skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife’s very recent PhD experience at Oxford was a little crunch time around conferences, a nice 20/25 hour week, and enough spare time to row with the Oxford Uni boat team. She stayed a year as a postdoc and it was much the same. She’s now a postdoc at Stanford and she’s working 16 hour days, weekends, and very stressed for it. Academic output is the same - it’s just different work culture. I know this is about PhD students but I imagine it’s no easier for them than early career postdocs, so this seems to make a lot of sense.
Sound proofing is absolutely trivial to install and its benefits by far exceed its costs... It should be absolutely mandatory on any multi-family building.
me and my wife (we live in Suzhou) actually talked that if this happens to our city, it might actually become worth to "cause trouble" and get arrested, hoping that there would be some food given in the police station.
Its ridiculous how dystopian such conversations have become recently...
It could also handle one encoding internally and do the conversion when opening and saving the file.
Show HN: Anno – Effortlessly annotate and comment on videos/audio
The best startup ideas are creating one part of the O365 system (usually Excel) and monetizing it separately.
r/usabilityporn is a place where users show off the setups they use.
Low estimate over long enough timeline.
Hey HN, I'm one of the founders of Modfy.video - we just shipped Anno.so which lets you add timestamped comments and annotations (drawings, scribbles, notes) to videos & other media files.

We currently use it to add comments and markup to Loom videos about dev problems we share among our engineering team, it’s been a great help.

Anno.so supports uploaded videos, audio, YouTube videos, Loom videos, SoundCloud audio. It’s free to use with no sign-up required.

This is a project we spun out from a video editor we’re currently working on https://modfy.video if interested.
No it would not have crashed because it wouldn't have the run-away trim problem that prevented pilot recovery from the "stall". Trim is something that is only really needed for humans who hold onto sticks to fly.
You may enjoy the story “Best Teacher I Ever Had” by David Owen: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~tantc/cattywampus.html
Work and job are not the same thing.
I don't know about these days, but back in the 1980s there were a number of electronics surplus stores located on Canal St, below SoHo. I used to pop in now and then to buy stuff. They were part of a larger ecosystem of industrial supply stores left over from the days when SoHo was a factory district. Sadly, the last time I was down there no electronics stores remained.
Yep. Better stolen than destroyed if you ask me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan
> Then you "just" have to use one of the formal proof languages and then verify the program ?

Haha yes indeed, thereby elegantly reducing 8 hours of work to 40 hours.
Microsoft hikes prices for non-profit customers, ends on-prem software grants
US propaganda again.. when will they stop?

She covered it already 4 days ago:

https://youtu.be/cgy_Apm8vN8?t=472 [FR]

She even said she condemn what Russia is doing, she even said she wants to protect the sovereignty of every countries, Ukraine, and including Irak btw

Something the US doesn't seems to want ;)
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> They win a grant, but the actual research work is then done by postdoctoral researchers and grad students. They do the actual work, write it up, and pretty much everything else.

In this scenario, which does happen but is not the only way it works, the convention is that the student or postdoc is first author and the advisor is final author on the paper. That seems fair to me.
PRC vaccines work almost as well on severe cases. The significant advantange of mRNA was preventing breakthrough/spread which is has failed post delta, ergo countries resign to living with covid exposing all those who can't/won't vaccinate to risk - because they're systemically incapable of executing more effective lockdowns. These health systems aren't being overwhelmed _anymore_ because they spent 2 years spreading out cases load on more developed medical systems. PRC is relying on periodic lockdowns like it always has because it's fundementally more effective than vaccines at preventing deaths especially relatively to largely uninfected population. In the mean time most of the country has been back to normal since April 2020. mRNA wank is suggesting handing everyone bullet proof vests is better than just preventing mass shootings in the first place.
I think your view on unionization is very US centric. In the UK at least there is a university union. In fact it is currently striking over a range of issues (mostly related to pension cuts).
They're talking about post start up. Yes, disk speeds are much faster now. Other than startup however, everything feels slower. Heck, now the limit on my speed is often internet, not disk.
I lived in an urban village in China during the 2020 lockdowns and literally overnight the authorities erected 6+ foot high fences around my whole neighborhood. Entry and exit to the newly-minted gated community was funneled through two checkpoints that never existed prior to COVID. Authorities were actively patrolling the streets checking ID and ensuring nobody jumped the fence. If an authoritarian government wants to restrict the movements of their population badly enough, they will find a way.
Not even Kate can replace Notepad++ on Linux for you?
Do you have young kids? No clue if Adam's wife works/is in school/whatever but an additional 30 minutes of focus time is definitely an ask for busy parents of young children.
Do you have a link to the article where he talks about his writing methods?

