skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a grad student (ML) close to finishing I can say exactly what I want. I want to read math books, program, and publish slowly (papers + blogs) with meaningful and substantial work. I do not want to be chasing benchmarks or worrying about how to play the politics of paper publishing to get through the provably random[0][1][2] noise that is the review process. But no one is going to pay me for this, including academia. I know a lot of my peers are chasing big paychecks but I don't understand why anyone would go through all this just for money. There's much easier ways to make money. If you know of anyone that would actually hire me for this, please do let me know.

That said, I don't regret doing my PhD. There is a lot of personal value in being able to (mostly) freely study a topic in extreme detail. Obviously you need some obsessive behavior to do this. The thing is that I just want to keep doing it. But with a focus on the learning and extending human knowledge part and cutting out the bullshit.

[0] https://blog.mrtz.org/2014/12/15/the-nips-experiment.html

[1] https://inverseprobability.com/talks/notes/the-neurips-exper...

[2] Personal experience: I've had reviewers state that a paper with >100 citations is not useful to anyone while many of those citations are from hard sciences using it for explicitly the reason we made it. In another review round a reviewer asked us to include experiments comparing to our main comparitor, which was included in every single graph and table we had in the entire paper (no ability to respond). I've seen rampant abuse of the review system (ACs accepting and rejecting papers in weird ways), collusion rings, and overall benchmark chasing (which hinders a lot of research all together). We are encouraging lazy reviews, everyone agrees, but few are actively trying to make a difference. The worst part of this is that the people hurt the most by these actions are in fact the grad students. Their graduations depend on top tier publications and their ability to get their first jobs highly depend on their top tier publications. Ironically being hired by people who actively discuss issues with the publication system and how much noise there is. It is frustrating.
People assume because other places have public health insurance and lower health expenses that's why it's expensive in America. But there are plenty of places with private insurance in Europe that are much cheaper than the US. And our public healthcare prices are also much higher than the rest of the world.

Our medical establishment is very inefficient, pays for lots of useless shit, and subsidizes the world's medical research. All those things cost money.
Here is an interactive data visualization comparing incomes within and between countries using PPP (purchasing power parity)

https://income-inequality.info/

It's really eye-opening stuff to see that someone earning US poverty level income of $11k means they earn more than 85% of people in the world!

You can see the code for it on Github as well: https://github.com/whyboris/Global-Income-Distribution
They redefined the poverty line in 2011.

> In December 2011, the Chinese government announced it would lift the country’s rural poverty line from 1,274 yuan per year in 2010 to 2,300 yuan, an increase of over 80 percent. This, once adjusted by the purchasing power parity of 2005, is equivalent to approximately US$1.80 per day, a threshold well above the US$1.25 used by the World Bank for international poverty comparisons.

Source: https://unu.edu/publications/articles/redefining-poverty-in-...
> It also went ahead and put non binary... which is like, right there

I think the general idea of adding a word for non-binary was that there were already words for man and woman, but if you didn't identify with either of those, you'd have to come up with your own phrase as opposed to other people who got their own dedicated word. A surprisingly high number of non-binary people speak toki pona (or at least that's my impression from the Discord server), so I think it made sense to add.
Buy it now and get a special patriotic symbol to show that you are against adrenochrome harvesting by the baby eating left.
Apple is also ramping up the lock-in. You can’t use iOS 16 passkeys without using iCloud and iCloud Keychain. You can’t activate HomePods without an iOS device logged in to iCloud.

They really want you to be logged in and identified across all products now and forever.
Weird to see the PhD is now a trade degree with people expecting to receive technical skill training to increase their chances to get an ok job with benefits working for some corporation.

Possibly the PhD is the new High School Diploma, signifying basic literacy and ability to follow directions.
I was only able to convince family to use Signal because they didn't need two apps for messaging. It's pretty much a dead app for me now and the decision makes my conversations profoundly less private and safe.
7% inflation as opposed to a targeted high of 6% is very different from 7% (actually 8+%) inflation, from a targeted high of about 2-4% (the Fed doesn’t publish a range I believe…they only say they target 2%…in practice, historically, they’ve treated 2% as a high, but I believe thats changed since the Great Recession so I’ll generously assume a +-2% range).

What’s even more relevant to the Indian situation is that much of that inflation is being driven by the strength of the dollar which has made imports more expensive.

The U.S., of course, is on the other side of that problem. The ridiculously strong dollar means that solely currency effects should be making things cheaper for Americans.
They may be out of place, but I have never had them get in my way.. there is a separate tab last time I checked. I don't let my kids on TikTok, but YouTube Shorts seems like the same concept and works well for what it is as a competitor to TikTok.
This is half the battle. The other half is getting in front of folks at that age, versus them not learning these lessons, painfully, until midlife.

