skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Billionaire’s Guide to Buying Your Kids a Better Shot at Elite Colleges
Um... I've never gotten a (software) job any other way than responding to ads. I'm a woman, fwiw. That includes co-ops
There's typically no debt doing a STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering and Math) Ph.D. in most places, unless you're talking about undergrad debt.

STEM Ph.D.s are like jobs. You get paid a stipend (the financial package typically requires you to work as a TA/RA).

A few data points. My Ph.D. program paid me $30k/yr tax free over 4 years. Prestige scholarship holders were able to get even more, maybe $45k-50k. (my numbers are old -- I got my Ph.D. nearly a decade ago)

I've had friends at Princeton who received packages in the range of $28k-$35k/yr from their engineering depts.

Not a huge amount of money, but enough for a single grad student to survive on. I have a friend who did a Ph.D. in Math at Stanford, and he didn't have to pay cent.

Debt is generally not a common issue for STEM Ph.Ds.

Humanities/Social Science Ph.Ds. on the other hand are a completely different ball game. I've heard that many live in relative penury and rarely finish on-time (taking anywhere from 5-7 years). Humanities Ph.Ds. please add data points.
> Tools like GPU/CPU profilers/debuggers are easier to use when part of the IDE

Says you. There is reason vim is not "dead" and it's not just cause "old people" still use it. Also, there are plenty of IDEs besides VS.

Finally, "vast majority" doesn't matter for shit with open source. One developer with an itch is enough. If there's a handful of others with same, all the better.
Yes. This decision will most definitely cause a land-grab rush, unless the NCAA overwhelmingly punishes CA, other states will just do the same thing.

It's a pretty big change - my guess is CA's stance will win, because the alternative is massive disruption of the NCAA.
> The law applies to both universities and athletic associations.

So they made the Olympics illegal even though they are set to host it in 2028?
Interesting article. I don't agree with a lot of it, one point I think is straightforward to respond to as a Marxist:

"Marxist interpretation of the 20th century is much more convincing in both its explanation of World War I (imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism) and fascism (an attempt by the weakened bourgeoise to thwart left-wing revolutions). But Marxist view is entirely powerless to explain 1989, the fall of communist regimes, and hence unable to provide any explanation for the role of communism in global history. The fall of communism, in a strict Marxist view of the world, is an abomination, as inexplicable as if a feudal society having had experienced a bourgeois revolution of rights were suddenly to “regress” and to reimpose serfdom and the tripartite class division. Marxism has therefore given up trying to provide an explanation for the 20th century history."

It's true that the dogma of the official communist parties has no explanation for this, but their theory degenerated and became distorted by the need to justify all the twists and turns of USSR foreign and domestic policy. A genuine Marxist view of the 20th century is that the world revolution began in 1917 in Russia, the "weakest link" of capitalism, but was not able to be completed in the industrial centers. There were a number of reasons for this, for example the growth of reformism in the German SPD, but the result is in reality a failed revolution that won a few outposts and held on to them for 70 years. As a useful example, the Paris Commune is another example of a failed revolution, although it only held out for a few months. It's not a Marxist view that a single country can "go socialist" in a world dominated by capitalism. So there was no "regression" back to capitalism.
Some years ago I remember somebody (maybe Tim Bray) had a post that the people who had the best careers in Tech would go to secure government positions during recessions, where they would generally work on crafting the standards other people would have to follow, after the recession they would move into a period of private consulting on the standards they had just designed. I think the PhD argument is a variant of that.

It is of course correct that if you are so good at predicting recessions that you could use this strategy effectively then probably your best monetizing possibility would be just predicting recessions and investing based on that. But then it is not sure that people will do the most effective thing either.
OK, I'll ask the dumb question: was there a particular computational disadvantage for the existing paradigms for solving for behavior of "membranes and ropes"? This seems like extraordinarily well covered ground (and, let's be honest, sort of a pedestrian problem area), and the abstract is talking about what sound like aesthetic improvements and not breadth or performance enhancements to the technique.
> The really interesting jobs are absolutely held by Phds.

That wholly depends on your definition of interesting.

I don't have a PhD.

I've written software that taught literacy to kids, helped people pay their bills online (back in 1999, when this was novel), written full ML systems (15 years ago, before the advent of open source ml packages), co-founded a YC company, and now I'm helping people rediscover the images of their lives (see my profile if you're interested!)

To be sure, I'd love to go back to school. There's so much I know I don't know, and would be wonderful to discover.

Just realize you can work on interesting stuff if you look for it, are willing to stretch your skills continuously, and change jobs every handful of years.
Quick reply to your aside: singular they is very grammatical and has been in use for centuries.

