skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For evidence just look at a recent post on HN[5] about an article he published.
> [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26991300

Ignore this part because the one I referred to is a different person! Though they are both terrific :-)
I wish someone made netbooks again.
The quote might be accurate, but most of the people taking computer science courses care very much about computers, and particularly actual computers as they physically exist.

It'd be nice if there was a better division between the blackboard purists and the pointer-slingers, but in most cases they have been lumped together, and it produces a subpar education for both breeds.
Would you say it could be possible to code with such display if it was attached to a laptop?
More interesting is the ramifications, on how scientists and commentators have been talking of how natural and expected this pandemic was and how we have to learn to live with pandemics, bat soups and wet markets...

Very interesting the amount of "expertise" and "facts" that might crumble, if the other theory is confirmed
Darn! All these days I thought they were the same! Thanks for correcting me!
Is Lbry the one that pays you in its own crypto?
> What saddens me is that the student who allegedly took his own life was probably so deeply surrounded by academia that he didn't know there's a world who won't judge him for having one fewer paper on his CV and will even look on him positively for reporting fraud and getting his advisor into career trouble.

Could be that, or could just be that the student couldn't imagine himself not doing academic research despite knowing of the rest of the world.

It's sad nevertheless, of course, and I'm not trying to say you're wrong in any way. It's just that people's motives and the reasons they feel trapped can be difficult to guess.
I’ve found my credit card company, American Express to be great for getting refunds in cases like this and always use my credit card for larger purchases.
Chezmoi: Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines
Absolutely. In this case, I was the only person working on it, and reviewing the code long after the fact is what did it.

But doing it right the first time would have been better. That comes from establishing habit.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Some guy that habitually wore a bedsheet.
Definitely slower than something that has a pre-defined stylesheet, e.g. Stylus. Does occassionally cause graphical issues (say, below 0.05% of websites I visit, once a month?) that means I have to toggle it off for that site.

Still use it because the speed / memory different isn't noticeable on most modern laptops / desktops. Even my phone uses it now as it's quick enough with the 'dynamic' update they made (toggle onto it under the 'more' section)
Especially for audio/video/photo stuff there's a bunch of dealers just for that, which tend to be quite good (in terms of prices, packaging, customer services), and also specialized distributors ("sells small numbers to professionals"), that's why I'm surprised people go for Amazon.

Some examples:

Random camera: Amazon: 2000 €, any photo dealer: 1800 €

Random high-end lens: Amazon: 2500 €, photo dealer: 2000 €

Random microphone: Amazon: 275 €, A/V distributor: 220 €

Studio microphone: Amazon: <not authorized to sell>, A/V distributor: 600 €

And that's before considering that Amazon is probably going to ship more slowly (even on prime) than most other "pro" dealers, and that Amazon is probably going to throw a box in a more or less empty parcel, while someone at a proper dealer will actually bother to package the stuff correctly.
"Novel papers" with "great results".
Thank you for the update.

> I believe in 2021 it should be seen as one of the necessary everyday high-level datatypes.

I agree. It is one of those data structures that developers tend to use by reimplementing badly using arrays/lists and dictionarys, usually even unaware that they are doing so.
Ask HN: Advice Needed on a Partnership Proposal
Hello HN
Based out of India, we have a security product for web apps. We've been in talks with an experienced US sales executive for several weeks in helping us take the distribution to next level and he seems to have been super interested. Recently, he has come up with a partnership proposal in which he wants us to transfer IP rights of the product (without any money paid) to a California general partnership entity in which his LLC company will have 51% interest and a managing partner status. The product will be further exclusively licensed to his LLC company for sale.
His argument is that without major US ownership, no fortune1000 companies and federal government will buy a security product in large quantities (say $100k or more)
The original partnership agreement requires us to grant irrevocable, exclusive, royalty free unrestricted worldwide rights to sell/modify/reproduce/rewrite etc. the product and its source code as capital contribution, while from him, the contributions are sales, marketing, accounting, strategy etc.
The voluntary withdrawal requires a very large notice period and upon withdrawal, the IP rights of our product will still be there with the partnership. Events resulting in the involuntary withdrawal of a Partner from the Partnership includes death of a Partner; Partner mental incapacity; Partner disability preventing reasonable participation in the Partnership; Partner incompetence; breach of fiduciary duties by a Partner; criminal conviction of a Partner; Expulsion of a Partner; Operation of Law against a Partner; or any act or omission of a Partner that can reasonably be expected to bring the business or societal reputation of the Partnership into disrepute.

There are several other conditions including authority to bind partnership into contracts remains with him, equal distribution of profits/losses as per ownership interest (accounting done by his firm), etc.