Lots of apathy and intentional malevolence creating friction in this regard. Knowledge is power.
Good reminder that while Google gets a lot of negative privacy attention it is telcos, ISPs, and lesser-known apps that are the most deplorable actors data collection and selling.
Seems I missed some of the progress... Things are moving fast these days.
> Vötgil may also be written using the non-roman alphabet. Every character is a column of 3 cells. Each cell may be white, light gray, dark gray, or black.

Weird and delightful.

Except when drawn by hand with a pencil or pen ... seems like it would inspire a squinty guess-a-rune swearfest.

Is are these triple dots of grayscale unique to Vötgil? Inspired by another alphabet?
Flex for content, grid for layout.
Because you have a magical thing called a stop loss? Options involve an entirely different slew of variables that require way more complex thinking to take advantage of successfully.
Another approach to the finite-mathematician-lifespan problem might be to develop new foundations that are closer to the edge. I expect there's a logical universe in which sets are bizarre and hard to construct but objects which would take a modern mathematician years to grok are convenient and simple to work with.
>some of the best engineering someone can do is to write negative lines of code

Why didn't you teach him to find people who were writing negative lines of code?
The ad auction model is just so ridiculously profitable. You have companies literally trying to out-spend each other for the same service. It’s insane.
That was a great write-up to have a squizz at.

Amazing to see how many different arch's will run from 1 set of binary.
Too. Many. People.

True for the entire planet; the effects are not evenly distributed.
That why iOS has a lot of fine grain control now as well as prompts after the fact letting you know how many times the app has accessed your location, and check if you still want it to have it.
Signal hasn't supported using SMS as a transport for encrypted messages for years now. The impending change that people are discussing is dropping support for sending and receiving ordinary SMS from non-Signal-using parties.
Ok, maybe that word wasn't really what I was looking for. I was trying to describe clumsy people, not stupid people. Lots of people are clumsy and careless without being idiots.
It never ceases to amaze me how experts at something can't resist trying to be experts at everything. His examples from political science are just so off, but I have to concentrate on his example of Mearsheimer. Far from being one step or two ahead of the crowd, Mearsheimer's problem has been that he's still standing back in the 1980s. His realpolitik approach was refreshing and appealing for the time whensomewhat phony Cold War ideology and its false equivalences and distinctions permeated our politics and academia. But in trying to fit world events to his great power nonsense, he deeply distorted what happened in Ukraine in 2014 and seems unable to see that Russia has never truly acted like a modern state but remains an internal empire that while spanning a continent has an economy the size of Brazil, and less institutional capacity than most Latin American nations. The idea that we could somehow make common cause with Russia to counter China's rise has always been an old joke. The 2022 war in Ukraine was expertly predicted by a political scientist, but it was in 1993, when my grad school professor Ilya Prizel pushed back against all the End of History BS and said Russia would eventually assert itself in the middle of Europe, if desperately. He was dead right.
Musk discusses putting all of Twitter behind a paywall
You can detect most of the VNPs and fall back to the original pricing if the user visits your website using a VPN.
It's not really remarkable because governments rarely come up with nasty names. Even then the cultural revolution isn't an inherently positive. Culture can be good or bad and so can revolutions
I meant teaching it to high schoolers in high school as part of class work, hence getting in front of folks.

With CA/NYC/CO/WA all requiring job listings to show pay range data, it should be a reasonable project to assign.
The Polymath Film Composer Known as “The Third Coen Brother”
As much as I adore my Yuibikey, my girlfriend thinks I’m decidedly weird because I have two: one on my actual keys, and a backup that’s in my safe at home. Which is annoying because not every system lets me setup two Yubikeys (though TOTP is fine at least). I’m not using it for FDE, but I am using it for securing my password manager (which does support both keys) which holds the backup keys for said FDE and so on.
I don't think I've heard that. Do you mean complaints that iOS should be more like Android and not require all software go through the App Store? I've definitely heard that complaint. (And made it, at least on general principle.)
As I said:

>While that's not conlclusive in itself there has actualy been a lot of research on polyunsaturated fatty acids lately with worrying results.

I don't see why you've put quotes around the word "natural" as I didn't use this word. I also never said the being processed is why vegetable oil is bad, only that it's necessity precludes it from having been consumed by humans historicaly speaking. The apeal to nature argument is that something that exists naturaly is good. My arguemt is that since food consumption is a primary driver of evolution, foods consumed by a species are generaly better for that species than a random food. You can say that one class of argumet contains the other but it's a meaningless statement for our discussion. And as I said much research as already been done on this subject in the last two decades.
I can't decide if this is my favorite autocorrect, or least favorite. I'll let it stand — mostly because it's too late to edit!
What about instead of looking at health insurance market caps which can be affected by 20x different factors besides the cost of healthcare, we look at the cost of healthcare. Which has gotten more expensive, but there's no inflection point when Obamacare passed.
No. Indians are very pro capitalism. Especially since the 90s reforms which are largely the precursor to Indias growth.

