skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you're not asking for this, but distributed consistency can get pretty hairy in anything but the simplest of cases. I know you've probably heard all this, but for the people unfamiliar with CAP theory, if you're asking yourself the same questions and you haven't spent much time researching it, it's worth it to get an over-view. The WikiPedia page is pretty simple, but has links to decent references:

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

And if you want to get your math on, check out TLA:

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

(Again, the wikipedia page is laughably incomplete, but has references worth clicking on.)
List of open-source alternatives to popular SaaS
Why bother advertising your gun buyback? Just have someone scam you with 3d printed guns and let the free publicity roll on in
Because idiots sell their incredibly valuable inherited antiques, including exceptionally rare legal machine guns, which a) are not used in crime, as a rule, and b) are really cool.
I don't use earphones on my phone that much, so non-wired earbuds would either be on their charger and inaccessible outside the house, or in my bag but out of battery because I forgot about them last time I came back. I can put wired earbuds in my pack and forget about them for months and they still work when I pick them up.

Also, I refuse to deal with Bluetooth until pairing reliably works and sound is always high quality even with microwave interference. I don't expect them to succeed.
There's not really a way around network dependence when coding at Google. You're not allowed to have code copied to a laptop, unless you get special permissions. Only teams that work on client code like desktop apps are likely to be given access. So this means to even look at code, you have to be connected to the network (via Chrome or a Fuse-based VFS.)

If you're using a desktop, there's not really a case for going offline, so being dependent on the network is ok.

I get nearly all my work done off a laptop, but I do find its weak CPU/memory a mismatch for my heavy use of Chrome.
Part of this is because prostate cancer has such a high success rate. With treatment, the 5 year survival rate for early prostate cancer is over 99%, and is was close to 98% 20 years ago.

The current approach of regular prostate exams + treatment isn’t perfect but it’s extremely effective.
There’s no state maintained on the server, so all requests made to it are idempotent.
>Now that this article has been published, so many people who never went to college and could hardly do middle school algebra are complaining and moaning that they will never trust an NYU degree and that this generation is soft

And there is nothing wrong with that. Doctors are held to higher intellectual standards than plumbers, and paid accordingly too. The education level of the critic is entirely irrelevant to the question of whether doctors-in-training are more or less competent than before.
how exactly can a decentralized network do better at moderation than a centralized one?
So if the team lead that I’m hiring to be the subject matter expert can’t be the go to person for technical solutions based on relevant experience in the domain, who should it be?
I have aphantasia and 100% visualize on decent sized doses.
Vestas is a public company and the Danish government isn't even in the top 10 shareholders...

https://m.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/VESTAS-WIND-SYSTEMS...
Offshore wind is turning out to be a lot easier to sell.

Unfortunately, the skills involved in deploying on land don't transfer very easily to sea work. Doing anything at sea is a specialty of its own. So, people with long sea experience will learn to put up wind turbines.
Very questionable hardware design decisions. A raised watch crystal to mimic the Apple Watch, more likely to scratch and shatter (with zero aftermarket support for add on protection). A traditional round case, less useful for displaying text and mostly suitable for displaying analog watch faces. Only comes in a "small" 41mm diameter size, the screen display further reduced with the internal bezel and round case.

Funny, the Pixel Watch has been added to the Fitbit web site, where on the comparison table it looks quite inferior to Fitbit offerings and costs $50 more. But wait, it has features like "Google Play Store" and "Gmail" which no one asked for.
Really?

I've literally parked outside a police station in the past with a sign saying "I buy guns for cash". The PD was paying $50-100; I spent about $500 total and ended up with several nice rifles that were inherited by people who knew didn't want them and had no idea of their value.

To be clear, while I paid much less than retail value for them I showed them price comparisons online while talking to them. Some people decided to keep them, some decided to sell to a dealer later, and some people were happy to get $50 more than the police would have given them.

The highlight of that day was an older lady that had a beautiful Mauser 98k that her husband had brought back after fighting in WW2. She said she needed the money and honestly thought the $100 gift card the police department offered was fair. We exchanged numbers and she ended up selling it to a dealer for $900.
if you really dont care for perfect engineering, a component of a box of matches can replace the powder.
> In my view letting the state forcibly alter their brain and mind against their will is a bridge too far.

I don't share your view. It's quite clear to me that there are circumstances when a mentally-ill person benefits enormously from compulsory treatment (provided they are released; a system that rewards clinics financially for continuing to detain patients that are fit for release is a special kind of madness).
> As a computer scientist, Alphabet is no longer my first preference to get hired.

I am curious. Which companies would be your top preferences?
You'd probably just optimize the computer for heuristics then, and would be faster than the human.
> Assuming we agree they aren't, why is that?

