skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I have used Excel extensively so I know its warts very well. You can use Excel right but in my experience anytime I have seen even quite capable people working with Excel, nobody in that work setting would exactly describe it as fun. I know at least one person, who really uses Excel very proficiently and maybe even have something approaching fun while doing it. But he is literally teaching Excel to other people. I have done 30 hours in his course and learned quite a bit.
> The advisor doesn’t pull them through the program; the student pushes and the advisor guides.

I think we are in agreement about the role of an advisor, but I sense that maybe we disagree about how active a role the advisor can be expected to take.

(forgive me below for exaggerating a bit to make a point -- I recognize we are literally arguing semantics :) )

When I hear "the student pushes and the advisor guides", it sounds to me like the advisor plays a passive, almost automatic role, like a mirror or like bumper rails in a bowling alley. Just by virtue of having received a PhD, one automatically becomes qualified to advise, and doing so requires so little effort that it is ridiculous to describe them as "good" or "bad" at it. Whether the student succeeds or fails is up to the student alone, and in the latter case, the advisor doesn't really mind, since there are dozens of fresh applicants waiting to fill the spot.

On the other hand, an advisor who is "invested" in the success of their students plays a more active role, like a coach. They see collaboration with and among students as essential to their own success, or at least as essential to their duty as a professor. They bring students into their own research, sharing their own knowledge (without spoon-feeding), successes, and failures. They put effort into building positive interpersonal relationships with students, perhaps through frequent group meetings and social events. Despite their busy schedule, they make an effort to give their students the impression that they are always available to chat.

With a few notable exceptions, most advisors I've observed make an effort to invest themselves in their students. They know what "good" advising looks like, but sometimes their career aspirations or administrative duties pull them away, leaving students neglected. In these situations, I think the structure of academia is more to blame than either the student or the professor.

The people who make it through PhD are either 1) lucky enough to find mentors/collaborators who are willing to play an active role in their PhD experience or 2) so motivated by external factors such as the need for a work visa that they are willing to push through a bad situation even if it takes 7-8 years to finish a 5-year program.
So if you overlook the probable reason why it wasn't suicide, it was suicide? Come on, that's not convincing.
It could be that as locations aged, better sites (for any number of practical reasons ... crops, grazing, water, disease) were found. Once moved away from, the old site might seem welcoming to unwanted neighbors.
Thank you so much for the extra information!
More graphics power in the form of a discrete GPU, more storage and memory offered...etc.

With memory and storage soldered ofcourse...as is tradition.
We the book burners now.
Mandelbrot Fractal Zoom to a Depth of 7.0E1299
Was Barney hated? By whom? I'm not that familiar with it but it seems like the sort of show that is very popular with younger children. When children get older they mock such things as an outward show that they are maturing. They like it, but it's cool to mock it.

Older children I know mock TV/games that the younger kids like - to 'show their maturity'.

Now, there are plenty of shows/books/games my kids watch/read/play that I dislike. I don't dislike them for lack of high culture - I dislike them because they're trash, they're just distraction without any educational benefit (no learning, not even social), no challenge, no development. Part of this is that in the past lots of media was about real life, but now it's 'all' about fantasy universes, often animated. Low value shows with people in at least help you learn to read people's emotions, or whatever.

Barney, from what I recall is relatively good on emotional learning. Often stuff 'for kids' is just about distraction, which is why adults don't like it: loads of kids shows (games, books etc.) have humour, plot, character development, mystery, drama. Loads of others are basically just minimal storylines with flashy images and sounds. If there's nothing to talk about afterwards then it's a bad show for any age IMO.
I realised that software engineering and programming can be a lot better compensated than I thought. This has given me some leverage to pursue better salary and an idea to land a remote job somewhere well-compensated. The latter is just an idea at the moment, but I'm thinking of acting on it later this year.
Oh don't be snarky, I mean for goodness sake, the subheader makes it more than clear what is intended:

> A former graduate student reflects on how Isadore Singer, who died on February 11, brought together mathematicians, physicists and anyone else interested in the deeper connections between diverse fields.

Having studied physics and knowing plenty of mathematicians I can safely say that none of us would have been confused as to what this is referring to, even without that subtitle.

Yes, all physics uses maths. That's not what this title is referring to. It's referring to actually being a mathematician or physicist in the last century - of being part of that professional community and the research done within those communities. Because the main interests of mathematicians and physicists have diverged a lot and having them work together is not at all a given these days.
Oh yeah, that could be it. Apple's Pro Display XDR with an ARM processor would be interesting, though the question is are the M SoCs ready to drive those yet?
A company I was at 20 years ago did a variation of this for software estimation. It resulted in some good discussions. It wasn't anonymous as mentioned here.

