truly concerned about privacy may want to avoid it regardless [0].
Not to mention none of it is open source, from the firmware to the hardware, so I hardly see this as a suitable replacement for people looking to run FSF-approved computers.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_...
I'm here with you. I just refuse to use Windows, but I do recognize and empathise with people who feel this way about Mac or Linux. I would rather use something because I love it, rather than not use it because I hate it; but it's totally normal to find something off-putting.
This is a rambling post...

I don't know what argument you're trying to make. Governments will research 0days because other governments are doing it, and it's best if you find them first and work out a defense. You know, in case you want to mess with someone's nuclear centrifuges and to avoid having yours screwed with.

Do you think that it should not be legal for the government to investigate a crime?

The system is made up of people, some of them may abuse their access. Other laws, in theory, will hold them to account.
those are all means to the same end.

venv == virtualenv

virtualenvwrapper is ancient not rly used anymore

pyenv is a third party tool that makes some of this easier, notably around creating more than just a virtual env in that you also choose the Python version.

Python is not hard to deal with in this regard I think people are just uninformed.
Yes. According to UCI rules women are not allowed to compete in the men's race. And women are not allowed to organize a race with the same length as the men. Even just for themselves.

Even though women compete in races like RAAM (Race Across America, ~5000km) and the Transcontinental Race (TCR, ~3500km) and have actually beaten the men at them. Those aren't UCI races because they wouldn't be allowed to join if they were.
> That code also has been written by a human, and it's disrespectful to approach somebody else's work with this prejudice.

Small piece of advice: it is much better to learn how to take criticism of your code as exactly that - it's criticism of your code. People will always be unkind when reviewing code. Even if it's the best code ever written someone will have a different opinion and express it in a seemingly unkind way. It's easy to be unkind in code reviews because it's _code_ being reviewed and NOT a person with feelings.

Like you said, a different human (the more junior version of you) wrote that code, not you. It's not a criticism of you no matter how much your brain tries to tell you it is. People will never stop saying "who the fuck wrote this shit!?" and you will hear that phrase until the end of time. It's still not personal when people yell that in frustration.

For example, I have learned that Eastern Europeans tend to be absolutely brutal in code reviews. Everything will be nitpicked and the most benign design decisions you've made will be questioned. They make you feel stupid and inadequate but that's your own feelings. It's more likely you're dealing with a direct and to-the-point perfectionist who can see the code beyond your PR and how your code fits in with the rest of the application. They're not the greatest at communicating this context and their comments seem like personal attacks without that context.
Can a Rubik's Cube be brute-forced?
I found this list helpful for clearing the first module of pwn.college.
Isn't this all handled by pip typically? Even though most models don't necessarily put it in the readme, the user should be using some sort of env manager.
If you think pro athletes in other sports are clean, I have news for you. If anything cycling is one of the few sports that takes anti-doping measures seriously
"Oh btw, there are some strobe effects in this, so please, any epileptics get out now. Statistically one of you is, and two of you are gay. Btw guys, if you are gay, please remember, rubber up."
Having worked in defense, I don't recall anyone who was gleeful about killing others. It was all about keeping our families and neighbors safe.

If you're arguing against defense work in general, please consider the consequences of unilaterally disarming ourselves.

I want world peace. Unfortunately others seem to prefer expansion / exploitation of other nations.
Meanwhile I've had my laptops plugged in for 99.999% of their life.

Sometimes I'll unplug to bring it to an overnight christmas party or camping to watch a movie at night. Then I'll probably end up plugging it in when I arrive.

Just remembered, one time I brought my laptop to a real estate meeting, and it was so boring I did work during it. But the meeting was over in an hour.

I'm sure some people like having their computer not plugged in, but a docked laptop is so nice.
I'd love to see this generalized to a toolkit in mobile and desktop/server operating systems. A year or two ago, I suggested calling something like it a "hellban" add-on, because my main use for it would be to improve the UX for software I can't really avoid by putting that software in an invisible cage. It would basically be a "swords into plowshares" version of a rootkit.

One could implement the same effects using Frida, but I imagined something more like a browser add-on repository, where users could submit modules for specific software/apps, or that would gatekeep device/OS-level functionality, instead of everyone having to create custom rules in a lower-level general-purpose toolkit like Frida.

There are lots of possibilities in this area for taking back some control of what's happening on one's devices by feeding procedurally-/ML-generated data when software tries to query sensors, GPS, camera/mic, etc. It would also often be useful for software testing, to make certain test cases more practical and reproducible by looping through recorded data.
I would imagine they just mean "you can't crash or abruptly exit." Telling the user "please grant location access to use the app" and providing a button to try again is probably fine.
I write C++, and I have little hope or motivation to learn rust. I would gladly learn it in class with a good teacher, though, but not without. Programming languages should not have a steep learning curve.

