skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the reason academia can be a famously toxic place to work is tenure.

When people are unfireable and can't change jobs, people who hate each other are forced to work together for decades.

Not entirely different from marriages when divorce is illegal/unthinkable.

Which is one reason I think "employment at will" is a very important concept.
I've recently been doing some work on a model that mixes a big convolutional model with a second piece that we can actually analyze with the signal processing toolkit. What I see in the signal-processing side was a mix of really interesting good behavior (including one cool trick I hadn't seen before), right along side a bunch of obviously-dumb pathological behavior. (Basically, glaring discontinuities which induce the model to introduce /other/ discontinuities to course-correct... with really bad impacts on output quality.) I found some nice tweaks that get rid of /most/ of the pathological behavior in the sig-proc side, and produce some really nice results.

But for the main black-box network? No such visibility. It is undoubtedly doing all kinds of stupid shit that I have no insight into. And I would /love/ to be able to sort it out and get rid of the dumb parts, because I a) want tiny models that run hella fast on slow-ass phones, and b) would love to eliminate sources of spurious correlations to provide better predictions. Getting rid of the dumb parts means more compute to do the smart things.

The high-level theory answers maaaybe tell me about convergence but not whether the NN converges to anything reasonable. Giant models provide a huge amount of flexibility, which help the model find answers, but the answers may not be any good, and we really don't have robust ways to know. (eg, aggregates over big eval datasets may tell me something could be better, but not what or why.)
Turns out 99% of my work is in something like Java, Python, or JS. Once you include other JVM languages, C++, PHP, and Ruby, IDEA's coverage is huge. They even have C#, Objective C, and Switft offerings, but there's something to be said for staying in those ecosystems.
> Also worth waiting for SYSLINUX to allow all this nonsense to be overcome.

Is something pending with SYSLINUX?
Selling Digital Art
We have experience trading since march 2020, so no proper experience in a bear market. We deployed our first algos with nontrivial amounts (> 100usd) the night before the march crash. And yes we did get rekt that night :)
Trading strategies work. That it still works is a huge mystery to me. We did beat BTC, we have no long/short bias, and are doing the best during volatile periods (up or down)
Sometimes I just want to read code with highlighting. I want to open the project and search for some text in all the files.
I don't want to wait for IntelliJ to take 30 seconds to open.
Buy it from who? Is there someone with a big pile of bitcoin (or whichever) and a huge desire for worthless paper?
If you understand Chinese, you may enjoy this stand-up comedy group at the Bay Area: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqG1oe7CjCghQdZDldNKT0A/fea...

Website: https://ggtkx.org

I myself sometimes participate their weekly open mic sessions.
If you're hosting lots of malware on different subdomains, there is harm in Google telling you which ones it detected. You could use that information to keep hosting the undetected malware, perhaps out of laziness.
You are confusing the particular expression of an idea with the idea itself. There are an infinite number of ways to express the ideas contained within the books that Dr. Seuss Enterprises decided not to publish. The expression of those ideas has not been banned at all, by anyone. Not eBay, not Amazon, not Dr. Seuss Enterprises, not even the government.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises has decided to stop publication of their particular expression of these ideas because the ideas themselves are not popular enough to financially justify their continued publication. That's the method by which the whole system works. Ideas flourish in the marketplace when people support them. When people support an idea, it achieves financial success for those that express it. People who express unpopular ideas difficult to find financial success due to a lack of a support base.

How else do you imagine the marketplace of ideas works, and what exactly do you think happens to ideas that are rejected by the marketplace?
Another difference is leveraging container orchestration tools (compose on the low end or k8s on the high end) to manage your dev+ environments. The editor used to take a big role in managing that but now I don't want that because I need the dev environment to be highly reproducible and a full environment is usually pretty complex with multiple apps and one or more datastores.
ELI5: The government is printing too much money, so it's not worth anything.

