skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But doing CS, there were few opportunities to socialize with people in your degree - you see them in the lectures, then you go back to your college."

One thing I loved about my program (Baylor) is that they had a dedicated dorm building for engineering/CS students. I think it's because their program wasn't very prolific and they were trying to attract people (though I had no real complaints about it), but it created this awesome environment where the average person on your floor probably had a gaming desktop to show off, or would love to talk about a project idea you had, or might have an idea of how to recover the linux install you've just borked, or might be hosting a Minecraft LAN you could join. Not to mention the study-group opportunities, etc. It was a really great way to spend my first two years.
Ask HN: How much time per week for a part-time PhD in AI?
Info about me:

- 44 year old, wife and a 3 years old
- Wife is pregnant with our second child (probably bad news for doing a phd)
- My background is mainly Networking (Juniper/Cisco..etc)
- I work full time, but job is not stressful and does pay well
- No backgroung in programming, although I started learning react recently

I need advice on two things:

- How hard will the PHD be with no background in programming. I think I can pick up the algos/data structure and I was good at math.

- How much time per week will I need?

I'm aiming for a part-time phd which will be over the course of 6 years to complete.
They didn't kill openCL. 2.0 was evidently unpopular with everyone. Not sure why you're trying to pin it on nvidia. And afaik Nvidia's only stated position on CUDA is that it's royalty free.
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Sorry dude, but the new elite are me, you and the rest of the people on this board: receiving six figure salaries for staring at a screen and writing programs for a couple hours every day. It's not the writer getting work for feature sets in the collapsing media landscape.
It's still shitty programming that inconveniences the user.
I guess the intended audience for the chip are board / module designers, who can customize various interfaces and parameters to suit the final requirement.

Having one chip, with the RaspberryPi branding, and great documentation, should allow for development of families of development / educational boards.
I think I would think about specific Windows Telemetry that you want to disable and more importantly, why (i.e. "What's the Threat Model around Microsoft knowing this"). Because the vast majority of the telemetry collected by Windows is simply to make Windows work better - things like "Upgrade failed because $REASON" or "$DRIVER is causing performance problems".

You can see a lot of the kinds of telemetry that Windows is interested in if you go to Event Viewer => Application Logs => Microsoft => Windows, if you read it you see that it's like, Google Lighthouse style stuff, to make Windows faster and more reliable

Use these scripts to figure out the kinds of things you don't want to run, then make really targeted "Disable This" choices
I'm using developers edition so not sure how the final release turned out - did they revert their compact mode decision, or do you still need to re-enable in about:config?

Ugh, I love FF, but I hate that decision, and the apparent bone-headed decision making process. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1693028 if you want to feel sad about your favorite browser =(
See??? Because you don't want to learn C now you have to learn Toit, Python, BASIC and another two subpar-performance languages!!! :)
I worry about that
Yes,I have a script that searches eBay for the lowest price per gb, currently prices are _equal_ to buying new for many higher performance drives. There is also far fewer enterprise drives listed than their used to be, but I don’t have a hard number for that. Just no more large fusion io drives for example.
It’s too simple to classify social media count at such small numbers in nano and too wide of an amount in micro.

Different social media apps and then non social media like blogs or podcasts all have different thresholds for what is considered “big”.

With smaller counts, usually if someone is following 4K and is followed by 3K, they aren’t any more “influential” than an active liked person with a couple hundred followers.

Still not perfect but looking at basic interaction metrics will help a lot more as well: likes/favs/bookmarks, reposts, replies/comments. There are overlapping metrics like embedded or referenced count outside the social media app itself. Add in trajectory, history especially to verify this isn’t a BS blip of bought interactions and followers.

Further than that, getting a general view of the cohort of followers like how many are active, how many have profile pics, how many are bots or only on to market their own stuff, etc
From my understanding, the material where the finger holes are drilled is not heavy enough to make a difference. However, where the holes are drilled relative to the rotation center of the ball, does make a difference.
This is how you get the "Making Europe shut up about it Act of 2021" that has toothless penalties and doesn't provide any funding for enforcement anyway.
I have recently discovered Virtual Table Tops and I was very impressed with Foundry. They just came out with a new release and I wanted to share.

