skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, these were the original hard copies. I was only talking about dissertations filed at the school I went to, so I fortunately did not have to go anywhere. I just had to put in the request and wait a day or two for them to arrive at the reading room from storage.

You are correct that getting dissertations from far off universities is often impossible. Many universities do not loan their dissertations via interlibrary loan, so unless it is online or you are willing to travel to their campus, you can't get access to it. ProQuest is another option, but they do not have everything and it costs money.

I've heard the 20 dollar bill story many times but I have never found anything like that in an original hard-copy dissertation. If I recall correctly, I have found things used as bookmarks, like receipts or scraps of paper, and the cards in the back cover are often stamped at least once a decade. That seems to suggest that other people have read them over the years, just not as often as other materials.
The Web3 Playbook: Using Token Incentives to Bootstrap New Networks
Do I see correctly from the software that the car is using a WS2811 LED controller for the lights? Or is this just for a simulation?
This summary is absolutely amazing. It makes you think, given that code gets read a lot more than it gets written. It also makes me curious about Scheme, because I didn't know that it belongs to that category. I think that it's also important to add that C++ sort of belongs to a category of its own, because it has an absolutely enourmous surface area compared to e.g. Rust.
Why woud someone use pearson or smearson coefficients vs this new one?
> "We need, now more than ever, an "eli5" or "get up to speed in an hour" source for these very interesting fields where all the progress of the past century is easily visualized at a high level. I get the feeling much of academia shuts down such attempts to preserve their grip on knowledge and thus their authority."

"There is no royal road to geometry." - Reply given when the ruler Ptolemy I Soter asked Euclid if there was a shorter road to learning geometry than through Euclid's Elements.
I get the feeling that as consumer goods get “smarter” that this is going to happen more and more frequently as various dependencies are retired or shut down or part of a messy M&A transaction that leads to them being forgotten.

Right to repair is one thing, whether to you that mean the availability of parts and schematics or even unlocked bootloaders and available firmware, but right-to-a-continuous-service is a very tricky one!

How we start that conversation around who pays for it, for how long, and how to manage conflicts, I have no idea.
Anyone interested in this should watch ‘Between the Folds’. Excellent documentary on contemporary folding.
> I wonder if they could in the future be viewed as "battery hogs".

Adding social punishments here would hurt momentum. It is far better to reward imperfect progress than to create a social environment where people feel like they'll never be good enough.
Following the granularity gradient

FROM .. JOIN .. WHERE .. SELECT

tables -> columns -> rows -> filter

I think they knew that but decided they wanted DBAs to think about
what they wanted to end up with before they began writing code,
so they moved the last step to the first step.
I can get behind that from a pedagogical perspective.

However today, relational databases are far too ubiquitous to always get the level of serious thought and considerations they were once afforded,
and are regularly being used by (perish the thought) non-DBAs.

At this point it is muscle memory to start with:

select count(*)
from ..
join .. on ..

then comment out the `--count(*)` and build up the output
after the body works because
I may not know what is available to select before isolating it.
"how large America is" doesn't make sense here when the subject of the discussion is literally New York City
I remember that story, although the article doesn’t mention any Chinese shell company?
This seems to be for new buildings, not existing buildings. And for new buildings, one would hope that they would forego electric resistive heating in favor of reversible electric heat pumps for dual cooling/heating, which are competitive or better in cost versus natural gas (depending on various local factors).
This would really depend on the outdoor air temperature though, wouldn't it?
Some Other Varieties of Objectivity
The “protein folding problem” consists of three closely related puzzles: (a) What is the folding code? (b) What is the folding mechanism? (c) Can we predict the native structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence? (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2443096/).

It seems the purist definition of solving protein folding means specifying the sequence of actions to arrive at the native structure for a given input sequence. This implies your solution is grounded in a physical reality. Such approaches (i.e MD simulations) have not been very successful to my knowledge and are computationally intractable for most proteins. Even if you are able to do this, how do you verify that your folding mechanism is in fact correct? We don't have ground truth experimental data at the temporal resolution one would want to verify such a prediction.

For now, the only practical framing of the protein folding problem is to predict a native structure given an input sequence. This is simply because we have the requisite data...
The cost of cloud
That is not a very charitable characterization of the position of multiple dispatch in Julia. It's not something that's optional: multiple dispatch is essential for the performance that Julia is looking to achieve. If you notice where acceleration DSLs tend to have trouble, you'll notice that it's always at the point where you get beyond built-in float primitives and onto object support. For example, Numba's object mode has the caveat that "code compiled in object mode will often run no faster than Python interpreted code, unless the Numba compiler can take advantage of loop-jitting", where loop jitting is simply the ability to prove that some loop is compatible with moving to the nopython mode.

