skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> whole conferences devoted to areas... pick any nsf grant... and look at the number of citations

Do you see the contradiction here? I don't think bibliometrics are useful for measuring utility.

> I don't understand your implicit point that we should let academics fiddle

I'm actually totally okay with letting academics fiddle. They are super cheap and you're mostly just paying them for small amounts of their time.

But, it should be the faculty who are allowed to fiddle. They shouldn't be given resources to direct other people's fiddling time. In particular, I think we should massively reform the graduate student system to invert the power relationship between faculty and students on any highly exploratory projects.

Specifically, for any grant whose purpose is "fundamental science" and/or training (e.g., ALL NSF money as a starter):

1. the agency funds students instead of faculty. So 100% of the money that goes to graduate students on NSF grants should be redirected to a GRFP-like funding model. This means that NSF grants to faculty should only fund PI summer salaries & shared department resources. Never students. Want a student? Recruit them to collaborate with you.

2. NSF should put a hard upper bound on the number of funded teaching hours permissible or required and funded through any sort of stipend.

NB: students can still teach more hours! But then they will be normal W2 employees who are paid prevailing rates, are included in faculty+staff retirement/pension/benefits, get FICA benefits, etc. The point: if your uni takes a single dollar from NSF, then student stipends can only be actual stipends, not back doors for tax-advantaged ad junct labor that excludes universities from paying FICA taxes on behalf of their teaching staff (who happen to be grad students).
looks good!

The ecosystem in Julia is quite strong for MCMC libs because people do not have to lower something to C++ to develop such a library:
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mcmc-landscape/25654/

Of course, for users, they might prefer something like Turing, but I think the Julia tends to blur the differences between user and developer more so than in most other languages (for good or worse) since everything is in one language.
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As the article states, NiMH has gotten a lot better, and I now use that nearly everywhere instead of alkaline.

It's nice not having to shop for batteries as often. I plugged in a charger behind the TV and batteries in a drawer under the TV. With the price point for Eneloop and Duracell batteries, you break even once you use a rechargeable for the fourth time.

Part of the reason I have it in the first place is that the Roku 4's abysmal remote control goes through a set of batteries once every three months or so.
But the comparison here is between the organization of the Rust library ecosystem and Go's; the Go standard library has, I think, more (and more ambitious) strongly-accepted abstractions --- it's uncontroversial to observe that Rust programs pull in more deps than Go packages pull in modules. But the phenomenon you refer to in your last 2 paragraphs hasn't really occurred with Go; it's hard to point to something in the stdlib that Go just straight-up botched, to the detriment of all other packages.

Go programs pull in deps, of course, but it's unusual bordering on unidiomatic to pull in a dep that changes the general programming environment (idiomatic Go sticks with the data structures and, notably, concurrency primitives in the stdlib, net/http remains the de facto standard HTTP interface, things tend to build on top of database/sql instead of replacing it, for the most part the stuff in encoding/* is canon, &c). That's not a plus for Go, but it's a contrast with Rust, where crates routinely redefine or refine the underlying Rust programming environment (best example is anyhow, of course). So Go programs rely heavily on the stdlib and its abstractions. And my perception is that by and large Go devs are pretty happy with it?

Maybe DNS would qualify as such a botch; maybe the interaction between sockets and contexts as well. And we'll see what chaos erupts from 1.18 generics.

(None of this should be construed as in any way a dig on Rust, which I find frustrating but also enjoyable to work in, and whose expressiveness and utility advantages over Go I respect).
my evisceral impression from this - blog post - is the author really needs a good boost for their morale and self valuation and confidence and the results may or may not include a amount of blogging, but will answer the call for a response which I am certain is written through every single pixel of this unnecessarily self deprecating rhetoric. the author clearly should, sometime, explore their writing skills and technology insights, but I don't think that is what has prompted this or what actually matters.
Where do you live? I've never encountered a single restaurant or other establishment where I couldn't fill out a paper form in north western germany.
Stack ranking is based on whatever metrics team leaders/supervisors want to use. It often becomes a simple popularity contest, and leads to an 'every person for themselves' culture which can stifle innovation and collaboration. Even in cases where there's a quantitative metric used for ranking, it's often subject to gaming, such as the use of number of commits or ticket closures.