In his latest column he links to this post about OP’s statistical analysis, but I thought you meant it linked to his writing method
> The larger picture is that China by pursuing these policies has stopped millions of deaths, probably tens of millions of cases of long term disabilities, and overall kept the economy going.

Alright, so if we go by Shanghai's own reporting (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-61043346), there's been 130k infections of which one person is in "severe condition" and no deaths. Even assuming that severe condition becomes a death, you are looking at a 1 in 100k death rate, which puts a ceiling of ~230 deaths in Shanghai and 13k across the entire country - a fraction of what you are claiming is possible. It's possible Shanghai is falsifying their data to look better, but such falsification actually just makes the lockdown look even dumber from an ROI standpoint.

Meanwhile, the lockdown itself is clearly causing deaths directly (https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/shanghai-hospital-pa...). Even ignoring that, ~2,300 QALY saved from city-wide covid deaths is far outweighed by the "quality of life" lost in a single day of lockdown (63k QALY by my calculation). At this point, of the lockdown, the lockdown is 10x if not 100x costlier than just letting the virus rip through the population.

If you don't buy the Shanghai numbers, you can use other country's modeling which suggests Omicron in a vaccinated population is a bit less severe than seasonal flu. Obviously, we don't lock down every year to avoid seasonal flu as the ROI is terrible.
I didn't mean it's literally barren land or that it's impossible to inhabit.

I meant there are few desirable places to reside (to me and anyone I've ever known) on the basis of access to jobs, culture, major hospitals, higher education, etc.

Yes some people can live full and happy lives in Timmins, Ontario. But is anybody moving to Timmins from Vancouver because they're tired of housing prices? Not really. Thus, demand to live in places like the GTA are sky high (and I argue, deservedly so)

In the US there's at least one city in every state that I'd voluntarily live in. Most have several. The amount of choice there is insane.
I just edited in a bit about heating costs, which is relevant here; compare the heating costs of low ceilings vs high ceilings in buildings.
There are so many horror stories about academia waiting to come out.

The way vulnerable people are exploited and mistreated in what is, in fact, a work environment; moral hazards and conflicts of interest everywhere; lots of untrustworthy research results and inability to reproduce research.

Universities are big business and ought to be regulated just as much as any other big business
Why should a high number of bisexuals shock you?
I am Quaid.
Millenarian Dreams of the Schizo-Scene
Equity is semantically equality. I'm not sure I see your point.

Are people being paid differently for the work? Or are you saying there is a policy driven filter attempting to offset some of society's pre-existing filtering (thus giving equality of opportunity)?
Show HN: StreamPQ – Stream PostgreSQL query results in Python without a cursor
Because a lot of people like heteronormativity?
Not understanding trade offs in an important process like hiring isn’t great and would be a signal for where not to work.
If you made tolls on a toll road optional, the road owners would not be able to keep up with maintenance, yet I think most drivers value the road...
2 million is a very low ball estimate in my opinion. If it weren’t for nukes there would have been at least one more world war between WW2 and now.
I made 16-19k/yr as a chem TA 09-11 there IIRC
There are tons of these places: New York, Portland, Memphis, St Louis. Major rivers tend to be state lines as well as population centers.
People are still arguing how many people died in the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961. Some say as low as 15 million others as high as 50 million. It's easy to hide millions of deaths in authoritarian regimes.
We can also generalize: Dictatorial regimes suck.

For all the gnashing, grinding, complaining, partisan politics in the USA over COVID policies, I think the USA came out alright. The detractors will say the USA failed. That 1m people died. A tragedy for sure and maybe a portion of those deaths would have been avoidable had we had better messaging from the Trump regime. But net result we have our freedoms intact. The USA is on a quick road to recovery economically. We've avoided a depression and unemployment is fairly low.

It's not perfect... By far. But at least this is not Shanghai.
Modern TV shows or streaming shows have lost their opening theme song scenes. I can see for TV to stuff more ads in to make more money. On streaming opening themes could be long but people have no patience so they'd just skip it.
I doubt that a union could do much against the alleged toxic aspects of academia that you are pointing out. There’s nothing they can do, for example, to change the fact that tenure track jobs are rare, which is what drives a lot of the stress for grad students.

More likely they will be involved in labor disputes involving how much TA work the grad students have to do.
> Anything resembling some kind of ideology or politics is done because it is helping the company to get more money.

This is one of the main points of Marx's Capital.
That article mostly calls out some Rust-vs-C comparison points about a specific Python library that were honestly reasonably interesting to read.

The Zig part has a number of updates and clarifications that contribute helpful balance while not disrupting the original text. Quite a few of the points have ended up being superceded by developments and evolution in the language.
I don’t know about your experience, but MacOS doesn’t “just work” either. What about a buggy daemon that read-writes terabytes of data, chrome forgetting gained permissions on I guess version updates, randomly high CPU usage, oh and my favorite, during reboots I get a flickering purple screen, quite reminiscent of Ubuntu etc.

