skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IIRC it's the only AD alternative that actually supports Windows clients.

We only have 3 Windows clients amongst about 100 Linux VM's so we actually went the reverse path, OpenLDAP for Linux clients/servers and using pGina on the Windows boxes to connect it to OpenLDAP. Works pretty smoothly.
> Trying to rank institutions of higher education is a little like trying to rank religions

Did anyone try to make a ranking for religions similar to those for universities? Sounds like it would be a fun project making a great point.

Measures like "Fees", "Diversity", "Alumni Salary", "Financial Aid Provided" would all be interesting to see for each religion.
Edited, thank you
To frighten potential creators of other marketplaces.
US dollar is not rising in value it is sinking, but Euro is sinking faster.
Is that really so wrong though? I'd like to go to a college where the food doesn't suck and the campus is nice. Those are definitely factors that went into my choice. Value was definitely the overwhelming factor in my decision though, I went to a UC.

Also, even the value rankings are mostly just Ivies at the top. Funny enough, my school is in the ~30s for overall rankings, but in the low 100s for value, since they're looking at the out-of-state cost (which for UCs is around 50k vs. 15k in-state), and they include grants, which is extremely variable by individual student. If they looked at the in-state tuition, UCs would dominate the value rankings.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-unive...
To me, it feels more like Facebook selectively facilitates the crimes of some and polices the crimes of others.

There's names of people in the public Congressional record that you cannot put in any post in any context.

The 2020 riots were coordinated on FB.

According to the White House press secretary, the WH sends lists of people to Facebook to censor who did not commit crimes.

If you are successfully opposed to the regime, for example popular voices against US criminal actions regarding Ukraine, you get nerfed.

Azov Batallion was previously banned from FB because they are literally Nazis, but ever since the government started giving weapons to these Nazis you can praise them without concern you will get banned.
> Another important problem with all-electric trucks, one we admittedly didn’t even think about, was exposed during this test. Charging one with a trailer hitched up isn’t exactly easy since most public chargers are set up in a regular parking stall. The Fast Lane Truck had to park the truck and trailer across multiple charging station spots to plug in the Ford Lightning.
Ok, you got my attention. What is the new definition of vaccine effectiveness and how is it different from the old one?
Angular Diameter Turnaround: https://xkcd.com/2622/.
Not really. Short term the German nuclear plants cannot be kept operational any longer. While fossils are bad, they are less bad than having none and getting old buclear planta ready when they are not needed anymore. Also, the fossil plants are there, and this cheaper to ramp up. Mid term, the goal seems to be renewables.

All in all, quite reasonable and well thought through under the current circumstances.
Without the threat of violence I'm not accepting a traffic violation.
I was at NEU from 2007-2012. Aoun, who became president in 2006, was not popular amongst the students. It was pretty apparent that he was making changes simply to make things appear better on paper, and some of them actually made the students really angry. A big one that I remember was that they eliminated the mandatory co-op requirement (which means most students graduate in 5 years instead of 4), which is a core tenet of NEU's philosophy!

The changes NEU made between 1996 and 2006 were seemingly genuinely good for students. My dad had graduated from NEU in '86, and he was really impressed with how far the school had come. But I wouldn't say anything that changed while I was there had any real impact on my experience, so my gut instinct says they were more gamey than anything.
I will sometimes eat that much when I go out for breakfast too, and yet I often skip breakfast entirely. The body is quite tolerant of different eating patterns.
There's a lot wrong with this article, and it's obviously steeped in bias. But there are some interesting ideas to be picked out from between the nonsense.

In particular, I'm very sympathetic to the sense that the predominant styles of government prior to 2000 (esp Western Democracy) are obsolete in an era where there is instant, open access to information (and disinformation). The author's main point seems to be: unless the establishment can manage to regain control over information flows (a la the Chinese government) we will see a drastic reshaping of society.
Science, like reality, is that that doesn't stop existing when you close your eyes (or when you don't care).
Thank you for the answers. It's all amazing to think about. It seemed strange to me when reading your comment, for example, that the universe would look the same age in every direction. Why? Are we close to the center? And then it hit me (probably not for the first or last time): we can only see as far as light had time to travel here! In reality the universe just keeps going.
Agree. Too much here is more of the same. Ugh.

I like cowbell.

Here is an endless loop of cowbell ringing and nothing else.

It's like torture.
I've used them before but I sweat too much and they fall off =(
They're from the mirrors, just one is from the struts.
Related:

James Webb Space Telescope White House Briefing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32062139 - July 2022 (82 comments)
> artificial neural networks aren't like actual neural networks or brains

Just to zoom right in on neural networks:

People often say this, and I never see a solid argument.

I know very little about biological neural networks.

Clearly they are very different in some respects, for example, meat vs silicon.

But I never see a good argument that there's no perspective from which the computational structure is similar.