From Merriam-Webster: "they has been in consistent use as a singular pronoun since the late 1300s; that the development of singular they mirrors the development of the singular you from the plural you... and that regardless of what detractors say, nearly everyone uses the singular they in casual conversation and often in formal writing."[1]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbi...
Newer floppy drives had heads on both sides, you didn't need to flip the floppy and single write protection hole were used for both sides.
How do you know the other 99 are bad?
> While data in the cloud is heavily secured, data on the way to the cloud is not.

This article is nonsense and completely pretends that TLS does not exist.
Hey everyone,

I just wanted to say thanks for all your insightful and helpful comments. A big, wide range of opinions are represented and it gave me a lot of needed perspective.

I'm still thinking carefully about my options/future and haven't come to a definite decision yet--but I wanted to give a big thanks to everyone who contributed. Thanks again.
You can write macros in Python for Libreoffice.

https://help.libreoffice.org/6.3/en-US/text/sbasic/python/ma...
Code tags should not mess with line length. Instead you should quote formatting (`>`) for quotes (which HN doesn't support so it's all a bit moot).
Exactly.

Everyone has their own peculiar mental model of reality, sometimes more optimistic, sometimes more pessimistic, almost always with strange boundaries on the thinkable universe.

I estimate this is how the majority of bad financial situations happen, whether untenable mortgages, huge credit card bills, excessive student debt, etc.

People are usually not fundamentally stupid or poor decision makers, but they do usually ignore uncomfortable thoughts.

It's easy for that to happen to one person; it's more surprising when it happens to dozens of people.
So you'd be happy with a high level Chinese party member, perhaps an "ex" People's Army psy-ops guy (or whoever), being in charge of USA's Twitter accounts, for example, because "it's just a job"?
When you flip the floppy over the media rotates the other way. Supposedly the inside of the jacket had a fabric coating who's purpose was to catch fragments of media falling off during use. If you spin the media the other way those fragments come back off and gunge up the head. Or so the story goes.

Also of course there were real double-sided drives that used both sides of the media (with two heads). Vendors expected users to use those and pay extra.

Source: punched many a hole in Pet floppies back in the day.
Nim and d both have comparable interop, and nim even works with c++.
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> But I'm not convinced that's a bad thing.

It's hard to predict, but one could expect larger disparity than even exists today amongst schools (arguably the disparity today is based on coach and facility costs, and will grow when it includes players). That disparity is not only one school compared to another, it's also the programs within a school itself and the ability for NCAA and conference funds to be redistributed. So much legislation was focused on equality of services across sports programs and universities, this is clearly a step towards inequality (even if it is a good step).
Yeah, that is a problem. The situation sounds similar to how the Act.IL app works, an app to counter criticism towards Israel online. The app publishes links to "hot pages" where users are supposed to post comments supportive of Israel and/or do the equivalent of down voting comments negative to it. The app itself is funded and, I believe, run by some Israeli government agency but the users who use it to coordinate are not affiliated with the Israeli state in any way. Just "normal" people who happen to be very pro-Israel, I guess.

So is that underhanded or not? It is not completely different from Amnesty who occasionally sends out emails asking you to sign some list of signatures or to send complaint letters to some third world despot. There are very few rules in this area so it is hard to say what is fair and what isn't. Even if there were, there's no way the rules will be enforced. I'm pretty sure that all these "scandals" are just the tip of the iceberg. The dumb ones are getting caught. More refined state actors (not Russia or China) already have way better methods that Twitter and Facebook can't (or wont!) detect.
The BEST way to get your first client is to go to your employer before you leave and get them to hire you on a per job basis. Say you are the best person they have at creating infographics, or rendering using Revit, or whatever, but they do not have enough work to keep you around. Take your skilz and still support your old company while getting new clients.
I noticed this while experimenting with VR and hand-tracking. Without tactile or precise auditory feedback, the experience was hollow, even with relatively high-fidelity visuals and tracking. You can never feel like you are somewhere else - or something immaterial is with you - until a full sensory experience coalesces, even if it's "low resolution." Until then, the result is landing in an experiential uncanny valley.

On another note, we should also be looking at accessibility when approaching this research. Contrary to that last little bit at the end, not everyone has full use of their bodies, or even of their hands. I just finished listening to an NPR segment about inner-city youth dealing with permanent disability as a result of gun violence, and the unique challenges presented to them. Perhaps with people like them in mind, the mass solutions we eventually end up with will be better for focusing farther upstream than nerve endings.
Why Does the Apple Card Change Colors? Here's What Each Color Means
While I agree with the technical criticism you level, I think the more important thing is whether the truth of the matter is:

1. "Links asking someone to add you on another service are not allowed on Instagram."

or

2. "Links asking someone to add you on a service not owned by Facebook are not allowed on Instagram."

"Support" vs "allowed" seems to me to be a distraction from the universality of that policy.
> This is Option 1. They can't litigate a state to change the law.

