skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this a lot. It's the shakeup, I think. I've wondered in the past about companies pulling their skilled knowledge workers out of their usual roles and saying, "you're working in HR now" or "you're working in the warehouse now (if you want)". Let them do that from 3 weeks up to 3 months, and then go back to regular work. Or maybe inverted 20% time: Monday–Thursday in the warehouse, and Friday at your desk inside your IDE. I'd be really surprised if all the "obvious" reasons why this experiment wouldn't work actually showed up in the data at the end. My expectation is positive gains in productivity.
It's not sustainable for amazon-ish [1]. They offer higher wages than competitors because they need to keep accumulating new employees or convincing old ones to come back.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+run+out+employees+to+...
Being successful isn’t about knowing CS. It’s about navigating relationships. Tech skills are now table stakes. Do yourself a favor and diversify your skills.
I was dealt a shitty hand and rose above it. Emotional and sexual abuse. I blame no one.
I spent a decade reading and studying psychology to rise above it. I’ve shared too much. Do what you will with my advice. The common denominator is my perseverance to survive.
I made a choice to follow something better instead of losing hope. It will get better through constant incremental improvements.
If you have no hope find other people with the same problem. Talk to them. Hire a life coach. Literally do anything other than give up or feel outrage and cast hate.
Exact opposite. The few times I’ve tried to use Lyft, it’s either unavailable, people don’t show up or they’re late.
I have such mixed feelings about cancer research. I don't often share this, because gifting cancer non-profits with lots of money is considered heroism of the first order in our society.
When I read of these large gifts, I can't help but think about a purely economical model of human generosity.
How many lives will be saved with this large gift, vs. how many lives could be saved in the developing world with the same amount of money?
It makes me cringe every time to think that all lives are not valued equally. Otherwise the gifting of large sums of money to possibly save people at some point in the future, who have enough money to afford expensive cancer treatment vs. definitely, absolutely right now saving large numbers of people who have no potable water, little sanitation and need basic care like vaccines and public health education.
No. For no good reason.
Wow, that's eye-opening as an Android user and helps to put the anti-tracking initiative into strategic perspective. Apple is leveraging user trust to claim that it's ok for them to track users, not not ok for anyone else.
Just only a year ago, many people believed that taking horse paste was more important than taking a vaccine -- which may or may not have had microchips embedded in it which the CIA could control. People would practically inject bleach rather than question their own belief system.

Participate in our collective objective reality -- or don't. But don't expect social media to spread your lies about the holocaust so you can preach the gospel of hate.
Imagine that instead of developing an app in a popular programming language, someone implements an idiosyncratic domain specific language suitable for the kind of app they need to build, and then builds the app using that. The result would work and maybe even let them be very productive churning out more features of the kind that were envisioned when the DSL was developed. If they need to extend or fix the DSL, as the original author, they can. Someone else will need to learn the DSL before they can do any work on the app.
Idk, i think copyright law has totally broken down with the digital world and none of it makes sense.

Doctrine of first sale does rely on natural friction of physical items to work as a compromise.

To take the CDL thing further, i think the natural extension would be for all the people who own a copy of the book to get together and create a transparent lending market with a reserve of enough copies that all members of this lending co-op can still get a copy whenever they want (think how a fractional reserve bank works). I doubt copyright holders would like that very much.

But then again, my personal politics is copyright abolition...
Great work.
It's fascinating to see how "modern" Java looks these days.
> I suspect it's actually a relatively common ability though. I have family members who can remember both the tune and the lyrics of songs after 1 or 2 listens through. This just isn't so noticeable because they're not musicians.

I'm like this, more or less, and I'm no musician or singer. If I hear a song, I can't not hear the lyrics, and I'll remember them and the melody after a listen or two. It's great for music quizzes where you have to figure out the name of a song or artist, because if they only play a short bit I can usually fill in, to help my team mates figure out the answer.

I also tend to recall numbers quite easily. Faces too, but tell me your name however and I'll forget it in about 7 seconds.
For those judging this guy - let's remember most of us are pretty similar. Might be an opportunity to look inwards.
But what's the cost for storage? If nobody is watching your "back catalog" you can serve them off your server (maybe not a VPS, maybe a dedi, but you can get 1 Gb/s and 2 TB of disk for like 130 euro: https://hostslick.com/dedicated.php )

Then you're just down to what the CDN cost is for the "active" video, maybe the last two?
Update: The Trevor Project cuts ties with student surveillance software after online backlash

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/3/23385024/trevor-project-g...
If you park a million in cash in the bank they can give you that rate too
Pretty sure the money a scientist can personally earn with grants is far less than they can at a tech company.
I think it would be more healthy for your kid if you talked to other parents (and not just for finding solutions to problems).
Something about what you said triggered a memory in me. I remember a story about how westerners embraced meditation and how monks described how they ( westerners allowed into the monastery ) completely missed its point by enjoying staring into sand, when it was in theory supposed to induce boredom.

