skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just speaking from personal experience, what you describe gets murky really fast in a couple of ways.

The model you're describing implicitly is this idealistic "executive-mentor" model of the PI, who has the ideas and the postdocs or doctoral students are just implementing it. Basically scientist wants to produce, so needs help and outsources the work to others.

In my experience, though, this is not at all what happens many times. Ideas come from those doctoral students or postdocs or whowever, the PI takes them, and then they get credit for those ideas. I've seen PIs who really don't fundamentally understand the research areas, who kind of are just "black holes" for credit of the ideas and work of others around them, and then because they're more senior, they end up getting the credit. Sometimes this process seems intentional, in that the PI cultivates a false impression of what's going on, and sometimes it just happens because of the nature of the attention economy.

So although the "executive-mentor" model is a good one, what's closer to reality in many cases (although not all) is more of a "public liason-mascot" system, or some kind of hybrid.

Because of this mismatch between reality and the assumed schema, the attention economy then incentivizes abuse and corruption.

This isn't even getting into issues about how chasing grants as a fundamental scientific endeavor distorts what is researched. Even if you have a pure leader-mentor PI who is just trying to get their own independent ideas researched with funding, you then have to ask "what is rewarded? Is it what's good rigorous science, or what is popular?"

The problem I think is that what garners attention is not what is rigorous or innovative. Sometimes those things overlap, and maybe they're correlated, but they're not the same.

Maybe this isn't unique to science, but it doesn't make it ok, and it seems like changing it to prevent these problems is necessary.
I would in general recommend a good therapist. (Warning: this may take some trial and error.) They will help you understand your personality and be able to make professional recommendations, including getting officially tested for things. It's a bit dangerous to convince yourself of various maladies via online tests and anecdotes, especially when a lot of things can be addressed psychologically and behaviorally and also because many disorders share similar symptoms.
Yeah, unfortunately you can't download the 4K versions. But for me that's an OK tradeoff since I've never once had to use the downloaded version to actually watch something on my AppleTV; everything has still been available in my account for streaming. Not to mention that over half of my library is movies from the 1930s to 1960s - way before 4K was even a concept. So except for a handful of recent movies, I've got the highest form downloaded anyway.

I have a Mac mini that exists almost exclusively to be the backup for all my digital content should I ever need it. All the movies are downloaded to a 14TB external drive which is then cloned to another 16TB external drive and also fully backed up to Backblaze.
> i'm kind of put off by the code. While it is pretty organized and neat, I can see that all of the services offered are hard-coded. Like the 330 lines long if-else chain in apps/api/src/lib/services/common.ts.

I agree and disagree.

I agree that this kind of approach to coding is something that would put anyone senior-ish off totally, but I disagree at the same time because it's only 20-ish services, and the code is easily refactorable.

My assumption - after having read code 30+ years - is that this is done on purpose, so that they want to stabilise the approach and refactor it later. Though, as we all know, there's no thing as "I'll fix this later" in programming, but still (in this case) not something that would put me off.

Also, it's on github, so I could always refactor it for them if I'm not happy with it.
Fair point. Those different plugs are standardized though so adapters & travel plugs can be made.
I wondered why this has not yet been standardized EU-wide, but of course the cost of doing so would be huge, since those plugs & outlets are built into millions of buildings.
Whereas phones and electronics change much faster and can thus more easily be transitioned, I suppose.
Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life" and his collected "Letters on Ethics", in that order, compelled me to re-evaluate. The results have been positive. I recommend the University of Chicago translations: a little pricey for paperbacks, but quite readable.
I ended up with a $700 bill for a month with Route 53 due to bogus DNS requests (a normal month would be like $5 or something). And there is nothing a professional engineer could do anything about it - except pay $3000/month for AWS Shield Advanced.
Death of Dr. Homi Bhabha
This is article was cited by Wikipwdia for the article: "India and WMDs"
I honestly hope they go this route, and as a side effect give us waterproof iPhones.
Nice satisfying way to visualise progress - probably wouldn't replace a more feature rich tool for me, but can see it being great for some
I am on the same boat but found it more and more a PITA to manage as Apple started to push for 2FA (that damn prompt every fucking login to "upgrade" your account). Switching account is now way more burdensome, and it's also a pain to get the password prompts on updates as apps are still bound to your logged out account.
> In 2017, two million kitchens were remodeled (https://www.forbes.com/sites/reginacole/2020/11/08/stop-the-...)

There are about 70 million single family homes. If we count all dwelling units, we're at 140 million or so.