Sure, they can (well, that is, litigate against a state to neutralize the law), usually by claiming it violates federal law (including the Constitution). That's tough here, but I suppose you could throw a hail mary at either a contracts clause or a dormant commerce clause action.
"Make your 5.25" floppy double sided by punching a notch" hardly needs to be qualified with (1981).
Any concern with JIDF?
Anyone on a full scholarship at a D1 school already gets a monthly stipend, basically a small salary that covers miscellaneous expenses. It's not much but most student athletes simply don't provide any value to their school beyond that. However, there is the 1% of top athletes who are worth millions of dollars of marketing value and this bill will hopefully allow them to capitalize on that.
I assumed unix would last, but lately there is the concept where “the cloud is your OS” and I hope that isn’t true. I like Unix. However, I’m wondering just how much of what I type in the future will revolve around cloud apis and tooling instead
New IO.
i second _halting state_ - it was the first one that came to my mind.
I think Milo was my favorite character, too.
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I Future-Proofed My Tech Stack
As someone who uses tensorflow a lot, I predict an enormous clusterfuck of a transition. Tensorflow has turned into a multiheaded monster, supporting many things and approaches but none of them very well.

I mean, when relying on third party code, things like `tf.enable_control_flow_v2() and tf.disable_control_flow_v2()` can and will go horribly wrong. It looks like some operations are changing behaviour depending on a global flag being set. And not just some operations, but control flow operations! That will lead to some very hard to figure out bugs.

In my opinion there are some architectural problems with TF, which have not been adressed in this update. There is still global state in TF2. There is still a difference in behaviour between eager and non-eager mode. There is still the control flow as a second class citizen.

If you need to transition from TF1 to TF2, consider doing the TF1 to pytorch transition instead.
New cybersecurity report co-authored with poker champion
Which is why mainstream news is viewed as untrustworthy by most people.
This is seriously cool. From Twitter (https://twitter.com/KentonVarda/status/1178723944007733251):

> Not only does this use (much) less overall CPU and RAM, but it avoids delaying TTFB. Also elements you want to modify are selected using CSS selector syntax which makes things nice and easy. It may seem like a small thing to some but I'm pretty excited about this.

Previously I was doing things like fetching content, running some regex replaces, and then returning the changed content. Being able to do this dynamically and in real-time without delaying TTFB is incredible.
The outfits from these places are almost always based on designs from more expensive fashion designers. I would be surprised if you couldn't find an equivalent or nicer made with first world labor and nicer materials. However I would not be surprised if it cost literally 50x more than an HM equivalent.
Of course we should not clone people with the unsafe technology, but we should work to improve it to the point where it is as safe as IVF.

The problem with twin studies is that they are not repeatable, and the sample of just two is too small to make any strong conclusions. It's like saying we do not need particle accelerators, because there are high energy particles coming from space.
I understand what you're saying about being able to market your own brand.

A serious question, though, "Who is truly building that brand?" In many respects, it is the NCAA and member schools which are making the athlete famous and marketable. It is rarely talent alone which makes the athlete's marketability so valuable. Put the best quarterback at Alabama and Wyoming and which is more valuable? Should Alabama be allowed to negotiate a cut upon acceptance? What if they are the best collegiate 10k women's runner? Their fame is at least partially built by the league itself.

Another issue is the collusion of the NFL and NCAA to establish dual monopolies over the same sport.

My personal opinion on the NCAA is that it is all corrupt and it should be burned to the ground.
No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that the system that gives you those things does not provide a commensurate share of the profit produced to the people who actually supply the base product or even work with the product to provide you the components of those things.

Those folks subsist in extreme poverty, doing difficult physical work. They're miners and farmers and duck haulers and other such tasks that make up the bulk of the actual work but a minority of the actual profitshare.

You don't fix those problems in the long term by buying different things. You solve them by paying people sums commensurate with the value they produce and by focusing on making the base standard of living more fair for more of the planet rather than making it realistic for Jeff Bezos to build a private moonbase.

Such a reprioritization will surely see changes in what is available for the top 30% of the world, to the betterment of the bottom 70%. It is recency and identity biases that make it difficult for us to understand how much that matters.
Ahaha absolutely. He's as square and as prudent as it gets. I mean to an extreme. My siblings have always laughed at him for it [outside of the workplace and in everyday matters where he carries those habits on].

It's hard on people regardless. And the oil industry is not known for being prudent in looking after their workers' health.

They got real pissed when he filed a workers compensation claim for a hearing aid before he retired. Thankfully he had support from his union.

And the number of stories he's told me where he was nearly killed...

I've no sympathy for the industry.
Waves of Motivation
Still pretty terrible compared to PyTorch _unless_ you need deployment to device, in which case it's basically the only game in town. Or at least the only _viable_ game.

