skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is fake.. it's just a plot to siphon grant money.
Why would I trust anything with "off the shelf" parts (China) and elections in California?

You've listed two pieces that are not truly in favor of legitimate or honest elections.
One can't really take papers down from arXiv anyway.
Nothing's going to beat incandescent/halogen for color rendition :)

That said we did have pretty good results with the (IIRC) Philips high CRI fluorescent tubes. Working at the photo lab it was a trip taking a print from the back (good lights) to the reception area (regular commercial lights) to the outside and seeing the colors on the print shift.
This is a big problem in all scientific fields. No one can hold all the relevant information in their head. I expect that there are various "easy" and worthwhile results to be had in many fields if someone could combine and integrate large paths of known results. But this is just not feasible to do for a human mind.

Over time I think we need to either create a GAI or enhance ourselves(via genetic engineering, brain-computer-interface, eternal youth or other ways) to overcome this fundamental human limitations.
India has always had so many people relative to the rest of the world. I don't think there is any point in history since the bronze age where India and China weren't the most populous places in the world.
https://archive.ph/2rjhQ
Genuinely curious. Why and how would Twitter have access to all this customer data?
Taller gets cancer more. See link
The difference with software engineering is even if you "fail" you usually have a nice pile of money to show for it. If you drop out of a PhD all you have is some cool stories and obscure knowledge.
Fair enough.

It never occurred to me that people wouldn’t realize that it was a piracy site, and not a “library”. I guess I’m just too tuned into the internet. Haha

I see your point now. It’s sort of disappointing that I'm so used to even worse dark patterns on legit sites that I don’t really see this as dark.
There are apps on Android TVs (as well as Android phones) that are available on Google Play Store that do this.
go boilermakers! unfortunate that he left on bad terms, but cool to see alma mater. his advisor is a prick tho lmao had him one sem
Ethereum inches even closer to total censorship due to OFAC compliance
Scientists Shed Light on Mysterious Large Rogue Waves That Threaten Large Ships
AMD’s Zen 4, Part 2: Memory Subsystem and Conclusion
Every generation is the last one to have prosperity. "My children will be better off than me" said no upper middle class burgher, evah.
What a beautiful story. Both how the village came together to help him and how he remembered those elders and their contribution. Both are such rare gifts in a jaded world.
I have a few shares, yes its performance has been garbage but the stock market is about the long game and the 5 year return has been pretty decent
This reply comes off as needlessly condescending. If you have a point to make, make it, don't assign homework and ask leading questions.
CAS can help with the more mechanical parts of a proof. I use it often to quickly check if something can be rewritten to something else I want. The sad part is that even if the CAS doesn't find a solution it doesn't mean there is no solution. It just didn't find it. But it can save a lot of work if the first thing you do is just quickly check, if you're lucky you just saved yourself a lot of work.

I don't know what field you are in so it may or may not be helpful to you.
"Another challenge with current AI systems is that they require explicit programming or hand-designing of reward functions in-order to make correct decisions"

I read the exact same thing 20 years ago.
> I learned a lot about myself and a lot about how to work hard and get stuff done.

But that's not unique to a PhD. That's growing up.
This strong merchant class is also a strong minority. Ever since India became a nation it has staunchly stood against free-market policies and its popular vote overwhelmingly supports policies of regulation, subsidies and handouts as against privatization.
Since America hasn't had a political left in... let's say 50 years. What's an example of a middle ground idea that doesn't appeal anymore?
I recognise the sarcasm, but this is MS's internal dev teams, and you know you kinda expect that wouldn't pass a code review.

What Java devs get up to then that's their problem.
Oculus Founder Builds VR Headset That Kills User If They Die in Game
What does that even mean in the context of the article. The article is about apple introducing ads in their store. Something like "My take on Apple introducing ads on their store" would be way better.
Not a tax. This article outlines the impact of the ordinance:

https://www.fisherphillips.com/news-insights/8-things-los-an...

In short: it's worker protections.

Is there a "food safety fee" for following food safety requirements? Is there a "this building has adequate fire suppression" fee? This is basically a "we follow local labor laws" fee.

The cost of business increasing is not the issue here, although some people here may feel strongly about that. Passing that increase on as a fee is the deception we're discussing.

The cost of doing business should be baked into the overall nightly rate, (which is algorithmic and highly variable already, so there is no excuse not to) so that the price is upfront to the consumer and hotels can be compared apples to apples, rather than the consumer having to unravel whatever hollywood accounting scheme each hotel comes up with to make their rate appear as low as possible.
>a good EV that doesn't have the Tesla/Musk cult of personality baggage

I'm not sure what this is. My dad doesn't follow the news very closely or know anything about musk. But he likes his tesla and it's reliable.
I'm not sure there have been many cases yet. The SEC has certainly published rules in the past that almost every crypto token is a security, but that doesn't mean that those rules have been tested in any sort of adversarial hearing. Either way, crypto companies had a lot of notice that the SEC would go after them if they don't register their tokens as securities with the SEC (unless the tokens fit a very narrow definition of a "utility token" and are usable at the time of the sale).

