skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what the future is going to be like for research within the next few decades?

Since working in industry for the past five years largely in research environments, I've noticed a profound shift away from research labs run by companies like IBM, HP, Intel, and Sun/Oracle that focused on medium-term research ideas and emphasized publications and prototypes, to a hybrid model of research and product development, pioneered by Google (see "Google's Hybrid Approach to Research" [https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...) and has since become widespread among Silicon Valley's largest and most successful companies. This hybrid research model is more short-term driven compared to the medium-term approaches of the labs of the 1990s and 2000s, and especially compared to the long-term visions of the legendary Bell Labs and Xerox PARC of the 1970s and 1980s. I have no doubt that this hybrid research model has been successful for companies like Google and Facebook from a business standpoint.

However, there is still a need for medium-term and long-term research, for the sake of our field and also for the sake of providing future inventions that industry can sell. There is also still a need for theoretical and explorative types of research that may not immediately have commercial applications. Academia would appear to be a great fit for pursuing medium- and long-term research, but the realities of fund-raising and competing for tenure in academia makes it difficult for academics to pursue risky medium- and long-term projects.

I've been thinking a lot about this regarding my career. I'd love to work on medium- and long-term projects and aim for expanding scientific knowledge, but industry is increasingly focused on short-term gains, and academia is very competitive, from trying to obtain a tenure-track assistant professorship to trying to earn tenure.
Are you sure you have "no connection whatsoever" with them?
>We need to stop thinking that the conquest was the worst thing that ever happened to these local people

Unfortunately it is rather difficult to make such a comparison, as the conquistadors eliminated so many of the written artifacts along with those who could read them, that we now do not have enough surviving examples or remaining knowledge to currently decipher the contents of what little remains.
To be fair I think the severity of climate change has only come into mainstream focus in the past 5-10 years. Just as one data point, when I was shopping for a car in 2012, I did not even consider CO2 emissions. Now, climate change is top of mind for me. I now own an electric car, stopped eating beef, mostly eliminated travel, etc... I'm not saying this will make a difference overall, but I imagine others feel similarly, and a lot of young people will hopefully be in a position to work on solving some of these problems.
Unfortunate to see you being downvoted for such a sober perspective
The main repo has a testing script to make sure changes that cause previously-passing code to fail lint checks only happen in new major versions. Like SemVer, but for linter configuration files.

This would be an admirable commitment to stability if the project wasn't on its fourteenth major version.
The blogged claim that Amazon "consumes about as much oxygen as it produces" is not sourced and the piece seems to fly in the face of professional work on the subject. eg:
"The global oxygen budget and its future projection" [1]

> Fig. 4 summarizes the annual averaged global O2 budget from year 1990 to 2005, with the mass of O2 in gigatonnes (Gt) listed in each sink and for each process mentioned above (see Section 2.5). The inputs of O2 to the atmosphere by land and outgassing from oceans are quantified as 16.01 and 1.74 Gt/a, respectively. ....

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209592731...
Curious if you have any sources? I've never seen a data driven case that such a thing as the "dark ages" ever happened.
I had a similar problem about a decade ago. My muscle memory for editable text became CTRL-X CTRL-V so I could see the the text had been copied.
Ann Nelson Took on the Biggest Problems in Physics
They rarely (or never?) go down at the same time for any reason, other than the standard Internet BGP drama that all providers are at risk of and have no control over.
Generally, I'll take a look at the PM2.5 channel on occasion. Swapping that for CO (carbon monoxide) is usually a good confirmation.

While wood smoke contributes a lot of PM2.5, other sources can as well -- dust over the Sahara (and much of the Atlantic), salt spray from hurricanes, and a few others, which aren't direction or at all combustion related.

CO tends to hover near urban areas -- you'll spot concentrations especially near Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago.

Sulfur Dioxide is also related to combustion, usually heavy fuel oils. Shipping traffic lights up especially, but so do industrial sources (generators), many volcanos, and some others I haven't worked out.

Nullschool doesn't have an IR channel, but Nasa's Modis can turn that up. There are generally national or regional wildfire websites, particularly for the US, Canada, and Australia, as well as California and other western US states.

(Fire activity so far this year has been pretty low in the US.)

If you spend a few weeks looking at data (or browsing through historical data), you get a pretty good idea of what patterns are typical.

Note also: some sensors / channels get recallibrated from time to time. There was a big adjustment in CO2 measurements a year or so back, which kind of freaked me out. Whilst CO2 concentrations are gradually increasing, they did not take a massive jump in the past 5 years, despite appearing to do so from the Nullschool history.

Also, as noted, sometimes stuff shows up that's not fires. The current Ethiopian volcano erruption would be a case in point (I think it's a volcano, seems very likely).
I'm not the parent, but the ancient sumerian cuneiform script comes to mind.

