skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typical culprits:

- Too much admin per student compared to 40 years ago

- (Much more likely): Severe decline in funds from the state. I know at least one nearby university that showed the data that the increase in tuition from 1980 to 2010 was almost entirely due to government cuts, and that the budget spending per student hadn't changed in that time frame - adjusted for inflation.

- Fancy buildings
> or so badly done it is effectively unusable

This is intentional. See General Motors streetcar conspiracy.
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Which is why the big players the smart contract that was exploited in this article just accepted the loss and moved on? Oh wait, the two largest losers here BOTH went to court independently.

The cryotocurrency community supports the "code is law" talking point only until serious money is lost. Then they go the courts for redress under actual law, or they fork the blockchain.
Thanks for the input.

The atmosphere change is an interesting hypothesis. It's one I though about but haven't researched much. Do you know good sources for reading about it?

With the team, we agree that me not being physically present sucks for everyone (in the plan where most people are in London but I'm not).
We also think that things will work great in Zug because we can eventually open a second office in Zurich, and Zurich is a very decent tech hub for talent (for trading, crypto and and ML research).

What makes the choice tough is my belief that London is the "superior" tech hub in Europe, and I don't like missing out on it. I'm tempted to try an extended stay in London to see if the headache eventually goes away while there. But it's also a very unpleasant experiment, which makes me want to just go to Zug.

Regarding your questions:

1- I can work and I have energy when I have the headaches. But they are unpleasant and ruin my mood over longer periods, eg after a few days I don't look forward to doing things and I'm mostly concerned with feeling better, which ultimately affect my productivity quite a bit.

2- I have a daily log, and headaches are very correlated with location. I know that I will feel good in Zug, so if I want to solve the headache for good, going there is a good option.
I also thought about quitting altogether (I have enough to retire and finance ambitious projects). But I think the best course of action is making the trading independent of myself by hiring people and transferring knowledge, then start the AI research operation. The AI research operation is my long term goal. I plan to operate it independently but in tandem with the trading. Both the trading and research will benefit from each other long term.

3-

- Going to London: potentially suffering long term from the
headache and having to live elsewhere and away from the team

- Going to Zug: missing out on London

- Quitting: missing out on a potential bright future of the trading operation
Patience, humility, Debt.
I originally downvoted you, but after putting a bit more thought into what you said… I dislike command palletes, but get what you’re saying.

In a traditional product you’d just learn key combos. Until you do it seems like you’re clicking lots of buttons and menus. I feel like the command palette half bridges that gap by just making you type extra characters all along.

I’m not saying one is better than another (cue old man banging his cane on the floor), but fewer keystrokes does seem preferable over the long run.
In general noise is never the answer to fingerprinting. It makes gathering "accurate" data a little harder; it doesn't stop statistical analysis from revealing the truth.
I was accepted into a Chem PhD program in the early 80's, but knew it would pay crap for years, so I figured I could work as a programmer for a couple years and save some money. 40 years later - I never went back to the PhD.
Compiled packages have ABI restrictions. Even conda-forge puts major version constraints on their packages at build time (ie: built on 3.9: >=3.9,<3.10.0a).
> This is nice in theory, but it will inevitably get screwed up by your less details-oriented coworkers.

A syntax-aware formatter could detect that, right?
I found Katherine Johnson's calculations at NASA [video]
https://archive.ph/YfD7X
Although its exhausting, one of the things I most appreciate about HN is the willingness of people to sort through those misinterpretations; thank you for doing that.
I don't care which either, that's why I elided the example in the comment I replied to - just to be clear I wasn't objecting to that in particular.

In the UK flying a union flag (residentially) would be extremely unusual - I'm aware of one, not where I live, and indeed it attracts scoffs and eyerolls - you do see England flags (St George crosses) more, particularly at certain times of year or certain years; that's more a signal that 'I am a football fan' than of patriotism, though.

Maybe that biases me against them in general. But even for things I do 'support' in some sense (I noticed a Ukraine flag covering a garage door recently, for example) I don't want a flag waved at me, and I wouldn't want a neighbour that did that.
About 1.1 million people have jobs that pay the federal minimum wage or less. Not counting farm jobs (think migrant labor).
Many people in crypto want to not have to comply with "real world" laws right up until the point where it would be to their benefit to do so.

And if "smart contracts" depend on real law, then they're not really needed in many of the supposed use cases.
Fasting is not unhealthy.
Doesn’t make sense to use federal average gas price here. Anyone making the federal minimum wage is in one of the lowest cost of living parts of the country and will subsequently also have one of the lowest gas prices to go along with that lowest income.
Oh, I'm also going to add that bear markets typically have a lot of brutal rallies. We had one in march as part of the rotation from tech into value stocks. We're probably about to witness a second.

