skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there's nothing the kids can be doing that won't wait for that

There are plenty of things kids - especially young kids - will do that require you to push tasks back. Like a vomit, poo, or spillage situation needing immediate attention. Or throwing a tantrum if you try to bring them back upstairs where the pills are (thus waking everyone else up). Not to mention that it can be exhausting if they're not sleeping well - which can be half the time - and it's tough to remember every little thing when you're exhausted.

> If you drank so much that it rendered you unconscious ... that's not exactly an unavoidable necessity of life

You asked "how much time does it take to swallow a pill". The convenience of that depends on people's lifestyles. Lots of people will wake up at 7am in the week, go out and have a few drinks on Friday/Saturday, and wake up whenever/wherever they wake up the next day. That is not an extreme situation. It's a great freedom to dynamically adapt when you go to bed and when you wake up. Requiring a change to that lifestyle is hardly evidence that something is trivially simple.
> "Xenomorph" is not any sort of official in-universe term for these things

In his briefing (about 23 minutes in in the Disney+ version of Aliens), Gorman says “all we know is there is still no contact with the colony, and a xenomorph may be involved.”
The examples were not honest at the time. They only seem so to you through the lens of history. You think the banana companies plainly said "we want to change the government, kill any opposition if necessary, just to make more money"? That's just our view now. Because there's nothing more to be gained from clouding the issue. They made the money, time has passed, there's no way to reach back and change anything. At the time, they pretended they had other reasons, to get support from people who didn't understand the situation. Just like it happens now.
They've released a Warcraft Battle Chest which includes remasters of those games at three times the price (but also includes Warcraft 3), hoping to capture those old game sales into a more expensive offering. Awful for consumers to not just have both options, but shareholders > consumers for public companies unfortunately.
not quite as helpful, but this reminded me of:
https://wordly.org/wordle-games/haskle
"a wordle clone for learning haskell functions"
Not everyone has read everything that's ever been posted to HN. There's some utility in reposting, which I think is evident based on how many upvotes this has gotten. I'd never seen this and I'm here almost every day.

If you've already seen this, and aren't interested in another look then just move on.
Aren't the anecdotes in the article about students who actually turn up and study?
Not sure if this counts but my original Canon 5D is still my favorite camera. It came out in 2005 which is almost 20 years ago. I've tried many other cameras but always come back to my 5D. I don't think it's nostalgia though, it just works really well, I love using it and I love the results.
Then they’ll give it away for free.
Yeah but how does it make any business sense for Broadcom to be doing this? They could have raised prices 100% and fewer people would flee and they'd make more money overall. 1,000% price raises are just plain extortion.
So:

India is an example of a country where there's plenty of things that are difficult there -- the health, education, nutrition is improving and they are stable enough and generating their own government revenue enough that it's very likely that 20 years from now people will be dramatically better off and it's kind of a laboratory to try things that then when you prove them out in India, you can take to other places

Interpreted as:

Bill Gates says he uses India as a laboratory for testing new drugs on us. And our govt allows this evil man & his foundations to use us as guinea pigs! Shocking and shameful!

Not trying to defend Gates, but that's extremely taken out of context.
It's called "an entrance exam".
> is particularly competitive on either processor or GPU architecture nor fabrication.

Who is then? Apple is of course still ahead in lower power chips. But Apple is not in the the desktop/workstation/server market and there are hardly any alternatives to AMD or Intel there.

e.g. M2 Ultra Apple's fastest "desktop" CPU is slower than the 14700K you can get for $350. Seems pretty competitive...
> Today’s young adults grew up in a time when their childhoods were documented with smartphone cameras instead of dedicated digital or film cameras.

I get that this is a ridiculous nit-pick to kick off a comment, but how do they define "young adult?" Because I'm not sure that that statement is actually true just yet.

I have two Gen Z daughters, the youngest having been born in 2001. Smart phones didn't really start to land on the scene until 2008. It then took a few years until everyone had one and the cameras were good enough that people were getting rid of their digital cameras and switching to smart phones.

Granted, my daughters are several years older now than an 18 year-old, which I would consider to be the "youngest" possible "young adult."

Even then, an 18 year-old today was born in 2006. I suppose that part of their childhood was likely captured on smart phones rather than digital cameras. But being old enough that I remember the 00s like it was just yesterday, and having two "young adult" children whose childhoods' were almost entirely documented using digital cameras, even having packs of old printed photos that were printed at the same places you would get film developed ... I just can't help but question the statement that today's young adults had their childhoods documented on smartphones. Today's children and young teenagers, sure. But the modern smartphone, with camera, actually hasn't been with us for a full generation quite just yet... as much as it feels like it.
Because those types are not object types, so they don't have methods associated with them at all. This is unlike, say, CLR languages in which all types are object types.

