skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have an extremely specific vision for what you want to do after getting the degree.

The lion's share of general "entry-level" opportunities for newly-minted technical masters/doctorates will struggle to value whatever experience you had before going to graduate school. This is less true for certain industry-specific positions, which is why identifying those positions before starting is a good idea.

If you're comfortable restarting your career as a junior researcher in your late 40s, be aware of the unusual place you'll occupy in the academic hierarchy.
Hey HN,

After getting up to something like 300 individual notes on ideas that I thought someone should build, I figured I should start sending out some of these ideas so they'd have a chance of actually being built.

It's been roughly 19 issues, ~4 months and now over 800 subscribers are reading the newsletter every week and every once in a while I get someone who is executing an idea! In the meantime I seem to have ~520 ideas so it seems like a somewhat positive sum set up right now.

I recently started and scrapped a move to Ghost. Despite how much I like Ghost as a platform, my custom stack of SvelteKit[0] + Listmonk[1] has been very very productive.

Would love to answer any questions about my stack or the ideas! You can see the latest editions at URLs like this:

https://unvalidated-ideas.vadosware.io/editions/019 (change the "019")

[0]: https://kit.svelte.dev

[1]: https://github.com/knadh/listmonk
I think the original creator of Reason is not with the ReScript project, and I am just not sure what the technical chops of the maintainers are with respect to implementing functional programming languages. That's not saying that they are not stellar, it's just that I have no clue. Some choices with regard to ReScript syntax seem pretty superficial to me, though. But without a doubt, if you want ML for the web, ReScript is currently the best option.
If your ISP doesn't disable ICMP you can get yourself an IPv6 network for free using something like HE's tunnelbroker. This has the tendency to break Netflix/Disney Plus/whatever, though, because they see it as an attempt to change your location.

I use Tunnelbroker to provision IPv6 to some services I run on a VPS provider that hands out a /128 for some obscure reason. It works great if you can configure the tunnel in your router.

The biggest difficulty for home use is to set up DNS in such a way that streaming services don't resolve over IPv6 so you don't get blocked (or, as I did for a while, to just pirate content when they refuse access to the services I pay for; my Jellyfin + *arr setup is often easier to manage than finding the right service to watch my shows on).
Knew someone who used to be involved in investigating these cases.
I will second this. I looked into implementing a traceroute utility for Serenity, and went in without any knowledge of the code. I haven't even watched any of the author's videos. But it was so well written that I was able to get a basic version running in a few hours.
That purple garbage bin is the most ulgy thing i ever seen; they really need to get their shit together, the society we are building looks very bad

How future people will look at us when they'll look back 1000 years in the past?

"Wtf happened, they had great design in ancient egypt and during the middle age, then they fucked up in the industrial and tech era, this shit is ugly af"

Very sad, says a lot about the mindset we currently are rewarding, maximum profit for the short term
Write your own task queue
$83B Investor Stampede Shows Scale of Europe’s Woes
I’ll just put this here…

Brrrap! A tree shredder!

Ahead of him, everything was empty bookcases, skeletons. Robert went to the end of the aisle and walked toward the noise. The air was a fog of floating paper dust. In the fourth aisle, the space between the bookcases was filled with a pulsing fabric tube. The monster worm was brightly lit from within. At the other end, almost twenty feet away, was the worm's maw -- the source of the noise. Indistinct in the swirling haze, Robert could see two white-suited figures, their jackets labeled "Huertas Data Rescue". The two wore filter masks and head protectors. They might have been construction workers. In fact, this business was the ultimate in deconstruction: first one and then the other would pull books off the racks and toss them into the shredder's maw. The maintenance labels made calm phrases of the horror: The raging maw was a "NaviCloud custom debinder". The fabric tunnel that stretched out behind it was a "camera tunnel". Robert flinched from the sight -- and Epiphany [smartglasses] randomly rewarded his gesture with imagery from within the monster: The shredded fragments of books and magazines flew down the tunnel like leaves in tornado, twisting and tumbling. The inside of the fabric was stitched with thousands of tiny cameras. The shreds were being photographed again and again, from every angle and orientation, till finally the torn leaves dropped into a bin just in front of Robert. Rescued data.

- Rainbows End, V. Vinge, 2006
That's how things currently work for new mine discovery and exploration.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeromagnetic_survey
Sometimes the best engineer is the one who knows the fools are going to spend a dollar anyway, so he makes it more than twice as good as he could if he stuck with the 50 cents.

One of my favorite cars from the slide rule era is the 1966 Ford Mustang.

About the same curb weight as the decades newer Nissan 280ZX except the Mustang with the small V8 can reach about twice the horsepower. But when driven conservatively would almost equal the gas mileage of the small Japanese roadster.
Thanks for this, that was an entertaining read.
https://archive.ph/wip/ZEGlL
“data showing at least 1 unit sale over the last 52 weeks coming from publishers of all sizes, including individuals.”

