skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly it sounds a bit desperate. I'm not dissing the idea of getting a PhD, I think it's a big achievement. But this sort of argument is the kind of thing I heard when I finishing my undergrad, and it wasn't convincing then either.

Grant Applications:

Very specific academic "skill" which is intimately tied to the bureaucracy of the university system of your particular country or region. It also has a lot to do with things that aren't even in the application: who you know and what they think of you. Whatever org you join later will have some other way for funding to come down, and there are so many varieties of org that you'll just have to learn on that job.

Analyzing Data:

That's definitely useful, but there's general and specific. There are lots of people who can't do it, and by doing a PhD you definitely show people that you are capable. But, and it's a huge but, you will be spending a heck of a lot of time poring over the evidence on some very specific area of science, with its own conventions and paradigms. When you go and do something else, that won't be relevant. People will of course see that you are generally intelligent, and that's great, but you'll have to learn whole new fields at your next gig. Your issue then is that it's possible to show general intelligence and ability to learn deep material without doing the whole PhD. In fact plenty of people will look at a Bachelor's and conclude the person is smart enough to learn how derivatives work, or how the advertising business works, and so on.

Presentations:

There's simply no less efficient way to learn presentation skills than to do a hard science PhD. It doesn't make any sense, a PhD takes a lot of work and how much of it is actually doing presentation specifically? Yes, I know they do presentations as part of it. But the kind of presentation skill you want is what your typical smooth talker is good at: confidently being able to talk about something that everyone can relate to. Think Obama or one of those Apple-guy-on-stage things. Are you going to learn that on your PhD? From what I hear, science fields are very very specific and although you are presenting, there's a fair bit of focus on the substance, plus you are presenting to people who are also insiders. If you want to just be less nervous and uhm-and-aw less, there are better ways to practice.

There are of course good reasons to get a PhD, such as a desire to learn that specific field. But the cost/benefit of doing it in order to learn generally applicable skills seems off to me.
CS PhDs can ALWAYS get tenure-track academic jobs. Maybe not at a top R1, but getting a university teaching job in CS is not some sort of prize.

You got to be kidding. Competition for CS tenure track positions is insane. At my school, which is ranked around 50 in the nation, you would have to be pretty outstanding to get it (most candidates were from top-5 schools, in hottest fields, with many strong publications). I’ve heard such numbers as 100 candidates for a single spot.
You can use a ZNC bouncer, or a client like TheLounge. It's always "online" so I see the context for any pings. It's trivial to set up.
Tangent: I guess this is maybe just the term "introvert" being overloaded, but I don't see the introversion => likes being alone connection. I'm absolutely an introvert in the sense of finding that social interaction requires energy, but the past two years have proved beyond a doubt that I'm absolutely miserable being alone for long periods of time.
Esports giant Riot settles discrimination case for $100M
My regular one is Republica Coffee, but I also go a lot to the café in Kasarna Karlin (my favourite spot but a bit further from home). Occasionally, I also like to work from Mama Coffee, Miners and Super Tramp (in summer, the outside area is cool).
Pointer authentication isn’t in 3rd party processes though, only system ones. (or maybe it’s available but optional, I forget)
China pursues tech ‘self-reliance,’ fueling global unease
... and how do you ensure that it's execution is deterministic?
Curious how other people run these kinds of experiments on their production data in a safe way that does not affect performance of prod. Eg how do you avoid CPU spikes in prod that might effect users?
> Any PhD worth their salt would know that a much more likely reason why their hard skills were valuable had nothing to do with PhDs and everything to do with them as a person being able to complete a PhD.

I often equate my Ph.D. with the ability to teach myself how to do things. Ex. going from a wet/dry lab biologist with zero experience in C-style languages, to learning Arduino's flavor of Cpp and the PID control library to run process controls for your wet lab biology experiment.
thanks for sharing, I can relate a bit. I was a bike courier in San Francisco off and on for a few summers and it was a very fun/hard job. It was mostly legal docs going back and forth between the courthouses and the financial district. This was several years back. Anyways, I aspire to be riding my bike when I'm 82!
Just my personal observation. I earned around half a million dollars by running an "autoclaimer" that would automatically register Instagram names as they'd become available. I'd regularly see Instagram employees grabbing names from my portfolio for themselves.
That's one of the downsides of coffee shops. Luckily I only have a daily standup that lasts 5 minutes. For the rare longer meetings where I need to talk a lot, I tend to arrange them so I can take them from home. If they are mid-day, I take them outside if it's warm enough.
This happened to me several years ago. My account got locked out and I had no way to contact a human to get it back.
It doesn’t really suit me either, but the long term massive benefits of earning a big city salary, without having to live in a big city, seem to be the solution to the urbanisation that’s been forced upon us in recent decades
I am a Tesla fan. We have a model Y - so much fun to drive, simple elegant design. I appreciate the tradeoff of the large central screen in place of conventional gauges and controls. It's nice to have the view surrounding the car and large map view.

