skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These complaints don't really address the point of this article. Career bureaucrats? An integral part of the supercommunity, dealing with the paperwork that their class set up themselves and getting doled out a cut of all the money rolling in for "education" and "research". Unconnected and politically unsavvy undergrads dealing with tuition inflation are losers in this situation, true, but those who are willing to work the system can still get rewarded. And besides, when I think about the cost of my state school, there's no way I could have that much fun at my age for so little money.

The library still contains plenty of unsettling ideas, and you're missing the system's neatest trick: they still have so much money and prestige that they can simply co-opt any serious competitors. I'd bet money that the author of this post would take a professorship and a budget at a prestigious university any day if it were offered, as long as they get weakly promised some kind of independence, the same kind of independence a tobacco-sponsored scientist gets.
If they stopped banning Astrazeneca too, and stopped vaccinating people who already had COVID, we could be done within 60 days. Astrazeneca is well above the FDAs original safety and efficacy guidance and something I'd be glad to take and give my family.
Sure. I tried that algorithm once, and knew Craig Reynolds. That's what they're using here. It works OK when you don't have turning circle problems and aren't trying to fit through tight spots not much larger than your vehicle. Not useful for ordinary wheeled vehicles, but fine for quadrotor drones.

The achievement here is not the planning. It's the mapping, from vision only, in a small package.
I hated almost everything about my college experience, particularly the idea that I was incentivized to waste time memorizing everything in order to come first.

I did enjoy the company of some of the best students in the cohort though, but I wouldn't like to repeat that experience.
I haven't seen anyone here mention DataGrip, so here goes:

If you work with a database you should try DataGrip. It is the best client I've ever used, for every single database I've tried it with (mostly Postgres, some SQLite and Redshift as well). Autocomplete just works, it will create schema diagrams for you that are accurate and useful, it's data export tools are obvious and fast. I pay for a license personally for use on side projects, and use it at work on a daily basis.
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To be fair, there is a cloud watch metric you could have set an alert on: "PercentIOLimit"
I've seen this phenomenon elsewhere. To some circles, everything that is not a huge, public, IPO'd tech company is considered a "startup".
Can the federal government actually end civil asset forfeiture "nationwide" due to the US Constitution's delegation of power to the states? In fact would this type of reform have to happen at the state level, and basically 50+ times? Unless explicitly stated in the constitution, there will be a cat fight of litigation over federal vs state rights, and the current federal court system is being more and more tilted towards states' rights. I'm wondering if this is some sort posturing by the author.
If you're a hobby scientist who happens to have money and goes off in an attempted to create something that would truly advance our technological understanding of the world/generally make the world a better place with whatever you're making - you'll probably be arrested by the FBI long before you ever get to succeed.

This is a bad thing. If science is to be seen as simply a hobby by the coming generations, the world as we know it is truly doomed to complete stagnation.
I remember having something similar years ago. Ended up just creating a 100GB file, or something, just to get the IOPS I needed until we could migrate off EFS.
wow, the site is quite hard to read with that light blue color background. They really should be using darker shade of blue to make it readable.
I think the reviewer is mostly right though. The M1 uses unified memory where the CPU, GPU, the neural processor, and other components can access the same data without copying it.

"All of the technologies in the SoC can access the same data without copying it between multiple pools of memory. This dramatically improves performance and power efficiency. Video apps are snappier. Games are richer and more detailed. Image processing is lightning fast. And your entire system is more responsive."

Of course if you need 12 GB of data in memory than sharing 8 GB won't be enough but for most current uses of 16 GB its possible that 8 GB could feel as responsive between the shared memory and the faster access speeds (due to faster components and smaller distances)
DAS Bookbinding has excellent videos on how to get started with bookbinding. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbCGQEhxF94sQqb3zUqChXw
What if they start selling server chips? Slap an ‘Azure’ label on them and they’ll sell like hot-cakes.
I think the reviewer is mostly right though. The M1 uses unified memory where the CPU, GPU, the neural processor, and other components can access the same data without copying it.

"All of the technologies in the SoC can access the same data without copying it between multiple pools of memory. This dramatically improves performance and power efficiency. Video apps are snappier. Games are richer and more detailed. Image processing is lightning fast. And your entire system is more responsive."
seems like cool idea, feels kinda slow for 'minimalist' what does actually mean by use of that word here
How the fuck is this not on the front page of HN?
As charged particles fly past a planet, sometimes they whistle, and make other low frequency signals... the Earth does it, with a coil and an audio amplifier, if you live in a rural enough area, you can hear them.

These folks managed to pick up those types of signals, of a large planet orbiting a different star. I'm impressed that they were able to get that done.
> Starlink with Xilinx FPGAs, while NASA and DoD are still baselining new platforms on incredibly expensive (albeit rad-hard) PowerPC RAD750 and similar.

