skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul Graham:

> The reason his students find his problem sets "emotionally trying" is that they're getting a taste of what real work is like.

Which Shengwu Li seems to disagree with, since the author retweeted this thread: https://twitter.com/bradchattergoon/status/16151056145600839...

> Good on SL for setting expectations but I also want to comment a bit. If research is all about being comfortable with uncertainty, we have an adverse selection problem. I went through undergrad with this “comfort with uncertainty, just try things out” mentality and it hurt me.

> Specifically, it hurt my grades, which in turn has hurt my applications to grad school etc. I’ve had to do work post-undergrad to make up for it and demonstrate I am actually a good student. The mindset I had to take on is one where I seek perfect certainty that I know the answer to every problem on every problem set in full so I can score close to 100% to lock in an A. It’s to the point where I was “emotionally drained” from trying to be perfect or near perfect on everything.

> I am sure other students who make it to grad school have a similar mindset, and consequently a similar feeling of emotional fatigue from anxiety. I don’t have a better solution since the grading system is supposed to assess understanding of the material which would be important for grad school. But, it’s an adverse selection problem.

And also replied to it: https://twitter.com/ShengwuLi/status/1615106631821402118

> I agree. The problem is that research requires both technical skill and ability to deal with uncertainty. And one of these is easily measured (grades), while the other is, if anything, mildly decreasing in grades.

So the problem doesn't seem to be the students but use of grading as a system of measuring the progress of students who are on a research-heavy track of study.
> In sane markets like Finland solar panel owners need to pay for generating electricity to the grid if the price is negative

If this were the case, why would solar panel owners not stop "selling" power to the grid at their expense when that happens? What incentive would ever exist to pay to put power on the grid?
I vaguely remember a web server set up for language content negotiation failing to determine which version to send and giving me a list of links to the individual language versions instead.

I think it was Apache and the negotiable resource was called X.html while the individual linked versions had names like X.en.html etc.

Might that have been a 300 response?
Beyond Programming: D&D, Open Source and Gaming
What about the following years?

In my PhD in the UK, I had three months of part-time classes and then onto my research.

Just curious, as I didn't realise it was such a difference
China Feels the Sting of a Population in Decline
Click bait, the article is written about a median of 500 sampled rivers and lakes in the US. Those could be anything (such as one of numerous superfund site runoff waterways). If you fish, check your local state fish and wildlife department for the lake or river you fish; they post contamination risk per waterway.

It’s true that virtually all are contaminated to some degree, but that may be quite a low risk, and is certainly not “like drinking contaminated water for a month.”
Aren’t new windows often coated with something opaque to IR, that way they keep heat in during winter and don’t heat up like a greenhouse in the summer?
The wording, likely unwittingly, supports this, not forcing everyone into an office but “returns to pre pandemic arrangements”. So forest rangers and those who’d been working from home can keep on doing what they do.

But what are “pre pandemic arrangements” anyway? Refund any raises? Force people who resigned or died to return? Keep working on completed projects?
Don't forget 50 years of constant combat experience :) The last time China fought anyone it was us.. in Korea.. with M14s.
Funny, I felt personally targeted in the release video. I have a 2019 MBP I have been waiting to upgrade, and I suspect a more than a few others are in the same situation.
Unfortunately static typing has turned into a religion.

IIRC someone looked at Github issues a while ago to understand the impact of dynamic typing on defect rate. What he found was that around ~1% of bugs in JS/Python/Ruby enterprise systems were type-related.
How in the hell can a Mac Pro cost that much? goes to Apple’s online store
More discussion on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34390082
Small VMs and Coroutines
The cultural and moral beliefs of predominantly white, college-educated professionals living in major metropolitan areas of the USA in 2023 map one-to-one with the objective Truth, of course, unlike all rest of people through space and time.
what's an Easel?
Yes, the first two years in STEM Ph.D. programs are typically coursework-heavy and include qualification exams as part of your courses. You must pass X quals, of which Y must be from this subset.

Because of this, if you leave the program after the first two years, they will often issue a terminal master's degree as a consolation.
You can keep your extensions loaded by setting this about:config value to false:

xpinstall.signatures.required

At least I think thats the one. Also extension updating can be disabled globally or on a per extension basis in the addons setting page.

Edit: note that you have to package (zip) the extension. You can't keep an unpacked extension loaded.
I’ll quit when my finances allow me to, and not a second before OR after.

When your job is sufficiently easy or non-stressful, and the time commitment is agreeable, you should not quit.

Make hay while the sun shines, as they say. Work for me is like a fairly simple and low time commitment money faucet.
The data in the abstract doesn't actually provide evidence for the conclusions in the title.

