skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a professor (well associate professor actually), I can second pretty much everything you have said.

One additional thing I want to mention is, that the job of the supervisor is not only to guide the student to the PhD (i.e. the mentor role), but also to ensure that the student actually has done sufficient work to earn the PhD (the role of a gatekeeper). Which can lead to the situation, that the student thinks they should be graduating now, but the supervisor is still asking for more work. Now there are some supervisors that are abusing the gatekeeper role. Furthermore even for supervisors that are not consciously abusing the role there is also a conflict of interest, because it is in the supervisors interest to keep successful students as long as possible. So this is difficult to manage.
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Do you have a source for this, or a code sample that can demonstrate it? This would be an extremely naive implementation of columnar storage. There are some truly hard cases around long variable-length strings, but any halfway decent columnar storage engine should be able to handle columns with different widths.
Society deems that an original work of art by, say, Pablo Picasso is more valuable than an indistinguishable copy by an unknown or lesser known artist.

Making a good copy of a Picasso is not that difficult. Go to any decent art school, and you will find artists who can competently forge a Picasso.

Many owners of Picasso artwork in fact display forgeries, which they call "replicas" in polite company, and keep the original works in secure storage, safe from any possible damage. Most people cannot distinguish between an original work and its forgery anyway.

In fact, even expert collectors are routinely fooled by forgeries![a] The authenticity of many works of art can be ascertained only by looking at provenance, documentary evidence, and historical context -- an imprecise process riddled with human bias and error.

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are like authentic works of art, except that their authenticity, contents, ownership, and provenance (including date of origin) are protected by strong cryptography, making forgeries impossible for all practical purposes.

And society deems that an NFT representing the authentic first tweet by Jack Dorsey -- with its contents, ownership, and provenance protected by cryptography -- is more valuable than an indistinguishable copy of the tweet made by an unknown or lesser known person.

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[a] For example, see https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fake%20picasso and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_forgery
I wondered what they used to guarantee the holes would be rectangular and correctly placed. From the picture, it seems the holes were partly pre-cut.

I fear that increases the risk holes could accidentally appear when folding, spindling or mutilating such a card.

That would make them less sturdy than ‘normal’ punch cards.

On the other hand, given that this survived reading in a punchcard reader even once, those not-punched holes must have been fairly sturdy.
> I believe that society remains biased against black people

What's more common: black people attempting to pass as white, or white people attempting to pass as black?
The Farm of the Future Is a Win-Win-Win for Farms/Network Providers/Innovators
In places with a large immigrant population, you can replace it with English-speaking ability.

Fluent: economy is fucked.

Poor: economy is doing well.
These "jump cut every 5 seconds" is the reason I've been watching less youtube everyday. It completely breaks continuity and are so frequent that a significant part of the video is wasted.

Reading and watching an animation is better than video tutorials in almost every regard.
Yup, and it would waste a lot less electricity too.
What type and size of compile, and what numbers do you see?
Ways to Calm Your Overthinking Introvert Mind
Japanese style zoning, allowing density to grow as population grows, allowing mixed residential and commercial appropriate to the density, with designated industrial areas, set forth in a way that neighbors are not allowed to micromanage others in an effort to protect property values. They set these formula at a national level. Codes still exist for safety concerns.

I also think that land value taxes are interesting. A five acre undeveloped downtown lot would be taxed based on the surrounding density and market potential, not based on its current development. This would encourage development where it was needed.

I see our current system as broken in a number of ways, especially in regards to suburban sprawl and the regulations enshrining that - minimum square footage, parking and garage spots, etc. And many suburbs are at a low enough density that they won't be able to afford to maintain their infrastructure over time without funds from more densely populated (metro or state) areas.
Whether you’re a target for an ad or JADM, it’s all the same to these people.
I'm aware of that, but shouldn't we expect something either on par with that or something that goes even further than that when it comes to China?
Perhaps you didn't get the memo - about charity, about not replying with snark or sneering, and about sarcasm often not coming across well in a text-only medium. All have been said here, by dang, frequently.
My reference of DOS was tongue-in-cheek and i made it because it only allowed a single program to run (ignoring TSRs) at any time so programs using all the memory wasn't much of a problem.
>Copying others homework is a tried and true way to get a technological edge

The Soviets were better at spying than the West was, but their being better at copying the West than the West was at copying them didn't seem to help them all that much.
Post author here. Here’s what prompted me to write it:

Tracy Kidder’s book says that a NAND gate cost eight cents in 1981. The latest iPhone has 11.8 billion transistors. So the chip at the heart of each phone is $1.4 billion in parts, no margin. That’s 1981 prices, 2021 money accounting for inflation.
Why must there be alternatives? Why do anything at all? This bias toward a manufactured vague "do something!!!" feeling has just led to the deaths of countless civilians around the world.
This looks interesting, looking forward to reading up on it. Would be really cool if it worked with SQLite ;)

Any chance JDK11 support will come for the Debezium Java core [1]?

