skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are terrible metrics. To use a worn aphorism: Measuring productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by weight. Obviously using "more weight" as a metric is bad because it will result in a plane that won't fly. Slightly less obviously "less weight" is also a bad metric, because you'll end up with a plane made from paper and twigs where the wings will shear off if you look at it wrong.

You want to aim for a plane with the right weight, but you only know what that is by working out the entire design. Similarly you want to aim for the right number of lines in your code base, but you can only know what that is by working out the entire design.
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Some of the quotes are cancel-level inappropriate for 2022, though, so you may want to avoid promoting this topic in professional circles.
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This might be the case for CS PhDs, but it certainly isn't for the vast majority of Stanford PhD students in other departments - many of whom are earning less than half the amount you cited. A large percentage of Stanford PhD students work at least one additional job, so the reality is that outside of a select few departments you cannot "focus on it 100%."
But you’ll stop being able to afford them a lot sooner
What about hydraulic brakes, though? These require specialized tools to maintain, which are so expensive that no amateur will afford them (for the rare occasions).

I think it's the only component that I wouldn't know how to adjust/fix on my new bicycle, where previously I feel I could have handled everything (but it was a simply fixed gear bicycle).
Can't this system work:

- You publish a public list of randomly generated numbers/IDs (the number of IDs corresponding to the number of eligible voters, guess you need a reasonably accurate census data for this)

- Divide up into subsets and distribute these IDs to each voting booth.

- When you go to vote you draw on of those numbers and attach it to your vote.

- Election results are published as "ID X voted for Y".

Now everyone can check that their vote was counted, and everyone can check that the original list of of IDs matches the final results (or in reality, count(final list) < count(original list) since not everyone votes).
What do you mean by this exactly?
I genuinely don’t understand and am asking in good faith.

Are you saying that the radical right is cancelling people?

Or do you mean the idea of cancel culture is being used to suppress ideas?

I don’t understand how either could be true. I am nowhere near being a radical right person, at least I wouldn’t consider myself to be, but I am very concerned about the behavior described in the article as I have experienced the behavior first-hand. We are talking about the suppression of people and ideas.
One other thing that has really changed for the better is lighting. With the development of LEDs, lithium batteries and hub dynamos this is literally a difference like night and day. I remember once pressing a rim dynamo into the spokes while trying to switch on the light while riding, which resulted in a spectacular somersault.
1 in 300 million, 1 in 100 million, both basically round down to zero chance. People playing it obviously aren't good at math, so I assume they get more benefit from the huge numbers because it gets more press.
Sure, if you grab an algorithms 101 textbook and implement its example of an open addressing table, 50% is a performance inflection point, but nobody is really using such things. And even then I recall seeing numbers more like 70% before actually doubling due to the high cost of rehash; 50% was only for the initial allocation.
How do I get Shift here? (Safari on iPad)
> help line his pockets

And his ego. The world already has both Mastodon, a decentralized twitter-like social media, and ActivityPub, a protocol for decentralized social media services to connect to each other. Dorsey has chosen to support neither, and instead make his own service and protocol that can't connect to it.

Bluesky has a wait list, while there's already a google doc full of Blue Checks that have moved to Mastodon[1]. I'm hoping grass roots open source succeeds over a billionaire with VC funding, but we shall see.

https://journa.host/@WalterShaub/109305242003516901
Maths always used to be an entertainment for aristocrats and philosophers.

Only in very few exceptional times in history it was been used for something else, being the largest exceptions the industrial and scientific revolution, and these usually did not require breakthroughs: just apply existing knowledge.

It’s never been a young person game.
The causality here is hard to prove, even untangle. I think the French Revolution was largely more influential for the state of governments today. I also think that science was not influenced so much by Popper, but much more by Fisher and Neyman.
People tend to use what is a successful tool, and be influenced by power and theatre, not so much by fragile logical constructs without empirical value found sitting in the armchair.
Rather being hooked on social media, I believe. I never seen this feature as useful or interesting at all anywhere and I'm in mid 30s. My friends who are either bit younger or slightly older and who are still sitting on fb for whatever reasons or ig appear to be using stories - at least that's what I've seen last time I've check facebook.
> "Vidiu Platon": "I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!"

And now we have Docker :)
You clearly don't live in Los Angeles.
The only case I can think of where there is a mandatory minimum tip in the US is that a lot of restaurants will charge a minimum gratuity for parties larger than 6-8.
I'd rather prefer people saying "C has a long history of damaging security" and that's it, no asbestos here. Is a personal preference of mine. Less chances to misinterpret something.