As a sometime UI designer, I think I understand the goal of the update: Elegance, simplicity, a less cluttered design. I do think this is at odds with functionality, however. Being a side screen without conventional tactile controls, it is important that essential functionality not be buried under multiple levels of clicks/menus, to limit the distraction time.

So while it looks cleaner now that the seat warmer control is tucked away, it is also more dangerous. I suppose this is balanced by the new feature that I can no longer be tempted to play video games while I drive, though.

On the subject of Elon, I bemoan that celebrity has been detrimental to him and the company. He clearly enjoys the spotlight and has an elevated sense of worth, which shouldn't even be possible. Shove enough microphones and cameras in a person's face and ask them enough questions outside their area of expertise, and it's almost impossible to keep them from thinking they are the most amazing person who as ever lived, "EVERY THING I SAY MUST BE GOLD!".
It's like you didn't even read my comment.

Why do you think everybody is just stacking technologies on top of a shared pool? That's a post-globalisation concept.

African people discovered plenty of technologies including metal forging - but they were less technologically advanced than Europeans when they were invaded. Why? Because the material situation in Europe is ideal for technological development. The climate is temperate, food is abundant, the Romans went everywhere dumping their own advanced tech on everybody, probably other factors a historian could elaborate. There are plenty of alternative explanations to the one you're implying, and the one that's been historically taught, which is "black people are not capable of developing civilisation or technology".

Edit given you appended "at any point in time": basically no milestone technological development has happened anywhere for quite some time now, excluding computers and the Internet. Everything's incremental now. Plus for much of that time many African countries have either been trying to recover from colonialism or been caught up in civil war (which should be expected when a power vacuum is created). I would say that mobile money is a good candidate for a meaningful invention though, and that came out of Nigeria.
Amy Klin has a nice model of Autism (At least the the non harsh cases) which I interpret as the brain at early age (0-18 months) can't focus. So by this theory ADHD and Autism might be seen as two sided coin.
As much as I like all the alternative languages you mentioned, and as much as I hate it, I think JavaScript (or wasm) would/should be the language of choice were TeX to be extended today.
The fine structure constant is a bigger mystery in my opinion, though physics has alot of unexplained constants right now.
if you have PhD you (probably) worked really, really, really hard, were able to focus on a single problem for years, can communicate, analyze and so forth

Correction: if you have multiple publications in top conferences as the first author. Most phds don’t have that. Part of my job is to hire ML researchers. 90% of phds who apply are quite pathetic as far as their publication record.
I don't, but the threat is much lower. I'll personally take being part of someone's botnet over having an Amazon microphone in my house, but I understand why other people might not.
Time is a consumable. It is not infinite, and it is unique to each individual.

We do not "trade" time in jail between society and an individual. We deny certain freedoms for a period of time. There is no economic equivalent when it comes to time.

Learning is a process that consumes time now for improved capability or efficiency in the future.
There are ways to create secure communications if need be. I have thought of ways that would work to accomplish doing it.

I won't detail the designs here, but we are talking very cheap to build and design.

I am sure such devices exist and are in the wild, being used by spies.

That said -- I am mostly disappointed with the degree to which our intelligence agencies are inwardly focused rather than breaking up foreign spy rings and operations.

There are some scarey, harmful, and extremely complicated foreign spy rings on US soil. They have people working for all major tech companies and they are embedded in key positions.

The FBI should be making "see something? say something" pushes in tech companies. They should have better followup and reward systems.
China upset about needing to dodge SpaceX Starlink satellites
I had no idea Roku had games (!!)
The one thing I learned as a mcdonald's cashier was how to compute change from a $20 in my head, quickly.

There was nothing about the workflow system of my mcdonalds that delivered hot food fast. There was a ton of inefficiency in it. I made a number of recommendations to my manager who told me I needed to attend Hamburger University lectures of why what McDonalds did was so great.
> it’s impossible to search chats meaningfully, whereas forums/DLs let you quickly figure out if you’re facing a common issue (and finding resolutions easily)

From a user's perspective, that's a more important aspect than the underlying platform being FOSS. Also as a maintainer, I would neither want to answer the same questions again and again nor would I like to create the impression of answering in real time, as chat clients usually do.

I don't care if it's Gitter, GitHub discussions, or a mailing list, but please make it easy for search engines to index the messages instead of placing them behind a proprietary wall like on discord.
I'd rather progA and progB package their own local versions of thelib.so unless they explicitly request to use a shared version globally.

Shared libraries actually being shared is the exception and not the rule
Bing actually has the highest quality aerial images of Australia in some places, licensed from Vexcel.

