skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the author, but it sounds like he's coming from a non traditional background trying to break into the tech industry. The advice I've often seen given to these people is to move to the city and find a reputable boot camp.

Now, this was probably good advice 6 or 8 years ago. But rising rent costs, an overabundance of coding boot camps, and a relatively lower supply of jobs willing to employ boot camp grads has made that advice much more questionable.

I'm glad he abandoned that housing nonsense, but even in SF there are sane tech jobs that only expect 40 hours out of you per week.
Lol Google is savage
Another actually possible idea is to separate school funding from the local tax base. This leads to the nice public schools in rich areas and underfunded wastelands in poor urban areas.

I went to such an underfunded school. Teachers were buying classroom supplies, the ones who could afford it (usually because their So had a good job) and cared.
Pretty obvious stuff we can agree on, like "hate is wrong"

I hate mayonnaise. I guess that makes me “wrong.”

and "facts are indisputable."

1942: “The Germans are our enemies.” That was a fact.

1992: “The Germans are our friends.” That was a fact.

Facts change. Nothing in the universe is indisputable.
Actually, is it? Isn’t that a state by state thing? For the record I’m not positive but coming from an at-will State like FL that is also heavily favored to corporations, I am not certain.
Could that be the nature of Github? Doesn't it give credit to whomever merges pull requests?
It is absolutely a bug in Android.

The "bug" is that it is extremely difficult for users to install 3rd party apps securely.

If it was easier for developers to securely offer 3rd party downloads, then stuff like this wouldn't happen.
Not everyone is a certified genius like Grigori Perelman who can do great research while living in a vacuum. You need great advisors who will guide you, and fellow grad students who you can ask for help and bounce ideas off. The academic enviroment is invaluable for someone doing their PhD, and it's pretty much impossible for someone with somewhat above average intelligence (and let's face it, most PhD's are not geniuses) to do good research with just a computer.

The "all information is free and you can study anything using just a computer" is a stupid meme that doesn't work for the vast majority of people.
Which is funny, because the lack of government <-> academic information transfer is so small that any PoliSci PhD has an immediate competitive advantage in almost any bureaucratic setting (this is true at the federal and local levels).

A PhD in government pretty much guarantees that you'll be retiring after a thirty year career as a GS-15 or SES. A 150k salary plus benefits may not be high for some STEM fields, but it's definitely not something to look down on.
I like when "following standard practice, literally listed in the bug report and used 100's of times" is suddenly "counter-pr efforts"
I like when "following standard practice, literally listed in the bug report and used 100's of times" is suddenly "counter-pr efforts"

type: vulnerability is new, but if you search the public bug tracker for the phrase "This bug is subject to a 90-day disclosure deadline",

It looks like they have been pretty darn consistent about unrestricting once the patch is available. Usually faster than 7 days!
They have also held people to the 90 day requirement, and the 14 day grace extension they offer This is true even when the reporter is a googler or it affects only google software.
How Gmail happened: The inside story, as revealed by creator Paul Buchheit
I also don't think pumping up stock price to avoid a convertible bond conversion is fraud. And of course OJ is innocent too.
I like when "following standard practice, literally listed in the bug report and used 100's of times" is suddenly "counter-pr efforts"

type: vulnerability is new, but if you search the public bug tracker for the phrase "This bug is subject to a 90-day disclosure deadline", you can see it all

It looks like they have been pretty darn consistent about unrestricting once the patch is available. Usually faster than 7 days!
They have also consistently held people to the 90 day requirement, and the 14 day grace extension they offer This is true even when the reporter is a googler or it affects only google software.

This literally took me 5 minutes to look at and analyze.

Instead of bothering to even look, epic decided it'd be better to issue a press release (as part of their pr efforts, ironically enough).

If they want to complain (like others have!) and debate what the policy should be, that is one thing.

However, the complaint that Google has treated them differently is clearly false.