At least it's not a "comparing Linux kernel to a car" situation I've also seen.
This is not a good example, as Rust does not build on C++, it simply replaces it as the foundation. Of course, the development of Rust is built upon lessons learned from C++.

But there is no universal law that says that the foundations of a field must be simple enough for one human to understand them in 70 years. It may well be that the simplest possible statement of a field of knowledge is still too complex for a single human to understand it in a normal life-span (not to mention that our capacity for storing information is limited - you can't actually continually learn new things for 70 years without forgetting much of what you learned initially).

Even today, you could spend literally your entire life trying to learn everything we know about the human body and you would almost certainly die before having learned everything. Now, fortunately, there is plenty of real work, both as a doctor and as a researcher, that can be done by focusing on just one aspect of the body (say, the circulatory system) and having only relatively shallow knowledge about the rest. Still, there is the possibility already that a mind that could build on all of the deep knowledge we have could come up with new ideas in medicine and biotech that we are unable to because of this silo-ing.
Specs do matter for the experience as well when it's low enough? The iPhone SE has a 720p screen, a single camera with very poor recording quality (1080p/25fps) that has to matter for the experience at some point.
> So you're avoiding a technology because of unrelated teenagers' internet comments.

A) What makes you think it's a teenager? The internet makes even ordinary people act in ways they would not act IRL.

B) It's completely reasonable to avoid something because you don't like the community. Comments like the quoted one in GP post are definitely not rare from the Rust community.
PRC more insulated against deglobalization than most. Despite trope, PRC is relatively less trade dependant vs OECD/G20 tier countries. It's close to US and JP where internal market is enough to generate growth and development. Meanwhile PRC exports is increasing, especially up value chain in intermediate goods, and among emerging markets. Actual risk of trade disruption with wealthy LIO block is also overstated IMO, first it's ~10% of PRC's GDP. Impact from countries who are serious (so far surprisingly little) about subtantially reducing trade, friendshoring or PRC+1 models are a fraction of that. The really rough patch are US tech blockades that inhibits PRC's ability to upgrade internally, but if overcome, huge boost to development. All of which is to say, PRC exposure to deglobalization is smaller than most think. While reality is PRC so far is inserting herself more and more into global trade despite some efforts to balkanize.

To stay on topic of India (but applies to many countries), PRC / Asian Tiger model of export driven growth model via light industries to generate surplus to upgrade capital is going to be increasingly difficult and expensive. Era of high western consumption (low interest, debt driven etc) and cheap commodities is being tapped out for short/medium term. The TLDR is PRC extracted as much benefit as it can from globalism under relatively ideal conditions while those that did not are going to have a much harder time trying to replicate similar feat. Especially India, because let's be real, west is not going to repeat the PRC "mistake" with India again, especially when India is difficult to geographically contain.
Open source IAM brings new features and improvements
I finished my PhD at the top program in my country (which is not the US of course) fairly recently. The system is American "inspired" (fully funded, no mandatory work, international professors).

For me, the research work was enjoyable, and I was happy to do it "while it lasted".
However I think the main problem is that for the largest majority of students, there is no academic future.

All of us were top-of-the-class in every scholastic phase up to then. Smart people, all. But after the PhD, and then after the junior job market - there simply aren't many positions anymore. All your academic efforts then culminate into a pack of files describing your merit, a hasty presentation in a hotel or two, and a largely random market deciding whether you will indeed be able to do the job you trained for your entire life, or not!
It's a breaking point, and it is stressful not only because of that but especially because everything is uncertain.

Expectations are very high. After all, a lot of money has been spent on the PhD students and placing them in academic positions is crucial for the school. However, the job market is exceedingly difficult (for many different situational and even arcane reasons that differ country-by-country - I was going to write more about it, but everyone who knows knows already).

In consequence, you are never really prepared enough for the job market. At the same time, your success hinges only marginally on your research and more on prep, predigree, fit and randomness. And so, PhDs have to spend more and more time (6-7 years now) to feel somewhat "ready". Others are pushed by their advisors to stay.

During this time, you put your life on hold. You earn as little as the university can get away with in your country. You have to prepared to move anywhere in the world. Family is difficult to realize. Work-life-balance usually non-existent. And the longer you stay, the more you question whether you will ever make it.

For us, there were few tenure-tracked positions to be had in that year. People who stayed in academia started with post-doc contracts - often only for a year - all around the world. A continuation of the above. I am sure some will eventually succeed.
I myself decided to take a non-academic position, which was a breeze by comparison.

From my cohort, almost all have ended up with some sort of mental health issue. Even though I never really felt it, I did notice (after leaving) that I had been depressed during the final year. Two PhD students were admitted to the hospital for issues I am 100% sure are stress induced.

