skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on a messaging convergence product in the early 2000s. I'd written several components including the POP3 server. The product owner had a demonstration scheduled with a potential telco buyer. Two weeks out, we learned that having IMAP4 capability was critical for the client. IMAP4 was on our roadmap, but still twelve months away. The requirement was to demonstrate IMAP4 in two weeks, not to provide a finished IMAP4 implementation, but neither of the architects could see any way of delivering a demo.

I had a bright idea in the shower one morning, went to work and told our project manager that I could deliver an IMAP4 demo in two days. I explained how, the architects admitted it would work, so I knuckled down and wrote a new API for our POP3 server that understood and responded to high level IMAP4 requests (we didn't need to return message parts or anything more atomic that an entire body).

Of course, the day after we finished testing this, the product owner decided we wouldn't include it in the demonstration, but that's life.
That's nice. Wake me up when they actually announce it.

Seriously, this "we're going to announce" thing is both annoying and useless. It needs to die.
I'm surprised too. I've looked into this before, and it's absolutely right - just not intuitive to me.

We do have radio-photo-voltaic devices, but they're so inefficient it's laughable. And we have RTG generators, which are only practical in limited situations, and again have a very low efficiency.

So hot water it is!!
Of course. I also assume it doesn’t make Chapelle look very good, so his team probably has an equal incentive to have it removed.

Edit: ah yes, downvoted. I guess it's controversial now as to whether people booing at someone's show would be something they wouldn't like.
My impression is that the research efforts have been focused on "can we do it?" Then, if the answer is yes, they'll focus on "how do we do it efficiently?" Where efficiency can mean anything from capital efficient, to resource efficient, to energy conversion efficiency. Limiting one's focus on the next blocker in the critical path and not increasing scope beyond it sounds like perfectly good engineering to me.
I know nothing, but have heard Hugging Face is in that direction.

https://github.com/huggingface/transformers

>Transformers provides thousands of pretrained models to perform tasks on different modalities such as text, vision, and audio.

> These models can be applied on:

> - Text, for tasks like text classification, information extraction, question answering, summarization, translation, text generation, in over 100 languages.

> - Images, for tasks like image classification, object detection, and segmentation.

> - Audio, for tasks like speech recognition and audio classification.

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Also I read about GPT-J, whose capability is comparable with GTP-3.

https://github.com/kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax

But I believe it requires buying or renting GPUs.
Which is why I pointed out Win2k, which can drive multiple 32-bit displays with at least HD resolution. I know this because I used to do it with multiples of those 21" trinitron (woot the long dead physical dell outlet store) monitors that were 2048x1535 connected to my work computer.

Sure today you can do 4k, but a not insignificant number of people are still running 1080p displays, which are actually fewer pixels than I had 20+ years ago.

What you get with a modern machine is aero peak functionality, and transparency, but the ram usage doesn't magically go down if you turn it off on something like win7 where the option existed. Also, its funny that we could realtime repaint windows on a 486 with barely noticeable (if at all) lag, but we can't do it for a few dozen applications on a 5Ghz machine with dozen cores if there happens to be a requirement to repaint part of a window under a transparent one? Even so, if a full scale image (not that its even required for a peek type function) of a occluded window is needed, whats the storage requirements? A few dozen MB per application? But, that's not really how these applications work, when you peek/zoom/etc a window its getting redrawn in realtime. Otherwise you would see stale versions of windows that aren't visible, and if you notice that isn't what happens. Depending on settings (at least in KDE) there is a couple accuracy options that can be tuned which affect the repaint lag during zoom/peek/etc functions.
Author here: after a long process to achieve the low downtime, I am quite keen to test the blue/green deployment RDS feature AWS released last month (currently only available to RDS MySQL). It will certainly make it way easier to upgrade, and certainly developers will be quite happy if they don't need to "hack-upgrade" or accept the downtime :)
This has to be parody, right?
Even in the West you have complications, like the Schrems II decision which ruled that the US does not offer an acceptable data protection level.
Checking coredumpctl, I've gotten two plasmashell segfaults in the past 4 months, and recall hangs and crashes happening more often in the past (especially under NVIDIA drivers). Additionally plasmashell has hung a few times and/or kwin terminated unexpectedly, though I think this is a Mesa bug (https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/zbux1i/where_would_i_s..., https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/7674) or amdgpu kernel bug (I've had multiple GPU driver hangs and unusable screens on sleep-wake, usually preceded by kwin dying in the same session).
When I arrived in the US, over 30 years ago, with a PhD from an Eastern European country, I was advised to not mention it on my resume. Too much school without American experience was (still is?!?) frowned upon, by private businesses, as they were concerned about losing highly educated individuals, once they got "off the ground". Advice worked wonders, and the PhD was eventually used to just skip a few core requirements for a degree in a different field.
Strictly speaking, the Kaspian Sea is the largest lake by surface area in the world (by almost 300 000km^2). Lake Superior is only the largest freshwater lake.
Does anyone else find it extremely ironical that FTX happened in crypto? Wasn't FTX one of the things crypto was meant to solve?
See https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Jupiter_Energy_Fleet from the late 1970s; people have been thinking about this problem for a long time. This SF TV series cheated with a new physics which allowed compact nuclear fusion reactors minus the ability to do anything with neutrons. We still don't have a good path to them for basic electrical power generation, seeing as how much we're still struggling with theoretical break even DT fusion, with the LLNL experiment per something I just read not counting the power input into the lasers.
Its just bad. The commercetools projects I have seen are all slow, broken clusterfucks. In one instance they apparently used the search api, that commercetools provides, and the requests take more than 3 seconds in some cases. Maybe they just implemented it badly, but I suspect its a mix of bad implementation and bad api. When I talked with the people that implemented that, about doing more complicated stuff than a run-of-the-mill facetted search, they could not offer a solution. Commercetools apparently uses elastic-search under the hood, but either its not possible to use that directly or not supposed to be used directly. @cnj please correct any misinformation, I confess I haven't spend any time researching this (I was turned off right away).
> the word tyranny and banking in the same sentence

