skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second this. I found it extremely difficult to finish my PhD 12 years ago. It wasn't because the subject was difficult or complicated but because I came directly from a Bachelor's degree into a UK MPhil/PhD programme. I remember at the beginning being sited in front of my desk asking myself: What do I do now? And every time I had a meeting with my supervisors and I asks them whether what I was doing was right/wrong, their answer was "that is great, you are doing great".

Nevertheless, I had great supervisors: After about a year of work, we decided that my work was more oriented towards what my secondary supervisor was doing, so my main supervisor took a step back and let us do our work; he still watched closely although more about "form" rather than substance. In retrospective it was an amazing experience.

Now, with regards to the (now deleted) article. I blame the supervisors but from another point of view: They should have used their network to contact people that knew about Quantum Computing. They all (including the PhD student) already had the most difficult thing: The grant. They just needed to use it.

If I were the PhD candidate, I would have looked for who were the main Quantum Computing researchers, and ask my supervisors to contact me with them. If they didn't want to, then I would contact them directly and start having an "informal" mentorship with them. Professors salivate at the prospect of having a "free" PhD student working on some of their projects, so I'm sure he would have been welcomed by some of them.

I feel that the main problem with the student was his inexperience, and his supervisor's inability to support him.
I also reject the assertion they shouldn’t exist. The “Alumni network” is listed as one of the additional benefits when enrolling for a degree.

Further when the engineering firm you started after graduation with some of your classmates wines a National science award. Getting that profiled in the alumni newsletter could be unlocking a range of oppprtunities for your firm from grant funder interest to new commercialisation opportunity, all coming out of the alumni network.

Just cause the work is quiet doesn’t mean it’s pointless.
My `dns_cloudflare_api_token` is in `/data/database.sqlite`.
Seems like using a viewport size of 1024x768 would be less unique (and thus better resist fingerprinting) than exactly 1000x1000.
Honestly, what a terrible letter. Did not once say the words layoff or let go. Using phrases like “continue to be part of klarna’s journey”. Good lord, is this a business or a cult? And not a single line about concrete steps they will take to support the layoffs (multi-month severance packages, etc). Hopefully that is what they intend, but as of right now, this is pretty disappointing.
>This openness actually improves engineering quality because it steers discussions towards convergence on the correct or most reasonable outcome.

Perhaps, but this can be hard to insure. Short form messaging tends to lead to a situation where everyone is in perfect agreement but no one knows that everyone has agreed to something different. Eventually someone has to write up an email with their long form understanding of what was agreed to.
Exact. It is money to fix bugs. Presumably these bugs would be desirable to fix anyways, this just changes the priority.

Unless the reported bugs are not really bugs or the reports of of very low quality there appears to be little downside for what could potentially pay for a full-time dev.
Planets of binary stars as possible homes for alien life
Wages are sticky. Inflation keeps on going up. It's worse.
That's a good point. With the omnipresence of semver, you'd think that more interfaces would support sorting tags with a semver comparison instead of lexically.

I searched for a bit and found that github does this ( e.g. https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/tags ). Also there is a git config that sets this globally for the git cli: `git config --global tag.sort version:refname` ( found here: https://gist.github.com/loisaidasam/b1e6879f3deb495c22cc ). That's another git config going onto every machine I use...
Definitely this.

Our teams have many 1 or 2 step DAGs that are idempotent. They could have been lambdas and they're already pulling from SQS already. It could be just my misfortune, but in AWS, MWAA is kind of janky. It's difficult to track down problems in the logs (task failures look fine there) and the Airflow UI is randomly unavailable ("document returns empty", "connection reset" kind of things).
The alumni donations total about $50k/year and I think there’s only like 200,000 alumnis that exist. The department is five years old and the growth is minimal as donations were like $30k with no department at all.

My anecdote wasn’t intended as evidence.

But there’s definitely a problem. You can look at official sources [0] for evidence showing that admin expenses are 21% at public, four year schools.

I found this article while looking for the official stats [1] that claims the average university in the US has 45 people in DEI. DEI is very important, I think, but 45 employees boggles the mind and seems to be more of a symptom of runaway costs and lack of controls that would allow for so many admin staff on a single topic.

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=75
[1] https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/administrative...
This is usually the case. GUIs are superior in some aspects (eg. visualization of complex branch structures), inferior in others (eg. add more friction - many operations can be done faster from the console). As far as Git goes, I see GUI clients as complementary rather than full-scale substitute for the terminal.
I’m not the OP, but anecdotally as an American who used to work for a Canadian company which handled cross-border payroll by wire from Canada, my experience was for the most part that our payroll person worked her ass off to get everything right each time and that it was quite a significant amount of work. The actual transfers would always settle on the date expected and as expected, but I was always missing $10. I took it as a professional expense (loss) on my taxes, and no one from my bank to TD (the firms bank) could tell me which intermediary was taking a fee. They had tried for years before I came along to get to the root cause of it. All the US based people had the same issue.
Many people think that radar won WW2. The US used radar-guided anti-aircraft guns, which doubled their accuracy (in essence doubling the number of guns). Flak guns used radar proximity fuses in the shells. Ship big guns used radar targeting. And, of course, radar made for long range detection of where the enemy was.

