skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the difference between leaving a page and leaving the tab hanging open in the background for a week?
Smack in the middle of the page is a TikTok video with obnoxious music, completely irrelevant to the article. What is the point? Showing TikTok that I accessed the page?
There's a drone flythrough of an Australian Plywood Factory from a year ago on YouTube[1], and it made me think: why would managers Segway around a factory in future[2] when they could have FPV drones with cameras and speakers and microphones to oversee everything that's happening from above, from the comfort of their office far away? Drones could have pre-set waypoints to fly to the interesting places or supervisor stations automatically, come back to charging stations automatically, do hourly flythroughs of preset routes for regular audit and inspections of production lines or warehouses, like CCTV cameras that can move.

It's going to be a no-fun future for a lot of people.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP-gTCp5Kac

[2] or golf cart, scooter, drive, walk. Segway was that kind of 'futuristic transportation'.
Subscription based SaaS doesn't bother me in and of itself. Cloud based supporting multiple collaborators and multiple devices, tech support often built in, no managing upgrades or patches, etc.

The problem is portability and lock-in. Which itself might be due to lack of standardization.
But we'll still be using XML.
Not even an island works unless you stop travel forever
The Chinese vaccine is substantially less effective than the mRNA-based ones, and it hasn't been mandated so the vaccination rate is still low in some areas/populations.
I was originally an econ major in undergrad. Back in my senior year in 2012, I realized I was facing call center or similar work, so a few months before graduation I set out to teach myself to program.

Fortunately I was able to achieve decent enough competence and get an entry level software job shortly after graduation.

A year later I got a job offer for a startup out in SF and moved out there, leading to a fruitful career.

I felt like an imposter for about 3-4 years, but that feeling has long faded.

Nowadays it seems bootcamps are probably better value than self teaching, given the structure, though I don't have any personal experience there.

I also highly recommend the Georgia Tech OMSCS program for a very cheap but fairly rigorous masters program in CS you can do on the side. Formal credentials aren't super important in tech, but it's cheap and quick enough that it felt like a no brainer to me. And the projects, at least at the time, were very intensive and useful for learning certain concepts.

So highlights:

- Teach yourself/bootcamp

- Never give up. There is so much demand in tech, you will find an in if you keep trying, even without formal background. It's basically impossible to fail if you're persistent

- Become an expert. You'll feel like an imposter for awhile, but you can meet and surpass those that went the formal route within a few years, if you put in the work. Vast majority of people only improve marginally after college. Your career is much longer than a 4 year degree

Anyway, happy to chat more/provide mentorship if you're looking for it.
It might be helpful for furthering the discussion if both of you actually acknowledged the parts of the other's argument that you agree with, if any.
Yes the included Bash is very old, but installing an updated version is trivial. I'd rather have something included than nothing.

Does BSD varient vs GNU varient matter when we're considering if something is unix-like? No one would say that the BSD distributions are not Unix derivatives. As they say, "GNUs Not Unix..."
Since you were never going to join their mailing list, no, you are simply saving them bandwidth.

What you don't realise is that x number of people join the list and x number of people tolerate being spammed with 'did you know we sell stuff' emails every day for the rest of their lives. x number of those people actually do buy something; likley the thing they intended to buy originally but joined the email list in case a discount code would be the subject of the first 'welcome' email because this is what they have been trained to expect.

All this has been A/B tested and, thus, has been 'proven' to be great business practice.
Ed Sheeran’s filming of his creative process for legal purposes hints at a world where it doesn’t matter if you can improvise a great melody in the moment out of nothing—if they happen to overhear you playing it, any plagiarist with a camera can record a convincing sequence of iterations leading up to your brilliant riff and successfully sue you into oblivion.

I wish for a world where musicians make music because they like it more so than to profit; a world where improvising on someone else’s musical idea is considered homage, not theft. (That said, I imagine many bands whose music I like were in fact inspired by fame and riches of rockstars before them.)
I visited Persepolis (and the tombs) in Spring 2019.
Etsy sellers have experience with that. There’s many clips on TikTok of Etsy sellers complaining about customers being unreasonable. Such as “I ordered the wrong thing. Send me the correct one!” Then the seller says “ok, can you send the wrong one back?”, the buyer says “no. Here’s a chargeback.”

Then there’s buyers who just use chargebacks as a way to get free stuff. Buyer asks for a refund, seller asks for it back (even offering to pay for shipping), buyer says no and issues a chargeback.
I paid ~500 US for two.
There could be the next Knuth among us. Excited to see what they bring.
The difference of 1atm between sea level and the void doesn't tend to yield violent explosions and has been survived. It's not remotely going to resemble a diving bell accident or something. A small puncture and large volume will give time to respond before disaster.
Even though I think many senior academics are often terrible jerks and sometimes capable of behavior that borders on criminal, I don't see unions as being much of a help at all.

