skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because science is reaaaally hard to generalise for the public, and Universities love to put out press releases. Finding someone qualified to go to for comment is not straightforward. They’re not necessarily even going to be in your country.

I’m a physicist by background and even when active in academia it was hard for me to understand some papers in closely related sub fields, and that was with working experience in that area. I did theoretical and computational physics research and understanding leaps forward in for e.g. experimental hardware would have got blank stares from me. For a journalist, who may have been out of academia for some time, a large amount just gets taken on trust from what the academics themselves say, because you haven’t got a hope of understanding the fine points of the research.
Old money is not about baubles it’s about the means to earn a living, connections and the knowledge of how to retain wealth.

Passing down a watch or car is an incidental thing and the watches real old money passes down are not the ones like Patek Phillipe who find it necessary to run ads suggesting otherwise to the middle class readers of The Economist.
Haphazard methodology. Profit driven. I think that covers it.

If we want to deliver the scientific gospel to the laymen we need some kind of rigorous technical writing thing.

Unless entertainment is literally our method and profit is literally our aim. Is it?
Everyone can find moral superiority in their personal choices without much effort.

Finding morality in someone else’s orthogonal choices is the hard work.

For me, the birdsong and the wind are there but for stopping beside the road for the sake of stopping.

In those moments I am just there not even riding a bicycle.
And every other payment processor modeled VAT without raising their fees. Your software developers only need to model it once and make updates. You don't have armies of humans dealing with this to necessitate 10-20% fees.

And no payment processor or retailer deals with fraud. They all suspend your accounts for chargebacks. The fee is the built in fee to cover _losses due to fraud_, not for "handling" it.
I might be embarking on a similar trip next year—same route. I'm not familiar with the American climate; What would be the ideal time of year to do such a journey? February/March to July/August?
I biked in Kensington, SoHo, and City of London. They were all unpleasant in different but noticeable ways. Old narrow roundabouts were especially scary in the bike. The bus lanes were nice though.
Yep. He writes as if income tax, digital international taxes etc don't exist. Leave aside chargebacks, fraud, refunds.
>> Don't want me to hit you?

Not a bike rider, but if you don't want to hit anyone, then you should try not to, regardless of whatever anyone else is doing.

Btw, you proably didn't intend it that way but your comment comes across as threatening to hit somebody.
The Unraveling of Robinhood’s Fairy Tale
Does anyone know why the second word doesn't exactly match "cacator"? The first letter looks like an "E" but there is an "E" in the first word so the horizontal line might be a later damage. However, the second "A" looks like an "O". Could it be a typo?
Exactly, the analogy with encryption makes sense. It's very easy to read a fictional thriller (e.g. The Da Vinci Code) quickly because it's written for that purpose, and has very little value to extract. It makes no sense to read your average technology research paper in this way - if you're going to read it so quickly, you may as well not read it at all.
This mirrors my personal experience pretty well, literally every teacher I know has gotten out of education in the last two years or planning to quit. Most of them because it’s killing them.

* Friend’s husband is quitting this upcoming year and is going into grad school to reboot his career in an unrelated maths field.

* Woman I graduated with went back to work at my HS, super cute story, but left two years ago after only a few years teaching and is a mother / housewife now.

* Another woman, close friend, just up and quit with no notice no plan because the stress put her on medical leave and her school offered no accommodation. She moved to Colorado and works in a dispensary now.

* Another woman I’ve known since kindergarten who’s life dream was to be an elementary school teacher quit this year with no plan other than moving to Atlanta and looking at grad schools.

* Yet another friend who taught elementary school English quit this year and now works two part time jobs as a copy editor and cheese maker. He’s way less stressed now and I actually get to hang out with him.

* I can keep going, an older family friend who’s been teaching for 20 years quit last year because she was so burnt out and demoralized. She now does 3D modeling remotely and does woodworking as a side hustle.

* Bosses wife, also older, taught around 10 years I think also quit this year for an IT admin job.

Look I work in a quaint little tech shop completely unrelated to education. There’s no way I somehow self-selected for teachers who are exiting the field. Maybe this is somehow the normal level of turnover but damn.
agreed - it's the intuitiveness of the answer to the example that is so critical to building understanding. When you want to teach a method, it's much better if the student already knows what the result should be by a different method, so they can see how the new method is different than the one they know.
But common skills don't command elevated wages.
Donorbox doesn't even seem to process international VAT. It seems to be geared for non-profits, which I really doubt the author's writing gig qualifies as. So basically he is just dodging tax and all legal responsibilities.
Union wins right to represent workers at an Apple store for the first time
You can, although they're pretty keen on discouraging you from pointing this particular gun at your feet, e.g. ptr.with_addr() can't achieve this on its own because it wants a NonZeroUsize, so first you need to make a NonZeroUsize that's actually zero. But yes, you can write that in unsafe Rust and now your program has Undefined Behaviour.

In contrast all the routes I suggested for C# aren't unsafe, aren't even flagged as "Be super careful here, dragons ahead" because the C# attitude is that every single C# function is responsible for explicitly doing its own null checks if they're needed.
The Right Pencil Lead Grade and Hardness for Every Scenario
> You have merely cherry-picked some examples of cancel culture where people were fired for merely trivial things.

