skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not what you're asking, but my ideal phd workflow is to complete an open research problem as a homework assignment, then turn it in as a thesis.

"In 1939, a misunderstanding brought about surprising results. Near the beginning of a class, Professor Neyman wrote two problems on the blackboard. Dantzig arrived late and assumed that they were a homework assignment. According to Dantzig, they "seemed to be a little harder than usual", but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for both problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue.[4][6] Six weeks later, an excited Neyman eagerly told him that the "homework" problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics.[2][4] He had prepared one of Dantzig's solutions for publication in a mathematical journal.[7] This story began to spread and was used as a motivational lesson demonstrating the power of positive thinking. Over time, Dantzig's name was removed, and facts were altered, but the basic story persisted in the form of an urban legend and as an introductory scene in the movie Good Will Hunting.[6]

Dantzig recalled in a 1986 interview in the College Mathematics Journal, "A year later, when I began to worry about a thesis topic, Neyman just shrugged and told me to wrap the two problems in a binder and he would accept them as my thesis."[8]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig
> I ain't your grandparent, nor did I say anything about OKC. :)

> You're probably referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28256462

My apologies, you're right.
True, but it’s hard to imagine that you are seriously suggesting that books, newspapers, scientific journals, or online material, when they make mistakes:

- Own their mistakes.

- Correct them.

- And don't use the incidental occurrence of error as a blanket method of discrediting others
Pro-vaxxer will not answer your original question. The fact is it is not incredibly effective now as Pfizer and Moderna effectiveness have drop to 70%+ and 40%+ respectively from their earlier 95%. 60% are hospitalize that means it is severe that warrant hospitalization. If it is incredibly effective, "hospitalization" for vaccinated should be under a few percentage point. Take a look at historical smallpox and polio vaccination. Now that is incredible effective. Vast majority of pro-vaxxer aren't aware of old stats, while predominantly getting over excited by media outlet or their less informed doctors acquintances. To be fair, those vaccines originally targeting earlier variant of Covid. Now you have Delta, likely Delta+ and Lambda or some more deadlier version of variants, the vaccine can only go down in effectiveness in coming 6mths. In fact, you should be hearing people getting those vaccines died due to immunity waning in coming 6mths. Expect booster shots and annual jabs just like flu shots.
I’m not a lawyer, but at the very least Apple would have to train its reviewers to recognize new image types, redact or update all statements where they explicitly drew a line in the sand about what the feature searched for, likely produce a custom build of iOS, update its knowledge base to distinguish between the root hash of the CSAM database and FBI Imagery database, perhaps re-present consent, add code to target this new database (or subset of the full database) to US users, etc. I’m not a product manager either, but superficially simple changes are often quite complex!
Wow even at moon distances the speed of light starts to play a bit. Remote control at that distance is impressive.
iOS platform restrictions prevent Firefox for iOS from supporting add-ons. That is a rather striking difference.
I wonder why they enforce a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS.

https://simonschreibt.de/gat/dont-starve-diablo-parallax-7/
This is what's known as an 'anecdote', and is at the crux of the issues surrounding weight loss.

Virtually every _controlled_ study shows that metabolic differences between adults are within a margin of +/- 15%, with essentially no way to eat the same amount of calories as a 200lb person and stay at 465lbs. Not least of which because your basal metabolic rate is much higher at that weight.

Virtually every study shows that overweight people significantly underestimate their input (whether intentionally deceptive or simply unaware) and overreport their physical activity, like "I can jog 10 miles", or "I play tennis about 7 hours a week", or "I regularly make 60 mile bike rides". If you do, you're the extreme outlier, and it doesn't change the data. Assuming you can do those things, you're almost certainly still in your 20s, and the health effects of your weight haven't really caught up with your body yet.

Very simply, it's far more likely that you miss some of the calories you consume, either because you don't actually weigh your food or you discount the signficance of "small" things. A pound of fat is 3500 calories. That's more complicated inside metabolic processes, but it means that "an apple a day" is 10lbs per year.

That isn't to say that "prescribe more medication instead of correcting the underlying issue" (trauma, self-medication, dopamine flush, whatever) is the answer, but that diets perform poorly for a large fraction and fail abysmally for another third because we are bad at tracking things, we are bad at being uncomfortable, and we bad at self control, etc. Diets do work. It's sticking to the diet and recognizing when you're off the rails which is difficult.

It's also difficult to acknowledge that this "diet" is not temporary and you can go back to old eating habits once the weight is off. The new caloric consumption is forever, because that's what brought you to the new homeostatis.
I'm not arguing in favor of any particular approach (in particular the one posed by the original poster, which I have done zero research into). If and when they launch in a meaningful way I'll bother doing that research, but I am also a cynic about people offering to make a difficult thing easy for a recurring fee.
Yep! An Intel NUC running TrueNAS w/ a bunch of external HDDs (yes, I know the risks), an old laptop running Hassio (processing video frames through TensorFlow all day), and a router with FreshTomato. It's not perfect, but it was cheap and it gets the job done.