In the Gulf War, when the enemy fired a shell, radar was used to calculate where it was fired from, and that location got a radar-directed shell directly onto it.

Incredibly effective.
Amdahl's law applies regardless of whether you use shared memory synchronization, CSP or Actors. CSP and Actors are easier to think about, but they aren't inherently faster.
In Poland both the employer and the employee have to provide 1 month to 3 months notice, depending on the tenure.

This assumes employment under the labor law. In IT it's quite popular for employees to provide service as one person companies.
I did a part-time PhD (not in the US, so I am only responding to the latter part of your comment). It's hard, exhausting and can occasionally be frustrating. I gave up most of my weekends during the time. My sleep hours were less than what they should have been - and I did this for years. If you're wondering, it did lead to some health problems (esp. my back), thankfully not major, most of which I've recovered from.

Do it only if research really interests you - this was my case, so the sense of gratification from learning and finding out things offset many of the negatives. Also, having a patient advisor and good friends helped a lot.
If a robotic earwig can make it into your ear, it can kill you with milligrams of simple poison.

Critical mass for plutonium is 10 KG. A nuke needs to be supercritical, plus the mechanism of the bomb itself. Smallest nuke ever built is 50kg, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_devic...

Smallest nukes were phased out by all major nations because there is too much risk of them getting lost, falling into wrong hands, being used without authorisation, etc. Several 'big' nukes were already lost and never found
There's a world of a difference between doing a PhD with an expert supervisor (in the field) and bootstrapping it completely on your own.
I was expecting new information i hadn’t considered about an elevated risk of flash flooding under underpasses,or similar, but instead it’s just that unexpected stopped traffic in shit visibility is a recipe for a pile up, which is obviously true.

I will continue to pull well off the shoulder under an underpass to ride out lightning storms on my motorcycle and not fret too much about getting washed away when I do so. Rain isn’t a problem, generally, but the conspicuous lack of a faraday cage around me on a bike means a roof can be a good friend in an electrical storm.
As much as gomobile, none.

Specially after Kotlin Native matures its JetPack Compose implementation in iOS.

The official Android framework ported to iOS, with its main language, versus a framework that belongs to an external team with no vote on either platforms.
The most obvious use case for a grasshopper/earwig size explosive is as a self-assembling munition. Users dial in the critical mass necessary for destruction of the target and program the members of the munition group to identify, track, and assemble at the target's weak point, insuring that at least one of the explosive initiators (primers) makes it into the assembled munition and once their internal mesh network confirms that critical mass, primer, etc are in place, a detonation is initiated.

The individual units could travel a circuitous route to the actual target without raising much suspicion and once in the immediate vicinity they could be programmed to rapidly converge on the target.

That's how I see it. With self-assembling munitions you have less waste of resources, you can target individuals in a command structure or individual critical components of their military infrastructure and you could do it with things that could be made to be relatively inconspicuous so that an observer could see them as a normal part of the environment. Until they converge of course and if this happens fast enough it can be difficult for the targeted entity to unravel exactly how it all went down.

Future war looks scary to me.
>> Another factor around that era was whitequark had abruptly quit SolveSpace maintenance, and seemed to be the only active person at the time.

Whitequark said the project was in (several) good hands and called me out by name. Jonathan then contacted me to kind of formalize my promotion and my first action was to invite several important contributors to the "solvespace organization" on github. They aren't super active but made important contributions, and I feel like I can call on them for issues in specific areas and they respond as well as I could hope for OSS volunteers. The project seems much more secure as a result, while development remains slow but steady ;-)
Are dormitories / living expenses included in those American debt numbers or you take them as separate?
Just look at the Soviet "Looney" MD-160.
If I have no involvement or experience in Health Care, how do I identify a niche where such a product will be helpful?
These would be the folks who immediately turn on their hazard lights when it starts to rain.
You can set up an Editorconfig[1] file to automatically fix trailing whitespace and insert the final newline, among other things. Most editors have support for it (either built-in or in a plugin).

It's a lifesaver when you care more about formatting than any of your coworkers and can set up something that handles it for them.

Additionally, configuring editors/IDEs to format code when the file is saved is very useful to enforce formatting rules.

