skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an awful lot of cases of people being "disappeared" based on what they've said in WeChat group messages or friend feeds.

Similarly, the PSBs in some cities have used social media contacts as a means of working out which foreign English teachers to do impromptu drug testing on.
The restriction there is that by definition will be constrained to the GPU capabilities exposed to WebGPU.

Of course, there can be extensions, but use enough of them and it starts not to make sense to use it for native code.
For most other fields, the salary for PhDs is 65% or 50% of these numbers. Considerably lower than median salary then.
> YouTube tends to place more importance on new click-bait videos that have a rapid increase in views

This sounds like TikTok, and likely trying to compete with them.
I might be unusual but I actually wouldnt mind things to continue like this. I'd rather see FAANG crumble than have tech end up consolidating on three dominant, vertically integrated players like the auto market.

More corporate shooting-self-in-the-foot means more space for a vibrant built-in-a-garage startup ecosystem to compete - the kind the auto industry hasnt had since, like, 1955.
Try yewtu.be it’s like definitely better search on invidious.
Scalability is a two way street and those services don't scale small.

That makes business opportunities for more flexible engineers.
Growing your office plankton messages to investors that "we are growing, give us more money".
How is the evolutionary design not intelligent?
This song gives me goosebumps every time. Not a lot of people I know appreciate it's meaning.
It all depends how it is written. While Django and REST is quite strongly opinionated, you can still make it difficult to maintain if you want to.
That being said, Django REST allows you to move fast. It's very very easy to knock out a REST API and data models plus some basic admin panel.
Once your API matures - you can then reimplement it in Go or other platform.
Thank you for your kind words. You are on my radar :)
That's where the $4 come from.
To the point that even Carmack changed his opinion on DirectX.
It's pseudoscience because there's nothing in the geometrical properties of those images called "gravity", etc. One can generate those pixel patterns from an infinite number of theories with an infinite variety of causally efficacious parameters.

From the article, it doesn't work. They found on known physics it gives 4.7 dimensions, of which only two are explicable -- 4 is correct; the others have no known physical interpretation. No surprises: those two are just the geometric properties of the system (angles) which are actually properties of the image. The others are pure bullshit.

Since, of course, the real physical parameters of the system we take to have generated those images are not present in them. The images are distal effects of these things

Only in cases where the geometric properties of the target system are causally relevant to its actual causal properties will this work -- ie., only when "angles matter"

Thinking you can infer laws of nature from images is pseudoscience, and these guys need to think more carefully about why we experiment in the first place

eg., Consider that if mass is a relevant causal property, there'd be no way of inferring it from images: two objects can be visually identical whilst having radically different masses... making images *OBVIOUSLY* not a measure of mass...

this project almost defines the modern kind of schizophrenic pseudoscience born of this wave of AI
When you work in tech you have actually a huge impact. The impact may be not directly seen, however, the way you program or the way you do things is crucial. Also design decisions whether another server is relevant or another one can be used, whether you code intelligently and use the limits and things that a computer offers you - then you already have a big influence.
Accepting external cryptotokens like BTC or ETH is one thing, but it is totally not a "like PayPal or Apple or Stripe adding blockchain based mechanisms under the hood" end quote. Sure, assuming external ecosystem is at least somehow working on it's own, then payment processors can integrate with it. But using blockchain tech internally is dumb and pointless. (unless we are talking about Git, but tokenbros try to pretend that is not a blockchain anyway)

I don't see how digital IOUs is anything novel or invented by tokenbros. Paper or digital, it's the same this essentially.

NFTs... How EXACTLY does NFT "holds custody" of anything? Please describe what do you mean by that.
Agreed 100%. As a grad student, I made so many mistakes, destroying expensive equipment in the process. I took a 3 year leave of absence to join a startup and was taken back without question when it failed. I went on intellectual flights of fancy on a whim when I found things interesting without telling my PI, wasting precious time and missing deadlines. I took classes and then dropped them when I got too busy, wasting my PI’s grant money. I was given tasks to accomplish and failed them miserably.

He tolerated all of it because I was a student and the expectations were set accordingly.

As a professor today, I take the same attitude toward my students, and I think it’s for their benefit. If they want to be treated as employees, the bar for admission becomes a lot higher, and the expectations do as well. The capacity for mistakes goes down, and the latitude and freedom afforded to them to explore their interests goes away entirely.