ELI10: Venezuela's economy shrank, then they played funny business with their exchange rate to pretend business was usual. But now almost nothing is for sale in Bolivars, so if the government wants to pay people (something like 40% of their GDP was government spending), they have to pay people more to chase fewer goods. Which makes people raise prices. Which makes the government have to pay more.
The options are American-style.

I also love the typo of “potion” for option in your second paragraph. It seems especially fitting for this story.
I think the textbook (i.e., The Innovator's Dilemma) model for a disruptive technology is specifically one that starts out looking like it only competes in a different (typically lower-value) market, right until it's eating your lunch.
IBM Port-A-Punch: create punched card documents anywhere
Apple to stop selling iMac Pro base model
In your context, I didn't actually get the tangible benefit that was there, so this doesn't fully count. However, I became aware of Bitcoin when they were going for ~9 cents, and thought seriously about buying 300-400 when they were $1 due to another HN article. I'm sure I'd have spent the BTC on pizza or something even if I'd bought it, but there are tech waves that start as ripples and HN is one of the first places to see those ripples.

> Also intellectual debate, I get more information, I feel smart as benefits etc. don't count in this context.

I happen to think the intellectual debate aspect is an important one.
> A short read and should give enough examples and descriptions of the strategy

I know about it and don't need a Wikipedia link to enlighten me, thank you.

In my comment I questioned your application of that theory to reality by raising concerns about the cost/benefit analysis from a Microsoft perspective.

I don't think you're accurately scoping the undertaking of getting VSCode to feature-parity with Jetbrains products in Java, Python, etc., nor the potential benefit for Microsoft. My contention is that the gap between Jetbrains and VSCode outside of JavaScript/TypeScript is massive, and that while VSCode is strategically important to Microsoft, they don't have the incentives to even try to extinguish Jetbrains.

But instead of addressing any of the concerns in my original comment, you've just pretty much gone on your own unrelated tirade.

Also, Microsoft ultimately lost the browser wars and many of the similar crusades that they undertook in the 90s and early 2000s, so maybe they've learned a few things along the ways.
Decades of research reveals little difference between male and female brain
I really hate what Reddit has become, so I will probably buy the IPO. That way if they are successful, I won't feel as bad since at least I made money from it. And if they fail, I won't feel bad about losing money since I get to see something ugly get destroyed.

Nothing in this post constitutes professional and/or financial advice.
I think the complication to this is that Venezuela probably didn't print that much more money, but their economy shrank and their failure was not printing less.

So it's more like you are slicing a pizza into 8 slices but each slice is now the size of a postage stamp.
Before that, I had a strong interest in AI & ML, read the Deep Learning book and did the cs231n mooc. So I could train basic neural networks with pytorch but that was it.
HIPAA applies exclusively to covered entities. Your employer is, in most cases, not a covered entity. If you want evidence of this (assuming you're in the United States) go look at the information required by your employers FMLA disclosure form.

Hint, the I in HIPAA stands for insurance. If insurance isn't involved, HIPAA probably isn't either.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/employers-health-i...
There is one theory missing. What about a sacrifice? Child sacrifice was quite common in the area (Moloch) and it was repeated in a lot of cultures. Maybe people decided that a child is a bit too much, but they still wanted to please the gods, so the give the second most valuable thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sacrifice
I wish we had a fastest way to generate random unique number.
I mean I agree in principle, there does seem to an attitude in Gen Z that need implies entitlement, but Stanford has a taxpayer subsidized war-chest of $29 billion. It seems to be growing ever larger even in these supposedly difficult times for universities. If it doesn’t want to act charitably maybe it shouldn’t get the tax benefits of a charity.
Something tells me that Google doesn't ban G Drive, Dropbox or MS's what ever it is named when those host malware. I rather not have only the giants host user generated content ...
>"However, the arrival of cheap semiconductor ROMs in the 1970s obsoleted complex storage technologies such as TROS. Nowadays, most microprocessors still use microcode, but it's stored in ROM inside the chip instead of in sheets of Mylar. Microcode can now be patched by downloading a file, rather than replacing Mylar sheets inside the computer."