The reason why Julia is fast is because automatic function specialization to concrete dispatches gives type-grounded functions which allows the complete optimization to occur on high-level looking code (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.01950 for type-theoretic proofs). It's basically a combination of (1) define a type system in a way that allows for type-grounded functions and compile-time shape inference (shape as in, byte structure of the structs), (2) define a multiple dispatch system with automatic function specialization on concrete types, (3) have a typed IR which proves and devirtualizes all dispatches before hitting the LLVM JIT. If you simply slap the LLVM JIT on random code, you will not get that performance. But now because multiple dispatch is fundamental to performance in the language, the rest of the "game" for the language is how to design an ergonomic language around this feature and how to teach people to use it effectively as a problem solving tool.

You actually see something similar going on in the world of Jax. With Jax, you need to be able to perform abstract interpretation to the Jax IR. In order for this to be possible with the interpreters Jax has, the functions that are being interpreted need to always have the same computational graph for the same inputs, i.e. they need to be pure functions. This is why Jax is built on functional programming paradigms. It would be similarly uncharitable to say the reason why Jax does not embrace OO is because the developers just love functional programming: the programming paradigm choice clearly falls out of what the tools needs to do.

It remains to be seen if Jax is the tool that makes more people finally embrace functional programming styles, or if enough people see pervasive performance necessary enough to change to the multiple dispatch paradigm of Julia. But what is clear is that tools that are moving away from OOP are not doing so arbitrarily, it's all about whether doing so is beneficial enough to justify the change.
Right, but that’s exactly my point, you wouldn’t own two vehicles, and you wouldn’t own one vehicle that still requires you to regularly rent a second vehicle. You’ll just own a single vehicle that covers 100% of your driving needs.
If you think electric heating is expensive, wait until you see how much it will cost to keep ocean water out.
To late to edit or delete my comment above but just to set it straight I just learned that the whole lerna debacle linked above was a nothing-burger aka fake news.

https://github.com/microsoft/rushstack/issues/673#issuecomme...

Sorry for using it without fact-checking it properly, I guess.
I'm using PG 20 years, never used those. Observed code reviews where it was frowned upon. Precisely because of the ambiguity issue, possible future footgun.
You’re unfairly revising the communist history behind the iron curtain in order to make a biased anti American point. People went to jail for reading certain books or attempting to listen to foreign radio stations. Poets would be under watch, threatened and forced to write pro-party poems. People would get picked up by agents for being non denominational Christians, and would “reappear” again weeks later beaten and 20 lbs lighter. There was nothing resembling rule of law; Justice was meaningless. There was no market and services were primarily bribe driven. (They still are; old habits die hard.) If you wanted to fix your abscessed tooth in the “free health care system” you better come up with two cartons of Kent and a box of Nescafé. It was all in plain sight with no pretense of a “system” at work.

Yes the USA has corruption, Justice has inequality problems, free speech is not always free, etc., but the problem with your perspective is that it’s binary instead of looking at the gradient. You’re like “the USA has corruption, and iron curtain had corruption, therefore they’re the same”. That’s dishonest. The USA has a functioning system of Justice that protects substantial individual rights and freedoms. Just because it’s not perfect doesn’t make it equal to the abject lack of Justice and freedoms in iron curtain dictatorships.
Very good point. I wish people would still use the word sympathy for expressing shared suffering, so that the word empathy could keep its original meaning.
> The proxies like Squid can do HTTPS intercepting so I was wondering what's the point of TLS anyway?

If you 1) choose to use a proxy and 2) that is a proxy you don't trust, then TLS is pointless for your use case. (Edit: you need to actually activate proxy usage)

I'm using home internet since the mid 90s and I think none of the ISPs I ever used required a proxy. (Mobile excluded, I'm certainly no mobile expert anyway) But I'm aware of ISPs in the late 90s that required ISP proxy usage.

Personally at some point I had set up a local squid to speed up my internet. But today? I think only really bad ISPs and some corporate networks use that. In the latter case it might make sense since you deal with corporate data/code that is owned by BigCorp anyway.

Regarding the CA stuff: yes sure but well, that's the point of the CA. You trust it, some OSs require you to explicitly install those if that matches your risk profile. But really, if you're at that point, maybe the far riskier attack vector is someone shoulder surfing or stealing your laptop?

That said, yes there's certificate transparency but I think it's still experimental and at that level of paranoia you might be optimizing/focussing on the wrong thing.
Informative. Thanks for sharing.

I smiled at

> "In a hurry?... the whole machine process takes only 10 seconds."
I'm sure this ban will have no side effects that would increase the cost of living for poorer people or make it more expensive to build new homes in NY due to the extra regulatory burden. NY is about to get even more affordable.