I will admit that I am not sure how I feel about the article. I might be still processing it.
"The attention a scientist’s work gains from the public now plays into its perceived value. Scientists list media exposure counts on résumés, and many PhD theses now include the number of times a candidate’s work has appeared in the popular science press. Science has succumbed to the attention economy."

Sitting on a tenure and promotion committee at an R1 university, this type of stuff is just as likely to torpedo you as it is to boost you.
I agree with some of the problems listed (over-hyping minor results) though personally I think the link to attention economy feels a bit contrived. There are much greater forces leading to these problems - notably the emphasis on metrics for science work (as mentioned) and politicization. This didn't convince me the attention economy lens adds anything
The reason I brought up rural specifically is because a lot of people in the US live hours away from the nearest hospital - of course unpredictable things like childbirth will not go as well if you don't have access to a hospital.
if a scientist writes a paper in a forest and nobody's around to retweet the headline, does it even exist at all?
These are really great as a router/firewall. Multiple Ethernet ports, a low power (fanless) x86-64, battery backup for RTC (which is missing from a lot of SBCs), good connectivity for storage and wifi modules.

I do wish it had video out as that would simplify setup & diagnostics for me, but the serial console is fine.
>>> If someone wants to host the raw files to allow others to download it let me know. It is a 83 GB tar.gz file which uncompressed is just over 1 TB in size.

Anyone knows if it is possible to download similar data set for youtube and reddit? I have ideas for search engine based on it, but I don't want to write/maintain scraper scripts.
EDIT: see at the bottom for x86 SBCs

Not ITX, but since you're responding an RPi thread, you may possibly be interested in Hardkernel's products, which have always been very competitive with RPis - in my opinion, simply better than them, although less popular.

Currently, they offer the C4 (https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-c4), and the blazing fast N2+ (https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-n2-with-4gbyte-ram-2).

The N2+ not only ships the A73 (the successory to the RPi's A72), but it also runs it at high frequency.

I am actually a big fan of the H2(+), but sadly, went out of production (it's an x86, whose form factor I absolutely recommend).

EDIT: There actually are x86 SBCs. Two random picks:

- https://www.axiomtek.com/Default.aspx?MenuId=Products&Functi...

- https://www.seeedstudio.com/ODYSSEY-X86J4125800-p-4915.html
They use some pretty sophisticated tech to do this in a way that respects user privacy:

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Differential_Privacy_Over...
It almost feels like... tourism? to me?

Hard to explain, but I get what you mean.
Why go to such a long tangent, when you could make a solid case about the legacy grant distribution system[1] corrupting science for decades? It is as close to funding and career success as it gets.

https://newscience.org/nih/
> I think in general a lot of people "sleep" on how much of a game changer just having Level 1 "chargers" aka "boring wall outlets" everywhere would be.

Exactly! So many people fixate on fast charging that they just don't register the magic inherent in your car and home running on the same "fuel".

And having heard from people that cold climates often have outlets like these in place for engine heaters to prevent engine freezes shows that infra for this can easily exist. Though it's probably more investment for 3-7kW capacity at each outlet compared to powering a block heater.

> Does Starbucks charge you a wall outlet fee to charge your cell phone or laptop? At Level 1 it can just be a "courtesy"

Oh I totally agree, but try getting an apartment complex to buy into thousands of dollars in electrical work only to shell out even more money buying "gas" for all their tenants.

My in-law has trouble getting his complex to fix sidewalks let alone do something like installing charging infra and providing electricity. If the $1k estimate was even close for commercial 120v charging infra, you'd still be talking between 10k and 100k in just electrical work.

But that sounds like something that could be easily turned into a market differentiator, so it's not to say it won't happen.

Perhaps tacking on a flat-rate fee to offset costs would be a strong middle ground as well. That concept is something apartments/HOAs are already quite familiar with, what with things like covered parking, garages, and even additional storage space already available as add-on charges in many places.

> Individual outlet metering is expensive and complicates everything, just install boring outlets like we've done for more than a century.

Somewhere in the eventual development of this tech could be something like a complex level charging system where an apartment could meter through the charger, since most modern IoT type chargers track this anyways. That way the infra is still just as simple as a dumb outlet.

