skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an overly pessimistic extrapolation of current events and trends, your argument is pure speculation basically.
I don't know if its my proudest, but certainly a recent one...I leveraged python and Bash/cli to automate content work... I'm proud of it because prior to that i had not coded any apps or even minor bash scripts in about 15 years.

In the midst of the pandemic (2020), i worked for a non-profit....and they published all manner of important economic research data on different strata of incomes, families who struggle putting food on the table, etc. All data that they sell to governments for policy work (its that great, valuable, and expertly published) and they also sell it to other research firms, NGOs, etc. (Side note: when i worked for them, they were severely under-pricing their data for way too low prices for how others used, referenced the data) Anyway, among the steps involved in reviewing the reports, I automated link checking of urls used within their reports. The report content lived in PDFs, so i automated grabbing all content from PDFs (not fun!), then picking out urls from the massive copy, then running link checker scans, finally producing a report of any links that were broken. The overall authoring of the reports encompassed many, many months of work - by top-notch research teams - and the design and production of said reports also (sadly) took months to perform. Well, when i automated even just the link checking portion, i reduced their work from many weeks (sometimes 1 or 2 months) down to 1 or 2 days. I left before i could extend my automation, so it still required a human to trigger some steps. But, if i still worked there, i planned to automate far more, and start moving upstream for other areas (like scaling out their report designs, etc.).

Was it some hacker-level thing or rocket science? No way. But, all in all, it was a neat use of python, python pdf modules, some minor bash/cli scripting, etc. I learned a bunch of fun stuff, and the non-profit saved tons of time. I still feel so good when i reflect on that little project!
There's an existing package - OctoPrint - that you install on a Raspberry Pi and connect up to your 3D printer that can provide a web interface for just about any 3D printer on the market, so you don't have to shuffle files around on SD cards or stream G-code from your local machine. They provide a disk image that you can flash so it's more or less plug-and-play. Still need an SD card for the Raspberry Pi though. :)
Different countries having different standards of living isn't "a kind of slavery." Slavery is when people are forced to work and are not paid for their labor.

You're correct that it's not fair that people have fewer rights in some countries compared to others. For example, as an American, I have fewer labor rights than most Europeans. Am I a slave laborer?
> We regularly survey the team on their professional well-being, and the latest results are the most positive they’ve been in years.

Funny. Of course this is just my experience over the years, but I've rarely seen people "tell how it really is", no matter how garbage the project is. I admit I belong to that group as well, it's hard challenge the power that feeds you.
Not all issues are technical issues. There might be licensing reasons why 'actual Windows' is required. Such nonsense is not unknown.
It's low interest rates that weren't sustainable. And that's becoming apparent
That one take on it. The other is that it could potentially save literally tens of thousands of lives. Immediately classifying a potentially life-saving medical technology is a threat to the second amendment might not be the best look for 2A advocates.
> Lets look at Apple for example

Would be great - just once - to read a discussion on HN that didn’t drag in an attack on Apple.

Guess that’s too much to hope for.
Maternal obesity and impact of associated early and long-term offspring health
Just like attempted theft.
Seems like minimal overlap potentially if they were just using it for a theme, but the tone is a bit defensive, and I don't think that John was rude in his original tweets and more of like tongue in cheek sort of fun and offering to collaborate.

A more direct, yes we use some code, oops we will add attribution, thanks again, much appreciated, would have sufficed.
It's better than the previous condition of auto-bans mentioning colloquialisms.
Well, no, most people don’t realize US is using slave labor. Most people believe China does, though, despite no proofs. Sadly, people are still quite disconnected from verifiable reality.
add some CSS to mess with their URLs

a[href*="sukuns"] { font-size: 500px!important; color: LimeGreen!important; }

pretty much destroys the page. i guess eventually they would give up in the specificity battle.

probably more stuff you could do with CSS to mess with them.
More focused on Arts than a lot of the discussion below, which is more STEMmy (not surprising given this is HN), but there’s a good acoup.blog post discussing the PhD process: https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/collections-so-you-want-to-go-...

Bret’s posts are on HN often enough I think his input is valuable.

Particularly relevant to the discussion on hiring chances:

“But what the data shows here is that outside of the top 10-or-so programs in a field, the chances of being hired are effectively nil.”
It is still biased and it is still filled with bots. It will most likely continue to be these 2 things. If anything, chatGPT will make sure its more of both moving forward.
I was expecting to read that this was only the longest manned flight, but it seems that the record for unmanned/unrefueled flight via a solar-powered plane is a bit less. That flight took place earlier this year and the drone vanished over the Arizona desert just hours before the record: https://simpleflying.com/airbus-zephyr-flight-ends/ . Clearly the government of Nevada contracted the aliens at Area 51 to ensure the integrity of their airport's tourist attraction.
How many of you got temp banned from Stack Overflow for ChatGPT posts?
I know I'm not the only one who was tempted to just try a few ChatGPT answers on Stack Overflow and see what happened. Well, FAFO as the saying goes.

