skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things:

1) An all powerful state is the logical conclusion of anyone who believes the collective is more important than the individual.

2) There were many benevolent all powerful states during the 20th century, but every single powerful state that believed in collectivism turned into a murdering hell hole filled with poverty and suffering where the poorest people risked their lives to flee to countries that believed the individual is more important than the collective.
This.

My indulgence for "I spent three months going down this rabbit hole because it might have proved interesting" is way hired for graduate students than it would be for research staff, because that's part of them being students.
Reminds of the Mitch Hedberg joke “I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too.”: “It appears to be a joke. It actually is a joke, but appears to be one too.”
Samsung, Seaborg partnership on floating nuclear reactors
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I guess they better increase the difficulty of their coding interviews to LC hard to fix this problem.
Pretty much all of it. For the first few years of my programming career I would review weeks or months old code in horror. What barbarian had written this useless, convoluted gibberish? Then, the code I would go on to write that very day would be reviewed by a future me, who was again horrified by the sheer idiocy of what I had written.

Eventually I just gave up. Look, I'm a game programmer. I code because it makes pretty colors move on my screen. I favor the fast over the correct, and I only do things "right" when my inner self remembers the pain of doing it wrong before; so I stick to simple behaviors separated, rip things out immediately if they start to be a headache, build one-off behaviors that aren't scalable, because damnit I don't have time to think about how to build this correctly. I want it to work so that I can use it and move on.

I started my path as an aspiring architect who would write pure, scalable, performant and dare I say beautiful code. My programs would hum like a fugue by Bach and my comments would hang off the page like sweet blackberry bunches, easy to pluck and digest. My hopes were so high for myself!

But today I burn a path to my goal without consideration to the debt or damage it deals, my heart without morals and my mind without regret. Each day I stray further from god. Yesterday I had to rip out a utility function that took an entity and type as its input and searched the hierarchy for a parent of that entity with that type to return it, so that I could message root level objects on collisions with their child objects. What a disgusting beast I had created! What have I become! But I soldier on, unhindered by my evils. I cast code beneath my feet and it crumbles instantly as I take each step closer to hell.

But my game is really fun to play! :D
Yeah, they don't have a good reputation. Not as bad as Oracle (eg "literally evil"), but probably half way there. :)

Their software is "enterprise software", in all the bad ways. eg expensive, slow performance, doesn't work properly, products that don't seem to receive updates after their creating company was acquired (eg StatusPage), etc.

But they have a marketing/PR department, which covers over a lot of those problems.
You can't have power exist and expect it to not get abused.

But this problem is totally fixable. We need to reduce the role that the advisor plays. Grad students should be able to switch labs and universities like most people switch jobs. Once they publish some set number of papers, they get a PhD. No thesis, no committee. The advisor basically is demoted to a fungible manager.
Now this comment can neither agree nor disagree. Barber shaving their own head and such. EDIT: now I realize not really since the above being false doesn't force me to agree.
it is something i have thought about occasionally. i don’t have a fully formed opinion, so am open to others challenging my logic here…

i have come to accept that a strong military power can serve as a deterrent to others, and ultimately lead to a more peaceful existence (in the aggregate). i don’t believe that human beings can co-exist peacefully, so this deterrent is necessary (until we have some other means to achieve peace).

i would use a similar thought process to morally justify work on a general AI. given enough time i believe that humanity will destroy ourselves and this planet. in lieu of another solution, we may need an AI to assert control to prevent this from happening (or backfire and bring us fully into a hollywood dystopian future).

at the risk of going on a rant now, i have often found it hard to morally justify working on space travel, as i don’t believe that humanity has demonstrated that it deserves to colonize beyond Earth. that would only enable us to consume and destroy more of the universe.
I'm not religious so I don't feel old growth forest have any sort of spiritual value.
>the deepest hole ever drilled by anyone was 7Km

12.2 km - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
Agreed. As far as I can tell the author's premise is: "normally the Gambler's Fallacy refers to things like coins and dice, where you don't know the precise odds but you do know that trials are independent. But if we redefine it to refer to the opposite situation - where you somehow know the overall odds but you don't know whether trials are independent - then we find..."
Depends on how you define spam. Services like Mailchimp will send mail that you and I may consider spam, but it gets delivered, because they have teams of people making sure they are following all the rules to the letter and they probably negotiated agreements with Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc to whitelist their servers.
What was the discontinued most popular product? Hipchat? That was pretty terrible by modern standards.
> every renewable deployment in history has failed to reach zero carbon.

No energy production mean reached zero carbon. Nuclear is far from this goal and cannot attain it on any financially realistic way.

Even France, which produces most of its electricity using nuclear reactors since the 90's, couldn't.
Proof (red surfaces represent fossil fuels used for electricity production in France):
https://www.statistiques.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/editi...

