skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is what's needed on a massive scale to end rent-seeking by publishers.

The problem as I see it is two-fold: one, the academic institution requires publishing to an esteemed journal. And two, the esteemed journal seeks exorbitant fees because they know the institutions want esteemed journals. If a union forced the institutions to stop requiring publishing to esteemed journals, and instead formed boards of reviewers that gave ratings to pre-prints on a donation-based server, then the big publishers would have to adapt dramatically new pricing to compete.
> Types of cave entrances identified in the catalog include lava tube skylights, deep fractures, Atypical Pit Craters (APCs), and other void spaces in karst-similar terrains.

The cave candidates that they displayed in the image were all in the Tharsis Montes surrounding the major martian volcanos in the most volcanic region of Mars, so I suspect that those ones are largely lava tubes.
I like your points overall, but I do think there are tasks “necessary to keep living” that we do value. However with cleaning specifically, there is limited artistry (cooking) or personal growth (exercise) to it.
I appreciate your work here Dang and if you have to ban me I understand. I felt that I had to do something, no matter how small, to prevent someone who would speak like that about an eleven year old being raped repeatedly from coming in contact with children. I'm sorry for any headache I caused you.
I would imagine that in military and defense circles, there are hundreds of highly classified nuclear incidents that we'll never, ever know about in our lifetimes.

The work and materials that these folks worked with in the 50's and 60's were probably so outrageously dangerous that it would bend the mind to think what they were capable of accidentally doing and how much destruction and mayhem that was/could have been caused due to a mistake.
> Hope that the stock doesn't tank more than it already has recently.

, ignoring that Mark has been selling $2Xmm in stock/day since Bethlehem...
I've been browsing without js for a decade. The alternative is to install blockers or live with ads.

I have zero interest in "apps that can improve my life". People have different interests.

Disclaimer: I write us for a living.
Masters programs are typically where you pay tuition and receive training via classes. PhD programs don't have much classwork and instead are positions where students are paid by the university but are expected to perform labor to produce original research.
A New Kind of Science: Review by Cosma Shalizi
So make it legal to re-arrange a song with no profit-sharing?
During Carter's presidency, you had the Iranian hostage crisis, the '79 energy crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent end of Détente.

I think Carter has relatively little blame for these things, but nevertheless, it's easy for me to see why people think Carter was a nice guy but too weak.
Yes, this image isn't the worst example, but as a person with high sensitivity to deformities, I

`python - c "['hate'] * 70"`

generative art for this reason.

I can appreciate it, like it even to some degree, but AGH! Gross!!
This happens a lot already. Probably the best program code was written without compensation. There’s also that infamous OS that started as a hobby project and reportedly runs 70% of public servers on the Internet these days.

People who contribute to OSS have jobs to support themselves, but they also program outside of work, they enjoy doing it and they give away the results of their work for free. It’s puzzling but it turns out above certain point people don’t really care about making more and more money and start being motivated by purpose and desire to do something good.

Unlike music, there’re no money-hungry middlemen between those who enjoy writing software and those who want to run it.
Intellectual property law is so fucked.

Once the artsy thing you did is out there, it is no longer yours. Period.
“Original” is a bit of a sham. There is a vanishingly small chance that any newly created work would actually be unique and new to the world. At the very least, all the usable chord progressions and listenable rhythms for pop have been discovered already.
He's far more financially successful than they were at the same point of their careers. If that's the cost of doing business, it doesn't even begin to move the needle.
They are 1.5 billion in china it's not that easy even if you are using a protein based vaccine...
I was in a nearly identical situation to yours about 10 years ago.

At the end of undergrad finance/economics studies I recognized I needed more technical expertise, so I went to a grad program and learned as much as I could about econometrics. I thought this would eventually position me as a consultant/data scientist.

As I studied, I realized programming was my favorite part of the work.

I used these skills in a few different roles. A couple years later a friend/mentor suggested that I just consider becoming a software engineer.

I never pictured myself in a pure tech role. It worked out better than I would have guessed.

My suggestion is that an engineering role is not as far away as you imagine. You have time to make a career in it, so you should reflect on if you’d enjoy it.
IMO most of the practical "research" I've seen comes in the form of best practices from Big Co. who a) hire very intelligent people and b) have extreme financial incentives to write the best code & have the best processes possible.

In a world where the dependent variable isn't something that can easily be measured in a lab, the next best we can do is either 1\ Ask experts or 2\ experiment in an environment where it's financially advisable to experiment & measure (AKA an environment where running an experiment with 100 engineers is <1% of your engineering headcount).

I.e. I don't work for Google, but I do share things like [0, 1] with new engineers who join my team.