Also, stack ranking doesn't account for any flaws in the systems of the company itself - if you have poor processes that hinder productivity, it's going to artificially diminish the rankings of employees that have to use or are subject to those processes.

There's a reason why companies that use it tend to have much higher turnover than companies that don't - because it makes for a really unpleasant workplace.
"Web3 crypto projects"[0] he's long on and ready to pump. He's a salesman and his conviction only goes as deep as his lock-up agreements, which thankfully aren't a thing in crypto.

0: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-chamath-paliha...
I think mileage may vary depending on location, role, and YOE. I didn't go to a top/famous school, but I do have 20+ years of experience, including Principal level IC and several years of management experience as tech lead manager, manager of managers, and executive (at a small startup, so not a huge org) experience.

Of the six rounds of interview/job offers I've gone through since 2016, 5 were the result of a recruiter finding me on. LinkedIn. Caveat for one of those was that one of those was a reachout from a big name tech company a couple years previous, so I then reached directly out that recruiter. For another big name tech company, I submitted my resume directly through their online portal and got a call the next day.

My LinkedIn spam level is probably about 75%, which isn't actually a terrible ratio. I consider spam to be something that's clearly irrelevant to my role or far too junior. For the spam, I ignore, and for the others I always reply with a polite "thanks, but no thanks" which people generally respect and has occasionally led to a more appropriate job link.
> (and even formal proof systems don't use two column proof notation)

Might be interesting to see a crack at that, though.
Should you continue to be paid for software as long as it provides value, even if you no longer work on it? That is a question that will spark ideological debates for centuries.
I have to pay more if my app or web site gets more traffic? No, I don't think so. Fonts are useful, but there is no way I'd let a font turn into a cost center.
Air tools defintely don't have more torque than electric tools, they rely on speed to overcome their shortcomings in torque. The main high torque application in air tools is in impact wrenches, which use very fast hammering action. Modern battery impact wrenches can match the performance of the best air wrenches.
It's really nice to see browser components being able to be reused easily rather than a bunch of half-assed parsers.
Call me cynical, but I believe more government adoption of open source will occur only when those projects can match the political kickbacks being paid by the proprietary vendors. Corruption is globally endemic, and there is too much money sloshing around to keep politicians honest and working in the interests of The People they purportedly serve.
I can't imagine law enforcement or intelligence has a favourable opinion of him either. This sort of vigilantism tips off cybercriminals to the fact that someone is on their trail and causes them to become proactive about moving themselves outside of any place they could be arrested. By publishing this information it leads FSB recruiters to cybercriminals while at the same time ensuring they stay within Russian soil where extradition treaties do not exist, meaning they will never be brought to trial.
Wow, this is fascinating. Does anyone know of any mentorship programs that help youth in under-developed countries who are working to get into tech? I would love to participate in that kind of program, but the only ones I've seen are company based (ie: internal internship programs.)
It parses the css so it can improve the minification, for example converting 'margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px' into 'margin:4px'
Anything. Legacy to green fields but loads of green fields for me. A lot of startups but also a few well-known names. I did mobile.

After a one week trial you either get hired and paid 100% or rejected and paid 50%. Unless you totally fucked up. The client never pays anything but sometimes they try to abuse it. But >90% good.

Paid every two weeks like clockwork.
> MySQL just works

Right up until one of your users tries to use an emoji, apparently.
I have several large(ish) external USB HDDs, and every few days I cycle them around the machines.