Egyptian hieroglyphics did have a set of phonetic glyphs as well as the more complex logographic ones
4. Apache BEAM (same model as Google Cloud Dataflow)
I'll try to restate. I was under the impression that entanglement implied what the paper calls "common history", such as when an excited calcium atom decays to its ground state and produces two entangled photons. I also understood entanglement to be particles with some opposite properties, so that the sum of say the angular momentum of the system before and after the decay remains constant. So it was news to me that (a) photons without a common history, and (b) photons indistinguishable in all degrees of freedom could be entangled.
Linode paid for the ad. I have the email thread, an invoice, and $1,000 sitting in my bank account to prove it. I expect this email was written by a support agent who wasn't aware of all the details of the situation.
Some kids have a great grasp on diction, go on to be early readers, and basically teach themselves to read. Any approach will work with them because they “just get it”. These are the kids who have an articulate voice even when 2 years old.

When trying to prove any technique, a teacher will grab one of these kids and show off how good they are and say it’s due to (insert any technique here).

I had one kid like this. As parents we patted ourselves on the back and thought we’d done something right.

My other kid is more typical or below typical and the style of learning makes a huge difference. Without that high articulation, they need a lot of work to understand phonics. Any system that leaves this out will only work for the kids who would’ve mastered reading anyway.
Ehhh... it uses some terms of art that might be slightly misleading to those not familiar with the field.

The chart specifically lists “proficient” and “advanced” at 12th grade. What do those words mean?

https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/reading/achieveall.asp...

For “proficient”, the “inferences” and “interpretative statements” components will rule out most readers.

For reference, these are some of the skills that higher level SAT and GRE reading questions attempt to evaluate.

The way one could (somewhat crudely) relabel that data is “what percentage of 12 graders could plausibly read college-level texts”. Interestingly, the college attendance numbers match these percentages fairly closely.
Some languages are more based on syllables than English, like Portuguese for example.

When I was first learning English, being a portuguese speaker, I thought it would be easy to learn english, I just had to know the english syllables and translate words syllable by syllable. To my dismay, not only that doesn't work, english barely has a concept of syllables that makes any sense.

So I wonder if languages that are have more phonetic writing like Korean for example, have better readers than other languages.
What does "got wrong" mean in this context, though? People said the media got those things wrong because they said "90% chance Clinton wins" and Trump won. But that's why they said 90%, not 100%. It feels as though the concept of probabilities is either misunderstood or willfully ignored to score points.
Great example , this what I meant when asking .
How did you come with the idea for ticketing app ? And why oos?
I see many fellow Brazilians have already made their points here, but I feel some clarification is due.

First of all: forest fires are common here, and they are part of the natural cicle of the forest themselves. The real problem is not the size or count of those fires, but where they are happening. Deforestation has been blatant in Brazil for decades, but years of increased regulation had them on a continuous decreasing trend. Under the new government, however, it has surged again. Some sources mention deforestation areain 2019 might reach double the amount of 2018, although it's hard to trust any such information these days due to political appropriation of data and information channels.

So with more deforestation, these fires are cutting deeper into the forest, into areas previously not touched by fire, some of which may never recover. As I mentioned: such fires are common, but at the edge of the forest where plant and wildlife are adapted to them. The ecosystem of the deeper jungle is completely different, and species from the edges, when not dead, are forced into areas they did not live before, either in or out of the forest. The impact of this movements is hard to predict, but bound to be disastrous.

It would be bad enough if this was related to a more global climate trend or a natural cicle of things. What really hurts though is the fact that many of these fires are, however, intentionally started by people, driven by commercial interest in either developing or farming the land, almost always illegally, and as of recently encouraged by our very government officials.

So, yeah, things are pretty bad, but hey have been so for a while and even if the numbers are worse in Angola and Congo, the conjunction of natural and political causes need to be taken into account.
High housing taxes tend to reduce housing prices. Better if it's a land value tax (not much seen). But this is a hidden/underappreciated benefit of states / cities such as Illinois / Chicago.

California's Prop 13 is actually a key driver of the state's housing problems. Not the only one, but a major factor.

Utah, in parts, isn't all bad, though it helps a lot if you get along with Mormans and don't care much for beer or coffee. Community values and institutions seem generally strong.
I feel like a step got skipped here.

1. Covering the times tables in school is pointless when you already know the times tables because you learned them at home.