Once again, Elsevier delenda est.
end-of-life Battery usage will compete with recycling them and especially as material needed per kWh is going to keep going down it might be more economical to recycle them into a new battery - it also depends on costs of raw materials. I'd expect the share to be neither 0:100 nor 100:0 and to fluctuate quite a bit
I'm wondering if you can automatically extract image features using AI?
Treating it like a matter-of-fact account seems best. Imagine there really are hired puppeteers.

At first I thought this was about a trans sibling, and Michelle was the post-transition, Jeff the public male she had acted and down abandoned. The not now closeted Michelle's (?) peevishness was confusing. Then it became clear there were three people, Michelle, crabbed Jeff, and invented public Jeff. We don't know anything about Michelle except that she scripted a good public Jeff.

We each script our own public Jeff that resembles our inner Jeff to the degree that we are satisfied with the latter's (our own) place in society, and his (our) willingness to put in the work maintaining the other.
The US absolutely had a hand in this and not just NATO expansion.

We interfered with Ukraine elections: https://www.cato.org/commentary/americas-ukraine-hypocrisy

Dan Carlin has a great 'Poking the Bear' episode that goes into detail on the many ways in which the US provoked Russia/Putin. Of course Putin was the primary cause of the war but it is foolish to believe that the US is blameless.
It seems pretty transparently biased if it can't even write a single sentence in praise of Trump's policies, but will happily write them for Obama or Biden.

There's numerous Trump-era policies that even Democrats agree with, such as maternity leave, prison reform et cetera.

The fact it won't means a partisan has their finger on the scale.
The British army defeated the colonial army at every major encounter except for yorktown and lost the war. Hannibal was undefeated except for Zamma and lost the war. Battlefield success and war success are correlated but not determinative.
Wireless brain implant monitors neurotransmitters in real time
I think what you're saying makes sense. I was not aware of the full breadth of negativity associated with the term "woke".

I think I will start using the term "progressive politics" from now on (at least, as long as it makes sense).

That said, there is a clear distinction between modern progressive politics (of the "woke" type) and the progressive politics from a few decades ago, and I think "woke" is a term that makes that distinction more clear.

It's unfortunate that it has become so negatively charged, though.
This seems pretty bad. I was pretty leery of Tailscale having too much control over my network when I tested it out and now seeing this security notification reinforces my decision to use vanilla WireGuard and Nebula for my home and datacenter use cases.
I would hate open-ended questions like that if I didn't know the professor and I didn't know the grading, because it relies on the professor's ability to evaluate what is reasonable justification. I'm sure if the professor was great, this strategy is wonderful, but it also relies on a leap of faith in terms of the student. For example, if I was a black man and the teacher was white, my essays about slavery would be not about if I learned the material but my trying to work around determining how racist a teacher might be.
I worked for NOAA, technically part of the Department of Commerce. Very different culture to tech, but sounds like what you're interested in.
An IP address isn't personal data in itself, either.

There is no need for any of that. This is only a flag for dark mode, it is necessary for the functionality, and it has no impact on privacy. No need for "GDPR hysteria".
> Conservatism generally follows the principle of “be conservative in your attempts to alter society”.

> OpenAI is being aggressive in moderating ChatGPT, and that’s against the core principle of conservatism (at the end of the day, LLMs are taking what people say and reflecting it back, but OpenAI is adding the extra step of only reflecting some of what people say)

ChatGPT isn't trying to "alter society" by being prudish, it's trying to avoid embarrassing the company (especially given all the "ethical AI" marketing spiel. And aggressively moderating attempts to generate pornography or insult people's religion or use rude words or advise is extremely consistent with a long history of conservatives of various stripes being opposed to the principle of people circulating such material. Think of the children!
Your last word is very interesting. The equivalents have been used in many places. It has more meaning than it appears.

There's no really good research on decoding the mind of modern human specie' yet and even there was one, there would be little impact because the result will be consumed by human mind so if there were bugs then they won't be fixed because the bugs are in human mind.

The conflicts in the world are caused by those bugs, in AI's opinion(in future)
Part of the difficulty with emotional views of problem sets and tests at universities is not so much that these sorts of problem sets are emotionally trying themselves, but that from the student perspective, going between institutions and class levels, the style, grading and expectations for problem sets and tests can change quite quickly. While I strongly prefer the sorts of problem sets being described, and preferred them as a student once I got used to them, it is likely helpful to have these sorts of explicit clarifications, even in situations where you might assume that students will already be acclimated to a particular style. For students taking unusual pathways through courses, they may not have been around for previous mentions in prior classes, may be taking a class out of their field or usual level, or may be more used to a institution, field, department, or simply instructors, with different expectations.