[0] https://google.github.io/eng-practices/
[1] https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1702/1702.01715.pdf
I like Shanghai. Where else would be better?
I note that new computing devices consume less energy for more computing power.

So all things being equal, it's best to replace old hardware with new hardware, since that reduces energy consumption.

Or it's best to replace old hardware with new hardware, since that will give you more computing for the same energy.

The ecological thing to do is therefore to get new computing hardware!!!

Until, of course, no progress can be made on computing hardware efficiency or energy use, but we are certainly far from the limit.

On a more theorical point of view, the best computing device is no computing device. Ie. the biological solution. Instead of _building_ computers, let's _grow_ computers, or already, just better use the computer we have in our brains! Biological computers are already way more efficient than artificial computers, and they're bio-degradable. Of course, the problem is that you need 20 or 50 years to build and program them, you'll have to give something for this degrowth fad.

Eventually, we'll just build everything in space, and drop the required product down to Earth (but probably not, Earth will be a degrowthed natural reserve, and the technological civilization will live and prosper in space).
All of these "X without X" claims seem to be misleading. I thought it was actually able to communicate to people using zoom but it looks like it is just their own conferencing software and so on?
No it doesn't, you can use a wildcard.
Reminds me of: https://www.liftware.com/steady/
So, over $500k per year? Not a bad deal for class of 2019
Only, huh? You know it is quite tiresome this attitude of "if you don't vote like me you're literally pro terrible thing". It is just as annoying as people who would accuse Carter voters of being limp wristed champagne communists.

A lot of the people who voted for him the first time around did not vote for him the second time around for a variety of reasons. Primarily his perceived job performance.
It is compatible − capitalism doesn't require you to profit more than you want.
Most recording artists don't make their living off of a strong copyright system. The RIAA(/MPAA) cartels - who are the ones behind the strong copyright system - ensure that they get the bulk of the proceeds from recordings, and their distribution, and the protections provided by the copyright system. A lot of this comes from having subsidiaries that allow for music industry equivalents of "Hollywood accounting" to funnel the bulk of profits away from the people who actually make the works. Artists mostly make money from live performances and direct merch sales, which don't depend all that much on copyright.

There are maybe one or two unicorns (like Sheeran) who are so successful that they do make buckets of money - but they too serve the industry's ends. They can be pointed at to convince all the new artists trying to break into the biz that the contracts they're getting aren't really that bad, as they too could become the next Ed Sheeran if they try hard enough.

The system we have is not one designed by the artists in the music industry.
I'm in the middle of an apartment search. I was reflecting the other day on how much searching for an apartment has changed over the last 10 years.

Conclusion: it hasn't changed much at all.

It's still necessary to search on a myriad of sites. Most of the time, by the time you inquire, a place is gone. Or the ad was misleading and that "$2000 2BR" is actually "$2000 for the cheapest Studio we have, but we also have 2BR for $3.5K".

Finding places that match my criteria still requires careful inspection of the description. Checking a filter box for "Parking" excludes places that only mention parking in the description.

With all of the modernization and streamlining that has happened in other parts of our lives, apartment hunting remains unstructured, messy, frustrating, stressful.

Aggregators like Padmapper helped for awhile, but these days, it seems like most listings are posted by scammy middlemen just trying to make a commission on the listing, and now the site actively makes the process even harder.

Is hunting for an apartment doomed to be this messy forever? It seems like an area that is ripe for disruption or a better option, but what would it take to actually solve this?

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With all of that said, this post is exactly what I needed right now. I've been toying with a very similar idea to improve the efficiency of my search process and this is good inspiration.
I'm guessing they maybe just grabbed the wrong tiktok video link from Jimmy Choi's profile. Doubt it's anything nefarious. The story is about a product that was kicked off after folks watched one of his tiktoks.
Wouldn’t be Hacker News without a pedantic comment, so here you go. It’s actually spelled “Beatles.”
> think that the twenty year old second generation immigrants of today with no family wealth or financial lifeboat should give up their chance of securing generational wealth

If anyone wonders where the stereotype of the soulless immigrant IT drone comes from, it's from places like this board perpetuating it.

You do not need 'generational wealth' to live a decent life: nobody is forcing you to help Facebook earn ad revenue on genocide[0] - you are making that choice yourself.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-...
Yes. Right now these cases are essentially coin flips -- will this specific judge think that these two songs sound similar enough that there's a >50% likelihood that the defendants had heard the plaintiff's work? Which is why in the long term the only solution for lawsuits like this is to change the law so that mere melodic/rhythmic similarity is not sufficient to file suit.
At most US universities, graduate students who are serving as employees (ie, have stipends and perhaps assigned work in addition to coursework such as teaching) generally have tuition waivers too and don't pay tuition. So your formula about tuition vs compensation doesn't really apply in the individual case.