I'm not surprised at all, nor upset. Curious though how many others just couldn't resist.
Its always amazing to see Tim Sweeney's name attached to things. The first game I played of his was ZZT around ~1992. It was a basic but super cool game that featured a basic level editor!! The idea of creating levels for a game was still very novel and very exciting for 8 year old me. I would draw out levels at school and try to create them at home (with mixed success).

It's 2022 and he's still very very relevant in the gaming world. He still runs Epic, he's still publishing papers on gaming. I don't think any of the other folks from that early era of PC gaming are still relevant in the field (Carmack moved on to VR and now AGI).
I don't think the /s is needed, decentralisation of "power" or "authority" has never worked. Decentralised protocols can work, such as Git, but people in general are both lazy and don't care. They will always gravitate towards the easy option, which is giving someone else control.

What does work is centralise powder and authority with democratically chosen rules and regulations. It's the easy option, and it works. Fundamentally that's the thing "crypto" misses, those democratically created rules are there to protect the masses from the few. Unwittingly (?) the creators of Bitcoin actually created the greatest tool ever for financial crime and defrauding the unwitting general public when they were actually trying to empower them.
If you have Windows installed on separate hard drive (or partition), you can boot it directly with Qemu in Linux. No need to do anything fancy, just use existing installation. If you have two graphic cards, it is even more fancier with GPU passthrough.

Something here, might not be the best guide:
https://superuser.com/questions/342719/how-to-boot-a-physica...
I like a lot of the point in this post. While I'm not sold on cloud dev environments I do like the idea of local development based on Nix. And the point about standardizing on devcontainers[0] is great.

[0]https://github.com/devcontainers
Agreed, for those of us on Windows, the assumption that Node/NPM folks make that we'll have Python installed on our machines by default is not very nice.

Hooks, I agree, those take a while to get used to. Once you do though, the code is so much cleaner than doing it based off of the lifecycle. And yeah, functional components make calling .render() unnecessary, the component _is_ the function.

React would be in contention if I too was working on a server-side rendered (Isomorphic) app. There would be others in the running too. Though for a purely user-browser driven UI, I still think React is far and away better than the alternatives, at least for right now.
FYI: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02351-1

For what its worth, I've always received a favorable response when I email the author to received a private copy of their paper.
The promise of globalization was primarily about improving economic efficiencies, not liberalization. Has it succeeded in that regard?

Given the extremely myopic system under which our largest corporations (in America) operate, they've engaged in globalization in a way that largely maximized short-term benefit (to them) without regard for the long-term externalities. It's a shame that globalization had to be given a bad name by being executed poorly.
> Most of them are immigrants who view it as a way to get into the USA, and so its a worthy trade off.

Simply not true; I know of innumerable cases where European universities keep same-country academics on indefinite post-doc or other roles, refusing to ever grant tenure.

Most end up working in different EU unis and switching every 2-3 years, moving house regularly, all while having a horrible work-life balance.
Well, I hope I'm wrong! ;-)

My guess is that it'll be like "Nigerian prince" scams: it's not all that convincing. But even if it only works on 0.1% of its targets, that's still a large absolute number of people.
And that's largely why this mission came to an end at this particular duration - the engine had degraded too much from the continuous use, it was barely delivering enough power to stay airborne.
Airplane mode doesn't shut off your baseband. It just sends it a message saying "go into airplane mode". The firmware is still running. It could still be receiving and sending data for all you know.
> This is sometimes seen as wasteful, on the surface, but there are very real benefits to doing things like this, even when it is much more expensive than alternatives:

Those benefits are from having government rocket program, not from having one where politicians micromanage the rocket design to the extent of dictating the choice of engine.
Apple tried but just gave in to the government surveillance.
Cspan
I very much do C for living (as well as bunch of other languages). While I do not think zig is ready C replacement as for now. It's only one that's aiming to replace it and looks promising. Rust is not a C replacement, but rather C++ replacement.
Seems like it wouldn't take much to update an algorithm so that wearers of these jackets are again identified as people. The next step, of course, would be to flag wearers of these jackets as especially suspicious, since they are trying to evade detection.
When searching for "Elon" the first result is "Elon Booed". Not sure about earlier, but the related videos are showing up as of now in the results, along with some tweets about posters getting banned.

https://twitter.com/search?q=Elon%20booed&src=typeahead_clic...
These people had no shame, did they?
Show me one website that today really works without javascript.
Show HN: UserScript to detect GPT generated comments on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33906712
If you are testifying remotely, I suppose you are still under oath and have serious consequences for perjury ?
I think de-globalization is a long-term boon for automation (at least in the U.S), but it's not going to operate at the speed needed to replace 3 billion workers dropping out of the labor force. Automation usually requires a lot of painful experimentation and tuning by highly-skilled people before you get it working right, and the pace of progress is typically uneven and unpredictable. Long-term, it'll be great for the salaries of software engineers, robotics engineers, material scientists, process engineers, etc. Short-term, expect higher prices and shortages. Until we find ways to build things with fewer people, we will just have fewer things.