(to be continued in comment)
There's actually a bunch of student craft who hold (or used to pre covid) an annual competition using similar crafts. So this is not really on of a kind.
That nonsense is oftentimes simply invented or a straight lie, the only reason it's there is to let the recipe get copyright protection.
My youngest wakes me up at 5am every morning. Why am I not zippity do dah happy then? Ha ha.
A problem with this is that it’s a nuclear option. Companies you use it against may decline to trade with you again. That may be a problem or not.
This site does not let me try the demo without giving them the permission to send spam eMails.
I don't get it either. The appeal isn't there for me. Not that I can afford any of the headline NFT prices anyway.

But we might as well look at the analogy with the art market - why do some people place high value on some art?

Part of the answer is "authenticity" and "provenace". These are about who created the artifact. Were they the actual creator of the artifact being stamped, or are they some random trying to cash in on someone else's work? If they weren't the original creator, but paid for the artifact via transaction from the creator, that's respected too.

Technically, sure, you can change a byte in an NFT and get a new one. But it's obvious to everyone doing diligence that you're claiming ownership of, and perhaps selling, a derivative.

After all there is a proof of the original out there, which differs by one byte and was stamped before yours. If there aren't the tools to detect this sort of thing yet, there will be soon. So don't think you can re-encode the original to work around this. SImilarity detection is a thing.

People, well some people anyway, will place a much higher value on an original compared with an altered derivative when both are available. They also place much higher value on something that can be traced to its creator, than something created by one person where another tries to claim it.

Perhaps there's an instinct at play here that causes (some) people to direct resources vaguely in the direction of artifact creators they respect, and to the halo of people around them.
If that was truly the case, then why do so many engineers complain about having a non-technical manager? Thinking that a manager does not need even a little bit of domain knowledge is something managers tell themselves to feel good about themselves, but it is not actually true.

Both the people part _AND_ the technical parts are the hard parts of technical management.
Same. With a full OS. Chromebooks don’t cut it for me
The Open Source Chatbot and Artificial Intelligence Platform
This whole debate is always so bewildering. Programming paradigm fanboys get into heated arguments about which model is the "best" one, but actual computer science research uses myriad different models of computation, usually endeavoring to select the one that is most convenient for the given purpose.

Sometimes that could mean using the lambda calculus, particularly in study of language theory and type systems. Other times that could mean some sort of black box model, such as when proving lower bounds for solving problems using specific operations (see e.g. the sorting lower bound). Yet other times, like when establishing the ground-zero of some new variety of computational hardness, I can't think of many more suitable models to cut up into pieces and embed into the substrate of some other problem than those based upon Turing machines.
I'm so sorry cryptographers, the word has been hijacked and when you unfortunately say 'crypto', the mainstream general public immediately think as in 'cryptocurrencies'. Not cryptography.

It is obviously incorrect. They don't care about being corrected they just want to know if they can 500x their investment rather than read your boring lecture about 'crypto' origins.

That's it.

Downvoters: It's true though.
(continuing)
We've found the agreement really unequal and too much authority in his hands. But he's been insisting on it as the only way giving that same argument of Buy American Act (BA) and Trade Agreement (TA).

As per my reading of these two acts, I understand that only the structure (51% ownership) isn't going to satisfy the requirements of these acts, as they require manufacturing (BA) or substantial transformation (TA) to have been done in USA. He says that we'll get 49% of the revenue and R&D/technical support will remain with us. but based on my reading of these provision, if we retain the development of the product, it won't pass BA/TA. We suspect that for such contracts, he can end up removing us from those activities consequently paying very little (if at all) percentage of the revenue from government contracts and we'll not be able to object it because of limited rights. "No Partner may do any act that would make it impossible to carry on the ordinary business of the Partnership." is one of such conditions in the agreement that can easily invoke expulsion of a partner in such a case IMO.

Please share your expert thoughts. Is our understanding of BA/TA correct?
Are there ways for us to remain independent, and we retain the rights of the product and he can still sell to government/Fortune1000 (though for latter I don't think it should be an issue)? (We’ve even proposed to have a separate contract for government agencies).
Not really. My opinion in some detail:

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:agevspgp

Age might be such a replacement some day for just the encryption function. But it has a ways to go. Actually defining the format would be a good first step.
Yugabyte is different DB technology than postgres but with PG compatibility layer, means you can use existing postgres query/application, the rest is different beast.
This one is more comparable with citus, an PG extension. Meaning it runs on top postgres. However from their github page they also offer patched version of PG which I suppose offer some tighter integration with the extension.
> why do most of these things, especially the batteries, cite current figures rather than power figures? Is there a genuine reason, or is it some kind of historical mistake, or something else?

