skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the most part, smart people shouldn't go to grad school, particularly in the humanities and most non-econ social sciences: https://jakeseliger.com/2012/05/22/what-you-should-know-befo....

Computer science, econ, and a few other fields have robust non-academic job markets, which means that getting PhDs in those fields may not optimize for lifetime income but also may not mess up one's career and life track for little gain.

Before someone says something about the importance of the life of the mind, I agree, but it's hard to live the life of the mind when you're struggling to pay rent or student loans.

I know grad students who can’t get a $7 sandwich at Paradise Bakery because it’ll blow their food budget for the month. They have to bring lunch to campus every day because they literally can’t afford not to. Tired in the morning? Tough luck. Make your bean-sprout sandwich or your lentil curry. Personally I like bean-sprout sandwiches and lentil curry, but I also like the option of take-out. Not having any money also sucks if you need or want a book and can’t get it easily or expeditiously from the library and find yourself unable to buy it for $30.
I feel like the Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP was all free (as in beer) software that people rent in the cloud. If you're going to have web infrastructure, I'm not sure what difference it makes whether your cost center is an internal IT staff or an invoice from AWS.
SQL needs to have NULL, because otherwise how does an outer join work? And once NULL is there, you need rules for how it interacts with other values. What is the alternative?
That's fine, but it still doesn't quite intuit when you consider:

Do I know the same amount about whether their age or their car colors differ? : Yes

And that is the crux of the intuitive breakdown of 3VL IMO.
I see. Alright, I'll let you continue whatever it is you think you're doing. A lot of what you said is opinion and a lot of scientists would disagree with your assertions (which are in my eyes pessimistic)

I do believe in this goal though as do others, you should respect other people's dreams, especially when it doesn't detract from yours.

I didn't say this was for short-term survival. This is for long-term survival, we still need to and we are tackling our own planet. Elon himself has disrupted many industries that were contributing to the destruction of this planet (auto, oil & gas)

If you want to help the planet, go help it, don't neg others.
The Harvard economist Greg Mankiew has a talk where he shows how a UBI + flat tax could behave the same as a progressive tax + phased out UBI: https://taxfoundation.org/universal-basic-income-ubi-means-t...
Drivers of higher cost cars less likely to yield to pedestrians at crosswalks
> If you know aviation, literally anything that will decrease fuel usage

Apart from writing full blown avionics systems for engine/flight control - what are you suggesting?
Interesting parallel there.
I don’t agree. I was for a long time of the school that understanding is the only things that matters, and the details can always be looked up. Then during my post doc ( physics) I worked with a couple of Russian guys who had been forced to memorise a lot. What they gained was an enormous speed. They could try six different ideas in their mind while I still looked up the details necessary to try my first. So don’t underestimate root learning.
Yes, commoditize your complement.
Cool! Out of curiosity, do these debugging tools keep pace with the recent process shrinks? I would imagine it's really hard to connect a logic probe to, for example, a processor built on TSMC's 7nm process.
Perhaps so, but they certainly have demo units out. I saw one the other week in my local Apple Store.
This is changing somewhat at least in the airline world. Record profits have meant these companies finally have money to spend. Combined with iPads with ubiquitous connectivity a lot is changing.

The airline I work for is nearing a paperless cockpit. Flight attendants have handhelds loaded with tools for their job, credit card readers, and all of their manuals. Mechanics are joining soon with paperless aircraft logbooks, manuals, and line maintenance dispatching.

Almost all of this stuff is developed in-house or through contractors. It’s so customized to the existing data systems and airline operations that I don’t see how a SaaS could break into it. SaaS May work for smaller airlines who would be more willing to mold their operation to fit a tool.

As far as fuel usage goes that is unfortunately more a symptom of ATC. You can make the best flight profile in the world for fuel planning but as soon as ATC needs to change your profile it all goes out the window.
Of course there is no accounting for taste, but I don't think you can provide a rational argument why "large flat areas of primary and/or pastel colors" is particularly infantilizing.
A huge part of growing up is developing bonds, understanding relationships and getting your kid on a firm footing so they can deal with what the world throws at them.

A lot of that develop happens when they are not learning, or at least you don’t think they are.
I, too, prefer not to know when my box has been blue pilled.