"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Hey, bots are humans, too! ...wait.
Most of the things that were amazing about the iphone I had in my Samsung sph-i300 palmos phone 6 years earlier.

In many ways the palm device was more amazing since it was already a rich mature ecosystem by then and already had 3rd party apps, thousands of them, for every imaginable purpose.

It was the essense of the later iphone (after it allowed 3rd party apps) 6 years before the first iphone.

I don't remember any gap. I certainly had an unbroken sequence of pda phones from several makers after that, but maybe there was a time before 2001 where people didn't use pdas much?

I never used straight non-phone pdas myself.

I was playing with a wince pda for a while but only for stunts like getting an old dos version of my companies unix software to run in a dos emulator on a Journada, just to show it at a company xmas dinner to the guy who invented & wrote the language and db initially on the trs80 (he immediately closed that and tried to find porn, I love that guy).

To me a pda was never that useful by itself, only when Kyocera combined it with a phone a year or two before that i300 did it become a must have for me.

But the way I remember it they seemed to be pretty popular with everyone else.
$36B federal bail-out rescues pensions of truckers and others
The late 1800s was also a time of increasing globalization. It was exactly that interconnectedness that turned a local conflict into WWI.
> The most shocking part of this story is the number of former US officials who are now working for Binance

You realize this is how the SEC and various regulatory entities end up working? I wouldn't say its shocking. The people are commonly on one side (regulation) or the other (private sector) without any type of "layover" or time out in between.

I think FTX was attempting to hire someone from the CFTC (regulatory body over crypto) as part of their team.

I would love politicians to write up an Anti-Corruption Act with some sensible rules around these types of things to at least put some distance between jobs and counter balances around corruption/collusion. Penalties should be in the range of can't work in that industry anymore to federal prison time. The other idea I'd like to see traction on is implementing term limits in Congress. I don't have a lot of hope that either will happen in my lifetime.
I find Haskell to be strongly typed and hard to read.
What?

"Mainstream media" is certainly not meaningless. A good proxy would be any organ considered an "authoritative source" by Facebook: NYT, WaPo, CNN, Politico, AP, etc.

As for "fewer readers" I don't know what you mean. The "readers" are paying their money, aren't they?
Induction proofs are indeed useful, the strongest argument for learning these sort of formal tricks, is you can convince another human that your algorithm correct with pure math. It's one thing to say, look, my program's test suite (that I wrote) passes, or it passes a few criteria, it is another thing entirely to prove without a shadow of a doubt the algorithm is logically sound and correct. Induction proofs are useful with loops, but there are a lot of tricks useful for programmers.
I just checked the offending site - it’s full of malware. I think if you report that aspect then you might get faster resolution from the search engines.
We don't really know, what used on military submarines, because real photos of their props are top secret.

On civ subs, as I know, main driver of choose is just cost, so usually they use conventional cheap designs.
> It has zero to do with "being too good to hire their own students" and everything to do with diversity of thought. I 100% agree with it.

If you think universities have diversity of thought you haven’t been to a university in the last few decades
I love this line and I personally think there's nothing wrong with it (not that I'm suggesting anyone implied there is).