Sure thing this will not cause an increase in power consumption that cannot be fulfilled with NY's power production that would require lossy transmission of energy from another state that uses coal (much worse than gas) to keep the city lit. Thank you regulators for your good intentions
You don’t need to change anything. Also you don’t need to stick to one field only. Many of the most successful people in History were actually multi-talented and polymath. The most interested people I had a chance to talk to also had experience in multiple fields and activities. People like you are curious, and this is a virtue.

But if something is bugging you about this, maybe you could invest some time giving one step back and getting to know yourself better. This will make the exploration on your options more assertive. Study your personality and temperament. Read some biographies of successful people with the same personality of you. Consider options of fields that are more dynamic and let you work on a wide variety of fields (e.g.: entrepreneurship).

Instead of looking for the right activity for yourself, I’d suggest looking for the right mission or purpose for yourself. Doing any task in any fields but that is actually linked to a strong sense of purpose is much more fun.
Like Aws heros already do for marketing and awareness lol
Listen to CDs
I assume they mean in terms of transmission losses and / or final conversion to applied heat.

Those are somewhat independent of the financial cost to end users (given the particular details of current markets and infrastructure).
Let's have a sense of proportion. There is a significant difference between applying a mild economic disincentive and the starvation of 3.9 million people.
Well, in the abstract it says: “[a coefficient] which is 0 if and only if the variables are independent and 1 if and only if one is a measurable function of the other”, the former property which is not true of general random variables (but is true of Gaussians, which is one part of the reason they are used everywhere). I’m not sure about the latter property, actually, but I also doubt it’s true.

Worth noting the author is a highly regarded professor at Stanford.
You make some good points but I am not completely convinced you're arguing in good faith. Do you have any cases of "pro CCP" content reaching the front page here? Because the opposite happens multiple times a day. Context matters. Pointing out blatant hypocrisy has nothing to do with supporting whatever the current boogie man is.
Was that resistive, or heat pump?
Stockholm switched the whole gas net from natural gas to biogas 10 years ago. Not sure how much biogas could reasonablye be produced in the US in general or NYC in particular, but it has to be enough to offset some natural gas. The nice thing about it is you can just mix it and every % you mix in that its renewable helps.

What's the default heating for new construction in NYC if it isn't gas? I know there is a famous steam pipe system but does that have available capacity? is it still expanded?
Any solution which sufficiently explains the jungle of AWS services efficiently, will be a big win for the community.

I see the whole point of certification driven approval & self-styled AWS ninjas/ gurus/ experts as the failure of a system to efficiently provide its services to a commmon consumer. You shouldn't be needing a microdegree to run a service that you have taken up by own volition to build projects on
Most NIMBY cities (like NYC and SF) today no longer allow industrial buildings (like for example power plants or refineries) in their city limits. So yes, "how large America is" does end up mattering because electricity and gas and everything else ends up shipped 1-2 hours' drive away.
The city owns the arena. The company employees 800 people in the state. They aim to reduce single plastic usage. The former naming rights were for an indian gaming casino. The two people who founded the company are former intel execs.

This is mostly city politics with some money coming back 9 million a year). The city gets some money, some progressive branding to be used during elections, support for local jobs and probably has some personal connections attached.
I'm not working today but what this brings to mind is a recently hired coworker who apparently is.

My small team has had a nice culture of keeping our work chat mostly confined to our normal working hours, except when some issue comes up that needs attention. This new coworker has lately been shattering that. This person not only posts in the evenings, weekends, and sometimes into the graveyard shift, but does so in a cloying, overeager, performative kind of way.

"while that job was running I took the opportunity to go learn this new skill!"

"I finished this step of the process. Now I'm gonna go do the next one!"

...and updates on what they're doing and their reachability, at all hours.

"I'm going to have dinner because I haven't eaten anything today, but I will have my work computer and work phone with me so feel free to ping me".

Even today, on Christmas morning, there was more from this person in slack, posted after midnight on Christmas Eve.

I do my best to push it out of my mind, but I can't deny this adds a layer of stress for me. I don't want work conversations to stretch into nonworking hours. I don't want this to become part of the culture in my team or company. I don't want to see this kind of behavior become the expectation. I hope nobody ever asks anyone else to be more like this.
Along those lines: Get a Santa hat and a red pillow case, gather up socks, underwear, blankets, sanitary items, gift cards, candy, and walk around the city and give it to the homeless you come across.
As far as I can tell, the only reason for the Glimpse fork to exist is to make the name less 'inoffensive'. All they did was search and replace 'gimp' across the codebase. It certainly is not the continuation of the GIMP project.
Really only applicable at certain kinds of company, leaning on certifications usually means it’s a very bureaucratic company or one with not enough competency to figure out if a candidate is any good.