Ignoring that Starlink isn't very far away, I would assume NASA stuff would also have FPGAs and ASICs on them - they aren't CPUs and aren't used like them.
I'm concerned about the long-term effects of taking these mRNA vaccines. Have there been any studies? Is it true that you may need to take the vaccine more than once?
Nicely put. The title might be intentionally clickbaity, but it’s should strongly remind us of Chesterton’s fence.

I can imagine many alternatives that might appear better than universities in today’s world with contemporary assumptions, but it is totally unclear whether any of them (especially VC-funded startups) might survive over significant timescales (minimum one century) — protecting human knowledge and hosting a fecund environment for the human intellect. Universities are conservative almost by design (and I don’t mean politics), and that’s what has helped them survive so long in symbiosis with increasing knowledge and changing social mores. Historically, they have been very good at adapting (slowly), unlike modern businesses which are so rigid that their trajectory typically involves getting killed/consumed by an upstart in a matter of decades. To the extent that universities have serious problems, a lot of can be traced to trying to run them like businesses.
I'm assuming firmware. Assumptions correct, it's BS that Apple won't fix their own mistake.
Oops, I missed the very top info.
$5300/50 amounts to $106 hours. I believe that's pretty good per hour (- $41) plus all the fun stuff they got to do and laearn.
those options don't have to be mutually exclusive
I'll fly on a 737 Max anytime. Heck I'd have flown on a 737 Max the day they stopped flying them. The problems have been fixed quite a long time ago.
I think the possibilities are immense but too much of the reporting etc. focuses on FTL.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a cell phone with perfect reception, anywhere? Someone at the bottom of the ocean talking to some at the top of Everest, on the other side of the planet? On the moon? Mars?

Let’s talk quantum internet. No longer would we have to rely on internet providers. No more Comcast, no more AT&T. Devices can just connect to other devices without someone in the middle. Governments could no longer block sites or suppress ideas.
TextSniper.app

It does simple OCR, but it's so well-designed that it changed the way I use my computer. It's effectively copy and paste, except now I can copy text from scenes in movies, images I come across online, copy-protected pdf files, interface copy in other apps, etc...

Sadly, for the developers, the app is so handy, I imagine Apple will sherlock the thing shortly.

https://www.textsniper.app/
My dad used to bind all our textbooks and also some of the expensive story books. And it was diy, because it saved money, we got to recycle paper lying around the house, like old calendars, and also the textbooks would last all through the school year. We had a roll of good quality binding tapes for the expensive ones. I still have some of the books in our old house which are nearly 30 years old now, and his grandchildren are going to have them. If this is not interesting and useful I don't know what else is :)
but that's offloaded to the GPU

It's a little odd to exclude the supercomputer your computer comes with to help with scrolling.
Not because genital mutilation of children is just barbaric?
I don't understand why this is downvoted. Sure it's short on evidence, but it seems a plausible argument made in good faith. If "Google research" doesn't sit right with you because showing people more ads shouldn't count as research, think Pfizer, or ABB, or Lockheed Martin.
I learned something new today, thanks.
Weird; the experience of the mouse not stopping when your finger is removed is one I haven't had. I wonder if there's a difference in our devices?
Introduction to Computational Thinking with Julia
The JVM is fast today after 25 years of optimization and some serious improvements in the underlying processors (even with the Moore’s law failure of maybe half that period).

It was not fast at all when the Java hype was peaking in the late 90s. I knew a dotcom era startup that replaced a bunch of Perl with Java and my friends complained it had fewer features and was much slower.
I don't even think we should call for it then. Everyone makes mistakes, and maybe even the best managers couldn't have done better in 2020, as it was. I think almost everyone should be given a break this year.
Great writing style. Easy to follow and not pretentious.
> Also, while I support action on China, its sort of ironic for them to be trying to apply US law in China to punish Chinese law being applied to people in the US.

It wasn't them applying US law in China. It was US law in the US.
What worked for me was taking a temporary management job outside the United States for about a year even though I have a spouse and children.
Awesome, this is great to know. I'll have to consider it for my next side project. Unfortunately I just finished rolling my own, so... :)
He never actually gets to his subject. He stops at the point of maximum return on clickbait.
Your comment is even more obtuse than the one you are complaining about. You meant to ask: Does the law's protection of parodies require that the parody target the work it is a parody of, or to target something else?
I would say that it was not, at least not for US because it did not reach it.
> Becoming a professor is called getting your 'chair' isn't it?

No.

> I don't know any professors who don't also have tenure - that seems a contradiction in terms to me.

Assistant professors generally do not have tenure, and at some institutions being an associate professor or full professor is no guarantee either.