Meanwhile nobody has a good 3D map of Brisbane - Apple has none, Google’s is labeled (c) 2021 but is inexplicably actually from 2010 or so.
higher prices for gas, goods and automobiles being fueled by the Fed’s unprecedented money printing programs

Really? These are not caused by low interest rates. But the current housing prices are caused by low interest rates, and that's not even discussed in the article.

But the government is missing in action.
For some kids this just means they trust that the rules are there for a very good reason, and so are intrinsically good to follow. As a parent one hopes that your kids come to see your rules in that light, rather than as a tool to exercise power or maximize personal convenience, or any number of abuses.

The tricky rules are the very non-obvious ones, like those involving seat belts. Insurance against very infrequent events are difficult to motivate, and require a sophisticated understanding of risk to not seem arbitrary. (And given the number of baby-boomers who managed to survive childhood despite being thrown into a large back-seat with no seat-belts at all tells me that these rules might not be as wise as we think!)

Reporting rule-breakers is, of course, slightly different because now rule-breaking is not intrinsically bad, but extrinsically good to the person doing the turning in. (The motivation must be power and indirect punishment, and not compassion, because otherwise you'd talk to the rule-breaker first.) This is a favorite weapon that siblings naturally wield against each other at a very young age. That is the perversity of it rules, is that a human's first innocent instinct is to abuse them to harm a sibling. Ain't that something?
> Did the people who made the content get paid too?

Usually yes, because those would be the actors/cameramen/directors/editors/etc who would be paid for their work before the finished work then would be sold on to consumers. The question here is really "Did the people who fronted the money for the content get paid?" For simplicity I'm ignoring royalties here.

> And is the value of the DVD in the physical object or the content?

If we agree that copies of digital content are zero-cost, then the monetary value of the DVD is in the physical object.

Obviously that's only half the argument because nobody's watching blank DVDs.

But how do we fairly compensate the group that fronts the money for the content to be created? IMO, this is the genius of crowdfunding and why I'm bullish about it being the economic future of content. If a content creator can convince enough people to give them money to make something, then there is nobody who needs to profit from distribution. The content is fully paid-for up-front.

It's also not a new idea. Rich patrons funded works of art in the Renaissance. Rights management would have actually been counterproductive because the point of the art was the aggrandizement of the patron.
> weird filters for receiver's domain name or company name being part of sender's local-part

Likely to help cut down on phishing.
Cool! I thought it was no longer maintained. Although it influenced the distro landscape much less than it could, things have changed enough so that I have mostly a "don't care" feeling about gobolinux.

Most end users rarely interact directly with the filesystem, so a different hierarchy won't impact many people. Installing up-to-date packages that do not threaten the stability of your system is easy with flatpaks/snaps; it is even possible to install GNOME Software add-ons to handle them. If you want to install "system-software" that is not possible with snaps or flatpaks, there's always Nix, Guix or homebrew. All that without considering AppImages, of course.

So... gobolinux is a great idea. But it fixes problems that are much smaller today.
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Not a stupid question. Economically, memory density will hit a brick wall soon. Developers should prefer to waste time and save space, since parallel computation will not hit a similar limit in the foreseeable future. Memory-to-core ratio is going to be falling.
When work and home become one, it gives the impression you're always on call / aren't able to separate the two. Could be an issue the other people have, so they imagine you being the same.

I do remember when enforced work-from-home started almost two years ago, a lot of people didn't have a ready-made space like a home office and complained about exactly that problem.
> are there are "hard" skills from an MBA that transfer?

You are asking a genuine question that has a lot of backing research. Before I became a Quant, I was a student at the University of Chicago, getting the Masters in Financial Math. So the professor who taught the Options course at MSFM told us one day - Now I have to teach this same material to the MBA class, but at a 10,000 feet level.

One of the students asked him to elaborate. So he says - If you have a scale of 1 to 100, with 100 being the hardest, then a UChicago Finance PhD is like 100. A UChicago MSFM is about 50. A UChicago MBA is like 10. A regular (non-UChicago) MBA is a 1.

More concretely, someone like me, the 50, can put up the Black Scholes on the blackboard from memory. I can derive it, solve it, code it up in C++ and price your options on a real equity & tell you whether you should buy/sell the damn thing. But that's as far as I was taught.

The Finance PhD i.e. the 100, can derive and solve not just the BS but a whole family of models - the Heston, Derman, SABR, BDT, HJM, HW etc etc - there's like a dozen of these PDEs & it gets seriously complicated very soon. So supposedly this Finance PhD can do all of that & more.

The UChicago MBA, which is the 10, knows Black Scholes, knows what the Greeks are & can eyeball the value of the Greek & tell you whether the option is overpriced or not, but can't derive/solve/code up the PDE.

The non-UChicago MBA has heard of something called the Black Scholes but that's about it.