Running about 10-15 Docker containers on there, an instance of Windows 10 Pro (to RDP into because I don't want it anywhere near my dev machine), and two Minecraft servers.
My elderly mother got a feature phone and couldn't figure out how to use it. It was such a complicated muddle of changing on-screen menus and icons that you activated with mystery buttons on the keypad. I had to first play around with it myself to learn how to make a call, then teach her. Somehow she activated the camera instead and couldn't get back to normal phone mode on her own. These things are pointless toxic waste. All those stupid features force you to give them your attention every time you want to call someone or even answer the damn phone. This is a dumb-phone that cost as much as a low-end smartphone so anyone buying it would be doing so because they don't want all those aggravating complications. I'm sick of machines constantly nagging for my attention. Shut up and get out of the way. I own you, not the other way round!

Anyway, excuse me getting a bit carried away there :P Touched a nerve.
No, speed-reading absolutely IS bullshit.
This is from to the history of how the Julia language was bootstrapped. The fact that Jeff happened to have written his own scheme (femtolisp) as a previous project probably helped :-)

Actually it's not just the parser but most of the compiler frontend which is written in femtolisp. It would be nice to make the frontend more accessible by replacing it with Julia code at some stage. Bootstrapping is tricky though until someone gets separate compilation working.
"still" implies they mentioned they weren't doing that?
"Moon Patrol" seemed like such an entertaining game at the time. But it grew stale very quickly. The parallax effect was really popular in home consoles like NES games just a few years later.

This article is all about rendering but gameplay is what makes "Don't Starve" standout IMO.
What kind of problems was he describing? Sounds interesting
The green was a palette trick. The Direct3D mode used high-color mode, so that trick wasn’t free. It did draw a green light halo around the character’s feet instead, though.
The C++ grammar is not LALR(n) for any n. It requires unbounded lookahead. This means that it does not fit the yaccc/bison model, and back when bison was used, this was dealt with by adding a third pass, called spew, between the lexer and the parser to look far enough ahead to tell types from variables from functions. It was a nasty hack which made it very difficult to generate good error messages. But the language is a much better fit for a good hand written recursive descent parser.
I want a product that would tell me when to buy a stock and when to sell a stock, and would be more than 51% accurate.
The article doesn't really say what's going on under the hood but I'd guess that division of integers makes rationals...

> Pyret has numbers, because we believe an 8GB machine should not limit students to using just 32 bits.

Emphasis mine. WTF, author.

But the Java sample below saying "this is false" implies that floats are a problem that is being avoided. The only reasonable solution is rationals... right?
Basecamp? Other people can use email if they want (their reply messages go right into the project).
This is just such a crazy position.

If I buy a car it doesn't matter that I own it? If I rent it to you I can't set the terms of that rental?

This is just nuts from the EFF.
Much less. I'd say < 5 years. The rate at which people are onboarding onto Web 3 technologies and building stuff is increasing rapidly. You can check out the IPFS blog, the Protocol Labs blog, and see who is being sponsored in the space. People are building all kinds of useful software.

Here are some examples if you wish to watch a presentation on the finalists from a recent hackathon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWxd9X2bKfo
Because a lot of drivers complaining about not making money were the same drivers who bragged about declining rides, cancelling airport runs, handing out 1 stars to passengers who didn't do exactly what the driver wanted, etc... people who should have never taken a public service job. I assumed that's why they weren't making money.
> overreport their physical activity, like "I can jog 10 miles", or "I play tennis about 7 hours a week", or "I regularly make 60 mile bike rides". If you do, you're the extreme outlier, and it doesn't change the data. Assuming you can do those things, you're almost certainly still in your 20s, and the health effects of your weight haven't really caught up with your body yet

I'm 37, and 6'5". and if you're calling me a liar, you can fuck right off.

>within a margin of +/- 15%, with essentially no way to eat the same amount of calories as a 200lb person and stay at 465lbs. Not least of which because your basal metabolic rate is much higher at that weight.

I was not trying to indicate that the actual metabolic burn rate of humans varies by huge factors, "metabolism" is a colloquial term that encompasses a poorly defined set of features. The physical, psychological, and emotional components of your experience of a calorie deficit are what causes the experiential variance I'm describing.

