skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ya sorry, if you want a tenure track position for your excellent contributions to academia, the chances you went to a not very good school are quite low, because those folks typically aren't doing the top tier work. It's not that it's not possible, and we see that with it not being 100% of the time, but by the time you're in grad school, the top talent starts to rise to the top... particularly for the sciences where tuition isn't a factor because the school pays you (so it's not just about how rich you are).

Personally I see this actually as a fairly good thing as a student - when I was in less good schools I was always happy to know when a teacher/professor had gone to a top school themselves. You want to be taught by the best.

Academia is really hard. There are very few spots, and there's a wide spectrum of talent that exists. The top 25% is a very large spread already (I'd suggest the bottom of that 25% shouldn't really be called elite), and you will easily encompass a huge portion of the best in it just by virtue of pareto distributions. There will possibly be some weaker talent that might get a job that could have been had by an equally weaker talent from a non-top 25% school, but I seriously doubt that's a general rule. There's just not enough slots, and the top talent is so much more obviously capable than the bottom talent.

For reference, I've personally attended a wide variety of schooling in the US (public & private pre-grad, community college, lower-tier state college, upper-tier state college, and elite private graduate) and seen the differences in the population makeup. There has been top talent everywhere, but the percentage at the school has varied drastically (from <1% to >50-90%).

I don't know why we pretend that all people are created equal, from equal backgrounds, and should be expected therefore to have equal results... and if they don't, then bias must be inherent! This is to me ideals of what society ought to look like forced onto messy reality where it's patently not the case. Not everyone is an A+ talent, and in fact, those are rare by definition. The percentage of A+ talent is going to drop as you go down the totem pole. That's just life.
Upgrading my home internet; a story of yak shaving
IT also. Don't FAANG and the like generally hire from elite schools only?
Isn't this basically just dogfooding? I mean, if as an elite administrator you don't think that the degrees from your own and similar schools aren't vastly superior to ordinary schools, how do you justify your school's existence (and tuition)?
The Doom and Wolfenstein Black Books are highly worth the price, even if wolf3d is older than you are!
Having done some network code on the 16-bit Xerox Alto, it's a big pain if you can't access bytes directly. If you want to deal with characters, you need to do shifts and AND operations, depending if you want the odd byte or the even byte. It's very annoying.
It certainly polarizes people. The people in the middle who aren't that passionate about things tend to just scroll past, but the “passionate” ones just yell at each other and either keep doing that ad inifinitum or they form an echo chamber where they can call others snowflakes.
Polish–Soviet War
Is there any move towards an investigation of some sort into whether Trudeau will face penalties of some sort for invoking these extreme measures without the justification of there being no other law to address the issues?

Specifically I am thinking about this interesting interview with Dr. Leah West onthe Michael Geist LawBytes podcast. From about 8 minutes onwards they discuss whether the terrorist justification or the foreign influence justification existed: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/02/law-bytes-podcast-episod...

It is interesting to see some commentators in this HN thread trying to suggest Russian influence. (And also IMO not very convincing).

In any case, whatever opinion you have on this, it's a good podcast.
American Airlines Boarding Pass
they went from:

- 5G is bad because it is a Chinese tech and they can spy on us

to

- it interfere with our equipments

Looks like they learn, instead of admitting they are behind china in telecommunication tech, they now push the idea that it just is making our "old btw" tech unusable

Nice, the Western culture!
Feels like a non-satirical version of this [0].

[0] https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/8-years-old-with-no-f...
Depends on where. Much of the east coast is wet enough the fires aren't a regular occurrence, and the dead underbrush rots away. I recall one in SE Pennslyvania in the past 30 years.

https://www.pottsmerc.com/2013/04/07/french-creek-state-park...