In France the 'nuclear success story' led to a state law (2015-992, from 2015, the "loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte") stating that the part of nuke-produced electricity must fall to less than 50% in 2025, from 72% then, and that renewable sources must replace it.

The fraction of consumed energy produced by renewables is booming, even in good old Europe.
Proof: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_ind_ured/...

Overall there is a working and more and more adopted way to build future energy systems... and another one...:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nuclear-renewables-electr...

> solar out-kills nuclear

This is false, as any serious meta-study shows: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

Moreover those victims are past ones, and a new major nuclear disaster may cause many victims while solar-panels induced major disasters aren't even possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_Roaster
Never fear: these funds are being directed to critically useful tasks of an earth-shattering priority like building a wooden skyscraper.
Actually lot of middle management jobs can be automated specially tasks allocation and tracking. It is not that difficult to imagine a system like that where these functions can be automated and this middle managers can be free to do more “valuable” tasks.
It's difficult to find anything good these days. Search "pedestal fan" on Amazon and you'll be flooded with Chinese imports without any indication of quality or even any ability to search for specific features (eg continuous speed adjustment vs 3 fixed speeds), requiring you to read the detailed reviews for the thousands of search results. If I want to buy from random Chinese suppliers I'll go to AliExperess.
Instagram and Facebook: the next tech bubble? (2012)
This site pops up here from time to time. It's a great resource for understanding the components in play with some modern webapps.

I maintain a project called Awayto which follows the principles that FWA put forward, more or less. So if you're interested in this style of architecture and want a practical, functional example, check out https://github.com/keybittech/awayto
This is both fun and clever case on internet. So is this thing controlled by one guy and made him money 100% passively? Amazing work done, I am wondering how he can achieve this and if we can do same thing?
Ineffective managers also seem to threaten.
Durian?
Hmmm. Looks like 441 would be a great place for a helpful comment block.
Tom7 is brilliant for anyone that hasn't seen him before. His Reverse Emulation video (https://youtu.be/ar9WRwCiSr0) and Weird Chess Algorithms (https://youtu.be/DpXy041BIlA) are a must watch. His dead pan delivery coupled with the ridiculous amount of effort he puts into things that don't _really_ matter is honestly inspiring.
Just my experience—the audio API seems relatively stable to me since the autoplay policies launched a couple years ago. I do remember it being a mess back when I started doing audio, and I remember needing libraries to paper over the differences between different browsers, but these days I don’t need that.

Agreed that the “export to browser” in Unity et al. is usually junk.
A ‘cautionary tale’ about location tracking: NewsCenter
Teach Your Kid the Ostrich Algorithm
Govt. mandates 32 hr workweeks. Employers drop pay 20%.

Not shocked.
Shakespeare starts Romeo and Juliet with a TL;DR for you. No need to add one
The power void he has created after the US retreated from Syria during his term has certainly emboldened Putin. On the other hand Trump pressured Germany to build a gas terminal and stop relying on Russian gas. He also pressured other NATO members to increase their military spending. Both of which they're actually doing right now. His administration also approved huge weapons sales to Taiwan and the Saudis. These will deter China and Iran on the long term.
Why not both? Windmills are intermittent, hugely dependent on location, short lifespan, requires a lot of space, dangerous to service etc etc. It's not a full solution.
Class action!
As Climate Fears Mount, Some in U.S. Are Deciding to Relocate
Are you trying to access from Russia? Russia is currently blocked.
Wow 47 TW of heat for the entire earth is so much lower then I ever would have guessed.

The wiki says that its about .08W/m^2. That means it an area of 2-3 football fields only puts out as much heat as a single space heater.
All it would do is create a race to the bottom. Athome seems to be a data aggregator of many listing sites; I can see open data on the actual apartment lister’s end being useful (ie. Apartments.com) but athome is the ones doing the aggregation, so if they had to turn the data over they just wouldn’t create that data in the first place since there would be no revenue stream for doing so.
There's never time to do it right, always time to do it over.
Keep in mind that openbsd has a tiny base install, so it's not exactly surprising that there aren't a lot of remote exploits. Nothing's listening by default, so why would there be?

By the time you set up OpenBSD to do anything, that's gonna change.
yes, one leaf satisfies Knuth's definition: it has all levels full (the root) except for possibly the last (the leaf).
The whole point is that microwave ablation of these materials does not require drilling mud and is self-stabilizing by the pressures and molten material generated, while also sealing the bore hole and preventing quite a lot of water table, H2S, etc contamination. In theory it should allow substantially deeper boreholes.