I curious if anyone knows what the last major computers that used hardwired control units in their CPUs would have been. Similarly what would have the first major ROM-based CPU control units have been?
Pspg – Pager for Postgres [video]
Official UEFI support.
Use decimal type for that
Maybe it should get to decide how it acts charitably.
Facebook faces US investigation for 'systemic' racial bias in hiring
Dos.Zone – interactive database of DOS games
Chinougijutsu – The Professionals of Robotics and AIs
HN occasionally alerts me to the existence of new tools or trends that I can leverage in business.

For example:

* About 5 years ago I happened to read about the Material Design Lite library on HN which I then used for my then-nascent startup to get our initial website up and running quickly in the Material Design UI language. (And for that purpose it has worked quite well.)

* Emscripten & WASM-related tech has been useful for implementing some of the “secret sauce” at my startup.

* The recent attention given to Cosmopolitan has unlocked a specific technical hurdle (around multi-platform support) for a digital preservation venture I’m planning to start as a side project soon.
For a complete Bluetooth layman like myself, this was a fascinating read.

Alongside god and the manufacturer, I now know to curse the standards body too whenever trying to connect these damn headphones!
That has nothing to do with HIPAA, your employer is in almost all cases not a covered entity. People frequently believe that they have a right not to have to disclose health information to their employer; this is true in certain cases but by and large is false. There are explicit provisions in HIPAA saying that requiring doctors notes is legal, for example.
That seems like a stronger mandate, but I think what I proposed would actually reign in their power better than your proposed decoupling.

First, different services would still have to agree on data formats to interoperate. The ecosystem would be quite similar to windows file formats, and we've got plenty of experience seeing how that works out. It's better than what we have now, but not a panacea.

The bigger issue is that in addition to wielding data lock in, these companies wield network lock in. With storage decoupling, if I load up my own profile in a hypothetical "Facebook competitor" app and make a post, Facebook has no desire to display that post to users of its app that are my friends. However with my API proposal, competitor apps have the ability to publish directly on Facebook's site and be treated exactly the same as every other post.

Also, my proposal has a longstanding philosophical grounding that the abilities of computing should be available to all - companies shouldn't be able to insist on specific methods of usage that computationally disenfranchise users.
Calendar House
It’s wideband Delphi, which predates planning poker by several decades.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband_delphi

Edit: as I recall from doing estimating using wideband Delphi circa 2004, the main differences with planning poker as I see it practiced today are that estimates were in real time like days or weeks, and votes were collected and displayed anonymously, though as you would expect there was temptation for people to de-anonymize their own votes.
What's Stopping Electric Vehicles Becoming Mainstream?
> The acpi command allows privileged user to load crafted ACPI tables when Secure Boot is enabled

> GRUB2 enables the use of the command acpi even when Secure Boot is signaled by
the firmware. An attacker with local root privileges to can drop a small SSDT
in /boot/efi and modify grub.cfg

Oh the horror of being allowed to modify your own fucking computer.
And once people actually start trying to do, then it would be a great time to address it in a law.

There are practically infinite bad things that someone could possibly do. You can't outlaw them all.
Games were good back then because only serious people were creating against a small market.

Nowadays, you create shit games and throw money on advertising, you get millions back...
Haha thanks, as long as I’m not alone on the sentiment. And I appreciate the advice on permaculture — I just read Masanobu Fukuoka and would like to do more research on these methods. Also, I’m vegetarian and am not so sure I could even kill those unnamed chickens!
I figured out there was a pandemic in January 2020 and was able to shelter at home and buy a few essentials (like tp) which ran out of stock for a while.
According to some studies between 58% and 68% of their time

https://blog.feenk.com/developers-spend-most-of-their-time-f...
Erlang's built-in distribution works well for cluster management and low-traffic control plan, but not for the critical path / data plan [1].