Anyway, depending on when you were a graduate student, it may currently be a lot harder than it used to be to survive financially as a grad student.

Also wanting things like reasonable health insurance and a modicum of days to take off on vacation or sick leave seem reasonable to me. This is not something all grad students at all universities/departments have.

In general, at many large universities, graduate students do most of the teaching (in terms of hours spent on instruction) -- what is bringing in a substantial amount of the university's revenue. And get treated terribly, at the whims of professors, in very financially precarious situations. It does not seem unreasonable to me to organize to try to get a more secure situation. If you look at the actual changes in university budgets, the amount spent on compensating those doing the teaching is a smaller and smaller portion over time, while the amount spent on administrators is higher and higher. So it might be just as accurate to consider money spent on compensating grad students as competing with administrator salaries as with tuition.
Before I form 'a better argument' for you, can you please make an argument yourself about the effects of the vaccines besides reducing personal risks?

To note: I'm personally vaccinated, but people who think it is OK to restrict personal freedoms of other people based on very fluid and agenda-driven narrative about the current state of the 'scientific consensus' do not get much respect from me. Maybe it is because I'm from a country where personal freedoms are routinely abused and I value them much more than people who take these freedoms for grated.
This is a great project and reminds me of a small project I put together when searching for an off-grid property. Price, property size, and distance to home were key constraints and using something like follium would have made it much nicer than the tabular format I used. Thanks for sharing!
This is all DeviantArt-level art. $1 a piece done by someone who does it as a hobby on the side. Professional designers can churn out stuff like that at a massive speed. It’s the equivalent of stock photos in essence.

Not going to even start on how cheap the whole sentiment of having a dog with a kid and a bunch of starts in the picture. Of course it appeals to an emotion.
>It's crazy to me that researchers prefer to be published over having world renowned software to their name. You could figure out the fanciest database research, but there was a period where every fancy new NoSQL database was based on BerkeleyDB despite all that, bolstering the reputation of the University of Berkeley.

Unless the BerkeleyDB was written based on novel research, it didn't move the state of the art forward, it was just a good, used, embeded database.

In which case, your statement can be rewritten as:

"It's crazy to me that researchers prefer to be known for their research over being known as developers of popular programs".

Doing research is the reason they went to an academic career, if they wanted to be developers, they'd just have gone and be developers.

So, why not strike two birds with one stone, and make high quality widely used software that's ALSO state of the art research based?

Well, because creating "high quality widely used software" is a different process, and needs different resources, dedication, and even skills, than doing research.

To showcase some novel research in practice is much much faster, easier, and cheaper to create "half finished demonstration software", that to create a mature, final, implementation that people can use.

So, either they slow their research considerably, and spent most of the time doing software development work - which besides slowing down the pace of research will also count against them in their academic field, they opt to focus on research and just do simple implementation that are not production ready and aren't meant to be.

Seen in this light, it's not a "crazy" choice, it's an essential tradeoff.
There was an old joke at my company that anyone who showed up for the beginner's Unix class would be fired on the spot.
Fruit in the tropics is unbelievably different from anything you can find in California. You can end up paying Erewhon and higher prices in the US and not getting close to the cheap tropical fruit in India.

It’s a choice, though. Sushi is not as well available. European food is rare. Beef is not as good in India.

If you’ve got cosmopolitan sensibilities you will find that there are trade-offs. For some reason, people get very attached to food so these comments get very contentious.

But a fresh ripe banganapallee is not something you’re really going to experience in America. It is just absent.

And if you live in India only, you will never get to experience top quality BBQ. This is reality.
>and we would have massive amounts of reusable code

Haskell even has problems coming up with a single string / text interface. It's not some magic bullet for code reuse, any more "everybody would write Java and we would have had massive amounts of reusable jar libs".
For folks suggesting that this won't prove you didn't plagiarize a melody somewhere else then "invent" it on video:

Melodies are often revised. Capturing the evolution of a melody may show that the final version emerged from an earlier version which bears less resemblance to the source alleged to have been copied.

If in fact the melody was plagiarized, then the video evidence might actually document an earlier version where the resemblance was closer. But I expect that Sheeran believes he is not plagiarizing and thus doesn't fear this possibility.

More likely, there is only an accidental resemblance between melodies that had no shared origin. In such a case, presenting the creative history would help in a court case.
> I didn't publish the code (or better said, I didn't make it public), but it's similar to yours. Instead of SQLite I used a PostGis database where I stored the apartments with their point to point public transport distance from my office (pre-covid search). I did it in Rust.

