skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tragically, a non-trivial number of Ph.D. students commit suicide. It's natural to gradually put all your eggs in the imagined Ph.D. outcome (e.g., an idealized notion of a professorship) with increasing depth as the years wear on. After multiple years and a huge emotional and intellectual commitment, if you start to see the cracks in the structure, and you cannot reconcile the newly perceived reality with your model and goal, it can be absolutely devastating.
Should "chose boring titles" be a thing?
Only if you can take 5 minute long commercial breaks, for the same commercials over and over.
Ha - stranger things is a netflix series.
In my experience "boring" is less correlated to "shitty tech" than poor organization.

Most dev work is "blue collar" work, following top down business decisions. The opportunities for devs to push impactful bottom up projects for a company business are rare at best.

I have always preferred organizations where business problems-to-solve were pushed top-down rather than executive decisions. It encourages business understanding, initiatives and ownership.
Welcome to Britain :-(
Beautiful, but what I find even more fascinating is the ad on the page above: "The Wireless Telephone". Does anyone know what happened to the Great Lakes Radio Telephone Company ? Introducing their service in the year Marconi got his nobel price and about a hundred years before the iPhone, they seem to have been a bit too far ahead of their time, or did they succeed ?
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There are a couple of projects that improve this (for linux host + linux guest). virgl exposes accelerated graphics to the guest, which chromeOS uses in its offering. Intel also has its GVT-g offering which virtualises intel integrated GPUs. Of course, none of this applies to apple.
Master answer to me.

For me the "hard part" regarding mindset was learning sales and marketing. This is for me the solution to everyone struggling with charging more money for what they do.
The Communications act asserts penalties for operating a transmitter that violates the requirements https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/95.313 ; in general, that would mean fines assuming that you stop the violation, but in certain cases imprisonment is an option.
Perfect explanation. This is an example of market contango where the spot price is actually below the futures price completely due to the weather event which has triggered a collapse in demand on the grid. And because of the nature of power generation, for many suppliers, it is actually less costly to remain running and sell at a loss than to shut down.
As far as I’m concerned breaking news should be stuff that interrupts non news channel output. Lost that argument decades ago though.
I'm interested to know if there is a better way of doing this, couldn't seem to find much documentation or examples on waking, only sleeping.
I could argue that there isn't really a market as the Texas grid is (almost fully) isolated from the rest of USA.

The first change should be a federal law that all electric grids in USA are well connected so there is one big market place and Texas would be able to get electricity from other states.

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

For a reference: see how many other countries that a 3-million citizens part of Denmark is connected to:
https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/DE?page=highscore&solar=...
(Needs Chrome/Firefox due to WebGL).
My grammar school definitely mentioned in assemblies before the inspections that we should all be on our best behaviour, I'm pretty sure that's fairly standard in UK.
Works fine on BSD (though it's been long enough that I forget which BSD) as long as you ignore the parts of the documentation written by facist morons. Haven't had occasion to beat proper linking behaviour into a Windows machine, but what I've heard suggests it'd be a pain the ass, yes. (Then again, Windows isn't a OS, it's a shitty GUI for DOS that bloated until it could read email. Kinda like OSX, except there isn't a vaguely decent OS buried under the manure.)
Nobody is saying you can't use just the Apple app store if you are more comfortable with that.

But I should also be allowed to use a floppy to get my software if i want.
> "Papa, papa, it gave the movie back to me! Do I say thank you? Is it all done now?"

That's beautiful!
Debian is more reliable than Ubuntu about upgrades between and within major versions and in configurations that aren't the most typical.

Still consult the release notes before upgrading between major versions in case there are relevant release-specific gotchas before/after/during, and for generally helpful precautionary advice, but quite often there aren't.
Thanks I'll need to sit down to read that one
I’m rather disappointed with the write-up. The way in which the author outlines these advances don’t really tell me what’s going on. I have some years of experience working with neural networks and I’m reasonably comfortable with the concepts.

Perhaps more surprisingly the mentioned ‘advances’ are not cited!
I think OP was talking about a possible market bubble, not Bitcoin.
AssemblyScript [1] is an example of a subset of JavaScript being compiled to fast WebAssembly. But it is very static code. If you want to run dynamic JavaScript fast, you need the more sophisticated strategies used by modern JavaScript engines.