Of course if I could eat a 2000 calorie diet consistently for a long period of time I would lose weight! I've performed that process numerous times, with various caloric deficits (my basal is a bit past 3k, so 2k is a pretty serious deficit - I wasn't able to hold that one past three weeks). This is when most thin people start rambling about "willpower", but maybe just skip that part this time? It's not useful to any of us actual fat people.
Great recommendation, thank you.
FSD will need AI to have reasoning capabilities. Like this dumbass slows down, no indicators, an exit is ahead, he will probably bolt left last second. AI is decades from this, imho.
This is the wrong takeaway from the whole ordeal. It was largely so-called fiscal conservatives who were very in favor of invading Afghanistan in the first place. Their reasoning was that military defense is one of the few legitimate functions of a government, and since 9/11 had just happened, well, of course we needed more defense. Now that trillions of dollars have been thrown in the trash, they want to pretend this is a teachable moment about goverment waste in general, when it was really their waste. George W. Bush was a two-term president, and his pro-small-government voters share the credit for this fiscal disaster; nobody gets to spin this as a warning against big government.

That money absolutely could have been put to much better use in other programs.
PromQL uses yacc too
I really love the idea of Don’t Starve, but I felt like I had to read a guide to get better at it, so I lost interest. I adore the artwork, especially.

At the same time, the main game loop of Don’t Starve seems like you have to memorize a bunch of survival tips and constantly read the wiki to survive, or you’re doomed after the first week for sure, and probably before.
Tech-Backed Code.org Minting More K-12 CS Teachers with 3 Hour Self-Paced Course
The timber burned in CA with flood the market as well.
`1 / 3` doesn't produce a float in pyret.
Leviathan Wakes: China’s Growing Fleet of Autonomous Undersea Vehicles
We should further investigate lecithin consumption as a possible culprit for the obesity epidemic.

An eye opening study:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19288019/

According to this webpage, lecithin production and worlwide use really took off in the late 1970's:
https://www.soyinfocenter.com/books/193

As of today, lecithins are present in lots and lots of different manufactured food worldwide.
> I think the science is settled about Newton’s laws

Except it isn't. These laws have been extended once by general relativity already and there's a non-zero chance that the dark matter problematic will prove them insufficient once again. I don't know enough about the other fields, but it's not unlikely that they have similar problems.

The point is, things are really complex and surg edge cases. And if you make final statements like this to someone who is doubting the current consensus anyway, you'll only make yourself vulnerable without convincing them.
It did. But it was very subtle.
Yes, I liked the freedom and flexibility of contract work so I supported 22, then did my taxes and found I wasn't making nearly as much money as I thought I was. I didn't mind making $6/hr when it was fun, but it became very much not fun after the pandemic got rolling because no one wanted to talk with a mask on and some passengers wouldn't wear a mask. It became a hassle.
More Americans have $1M saved for retirement than ever before
Have you seen BNFC (http://bnfc.digitalgrammars.com/)? I've used it with the Haskell bindings and really appreciated it. Parser, pretty-printer, and AST skeleton all auto-generated. I've only used it with Haskell though, can't speak to the other languages.
The about page https://tikz.net/about/ is not like about page. I still don't know what TikZ is after reading this page.
A Princeton study argues convincingly that average citizens and organizations representing the interests of average citizens have little effect on policy:

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
I see you have flagged my wikipedia article. Yes it was a Seinfeld reference. I tried to tie it to the Seinfeld wiki page for that episode a couple of times but it was always halted.
Tangential question: Always been curious what is more challenging 1) Find interesting & original problems to research or 2) Doing the actual research?

I can imagine the struggles of the research. Does the thought "Damn! I should have chosen a different problem" cross your mind when researching (which leads to question #1)?

PS: I am just a graduate with no intention of doing PhD.
I don't know of anything explicitly around the wrong tool to the job, although I think it's the same itch that gets scratched by Code Golf [eg 1, stack exchange] or IOCCC [2]?

[1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/
[2] https://www.ioccc.org/
No, actually, faster reading often helps with better retention.

Also, taking notes, marking up a text etc are in my opinion a waste of time. If the author did his job right you should be marking up 100% of the words, and when taking notes you should be copying the book almost verbatim.

If you absolutely need to have a high recall, I recommend to start with a recital based approach. Read a section, then try to recite the topic freely. This works well for complicated or information-dense stuff. Less well for fluffy prose. If you want to go a step further, use loci-method with the latter approach.

Also, being interested in more effective learning techniques is highly correlated with diagnosed/undiagnosed ADHD. Just sayin'
Identifying Harmful Media in E2EE Communication: Efficient Private Computation
> around 0.03%

People don’t drink that much to really push the numbers all that high. 100x as much would mean people spent 3% of there time drunk while making trips. That would take drastic changes in behavior as most people generally either don’t drink or drink at home. Considering the average drunk has a much higher than .08 BAC I just don’t see this as a significant possibility.