* On each disk is a directory called "Backups";

* Within that is a directory for each machine on my home network;

* Within each of those is a directory for each time of backup;

* Those are named YYYYMMDDhhmmss;

* Every hour I run a script;

* If the most recent backup is on the same day, the script terminates;

* Otherwise the script runs an rsync;

PREV=$( ls ${Machine} | grep ^20 | sort | tail -1 )
THIS=$NOW

rsync -avziPH \
--exclude ".cache" \
--link-dest=../$PREV \
/home \
${Machine}/$THIS

Thus each disk has backups from each machine. Each backup is complete in and of itself, but for unchanged files has a hardlink to the previous version.
Searching for jumpers, bridges, wire annotations or anything really in PDF schematics is such a PITA (CTRL-F then look for the tiny blue highlight). It would be great if MCU vendors would do something like this for their entire eval boards' schematics.
>for me, a mask is really not that uncomfortable and the discomfort is negligible.

Great, so wear one. Nobody is asking you not to. I think its fairly uncomfortable and makes interactions harder. I won't.
Bikanervala: A Small Shop in Rajasthan Became a Million-Dollar Company
The JWST can fit in Spaceship’s cargo area unfolded. Although I’m partial to the idea of putting a giant telescope in a crater on the dark side of the moon
You forgot the most important reason they're used: they're far more powerful!
But - I was super excited by the Bangladesh study, and spent the better part of a half hour or so trying to see if I could tease out some clear evidence that masks work. I'm insanely pro-mask, and was way ahead of the curve back in february 2020, when a lot of the mainstream was suggesting masks don't work (If that's the case, then why were we trying to reserve them for first responders in hospitals?) - and encouraged everyone I know to wear them. I've spent hours reading the Japanese Meta-Analyses of mask usage in influenza scenarios, looking for differences in Coronavirus and Influenza Virus behavior.

I have never, not once in 18+ months gone indoors where other people are, without wearing an N95 Mask (after I was able to source them ~ June 2020).

I don't think it's an exaggeration that a lot of the last two years of my life have been dedicated to both encouraging (strongly) everyone I know to wear a high-quality, well-tested N95 from a well-known trusted source, as well as scouring the internet for solid research on the effectiveness of masks.

I'm not lazily dismissing that Bangladesh study - I just came away from it not being particularly encouraged that it provided evidence that the masks / methodology presented there would shut down a pandemic by preventing transmission. I'm eagerly and enthusiastically looking for evidence to confirm my bias that masks work.
The capital tied up in any given business is colluding by definition because it moves in lock step. You don’t have multiple managers in a single org making conflicting business deals or bids with workers(for the most part, I’ve heard of a few companies organized this way). Hell even having multiple investors in a single company is collusion of capital owners when the company makes any sort of business deal.

Unions are just the workers colluding in the same fashion to increase their negotiating power
I wish there was an easy way to compile to a subset of x86 (e.g. mem access only with simple mov, only using one flag, no extensions, no floats, pure 32bit instructions).
You don’t need an extension. You can just use the `-site` operator, and put your list in a bookmarklet, or use your browser’s ability to define search shortcuts, if it has that.
Yep, have the same experience here. Even worse, I have devices which require batteries to be installed for memory retention, so I can't really remove all the alkalines to prevent leakage.
were all the other positions taken?
Is there a good blog post or summary that I could read?
I cannot take someone who calls himself a "crypto artist" seriously.
> TCP_CORK, or TCP_NODELAY flags

I'm sending large messages, ~150 kibibytes, so much larger than a typical internet packet. So I'm not sure Nagle's algorithm is the problem.

> tune the TCP-Window to your application.

This is a possibility. I already had to increase wmem_max to handle fast udp connections.

I'll try to put together a minimal test case when I get the chance.
> Could this remove political desire for rapid change?

No, since in the end you do have to return to the "real" world. Unless we can upload ourselves to the metaverse, a majority of humans will continue to want change in meatspace.
And if you manually copy someone's data they worked hard to generate to go and resell, then it's ethical?
Someone else mentioned this already but "green" is not #00ff00. Tt's #008000.
Many countries have prison levels.