However, Indians don’t have an ideological attachment to capitalism. It’s looked upon as the best way to grow and improve things in most, but not all, avenues. So Indians are still in favor of socialist policies where they are working well. So, Indians probably would not be in favor of privatizing Indian Railways, or eliminating the many subsidies and free supplies given to the poorest, or eliminating the 50% foreign investment cap in many industries.
What's the quote, "in their speed to find a solution, they never slowed down to think if they should"?

There are plenty of examples of humans rushing to market something they think works one way but upon a much longer study, the results are something much worse than if we had not instead. Heavy use of asbestos, heavy use of lead in fuel, paint, etc.

Genetically modifying anything just sounds like the most obvious of things that should be studied for much much longer than whatever the first company looking to profit is wanting.
I agree with your gut feeling, mainly because even after a 50% drop it is still worth way more than the next few car companies combined while there's a fraction of the sales. Until recently there's been a strong belief that Tesla is permanently only supply constrained and as they get more factories online they will always be able to sell everything they make at huge margins.

I think the recent selloff is a result of people questioning that as Musk alienates future customers and other car companies embrace BEVs. There's still a very long way to go for Tesla to be priced like it's competitors, but I that will happen eventually.
Traditionally, who takes care of automation scripts with to many changes. aka compile it to lock in changes.
It's only chesterton's fence if I treat your method as a baseline.

I thought you meant some kind of pass-through licensing, but otherwise the expensive stuff like database licenses generally charge per core, don't they? That's going to scale very directly with your number of customers. If you need 4 web server cores and 1 database core per ten customers, then you should not be treating servers as a fixed cost, you should consider each customer to cost half a core and 1/10th of a database core license fee. It's not perfect but it's much much closer to reality than thinking about servers as a fixed cost.

Don't go buy 150 servers in anticipation of customers you don't have.
Al Gore made a movie about Global Warming, not Climate Change.

When the hyperbolic claims about Global Warming with runaway climate forcing failed, it was swiftly rebranded Climate Change.

At which point, the critics became accurate, since climatic periods are measured in 30 year intervals, and weather != climate. Solar Radiance being the keymost driver of earth's temperature of course, varies due to the natural cycle and supercycles of the Sun [1]

The longterm trend of deglaciation and CO2 levels rising back to nearer Earth's historical norms continues unabated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle
Then you spend your whole PhD reinventing a wheel that has a different name in the 30 year old textbook from the next field over, and neither your peers or professor have any awareness of that
An unfortunate parallel: the best physics professor (unfortunately, just an adjunct) I ever had was a Russian immigrant. He quit teaching to go run a blini restaurant because it paid way more :(
I did a PhD. It was the most interesting and productive time of my life|*

Aside from actually enjoying the work, I had a salary / scholarship that where I went to school was the same or more than most of my peers who went right to work made (because of tax implications), and when I got a job, I got a better one than I would have otherwise. Plus, many people I started school with had barely finished their undergrad by the time I was done a PhD because of the usual breaks and major changes and failing courses and stuff.

I'm not saying this to brag (I've made all sorts of terrible choices since then), only to say that it's possible to do a PhD, have fun (specifically in the sense of learn cool stuff, although I enjoyed the social life), and not make a "sacrifice" in terms of money or starting a career. It's like any other job. You can make all kinds of early career decisions that help or hinder you later, generalizing a "phd" as some specific thing doesn't work

* (I like to think I'm coming back to another such period 15+ years later, but anyway)
See also:

https://learngitbranching.js.org/

https://github.com/Gazler/githug
One day we will be able to download knowledge to our computer-assisted brains, and math will become a young man's game again.
This ignores opportunity cost. If you flourish during the PhD, that's great

Or you could struggle, go through tons of stress, have no time to give to friends (and lose touch with friends), no time for a relationship, etc. etc.

Not to mention the financial opportunity cost
And republican antidemocratic positions,in america
Well, with the same camera, you get 100 times higher resolution from 1 km than from 100 km. But a satellite in a polar orbit overflies the whole Earth, typically, every few weeks (though keyhole-type satellites only photograph a very narrow track) while in many cases the only available aerial imagery is years or decades old. And a satellite can fly over restricted airspace (the only way to stop it from doing so, even for its owner, would be to blow it out of orbit) while doing that in an airplane is likely to get you thoroughly murdered and possibly result in a diplomatic incident.

