skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on your relationship to work, relative to your outside life. The PhD in a good institution is essentially semi-supervised playing, where you are given access to resources and people to come up with and answer interesting questions. The probability of the utility and monetary value of the knowledge varies across fields significantly, and so the main point is to learn how to learn and how to identify and answer questions.

This style of PhD is a lifestyle choice and a vow of "poverty". For context, at a school like MIT or Berkeley a typical fully-funded stipend is about $30k USD annually (gross), which you will make until you finish (at age 27-30, depending on when you start). Once you run through the cost of living in the area, you start to see that some compromises must be made to your quality of life. If you have independent money these compromises are less necessary, but if you are not careful it can alienate you from peers, in the same way that having money generally means you live in a different world than others.

If your goal in a career is to make enough money or have enough stability to support your actual life (family, community, hobbies, etc), doing a PhD is not a particularly reliable path. Having one opens doors in life, but you have to value that over the alternative for the decision to make sense.

(I have a chemistry PhD)
A spec can catch anything your tests can. And if your spec overlooks something, your tests will overlook it too.
The reason software developers get paid more is that it is a lot harder for an average person to become a software developer than it is to get an HGV license. Basically anybody not suffering from mental impairment could master the skills for that license. That is not true of software development, and it also takes longer.
Habit. It's quite easy for me to type, "/zoom" and click a button. I'm used to Zoom. I rarely use Slack's audio/video features.
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I thought they weren't allowing that? Like, you had to appear to be a real person and can't just make and keep a blank profile?
"Gross... Fuck you"

Serious question... how did these kind of fifth grade playground insults become normalized on HN? It's a blatant violation of the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and yet somehow comments like this get upvoted.
> It wasn't always good if you had two computers and used DropBox as a syncronisation system. (I had cases where instead of adding new files to the second computer, it took those new files away from the first computer.)

Was this a bug or a last write wins implementation?
Friend, you’re the one using historic emissions to excuse everyone’s inaction. Anyway, this conversation has gone stale. I hope you got whatever nationalistic satisfaction you were looking for.
I hear this a lot, but the result is usually an untested, and usually nearly untestable (because it was written without tests), prototype with a few characterization tests that gets pushed to production and haunts you for the rest of the life of the product.

Pototyping to define the problem or API is fine, but most people don't have the discipline to tear it out and start over when they finally do have a well defined problem.

It is somewhat unfathomable to me that you can have an idea if what production code to write, but no idea what test to write. Certainly you can "expect this page has a button" if you are about to add a button and write the test first. Or "expect this method to add a record to the database", etc. Certainly you are about to write code that does something, so just write a test to expect that thing to happen.

Especially in the case where someone is changing their mind all the time, you are dead in the water without tests to support your changes. You need to manually re-test everything every time they change their mind.

Testing after the fact is not that useful for catching regressions because it is unlikely enough tests will be written due to pressure to release. Also a much greater percentage of the tests written after the production code tend to be vacuous tests.
Git can use an external tool for merging, so there could be eg a Clojure merge plugin even now. Apparently there are some commercial merge tools that Java programmers use for this like SemanticMerge. After all you hit the similar curly braces merge problems with other languages.
I was really excited about VR for awhile when the Oculus Rift was first getting press. The idea of programming on an infinitely large screen also seemed really cool. I couldn't afford one at the time so just held out.

Since then, I've been able to try a number of headsets and they all give me a headache after about 30 minutes. Depending on how the camera moves around, I can speedrun getting a headache in less than 5 minutes.

Does anyone else experience this? The OP's setup or SimulaVR sound really cool but I highly doubt I'll be able to do it for any productive amount of time.
Well crap. The first hit on google with "Oculus Quest version 2 mac" is recent and completely wrong apparently. Sorry.
Having interviewed many many candidates there is only one rule that I found consistent - hire someone who you feel is "adult" enough to handle responsibilities and who you feel comfortable to be in one room with. And a quick background/references check on top of it just for a tick.

Everything else comes third, fourth, etc...
Like Boris Johnson said "Prennez un grip and donnez mois un break."