Non-violent offenders will be housed in a different prison than violent offenders, and the worst of the worst (usually lifers) will be put into one or two very secure prisons.

This castle is the max security prison in Czechia. Used as a prison since 1760 (back then for offending clergy). You won't get there for child support debt.

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C4%9Bznice_M%C3%ADrov

(Though as a former kid whose father was deliberately neglecting child support payments - it can work pretty long if he lives in another country that has a corrupt judicial system - I believe withholding child support should be punished by more than just a slap on the wrist. Lack of support makes life really hard for the kids.)
Hm. When I do that I tend to think 'look at this idiot'!
> Easy Anti-Cheat support

Only the newer of two types of EAC: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/01/easy-anti-cheat-not-as...
Sure they have a cost, but you fail to mention the benefits. We have a lot less poverty and far fewer people having to work a second job to make ends meet. You win some, you lose some.
Try Timpsons - the cobblers.

They have a standing policy that 10% of their employee base must come from the formerly incarcerated. Most of these workers will be working in the shops, actually repairing the shoes, but I think the policy is across the business for roles in head office should be part of this commitment

I think with your legal skills you have a shot at the legal department, with programming definitely a shot in IT department.

Check out the careers page - one front page, it mentions ex-offenders. Give it a shot. Also, I've reached out to James Timpson, to see if he knows of any other UK employers who have similar commitments. Good luck!

https://www.timpson.co.uk/about/careers-at-timpson
Keep in mind this is for an international student paying out of state tuition with no aid. The 50-60k number is more reasonable for US citizens, <30k if you're coming in with a scholarship. 2 years is the average amount of time for a masters degree. It's typically like 2-3 semesters of classes, then thesis or project. As for credits, my masters segment was 36 credits, while my catch up undergrad segment was 28 credits.
Do not choose a programming language, choose the framework. Choose the libraries, the availability of devs for hire, the documentation. Choose the approaches and the patterns. The language is totally irrelevant compared to those things.

For example, let's say you choose Go, or JavaScript/node. Now what? You're now lost and need to take thousands of decisions for building anything web related, from ORMs to how to do validations to how to do translations to background jobs, etc,etc.

You won't have those problems of you choose Laravel or Rails for example.

Now that's my "business" answer assuming you want to build and ship something on your own money/time.

If you only want to learn to get hired, then yes, any of the popular languages will do it.
Don't you, at least in Singapore, get caning in addition to a prison sentence?
> Surely preventing 99% of issues (or 90%, or 80%) is good?

You can’t assume there aren’t other trade-offs that you have to factor in to the analysis.
There is a difference in donation to a legally registered non-profit and an individual. I was reading some us legal code for public companies and it covers stuff like this. Each of the examples here is for a legally registered non-profit.
Rumspringa varies greatly from community to community. I think it would be safe to say that the majority of Amish don't experience rumspringa in the wild way that has been popularized by TV culture.

This link has a sizable section on the topic:
https://openworks.wooster.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=ht...
Action against Amazon is also currently building towards a formal case from the FCC.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-22/amazon-cl... and a lot more if you look into Lina Kahn's previous anti-trust work.
Knowing how to design a system is important even if you never get the chance to use that directly. Indirectly, it is useful when you need to call out a manager or colleague on their own bad designs.
That's an irrelevant formality. The people who will have to do the fighting, and even Xi himself, were not even alive during the Civil War. If he orders people to start shooting after >70 years of peace, he's starting a war.
To do the job of minifying, this minifyer first reads the CSS file into an internal datastructure. That process is called parsing.

All the minifying operations are done on that internal datastructure.

Then it writes it out again into a textfile, ready for the browser to parse it again - hopefully the minifying step made it a bit easier for the browser to parse this minified CSS.
What about anti mandate argument? How do you propose mandates be enforced?
Asked a few days ago, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863822
yes, but the real threat with this is not that it makes something possible that is already possible, but it makes the barrier to use that tech a LOT lower.