Some of the other VTTs of note include:

- Roll20 [1]
- Fantasy Grounds [2]

[1] https://roll20.net/

[2] https://www.fantasygrounds.com/
I think it's interesting how "the ritual" of going to or leaving work. Is such a big part of the discussion around working from home.

I felt it myself at first. I had to do something to break up the day into work and not work. At first I'd pretty much just walk to the bus stop and go home from there. Basically pretend I took the bus. After a month or two I think I stopped. The walk was the new commute.
The ritual part just became moving all cables back to my own computer from the work laptop dock. A quick minute and it's over. Work has ended and all is well.
What are these employers offering as a concession?

I'd do 4 day weeks in the office; I'd definitely do 3 days in the office and one at home and I'd take a 10% pay cut to be allowed it with basically no difference to my productivity.

If you're offering nothing and simultaneously aren't able to give clear reasons why working remotely isn't a valid option I don't see what you can expect other than people quitting.
Long time ago I remember reading about some service, that allows using single use credit cards. Last year I was looking for it, as many services cannot ne trusted with this information. But I could nothing like it. Maybe I was just dreaming...

Getting a legit card like that could be possible, but I don't think its worth of hassle and possible costs. Some companies practically throw these cards on you, but usually there is a catch.
Only a guess, but if there is no sighting of it in the wild for a very long time (eg. from the article it was 10 years, but I guess it depends on species, how long does it live, how many offsprings it produces etc) and there is one living in captivity it is not that hard to declare.
> This seems to be the general consensus for folks like yourself where work is the primary focus in their lives.

Big incorrect assumption here, my primary focus is not my work but my hobbies, family and friends. I don't like working in the office mainly because it's social but because we all are more productive. I like to be efficient at my job, even though I don't think it's my primary focus in life.
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> I'm planning on running my machines for 100 years!

Heh, that's an interesting thought that i've also sometimes had.

For doing something like that, the hardware would need to be way more resilient and have failover for various components - for example RAID for the HDDs/SSDs and some mechanism for clustering and failover for apps and other stuff you'd want to run on them. But even with those in place, i'm not sure that the hardware that's available to us wouldn't just die long before the 100 year mark.

Anyone have any idea what are the oldest computers presently in continuous use? Best i could find was this, but it was just turned on for once, instead of being continuously working: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-the-worlds-o... Apart from that, all i can think of are mainframes and such.

I really doubt that any piece of currently modern hardware could last 100 years without becoming some hard to understand mess that's incredibly out of touch with the OSes and paradigms of the future. What would you even run on it? Debian? FreeBSD? Haiku? Would there be anyone to debug Python 2 or Python 3 in 100 years? What about Java, .NET, PHP, Golang, Rust, C++ or even C? Considering that many of those ecosystems are more and more migrating to integration with the Internet, especially for the dependencies, what are the chances that any of the software will survive that long?
You can also re-enable compact mode in 89 by toggling browser.compactmode.show in about:config. Hope they don't remove it entirely.
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I don't need to "add a charging station to my house". I already have multiple outlets outside of my house. If I want to be fancy, I can spend 500-1500€ and add a real Type2 charger with load balancing and remote control features.

Just FYI about hydrogen cars:

- They are just EVs with smaller batteries, a large part of the battery is replaced with a hydrogen tank + fuel cell.
- The WHOLE hydrogen storage system will need to be replaced fully every 10 or so years. Hydrogen is really really small and has a habit of escaping every vessel you try to keep it in.
- Currently the government subsidised price for H2 in Germany is 9.5€/kg. It takes about 1kg of hydrogen to drive 100km. Would you pay almost 10€/100km to drive a car? While an EV can do the same trip for 1-3€?

Do you know the amount of bureaucracy needed to store multiple hundreds of kg of pressurised highly flammable gas (hydrogen) anywhere?

Compare that to the amount of work needed to install what is essentially a fancy power outlet.
>music-only video service

I'm not sure how that isn't soundcloud/spotify.
Given the glut of music streaming services, it seems unlikely to me someone could make money trying to compete with all of those and YouTube simultaneously.
i tried "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR8s72aouNE" and your link and both return the same thing -- age restricted -- from south america.
> the recent shoot down of ad blockers on the desktop browser

Mobile browsers have been affected as well. uBlock Origin on Firefox for Android has been letting the ads through recently. Fortunately, NewPipe exists, but it depends on youtube-dl so, while it remains free of ads, it's also affected by this change surrounding age-restricted content.

