skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was why I decided to not go for my PhD. I looked at the latest hires for tenure track positions from my graduating year and saw that essentially all of them came from the same 6 "top tier" schools for my program/field of study. That meant I had to get into those schools if I wanted to end up a professor. Then I looked at the incoming class of PhD candidates for those schools from that year. They all also came from those 6 schools.

It was especially disappointing when I found incredible research being done in "less elite schools", which I was explicitly told to not apply to or "I would have no chance getting to tenure track interviews." But, guess where those professors at those "less elite schools" came from? Those same 6 schools! It was absurd.

At my own B-tier undergrad school, which I went to because it was affordable and offered me a lot in scholarships, all of the new hires were also from those schools. The whole system was absurd.
> Is there some shadowy cabal of executive saboteurs gleefully cackling at the idea of getting away with a bloated app?

Yes? Have you actually seen this space?

There are tons of shops that get this stuff outsourced to them.

They have executives who gleefully cackle at the idea of hiring the bottom of the barrel developers who wouldn't even know to strip symbols, and cackle at the idea of cracking whips at them so that even if they did know they wouldn't have the bandwidth to do it. All while charging hundreds of dollars per billable hour.
I’ve worked with Chris. I wouldn’t believe a word out of his mouth.
This is why the scientific method is a robust process. When bad theories are investigated, the unyeildimg accumulation of evidence will eventually result in an improving model of objective reality regardless of individual idiosyncrasies.
Take the SE; Small phones like that that have decent hardware are very few, almost non-existent. (Especially the original SE; Even iPhone Mini is not that compact.)

The industry is heavily monopolized, and the regulations are outdated.
Everything can be considered act or war - heck, Putin easily manufactures history which suits his wishes. As they say, Russia is the country with unpredictable past.

On the other hand, there was Cold War - with limited channels for contacts. That experience can be used. However we have the problem which wasn't there in Cold War - the Western politicians are much more spineless, probably because the Western population cares less about war and peace.
Nice design but that external chain looks scary.
Actual acts of actual war, you know, like annexing territories and engaging in military confrontation- should also be considered acts of war, no?

Sorry to tire you so.
Oh look, an acquisition I can be happy about!

Magic transit is a great product, but out of reach for some smaller organisations. SMTP protection is nearly, if not as important as HTTP protection.

I look forward to orange shielding MX records and keeping my inbound SMTP servers non-public facing (perhaps behind an Argo tunnel - if that's possible?).
I hope this has been measured with the binary optimized for the CPU architecture in question, in oder to sqeeze out reasonable gains from likely more portability-focused opus code, particularly regarding vectorization opportunities.
This is a pretty shallow dismissal that doesn't actually provide data to back up the claim. Why would the interference be substantial enough to make them useless? Which weather and maritime radar? There are many at many different bands. What is the meaningful impact of interference on those measurements, and how does it differ from the impact of interference on radio altimeters used in planes during take-off and landing? These are just a few of the reasonable questions that should be answered in such a strong dismissal. Instead, you called it inaccurate without providing any real analysis.

RFI is a problem in these spaces [1]. It's been a problem for many years, and is an increasing one.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283760070_The_Threa...
Method and system for centralized order status tracking in decentralized system
Rule 35: Anything will be used for nefarious purposes eventually
Until a court tells you that you have to abide the policies of the online platforms. Not being allowed to use facebook can have realworld implications. Actors dont use stagenames just because they sound better. They are often to avoid these sorts of legal issues. (Like the three different "Brian Cox" presenters on the BBC. Luckily they rarely cause confusion as they are very different people.)
My boss thinks I'm the crazy one because I do this; now I lnow I'm not alone! I bet there's dozens of us!
Your confused perhaps because your assertion about research done to assess the problem is wrong.

Here is the industry research, presented two years ago:

https://www.rtca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SC-239-5G-In...