I've been soured recently by one big event that happened at a place where I sometimes work. One guy was accused of doing something unwoke in his time off the job. Normally, this guy was a big union booster and even a union rep in some negotiations. It turns out, though, that didn't matter because the other union reps wanted his promotion. He had zero relationship with the management because he was frequently aggitating for this union cause or that union cause. So when push came to shove, the management hated him and they were able to cite the lack of support of his so-called union buddies as proof that he was bad.

I think students think that the union will bring them some kind of lightweight version of tenure. It could help in a few negotiations or some extreme cases, but I think that all too often it will just be another layer of self-interested semi-managers who are just as corruptable as the regular managers.
Are people with means able to bribe the "baoan" ? I wouldn't be surprised if some sort of black market economy were developing.
I think it says it in the post. Blind 75 and some YouTube videos
for example: https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20210622_94694594
>It’s common knowledge, that VW went all in with their diesels and totally ignored petrol engines for a long time.

Sorry, but that "common knowledge" is wrong. Source: I know people working in the VW engine research and design lab, and they can be very talkative (probably to the point where they broke NDAs while a little drunk).

What is true is that VW, at a certain point, did invest significantly more in diesel engine tech than in petrol engine tech. But not to the point where they ignored petrol engines. They couldn't afford to do so, as they were serving many markets where diesel is rather uncommon (for personal cars). And at that point in time, they already had petrol engines that were very competitive and often even leading the pack (depending on the model). Not that any of this matters a lot today, as all that is quite a bit in the past now.

That isn't to say that some VW models are rather shit when it comes to reliability. The VW Jetta, which isn't even sold in Europe I believe, has a particularly bad rep in that regard.

Specially for petrol engines, the 2006/2007 EA111 TSI (1.2l and 1.4l) have a particular bad rep for reliability, and later EA111s are a mixed bag at best. Earlier EA111s and the successor, the EA211 (1.0 to 1.4l), do not have the same bad rep, and in fact got at least decent reliability rep and favorable mpg rep. The "bigger" EA888 (1.8l/2.0l) initially had a design flaw that caused excessive oil consumption in a lot of cases, which was later fixed in future iterations of the engine.
Yeah I'm a bit crazy, as someone else pointed out, it's a https://plumspace.com/ smart SFP.
You write like the professors are just sitting around raking in the glory, but not doing anything while they let everyone else does the work. The reality is that professors tend to work just as hard as their grad students. I completely agree that academia is very disfunctional, but it actually affects all levels. I am familiar with many academics that work >60h a week every week, in fact I believe the most outrageous examples of overworking grad students comes from academics who work crazy hours and expect everyone else to do the same.

What many don't see is that the way academic financing works is that academics spend probably >30% of their time on writing grants and evaluating others grants and then they have to report on the grants as well. Then there is all sort of other buerocratic work that they have to do, and the view by most of the admin staff that surround them is that academic time is not counted, which means most reporting systems are made so it's easy for the administrators but not the academics.
> Again, as someone who went through this very recently, the problem is the power imbalance between the institution and the students. They have complete control over your supply of labor.

I'm pretty sure people were saying the same things during the early labor movements. "They'll just replace you, they have all the control, you'll just screw up your life." The thing is, they were probably right. For a while it really sucked. But the result in the long run was that the generations that followed ended up starting with a much less lopsided power imbalance.

You acknowledge that there are problems and have ideas for where you'd like things to go. What you don't have is a proposal for bringing about the cultural shift you desire. How do you propose to get schools to allow part-time work or to change any other bad practice if not through organizing the workers?
You don't need to review every line. Just general code quality, and search for obvious obfuscations/or things like these.
Yeah this is related to the reason I'm not sure how much a traditional union can really help here - "school" and "work" become blurred beyond distinction for many grad students. Anyone with funding from an RAship is both getting paid and making degree progress because of their work in the lab. Some items will be very clearly a lab duty and some will be very clearly for personal development, but a lot of time is also spent on tasks that fit into both "work I'm doing in exchange for my funding" and "research training that is counting towards my degree requirements".

I'm not sure how much impact a union can have on anything that isn't purely on the "work for funding" side. I'm all for TAs to unionize with a national org because it doesn't run into this issue and there is also less overall job heterogeneity there. But how do you negotiate highly personalized degree requirements as part of a labor union? There could be some high level policy changes that would help future students, but I don't think we know exactly what would work best. And will these national orgs even choose to prioritize that kind of improvement?

