skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I survived in grad school on much less than 28k in a very high cost of living city. If anything, graduate student compensation is ridiculously high these days. I don't see anything but money-grubbing here.
It's crazy to think that the modern bicycle was invented the same year as the modern car, both in 1885. Although apparently the ball bearing was a limiting factor for the creation of each.
Most faculty does not want to grade anything. I've TA'ed 6 courses, the professor just showed up for lectures and reused last year's exams/homeworks. Students had the solutions, >70% of the class copied them exactly. The prof didn't care. And TA's were handling most complaints about the grades. This was common for majority of undergrad level classes I took (a different UC campus).

Also, it was my job as a TA to explain the material during my TA sections (which were basically lectures, only with more questions and more examples, and I used a blackboard while the prof just read PP slides).

Even though the above was the norm, there were a few great professors who cared, and taught very well.
Mine is wheeled luggage, which is very similar to products that existed in antiquity (wheelbarrow, pushcart, rickshaw). The article mentions it here:

>In general, I think we should be more surprised at long gaps for inventions that have obvious, predictable impact on major industries. For this reason, the cotton gin and the flying shuttle are more compelling gaps to me than the wheeled suitcase, role-playing games, or the bicycle, which merely offer convenience or entertainment.
That might be a valid claim if STEM students made more than eg humanities students, but it’s unfortunately not the case in the real world that supply and demand dictate resources in a state university...I just graduated with a STEM PhD and comfortably make six figures, but that’s after five years of making $20k and teaching courses required by unrelated subjects, as the only professor. And I was lucky to have such a stable income for such a long time, which actually covered my rent...

Generally, grad student pay is not calibrated at the department / subject level, and that’s especially true of a large multi university state system like CA has...
Overriding in JavaScript
Of course, not everyone can work in big tech.
Rather than seeing this as a conspiracy, it’s worth considering that the cause of shorter lifespan is simply our improved ability to build cheaply. For mechanical products with many parts (any one of which breaking would break the machine) variability of lifespan is extremely sensitive to variability of lifespan of each individual part.

So to reach a certain reliability, i. e. „less than 10% failure rate in the first five years“ you needed to overprovision to such a degree that the 90% remaining after five years would tend to life on indefinitely.

Material science has radically improved. Every part comes with precise expected lifetime. That allows building „crap“ where everything fails after exactly five years (or whatever you plan for).

While shorter lifetimes may well be in the manufactures‘ interest, it isn’t clear that they aren’t also in the consumers‘ and public interest, at least some of the time. Use of material and energy can be drastically reduced. Prices have come done way more than lifetimes have. And at least in the current moment, energy efficiency is improving at a pace where running 20-year old appliances is wrong both financially as well as ecologically.
That's between them and their union - they can stop paying union dues, they can leave the union.
Writing command line interfaces for iOS apps
CR ranks Samsung pretty low for overall appliance reliability.

Part of the problem seems to be that nobody makes highly-reliable front-loading washers for home use.

https://www.consumerreports.org/appliances/who-makes-the-mos...
Things getting cool enough after the big bang seems to be the obvious one.

But on a more serious note, maybe modern encryption? The physical gate being the literal ability to get rocks to count fast enough to finish decrypting something before the heath death of the universe
I've been working with GTK for a cross-platform app for 20 years (actually cross-platform for 15 or so). I've had the opportunity to have fairly deep interactions with people who've used Qt for similar projects.

The reality is that if your app is substantive in its GUI requirements, then neither Qt nor GTK will entirely shield you from platform specifics, and both of them will fall down in some situations (a little different for each toolkit).

Historical note: I decided to use GTK and not Qt because in the 1990s, Qt, despite being written in C++, was incredibly non-C++-idiomatic. It had its own string class, and required a Qt-provided pre-processor to be run on your code to get their signals/slots mechanism to work (think "anonymous callbacks"). GTK, by contrast, had a C++ binding that fully embraced the power of the C++ of the time. At this point, this difference between them has largely gone away. Qt has far more in its toolset to help people design and build apps, but when you get down to what they can actually do at runtime, there's not a lot of difference.

My one outstanding gripe about GTK is that the initial "G" used to stand for GIMP (it was written to support the development of that application), but now stands for GNOME. This doesn't ruin GTK as a general application toolkit, but some of the design decisions (at several different levels) do reflect its status as the "GNOME Toolkit" rather than a totally platform-agnostic GUI toolkit.
Ask HN: Git branch name conventions – which do you use?
It’s about sending a message.
> denser urban living is definitely better for the environment, most of the time,

"Most of the time" is likely the key phrase in that statement. I would say it depend on where and how. Living "in nature" enables partial self sustainability, and far from all land is currently used efficiently. Low yield farm land is perfectly fine for raising a few chicken and supplementing other commonly food product with self grown items, and that reduces strain on high yield farm land.