And this is also how I separate my work from my hobby. I'm proud of those who can make money from a hobby, but I simply do not try. The motivations are fundamentally different and it changes how much I enjoy my hobby. I wish I learned this in my early 20s. I spent years thinking, "if it can't make money or someone's done it better, it's not worth doing."
cf https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-016... , found thanks to https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel05.html#obj142 .
Obviously there would be limits as to how much could be manually reviewed by hand (if 1000 people reviewed 1000 images each, only 0.02% of the images would be reviewed assuming no overlap was required), but I wonder if there would be any benefit to attempting to crowdsource captions for the dataset for the worst available images
BigCommerce's stock photo feels a bit out of touch with 2022
A better response to these laws would be that the device should just stop working if the settings I have selected conflict with local law. The cell towers are free to refuse to allow my phone to connect. They should send some sort of message to me to tell me what I'd need to do in order to comply with local law and be allowed on the network.

But of course, that wouldn't be convenient, and a lot of people would be confused, and that would generate costly support calls, so they'd rather just violate the sanctity of the things we apparently don't really own and put intrusive hooks into "our" hardware and software.

In the case of this particular requirement -- that wireless alerts be enabled -- I would almost certainly just enable them and go about my day. But reaching into my device and changing things without my consent crosses a line.
Android Phones do that today over Mass Storage...
> gnome-shell generally has a lot more components and thus features than the more barebones window managers

My experience with gnome-shell is that it is in fact a huge massive bloat for what it provides. What features does it provide that more barebones window managers don't provide?
I bought a Pixel 7 recently.

When setting up the device, I was asked to insert my SIM card. Usually, I'd have skipped past this screen, but I thought "Ok, let me swap out my SIM", since I was trading in an older device.

Worst mistake ever. Even on an unlocked phone, all the verizon crapware was silently installed in the background. This doesn't happen when you put in the SIM after setting up the phone.

Such a backwards experience.
I would expect that it is more a matter of selecting the best/optimized design rather than demonstrating the fundamental viability of tritium breeding.
I just saw that for the first time with a Residence Inn I booked where they said to check-in at the adjoining Moxy. In that case though the rooms probably are different.
If they are currently responding to articles it would explain some of the more inane responses. Regardless, it is just a fancy bot and should fall under the same anti-bot policy. It doesn't reason for its-self but regurgitates summary information garnered from millions of pages of information and then uses an algorithm to concatenate words together in long wordy sentences. There is no wisdom in ChatGPT and it lacks the subtlety of perception.
EU-Alert specification (2019) [pdf]
Especially focus on Security Considerations
Magnetos are time limited to 500 hours.
You are spreading Putin's propaganda.

Russia invaded Ukraine because Putin wants to reconstitute the USSR, with him on top. All the bullshit about NATO is just noise to get people who would otherwise side with the obvious victims to suddenly hem and haw and say, "Well, was Putin provoked? Is this really about the US?"

No; you've been suckered. It's about Ukraine, and the people dying there, who won't be in any better shape if the rest of the Western world just hands them over to a megalomaniac dictator who genuinely believes that any Ukrainian who doesn't identify as Russian is mentally ill or a traitor.
Exaggerated headline. Lots of production of various goods still going to places like Mexico, India, Vietnam, etc. Semiconductors moving back to the US is mostly a reaction to China's growing power. Most trends point towards increasing globalization outside of specialized industries like semiconductors just because capital and goods are so much easier to move than people, and the developed world requires cheap labor to support its living standards.
For better or worse Musk is becoming even more of a "cult of personality" rather than a tech icon. Difficult to say whether it will be a bad or good thing. These days it seems no matter what you do %50 of the public will not like it. Trying times for advertisers and celebrities.
> When asked by a reporter if he would ever replicate the stunt, Cook replied: “Next time I feel in the mood to fly endurance, I’m going to lock myself in a garbage can with the vacuum cleaner running, and have Bob serve me T-bone steaks chopped up in a thermos bottle. That is, until my psychiatrist opens for business in the morning.”

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2008/march/pilo...
It's mostly an excuse. They're looking for reputation or monetary gain. If you have grants waiting to write a check to an institution or some high individual reputation that the university can claim as their own this excuse of cross-pollination disappears.
The highest level cannot. We just had a nationwide test in Germany a few days ago.
Quite hard. Isn't the whole point of the minification to remove non functional parts to make the size smaller?
No, you're closer than it feels. Here are what they mean in more every day terms.)

Reflection symmetry - the laws of physics should be the same for an observer who is a mirror image of ourselves. (In classical mechanics this is so. In quantum mechanics you also have to reverse the sign of all charges.)

Translation symmetry - The laws of physics should be the same for an observer in a different position in space. (This one is true.)