Linux comparatively works in a very very stable and reliable manner. Sure, low-end laptop with low-end hardware will likely cause trouble but it wouldn’t work well with Windows either.
New pill bottles for shaky hands will help people with Parkinson’s (2021)
No, it's because if dues were optional, the only game-theory-efficient outcome is that no one pays dues.
That sounds like a lot, but most (power user) machines have more RAM than that these days. Are there any editors that can deal with files larger than available memory?
I’ve seen a lot of people in your shoes become data scientists
What are you gonna tell the new school?
I think expressions of sympathy are counterproductive. Desis need to be clear eyed about the fact that the immigration system doesn’t operate on sympathy or feelings, but is a product of the economic and political incentives of different groups. One group may say kind things but that shouldn’t be a sign that things may be different in the future. Skilled immigration reform is a low political priority and desis should head to Canada or Australia.
We know exactly what the long term effects are because some grad schools have been unionized for 50 years.

The effects are: slightly better working conditions, slightly less discrimination, slightly better healthcare. Just look at what say, the grad student union at University of Michigan is able to gain for their students.

Neither apocalyptic nor utopian predictions are anywhere near the mark.
Three Steps to Freedom
> any government regulation always ends up favoring the status quo

Including progressive taxation? Public schooling? Pensions?

If so, how do you explain the end of feudal societies?

> what happened with personal responsibility?

Responsibility comes with power and freedom of choice.

When we can only choose between living under corporate surveillance or living without phone/Internet access/etc there's close to no freedom.
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That's great, which editor is that?
Extremely cool. I love this use of technology.

The trilingual inscription of King Xerxes at the main gate reminds me a lot, in tone, to Ramesses II's words in Shelley's famous poem "Ozymandias".
Let's say that you have a pure function f that does a bunch if calculations and return the result. The caller then prints it. Now consider a the same function f' but instead of returning the result does a tail call to a function r, passed as an additional parameter.

The two scenarios are the same, yet in a colored functions language f' will need to be annotated if r does, for example io.

The way I see it, a language should either allow 'closing' over the color (or effect or capability, or whatever) hiding it, so that f' doesn't beed to care about the details of r; or it should provide enough of polymorphic behaviour so that f' the signature of f' can be inferred from that of r.

Most languages with async do not provide this capability.
We are talking about Reddit. I’m saying we haven’t seen any real collateral damage from moderation policies aimed at preventing CSAM and hate-based communities.
SARS #1? That’s just one example.
That's terrifying :( and incredibly sad for anyone who ends up in that position and China as a people.

Can someone explain the downvotes? This is HN not the CCP, we demand action to be backed up with reason. The article suggested "political prisoners" to be included in those ending being killed by organ harvesting, so it seems relevant to the parent's comment:

> Robertson claims surgeons operated on death-row prisoners and “prisoners of conscience”, which could include political prisoners

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Votes seem to have changed. That's not helped my fear of being monitored :/
Not if the international students get unionized. They're actually the most prone to unionization if the union is able to defend them.
Can you expand on what regulations you feel are lacking and how you'd like to see them implemented?
There are strong network effects at the level where clearances are actually hard to obtain, though. People leave government service (both military and civilian) to start consultancies and other businesses that sell products and services to the organization(s) they formerly worked for. Both they and the government workers buying their goods are incentivized to build strong relationships: the former so they can easily win contracts and the latter so they can continue to receive and expand their budgets/fiefdoms.
The problem is Javascript has been entirely commoditized by enterprise, so solutions which should only be relevant to "code at scale" have become mandatory at any scale. You practically can't distribute a Javascript library without writing it in Typescript and submitting it to NPM, with the build step expected.

Yet writing even complex javascript without Typescript and having it work is still entirely possible, just as it is with other weakly typed languages. There should still be room for that, but the concept of simply writing javascript has become so alien it needs to be reintroduced as "vanilla javascript."
"containers and bottles would all have standard shapes and sizes"

Indeed, thsts the absolute sinolest thing to do, takes no real effort. Reuse before you recycle - and
So, algebraic effects?
I’ve use my blog as my personal internet garden. People can come by, look around, whatever; and I document things I’ve worked on or howto’s etc. There have a more than a few times that I’ve actually referenced my own blog to look something up in my own domain expertise.
Because it probably cost a lot more to the institution than it brought to the intended target. A middleman takes the bulk of the additional investment, without providing that much value in itself.

And that money came from somewhere, probably partly from profits, but also from other investments (buildings, teaching material, ...). Overall teacher got a little bit more, but both the org and the students lost a lot, comparatively.
> Are people really finding that out only now? I thought that this was generally accepted knowledge even in China, despite the constant fear and propaganda they live with.