Cheap labor. Low threshold for consumers to pay a lot, potentially government subsidy.

Drugs have way higher testing requirements. In California cannabis has intense testing and labeling requirements. Fruit doesn’t seem to. Also taxes of course.

> would suspect all new and future consumer would go to a legal source for purchase.

Oh absolutely agree. I think there’s a cohort that would way the drugs but not be willing to engage in illegal activity.

Maintaining stores and supply chains and not a guy with a burner phone and a beat up Toyota driving to a parking lot probably raises costs too (compared to illegal drugs, not fruit obviously). Same at every step of supply chain. The costs are likely high for compliance etc.
I have used wake on LAN sometimes for this too, but that was close enough for me, and I lost interest.

WoW (wake on wife), worked pretty well from the office, but I seem to get a little bit of latency and packet loss. Now I work from home, so I just get up and hit the power button on the more powerful machines.

My shock with compute power was when I got the Pi 4. It was faster than the AMD e350 I was using for backups except for disk IO. The E350 was not a powerful machine new, but I didn't realize how far we had come.

A USB 3 enclosure brought it to a level that was good enough the entire mini ITX build was pointless to keep around.
> I still find it shocking to think that Meta is more accountable (to society?) than government.

That is not something I said. I'm not even sure it's quantifiable enough to say "more" or "less", as the kinds and mechanisms of accountability are so different.

> arguing that government is less accountable than Meta

I did not say that either. My point is that an authoritarian government nationalizing Facebook is even worse in accountability terms that either one on its own.

> "Market pressure" and "investor pressure" don't seem to be doing much good in accountability to society, do they?

I think your baseline is off. The social media platforms have made huge strides since their early days. Could they do more? Yes. Could they be worse? Incredibly so.
> it stores data in memory, and async starts writing data to disk in small data chunks called deltas, later these chunks are deleted and replaced with the whole graph snapshot

Thanks, that fairly answers my question of recoverability of in-memory graphs.
Walmart Global Technology (REMOTE)
https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech

We are a positive and supportive team within the Health & Wellness space that is creating access to Health & Wellness services (pharmacy, vision, clinics etc.) for all our customers. I am a software architect for this team and I can tell you that it's a wonderful place to work.

We are in need of motivated and talented Android developers! :

https://walmart.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/WalmartExternal/job/US...

https://walmart.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/WalmartExternal/job/Re...
Local news typically covers "community events" like these as a matter of news, rather than advertisement. Whereas PSAs are paid.
> criminals aren't going to turn in their guns

The programs often encourage them to through "no questions asked"/amnesty policies. These programs are a great way to launder a dirty gun, but criminals are hardly likely to turn in a "clean" gun.
I happened to read about this case while I was in the middle of Barbara Erinreich’s book “Fear of Falling”, which is all about the American professional middle class. Part of one chapter talks about how the professions organized to create credentialing systems that kept anyone who couldn’t afford the expensive and time consuming education out. Organic Chemistry is specifically mentioned for its role in weeding out potential medical students who might very well turn out to be good doctors, while simultaneously being irrelevant to the day-to-day practice of medicine. All of this serves the purpose of making sure the supply of doctors is low, and that their wages are therefore kept high.

Since the 80s, American society has shifted towards a ruthless form of capitalism that leaves fewer and fewer occupations capable of providing their practitioners with a middle class lifestyle every year. To me, it’s no wonder that students have become ruthlessly mercenary in response. They’ll do what it takes to make a good living, and they won’t tolerate gatekeepers getting in their way without a fight. This is exactly the behavior we (as a society) have incentivized in them.
Not great for people hooked up to home medical equipment
My partner took Orgo from the professor in question ~20 years ago, and described it as one of the transformational classes of her undergraduate years, though she also thought it was the lowest grade she'd ever received.

Things may have changed during those decades (as things do), but she said there were options at her school to take "Maitland Jones Orgo" or "Easy Orgo", and approximately everyone knew that they would be challenged in the former, but provided the opportunity to grow more than the latter.

I'm sure there are many things involved, but perhaps he didn't fully grasp that when he moved institutions, he was also shifting his audience, and perhaps his new audience wasn't quite as interested in the challenge.
That is misinformation. The number of doctors is kept low by limits on the number of residency program slots in teaching hospitals. Residency programs are almost entirely funded by the federal government through Medicare. The AMA has publicly lobbied to increase the number of doctors, and even put their own funding in.

https://www.ama-assn.org/education/gme-funding/save-graduate...
> I'm more in the camp of the code living in the cloud, building in the cloud, executing in the cloud.