Likewise if a candidate has a lot of certifications there’s usually a question “does this person really know their stuff or are they just good at taking tests “
> Other people learn how to get rewards from the doing and the completion of tasks.

No, they absolutely don't LEARN HOW.
examples of most/all of the parameters is lacking

sample output/responses is almost always lacking, I usually need to perform an a cli call to see what the output will be.

Their error messages/codes seem to vary with time / aren't consistent / aren't documented. There are about five different messages I get if my token has timed out I've seen.

And I'm mostly an ec2/s3/r53 user, aka the oldest apis. What are the other ones like?
If the relationship is linear, I'm guessing a test based on Pearson has greater power.
> normies

I really think that is an incredibly divisive and reductive way of looking at people. In my experience, everybody has mental problems, but you usually don’t get to learn of someone’s individual struggles unless you are very close to them.

I am guessing you have a job, and maybe you dislike how you feel others judge you for your personal difficulties with your symptoms. You appear to judge others, who have their own personal struggles with their own quirky symptoms, perhaps which you don’t empathise with because they don’t happen to have ADHD?

I really like the jokingly serious way this is said at 12:15 to 13:30 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctz6eJ3Pr94
Everything Going Great
Australia _has_ had pretty good compliance but I don't think they have control anymore. I don't think any state has the power to pull another lockdown, it just wouldn't go down with the public. When I was in Melbourne last week, mask rules were frequently ignored, QR codes entirely ignored and the majority of non essential businesses did not check my vaccine proof. I also had business owners tell me how they hate the government forcing them to check the vaccine proofs.

Vic tried to pull tighter restrictions which resulted in mass protests and the PM saying something along the lines of "The people have had enough of restrictions", after that restrictions have been going away.
How do they get the efficiency number above 100? Are heat pumps that efficient at cooling as well?
"its a money argument, not a real quality of life issue"

You need to go back and read the article more closely. It's a HUGE quality of life issue; mainly US building codes restrict apartments to one side of the building which has all kinds of implications - cross airflow, alignment of rooms with the sun - and the ability to have more variety of sizes of units to better meet needs that currently go unmet, especially with families.

I mean if you look at the article the majority of it is all about quality of life - not only for the apartments, but greater/more effective use of the stairwells and common areas.
Delightful, but also a sober reminder of the existence of the vast consumer industrial complex of monoliths like General Mills, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, etc. who own so much of our day to day existence.
But they claim Satan would be OK, Satanism is recogized religion in the US, even has Tax Exempt status.

So if NASA was headed by a Satanist, and they proclaim "Thank Satan" then according to mulmen that would be OK.

Given this context I am not sure how my claim is either ridiculous nor basless
Try this: https://obsidian.md/
The big problem with piping natural gas to buildings is that the miles of pipes that deliver the gas leak. Gas leaking is a real issue since an equal amount of un-burnt methane has 25x the climate change potential as CO2. Even if the power plants supplying electric heat pumps/radiators is natural gas, the shorter supply chain (only to power plant and not to every building in the city) go some way to offsetting extra emissions. Then you have the obvious benefit that once the NYC grid transitions to renewables there won't be as many natural gas ovens and heaters that need to be replaced.

The commenters pointing out that natural gas stoves don't have a significant effect on emissions are right, but once a building gets a gas hookup installing natural gas heaters and water heaters becomes more attractive and economical. That's something we don't want to be incentivizing

Climate town recently released a new video talking about this issue as well as the decades of marketing and lobbying the natural gas industry has paid for to neuter or outright kill legislation like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2aZUav-54
could this better represent semantic textual similarity? https://paperswithcode.com/sota/semantic-textual-similarity-...
Same for xchm and xev.
Because it doesn't match the one message from the central government?
Genuine opportunities to skewer arrogant fucks are so rare I don’t know why people would bother being so diplomatic, I would have thrown the contract in their face and reminded them repeatedly of what he told them before. He owes them nothing. Let them sob and fight as hard as possible while wasting time and effort to correct their own mistake.
I recommend something like Obsidian instead which is a markdown editor (newly upgraded) along with an entire knowledge base and note taking system that can create and maintain references across files.

https://obsidian.md/
This is about indoor quality more than co2 emissions.

Does burning biogas indoors release fewer toxic vapors than natural gas?
I just moved from a house with a gas range - I’ve had gas cookers for more than 20 years - to one with an induction stove. I’ve never used induction before but it’s really great. For every minor niggle with the induction unit, like the odd noise, there seems to be a matching benefit, like not scalding myself on the waste heat from the gas.

The best part is that it gets every hit as hot as a gas stove, maybe even hotter, and as I discovered just yesterday, you can set the temperature below boiling to keep something warm. I’ve never been able to do that with gas.

The fact that it can be made to be green makes me very happy.