If they want to argue otherwise, the data is all right there for them to use.
Heaven forbid anyone without a PhD engineer something like a spacecraft. We shouldn't let NASA get away with so many amateurs on the payroll.
I see what you're saying, but the P3D's speed was top left on the screen, felt like a non-issue. Maybe driving it longer I'd feel differently, was a test drive.
That little voice in the back of your head that tells you that you're shit, is a liar. Depression is a constant fight with that voice.
Agreed, but this is a false dichotomy. Google "happiest countries in the world" - the leaders are all countries with high taxes, universal healthcare, universal education and a strong social safety net.
That’s an incredibly naive and narrow view. In most of life’s circumstances “facts” can’t even fully be established, and are better referred to as “strong beliefs”. And the definition of “hate” depends on perspective as well as varies over time. Moreover, there are circumstances where hate is definitely not “wrong”.
Small “L” liberal means either “open to new behavior or values” or “seeking knowledge”. That’s not (or shouldn’t be) political.
Effective research is not always published. There are volumes of private research in technical disciplines you will never hear about. There is not enough data available for you to declare confidently that the PhD is a strong requirement for real research. Furthermore, especially in the field of computer science, you should really run the numbers on how many of ex. the 10 authors on each of the 100 Google papers put out each year had a PhD.

Additionally, nothing has been done to separate the issue of correlation and causation. If research capable individuals pursue a PhD because it interests them, who's to say that their research capability came from the PhD versus it being intrinsic.

One can learn a lot from a PhD. But saying that it's a practical requirement for research in this modern era of information access is without definitive evidence.
Fairly often, especially for founding CEOs since so much of the company tends to be tied to the founders. And generally when a founder CEO is ousted there's two reasons: 1) there's an incredible amount of bad press (think of Uber and Travis or Papa John's John Schnatter) or 2) the board/investors think that they need to replace the founder with an experienced CEO (think Google). Here, only the first applies.
> But I think if he's going to use Twitter to talk about such things, his tweets need to carry the same weight as an equivalent SEC filing.

A tweet is not an SEC filing and it can never be one. It’s 140 characters typed on your phone. It is not reviewed by corporate counsel. It is not reviewed at all.

I’m going to step out on a limb and say this is an important mode of communication. I like having this window into Musk’s operations.

But a tweet is just a tweet. It’s never the whole story. Here we are dissecting two single words, and some people are saying jail a man.

I say no two words on Twitter can jail a man. Fine him a million dollars a word if you have to.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17838887
If you read Stamos' post more carefully, he explains exactly why he did that, and given that his alternative was to engage Facebook legal directly, the researcher should probably be glad that's what ended up happening.
Submit a bug report - treat documentation like code in that sense. You're probably not the only one confused by this.
TNG never really explored the dynamics of the post-scarcity society - the setting of the show is really to explicitly avoid having to do that by putting the characters in a context where scarcity exists (a starship on the frontier).
Great! How does it mislead us? Can't you give us any clue?
There is no question more intensely political than the question of which values people think “shouldn’t be political”.
To discover information pertinent to my immediate task, 1000% agree. I like podcasts when I'm driving or walking the dog, otherwise I struggle to keep following. But for mindless times, they're a boon. Otherwise it's just talk radio or music, (which I also do, but there are alot of times I just want to hear a good story).
VTK - Visualization ToolKit - strongly recommended if you want to work on a widely used, probably defacto, scientific visualization library, a great 3D domain to work on IMHO.

Backed by a ton of resources, documentation and excellent community; that will be fun.

https://www.aosabook.org/en/vtk.html, is a good start.
Military experts claim that Iran’s new fighter jet is a US plane from the 1970s
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This is clearly not what happened, and never was planned to happen.

The bonds don’t convert for another year.

You don’t send a tweet about something that will immediately have a thousand people banging down your door for answers and expect it to move the stock price a year later.

There was zero personal financial incentive for Musk to deceive with the tweet.