When one person on the team says an element will take one week and another says 8 weeks, there are fundamental differences in assumptions that need to be worked out. That was the good part of the process. The bad was when the Project Manager doesn't let the process play out and simply takes the shortest of the available estimates.
Privacy is not the only concern. Portability is another. Google Photos is holding my photo collection hostage at the moment.

However, I completely agree with the second paragraph.
I would mandate that you would have to take it until you pass (Excluding extreme cases). But of course you cannot ban people from reading something.
That motherboard supports BIOS flashback so you didn't need a CPU installed to update the BIOS.

You're technically supposed to buy memory from the motherboard's QVL for exactly that reason, but I don't know anyone who does that anymore.
Not HN, but I'm #32 on electronics.stackexchange.com, the top 0.5%. I did get something concrete out of this: they sent me a free tshirt with the site logo on.

I'm #24 on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders ) and am proud to report that this has got me absolutely nothing tangible.

I did consider trying to turn my most upvoted comments into a book, since I've probably already written 50-100k words here, all they need is a little editing, right?
Maybe we adult men can more likely get away with holding onto our adolescent obsessions because we already tend to have more power than our female counterparts. I recently re-read _Ready Player One_, and now that I think about it in this context, it's largely about a billionare who became so powerful that he could not only hold onto his 80s obsessions for his whole life, but give the rest of the world a powerful incentive to share those obsessions.
The end of Google’s quantum supremacy claim?
That's what you do? Why?
Was playing Mario 64 the other day and realized it would probably also be cancelled today -- after all he's supposed to be Italian and says "Mama mia" and "lets-a-go" in the game. Explain why this would be acceptable if the things in these books is not?
Seems to me that Geisel's views evolved over time. He might even be making the exact same call were he still alive today.
From Wikipedia:

For higher magnetic fields, higher-performance, but more expensive and less easily fabricated superconductors, such as niobium-tin, are commonly employed.
Could this be the solution to the pain of trying to discuss a complex topic in zoom meetings? I kept thinking we should use parliamentary procedure or something but this sounds like less friction and it is mostly what we are already doing but with a little bit of structure.

A Jamboard delphi session perhaps.
Similarly, I thought it meant because they were stretched to high tension to avoid sagging as much.
I've noticed too but I think it's just the classic self-sustaining HN cascade where posting a website triggers posts from the same website, or on the same subject, because people find other interesting links in the comments or on the website itself.
Apple’s iBooks reader is better than Kindle’s in terms of support for epub3 features, though Amazon has made some good improvements recently (better support for math and tables). It always seemed a low priority for Amazon since the bulk of ebook sales was non-technically demanding fiction.

I’d think anti-trust would be less of a concern given Amazon’s dominance in the ebook market, as long as they can make rational pricing decisions.
How extremely vanilla, literally just cartoons of various traditional/diverse cultures, cartoons exaggerate features by their very nature, what the heck is happening and who is behind this shit?
It is already happening. If the most productive and smart people at your company are hindered by processes designed to basically hold them back, they are going to leave no matter how much you pay them.
Honestly, assuming the linearity of QM, the many worlds interpretation also provides an answer to this IMO.

Your observations, thoughts, etc, exist in the domain of eigenvalues of measurement operators applied to a quantum state and the universe itself is a massively entangled state vector in hilbert space. There is no decoherence at all. Instead, anything you can conceive of doing or measuring is actually a linear quantum operation taking a well described state in hilbert space from one state to another. What we actually see, and observe, and perceive is all just computation in the domain of the eigenvalues rather than the underlying true state of the universe as a vector in hilbert space.

The fact that you remember a consistent history is because your 'remembering' is itself one such eigenvalue of a measurement operator applied to a massively entangled set of histories and you only think you get one result because that thinking itself occurs in the domain of the eigenvalues rather than the true state.
Is there a Bauhaus software shop? Seems like such an idyllic approach to life.
Hmm, the discrete GPU would be interesting, but I don't think would go back to that. The SoC model has been working out great for Apple, I can't see them seceding control to get a discrete 3rd-party GPU working.
I've heard there is a few Redhat servers on the internet
>the comments are tacitly disrespecting the work researchers whose specialty this is put into formulating theories.

So? Besides flippant comments (who don't matter anyway), this can also produce valuable new developments.

People who establish new theories and findings about X aren't often the same people who have well examined and respect the old theories on X.

To quote Max Planck (and similar to Kuhn's idea of the same process): "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
Funny that you say frame of reference, since electricity does change when we change our frame of reference. For example, a moving charge generates a magnetic field, but if we move along with that charge it becomes a non-moving charge and suddenly it generates an electrostatic field instead.
One computer! One TV? Too bad--having both a C64 and a Mac was unimaginable. A friend of mine had a Macintosh, we played Lode Runner on it for ages.
There are abusive people in academia and there are abusive people in industry. And there are respectful people in academia and in the industry.