Bear markets typically have several short covering rallies of large magnitude on the way down. Use these rallies to unwind your portfolio. Use the dips to buy hard assets and stocks with high yield that can withstand inflation (honestly everyone's margins are probably screwed). Make sure you leave some portion of your portfolio to hedge. Never overstay your welcome. Risk management is key.
I say "we" because I do not separate myself form others, no matter the circumstance.

I am one of the lucky homeless. I was a network engineer making bank at Cisco before I became ill so my disability payments are higher than average.

Do you know the cure for Neuropsychiatric Lupus? You think I am just not trying hard enough? You think people right now I can write a sentence and use a laptop that later I am not crippled with anxiety or pain and my white blood cells vanish?

You know how many employers fired me because I called in sick just one day even though they knew I was disabled? You know how many apartments I could not rent, not because I did not have the money but because I was on disability? (I sued a landlord over this and won actually.)

And services? They have been cutting services ever since I was first disabled. Endless non-profit groups that do nothing? In my home town there were five non-profits to house the homeless. I went to all five, still homeless. "Safe shelter"? Spend a night in a shelter anywhere and tell me how safe you feel.

You think you know my story like you know every other homeless persons story. It is all so simple for you, isn't it, when you make up a fantasy in your head? I hope you do not get long covid or some other known disorder they have no idea how to treat.

Unlike you, when I speak, I speak for the people who need more than I do. I am grateful for the help I do have, but it is a purgatory of torture and suffering. I was getting better until COVID turned my housing struggle into homelessness and all that happened was this with houses got more houses.
> about the safety of their fleet operating in coastal areas

> i.e. the US can't reasonably sanction China.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume you're linking these ideas together.

From a military standpoint, at least today, the US can use its blue water navy to patrol and shut down shipments of resources going in to China pretty well. You don't need to get near the Chinese coast to do that. The US also has no interest in any sort of land warfare in China, so ultimately the strategy is containment. That's why the US (and Biden announced this again today) would absolutely go to war with China over Taiwan, because for China to take Taiwan is to break out of this containment zone and basically eliminate most of the effectiveness of the US Navy in the Pacific as it would relate to China, and undoubtedly end the US as global hegemon.

I think people assume that the US Navy has to be close to China in order to do damage and therefore naval ships are screwed because China will launch missles. While I do think the US Navy would conduct operations and quickly learn what exact capabilities the Chinese have, I don't think their effectiveness is limited to near-shore operations. Frankly, the US can shut down all maritime trade for China and now all of a sudden the Chinese are trying to ship in food and goods and energy products (oil and coal) via road, which I don't think is currently feasible.

But I also don't think China is foolish enough to actually try and invade Taiwan, because that would be like Ukraine, except with the US actively fighting. Some suggest China may try and launch a limited nuclear strike on a location like Guam, but I think that's very dangerous because the US would no doubt retaliate on mainland Chinese military assets and it either ends right then and there with both sides calling a truce (and China not invading Taiwan) or it would continue to escalate into a limited nuclear exchange, which would be catastrophic. China doesn't and won't have the military strength to take over Taiwan unless it's willing to take insane losses, like Russia is now (but worse) in Ukraine.

* I also have a pet conspiracy theory that the war in Iraq was launched to warm up the US military and give it practice with combined arms tactics against an enemy that can fight back, but not too hard.
From a quick search it seems both a normal gallon and a wine gallon are measured at 231 cubic cm of liquid, so they're the same. There is a proof gallon which only counts the ethanol content of the liquid towards the gallon, so a 100 proof alcohol would require 2 gallons of liquid to equal 1 proof gallon of liquor.
Athletics is normally (always?) a separate self-funding enterprise attached to th e university. Tutition dollars don't pay the coaches; alumni donations/gifts, sponsors, and ticket sales do.
> The author suggest prepending v to a tag name for the sake of shell completion. This assumes that everyone will be interacting with git tags using a shell.

I would argue that any tool (such as a GUI app) which doesn't provide the depth of usability that a shell offers is, in fact, a deficiency in the GUI or tool. If your GUI doesn't offer completions similar to a shell then your GUI tool is inferior to a shell.
If you haven't eaten in 4 hours you should eat anything, even if it's a "cheat item". Creating rules about what food is or is not permissible is how you give yourself anorexia.