Note the telco industry have attacked and politicized the research, but they have not offered up their own data to back up their claims. The aviation industry is on much stronger ground here.

And as another commenter put it so eloquently, the aviation industry assumes something is dangerous until proven safe, not that something is safe until proven dangerous.
Was this a Planetary Society event?
You had everything from (hardcore fetish) porn to hobby subreddits shutdown over the admins not banning "right wing covid disinformation" subs. I agree that not all subreddits involve politics (some even have rules against political posts) but the problem is that it's so widespread that even your niche craft subreddit can have a mod that thinks anyone cares about his opinion/online slacktivism.

The problem isn't their message or political stance, it's more than they usually bring absolutely nothing to the table and absolutely no one asked for political theory classes from the internet equivalent of an unpaid internet janitor/average random subreddit user.

It used to be mostly confined to the default subs but i guess reddit grew so much (and with most of the new users using the default subs first) that the end result was inevitable
It doesn't have to be different; your own employees are developers and can learn to become just as effective at contributing to any given project (and after time, many different projects) if you ask them to and provide them with time to learn.
You aren't getting downvoted for the opinion, but for the tone and lack of constructive feedback. The following is from the HN comment guidelines:

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
And then there's me. I somehow manage to squeeze quite a lot of Android app into several megabytes of an apk — and that's with proguard turned off. Some people's minds get blown by this, but for me it's just sensible engineering decisions.
I've heard Harvard's is/was 96%? Or at least that was for a NIH R01-seeking person there in ~biochemistry in 2015. Where I'm at it's probably around 100% but I really don't want to know. We're all expensive.
Not following the rules is an issue for all road users. So yes, having that dashcam is a good thing. Getting it because of cyclists is prejudiced.

It is also worth noting that motorists sometimes create the problems themselves. I try to stick to traffic regulations while on a bike since, as you say, being predictable is important. (In fact, it's something that a lot of cyclists in my neck of the woods preach.) Then you get a driver who tries to wave a cyclist waiting to make a left turn through when they have the right of way. No thank you. I have no plans on being road kill because the motorist is trying to be nice, and the guy behind him decides to pass on the right.

Unfortunately, tonnes of situations like that pop up. Stopping for pedestrians when they have the right of way can be quite scary. I have had pedestrians to the right thing (push the button, wait to cross), I've stopped, and the car behind me decides to race through. They had plenty of time to stop. I know because I always do a shoulder check before stopping for pedestrians. Not doing so can be fatal. I have had motorists get angry at me for stopping for pedestrians in intersections where pedestrians had the right of way under similar circumstances.

I realize that this is by no means a one way relationship. Some cyclists are idiots, either taking to many risks or by being to timid. Both result in unpredictability. I also realize that the behaviour of some motorists and some cyclists may be due to a "bad day". Let's face it, some people have to be on their bikes or in their cars even if they know they are unable to be fully attentive.

I also realize that there are many incentives to behave properly on the roads because bad behaviour can have nasty consequences. Unfortunately, it often feels as though a lot of drivers failed basic physics and don't understand their larger mass and higher speeds gives them a great deal more kinetic energy.
One word: Hills.
> What's wrong with Public Domain books? The whole Western literary canon is in the public domain. You could spend as much time as you wanted purely on those books without ever needing to read anything proprietary or encumbered.

There is much to be said for that, but tastes differ, and books aren't entirely fungible. If you really prefer reading science fiction and fantasy for example, you're going to run out of public domain and Creative Commons licensed works that appeal to you pretty quickly.
But editing is perfectly pleasant over a serial line. Even at speeds as slow as 9600 bps --- if the screen updates are optimized, like with curses.

I'm editing a file on an embedded system in a PuTTY serial window (115.2 kbps). I'm in a remote desktop connection over a VPN to get to that PuTTY window. (1920x1200 resolution). Everything is responsive; no complaints.