These SEC rules are a big part of the reason why NFTs took off: those were clearly not securities according to the rules.

The LBRY token was sold the same way every ICO pump-and-dump of 2018 went, but LBRY actually used those proceeds to figure out how to build an okay product. The rules were published. They didn't follow them.
I use orange led bulbs in a parallel system to the white lights. Some in lamps plugged into a power strip with a switch.

Simple and cheap, but requires extra lamps.
While my country has made tremendous progress, I wonder how precise these numbers are.

India's poverty line doesn't gets redrawn every year to account for the inflation and increased cost of living.

The current definition of the poverty line is daily earnings 27 rs for rural areas and 33 for urban, which is a ludicrously low number.
Even beggars earn more than that. Of course we will have very low poverty if we use stupid ways to measure it.

https://www.drishtiias.com/to-the-points/paper3/poverty-esti...

Added to this is the shenanigans that our politicians play, where they may just lower the poverty line to declare a victory over it

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-13450959
That’s what I mean. I was surprised I didn’t find what you wrote in the article.
I got a PhD in math because it was a life goal for me and it was the best because I had lots of time just to do whatever I wanted and learn some cool math.

I ended up going into a math-related career I hate. But it pays well, and so I became ultra frugal, saved up enough money, got a second remote job doing something I like, and now I'm going to roam as a nomad around the world. Screw 9-5, I'm retiring now. Quitting in a few months and couldn't be happier.
It seems a little too early to make any conclusion. It can take years to make significant changes in a company the size of Twitter.
Yeah, I've been needling people in Discord servers by writing up Interlingua and most of the time most people are able to read it and respond back in English or Romance languages

Si solmente nos ha un sorta de interlingua traducentes del linguas major, assi le personas pote scriber in interlingua sin que non necessariamente apprender lo.
If this is actually a legitimate thing, it sounds like the most ridiculous abuse I've read in this thread. By this logic there is no reasonable concept of 'statute of limitations' if a "secret" investigation can always be opened (or assumed to have been opened).

The only reference I can find to what you're describing seems to apply to civil suits only, where the legitimate defendent name is substituted back in during discovery. It does not appear to be a stand-in in criminal investigations.
I'm sorry for the others, friend. I am here to laugh with you.
Well, a rotation matrix doesn't require doing 2 half rotations, and doesn't require reaching into the 4th dimension in such a way that it gets perfectly cancelled out. It doesn't require abstract analogies about cubes with strings glued to them or people holding coffee cups.

With some familiarity with linear algebra, it's easy to derive the formula for constructing a rotation matrix. You just have to think about what the operation does to the axes. The derivation for quaternion rotation is far more abstract, by virtue of the operation we actually care about involving a sandwich of multiplications with unclear 4 dimensional meaning. There's no hyperspheres with a rotation matrix.

Augmenting your space to handle not just rotations & scaling, but translations is easy for matrices, just requires a homogeneous coordinate and you get 4x4 matrices with intuitive columns.

Augmenting quaternions to handle translations requires the 8 dimensional dual-quaternions.

I definitely like geometric algebra, it's a very nice continuation of topics in linear algebra and makes it clear why things like normals behave differently from standard vectors. But I don't use it every day. I use standard linear algebra every day.
That's what the upvotes are for. I don't think obvious tech news should be blocked when you have the option to skip it or just go to one of the several sites that only show the top X HN posts. Censoring stuff never helps.
Back in the early 2000s so long as you were buying two or more copies of Adobe Photoshop it cost as much to hop on a 28 hour round trip plane ride from NZ to the US to buy those copies rather than purchase and download the software off Adobe's website (which was geolocked and priced to match the only local physical distributor).

With physical goods price discrimination is limited by arbitrage opportunity in moving the good from one country to another. With intellectual property licensing can tie a good to a location which means that the price discrimination can effectively be any amount.

My personal opinion is regulation should proscribe the price discrimination past some multiple of purchasing parity to curtail the worst possible abuses. Having said that it's not a major real world problem while piracy remains as an outlet for abused markets.
Because who wants to be an assistant professor making $60k/yr or god forbid an adjunct making $30k/yr when you can work for a startup making $150k or FAANG making $400k or more?
Hes not broadly comparing them. Hes correctly pointing out that "learning about oneself" and about "how to work hard and get stuff done" isnt unique to getting a PhD.

If anything, its shocking that someone does not realize that's just a part of growing up.
The Bluebook specifically says to defer to the Chicago Manual of Style where the Bluebook does not prescribe a rule.

Chicago requires 1 space.