[1]: https://editorconfig.org/
Marx is the opposite of the kind of reference you want if you want to reject dialectical thinking. That was Marx's whole deal.
Similar stunt in Milwaukee, circa 2015:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71295/milwaukee-man-conf...
I tried to run airflow; I found pretty much everything about it to be wrong for my usecase. Why can't I easily upload a workflow through the UI? Why doesn't it handle S3 file staging for me?
Or, you know, just don't submit it to HN yourself? If someone else had submitted it, I'd be fine with the author taking it down. Not everyone wants HN's attention.
I fail to see how the comment you are so vehemently responding to in anyway implied that GNU/Linux was somehow groundbreaking. The only mention of GNU & Linux was to clarify that the sections that followed are the man sections on GNU/Linux systems which is appropriate since not all UNIX flavors contain the same sections or the same order of sections. GNU/Linux systems mostly utilize the same sections and order as BSD based systems. SYSV based systems usually have some differing sections and a differing order of sections.
> Where is all this tuition even going to?

Administrative staff, which has ballooned over the past several decades. Many of these people have mediocre ability, don't really do much, but once a position is created it is hardly ever eliminated.

Buildings and renovations. Ever seen a modern student dorm? They are luxurious compared to what they were in the 1980s. It's a constant competitive war as students will actually choose a school based on the living accomodations over the education.

Programs to assist students who should really not be there, and other programs that don't seem to recognize that college students are adults and should be expected to manage their lives by themselves. Do they really need the university to arrange coloring book time to help with the stress of mid-terms?
An alumni network is great. I think the issue is having so many admin staff working on low value activities like magazines and newsletters.

I’m a big fan of quiet work, but this is pointless. It’s not pointless because it’s quiet. It’s pointless because it has minimal to no positive impact.
Sometimes I ask myself if a degree is really a legitimate proof of competence, skill or knowledge. Of course higher education matters, but I wish it would not exclude so many people. Higher education is usually the place where social classes start to branch.

Academia has often been a tool used to maintain social inequality, and that's the words you often hear from people who are insiders. A lot of people want to be in academics for passion of their field, or for prestige, or for the status. But in reality, it's another place meant to maintain elitism.

The weirdest thing is that jobs want you to have a degree, yet you often hear that degrees don't matter. So you quickly realize that education matters, but that degrees should not exist. Students should just want to learn and degrees should not be some sort of carrot on a stick.
can get it work with reddit, thanks
MEV is something different though? GPs (excellent) point is that anyone can play out the effects of their transaction locally ad infinitum, and chose to transact once they're convinced of its behavior. Of course, this can't account for the response of other actors, but the point stands that Medjedovic (should have) been taking far less risk than implied by that quote.
That's true if you are litigating the enforcement of the contract through traditional legal systems. Crypto enthusiasts want to be completely divorced from those.
This has been evolving over time. There are exceptions you can make as long as they're compensated. Now those things are negotiated in collective agreements at most places or individual contracts in the rare case.[1] There are also consequences for like if they claim it's a layoff but it's a firing and so on. It's kind of complicated and getting more so.

1. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagen_om_anst%C3%A4llningsskyd...
Seems unnecessarily confusing. Whats the advantage of the electric door?
I flagged this but thought it is prudent to explain why.

The author deliberately took it down because the attention it garnered made them uncomfortable. While we all know what goes up on the internet is forever, it doesn't preclude us from having the decency to respect their wishes.
I think ENS is pretty cool. People criticize NFTs a lot because you don't actually own anything (and I agree, especially with the JPEG NFTs). But with ENS it's the other way around. You can actually OWN a domain, unlike with registrars where you are at their mercy.
It says
"(c) 2022 Bloomberg Christopher Beam, Bloomberg Businessweek"
right in it.
Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?
And that will expose the fundamental contradictions and hypocrisy of the crypto community writ large, if they accept that help from the legal system.
Klarna’s income is tied to consumer discretionary spending which is falling off a cliff.
It depends what you want in life.
I have worked in a cube farm (which seems to be what you're describing), but the unspoken rule was to take your chatter elsewhere. The cubes were 5' walls which were nice when you sat down, and some normal/quiet conversation should go on without traveling too far.

But if you're going to "take it elsewhere" you're breaking the programming model that seems to be what's done right now.
the top rated comment is accusing him of being unprofessional. TBH, i would be mad too if someone did that to me.
A PhD has never been about economics. It is about impacting the type of work you do and how much control you have over the direction of that work. Want to work in a major research lab? Get a PhD. Want to be a professor building a research program in an area of your choosing (assuming available funding)? PhD required.
What Longtermists Should Learn from the Stoics
I will have to look at “zig cc”. Right now I’m using NixOS for this, but more options never hurts.