[1] https://github.com/debezium/debezium
I'm starting to believe that both or even all sides are in the game now. Rich have more money than places to put it. People distrusting markets look at this thing and feel FOMO. And then you have some average guys with extra money and time to look at things they are nostalgic about.
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What’s even more impressive is a basically identical graphic was in the 8KB A1000 boot ROM, to ask for a Kickstart disk
Okay, well let's engage that nuance then. Is that climate change intrinsic to the concept of crypto or just an implementation detail? Conversely, is addiction intrinsic to the concept of engagement optimization, or just an implementation detail?

You could theoretically make arguments both ways, but I think that practically speaking, high burn is an implementation detail for crypto (and one that's actively being deprecated) whereas addiction is an indelible part of the concept of engagement optimization.
I’ve used programming languages with keywords in other languages but they don’t feel simpler to me. I am comfortable using “Fortissimo” even though I don’t speak Italian, and I view programming keywords the same way.

I would be interested in a programming language that reflected the grammar and structure of a non-English human language. Procedural languages are quite “englishy”, and while production (logic) languages aren’t, they don’t really feel like any human language I’ve used.

I think there’s an interesting line of research in looking into programming metaphors and syntax drawn from non-PIE-family languages.
C/C++ has great WebAssembly support and we definitely want to provide a Lunatic library for it. We would love to see the community getting involved and contributing other languages that we have less experience with, including Nim.
Apple iCloud does not work because user's last name is “True”
Actually, Microsoft cares a lot about Java and they invest resources on it. Why? azure

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/
Architecting Moonshots
Yeah but it means they don’t get paid as much either as there is no wage pressure at the bottom.

You can’t have $5 T-shirts and also a $15 minimum wage.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/quillette/
Possibly related effect:https://www.cambridgebrainsciences.com/more/articles/why-mos...
The price they paid is much higher than what Google could reasonably do. They are not a developer focused company like Microsoft.
This almost sounds like a naturally occurring poison jar, except there isn’t one survivor left, but a whole entire separate ecosystem forming a food pyramid rebased on top of autotrophs.

Which is to say, this is really damn cool.
I really love the content here but it looks so pixelated on my high-dpi monitor. It would be awesome is someone remade something like this but using modern web technologies (maybe Lottie from Airbnb) that uses vectorized images that can scale to any size.
The status quo also leads to suffering and death in the civilian population and it's hard to predict which future would be worse
Talk is cheap. Has MS pulled out of China like Google did in 2009 before they backtracked?
Meetings are scheduled here, along with their planned agendas: https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/tree/master/stack/20...
It's how this is, at its root, about the concept of credit, rather than the concept of property.

If I grab something out of your hands and you say, "that's mine!" That would be property.

But if I put up a painting and you ask, "who made that?" That would be credit.

There is no scarcity of blockchain space - you can download Bitcoin right now and use less space than the newest "Call of Duty" collection. The property is very easy to acquire.

But then if you ask "who made Call of Duty", you are forced to point to the system of IP law, which may or may not credit the individual creators properly.

So, what NFTs are trading is a particular form of credit. This tears up some economic assumptions around what credit is "worth". A popular blockchain is one that allocates credit accurately and fairly.
User lispm points out that this was a design decision that's in the clisp documentation. I couldn't find the reference, but I did find that they also compute any "negative integer" as zero, so that might seem consistent at the least.

Mainly I pointed this out because OP was asking about how my programming language handles it. LispWorks, sbcl and clisp are technically all the same language, so there is no singular answer to that question when it comes to Common Lisp.
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Yeah, it feels like the whole "why" is that RPN reflects how the machine works, so it's easier to build it that way.
> So you have to disassemble the machine at the expense of your warranty.

If you are in the US, this is not correct. It's a common misunderstanding, which probably makes manufacturers happy, but it is not true.