Wrapping my house in tin foil is sounding a lot less conspiracy theorist now! Actually my house is going to be stuccoed - I wonder if they are using a metal mesh that I can ground. Hmm...
No one wants to pay for that either.

https://c-ware.de/en/cf-listing-page/
Right? Seeing basic code written in lisp symbols makes me feel fuzzy inside :)
> the new Lithium rechargeable ones

Lithium isn't rechargable. (Lithium AA cells are very long-life but very expensive. One-time use. Lithium-ion are rechargable, but are 3.7 volts and completely violate the AA spec)

NiMH is the chemistry for rechargable AA / AAA cells, since its 1.35V and "close enough" to the old 1.5V standard alkaline.

> Older rechargeable AA and AAA batteries were terribly short lived and so mostly useless but I assume Lithium ones are much better?

"Older", circa 00s NiMH chemistries had more energy storage (!!!). The issue was that circa 00s cells had a "self-discharge" problem, meaning they ran out of energy in just a few months (like 1 to 3 months).

Panasonic solved the problem with "Low Self Discharge" cells, aka "Eneloop", which started to come out in the late 00s. This chemistry had much less capacity, but took over a year before the energy went bad.

Its still NiMH chemistry, but just tweaked to focus on the self-discharge problem rather than energy-storage numbers / benchmarks.

With Eneloop taking the market by storm (especially popular with XBox users, which used AA rechargables), other companies also came out with LSD chemistries. These days, almost everything you'll find is of the LSD-type.
https://status.gradle.com/ is reporting errors, include with JCenter Downloads
Why did they do this to him??
I think it depends on the version of Julia the OP was using. If you're using 1.6/1.7 then startup and time to first plot are vastly improved. Earlier versions are quite a bit slower. There's been a lot of improvements in these areas in recent releases.
> that all holders of USD are effectively taxable.

Yes. It would have been a very different conversation if the fed was taking 40% of all checking/saving account cash. Which is technically not different in term of transfer of wealth.
>Can't you just hide nukes...

The Russians say so.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-us-hiding-nuclear-weapons-13...
I'm not certain that I understand what the issue is here (if any); The only thing preventing the "lurking" 90% from also affecting what is seen is... their inaction?
How would you feel about providing a chunk of code yourself, and being asked to work with it?

The interviewer could ask you about the code, and maybe ask for you to modify it?

It sort of shifts the burden to the interviewer to come up with reasonable changes on the fly, but would offer insight into the candidate's abilities on code they are familiar with.
District heating with water is vastly more safe, I imagine that's why its used.

I remember my apartment in germany had a "Heat" meter on the water line, always wondered how that worked.
They are not. At some level, we accept that there are a lot of inequities in our current sociopolitical systems.

What China (and the Asian Tigers) have shown us is that it is a feasible path to industrialize though. But its possible there are better ways to get to higher standards of living, we just haven't tried them yet.
I read 111 books last year (completely). However, while I'm somehow proud of that number, who cares? Read whatever makes you happy. If that means reading one book a year? Fine! If it's 50? Well done! Just enjoy reading.
I lived there almost a decade and know the visa process. Get started on paperwork for an F-6-1 visa. It will allow you to work without restrictions. Your best options for work are Kakao (KakaoTalk) and Naver. They have solid Python development capabilities. Coupang is their best ecommerce company.
Go check out the paperwork on visas:
https://overseas.mofa.go.kr/gb-en/brd/m_20265/view.do?seq=66...
>Will the adaptation of this technology accelerate quality of life improvements?

No.

Things favelas need, in order of importance:

1. Jobs

2. Jobs

3. Jobs

4. Decent waste disposal

5. Decent public infrastructure - mass transit, daycare, health clinics, schools, etc.

6. Decent public services - police, postal office, social service workers, etc.

7. Etc

8. ...

...

Infinite - VR gear with SV technobabble, MMORPG, play-to-earn BS.

Source: I am Brazilian.