At the same time, I don't know how to fix all this. Being a tenured professor will always be the dream for many people. At least as it appears on the surface. For it to be that, there will never be as many positions as applicants.
> We fail to acknowledge that sometimes the reaction can be just as bad, and lead to the same pathology, as the problem that initially provoked it.

I think it's interesting that you speak in such abstract terms about this. What has the American far left or center-left actually done that's as bad as, for example, the recent attempted insurrection or the stripping of rights from women and LGBT people perpetrated by the right?

> the fascists ideologues were probably certain of being "the good guys", themselves.

I've personally never heard of a political movement--left, right, or center--that considered itself the antagonist in its own narrative
I guess a lot of non-French speakers will miss the real joke: "I think therefore I am" translates to "Je pense donc je suis", which rhymes well to the parody.
Then it's not plainly immature, but somewhat elaborate.
I don't know but it also fails to disregard that the smartest people (whatever that means) can have executive function issues that are orthogonal to their mental capacity.

Additionally, the belief that intelligence alone will improve the world is misguided imo. You need empathetic, intelligent people.
> At least on paper, Apple does seem to be doing better on privacy. They are private by default.

I believe Apple's true stance on this is, "we will protect your data from third parties, but in exchange, you have no privacy with us"
You can get a patent on practically anything - they only test in court, which is why these trolls have power. The cheapest way to get a patent is to apply, and make the claims very specific and complicated.
Reading some other comments, I get the feeling that adjusting hydraulic brakes may not actually be tricky, so it's probably just the novelty for me.
Give it another go. It’s an example of filmmakers deciding to forego formula in favor of respect to the original material.

It does jump about a lot— and it might help me that I’m really familiar with the history. For instance, it is probably better if you already know that Aristotle trained Alexander and his military commanders—otherwise you might be wondering why Aristotle is featured so heavily.

And they have a number of short scenes to communicate important vignettes in his life—like his conquest of Egypt is only referred to obliquely.

Also, I thought Angelina Jolie’s role as Olympias was awesome. All the family dynamics were pretty well represented! Even Alexander’s love of his horse Bucephalus… like, there were some great scenes in there.
lol..

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/...
Hmm...you can get these facts just by reading the news:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/04/02/indoor-plumbing-st...

Even pro-Kremlin sources:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221004222830/https://www.rt.co...

Funny that you have mention a bubble...
> Microsoft avoids that by backing up your key (not password) to a USB drive or even cloud first. There's no typo issue. There's no forgotten password issue.

The issue is that now the forgotten password moves to the cloud, especially since Bitlocker is activated automatically, without notifying the user, when an MS account is used. So regular Joe probably has no idea his drive is encrypted.

And since MS also push for authenticating to the account by using the TPM combined with a fingerprint / webcam / PIN, if you can't use your laptop (which is likely the case if you can't remember the unlock password – which you've probably never knwon was even a thing to begin with) you're pretty much SoL if you can't remember the cloud password – which you haven't used in months, possibly.

I think the old, manual way of activating BitLocker was best, where they tried to coax you into backing up that key someplace.
What I never understood is that, for the most part, a 30-something year old male and female can create a pristine new being from their already-slightly-knackered cells. I know it breaks down somewhat with age.

So... we can create pristine new life with biological clock reset at 0, but not do so for our own bodies.
This is not true. Large Indian cities have some of the worst planing/zoning/building codes in Asia. Mumbai's FSI (Floor Space Index) is so bad it's almost a meme.
Indeed. Sounds like a fine metaphor for the experience of memory to begin with, which absolutely loses detail as it's compounded. Remembering a memory may well just be adding another layer at the top of that recursive stack
That is why finalize is deprecated for removal, and will eventually be dropped from Java.

https://openjdk.org/jeps/421

One is supposed to use try-with-resources, determinist resource management, or cleaner types.
The problem is that people still won’t trust it.
1280 pixels. This is the width that should be enough for everyone according to github.

(max-width in .container-xl. Why did they put that there? The website looks perfectly fine without it)
I do have presence online. My own public web site, where people can contact via mail, and they do.

I have accounts in other services, for work, public accounts. And it is about work, no unwarranted attacks, much less personal ones, even as things may get heated when coding with other developers.
Even if the thing is always expected it should be in the price. Like "gratuities". Just insane, that there is expected level and it is not included and paid through by company by default.
On a similar theme, Scott Alexander's short story Ars Longa, Vita Brevis https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/

Analogously, I've heard transhumanists make the argument that as fluid intelligence declines as crystallized intelligence grows, we have yet to see a human mind in its full power.
The Fediverse sounds like the Federal government's even more dystopian version of the Metaverse.