Also, the Bluebook is at most followed only in spirit, more commonly in the breach. Most of it is specifically for "scholarly" articles, not practitioners' documents. Smallcaps is an important part of following Bluebook for scholarship! There is a slim section on how to translate requirements to briefs, but it is underspecified so lawyers just kind of muddle along. All while insisting they follow it to the letter. They don't.
I don't think that you are truly "in charge of your own destiny" at many programs. I get the comparison, but it's more like you're a startup in an oversaturated market with funders who have very little invested in you (and may not even know/care about you) and constantly demand that you perform circus acts to keep them funding you (sometimes in very paltry amounts) for just a bit longer. They will also be very disappointed if you turn out to be anything other than a unicorn.

And on top of all this, you could just be out of luck due to factors outside your control. I've seen multiple cases of well-published researchers with excellent teaching records, good social skills, and prestigious postdocs spend 2-3 years on the market and get nothing. It's a random roll of the dice, and I would discourage most people from trying it.
Kudos to father and son.
I've always thought that English is like the PHP* of natural languages: ubiquitous, borrows from every other language, and wildly inconsistent.

*I cut my teeth on PHP3 and haven't used it in over a decade, and I hear it's gotten a lot better.
Thanks for posting it!

I've read it, lost it, and have been searching for it for a few years now.
I've wondered if you could make a device to help people with this - basically just a little clicker that would emit the ideal click once per second. I've also wondered if it would work to have the clicker emit a higher or lower frequency than humans can hear and to be accompanied by headphones or a hearing aid that could hear the click. That way, you could use the clicker without annoying or distracting everyone around you.
It has changed a lot this holds very dear to me as I come from very poor Indian village and have seen what people go through.

My village had mountain on one side and river on all three other side, so when my maternal grandfather died I had to cross a river with my little brother on top of me to see him.

My family was so poor that they sold goats to somehow manage my fees and used to skip mills on Monday to manage finances.

In few decades we have solar powered borewell in that remote village and I am earning very good earning.

Not only my family but everyone in village has been uplifted. My ancestors will lose their mind if they see us now.

I think this also has network effect for example before current era no one knew about opportunities present outside as information was no easily accessible in village.

One guy getting a job leads to ripple effect on other families perusing better job and education.
Talking about how these machines are open source is misleading. They (like many, many other voting machines already in use) are designed to let you run an election without actually trusting the software on the machines. From the risk limiting auditing link above:

> How Does a RLA Work?

> A risk-limiting audit examines a random sample of paper ballots, comparing them to the machine count to ensure that the winner actually won.

> The number of votes needed to manually count depends on the margin of victory. The closer the margin, the more votes we manually count. The RLA confirms that, if a full hand-tally were performed, it would give the same outcome.

Put another way, the malicious voting machine plays a game: It makes the first move by lying about the tally and incorrectly claiming that candidate X wins.

If the machine claims X won by a large margin, then a small randomized recount exposes its lie. If the machine claims X won by a small margin, then a full recount is performed.

Crucially, with high probability (it can be set arbitrarily high), the faulty voting machines get caught the first time they attempt this, and then are thrown away.

There are some voting machines in use in the US that do not keep paper trails. There's widespread evidence of systematic fraud with those machines in swing districts, going back to a least 2004. (Old paperless mechanical machines had the same problem.)
As others said - asbestos is really bad for asbestos miners, and pretty bad for installers. But it’s pretty much totally inert when installed - it doesn’t affect homeowners.
> came with some pretty severe restrictions on supported hardware

That's hardware, and just like with the Linux kernel you have some tough choices to make about what you continue to support. Apple rendered my Intel Mac Mini a brick because despite having a 64 bit CPU its BIOS/UEFI or whatever was 32 bit and I was stuck with MacOS 10.6, no way to upgrade to 10.7 Lion.
Some car rentals at airports will ask for flight information as well, so they may take into account the inbound flight.
Amazon India now offers weekly consolidation for many items with the occasional cashback incentive.
Mastodon server used by HN users?
Twitter drama is through the roof. Although I'm confident the social media giant is not going anywhere anytime soon. I want to inquire if HN users have started migrating to Mastodon, and which servers they're using to do so.
Name and shame sites that don't support using multiple Yubikeys! I'm pretty sure they're violating the guidelines in the standard if they do that.
There is no proven health benefit to using an oxygen concentrator for patients without lung disease (such as emphysema). The limiting factor in delivering oxygen to tissues is hemoglobin, not inhaled PPO2. Extended exposure to elevated PPO2 can cause oxidative damage to lungs and nerves, especially above about 0.5 bar, so you don't necessarily want to use it unless you need it.
They don’t have years - that’s part of Elno’s problem.
Wasn't twitter a public company a few days ago?
Great, this is just what I needed.
It's not just PowerPoint, but other Microsoft products too. Their browser (Edge) is known for being on constant phone home, close doesn't really mean close, self-update without user interaction, odd settings that cause privacy problems, after it updates itself makes changes to settings without user permissions or breaking various security-related extensions, etc...

