skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been considering a postgraduate degree and decided to try a short in-person course at a top London university to see if it was the right fit for me. My goal was to network and be involved in meaningful discussions. However, I found that nearly the entire class consisted of overseas students with limited spoken English skills. Most of their class material had already been annotated in Chinese before sessions even began, and students largely stuck to their own groups, speaking Chinese both in and out of class.

While this might be a great networking experience for them, it was far from what I was looking for. It made me realise that spending over £35k on a postgraduate degree feels less like an investment in education and more like buying your way into a profession.

That said, I’m still on the lookout for a good postgraduate program, especially something in artificial intelligence or business for people with technical backgrounds. If you’ve got any recommendations, let me know.
> looking for some URLs to show clients.

What's wrong showing URLs to clients ? /s
The UK suddenly going "the foreigners don't speak our language well enough" feels quite similar to what's happening next door in the Netherlands:

The latest elections swung university policy from "do them all in English to promote international exchanges" to "revert to Dutch and make our language great again". Some 20-30% of foreign students stay in the country and the tax income they generate easily outweighs the limited subsidies they receive compared to Dutch students (or so a study said that I read some years ago, iirc it concluded we can give them the same level of subsidies no problem), plus of course the international contacts and culture exchange it promotes. The number of students that won't come to NL because they can't participate anymore (let's be real, who's going to learn this niche language in high school to the point where they can fluently work with it in classes and exams?) seems like a downturn in every way, including that our own students will be worse at using English (you learn a language by using it, not just from textbooks)

I know from experience that the teachers, native students, and foreign students, all don't speak perfect English, but at least for the one I did there was an in-person intake test and, in class, it wasn't a real barrier

As for the fraud that's mentioned in the article, where you pay someone else do do your coursework, that problem exists also outside of students that struggle with the language
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Nowadays there are "language editions" (e.g. GHC2024) packing many stable language extensions together. It's definitely safe to turn those on, from a maintenance point of view.

Edit: Link to docs: https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/cont...
Why not proxmox instead? I have never heard of OpenNebula before
Maybe simply the moat? Integration with networks? What is the alternative? Xen? Proxmox?
And with Labour there will be no justice here. Tax payers just have to keep paying more while the burden is just increased daily and the actual tax payers get less. Hopefully this will be the end of Labour for good.
> I get it’s important to protect the right of authors and companies

It really isn't.
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But it is literally the PM/PO's job to establish and prioritize product features and timelines. If security is a priority, then it should be communicated and prioritized appropriately instead of being always set back in favour of shiny new features, as it often happens.
Astronomers deal blow to theory that Venus once had liquid water on its surface
Not in a university in England on the UK tax payer's dime.
Large Language Models are trained on a fixed dataset, which limits their ability to handle private or recent information. They can sometimes "hallucinate", providing incorrect yet believable answers. The Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework addresses this issue by using external documents to improve the LLM's responses through in-context learning. RAG ensures that the information provided by the LLM is not only contextually relevant but also accurate and up-to-date. If you want to learn more about it along with a code implementation of every technique, you should check this repo out: https://github.com/athina-ai/rag-cookbooks
I have an M1 at work. Anything off the beaten path fills me with dread and / or poor performance because I end up emulating it.
Student visas in the UK aren't indefinite: they do give you a foothold of sorts, but you can only stay for two years after graduation unless you move to some other visa (like a skilled worker visa sponsored by an employer, similar to H1B).

It's mostly a money thing: universities are forced to charge below cost (on average) to residents for degrees, so they try to attract international students which they can charge much more for. While some might want to immigrate, plenty more go back home afterwards (The UK has a lot of international prestige for education, so it's extremely common for rich families to send their kids to the UK, including boarding schools below the university level)
The narrowness makes it incorrect.

Galleries are necessarily behind the curve because they're businesses and have to stay afloat. You typically don't go to a gallery to see something new, but to see the works of an already established artist.

Meanwhile interesting, innovative art happens outside of galleries, but you have to look for it, as there's an oversupply of aspiring artists.