> But if you don't know what I mean we're probably talking about different things and possibly talking at cross-purposes.

I know what you mean; you're just incorrect and spreading misinformation based on your limited experience.
All software is early access in my opinion. Time to embrace that rather than run away.
Show HN: My Subscript project I used at School for taking notes using HTML/CSS
> Perhaps one should ask: how can we create an educational (or other) institution which will last for 1000 years?

What would be the reasons for doing so? (As opposed to simply allowing creative destruction to have its way.)
The Two-Decade Cultural Impact of ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’
A somewhat unrelated note: the proportion between Earth and Milky Way diameters is (100 trillions) the same as the proportion between a human body and a large atom nucleus. We are galaxy sized objects in some sense.
Tens of millions of exactly the same hardware setups isn’t really a generalization-failing anecdote the way “it didn’t work on my old computer” is.
The terminology gets even stranger. ;-) A "chair" is a professorship that is funded by an endowment, that gets naming rights. So for instance, you might see someone like: "Bob Smith, Alice Q Hammond professor of situational metaphysics." What it means is that Alice Q Hammond gave a bunch of money to endow a "chaired" professorship, that Bob Smith occupies.

There are "chairs" like this in professional orchestras too.

The taxonomy of academic titles could fill a book.
CA State Governor Reagan killed public universities in the USA. Death by a thousand cuts. Notable mortal wounds were Prop 13 and COVID-19.

Private universities, including the formerly public institutions able to amass sizable endowments, will be fine.
Startups tend to at least pay you for your time and effort, I think? But I wouldn't call startup culture healthy either.
common? literally didn't work on the 6 different unix systems i just tried
Wow, I've never thought about it this way. This article and comment have almost completely changed the way I think about universities. I really enjoy the idea that universities are culture engines, I think that is true in so many ways.
I'm not making it up out of nowhere!

> Meaning "office of a professor" (1816) is extended from the seat from which a professor lectures (mid-15c.).

https://www.etymonline.com/word/chair

Seems to be in-use in the US?

https://depts.washington.edu/givemed/prof-chair/creating-you...

It even talks about how the endowment for the professorship or chair funds the professor.
It's great that you care about poor people, but it's also elitist to treat them like they're too poor to afford free will.
Everyone I know was knocked out for their wisdom teeth removal, is that not general anesthesia?
I’ve had issues on the odd other site, it just freezes at the username entry (can’t switch from username to password). Just something for you to keep an eye on.

Saw your most recent post. You are a good guy —- rooting for you! In 1 year or whenever I am looking forward to seeing this explode into popularity. Keep a journal if it’s not too much of a bother, I’d love to read the full story and growth of your website after it’s all said and done because I really think if you keep at it, you have a winner on your hands.
Pretty much the whole evolution of art consists of creative rip-offs of what came before.
I've been told by more than one doctor (for chronic pain I had been having) to avoid seeing a surgeon unless absolutely necessary because they were worried the surgeon would recommend surgery even if it wasn't needed. I found it interesting. Seemed like they didn't trust their colleagues (or even they didn't trust me to make my own decision if I got the recommendation to undergo surgery).
Which industries have not been overwhelmed by skyrocketing administrative overhead?
What happened to the take that some here held that this is “obviously” a scam?
It sounds like you have not been in an R1 university (ever?) and are pulling your critiques out of a hat after listening to right-of-center podcasts like the Rubin report. I would love to hear about a _single_ R1 university that is hiring based on identity criteria, where the majority of the staff are "career bureaucrats who contribute nothing to research". The way you get grant money is by doing research that gets published at top-tier conferences, and at least in CS it is pretty hard to bullshit your way into those. Try not to make authoritative sounding posts like this without any knowledge of what you are talking about.
> "I don't understand how you can be a professor and not be tenured"

Sound like you are laboring under considerable misconceptions about the way academia works. To the best of my knowledge, there are no institutions that automatically grant tenure upon being hired as a professor, let alone a chair, which is considered prestigious.

There are various ranks of professorship and assistant professors (entry level) have to work their way up to earning tenure and it not rare to fail to do so; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_ranks_in_the_United_S...
I think it’s more to do with lack of protections. The rulemakers know fulfilling work lies in research, but doesn’t demand much to be done. Apply basics of microeconomics and you have contemporary US academia to a T.
Well, a bit of a different twist on the meaning of "found art". [0] A step up from signing your name on a toilet bowel and shoving it in an art gallery. (Though not as funny.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_object
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My biggest concern is what this means for legacy PC games.

Is there an emulation layer for ARM CPU that would allow for near seamless operation of all the golden age games from, say...1995 to 2008?
I’ve noticed on my M1 air that even when it’s swapping the performance impact isn’t that noticeable. I wouldn’t be surprised if 8gb falls short once we can run VMs but I’ve found it to be adequate for everything else.