Rotational symmetry - the laws of physics should be the same for an observer who is rotated from ourselves. (Again true.)

Combinations - just refers to combining things by some rule. A linear combination of vectors is just adding scalars times vectors. So the set of linear combinations of 2 vectors is the plane spanned by those vectors. A convex combination of points is any average of them. So the convex combinations of 3 points is a triangle. And if you allow some set of algebraic operations, from a fixed set of values you can generate a whole system. Those fixed values are generators for that system. So, for example, (1, 0) and (0, 1) with the algebraic operations of addition and subtraction generate the whole grid of points (n, m) with n, m integers. In all of these cases you can often work with just the few things from which the plane/triangle/grid/whatever was created, without having to look at the rest.

Tensors - not going through that topic here. Start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_product if you're curious.

Dense subclass - for any point you choose, for any distance you choose, the dense subclass includes something at least that close. For example the rational numbers are dense within the reals. Pi is not a rational number, but we have no trouble finding rational numbers within 1 billionth of pi. So you can sometimes prove something for all rational numbers, and then find you've proven it for all real ones. (For example, with powers, roots, and division we can define 2^x for all rational numbers x and prove properties about it. From that we can actually define 2^x for all real numbers.)
Why is this downvoted? Is GPT the new thing to unconditionally hate now?
MY dad who had a PHD and was a college dean said the same thing years ago. While that may be true but a lot of the universities only seem to recruit professors from a limited number of universities so the feed back loop is still there -Head of the IU econ department gets PHD from Harvard, hires new professor with PHD from Harvard, how is this different?
Donkeys are herd protectors. However they are quite loud.
I think a lot of this comes back to the way everyone has been focused on building huge mainstream businesses for a long time. Many IoT devices are useful to many people but not at the scale companies like Amazon or Google want — people with vision or mobility impairments, for example, find voice control far more useful than other people but that isn’t a huge market and many of them are low income. Parents with babies probably use voice controls more than they used to but that only lasts so long and then becomes a problem until they protect the ability to have Alexa order more LEGO sets - and not anything people are jumping to subscribe to.

There could probably be a medium-sized business model which works but not the kind of hyper-scale vision that SV has favored. Apple seems to have the best balance putting the smarts in devices you were already buying for other reasons, and being able to concentrate more than one promotion cycle out which Google struggles with.
There is a reason mock executions are generally considered to be a form of torture.
The overwhelming majority of tweets are probably hot takes, food photos or arguments. While they might be interesting to sociologists in the future, looking at the tone and conversation in aggregate, some things should just be allowed to wither away.

There are certainly things I believed in 2009 when I got my first Twitter account which I don't believe now. People change over time, and perhaps everyone's tweets going away forever might be a step in the right direction.

Some notable people or notable tweets might be worth keeping, but the overwhelming majority will be utterly pointless, irrelevant, or trivial.
Reversion to gravel roads has already happened in some of the more depopulated states.[1] Dust control is a problem.

[1] https://blog.midwestind.com/converting-paved-to-unpaved-road...
I have a Ph.D. and can build on this in the other direction.

As this article accepts in its own statistics, it is entirely possible to move up university rankings, as long as you don't simply rely on the weight of your degree. I started in a non-US university, world rank >250 in CWUR (CWUR [1]). I applied for several post-docs in several universities, getting three offers, and taking one at a US R1 ranked in top 30 in CWUR.
After the post-doc, my boss said that I would have been able to go to just about any of the top-top-ranked R1s in my field, but I wanted to look for opportunities outside the USA. Now I have a tenure-track offer at a leading Australian Go8 university (top 120 on CWUR).

What you need to remember if you're pursing a career in this area that you need to be _visible_ - this means publishing in the best venues, collaborating with renowned academics, and networking outside your sphere.

If you are only pressing for the top 10 unis in America, sure, they can be _very_ selective and can afford to choose from candidates amongst themselves. But there are a lot of universities in the world, and many that are extremely well-regarded. Also: rankings aren't everything. At the tenure-track search level of your career, you should be considering the complete package (work/life balance, salary, students, political climate, proximity to friends and family....)

Also as cwoolfe says, there is actually a lot of incentive for universities to hire outside for the diversity of opinions and backgrounds, and as clcaev also said, you almost don't want to stay at the same university as your advisor for political reasons (you should be able to show you can operate outside their direct sphere of influence).

[1] https://cwur.org/
An interesting take. Politics has become who we like, instead of who will do a good job. I suppose business will follow that. Not sure where it leads.
Maybe not outright complaining, but the whole thread does come off as a little passive aggressive/ salty to me.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-wo...