Also, 20% was used as twice as bad as the pessimistic article about Tesla’s Autopilot posted in this comment thread.

The thing is if self driving systems where drastically worse we would have significant real world evidence of it. Basically the better the system the more data you need to collect. If they killed someone every 1,000,000 miles well there would be piles of bodies from these systems. Arguably only Tesla’s system has gotten anywhere near enough data to start doing some comparison and the error bars are still quite high. I have no problem saying near human performance on average but specific numbers depend on various assumptions. Some estimates say better, others worse that’s close enough to say it’s much better than a drunk driving.

Take Google’s completely autonomous system, it’s only at 20 million miles. So sure it’s got zero fatalities but a group of humans could easily clock 10 times that without any families.
Oh wow, I just realized that Pluto's ability to track dependencies—and thus cells could be written "out of order"—would also fulfill Knuth's idea of code being presented in an order more ideal for humans to read, that is different from execution order.
Interesting, considering that last time I checked, the Play Store was full of predatory shovelware.

This is like another layer on the stack of dysfunction in the contemporary (mobile) gaming market.
you are not wrong, but it was not every porn site doing that, yet they are all suffering from that practice.

I think it led the porn processors like ccbill to become more diligent about agreements / checking on customers doing such things and making sure they were not hidden if employed.

Sadly it's crap like that that is cited in making it harder / more expensive for small operators to do business, yet from what I gather it's harder to unsubscribe from the NY times than it is multiple porn sites these days.

I wish the exorbitant fees they charge due to higher chargebacks like that were only charged to people who engage in such things - it sucks that people who do a fair above board business are charged extra - it's just an excuse to soak others at this point.
For my PhD I have to say I just kind of winged it. However, nowadays I use notion.so for personal organization.

Basically I define schemas for types of data I want to handle (tasks (which you can view as kaban boards), papers I’ve read/want to read, ideas, meeting notes, documents) and then define them as notion databases. Extensively use tags to make things searchable, cross-reference, custom views (via linked databases).
Reporting something like this without providing photographs is just a waste of time tbh.
Military airbase doesn’t have its own defense mechanism? Relying on police helicopter sounds … too unsophisticated…
Could have been different experiences, or could have been different timeframes. It has changed a lot. Last time I looked a few years ago, it was very offputting and not at all interesting. But I gather they do keep changing it, so who knows what it's like now.

In my experience, which was pre-2007, OkCupid is the only social media site where I've ended up meeting people and where I first encounted people who would become new friends. It was uncanny how it also ranked me very highly with people I already knew though.

I had many chats on there with both males and females. It's true that most didn't reply, and I did receive some unsavoury approaches, but some were interesting conversations, and as I said, I met a few people IRL. Nothing sexual though.

By comparison, Facebook is supposed to be social media, but I don't thikn I've ever struck up a decent conversation or friendship on Facebook with someone I didn't already know from elsewhere.
> A monopoly is not needed for anti-competitive behavior to be illegal. All that is needed is significant market power.

Have any references where someone was sued for antitrust while having <50% marketshare (of course, using the market determined by the court at the time)? If what you say is true, is the cutoff for antitrust action just "when media outlets report on it long enough to actually be put in sight of regulators/congress"?
>only option short of taking legal action

USA is weird. Where is consumer protection agency? Why not small claims court? Why waste hours on the phone apologizing for own existence?
Actually, by now I think "consuming information" does actually mean "acquiring knowledge".

And there is very little we can do to improve or degrade the retention of anything we actually "consume". Especially once you factor in consuming it again, which is almost always necessary for high retention.
＞Don't be afraid to change tack completely or give up on things. The most important thing I learned during my PhD (though too late) was how important disproving and discarding ideas quickly is.

Yes, I think this is extremely important. Although I haven't experienced the "positive" of this yet, I've definitely experienced the opposite where I spent way too much time then I should on a problem that wasn't even that well defined in the first place. I suspect (because I've so far only experienced what doesn't work) that quick experimentation and iteration on your chosen idea and topic is very important. Otherwise you just keep digging a hole that gets harder and harder to get out of.

Not sure why your question is focus on tooling though, I doubt that would really be your biggest problem
Unlike water and electricity, internet can be provided without a physical connection. Which makes it much easier to provide than water or electricity. So I'm not actually sure "no free electricity/water => no free internet" is a sensible implication here. (Though I'm not opining on the merits of any of them here. Only discussing the implication.)
Totally Wrong.

The Maven Project IS the configuration. Intellij is only a shortcut. It let's you access configurations via click rather than via a command line expression.

In the end if you want to create a Maven Project configuration or edit the configuration it's on you to do it. At most intellij will just generate boilerplate for you.
Problem is the government typically doesn't attract top infosec talent. All the oversight in the land can't protect you from shitty code.