skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And charging more also often has the side effect that you'll be taken more seriously. People are more likely to listen to you if you charge more because they'll place more value in your work.
Without a company like Apple to put in the resources and engineering effort for something like Rosetta, there's really going to be next to no demand for a RISC-V based desktop computer outside of specialized development and maybe competing with ARM-based Chromebook-likes. Desktop systems are absolutely beholden to their platform and architecture because that's what determines which apps you can run. Any serious use of a desktop (that is not programming) basically needs to use Windows or Mac OS (think CAD, professional video editing, etc.) so you're not just convincing hardware manufacturers: you're convincing thousands of app vendors, and that's just not going to happen.
Just in case some people think that's not a joke, Lobsters is written with Ruby on Rails: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/
I find it hilarious how many of these prompts are using "unreal engine 5" to get a good image.

There's a lot (or honestly maybe a small amount) of work to be done to improve these prompt interfaces. Raw projections of your queries into the embedding space is honestly pretty dumb. Like, it'd be nice if we could start by settling the embeddings into images that are "good".
"If the following 25 players in the world where all 2800+ Carlsen would already be 2900+."

Why are you assuming that Carlsen would always win against other players if the other players are that much stronger? Maybe if the following 25 players were all 2800+ then Carlsen would take more losses.
It's not like this is a new topic:

https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2022-07/driving-c...

Figure 4 on page 11 is particularly interesting.

Their summary points are:

* Everywhere in the United States, driving the average EV
results in lower emissions than the average new gasoline
vehicle.

* Over 90 percent of people in the United States live in regions where driving the average EV produces lower emissions than the most efficient gasoline vehicle on the market
today (59 miles per gallon).

* Driving the average EV in the United States produces global warming emissions equivalent to those emitted by a gasoline car getting 91 miles per gallon.

* Driving the most efficient EV produces lower emissions than the most efficient gasoline car where 97 percent of the population lives—in other words, virtually everywhere in the
United States.

* Everywhere in the United States, the emissions from driving an EV pickup truck are lower than those for the average
new gasoline or diesel pickup truck.
If you signed a contract for a year with a clause that you could cancel before then if you move to an area without one of their gyms then this seems reasonable.

I've had my own experiences with gyms being hard to cancel. But in principle if I want an easy cancellation then I'll go month to month. If I have a 12 month contract I'm not going to cry if they resist when I want to cancel early...
I've gotten around the bank account requirements by simply filling in bogus numbers for the account number and routing info, then asking them to bill my credit card first.
You're out of luck. The banking app is checking for your phone having a TPM signed by someone like Google or Samsung.
That same Sudanese developer might be convinced to start working remotely if they saw how little they were paid in comparison (assuming national pride / valuing civil service isn't a strong factor).
Paid vacation still counts towards your "work hours", because your employer pays for them.
What do you think they'll do with it? What do museums and universities do with objects they discover are forgeries? Do they throw them away? Do they keep them? Do they move them in storage?

There are Picassos younger than this forgery. Maybe old and high quality forgeries are of some historical value after all? Indeed, what if the only remaining copy/copies of an old object or painting was a forgery/were all forgeries?
Thanks! Note that the x axis isn't fully in the correct order.
the "quick maths" way is 2000 hours/year

50 weeks, 40 hours per week. Dividing/Multiplying by 2 in your head for quick estimates easy.

For more accuracy, do what you did.
Yep. I worked in scientific applications, and when developing some new data cleaning and processing pipelines for our hydrology data, Jupyter was phenomenal.

It was easy to use as a presentation, with figures and plots embedded. With controls enabled, you could demonstrate what varying certain parameters would do and pitch proposed cleaning profiles.

I was rather easily able to send a directory and it's notebooks/data sources to colleagues in the water sciences team so they could validate my results on their own (they were luckily also familiar with Python and Jupyter), and caught some minor bugs in the pipeline.

This was all much more collaborative and concise, and I feel Jupyter played a huge part in it.

Once it was done, it and a "final draft" pdf were added to the Docs in the repo and the pipeline was written out into a full application of it's own.
It could be earlier than that, but they won’t deploy Starlink satellites to a permanent orbit until later flights, so I agree.

And Falcon 9, with droneship landing and fairing recovery now routine, is really a workhorse. Remarkable how much they fly it.
"Does this end when you have kids?"