[1] https://www.assemblyscript.org/
Konkurencja in Polish, which sounds very very similar to concurrence
Well it's annoying for we rubberneckers, but presumably not for no reason. If your business literally only caters to people from Texas, why not decrease potential problem/attack/whatever vectors by dropping all other traffic?
Pheix (a CMS on Ethereum) is beta now – Konstantin Narkhov
From the article:

Once the Gateway is up and running, the PPE element will provide power (in the 60-kilowatt), high-speed communications, attitude control, and Solar-Electric Propulsion (SEP) capabilities. This will allow it to alter its lunar orbit as needed, giving crews greater access to the lunar surface than was ever possible with conventional missions.
They are fearful and paranoid of making a bad hire because they don't know how to assess whether the engineer is destroying the company from the inside.

If there was a reliable general algorithm to make good software managers would hire lousy engineers then tell them to execute the algorithm. There isn't, they can't. The fallback is to be as picky as possible about who has influence on the software.
Forgiveness definitely should have its place, particularly for minor offenses, however the consequences are often multifaceted and tangled. For example, as research often uses public (government) funds, there are sometimes criminal consequences attached. [0][1]

A secondary issue is trying to determine what penalty is fair and trying to determine whether an error was intentional or unintentional. The boundaries are admitted by most to be fuzzy. Moreover there is a desire to exact punishment:

> A recent survey of roughly 1,800 people in the United States found that 90 percent of those who responded believe that fabricating data is morally repugnant. Preferred punishments include being blacklisted from university positions and being banned from government funding for future research, but don’t end there.

> “Most respondents who support criminalization prefer a sentence of incarceration, rather than a fine and/or probation,” according to the researchers, Justin Pickett and Sean Patrick Roche, both of the University at Albany. “The results indicate that slightly over half of all Americans would prefer both to criminalize data fraud and to sentence fraudsters to a period of incarceration.” [2]

... and then there's China, where the penalties sought seem even higher. [1][3] However, given the investment in most researchers and their specialized skills, it seems a huge waste to lock up that person in a way that prevents society from benefitting.

Finally, you have the problem of coordinating the action. With criminal behaviour, society coordinates action (for the most part) in order to achieve reasonable justice: Otherwise every person willing to act independently (as a vigilante) to extract an additional pound of flesh. We would need everyone to agree, otherwise you have situations where there is no punishment because someone breaks an embargo or you have too much punishment because multiple agents inflict punishment separately.

Your typical person breaking the law is stuck within one country. It's a bit more complicated for researchers, since most are highly mobile. A PhD in a STEM topic means visas are almost automatically granted, so it's relatively easy to get a position in a different country.

(It would be really interesting to see a follow-up on all of the researchers featured in [1], since that was written back in 2007.)

[0] http://navier.engr.colostate.edu/CH693/prot/Nature_445_244_2...
[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1747016119898400
[2] https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/04/fraud-science-jail-time/
[3] https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/23/china-death-penalty-rese...
It is the same. Otherwise you would could live on Mars, where the atmosphere is gone, radiation strikes directly through, no life is possible.

Modern nuclear tech obviously also could lead to such an outcome, that's why we banned them. But the biggest problem is politics, the assured strike-back policy, which almost destroyed earth a couple of times already.
Plus corruption which led to the current climate crisis, leading to the destruction of the atmosphere. See Mars.
Mars is dead, Earth just not yet.
She did that before the capitol riots, which seems to be the inflexion point at which Facebook threw out their old dogma of political neutrality.
I don’t think that’s a good idea.

The analogy with financial debt is misleading: people go bankrupt even if they don’t do anything “wrong”, things don’t pan out, or disasters hit. For people that do commit financial crimes, they are prosecuted and face criminal punishment and often lose their ability to continue to be involved in finance.

Academia doesn’t have that kind of strict laws, likely because academic fraud doesn’t affect the general population and is limited in the damage it can do, or hasn’t received similar attention as financial fraud. So making it even more tempting to commit academic fraud isn’t something I would recommend.

The really straightforward solution here seems to be to make these institutions recognize the professors (even the prestigious ones) are human and can commit fraud, and thus to create ways for students to give feedback on such kinds of frauds to the institution, based on which the institution must take action.
I do some work in a certain field of digital signal processing. From time to time I look at the latest academic papers in that field and am always shocked by the poor quality. Probably 90% of the papers couldn't be repeated due to a lack of source code , the worse ones just have Simulink 'blocks' to illustrate the code. The techniques in this field used by industry for commercial products are never mentioned it's as if they exist on another planet. I can only presume anyone who knows what they are doing in this field works in industry while what remains in Universities have to produce a certain number of papers every year despite the quality. It really is a waste of everyones time and effort.
Launch day!

What is FoxQL?

FoxQL is a social network that runs on your browser as peer to peer. It does not require any setup or registration

There is no magement stuff for checking the content. Users can decide which topics and content will stay in foxql cycle

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/foxql
> Does Zoom work well with i3? Can you share your screen?

