skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience is that for large enough definitions of big they definitely do. I'd be shocked if any company with a market cap of >$100B didn't for instance (there are 120 of those), or any country with a GDP > $200B (there are 51 of those). As you start shrinking to more reasonable definitions of big I'm sure you'll start collecting some outliers who don't, but I bet you have to get reasonably small ($1B market cap as a wild guess?) before the majority don't

I count "administering VMs allocated on someone else's hardware" here, since it counts for running mastodon - the real giants probably almost all run some of their own hardware, but that probably drops off much faster.
The people who I went to university with who now have the most innovative and prosperous companies did their early research as part of PhD programs. In some fields, I think a PhD is a great opportunity to start businesses of real substance
https://www.smart-jokes.org/programmer-evolution.html
"patents" not "parents"
You've never worked in the private sector... They expect results.
Never a graduate student, but I made the choice to not study computer science in undergrad because I didn't want a lifestyle of sitting behind a computer. Fast forward 8 years and... I'm a full time remote software developer sitting alone in front of a computer.

I tried education for a few years but it didn't pay enough and the work was difficult due to lack of school resources and lack of support. Switched into tech because I knew I had the technical ability to pull it off, and the salary seemed comfortable.

It does feel a bit sad that I spend my time working on random corporate marketing websites instead of helping people learn, but at least I can support my family enjoy a rich life outside of work (including some development side projects).

Even though my eventual major isn't relevant to my current work I still think college was very worth while. I took mostly classes that interested me rather than follow a specific career path and I learned so many things that still feel relevant in other ways.
Matt Groening on that:

http://magazine.art21.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/life_in...
You can't pick an arbitrary layout to interop with some C code that uses intmax_t, for example.
that was a great infographic that I hadn't seen before. thanks!
And every year Linux is easier to use, just as respecting...better supported, and soon....more convenient.
This sentiment is humorous, as I'm an optimist apparently. More children will learn more quickly. Applying AI to education should supercharge the smartest.
I believe Stephen King said something along the lines of "Good ideas stick around." I've come to treat it as gospel. Any idea that nags at me over days/weeks/months tends to be worth pursuing.
I think the experiences of a PHD program versus working in industry are sufficiently different enough to say that they are not as easily comparable as you are making it out to be.
Yes, user eldofever has described the challenges, and restoration procedure, around the drum on those beasts on that thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/yonoa5/i_...
LGP-30 had 113 tubes (for logic switching? or memory?) of mostly type 5687, which elsewhere had industrial uses and were used in hifi audio (I'm unsure how), but are not appropriate for guitar amplifiers. Apparently they take a lot of plate voltage and get pretty hot. I found this brief writeup[1] on them (with pictures) mildly interesting. They can be readily found on eBay in a wide variety of pricing of various brands with NOS pretty expensive, as usual. And there's a neat page dedicated to LGP-30 here.[2]

[1] http://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/2020/12/tube-of-month-5687.ht...

[2] http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/lgp-30.html
> As far as I know, the project actually got canned. Jack genuinely didn’t like it. I don’t know if this mindset will hold true with the new owner of Twitter though. I would assume Elon will do far worse things with the data.

yeah, this is a major concern of mine now. while a few months ago i had some minor concerns with elon discussing taking it over, his behavior since this started has elevated those concerns to an absolute red alert level. the kind of data he has access to is terrifying.

i’m predicting whatever it is will make the facebook/cambridge analytica thing look tame in comparison.
Nobody believes that all software security problems will be solved if we get rid of C. Nobody. Absolutely nobody. Really.

What people do believe is it would remove whole classes of security problems that affect everybody. Even if you have software running in excel macros. Maybe in your environment that is a minority of your problems. That is probably not a good thing, and we feel for you, and respect preferring to tackle that problem first. But it would be a good idea to not entrench C further while you are doing that. Once you shrink your attack surface, it would be great if the code being invoked doesn't have exploitable memory overflows to make all your hard work pointless.
I'd been working as a research assistant in a university lab during and after my undergraduate degree, for about a year, and my supervisor was trying to convince me to do a PhD with him.

However, I'd already had several months of getting to know PhD students there and in neighbouring labs, and it made me realise two things. Firstly, how much stress and long working hours they were all enduring. Secondly, for many of them, how fascinated they seemed with their research topics despite this.

I quickly realised I didn't really give much of a shit about doing any more of this research, at least not compared to the obsessive PhD students I was working alongside, and ended up pivoting to a vulnerability research career instead. Which has been much, much more rewarding and interesting than anything I was doing previously.