I'm also not optimistic about the American populace's ability to deal with shortages without rioting.
Chris Boucher 1943 – 2022
The thing is what do you do about people that refuse to accept colonisation? Even if you are right and people vote to be colonized, you have to kill or imprison the millions who resist. And even if that wasn't the case and they somehow prosper in a few decades, why would they not want independence then? Even texas wants to secede from america and the whole south fought a war. Either way, you will have a lot of bloodshed.

Also, this means a lot more of the people you colonize will immigrate to the homeland as you can see in Europe, can your people handle that give the birth rate difference and cultural incompatibility and all the "purity" xenophobes? Business is business. In case you don't know, majority of black people in the UK immigrated in colonial mid-20th century to work in child care,NHS,etc...from the carribean and africa (which is great) because local talent was short and expensive. The same will happen in any new colony.

It is best to be friendly trade partners and allies than master and slave. There are those who want peace and profit and there are those who are filled with violence and greed.
They are stripping all JS.
Lets not also forget cosmic rays and their effect on interstellar debris(astronauts helmets showed micro holes caused by these rays under an electron microscope) :)
Running fast races when you're unsure how hard they'll be
Optimistic given the ongoing rail strikes.
Regular cannabis consumption can suppress dreams. Quitting cold turkey may subsequently cause a week of intense vivid dreams, followed by a return to normal dreaming.
That's a roller coaster for this drug; Started off as high blood pressure candidate, ends up at Alzheimer's candidate (with a detour in the middle of course).
His parents are endowed professors at Stanford Law, so it's not surprising that he learned these skills.
Theres a huge feedback loop that is very opaque
@CharlesW I guess there's a reason why people short hand "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" to "the one about evolution" :) Sorta captures the essence without the bells and whistles.
The camera and mic are pretty easy to destroy if you want to get rid of them!
Everyone printed money like crazy, not just the Western governments, nations at all levels of development are paying the inflation price. I don't think that alone will change the balance of power meaningfully.

It's fair to say that less trade with a totalitarian rival power means less deterrent to war. Yes that's bad but the alternative of financing their military buildup and their oppression of their own people is not really a good one.
There are a lot of technologies that advanced tremendously due to developing things the Apollo Program needed: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/80660main_ApolloFS....
Hey, Substack CTO here. We're actually not using Ghost's platform and have instead built a theming API that is compatible with third-party themes that are built for Ghost. The one piece of code that the theme uses that's developed by Ghost is the open source search library used on the frontend. In this case the theme links directly to the files that Ghost has distributed on jsdelivr via npm
Cannabis can absolutely mess up your life, though not quite in the "reefer madness" way. I have seen promising people use it to cope with their existential boredom instead of making their life more interesting and enjoyable, eg by learning new skills or seeking out new situations. Between that and the fact that it also interferes with memory formation, people who habitually smoke a lot of weed often end up stunted, failing to reach their full potential.
Awesome, do post a follow-up on HN, I want to hear how this war with the proxy asshats plays out.
>> Most of them are immigrants

> This is false.

Doctorate means different things in different fields. In particular, getting a doctorate in Education or some of the applied Life Sciences fields looks more like a masters degree with a long paper at the end and you typically work full-time at a "real job". You or your employer may even pay your tuition. Ie, not the type of PhDs the article is talking about.

Digging into SED data, the "Citizen / Resident" numbers are propped up by two categories:

1. the applied biological sciences / health sciences, many of which do not resemble a traditional PhD program in any way.

2. education, which again functions very differently from a typical PhD program in every way: who pays, how they pay, what you're doing during and after, etc.

You can then track by field in the rest of the SED data and see that a huge number of these people aren't on the traditional academic track and are not doing a phd in the sense that most people in STEM mean; ie, they're working other full-time jobs, probably not publishing or barely publishing, never planning on going into academia afterwards, and so on.

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More details: The NSF runs a survey of earned doctorates (SED) each year.

These reports include a table entitled "Research doctorate recipients, by detailed field of doctorate, citizenship status, ethnicity, and race: <year>". Let's look at 2021.

In Computer Science, 953/1545, or about 62%, were Temporary visa holders.