I can recommend Bazel for C/C++. If you’re doing Rust or something you’ve already got a pretty good build story and maybe Bazel isn’t worth the trouble. But CMake is a nightmare, and it goes downhill from there. If you’re stuck learning a tricky build system with spotty docs, Bazel at least makes it worth your while.
Please. They care about $$$ in grants as well.
Artificial intelligence predicts patients’ race from their medical images
I'm guessing the B52's will outlive the switchblades by a factor of 10.

Switchblades are a bit like 1914 "bombers". Useless by 1916.
Just a few weeks ago there was a US aircraft carrier in northern Aegean, just a few miles off the port of Alexandroupolis where there is a US naval base. It seemed odd that for such a low significance base the US would bring an aircraft carrier in the area, but my guess is that it was involved in some kind of operations in the Black Sea region.
Terrible communication in that letter, I love brutally honest and to the point communication. Everyone's time is precious don't beat around the bush just say:

we are laying off 10% of the companies staff due to macro-economic conditions beyond our control, this coupled with decreased customer spending and hiring like this day would never happen lead us to this decision. Sorry :(
Thanks for this. Catch-22 is my all-time favorite war related book. There is so much in there to take in and enjoy. Absurdity, off-color humor, puns, social commentary. Heller was magnificent in this book.
Oh got it, I've actually never really considered ads because I feel like they could ruin the experience and the money they'd be making wouldn't really be worth it.
MRR has been growing in the 10%-30% range MoM since launch with a pretty high margin so can't complain about that, what I'd like to improve is the conversion rate though, as I feel it could be much better considering the high amount of traffic.
"Instead, if you are working in Europe, you will be offered to leave Klarna with an associated compensation"

Legislation and procedures depend on country. The quote above suggests that they intend to offer a voluntary redundancy package, which enables them to bypass a lot of hoops and red tape by offering you more than you would be legally entitled to if you agree to leave voluntarily. It is not uncommon.
This led to me consulting during my PhD to supplement the stipend up to a reasonable salary. A lot of PhD students, especially if your work touches on computational sciences, are a lot more valuable than the university would like you to believe.

After moving to industry, I'm starting to realize how valuable the consulting experience was. The project management and scoping skills, and wearing multiple hats, were big benefits.
You’re going to become a middle manager if you follow the normal software engineering track.

Maybe it’s getting work “done” is what’s most attractive to you. I can see how it must feel to see your work right in front of you when you are writing code, but you need to be very aware of what you want. I’d not be happy if I switched fields to avoid management just to end up being a middle manager in a couple of years.

Then what?
NASA finally melted its giant “self-licking ice cream cone”
Or that have a medium-sized package in their trunk, which then won't close. Hazard lights and 20mph under the speed limit!
As someone who has supported printers for decades, and has a friend who owns a print shop, almost nothing in this is true.

> True large format would be called a plotter

No, plotters are devices with pens. Layman may occasionally refer to a large format printer as a "plotter" because of its resemblance and it's faster to say, but nobody in the industry refers to them as plotters.

> will print 36"x48" sheets faster than your home laser printer will pump out letter sized sheets but are almost all B&W. The most common ones are made by Oce

You're describing large-format photocopiers. They operate exactly like an old-school optical-only photocopier which photographically exposes the drum (versus printers and digital copiers which image the drum via LEDs or a laser.) They are often called "plan copiers." Said friend's print shop has one and it is in fact made by Oce.

> Medium format color laser printers are usually called a digital press and are commonly 12"x18"

Many, many copiers can handle 12x18 paper. "Digital press" usually refers to enhanced paper storage, speed/volume, and finisher capabilities beyond what a typical office copier/MFC offers, often coupled with some sort of software and workstation for managing the print jobs. Often a "digital press" is indistinguishable from a heavy-duty copier with finisher units

> Now what's interesting is the building industry has the same problem that Adam Savage has, the prints (plan sets) must be able to get wet without the ink/toner bleeding.

Toner does not bleed.

> That has been solved with ink jet technology that uses a wax based ink. Cartridges full of wax balls in the standard process colors, an example would be a Canon colorwave.

Colorwave uses melted 'toner' and sprays it, like an inkjet, onto a page.

You're confusing Colorwave with the Phaser printers made by Xerox, which use dyed wax. Phaser prints used to be cutting edge back in the 90's for proofing work, but have long since been eclipsed by every other printing technology. The wax can be scraped off the page. If the page is bent too much, it crinkles. It's easily damaged by even slight heat. It's dye based not pigment based, so the prints fade and color shift very quickly. The technology is such garbage that Xerox has tried renmaing it - they now call it "colorcube" or something similarly stupid. They push per-page figures, while ignoring the machine's horrific TCO (they consume massive amounts of electricity and require a lot of service work; if disturbed too much while at operating temperature, molten wax gets into places it shouldn't be and requires an expensive service call. Etc.)