As an example, here in Sweden the urbanization has been identified as a direct cause for lower biodiversity by land being overgrown with mono culture spruce forests. The previous small open plots and fields inside forests allowed for a more diverse environment for animals like birds and insects.

People moving to more rural areas would not top my list of terrible things for nature, or at least not around here. I do however agree that if everyone went to live in rural areas we would run out of unused low yield land, so there is definitely a balance to be made.
I am unfairly getting downvoted. I downloaded and installed this software and spent hours to fix the errors.

Running flutter doctor is recommended in their "Getting Started" page to check the sanity of the install.

But I kept getting the same "license status unknown" error after multiple installs /uninstalls in various order.

Their GitHub issues page has this issue as closed.

If this is the state of a simple install I dread to venture any further into actual development.

This will be a complete waste of developer's time and resources.

I am merely sharing my experience. Do not waste your time trying the flutter / stutter / sputter.
Wheeled luggage waited for strong plastic.
Yeah, back then Hotmail gave you something like 10MB and everyone literally thought 1GB was an April Fools' Day hoax. If Stadia was literally 100x better than the nearest competition while still having a far superior user experience then they wouldn't be having any trouble.
They do blue or red shift in response to gravitational gradients and the like.
Hopefully when we’re done with this, perhaps we can extrapolate and invent the future a little faster.

If we invest a few percent more in R&D every year, for example, would that compound over decades?

If we did more Citizen Science? Individual and crowdsourced.

More X-Prize investments?

Consumer products like televisions, smartphones, smart watches, etc advance because consumers are willing to spend large amounts of money.

If robotics, or any technology, could reach a tipping point, it’ll get the same investment.
How is Google's work-from-home policy nowadays? Does it differ between Europe and the US?
Unfortunately It couldn't find the exact one, it was from the author's presentation against a few other codec on common metrics such as PSNR and SSIM.

There is a thread on Doom9 [1] with similar results though.

[1] https://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1894341&postcount=167
If you are looking to build a web application, create-react-app is a great way to get started if you're willing to learn React. It's an open source project from facebook. Here is the link the github: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app. It's good quick start to building the front end of an application.
Video shows cars driving along a nearby road seconds before the explosion, only several hundred feet away. Did they sign up for Elon’s trial-and-error strategy?
But that’s the great thing about the market, there still have to be buyers and the public is getting wise about these “semi-fraudulent” IPOs (see WeWork). This is exactly how the market is suppose to work.
No. The no-cloning theorem is a real theorem of quantum mechanics. To discover a way around it is to find evidence of a new paradigm.
Even worse the UC system (and by extension UCSC) are state run institutions that get a hefty chunk of their operating budget from the state. They also prioritize foreign students over domestic as they pay higher tuition (nee fees as it was illegal in California for UC and CSU schools to charge tuition for a very long time). The state should not be in the business of exploiting cheap labor. Period.

It's fucking absurd how top heavy the state run universities (especially UC) are. I would hope that grad students at other UC campuses would strike in solidarity, but knowing that UC's got them by the short and curlies I doubt that'll happen.
Well, congratulations - it's an impressive project! Putting things together in a sturdy way that looks nice is the hard part. Thanks to all of the free libraries and IDEs, the hardware and software are practically an afterthought these days :)
That's true of pretty much any amplifier: a small signal controls how much of a large "source" is available at the output.

If I had to guess, it's a) to emphasize the "signal" part and b) to make a distinction for it being used for the proportional control?
In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, with Red Flags
FTA: "Human beings evolved to live in tribes," he continues. "We are the first humans ever to try to disband our tribes. The figures on loneliness are just shocking."

To wit:

"Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia."

and

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

-Kurt Vonnegut
Huh. This doesn't hit home for me at all. The New York Times has a long history of bold investigative journalism and, compared to a lot of other news outlets, caution and strong adherence to verifiable facts. If they're succeeding these days, that only makes me more hopeful for the future.

I'd love to see more news outlets do as well as the times does at reporting honestly and courageously. But BuzzFeed? Gawker? What are the great contributions these entities make, such that we should worry about their having staff poached away, or getting bought entirely?
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then for all intents and purposes, it is a duck.