Bottom line is you can't base the whole art scene on the opinions of art galleries, as they play it safe and art is strictly about the opposite.
The first generation iPhone will enter "adulthood" on Janury 9th, 2025.
Depends on what you're doing I guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_platform_virtual... there's a bunch

vmware had this magic sauce that worked before hardware virtualization support was common. In around 2000, the only realistic options was either vmware or vm/esa on a mainframe. It hasn't been like that for a long, long time.
I've tried watching classics like the old Lynch take on Dune or 2001, and I couldn't finish them; I don't believe it's entirely down to phones / tech-induced attention deficit, but simply due to different filmmaking styles of the time, where I presume visuals and the experience had a much higher impact on their own. As someone else metioned, Villeneuve's films echo these slow burners, but they're a bit more modernised. But, I need to make time to watch films like that, ideally on my own because in a house with family and youth with both clinically diagnosed ADHD and a chronic youtube/tiktok/gaming-with-voice-chat addiction, getting three undisturbed quiet hours to myself is difficult.
RAG is amazing. For all the RAG techniques that are being used by enterprises today, here is an amazing repo that provides Google Collab Links for each technique implementation along with an evaluation framework fully implemented. Check out: https://github.com/athina-ai/rag-cookbooks
Broadcom aren't charging 10x for the same thing.

They are just not selling products individually anymore.

If you previously only licensed a single product, your only option now is to buy everything under a single license.

We are already using a lot of VMWare products, not only do we now have access to more, our overall price went down.

I think medium sized customers have a choice, switch from their Broadcom products, or move more to Broadcom.
Canada and Australia, obviously, have different compliance regimes.

The expectations from the Home Office for Level 4 Visas are quite well documented and have very specific conditions that education providers must show to satisfy, e.g. the students who hold these Visas attend all their classes. A provider (University) can have their ability to sponsor Visas removed if their compliance isn't adequate.

Part of the reasons Universities in the UK record attendance at all is because of the compliance regime from the Home Office. The story therefore is that these universities are inadequately complying.
Absolutely. Like those terrible filters that are supposed to make video look like it was recorded on VHS. They always make the results far worse than VHS actually was in practice.
English itself wasn't the issue. The whole postgraduate study was a joke. I came to the UK to study my second master's degree, and reading the university's website, I thought I would learn a lot and improve my English.

The schedule was to have one module per week, 9-5 from Monday to Friday, and then you're on your own! And it wasn't even continuous; there was a gap of a few weeks between some of them. There were some "Language Support" groups where they started by saying, "We are not paid to do this. We are volunteering," which translates to "do not have any sort of expectation of help."

I then started asking questions to see if I had higher expectations or the this is the norm. The answer was, there are "red bricks" universities which might have what I have expected, but the rest are just commercial shops with no academic goals.
> An even better example would be the fake baby peacocks that took over Google image search for a while.

I hadn't seen this before and just checked and they are still there.
I currently live in Vietnam so this is big news here, I think what makes it tougher is that she is so unlikable. She's almost certainly guilty of exactly what she was accused of and despite what she says now when she's facing the death penalty, I think her biggest regret about it is getting caught.

THAT SAID, no person deserves the death penalty and certainly not for stealing money. I also think that she's clearly a talented business woman and she could use those skills she learned embezzling to help the government crack down on corruption. Maybe there's a reason why that's not an option...

I hope she can raise the money to prevent the death penalty because Vietnam didn't deserve to have it's money stolen and she doesn't deserve to die. But if she does I don't think you're going to find many wet eyes here.
I think farmers love them because of their association with peace and prosperity.

Compare to the idea that sparrows in a barn are good luck — I think the causation is the other way around: if you are prosperous enough that you can be feeding your horses better than bare subsistence, there will be undigested grains in their manure, and sparrows come live in your barn.

Similarly, storks, being near the top of their food chain and migratory, probably prefer to nest in villages when there are large* numbers of people plowing regularly, but prefer unpopulated swamps when war or other disturbance has significantly reduced the local agricultural activity?