There's been research on modular implicits for OCaml to solve this more generally, but that's not landing upstream anytime soon.
Thanks for listening and commenting in a thoughtful way. I'm currently upgrading a 20 year old sailboat. I come across parts that I don't recognize and I have thought about trying to image search what is in my hand.

This summer I was identifying every weed in my yard because every photo has that info. I also try to keep spell check turned off.

Your point about sycophantic ai is what I'm looking for. I see it as an opportunity to remove the white noise of the internet. I also understand your point about regarding the dangers.

My response is that with ai being no different than any technology.

Know thy self.
> Or is a custom DE the advantage

Yes, as a learning-first (teaching) platform, the custom DE is an advantage.

But further, the R.Pi does not need to be an over-sized solution or lead a benchmark with a top score. It just needs to be fast enough for learning and hacking with GPIO.

A computer doesn't need to have a gigahertz burst mode just to run an efficient little OS for coding.

As for Wayland, it only recently became the default WM. But it is nice to have.
Having been in the field for some time and having some contacts, I must say: 100% of the companies where I get some insights are currently either already building alternatives or reviewing their options with a strong intention to leave VMware behind. And in many cases this is quite a huge task, but certainly doable with the required momentum.
I think you’re vastly underestimating how hard it is to pick winners and stifle competition.

Using your logic, if it was so easy why didn’t Google stop OpenAI? Meta? Perplexity?
Came here looking for a comment about Australia. Eight years ago made the mistake of pursuing a post-grad degree there, by far one of the worst educational experiences.
Isn't this already common knowledge?

My partner attended the RCA recently. I'm their cohort of around 80 students, 60 of them were from China, and around 80 percent of whom had English so poor you couldn't hold a conversation. I don't mean to be rude it is true.

During safety briefing they'd, say, walk down a hall, then lecturer would say "turn right" and they'd turn left.

The remaining 20 were also international but had decent English.

Doesn't matter though because the only "teaching" that happens is lectures throughout the term. If you can whip out a good final assessment you get the degree all the same.
The subtext of the subtext you mention in your first assertion hinges on the assumption the UK is where these people eventually want to live, once they have that education. A significant number of the British don’t even want to live here, post Brexit, and neither do most of the international students I’ve met.

As for the second assertion, that’s just false. I had to apply for a graduate degree as an international student before my citizenship was awarded, the course requirements were explicitly identical, the only different was vastly higher fees and proof of both funding capacity and English language proficiency.
Hmm. I heard that, but didn't put it together.

Magnesium Iron Silicate is Olivine. It has a very distinctive olive-green color: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivine.

Cummingtonite is Magnesium Iron Silicate Hydroxide. It's not a plausible eye-color: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummingtonite.

I guess it's possible they were making this joke and flubbed it by leaving out a word?

(I looked it up because I live near Cummington MA, which it's named after)
Wholeheartedly agree. I much prefer the pre-David unknown origin Alien. And the Dark Horse era space jockeys over the engineers.
You have to learn the rules of every game you play, every board game rules are simple enough that you can learn them just by reading, the same can not be said for computer games whose rules often are hard to grasp even after hundreds of hours of having played them.

So if you like knowing how the game you play works then board games is such a breath of fresh air compared to computer games where so many mechanics are black boxes that you have to reverse engineer to figure out what they do because they aren't described anywhere.

Like, exactly how does armor reduce damage? How do defense affect chance to get hit? When does this conditional effect apply? All such things are often very opaque etc in computer games, since they don't have to describe them to you to make the game playable, and that makes it extremely frustrating to try to learn the game, you can play the game but you can't make any decisions since you don't know what anything does.

Even worse, computer game tooltips and manuals often lie to you, giving you the wrong numbers or describe it in a different way than it was coded so it doesn't do what it says it does. A very common example is percentages, what is 150% damage bonus? Sometimes it adds 50% damage, sometimes it adds 150% damage, you never really know and sometimes the same game uses both versions. That never happens in board games since the written text is the implementation.
There are "colleges" that are literally just fronts for student visas. Canada just uncovered 10,000 fake student visas; the Australian government recently closed 150 colleges that don't even actually exist.

All of these 'students' are now illegally in these countries, and realistically most will not be caught and deported. Perhaps the worst part is that even at the scale of this fraud, it pales in comparison to the mind-boggling number of students being legally permitted entry to these countries, most of them from India.
A friend brought out a "Camp Snap"[0] camera at an event the other day, and the thing everybody enjoyed about it was that it didn't immediately bring the whole internet into our event. It doesn't even have a screen.