In the later OTP releases Erlang distribution has become much better and become useful even for data plan in less demanding scenarios.

While it is possible to customize Erlang distribution for your specific network/workload, it is much easier to use plain TCP sockets for your data plan (back in the day I used 0MQ for data plan in the cluster).

Also riak and ejabberd (via Mnesia) use Erlang distribution for critical path and this was one of the reason for their poor performance.

I think you mean that ejabberd is not a cloud-native application (i.e. it treats nodes like pets instead of cattle).
Modern BEAM apps are implementing cluster node-autodiscovery (I did it for my first Erlang service on AWS in 2010).

I'm not sure, but I think RabbitMQ uses the Erlang distribution for management only.

Phoenix apps using PubSub and Presence/Tracker will also use Erlang distribution by default, but it can be switched to use other backends, i.e Redis-based PubSub.

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/nivertech/erlang-on-osv-49278675#...
But as in divorces the state cares about child well being not how much efforts the parents put in.
Link to github: https://github.com/okbob/pspg
Good riddance - pro's do not want a computer that cannot be divorced of its display.
From personal experience in both, I would say academia is worse, and I think it's due to the lack of choices. Also, when academics are getting paid less, I feel like they gain some of their status by lording their power over other people, which is known to be part of the academic game. In industry, I feel like everyone is there mostly just to make money. Don't get me wrong, bad people exist in both, and people are people.

In general though, industry is a lot more competitive. You can just move on and get another job, and likely get paid more. Rather than the typical 2 body problem of academia, where one person is taking a job knowing it's just because the other person needs a job. (Yes, I've seen this happen where you hire someone's spouse so that you can get them to join. It's almost certainly not legal, but it happens in academia. I've never seen this happen in industry though.)

In industry there is also a little less gate-keeping. You've already got the job and there aren't really any more hoops to jump through to get paid. Sometimes getting a promotion is about as likely and easy as academia due to those above you in the management chain though.
Even if this explanation is correct (fraught), the idea that the value of your currency is entirely out of your hands is really bad. There have been indebted countries with no trading partners being bombed on all sides that have managed to have a stable currency.
I posted a comment once bemoaning the high costs of one of my SO's medications. The chemical compound in question is used by horse veterinarians as a supplement for their joints; think something like how Vitamin-D is put into milk. Due to medical/legal issues, the only source for this compound in the US is via a MD or a VD (or so we thought). The cost is ~$2/pill, taken thrice daily. Depending on the insurance plan, it can go up to ~$10/pill. This cost had been keeping our family from changing jobs and careers as the medical costs had to be factored in during salary negotiations. Like many Americans, we were enslaved to our insurance plan.

A extraordinarily kind HNer pointed me towards how to search for bulk manufactured chemicals.

A few weeks later we got 1 cubic meter of the stuff. The cubic meter being the smallest volume the company would send. It will last my SO's entire lifetime and then a few more.

That HNer gave us the gift of freedom.
Something Java accidentally did was be impossible to code without an IDE, in part because of its type system. People wrote really good IDEs for it, aided by the type system. At some point, they realized they could use what they learned and adapt the IDE to other languages.
Encryptic – Encrypted, cloud-synced note taking app
Actual functional literacy might be a problem too, let alone computer literacy. Although if she can operate an iPhone maybe not in this specific case.
When the money was frozen, UK PM Boris Johnson said "we may have to tighten the economic screw on Venezuela". So the Prime Minister of the UK seems to have a different opinion on this.
There is a local history extension in the marketplace. It’s a huge timesaver for me. Check it out
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It’s worth noting you can set up shared settings between every Jetbrains IDE which will sync up all of your keybindings, color schemes, etc.
I see there is a metacircular evaluator in the repository (lisp.lisp), but I don't see where that is pulled into the image.