The technology is real, and the required power density is surprisingly low.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286571247_Penetrati...
I forgot to link it... https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492.pdf
out of curiosity, is there anywhere else that uses the CLRS definition? All other sources, including wikipedia and academic papers that I've found use the Knuth definition.
I had a large collection of hard drives that had caused uncountable grief, we would relieve the stress by abusing the drives. Unfortunately they have long since been disposed of, but the collection included:

* subject drive to 100t press (it got thinner!)

* immerse drive in acid (little change) or base (drive dissolves!)

* subject drive to industrial guillotine

* warm drive with oxy torch

* drop from 300 ft tower (little change)

and so on. All good fun.
I managed a deployment of 6 armadillo phones for our company earlier this year. There are a few other options out there but I didn't take a look at nitrokey specifically until now . Armadillo seemed like the most feature rich option out there.

The biggest killer feature with Armadillo Phone was multiple users we could fill with fake data. You switch to other users by entering their password instead of your normal password. No other phone we took a look at seems to have deniable encryption. The other big win for us was the "sentinel" apps they have that can detect different types of attacks ( wifi, cellular, theft, etc. ) . I also really liked that everything worked together instead of having to cobble together 10 different apps to get what I wanted.

Nitrokey seems to be using Graphene OS. This is going to be a lot more of a DIY option then. When I was talking to the Armadillo sales guys they said Armadillo was a fork of Graphene and they've added their hardening on top of that.
The grant that covers the largest portion of my salary doesn't even have grad students on it.
This thread brought many memories. Like others here, Mugen was my first experience with something that looked/felt like programming. I think I was 11 years old or something.

I remember that I was obsessed with Mugen. I would spend hours downloading chars/stages/screen packs and making my own games combinations. Eventually I started messing around with the source code of the chars/stages etc and started to learn on my own. I never really learned how to build chars properly, but I was good with the screen packs and stages.

Something that I find amusing is that some of the screen packs that I ripped from NeoGeo games and adapted for Mugen 20+ years ago are still available and I guess some people still use them :-)

Two cool works I did was ripping the Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 [1] and KOF'96 [2] screen pack. I even found some videos on YouTube. One of those videos the person who uploaded the demo even gave me the credits after all these years. The second one there was no mention but I know for sure this is my version because of the quirks/bugs :-) I never knew how to properly align the numbers with the texts on the combo/hits sprite messages that are shown during combat haha

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXecBx9oLrI

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcZBoTt6DEU
That convergence towards 50% happens at infinity. You aren't flipping the coin an infinite number of times. There is no convergence happening without the infinity.

If that doesn't help your intuition, maybe try this technically incorrect view. Those 'extra' Heads you feel are due can appear at any point in the entirety of the future. What are the chances they show up in the next five minutes, never mind the next billion years? You're looking for a handful events spread over the entire rest of time itself, after all.
Here's one that bothers me.

If you use Jira to track sprints, and you want to view the previous sprint, how would you expect to do it? I don't mean a sprint from 5 years ago, I mean the one from last week. Let's say you want to view stories that didn't get completed last sprint, or you just want to see what happened because you're doing a retrospective. How would you expect to go about this in a mature product for which your organization pays money?

You might say "well, there's probably a button on the current sprint that lets you go back in time to the last sprint. Like, some form of pagination. Or, maybe you can even set a date on a calendar and see the active sprint during that date. That would be cool."

According to Atlassian's support forum, there is "no way to currently do this"[1].

[1] https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/H...

You can approximate it by building a custom query, or going into a reporting dashboard (if you have access). You shouldn't need to.
Not storing any trace of your activity on your smartphone isn't really possible. This also doesn't protect you from hacking, theft, Wi-Fi sniffing, etc.
There's a growing industry of "resellers" who buy an in-demand product and attempt to sell it for more, and if it doesn't work they can just return it. Larger ticket items like electronics (especially next-gen game consoles) are one example.
They probably feel proud to write software that helps protect their country?
One needs to think of a PhD like doing a startup.

Your output needs to align with the “market”. In academia, the market is the scientific landscape and the customers are other academics who read papers (market place of ideas).

You have lots of customers when your ideas are well received and people want to hear and read your work (success in academia).

Just like in startup, you have to iterate until you get the right product fit. You also need to market your ideas by writing and speaking well. Finally you need to build a brand so people can recognise your work as part of an overarching research program.
I install Ubuntu on all sorts of hardware, and it just works.

I have more issues with Apple OS’s. Latest example: Hotspot from iPone to iPad frequently drops and needs reconnection, Zoom volume is too low and I can’t fix it, privacy buttons are randomly enabled after disabled, etc.
Not ambitious enough.
I don’t know the story of course, but apartments are one of the largest profit growth centers for capital firms; most metros have experienced >50% rent growth in the past decade[0], for instance. Chances are a renter will never see a rent decrease unless they downgrade in a key area (specs, amenities, location) or are moving in very short intervals.

