skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true in principle, but in practice my experience is you have to have an extraordinarily good CV to get funding without a masters degree. Natural science bias in my friendship group though.

That said, a masters degree in the UK is much less of an undertaking than many other countries. Level of independent research in my "combined" masters (4 yr course, usually taken as 1st degree), pales in comparison to what colleagues in mainland Europe had to do.
Isn't that software closed in all but name. I mean since they determine themselves whether anything violates the code of conduct they can basically ban usage of the software retroactively. If I use it to make a gazillion dollars through selling stuffed animals they would claim it violates code of conduct and I could get back into compliance by paying the committee the gazillion dollars and I'd have no recourse even though to an outside observer selling stuffed animals doesn't do any of the things banned by the code of conduct.
> But which percentage do stay in academia? Why not everyone with good ideas? It seems to me, it's a system like any other rigged for the rich and connected, who can afford a degree+master+phd, I guess if your parents are supporting you through it...

There are several places where you can get a bachelor's and a master's for no tuition and with government support. Source: I did.

And there are several places where you can get paid decently to do a PhD. Less than an industry job, for sure, but definitely enough to get by just fine. Source: I did.

> About avoiding doing a PhD, you can just read from all the people who was paid poorly,

A PhD is not a set of courses to read. It's research training. It's doing research.

> but since they needed the credentials, they went with it anyway's

Where I live, nobody in their right minds would do a PhD for the credentials.

> I guess I would change my prior absolute statement to a more specific one, do a PhD only if you can afford the opportunity cost of not doing it and doing else more productive (for yourself or bank account at least)

Sure. I'd very much agree that a PhD often represents a lost opportunity cost, but that's something very different from the bleak picture that you paint (wherein only the rich and connected can do one without ending up in debt).

> And maybe academia is not over, but it's certainly in need of a shake up

OK, so, in summary: Academia isn't over, and PhDs aren't pointless. Literally nothing remains from your first comment.
What exactly are you hoping for or missing? No actual harm has been done to anybody. If "Truth Social" was online for real it would be different, but now? The beta users presumably didn't mind that they didn't have the source code.

I think the Mastodon people are merely hoping they can stop Trump, they are not really concerned about getting the source code.
The first reaction I got watching genetic dynasty stuff is Elon Musk probably has something like that planned. The technology is more or less ready. And he is that reckless
I prefer the classic term, PROPRIETARY software. At least be honest about what this is.
They very briefly mention deaf printers using sign language. I had no idea being a printer was common for deaf people.

https://www.dailymoth.com/blog/the-washington-post-recognize...
Tbh, better to have the Coke beforehand.
There are more responsive alternatives to ssh, like mosh https://mosh.org/ (discussed recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150287)

And uhm.. eternal terminal? https://eternalterminal.dev/ (discussed in 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21640200)

And, perhaps others? There's this article https://console.dev/articles/ssh-alternatives-for-mobile-low... (edit: I just submitted it to HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29081008)
This is really great. Aesthetically simple and clear website where all things are listed in one place. Great work!
I would say that Dune would be better as a limited serie vs being a movie. It would give more time to expand on the background information and yes I agree as it is, I feel that it's a movie that just works better for people who have read the book but at least it's accurate. I can feel watching it that the director actually cares for the books.

Foundation is more like David Lynch's Dune. It calls itself Foundation but it doesn't even give lip service to the material, it actively betrays a lot of the story. While overall TNG was good, there were a few terrible and mediocre episodes. I feel that the Foundation TV show is more akin to those mediocre episodes but with very good production value and a passing resemblance only in name to the book. It doesn't feel like the writers actually cared for the books at all.
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Granted, this was also in the context of mechanical engineering and manufacturing (cf. remarks in sibling comment), but Elon Musk has talked about his engineering philosophy in five steps in a starbase tour/interview video:

1. Make the requirements less dumb
2. Try deleting the part or process
3. Simplify and optimize the design
4. Accelerate cycle time
5. Only then: Automate

I think this touches upon the same issues, namely that you shouldn't automate something if you don't have to, and even less if you don't need it in the first place.
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> I'll have to go to India to see about class. I thought it was interesting that he thought it was less obvious in America.

You won't see it, spent travelling around India for few weeks on my own, obviously you will see the lowest class, dirtiest poorest people, many not even wearing shoes, but above that it's very hard to distinguish classes for foreigner in India. Local sure can distinguish them by bracelets/necklaces etc, since they live in that caste crap since birth, but it's not that obvious for foreigner.
Can't tell if trolling, but either way, this is hilarious. Almost better than the OP, who's looking to switch the best (i.e. easiest to use) package manager on macos because of one fuckup which was 90% his fault (a) there's a cli flag you can disable auto upgrades with and b) who tf installs and runs postgres natively, what are you, from 1995?)