Hmm, this makes me question my dismissal of the concerns, but still supports the idea that it's not a long term concern on the east coast.
Yeah it depends--I use ngrok (or similar services) for access to internal stuff I run. I don't want to pay money to run a VPS in the cloud when I have a NAS, etc. running it at home. But I also don't want to pay a premium for a public IP at home, and deal with the immense security headache of securing such an entrypoint from the public internet. So a tor hidden service works great as a no cost VPN-like alternative.

But yeah if your goal is "expose this thing with a public IP/DNS" then there is no way around using your own server, or buying/leeching off a service like ngrok.

You don't need any incoming ports open for a tor hidden service either though. Both the server and client side connect out to tor, and then get routed to each other over it.
Can't we adjust for 3-sigma conversations? :)
Tell that to the cop that doesn't give a shit about what's actually legal and will put you in cuffs for recording them anyways.
Yeah, sure, definitely FreeCAD. OpenCASCADE failing to make fillets, blocking the main thread with long operations and crashing the entire application is exactly what I always wanted to see in VR!
Can anyone find any sources indicating whether this interference has been tested or measured? The FCC decided to auction off the 5G spectrum for fast data usage almost 5 years ago, one would think there'd be a study or experiment or two since then.

Several months ago when the grumbling got loud, all the articles seemed to talk about "potential" interference, and despite the FAA having an $18 billion annual budget, and Boeing and Airbus and airlines having bigger budgets than that, and having almost 5 years notice, I got the distinct impression that no one had bothered to do any tests. But they took to the media to raise the alarm about "danger" instead.

I'm actually hoping to be proven wrong here - please point me to some experiments or test results!
Yes! Some desktop 'widgets' that show 3d content from various forms.

I wouldn't go as far as fsv[1] but some basic in-environment vis is called for.

[1] http://fsv.sourceforge.net/screenshots/
Exceptions as a concept weren't a mistake, but their specific details and implementation absolutely is.
Sure, but being involuntarily filmed while having sex is currently much more harmful than being involuntarily filmed while golfing.

There is no good reason it has to be this way, sex is one of the most normal activities one could be engaged in.

Perhaps we should assign some blame to the society around the victims?
I mean you have a good point. Which is why people should be afforded a basic income and guaranteed housing, so they can't be exploited like this.
My numbers may be a bit out of date, but I feel are still somewhat in the ballpark. A battery that gets you 300 miles on a charge (90 kWh?) can be charged 1500 times, and costs $20,000, so that is $13 of wear per charge, plus about $12 worth of electricity (probably more, just basing off battery capacity not counting charge / discharge losses). So that is $25 per 300 miles. A car that gets 30 miles/gallon will cost around $30 per 300 miles. So electric saves you ballpark about 16% in fueling costs.

I'm sure though that the battery packs will come down in price by the time they need replacing, on the other hand the charging costs may be higher due to thermal losses.
That is exactly what's been happening. The FCC has continued with the 5G rollout, and the FAA published a NOTAM prohibiting use of radio altimeters on approach until each model can be proven safe.

However, folks are now unhappy because that means no Cat II/III approaches, which means airliners can't land in fog or bad weather... which means significantly more airline delays while all this gets sorted out and equipment gets recertified or upgraded. Consequences.

(Also, fwiw, the avionics aren't built by Boeing, and this is not a Boeing-specific issue. It impacts other aircraft from all manufacturers.)
I stopped using Reddit years ago when I noticed nearly every thread, no matter how insightful, devolved into huck huck cynical bantering. I even had more than a year of Reddit Gold, but even the gold forums got pretty banal. I suppose the fake snobbery was good silly fun, but it didn't make the rest of the Reddit experience any better.

It's actually what brought me to HN.
And many hundreds of emitters. All those towers and phones pumping out 1s and 0s will occasionally line up in a way thay looks like a higher/lower frquency. The aircraft looking down sees across multiple cells. All sorts of strange combinations might occur. Thats what guard bands are for.
That was meant to agree with you - AptX is a kind of ADPCM with some other filters added on, so this could be the same thing. That's how it gets low latency.
This probably also breaks the rules, but uhh, thanks for smacking these bozos Dang. I have been here since HN started [ahem, I did lurk for a few years] and I really appreciate it being kept to high standards and a great place to discuss tech and such :)
In case anyone did not catch this: ""Resolve this:" Gov. Whitmer calls on Canadian government to reopen Ambassador Bridge" https://wwmt.com/news/state/resolve-this-gov-whitmer-calls-o...