As a grad student, I taught 2 undergraduate courses a semester as the professor, the same load as a full faculty member—very much ‘workers in the traditional sense.’ Moreover, grad students are also writing a dissertation and doing research for their advisors and taking a full course load, and apparently in CA, also working a side job to pay their bills.
How AI Is Creating Millions of Remote Jobs Around the World
Separability, SVD and low-rank approximation of 2D image processing filters
Many of these students are paid part-time to do essentially full-time jobs, and often find it difficult or even impossible take up outside employment.
Even if you receive the biggest stipend out of all graduate programs in the entire country in computer science or whatever stem subtype you'd like to name, it won't be much higher than 35k/yr. Grad students in top programs in Boston and the bay area are living on the razor edge of affording a roof and food. It doesn't get much easier in the midwest, either. Your rents are cheaper but your stipend is comparatively lower, and opportunities are more difficult to find compared to networking on the coasts which are hubs of tech and biotech.

The current stipend is just not enough to pay for rent in Santa Cruz. In recent years the city has become a bedroom community for bay area commuters and appropriate housing supply hasn't been built to match the influx of people. There are grad students at ucsc where it is cheaper for them to fly across the world back to their home country for the summer than to live in Santa Cruz for those three months.

There are also graduate students who entered their program under a different union contract, with a different rental market landscape, and now find themselves with the prospect of being unable to pay for a wildly higher rent than they expected from data from 2016, something that they couldn't forsee when the signed their fellowship contract 4 years ago, so yes, some of these students are being baited and screwed.

On top of this, UCSC graduate students attempted to fix this at the negotiation table, but the agreement between all UC campuses and the greater graduate union did not take into account the rising cost of living in Santa Cruz when it was made; 83% of UCSC graduate students opposed this agreement at the time and their concerns were not heard by their union or the University of California.

For many students, the choices are to starve, attempt to derail their life by dropping out of grad school and reset it in another field somewhere far away from California with their lack of disposable income to even fund a move like this, or to strike and attempt to improve the situation. I can't blame them at all.
Linux++ (March 1, 2020)
Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin all came literally thousands of years later.
Yes, and I imagine they learned from their involvement with the Dreamcast, as well.
Given the project is called "C++ Actor Framework", why did you name the package actor-model?
The primary buyers of newly issued stocks are precisely who have been forced into buying artificially supply constrained private shares with in many professional opinions made available to me under assurances of my probity, unlawful restraint and restrictions and highly unnatural interpretations of GAAP. I recently received a three word share report from a former limited partner and it read "Out Of Expletives ". Okay six words or three plus one acronym for "E&EO" ended the message.

Price increases are macro driven or trading and execution or business distribution factor sensitive appreciation. There's no real economic growth. I am presently held from advancing my own business because such a incredible burden of anecdotal evidence that's my direct experience has accumulated until I realised only this year that I am duty bound to account for and attempt to report the findings however that may be possible, before committing to a major investment. I owe my partners my experience and that's become a consideration under my employment contract as my responsibility to so do. At least I am sure I will not be imprudent if I do spend the necessary time in writing. Health forced me into a prolonged period of sabbatical and I am changed by my experiences. I genuinely fear for a complete paralysed economy and not even paralysis is correct nomenclature because that word implies a otherwise viable body capable of resuscitation. I think we killed capitalism as we thought we knew it and we have all become parasitic unknowingly and blind to the ways we so became. I suffered memory loss from a head trauma and actually had to somehow reboot my system for thought about every aspect of my life. My business was all consuming to my near death by self neglect and the upshot is I regained or just gained a humanity I cannot believe but know was horribly diminished if not lost over almost thirty years pursuing a ridiculous ambition without any rest. I never noticed the time passing but I was matrix style patched in to the business world and ignorant of everything else. Learning about business and economic opportunities from scratch in much needed normal conditions instead of catapulted from a exclusive education has confronted me with a sense of total terror at the frailty of our economic civilisation. Even more frightening and yet optimistic I discovered that the communities of computing nerds actually are most attuned to global risks and dangers. Which means that the most important knowledge is altogether compartmented separately from political potential for action. This isn't non obvious of course but I think it's a different level of separation from forty years ago and now the majority of logical arguments are happening apart from mainstream media and society. Because every science is become just "tech news" as if they saw the world of science through a Slashdot filter
The modern Hebrew (actually Aramaic [1]) alphabet and the Arabic alphabet are both derived from the Phoenician alphabet, which itself was derived (via proto-Sinaitic) from Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Egyptian hieroglyphs themselves may or may not be another independent invention; they arose shortly after Sumerian cuneiform, and there was contact between the two societies, but there's no evidence of direct transfer. It's possible that just the concept of writing was transmitted, but no one really knows.