Hopefully people start moving somewhere else within the next few years, maybe PeerTube. Admittedly, YouTube's network effects are disgustingly strong. I wonder what it would take to break them.
Tree style tabs used to get very laggy when you have lots of tabs open. Sideberry performed much faster. So I switched to it.
You can definitely do that, but now your RAM is twice as far away from the CPU on average than if you put RAM on all sides. The best solution is probably some sort of hybrid where you put RAM on all side, but more on the bottom to balance the thermal effects and the latency.
I am extremely skeptical masks will stick in suburban and rural areas.

Urban areas with mass transit? Maybe. I think wearing a mask on the Red Line during cold and flu season would be smart.
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Dogecoin definitely wasn't created as a scam, and the creator seems totally legit and benign. But, unfortunately, anything with a "penny stock"-like quality is susceptible to manipulation from just about anyone, even if they have no affiliation with the project or its creators/developers.
This might be an unpopular opinion but in my opinion anything more than ShutUp10 is a complete waste of time unless you go all the way and run Windows behind a firewall (OPNsense) and use a whitelist. It is (again IMO) impossible to control software from the same machine.
A lack of tab groups and PWA are pretty big strikes against Firefox.
Maybe if the alien city covers the entire planet and consists mostly of searchlights. Otherwise, the "may" and "soon" are too optimistic.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_detecting_exoplanet...
your company monitors every zoom call?

not sure how "corporate incorrect" you are intending, but I feel pretty open to discuss things I'm dissatisfied with with my team. I suppose if push came to shove, I would be fine with that being public record.
There are tools that allow to sign a PDF with the mouse. I started using it and HR didn't complained.
This thread gives more details: https://www.englishforum.ch/transportation-driving/267870-dr...

I'm surprised that the other commenters make it sound less definitive. In my experience, Swiss authorities are extremely strict when it comes to any sort of driving infraction, so the default expectation should be that you will get fined.
Québec's government has historically been incompetent regarding anything digital (a lot of their website are still barely usable), but I want to give credit where credit is due: their vaccine appointment website as well as their proof-of-vaccination has been really well done.
I see these kinds of changes as "smiling product manager" changes. They have chosen an answer to a question and the data _will_ be made to justify the decision. That path is inevitably paved with catch-22s.
I think there’s this disconnect where proponents of EVs are too focused on what people should want rather than what they do want. It’s pretty clear from people’s purchasing habits that many if not most are not trying to maximize efficiency when they buy a car. I think the person below who said people are paying for “optionality” when they buy a car is absolutely right. I don’t want to have to rent a car to go on trips, or rent a truck to go to Lowe’s, and I don’t care what someone else thinks I need. That said, I think electrics are very obviously the future and have big advantages. I’m excited about the lightning, and expect that range, etc are just going to keep getting better.
All the videos start in potato quality for me now. What is going on? Surely they can afford the bandwidth of all services?
Forgot to say I do have a telco engineering degree but this was 15 years ago.
There is also browser.compactmode.show set to true that will allow compact density. Unfortunately that won't reduce the padding around bookmark entries. For that can go to https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/
It's been a while for me, but iirc, there's two ways you can slerp between two quaternions, and by using the shortest path, you can avoid the jerk.
I hope everyone commenting in this thread revisits these words after the Pentagon's UAP report is released and performs an honest reflection on their thought processes.
I thinked about that a lot. I came to some conclusions:
1. Certainly theres life somewhere in the the universe. Inteligent? Problably not. We as humans tend to think that intelligence is necessary for survival, but other species, with the exception when dealing with us, seens to do fine without that.

2. IF they are inteligent, they are bound to the same physical principals that us humans are, so that's a reason why we didn't make contact. Maybe.