A shaming moment for Canada.
Yeah, given that there are more PhD-holding job candidates than their are faculty positions available in a given year, this is the expected result in two scenarios:

1) The scenario where signalling matters above all else. So there's too many highly-credentialed candidates for the openings at the institutions they graduated from, so they apply to jobs at lower-tier institutions.

2) The scenario where these institutions are producing truly better candidates and the interview process is robust. There's still too many great candidates for the "same-tier" positions, so they apply to lower-tier.

This rules out a few scenarios such as: "the interview process is robust BUT these institutions produce no-better candidates" but it doesn't tell us much specifically about the interviewing process or the candidate quality because of the candidate pool size.

A few interesting followup data points would be:

1) what ratio of graduates go into faculty positions for each tier of school. It must approach 0% at the lowest tier, but how quickly does it fall off?

2) what does industry hiring look like? Do you see a similar distribution, or are faculty positions preferred by enough PhDs that top-tier industry companies have to "settle for" a broader set of schools?
Yeah - I assume this particular case must be due to an actual bug in the games engine, rather than just poorly optimized shaders etc. I'm curious to know exactly what causes it though.
I think it's regression to the mean. When reddit was relatively small it was possible for them to have a group that was, on some dimensions, above average. As reddit becomes larger and larger those dimensions return to the population mean. That feels like, and is, a decline in quality.

Reddit has an inherent problem in that the only people who are moderators are the people with the time and inclination to be moderators. These people tend, to borrow the previous language, to be below average in certain dimensions.

Reddit naturally incentives low effort content. A thoughtful essay that takes thirty minutes to read will fall off the new or hot pages simply because the people who see and read it are still busy reading as the submission decays. A funny meme that can be consumed at a glance will get quick upvotes and enter a positive feedback loop where more people see it, more votes, more people see it, etc.

Finally, reddit's developers seem to have no idea what they are trying to do. I mean "developers" in a broad sense encompassing the entire company developing the product. They reproduce useless and obnoxious features, clutter their UI, degrade the core user experience and so on - chasing engagement metrics. Perhaps these, um, improvements, appeal to a certain audience, but my intuition is that audience repels a different sort of audience.

In short, I do think reddit has gone downhill and is accelerating. My account there is 12 years old but I stopped using it regularly 4 or 5 years ago.
Do you write a précis for every thing that you want to retain? And do you have a filing system for them?
Reddit has a outlet though, you can just make your own echo chamber there, and don't have to leave the platform unless you're a particularly ornery bunch like the gamergate stuff and subreddits where people start threatening and doxxing.
There are tools for latency measurement for VR applications. Before FB acquired them, Oculus had one for $99. But jitter's just as bad as latency. That usually required some thinking to work on.
Im not so confident that car drivers are not sensitive to cost changes. Eg. The gillet jaune protests in France over gas price changes
While I admire your commitment to practicing what you preach, I can't help but think that you've taken it further than it's meant to go, though in a way that's hard to place. But it feels ... abrupt. Offensively effusive. A stream of emphatic points without a break.
I'm going to be a downer here, and would bet that since this system requires lots of drones flying around to identify fires that it's more likely for one of those sensor drones to crash and cause a fire rather than actually identifying a fire small enough for a few "fire ball" retardants to extinguish an actual fire.
I agree with this outlook. The 'product' of elite academic institutions is academicians capable of working within elite academic environments. In other words, these elite institutions act as their own incubators, selecting only a small proportion of their PhD students and post-docs to join their faculty.