Yep, my career has taken a nose dive since having a kid. I've gone from a high performer to a low performer. I have given up some hobbies and have limited time for others.
The Slow Death of the Traditional Business Card
Generality leads to bloat in software systems
and increases complexity unnecessarily.
As a general rule of thumb,
software should be designed with the specific use-case in mind
that applies to the current needs of the user.
Generalisation should be delayed as long as possible
in the design process.
This is because the process itself reveals what would benefit
from generalisation.
Just tried this! Really awesome and cool!
The first mobile phone I used only had coverage in a particular area. It didn’t work outside of town.
https://archive.ph/N8qSW
Because coding is only a small part of your job as a consultant. Your job is to alleviate your client's pain points, pain points they are incapable or unwilling to alleviate themselves. There will be coding. There will also be design, education, testing, documentation, a certain amount of hand holding possibly, presentation, and possibly travel. By just billing coding you are vastly undercharging.

Consider this... Let's say you make $100k as salary, with decent benefits, etc. I calculated it once and I would need $60k to replace my benefits (I make more than $100k). To make consulting worthwhile financially you would then need $100k+60k+??k. For salaries under $120k doubling to get your target income as a consultant seems to be a good rule of thumb. For salaries over $120k, maybe somewhere between 150-200%.

As other have said, never charge by the hour. Charge costs + weekly retainer, or monthly retainer. When I was a freelance consultant I did costs + hourly, and it was a mistake, but I was young.
Kind of an odd question, but out of curiosity, did the first set of stairs, the one on the ground floor going up, have an "even" or "odd" number of steps? Did the following sets of stairs on higher levels have the same number as the ground floor set or a different amount? Assume "odd" means that when starting on the ground floor, if you were to go up two stairs at a time, you would have to akwardly go up one stair on the final stair, whereas an even number of stairs would allow you to take 2 stair increments at a time without problem.
C programmers are anti-social. :)
> The problem at the core is not spyware and "room checks", they are just a symptom - the question rather is how exams are designed and why schools and universities go to such drastic lengths to prevent cheating.

You got the premise wrong. The main way that students cheat in online test is by communicating with other students/tutors and by having other people take the tests for them.

Doesn't matter how perfect your exam is if the student has a friend coaching them during the exam and telling them all the answers.

And it is far more common than you think. I have been tutoring for a for 5 years and there was a massive amount of students who tried to hire me to do online exams for them during the 2 years of covid. I probably would have done it if I was still a student full of debt at that time.
How different are the future earnings probabilities of "pro" musicians at the University level compared with "pro" athletes?

Curious if this is reviewed as carefully as it is in other groups I've come across.
How much slower though, I think we’re talking everyone getting the message in a Phoenix channel in < 100ms?
For it to be actual full time experience in a 5 year program, almost every student would have to work full time their whole college to get to that number. I worked summers and almost full time in my masters, which was above average for my college, and I don't know if I got to equivalent two years full-time.

It is possible people mistook "professional experience" for "experience", but that still takes the data into question.
A slightly better submission title would be - "New study suggests that a common infection may be responsible for certain colorectal cancers"

(Just to be clear - Poster submitted the article's header as is i.e. 'Did the right thing' as per guidelines)
> However, unlike farming which developed independently in many places at different times, the industrial revolution happened largely in one place, once and then spread out from there

This. We can ask the same question about feudal Japan, Imperial China, Revolutionary France/Germany/Russia/etc.

Maybe it was just a fluke after all, with the benefit of the prior scientific revolution and all that.
Discord doesn't respect privacy, you cannot just get rid of a whole conversation. Users are the product, and they make it so difficult to delete entire convos that it's so obvious it's just valuable to them.
Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship
The OP said saws and hammers, and there are conferences on hand tools which largely focus on saws, hammers and hand planes.

If we want to be literal then I don't know of anything on _just_ saws and hammers, but in the quite adjacent space (one or two hand carpentry tools also a focus) - yes.
As I see it (I have been in or around construction sites many years, in EU, which have different construction methods/uses - generally speaking - when compared to the US) the single issue that many people fail to take into account when discussing this topic is that construction (of houses) is not an industry[1], it is artisan work.

When (if) you can use pre-fabrication you can speed up things a lot but costs (at the same level of quality) will not be less.

Even the single most suited to pre-fabrication sub-unit (the bathroom) won't cost you less than building it on site.

Same is true for (specialized) sub-contractors, they are faster (in actually doing their job) but they are usually overbooked, rarely they are on site at the right time and with enough people, so what you gain in time for the (faster) construction you lose in changes to the project scheduling (not much different from your roofing example).

[1] there are exceptions for very large developments, but they are rare
The two major vaccines - Pfizer and Moderna, never tested for infection prevention. There was literally no data to even say if they did or didn't prevent infection.