0: https://www.self.inc/blog/cities-biggest-increase-rental-pri...
Depends on what you mean by regret.

I somewhat regret spending my time at companies that were ultimately shutdown or acquired and my code being unceremoniously thrown out, but that isn't really about the code but rather lifestyle/career choice of working for startups.

I don't think from a creative or learning perspective I regret any of the actual coding. Sure some of it wasn't great code but that was generally a product of circumstances, generally the value I personally derived from the code was solid.

I did made an explicit career choice early on not to go into aviation/avionics because of it's dual-use. Originally being very interested in UAVs before they were cool I did built my own both fixed wing and quad-copter. After spending some time thinking about how my code would inevitably be used if I joined Boeing, Raytheon or Thales though I decided maybe something else would be better.
Orev may be referring to Atlassian sunsetting their Server products. You now have either Cloud or Datacenter ($$$) as your only options.
My experience with professional solutions a few years ago was that it worked well for large areas but the tolerances weren’t anywhere near good enough.

A “trick” seems to be that it looks great with the photos overlayed as textures, but the actual 3D data without that isn’t nearly as impressive.
Exactly lot of middle management functions can be automated and even more objective evaluation can be done.
Thanks for the reply. What rules?
Can confirm all this. I used to work professionally as a Flash developer from 2005 to 2010. Since then I’ve been working using Unity and other game engines, but nothing else really comes close to the workflow of Flash. Sometimes it feels like tools in this area are moving backwards.
"Yes, professors work hard, but let’s not kid ourselves that they’re involved with the nitty-gritty research work. You just sound like someone who’s bitter at young people."

This week I've:

- Worked on a research grant that doesn't have any students on it, so who else is doing the "nitty gritty research work"?

- Gone through a student's research code line-by-line to try to hunt down a particularly pernicious bug.

- Done a ton of data wrangling for another project to minimize the number of hands currently using a restricted-access server.

If the parent poster is painting with an overly broad brush, so are you.
When the Swiss tried to build a geothermal power plant, they had quite a few earthquakes which lead to the discontinuation of the whole project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_seismicity_in_Basel

Boring this deep does have significant risks, especially when we are pumping fluids in and out.
>I don't get it. How do you fingerprint iPhones,

Your IP, which gives your ISP, Location. Your iPhone Model, iOS Version, iOS Locale. Some iOS features which you may have turned on or off. Along with Apps installed, could easily reduce down a low single digit percentage.
There's the heat that comes out regardless, and the additional heat that comes out if you drill a bunch of boreholes down to let it out, accelerating the transfer.

That being said, it doesn't look like we'll get to a significant magnitude of effect for a long time.
If you have any kind of interest in the psychology field, art therapy is a good candidate, as is based entirely on the value of the artistic output a human being can produce to help him/herself.
It's true. I only use it for extremely basic and low volume purpose. I'm not sure I'd love it as my primary email, but it can be forwarded back to a regular Gmail account too.
You may not need an answer that good.
It's not useful to bury your head in the sand and write it off as an intimidating suggestion. Take a look at the Tor relay operations faq [1].

> Has anyone ever been sued or prosecuted for running Tor?

> Although we are not aware of an individual being sued, prosecuted, or convicted for running a Tor relay, law enforcement in the United States and other countries has occasionally mistakenly investigated individuals running a Tor relay. We believe that running a Tor relay, including an exit relay that allows people to anonymously send and receive traffic, is legal under U.S. law. Law enforcement, however, often misunderstands how Tor works and has occasionally attributed illegal traffic on the network as originating from a Tor exit relay. This has resulted in police suspecting Tor relay operators of crimes and sometimes seizing computer equipment, including Tor relays. For example, in 2016 Seattle police mistakenly raided the home of a privacy activist operating a Tor exit relay. And Russian authorities wrongfully arrested math instructor and Tor relay operator Dmitry Bogatov, though they later cleared him of charges.

[1] https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/e...
Zero. As in all the little games make nothing.

There are of course exceptions to the rule - I may as well have said that no authors make money, or no painters make money or no YouTube creators make money.

Clearly _some_ do make money, but as a percentage of the whole the actual number is a rounding error away from zero.

Which is all to say, if you want to do something for pleasure then do it. There's a lottery-ajacent risk it'll turn into a money spinner for you. But doing these sorts of creative persuits with the express purpose of making money seems to me to be (at best) unlikely to succeed.

Creative persuits must be their own reward - any money Is a bonus.
Any multidisciplinary / multi-domain design problem of sufficient complexity is not readily suited to automation.

If you want to stay on the visual creativity wicket, consider getting in to VR educational experiences (massive opportunity: far superior to traditional teaching methods in many cases) and computer games (huge money in the industry, if you can get it).