I'm incredibly glad I didn't get stuck wasting my life away in academia, which for a time seemed like the default path to take. For a while afterwards I felt like I'd let myself down somehow by not continuing along this path, but I look back in relief knowing now what a nonsense attitude that was.
Well, based on the article:

> Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday he had interfered in U.S. elections and would continue doing so in future, the first such admission from a figure who has been formally implicated by Washington in efforts to influence American politics.

> In comments posted by the press service of his Concord catering firm on Russia's Facebook equivalent VKontakte, Prigozhin said: "We have interfered (in U.S. elections), we are interfering and we will continue to interfere. Carefully, accurately, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do."

> The remark was posted on the eve of the U.S. midterm elections in response to a request for comment from a Russian news site.

>"During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once," Prigozhin said. He did not elaborate on the cryptic comment.

You're hearing it because it's news, and you're hearing it now because said news happened today.
This is about on par with people ordering "Kiev Mules" instead of "Moscow Mules"
Because they essentially exported their poverty to the first world.
> Someday, Amazon will let us buy and sell items in their warehouses without taking delivery -- that'll be a good day.

Maybe for the one doing the arbitrage. For the rest of the world, having every little purchase be akin to buying tickets to a concert or sporting event will be a nightmare.
What can "the next congress" do about it? China would never admit to it (if they actually did it), geneticists can't prove it one way or another or they would have by now; congress can do nothing except spend more time on these fruitless investigations and actual time governing, passing laws, compromising instead of keeping these dog and pony shows for the polarized constituents. The only way we find out for sure is the CIA or similar spy guys are able to find out through espionage.
magit is probably the best interface to git; although it's emacs only. -- e.g. With magit, stuff like `git commit --fixup <commit>` is very straightforward to do.

Outside of emacs, lazygit is worth checking out if you're constantly on the command line.
> Some companies even make a fuss when you move between Western countries with similar economies for some reason.

It can get really complicated to manage data transfer between legal jurisdictions, remit tax correctly, and follow all local laws. Beyond that, the brand may be holding company that wholly owns distinct companies by country or region.
Over the long term, though, it moves left. Opinions in 1800 were far further right than far-right of today.

It’s one reason the old tend to be conservative. They were born at a fixed slice of the Overton window, which moved left, carrying them right.
Oops; Self-reminder to not comment on HN when half sleep.

But, I haven't noticed slowdown either; I wonder whether its because I always keep the OS window open?
How would that explain the harvest date being 13 days earlier?
It's only a flamewar on one side.

"Objectivists" have decades of controlled research output regarding audio reproduction on their side. After all, audio has been a multizillion dollar industry for well over a century -- certainly it would be surprising if we weren't good at measuring sound and correlating it to listener preference!
“… which doesn’t play out most of the time.”

Do you have any evidence to support that? AFAIK most people I went to grad school with were supporting themselves with the stipend offered by the school, and did not have other work or responsibilities.

I had a great time in grad school and think it was definitely worth it, and you don’t have to be rich to go, but at the same time I wouldn’t recommend it if you have others financially depending on you.
Part of the problem with macroeconomics, as with many academic disciplines, is it depends too much on math, models and the need to quantify, qualify and manipulate answers instead of intuiting problems to discover solutions.

Much like medicine in the 1600s (as the author discusses) macroeconomics is a bit of a guessing game. One of the largest factors the author didn't discuss (even though he mentioned the Lucas Critique) is the Cobra Effect which ultimately renders useless the majority of policy initiatives as announcing those initiatives undermines their effectiveness.

Thus the Federal Reserve and Congress have to adopt a more indirect way to approach solving large visible economic problems without tipping people off to the loopholes and implications and opportunities to profit from them.

What this really comes down to is gamesmanship. You have to solve macroeconomic problems through innovative solutions that often seem counter intuitive because they are by design meant to misdirect so the real target can be achieved. This ultimately boils down to leadership.

The way through the macroeconomic storms is forward; let the academics discuss building models and learning how to do with systems what talented individuals can understand through substantive intuition.
>If you have a better idea...

Start using supply and demand to determine the price of money. Supply and demand elsewhere is a sham if you set ceilings and floors on the interest rate.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF1d_aCSzS0
Thank you, my faith in HN has been restored!
Yes it is inevitable, as long as it is using C++ then you will still get memory corruption vulnerabilities.

If it was written in Rust on the other hand, it eliminates those specific class of vulnerabilities.
I've seen tons (quite literally!) of ancient computers, but the sight of the LGP-30 still surprised me. When I saw it, I thought more along the lines of jukebox or background music system, not computer. I think the typefaces used, and the condition of the surfaces, might play a role in that.
I have the same FM transmitter that the author mentions. If you're worried about an extra digital-to-analog step somewhere in your audio pipeline: it's a moot point. The transmitter's acoustics leave _a lot_ to be desired: there's background hum, bass goes very flat, there's tons of intermodulation around center frequency, and center frequency itself tends to jump around when amplitude increases. For small Part 15 transmitters, this sort of thing seems like the norm.
mostly I wanted to note that his website is pretty cool and I like the layout. I love old mostly text stuff.