As it happens, the criminal statute requires that a purchase or sale of securities takes place, so I can’t see how it applies.
My statement is not that people can't benefit from a PhD, but that it is not a strict requirement. You are presenting a strawman.
Having worked several years on critical embedded systems in aerospace, I would tend to agree with you.

But on the other hand, has any Tesla car ever had an accident because of this? At some point, "heavily tested and validated end to end in real-life conditions for years" and "formally proven on a simplified model using reasonable assumptions made by human engineers" become relatively close in terms of how much trust you can put in a system.

But somehow we tend to prefer to later. I am not sure if this paradigm is still relevant these days.
It took 3 hours to say, "I wiped it so you wouldn't find anything"?
A significant number of PhDs drop out, and likely literally everyone undergoes some sort of huge realization of how doing a PhD is completely and surprisingly unlike what they expected (which is still true even with all the advice telling people that doing a PhD will be surprisingly unlike what you expect). Someone dropping out of a lab is a significant loss in time and resource investment which labs would prefer to avoid, and the biggest predictor for staying in a PhD is substantial experience doing research (to have some sense of what the lifestyle is like) and little experience with higher paying jobs (here at MIT, I see many PhD programs prefer people straight out of undergrad, even though older people are orders of magnitude more productive in the early phase of their PhD).
> Debian ... is happily running the open-core edition of GitLab.

I'm not sure I would describe it that way. Certainly some part of the community is happy about it, other parts are certainly not.
"Or ensuring a codebase could be open sourced in relation to a paper"

This is required in a 1.7 million dollar grant I'm the PI on. I run a computational lab - making sure my research code base is high quality is one of my highest priorities, and I've seen people have very fruitful careers doing just that.
...I don't think so? Or at least, it's totally alien to me as someone who's spent ~6 years in SF tech.

1,200 $/mo is more than enough to get a room to yourself in the nice neighborhoods; admittedly, you'll need to put in the time on craigslist to find sublets, "interview" with potential roommates, etc. I can see if you're desperate to find a place in a hurry, an airBnB like this might make sense for a month, but more than that seems insane.

Getting scammed by false promises of equity riches is definitely a thing that happens to people, but it's far from the norm. Again, take a job like that if you need something right away, but spend your time hunting for something better, because the vast majority of programming jobs in SF are nothing like this.
6/8 does imply 2 strong beats (at least in western classical music tradition).
Even stupider: first class personal mail in the US can not be opened without a warrant. So you can mail your iPhone to your destination before you go.

My friend was on a list because his father is a high ranking police officer in another country friendly to the US (if you think about something like an executive in the FBI you'll be close). Every time he entered the US, his electronics were seized -- presumably to see if they could get some information about his father (because spying on friendly countries is still a thing). Since he often went to the US to give talks at conferences, he eventually realised that he could mail his laptop to the conference and it would get there every time.
Plausible Science Fiction
That is indeed a major one - I can't fund a Masters student.
I agree, both true. But it would be a terrible shame if Tesla lost Elon.

His is a tremendous asset, even though he doesn’t always make the best choices.
Related: Anyone remember how Geohot's iPhone 2G hardware unlock worked back in the day? (~2007)
Do you think your friends are better people than those who are having kids? Seems sort of implied by your comment.

And what kind of kids would your friends have, given that they’re not particularly drawn to or versed in family life and values?

Not trying to be combative I just would be very interested in seeing this unpacked.
Border crossing also includes every foreign embassy, etc.
BuBBLE: A Lisp Dialect DSL Written in Haskell
DevFactory Acquires Manuscript (formerly FogBugz)
10k loc is small enough to refactor by yourself in your not so busy work hours
I'm currently doing a Ph.D. It's standard practice for nearly all PhD programs for the advisor to support a minimal stipend ($15-40k or so depending on the field and university) which goes directly to me, plus university tuition (up to $50k/yr depending on the university) which my lab directly pays my instutition. I only see the tuition bill and that it's paid for me.