Remote attestation is required for many privacy-preserving activities. It isn't just DRM.
For our team with many containers scattered around ElasticBeanstalk and ECS, K8S makes everything much cleaner.
I mean, congrats, but if you retired comfortably in your 20s you got crazy lucky - that kind of rapid wealth acquisition isn't skill based. I used to work in the game industry getting peanuts for the same hours, we made amazing things in crunch that I am proud of, but when we started to scale back hours our product got even better because we lowered the stress and increased the healthiness of our workplace.
Yes, mutually assured destruction. From the movie War Games: "The only winning move is not to play."
Many UBI proposals have suggested eliminating or reducing other programs in conjunction with their implementation.
That sounds essentially similar to the US system except that the US long-term capital gains tax rates are not exactly 50% of income rates. They're 0% of income rates on the low end, approximately 53-68% in most of the middle tax brackets, and 64% at the high end.
while technology is very advanced it still has a lot of limits. Watching what is happening in someone's brain without damaging them is quite difficult. From the article "Currently, people who volunteer for such experiments have to be able to fall asleep while wearing an electroencephalogram (EEG) cap inside of a noisy MRI machine—no easy feat." So it would seem that studying internal brain activity during healthy sleep is indeed a challenge.
To me it's a story of creative disruption, which belongs in a community of entrepreneurs.
did you feel like you were in any danger at any point? would you recommend people volunteer at these shelters?
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Which may be an insight on how SpaceX/Tesla avoid some of those traditional business issues- the business is this case is a means to an engineering end, not a means to perpetuate the power/wealth/comfort of management.
Some people talk about merge conflicts as something inherently bad, but that's a flawed perspective. Merge conflicts are a great feature of a version control system. Given that multiple persons changed the same line, conflicts are the easy way out.

Conflicts have only given me a hard time when someone did something out of the ordinary. Even very large and unstructured open source projects such as the Linux kernel will see people naturally gravitate to different parts of the code. It's not often a filesystem developer suddently change the networking stack, for example.
The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold
My bigger concerns is that it creates dependency, prices go up, and you either deal with it, or you change systems which is hugely costly.

FOSS as much as possible.
One of the reasons I started Trustle was because I had a TON of parents seeking out my support for everyday parenting challenge that would not normally want to make an appointment. In some cases potty training regressions are a great fit for therapy, but in other cases, therapy seems too intense. And, you are right, there is often a LONG wait for care (and in the US, it is quite expensive). The convenience of being able to access your dedicated expert whenever you want also helps to make progress on the challenge more quickly.

Thanks for the info on the site - are you accessing it over https or http when you get the error message? Any chance you can send you a screenshot at elizabeth@trustle.com. (our web flow should default to https)
> sacrifices the company’s well-known identity

Challenge author to find any person who is unable to correctly attribute new logo to BMW but can do so with the old logo.
Indisputable Laws of Mindful Presenting
How does the novice programmer know about order of operations? Maybe they are blissfully unaware of both features, but if someone is being taught one feature, they should be taught both. In my case, I'm self-taught and just applied what I learned in basic algebra about parens and boolean logic.
The quote that explains why it's important to build one Starship a week:

> “A high production rate solves many ills,” he said. “If you have a high production rate, you have a high iteration rate. For pretty much any technology whatsoever, the progress is a function of how many iterations do you have, and how much progress do you make between each iteration. If you have a high production rate then you have many iterations. You can make progress from one to the next.”
Not sure if I understand correctly, but are you saying secrets kept in hardware like console encryption keys (PS4 etc.) can be trivially extracted with the right tool?
Swift 1 and 2 didn't have to be stable – SwiftUI does. It's a system library, so it can't do things like change method names, at least not without keeping the old symbols around.

Of course, there will be bugs, and behavior will change as the library evolves, but shared library vs language evolution is fundamentally different.
Things you can make from old, dead laptops (Jan 2020)
You don't need UBI then, prices will just go down towards 0 because of competition, resulting in free food / housing / clothing / mobile phones for everyone.

Only being half-sarcastic here.
Test kits made by TIB Molbiol cost EUR 2.50 per patient. One kit can be used for 96 patients (or up to twice that number if diluted), so cost of work is spread over quite a few people. Their estimate for a reasonable price is EUR 10.00 including work.

Source (German): https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/tib-molbiol-berliner-firm...
If etiquette is needed for an app then that's the wrong tool or the tool is that bad. In this case I think it's the wrong tool. If people are that concerned about the visual noise in slack, maybe use something else that is more limited. If emojis are there, that implies they can be used. If there is abuse the option is either to remove them or add an additional feature that tries to solve the problem.
That's not what the headline said, though.
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Wrong topic :)
Ease of entrepreneurship might be high, but actual entrepreneurship lags the US where a much weaker social safety net exists.

Ow do you explain that?
I have no idea how to deploy my app on Google App Engine or Heroku. So instead of spending time developing features my customers care about, I'll spend time learning how to deploy my app on those services.
Lawyers and justice
When I was contractor I did a lot of niche apps for small businesses. I think it comes down to your ability to sell. I suck at it so not much success for me. But there is a ton of opportunity if you are willing to talk to people about their needs and then go out to sell. You won’t be the next unicorn but you can make decent money and it’s fun working with small business owners.