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oCoVXcZ59Q (chorus: "Stork on the roof / Peace on Earth")

* just like autism causes vaccines, babies bring the storks?
Teens can't get off their phones. Here's what some schools are doing about it
Personality and Eating
That must be highly localized. We were taught essay structure in middle school. And they was reinforced through high school English, history, and other courses. I grew up in northern VA (DC suburbs) and was in honors/gifted classes from 3rd grade on.
Completely true. I have seen this happen first hand many times. Last year I interviewed (online) a Chinese student who had recently graduated from a prestigious Australian university. It became quickly clear that he was using AI to answer our questions. One we steered our questions towards something more AI resistant, his English devolved into something barely comprehensible.
Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring a SRE and DevOps Engineer in Europe
VMWare has been dying a death of 1000 cuts for years. It's been passed around to now the third owner. They created an entire market and have been watching it erode away.
CrazyGames | https://about.crazygames.com/ | REMOTE (in Europe) | Full-time | Multiple roles

With recent technologies such as WebGPU and WebAssembly, the browser is quickly becoming a powerful gaming platform. High-quality 3D graphics and near-native level performance are becoming possible without the need for downloads, apps, or platform-specific development. Our browser games platform is already reaching more than 35 million people per month. We are self-funded, profitable, remote-first, and fast-growing.

We are currently looking for multiple people on the product and engineering side to bring our product to the next level.

Please note that we're looking for people who can work on a European timezone and are ideally based in Europe (which includes the UK for those in doubt).

* Product Engineer: https://crazygames.recruitee.com/o/remote-product-engineer-b

* VP of Ad Monetization (also considering less commercial and more Head of Ad Technology profiles): https://crazygames.recruitee.com/o/vp-of-ad-monetization

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Well, simple games are like simple procedural generation, just like how procedurally generated items all feel the same very soon every game of chess feels the same. To some they don't care about that they just want to play the same puzzle over and over, each chess board state is like another sudoku, to others they just want to consume more content designed by humans and then you need more elaborate rules.

To the ones who want human designed things chess is like this vast procedurally generated forest that just has trees everywhere with different branch layouts, so you have to climb them in different ways.
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Yes, but does a student in China fly to the UK to sit the exam? It it administered by faculty at the university on university grounds? Sounds costly for something whose purpose is to filter.
How life goes on after an earthquake: The ‘Lego schools’ of Lombok
Ressentiment in the Manosphere: Resistance in the Incel Hatred Pipeline
The BBC article says:

> loans and cash over more than 10 years through a web of shell companies, amounting to a total of $44bn (£34.5bn).

So nearly 10% of GDP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42304524
bro! i thought i was the only one, i also program to listen to a lot of metal, i even talked about it in a post months ago https://chat-to.dev/post?id=425
Off topic but if I may. The way people use percentages to express multiples is confusing. A doubling is a 100% increase. So a 200% increase is 3x, and so on. Then at some point we forget about the +1 and 1000% is "10 times the sum it previously paid for software licenses". Just a pet peeve I guess : )
Only my belief that the Chinese government does propaganda would make me doubt any of it.

One thousand British people downvoting something that mocks, say, Boris Johnson seems very plausible, even those Johnson is unpopular and the UK population is less than a tenth the size of China.
A lot of people use it. I for one use it because it is simple to manage, setting up shared storage is a breeze, live migration is super easy. I don't use any of the fancy NSX stuff and whatnot because I don't believe they add any value.

I was looking at Proxmox, but I kind of got lost in the documentation when it comes to shared storage and high-availability, meaning restarting VMs on another host if one host fails.

RedHat is just as expensive as VMware used to be, but it had less features, so it is not really an option.
Funnily enough, one of my pet peeves is how many articles you see around, perhaps written for "SEO," that always end in a "conclusion," as if the author was still writing in the same essay format they were required in school. Reviews, listicles, etc. Always ending with "conclusion" as if that was mandatory.
good option too
You’d have thought the UK would have seen this pattern in the US. Our “non-profit” unis have been wealth-seeking and doing similar things for decades.
US chips are 'no longer safe' to buy, Chinese industry bodies say
>It's also sad that we've given up the ability to contact people directly although everyone is online.

It's easier to understand this if we re-state it from the perspective of the receivers instead of the senders:

We've given up on publicly displaying our non-intermediary contact info such as our email addresses or phone numbers to avoid abuse and spam from random people / stalkers / bots /
robocallers / etc trying to directly contact us.

E.g. most of us on HN have profiles with no contact info at all. (Translation: most of us don't want our HN profile to be another attack vector for anyone to spam us.)

Had an email address from 1995 for 20 years that I let go because it became useless with spam and phishing scams. Back then, I was naive about the internet and gave that email out freely. Lesson learned from that is my new email address is never given out freely or displayed on my web pages. Yes that means that random people can't contact me directly very easily. Communication friction is the inevitable consequence of society at large abusing the system.
>The issue isn't just that they dont speak English, but its highlighting the trend of just buying your degree and thus taking up the position that someone who is in a position to actually learn would be in.