Employees do what they’re told when they’re told it, and they are paid accordingly. I’m not sure that’s what many PhD students actually want when they say they want to be treated as employees.
It's the same as it is for Google search: Youtube is now much to much in favor of the producer rather than the consumer. In clear text: advertisment ruins it for all
add “controversy” to search string - depletion of waterways etc

https://www.mashed.com/717227/nestles-water-controversy-expl...
I think the argument is that there is not so much difference in result at the end, even though the projected image appears opposite.
You are your boss in these regards, but you are very much not your boss when it comes to a world of other issues. While I enjoyed the freedom, I experienced all sorts of abuses from higher-ups and my career was harmed by how lopsided the hierarchy is.
That’s usually what poor engineers tell themselves
I recently found Tom Copeland's blog 'Shadows of Simplicity', and liked the part I can discern. Here is the link to the Umbral Calculus tagged posts:

https://tcjpn.wordpress.com/tag/umbral-calculus/
Pre-Brexit?
I’m glad this project helped!
Videos that should be 45 seconds get stretched out to 10 minutes because of the monetization limit. Some we execs at YouTube have been trying really hard to turn YouTube into the wasteland that TV is. This is why TikTok is kicking their ass.
And yet whenever the negatives of GDPR comes up in discussions someone is there to always ensure everyone that "don't X, it's just that easy". It really really doesn't appear to be that easy.
See also:
https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-funding-anti-google-t...
everything that's pretentious or stupid gets labeled as "modern art"
Linux in general has issues with Broadcom wifi. If you're shopping for a laptop to run linux. One of the biggest red flags for driver support is Broadcom wifi.
A DALL·E and GPT-3 Prompt Marketplace
That doesn’t magically make it a democratic election. In fact, the way you describe it working is a relatively new way of doing things and varies from state to state. It is not uniform. Also, if you paid any attention at all in the last election, you’d realize how tenuous it all really is and in multiple elections, the actual person voted in wasn’t even the winner by popular vote. So by definition, it can not be democratic.
Burundi GDP per Capita for 2021 was $237. Your point still stands of course, was just amazed of low it is.
> i.e. competing with everyone else for the same pie

i.e. being a Top 2 most important costumer of every major battery company.

> they haven't even started mining or refining their own lithium

Almost no battery company does that.

> Bloomberg Intelligence

They apparently disagree with most other people who look at that space. I'm willing to bet 5000$ even odds with you if you on whether VW outsells Tesla in terms of BEV by 2024.

> I will believe it when I see anything from battery day 2020 materialize.

Many things are already in the 4680 cells and you seem to believe all those solid state companies who have never achieved anything.
That's the idea behind the gas-cooled fast reactor [1]:

The reference reactor design is a helium-cooled system operating with an outlet temperature of 850 °C using a direct Brayton closed-cycle gas turbine for high thermal efficiency.

Helium does not absorb neutrons when it passes through the core, and if the nuclear fuel is well insulated (such as the TRISO fuel that Xe-100 plans to use), then you are safe to send it to spin the turbine. If you have any concerns that the cooling gas may become contaminated somehow, then you use a heat-exchanger.

At this point nobody is using direct cooling-gas-to-turbine cycle. But after people gain experience with cooling-gas-to-heat-exchanger, at some point they'll move to the direct cycle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas-cooled_fast_reactor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fuel#TRISO_fuel
I think you are being down voted because a straight port of this code to async would still run one request after the other.

You would have to queue one task for each request in the event loop and then await for them both to gain some parallelism in the I/O section of the code.
PlaceRaider: Virtual Theft in Physical Spaces with Smartphones [pdf]
I assume they return results sorted by profit margin.

This optimizes for a content creator / user behavior interaction that maximizes their utility function and not yours.
Don't let age slow you down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9iuSVnfisI
This is not a good way to build a good relationship with your neighbours.

If you tolerate a bit of noise from them, they're much more likely to tolerate a bit of noise from you, which is win-win all around.
You nailed it. Couldn't phrase it any better.
The Violent Fantasies of Blake Masters
Answer: did you visit your mother recently and leave your YouTube account logged into her TV, by chance?
I also tried to make it generate an icon for a product and I managed to get it to show me interesting things, but never got to make it actually draw it as one. Do you remember which prompt resulted in this macOS-ish app shape?

https://jacobmartins.com/images/dalle2/DALL%C2%B7E%202022-08...
I did not abolish the freedom of speech. This sorts under «tolerate everything except intolerance».

Russia will not extend the courtesy of freedom of speech if their propaganda operations succeed, so we must defend it before we get to that point.

Before I’m accused of being totalitarian, I’ll just state the obvious that this is a subtle and complex subject.
It’s not quite to the level of geopolitic but selling bottled water is entirely unnecessary in majority of the US. It’s extremely bad for the environment, both for the plastic but of course the transport. When it’s often the same damn thing you get in your sink.