Disclaimer: I managed to parse a embryonic programming language using a parser generator (lexy).
Based on my experience, I can tell you the grass is not greener on the other side.

Forced to use Mac for work, the previous Macbook Pro would lose charge _while plugged in_! The battery goes empty, it shuts off and I wait for it to recharge while off.

They recently changed mine to an M1. Battery is much better than the previous generation and could be good, so long as you're not using it for anything. As soon as the IDE/Zoom/Docker/what have you spins up, it loses charge. It is slower at loses charge while plugged in, but so long as you are not using it except for note taking, I would not trust away from a power source.

If I don't have a power source nearby, I turn everything off and switch my dev workflow to Sublime to prolong the battery.

I don't have to suffer any of these shenanigans under Linux. Granted, I have a Thinkpad, which has great Linux support, so that definitely helps.
Nobody is saying to drop everything. I'm talking about the internal organization of the company.
If users see value from your product after providing real data, they won’t provide fake data. There’s no reason for certain apps to request for permissions to data that in turn provide no value to the product.
It's down
But why?

Just don't grant it permissions if you don't want to. And if it refuses to function without (for no good reason), then don't use the app because it's scammy.

Is there some other situation I'm missing here? Like is there some legitimate app people need to install that won't work if you don't grant it unneeded permissions?
I thought it was only the head though
Come on, don't expect perfection, that ain't typical human trait. The chain is always as weak as its weakest link and this is not different.

I presume there are good reasons why this and exactly this is happening (and probably not only at this manufacturer), if for nothing else than reducing costs... not maintaining something is always cheaper than maintaining it.
Maybe just seed it with very sensible default settings like "send real data when asking for directions"?
Encryption does not help in this case. They have complete remote control over the entire CPU so they can just run the decryption code directly.

Encryption only helps if the endpoints that can get access to the plaintext are not compromised.
Medicare will pay for Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi
On macOS you can disable notifications for any app in System Settings. When an app first requests it, you’ll get a system notification asking if you want to allow the app to send any.

On Safari you can even disable the option for websites to request notification access. It’s on the Websites tab in Settings.
I am surprised there isn’t a browser that opens shadow webpage(s) that is unrelated but a peer to a website you are visiting.

Perhaps it’s the ad companies that need to be fed fake data not the app / site.
I thought this was an exaggeration and decided to read it nonetheless. Nope, you're right. It's a fluff piece that's extremely low signal to noise.

Large parts of it are long winding without getting to the point and then it suddenly moves to using terms that haven't been introduced.

Avoid this piece.
It's probably going to be

/home/you/project/venv/bin/python
Ask HN: Who are or were the fastest computer programmers in the world?
Programming speed here is relative to a particular language.
For example, who are/were the fastest C programmers?
Who are/were the fastest 6502 assembly language programmers?
yeah i feel like there are tons of reasons to criticize these big companies, but open source, theyre pretty good for the most part. not sure what else you could expect from them.

there is graphql, rocksdb and folly. they also open sourced their js engine for react native too.

maybe a good criticism is we depend to much on these companies free stuff lol
Except that they almost never do exact reproductions of a work. If you were trying to do it on purpose you'd have to do some significant prompt engineering to get it to even come close. Because the nature of it is to smush together thousands of different things, not photocopy one in particular.

The exceptions will be like, pictures of a specific city's skyline. Not because it's copying a particular image, but because that's what that city's skyline looks like, so that's how it looks in an arbitrary picture of it. But those are the pictures that lack original creativity to begin with -- which is why the pictures in the training data are all the same and so is the output.

And people seem to make a lot of the fact that it will often reproduce watermarks, but the reason it does that isn't that it's copying a specific image. It's that there are a large number of images of that subject with that watermark. So even though it's not copying any of them in particular, it's been trained that pictures of that subject tend to have that watermark.

Obviously lawyers are going to have a field day with this, because this is at the center of an existing problem with copyright law. The traditional way you show copying is similarity (and access). Which no longer really means anything because you now have databases of billions of works, which are public (so everyone has access), and computers that can efficiently process them all to find the existing work which is most similar to any new one. And if you put those two works next to each other they're going to look similar to a human because it's the 99.9999999th percentile nearest match from a database of a billion images, regardless of whether the new one was actually generated from the existing one. It's the same reason YouTube Content ID has false positives -- except that its database only includes major Hollywood productions. A large image database would have orders of magnitude more.
I think you're missing a /s
"...plaintiffs Dick Glass and Semen Brodsky."