As you say, it is unclear what the actual 'product' of low tier schools actually is - yes, many will graduate with a PhD funded by public and/or private grants, but ultimately low tier PhDs aren't valued much by either the academic or industry job markets. One possible explanation is that the 'product' of the low tier PhD programs is to further the existence of the PhD program.

Edited for clarity
Public models like GPT-NeoX-20B need a minimum of 45GB of VRAM. That's two 3090s, (Maybe four, five grand, depending on how much effort you spend on bid sniping ebay auctions) or a single A100 80GB. ($20,000+)

Also note that NeoX-20B is pretty good, but it's not GPT-3 quality.
Why would you paint pixels with a CPU when you have a GPU that's optimized for it? :)
What of the two teams collectively bargain together? Seems like that would lead to equal outcomes (same contract).
For information, Sepia Search is the search engine of PeerTube videos, channels and playlists, developed by Framasoft (developer of PeerTube)
I was wondering what was being described! Clicking the lower right on iOS seems to work well enough.

Thanks for all your work on these.
We do NOT hold other media platforms accountable this way. Other media platforms do not publish user content, they publish their own content.
I don't think that these p2p technologies are going to win out. They're just objectively inferior to centralized services except in rare cases.

But the fact that they're being maintained, and probably will be maintained in the future, is really good. In the event of a serious war or disaster, even locally, they could really come in handy.
Example from the other point of view:
https://www.5gandaviation.com/
> "She has trouble seeing" is not as clear as the original "...which has impacted [...] eyesight". True, "impacted" is unwieldy and could be improved, but the causal link between the premature birth and the health difficulties is no longer explicit and must now be inferred, taking more mental effort from the reader.

It's even worse, because "seeing" is often used metaphorically e.g. "She has trouble seeing his point" and "She has trouble seeing how she can find a job." "Eyesight" specifies that the seeing we're talking about has to do with eyes.
There used to be (maybe there still is) this kind of situation in the FreeBSD world. Employees became maintainers, maintainers were highly sought after as employees and lots of contracts were signed. It didn’t tick the gpl boxes, but there was a good and healthy dialog between the open and closed sourced worlds and a lot of the maintainers were able to make a good living.
That may be because back in the 90s it took some skill to get online and participate in any way with others.

I definitely miss the way people would freely help further technical facets as new technologies came about.
Democracy in Decline Worldwide
Haha I hadn't see that but sadly it is. I was put through a similar process and burned out hard with school by 16.
> I don't know why we pretend that all people are created equal, from equal backgrounds, and should be expected therefore to have equal results...

I think the number of people who truly believe that are low. But you'll find people all over the map in HOW they disagree with it!

For instance, if you point out that some people have unequal backgrounds, you might get labeled "woke," especially if you push for certain policies to try to mitigate that!
Of course sex is normal, but thousands of years of societal development in vastly different circumstances around the world tend overwhelmingly to agree that it is a private matter, not a spectacle for public entertainment.

Perhaps we shouldn't be in quite such a hurry to discard centuries of tradition just because "gee, the internet makes it easy and anonymous..."
"If you want a community without bad actors, bigots, cranks, etc, then it has to have rules and moderation, which means censorship."

There are alternatives to rules, moderation and censorship that are still effective at filtering out undesirables.

As far back as more than 25 years ago, usenet news readers had kill files, scoring and filtering at the client level.

For various reasons, the mainstream social media platforms chose not to give their users these tools, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
It was also a bit of a nightmare of abuse, and a golden age of worm attacks. If you annoyed the wrong person on IRC suddenly your internet was DOS'ed offline.
"Quantity has a quality of its own"
Well it's a 50% stock deal and Cloudflare's stock is a tad down from their high, too.
> I think you mean becausr if bicyle infrastructure rather than bicyclists.

Nope. I thought I was pretty clear. There's no sane reason to park in the middle of the road around a blind corner. Or draft. Or wander randomly in and out of the bike lane into traffic.