Not nice, and I dislike the guy but I found the quote somewhat funny.
AI-Generated Drug Cures Deadly Cancer in Children
Systems and method for potentially enhanced vehicle safety using blockchain
And the corollary: if you need a good opportunity, create a crisis.
This sounds like some linear combination of mysticism, irony and stereotyping.
How to Write a Killer Remote Developer Job Description (+ Checklist)
It sounds like you’re describing the Quest 2 as a full computing device. I thought it was pretty much a replacement for just a monitor in a traditional setup.
It seems like a contradiction to say “it’s not currently competitive” (with what? batteries?) but it’s also “two orders of magnitude cheaper than batteries”. Why aren’t we doing this?
>Slava Akhmechet Ex-product/eng at Stripe. Founded RethinkDB. Computational neuroscience PhD dropout. Care about building the future

Founded RethinkDB? So is this about how to run a tech company into the ground?
There are a handful of competent-to-good digital versions. A lot of accelerator-type facilities use PSI's ELOG: https://elog.psi.ch/elog/

I've become a big fan of the Center for Open Science's Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/

It isn't really a thing in my field, but it enables pre-registered studies, and it has some really lovely integrations with github, cloud storage, etc.
After having interviewed hundreds of engineers, I agree with the premise that elite TopCoder competition programmers are great not just at brainteasers. It takes a lot of discipline to improve skill to solve that fast, so they are smart and hardworking and can ace the design interviews too.

However, the fact is these people are inundated with job offers and very generous swag - like laptops. Everybody wants to hire them. It's hard to compete for one of these candidates let alone fill an engineering team. Centering hiring around that is an act few can follow.
Retreat
And Brexit
I had signed up for Disney+ when they launched. I decided to cancel after few months. They had no option to cancel online. I had to spend an hour on hold before I could talk to someone and cancel. I decided I will never subscribe to Disney+ again. I don’t know if the cancellation still requires calling them.
Something being better does not mean it will win

Linux is objectively better than Windows, even for the desktop, Windows still wins.

Tesla has other issues around it that other manufacturers will simply not adopt the "Tesla Standard"

Most of them have already signed on to something else..
Theoretically, what is stopping BitFinex from supporting the peg predominately on BitFinex and letting arbitrage traders take care of the rest?
You're welcome to flag my post if you think it's inappropriate.

The author of this post is either ignorant or malicious. Some of their behavior is so ignorant or malicious that it warrants direct adversarialism. This blog post is gross.

Curious, what about my post included a "playground insult"?
I did much rather people explain their disagreement. And judging from other comments in this thread the signals just aren't that high at all.
It's just simple application running on VPS with /64 subnet assigned to it. Captures on AF_PACKET socket, filters packets with low HL and sends back ICMP responses. And it also works as as DNS server for commands and revdns lookup.
I think it's more interesting to me what a well executed marketing coup it was for them to go from Musically to TikTok.
It's almost something that completely changed the platforms image... Musically when it was a thing was pretty much solely associated with underage people doing silly dances. Basically a platform for kids that most adults didn't even consider being a part of.
But with TikTok that changed. It still has that same content of course but it is no longer limited to that and it no longer seems shady to most people.
I would also go that far
> But to succeed in a very high way is as brutal as any other industry.

I agree with this.

The common ground unite us all.
That is one of the things I liked about the F150 Lightening. The interior of the Lightening is almost the same as the F150 gas truck.. Which i love.
The swap of Meng Whenzhou for the two Canadian Michaels demonstrates why it doesn't matter if Huawei's equipment is trustworthy or not.

Canada was obeying international treaties when it detained Meng. The Chinese state took Canadian hostages and held them in questionable conditions until they were eventually able to force a swap. It is now clear that the Chinese government expects certain Chinese executives and corporations to be above both international law and the law of foreign countries in which they operate.

If your country permits Huawei to do business within it's borders, that puts your own citizens at risk of being taken hostage. Let's not kid ourselves that national governments care more about people than economics, but letting foreign countries take your citizens hostage without repercussion can threaten your chances of being reelected.

Thanks to this episode, public opinion in Canada is now overwhelmingly against letting Huawei operate in Canada. Given this and pressure from its allies in the five eyes, it seems almost inconceivable that the Canadian government won't soon ban Huawei from participation in 5G networks.

This episode has also raised questions about permitting the operations of other Chinese corporations that are too closely associated with the Chinese government. e.g. If a Chinese mining corp operating in a foreign country had it's operations shut down for environmental law infractions, would there be reprisals in the form of trade sanctions, etc. from China?

This kind of lawless behaviour is going to have a chilling effect on all commerce with Chinese companies.
And Ethereum Classic has a nice solution: 51% attack and mine the txn yourself.
A few thoughts:

The Chinese religious text looks basically the same as the right-hand page. It's surrounded by commentary on three sides instead of four sides, but that is a minor difference.

+-------------+
| commentary |
| |
| +-------+ |
| | text | |
+--+-------+--+

The left-hand page is obviously different, but it's not clear to me how much I should think of it as text and how much I should think of it as artwork / talismans.

Anyway, I agree that the commentary is presented as being at least as important as the text, but I don't see that as contradicting what I was describing above.

> So one "page" of text might be 100% Tanakh and the next might be 10% Tanakh and 90% commentary.