I mean, using Linux through Windows because you don't like homebrew? What the fuck dude.

I have no clue how you people stay productive, because if a package manager gets your panties in such a twist, I can't even imagine what your opinions on text editors would be, not to mention actual code & system design.
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>what struck me most on re-reading was how completely boring it would be to be faithful to it

Agreed.

The inspiration behind the Foundation series, setting out to shorten the Dark Ages after the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is great.

However, if you try reading those short stories again today, you're quickly reminded that early in his career, Asimov was already great at world building, but terrible with characters and dialog.

Add in the mismatch between the cultural norms of the 1940's (when the early Foundation stories were written) and the cultural norms today, and a rewrite was always going to be required.
Even the Spotify paid tier has ads in podcasts. There's no escape.
Have ads (preferably animated) as the virtual background of all the meeting participants. If their camera isn't on, then have a Memoji fill-in sitting in a virtual ad-world. True innovation!
> it's just not worth learning steno if you mainly do programming

I think this will be better answered by someone who has crossed that bridge than you simply jumping to that conclusion with no experience or data to back up your claim.
Poison in the Air
https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/
Dig it! Appreciate your thoughts! I only recently understood the emotional connection between moments and jewelry. Having a beautiful physical accessory that brings you back to a significant birthday or milestone really warms the heart.

Much of the new "DTC" engagement ring market is trying to figure out how to capture that market too for repeat customers
Exactly. Truth Social could actually sue any one claiming they used the platform for abusing a security flaw to obtain and maintain access to a protected computer system. That would be hilarious.
The licence surely implies any discrimination being forbidden.

Proof by contradiction: if someone uses this software to discriminate against an apparently non-marginalised community, then that community would be being marginalised in at least one way (by this usage), thus making that community a marginalised community, thus making that usage against the licence.
...india has traffic collisions at ~9x the rate (based on rate per 100k vehicles) as the USA. If the USA had as 'very few accidents' as india there would be a major crisis and its just business as usual in india.
You obviously were not alive in the cold war era.
I have to repeat myself your perspective is a very naive one.
Becoming totalitarian is a step by step path.
"Article 13 won't bring upload filters" 2 years later... upload filters.
The basis of the EU is not a democracy and as you can see and will see in future attempts will become so less and less over time.
There will always be people who want to control and spy upon other people.
And without knowing you I'll say you too. If you get the chance to spy on someone's bedroom passing by from outside the window without being noticed and no risk of being caught you will do so.
Opportunity creates crime.
> No elections will be trusted by either side after that happens.

This is the Democrats fault. Their shoe-in candidate lost and they spent four years bleating that Trump was illegitimate and failed to prove it with a far reaching investigation. _That_ is where trust started to be lost.
Great post, thanks for sharing.
You can sit anywhere you want, but it almost always is so dusty or dirty that you'd rather not. I have seen people even avoiding seats in bus stands and preferring to stand instead.
No, the (original) point is a time-limited monopoly on the use of a creation in order to compensate for creativity (for copyright) or public disclosure (for patent rights; note the use of the word “patent”, originally used for certificates affirming government-enforced monopolies of other kinds as well, e.g. for the exploitation of a colony). Though the French droits d’auteur line of thought works differently, or so I’m told.
Even when LED flashlights were first popularized (more than a decade ago), it was believable that batteries always seemed to be on their last legs, especially in the wilderness. It's probably not supposed to be a thing on Terminus unless there's a missing plot point that explains why they couldn't use or were preserving their pocket nuclear reactors / batteries that can power force fields among other things.
I imagine it will become a good malware vector.
Yes, I have recently completed a PhD at a UK university (aged late 30s). I was able to get full funding for my salary and lab resources for 3 years. I worked so hard and submitted after 4 years. Can't imagine how I could have done those three years while working - it was a very much full-time occupation, if not more.
I've had positive experiences with both Microsoft Teams (Skype) video and with Google Meet in the last 6 months. In terms of "stands alone easily," Google Meet has a pretty great experience for the casual user, although it does have some confusingly implemented UX (for screen-sharing, admitting-users, etc). The UX is easy for tech-oriented folks but your grandma might need some training.