(I'm using BusyBox vi. OMG, it has poor optimization of refresh. I just switched to 9600 bps for fun and opened a small file in the editor. So most of the lines are filled with the tilde character, characteristic of Vi. When I type Ctrl-R to refresh the screen, BusyBox is repainting those ~ lines in their entirety. It's printing all the spaces! It has no knowledge of the "clear to end of line" or "clear from here to bottom of screen" escape sequences. It also scrolls the buffer by repainting, even single line scrolls when you move the cursor down from the bottom line or up from the top line.
At 115200 bps, you don't notice any of this.)
He served 200 days in jail, and seems to have lost minimal social standing. This was also highly exceptional to see any consequences at all. You’re right that the public outrage at the time was not entirely ineffective but the punishment was extraordinarily small.
This isn't a Boeing-specific issue. Boeing doesn't even make the avionics in question. Some of the manufacturers don't even exist anymore. It's not clear who would pay, or how you'd enforce it.

At the time these units were built, the filtering was sufficient to guard against the known adjacent users of the band (low-power satellite signals). Neither the FCC or the FAA set performance standards to suggest otherwise. Nobody expected at the time we'd be blasting high-power omnidirectional signals everywhere at 4 GHz - outside a few specialized uses, it's a terrible band for wide-area communication unless somebody is motivated enough to build tons of towers...which the cell companies suddenly are.

We can agree that the filters are garbage by modern standards, but they were considered adequate at the time the units were built based on the circumstances.
> With radar, it's actually worse! Received signal strength is proportional to the fourth power of distance (1/r^2 on the way to the target, then 1/r^2 on the way back to the radar).

I think that's specifically true when you're pointing a radar at an aircraft, but is not true for radar altimeters.

When you're pointing a radar at an aircraft, the angular size of the aircraft is 1/r^2, so 1/r^2 of the emitted radiation hits the aircraft. Once emitted from the aircraft, the angular size of radar receiving dish is 1/r^2, so 1/r^2 of that radiation is detected.

With a radar altimeter, you're pointing the radar at the ground. The angular size of the ground is 50% of the sphere, whether you're one foot above the ground or 100,000 feet. (...ok, maybe it's like 49.5% of the sphere...) As long as you're pointing it down-ish, 100% of the emitted radiation hits the ground. There is only one 1/r^2 relationship, on the return leg.
Undergraduate Analysis Tools (2013) [pdf]
wow, lost all the artistry, but thank you!
They don't support him - Putin didn't have fair elections, not at least for decades, and would certainly lose in 2018 if not for the corrupted election officials. And the level of support is dropping - wait until Ukraine will start supplying dead bodies back to Russia, and remember how enthusiastic Soviet people were when similar things happened in Afghanistan.
I picked up a beautiful old NAD 4300 the other year. That dial is just extraordinary, they don’t make ‘em like that any more.

https://mikesdx.com/nad4300.html
It's more fundamental. First sentence in that link talks about "enemies" as a kind of axiom. In light of Sagan's quote, such concepts are absurd.
Mapping the Wander Lines: The Quiet Revelations of Fernand Deligny (2015)
Somewhat unrelated but his Library of Alexandria episode is not very accurate:

https://historyforatheists.com/2017/07/the-destruction-of-th...
https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/1nqrl0/carl_sag...
“Make” is too general to be distinctive. Say, they have to compete with GNU Make, makerspace, and all the online forums related to general creative hobbies. Quoting “make” would not help your google search.
I'm not affiliated at all with simula, but I personally haven't had issues with steam on nixos.
Similar to all the ragers about NdGT. Scientists awful at marketing angry about guy who can function well on the radio and tv and inspire funding and the next generation.

Reminds me of all the people still mad about dodgeball in HS. Neil would have pummeled anyone in dodgeball and the nicest dude in person.
That overhead honestly doesn't seem that high to me. If I think about private companies with low need for physical equipment (e.g. software companies) I suspect the overhead would be comparable if not greater. Usually I hear ~100% as an average figure (keeping in mind that overhead is defined as a percentage of non-overhead costs so 100% means half of your money spent is on overhead).