(I read the article, so I know it's not actually that, and in fact is kinda neat)
if he/she is crying, make sure he/she isn't wet or need of diaper change

if not that, hungry? try a bottle

if not that, walk and rock, drive & pray, etc.

if not that, earplugs

that's all you need to know for the first couple years. after that, they will be smarter and quicker than you but won't know it yet.

don't let them figure it out until 16+ and you'll be fine.
Any distro will do. It will be a big step ahead of MacOS or windows already in terms of privacy. Once you know more, you can always move towards more niche ones. I personally use Fedora on a ThinkPad T470/Dell Optiplex 7010, good mix of up to date software, stability and ease of use.
Web site has been Seized
> ethics (from Ethikos)

I gave you the correct source. The -ic- in ethikos forms an adjective from the noun, just like the Latin form -alis that you see in "morals". There is of course zero semantic distinction between a noun and its own adjectival form.

If you look up "moralis" in Lewis and Short, you'll see a citation noting that the word was coined by Cicero as part of a protest against the idea that Latin was unsuited to the purpose of discussing philosophy (popular opinion at the time being that you had to use Greek for that purpose). It begins by noting that "mores [are what] the Greeks call ethe".

The Greek and Latin words are translations of each other, and both refer to habits and norms. It is true that in modern English norms are a distinct concept from ethics. (Not true in Greek!) But it is not true that in modern English morals and ethics are distinct from each other.
Imagining the shock when these show up in Codepilot auto suggestions..
Is there any frontline research that addresses this you could refer me to? From my very limited knowledge, this is currently what is preventing biosimilar drugs from reducing the cost of expensive biologic drugs (e.g. Insulin and other enzyme based orphan drugs) unlike generics for regular drugs
The comparison started with wordpress. The vast majority of installs don't bother with that. Just take a VPS.
It's not really plausible that such a process could continue forever. It may be plausible that there are some better foundations to various fields of math that could reduce the size of the proof for Fermat's last theorem by, say, 100 fold - but it's not plausible that it could ever be fitted onto the side of a page with the right abstraction. It's not plausible that, even in the far future, you'll be able to learn the information needed to derive formulas you'd learn in post-graduate maths today after a 1 week course in 5th grade.

On the other hand, it's extremely plausible that math as an abstract idea could build arbitrarily complex structures that would be of interest if we were able to learn to model them - so, almost necessarily, within the limitations of current human cognition and/or lifespan, there will be some structures that it is impossible for a human to learn.

Of course, in some arbitrary future we may find that those limitation of human cognitition/life-span can themselves be overcome - if that's the case, then the argument changes significantly.
The comparison was WordPress. No one installs WordPress on their phone or PC.
Can you give a better definition than nice music?

I think one reason why tools like this lead to creation of dance music is that the structures are readily created using them, and in addition they tend to make synth and sample sounds which are often heard in dance... It's pretty quick to code a 4 on the floor dance beat, but programming Gene Krupa will be much more challenging!
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I'll answer, also as a former employee. Craig and Tim figured out that there was a lot of slack in Apple's software quality. That is, they could skimp on quality, favoring a strict schedule and flashy if half-baked features, and adding user-unfriendly stuff like ads, and nothing bad happened to them or to the company. Therefore, they're going to continue to probe in that direction until they meet resistance.

Also: Craig and Tim, and probably some other execs, have started to make Apple decisions with an eye toward burnishing their personal brands. This is why we get annual OS releases presented by a freshly-hairstyled Craig putting himself into Web-meme-ready poses. This is why we get Tim waving the flag at a Formula One race and being obsequious toward Donald Trump.
In a more legible format:

https://gist.github.com/jwilk/2ff552b4f12ac758297cbb81b9991a...
Mail: Make The Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) the default mta
Or the inverse - like "garbage" dna, our minds encode memories with "inefficient" baggage stamped to them... which are very likely how we tie emotion to memory. Perhaps a mind stamping with simple math could be much more "efficient".
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# UNIX command line Russian roulette:[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf /* || echo *Click*
> jobs just don’t exist any more.

This seems more like propaganda. I come from a small village. No one in the village is jobless, or hard pressed to meet basic necessities. In fact there is acute labor shortage in agriculture.
I have a cousin who probably failed in his 10th grade. He picked up some driving skill, and works in one of the road construction companies. He recently got fired because he wanted to work from a different place, and the company didn't have an opening in that place. He found a similar job at his preferred place within a week. He has his own car, and saved enough to start a side gig setting up a pharmacy where he employs couple of people.

There is no dearth of work for people willing to work, and are flexible. It's a different matter if someone wants to find a cushy government job.