But no idea what’s specifically bad about this brand in particular.
And can you publish your ground breaking research without being authorised by your boss? Can you even continue to do it meaningfully if he or she refuses? If not, then you are definitely not working for yourself.
I don't know if abuse is the right word considering that youtube most likely just breaks even.
So these guys trained "an AI" to identify hidden variables by looking at videos
of physical phenomena, without prior knowledge of physics (except what was
implicitly and obscurely encoded in "the AI's" neural net architecture, and its
training set and hyperparameters, by the researchers).

The "AI" came up with a slightly off number and the researchers struggle to
understand why. They struggle because "the AI" is a black box that lacks
explainability and cannot produce an explanatory model, only a predictive
model [1]. The simplest conclusion is that their "AI" has not learned any useful
models, and has only learned to accurately predict their test set, to which
the authors had acces throughout the training of "the AI" [2]. The simplest
explanation is that their model isn't very good at doing what they wanted it to
do, but they opt to explain it as a scientific mystery, instead. Why?

It seems the only reason to try and see a scientific mystery where a simple
failure would suffice as an explanation is because the model is "an AI". There
seems to be some kind of expectation that "an AI" must have some deeper
understanding of physics than humans, even when we don't understand what it's
doing, even whe it's not doing very well.

In short, this seems to be based on very wrong assumptions and to be coming up
with very wrong conclusions, but then again it makes for a great headline and so
here we are, discussing it on HN.

____________________

[1] To clarify: a predictive model is one that can predict novel events. An
explainable model is one that can explain how it made a prediction. An
explanatory model is one that explains how the world works and why certain
predictions are true, or not. Predictive and explainable models are useful, but
most scientists aim to build explanatory models, because an explanatory model is
necessarily also explainable and ultimately better at predictions, while a
predictive model is not necessarily explainable or explanatory and an
explainable model is not necessarily predictive or explanatory. Deep neural nets
can only build predictive models, which are sometimes explainable, but they
can't build explanatory models. That's because they can only identify
correlations in data, but not explain those correlations with generalised
theories, based on previous knowledge.

To put it plainly, neural nets can't come up with scientific theories, but they
can estimate probabilities of things happening. But scientists can and want to
come up with scientific theories, not just predictions.

[2] When the experimenter has access to the test data and can tune the learner's
model until it scores highly on the test data, that leads to a model that
overfits to the test data. Such a model is useless for prediction over unseen
data (i.e. data not available to the researchers during training).
Good suggestion. Next iteration will surely have this
It might help you if you add the sender email id of the Tor newsletter to your contacts on Gmail. It helps Gmail mark those email as safe thus keeping it out of spam.
You have a point, but graduate students are actually paid a salary, unlike what you suggested.
It's just a streaming video platform; in no way does it create a technological ecosystem, as the other Big Tech companies do.

"FAANG" was an arbitrary wall street label for bunch of stocks that were producing big returns about a decade ago. Netflix happened to be making a ton of money at the time the term was coined, and Microsoft happened not to be, so we got this weird acronym standing for "big tech" that doesn't represent the companies which actually make up Big Tech.
Thanks for your words!
Lot of inaccuracy and wrong information in that page. I wouldn't recommend it.
I completely agree. I have been using GraphQL in Django with WebSockets and ASGI and it was a bit of pain in the ass to get everything working, but with this changes things will get much smoother.

Great work Django team!
If they used a cloud service and rendered some PDF's this might be net negative...
> perfectly happy for a government food program to give people food.

A- Can I pay my landlord with a box of apples?

B - How does your second point about 'people end up without food if you give them money' work?

Either government or people buy the same food, either there is enough food or isn't.

C - If the government has made it illegal for me to work, why should I eat the loss but banks and landlords shoups never loose money? We are told they are earning their interest and rent because they are taking the risk, but when the time comes, the risk is always passed on to someone else.
The math used in each system to control the rate of flow is very different, I believe Klipper's approach gives a much nicer finish. On top of that, Klipper can also compensate for the resonant frequency of the physical frame+substrate of the printer to minimize artifacts and patterns in the final print. You can tune Klipper as much or as little as you want.
I was going to write something similar, but this covers it pretty well actually. Hopefully there could be some more developer support in the future again like the community editions once were.
That's correct.

That assertion is explicitly about the cookies consent if you look at the header to that segment. If you don't have cookies, you don't need that. As such, it's entirely correct in it's context.

You might still need a consent popup if you're tracking the user, but that's not the same as a cookie banner... Even though they can be combined.
All these social media things are pure crap. Who cares.
I think this is very good advice. I have boxes of love letters from long since lost lovers and although I never read them I know they are filled with happiness.
I agree with most points in the article, with the notable exception of the Thesis. Writing individual papers vs planning and executing 3 or more years of research into a successful project with a cohesive narrative are entirely different tasks. Related: https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/124705/58645

Also, the opening quote is unfortunate, in that it probably contradicts the article and makes many false assertions (while Dyson Freeman might be forgiven for thinking at the ripe age of 90 that a PhD is a harmful choice for "a woman who pretends to do research she is not well-suited for, only to get a paper that means nothing", I don't think it's something that can be used as a serious argument by people in academia today...).