So the average kitchen lasts 35 years by that metric, to 70 years. I suspect the 10-15 year number counts "refreshes" and not just tear-down/rebuilds. Cabinets these days don't often last 35 years without some work.
NOAA and IPCC Predict Far Larger Decline in Hurricane Frequency
Full Title of NOAA and IPCC headline since this is just a blog post:
NOAA and IPCC Predict Far Larger Decline in Hurricane Frequency Than Increase in Intensity

NOAA HURDAT Site:https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/data_sub/data_format.html

NOAA HURDAT Data: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/hurdat/hurdat2-1851-2017-05011...
I have some personal apps that I use regularly that were being hosted on the free or $7 tier at Heroku, all three were Rails apps with postgres and one needed redis. I spent about 20 hours trying out AWS, Digital Ocean, and Render.com. I eventually decided on Digital Ocean as the ease of use + pricing was where I wanted it to be. I spend about $14/mo on hosting at Digital Ocean (db + apps) and grabbed a free instance on Redis Cloud. Its currently more expensive than Heroku but it does provide me with better especially with my db setup.
I think we're talking about completely different areas. There aren't any electrical outlets on any of the parking meters or utility polls in my city or the surrounded city, and it's illegal to run an extension cord from, say, your 3rd story window, down the side of the building, across the sidewalk, to the street.

Regardless though, you're correct that it will take decades, but I think that this is one reason why a CEO wouldn't be all in. If it's going to take 25 years for a large chunk of customers to buy an EV, you still have a lot of cars to sell that are ICE.
I abandoned my Twitter and FB accounts.

Oh look, I don't have to worry about this crap any more. Yay :)
Oh, literally ran into each other.

"They were on a collision course and both would have been travelling at 40 miles an
hour."

What an amazing story. Thanks.
They're not obligated to do that. But lawsuits cost money.
All Apple users I know are joyous because of this, simplification of life long term. Nobody enjoys carrying lightning cable for their phones and USB for everything else

Maybe if Apple would make their lightning an open free standard, this would be now adopted, but since Apple is... well Apple their arrogance met the laws of place not governed by corporations (that much)
> typically enough for a person of his calibre to research approximate solutions good enough for him to run some experiments

And it's hard to overstate his caliber. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the name, Nick mentored Clifford Cocks at GCHQ and pushed him in the direction of inventing public key cryptography.
If I can't buy a movie or album DRM-free, I won't buy them at all. This is an area where piracy ironically offers a better experience than the legitimate route.
You can do that with docker unless you’re running ARM and your friend uses x86
To be honest I have pretty mixed feelings about this. The Lightning port is extremely robust, and I already have quite a few Lightning cables from several generations of iPhone, so to some extent this seems like it's just going to generate quite a bit of e-waste.
Checking the pricing, $0.0125 per write unit. It says each write "generates one or more write units". So ... $1.25 per 100 writes? That can't be right. I wondered if it meant writes per second (like how AWS DynamoDB or Azure CosmosDB work, with their unit-based billing).
It’s also worth noting that the MagSafe cable has USB-C on the other end, so it fits fairly nicely into a world where all your adaptors are USB-C. The old MagSafe cables were permanently attached to the adaptor.
Why come from a perspective of x or y? It’s music. It isn’t jazz or classical.
It’s music.
Humans like to do 2 things: make stuff and categorize stuff.
Don’t bet on anything that is not in your possession. Government and private pensions are great but their existence is out of your control. You need assets to live on and a roof over your head and we found it a whole lot easier to do slow and steady savings than panic at 45. Particularly is tech people might be dog food by then.
You can get a dedicated IP from Digital Ocean that isn't shared with others.
Apple thinks it's good enough for iPads.
All taht is already standardized btw. The countries do have some leeway in their implementation though, that's whay the EU driving license was quite quickly adopted in some countries, and very slowly in others (mine...).
The multiple previous recommendations on mobile phone charging ports passed relatively quickly too.
Laptops can run off of any USB-C power bank now, so it's no surprise there's no market for something like this. Cool product though!

It's on the line voltage side like any other UPS, so not as efficient as you could be with a solution that didn't have to convert AC to DC then back to AC then to DC again in the brick. But with Apple's proprietary charging connector soldered to the device end of the brick, what else can you do about it?
Imagine a World where your appliances just work in some sockets and not in others. Where the tires of your car can just be bought from one supplier because it was limited by the car manufacturer. Your toaster just accepts some kind of bread. Your pencil can't be sharpned except with one specific equipament. Your mechanical pencil can use just one kind of pencil lead because it has some specific size.

And now imagine a step further, where all cars, mechanical pencils, toasters, wall sockets... everything is disposable because some small detail or component has just one supplier.

Imagine how much you'll spend to have things, and how much you'll have to throw away when any small thing of it gets broken.
No Rails support? :(
I wouldn't get an MS, unless it's mostly free. Even then, probably still a waste of time.