Yes, the low level structure, and the optimization is different, but so? You can run quicksort on a computer made of water and wood, or vaccum tubes, or transistors, and it's still quicksort.

Are we sure there aren't similarities in terms of how the various neural networks process information? I would be interested in argument for this claim.

After all, the artificial neural networks are achieving useful high level functionality, like recognizing shapes.
Offer to provide a detailed work breakdown for a ridiculous fee, but don't back down on your estimate if you believe in it. "Negotiating" like this is a waste of time and goodwill.
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> "she didn't mention any of these"... my name is Christine, it's right at the top of the post...

Apologies. This old blog theme rings in me the old reaction of "Christopher from Mediagoblin!".
The previous commenter was being sarcastic, due to the use of the "easy" word (there is no implementation of Shor's algorithm yet that comes even near outpacing the classical version)
Related ongoing thread:

Deepest infrared image of universe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32062849 - July 2022 (61 comments)
Genuine question - when 80% of all US dollars in existence were printed very recently (from $4 trillion in January 2020 to $20 trillion in October 2021). [1], how do you not get massive devaluation of the US dollar?

[1] https://techstartups.com/2021/12/18/80-us-dollars-existence-...
at that time, boston
Rankings do not matter. Unless you are going into Big Law, or if you are focused on staying in academia.
They are trying to install cooling at several stations where they deem it possible.

The problem is that, generally speaking, Central London lacks spots where you could just punch a ventilation shaft downwards, and the stations are too tight to accommodate modern HVAC otherwise.
>"Consequently, there is a lot of good reason for the Euro to be weak at these times. However, if the energy crisis can be solved and the war contained, a weak Euro also is also pushing exports from the EU. So there is a lot of reason for this trend to be stopped, if not reversed, until the other extreme is reached again."

There is still a lot of inflation outside of energy prices. All of the demand-pull inflation from the pandemic is still there. A weak Euro does not automatically translate to "pushing exports" here. From the article:

>"For years, policy makers have welcomed a weaker currency as a means to stimulate economic growth, since it makes the bloc’s exports more competitive. But now, with inflation in the euro zone at the highest since such records began, its weakness is undesirable as it fans price gains by making imports more expensive. In June, euro-area consumer prices jumped 8.6% from a year earlier. Some policy makers have highlighted a weaker euro as a risk to the central bank’s goal to return inflation to 2% over the medium term, ..."
Yes, the two settings (aka "reference frames" in special and general relativity) can experience time at different rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
In 1979 my high school friends and I used to play a game on paper that was essentially "light cycles". We used a sheet of graph paper and took turns extending our previous walls (each drawn with a different color using a fancy four color pen) by one more square.

None of us has access to computers back then, though our science fair project that year was a microprocessor based video game (using the Signetics 2650). We ran out of time to implement our own games, but "cycles" would have been our second right after "pong".

I did not think of having a character at the leading edge of the wall until I watched "Tron", however. And then I did implement it like that on my TI99/4A including the movie's theme music.

While I couldn't find the name of the paper version of the game we played, it seems that there was already a two player arcade version in 1976 called "Blockade" by Gremlin.
Reminds me of the language learning app Lingvist, which for a while had only German, French, and Estonian for a similar reason: the company is Estonian.
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In fairness, some of the criticism isn't armchair: some of us work in science, may know what good science communication can look like, and can then be fairly critical of what is a wonderful opportunity for effective communication with a large audience being mishandled. These opportunities do not come every day, so it's important to make the most of them.

I imagine the NASA conference tomorrow may give more clarity, e.g. perhaps today's announcement was a last-minute press op that wasn't sufficiently planned? Maybe the full NASA briefing will be better.

With that said, I think it's fair to keep this discussion separate so as not to overshadow the very real and tremendous accomplishment we're witnessing today. Obviously the manner of the announcement is insignificant compared to the result itself, and I hope everyone involved is very rightly proud.
This is a bit of a non-sequitur (not to mention silly), but I'm curious about the details. Do you have any links to this story of Rabi refusing to let Bader study part-time?

The problem, of course, it that the timing doesn't make sense at all. You say this happened in the early 50's. That can't be the early 1850's, since Bader wasn't born yet. But by the 1950s, Feynman was already long gone from high school. Indeed, he'd already devised path integrals, and so he certainly knew about the principle of least action!

Perhaps you meant 30's?
As far as I can tell, Lucene is the library that powers the main search-related features of Elastic Search i.e. inverted indices, stemming, tokenization, etc.