Ofcourse that's his opinion & you should take it with a grain of salt. That said, during my time in the investment banking industry, I have worked with a boatload of MBAs, some quants(MSFMs) & a few PhDs - his opinions bore true.
This is short sighted. This isn't about getting the genie back into the bottle but about sharing nuclear technology with developing countries that we otherwise can't help because they'd need a source of enriched uranium and it'd provide them with an industrial source of weapons grade radioisotopes.

This is one of the few ways we can shortcut the developing world's reliance on fossil fuels while still supplying plentiful base load power that can grow with them.
What happens when you have more than the 2 active? Can they still be stored on the phone and reactivated in the future?
Given that the causes charities work on can be very personal, I recommend using https://www.charitynavigator.org/ to find one.
Provide a specific commitment. What methods, and when will they become available? "We're working on it" is worthless and when I'm told this I assume I am being blown off.
Totally agreed. But networks in many (most?) countries have been shitty for a long time, and show no signs of improving. And they're so entrenched that we don't have much hope of replacing them even if something better suddenly showed up. This is the case in USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, and I'm sure a lot of other countries.

So no, I'm not going to applaud giving the networks even more power over my ability to switch phones and SIMs. Physical SIMs are nice because I can 99% cut the network out of my decision to switch phones -- all I have to do is pop the SIM into my new phone. I do not want to go through Verizon's, AT&T's, or any other archaic provider's process when dealing with my (or a family member's) phone upgrade.

It's a lot like the headphone jack removal: replace something that works great with a solution that works OK 90% of the time. But 10% of the time you're stuck in an edge case that isn't covered at all by the new, shinier solution.
Very few companies increase their pay in line with market trends. If you’re at a company for 6 years, you’re likely getting paid undermarket rate. When I see someone doing that - I wonder, “are they not willing to go outside their comfort zone even when there are clear benefits?”

Personally - I’ve had no issues getting a job. I’ve job hopped consistently since I started working in 2013. I haven’t had a single job last more than a couple years. I will be looking for a new job in 2022 as well. I don’t expect anything bad to happen due to my hopping. It’s a norm within the industry.

If companies didn’t want this to happen then they’d work harder at retaining talent.
Start a new DB instance and restore all production data from latest backup (you are doing regular backups riiight?). Serves two purposes: enabling debugging of production data without actually using production + verifying that your production backups/restores actually work in practice, not just in theory.

If the database is too big, just use last N amount of rows from the database instead of a full dump.

Bonus points if you log actual SQL queries that happen in production to a log file, so you can then re-run last X queries against your new test-production database and log the total run time. After doing bunch of optimizations, you can re-run your little benchmark and see how it compares.
That sounds like an excellent idea, thanks!
Godot already can reload scripts, tools and assets through the editor... In fact, this tool doesn't look like it does anything useful.
You need some way of safely exchanging a codebook the length of every message, and you can never reuse an otp page. These together seem to make it… basically infeasible?
A key in a OTP scheme can only be used once, and the key size has to be the same as the message size. This isn't practical for messaging app
The issue of transactional email services is a good one that I might write about sometime as well. I send out the email version of the blog using SES because I know that I would have huge deliverability problems if I sent it myself. Even so, I apologize to my Apple Person readers that Apple Mail routinely hard rejects my emails from SES and I have not been able to figure out why... it comes and goes from month to month and I haven't gotten any useful info.

In general I've found Apple Mail to be probably the most aggressive major provider in terms of rejecting at the SMTP level. Microsoft seems to virtually never do it unless there is a major problem (i.e. SPF exists and prohibits the sending mail server). Google is somewhere in between, but seems to stop SMTP hard rejecting at all once it's seen the IP in use for a couple months.

The unfortunate thing, of course, is that hard rejections at least give you feedback. When they accept the mail you still don't know if it's actually made it to an inbox.
I’m a New Zealander and laughed at this - of course the Australian remembers what it does with heat. Over here it’s massive rainfall, not heat, which generates the noise.
"QuantEcon:Open source code for economic modeling" https://quantecon.org/ has Python and Julia versions. The Federal Reserve uses Julia in its macroeconomic models: https://frbny-dsge.github.io/DSGE.jl/latest/ . Some economists use Fortran (which is much modernized since FORTRAN 77), and there is a 2018 book Introduction to Computational Economics using Fortran https://www.ce-fortran.com/ . Some Fortran codes in economics, statistics, and time series analysis are listed at https://github.com/Beliavsky/Fortran-code-on-GitHub .
The Invisible Organ Shaping Our Lives: Milestones in Human Microbiota Research
> volunteering for an organization is matched in cash by Microsoft, to the tune of 20-something an hour.

I've never heard of a policy like this before, but I like it a lot (admittedly I've been mostly in academia). Is this unique to Microsoft or more common?