I agree it's not so helpful in practice; I think though it's because they're a store of charge, N electrons = capacity in Coulombs, and 1C = 1As (by definition) or more familiarly 1/3600 Ah.

This is true load or no load, so from C (As) and V (= J/C) you know the charge stored and the rate of depletion.

Maybe the real error is not Ah instead of Wh, but V instead of J, since the former will drop off non-linearly (in practice) under load and while draining, or with temperature; whereas I think J & C independently 'when new' would give a better picture, or at least one that will more obviously change over the life of the battery?
The American military are just humans like anyone else.
I suspect that we see terrible events as changing things for the better because when something major happens, we notice a strong reaction.

We forget all the not quite as awful things that were just let slide and normalized.
You can request that in Amazon delivery settings if you have a safe location at home, but it's not the default. By default parcels go back to depot.
I was discussing an individual being attacked for personal thoughts posted in the past. If a company supports things you don't, sure, just don't support that company. But when a group tries to get a person fired for something unpopular that they said in the past, then using a mob to get them fired is vigilante justice.
> multi-million dollar business

That is not a business, just an idea. The value of ideas (unproven, unimplemented) is ZERO. The fact that someone was willing to pay $100k for it is absolutely amazing and a huge service to the society.
Computer programming is to computer science like accounting is to mathematics.

Odd thing is I don't see a bunch of bookkeepers brandishing anything.
> this does not reflect badly on the researcher who came up with it.

> But the only way to graduate and put food on the table is to keep getting funding through novel papers that have great results.

So in the way in which it matters, it does reflect badly on the researcher who came up with it.
Middle school is bad just about everywhere, not just in the US. All the teachers I've talked with (mostly in Europe) also observed the same thing. Keeping kids in school at that age is just a bad idea, and if anything that's what should be abolished completely.

High school in Europe, where there's no extracurricular activities added into the mix, is mostly fine, and kids that have a bad time there are usually just carrying mental scars from middle school.
Reproducibility doesn't begin to solve the subtler issues mentioned in the article. It is necessary but far from sufficient.
Well... non-PC jokes are a liability risk for the institution at large. Dead students are not. We have an identical phenomenon in hospitals: there are huge campaigns against sexism and the like, while there are multiple young professionals
committing suicide from burn-out every year and noone does as much as bat an eyelash.

Contrary to victims of discrimination, dead people can't easily organize into coordinated legal action.
Yeah, it is dated and naive in many ways :)
Really don't know how the HN works and why this one made it to the main page while some of the other stuff I write rarely does so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(In _some_ defense of the post, at the time of the writing it was targeted _only_ to the Ruby community. But still, probably, if I'd included "how others do it" section it would bear more weight.)
The 30-year-old retirees of the FIRE movement
> everyone knows it and we complain about it over some beers all the time.

Then why not speak out publicly against it?

Obviously because you know that there are still a significant number of individuals that want the system to work this way. Your fear of those individuals is why you don't speak out against it.

So who are they? Who are you scared of?
The kids I knew weren't pulled out of school. They were homeschooled the whole time. It seemed to me that the reasons where mostly quality of education in the public school was poor and cost of private school was too high, as well as a little religious benefit maybe.
I have a master degree in CS. There's really not much of a learning curve to disabling telemetry on Windows or OSX. It requires some labor, but so does any kind of technological upkeep.
https://www.greenentrepreneur.com/article/357200

This article scratches the surface.
Computer science is to math as biology is to physics. Biology isn't technically about life, but the reason we have separated it and study it so thoroughly is that it is related to life.
I don't know how we ever got to the point of accepting that shipping is some equal third party in the transaction.

Shipping is a subcontractor to the company that sold the product. It is 100% the responsibility of the company to make right.

Imagine if you bought a TV at a store and they said, "want us to bring it out to your car?" And they did. And it got destroyed in the parking lot. And the company said, "you'll have to take it up with the parking lot parcel company. They don't technically work for us."
This is https://observablehq.com the way you can partially modify code while retaining program state is amazing, plus it works with a production debugger (chrome devtools)
oh, that! I thought "freezing" referred to some actual cold-based treatment, thanks for clarifying.
This is an eternal question. I’m not great at this but one thing that’s helped me is to have more than one job offer, then go with the best. By having multiple offers you can see what the market can bear.

This then of course needs to be managed - you need those offers to come in about the same time.

A lot depends on your circumstances but I’d counter with reasons that you are special and don’t budge on the price. A 33% haircut is a lot!