Until you see how slow it is and you regret it.
Take a look at the table in the linked post and you might get an idea. The real question is why are you so interested in these buckets? Why are you trying to impose them on the rest of us?
Excitement Is Gone
Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights [pdf]
If two people are on the same team doing the same job then you should be prepared to describe what "more value" means in detail. In fact you should always makes this clear because setting expectations helps people to work towards them and it also then obviously helps justifying pay differences or why someone is promoted over someone else.
AI uses heuristics just fine. You might have missed the decades of post-Deep Blue development. Check out DeepMind.
From my experience with psilocybin-containing mushrooms, I didn't hallucinate. Rather, my senses grew incredibly sharper and everything was super-vivid. I could see why they would be great for hunting in a prehistoric setting and would give one an unfair advantage. Shrooms are even known to increase visual acuity. It was like watching 4K video for the first time after watching standard definition your whole life.

As for my mind, I had what people call a 'mystical experience' but I was so young (20s) that I didn't have the necessary words to describe it or put it into words. It's only when I read up about Gnosticism and went down various conspiracy-theory rabbit-holes on Youtube that I could piece it all together, and have the right words to describe it (escaping the Matrix etc).

I would never try them again though. Too risky. I value my mental health too much. If I want shroom-like hallucinations though, I use the Lumenate app which everyone should try:

https://lumenategrowth.com/
The professor, meanwhile, saw a different problem: “They weren’t coming to class. … They weren’t watching the videos, and they weren’t able to answer the questions.”

If that's the case, it's not difficult at all to restructure the course to make attendance mandatory, possibly with the use of softball questions answered with clickers during lecture (or just an attendance sheet). Videos can be shown during lectures and questions can be forced as part of mandatory homework.

I know that motivating students is perhaps harder these days than in previous decades but I have no sympathy for professors who refuse to get creative with their class/grading structure.
On one July 4 years ago I walked alone to a beach on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. I lied down on the sand and put a hat over my face. I listened to the waves.

The beach was busy - I could also hear the ambient sound of many people chattering in different languages. So many languages. It was profound to me that those people came from so far around the world to that place, bringing with them an unimaginable depth of experiences and cultural diversity. Seeking the best for their families. Who did they leave behind? It was emotionally overwhelming. I cried.

After a while of focusing on sounds I started to focus on touch - the individual grains of sand against my fingers, the mass of sand below me. The wind on my exposed skin. The radiant warmth of summer.

As I focused on the feeling of touch, a remarkable thing happened. I felt the boundary between me and the universe start to dissolve. With each crash of the waves, the dotted line between me and the universe receded bit by bit.

Eventually I felt I was no longer separate from the sand, the waves, the air, the people. I was all of those things and I was nothing. I was a clump of cells on a rock.

Then I stood up and walked away, utterly at peace. My life was changed forever. Thanks, LSD.
They are in their 40's now. The girlfriend struggled with mental health and never really held a job. The guy on mushrooms went through years of therapy and anti-depressants, and seemed to have a normal life. The best friend still struggles with what he calls random "dissociation" and " depersonalization" episodes. He's a fairly self-destructive person that clearly has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder#...

It's all anecdotal - maybe the drugs accelerated something that would have happened anyway? Maybe they were more vulnerable as teens? who knows! I do know that none of them would ever touch hallucinogens today.
Out of curiosity, how would you define the role of a “real process engineer” and how is it fundamentally different?
Tangentially related to the topic but I find American cultural attitudes towards sex very bizarre from the outside looking in. The view America projects of itself to the world through media is that it's the land of "Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll" and Americans love having fun, but internally America feels culturally like a deeply prudish country, much more than in Europe and Asia.
Why don't Asians just decline to self identify? Are admissions looking at names or something and saying "yup, this is an Asian"?
Isn’t giving each candidate a score even more gameable than ranking candidates. If I like candidate A and think candidate B is their best opposition I can give candidate A 5.0 and candidate B 0.0 even if my real opinion of candidate B is 3.0. Lowering candidate B’s score artificially definitely helps candidate A.
the data, is also of utility. you dont just get guns of the street, you get intelligence regarding traffic, and production.
Thanks for the response, been there on the overages per SAAS’s. Now running a startup, they scare me even more.
I think this is an important angle to the story: if the students are "customers" spending tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars there's an incentive to try to make them happy.

I also think wish someone would report on whether the claims of the students are true. This NY Post article brushes the claims aside because they're bad journalists. The only slightly better Guardian article includes this gem:

> An NYU spokesperson defended the firing, emphasizing high student withdrawals and bad course evaluations. The statement said the decision was also based on complaints about dismissiveness, unresponsiveness, condescension and lack of transparency about grading.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/06/nyu-professo...