Elastic Search, Amazon Open Search, Solr, etc. just wrapped Lucene up in a much easier to use HTTP / Rest API and then added bells and whistles like a coherent DSL, scripting, authentication and authorization, jobs, bulk API, etc. Then they built additional tools like Logstah and Kibana, which integrate using these APIs.
How many self-help books and YouTube videos does it usually take before someone starts offering advice like this?

absolutely great stuff
You are likely completely right. It's just that tiny detail that there's an elephant in the room.
I've seen QR codes (as well as URLs and input codes) on supermarket receipts in the UK. They're for reviewing the service, checkout staff, etc more than any product.

Google Surveys do a "scan in your receipt" thing to solicit place reviews.

Verifying customers only verifies that one thing. It doesn't stop fake reviews of "real" customers (happens a ton on Amazon), or influenced reviews "Leave us 5 stars and we'll give you a gift voucher", or all the other crap that spoils real reviews.

I occasionally wonder if state-funded reviewing might be a useful additional data point. "This does what it claims, appears well built". Obviously applying that to every product sold might be a stretch, but expensive essentials (eg white goods) would be a good opening target.
Please don't submit the same thing over and over multiple times a day / week / month.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32053783

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=rubbrband.com
> work with nix in their infrastructure, but also want to utilize AD and LDAP

If you have AD, just tell the nix machines to use it for user authentication? You don't need another server
Will the same happen to Las Vegas?
That’s a bad phrase.

History was written by those that could write at all!

Most of ancient history is not documented as most peoples didn’t have a written system at all.

Also, for many other battles and events there are other parties (third parties) that wrote about them, but they were neither the losers nor the victors.

Third parties has their own biases so that is often needed to take account into history.

In the case of India, the bias might be into minimizing conflict and trying to minimize bad sides of previous figures.

This happens in many other countries as well.
Yes, it does (from the point of view of observers outside the gravity well), and yes they could. They could also accelerate themselves to relativistic speeds to accomplish the same feat.
Well.

I would agree. You have to see it at least once to appreciate it :)
I find the best way to build trust is to start by trusting people. That can be burned over time but it’s been a pretty good policy in my 15+ years of professional work.

Life is too short, for me, to assume people are out to get me. If I figure out they are, I’m generally deft enough to get them out of my way or get out of their way.
This is solid. I read the entire posted section, and now I'm going to read the full text. I recommend carving out a part of your day and reading this. The books he recommends are also fantastic recommendations (those I have read). They all have changed my perspective in serious ways.
I use Samba to setup an LDAP database that mostly reflects how the Active Directory schema looks like https://github.com/jborean93/PSOpenAD/blob/main/tools/setup-.... It's not perfect but a lot easier than trying to setup an actual Windows domain in a CI environment.
Alternatively, why do you need cops for those situations? It seems like they might do more harm than good confronting already erratic person; there's a long, public history at this point of cops killing people by subduing them inappropriately. The situation has to be pretty extreme for you to actually need physical force to subdue someone. It happens, but it seems like these studies are telling us it's extremely rare.
Who’s gonna make me pay it?

Ah. The judge. Backed up with jail.

Who’s gonna put me in jail? I mean I’m 6’3 and 230lbs and a right arrogant asshole - I won’t go easy.

Officers with guns you say?

Okay! I’ll pay.
I think they’d just need to travel slower through space to experience more time relative to the other civilization. Then that civilization could take more that time to develop a civilization-ending laser or whatever.

Then for gravity, the less gravity that civilization experiences the slower time moves for them relative to their competitor.

So I think the goal would be to send star matter to the other civilization so their time slows down relatively speaking.

I’m no expert, though. Happy to take corrections.
Moulding people's opinions via a version of history that pushes an agenda... I think there's much more than money to be made from history. Specifically, recent history (not referring to 5000 BCE).
Is there any other option?

Vaccination would not help because it works exactly the same way.

Vaccination certainly helps for the initial response, so people don't get as sick. But after that natural immunity is superior to vaccination.

But it's not true what you say, a mutated virus can still elicit a partial response. So if people are constantly exposed to the new virus they will never get seriously sick.
Amazon is quietly developing cancer vaccines in partnership with Fred Hutchinson
Planned maintenance announced with less than 1 week notice and within days of Putin doubling down on Ruble demands.

It is also worth noting that Gazprom has already stopped supplying gas to countries and companies refusing to bow to the rubles demand—Poland, Bulgaria, Finland, as well as some customers in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany.
Let's assume space is curved in a way that it only appears vast and it's an irregular curvature. How would you be able to demonstrate if an object in a photograph is another cycle around the curvature?

For instance, you could be seeing an already observed object at a different incoming angle and thus a trivial comparison would be defeated

I'd think if this question is answerable you could also perhaps demonstrate there are no cycles or repetitions, even irregular ones.

I don't know though, anyone that knows things care to opine? I'm assuming this is theoretically arguable, such as a proof by contradiction or something.
There's also difference in ventilation design. A lot of the tube relies on the piston effect for ventilation.