Truth really is stranger than fiction. You could not have asked for a funnier pair of names for that lawsuit.
For microphone access:

```Turn off Microphone access?
All apps will be blocked from using the microphone
Apps will still work, but they won't be able to access
any sounds from the microphone. For example, you
can still make and receive calls, but the other person
won't be able to hear you.```
You have a source on that? I used to be a lineageOS user and I always wondered why privacy guard disappeared.
Node do allow you to declare what node version supported in your package.json. The definition is there, but there isn't any tool that read the declaration and switch to it accordingly. I feel it is somewhat half-assed. But is could also caused by the fact the entity that distribute the package (npm) and node binaries (various of linux repository) isn't the same group of people. So there isn't really anyone can do anything about it unless we get something like corepack someday. (probably someone should name it 'corenode' ?)
Why is that strange? Is there someone currently doing it better?
>The new Mx series of macs is just a better value than most high-end laptop theses days

?

I just recently bought a laptop and when I was comparing benchmarks, I didn't see Apple anywhere near the top of the list for CPU single or multithreaded. Not that I remotely care about CPU speeds, my number 1 focus was VRAM. Made it an easy decision since you basically pick something with Nvidia and high VRAM.
Now that stupid song is stuck in my head, thanks a lot...
Along with that the OPM had a huge data breach a few years ago that leaked all the private data about everyone who had gone through the security background investigation.

I'm not about to endure that anal exam again, which also demanded time from my friends and neighbors and former employers, just so that the government can divulge it all.

I'd consider doing classified work again but the cloak and dagger aspect of the hiring process has got to go. In this day and age all they need is my name and SSN to find out anything they need to know about me.
Yes, Chris Morris played Denholm.
Android introduced the approximate location option (I believe it was in version 11) as a per-app toggle in the permission settings.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6179507?hl=en#:~:....
To me the real question is. Technical feasibility aside.

Would the cell phone manufacturers (Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, Xiaomi, etc) say no when faced with the possibility of losing market share in France. Because of a law pushed through under the cover of security. Many a liberties have slipped under that blanket cover called security.

I think they will put in this feature if it's not already there.
Sure. Of course there are actually software developers out there in the world that read and write code. After all, that's where all this software in the world actually comes from.

But for the other 85+% of people in the profession its basically a game of AdLibs. Fill in the blank. That's why there is such heavy reliance on things like frameworks, dependencies, and Invented Here Syndrome (people who don't trust their own or teammates code). That's why you have expert beginners, because you can get really masterful at coloring with crayons.

Try to take any of this color by numbers nonsense away and see immediate full on emotional apocalypse. It's not a choice. The number one priority is to retain employment, and if your employer has failed to provide you the preparation or environment necessary to perform with confidence this is what you get.
Worse, you can't even initiate conversations; if you've denied contacts access, the other user has to message you first.

At least for me on Android, which is wild.
So all the video games then. Well it's one of the most profitable software field so they are certainly not unpopular.
Considering most mobile phone operator would require you to install additional software to be able to use their network and that they would most likely cooperate with the authority if asked by the justice department.
Do you have any reference for that pressure from Google? I thought it was because during one of the major version merges the underlying code changed so much that the entire feature would've needed reimplementing from scratch, like many other Cyanogenmod era features.

Edit: source here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28096873

Privacy Guard also wasn't as complete as XPrivacy (and its evolutions) were. It's a shame that the feature disappeared, but I don't think it mattered much to begin with.
Has been available for a while in U.S./Canada [0]. Works on a limited pre-approved set of highways, disengages before sharp turns and in poor visibility, but yes, takes care of routine straight line driving very well.

Also, requires paid subscription after the initial 3 years (the rationale is that they need to "index" and update the compatible roads).

[0] https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/ford-bluecruise-version-1...
Here's an idea:
(medium-complexity) port of android to TCB which partitions /hardware/ (cpu-cache, RAM), on a per app basis. Android's app-based permissions API doesn't require too much work to do this.

My perspective:
Either cheap-monolithic-SOCs get really cheap, (for low end devices), with long-term-support, and low power, or compartmentalised architectures start to gain the traction that will kill of SOCs.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - I get different results, see the PR.
You say "very regularly" but when was the last time you saw/heard about that happening? I'm in the UK and I saw that Hawaii story and I can't remember hearing about anything similar for years. So my conclusion is that, out of an 8bn population, one or two making such a mistake once every few years is nothing.