“Collectively, 45,571 unique ISBNs appear for these publishers in our frontlist sales data for the last 52 weeks (thru week ending 8-24-2022).“

Both descriptions mean books sold for 1 of the 52 weeks would be included. You would need to see how quickly sales spike and fall off to see how much those statistics underestimate sales over a books first year. Similarly they cover 16,000 retailers, however it could be some of these books like say textbooks are primarily sold outside of these channels.
In the US we have what's called at-will employment in 49 of 50 states. It means that (barring protected reasons like age/race/gender/family status) employers can terminate their employees at any time with no notice, for any reason or no reason.

"The protection goes both ways" they say, as you can leave your job and quit with no notice just the same, but it's quite an imbalance as the employee leaving does not generally have any impact on the employer's health insurance, while employees generally do depend on their employer-provided health insurance.
I'd take busses and rail to be redesigned a bit for bike friendliness. Right now, it's very hard to move a bicycle in these.
Are there open data for this type of research? If someone would like to improve their algorithms.
Are there already recommended widgets for desktop? I've read a little and it seems that you have to write your own widgets or use existing ones that don't seem comparable to something like winforms/gtk. Lazarus is attractive because of RAD, but I'm also on the look for an alternative using a more familiar language.
> The communications around nuclear at the moment are fascinating. I think we are really witnessing a massive PR campaign trying to take advantage of the war in Ukraine.

I kind of agree, but how else would you describe the discourse around nuclear after Chernobyl and Fukushima? The fact is that energy policy is a highly technical and complicated subject, but it is often debated in a very emotional way.
cf. paywalls
As a resident of San Antonio, I was happy to see one of the projects here featured in the article. I've been happy living here, with among other things, the low cost of living, great parks, unique culture, nearby beaches and wine country, plus a few options for gigabit fiber internet.

However, the city's never had a lot of tech employers, and the vacant office space downtown seems like such a waste. It is good to see it being put to use.

As an aside: with the expansion of major tech employers in Austin and pervasiveness of remote work, I wonder if there is much demand for optional hybrid setups like teams from in the region going into the office once a month or so for collaboration. I am not sure if I'd prefer it to full remote, but in person meetings with coworkers can be quite enjoyable.

Allowing people to live a little further from Austin while commuting in occasionally seems like a good way to get some of the benefits of in person work while letting people choose locales with a lower cost of living.
Pi+Hifiberry remains the most accessible small computer the public can use for such an audio project.

An alternative might be https://www.electro-smith.com/daisy
I agree, my 5 year old loves coming with random "inventions". He's proud of his random designs loves showing them off. He owns the whole of process coming up with idea to building it. It builds his confidence. I would not use this app.
And the cycle begins once again :)
Local Internet Registries

Solved it googling "lir ripe"
Highly recommend tailwind + https://tailwindui.com/ for side project where you want to get the UX done well and quickly. I'm pretty shitty with UX and design and feel I'm able to put together UI's that look solid using TailwindUI.

I know this sounds like an ad, but it's just good.
News sites maybe? I remember spending most of that day online.
Why is this a centralized list instead of just a DNS TXT record?
Positive thinking: Stop negative self-talk to reduce stress
I found out about the first plane hitting when my mother called me at work, on a land line I believe, just after I arrived. I fresh out of my BS and worked as a software developer at CMU at the time.

I went into my boss’s office and told
him, and I remember he thought it was a small plane. We had a test server room near our office that had a TV and original XBox. A few of us went into the server room to watch the coverage. Soon after, the second plane hit. I remember asking one of our senior managers if this was bigger than Pearl Harbor. He just looked at me dumbfounded. A while
later the towers fell.

I had a friend who lived in NYC and commuted to Jersey City via the PATH train, so I called him to make sure he was okay. He was. At the time, I didn’t understand that the towers had completely collapsed; I thought they were half standing. My friend from NYC told me I was wrong—-“they’re gone man.”

We continued watching the coverage together for a couple of hours until the University announced that it was closing for the day (I think it closed the rest of the week, but can’t remember). Then we all just shambled home, stunned.

I remember being surprised and a little heartened that the US waited a month the strike back at Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. By the time we invaded Iraq, I was no longer heartened, but completely disillusioned about the USA as a force for “good” in the world.
Some might see Occham's razor in this, but I could imagine this being a real edge case:

When I had an Android (OnePlus) device I often factory reset when tinkering with it, go to bed and continue whatever I wanted to do on the next day. Of course my phone had it's bootloader unlocked and TWRP recovery, since I was trying to get lineageOS + spoofed signatures + microG to work.