The one I was kinda surprised wasn't any good, even for audio-only, was Discord. Not that it fits your criteria anyway.

n of 1 and all that, I don't have any supporting data.
Said who?
I mean if we wanted to make beef production more sustainable we easily could, feed cows more grass and less grain. But grain is more often the choice because you can grow/fatten your animals up like 20% faster than with a pure grass diet and the grain is easier and more compact to store and ship. Alfalfa requires no additional fertilizer and actually sequesters nitrogen into the soil, reducing the need for artificial fertilizer derived from fossil fuels.
When you have a power supply that's not SATA 3.3 compliant and a drive that supports it. The SATA 3.3 revision revised one of the 3.3v pins to be a power disable pin. Almost no hard drives support it so it's not really something you'll run into but consumer external drives will often be ordinarily super expensive enterprise drives in a plastic shell. Google the SKU of whatever external drive you're thinking of shucking to find out if it needs a SATA 3.3 power connector and instructions on opening it without damaging it in case you ever need to warranty the drive.
> Yet, despite its popularity, Foundation had never been adapted into another medium before the current TV show.

I believe there was a radio show adaptation done by the BBC.
There's also the fact that one of the authors of the Expanse series is closely involved with the creation of the show (and the reworking of characters/arcs to fit the medium better).
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The US navy protects global shipping & trade, which ties into why it provides the USD as the global reserve currency.

It makes sense that silicon valley protect this linchpin of the global economy - and the majority of their revenues.

It would be nice to have a global democracy, but unfortunately the best we can hope for is the cohesion of the US/EU/NATO alliance.
Resignation rate of employees with a 5-10-year tenure was 56.8% higher in 2021
The website was up, and claimed it was running proprietary software.
I don’t even have a bachelors. I’ve been thinking about going back to school and pursing higher levels of education (research masters or PhD) twitch a mostly utilitarian fields and do industrial R&D work in a domain I’ve become interested in and my biggest worry is being “old” by the time I complete any graduate education (even though old in my case, would likely be mid-30s by the end if I start in the coming years).

I might get crucified for being so jaded and cynical, but completed a PhD as part of some lifelong dream seems a bit empty to me. I think it’s fair to call him a physicist, but I just personally wouldn’t feel the dream was realized. Now, at the end of his life, he’s achieved the bare minimum and I doubt he will be able to do much more in the field or see the field develop.
If I understand correctly, a) the license requires people who use mastodon "over the network" to meet certain requirements and b) the site is not yet live or being used "over the network." If my understanding is correct, the whole story and the commentary linked are a waste of time and I have to question the motives of anyone pushing either. What am I missing?
> this is largely an artifact of Ada syntax being more verbose

If you think Ada is actually verbose check out the Ada++ comparisons with other major languages like C++ and Java.

http://www.adapplang.com/tutorial.html
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> (1) discriminating against marginalized communities, (2) building tools that disingenuously manipulate public opinion, (3) building tools of mass surveillance and prediction to repress the rights of people, and (4) building tools that control weapons, including tools that automate the deployment, operation, and targeting of weapons.

Who decides whether the license was violated? That is, what counts as discrimination, what counts as "marginalized", do those differ by country, what counts as "disingenuously manipulating public opinion", what counts as "repressing rights", what counts as "tools that automate the deployment, operation and targeting of weapons".

For instance, can a nuts and bolts manufacturer whose nuts and bolts might be used to assemble pieces of a weapon use that ML project to do quality control of their products? Seems like an unsolvable quagmire.
It’s a strategy. Package managers have to choose a strategy: slow, crusty and stable or bleeding edge? It’s not CentOS… it’s a local dev machine. The same scenario will occur on Arch Linux.

Fortunately Homebrew has lots of helper scripts to upgrade DB’s like Postgres. You probably saw some scroll back with a command to upgrade from 12 to 13 or 13-14 etc. It will even download and install an old version in order to upgrade safely.