In the UK there might not be a slot for the person to actually learn without the international student: they effectively subsidize residents.
Do AI features boost revenues?
They’re posting related discussions so that interested readers can read further.
Given that the UK doesn't have any kind of compulsory identity card or requirement to register your residential address, once you've entered the country once it may be fairly straightforward to overstay.
Organic maps for me too

https://organicmaps.app/

Organic Maps is the ultimate companion app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists:

Detailed offline maps with places that don't exist on other maps, thanks to OpenStreetMap

Cycling routes, hiking trails, and walking paths

Contour lines, elevation profiles, peaks, and slopes

Turn-by-turn walking, cycling, and car navigation with voice guidance and Android Auto

Fast offline search on the map

Export/import bookmarks in KML/KMZ, import GPX

Dark Mode to protect your eyes

Countries and regions don't take a lot of space

Free and open-source
The Seekstorm library is 9 MB, and the Seekstorm server executable is 8 MB, depending on the features selected in cargo.

You add the library via 'cargo add seekstorm' to your project which you anyway have to compile.

As for the server, we may add binaries for the main OS in the future.

WASM and Python bindings are on our roadmap.
Looks like that tool typically targets KVM as a source. My understanding is that Red Hat's own virtualization platform is transitioning from RHEV to OpenShift. If that is true, are you actively moving customers from vmware to OpenShift via Kubevirt?
An anecdotal one that was first published over 20 years ago (but updated for modern-day distractions) is here: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/nadd/. I'm sure it was updated anyway because it references stuff that didn't exist in 2003 yet, like Twitter, but the oldest internet archive version from 2014 seems to have the same contents. If anyone knows where the original is, do comment. But anyway, he also did a follow-up about watching films without the attention span, in 2005 already: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/movie-nadd/

Interestingly, he posits that the opposite is "information overload"; people who can't skim or skip things who are still exposed to too much input and break down for it. Of course, I want to believe this is a choice, you can turn off your phone and notifications, set up a system of critical notifications that cannot wait (which when you think about it is very little, or it's another person who has a problem with needing quick replies).
A well-educated non-native English speaker will have a different kind of exposure to the language, mostly through reading. They won't always be able to articulate themselves smoothly in everyday social situations, but they can usually write cohesive text that's mostly grammatically correct and semantically-sound.

At least this has been my case as a non-native English speaker. I usually feel awkward in a conversation among native speakers. I can't always "get" their humour and cultural references and sometimes I need longer pauses to find the most appropriate next word. This makes me feel uncomfortable and turns me into a passive listener.

When writing text however, these pauses are not visible and I tend to write only the stuff that has informational value, without all the wordplay and wittiness.
It's not on the UK taxpayers dime, quite the opposite. The higher fees that international students pay are used to subsidise the costs of educating UK students.
If you add TikTok it'll be the ultimate brainrot network.
VMware has been increasing revenue year after year [1]. That seems quite the opposite of dying?

[1] https://www.netcials.com/financial-revenue-history-usa/11246...
"Young Adult" is a weird term -- think of the book/movie genre called "young adult" or "YA" -- it isn't actually literally for people in their twenties but for children. It's like calling people like me in their 50s "middle aged" -- most of us aren't going to make it to 100.
We already know of harmful pathogens that can infect the brain, such as Borreliosis. The only jump now is the fact that there could also exist harmless bacteria.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8232152/
What strings are attached to a $24bn bailout in your economy? I imagine attention from the government and perhaps a prickly representative of your new business partner.
In many cases, the educational institution receiving a large population of foreign students is also an important regional employer that is severely underfunded. Without revenue from foreign students, such educational institutions may in fact face layoffs or closure.

It will be a hard reckoning.

From TFA:

> Vivienne Stern, chief executive of Universities UK, rejects the suggestion some overseas students are being allowed on courses with poor English language skills as a way of boosting income.

"Students will need to be able to afford the fee to study in the UK, but beyond that it’s a question of taking students who apply, and applying a merit-based criteria," [chief executive] says. "It is absolutely central that this is a system that people trust."
It's not inaccurate. More than half of the people currently living with HIV worldwide are women:

https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/infographics/girls-and-w....

https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/glob...
Buy, extract as much money as possible, then dump the carcass. I'm sure they did the math on this.