2. Therefore, people shouldn't learn the times tables?

Saying something shouldn't be taught is a completely different idea from saying that schools shouldn't teach it because incoming students are expected to have learned it already.
Counting boards / the abacus are about as good as you get for calculating methods until mechanical calculators and logarithmic slide rules. So it's not really fair to say the Romans had a disadvantage here when no one had anything better. (Granted, the wire abacus was faster than counting boards / jetons).
What were they running on until now?
Clearly by the 13th Century China could be considered a technological forerunner, but then the Mongols took over. I suspect the cultural tendencies of the Chinese civil service that drove innovation just couldn’t weather the merging of cultures and the scholarly edge of Chinese culture was collateral damage.
> it is fair for both countries to be proud of the accomplishment

Depending on the reasons for emigration, it might be fair to replace most of that pride with "dann, could have been 'ours'".
Network effects work for some children, but not for all children. And it's not just a matter of birth order. Children are simply different.

Not all children learn the same way. Some are more visual. Some are more abstract thinkers. Some want to rush ahead and learn more from context, and you have to push them to slow down and pay attention to what they are reading or they make serious mistakes. Some naturally take to phonics. Others don't. But I would argue that the ones who became excellent readers without any formal phonics training have an intrinsic understanding of phonics in the same way that some people have an intrinsic understanding of mathematics.

I would venture to bet that even though you were not taught phonics and taught yourself to read at an early age, that today you are perfectly capable of sounding out a word you have never seen before.
You can iterate slide rule calculations to get more precision, too... You're not restricted to the width of your abacus nor the number of sigfigs you can get in a single slide rule calc..
> the crap they made me do in math class ("write a paragraph reflecting on what you learned about multiplication")

Shockingly, this has come back into style. My brother's high school math classes have been of this type for the past couple of years.
Josh talks about a lot of exciting things that Intel's driving in Rust. Does anyone know if AMD is doing similar, especially around SIMD?
Indeed, compilers are still very easy to beat on size optimisation, and the whole (U)EFI monstrosity was largely enabled by higher capacities of BIOS EEPROMs, which were in the 128/256KB range for a long time before multiple-MB ones became available. Now that motherboards with 16 and even 32MB(!) EEPROMs are available --- this is more than the entire RAM of regular PCs throughout the 80s and early 90s --- firmware has bloated considerably. In contrast, the original IBM PC had an 8KB BIOS.

If you looked at pre-EFI BIOS, they were exclusively written in very size-optimised and elegantly clever Asm; now it's just the usual bloaty compiler output you can find everywhere else, which makes me a bit sad.
I still occasionally sound out words (incorrectly) when I stumble on a word that I finally realize I've gotten wrong in my head. Like I'll know the word, know what it means, but have imagined the wrong pronunciation in my head, only to have it suddenly dawn on me that "Hey, that synonym for this word you know that sounds a bit different, what if it's aactually the same word". Then I'll go look it up in a dictionary, realize I still don't know pronunciation guides, type it into Google or whatever to get audio, and confirm, yup, I'm a dumbass I've been thinking those are two different words for decades.

This happens to me about once every other month. Millions of words, I don't expect it'll ever stop happening.

Bonus points when the word is like only 6-7 characters long, feel extra dumb those months :P
I would not believe it is true.

Or, if one was created, not used. People in the old days also had flights of fantasy I guess.

You want to keep the enemy out, not kill them.

Or more importantly you want a functioning fort, keeping out people in general is a bigger every day use than the mass killing of a enemy you don't yet have in a well planed exercise that may occur.
I think where the comparison breaks down is that the laws of physics are the laws of physics. Reporting on them doesn't change them. But politics lives in the same world as reporting. It is shaped by it, politicians respond to it. So the Gell-Mann effect isn't quite accurate in that situation. Journalists do know the political world deeply because for better or worse they're involved in shaping it.
Here's a similar thread from some time ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741942
>but that might not temper a mindset as mathematically conducive as notions of "completion and balancing".

Or maybe what would be considered a mathematically conducive mindset is determined by whose mathematical tradition we are following? Maybe there exists a mathematical mindset out there where "domination and sacrificing" are the requirement for conductivity of ideas?
That is a useful system for middle readers with limited volcabulary to jump into high school / professional reading, but not so good for very early readers. Note how all the grecoroman stems are defined in terms of germanic words, which are phonetic.

The article is concerned with students who find words like "rabbit" challenging, not with students figuring out "neologism".
since C pretty much requires a stack, and a stack requires "RAM" of some form, it used to be necessary that the memory system be trained prior to executing any C code. however once the cache grew large enough, and appropriate "cache as ram" hooks were designed, it became possible to stand up a stack before even the memory system was alive. this definitely reduces the footprint which has to be assembly.
It is but I think they only have US datacenters.

For backups, media and archival use-cases it looks really good for the price if you can live with it being in the US.

If you are doing any large data-processing using S3 you get the advantage of data locality, with VPC endpoints you can also bypass NAT gateway data charges and get much higher bandwidth.
Coroutines and first-class continuations make the implementation of non-local transfer of control much more complicated.