Going from secondary school or community college to lower division undergraduate classes, upper division undergraduate classes, and graduate classes, depending on circumstances and field, you can, in a few years, go from assignments where you have 60 questions you are expected to be able to answer, and getting 50 right will result in a poor grade or even failing, to assignments where answering 3 out of 5 is considered great. Without context, it can be terrifying to get a problem set where you assume that having trouble with a problem means you don't understand the material well, when in reality it's expected that you won't finish it perfectly even as an excellent student.

In my undergraduate experience, going from a community college, to upper division undergraduate physics courses, to graduate physics courses taken in my senior year, I went, from the finals one term to the midterms of the next, from classes where I walked into tests expecting that I should be able to answer every question perfectly, to classes where my 70% score on the midterm (of a handful of questions) was considered an excellent result, with no explicit indication beforehand that this would be the case. That switch was only a year before I was in a small graduate class where answering two out of four questions correctly on an assignment merited a congratulatory email from the professor. Even rationally having a sense that the expectations and styles were changing, it can be a massive, rapid shift.
Discord already has Facebook level tracking, and in some cases even more.
They don't delete anything.
I run a dev shop and did some work for a vc studio. They want to bring me in house to CTO a bunch of the companies they are building. Offer was much lower than expected: 1% carry & $150k salary. I’ve worked @ FAANG, and also got a startup to a successful exit. I was hoping to shut my dev shop down and join this studio, but now don’t know what to do.
Great. Tell bbojan how Rust didn't actually "drop the ball" then. When you do you'll be told about all the different ways Rust doesn't actually solve overflow. And those claims will likely be correct because they're self evident.

My point -- my sole point -- is that Rust is like it is because none of the alternatives are viable for Rust; Rust must run efficiently (as a "systems" level language use defines "efficient") on hardware that silently wraps words. Rust can't fix that and still be Rust. There is no ball to drop.
Sounds like one of those cases where convenience trumps security for business users and the engineers keep their palms close to their faces.
Most have CCTV
You seem to be suggesting that ChatGPT refuses to say anything positive about Trump because of the input data, a baffling proposition. By ingesting general internet sources, you can come across praise for specific Trump policies in even the New York Times.

The fact it can't means there's a filter, a filter which quite evidently is partisan.
To this day I see people play the game on YouTube and the player model will glitch out like it always has. Limbs go weird directions, or the tool you're holding will slowly expand to fill the entire screen. Vehicles regularly sink into the ground, or explode, or have a physics glitch that launches them into space.

Totally unacceptable issues that have been around basically the entire life of the game. Their success is complicated, but in general the loyal players became conditioned to accept these bugs, while new players would hang out for a few weeks until their vehicle explodes and they lose days of progress for the nth time. Player turnover was huge, but they have a fairly large core of players who just deal with it.
Battery rentals sounds awful without standardization.
Imagine having the power source of your own car being managed and controlled by the original manufacture without any alternatives, and having to buy electricity only from them.
Or being unable to get batteries rented to you anymore because the companies decides not to for whatever reason, and with no option to buy a battery pack outright. Like what Tesla is doing with supercharging right now.

Destination charging and At-home charging is going to be the future, not driving to a station to get a fresh battery.
Newer cars like the EV6 can also do 10-to-80 in under 20 minutes nowadays.
Never-Before-Seen Photographs of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Emerge
My Fujitsu netbook running OpenBSD still gets daily use from me as a standalone musical instrument (as opposed to a studio brain running a full DAW). It's the perfect size for a computer imo; anything bigger is not truly portable.
Just wait until the buyer falsely claims they didn’t receive the item. Or that it’s broken. Or that it’s not as described. I rarely sell there any more because it’s just not worth the hassle.
Deferred cost is enough, just let the Tesla power the house once in a while, like the Ford Lightning can.

The extra regulatory and technological stuff to make the Tesla power the neighbors house through the city grid is just overkill.
> We're building a service that scrapes the internet for data on how others have built successful businesses and uses AI to filter through the information and find the most practical insights.

Are you talking about essentially creating a blog, possibly with a paid member's only section? Not sure that's worth paying money for, but I think that close to 100% of people here would check it out.

I'm skeptical about your comment about using AI to scrape/find/filter the stories. It's going to find a lot of shitty and boring SEO content without intense human curation (probably).
You're just listing (D) talking points about (R) positions without taking a critical eye. In the spirit of HN, how about a steelmanning exercise?

> They seem to deny that a government can do anything

Counterpoint: government share of the economy should be as small as practicable, and decisions should be left to as low a level of government as practicable. Much fewer things should be decided at the federal level and it's better to let the private sector handle things.

> deny that racism is still a problem affecting millions of americans every day

Counterpoint: one can acknowledge the racist history of the country while rejecting the race essentialism that modern-day liberals see as the right way forward.