I would pay good money for a digital camera that could take photos as well as the average flagship phone and fit as easily in a pocket (and I'm a woman, so I'm including sometimes pathetic little pockets), but they could only be tweaked and edited later, on a computer or companion device.

I think that desire for spaces occupied only by the people in them, not the whole rest of the world and its opinions, explains even more of this trend than the aesthetic of the photos.

[0] https://www.campsnapphoto.com/collections/camp-snap-screen-f...
Exactly this.

There’s a big money in this which cash strapped universities are naturally going to take advantage of.

Employers in India, an example because I know this, don’t care much someone has a degree from UK university even if it’s a prestigious one.

The single biggest factor for an Indian student to go for a graduate degree in developed country is emigration.
Hasn't changed, there was an article back in September saying that the relationship between AMD and laptop OEMs is rocky:

> Multiple reports, citing sources at laptop OEMs, have covered what is said to be poor support, chip supply, and communication from AMD with its laptop partners, leading to generally poor execution. Chip consultancy firm AC Analysis says AMD's shift of focus to AI and data centers has led to a "'Cold War ice age' in relationships with OEMs," leading to a loss of trust from its partners.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/amds-laptop-oems-...
> I never understood the prejudice against poor English speakers. How else are you supposed to learn a language than to be immersed in the culture before you are fluent?

You don't need to be immersed in order to be fluent. I spoke English fluently years before ever coming to an English speaking country.

But that is, to me, one of)the points of this story. The constant dumbing down of everything under the sun in our society. You could demand that someone has to do their homework and learn to speak English, but instead we accept that the only way to do it is just by hanging around and acquire effortlessly it via osmosis. Why? Why is it acceptable that people don't have to make an effort?

My prejudice isn't against people who don't speak English fluently. It's against lazy people. Someone might be hard working and disciplined and just have no interest in moving abroad or learning English - there's nothing wrong with that.
Raise prices.
Layoff staff.
Less support.
= more cash flow (Short term).

In order to sell?, spinoff?, or use the cash to finance something else?
You get fired for doing good work, in many places out there.
For anyone asking what this has to do with NCSI, have a look at the README of the parent repo: https://github.com/stryngs/edgedressing/tree/main

It turns out that (modulo some details) it's possible to trick a Windows computer connected to a network you control into opening a browser that points to a URL of your choosing. That's because NCSI initiates probes using plain HTTP rather than HTTPS, so the usual injection attacks can be carried out without the user having to take any action of their own.

(The directory OP linked to appears to be a payload they just added to the repo that fingerprints users who are presumably on the receiving end of such an attack; the actual code to carry out the attack in the first place is outside of that directory.)

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The interesting part about that is that that's more or less what captive portals are supposed to do. One imagines that where this gets interesting is when one couples it with one of those attacks where you convince someone's computer to disconnect from a public WiFi hotspot and connect to your computer instead; then you can force a page to pop up without them realizing you're not the owner of the WiFi hotspot.

I wonder how easy it would be to carry out a phishing attack via such a mechanism? Force a captive portal prompt to launch on an unsuspecting user and have it render UI that looks like Windows and tells them they need to re-enter their Microsoft account credentials or credit card number or something.
There are also some SQL parsing libraries for python that you can use to restrict things further. But opening the DB in RO mode is a good start.

Another concern with tools like this is query performance and not accidentally overloading your database with some stupidly expensive query.
Well obviously? I mean you'd be entirely screwed because of the sanctions.

Then again Yandex kind of pulled it off.
As the comment below alludes to, how many people are just going to import requests as r and then break something else instead of just hitting the client?
They do have one (or more?) dedicated PR teams, given the websites, videos, etc.
Do you have anything you can cite that supports your point about this being a back channel immigration method?

I live in a city that has a huge number Chinese students, who I regularly see coming and going from the campuses. Not all top universities, either. It does seem to me like these foreign student communities can be overly insular but I've never seen any evidence that they're illegally overstaying at any scale. As they generally come from wealthy backgrounds and societies that heavily emphasise family values, I am skeptical that they'd get higher quality of life in the UK than their home countries.
>one of my professors finally got so frustrated she paused the course for three weeks to teach the class how to write a 5-paragraph essay, with introduction, three points, and a conclusion.

Our teachers in school went through massive amounts of grammar rules, literature and poems. They never taught us how to write in a simple structured way.

Only when I studied for the GRE did the learning material really break down the process into simple steps.