> You can do a rough math estimate at Level 1 and just add that overhead to your operating expenses per usual

This pans out at small scale, though I wonder how that pans out in the real world. The sticker shock of running that calculation at "worst case scenario" seems like an issue. With even 100 EVs at worst case using todays numbers (~60kWh capacity per car, $0.15/kWh, full charge daily) that number is nearly $1k per day. Realistically it'll be much lower since that full charge nightly is highly unlikely, but sticker shock is real.
I got a Dell thin client (Wise 5070) recently for next to nothing ($85 including shipping). Its a much, much nicer machine than anything ARM I've ever had, and has no problem running more or less anything Linux you'd like (its a recent-ish Intel Celeron with UEFI firmware).
I don't recall much about control theory from university, but the one thing that did stick was state-space representation.

The part that got me was that you could take this arbitrarily-complex LTI system and basically turn it into a matrix that encapsulates everything. Any given state the system could exist in becomes a simple vector. Lots of crazy compositional techniques exist once you get your problems into this kind of shape.
You can also murder someone with a hammer. Why are we all walking around pretending we can't? Laws exist to serve the interests of people, not to reflect natural laws. Copyright is no different. If you don't like it, make the case for why it doesn't benefit people.
This is cool, but is also somewhat saddening too.

The dream is a real wasm native postgres; in fact to get all of postgresql's cool shared mem proccess stuff and make it something like shared array buffer! The dream is also that WASI interface and new-school OS interfaces like memfd_create are increasingly aligned.

Instead of rationalization our interfaces, however, it's just emulation layer on top of emulation layer, tech debt all the way down.

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I am not blaming you all in the slightest, to be clear. Obviously one needs to start somewhere. Just sighing at the state of things.
Yeah. Andrew Wakefield was stripped of his medical license in 2010 for publishing fraudulent research and it was later discovered that he was paid to discredit the MMR vaccine.[0]

And yet, ~10% of Americas still believe the study. [1]

[0] https://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-summary.htm

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/276929/fewer-continue-vaccines-...
This seems a step closer to the embeddable postgres I've wanted for ages.
Thank you for the eloquent explanation. Although, I don't like the idea of paying for a gadget and still not being able to truly own it.
> Quota increases can be requested but the default limit tells us what AWS thinks normal usage should be for most use cases.

This is certainly not true for a lot of AWS quotas. If you hit an ec2 quota for an instance type, that isn't AWS telling you that you are using too much compute. Its there as a speedbump to make sure you have some idea that you know what you are doing and to make sure AWS can actually service your requests.

AWS will happily let you have hundreds of child accounts. In fact, if you are talking to them about your architecture they will even encourage it (assuming that it is actually appropriate for the scale of your organization).
Any ad that is sent to a person does not want to see it, in an intrusive way such that they cannot avoid it. The “something” is “looking at it.”
People might be able to see it coming, but could still be enticed by the riches to be made for a while by playing the game even while knowing how it ends.
So I consider taking a walk to clear your mind part of work for sure. I also consider reading HN or other engineering news/continued education sites to be part of work. And taking a coffee break to chat with co-workers about whatever (back when we worked in an office), including big-picture stuff and non-work related stuff, sure, that too.

That's all part of work when you do this kind of work. You can not just write code 8 hours a day, indeed, it's impossible, and if an employer tries to make you work that kind of sweat-shop environment (sometimes it seems like that's the actual goal of some Scrum implementations), it won't actually get them your best or even most productive work.

But there are people on HN who say that they literally spend the majority of their day the majority of days just doing things that are not work at all. I dunno, watching TV, running errands, riding their bike, mindlessly social media'ing, playing video games. Like they only spend a few hours a week on anything related to work at all.

I agree with GP that for me that's utterly soul-destroying, I end up feeling useless and unmoored. (The other day on the radio I heard someone reference a study that busy-ness to life satisfaction graphed as an upside down U, if you have too little free/leisure time you are unhappy, but people with too much are unhappy too, there's a sweet spot in the middle. Perhaps that's what we're talking about here).

But maybe different people are different.

Or maybe in new remote world, if you spend that time on projects you find rewarding (writing poetry, I dunno) instead of just goofing off, then it's not really "leisure" anymore, and you won't have that problem. If also you don't have any ethical problems with it (maybe your employer is awful and deserves to be drained of money), or just worry about getting caught.
We need to start a social movement to punish advertisers. Ads are pernicious and pervasive thought manipulation which systemically decrease the life satisfaction of nearly every person in society. It is a cancer.

We should strive to make anyone who gets manipulated into changing their behavior based on an ad they saw feel ashamed and stupid for falling for their tricks, and angry at the advertisers for manipulating them.
Oh wow, that's bad! I guess I haven't tested in FF on Linux recently, but I just updated to default to Helvetica/Arial/sans-serif, and in my quick peek from Ubuntu it seems to look a bit nicer now.
> The goal is no longer the pursuit of knowledge, it's a money game.