How did you convert an address to long/lat for postgis?
SEEKING FREELANCER | US BASED | REMOTE

I'm looking for someone to act as a part-time project manager/scrum master/jack or jill of digital trades.

Initial tasks would include:

- grooming a trello based kanban board, adjudicating bug reports and elaborate feature requests along with CTO and founder.

- formulating acceptance criteria and carrying out acceptance testing for work items in a local development environment and deploying code to gcloud.

- run ad-hoc scripts when requested and perform ad-hoc sql queries to answer questions the founder might have.

Able to pay $50-75 per hour depending on experience and imagine this starting as a 15 hour a month job growing to quarter or half-time within a year. If the person is able to take on additional responsibilities (either managerial or as a coder), the rate could go up $100 per hour.

I imagine this would be a good role for a young person starting out or even in school, a stay at home parent looking to supplement their income, or a retiree looking to keep their hand in the game.

Preference given to folks in the NYC metropolitan area.

contact me at rmoskal+kanban@mostmedia.com.
Serious question, and maybe this is just based on the people I've met: I've been hearing lots of business owners complaining about California's labor laws getting increasingly hostile which leads companies to relocate or move as many resources they can outside of CA, much like Tesla did. Does anyone else share that sentiment?

I personally think that this is well-intentioned but has consequences that need to be thought out before it becomes law.
Art has clearly developed over the millennia and it's possible to trace the lineage of ideas, techniques, subjects, and style back through history which means that most human art is substantially a remixing of older art.
A 小区 is a walled complex containing several residential buildings. 区 is the simplified form of the character 區, which is more or less just a depiction of the concept.

This is the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdistrict#China

(Though it's pretty bare-bones and traces the idea back no farther than the Soviet Union.)
I just learned how to use spreadsheets recently, and I love them. As a programmer, spreadsheets are exactly the kind of tech I want to use every day. User-friendly point and click, IDE features, complex functions mapping data across rows/columns/tables. All I want now is to hook it up to Postgres, and then maybe a new app to automatically design simple web pages that pull out and display data with the same functions. This would save me months of time per year versus manually coding the same things.
Academia (in the U.S. at least) is one of the last vestiges of the old master / apprentice system.
Because I find regressive calls for a past aesthetic tiresome, predictable, and cliched. We do not live in the past, we live in the present. Nostalgia is fun but a highly overrated feeling, and the paintings he references are idealized depictions of life at that time. Not to mention how WASPy and Western-centric it is, I'm sure someone from Asia, Africa, or even some latin state, might feel very different.
> That's a problem because a lot of software engineering involves the behavior of people in groups and coordinating that behavior to produce software.

I'd hypothesize that most applicable improvements to a software engineering company are about - collaboration & best practices - than anything highly technical.
So open source software?
Do you feel the same way about a novel machine? Once the mechanism is out in the world, it is no longer yours?
Right, but even there you still have the square-cubed law working for you - the larger volume you deal with, the less surface area you lose heat through.
The Apollo command module environment was 5 psi pure oxygen. This gave the astronauts lungs the same partial pressure of oxygen that earth atmosphere provides. So not even 14 psi difference, but 5 psi. A difference that can be dealt with during a repair. A commercial aircraft cabin while flying at 40,000 ft has about 8 psi of pressure differential
Keep your marketing, just show us the code.
But you should talk about it because when you say it 'utterly fails', you leave out that GLIDE does much better: https://cdn.openai.com/papers/dall-e-2.pdf#page=15
Relevant: https://youtu.be/sfXn_ecH5Rw
There are many examples of this sort of thing. In Western societies many of the “universal” myths may be correlated to events 10,000+ years ago, yet persist!
I have a 12 pro max and the scrolling part is stuttering a lot. Almost unusable 5-10 fps.
No, not unprecedented, see my earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30969055 TL;DR is many grad students at UW Madison had a union until about 10 years ago.
> Writing these disk images requires a Central Point Deluxe Option Board,

oo. I should dig mine up.
> The downside in that small industry was that when a competitor saw a question that aligned with our unique product offering, they knew we were in the mix

Has anything negative happened due to that? Were you ever outbidden?
I wish there would be a publication habit for industry SWE, we could all benefit from the reports from the trenches. I know we have blogs and the occasional books but I would really enjoy an in-between.
That's because the US (and many other 'westernized' locales) have this shitty ideology where the individual matters more than other individuals or the collective.

It's why the US has so many scammers and fraudsters.

Edit: this is from my perspective living in the US. I'm not saying that the US has more scammers than other places, just a ton due to this western ideology. My comment about the ideology includes places such as Europe and possibly even China now
But most musicians don't do it on demand night after night for consumers.