Notably, this typically isn't the case for Masters programs, which are cash cows for universities like Stanford and charge $40k/yr+ for students.

Like the other commenter said, any Ph.D. program that isn't covering your tuition and providing a reasonable stipend has huge red flags all over it. They aren't the norm, either.
Is this still a problem if the phone doesn't have a sim card and is on airplane mode with WiFi and Bluetooth turned on?
Ok, but the other socialist countries didn't have an equally high divorce rate, so what is different?
Makes sense; I don't know the pentesting industry too well, nor the norms of bug bounty programs. Certainly his sort of behavior would give me the heebie-jeebies if I ran security at a firm like that. Thinking more on it, I think he was edging black hat and used the rules lawyering as an excuse for pushing past an ethical limit.

You've changed my view.
I am working in a toxic environment these days and for months now I have been throwing this maxim at everyone's face every occasion I get: "Facts don't matter, only opinion on those facts do."
But... durian is delicious! It really is! It must be like cilantro, where some taste... the sweet, and others taste the sewer. I get to taste the sweet sweet non-sewer durian.
When I lived in NYC, there was a program where you could collect full unemployment benefits -- all 6 months' worth -- if you were enrolled in school at least half time. I found it tremendously helpful, and it basically got me through 2 semesters of school.

It would be great to have similar programs for welfare, etc. Instead of the work requirements that that are often onerous, and keep folks in dead-end jobs rather than getting an education that will both help them and eventually, get them to be self-sufficient.
How much does that work out to per word?
"jupyter is the new bash"

As much as I love Jupyter this is a bridge too far even for me. There's nothing about Jupyter that makes sense for non-interactive scripting. Although, I suppose it would help you do block chain calculations... which would also be a terrible idea.
I think it could increase, if someone gave up smoking, drinking, started eating non-junk and sleeping.

Haven’t looked at the science tho.
Divergence and curl: The language of Maxwell's equations and more [video]
Love that this was posted at 11PM EST on a Friday. Almost like they wanted it to go unnoticed :D
To understand the hilarity of this statement you really want to have read the last 3 Matt Levine posts about the saga of Musk's "plan" to take Tesla "private" while retaining the majority of its existing retail shareholders. I think Bloomberg has paywalled Levine now; he's worth it (I mean, he is in supremely excellent form discussing Musk's "going private" plan), but I subscribe to him via email and get them free. Maybe someone here has a link to them; they are fantastic.
"Free" worked for me 10-20 years ago. There was the old "if you aren't paying for it, then you are the product" adage. Now, even if you pay, you are being sold.
What kind of software do you work on?
Fined at worst. Jail is absurd unless he, like, sold a bunch of shares at the top or something (which he didn't).
There are various streets where the social limit is higher than the legal one. In Rome there is a place where the speed limit is 50km/h but everyone (literally) drives at 90 km/h. When someone drives at 50 on thay street it endangers the whole traffic.
What, you can't run the code in your head from the printout of the APK?
What does this mean for the stock price? Sell off?
I think this might be like the 3rd or 4th time I've managed to accomplish that the whole time I've been yelling at clouds on this site. Thanks!
> ONE two three | ONE two three

This phrase also has two significant beats. There's just a barline in the middle. See my point?
I agree with your main point here, but I think you're trying to paint and overly broad claim about PhD programs, which are extremely different between institutions. It's like saying "working at a company is like this... you learn this but not that."

Specifically,

1. Senior PhD students in many research groups can become de facto managers of the group, especially when the professor is on sabbatical. PhD students are often involved in the funding, presentations, recruitment, and represent the group. Some PIs/professors empower their PhD students to run a mini research group within their group.