For example “unlike most other developers I make a solid habit of providing end of day progress reports with re-estimates if there have been problems or things were easier than expected, this makes it a lot easier to manage me as you can see my progress without chasing me up”

And $40/h is a bargain for the US company and most likely they pay local people double or triple for the same job. But I get a lot of companies are playing the “what’s YOUR cost of living game”, so they pay less for offshore because capitalism. Some aren’t - so get multiple offers.
Sure is! And you'd often be amazed at just how much data you can churn through, if you put your mind to it. I once watched Gwern classify thousands of poetry outputs over the course of a day or two, with nothing more than dedication and a bash script to mark "a" or "b".

It took a long time to accept that this is both normal and effective. It's not some hidden secret to be ashamed of. The headline images in https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/ are probably the best and most interesting images they could find; they were picked out by humans. It's a positive statement to say that dall-e can do that some of the time, rather than "it fails X% of the time."
This is pretty much the same as the US; except our postmaster just obliterated our mail service to try to rig an election so Amazon is actually better than them now.
Show HN: I wrote a website to extract main content from a web page
Oh you were seen alright. Just not on a positive way. I have constant noisy motorbikes passing in front of my building and often feel like shooting one of their tires because of the stress of having to deal with this constant noise. If exhausts sound great, go to the country side and listen to it, but don't force others to.
I see nothing odd in calling that computer science. It seems more like hardcore computer science.
Well, does it reflect badly on a startup founder if their idea doesn't work out? But since things are subtler in science, it's possible to sell stuff and pollute the literature even if it didn't really work out. To do otherwise is altruistic but ultimately outcompeted by those with less qualms about it.
It’s just something I tried to come up with. Instead of a caption, a digital avatar giving context might be more useful ?
Fair enough, I'm sorry to have implied otherwise.

I agree with you about the frontline rep, that's not the person I have a problem with. I don't expect a low-level customer support rep to be able to approve such a thing. I expect Amazon to, in the event that a rep can't handle a complaint, proactively solve it in a different way, not try to fob the claimant off.

It would be just as easy to, say, bump any refund claim over 1k to someone who is paid enough to make such a decision. Amazon have decided they don't want to. And I don't really think that's acceptable. Just look at the comments in this thread of people self-censoring to avoid getting on the wrong side of the algorithm.

This is a situation Amazon has engineered, because it's cheaper to run these things through automated systems, or only frontline workers. I'm not inclined to accept what I think is pretty bare minimum as good enough on account of their size. If anything, I think their size allows them to afford and amortize better systems than a small company.

Edit: cooled it a little
There is a common theme in most of these stories: UPS. It would be interesting to know the annual dollar value of "loss" (read as theft) that occurs at the hands of Brown Truck Pirates.
Are there any stability fixes you have in mind? In my recollection, there is not much instability in PG releases.
I am not sure how PAR2 helps here if your encryption utility refuses to return any data in the first place.

I was responding to a comment that said that age was a "standard replacement" for GPG.
http://archive.is/EdO6j
I immediately start rolling my eyes when someone starts their article with some crap like ‘It was a dank afternoon, Trump had just won re-election. This was difficult for Johnny to take, but he managed to get up and head downtown. Little did he know, it would be the most important day for downtown ever, as Bitcoin was coming to town’.

Like, goodness. TSDR - too shitty, didn’t read.

Matt Taibbi usually takes Thomas Friedman to town for writing like that:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/late...

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/create-your-own-thomas-f...
http://archive.is/5kz4K
You would think that allegedly driving a PoC student to suicide would count for something in the PC twitter sphere…
It’s not standard in Ireland or Britain. I figured it was more of a MOOCism rather than an Americanism as this is the only context I’ve seen it used to refer to trying out a course for free.
One that is terrible is Scribd. IIRC the flow goes something like this.
1) You press a cancel button on the subscription, and it takes you to a page that lists lots of things but if you don't pay attention, just at the bottom is asking you to confirm the cancellation and the previous things are the "benefits" you will loose if you cancel.
2) If you press, yes cancel, it takes you to a third page where it again asks you to cancel. That is how I stayed with them 1 more month.

Very bad.
You mean the number of suicides at foxconn? The forced labour that is likely contributing to many of the large mobile phone company bottomlines. The blatant benchmark fraud that happens all the time by all the large GPU and CPU manufacturers, I could go on. But I don't see the press all over this 24/7 t all, maybe some small niche outlets sometimes. In comparison the scrutiny that the academic world is under (if we relate to the affected people and effects) is much, much larger
If you think nuclear fission is the solution to the problems caused by energy production currently, you are almost certainly wrong.

On top of that, nuclear is completely useless for addressing the BTC mining consumption problem. Even deluxe perfectly clean magic energy would not address it. Mining is a consumption competition with no upper limit, so will use up all the nuclear and other magic you can produce and still demand more from every other power source it can afford.

The people you are talking to know this, so course they are going to think you're not offering a solution, just a glib remark that doesn't begin to address the problem.