I don't know about that. All the PhDs I know are dirt-poor (or were until they left science to get tech jobs), and are in the game because they are passionate about science and the project of advancing human knowledge.

It's true that your ability to get a tenure-track position is very dependent on your ability to successfully obtain grant money, but most of the scientists I know view that as a necessary evil, not the game in itself.

> The only useful science done at the moment is at tech companies who will use it to build better products.

This is trivially demonstrably false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope for the first example that came to mind from recent news.
Lol ok, Agarwal went from never selling to selling to now suing the buyer to purchase the company.

Some strong leadership right there. Nothing embarrassing.
Redefining for Loop Variable Semantics
> 2 Mental health conditions include deaths of suicide, overdose/poisoning related to substance use disorder, and other deaths determined by the MMRC to be related to a mental health condition, including substance use disorder.

Deaths by suicide and drug abuse are indeed preventable. Are you misconstruing the word preventable to mean 100% preventable?
Why would you think it doesn't run on Linux, or that it's in C#?

EDIT: Ok, it used to be a .NET application (not any more), but .NET runs fine on Linux.
Mars’ outgoing CEO on succession, family businesses and eating his own dog food
`aws configure sso` does that, but:

1 - You need to do that with each account / role pair

2 - It gives profiles very long names by default (<role>-<account_number>)

3 - It does not set $AWS_PROFILE, so you need to pass `<...> --profile <...>` manually

So the code is actually there already, they just need to make the experience better.
Something like the ASRock J3455-ITX will do the job. 10 watt quad core, though my beef with this board is it features an m.2 B key wifi slot instead of an M key for an NVMe storage device which is a poor choice. There might be a better board out there with a similar low power celeron.

I have an older asrock j1900 celeron board running my 9front CPU/Disk/Auth server at home 24/7. No issues and it has been solid. At the current electric rate it costs about $2/month.
> Do people not like setting up nginx?

I don’t.

But I’m just cranky… apache httpd works well for me and I don’t feel the need for nginx.
You can read up on it, if you want. I'm not going to use iCloud if it scans my data before it hits Apple's servers.
This is absolutely true.

I could leave for industry tomorrow and likely double my salary.

The money I've personally earned from grants is... $0. And I've been very successful in getting grants.

I only got a job offer at one university where the PI of a grant directly got a monetary benefit from it, and while it was nice, it was never going to be more than "That's a nice little bonus" money.

If you want to make money as a scientist in academia, consulting or a startup is where it's at.
I wonder if the same technology can be used for an improved version of spray-on hair
Ultimately I feel I've had both experiences depending on which locale I'm in. Depending on whether 1, the other or both ave a critical mass of vehicles in an area on any given night, I've seen either be cheaper/faster (although I find overall anecdotally that Lyft does better in places I frequent on the West Coast, Cleveland and Dallas. Everywhere else it's seemingly totally up for grabs), but neither service seems canonically "better" except that Lyft seems as mentioned previously, slightly less ethically challenged than Uber (a threshold that isn't hard to beat frankly).
Ask HN: Should I get a Master's degree in CS?
Since the last post about this was a few years ago [1] and with different circumstances, I though I'd ask again. I'm studying CS at a mid-ranked program of a US university, where I have an option to do a 1-year master's degree after my undergraduate degree is complete. I could also try to do a master's degree at a higher-ranked CS program, or skip it and get a job. Is the extra degree worth it? (either in terms of career options or educational value).

Other things:
- I've done some internships; I expect I'll be able to get a job after I graduate.
- I'm considering trying to move to Europe within a few years of graduating. Would the degree be more valuable there? (and also - should I be trying to study for a master's there instead?)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26405955
Maybe it's less patronising, and more just blindingly obvious to those of us who have had crap jobs in the past?

Having grown up adjacent to upper-middle class people (I'm arguably entering that sphere now, but I definitely didn't start there), I think a bunch of them could benefit from hearing this story from one of their peers.
If “some chance” is taken to the extreme, I would think all pregnancies are preventable, and with it all pregnancy-related deaths.
There's something strangely satisfying in hard physical labor. When I do stuff at home, like renovations, installing stuff, gardening, or doing car stuff, even house cleaning, I get a strange kind of euphoria that I don't get even when doing stuff like working out in a gym or cycling, at least, not at the same degree.
That means for the subset of people who have convictions, the "not evidence" comment doesn't apply. My comments on misuse and irrelevance hold for convictions.

See also the fact that a person theoretically endures punishment upon conviction commensurate with a crime. To make people vulnerable to further punishment by private/collateral actors undermines the theoretical basis for the state's sole authority to punish.