The result is that satellite photographs are much more frequent and have much better coverage, while aerial photographs have much higher resolution. The dishonest naming of the Google Maps feature has given people extremely unrealistic expectations of what satellites can do, which results in difficulty in selling actual satellite photography products when they don't match what people have come to expect from GMaps.
Commingling assets, undercapitalization
This post seems say that they'd rather avoid the difficult programming challenges of working with the varied devices and protocols people use for communication generally, and just compete with other walled garden apps instead. I wish them luck, but it's a different trajectory than they were on a year or two ago.
Do you use reddit? do you browse /r/all?, the amount of pro ukraine posts that appear is insanely high

I don't think i have seen any pro russia post yet

The press likes to bash TikTok for their pseudo algorithm, but there is something nasty over here too, also on Twitter, it's quite telling

This subreddit is often on /r/all, yet they only have 4k avg users

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/
Warning Label: "May cause birth defects"

Bill Hicks: "I found my brand!"

In this case, not sure of the label's use in this conversation.
Who cares about the ACM? I am not bound by their ethics. I have my own.
That is a bogus index. Even the government denied it's reporting https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/global-hunger-index-ind...

(Any government will try to say the same thing, to save its face)

But right now, the welfare state is still working (free/discounted food for lower income class).
Anecdotally speaking, there is no such 'hunger' observed even in beggar communities. All are pretty much well fed.
Due to opening of the economy in 1991, people have become 'rich' and the welfare state has subsequently reduced.

If we are talking about nourishment or nutrient intake, it is also not observed to be lower to the scale the index paints.
Even during lockdown and covid pandemic, 200 million or more people were given free/discounted food everyday. There might be more hunger during the lockdowns, covid deaths; but not to high extent the index says compared to other countries.

The index paints the 'hunger' levels on the scale of DPRK or Afghanistan which is just not possible (laughable), if anyone sees it from first hand perspective. I have always been suspicious of the index from the very beginning. Even the past decade reports are suspicious.

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-wheat-exports-hit...
How much of that firmware is proprietary? What did the fixes look like?
No, assigning a cost requires evaluating the cost. It doesn’t require evaluation of the benefits.
That's one way to kill a town square.
What I like about this is that Elon apparently made this call by counting SLOCs printed on paper, and then stack ranked them. Clearly the man is a genius, and he will save Twitter.

You cannot audit performance at a software company by SLOC. In fact, its a great way to drive up hardware costs and salaries.

I stand by my previous statement about stack ranking: It does not fucking work. EVER. Fire low performers if you must but don't turn them on each other.
I find it interesting how many articles and people on HN say something similar. I had basically the opposite thoughts (and outcomes) from my PhD. I loved the 5 years I spent in my program, I learned a ton about super interesting topics, I learned a ton of very applicable skills, I met and befriended many extremely intelligent and kind individuals, and I immediately got a job after graduating. I’m still at that job, and it’s amazing, 2 and a half years later. (And I didn’t do my work at an Ivy League or anything, I was at Wayne State in Detroit).

Frankly, the only thing I wish I would have realized beforehand is that you’re basically forming your young adult friend group with a bunch of people who are going to be spread out over the globe in ~5 years. That part is hard. Everything else was great.
An example of what you’re describing in a different domain, is how we are using channels between tasks in FreeRTOS in our embedded firmware. Other tasks just push commands or data into a channel that the consumer can pull at is leisure (modulo the size of the channel of course, we have fun constraints!)
> I just wish that I as a Swede living abroad could watch the Swedish language content.

As a first step, I wouldn't mind it if countries generally adopted a system where anyone in the world could simply pay for access at a rate comparable to the public TV tax.

The obvious downside of this system is that it would be expensive for certain networks (sorry Norway TV fans) but it would get the ball rolling.
Yes and I found the budget of the edps (the institution that manage EU voice, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/budget/data/General/2022/en/SEC09....) the split is not made by projects but we have page 30 "800000€" for all "Information technology equipment and services". But you can probably directly ask them more details if you want : https://edps.europa.eu/about/transparency/public-access-docu...
Your story gives me hope. What country are you in?
I totally understand 15" screen size, but unless you have your eyes right up against the screen I highly doubt you are going to see a difference between 1440p and 4k. If you're dealing with graphics on a laptop screen you probably should be zoomed in anyway.
I don’t think most big organizations run their own webservers.
I wonder how much of the poverty can be still traced back to the British East India Company
> Perfect? This kind of reasoning is laughable.

That's not what "perfectly well" means. It doesn't mean perfect, it means doing an acceptable job. Honestly you could just remove the adverb "perfectly" and the meaning of the sentence there doesn't really change.