This style is also common in contemporary legal documents. (I searched briefly earlier for a good example and didn't find one.) A page will usually not be 90% footnotes, but it's not so rare for a page to be more than 50% footnotes. I think this is a pretty natural outcome of the fact that some parts of any text attract much more commentary than other parts. Despite the very high volume of footnote material in these documents, though, they are always presented in a manner that suggests the text comes first and the footnotes come second in importance. For example, the footnote to a particular bit of text may not all occur on the same page as the text it footnotes.

I would argue that the difference between the religious texts and contemporary legal briefs is that the commentary really is more important than the text in the first case, and really isn't in the second case. The religious texts have been preserved for so long that they don't have much meaning left independent of the interpretive tradition that the commentary provides.

But your own personal notes on something you've read are unlikely to be as centrally important as the accumulated interpretive tradition associated with a multi-thousand-year-old text. If you wrote it in the margin initially, keeping it in the margin seems fairly safe. That commentary you see printed around the scripture on the right-hand page didn't come from the book owner.
Quick stats check via Google shows that in the US, union workers earn ~11% more than non-union workers. Which would seem enough to warrant a modest membership fee. Also aligns with the management rhetoric that union labor & benefits are expensive and reason enough to move entire factories to the South to escape collective bargaining. (It does not make sense that they would do this to save the cost of union management's paychecks, the numbers are not big enough.)

What I was trying to understand from the OP was what's missing from the picture and whether perhaps her role was somehow an outlier.
At least they didn't call it Atlantikjugend
Yes and we are already looking at Pbps within this decade. My own view is that we aren't that much bandwidth limited. But we are fundamentally limited by latency.
If you’re looking for “smoothness”, check out my treatise on the Euler spiral: https://xixixao.github.io/euler-spiral-explanation/
>>voice control

No thanks.

I do not have an Echo, Google Home, or any other voice automation. I have no desire to replace all my UI's Knobs, and switches with Voice Control

I have no desire to talk to my home or my car.
Missing out on yet another novelty trinket to be forgotten and thrown away seems rather pleasant, really.
If and when that happens, I will have to find another hobby, but I don’t think it will, if only because we could have had obfuscated js with canvas support for a while now and we still don’t.
Isn't this why everyone is burnt out from WFH? The desk is right there, you can sit down/strap in any time, and "leaving" work is mostly just a mental shift
> There's nothing in your article that suggested that the organization in question was some sort of propaganda arm of the US government

Yeah besides the name I guess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanticism
You’re sure that you know these >5 adults enough to make that statement confidently? What about their significant others?

IMO you are clearly making an unfounded assumption
> Right, I was just bringing that up as an example of simulating without understanding.

But that's just it - first they spent some time understanding how the system works,painstakingly mapping out each connection, the role of each individual cell (literally), they studied the chemistry inside each neural cell etc. The simulation effort started after all of this was done.

If anything, I would say OpenWorm is a counter-example to the idea that you can simulate such a system without understanding it.

Similarly, with our model of the universe, while gaps exist, the extent of those gaps and approximations is mostly known, and the areas affected by those gaps are exactly where we can't make predictions (e.g. the internal structure of a black hole). Not to mention, we had a massive piece of good luck there: it turns out that particles are described by linear equations, which have extremely nice properties for approximations. Already with GR we are in much worse territory with it's nonlinear equations, but at least we understand these well enough to create some linear approximations - or so we think.
There isn't one front end for ETH, there are many. They probably rolled their own here.
If your site ever get hacked, we will never know if its your sarcasm OR it is truly hacked :)

Browsing imgz felt like watching a fun movie, I love the architecture too ( ... we dont have this...LOL )

BTW, I am (Maybe I should say WE are) also building a image hosting service.
https://host.pics (Pre-Alpha)
No first hand experience, but emacspeak is a long term contender in this field.
We feed numbers of good and bad employees into a machine learning algorithm and it picks likely good employees. Oh, that doesn't work for you? I call a 3rd SaS api and give it numbers and it gives me people to fire, or promote.
Although they still need to be installed as an app from the app store, ios 15 now supports WebExtensions
https://developer.apple.com/safari/extensions/

But according to the uBlock Origin developers, the available entitlements and Webextensions APIs are still insufficient to run uBlock Origin..
I maintain a free/open source project that does exactly what the author asks for: https://github.com/bugout-dev/locust.

Our tool uses git as the foundation of its functionality. It superimposes git diffs on top of ASTs.

It is insanely powerful.