Add: I often saved them countless hours with some simple Excel VBA or running a loop over a database table. Really simple stuff.
Not obviously, but it could be. Reducing idling time and improving routes both increase fuel efficiency without changing the airplane. Maybe software could help with those.

Edit: my reply was to the original comment which was something like "how is this a software problem?"
> sacrifices the company’s well-known identity

I challenge author, or anyone, to find any person who is unable to correctly attribute new logo to BMW but can do so with the old logo.
I would think that thousands of people like you trying to build something innovative and new would be well worth the investment in those who try and fail or those who are content to "waste it away" (spending their UBI and doing nothing else is still creating economic activity).
From a different (but really probably the same) angle, this is the frustration I've had with Anki as well.

I just want a "dumb" flashcard application that doesn't try to apply "smart" techniques/heuristics.

I was just looking for a way to do the same paper card quizzing digitally without having to actually carry decks on my person.

Every app I've tried over the years powered under the hood by Anki had this issue.

It's been a few years since I last checked it out, but an option for a dumb mode would have had me throwing money at it just to even try it out.
FOSS is free if your time is worthless.

There's plenty of situations in business where using it is an incredibly good idea. There's even more situations where you're better off just paying for a service.
That article clearly says the propeller thing is a myth, and that BMW just did that once for a fun advertisement.
> The point is: you don’t need everyone to work full time everyday for a society to maintain a healthy standard of living.

Maintaining isn't what people are aiming for though, they want improvement. People are not satisfied by objectively living much better lives than some king or pope 500 years ago.
It isn't about what the spend per employee, but about the revenue earned per employee.

> Median salary in the US is about $50K

The median company isn't necessarily spending $10k per employee for software.
I wish SQL had used a Maybe/Option type, or other algebraic data types, instead of NULL. So much safer and cleaner.
Thanks for sharing your guidelines.

> Review and edit messages before sending

Part of the joy of Slack is that sending messages to your team is super low-friction so more people are likely to contribute.
The example use case is "I have this thought-through proposal I'd like to do. Is it okay with you." In this case it makes sense to review more thoroughly before sending in order to communicate the proposal more clearly.

In other cases, you may want to engage in more back and forth as you debug something together or make a plan together. In these debugging/planning sessions, I think it’s valuable to have the full thought process of the team recorded in Slack. This unfiltered discussion might provide useful context to someone else later.

I like to augment this frictionless back and forth with a summary at the end of the discussion. This makes it easier for someone other than those involved in the conversation to benefit from it. And then they can refer to the full conversation for more details.

I'm one of the creators of a tool that's designed to make these summaries accessible (https://bytebase.io).
I agree with all of these. but, the main driver is piracy.

Look at products like 1Password. Everybody I knew was buying one license key and installing it on 5+ computers. Now that it's a service, you can't really do that anymore. The company definitely has more control over their software.

It's also one of the only ways to make money with open source, unless you want to make money on support, which is brutal for a small company with only a few employees.
I absolutely appreciate this perspective! And, in fact, I agree with you. The aim isn't to diagnose kids or "fix" anything. And we certainly don't want parents to feel like this ads pressure. We want to take the pressure off. A survey from Zero to three shows that nearly half (48%) of parents nationwide report the they do not have the support they need. This is a serious challenge, and also an opportunity. We absolutely want parents to trust their instincts - which is why we don't tell them what to do, we work WITH with them to provide them access to support to tackle challenges that often arise for parents. We recognize not all parents need more support of have any challenges, and that is great too!
“Range” by David Epstein goes into this at length.

Studies about “mastery” that indicate you should stick to a single instrument tend to be about classical music where you’re playing (generously: ‘interpreting’) existing pieces, which is very easy to assess.

But qualitative research on successful creative musicians from a far broader range of genres demonstrates exactly what you’re saying: a range of experience in different instruments and genres is highly beneficial.
Why we chose serverless for Fathom Analytics
it would seem likely that if they discover a physical mechanism at work in select individuals brains (electric waves followed by rhythmic waves of fluid) that the mechanism exists in some form in all individuals. I agree it does make for a clear follow up question: "could this mechanism be altered in some ways in people who experience sleep problems?"
The metal layer interconnects usually are _not_ that small. I can't share the exact specs for TSMC's 7nm process but here's an example that should give you some idea:

https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee311/NOTES/Interconnect%20Sc...
I was skeptical of the article until the very end:

> It’s unlikely that young people will notch many policy wins in a government whose median age is over 70.

Older people have different concerns, expenses, spend their time differently, and have different problems than younger people. To ignore that younger people are under-represented in the federal government is just as bad as ignoring the under-representation of other groups.
It's a bad idea because your wife, ex, parents, friends, co-workers, boss and the annoying uncle from Utah aren't also doing it.