But I'm not that confident. Would love to hear from business owners.
She actually does not have a right to own a business and not comply with nondescrimination law. I think the idea that “doing your job regardless of who you have to do business with” is somehow “spreading sin” is, frankly, bordering on silly. If she disagrees, no one is forcing her to be in the wedding website business. Unless her only back up plan is cake baking, she can do almost any other job and she will not be forced to go against her fringe viewpoint. I believe in absolute freedom in that I believe she is absolutely free to do whatever the fuck she wants as long as it’s not illegal.
Musk says he wants to install Steam games in Tesla infotainment centers
Also it's 128GB not 128GiB.
I think that would depend a lot on your workshop space, ventilation, available power, and the prevalence of nearby flammable surfaces.
Ah, very good!

It's great to see good builds like this - I keep saying "one of these days". In my neck of the woods we have a pretty resource in the form of GRIN[0]. I believe Justin is a longtime participant on endless-sphere.

My latest build (on a Walmart special) was a BBS02 that probably rings in around the same cost but without the openness of this build.

[0] https://ebikes.ca/
The catch is they're Arm servers, so you'll have to check if that's a match for whatever you want to run.
My sources are absolutely not right wing and I dont use facebook. And no, it's not politically savvy to not even wait for an act to go through the senate, it's just obviously a way to avoid the senate vote. You could've just followed the senate debates, there is no need to read minds when the debates are... you know, public?

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2022/02/22/what-eme...?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/senate-emergencies-act-feb2...?
Shouldn't this be a job post?
That WTF article was wrong on a few counts --- the Connection Machine not only ran Fortran, but Thinking Machines engineers were on the Fortran 9x standards body, and I think one of Thinking Machines' Gordon Bell prizes for parallel computing was won by a Fortran program (a seismic data code from a petroleum company).

I believe Thinking Machines faded away for the same reason Cray did --- its supercomputers were fine for doing physics, and a few sales a year to the national labs could sustain a company for a long time. But the end of the Cold War reduced the demand for such machines and they weren't successful in their attempts to shift to commercial applications.

The early Connection Machines were array processors, not that different from GPUs today. Later machines were SPARK-based. Both systems relied on UNIX front-ends.
Is it even legal to distribute San Francisco?
> Somebody has to design the trucks, somebody has to manufacture them, someone has to service them, and somebody has to build the stuff that will charge them in a place the USPS can guarantee the availability of space for and security for their trucks

Are these the reasons cited by the USPS?

As the article pointed out, a key ask was to focus on specific routes that are more suitable to EVs than others.

Every argument you’ve listed will always be a factor when moving to fundamentally new tech. They’re legitimate challenges, yes. But considerations the private sector is already sorting out.

Again, “it’s too hard” shouldn’t equate to “we aren’t even going to try (or even start piloting EVs to start making progress)”. This was unnecessarily forced to be an all-or-nothing rollout, which clearly doesn’t make sense in every region.

As far as overspending goes, there are some great threads elsewhere on this post that present some very reasonable phased approaches that address that.
My Ph.D. wasn't from a top 20 school. But my thesis advisor was a student of a well known Nobel Laureate (he won the prize while she was his student). I'd noticed this trend in faculty back in my undergrad days, when looking at grad schools to attend.

Things working against me when I was finishing up (early-mid 90s), included being at a lower tier school, the massive overproduction of Ph.D.s in physics, combined with reducing NSF and related budgets, and the fall of the USSR, which resulted in extremely senior faculty decamping from Russia and taking every possible post in the west.

This was the time of the Young Scientists Network in the late 80s through mid 90s. Many other soon to be and freshly minted Ph.D.s learned of interminable post-docs, getting your first tenure track when you turned 40 or so, and not getting a tenure decision until you were 48 or so.