I had the displeasure of choosing an abusive supervisor. And I left him, started fresh with a different supervisor, and everything worked out nicely. That is possible, although people don't talk much about that. During my studies, I heard about some very abusive supervisors from colleagues, and also heard about good supervisors as well. In one of my exchanges, i worked with an awesome supervisor. She was brilliant, respectful, always helping, and invited us to many outside activities like hiking and other stuff.

My first job outside academia had an environment that was more toxic than with my abusive supervisor. Not only the boss had some "weird" behavior, but also the coworkers were complicit and accepted that as "standard boss behavior". Now I work at a different company, with an awesome environment.

I know people happy in academia, and I know people happy to have left it. I also know people unhappy in industry :/
Sounds like an unstructured planning poker?
> Maybe they thought the old houses were C and the new ones would be Rust

Or, maybe the old houses were JavaScript and the new ones would be JavaScript.
Huh? They’re not dropping configuration and listing “while supplies last” on any of their other Intel products. This is exactly how Apple kills a product line.
The link provided shows that it is due to the religious belief of rebirth, the tradesmen themselves practice their skills continually, so the theory still doesn't map for me. Moreso if we apply Occam's razor: there's no evidence the Japanese practice is for skill transfer yet it's being used to promote that premise for something else.
> [Github's] diffstat is
also deficient and useless.

How so? How are the ones of Linux pull requests better?
Not really a lot of evidence either way.

One of the issues with it as a product was that there was little they could actually do in terms of releasing newer, higher-performance models (given a relative lack of processor options). Eventually the high-end, non-Pro iMac basically caught up, so I expect sales have basically been nonexistent for some time now.

We could easily see an ARM version later on - for the people who want a high-end desktop without requiring the excessive Mac Pro. But it could equally be the case that there’s not much space in the product lineup any more and it’s quietly replaced by a high-end ARM iMac.
Point Cloud Classification – Keras
You are right, I removed " (or business managers)".

For academic advisors the situation is different because graduate students come and go naturally.
A strictly internal decision like this wouldn't explain, e.g. Ebay also delisting all of these books.
A Light Intro To Tensors (testing long-form math posts)
Yes, "ignorance is strength"
> Has somebody a good visual analogy for this in another medium? I mean I know that this is a case but I can not visualize the energy flowing on both sides out of the source with the medium only moving out on one side.

Imagine that for some insane reason, you set up a pipe underwater. On one end of the pipe you put a pump that pushes water into the pipe. At the other end of the pipe, you put a vacuum that sucks water out. In the middle of it, you put a turbine that powers a lightbulb. When you turn it on, energy flows from the pump to the turbine because the pump pushes the water. Energy also flows from the vacuum to the turbine because it sucks water out.

Batteries work like that, but with electrons as the medium. Negatively charged particles repel electrons, and positively charged ones attract it. So when you make a circuit, the negative terminal pushes electrons away from it and the positive terminal pulls them, resulting in both sides giving energy to the load.

> Is this how you could explain alternating current for transportation of energy?

This part I don't grasp super well, but I'll take a stab. It's a higher level thing. Resistive losses are relative to the current squared. So you want low current. But you need to deliver a lot of power, so you have to raise the voltage. Normal people's homes can't handle 200,000V power, so you have to convert it back to a lower voltage before you put it in people's homes. The cheapest/easiest way to do that is with a transformer, which requires a varying current (i.e. no DC).
If they have an online seller monopoly position which they might have AND they are using the marketplace data to copy what sells well that's exactly the abuse of a monopoly position which antitrust protects against.
Apple isn't in the habit of treating end of life or soon to be replaced products in this way, so it raised some eyebrows.

MacRumors got a follow up from Apple confirming that it has been discontinued. I suspect with the upcoming performance of the Apple silicon, lines between an iMac and iMac Pro were about to get blurry... but that's just a hunch.

From MacRumors:
"We've since confirmed with Apple that when supplies run out, the iMac Pro will no longer be available whatsoever. Apple says the latest 27-inch iMac introduced in August is the preferred choice for the vast majority of pro iMac users, and said customers who need even more performance and expandability can choose the Mac Pro."
When you're dealing with low-latency real-time systems (I've worked with audio programming but not embedded systems, and self-driving cars are even more safety-critical), lock-free algorithms can be useful for solving the business problem of guaranteed maximum response times. (The issue is that lock-free algorithms are easy to design/implement incorrectly, resulting in heisenbugs which could be dangerous in a self-driving car.)