You feel good, sure. Your brain doesn't have enough glucose to function. It can't run entirely on ketones. The way we cope is throttling unnecessary brain activity. One way to lower the caloric expenditure is to answer complex questions with simple, fatalistic responses. Thinking you're being punished and nothing will ever change is a lot easier of a conclusion to reach if the neocortex only has ketones for fuel. It's kind of impossible for me at least to deal with my ADHD / anxiety / depression if my brain is running on fumes

Besides that, poverty is one of the largest risk factors for obesity, to the extent that your zip code is a better determinant for it than your genetics. The US has some of the most extreme wealth inequality of any "1st world" nation, with 1 in 5 of its children experiencing food insecurity. But we only ever talk about what individuals are at fault for, not the system that relegates millions of us to live in food deserts and/or in poverty
“So far, in Ukraine, the signature land weapon hasn’t been a tank but an anti-tank missile: the Javelin. The signature air weapon hasn’t been an aircraft, but an anti-air missile: the Stinger.”

Weren’t these the signature weapons because Ukraine doesn’t have much of an air force? It’s true that the Javelin and Stingers (etc.) have been remarkably effective; however, it’s not like the US ought to ditch its expensive aircraft in favor of shoulder-launched weapons.
That is how the school system fails, but it does not justify the mistaken belief common to so many victims of talent that understanding and intellect are the end goal, rather than a starting point. It does not justify avoiding practice.

In deciding how the school system should better serve its function, one must first have a proper apprehension of what that function is. It is harmful to believe this myth that "understanding the material" is the fulfillment of education. It does not identify the correct measure of success.
But that is the premise of smart contracts. Sure, it doesn't excuse you from the law if your contract is to pay someone to shoot someone, but it's supposed to be the final word on the actual financial transactions that happen within the contract.

Plenty of crypto hypers say the same. E.g. from a quick search of "Smart Contract advantages," the very first article, by a law firm:

> Guaranteed Outcomes: Potentially the most attractive feature, smart contracts could offer a way to substantially reduce or completely eliminate the need for litigation and courts. This is because when parties commit to using self-executing contracts, they bind themselves to the rules and determinations of the underlying code, rather than exposing themselves to interpretations med by parties outside of the contractual relationship.

https://www.newburnlaw.com/benefits-of-smart-contracts
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Speaking of UI, I haven't used JetBrains software in some time, so this may be out of date, but:

It seems like a lot of software out of Central/Eastern Europe uses (or used) lots of custom UI controls. It gives the programs a certain... feel.

Has anyone else noticed this? Did Win32 controls in the past have especially poor support for non-Latin alphabets?
No longer a part of Klarna’s journey. barf
For those in Europe ("this content is not available in your region" bullshit): https://archive.ph/XZ6rW

Not that we're missing much. The title says it all.
We don’t have to guess. Most US universities are public institutions so you can just Google up their budget.

As an example, here is the UC system:

https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4511

https://accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu/2021/chapt...

About 70% of the UC budget goes to salaries and benefits. Of that, 70% of staff is non-academic.

Full context below:

Non-academic staff employees constitute nearly 70 percent of UC’s workforce and are responsible for health services, student services, instruction and research support, compliance, and general administration (6.1.1). In October 2020, this group included 143,188 individuals. Overall, this staff workforce represented over 115,577 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees in that month.

STAFF WORKFORCE
About six out of every ten UC staff FTE are working for the University of California Health system. These frontline workers (including doctors, nurses, administrators, technicians, and allied health professionals) are playing a critical role in California’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 97 percent of these employees are supported by non-core funds, typically the revenues generated by hospital services.
Students often work part-time on campus as part of their financial aid packages or for research experience. During the pandemic, UC campuses transitioned to remote instruction. With staff, faculty, and students no longer on campus, student employee headcount at general campus halved from 36,000 in October 2019 to 18,000 in October 2020.
General campus, non-student employees are the remainder of the University’s staff, at 43,752 FTE. This includes student services employees, career advisors, IT specialists, research administration, laboratory staff, food and auxiliary service workers, accountants, maintenance and janitorial staff, safety workers, and analysts (6.1.1).
The original text says performative act, and not performative art. Not a big deal perhaps but this subtle difference carries a different connotation for me, I wonder if you might get a different impression if you read it again.
Anyone studying Amdahl's law should also study the inverse, literally 1/(Amdahl's law), which leads to Gustafson's law.

Its really strange what a simple reciprocal does to the entire equation. Instead of trying to cut your time down and perform work faster, Gustafson's law holds "time as constant" and measures the "amount of work done".

Lo and behold: the parallel-portion of work grows the more-and-more work is available. That is to say, if you double-the-data to process, you can almost always double-the-parallelism in the same amount of time.

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So, you have some model (neural net?) that's difficult to parallelize? No problem, simple solution. Double, triple, quadruple the size of the model. Done. Suddenly more of it can be performed in parallel.

Shrinking time (ie: Ahmdal's law) is an exercise in futility, and uselessness. It turns out that a lot of people's work days are measured in hours, and going from 30-seconds of wait time to 10-seconds of wait time is not really a crazy benefit. Instead, going from "Analyzed 2-GBs of data in 30-seconds" into "Analyzed 6GBs of data in 30-seconds" does lead to improvements.