For example, we use it to power semantic code search and current support Python, Javascript, and Java. We generate a JSON object describing the AST differences between initial and terminal commits on GitHub PRs. A full text search on the JSON objects performs surprisingly well when we want to answer questions like, "When did we add dateutils as a dependency?" or "When did we last change the /journals handler on the API?"

The Python integration currently sees the most use but if you are interested in other languages, we would be happy to support it.

Do drop me a DM if you want help getting started with Locust.
And the ocean
Data Cleaning GUI, data cleaning ML recommendations and generate Python code
You need to adjust for the total # of infections. We can also talk about the of covid/with COVID distinction but frankly we don’t even need to go there. But suffice to say Influenza and COVID deaths are measured very differently
>are tricked into variably focusing based on simulated depth

No, the focal distance in a headset is fixed. The light hitting your eye is always coming in at the same angle.
That was before Reddit added image functionality which basically was a fuck you to imgur. I’m surprised the site has lasted this long without selling.
ISP(hinet) here made the ipv6 works in an absolutely shitty way for some reason. Make sites got 2x ~ 3x latency randomly. And it also use some absolutely insane routing to make sites barely usable. (Or even unusable) I sometimes enable ipv6 in my router to see whether the situation have been improved. But it never be (as last time I checked it last year).
Or you can get a happy medium...

F150 is about the most customizable from the factory vehicle sold, one of the reasons it is soo popular.
I don't know much about DDoS protection, but wouldn't it be possible to add token to UDP packets? So the client first connects to a TCP server and gets 4 bytes token unique per IP. Every UDP packed should start with that token. Since an attacker with spoofed IP can't get a valid token, their packets can be ignored with a cheap check. Might be even possible to use iptables/XDP for it?
I have really wanted to make something like this for nestjs, but I haven't gotten around to it yet
The quest two is basically an android phone with special hardware/software for VR. It’s running android. It can be used completely standalone.

It can be hooked up to a more powerful PC and essentially just used as a monitor, but it can also run less demanding titles natively with no additional hardware. It has a web browser built in and you can connect a Bluetooth keyboard to it. So you can do some stuff without a laptop/pc. There’s a good library of native games but if you wanted to make a PowerPoint or do office/work you’d likely be using a web app (or just connecting to a pc)
Because for most people going into a doctoral programme is a bad idea. If you do not come from money or have a spouse who can support you it's a terrible bet in terms of chances of success. Outside demand for PhDs is low in most fields. Most people who start a PhD don't graduate with one. They drop out. Substantial numbers of people who do get a PhD never even get a tenure track job. Getting a tenure track job often leads to looking for a new job after seven years, with the "rejected" sticker.

Many fields are worse than that. They demand postdocs. Some people make the terrible mistake of thinking that adjuncting is a way of staying in the academy. It's not. If you are adjuncting full time you are extremely unlikely to ever get a real academic job, as a lecturer or professor. Get out.

Getting a PhD is fine if you are in a field with great outside options, like Economics, CS, Math etc. but it's consumption, not an investment in future earnings. Outside top programmes the likelihood of becoming an academic drops of f rapidly. A PhD is training to become an academic. It can also be necessary to get a job in some fields with huge oversupply of PhDs, like the sciences, but those jobs are badly paid too.

If you really, really want to be an acedemic and you can get into a good programme go for it. No one else should go unless they don't need the degree to earn a living or the degree comes with the prospect of radically improving their lives by making immigration possible.
But how much faster will this allow Blue Origin to really file lawsuits?
Does the author claim this isn't something you can train for?

I've given hundreds of coding interviews. I always timed the candidate (with their knowledge). So I have a general idea of the distribution of programming speed, and my guess for this particular problem is to solve it in 10 minutes, you need both talent and practice... just one isn't enough. So asking people to solve it in 10 minutes ends up filtering out untalented people who have practiced a lot (and talented people who haven't practiced as much)
The Vive Deluxe Audio Strap is the way to go. You can 3d print or purchase the adapter off of Amazon. I also strapped a usb battery pack to the back of the headstrap to counterbalance the HMD. The DAS is very comfy and solves the audio problem with the quest 2 as well.
It’s increasingly hard for any person to have that much influence with so many different client implementations for Eth2, and the nodes will have to accept those changes, whereas Bitcoin is pretty much Bitcoin Core.
I remember reading a post from Jeremy Zawodny back in the early 2000s that was basically: "Start virtually sharding your DB data so that when you have to physically shard it, it's a lot easier."
There are bootcamp grads with jobs at Google. There are self taught people. A PhD is a very expensive way of getting into a FAANG if there are people who manage it without a university degree of any kind.
Yes, that shouldn't present any problem for using VR.
If the only thing you use computers for is processing financial transactions then that position is defendable
That is, genuinely, one of the most unsettling intro videos I have ever seen