I think it's kind of a problem that some teachers can't or won't touch these basic topics, maybe assuming other teachers already did.
I don't doubt this is happening (I have even seen "essay mill" ads targeted at these students), and I am pretty sure cheating happens in every corner of the world. But hey, can we get a sense of the actual scale this is happening to understand the issue better?

> She [Yasmin] later found out that of the 100 students on most of her modules, "maybe 80 or 90 of them bought assignments" from so-called "essay mills" based overseas.

> He [A Russell Group university professor] tells File on 4 that 70% of his students at master’s degree level over the past five years did not have sufficient English language skills to be on the course

Come on BBC, you are writing an entire story based on random people's very questionable estimates? "Maybe 80 or 90", "sufficient English language skills", without concrete data or more precise definition of what constitutes "sufficient".
could you undo the abbreviations please?
We're talking about Apple, though?
ZKsync Smart Sign-On
Is the GPU also supported when using a mainline kernel?
How the Shoggoth Meme Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I
I work at an IT outsourcing company that also has some VMWare farms (though not sure if we reach 20k VMs).

What I picked up is that before the acquisition, price was mostly determined by CPUs on the hypervisor, now it's mostly by RAM.

Which means we now have to optimize hypervisor hardware to a different licensing model.

I don't think we've seen 10x price hikes, but it could possible if a provider has optimized hard for a metric that is now less relevant, and/or has difference licensing deals.

Caveat: I've picked all that up second-hand through the grapevine, I'm not working with our virtualization farms directly. So not 100% on top of what's going on.
No, I think that was the price from the Spain warehouse and included tax. Just 10 EUR shipping. Aliexpress got better with showing you the real prices.
Maybe they killed a hundred similar companies and those three slipped through?
Fun fact: the first Rust compiler was written in OCaml
Yes, traditional social media requires me to create an account on its website and jump through various hoops before I can contact the person. Social media is also geared towards broadcasting and will discourage you from DMing people. Mastodon is closer to email, but hardly anyone uses it.
Different desktop but KDE still has the wobbly windows as an option, I enabled them out of nostalgia recently.
for companies YC likes and believes in post-accelerator. YC definitely discriminates from that perspective- they choose which startups they think have the most promise during any given batch, and they give those founders preferential treatment.

Based on what I’ve read, this seems backwards, I think YC chooses founders with the most promise and gives their companies preferential treatment because promise is only the ability to do things.

But I could be wrong and probably am.
Consider a worm attacking the judgment and inhibition center.
The post fails to mention that the controversy with Marie curie was that right after the death of her husband, she quickly started a romantic relationship with Langevin, one of the students of the husband.
I've used Go in the past few years (but I never find the time / attention span to get any further than day 6), I really like it for this kind of thing because it's pragmatic, minimal environment setup / "sidequests", most things you need (reading/parsing files, etc) are builtin, performance is great and close to the metal (few hidden performance pitfalls), etc.

I can't compare with Rust though because I've never used it. From a very superficial point of view though, it feels less pragmatic. But since AoC doesn't need memory safety or whatever criteria you have for production software, pragmatism and performance for later challenges are more important than safety.
It is strange how High School does not teach these skills. Structured writing of different types would be useful in most office jobs. And you only really need to teach a handful of structures to prepare people for most things.

After that you can teach grammar and then art...
> A day and a half is slow even in software,

We're talking about half a day, not a day and a half. Or really, less than half a day.

> and software doesn't have things like the example given of wanting a wall put up then asking for it to be taken down again.

The wall example was taking place over "weeks". If there is still an urgent question about wall-building a few days out then it sounds like someone waited much too long and that's the real problem, not the extra four hours.
Indeed, and I'd say that the quality of learning at the prestigious institutions is not much different from the less prestigious ones. Mostly their prestige is self-sustained through being selective amongst their applicants (and they are reasonably good at selecting for ability when they want to be). That does let them dump more work onto students and expect they'll keep up, but also it's quite hard to fail a UK university degree once you get into it, if you keep at it (generally they will try to find some way to award you a third).

(And yeah, the fixed prices for a degree in the UK for UK residents results in all kinds of strange flows. Not only are international degrees subsidizing everything else, humanities and mathematics, being generally much cheaper to teach, wind up subsidizing the science, engineering, and especially medical degrees)
I had the same experience in engineering school in Canada. People born and raised in the Belle Province could not write in French at all. They made the French equivalent of 'your'/'you're' mistakes in reports and even employer-facing work. Their writing was elementary, to put it mildly.
China bans exports to US key high-tech materials
If the action of a company doesn't seem to make sense, ask yourself: could you imagine an incentive structure within the company that could lead to such actions?