I got an MS and it did nothing for me. Other people worked more and got promoted faster. You're better off working an extra hour a day instead of spending 10 hours a week on school work.
Tendonitis is also common in SDEs, do you think IT industry also non sustainable?

The work condition in Amazon warehouse sucks not because Amazon wants it happen but just 1. because you want buy something at a mouse click not wanting to get it yourself, 2. other retailers do not want pay as much as Amazon did.

You are winning a game does not mean you get to choose the rules.

It is astonishing how people today are only think everything as one step process and just fire his/her original thoughts without the capabilities of observing the system as a whole. And particularly worrisome for a tech forum.
I don't understand how that makes sense. UV light kills bacteria and viruses by damaging DNA.
How can you kill bacteria and viruses without damaging human skin dna ?
Moved backend services for my videogame from Heroku to Render. It's been super-easy, and the service is more responsive and significantly more stable now on Render, despite me paying much less.

1. Almost no work. The app was Node.js + Postgres, it stayed that way and only needed a few environment variable changes plus a database migration.

2. Almost none, I use PaaS because I concentrate on making games, and want to spend as little time touching infrastructure as possible.

3. Learned mostly that switching PaaS is not a big deal if you stick to common offerings (Postgres instead of a fancy exact-purpose-fit DB).

4. ~$100 to $27/mo

5. A Node.js app that gets rather low traffic but needs to be stable, in the 1000s of req/day. It only handles highscores/ranked mode seeds, so low requirements.

6. Would heartily recommend Render if you want to stay with a Heroku-like PaaS approach and they already support what you need.
"Grant proposal: Many people believe a dormant Balrog resides under the Misty Mountains and poses an ongoing threat to the people of Middle Earth. We propose an expedition to awaken the Balrog in order to observe and characterise its unique dangers." - https://mobile.twitter.com/robertwiblin/status/1576712748481...
> The main argument that I see for other pronunciations is that shortening words should allow for different pronunciations based on these new spellings. This is a ridiculous argument that they are clearly just applying on a case-by-case basis depending on how they feel about any given word. For example, no one pronounces "limo" with the "I" sound found in "lime". Instead, they are pronouncing it like "limousine", exactly as shortened words should work.

I for one welcome our new karr datatype.
No, it doesn't. The technical details are passed as a so called 'delegated act', which defers the power to set the details of acts to the European Commission.[1] They can update this when necessary, and will do so if the USB forum updates to a newer version. I detest all the people who are confidently wrong about these things, it detracts from the interesting steps the EU has taken here.

[1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM...
Financed and influenced by the same people, following the threat finance really makes one wonder... for a good intro to the topic try the combination of Antony Suttons works.(1)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Antony-C.-Sutton/e/B001K1S1ZE%3Fref=d...
> As a kid you could just jump into an MMO and make new friends

Some of us were past "kid" when UO came out :)

But I do think the key phrase here is "as a kid". I was in university when UO came out, and it became my life. I had some strong social interactions with a bunch of people, although they tended to skew my age or older. However there was an obvious pattern. These were mostly people who did not have to take care children, either they hadn't had them yet for one reason or another, or their kids were already older.

There was a bunch of us who stayed in touch and played other games, but as the main pack of late 20-something & early 30-somethings started to have kids, they faded off. This wasn't the only reason, other types of responsibilities pulled people away, but it was the big one.

It's easy to sink time into things when you don't have huge time sink responsibilities in your life. And when you sink lots of time into social things, you tend to make strong connections.
Calling those two machines the same would be like calling a Curtiss JN-4 and a Messerschmitt ME 232 "the same." Sure, they both fly and use fixed wings to attain lift, but that's where the similarities end. That's some spectacular failure of leadership. O_O
>> Google's search got gamed by Pepper SEO, the US is not suddenly more more interested in a underwear brand than the food.

> I don't think it's "think more about" but "want to see that result for this query", those are slightly different things.

That can be true, but I think it's the kind of explanation that has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to believed. Unless you can do that, I think the assumption when a brand overtakes the generic term should be it's due to a SEO gaming.

So Amazon may truly be a legitimately more popular search than the amazon (because it's an online store that's so popular it's arguably monopolistic), but Pepper (apparently a niche bra for "small-chested women") is almost certainly not legitimately more popular than pepper.
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Pass with Yubikey with touch is among the most secure options.
Punctuation marks you never knew you needed
> makes me wonder if it's hard to get noticed now, with the constant barrage of new webdev material & tutorials.

As someone with 10+ years of blogging about webdev, publishing tutorials, and some indie success with monetizing all this: Yes it’s harder to get noticed now. And also it feels less interesting.