3. I don't think that they are extraterrestrial, maybe some type of advanced drone, but not out of earth.

4. If the are indeed aliens, the reason why they don't land and present themselfs is maybe because they just don't care. If what people are saying is true, they may be so advanced that for them, we are like antes or something, insignificant, and problably not worth attention.
I guess the same can be said about doing laundry, sitting and watching the machine while it does its job would lose you an hour or two. Luckily both of these activities can be done while doing other things like reading/listening to audio books or catching up on other things.
I was a strong proponent of WFH for years. I fought tooth and nail for more flexible policies at my previous employers. After having done it now for over a year full-time, I'm done. I don't want to WFH full-time anymore. Part of it is that I'm at a different point in my life: I have kids now so having some physical separation between home and work is almost required. the other reason is that its so hard to integrate with a company when you're fully remote. I've never felt more like a cog in the machine than this last year.

Ultimately, some companies will move to completely remote work. Most will go back to at least a hybrid in-person model. For the latter, I suspect that most WFH employees will eventually go back to the office once they realize that they're second class employees and that they're effectively frozen out of the traditional career progression model by being remote.
You get the options to both enable and disable the steps so that's half the lines. Then there's lots of things like "DisableLockScreen" which are not really related to the goals at the top.

It's definitely not 2.4k lines to disable telemetry.
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Commute length is a huge factor. But I also think commute type matters. When I lived in Chicago, my commute was a 1 hour train ride. I rather enjoyed it, I used that time to read and play video games.
There are some other solutions based on the RP2040 that will include wifi and bluetooth. So you'll just have to pickup one of those if you want them. I suspect they will be more expensive but probably not prohibitively so.

For instance: https://launch.arduino.cc/nano-rp2040
It's a shame global pandemy had to happen for companies to realize that employeee don't have to be at a particular place at a particular time to do a good job. Never say never, but I never want to go back to office job :)
Edge and Vivaldi are the two that I know of that have it as an option built in. Opera has a sidebar and uses workspaces to organize tabs now, but they used to have vertical tabs in the past.
I'd agree – there are real advantages in maintaining a friends group outside of work: you spend far less time griping about your day to day, and the connections you make are far more stable.

Get a beer once a month with coworkers, sure, but relying on work to be a primary social outlet always seems risky.
AFAIK, the US does not have a mandatory ID requirement ( nor does the UK ).
I'm not familiar with what that is or what that implies, I think your weird bubble is a bit obtuse

but I do understand the general experience of people being less inhibited
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That's actually a rather weak argument, as it ignores the phenomenon's own intelligence. This would work if it was natural/"dumb".
This is the main scientific error in The Martian.
The Firefox UI team keeps rotating the same chairs, but hasn't touched the awful bookmark UIs for five+ years.

They're just lucky that Edge-Chrome's odd floating Favorites box is what it is, or they'd have the worst offering (and even in Edge-Chrome you can open the Chrome-like Bookmarks tab).

I was legitimately hopeful that everyone would just copy Chrome's very functional and clean Bookmarks approach, but I guess we have to keep dragging around this kludge from the 1990s.
Actually, it's their removal that's making me agitated
When I first saw the title (I use HN Digest to send Hot Topics to my mail), I thought this was the same as the story I've read several years ago. I have attached some of them here, from 2012 [1], 2014 [2] and 2015 [3].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_c...

[2] https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12...
I haven't used Windows for a long time but a look at the script makes me think people wouldn't be resorting to such measures if Microsoft wasn't including stupid crap in their operating system.

> Disabling Telemetry breaks Windows updates

> Automatic web searches in start menu

> Application suggestions are silently installed (wat?)

> Allow MS to collect activity history

> Location tracking

> Map updates (who the fuck uses maps on a PC?)

> Tailored experiences (apparently spamming ads on a desktop OS is an experience)

> Advertising ID

> Cortana

This is just from skimming the list for 5 minutes. Not even sure what else is in there.
Most people don't: https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-savings-acc...
I don't see any mention of OpenAPI support. Why? Wouldn't that be valuable?
Sigh. Another UI overhaul, another reduction in information density. I just updated on Windows, and all menus (context and otherwise) have their items spaced remarkably far apart. How come they switched to native context menus on Mac, but away from native menus on Windows?
Absolutely not knowledgeable on the topic but a quick search says that RF tags are used on sharks — my naive guess is that biologists know better than to use tags that can heart the animal.