> I see cars overtake on the right all the time

It's still illegal, and for good reason.
Just imagine how much Area 51 Security would cost to buy.

/some jokes have to be made just to get them out of the way
And dropping "american" both changes the meaning and reveals the mind of the translator. There are other sign languages, some perhaps easier for those with hand tremors. I think it safe to say that only a fellow american would drop that adjective to make the sentence more readable.
I was recommending Henry James in reference to readers attention spans, who often balk at the idea of reading anything quite as dense as from James' writings. But they're missing out. His famous Chp. 42 from Portrait of a Lady is the single best articulation of personal reflection on a failed marriage I have ever read - ever. [0] Losing out on that simply because it's a big imposing paragraph suggests an unwillingness to challenge oneself, which, I think at least, is only to our loss as our attention spans wane.

Specifically for non-fiction, I would recommend R.G. Collingwood, a philosopher of ordinary language who was writing in the late 1930's. His writing, like many philosophers from that time, balances depth with clarity with stunning skill. His introduction to his book "The Principles of Art"[1] is one of my favorite bits of writing ever because of just how clear it is. The paragraphs are often long, but they are meticulously edited to keep forward momentum, and a sense of dawning awareness of a problem which he is solving, present without dragging the reader down. Most of all they are calm. It never seems rushed, or forced, or over-pruned. It's a rhetorical style of instruction that only works when you incorporate length into your writing.

As an aside, the first sentence in the introduction is one of my favorite openings of all time.
"The business of this book is to answer the question: What is art?"

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[0]: http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/portrait_lady/4...

[1]: https://books.google.ca/books?id=SXpMC9416y4C&printsec=front...
I am not motivated by the schadenfreude, myself. I was just speaking to motivations that one may have for hanging around a site with a significant startup readership.
Well, the number of people arrested for underage drinking is nonzero - the same cannot be said for kids watching porn.
Technically yes however home cnc's that are aluminum capable are so much more common than when I first started back around 2008. Taking inspiration from but not achieving the precision found here: http://oneoceankayaks.com/madvac/madvac_index.htm
You're pulling our leg, right?
If your movement is "based on inclusion" and the population that you strive to include contains Nazis, then your movement will be a Nazi movement sooner or later. Often sooner.

The story of how a bar becomes a Nazi bar applies to any community, not just bars. Karl Popper didn't stutter.
Until app stores start penalizing apps for their size, there is little incentive for developers to improve. And I guess the phone makers don't mind forcing people to buy new phones - although a shortage of space would also get people to stop buying more apps, so maybe that doesn't play into it as much as a desire to keep developers happy.

Notably, the Google Play Store doesn't even show the app size. I bet just showing it below the download button would already create significant pressure to reduce size. Both major stores used to have some form of limit - either a hard one, or a soft one where users would get warnings or the apps would only be downloaded over WiFi - which kept developer madness in check, but that seems to be gone now.

Some banking apps are the worst offenders, because banks know that few people will change their primary bank just because their app was too big so they don't care at all. Revolut is 200 MB (for comparison: Chrome - a complete browser! - is 50 MB), and that isn't the biggest one on my phone.
Oh, that's just where my mind goes when I hear of a mobile app that goes with some piece of physical hardware. I don't know of this actually happening.
> 25% of the institutions produced 71 to 86% of all tenure-track faculty. Between 70 and 90% of professors at these elite schools received their doctorates from other elite schools

The top 25% are not what I think most people would call 'elite', though maybe there's a different understanding within the industry (i.e., in academia). Is the top 25% considered 'elite' in anything? Top 25% of software developers? Chess players? Playwrights? Restaurants?

Elite means to me the top 6-10 schools. I don't know how many are included in the top 25%, but I'd guess over 250 (anyone know?).

I'm surprised it's the top 25%; that's actually pretty broad-based and seems appropriate. The professors are supposed to be the 'elite' among students. If they lack the academic ability and drive to even attend a school in the top 25%, do I want them as a professor? (Of course there are exceptions.)