I skipped the post doc, and went into industry. Means I didn't get to do much science (occasional collaborations here and there). But I was able to support a family. That latter part was more important to me than anything.

As my daughter shortly decamps for grad school, we are telling her how it really is, and what to expect. My simple guide for her was do what you love, but have a realistic plan to be able to support yourself at the end of the process.

No one ever said that the system is fair. It isn't. But then, neither is life.
Good timing for this; the game just dropped a new patch and new zone yesterday, and the new environments continue this same feeling of very intentional art direction. But with each expansion pack, the assets feel closer to being in-line with modern standards.

It's not the most graphically intricate game still, for the better IMO in terms of accessibility (it still runs improbably well on my 2013 MBP), but these spaces are still evocative and good to look at. For me, anyway.

https://www.wowhead.com/gallery=2049/zereth-mortis-sceenshot...
WOW thanks. Way more fun than if you describe it to me!
My use of the word is a generalization, sorry that wasn't clear.

Agreed, your resume could be tossed for anything. US has some protections for this. Other countries don't have this at all. You don't take a job with a porn company without realizing that. It definitely made hiring more difficult as well.

While working there, we lost access to our web analytics tool because they got bought by a Mormon company that booted us. Endless issues with credit card processors. We also had to host our own server hardware because at the time, porn wasn't allowed on many hosting services and/or we were fearful of being booted from other cloud providers.

That's also what attracted me to my current business venture, which is to provide decentralized cloud infrastructure services (aka: web3). It seems weird to think of that being decentralized, but if we don't know the specifics of what you're running on our hardware, there is nothing for us to turn off. Based on my history, I see a lot of value in that.
It seems theirs is even higher (57%).
That was not an LCD but an LED backlit paper printout. A true MVP (Minimum Vaporware).
I really don't get the hype about WebAuthn. It's only real protection against phishing is that credentials are associated with a particular domain which has been a feature of every password-manager, including the OS/browser built-in ones since forever. The thing requesting the password -- (i.e. the browser) is still the ultimately the source of trust. The treat model these things protect against is so narrow, and now narrower since phones have built-in secure storage, that it can't be worth the effort compared to a marketing push for people to use Bitwarden, Lastpass, 1Password, KeypassX, Browsers, or iCloud password saving. And if you really care about accidental logging of plaintext passwords PAKE already has your back.

If we have the political capital to somehow get everyone on-board with changing their flow I really don't see why it should be webauthn. It's ultimately just a key stored somewhere controlled by the client presenting it, but with more red tape, pseudo-drm, and ewaste.

^ If you're in a high-security setting then go for it, but for the masses nah.
Google Drops Vax Mandate
I think it’s insane to say that making a website meant for someone’s friends and family to see is “promoting an ideology”. She would be primarily collating and displaying data provided to her by her client.

It’s also plain offensive to call having a family an “ideology.” It’s just a thing people do, they’re living their lives.
Nothing in this proposal should take 5 years. For $250k you can easily do this research in a single focused year probably.

I imagine researchers must actually be doing multiple grants in parallel or have other main jobs to earn decent money because if they only do this one thing at a time I have no idea why someone would choose this life of poverty when they could be making solid six figures building practical things.
The environments were compelling enough I guess, but for me the true magic came from giant numbers popping up when I would hit things. Get something with multiple critical strikes in vanilla wow was so singularly satisfying. I couldn’t tell you anything interesting about the map, but I can tell you where I was when I hit my first two handed mace triple crit as a wind fury shaman in pvp. Big numbers and dead opponents. Pure joy.
I remember seeing Hypnocube references and your site probably around 2005 or 2006, but it was so far beyond me at the time I just wrote it off as "cool OK". YouTube wasn't quite what it is today so I never did get to see what it looks like in motion. Today I assume similar things can be done extraordinarily cheap and easily but I still have no idea how. I'm not motivated enough right now to ask, but I just wanted to thank you for giving younger-me's friends something exciting to talk about for a short while.