I'm not sure what spam detection is in place on instances or if they're relying on user reports, but I've definitely seen spam in the Local Timeline before. Most of it (so far) seems to be crypto related, which isn't a surprise, but it's spam nonetheless.

I think the next month will be interesting for the Fediverse.
youtube-dl is still a thing, and data hoarders (hi!) are as well.

Sadly, we often seem to learn of a treasure trove of content when it makes the news for having already been taken down.
Have you heard about Netflix’s severance package?

I have personal experience successfully interviewing at a major cloud provider in the consulting department. That hypothetical former Netflix employee would have no problem finding a job quickly making a lot more than I make doing similar work at the same company.
Not sure what that has to do with anything. KF isn't blocked by Verizon or Midco. Are there any ISPs blocking the site? Which ISPs?
It supports backing up to a file that you can't specify. This is unhelpful in many use cases.

Example: I am running out of space on my phone. I look, and see Signal is taking 4gb of space. But I would like to preserve a lot of that media. So I buy a mini-SD card and install it in my phone. Yay! Now to turn on Signal chat backups!

Oh, but the backups are hardcoded to a location on your primary storage that you can't change. so even though I have 126gb of free space on the SD card I installed, I can't back Signal up to it and I am still running out of space.

My only option is to try removing every other app I have installed, and hope there is enough space reclaimed to perform a backup, which I can then copy off my system so I can reinstall my apps...WTF.

Meanwhile there is no way to back up a single chat. You can archive it, but that just removes it from your Signal home screen, it doesn't actually create an archive of any kind. And there is no way to back anything up on desktop.

This isn't a feature, it's an antipattern.
Perhaps math focused hot-housing at a younger age could provide an extension?

(genuine question, as I don't know anything about it)
Sharepoint can be a nice looking, easy to use tool if it's set up properly.

you know where this is going, though. it's usually not set up properly, and it quickly turns into a big confusing mess.
The Making of MF DOOM's “All Caps” Video
Well biology but not physics (since from physics' perspective, there's plenty of energy in a nuclear fuel pellet), but yes. I think olive oil is the most calorie-dense thing food ingredient, and you'd need to drink about 8 ounces of it to get 2000 calories.
Parent is clearly suggesting that the poster is most likely (as you agree) the product of an environment that the overwhelming majority of folks are not. Nothing wrong with someone being set up well by their parents (isn’t that the point?), and nothing wrong with someone pointing out that someone was setup well. And yes, having a stable, well-ish-to-do family that actively encourages the pursuit of a career via higher education is a pretty remarkable thing. #perspective
The FNHIC is investing $2.5B in the food, nutrition and health space
The Food, Nutrition & Health Investor Coalition (FNHIC) was established to convene investors around shared interest in the connection between food technology and human health. In connection with the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, and established by investors for investors, the FHNIC connects agtech, foodtech, healthcare, biotech, pharma, and generalist firms and executives for meaningful exchange.
> that's not how you determine which version of windows you're running on

It's true if every developer reads MSDN /s

Some Java apps do `osname.startsWith("Windows 9")`

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8397664 https://github.com/jenkinsci/platformlabeler-plugin/blob/pla...
Similar to Thai, a lot of particles.
I think LPDDR5X is planned for the upcoming versions while the current versions use LPDDR5.
South Korea Has Quietly Become One of the World’s Biggest Weapons Suppliers
Cool idea. This was posted a few days ago on here, and I was impressed by the UX and capabilities. Tho I didn’t delve too deep.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33481518
Malt
> what happened in the late 2000s to cause belief in climate change to drop off a cliff

CRU leak?
Wedge issues have really split us irrationally. Group A tells scary bedtime stories to their children using caricatures of an average Group B position as a way to maintain in-group discipline.

What seems to be new now, is that Group B has taken to espousing Group A's caricature as a way of proving their group identity. "Group A says we eat babies. I eat more babies than anyone else, proving my Group B bonafides!" If you want to stand out in the primaries, you can't be a competent, coalition-building centrist. You gotta eat more babies than the next guy.

Current political system reinforces extremism. I'm of the camp that believes we urgently need incremental reforms like Ranked Choice Voting and open primaries. It doesn't solve everything, but it's the reform we can do that gives us the most mileage today.
This is completely wrong. You should never hold people responsible for the behavior of others whom they have no control over. What do you even want the Rust maintainers to do about it?
Any recommendations on materials that teach these subjects?
I got PhD and I am still not sure how I feel. It took me 6 years, a lot of doubts and putting my life on hold.