I understand the frustration but what is the alternative? Pinning every dependency? The reason so many of your packages were updated was likely because a core dependency was upgraded like OpenSSL.
Yes, I am not interested in a meat flavored veggie protein shake that is made of seed oils, costs more and is less nutritious. It’s disgusting. I don’t know who the market for it is, I’d sooner eat tofu than overpriced corporate crap with heavy processing and industrial refining. What is the benefit? Who buys this? People that don’t like meat but want to feel good about eating junk food that’s vegan and is a poor imitation of it?
I also use Nix, and agree with these caveats. My personal experience is that it can be hard to initially set up Nix, but once you do, it's rock solid. It's particularly great for sharing config across machines. Here's config for my personal dev environment for instance: https://github.com/mjhoy/dotfiles/blob/main/nix/nixpkgs/conf...
My partner took 10 years doing her PhD thesis part time. It was very hard for us both - especially close to the end. I'm 100% with you on this.
Maybe they are talking about that point, but then why would they make this case to me? There is not a person in the company that I work for (except for the suits I guess) that this would not be an absolutely transformative amount of money for.
First impressions? I left Signal years ago after using it for years, but I have one question - do they still actively hide that by long pressing Send button you can force send SMS instead Signal message or they show it to user at first launch somehow?
I think the larger problem is this weird notion that everything needs to be fed through an interpreter - including Unicode. People, please stop creating infrastructure where data can also serve as code.
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Early days yet, but that Amazon thing got FAR more coverage on this site than the Trump thing has so far.

Now in mainstream press you’re probably correct; this is an uncomplicated story involving an actor who everyone knows doing a fairly simple, obvious bad thing to a non-profit. Obviously that is a much better story than AWS (laypeople do not really know what this is) doing something potentially bad but rather more complex and murky to another for-profit company.
Number one item in their privacy policy:

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/

Access: We do not access or use your content for any purpose without your agreement. We never use your content or derive information from it for marketing or advertising purposes.

Apart from that, in general in their communications they are clear that they don’t access customers data, unless ordered by law enforcement/court.

Admittedly, deciphering the language could be tricky.
It's not fair to the researchers to discount their contribution because prior knowledge of their findings exists. Publishing and evangelizing is important too. There's a lot of security weaknesses that simply can't be addressed without changing the social reality, which is what the people who built that slick website did.

For example, no one cared about supply chain hacks (e.g. depending on thousands of Node packages written by strangers on the Internet) until america's nukes started getting hacked because of it. No one cared about the BGP hack until someone told everyone at DEFCON how the trust inherent to how Internet engineering operates could be exploited. It goes on.
> What goods, what weights, what substitutions?

The government has done this work and open sourced their calculations. Your unwillingness to accept it isn't proof that it doesn't exist.

To illustrate my point, here is a piece of the "Item replacement and quality adjustment" methodology. I cut it off where the table starts: https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/calculation.htm#item-replac...

>Item replacement and quality adjustment

One of the more difficult problems faced in compiling a price index is the accurate measurement and treatment of quality change due to changing product specifications and consumption patterns. The concept of the CPI requires a measurement through time of the cost of purchasing an unchanging, constant-quality set of goods and services. In reality, products disappear, products are replaced with new versions, and new products emerge.

When a data collector finds that he or she can no longer obtain a price for an item in the CPI sample (often because the outlet permanently stops selling it), the data collector uses the CPI item replacement procedure to find a new item. Each priced item stratum in the CPI contains one or more ELIs. CPI commodity analysts have developed checklists that define further subdivisions of each ELI. When seeking a replacement in a retail outlet, the data collector first uses the checklist for the ELI to find the item sold by the outlet that is the closest to the previously priced item. Then the data collector describes the replacement item on the checklist, capturing its important specifications. The CA assigned to the ELI reviews all replacements and selects one of three methods to adjust for quality change and to account for the change in item specifications.

The following example describes the most common type of quality adjustment problem. Assume that a data collector in period t tries to collect the price for item j in its assigned outlet and is not able to do so because the outlet no longer sells this item. (A price for item j was collected in period t–1.) The data collector then finds a replacement item and collects a price for it. This replacement item becomes the new version v+1 of item j. The commodity analyst decides how the CPI treats the replacement. The commodity analyst has the descriptions of the two versions of item j. In addition, he or she has the t–1 price, , for the earlier version v and the period t price, , of the replacement version v+1. The following matrix displays the information available to the commodity analyst:
The two alternatives in the article were previously discussed in HN as well: mosh (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150287) and eternal terminal (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21640200)
The sysexits are constants (such as `os.EX_OK`) are in the `os` module. But beware, they are not available on some platforms.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os._exit
You are in the US? In Norway it typically happens within the same day but my bank (SBanken.no) also offers instant transfers to other banks even at the weekend.

If both sender and recipient use a mobile phone service like Vipps then the recipient also receives the money immediately (within seconds) regardless of whether they use the same bank. I think similar services exist in other countries too.
Is 2 used consistently by any programs in this manner?

If I was to advise someone I'd tell o interpret and write programs using the following rule of thumb and not to worry too much:

0 = success / true

1 = failure (read stderr) / false

>1 = failure (read stderr & docs)
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