So basically the scenario is: factory reset your phone, go to bed, wake up with banned google account, have a new brick decor for your garden.

Would be funny if they didn't think of this possibility.
Most people around the world don't have a state registered postal address.

But, if they did, would that imply that the state ought to provide a free home to anyone who needs it?

Similarly, there's no state requirement to have a smartphone - or even a phone number. I understand that citizens of the USA can qualify for a state-provided phone and number, but I think that's quite rare.

Given that there are a plethora of free email providers, why would the state step in to manipulate this market?
Ubuntu Causes Girl To Drop Out Of College (2009)
Sure, electricity is in some sense a pretty artificial market with the auctions and system operator etc etc. OTOH, commodities generally price at the margin, and the rules for the electricity market have been designed to mimic this price finding process that comes about more naturally in other commodity markets.

So while currently there are certainly big issues with how the market functions due to Putin, anyone suggesting any major reform will have to think long and hard what the market mechanics are supposed to be, and what could be unintentional side-effects of that mechanism. At the moment there is a lot of political pressure to do something, anything, and it's very likely such hasty proposals will be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Ugramm (Kannada), Maanagaram (Tamil) and Aiyappanum Koshiyum (Malayalam) from top of my mind.

Note there are critically acclaimed Malayalam Movies that not everyone would like (Eg: Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum, Maheshinte Prathikaram), they are so slow paced that average viewer would doze off. There's a perception that more realistic is always better. But that's not always true. IMO Tamil middle budget movies get pacing better than Malayalam, for average audience at least.
No, fossil carbon lies at the heart of the climate crisis.

Equalising consumption is entirely othogonal and people who are arguing that fossil carbon and 'consumption' or 'quality of life' or 'energy' or anything else that isn't fossil carbon entering the atmosphere are the same thing are either not helping or actively hurting everyone, including those with low consumption now or in the past.

The policies to help climate change help the rich. They also help the poor. There's basically no-one that would be harmed by them in any meaningful way, and literally Billions who would benefit which is why it's so frustrating that we're not fixing the issue, and instead inventing reasons to not fix it.
> It means that cuevas are vulnerable to surveillance and control.

Oh but the "change money" people were no less vulnerable to surveillance and control - the communist solution to this very communist problem that they posed was to use them as a source of intelligence.
Funny enough, it is happening, just sneakily. Copper-clad aluminum is pretty common.
> giant house centipedes would drop from the ceilings

That sounds like quite a significant inconvenience. Didn't it put people off, in a "holy shit I'm not staying here for another second" kind of a way?
Russian Forces Flee Ukraine’s Kharkiv Offensive in Rout
Wouldn't it lead to the user over-relying on it, being effectively blind for false negatives?
My gripe with these sorts of faux-retro interfaces is that they are emulating the experience and visual characteristics very badly. This is using a TTF font that attempts to emulate a pixelated bitmap font, but it's fuzzy on the edges because of improper font size and scaling. It tries to get moving scanlines on the screen by overlaying a grid of (approximately the same size, but not quite) of dark/light alternating lines slowly grazing the screen, but all it does is blur everything and make it illegible. It's cheap.

Take a look at what a realistic emulation of this sort of terminal display effect is capable of: https://mrmotarius.itch.io/mrmocrt
Also a TV trope: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouMeddlingKids
Why is that a bannable offense?
At least half the people at my current job buy technical books because we get a monthly book allowance. Whether they finish reading them is another story.

In my experience this is pretty common. Almost everywhere I’ve worked has had some kind of training budget, and most places have had fairly well attended book clubs.
That’s one thing that Apple got right, you can cancel any subscription from settings so you don’t have to deal with that crap.
You specifically asked "How about a LinkedIn page?" and... now you're saying you can't see the page because you don't have an account?
Since it's highly likely someone is going to ask, here's some information on how Keenan creates the beautiful illustrations in papers:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/Other/IllustratingG...
There were defiantly some weaker episodes, but some are still really good. The new season ep 1 was pretty good. You can't keep peak quality consistently, no show really can.

You are gone have some stinkers in there, like dragons. Their take on heists was pretty damn awesome I have to say, very nice spin on the traditional heist. The dragons thing was terrible.
I got a Master’s without ever having a Bachelor’s starting when I was well over 30. Feel free to email me if you want to know anything.

If you already have a successful career in a non-credential field it’s unlikely getting a vanity credential like a taught Master’s will do much for you, unless it’s a finishing school proof of class habitus like an MBA. A Ph.D. like an MBA is good for changing fields and perhaps social class entirely but it’s unlikely to pay off in monetary terms.
I'm the founder of a beautiful Markdown editor. Actually, two:

Nota - https://nota.md. It's a notes app but a lot of our users use it as a markdown editor. Nota is quite powerful as a markdown editor. It has a lot of smartness built into it.