2. I've seen some PhD programs have a strong emphasis on teaching undergraduates, both as in teaching undergraduate courses directly (which many PhD students in the humanities and social science already do), serving as teaching assistants with a substantive educational role (not just grading), and mentoring them in research or more general advising. For example, Brown University and Princeton are known to have a good research-teaching balance for PhD students. Brown has a large number of programs that help PhD students get more involved in undergraduate teaching [https://www.brown.edu/sheridan/programs-services/certificate...]
Not true. You probably need a warrant to be able to submit any evidence in a trial. But that warrant can be obtained after the tap. And if the warrant never happens, you still have the information acquired from the tap which can be used for parallel constructions, etc.

Phone taps today happen without the cooperation or even the knowledge of the phone company. Every telco is required to have a continuous tap on all communications. That tap must be wired to the authorities and the telco must have no ability to detect when the tap is being monitored. That's the law in the U.S.
Yeah, I mentioned all of those specific examples, because it brings exactly your kind of response out of the woodwork.

Come back to me and say that lives were saved.

- Malaria spreading mosquitos went away.

- Asbestos: it depends.

- Ban the ocean because Plutonium??? Well, that's just crazy talk!

- Rebel against the wind in your face! Let the sun shine! Drive a convertable, because lead makes it possible! Treat yourself!

All of those points are the kind of attitude that defers coping with the consequences of something, for selfish reasons now.
Aza Raskin, a pioneer of infinite scrolling, also has regrets about the effect the design has on users. https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-44640959
The irony of this comment is that letting people die via A/B guessing is exactly how modern medicine got to where is today.

You give one group a "cure", the other group a placebo. Whichever group survives or does better is the winner.
> integrated it in a top-100 app

Same. Been leading the native side of an app with 30-40 native devs and ~20 JS devs. Initial integration is easy, but it opens up a lot of problems as time goes on.
> The system offers it and they didn't use it.

The bug report doesn't seem to be clear on whether the Fortnite installer is downloading the game to a public external storage directory or a private external storage directory. But the existence of the latter API means you can't just say "they should have used internal storage". If the Fortnite installer used the getExternalStoragePublicDirectory() API, then this is a really embarrasing bug for Epic. Otherwise, it's an Android problem, not an Epic problem.
I'm a happy user. But two things stand out to me as symptomatic of the "we know better than you" aspects. The first is labels. Exposed in IMAP as if Folders but not folders. Also you can't add more to the steerage bar subtypes of inbox. Also all and spam and unread are magic. This works but gee.. special case? What happened to architecture for generic cases and specialisation afterward?

And then other? ! Keyboard shortcut marks to spam. Even if the current context is the spam label. Why isn't it a toggle? Why can't I unmark spam with the same effective shortcut which contextually makes sense. There is no unspam shortcut, presumably because reasons. (There's a button and generic steerage can get it keyboard only)

Tl;dr he did amazingly good but there are still some moments of whatthefuckery and wheknowbetterthanyou
The way I understood it was that 3/4 is used to notate waltzes and other music where you are supposed to "feel" all three beats per bar, and 6/8 is used to notate music where you only "feel" the downbeats. Things like swung rhythms. Though (again as I understand it) actual swing music is often notated in common or cut time, but played as though the first eighth note of each beat is about twice as long as the second.

Just to pick two of my favorite songs: per my understanding, the opening theme to Vision of Escaflowne would be notated in 3/4, while "Flagpole Sitta" by Harvey Danger might be notated in 6/8.
That reads more like a tautology than a genuine insight.
check out comma.ai for a mostly open-source implementation
Sequential search is near optimal for short lists. On embedded hardware you don't always have the luxury to create elaborate data structures for the "proper" solution.
While being a marching band nerd, we always thought of 3/8 as 6/8 for the simple fact that one is always the left foot. Counting in 3/8 would alternate one to be on the right every other measure. It's hard enough to get new members to march to the right beat, but having 3/8 time was just never going to work even for experienced members
It's a lot of trouble to go through to get people to forget you called some Thai firefighter a pedo on Twitter...
Sure, but fallacious oversimplistic political rhetoric should still be called out. This is a board of reason.