Their inclusion would have made staples like unwind-protect, conditions, and underlying them try/catch, much more difficult to implement, if not nearly impossible to get right.

I personally think that those language features are worth it and that this particular trade-off was well made.
Yes, but Rome isn’t Western Europe. So western Europe’s entire history is a “dark age” before the Age of Enlightenment.

(Edit: incorrectly said renaissance instead of Age of Enlightenment... the renaissance wasn’t Western European either)
Burqueño, which comes from both the Spanish convention and a slang term (with some history grounding), but is extremely widely used.
I do not do drugs because of physical and mental health reasons beyond what I am prescribed. But I have heard that the darknet markets are quite advanced in their distribution - to the point that dealing a large amount of drugs is essentially risk-free. Such pharmacists will, say, put a gram of cocaine in a soda can and place it in the woods and save the geo coordinates. Then when they sell the drugs, they give the user the geo coordinates to pick up. Furthermore they can put a piece of paper containing a code in the soda can which will allow verification of retrieval.

The internet, anonymity protocols, and cryptocurrency have made the world an
interesting place...
Omg you’ve just described how i felt watching this.
We've known for a while:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_scie...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/clim...
Huawei unleashes AI chip, touting more compute power than competitors
> Phonetic spelling is probably the greatest invention in written languages since paper.

Paper dates to about 100 AD. The Greek alphabet, which is the first full alphabet (that records both vowels and consonants), dates to about 800 BC. Therefore, phonetic spelling predates paper by at least 900 years. Possibly older, if you want to count later cuneiform (which is mostly a syllabary) or Egyptian or Phoenician (abjads, lacking vowels) as phonetic spelling.
Please check the designs on Firefox on Android. Doesn't work properly.
Να τελειώνει γρήγορα με τον Παναιτωλικό ο ΠΑΟΚ
And might soon be able to design life! Present FTW!!!
Word roots are the key strategy for the next step after phonics: figuring out the meaning of what you're reading. But in order to do that, you first have to have the skill of matching what's written on the page with the speech system in your brain, and that's what phonics is for. You learn to speak by making sounds; phonics matches what's written on the page with the sounds you learned to speak. Just as children can speak words whose meanings they don't yet understand, they can read words whose meanings they don't yet understand.

From the article, it seems like the original author of the MSV system got this backwards: he thought the understanding had to come first. It doesn't. The understanding builds on the phonetic foundation in reading just as it does in speaking.
I remember Jazz Jackrabbit had to get patched because of it.

I had to TPPATCH it: http://www.ipnet6.org/tppatch.html
In case someone hacks your lights potentially triggering an epileptic seizure.
I'd love to see this happen, but the realist side of me would bet money that no American will cast a vote on a FreeBSD/RISC-V machine in the next 5 years.
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Point taken.

Perhaps this comment[0] I posted earlier more directly addresses the article's intent in how to help teach reading skills.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791015
Hi guys. The idea of AWS from Git is a new concept that I brought to life just last month to solve a problem of mine. I'm looking for validation if it's a good idea or not, and ideas on what would be good next steps for the project. Links to the same discussions on reddit are available in the tool's homepage (link of this post).
Linode paid for this ad. I have the email thread, an invoice, and $1,000 sitting in my bank account to prove it. I expect this email was written by a support agent who wasn't aware of all the details of the situation.
Me: executing arb code to view a doc is a bad idea

You: TeX is turing complete too!

Great. Thanks.
Hey, can you please not break the site rules like this? We're trying for a bit better kind of internet discussion here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
DARPA doesn't have any regulatory power over how elections are run in the United States. So as of right now this tweet is wishful thinking.
> And, as far as I know, the cancer bit is what makes cigarettes so bad.

Not only. The cancer is the long game. The shorter game is the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke. Nicotine is one of the culprits, not the generic 'carcinogens' which you only find in cigarettes.
Heck a few years back a bill was almost passed that would make merrying a second wife mandatory in Iraq . The government would give financial incentives and ignore the first wife's wish of not allowing her husband a second wife . It was revoked after extreme criticism.
Oakland California. Wow. The bay area can't even teach their kids how to read.
Maybe its like a going-under for them as a civilization?
An ars-technica writeup of the original paper: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/identical-photons-ge...
This is an excellent read: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/15/were-there-dark-ages/
tl;dr the rule holds, the answer is no. :]

Though i have to admit to bring skeptical of his analysis that suggests the rainforest is a net zero on oxygen production.
That's fair, Squarespace has a use case. Sourcery is opinionated and not a freestyle tool - we are building websites that you don't have to design, build or update and that lets us offer features that aren't possible in DIY site builders.