You can look up the clinical trial endpoints. Patients were only tested for infections if they experienced symptoms. I believe it was only AZ or J&J that regularly tested to capture any effect on infection rate.

But it was stated several times "The vaccine will stop you from getting Covid". Why? Because if you tell people "Well, the vaccine won't stop you from getting it, but it will make it less likely you'll get really sick", they thought people wouldn't take it.
Russian propagandists would accuse Russia of secret interference in European politics?

Of course evidence on these matters is going to be hard to find.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/19/russia-s...
it loads for me. Can you view other polls in HN? (search "Poll:" in bar at the bottom)
That's such a vague and novel area, that I don't think lawyers will recommend/allow commenting on it unless required by court of law.

There is no precedent on if a computer reading your code or looking at the image is fair-use or not.
One of my favourite daydreams is accidentally going back in time and having to build an internal combustion engine. I think I would go with a hot-bulb engine with cylinder walls thick cast bronze.
A conference about hammers is closer to a conference on arrays. But a conference on carpentry is closer to a conference on novel algorithms and memory structures.
All money is our money. Families don't compete for resources. My spouse is not working right now, but when she did, she made a quarter of my income.

>until it came time to use that rainy day funds and she started feeling that we were spending her money.

Why are you married?
> Xen virtualized the barrier mechanism such that the job could be farmed out to guest OSes.

All hypervisors do that, including KVM. The difference is that because Xen has to let the guest control the speculation control MSRs, it has to read and write the MSR anyway on every guest<->host context switch. Using IBRS in Xen comes essentially for free.

Linux on the other hand does not have to access the speculation control MSR on every userspace<->kernel context switch, and doing so would have had a bigger performance impact than retpolines. Therefore it took a different approach.

Now the performance impact wasn't that bad on Skylake and it probably would have been good to use IBRS on those processors. FWIW very old versions of RHEL (6 and 7) in fact did use IBRS instead of retpoline because we had little time (there were less than two months from the time the team was put together to the time we had to have something ready to be shipped to customers) and it even took days to read people on the issue because of how secret it was. So we didn't want to put the compiler update on the critical path.
From the headline I guessed they were planning to sell tokens, but instead it seems to be a slightly more humane version of subscriptions.

So I will (again?) remind people that there are lots of services that would make a lot more sense to pay for in the form of usage tokens instead of in the form om monthly payments.

But I guess that would mean missing out on sweet sweet revenue from forgetful customers.
The Best Books on the Great Divergence
Using RISC-V doesn't let you bypass chip shortages... Do they actually understand what they're talking about?
They contact me.
People always undercharge. Any software consulting agency will charge min $125/hr and most around $175/hr.
The standard rule is 2080 hours, it's 52 weeks * 40 hours. You might say, but what about vacation, and that's fair when talking about an employee-employer relationship but you're contracting. So your rate calculations have to include all your costs, including your vacation/sick days/etc.
Sorry, buy you have the wrong idea. That would be fine for public servers, but not for Private Conversations. I'ts unacceptable.

edit:typo
Emacs in fundamental-mode.
Oberon is also a great beer from Bell's in Kalamazoo, MI.

https://bellsbeer.com/beers/oberon-ale/
> The "cream" rising to the top is often less genius and more politically savvy with the right connections on the PC.

I'm generally nauseated when I interact with American CS academics. Every time I attend a conference, PC, or NSF panel, I am so glad I chose industry. It's like IRL twitter.

(Europe seems to be better for some reason.)

> If you're smart enough to rise, you'll get an offer from the private sector you simply cannot refuse. It doesn't matter if your passion is Academia, they can and will buy you out and own whatever you're working on.

IME it's less about "offer you can't refuse" on the industry side and more about "offer you can't take" on the academic side.

After 6 years of deferred income I simply could not take a job that paid $80K-$100K in an HCoL area or $65K-$80K in an LCoL area. I had loans to pay back, no 401K, and not enough savings for a down payment.

If you want good people to stay in CS academia, I think a few things need to change:

1. First, and most importantly, the faculty culture. I don't really know how to describe the problem, but "the old folks are checked out and the young folks are Twitter personalities" is probably close. What's the point of being in academia if you have to be surrounded by the intellectual equivalent of used car salesmen, especially when you can go to industry and do interesting work without the BS?

2. Double the income of PhD students so that they aren't financially ruined by choosing the academic path. This isn't a super unreasonable request -- they'd still be paid less than their peers in industry while doing what's effectively a full time job.