Case in point: people are still trying to figure out on their github how to apply global weight decay when training a model, and to get a "correct" resize for segmentation you have to fall back to the legacy 1.x API and specify align_corners=true there. These bugs existed for many years, and nobody gives a damn. That said if your choice is between 1.x and 2.0, 2.0 is much easier to work with, especially if you use something other than TF (e.g. PyTorch) for data pipeline and augmentation. You can hook that up pretty seamlessly if you train in eager mode.
Sounds nice in theory, but the intention of code block is to capture how code looks--including where the lines break. That aspect of code blocks isn't broken.

The problem is people who use code blocks for what it wasn't intended to do-display quoted content.

Perhaps HN can add support for quotes, but even now there's nothing difficult with indicating a quote by adding a ">" to the start of the paragraph. Most, if not all, of HN readers will know what that means.
do the phd and find a profession outside of tech.
You're right, and the comment from the article is definitely over the top. My only point is that sadly people would still be denying climate change no matter how perfectly presented the warnings are, and there's an obvious frustration, even anger, aimed at those responsible for this.
>Don't college athletes already have the same right to profit from endorsements as college students that non-athlete college students have?

Not under the current NCAA rules, no.

http://www.ncaa.org/about/frequently-asked-questions-about-n...
Even the tech expert from 'Mr. Robot' can’t figure out this iPhone hack
SIM is software, UICC is hardware (ie the card).

Always remember, there's another computer inside your phone, the UICC computer, it contains software from the past, written by hardware people who've never heard of security, no one's looked at the code for bugs, and it controls your phone.

In conclusion: buy a tablet
In many scenarios the most important skill you can have is the ability to ignore common sense. The drawback of that ability is that people without common sense are very often seen as assholes since most of our social fabric is based on mutual common sense.

Or in other words, a person who is brilliant thanks to his lack of common sense would not have been brilliant if he had common sense. And convincing a person without common sense that learning common sense would be good for him is very hard, most likely he will just ignore it like he did all other common sense things he have been told to do in his life. Therefore it is inevitable that asshole leaders who lack common sense will continue to appear and thrive, because those with common sense can't do the job.
Tremendous revenue but not really any profit. College sports overall are not "profitable" except at a very few elite programs. (Schools hope knock-on effects, like increased alumni interest, make them pay off).
The largest user of HipChat, really? Uber must have been something like 5k-15k employees at that time. I thought HipChat was used in F500, much larger than that.

Anyway, HipChat was bought and killed by Slack. They avoided a dying product by accident.
The CEO of SpaceX did commit a couple crimes in the same podcast.

Uber's autonomous car fatally collided with a woman, raising questions of negligence and liability in automation.

Uber acquired some of Alphabet/Waymo's trade secrets when they aqui-hired one of their former engineers who apparently kept a bunch of Waymo's IP he worked on. That engineer himself is now facing a federal indictment, and Uber and Waymo have settled.

E-scooters are facilitating a number of city-specific crimes (it's usually illegal to operate a vehicle, bike, or skate on a city sidewalk and the e-scooters do not provide helmets but neither do the riders). To say nothing of the legally dubious use of public property to deploy them.

Move fast and break stuff indeed.
You are only looking at US emissions, not world emissions. The US is not the only country on Earth and its use of coal has been falling for some time now.
There's two points here. From a practical standpoint, clearly the way to fix this problem is to fix the rules, and educate the people who make them to minimize future occurrences. Expecting everyone to act for the good of society without zero material incentives or consequences is futile. I believe you're saying that, and I agree.

But (by a reasonable understanding of "hard to find fault") you also appear to be saying that the people exploiting the loopholes in the faulty law are morally blameless, and that's nonsense. Humans are responsible for the consequences of their actions. It's naive to expect them to do the right thing, but that doesn't make them immune to criticism or judgment.
NAS: Please fix your defn of P-values
It's cheap "if your time is free", it is nice being able to depend on your clothes.
I think the OP's question really involves the CFO or any accountants involved in this case. I would expect the CEO to be driven more by vision than by cold, hard facts.
I'm still not sure what the difference between tf.keras and the other keras repo is!

And that's before Sonnet, the Estimator API (?) and TFLearn (I'm probably forgetting a bunch).
> Imbalance is bad because participation in civil society, to include employment, should be representative of society as a whole.

So when society changes the demographics we have to fire and hire the right amount? Sorry you're the best candidate we've ever interviewed but we have hired too many black men and are above our diversity quota.

> Besides, inclusive and diverse workforces have been repeatedly shown to be better for the bottom line because organizations are more able to serve a wider market when they are made up people more representative of the total market.

Is it the diversity of color or diversity of thought that is what drives a better bottom line? I'm gonna go on a hunch it's the diversity of thought that you're taking credit for.