Yes and yes. Source: I run Zoom with i3.
But op, but I have been mulling over getting a tv for 6 months. I want a big one but no spyware or built in ads. That didn’t seem to exist. Have been using an old 720p projector, maybe I’ll just replace that one instead of getting a tv.
A few points on this... I'm by no means an expert and two incidents in one day is by no means a correlation.

1. Some people here have pointed towards the Birthday paradox making this seem worse, with another flight suffering a somewhat similar issue on the same day. Sure, but with so few flights operating, I would expect this not to be such a great factor. The number of colliding Birthdays in a class should be greatly reduced with fewer students.

2. Another idea is that it could be that this happens all the time and we just don't realize. I imagine people living within flight paths being showered with engine parts on a regular basis would get more news attention.

3. I suspect many of these planes prior to the lockdown would rarely spend longer than 12 hours on the ground. I suspect now these planes could be spending weeks on the ground. I remember a picture showing tonnes of planes parked up on a runway waiting for operations to pick back up.

4. Regarding (3), that means these engines are possibly being thermal cycled unlike they've previously experienced. I imagine a jet engine remains hot internally for quite some hours even after flight - how regularly have they been reaching minus temperatures?

5. Regarding (3), with fewer flights these planes might be reaching their maintenance timeouts rather than air mile timeouts. It could be that the timeouts for maintenance are too long.

6. Regarding (3), due to reduced operations, airlines could be skimping out on maintenance - which I believe requires entirely disassembling the engines and checking them. This would of course only really go undetected if engine maintenance is done internally.

Just some thoughts anyway, would like to hear from some aviation experts.
I think you’re right that telling students to behave is common. I think now the assessments happen wi less notice (day of or day before.)

I’m not sure how I feel about inspections happening with so little notice. It’s surely a very stressful time to be a teacher. I wonder if inspections might be more fair if instead of a single inspection, several could be made over a year and then aggregated into the school’s grade.
I agree.

Saving stuff to harddisk with 8.3 file name notation and working on super-crappy monitors is still a dealbreaker, not to mention Git.

I recently wrote a little demo on Amiga 500, 68k Motorola. And it was excruciating.

Today's software development is sometimes unfortunate, but I find the benefits more remarkable than in the 90th.
I can't see how old the author is but my son's primary school got 24hrs notice of their last inspection a coule of years back. A ex-teacher friend 10 years ago told me it was a lot less than a week's notice for her larger secondary.

I'm sure some details are gameable, but what I'm more interested in are the inspectors' incentives, not just the schools'.
We once had a young teacher, who had to pass his own entrance exam for a permanent position. He was to be tested by teaching us, while a senior teacher sitting in the back judges him. A week before his test, this young teacher then goes through everything that was supposed to happen in that class with us, right down to the questions he'd ask and the answers a specific pupil was supposed to give. At the end of it, he promised us a keg of beer if he passed (Germany, younger pupils would maybe have gotten sweets).

He passed with flying colours, after which the senior teacher asked discreetely when we intended to drink that beer, because he wanted to attend. Obviously stuff like this was completely normal and expected.
> I know academia being f’ed is a big part of it

I'm sorry, but I have to strongly disagree with the way you've ended your comment. This lets the people responsible off the hook. The guilty party is an individual (and perhaps several individuals). Academia, peer review, conferences, and organizations didn't cause this. The professor was responsible. He wasn't just a cog in the system.
Agree with this. My father was conned by this attitude. He was never at home and died a month after he retired.

The people telling you to work hard and promoting that ideology are the ones who will benefit, not you.
I can understand this from the perspective of a manager or company owner. "Happiness comes from shipping products" or "Choose boring technology" make a lot of sense if you are maximizing profit and don't need to work with the tech yourself.

If you are an engineer and you want to try a new technology, go for it. Even if it doesn't make sense. Learn new things, don't stick with the boring tech. Maximize your own happiness and your own knowledge, not the profit of your higher-ups.
What happened before the gouging laws was random people would fill 5 gallon jerry cans with gas and drive into the disaster zone and sell it out of the back of their pickup. They'd do other supplies, too. They'd appear on the scene almost immediately, sometimes days ahead of government relief.

But the anti-gouging laws put a stop to that, and now people are forced to wait for government relief.
It’s a blog, not the New York Times. I could understand it just fine.
Lots of good stuff in this article. The way I read this is that all technology choices boil down to business cases which attempt to predict costs and benefits. I think it is important to note that the pros and cons which get weighed up in such a situation will cut across all aspects of a project - not just hard aspects (eg. Functional needs, performance, complexity, technology maturity, etc) but also importantly soft aspects like compatibility of the technology with team culture, individual personalities, career objectives, etc. It’s a complex problem and assessing the value of each pro/con is mastery which I believe requires a
vast amount of knowledge and experience.
We evaluation the plan of its own merits beyond just saying 'didn't work in the past so want work now'.