If everyone else in the world is doing it too, things would be radically different.

Also, how does the power differential not actually equalize? If a cashier at McDonalds can see everything Jeff Bezos does, and Jeff Bezos can see everything the homeless person does, you really think Jeff Bezos is the one getting the better end of the deal?
It's a first algorithm to train _recommenders_ faster on CPUs, not neural nets in general. And the "CPU" they use are actually 2 CPUs which, even after the price drop, sell for $4K+ each.
Exactly, NULL != NULL is surprising since pretty much every other language treats them equal and seems to serve no purpose other than being philosophically "right".

Even SQL databases that adhere to ANSI NULLS must treat NULL==NULL sometimes (group by, order by)

Obviously you need to compare nulls hence the crazy IS NOT DISTINCT FROM which is just another way of saying "equal" in English.
+1.

like sometimes you need to check something on your personal accounts, but that's usually a one-off to do with a private browser. anecdote: i applied to grad school and got a reference from my boss but there were some issues and had to log in to the school account to check things.

that said, unless you're in a secure or radio-free facility use your damn phone.
There is also opportunity cost - what could the employee have worked on that would have made you more money?
I would expect it to happen in the deepest sleep cycle with the lowest brain activity. I picture REM more as a testing environment run of higher level brain functions. Some things are stubbed out (voluntary muscle control and long term memory generation) but most brain activity is functioning like awakeness during REM.
>trained models will likely inherit these biases.

Living in middle America, I can tell you that Joe Average absolutely does not understand this. To him, based on my conversations with the people around me, AI/ML/anything sufficiently 'futuristic' sounding is without bias. To them, these models are developed in a vacuum, and using the AI label implies that the end result actually built itself, like a baby human would grow up.

And this scares me.
I've started looking at software to help with residential construction tasks, i.e. the construction of a single-family house.

My impression so far is that there's so much variability in what they encounter, that most tasks are best handled ad hoc by experienced tradesmen. But I'm not certain; it's possible that that's just the status quo, not how it needs to be.
They can be made the same: https://taxfoundation.org/universal-basic-income-ubi-means-t...

I think UBI has advantages in its universality, where it's not perceived as a rich to poor transfer (even though it really is) and everyone feels they benefit from the program (even though some people don't).
Gate size on 7nm processes is still 30nm, and even the lowermost M0 metal is way, way bigger.

Even if doing so requires destroying, and reconstructing some tracks around the probe, 7nm shouldn't be much different from how it was done back a decade ago.
> for me at least.

I like how you leave room for the possibility that there is a significant percentage of people playing on their consoles for the vast majority of their waking hours :-)
I think the authoritarian regime will just torture anyone with any VeraCrypt or TrueCrypt volume and the plausible deniability will come back to bite you as you can't prove that there are no other hidden volumes.
Give people money, and most of it will get spent. That spending is income for someone, and that income is taxed. I don't understand this argument.
Has Valve done anything noteworthy in the last 10 years besides milking the Steam store? Their half-baked console seemed like an attempt to do more of the former.
For me it's about 1/3 hit 2/3 miss, and those that hit I usually want to tweak the composition or alter it somehow. Rarely am I completely satisfied with output from it, but that does happen.

I would take many of them and scale them up to a resolution that would work for LARGE prints, with a tool that does its own upscaling/stylish embellishing (like Dynamic Auto Painter), then work them up further in digital.

I think it's a fantastic tool for brainstorming ideas.

Anyone know the license terms for images generated by this web site?
In the Boston area, these signs typically have some variation of "USE YAH BLINKAH"
Do you mean Coreboot? Because as far as i know Libreboot still only supports Core2 era hardware. Ivy Bridge would be a huge upgrade in comparison.
Whatever definition we end up with, if it requires organic molecules from principle, it's too strict to be useful, and if does not require evolution it's way too broad for anything useful.
I found the Teams UI confusing and it became one of those "places information goes to get lost" tools (see also: Asana), when I had to use it for a while about a year ago.

[EDIT] also like Asana, I gather people who were in it & related MS tools basically all day—so, managers and similar—thought it was fine.
> many people in USA believe that corporation has duty to increase shareholder value. And similar stupid ideas.

No more stupid than the idea that companies are supposed to exist solely for the benefit of the employee. Shareholders are the ones that put the money up to start and grow the company in the first place, so yes, there is an obligation to shareholder value.

Don't like that? Then you are free to start a company that doesn't take investment.
Sorry, just being an asshole. Using sanitizer in those situations makes perfect sense.
Why would you ever want someone to work? Isn't the ideal that we automate everything, work never, and everyone can get enough?