Many ad-hoc queues/channels available in pre-existing libraries contain locks, and are unsuited for real-time applications. Even among lock-free data structures, there are many tradeoffs (fixed-size ring buffers vs. dynamically allocated linked lists, SPSC, MPMC, and everything in between, or even using triple buffering instead of queues). Sometimes it's worth implementing an algorithm yourself, instead of scouring the Internet for suitable libraries. Though I don't know if an embedded RTOS's compiler libraries will supply headers for lock-free algorithms, or make you find your own.
Typical of that era:

https://boundingintocomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20...
Why not? You don’t think there’s a % of idiots who bait people and a % of more idiots who fall for it and end up meeting in real life after being manipulated on some porn chat?
Someone plug it back in!
The stakes are low, so they have little to lose.
We're using ELK stack + grafana. There's some learning curve and it is a bit more taxing on the hardware, however it can easily aggregate logs from multiple applications, search them and aggregate in various ways.
Update: Since this story’s original publication, Apple has confirmed to MacRumors that the iMac Pro has indeed been discontinued.
We’re Living on a Planet of Ants
This question is silly. You can find business opportunities, jobs and romantic partners by pure chance in any social situation. If you're trying to find "tangible benefits" by asking people "did you find them by hanging out here?", you're doing it wrong.

The people here are intelligent and have widely varied experience. They discuss topics that are of interest to me, with minimal BS. That's it. That's the benefit
Never heard of Notenik, but sounds interesting. And thanks for the compliment about the logo!
Dr Seuss books weren't cancelled, a rights holder decided not to continue printing some books they held the rights to. The title of this article is hyperbolic nonsense.
Apple clearly detailed their strategy back in early 2017: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/06/transcript-phil-schiller-c...

"As part of doing a new Mac Pro — it is, by definition, a modular system — we will be doing a pro display as well. Now you won’t see any of those products this year; we’re in the process of that. We think it’s really important to create something great for our pro customers who want a Mac Pro modular system, and that’ll take longer than this year to do."

The Mac Pro and XDR display were machines that took a long time to build thus the iMac Pro (announced 6 months after that article) was created to fill the gap for two years. I don't think the iMac Pro was ever supposed to replace the Mac Pro, but only a biography of Schiller might clarify what really happened.
Largely NFTs are an astroturfing job similar to crypto coins and things of that nature. Look at HN and search for NFTs. You'll see that there are a handful of articles years ago, but the vast, vast majority of articles/stories posted on NFTs in the last two weeks. Same on clubhouse, nothing that I recall on NFTs for a year, now at any given time there's a plethora of rooms with scare tactics titles like "Get in on NFTs now or the future will leave you behind" or "Become a millionaire with NFTs."

Not saying there's not some use for them, but this pattern is a huge red flag that there's a pump and dump style thing going on behind the scenes. ICOs and other cryptocurrency shared and share the same pattern.
Using Kubectl, Kustomize and MinIO to create object storage as a service
No. These things should happen concurrently, probably on different threads. If I quickly type “foo“, I don't need to do run autocomplete and code analysis between each character. That would be horrible.
Shouldn’t you have, or should I say don’t most orgs have, a spam filter or some other GW in front of Exchange that actually accepts the mail publicly? And then that gateway will send internally to the actual Exchange? This is what I’ve seen in a few orgs.
Money Laundering as a service
Exploring the Kubernetes Operator Pattern
Additionally, not only are you not getting exclusive access to the tweet, not only is it not ownership in any meaningful context, but this "ownership" that this site is selling isn't even officially ran by Twitter (though, Jack selling a tweet on there may be christening enough for some people).

I could spin up an ethereum NFT to compete with this service, and do the exact same thing. Now, tweets are being sold on two different blockchains. It doesn't have the Official Stamp of Approval that something like NBA TopShot has.

If this were ran by Twitter, or at least had Twitter's backing, I'd understand the valuations a bit more. But, the website is the simplest, most thousand-line bootstrap-templated thing I've ever seen have so much money flow through it.
>Apple isn't in the habit of treating end of life or soon to be replaced products in this way, so it raised some eyebrows.

They have done the same thing time and again during similar transitions or new designs. The eat through the stock, and then the item is not available at all, until at some point a new design/version hits.

In fact, reports of "stock dwindling" and "while stocks last" etc and Apple stopping selling an item on the web Applestore are things Apple-focused news websites explicitly use to tell that a new version of some product is in the works or soon to land...

In this case, the iMac Pro is niche enough, that the new version is not soon to land, as other more staple products have a priority for the Apple Silicon treatment. That doesn't mean it's not in the works.
It doesn't sound like you're actually disagreeing with what you quoted, but you don't think it's in people's best interest. You may be right!

As an aside, you may want to back up your mother's optical discs; apparently those are starting to fail.
My university uses this to predict COVID spread: https://delphi.cmu.edu/about/