The UAW unions that have formed at a few other places over the last 5 years have helped raise salary/benefits a bit, but there has barely been discussion of fundamental changes that could help fix academic training. It's pretty focused on basic labor rights.

Maybe it is just my department but most people I know wanted to do a PhD knowing the terrible salary, and what they really feel ripped off on is the lack of academic freedom that was promised as part of this training. People want a union because they feel ripped off, I get it, but the union leaders are working towards a pretty different type of resolution from everything I can tell. Maybe this is just the first step in the process, but I'm skeptical.
OpenAI’s New AI Thinks That Birds Aren’t Real
Medallion has been closed for new investors since ... a long time ago. Nobody has an explanation how they can sustain such an absurd return, but there are a few theories floating around.

Subjectively the one that appeals most to me, is that the fund has an investment strategy built around their ability to identify and capture very specific types of opportunities - and that there are only so many of them globally in any given year. This puts an upper bound to how much the fund even can invest, because their strategy works for scenarios that are limited both in size and frequency.
Thank you! In the past two weeks I have been mainly working on vst and Bela board support and it works.
update:
another thing is that I added responsive design to the website and support for the safari. Really wish to get more feedback on that as to adapt to different browsers is really a painful process.
Why do you think Facebook are so evil? I understand that their main product has negative effects on society, but so does every social media platform (including LinkedIn and Twitter).

More than the other platforms, Facebook has tried to moderate and reduce harmful content. They have much larger teams working on this both algorithmically and with human moderators.

If your issue is with their tracking and data privacy issues, what are the harms caused by that?

I’m asking just as much out of ignorance as I am asking to challenge you. There’s a strong narrative that Facebook and Zuckerberg are evil and it looks like dogma to me at this point. Why is TikTok not receiving the same level of scrutiny?

If someone were to give Zuckerberg the benefit of the doubt, you could argue that Facebook has brought huge positives to this world. They established social media. They created a tool that lets you up to date with friends and stay more connected with these people than was ever possible before. Perhaps any tool like that was inevitably going to come with negative effects.
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> I don't see the point of a tool like NSH for OpenBSD

I think the point is getting rid of this risk:

> ... forgive me if I missed something
What's your list of classic papers for language models for code, static analysis, or code summarization?
whiteboxarx: Implicit White-Box Implementations of ARX Ciphers
Tesla update 2022.12.1 enables bottom bar icon customization, more (rel notes)
What if they just close their laptop lid, or the browser crashes? You can't reliably detect when a user leaves with this method, so you _cant_ use it for anything critical
What's the best place to find an entry level job as a developer?
A friend of mine just graduated from a 6 month bootcamp learning Java and JavaScript. I plan on asking my friends if anyone they know is hiring but getting that first job is always tricky.

Any job sites that are especially good for first time jobs or other tips?

I've had him set up a linkedin account but harder to get recruiters before the first job
Pity us poor fools trying to use a touchpad on this. My fingers nearly caught fire.
They probably are. I had to email them and send an international wire transfer.. it was not one-click shopping.

They are russian but shipped from Germany though, so, sanctions maybe they aren't able to sell anymore, dunno.
"You pop up in a few convo threads that TobyTheDog is in."

So do you. So do I.

It's not a coincidence, and it's not the implied other explanation.

It's because the structure of vote-sorted top-N list sites like HN, Reddit, and so on, focuses most people on the same short list of topics.

We will all bump into each other again, whether or not we have any intention of doing so.

We're all chatting on the first two pages of stories. We will all collide frequently with people holding similar hours.
Any regime that takes no feedback is bound to crumble. I hope they realize that people starving in their homes does no good for those in power either.
This is interesting to hear, because distrust got so deeply embedded in Hungarians in the previous and the current system, that at this point, barely anyone believe anything, and the ones that do follow after the conspiracy lunatics.
You shouldn't be confused if you read the article. The actual PRNG is implemented in rand_r() and is the first place most people would look. The issue is in the reentrant wrapper in rand().
Per Wikipedia [1], legal proceedings started in 2018, and the actual court hearing stage happened over the past month. It's not clear how much of that time was waiting for whatever reason, versus ongoing back-and-forth motions and such.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_You#Copyright_trial
Have you checked Tesseract or Apache Tika?
I sold my first tech company at 15 years old
It's "advising" in the same sense that you pay a gangster for "protection".

Nice career trajectory you got here, but in a field like this one... shame if something bad happened to it...
It seems like you're attempting to suggest that third party javascript is on equal trust footing with major tools and things by international corporations
I agree with last paragraph, while maybe not very relevant for young single male, certainly very relevant who plans to settle down.