NYC's subways are underneath major roads and nearly always features extensive sidewalk venting for the entire length, as depicted in the iconic photo of Marilyn Monroe. https://img.atlasobscura.com/EEahxLmWgG-xahr-cXyJ1_TFUKch_pn...
Plus the confounding factor that cops showing up to a mental health crisis can cause it to escalate.
I got the catchy ae439fba780.com -- a snip at only £8.
Drupal is so much better now with config in code and use of composer. The new release cycle has made it much easier to upgrade, with small steady improvements (compared to upgrading between versions of the past).

The new admin UI is great too.

I believe headless for drupal is improving. jrockowitz posted a video on his blog with use of schema.org
Webb's First Deep Field (NIRCam Compass Image)
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/fzupr

Everyone wants to win a slice of healthcare. But if they can cure cancer, let's do it. Even if it's Amazon.
For comparison, here are some of the best previous images from this area of the sky:

https://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/relics/

https://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/relics/color_images/smacs07...

That's the best original source I've found so far. It's also unclear to me if these images are largely from Spitzer or Hubble or a combination of data from both.
Time will pass for them very very closely to the same rate it does for us.

But here's something fun: the space between us and them is stretching, so in a billion years when the light arrives at our position, the time between photons will be longer than when they left (so things will appear slower) and the photons will be at a longer wavelength making it more red.
They're likely pushing you out, or you're just folding under pressure. The game is different at big tech. It's bureaucratic, it's political and it's heartless.

Are you expecting people to be singing your praises constantly after becoming a CTO at a FAANG? Forget that - you're just as nameless as you are before, except now if you propose to give a talk somewhere, you're more likely to be given the OK. CTO's are a dime a dozen, but now you're a FAANG CTO which helps, but also will probably be dialing your imposter syndrome to 11.

If the culture's changed and the golden handcuffs aren't very thick, I'd jump to a CTO of a non-profit or something you're passionate in - that is, if you've got FU money from the acquisition. There's going to be more CTO's than companies with the recession, so it's going to be tough.

You're also probably burnt out. Any acquisition is tough, and it just gets even harder post acquisition - the parent company wants it's pound of flesh, and they're not afraid to ask for it. Luckily you won't be the first on the chopping block unless it's clearly a technical limitation of the platform or product, it'll be the CEO. Sales are all that matter after most acquisitions, unless they're absorbing your product - in which case you're going to become a "Director Of Engineering - <Product>" very soon.

Engage an executive mentor, because it looks like you don't have one given where you're posting. Find someone who's served as a technical C-level (CIO in the 90's, CEO of a tech company, CTO of anywhere), and talk. It's lonely at the top, and you need to find your allies.
Conceptually kind of interesting, but not clear how to make it work and this writing has a lot of distracting slop. Blockchain coins have proven to be extremely volatile and as such are probably not a good foundation for anything. Seasteading as an idea goes much farther back than Patri Friedman but turns out to be extremely difficult to actually pull off. It seems like any real progress in this direction would have to be very clear and solid.
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What is the point of university rankings? To gratify the human need for someone to dumb down a complex system to a simplistic measure, just so we don't have to live with the "unbearable" uncertainty that one university may not be strictly superior to another?

Once everyone starts optimizing for a metric, that metric ceases to be useful. It's only a matter of how long it takes people to realize that this has happened.
It isn't. It has been for specifically the auto industry and it generally hasn't had any positive effects for the domestic Chinese auto industry. Their side of the partnership has been mostly sticking with assembly and lower barrier items whereas the drivetrain continued to be made in Germany. This is why China is having a better chance starting from scratch and leapfrogging in electric, and why Tesla is let to not partner with anyone.
Hubble 4.0 m2 (43 sq ft)
Herschel 9.6 m2 (103 sq ft)
JWST 25.4 m2 (273 sq ft)

Hubble had ~40% of the Herschel's collecting area and Herchel had 40% of the JWST's collecting area.

(Herschel was located in the same L2 point as JWST).
Just when you think it's time to count hire education out because of bloated administrative spending, overwhelming student debt, and poor technical training for real world jobs, a light shines in the darkness.

I guess there's still hope if higher education can learn from Professors of the likes of Michael Thaddeus. He and others like him make pursing a degree valuable. The administration can go...

Note: read the original document: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/investigation...
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Sarcasm translates poorly.

From the sf.gov link:

Our street crises teams have the unique expertise to respond to people in crisis and de-escalate disruptions in the community. We avoid unnecessary use of police and costly hospital stays, and address the immediate needs of people experiencing homelessness.
Where do James Webb’s unique “spikes” come from?
There are many areas in the US where the fire department or paramedics will not go without a police escort, because they've been attacked too often when trying to render aid.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32062849

(1 hour ago; 197 points, 70 comments)

Or if you fancy a direct link to the high-resolution goods:

https://esawebb.org/media/archives/images/original/webb-firs...