> The use of std::mutex (especially in frequently accessed structures) will bring your application to a grinding halt. Better solutions abound with concurrent sequential processes, or the Actor architecture.

This is a separate issue. Contention is O(n), where n is the amount of contention. 1000 threads writing the same variable can only be done one-at-a-time. So it will take O(1000) time to perform all those reads/writes. It doesn't matter if you use mutexes, atomic-compare-and-swap, or anything. You can't "beat" the laws of physics. 1000 updates requires 1000x time.

You "solve" this by splitting up your variables and minimizing contention. Instead of 1000x writes to 1x variable, you can perform 1000x writes to 1000x variables, then read the 1000x variables in parallel one step later.
The tools that were used to make Lemmings were shown in a 2019 GDQ talk, called Classic Game Postmortem: Lemmings [1]. The editor, and how fast the loop was between tweaking a level a little bit and being able to try it again, are pretty impressive. The talk also goes through the wonders of high quality low pixel animation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybs5FR-uUNI
Both the movement and control scheme of Prince of Persia was copied exactly by a little-known 3D platformer called… Tomb Raider. It’s too bad that not many modern games follow these movement and control schemes, and odd too, since both games were hugely successful. Even Assassin’s Creed was originally envisioned as a Prince of Persia game, IIRC.
And the whole world is free to suffer the consequences of global warming which are becoming increasingly dire.

Sorry for the snarkiness but it just needed to be said
I don't think the majority of deaths in combat have been from humans killing other humans that they can see with their eyes for a long time. Possibly well over a hundred years.

If killing someone through a camera is action-at-a-distance, so is blowing up an opaque metal box that you know probably has four humans in it, or firing your artillery piece at a grid square that probably has some humans in it, or dropping a bomb on a glowing blob on a thermal sensor that's probably a human. Even in daytime infantry-on-infantry combat, at a lot of ranges you're not shooting at people, you're shooting at piece of cover you saw gunfire emanate from. All of these partially-removed actions are also mainly what we're seeing drones do well at.

While one could design a killer robot to go inside buildings and shoot people while looking them in the eye, the complexities and timeframes of close-range combat make it seems like the very last place for robots to replace infantry.
Are these settings available individually? For example I would he happy with most of these except I can't live with UTC time zone and no site-specific zoom. I would probably also keep the performance API available.

Maybe this will become available when they roll out more broadly with a configuration UI.
It's not a crisis. People are simply louder about it now. When people stop signing up for PhD programs, THEN it's a crisis. Until then, the system has no reason to care, thus the general public will remain completely oblivious.
Staying remote was a consideration indeed. We generally have a better time when the team is together. My vision for the long-term research is "a bunch of phds in a room". According to that vision, we have to agree where the room is.
Softmax Activation Functions
If you're being fired

> The invite will be titled “Meeting regarding your role at Klarna”.

lol ouch! They should make it a gamble where everyone has a meeting and you don't know what the outcome will be! But since thats even more resource intensive I would much prefer a mass pre-recorded zoom call over that.

I can understand that the former thing has better PR than the latter thing. But I think employed Americans are more adept at the fickle nature of their employment, whereas when the news articles go out about a mass zoom meeting firing, it gets the attention and hot takes from a bunch of more disconnected unemployable Americans and out of the loop people from other developed nations chiming in.
> Similarly, the Javelin, while effective and having gone through incremental upgrades, is not a wildly new weapon. It's been around for decades, and as we're finding along with the Stinger, the U.S. needs to reactivate the manufacturing to build them from scratch which has been dormant for decades.

My understanding is that the U.S. sunsetted or reduced Javelin and Stinger production because of assumed air superiority in any potential conflict (COIN or near-peer).

For all of their love of redundancy, do you think that they are overconfident in air superiority?
I'm not sure if that's still the case, but I definitely remember Tor Browser throwing a warning you when you try maximising the window for this reason.
If I launch a campaign against you by accusing you of things, and bringing people in rage with the accusation so that they support me because this evil must not continue, there’s a tremendous amount of signal. But does this tremendous amount of signal point to something more underhand going on? No.

The article states “Knouse […] had ongoing flings with men […] and she wanted to keep it that way.” When Sabatini’s interest in her faded, he is suddenly accused of harassment by her. Peculiar timing. The article writes, “It would also pacify Knouse, who wanted to see Sabatini fired publicly. ‘Part of me just wants to organize a protest […]’ wrote Knouse to a friend during the investigation.”

Sounds very much like revenge of a scorned lover that is enabled by an a lynch mob environment.