It's a pattern of general disrespect for user privacy and exploitation of unaware users for corporate and 3rd party entity benefit. Look no further than Microsoft's Copilot, which is in the spotlight, and arguably has no respect for users copyright.

That PowerPoint (and other Office products) are phoning home users data, should be of no surprise whatsoever.
it's the accounting/finance profession's fence you're quibbling with here, not something i just made up. those are indirect costs. in marginal analysis you only consider direct costs, not indirect ones (for background: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/directcost.asp).
This is true, but the counterpoint is that we'll never know the converse - we'll never know how many accidents didn't happen thanks to using a single language universally.
For events I always did NOUN_VERB, but I think the last implementation engineer I worked with said the opposite is also acceptable, as long as you stick with one. Some of your riffing would’ve been impossible in the last analytics tool I used (amplitude), because the context would’ve provided things like “Signup Form” or “Button.” A button was a type of element — Element_Clicked where type = button and name = JOIN (or whatever). Then the page the user was on and the destination URL of the button would inform.
I have been involved in elections in both Oregon and California and the hardware from the incumbent vendors is mostly regular off the shelf general purpose computer hardware which as we know isnt always produced fully domestically.

The difference is that the voting machine incumbents wrap their hardware and software in unfair licenses with single source provisions so municipalities end up paying a huge markup over retail to get “certified gear”.

In San Francisco one of the voting machines I managed as a poll manager in 2018 was a early pentium machine with a BIOS and floppy. These machines were never designed to be remotely attested let alone tamper evident like modern Chromebooks.

Anyways, the VotingWorks systems are all based on paper ballots so hand counts and risk limiting audits are options if the hardware is found to be untrustworthy.
I got on social.linux.pizza. I wasn't a twitter user before though, I just thought this was a good time to try Mastadon, with the increased activity.
I need one of these for CSGO....
Atleast on story I have heard from my grand parents is:

In 1960s villages didn't have access to medicine or doctors. So people used to produce 5-7 children so atleast 1-2 went into adulthood.

But as medicine became more easily accessible all 5-7 children ended up in adulthood leading to population increase.

Nowadays I see max 2 children in villages.
On iOS, there’s also a setting which lets you disable it entirely and hides that extra tab. I did it.
It's a reference to the famous Jay Z track, 99 problems
Semi-related: I wonder how many of the people who joined the mass defection from Facebook a decade or so ago are back on Facebook again.
> Al Gore made a movie about Global Warming, not Climate Change.

How would you define those two terms?
I would say that any sense of sane immigration reform is completely unrealistic right now.

By "sane" I specifically mean "acknowledges the shortcomings of the current system, at the same time as we acknowledge our dependence on foreign labor"
> What you fear from Musk is the current status quo for all social media and other data mining tech cos like Google and Amazon. I really don't get the deep concern here about Musk upholding the status quo.

Musk's entire publicly stated justification for purchasing Twitter was doing better than the status quo. He harped for months about Twitter as a public service, the importance of transparency in moderation, made extraordinary claims about Twitter falsifying its ad and engagement numbers, and so forth.

"He can't be worse" is simply not the point. His stated goal was to be better; we've seen no earnest attempt to do so (and plenty of earnest attempts at value extraction).
Scientists Build Synthetic Molecular Machines That Can Read Data
We do indeed have our own index (in addition to using external indexes). Every Kagi search result page will tell you the percent of results coming from our own index (for logged in users only currently).

For example, take this search :

https://kagi.com/search?q=steve+jobs&r=us&sh=OP2gxAxk3KEV_jM...

60% of results you see are coming from our own index. For most queries it is 10-30%. If you use the 'Non-commercial' filter this number may go up to 100% (because our index focus on non-commercial part of the web).
If you just need a fast key-value map that scales well with threads/cores, might I interest you in non-blocking drop-in replacement for ConcurrentDictionary?

https://www.nuget.org/packages/NonBlocking
Medibank refuses to pay ransom affected customer number doubles to 9.7M
Ask HN: Do you use a dev container and why?
I've never really worked with containers in my professional career and I'm learning about them now.

It's hard to tell from reading online if people are using them for their dev environments or if they're developing on their host (or native, whatever you want to call it) and using a container to package the application after its built.

What do you use containers for? Do you setup your dev environment in a container, and if you do, I've got tons of questions.

- Do you do it for every language?
- Do you install your static analysis and other tools in the container?
- Do you debuggers work (Visual Studio, gdb, pdb, whatever)

If you use a container for only your post-development workflow do you ever use separate containers for build and test vs the final packaged application?
Only an idiot would pursue a life in academia.

I'm overstating it but there is some ironic truth in that observation.