Caret - https://caret.io. We started with this - a beautiful Markdown editor. We aren't implementing new features for it but if you are on Windows or Linux it might be worth trying out. We still have new users coming in.

A common feature of the two is that they both are pleasant to use. We've put a lot of hard work into the UX (which is also hard to market and one of the reasons why you probably haven't heard about us).
That wasn't anywhere near my experience, are you sure you're not just a generally anxious person or live around those who are?
That’s exactly what it was like. I was at work and had a big project due for client delivery that day that I was finishing up. When the first plane hit, it was definitely “oh man, what a weird thing to happen; what a tragedy.” When the second one hit, it was, “oh shit. Wait what??? That can’t be an accident??”

I would compare the “oh shit, what does this mean” feeling to how I felt to March 11, 2020, when the NBA announced it was cancelling their season That’s when it became definite to me that the pandemic was real and unavoidable.

In the same way, the future of war for America started to seem unavoidable as one realized the planes were an act of war. Especially when the Pentagon was hit and then later that week when people were getting Anthrax in their mail. That’s something I never hear people talk about, but was just as scary and only added to the chaotic feeling of “wtf is going on?”
This morning I enjoyed my bike ride on a nearly empty bicycle lane, picture perfect rays of sunlight illuminated the dew above the fields around me. Where were all the other cyclists? I suspect it has something to do with popular weather apps!
Ah, the trick here is to buy all your socks at the same time, and open all the packs at once. Don't just open a pack every now and then, or they'll age differently and you get the variation in wear and tear. Then once you're down to a few days' worth of raggedy socks, throw them all out at once and open the next batch.

(Source: Am a fellow black-sock-only person who made the above mistake last time around.)
Fuel & Engine: framework for getting marketing activities correct (2021)
Do they still accept Reichsmark ?
Limit it to one per real person (not oganization etc)
Pretty sure I saw that title on the Zig subreddit when the link was posted there, so they probably copied the title from there.
Apologies for that. Good point. Probably deserves an edit
Nice project - I guess I'll be spending today getting it running on my Pi pedal

https://doug.lon.dev/software/hardware/2020/07/26/guitarix-p...

https://doug.lon.dev/software/hardware/2022/03/01/louper.htm...
Seeing e-readers is very rare here in Brazil, and the only people I've seen using them were law students/professionals (to avoid the weight of paperback). Reading books didn't attract much people ever around here, at least from what I know from life experience, but it was more common in the past for sure. I've been to the US/Europe for comparison. In the early 2000's there were big pro-reading campaigns here, but from what I've seen it fostered mostly religious, self-help and harry potter. Personally, what I don't like is the poverty of imagination, and also the false experts all around, citing authors and works they didn't read most of the times (wikipedia is so much easier and faster, you know?) - I call these people wikiexperts or plainly fraudsters.
antd worked well for me
My guess is you're looking at cause and effect here. Profits are going to drop because all that extra capacity is going to come online soon.
I thought it was something like 'a place being turned into a country because its politically convenient for a great power'. Kind of like 'Finlandization'.
I live in a converted 1953 8 story office building. The interior was gutted.
One of the most interesting books in the Bible at least from my perspective is Job. Unlike all other books, it’s sort of a standalone. It’s time is not specified and the place is not in a usual biblical setting.

Most people know it as that one time God made a wager with Satan but the interesting part to me is when Job is taken on this whirlwind tour of creation and all complexity of the world is laid before him and he is made to see his smallness and insignificance contrasted to Gods greatness.

If you want to give it a secular spin, you can think of God as the realisation this universe is far larger and far more complicated than any of us can even begin to comprehend. It is the realisation the lifetime of planets, of stars, let alone human life is but the blink of an eye on a cosmic scale. It is the realisation you mean nothing, you life and experience and love and knowledge and everything you hold dear is a meaningless blip, unnoticed and soon forgotten by a universe you simply cannot comprehend. You are, to quote the good book, dust, and unto dust you shall return.

This is what contemplating God is. And living a righteous and good life in spite of this realisation of meaninglessness is what wisdom and godliness is.
They are all a waste of time.
I am just guessing but it sounds like maybe they broke their global filters. I've seen folks on here saying they are seeing this behavior on gmail as well. I have not seen any evidence pointing to what the overall agenda would be if this is the case beyond pushing people off the free email services.

The conspiratorial side of me could imagine a memo amongst a circle of some business leaders pushing people to mail providers that have money trails. Or perhaps a more benign reason could be these companies are no longer making enough money on their whitelists or not making enough money from tracking email behavior and are silently dropping support of the free services.
Abstracting over ownership in Rust with higher-rank type bounds?