But honestly choosing between US and India to raise kid is choosing between two very bad options and there are more options in world, someone with IT background shouldn't have many issues to move to Europe which would be certainly better option long term raising the family, but maybe slightly worse career wise.
That small minority seem to have disproportionate power (at least in the case of Lia Thomas).

I’m not sure how small it is and I don’t want to enable it.

There are people forcing/pressuring participation in the public display of pronouns/say your pronouns thing (you may just live somewhere insulated from it).

I’ve had it happen in Silicon Valley interviews and I know some groups at Stanford require it.
Theorising about a structure behind proofs made of an alphabet isnt new - its part of theorems like Godels Incompleteness, etc.

Actually exploring or evaluating objects in this space has always (and continues to be) intractable due to the high complexity and computational power required.
Interesting, but I’m not sure what to conclude from the graphs.

Anyone who had a side gig was eligible for PPP, regardless if they had a storefront. So it wouldn’t surprise me if there were some geographical outliers. Especially, if you work from home, then more remote properties would potentially be more desirable.
The Chinese-made vaccines barely work.
My immediate thought was to turn off the re-entrancy code, there has to be a #define switch somewhere you can use to disable it since you won't ever need that. That's the better solution, although using your own prng is also good.

Also, this seems to be suggesting they are in fact importing all of newlib with its malloc code onto their code which is...kind of a waste. Again, if they could throw that re-entrancy switch somewhere they'd probably eek out a KB or so for the code on their eeprom or w/e holds it. Again, the better solution isn't to keep using newlib with that shit turned on (lol) but then implement your own rand() which will take up a few more bytes in addition to the newlib rand() that you won't use, turning off the re-entrancy is all around the right solution, assuming they want to keep using newlib and won't roll their own (which is by far even better assuming they have the will for that and the time, although as you point out, you don't need a lot of the stdlib, basically most of stdio is out, str to int converters, and so on, it might be worth a future investment to have their own mini library).
> How would you respond to all that?

Noncompliance at minimum, riots, more probably. There is a point of hunger when one loses it.
Yeah, I did think that a few successful court cases amounted to not much more than a bit of wealth redistribution. I'm hardly shedding tears for Mr Sheeran.
Based on what I have seen DALL-E 2 does seem to be demonstrating something very close, if not entirely mappable to, human creativity when it comes to visual creation. There are several examples where it makes connections that are both highly unlikely to be just a lift from another work, but yet also create a work that makes a fundamental artistic statement. Here are two that blew my mind (again: presuming these aren't just cribbed from human artists in terms of semantics): https://twitter.com/gfodor/status/1511907134761361419
Just focus on school kid. If the idea is viable you can always do it post or during college.
As a UAW steward I represented (with lawyers provided by the UAW) students in arbitration who were being treated unfairly by the UC (breaking their own rules). It was a positive experience.
If SH did carrys out Centre Party's policy like most of other cities does, this bizzare wouldn't happen in the first place, if weepy kid always get what it want, what about the slient most?

SH's fault is not CN's fault. China has no face, we just have the biggest slient most, pardon my English if you may ;)
Issue is, bribe them for what? They don't really have any means to get food either and if they were to look the other way while you slipped out of the community you'd find every shop closed.

They don't take monetary bribes, but favours, cigarettes etc
That sounds really close to gaslighting.
What might degrowth computing look like?
If you believe China's been having massive deaths throughout the last two years, why is Shanghai's spike notable?

China's great at squashing internal protests, but it's still porous; information gets out, and has throughout the pandemic, from the very beginning with doctors posting on social media that something was going on.
I feel that in the past there were more products shipped by Academics. Unix BSD from Berkley, Minix from Tanembaum, Kermit from Columbia, Pascal from USCD; Pascal, Modula and Oberon from N. Wirth, etc.

Building these products would be a great teaching tool and contribution to society. Also there could be a lot of research done on how to build complex software where the product is the software itself and it can be applied to other sciences that badly need software. I for one would love to get a graduate degree while building some product where I get to try different software design approaches.
I can confirm. I didn't go all the way to the PhD, doors opened earlier than that for a basic analytic job (and the compensations don't make you think twice about staying an extra 5 years in academic).

Econometrics, and by extension statistics, is the most sell-able assets you have as a fresh grad. It is so transferable that you can pretty much work in any industries. I fitted models to forecast water pollution. Although, I should add that most tasks required from analyst are: data cleaning and descriptive analysis.

From there you can demonstrate all the other skills (project management for example) and evolve in whatever position interest you the most.
ie., we need a color polymoprhism