For $1000 the base model Air is a hell of a machine.
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How important is education? I think its incredibly important that we prevent more dark ages in the future, and preserving knowledge through universities is as far as we know the most sustainable way to keep education alive
> Email is extremely non-brittle, and everyone following the RFC is one main way it is able to be non-brittle. What is naive here, is that you think things are the way there are, for no reason.

> Mail is decades old, built upon millions of hours of work crafting software, RFC standards, and works the way it does, including bounces, to ensure stability.

Same people argue that email is a hot mess exactly because it's decades old and comprised of a patchwork of standards. It's not exactly the poster child of how to do this sort of thing well.

> For a mail system to respond with 5xx, when it is internally broken, is 100% a configuration issue. Every MTA on the planet, is designed (eg, postfix, sendmail, etc) to respond with a 4xx TEMP fail message if something is borked. A milter gone bad. A library missing. A full disk. A config issue. An issue forking. Memory limits. All of it.

Configuration issues can be, and often are, temporary. Also, bugs are a thing.

> THAT is where the "good engineering" failed.

I agree with this.

> What you want to do is make 5xx like 4xx, because you feel there should never be any way for a SMTP server to say "No, really, this email address doesn't exist.. don't bother trying again".

Of course there's a semantic difference between "come back later" and "go away forever", I'm just arguing that a client that doesn't blindly trust what every connected system tells it is going to more often successfully achieve its goals than one which does.
After M1, I am definitely holding out for Mac Pro rather than going the AMD route. I am sure there will be a ton of professionals thinking the same. While I’ve always cheered for AMD as a company, I think Apple will gain substantial market share in the next decade. And AMD just doesn’t have the resources to fight that wave.
Most of the reviewers don't seem to understand the concept of swapping. The SSD in the new macs is fast enough you don't (or hardly) notice when the OS swaps and so they think 8 gb is enough.
While this may be fine for regular users I wouldn't recommend it for professionals.
In this case, the mRNA just gets your body to produce a part of the spike protein that is on the virus. Once the spike protein is floating around in your body, your immune system recognizes the spike protein and starts an immune response. The spike proteins themselves cannot actually replicate and attack the body. They are just a small part of the virus structure.

If you inject with virus, presumably the virus would begin to replicate and attack your body.
It depends on where the spacecraft is going as radiation environments differ. I've taken parts to be exposed by a proton line at a particle accelerator. For some environments they just use Cobalt-60 as a radiation source.
To a man with a scalpel, everything looks like a surgery ;)
Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square
https://developers.googleblog.com/2019/08/the-speed-benefit-... they are wrong
Yes to this a thousand times. I firmly believe the framers of the constitution would be horrified by this law. This should have been killed a long time ago.
Honestly, kids are just fine with it. Anecdotally, they are managing far better than adults. Not oblivious to the situation, but far more adaptable to just staying at home.
I mean they also prioritized the senior employees ... that are working from home.

No one staying at home is at more risk than the people who are in hospital.

It will be interesting to see what the algorithm they used was.
1daysooner.org lists almost 40,000 volunteers, and that's without anyone official even asking for them. And you need far fewer subjects in a challenge trial than a normal trial.
FWIW from what I have read of GoF, I think this criticism about runtime polymorphism is spot on.
There's no need to wait. Rosetta is doing a fine job running x86 apps. Some apps run even faster than on intel.
It depends on the field, but in several fields (eg life sciences) if you do not keep output up, you will be unable to attract grant funding or industry funding. Without funding, you cannot really do any work. Additionally, without funding or papers, you will not be able to recruit students because students want to get their name on papers and want to work for prestigious groups or labs. Without students, you will be doing all the grunt work on every project you take on yourself which will eat up all your time.

You will also have newfound responsibilities such as teaching classes, and the university will expect you to teach more classes if you are not bringing in grant funding or doing prestigious research. It is not a free ride, and universities will take space from you and give it to people who can produce if you can't as space is scarce.
Note that lots of stuff is still being moved over from the original implementation: https://github.com/colbyn/subscript

But I'm pretty happy with the current feature set.
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Zoom employee censored users on behalf of China, alleges DOJ
Also, things definitely evolved a bit.

In the following order:
1. Originally I just used LaTeX https://github.com/colbyn/colbyns-math-notes-old
2. Then moved to AsciiDoc https://github.com/colbyn/colbyns-math-notes
3. Then thought that using plain HTML/CSS would be better https://github.com/colbyn/school-notes
4. Then decided that Parcel + PostHTML was too much of a pain and moved to my own compiler https://github.com/colbyn/subscript

Here is an example from the current iteration:

https://colbyn.github.io/subscript/calc1/chapter6.html