Finally, the whole article is extremely reductive, focusing only on negative aspects, without touching any positives; i.e. it's effectively a 'rant' rather than a nuanced analysis.

However, the biggest beef I have with it is the whole "therefore the phd needs to be abolished" conclusion, which is a complete non-sequitur, and effectively the "Politician's fallacy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism). No, PhDs do not need to be abolished. They do need to be upgraded to come with some protections, but that's a very different argument. At the moment, there are very few protections, and most if not all career training beyond the immediate scope of the relevant research simply comes down to supervisors' good will. However, talking about abolishing the institution because it's "broken" is no less a serious proposition than overthrowing governments and leaving countries into chaos because governments are "broken".
> a malicious rysnc server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can overwrite arbitrary files in the rsync client target directory and subdirectories

Do I read it right? You rsync to a malicious server and bother you get bogus files from it?
Even if you are allowed to keep data I wouldn't be surprised if you have to move it out of the production system. If I remember my lessons on data protection right then you have to restrict access to people that need it and in the case of legal issues the data has no reason to remain on your production servers but might be better locked away on an archival server with access limited to your lawyers.
The "what are my friends up to?" golden goose of Facebook is long dead. The "news feed" is already not really news about your friends so I guess it doesn't matter that they're admitting that and explicitly turning it into something like Tiktok.
To be fair, this was a few weeks ago when they didn't offer commercial rights. Maybe they do it differently now (although if so, you'd expect them not to put the logo on downloads)
> OK so we know the answer to this question is 4, let's check our new software against that.

> [software returns 4.7]

> Oh my GOD, it's discovered new physics!
Do you also believe we have too many teachers, or that they are not needed by society? Or, maybe, there are other factors that determine wage?
I am a fan of web bluetooth. Anything that can be run in a browser, should be.
>Why do you want to work for someone else, on their hours, answerable to them, doing their research and teaching their classes

Well, you are still forced to do all that. After all, you often depend on your advisor's funding or expectations. They can make or break you. You get "freedom", but with that freedom

1) you do not have an actual contract listing your hours or any sort of vacation policy.

2) vacations in general are not a thing (it is really important to submit that paper over Christmas).

3) health benefits and family support depend on the whims of the department, any sort of pension plan is unheard of.

4) you sometimes get paid, sometimes not (depending on whether some administrative clerk "forgets" to put you on payroll this term).

5) you are expected to find other work over three months in the summer (but at the same time must continue your research, there is that deadline we REALLY need to hit, do NOT waste your time trying to earn money).

6) as F1 student you are not permitted to find other means of income unless approved by your advisor or department. If they approve, they have to approve every single term (good luck with that).

7) you can try to pursue your own research but then you should also expect to be isolated, receiving no support or feedback from either your lab, peers, or advisor. This is one of the most common stories. Usually, these students just wither away or drop out.

These are not isolated issues, mind you. This is pretty common across the board from what I have seen. And all of these issues are tolerable, if you were at least paid a living wage. But commonly the pay you get barely covers the rent in the city you live in.

Thankfully, I am in a better position and I have an accommodating advisor, but I still think this is a depressing state of affairs.
Http requests work great with relational dbs. This is not UDP. If the TCP connection is broken, an operation will either have finished or stopped and rolledback atomically and unless you've placed unneeded queues in there, you should know of success immediately.

When you get the http response, you will know the data is fully committed, data that uses it can be refreshed immediately and is accessible to all other systems immediately so you can perform next steps relying on those hard guarantees. Behind the http request, a transaction can be opened to do a bunch of stuff including API calls to other systems if needed and commit the results as an atomic transaction. There are tons of benefit using it with http.
Personalize Experiences into Existing Applications
Product design teams can run experiments like big tech without the big costs and accelerate your product growth
Ah, but it was funny!
> better monetization options

Not gonna happen. Lichess is simply not this kind of product. It's like the Wikipedia monetization
Great write-up Marty and huge success for Budibase.
For transparency, I am one of the Budibase cofounders.
But can they play the tape backwards and come up with entropy.
Am I missing something?

2 ^ 30 is over 1 billion. So a properly indexed table with 1 billion rows will take a similar effort to search as a 30 row unindexed table.

Or are there other factors coming into play that I haven't thought of.
See these comments for links to better descriptions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32329545

The description in the Freethink article is incomplete.