[1] The alphabet that archaeologists call the Hebrew or Paleo-Hebrew alphabet is a slight variant of the Phoenician one, just as ancient Hebrew is a dialect on the Canaanite dialect continuum. The alphabet used to write Hebrew since about 300-500 BCE is the Aramaic alphabet, spread throughout the Levant by the Persians when they made Aramaic the lingua franca in their possessions west of the Zagros.
“I’m struggling for basic needs such as toilet paper, buying my son milk,” said Arjona, who pays about $1,700 a month in rent out of the $2,200 she receives
It's definitely the "intelligent person's" way to wager since you're only going up against your fellow players and not the house. Too bad that the parimutuel industry didn't try to modernize its product. How many people even know that you can legally bet on horse races from anywhere in the US, even on mobile? It's also surprising that this most fair form of wagering never made it past horses and jai alai even though it works just as well for football, basketball, or Nascar.
https://archive.is/0xebz

> As China encourages people to return to work despite the coronavirus outbreak, it has begun a bold mass experiment in using data to regulate citizens’ lives — by requiring them to use software on their smartphones that dictates whether they should be quarantined or allowed into subways, malls and other public spaces.

I mean, I get it, but that some pretty dystopian nightmare fuel.
Your argument appears sane on the surface, but falls flat on its face, when considering that the CCP has a well established track record of outright lying and denying facts, which were established through independent international research. What interest would the Australian government have in challenging China, when much of their economy relies on them! On top of that, most of the provided information just matches other independent research. The only one who is defending propagandists is you.
An example I've mentioned before on HN is the rotary pressure exchanger. It has one moving part, is 98% efficient, and the base patent was issued in 1988. Perhaps there was a lack of large application before reverse osmosis became a big thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_exchanger
The answer to that question is less clear than you seem to expect. In terms of total energy use, it’s almost certain that a ten-year refrigerator should be replaced, for example. For something like a washing machine, it’s probably similar although amount of use obviously factors into it.
> CR recommends Kenmore appliances higher than other reviewing sites.

I’ve noticed that too, but I’m still inclined to trust Consumer Reports more than any other review site. CR has real labs, real scientists/technicians, real methodologies for their tests, and they get their funding from grants, subscribers, donations, and not from advertising.

With respect to Kenmore getting higher marks than they sometimes deserve, I think it might be because Kenmore contracts out everything they make. So for one year, in one market region (say, USA vs Canada), for one particular appliance, the appliance is fantastic but next year they’ve contracted it out to someone else and it’s awful. So my theory is that the Kenmore “brand” has far greater variation from year-to-year or region-to-region than brands that actually make their own products.
Yeah! Before I started contributing I always thought that I wasn't good enough to even try. When I started I noticed how welcoming the communities usually are and that motivated me to contribute me even more. Nowadays I try to motivate people whenever I can.
Exactly, it's always MS SQL Server no questions asked :)

After all it's the "approved" solution around here.
Computer Forensics is an area that can totally get some love. The hardware and software is designed to be used by large agencies, pricing out the consumer space (for data recovery) and the small business (for data recovery)
And again, this is brought upon by the university and their adherence to policies designed to strike the biggest wedge between the student body. I've had classes at my university where if you miss one exam your grade is averaged from all the rest. If the building that housed the exams was engulfed in flames and all the exams were lost, this is probably what the university would do in response.

The university is free to make whatever rule they'd like to get around this, but instead go for maximum hurt to try to cut the legs off of this strike, and what is blowing me away is that this strategy by the university is working very effectively.
Isn’t it supposed to replace like 8 different jets? Seems like an overloaded set of requirements.
> If you are talking to people in person, that has a different context from broadcasting to the world.

If anything, I'd expect mild self-promotion to be _more_ acceptable on the latter, since it serves as both a vehicle for personal and professional communication. Ie, "so proud to have been nominated for the [some award] for [book that I wrote]" is a pretty normal tweet on Twitter, and there's nothing especially wrong with it or mockable about it.
Oh, I didn't realize I had to install GTK separately - that I couldn't just include the libraries in my Cargo.toml and hope the compilation would do it.

So, I went to part of the GTK Project page where it provides examples on how to install GTK for Mac (https://www.gtk.org/docs/installations/macos/) and clicked on the installation script link under Getting Started. The installation script link is broken.
Clojure did not just rename a few functions. It's basically zero source code compatible with Lisps. Not only old example code does not run, nothing runs. No applications, no libraries, no tools, ... It's not even easy to port. It's a rewrite and/or redesign.

Obviously this is okay for people who don't care of the historical baggage (and want to avoid it) and who don't care about the functionality of Lisps, like interactive error handling.