Yes and no. You see, 2 decades ago probably half of my peers had that knowledge, that was when the internet was pretty much uncensored compared to how it is today. Over the years they get converted by the narrative and now it's probably 5% or even less that keeps a critical mind when reading anything from anywhere, which is, your know, all censored.
The author seems to dismiss numerous claims that might contradict his thesis without any apparent evidence or argument beyond a “but nah, that clearly doesn’t sound right.” To me, he needs to do some work discussing each one of these claims before dismissal.

> Gays have far fewer biological children than straights. Fertility was conceivably equal back when almost all gays lived in the closet, but there can be little doubt that during the last fifty years, gay genes have become less prevalent.

“There can be little doubt” is not an argument. I have a little doubt!

> Could the rising LGBT share merely reflect the decline of closeting? In part. Still, if that’s the whole story, why is there such a massive generational pattern? Why would older LGBTs stay in the closet as the stigma plummets?

> You could appeal to age-segregated social circles. Octogenarians fret more about the intolerance of fellow octogenarians, and draw little comfort from the tolerance of today's teen-agers.

Yep, that actually makes a ton of sense. You need to do work before dismissing this. Listing potential arguments against your thesis is a good start to being intellectually honest and critical, but it’s not enough.

> Being part of Gen X, I confidently assert that we were far less intolerant than earlier generations.

No amount of the author’s confidence is sufficient to convince me.

> Another weakness of the closeting story is that mainstream stigma against bisexuals was always milder than against any of the other groups.

Extra work needed here.

> What’s really going on? The best stories are the very mechanisms that Wikipedia dismisses: recruitment and the media.

At this point in the article, the author confidently confirms the thesis he was looking for, simply because he believes he has listed and dismissed all other possible causes. I believe the author is confident about all these claims, but more work is required to show that he is correct.
Is it difficult or utterly impossible to fold the other card and put in a pocket and show it to somebody else outside the polling station?

That would open hacks like "pick my card and my worst opponent one, vote for me and show me my opponent card. And pray that I get at least as many votes as the cards of my opponent that people bring to me."
>Is it fair to say that the suburb layout is generally considered ideal to live in?

Who is saying that? The zoning bureau that is forcing this lifestyle upon you against your will?
>> Second, what happened with personal responsibility?

> This breaks down when some body else's lack of personal responsibility impacts me.

Climate change and the ongoing environmental collapse is a good example of such failure.
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The idea one of the preceding comments seemed to imply was that they sample a bit first.

> I felt it go into my skin and watched it suck for a bit, but it didn't get particularly engorged on it. No mark the next day.

So it might follow that with one resistant (R) and one non-resistant person (NR) exposed to a few dozen mosquitoes, NR will end up with lots of visible bites while R will be relatively unscathed - even though the mosquitoes might have sampled them each equally.

I know too that some mammals (e.g. mice) will sample a small amount of food (e.g. rodent poison), and then return later to try more if the food hasn't had ill effects.

I'm not sure that mosquitoes have anything like a memory capacity for this, but maybe something similar mediated via pheromones could be happening. (And something like pheromones could also signal to other mosquitoes that there's good eatin' to be had).
> They do the actual work

Used to think this as a grad student. Now as a professor I see how naïve this attitude is. There is so much work beyond what grad students are tasked with including getting research funded, staffed, and results out the door. Grad students are cogs in a research machine, cogs that need to constantly be readjusted and recalibrated because they are quite green (sorry, it's true) for a number of years. Most 22 year olds coming out of undergrad into a PhD program are not doing what you would consider publishable research for a number of years, and what work they do is usually heavily based on a foundation of research that was laid to get funding in the first place (usually by the professor), based on ideas that have been thought of and refined over a number of an entire research career (not by the grad student doing the "actual work"). Grad students may have great technical ability, but they have next to 0 research sense and ability. As I said, doing research is so much more than the technical aspects and writing the paper.

Grad students love to feel like since they got a paper published, that they are 100% responsible for what happened in that paper, and I just have to ask: where were you 2 years ago when I was up at 4am finalizing the Nth draft of the grant application, based on research that I have been working on since 6 years before that? Oh, you were partying, drunk off your ass at a frat in undergrad, and when I started this research project you were learning your times tables. So tell me again how you're 100% responsible for the results here, and I'm just taking credit for all you have done on your own?

Sorry if you haven't noticed this post has turned into a rant at someone I have in mind, not at you. But I just needed to say this.
The little diamond icon in the upper right corner takes you an overview map, but it doesn't show you those things.

When you're between scenes with descriptions you can pan around by dragging the mouse. I'm hoping they extend this to allow free walking around.
Edit for sensitivities: then (choose) not to say it (because you identified that you may be causing harm to someone for no more benefit than an ounce of mirth)?