Disassembling your product does not violate your warranty -- even if you have to puncture a (very un-Apple-like) sticker that says "VOID IF REMOVED OR DAMAGED", etc.

However: damaging your product via disassembly, or anything else, allows the warrantor (Apple) to choose not to honor their warranty if the damage is directly related to the issue being repaired under warranty.

But if you cause no damage, or if the damage is cosmetic or unrelated to the warranteed part, you are free to do as you like. And so is a third-party repair shop.
Well -- that comment was not targeted at a layperson, I think.

But the idea is: the scattering matrix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-matrix) is a matrix that says for each possible input and output state, what the amplitude of that transition happening.

The perturbation expansion is roughly a Taylor series in the number of interactions that occur in a scattering problem. So: no interaction is order-0, exchanging one particle is order-1, etc.

The first dozen terms or so then tell you the dozen or so highest-amplitude processes that occur in a given interaction. Most of these will involve virtual particles.
Let's do an experiment, please post the URL here and see if someone at google takes notice :)
> Considering very few applications of this kind of system are limited by compute power

Citation needed. If I went by my own experience, the vast majority of Kalman filters run in compute/power/time-limited environments.
That’s not how to look at this.

The point is not if the Cloud can defend against a very sophisticated attack, the point is whether they can at least do a better job than what those big companies are doing.

And the answer is really easy: Fortune 500 are at the Stone Age of security (among a lot of other computer science topics) so of course the Cloud is doing better. It’s not even the same world or the same order of magnitude.

And the abyss will become bigger and bigger because it’s becoming more complex. There is no way a Fortune 500 company can keep up with the complexity of what AWS, Google or Azure is dealing with, and the new tech world we live in. And it’s also quite stupid, that’s not your job nor where you will be making money. Just concentrate on the app/code that is indeed your core job, on top of solid and proven Cloud services.

Also, you talk about centralisation and the issue of a single provider, well, here’s the actual joke: the level of centralization and concentration is way, way bigger internally than if it was on the Cloud. Most of those Fortune 500 companies have only a few datacenters. Although they are international, some even have datacenters only in their local region of origin, with zero region/local hub of some sort, as crazy as it may sound.

And most of those Fortune 500 companies have only one provider for each of their key component.

If they were on the Cloud (and they will be, eventually), reversibility and transferability is « built-in » almost, because it is an actual feature, or because everything is way more standardized, or just because moving into the Cloud, you will think from the start about how to move back or to a different provider. And in any case is much much better than the state there’s in.
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>>I can see potential future if it is accepted as a way to keep track of 'digital collectables'.

I can see a situation where every real life high-end product has an ID associated with it too.
Leading to less fraud. There's also a definite future in first sales and all the following resales as a way to preserve value for collectibles.
fair enough. I am still shocked by the indifference of the other comments though.
Yeah, I didn't mean to say that Eclipse "wasn't" open source, just that these other ecosystems are also. It's not like you have a choice between "Eclipse and commercial".
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I would bet many will be highly local though, by city/neighbourhood/block level
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The core of them are both threaded style comments and user submissions to mostly external links. There are just minor tweaks to moderating and voting.
I use VSCode for 95 percent of my development and I couldn’t be happier. I use IntelliJ for the other 5 percent (which is just Groovy scripting for a particular product).

For the way I work, it fits very well.

- I write nearly exclusively a mixture of CPP and Typescript. Particularly in projects which mix these languages (and for Typescript as a whole), I have not found anything better.
- I use the remote SSH feature heavily. I have a bottom of the range MacBook Pro but I use a reserved t3a.xlarge instance in AWS for all my development. It’s blazingly fast and I know that if my laptop was to explode I could be working again in 5 minutes (which is important to me being self employed)
- Any software that I ship to clients I ship with a container configuration. Even if they do not use VSCode themselves, if they have a problem they can spin up my exact development environment and run tests, step through debug etc.
- GitHub settings sync seems quite useful although I have not needed to use it yet.

However, VSCode weak points:

— Terraform support is awful. Hashicorp seem to have completely broken the related plugins since they took over maintenance of them.

- The CPP debugging experience is not as rich as full Visual Studio (which is fair enough). I occasionally miss things like the memory window.

- Java/Groovy support is poor.

Overall, 10/10 happy VSCode user.
Would latency be comparable?
IntelliJ IDEA's Powershell support (via plugin¹) is very poor. Both VSCode (predictably) and Atom are superior. It is the one reason why I keep VSCode around.