In the BASIC heyday, there existed compilers for BASIC (some of them written in BASIC). These didn't ship in the ROM images either, they were third-party apps.
Amazing story, how much did you have to pay for the cubic meter and how did you take delivery?!
In the last few decades, the whole state has gravitated toward misguided enforcement along these lines for more than just drivers.

Like they say "Come on vacation, leave on probation!"
You might be surprised to discover that the radio waves don't care if they're going to a desktop PC in a traditional case, or a slightly different desktop PC in a Microsoft/Sony case!

It was not "the common perception". At best it was common among your peer group?
I agree 100% that being able to work on a project that actually lives on a remote server, or on Windows subsystem for Linux, or in a container, is a killer feature. It's really awesome. It still wasn't enough to tear me away from GoLand though. I hope JetBrains implements something similar, I think they may have done so already in a limited way for certain languages, but it's not on VS Code's level if I recall correctly.
You could use grep with vim or nano for quick searches and viewing without even leaving your terminal. Why bother with a GUI at all for that use case?
Yes, yes it is. You can look at my previous comment history here on HN but I live in Venezuela and crypto is a very real lifeline for me as I'm considered persona non grata for the rest of the international banking system.

My only recourse to keep money that won't devaluate in a matter of days if not hours is to either have it in cash (dangerous and need to know the "right people"), make use of foreign currency-denominated accounts in national banks which would be an extremely foolish endeavor for reasons that should be patently obvious, a tiny amount of frankly dodgy international banks that still do business with Venezuelans... or crypto. In spite of the wild price swings, crypto remains the most reliable alternative among everything I've mentioned.
Re: Offtopic

Yeah, the owner of those archive.* websites blocks CloudFlare DNS because of some hate-boner for CloudFlare [1]. Really unfortunate, honestly.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
It just a best estimate, there’s no way to be sure at this stage. Plenty of smart people think it will and plenty think that it won’t. I think there are so many different promising alternative approaches that hope to solve this problem, that on balance I’m not prepared to bet against every single one of them not panning out. It’s just a guess though.

I agree renewables might make it mostly moot, but there’s still the issue of base load. Storage might solve it, but if fusion can be made safe and cheap enough it could still have a niche.

Then there’s Mars and the belt. There’s no guarantee we’ll colonise it permanently, but if we do fusion could be really useful as it’s far enough out that solar is significantly less efficient. Also fusion reactors could be handy power plants for spacecraft. Cheap reusable heavy lift systems may make all of this feasible.

Finally, the future is a long, long time. If we don’t wipe ourselves out, eventually we will every technology that is viable will be achieved (not possible, viable).
It really depends on the language and IDE.

For example I used to just own Idea Ultimate and use the language plugins, but the workflows were always inferior to using the dedicated IDE for that language.

So I now have the full JetBrains suite and use a mix of Rider, CLion, PyCharm Pro, AppCode etc...
Looking at your profile saying you're a "fifteen-year-old homeschooler", this seems similar to a school project. Can you provide more context behind the motivation and process for the project? Technologies used? How you learned them? What difficulties you faced?
Yep. It happens.

Unfortunately not everyone is as lucky to be able to up and quit when these things happen.

* Visa holders are often susceptible to this kind of abuse. Low wages, can't job hop, etc.

* Those who are bound by health care. Being healthy isn't a privilege everyone enjoys.

* Those without safety nets. Not just people who grew up poor that have no place to turn if things get bad. This could be you if you live paycheck to paycheck. If you have to choose between being homeless and an abusive work place, most are going to take the abuse.

For every person that you hear mention that their workplace is great and wonderful, there is somebody else in the workforce who is suffering.
Virtual particles are an artefact of perturbation theory.
I see the point though I'm not sure that's any different from going to art school or music school or even an undergraduate degree in something like film that will probably only pay off if you win the professional lottery. But I don't disagree that getting a PhD isn't likely to pay off purely from a financial perspective even in many hot technology areas.