When I started, the web was new and exciting. At least to me. The world was our oyster and we were the frontier of a new wave. That was fun. And there were few of us digging around, playing with tech, and figuring out new strange ways of holding existing tech to push the envelope. Even if just a little.

Then someone discovered content marketing is a good growth tactic. Then they professionalized it. Then they hit scale. Now much of the content you see is either targeted at beginners because there’s a lot of them and the content is easy to produce – but uninteresting to us experienced folk. Or it’s produced by teams of developer advocates financed by deep pockets and supported by all sorts of processes. You can’t compete with that no matter how hard you try. A team of full-timers will outwork and outproduce you every day.

That leaves the more interesting content, the deep truths of software engineering that play behind the framework and tactic du jour. Those are hard to uncover, difficult to explain, and usually require so much backstory that there’s no way to fit them into the attention-grabby environment of casual browsing. And they don’t play well with SEO (beginners don’t search for it), neither does it play well with recommendation/social algorithms (not instantly catchy).

The nail in the coffin for me was a youtube comment saying “Hey can you make NextJS tutorials instead? Nobody uses React anymore” – Next is built on React.

tldr: There’s too much content, mostly for beginners, churning through framework after framework, and all of it has become exhausting instead of exciting. Audiences don’t have time for the interesting stuff.

edit:

Counterintuitively, I think the good stuff is no longer online. It’s in books. Lots of great new books coming out regularly.
Incredibly stupid ban. Because there are fake VLC .exe files that are infected with malware that have been circulating, the govt blocks access to the official site.

Tells you volumes about what they understand of tech, and should give you enough salt to view all their "digital" claims and plans with.
In case you're wondering why this might not get much discussion, it was pretty much done to death a couple of months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32198214 : 724 comments

There were some more comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32203114 : 8 comments

And another two here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32201126 : 2 comments

It was submitted more times, but without comment. You can find them here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Of course, comments on the initial discussion are now closed, so if anyone wants to add something new, this is the place. Otherwise I don't expect much activity.
Maybe he means lossy compression
If you're on windows Ctrl+Shift+V is your friend.
It’s hardly even battlefield anymore

It’s like some unholy amalgamation of every shooter genre that’s been popular with kids in the past few years. It’s like hero shooter meets battle royale meets call of duty meets the battered corpse of what used to be Battlefield. It really feels like some out of touch suits said “see what kids like these days and rip it off”.

The previous game had its own controversies, and many veteran developers apparently left due to the stifling of creative control.

If you don’t mind a shitpost-ey video, I saw this the other day and it probably explains everything better than I can in an HN comment: https://youtu.be/d0lXNq2jrG8

It’s spends a lot of time on performance issues and bugs, but those are usually forgivable to me, at least as long as things get patched.

Also there’s a complete lack of content. Twenty something guns if I recall correctly, and lack of content can kill games, even otherwise good ones.
There are orders of magnitude more iPhone/Lightning cable users in the world than Mac or iPad users.
One thing to note is this would be very expensive from a bandwidth perspective, of course depending on streaming quality. A 2 hour 4k video is about 40GB of data transfer, I'm presuming if someone buys something over rent they're going to watch it at least 3x... A quick google suggests 120GB can cost $6 to move.

happy to hear if my math is off and learn more about the pricing structures
Their views about the economic situation have no value unless they are economists.

You're dressing up what at best is anecdotal evidence, and at worst heresay, with a long post that sounds mature and well thought out but it's not.
You don't have to use UML with the intention of generating code from it and you can use different levels of detail according to your needs.

When you use UML, your goal should be to convey the overall architecture, the modeling of the domain, and some implementation details.
If you sue Amazon, can they ban you from using their services?
I could give a long lecture on how to use Virtualbox. Spinning up new VMs is now second nature and I could do it with my eyes closed.
'Memorandums of Understanding' are not binding within the EU, not even between different departments in Brussels. They are, at best, strongly worded suggestions.

So this is a significant difference.

As a EU mandate implies that organizations can be prosecuted for ignoring it.
That's certainly an argument in favor of the Switch. And as a big Harry Potter nerd, I'm also very interested in Hogwarts Legacy and the promise that will eventually make it to the Switch.
in 2010 I bought an ipod touch at the px in Afghanistan and Apple wouldn't even let me create an account; without an account most of the features were not accessible.
Why is it so hard for Europeans to not buy an iPhone if they don’t like the charger type?

This will slow any innovation in charging cables until enough powerful companies need something new. Small innovators are SOL since they won’t have the influence to get the EU to allow it.
Does 411 still operate? Cus it's not like there are phone booths with phone books in them anymore.
Huh, does HN not support non-BMP characters?
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