1. https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10249-powershell
Outline: https://outline.com/V8LGp7
There is a youtube video in the comments with a recreation of the vector image from the original graphics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXhxE4j6dm0
Rehypothecation is pretty far away from "paper derivative made of nothing" -- it may not be "contracts as code" level of assurance, but it is "the long arm of securities and commodities law" level of assurance, which many would argue is the more critical level you would want for your assets. My stance on this is neutral and I think both sides have a point, but I think it's a little hyperbolic to call that a "paper derivative made out of nothing."
Actually it's quite easy to predict! We can simply look at the track record of Western intervention since WW2, see that it comes down so squarely on the side of "please USA just leave the world alone, my god" that it achieves the platonic definition of a square, then call it a day.
I don't think email proxies are built to cache entire org ail messages that long.
Beware that simply adding a column-oriented storage engine to a row store like Postgres is not going to get you anywhere near the performance of a ground-up columnar system like Redshift or Snowflake. This paper explains why [1]. Short version: most of the benefits are in the column-oriented execution engine, which differs in every aspect of its implementation from a row-oriented execution engine.

[1] https://stratos.seas.harvard.edu/files/stratos/files/columns...
From my experience, this alignment of interests is more tricky than it seems.

Sure, the overall goal is to publish as many papers as possible, but their topic more often than not is solely determined by the advisor. Those papers may not end up helping the student to get a job upon graduation, unless their topic is one of the more exciting ones and the universities are actively hiring new faculty to pursue such things further. Tenured advisors are often not concerned about this issue since they already have their job.

It is also likely that the papers are backed by the current funding received by the advisor. It is exceedingly difficult for a former student who has become a new faculty member to get funding for similar projects because they would literally have to compete with their advisor for it. Some of the more cordial professors that I've seen would actually co-write future grants with their former students, so that everyone could benefit. But oftentimes I've seen professor impose a ceiling on a student's career aspirations, so they would be eliminated from competing for the funding in the long run. Regrettably, this often happens to bright ambitious students, who have made a mistake of revealing their ability to function independently early on.
I don’t think anyone was thinking it through at all. We just needed cheap goods to placate our population and they needed the jobs to placate theirs.
All the lives lost across the world to COVID and the economic impact of the previous year has demonstrated that "make peace" with CCP is not a good idea. I am, by no means, advocating war. But the rest of the world has to take measures to ensure bidirectional access to information. Here's what I am advocating: If a country wants free flow of goods, people, and money, there has to be free flow of information too. If it means curbing economic activities in hostile governments, while the decision must not be taken lightly, it needs to be taken sometimes.
Im American and work in an office (remote during Covid) where Im only one of a few Americans. The rest of my co-workers all came from Indian .. they worked hard, appreciate their job, their job is attached to staying in the US and thus they have to do very good work. Indeed, all of us do so and the best part all without working with entitled cry baby drama (some narcissistic) Americans. There's either a few or more of such who make work more stressful then it ever needs to be cause of their insecurities, entitlement and narcissism. I am so thankful to be working where I do and away from entitled Americans who some take for granted what they have and cause a done of unneeded drama and stress to those around them.

Also, as you get older all people chill out ... dont live in their head/live out their insecurities.
> Since they were first deployed in 1956, containers have revolutionized trade by allowing goods to be packed into standard size receptacles and hoisted by cranes onto rail cars and trucks — effectively shrinking the globe.

If you want to know more about this, there's a pretty good book on it: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
> one commenter with supposed “inside info” alleged that the forums were closing because Tesla couldn’t afford to hire multiple full-time moderators to keep up with the barrage of spam and trolls that would frequent the threads.

They can afford putting 1.5b aside to buy bitcoins, but not spend the money to hire actual people ?
Yes, networking is inevitable. Transparency and accountability are hedges against this, but incentives aren't there short of some sort of massive public pressure.
> How can any airline not consider having these in their fleet as a complete liability?

What choice do they have? We have a global duopoly for passenger aircraft and these new efficient medium-body jets have backorders going forward for years.

If it was a simple as cancelling and getting different jets delivered in the same time frame, I am sure that some carriers would do so.
Google is a monopoly and they destroy the lives of anyone that even dares to challenge them or their owners. It's time to break this big tech monopolies. Obviously, through make something better ... This is more of an inevitability than a question.
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