The reality is a lot of knowledge was GAINED since then as well. This program will be very different then Apollo, not a copy. So the institutional knowledge of Appollo would not really apply and would not be a help. Going back to the moon the way Appollo did is totally impossible now, you could never pay for it and it would be to unsafe.

We now actually have situation that is very different then Constellation and other programs. The program Artemis actually has buy in from Republicans and Democrats, both in congress and in the white house.

The New Space movement has happened. Lead by SpaceX there have been massive amounts of improvements in the industry as whole and in launch in particular. NASA can now get access to a super-heavy class rocket whenever they want at a low price.

NASA has also learned and evolve quite a bit, NASA actually does learn from its failures. The way NASA does contracting now for the most part is quite different compared to the past. NASA now prefers to use fixed size contract with contractor submitted milestones and designs. This is far more successful compared to cost-plus contracts of the past.

Sadly, SLS and Orion are still on the old model. However all the Gateway System, CLIPS (cargo to the moon) and the human lander are contracted that way.

Importantly, SpaceX is Starship is one of those commercial landers and if NASA finances that, going to the moon becomes not just possible, but the capabilities will be way beyond what Apollo could do.

Even if NASA cancels the Artemis program again, if they finance Starship, its very likely that somebody would develop the capability and go anyway.

Being pessimistic is fine, but the situation now is incredibly different then 20 years ago.
I'm a solo SaaS guy, and my "shop" doesn't need "watching". By design.

Most of this was accomplished by simply picking a stack that doesn't ever fall down on me, and the rest was by watching for things that might flake out and either fixing the flake or replacing them with less flaky things.

As such, I get maybe one incident a year where I'll walk briskly across to the office to fix something that could do with addressing today rather than next week. But it's never anything as dramatic as the entire site being down. Most often it's the result of Google having shipped a new version of Chrome that breaks some 10 year old feature of their own browser.

The whole goal of the SaaS business stuff was to maximize my vacation time, so anything that got in the way of, say, taking an entire month off to crew a sailboat across the Darien Gap was a non-starter.

So I don't have a pager. Mostly because I've gone out of my way to ensure there will never be anything to page me about.

I've written at length about this all here:

https://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/happiness-is-a-boring...
Ask HN: Email client for Android. Any recommendations?
Preferably over Aurora store or F-Droid. Open source if possible. No bells/whistles/frills etc. minimalist and barebones. Am willing to pay or donate a small amount in crypto for the project if such a thing exists. Can you recommend me something? Thanks in advance!
Hmm. Well. Sure. There is often a drastic difference between learning the theory of something and then actual work of applying it. To me many things are interesting yet it's the practical work of CS that has felt the most easiest vs the value it brings to me.

I would say a big part of learning anything is getting accustomed to the thing and molding your own brain to function the way it requires you to. Having studied and worked in CS has made my brains a lot more logical with the probable wilting of the more feeling-based thinking patterns. Didn't happen overnight but I guess my neural pathways were already inclined towards it so the jump wasn't that huge.

Yet I think I could have been reasonably satisfied with any work with a layer of written abstraction (so writing in general) and some practical application to it. That's what I feel my natural advantage is.

With physical labor, I think I would fared just as well. But I think in that case I would have gotten less out of my capacity (brains and impact-wise).

I would say finding the thing that you can do what others deem too boring or tedious to do or learn with the intensity you are capable of, is where your best potential lies. This might also make it feel like "not-working" while you are doing much better than the average person. And if you feel like you _are_ working, then you should be doing great.
If you measure by amount of space craft or tons to orbit, SpaceX is so utterly dominate its not even funny. More then 50% global tons to orbit and SpaceX themselves are already the largest operate of satellites.

Not only are they the largest sat operator, they are also growing faster then anybody.

Amount of launches is a terrible metric because is counts a 200kg RocketLab launch the same as a 20 ton SpaceX launch.
On national tests in Norway I've never heard this occur. What they do instead is to ask the weaker pupils not to attend that day to increase the average score.
Good points. And it reminds me that this is neither a new problem nor solved:

I find myself in these kinds of situations often, checking email or Twitter, or Facebook, with nothing to gain except the stress of a work-related message that I can’t answer right now in any case.

It turns out that digital devices and software are finely tuned to train us to pay attention to them, no matter what else we should be doing. The mechanism, borne out by recent neuroscience studies, is something like this: [...]

Source: https://medium.com/@hughmcguire/why-can-t-we-read-anymore-50...