3. Pay faculty more. Not a lot more... just, like, "at least what my undergrad students make at their first job after graduating".

I think if you solve items 2 and 3, then item 1 will take care of itself.
So you would greenlight a study on the connection between head shape and intelligence? What about other well-trodden racist inquiries? Do you see how if you place such importance on studying racial superiority then you've already introduced bias into the information which will be used to further the existing cultural bias that contributes to violence? This type of censorship doesn't seek to reduce the total amount of information as much as increase the quality and relevance of the studies.
Agreed. People like to make excuses for the poor functionality of HN. We should be able to delete our comments.
I consider the annoyance of lighted digital signage a good enough reason to turn them off, and the offense of billboards a sufficient reason to ban them as San Paolo has. I say that for context.

The piecemeal approach to energy regulation is arbitrary and unfair. It introduces political friction with no evidence that it reduces emissions.

Why might it not reduce emissions? Because energy which is produced is consumed. Banning a source of consumption causes marginal affordability.

If the goal is to limit atmospheric carbon, which is laudable: tax carbon. Be sure to apply the proceeds generously to decarbonizing industry, because this will be expensive.

If the goal is to allocate electricity which is scarce due to crisis: tax electricity use progressively. Make businesses which aren't manufacturing submit paperwork for an exemption. They'll turn the lights out at night on their own.

Be sure to apply the proceeds to energy security, because no one is going to like what happens if you don't.
'3+' covers 3, but also 4, 5, 6 and 7. That average really doesn't tell you much on how it scales.
I am sure it will happen, but (in my opinion) there is no way that it will gain significant popularity. It's just too high friction and in game development being low friction is imho one of the most important attributes of a programming language.
For people who can’t view this tweet on their phone: https://nitter.net/rahaeli/status/1562958530381983747
Hetzner bans running Ethereum PoS nodes
You can't on HN either.
nbdev2, which this article is about, is a solution to this problem.

It makes notebooks testable, composable, versionable, and more.
I'm reading a relevant book right now called "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity"

While it hasn't yet touched on the Industrial Revolution, it's addressing very similar issues around farming, cities, society, technological progression (and regression) politics etc.

*https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-eve...
thanks, fixed. Also Google seems to cache aggressively, so it doesn't update even if I edit a cell.
Saws and hammers probably aren't the best example. We complain about our trusty old tools far more than I'd imagine most carpenters complain about an old chisel for example.
And almost nobody fills up gas in their garage, either.
You’d think so. I don’t Think you should bother building invoicing though. That’s not the point, price discovery is the only point.

You could just sell the dataset directly IMO, quarterly data is what people care about, and there’s a reason to buy every single year
> If you bite the inside of your lip a lot, is that bad?

Yeah, um, gonna want an answer to that too.

This:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morsicatio_buccarum

Makes no mention of cancer risk even in fairly extreme cases of cheek-biting.

The "Oral Cancer" article also doesn't list it as a risk factor or cause.

So... probably not that bad?
A big part of the fun of mass effect is the immersive choose-your-own-adventure decisions it gives you. So no idea how a television series would work unless they could effectively explore moral dilemmas like older star trek, unlike new trek which tells you what to think.
Kind of a strange thing to mention in the title given that it doesn't show up anywhere in the article at all (which is entirely about the UI/UX)
Why not just enforce it in release configuration?
They aren’t; it’s just that we don’t even know what IQ is, so measuring it is naturally questionable.
I think it's not surprising that conferences have to perform some selection. You need the right amount of participants and talks. If a high rejection rate achieves the right amount, it is hard to argue against it.

But why are publications tied to conference attendance anyways? Sure, there also journals, but submitting to a journal tends to be an especially slow process. If you are in a fast-paced field, submitting to a journal is a dangerous game.

Why can we not just upload our papers to something like arxiv and then give people the option to vote on papers analogous to reddit submissions, so that promising stuff organically rises to the top. That way it would at least be based on the opinions of a sizable number of judges, not just three preselected peers.

Oh no, but what about peer review. What about it? Is it difficult to get past peer review at a top conference? Yes. Is it difficult to get past peer review in general? No. You can publish anything you want already, you will just have to jump through senseless hoops to do it. Why not skip the hoops and just upload it somewhere? We can still have journals and conferences that select high quality material from the uploaded papers and it will be an honour to be featured in one of those. You can still use features at conferences and journals as a bad metric to judge the quality of researchers, but the actual publishing will be decoupled from these institutions.
Could this at all relate to the rumoured satellite support in upcoming iPhones?
They're about to release Hammer 2, it's gonna be a subscription.
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