I was explicitly noting that many cases of cancellation are unjust. Giving examples is appropriate.

> rather whether his supporters (for lack of a better term) are hypocrites based on positions they have previously staked out.

I’m sure some are. Any person with a large following will have many people who are hypocrites. A huge swath of the general population is hypocritical, so I would expect some hypocrites among Musk’s followers.

I don’t know how you could credibly argue that his supporters in general are hypocritical in a way which is independent from whether or not he is.
Science news sucks because their audience is a science-illiterate public that doesn't really want to learn but feels it knows enough to make important decisions. To be eye-catching (ad-attractive) enough for widespread broadcast it needs to have human interest angles and show "both sides" (as if there are 2) and not alienate that ad-clicking audience.

No matter how good the advice to reporters is, no matter how closely they follow that advice, science news will still suck.
There's two big limits in graphics rendering: the actual rendering calculations (upgrading to a faster GPU helps here), and transferring data/instructions from CPU RAM to video RAM (using a faster PCI protocol helps here). Getting top-notch graphical performance out of a modern GPU involves carefully designing the system to deliver all the graphics data and instructions for a given frame to the GPU just in time for it to begin rendering, so it has the maximum amount of time to complete the rendering calculations before scanning out the result to the display.

The trouble is, unless we're talking about the operating system for a modern video game console, the kernel is not interested in re-architecting its graphics rendering for maximum throughput, it wants to keep things as simple as possible. That's partially because kernel code needs to be super-reliable, and also because (unlike a modern video game) it needs to support all kinds of output from modern high-end GPUs to simple memory-mapped bitmap displays to character-at-a-time serial ports, so lowest-common-denominator code wins.

In a classic 1990s PC, to write a character to the screen, the CPU can write a single byte directly into the text-display part of the VGA card's memory, and a fraction of a millisecond later the VGA hardware is looking up that byte in the character ROM and sending electrical pulses down the VGA cable.

In a modern PC, if the CPU wants to write a single character to the screen, it probably needs to write each pixel separately, each pixel is three or four bytes, and writing a pixel probably requires making a change to CPU RAM, preparing a command buffer, creating an "update texture" command, uploading the entire screen contents as the new texture, signalling to the GPU that a command buffer is ready, waiting for the GPU to signal that it's ready to receive, sending the command + data, and waiting for the GPU to signal that it's successfully received the data. And then the GPU actually has to draw the output into its own framebuffer, and send that to the monitor.

A modern PC can send all that data much more quickly than a 1990s PC could, but the 1990s PC is much simpler, so it has much less data to send.
I’m trying to square how only [15% of oil price controls](https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/29/us/president-abolishes-la...) remained when Reagan single handedly saved the day. Seems like Carter spent 4 years doing the hard work and Reagan was able to capitalize on the last bit, which as the article states, Carter would have accomplished by spring.
Yeah, nginx and apache have ways of reloading the configuration without dropping requests (by waiting for existing ones to finish with old workers, and spinning up new workers with the new config in the case of nginx) but doesn't apply in every situation (like when you're not using nginx) so figure I'd write about the general principle instead of specifically for nginx.
You also had a pentest of your setup so you are perfectly sure you don't expose something to the internet that you are not supposed to?

You also considered updates for Ubuntu and microk8s so you have strategy for updating your nodes with newer versions and security patches.

I can follow a tutorial to set something up - but then there is always whole world of things that is never included in tutorials.

Just like kubelet accepting unauthenticated requests by default: https://medium.com/handy-tech/analysis-of-a-kubernetes-hack-...
I focus on understanding what I read, speed is secondary.

So, depending on the text I read, I adjust the speed.
>> Top ten lists

> I couldn't find any "listicle" style top N list, the closest was "top players in quantum computing"

The whole premise of the video of this article is "I give you the ten reasons why I think science suck". Sure it's not in the title (which is even more polarizing), but it's still a top ten list.

>> awful generic CGI backgrounds

> That's pretty par for the course for this tier of channel. Arguably the "quirky room with nerd tchatckies backdrop" is more authentic, but both are just filler behind a talking head.

She could just be sitting at her desk though, but I agree this is more aesthetics
and it would have not grated me if it wasn't for the other things

>> give me your opinion in the comments

> Necessary evil to drive engagement to appease The Algo.

That's exactly my point. I don't necessarily blame her, but am more lamenting the fact that all videos seem to have to become like this, if a creator wants to make a living on youtube.

> Imho her work is a step above the lion's share of science reporting, but I can see how she might be polarizing.

I'm not sure, her work is definitely not on par with quanta magazine for example.
> So it’s our mission as engineers to show the world what’s possible with today’s computers in terms of performance, reliability, quality, usability. If we care, people will learn. And there’s nobody but us to show them that it’s very much possible. If only we care.

Software engineers by and large care and yet we can't even get the businesses we work for to care, the stakeholders that performance would matter to arguably the most. I think the average person is even more apathetic about a topic like optimizing app performance.
I don't agree that symlinks are a basic feature. It's a source of a lot of pain for me on my Mac
neither a borrower nor a lender be.