I don't necessarily believe NYU, but I think a good journalist could investigate if this guy was actually just a bad teacher rather than parroting the complaints of second or third hand accounts. Are people dropping the class and failing at a higher than expected rate?

I also think there's a "labor rights" issue here. The students did not call for the professor to be fired, but NYU did because it was the easy way out. There was no union or tenure to protect him, he was a "contract" teacher.

On its face, any claim that "kids today are lazy" deserves serious scrutiny because old people have made that claim since antiquity. There are lots of serious and interesting issues at play here beyond that lazy trope.
The US shouldn't be subsidizing those jobs. What should be happening is that tariffs should be slapped on companies like Vestas that are basically government backed companies in order to even the playing field.
So are you claiming that Twitter has an office in Iran? It's been some years since I worked for Twitter, but as far as I know they do not operate in Iran except to the extent which their services are available to anybody with an IP.
Thank you for pointing out the standard of care in this case, given inability to resect, was the immunotherapy from the start. Obviously very specific for that type of lung cancer and the state of your contact's tumor, but I've been learning more and more about this and have been told by multiple oncologists that immunotherapy is typically only given after more conventional treatments are first attempted and fail to stop progression or shrink the mass(es). Needless to say that's far from categorical so in my next conversations I can be a bit more educated in my questioning.

And 80% reduction after that first course... Amazing. How long after the first course did they do the scan that showed that reduction?

Btw, very happy for you (and even moreso for your contact). Great news.
if you think about it in database terminology: would assigning a different value for the epistemic_status column cause the row to be deleted?
Like, can I observe myself more readily without judgement and emotion? Yeah, I think these experiences teach me to do that in new and fascinating ways over time, but it is absolutely iterative.

If you're asking if I can make the same discoveries without LSD now that I've done it once, maybe - but I doubt it. Many of the chains LSD relieves you of you are so accustomed to having that you may not even know they're present.
This stinks of false-flag psyops.

A guy is quietly abducted by an authoritarian regime.

Naturally, the smart response would be for "activists" to "help" him by erasing all public record of his existence.
It's easy. Never give money to Americans.
> Still others raise an eyebrow at the large number of games he has played in recent years that get a score of nearly perfect from computer analysis.

This has been debunked (just google it), and this confirms for me that this is very shallow journalism.

It's also wrong - the charge was that his score was 'perfect' (100%) across too many games, not 'nearly perfect'.
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The video talks about "tracking" funds, there is no mention of theft or fraud.

> But to claim that all of that $2.3T was fraudulent is just a plain lie.

I didn't. But I am replying to people who may think that all of crypto is fraud.
Many jurisdictions around the world have laws that allow police to compel you to decrypt data, particularly at border crossings.
Noir: The Universal Language of Zero-Knowledge – By Aztec Team
If you look at some of the other comments on this thread, plus some reddit links, it seems like it's less about being a customer and more about wild inconsistency and unfairness:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyu/comments/xvsgk0/comment/ir32j0t...

I understand that perhaps that was more acceptable years ago, but as depicted here it comes across as callous, opaque, and unfair.
The editors are not being puritanical. They're trying to illustrate to him that his writing (when read by an American) is adding context that he may not be trying to add.

For example, the bad parenting example at the bottom. He clearly illustrates that the author is simply capturing a scene as he imagines it, but the modern interpretation of an adult smoking and drinking in front of their child in the middle of the day is going to be interpreted as them being bad parents. If thats what he means to express, no one is going to complain about the inclusion of those details. If he doesn't WANT them to be cast as bad parents, don't include those details because they're not helping with the scene.
Had the same experience with 2 Nexus phones. My Nexus tablets were fine outside of... Every Google Nexus and Pixel device I've owned, going back longer than I can remember, had had sharp battery decline around 16-18 months with not-heavy but daily usage. I'm also looking at an iPhone as my next smartphone, and I've been on Android since the original G1. I've also had issues with Project Fi "support" in the last year or two despite the fact that I vastly prefer their pay as you go and international service.
I’m always flabbergasted by the things US movies and TV shows choose to beep/cut. It feels like many “normal life” topics have been transformed into a taboo, even the very mention in public would be subject to stigma.
That's your personal opinion. You don't speak for the ~7.7B people not in the US.
But they took part in illegal surveillance programmes in the past.
This wasn't true last time I checked, but it looks like it was a fairly recent merge.

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kwallet/-/merge_requests/1...

Consider me excited.
I would fault the officials that set up the gun buyback program with wasting everyone's money.
Ordered a founders edition many months ago. I hope to use it one day and add it to my nixos config.
If not it'll help the open source community. One thing is certain, the VR/AR I want to use won't come from big tech.
No, it's because 90% of the NYPost stories have a source of "This guy I met made something up and it might be true"