That's a lower bound! The other category includes permanent residents and the survey happens at the end of the PhD. Many PhD students receive permanent resident status during their PhD -- particularly those from places other than India and China, or who immigrated to the US prior to starting their PhD (eg for undergraduate or work). There are a variety of pathways, bu suffice it to say that many people end those 6 years no longer on a temporary visa.

Additionally, there are about 100 PhDs in 2021 that reported neither "citizen / permanent resident" or "temporary visa", who are almost certainly majority immigrant who don't (or at least don't think) they fall into either category.

All-in, I've seen estimates that up to 70% of earned doctorates in Computer Science are awarded to immigrants.

For all earned doctorates these numbers are closer to 33%, so flipped in the opposite direction. But if you start breaking down by field you will notice that the vast majority of fields where citizens are over-represented are exactly the fields where "PhD study as research assistant/TA" is less of thing and full-time employment during the PhD is much more common/feasible.
It's written in a very passive aggressive way. He's not congratulating substack, he's calling them out.

The attribution aspect of it seems intentionally misleading in my view. Are the MSM, who'll be chomping at the bit to attack their competitor, Substack, going to delve into the finer points of software licenses or rather just quote the tweet?
"Everything is trying to kill you and your hardware 100% of the time.

I was appalled when I learned about LEO atomic oxygen.

"Leave the protection of the magnetosphere and things get much worse."

Anything in the Orion to deal with the latter for the not rad hard humans? Or is this another Apollo Program timed with the solar cycle (which due to delays cut the latter short)?
Substack Powered by Ghost
> universities are reluctant to hire their own PhDs because they'd rather have the cross-pollination of ideas

Maybe in her case, but that’s just not true. The whole point of the Internet was to exchange scientific ideas, and that has actually come true - all academics I know share data/ideas online in real-time.

Universities are just too cheap to hire as many PhDs as they generate.
I read once a suggestion to serve gzipped requests which, gzipped, are tiny, but un-gzipped are enormous. Like GBs of 0s.

Not sure how you actually do it and if it serves your purpose but sounded neat.
I mean, at least git is easily "re-decentralizable" if you have to: Just add another remote to your working copy and push your state.

I also believe there are lots of companies who run their own internal git services to not be dependent on GitHub.

I agree though, in theory, git would allow some fully p2p working mode, where each developer just adds the machines of the other developers as remotes and there is no "authoritative" remote at all. If that was ever seriously proposed as a real working mode, it definitely didn't catch on, due to it quickly becoming extremely confusing.

In practice, having one universally agreed upon "authoritative" location of the project repo gives you an enormous amount of advantages, more than a p2p setup would give you.

I think as long as you can freely choose where to host that authoritative version and can quickly change its location if need be, I'd still consider git to be decentralised in practice.
This concept was explored in the movie Man of Steel, where Krypton had outlawed live births but I forget the reason why. They called it the Genesis Chamber.

https://youtu.be/yhwV6ekluWU?t=96
It does not know anything about Event IDs or Sysmon IDs. Just invents shit. Its weird considering how good it is at writng accurate code. This is just looking up a few tables on its archived internet.
A loosely related complaint: it's surprisingly hard to present 3d animations. I've held my nose and used p5.js and three.js. Web VPython is almost what I want, but it's a nightmare to host locally.

Just making an arrow (cylinder with conical cap) in three.js or p5.js is kind of tedious.
It is in minutes, as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231024

I note that it specifically mentions being a window for edits prior to the comments going out in RSS feeds, and not intended explicitly as a deletion window, so it's still probably best not to make posts and then delete them (I used to have a pretty bad habit about it until the mods reached out).
It is not possible to manually label hundreds of millions of images to train a model on them, CFG exists to deal with this problem, also Unstable Diffusion will just finetune a Stable Diffusion model, so you cannot simply change the licence to what you want.
I still hate them after 5 years of professional PureScript.
You'd be extremely foolish for your github or gitlab code to not be backed up on any devices you own
As shown in the thread they are shipping Ghost's client side code to the browser. The attribution needs to be there.
You may have 3 out of 5 board votes, but unless you have complete control and full voting control they usually have carve outs like approving any change of control (aka selling the company).

You may receive a buy-out offer you find very interesting but your board is against it and then you find out very quickly how much control you actually gave up and how aligned you really were.
I completely understand, this is not a service for generating pictures of yourself and pretty portraits, this is primarily for generating unique assets of products, models, and other marketing related assets.
Hey Substack CTO here. We actually don't host, modify, or minify the client side library in question. We link directly to the jsdelivr CDN for it and the distributed files from there have a license link at the top
Thank you. The only usage of that term that I was familiar with was that given here:

https://www.howtogeek.com/660841/what-is-a-headless-server/

A “headless” computer system is just one without a local interface. There’s no monitor (“head”) plugged into it. There’s also no keyboard, mouse, touchscreen, or other local interface for controlling it.