You never know if you will finish your PhD. In fact, 50% drop out. Imagine spending 4 years of your life and then quitting with little to show for it.

First of all, PhD is too long (in the US). You spend 1 - 1.5 years taking grad classes that have little relevance to your subfield. If you haven't done research in undergrad, you spend the first year figuring out what is research. IF you did, there's still a lot less hand-holding as a PhD researcher compared to an undergrad researcher.

Now let's talk about research. First, you need to come up with a good idea that no one thought of it before. This requires understanding of all the previous research.

Then you try to implement the idea. Even if you implemented everything correctly, if your method is not better than the state of the art, you just wasted your time. (Of course, you need to implement the state of the art also)

Do you want to become a professor? Forget about. There are so many bright PhDs competing for a few academic openings. Even if you become a professor, it will take 10 years and a lot of work to get tenure. And if you finally become a professor, the pay is terrible compared to the industry.

I'm not even talking about PhD in other subfields like Physics, where people become Google's SWE after finishing their PhD. Such a waste.
Trickle down
Even though I use and like ‘circadian’ lighting schemes, I am rather skeptical that modulating the spectrum of artificial light will do much to counteract the most blatant abuse of the natural circadian rhythm in modern life, which is to stay active for many hours after sunset.
Mind reading through the eyes: An fMRI study (2012)
I have a small ambition to write an LGP-30 emulator & to run Mel's poker code; sadly, in my poking around, while there's a tiny amount of Mel Kaye-authored source code archived[1] (in the form of scans of hand-written documents that appear to be the equivalent of pull requests, with one engineer writing them and another signing off on reviewing it) it's not very useful & is not from the poker program.

It'd be amazing for that program is on this computer and someone can pull it off, but I imagine the magnetic drum memory would've decayed into noise by now.

[1] Eg https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_royalPreciTable8Nov195...
I saw him present one time, perhaps it was RacketFest (Racket programming get together with lots of demos). He does a lot of creative project and his Racket books look good. Few things are better than someone having a personal need for something (in his case his own typesetting and publishing tools), builds the tools, then writes books about it.
There basically is no political left to speak of and there hasn’t been one for decades. There is a bifurcation, but it’s largely a drift between a broadly rightward shift across political mainstreams on the one hand, and an increasingly contentious concept of who is allowed to exist and to what extent they can exist unperturbed.
> you are confusing cpu bandwidth with ram bandwidth. no surprised tbh.

Care to explain what you think "cpu bandwidth" means?

Also, I recommend looking at some real measurements: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
as much as we've dumped in ours?
I've never had a similar experience with Debian, Fedora or Arch.
Good product, but the lack of editors on OSX and Linux really is a show stopper.
> The funniest part to me is that every individual item you order comes with it’s own delivery person, there isn’t yet much work to consolidate packages.

I'm impressed how much Aliexpress currently does this: consolidates purchases from different sellers, ship 3rd party to Canada, and then use local postal service for last mile delivery.

Ebay could learn a lot from them.
On the importance of looking up words (2020)
I understand, I don't mean to knock a solid hobby project.

Still, to be pedantic, the Raspberry Pi didn't cost next to nothing ($35+PSU+boot storage) and was shipped over an ocean.
Yes, I do at least one daily, mainly NYT and AVCX.
More than 6M Australian adults had personal data stolen in past year
> To give one data point, at Stanford CS this year we're paying PhD students $64,110 a year plus fully funded health insurance and tuition

Tuition is fake so it shouldn’t be included as a benefit. If you can get into Stanford CS PhD you can get a job at a FAANG. They pay a lot better than $70K a year
Unfortunately Apple's in a tough spot.

Their gear is too good: I'm on year 4 with my Watch, my iPad is 3 or 4 years old, and the only reason I upgrade my iPhone every couple of years is for the camera.

And there just aren't that many Android users willing to switch.

Dividends and stock buybacks are keeping their shareholders happy, but at some point they need a growth story, and the iPhone set an incredible bar to hurdle.

(I'm not defending their ad business, to be clear, but it's hardly shocking that they're trying to find something to bring in new revenue.)
Microchip's (formerly atmel's) asf4 is shitty in a lot of ways but doesn't dynamically allocate. Of course espressifs mcus are much bigger...
Why would they provide a reason for a standard procedure? I'm fairly certain their exclusion guidelines are documented on their site.

Are the content owners complaining about a desire to be archived but IA is blocking them? As if not, I don't see the issue.