> deny that healthcare should be a basic human right

Counterpoint: basic human rights should be negative rights only (the right to prevent the government from doing something to you) and not positive rights (the right to have the government do something for you). The latter always infringes upon the former, but the reverse is not true. There's no way around the fact that healthcare is a resource that requires people to work to produce; you can't just legislate "more healthcare" without having people perform that work one way or another.

> deny that free markets inevitably centralize power structures and create monopolies

Counterpoint: most every monopoly you find will have the power of the state behind it. There's no evidence to suggest that a monopoly in any industry would remain so indefinitely, even if government did not break it up.

> deny that average americans are broadly underpaid

Counterpoint: in order to claim that someone is underpaid you must equally claim to know what the real value of that person's labor is. How do you know that someone is underpaid?

> deny that authority figures they like should face justice

Counterpoint: historical evidence makes it clear that politicizing justice is detrimental to the smooth transition of power, because each successive party in power, wary of recriminations from the other side, will be progressively more incentivized to hold on to it. This is why Ford pardoned Nixon. And since I'm sure you're referring to Donald Trump: he has had more legal scrutiny than any other individual on the planet in the past few years, and I'm sure many (R) voters would come around to seeing him face justice if anything substantial backed by evidence comes up, which hasn't happened yet.
A careful inspection shows that at least one (but probably both) parties are clearly joking.
> The United States is Taiwan’s second largest trading partner, accounting for 12.6 percent of total trade and 10.2 percent of Taiwan imports. China is Taiwan’s largest trading partner, accounting for 25.2 percent of total trade and 21.6 percent of Taiwan’s imports in 2021. In terms of total trade, other major Taiwan trading partners include Japan (10.3 percent), Hong Kong (7.8 percent), and the Republic of Korea (6.1 percent). [1]

But let’s assume the numbers you listed are correct (I’m sure trade varies by year and breakdown and I assume good faith). What does it matter? Does China get 41% influence over Taiwan and the US, Japan, and South Korea get 25.4% influence?

The whole line of reasoning that started this was nonsense from the start and it doesn’t even include The Jungle [2] that is relations between nation states.

[1] https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/taiwan-marke...

[2] In international relations might largely makes right. Powerful countries are able to impose their will and influence on other countries. For example, the US imposes its will on China w.r.t Taiwan regardless of the amount of trade that occurs between nations.
How “Battle Royale” Took over Video Games
Every time it gets mentioned here I wonder the same thing. Eg in the discussion of their last vulnerability they said they knew the vulnerability had not been exploited maliciously because they did not detect it on their end when their software phones home to them.

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/security/advisories/G...

>A vulnerability in the Tailscale Windows client [...] Reviewing all logs confirms this vulnerability was not triggered or exploited.

Here too we have:

>This vulnerability was not triggered or exploited. Analysis of tailnet logs shows that [...]

Why on Earth would I want to use a security product that phones home... Regular WireGuard works perfectly fine for me.
> Sorry, I'm not sure what you're talking about here.

Those were two examples of the "outrage of the week" for fox news and right wing. But pick any week and it will be something new that is deemed "woke".

> is using them inappropriately [...] in order to impose a political agenda.

What agenda would that be? I don't see how someone wishing to be referred to by a specific pronoun should be political. In my mind it's just something I do to be respectful to people I interact with.

> the term is not meaningless for a lot of people

Outside of being a word used to put down people/ideas, what other purpose does it serve you? genuinely asking
Well consider this sample from the Meta Movement SDK that allows you to control the facial expressions of a character with the face tracking of the Quest Pro: https://youtu.be/IQt4wTdGK64?t=315

Our tool could record those facial expressions into an Alembic file.

And as for holding objects, our tool could capture those too. Meta's Interaction SDK is excellent. Here's another sample they provide: https://youtu.be/WS4vtcwm8Zw?t=1

And I have to say that the cliff-climbing game is really fun.
What do you mean by "regular expression"?

Because they're generally not regular.

If you mean a parser for a notation expressing regular grammars, then it only takes a couple of hours to knock out a recursive descent parser (if you know what you're doing).
If you wanted to lose money, maybe. When Disney wades into woke content they lose hundreds of millions of dollars, such as "Lightyear", which was a box office bomb. There's also the female-led Ghostbusters which was an objective disaster.

It's pretty clear customers reject woke content.
But like... what cybersecurity threat is there to using TikTok while on UT wifi?

The concerns with TikTok are always around data collection and propaganda, not it pwning other stuff on the same network with malicious network traffic?
> Our employees do not have access to the private key to decrypt sensitive data.

So this is literally a lie?
I object specifically to this:

> Saying "there's no way to avoid the bias" is just an excuse to get away with being biased

And specifically to the implied idea that there is an unbiased target that is achievable.